[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Fall had begun to settle over Kumogakure leaving the early morning air with a sharper crisper bite rather then the cold nip it kept even in the heat of summer at such high altitudes. Leaving Azarea's breath misting in the air as she tucked her jacket a little tighter around herself her hive humming within her to keep both herself and her insects warm in the chilly morning air as she crunched across the frost covered grass towards the training grounds. Around her the first rays of sunlight had begun to thaw the vegetation, but it would be a few hours yet before it was 'warm.' Thankfully the woman had little doubt that by the time she'd worked up a sweat the frosty air would feel luxurious.

Reserving Training ground 14 for the day, one of the smaller more barren of the training grounds, the red head ventured past the other locations until she spotted the old worn red painted poles that signaled she needed to turn left. Eventually leading her to the bare packed earth that made up the area she intended to spend her day practicing at. The frost and dew would hopefully keep the worst of the dust down. Though Azarea had no doubt she'd be needing a bath when everything was said and done.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Staring down at the ground Azarea scuffed the dirt with the toe of her boot feeling how it crunched slightly with frost. With the chill in the air the top layer of the soil would no doubt be hard and difficult to dig through. Though the point of the jutsu she intended to learn today, the Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu - [Double Suicide Decapitation Technique] used chakra to manipulate the other rather then digging through it with normal means not unlike her Kikiachu. Letting out a thoughtful hum Azarea slowly circled the training grounds as she carefully sunk her chakra into the soil beneath her feet with each step. Taking the time to feel how her doton nature reacted to the ground. The earth drinking up her chakra greedily and reacting to it like a slow lumbering beast. Sticking one foot out Azarea pressed the sole of her shoe to the earth and flashed through the hand signs looking to train her speed with seals as she worked on learning the technique at hand.

The woman taking a moment to carefully picture the earth under her foot snapping open like a chasm during an earthquake. The need to enter and exit the earth at rapid speed the core use for such a technique. As her fingers formed the second seal she felt the ground under her foot part. If just a little. Removing her boot she stared down at the crack about as long as a ruler that now marred the ground. Certainly not what she had been aiming for, but it was a start.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

"Well everything is easier said then done." Azarea grumbles letting out a long soft sigh her hive humming quizzically, but unwilling to leave their host despite their own cold weather adaptation to see what was vexing her. Why go out in the frost even with a fuzzy natural fur coat when one could just ride around with their warm owner? Honestly some days Azarea really envied her bugs. The little shits had hit the jackpot and they were well aware of it despite the initial unfortunate first part of their relationship.

Shaking her head Azarea settled down onto the earth cross legged. Closing her eyes she assumed a meditative position and took the time to draw in a slow breath. Holding it for a moment before she lets it escape in a slow hiss of air. Allowing herself to feel the warmth of the weakening fall sun beating down on her head and back as it warmed and thawed herself and her hive like insects sunning on a rock. As her chakra inside her reached a steady calm she sank it down deeper into the earth. Feeling the looser softer top soil, the hard packed dirt, the bits of stone and gravel and rock, and deeper still the bedrock of the earth under her feet. Her chakra mingling with the particles of dirt, feeling the space between them, as she realized what she needed to do was not tear open, but compact, the earth for a quick escape.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

"Slow is fast." She dutifully reminds herself allowing her fingers to flit through the seals in a blink of an eye, but taking much longer to twist her chakra alongside the shapes those seals channeled it through. Taking a moment as she realized the purpose of the jutsu was to reduce the amount of air and space between the dirt beneath her thus opening up a vacuum. Then releasing that vacuum behind the shinobi as thy vacate the space allowing it to fill once more with earth, rock and dirt. Creating a little fast moving short distance bubble around themselves. The theory of how it was done now making sense in her mind, but the practice would need a little~

"F~&#!" The genin yelped out as the jutusu partially snapped into place opening a chasm beneath her as the red head dropped five feet into the earth right onto her butt. Earning herself a bruised tailbone for her efforts as she swore and then strained her control to not let the earth close up over her. It'd be too easy to bury oneself alive. Which was likely why most shinobi practiced such doton techniques in pairs, but most where not equipped with burrowing bugs that could unearth them in an emergency.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Muttering low and angry under her breath Azarea climbed back to her feet as she rubbed her now sore ass. Before turning with a sigh and digging her boots into the side of the hole to leverage herself up and out of the self made accidental oubliette. Only pulling her chakra back once she was safely on level ground as the hole closed up allowing the earth to uncompact. Now she'd just need to remember that feeling and keep it up while moving. Sort of like a... jutsu cloak almost. The thought process imperfect, but hopefully near enough to the actual mechanics that between her trial and errors she'd be able to manage it.

Though a bit wary of getting dirt up her nose Azarea digs through her bag pulling out her gasmask and hooks the extra line leading to her small oxygen tank to it. That a way if her bugs were lazy she wouldn't be light headed by the time she unearthed herself should things go terribly wrong. Her hive rumbling as her insects sent her pictures of warm earth and sifting rock as if to tell her that she wouldn't be down there that long. To have a little faith. Though the feeling of laziness like a cat stretching in the sun that accompanied it did not lend her much confidence. Though it did leave her lips quirking into a smile.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Threading her fingers quickly through the two short seals Azarea focused on the earth beneath her feet and focused on the feeling of it compacting. This time when she dropped into the ground she was ready as she allowed the ground to close up above her, her sole impacting bedrock as darkness swallowed her. Ignoring the initial panic being completely incased in earth initially brought she took a moment to focus on her breathing. In and out. Everything was fine. She wasn't trapped. She was safe. The feel of her chakra suffusing the dirt around her a comforting sensation akin to a cocoon as she steadied herself and regained her orientation before trying to move forward...

and nearly busting her gasmask on the hard earth as her chakra failed to shift with her. The woman realizing it would take a wee bit more concentration then she first expected to keep the little pocket under the ground moving alongside her like a railcart on a track rather then her moving and running into hard packed earth. Grumbling she shook her head and tried picturing the bubble of her chakra around her as she took a step. The find packed earth before her giving way a bit akin to a tunnel beneath her searching hands in the blind darkness.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Slowly inch by inch Azarea moved beneath the earth. The strain of controlling the jutsu was difficult and foreign at first, but as her chakra settled into the routine of it she found the strain more manageable even if she felt more like a mole or one of her bugs then a person. There was a quietness to being encased in the ground. A silence and peace that the world beyond didn't always offer. More importantly there was no one to see her fumble or realize how much work she would be putting in to succeed. It was likely come the exams should she place well they'd attribute it to her age, but if she failed it would be her folly alone. Failure really wasn't an option if she wanted to prove her detractors wrong. If she wanted to show Toshizou he had been wrong to throw her away back then.

She needed to go the distance and shifting her attention to the earth above her that was what she intended to do. As after a few awkward moments of almost 'swimming' through the earth as she tightened her chakra around her she forced her way up to the surface. Emerging into the light of Kumo's early morning.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Surveying the training grounds Azarea spotted an old hole riddled log laying to one side as the woman wandered over and grabbed it. Hauling it towards the center of the dirt patch with a satisfied nod. It would do well enough as a target given she didn't yet know any solid bunshins she could use as makeshift training dummies. Such techniques the next ones on her long list of endless things she needed to hurry up and learn to have a better chance of surviving. As the woman focused on the log and began to speed through the two seals playing around a bit with a half seal her chakra protesting it as she gave it a second go. Only to pause as realization struck her.

The technique was useful if your opponent was charging right at you in a straight line, but what if they had a way to muffle their footsteps or could more easily dodge. She needed a way to see them to account for their changes in direction. Which just left one option to come to mind.

"All right rise and shine fluff balls." Azarea mutters shaking out her sleeve as a few golden fluffy beetles tumble out protesting heavily being removed from their warm napping place.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

"All right. Here's what I need you to do. When I go underground you need to stay up here and direct me towards the log." Azarea explains pointing between the Kikaichu who had settled to sun themselves on one of the poles and to the offending log itself. Then back once more as she watches the bugs follow her finger back and forth a few times as they grumble alongside the hive. Satisfied they at least understand their purpose Azarea takes a step back nods and this time flashes through the handseals quickly as she pours her chakra into the ground tightening the bubble around or to allow her to 'swim' rapidly through it as her Kikaichu relay the information to her. Everything working perfectly to plan... until she realizes she doesn't really have a way to orientate herself underground unless. The shinobi briefly flummoxed until her Kikaichu give her a gentle nudge reminding her they could feel the direction through the earths pull.

Thus if she listened to them and the directions it should combine to make one functioning technique. Though in the case of this practice round Azarea does manage to dig her way beneath the log pulling it into the earth as she imagines she might do to an opponents ankles and using the momentum to launch herself up and out of the earth. Landing mostly stable on her feet as she grins behind the gasmask.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Satisfied that she'd managed to utilize the technique to some success Azarea paused then swore as she realized she needed to dig the log back out to try it again. Flooding her doton down into the earth as she flashed through the signs and sank into the ground instead grabbing the log and bringing it out with her rather then burying it. Before sitting her makeshift practice dummy back down and backing off a ways to try the technique in it's complete form for the first time.

Flicking through the two seals like pages of a book she concentrated on forming the signs quickly and precisely as she flooded her chakra into the jutsu and dropped like a rock beneath the earth with nary a ripple. Her Hive guiding her beneath the surface towards her target as her hands darted up, gloved fingers digging into the bark as she yanked the log down into a earthen tomb this time up to it's 'neck' replacing it's position with her own as she stares down at her victim.

"I guess you could say this is your down fall." Azarea joked with a grin. Sadly no one here, but her insects to laugh at her terrible pun. Which they did because she was hilarious and also fed them. It was probably that last part that was important, but she chose to ignore that little detail.

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Name: Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu - [Double Suicide Decapitation Technique]

Rank: D

Chakra Usage: Low

Type: Ninjutsu [General]

Element: Doton

HANDSEALS: 2

Description

Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu utilizing the Earth Element. The ninja will travel through the ground to appear below their target. They will then surprise their target by then pulling them into the ground. Once in the ground their target is thus immobilized. It should be noted that the technique can only be used over short distances.

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[Aburame Azarea]

The Devil That You Forgot

Training

Scuffed, covered in dust, but happy with her success Azarea dug the log out once more before tossing it to the side lest someone trip over it. Her clothes were smeared with dirt from her earlier less then stellar successes, and she was shaking grit and rocks out of her hair, but at least she hadn't got anything up her nose or in her mouth. There was nothing that had happened a long hot bath couldn't fix and proud of her days accomplishments she turned and called her Kikaichu over with a crook of her fingers. The little fluffy bugs landing on her shoulders as she reached up a careful finger to pet one of them crooning soft words of praise.

"You all did so good. Yes you did. Yes you did." She murmurs voice sounding akin to how one might talk to a small dog rather then a highly advised hive of murderous insects, but that didn't stop the little bugs from preening at the praise as Azarea ambled out of the training grounds and towards the market. She's pretty sure the local butcher shop as a few cuts of meat that have surely gone bad she can buy off them at a discount no questions asked as a reward to her little bugs.

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