- Driving the truck~ Driving the truck~ -“I’ll tell you what,” Oomi was already beaming with expectance. Harichimo was going to agree that she’d be able to drive the truck at some point right? “Once we reach the border and hit Ishigakure, it is a straight shot all the way to Sunagakure. We will stop at the border post and have a stretch, then you can take over.” The girl in the backseat was now grinning from ear to ear. “For now keep up the good work watching our tail and soon you can captain this beast.”
“Huzzah! Captain Oomi!” Oomi shouted with her trademarked fist pump. It was settled, she was going to be driving the truck sometime soon. She’d let them in on the fact that she had never actually driven before when it was too late and she was already driving. For now she had a string of questions to ask Harichimo while she waited, which she of course asked and he answered.
“Yeah, this will be my first time out of the country as well.” Harichimo started in response to Oomi’s string of questions. “I have lived my whole life in Iwagkure, working at my family’s clinic. We only ever leave the walls to go collect herbs in the wild west of the country and it is never really that far away.” He continued as Oomi nodded in agreement with all that he’d said thus far. “It’s good that you thought ahead and packed smart. If you need though, you can reach in my pack and grab one of the extra water canteens or some food. I always am more prepared then anyone should ever need to be.” Oomi giggled and nodded again, Harichimo didn’t know it, but offering her food and water had just made them the best of friends. “Meeting the council will be quite an experience which is why I am glad we got the future politician here to do all the talking so I can keep my mind on the medical mumbo jumbo.” Oomi laughed in response.
For the rest of the ride she’d babble on about how she thought that Harichimo and Karumo would do just fine when they met the council. She also noted that if they’d been sent then they were more than capable of getting the job done; the Tsuchikage wouldn’t have sent them otherwise, right? She also made it a point to make mention of what would happen if things went south during the meeting. She’d already forgotten that her acting as security while the two men played their part wasn’t an actual guarantee. Thusly, there was much boasting about how she’d beat up the Sunagakure Council and every Shinobi in the village if she had to. Not that she was anywhere near strong enough to actually complete the task.
After a while, the girl went about stuffing her face with snacks that Harichimo had brought along as well as some that she brought herself. It was a wonder how she kept her figure, despite eating like a hungry pig. Sometime later she’d catch sight of the check point Harichimo had made mention of earlier. The time was nigh! Captain Oomi would be a thing soon! She bounced in the back seat a bit as they finally came to a stop at a fairly deserted outpost.
It was a good thing, too. All that water and snacks had caught up with the poor girl. When the others got out, she sped out past them as quickly as she could.
“Gotta peeeee~” She announced to the world and vanished for a few moments. When she came back she had a wide grin plastered across her face.
“Captain Oomi time!” She chimed before grabbing one of her bags, taking a seat somewhere near the others, and helping herself to a meal of her own.
When that was done Oomi retrieved the keys from Karumo and climbed into the driver seat. She’d been watching him drive from the moment they’d gotten in back in Iwagakure, and felt pretty confident about the matter. Well, at least she was confident about how to get the thing started and the team on the move again. How hard could everything else be? She started it up and they were off. Meanwhile Karumo took his chance to tease her quite a bit about her driving, which admittedly he had good reason to. Not that she was doing horribly, but a few jerks here and there were bound to happen what with this being her first time driving.
Sometime later, about a mile outside of Kaze no Kuni’s border, Oomi was beginning to get a hang of this driving thing. She could certainly drive in a relatively straight line now! Of course, this meant that she’d learned a new skill and by virtue was already stronger than she’d been when she left Iwagakure. A wide grin slipped across her face and she took her eyes off the road for just long enough to glance at Karumo. He, on the other hand, seemed focused on what was ahead. “Hey Oomi, slow down and stop it looks like there’s some debris in our path.” Oomi twisted her head back to where it should be. Sure enough, a large log sat in the road blocking their passage. Nothing they couldn’t handle, of course. Though what she didn’t see was the men that were lying in wait.
Oomi slowed and then came to a full stop just a few meters away from the log. As Karumo turned to give Harichimo the heads up. Still she hadn’t seen anyone and was just about to ask what Karumo was talking about when four men came from their various hiding places and started toward the truck. “Hey, out of the truck and we’ll make this easy on you!” What must have been their leader called out. Oomi’s lips curled into a goofy smile. This was exactly what this trip was missing, an opportunity to punch someone in the face. Oomi turned to Karumo who was motioning for her to hand him the keys, which she did with a slight frown. She was afraid that that would spell the end of her adventure in driving.
It wouldn’t matter in the end though, not when there was someone to fight just outside her door. Already, one of the men was circling around to the back, which had prompted Karumo to slip from the truck. Two men stood in front of the truck, one with a scimitar and the other a crossbow. They were obviously ensuring that they could see all things, and probably figured what seemed to be their boss could handle checking the back. Not to mention there was the guy that was now standing on Oomi’s side of the truck. If anything he’d be able to help the guy in the back right? They had no idea who wrong they were, but they’d become privy to their terrible mistake soon enough.
Oomi smiled at Harichimo just before he slipped from the truck.
“This is going to be so much fun.” She chimed just before slipping out of the truck to greet the scimitar wielding hooligan that was waiting for her. When she got out, she closed the door behind her and then turned to the would be highwayman.
“Hi, I’m Oomi.” She said with a wide grin.
“Make sure you remem— “ She could hear Karumo and the other man talking at the back of the truck and suddenly found herself interested in what was being said when she heard mention of how Karumo’s associates would be taking to this situation. Without even thinking about it, her legs were already starting toward the back to see what was what. With a little luck she might catch Karumo in the act and learn a thing or two.
“Hey, little girl! Stay put!” The scimitar wielding driver side standing guy shouted, pointing his weapon at Oomi. In response Oomi turned to him and scoffed.
“First of all, who are you calling a little girl, little man?” She started. It was a rare occurrence, but Oomi
did have a fairly short fuse. Not to mention she would be 18 in two more years so who the hell was this guy calling little, huh?
“Second of all; calm your tits. I just wanna hear what they’re talking about.” She added.
The man, however, didn’t seem satisfied with her response. “Stay put, you don’t wanna get hurt, little girl.” He said as he took a step or two closer, thus closing the small gap Oomi had created when she started toward the back. More importantly, he’d called her a little girl a second time. There was no such thing as third chances, a first and a second was all this guy would receive.
Chakra surged through Oomi’s body, seeking out the eight gates that resided within her. The process unlocked her potential, so to speak. When the time came, she’d be faster. She usually didn’t open with Kyōkatai, though she had when she’d first met Karumo, but, like then, she didn’t actually know how strong these guys were. She definitely wasn’t going to allow herself to look like the weak link in the chain here. So, she’d be ready, maybe even more than ready.
Forget being ready…
Oomi balled her hands into tight fists and turned to face the man. She smirked, something crooked and full of intent to do harm.
“I’m not,” Oomi started. She was already in the process of throwing a right hook. Her arm swung through the air at what would have seemed like a blindingly fast pace to the scimitar wielding thug. Before he could even begin to react Oomi’s fist struck the side of his jaw, about the neck of his lower jaw. The strike sent a jolt of sensation through his nervous system, overloading it and causing his body to tense. It quickly became apparent that he’d been paralyzed. Just how she’d managed to paralyze him with a single punch was lost on him.
...she was just going to shut him up here and now.
Meanwhile, Karumo was at the back of the truck with the other guy. By the time Oomi got back there to see what was going on, leaving Harichimo to his own devises for a few seconds, Karumo had already begun to spew a rather large ball of fire from his mouth. Her eyes widened at the sight and again her lips rolled into a massive smile. The flames engulfed the poor soul, setting him ablaze. He rolled on the ground screaming, and quite literally setting whatever else was near him on fire as well.
“That was so cool!” She shouted at the top of her lungs, possibly drawing the attention of everyone toward the flaming man in the brush beside the road.
“Look at ‘em, he’s even still burning! That was super awesome!” The young woman yelped and turned on her heels. She was amped now, adrenaline pumping through her veins like gasoline to a car. She took off in a burst of speed for the still paralyzed thug back near the driver side door. The added ‘umph' from her jutsu would enable her to easily pull of what she had in mind. It was a jutsu she’d learned sometime ago, but never actually used. She’d always thought it was too risky, but risk be damned. It was time to show out or take her punk ass home.
When she was little more than a meter away from the man she leapt from the ground at him. Her right knee was shifted forward as she soared through the air. The poor man, whom she’d paralyzed just moments prior could do nothing but watch as she did so. Her knee slammed into the man’s chest, cracking his sternum, and perhaps a few ribs as well via the added force of her momentum behind the blow. Masterful bodily control would see to it that she was able to twist about into a reverse roundhouse, immediately after her knee made contact with the man. This brought her left leg around his body and forced him to fall backwards. Though Oomi too went down with him. However, her descent was far more controlled and she was able to kick out her right leg to stomp his face when both had hit the ground. Of course, she was still standing. He on the other hand now had a broken nose and wouldn’t be standing up again.
As she’d been doing this Karumo was already on the move, having drawn his sword. Oomi smirked.
“Did ya see that?” She asked as she drew fuuton nature chakra into her hands after performing the bird hand seal.
“Pretty awesome, right?” She questioned as she fired a single one of the air bullets she’d just prepared, literally through the mans eye. She probably didn’t need to do that, in fact she didn’t at all. He wasn’t going to be getting up, but now she was making sure that he never did. This was the price he’d pay for crossing the shinobi of Iwa. It wasn’t until then that she remembered that there were two shinobi at the front of the truck and she started for there, hoping that Harichimo hadn’t already dealt with the two of them.
- Training:
Prior Thread Left Over Words: N/A
Total Word Count So Far: 4,336
Word Count (this post): 2,265
- Jutsu Used:
Chakra Used: 70 / 130
Remaining Chakra: 60 / 130
Active Jutsu:
- “ 体強化 (Kyōkatai - Bodily Enhancement)“:
Name: 体強化 (Kyōkatai - Bodily Enhancement)
Canon/Custom: Custom
Rank: B - S
Type: Supplementary
Element: N/A
Range: Self
Specialty: Taijutsu
Duration: Sustainable
Cooldown: Duration + 1 - 3 posts
Description:
The practitioner draws their particular nature of chakra into themselves and shifts it to the 8 chakra gates spread around their body. In doing so the practitioner is able to increase a single stat by the corresponding amount attributed to the rank of the jutsu in use. In the case of Subayai path Saiyama this is done with Fuuton nature chakra, and effects only their speed stat. In the case of Tsuyoi path Saiyama this is done with Doton nature chakra and effects only their strength stat.
B Rank
+1 Speed or Strength
-20 Chakra Activation + 5 per turn
Duration + 1 post
A Rank
+2 Speed or Strength
-25 Chakra Activation + 10 per turn
Duration + 2 posts
S Rank
+3 Speed or Strength
-30 Chakra Activation + 10 per turn
Duration + 3 posts
**While this jutsu is active the user is only capable of using Taijutsu and Nintaijutsu techniques limited to their own body. In the case of Nintaijutsu techniques they are only able to use such which utilize the element associated with their version of this jutsu. (IE: Buffs created by Fuuton Jutsu allow the user to use Fuuton Based Nintaijutsu while Doton based Buffs allow for only Doton based Nintaijutsu.)
- ムエタイ道・至高顔挫傷 {Muetaidō:
Name: ムエタイ道・至高顔挫傷 {Muetaidō: Shikaō Zashō ~ Muay Thai Art: Supreme Facial Crush}
Canon/Custom: Custom.
Rank: C.
Type: Offensive.
Element: None.
Range: Melee.
Specialty: Taijutsu (Striking: Muay Thai)
Duration: Instantaneous.
Cooldown: 5 posts.
Description: This technique needs preparation for correct execution; the user needs to be moving at least 10m/s via their own speed or another jutsu's effect before this technique can work effectively. About 1m away from the foe, the user jumps and attempts a high knee into the central upper-torso area. If successful, they can make use of their other leg in a reverse roundhouse wrapping around the victim, attempting to make them fall backwards. If this goes well, the ninja can use the leg used for kneeing before, extending it slightly and bringing it down on the target's face. This technique causes the target and the user to fall together; thus, gravity amplifies the force of the user's weight put behind the stomping attack. This technique cannot break bones, but the target's nose (if done correctly) will probably snap to the side, along with debilitating soreness of the eyes that leaves the foe's vision fuzzy for the next post. The kneed area suffers minor bruising at maximum, due to it only being a set-up attack.
**This technique does not use Chakra.
**The attacker moves and attacks at their normal speed (this is only increased if other jutsu which increase speed are active)
**Damage done by this attack is only valid with D-3 Strength and above.
- Wind Release:
Name: Wind Release: Air Bullets (Fūton: Kazejuugan ~ 風遁・空気弾丸)
Canon/Custom: Canon
Rank: C
Type: Offensive
Element: Fūton
Range: 30 metres
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: 1 post
Cooldown: 4 posts
Description: A technique where the user fires a barrage of condensed bullets of air. The user forms the bird hand seal, condensing their chakra into several pressurised spheres of wind that the user spits out in rapid succession towards the opponent. These air bullets are transparent spheres, and are roughly 4 inches in diameter. When fired, they travel at roughly 10 m/s. Direct impact by one of these spheres will knock the victim back a meter, tear through light clothing and cause 1-inch cuts at the point of contact. If a bullet passes near the target (within 4 inches from the edge of the bullet), it can leave small lacerations (1/4 inch cuts) on any exposed flesh it comes near. Three bullets are created upon activation, which must be fired in rapid succession. Each additional bullet costs -5 chakra each, with a maximum of 6 that can be fired in total within the duration.
- “ムエタイ道・麻痺拳 Muetaidō:
Name: ムエタイ道・麻痺拳 Muetaidō: Mahiken ( Muay Thai Art: Paralyzing Fist )
Canon/Custom: Custom
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Element: N/A
Range: Melee
Speciality: Taijutsu ( Striking )
Duration: Instantaneous | 1 Post
Cooldown: 4 Posts
Description:
The practitioner balls their dominant hand into a tight fist and throws a hooking punch while rotating their hips to add the power of their body weight to the strike. The hook is directed toward a cluster of nerves located near the neck of the lower jaw. This punch causes the nervous system of the target to overload for a brief moment, resulting in their body tensing and paralysis for a single post.
**This punch causes paralysis with C Rank strength or above.