Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in it.
Listening to Okami as he spoke, he explained the situation in which that concerned Testu no Kuni’s neutrality and the leading factors behind such an important decision to potentially lean towards a military partnership of some sorts - Kazui absorbed this information fully but didn’t pry any further. Despite Okami’s verbose way of speaking, his explanation was more or less to the point.
Iwagakure. The young jonin thought internally. One thing for sure and two things for certain, those from Earth Country had a tendency to attract enemies - as well as exercising their military might.
Regardless, as they wearily continued through Law’s waters Kazui’s eyes shifted towards the country’s southern border - it was full of life from what she could sense. A look of concern wore over her expression as they continued more westward away from the port city. The ship and its crew found themselves sailing through a gathering of uncharted islands - out of the way yet these islands in particular were inhabited but only to a small degree. The weather only worsened as they went, so in turn the ravenette pulled the hood of her cloak overhead to battle the assault of the rain.
The Uchiha couldn’t help but watch the rear of the ship, dark grays focused through the darkness and chaos provided by the passing storm. Her mind’s eye continued to pick up signatures, and what Kazui once considered ‘the clear’ was long gone in favor of a potential threat alluding.
"Hai.” - [Lit. - Yes] The young woman spoke to her former master, making her way closer to the front. The waves continued to crash as they passed by the final island, turned the corner, and continued back on their past to the east - towards Na no Kuni.
"I believe we are being followed.” She calmly voiced to her sensei. As the vessel turned and continued eastward, three additional vessels emerged from a cove hidden by one of the islands. The woman’s mind eye was firing off however, so it didn’t take long for Kazui to pick up on their threatening energy. The shift in the woman’s expression was seamless as her typical impassive demeanor took on that of annoyance and anger as she gritted her teeth. Regardless, Kazui reeled her emotions in with a deep breath, resting her eyes in doing so. Opening them however would reveal the luminous crimson hues of the sharingan, and with it the girl would have little issue noticing the downpour of arrows masked by dark clouds.
A sigh silently parted from her lips before lightning wrapped around her fist. With her dojutsu active alongside her mind’s eye, Kazui was able to not only count the number of arrows falling upon them but she was able to keep track of where everyone was at any given time, and with a swing of her lightning coated hand an equal amount of lightning senbon would collide with the opposing arrows - altering their trajectory and/or knocking them out of flight completely, in hopes of avoiding any casualties to the Kazekage’s crew.
"Mercenaries…” Kazui noted to the Senju before she began to sense the creation of raiton.
"Heads up..” The woman warned but she was fairly certain of her sensei’s ability.
Sharingan: Active
Kagura Mind’s Eye: Active [passive]
NAME: Chidori Senbon [One Thousand Birds Needles]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Low to High
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu
ELEMENT: Raiton
HANDSEALS: Dragon → Horse → Bird
TRIGGER: N/A
PREREQUISITES: Chidori
DESCRIPTION:
This is one of many variations of the Chidori that uses shape transformation. In comparison to the standard Chidori, it further specialises in speed, by being transformed into countless sharp senbon, which are all aimed and fired at the enemy. Said Senbon can travel in a straight line from where they are formed up to 20 meters in any direction, but may not change trajectory. The user may throw the senbon up to 40 meters, but at this range their power is lessened. By increasing the amount of chakra used, the number of senbon also increases proportionally. When used in tandem with the Dojutsu, it becomes far more effective and deadly, as it allows the user to precisely shoot for the target's vital points. Said needles are strong enough to pierce most materials, including high ranking weaponry. Even able to leave large pinholes in solid rock the depth of about half an average senbon. Should the needles come in contact with their target they will pierce straight through the body, but not before delivering a strong enough shock to forcefully contract the affected muscles in the area they hit forcing any held item to be dropped and any action canceled, while also rendering the affected limb unresponsive for a single round(doubling the range loses this stun effect).
Depending on how many needles are formed the cost of the jutsu can vary from a few dozen at medium cost of chakra to a few hundred costing a high amount of chakra. As such the user must judge how many they should create before they actually perform the jutsu.
LITTLE KNOW IT ALL - Inhuman Intelligence
Kazui is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. She is very deductive both outside of and in battle. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons as she is highly alert, aware, and very analytical of the world around her. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style (which can be aided by use of the sharingan), but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain matters. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the Uchiha, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.
Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.
Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.
Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.
The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.
Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.
The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.
Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.
Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.
Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.
Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.
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