1 Shining Crystals Hidden in a Burrow [Contract] [Private] Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:20 am
Nobuya
D-rank
This was just about the scariest thing I had ever done in my life. I was using a sealing technique that I had only just learned, with no summoning contract, no idea where I’d end up, and no guarantee that I’d even learned it correctly. I could end up surrounded by giant eagles, huge octopi…I could even end up in some mythical place I’ve never heard about before.
But I didn’t learn this jutsu for nothing. I need to be stronger so that I can help Iro find his dad. And this will help me achieve that. I’ve memorized the sealing formula and the order of the hand seals. I’ve practiced them so much I could do them in my sleep.
Now that’s a scary thought. What if I accidentally did use it in my sleep one day in the future when I have a summoning contract and whatever I summon just crushes me to death?
I realized that I was just looking for an excuse to worry at that point. I had come this far, and I wasn’t going to stop now. I steadied my nerves.
Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram.
”SUMMONING JUTSU!” I yelled.
I felt a pull on the entirety of my body, a bone-chilling wind, and my stomach twisting as I hurtled through a sudden darkness. I would have been terrified if it didn’t end too quickly for me to even register the rush of feeling.
Suddenly, I was in a dark place. A dark, damp place.
Have I accidentally just sealed myself or something?
I felt around.
It feels like pretty tightly packed dirt. Am I underground, or in some kind of dirt construction?
I didn’t have any concept of what “forwards” or “backwards” would be since I was just dropped in an unfamiliar location, so I just went a direction.
Did I…did I mess up the jutsu?
After just a short while longer of crawling, I began to hear what sounded like running water. Deciding that any sound was better then nothing, I decided to head towards it. It was possible that the water would lead to a river or stream on the surface, so I might as well have checked it out, just in case it could help. And my eyes were slowly adjusting to the darkness, so there must’ve been a little light, just barely any, coming from somewhere. As I approached the noise, I began to hear the faintest sounds of movement from the direction of the water.
A bit creepy, but okay. There aren’t many things that move underground, I wonder what it could be?
Suddenly, my curiosity was quenched when a giant claw burst out of the ground in front of me, inches from my face. I stumbled backwards in fear and surprise, only to be constricted by something large and heavy, and be pulled down through the ground. After a few terrifying seconds of struggling to get out of the hold of whatever this thing was, I found myself in an open space that had been dug out of the dirt. I was flung against the wall, unable to see anything, as the light could not reach down this far. At least, not enough light that my eyes could use. As I sat, squinting to try and find any hope for my vision down here, I felt and heard a claw slowly make its way across my headband. Not in a way that felt like the claw was trying to scratch it, but almost like it was trying to figure out what it was.
I heard a scratchy voice in front of me ask, “What are you doing in one of our tunnels, human?”
THAT IS TERRIFYING! WHY WOULD IT CALL ME HUMAN? IS IT NOT…oh, right. I used the summoning jutsu. This is an animal summon. Duh.
Slightly calmed by the realization, yet still very much frightened of the situation, I slowly reached into my pocket and pulled out a scroll.
“My name is Nobuya Yomechiro, and I used the summoning jutsu to get here. I was hoping that I could enter into a contract with your group so that we could help each other out when we needed to. I’m a ninja from Kirigakure, and I thought you might want the…uh, ability to reverse-summon a shinobi like me if you ever got in trouble or anything.”
“Do you think us incapable of defending ourselves? We have resided under here safely without the need for human shinobi, why would we compromise the secret of our village’s location in order to call on a weakling such as you?”
A village? So that’s how these animals organize themselves too?
“Um, no…Sorry, I didn’t mean anything like that. I’m sure you could take care of yourselves just fine. And the truth is, I probably won’t be a whole lot of use to you, but I do know a lot of sealing jutsu, and…”
Think, think, think! What would these creatures…wow, I don’t even know what these are. They have claws, and that’s about all I know. Right now, I’m just talking to a void, asking it to enter into a contract. This is weird, but I’ve certainly heard of weirder things.
Something popped into my head.
“And you said that humans haven’t been to your village, right? Well if you were willing to work with me, I could act as your liaison if you ever wanted anything from the humans. Or I could just get you information on the things you wanted, or something.”
“Or something? How confident an answer.”
I heard another voice, a smoother yet more fierce voice, which was a shock to me as I thought there was only one other creature in this small hole with me.
“We should bring him to King Arutota, let His Kingship decide the fate of the young human.”
“Very well.”
With that, I was grabbed again and brought up to where they had captured me, but instead of dropping me off where they had picked me up, they continued quickly down the tunnel in the direction I had been heading. Soon, I began to see the faintest glimmer of light distorted by something I couldn’t make out. As we approached, I realized that it was a sheet of water.
As soon as we broke through the water, I was bombarded by a cacophony of smells, sounds, and even a bit of light as I found myself on some sort of cliff overlooking a compact underground village. Most of the light seemed to be coming from bioluminescent crystals scattered around the walls of the hollowed-out underground, shining off of a river coming from the waterfall on the cliff I was on, passing through the village, leading up to a great cave in which no light shone.
This is beautiful.
“What is this place?” I asked, my face and voice full of awe at this new wonder before my eyes.
“Human, you have reached Suanagakure, the Village Hidden in the Burrow.”
WC: 1202
But I didn’t learn this jutsu for nothing. I need to be stronger so that I can help Iro find his dad. And this will help me achieve that. I’ve memorized the sealing formula and the order of the hand seals. I’ve practiced them so much I could do them in my sleep.
Now that’s a scary thought. What if I accidentally did use it in my sleep one day in the future when I have a summoning contract and whatever I summon just crushes me to death?
I realized that I was just looking for an excuse to worry at that point. I had come this far, and I wasn’t going to stop now. I steadied my nerves.
Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram.
”SUMMONING JUTSU!” I yelled.
I felt a pull on the entirety of my body, a bone-chilling wind, and my stomach twisting as I hurtled through a sudden darkness. I would have been terrified if it didn’t end too quickly for me to even register the rush of feeling.
Suddenly, I was in a dark place. A dark, damp place.
Have I accidentally just sealed myself or something?
I felt around.
It feels like pretty tightly packed dirt. Am I underground, or in some kind of dirt construction?
I didn’t have any concept of what “forwards” or “backwards” would be since I was just dropped in an unfamiliar location, so I just went a direction.
Did I…did I mess up the jutsu?
After just a short while longer of crawling, I began to hear what sounded like running water. Deciding that any sound was better then nothing, I decided to head towards it. It was possible that the water would lead to a river or stream on the surface, so I might as well have checked it out, just in case it could help. And my eyes were slowly adjusting to the darkness, so there must’ve been a little light, just barely any, coming from somewhere. As I approached the noise, I began to hear the faintest sounds of movement from the direction of the water.
A bit creepy, but okay. There aren’t many things that move underground, I wonder what it could be?
Suddenly, my curiosity was quenched when a giant claw burst out of the ground in front of me, inches from my face. I stumbled backwards in fear and surprise, only to be constricted by something large and heavy, and be pulled down through the ground. After a few terrifying seconds of struggling to get out of the hold of whatever this thing was, I found myself in an open space that had been dug out of the dirt. I was flung against the wall, unable to see anything, as the light could not reach down this far. At least, not enough light that my eyes could use. As I sat, squinting to try and find any hope for my vision down here, I felt and heard a claw slowly make its way across my headband. Not in a way that felt like the claw was trying to scratch it, but almost like it was trying to figure out what it was.
I heard a scratchy voice in front of me ask, “What are you doing in one of our tunnels, human?”
THAT IS TERRIFYING! WHY WOULD IT CALL ME HUMAN? IS IT NOT…oh, right. I used the summoning jutsu. This is an animal summon. Duh.
Slightly calmed by the realization, yet still very much frightened of the situation, I slowly reached into my pocket and pulled out a scroll.
“My name is Nobuya Yomechiro, and I used the summoning jutsu to get here. I was hoping that I could enter into a contract with your group so that we could help each other out when we needed to. I’m a ninja from Kirigakure, and I thought you might want the…uh, ability to reverse-summon a shinobi like me if you ever got in trouble or anything.”
“Do you think us incapable of defending ourselves? We have resided under here safely without the need for human shinobi, why would we compromise the secret of our village’s location in order to call on a weakling such as you?”
A village? So that’s how these animals organize themselves too?
“Um, no…Sorry, I didn’t mean anything like that. I’m sure you could take care of yourselves just fine. And the truth is, I probably won’t be a whole lot of use to you, but I do know a lot of sealing jutsu, and…”
Think, think, think! What would these creatures…wow, I don’t even know what these are. They have claws, and that’s about all I know. Right now, I’m just talking to a void, asking it to enter into a contract. This is weird, but I’ve certainly heard of weirder things.
Something popped into my head.
“And you said that humans haven’t been to your village, right? Well if you were willing to work with me, I could act as your liaison if you ever wanted anything from the humans. Or I could just get you information on the things you wanted, or something.”
“Or something? How confident an answer.”
I heard another voice, a smoother yet more fierce voice, which was a shock to me as I thought there was only one other creature in this small hole with me.
“We should bring him to King Arutota, let His Kingship decide the fate of the young human.”
“Very well.”
With that, I was grabbed again and brought up to where they had captured me, but instead of dropping me off where they had picked me up, they continued quickly down the tunnel in the direction I had been heading. Soon, I began to see the faintest glimmer of light distorted by something I couldn’t make out. As we approached, I realized that it was a sheet of water.
As soon as we broke through the water, I was bombarded by a cacophony of smells, sounds, and even a bit of light as I found myself on some sort of cliff overlooking a compact underground village. Most of the light seemed to be coming from bioluminescent crystals scattered around the walls of the hollowed-out underground, shining off of a river coming from the waterfall on the cliff I was on, passing through the village, leading up to a great cave in which no light shone.
This is beautiful.
“What is this place?” I asked, my face and voice full of awe at this new wonder before my eyes.
“Human, you have reached Suanagakure, the Village Hidden in the Burrow.”
- Chakra 235/250:
- Summoning Technique:
- Name: Kuchiyose no Jutsu {口寄せの術 ~ Summoning Technique}
Canon/Custom: Canon
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary
Element: n/a
Range: Touch
Specialty: Ninjutsu/Fuuinjutsu
Duration: Instant.
Cooldown: None.
Description: The user draws some of their own blood upon one of their hands. After which they perform the seals Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram before placing their hand onto the ground. A formula appears underneath the hand from which one or more summons belonging to the users contract may appear.
WC: 1202