[aihara ryoko]

Ryoko opens her eyes after a moment, a little surprised at her present positioning. She’d barely felt anything until she started moving more swiftly upwards.

While she was low to the ground and mostly upside down, it wasn’t a view she was completely unfamiliar with. Ryoko had logged a lot of hours flying, however never in her human form. She breaks her hand seal and reaches out with her arms quickly, flailing them, and her legs, about frantically in an attempt to right herself. She’d never manage to do so, floating with negative buoyancy she was heading ever skywards and no amount of her flailing would move enough air to actually help her change position. She was not a bird!

She goes still and manages a good snicker as Yoshiko calls her graceful. "Oh yeah, me and the chickens, just the epitome of grace in motion.” She cackles quietly, ever amused even if she’s the butt of the joke.

She remains calm and listens. What her sensei said made sense, just the way buoyancy worked. She would have tried it herself, but the older girl was nice enough to correct her roll. Once upright once more, with her feet drifting down towards the ground, she draws her left hand up and flicks through the increasingly familiar hand seals.

She focuses on her own chakra again, evening it out and spreading it throughout her body. She evens out her density again, removing the extra weight from her feet and ceasing the descent. She’d float with the wind for a moment.

"So, I want to make the front heavier and the back lighter, so I move towards the weight? I dunno if I can use Futon, I’ve never tried. I can use Katon, though!” She could, too. She didn’t think a fireball would help, but unleashing that jutsu was still new to her, and she found it particularly thrilling.

She does as she’s instructed, adding a bit of weight to her head and making her legs a little lighter. She pitches forward easily, and manages to make some forward progress, but continues to pitch forward. She starts flailing again, upside down for a moment, but soon enough finishing a full circle.

She stops herself there, laughing cheerfully over the whole situation. This was a lot of fun, even if she was failing. Still, this wasn’t flight. Ryoko knew flight, she’d soared on thermals dozens of times, and this wasn’t that. This was floating. Futon probably made this a lot easier.

"So like.. " She forms a single seal once more, and evens out her density, leaving just a little extra in her feet. The next moment she increases density right in her abdomen, trying to reclaim her normal center of balance. She begins to descend a little but then she removes the weight from her hands and feet, and stretches her arms out to the side a little.

After a moment she laughs again. "Hang on, this actually feels more like swimming now..”

Indeed, she continues making minor adjustments with her arms and legs, treading air, as it were, to keep herself upright. She leans a little left, draws her right hand in and stretches her left hand out, and starts drifting, slow but steady, in that direction.

[Nohime Yoshiko]

We're way up high

It was nice Ryoko had a sense of humor, shinobi were often serious folk and life was a bit too short in their field in her mind to be uptight. The Nohime certainly wasn't about slacking off, but a person could easily be professional without losing their sense of humor. Those too rigid she felt would miss out on the innovations that those more free-willed happened to cross over in their misadventures. Sneaking out with her flight was one means, she personally applied this sort of thought process. It made the whole training experience now feel all the more personal, it gave the kunoichi quite the sense of pride too.

"That's correct! Though a shame about the fuuton, as you're really in a sense wind walking right now." Yoshiko explained as a sort of comparison to the water walking technique. With the right control and jutsu one could easily enhance their mobility quite a lot with water walking and water manipulation at the same time. Similar the idea of being on the air and then controlling the air helped vastly, especially as winds greatest attribute was it was the most freeform element of the five basics.

Thankfully though a sort of alternative was offered and it was something the Nohime definitely couldn't deny being usable. "Katon could work though as well, I... I don't know the jutsu, but one of the genin in your guys exam. They used fire from their feet to propel themselves!" Yoshiko would piece together the most probable way to get use out of fire with this weightless form. Sadly though it didn't instill incredible confidence in the Nohime, it was actually her weakest elemental manipulation out of the elements she could control.

"I've mastered the ability to use katon, but I can't say it's my strongest element. However as a Nohime and master of Ninjutsu, I assure you I will help you master a use of fire with this secret technique!" Her words actually were less aimed at Ryoko and more towards herself, a miniature self pep-rally to give her student relief. Her smile and enthusiasm was something she'd been quite good at channeling, so even for her student who knew her, it'd be a struggle to see past the talk to the true nature of the words.

"I guess you could use swimming motions, but it'd not be as effective. Wind doesn't hold the same resistance of water, besides this is a technique that holds through combat. So you're really not wanna be doing swimming strokes, when you could alternatively just be shifting your weight and performing hand seals." Unable to help the image of Ryoko dog paddling through the air into her head. "You're less swimming and more uh- posing!" Yoshiko wanted to be helpful not hurtful and a slight snicker might of made her seem rude. So she hoped these last words would better explain, as she'd sort of switch posing letting the natural pose shift her natural weight differential to change the way she drifted amidst the air.

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NAME: Doton: Kajugan no Jutsu [Earth Release: Added-Weight Rock Technique]
RANK: B
CHAKRA USAGE: Medium
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu
ELEMENT: Doton
DESCRIPTION:
After performing the necessary hand seals, the user places their hand on an object or person and makes them several times heavier. The amount is so much that a single person would sink up to their shoulders in a pit of sand due to the weight added, which makes it impossible for them to move. This can also be used to add to the power behind attacks, although if done on oneself it'll make it impossible to move.

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[aihara ryoko]

Posing. That made sense, she mostly just wanted to remain still, and move the density of her body. She should be able to adjust her balance that way. Really, flailing her arms was just wasting chakra, making her constantly adjust her center of balance.

"Okay so.. I’m realizing that biology doesn’t really matter. I mean, you need the fingers for the seals, but arms and legs afterwards….”

She trails off a little, concentrating once more on her chakra. As she does she begins to rotate in place until she’s upside-down again. She laughs quietly, managing to stop her rotation and once more hover in place.

"This is pretty hard, but I think I’m getting the hang of it.. Even though i’m upside down, all I gotta do..”

She concentrates a bit of chakra into her feet, and pulls all the density out of them. Immediately she begins to float upwards, while upside-down. The thought that she could probably go backwards too gets her concentrating chakra in her lower shoulders. Upside down, upwards and backwards. It was an interesting sensation, and a strange way to travel, but it seemed way more useful than normal bird flight.

"Oooh wow..” She comes to a stop a second later, once more hovering in place. She then slowly floats over towards Yoshiko. She flips back over and points her feet at the ground. "I see why you told me to save my chakra, I’m starting to feel the drain. I think I get what you mean with the wind, though. You don’t have to sustain it, just give yourself the speed and then glide, like a hawk on thermals.”

The explanation made sense to her, she liked to relate things to animals. Her first time flying was in bird form. Flying as a dog was strange, but that was a whole other story. What she said was making sense, though the idea of developing fire jutsu was also great. Still, Yoshiko was well experienced with flight, and probably knew a thing or two about the wind.

"You think you can help me learn Fuuton techniques? You’re probably right that it’s better, now that I’m floating around it makes sense. Katon might be able to make you go faster, but like.. Probably way more dangerous and hard to control. I want to learn more elements anyway, so why not make wind the next one?”

[Nohime Yoshiko]

We're way up high

"Nope, biology or well more specifically how you move your body is really a trick and trade of taijutsu specialist. A true ninjutsu specialist doesn't need to move, they make the world move for them." There was nothing ninjutsu couldn't accomplish, it was a long standing belief to the Nohime. Yoshiko took the saying quite to heart and truly believed she could even 'master' the other specializations through ninjutsu. Who needed to work out when stone augmented weight and strength, wind added speed and with fire only your enemy needed to feel the burn. Propulsion through fire was an interesting prospect, they'd certainly seen it done in the chuunin exams. Though fire was very easily Yoshiko's least favorite of her known elements.

Watching her student go from right side up to upside down again would make the brunette giggle. Maybe she'd been more nervous of the upside down when she started, but she definitely in her first attempts hadn't gone so free float. Though she'd always been an abide watcher of her father whenever he was performing his ninjutsu. It'd been her goal to surpass him growing up. Many said she had in all fields he practiced, but she didn't know for sure and she never really would. At least for now she couldn't see herself as better, not until her accomplishments proved themselves in the field. Not until she was the Tsuchikage.

"You're certainly getting more comfortable with it, I can sense how quick you've become to shifting your chakra." The Nohime clan head would compliment her student and give her a bright encouraging smile. Though this was standard practice from the older kunoichi, it was still a warm gesture with a genuine feel to it. Especially instances like the present where it was in fact genuine.

"Fuuton has to be my third favorite element, so I'd be more than happy to show you the ropes of wind. You're assumptions of katon are quite right and there's also the cost of the technique to consider. The higher you're up in the sky the less air you have to burn, so the more chakra you need to produce a good flame." Yoshiko would explain, before taking out one of her military ration pills. Gesturing for Ryoko to take one too. "Alright now that you've got the basics down, let's do laps around the mountains until we're out of these!" Yoshiko would explain before taking her military ration pill, then zooming off into the sky for her student to follow.

[End thread.]

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