The lavendrette paced her way through this place that most would consider ghastly... But she found it quite comforting.
She sat inside a mausoleum that she knew, by all means, was deserted of any living being. An underground chamber that was devoid of any moving bodies, aside from her own. Even despite that....it was a place she enjoyed being. Yes, Noriko loved the dead. They were of the kind that weren't plagued by strife. And this was among one of her favorite places to be in the Land of Fire; a place where no one made loud noises, where everything was peaceful....where the spirits could rest. A wonderful little nook in the whole of creation. It was a wonder that nobody wanted to die.
As she contemplated this, Noriko sat, curled up in the very darkest and most secluded passage of this mausoleum; everyone above completely oblivious to the mere thought that someone might have taken up residence in the house of the dead. But she was one to be prepared; she had already been ambushed once before when she was simply minding herself. That waterfall cavern....was supposed to belong to none but her. So, she began building herself a small place in which no one could enter. It would be hers, and hers alone.
Having activated her Spirit Intuition from the beginning, as she liked to, she noted there was no living person inside the mausoleum, whatsoever. She had communed with the dead for far too long to not know who was who. All of their hitodama were familiar, their colors were those which she knew. So, she began setting up her small nook of seclusion. As quickly as she could, she set up eight of her Barrier Tags---which she always kept on-hand---in a very small cubical formation, with herself inside it. Each tag was placed on the seam where the walls met the ceiling and floor, with a minimal space, about 10ft in all dimensions, for her to reside in; all the better for putting it up quickly, though.
It took nothing at all to make these small seals, a simple touch was all it needed...but it was done; now all was left to do was make the hand seals to finish the jutsu. Noriko simply sat, eyes closed, meditating. Yes, that was how she wanted it. No one would disturb her this time. Still, she kept her spiritual eye open, and still she was not being intruded upon, no one was remotely near her; just one boy, so far, above ground. With her last Ram hand seal, her oasis was complete. She had to focus....yes, on the very concept she was trying to wrap her head around. Chakra.
- Training:
460 words out of 2000, for the Sealing Technique: Multiple Directions Seal.
- Items Used:
Name: 壁札 {Hekisatsu ~ Barrier Tag}
Type of Item: Sealing Tag.
Rank: C.
Elemental Alignment: None.
Quantity: 9.
Ability/Function: It takes an entire post to activate this tag's formula with a negligible chakra cost, and another post to position each tag correctly to create the perimeter.
The tags, once the barrier between them has been erected, prevent any person or anything touching a person from entering or exiting the perimeter created by them. The tags themselves cannot be touched by those prevented from entering/exiting. However:
Anything that is produced or enhanced by chakra at any rank, or is a thrown projectile, passes through with no issue; in addition, people with S-rank or higher strength can break the barrier with brute force, making the tags constructing it useless for the rest of the thread. The barrier is also dispelled when enough tags have been compromised to leave less than 3. These tags can also be used for the Sealing Technique: Barrier Tag Formation, in which case this barrier is presumed.
These tags refresh in the ninja's inventory at the start of each thread.
Appearance: A Sealing Tag inscribed with the kanji for 'barrier' (結, ketsu).
- 130/150:
Name: 精勘 {Seikan ~ Spirit Intuition}
Canon/Custom: Custom.
Rank: C-S
Type: Supplementary.
Element: None.
Range: 50m C, 125m B, 350m A, 500m S.
Specialty: Medical Ninjutsu||Katō Only||Senjutsu
Duration: -5/-10 per post.
Cooldown: /
Description: Due to being so attuned to the spiritual plane, clan members have the special ability of sensing other human spirits; this is specific to their own self, so the radius of sensing is wherever their soul is. This is distinct from sensing chakra or biological functions, as it is impossible to suppress one's spirit, even by the Katō clan themselves. While it is technically more powerful in this respect, it is also much less versatile than a chakra-sensing technique, as it cannot sense if someone is about to use a jutsu, or such. They see spirits as faint hitodama (balls of eerie fire, in legends thought to be 'death candles', the souls of the departed) in their field of vision, while a sixth sense tells them where other souls are. Faint areas of aura deposited on areas where a person made contact, or even their chakra touched, can also be detected. Clan members seem to have a penchant for remembering the distinct 'color' of each person's hitodama; they are able to detect their own spirit frequency (such as if they need to find their body) at twice the normal distance. However, trying to concentrate on this ability when there are crowds of people people about gives them a -1 to reaction time.
Name: 型押封印 {Katoshi Fūin ~ Embossing Seal}
Canon/Custom: Canon.
Rank: E.
Type: Supplementary.
Element: None.
Range: Contact.
Specialty: Fūinjutsu||Ijutsu
Duration: /
Cooldown: /
Description: A technique that, using a negligible amount of chakra, allows the user to write on any surface by having their chakra make contact with it; this can be done manually, or a skilled master can simply make characters appear where desired. This technique removes one post of the preparation period for any seal that would need one for the purpose of writing a seal. This jutsu is most often used to inscribe seals on things, using chakra-produced 'tattoos' that seemingly use black ink. Things written with this jutsu are incredibly difficult to remove, except by Noriko herself. This technique can make miscellaneous effects that have no battle or strategic value depending on the seal that is inscribed.
Name: 封印術‧結成壁札 {Fūinjutsu: Fujinheki ~ Sealing Technique: Barrier Tag Formation}
Canon/Custom: Canon.
Rank: C.
Type: Defensive.
Element: None.
Range: 10m barrier for 2 tags. +10sq.m of enclosed area per extra tag.
Specialty: Fūinjutsu.
Duration: 1 post prep (put formula on sealing tags). Lasts until half of the tags have been compromised.
Cooldown: 7 posts.
Description: A simple yet relatively potent barrier. It uses any Sealing Tag or variant of it to form a barrier perimeter around an area that prevents jutsu from going through it. This jutsu by itself stops people of up to C-rank strength from passing through (these add on top of those set by the Barrier Tags, if this jutsu was used with them). The invisible, spherical barrier stops unaided weapons from passing through, and blocks 1 B-rank, 2 C-rank, or 4 D-rank jutsu before dissipating; if placed on top of an existing defensive technique, this Barrier Formation bolsters it, and adds their jutsu blocking counts together (so, if paired with another C-rank jutsu, it would block 1 A, 2 B, 4 C, or 8 D). It also prevents sensory abilities of equal rank from detecting anything inside (sensed as if there was no abnormality), and lowers the rank of sensory abilities that manage to do so by 1 (for interaction purposes only). This technique costs 15 chakra, and can be recast multiple times on multiple barrier formations if need be. The tags can be pulled off by anyone, but they can have additional traps set in them to activate on-contact.