Wait, who's pulling the strings again? [Jutsu Training]

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Tetsuya

Name: Kugutsu no Jutsu - Puppetry Technique
Type: Puppet Mastery
Rank: D
Requirements: None
Description: This is the very basic technique for all puppet users, it is what allows one to control a puppet by using chakra strings. The amount and complexity of the puppets one can use depend entirely on their skill, and the techniques they can use depend entirely on their puppets.

(1/5)

”One of the most irritating parts of having such successful parents,”Tetsuya reflected to himself grimly, sweating under the worst of Suna’s sun ”Is having to live up to their expectations.”

It had never, ever been in question that Tetsuya would attend Suna’s academy and train to be a shinobi. It had also never, ever been in question that he would be a puppet-user, that is until he actually attended the academy and let down both his sensei and parents by struggling to attain mediocrity in even the most fundamental of chakra-control classes. Only with the tips and help of his friend Hiroshi (in return for help in a decidedly unsavoury act of malicious revenge) had he graduated at all. Nevertheless, his parents had been proud – their only son was now a Genin of Sunagakure.

Unfortunately for Tetsuya, they weren’t going to let up on the puppet issue.

“Son,” His mother had taken him aside after breakfast the next day, still flush with his success of obtaining the rank of Genin. “You’re going to need to at least master the basic puppetry technique if you ever want to see a Genin team, that is why I’ll be tutoring you personally.”

He’d groaned and protested, but she was having none of it – True to her Suna heritage, she’d proven indomitable, unmovable and implacable in her resolve. For better or worse, Tets would master the technique.

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Tetsuya Ayumu

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Village: Sunagakure
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Tetsuya · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject:

(2/5)

Anyone with any sense would’ve stayed indoors. Indeed, most of the villagers of Suna knew better than to be out during the worst of the day’s heat but Tetsuya didn’t have that option. His mother had approached him with an ultimatum that morning.

“It’s been nearly 9 months since you started studying the fundaments of Puppetry and you still can’t even form a single chakra string. You will not be coming back into this house until you can move the anthropomorphic doll.” It obviously pained her to put such pressure on her son, but sometimes tough love produced results where gentle encouragement didn’t – and it was obvious that Tetsuya was running out of chances.

He cast a dirty look over at the doll heaped in the corner of the room (one of hundreds of puppets that littered the house), but nodded his acquiescence; his mother wasn’t going to be dissuaded, and his father wasn’t here either to tell her to ease off. Thus, he’d trudged out with the doll, more commonly used for artists’ practice of drawing the human form than puppet practicing into the sweltering heat, climbed the stairs to the top of the house and sat on the flat sun baked roof and tried once more to focus the chakra in his fingers enough to project it outwards and form a connection. For no less than three hours he sat there, glaring at the doll, willing his chakra to even touch it, brush it.

It wasn’t happening.
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Tetsuya · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject:

(3/5)

The sun was a nightmare of a distraction. Every time he settled into the familiar routine of manipulating his chakra that had proved so difficult at the academy, he’d feel a prickle from his exposed neck, shoulders and arms - he should’ve grabbed more cover before he’d left the house. Being sunburned would help nobody. Growling in frustration, he threw down his arms and abruptly stood, intent of crossing over and hoofing the doll over the roof ledge into the street below. It was then that it dawned on him.

”If I break the doll, Dad’ll kill me. Mom’ll be disappointed. It’ll be a signal to them that I’m a failure – that I’m never going to live up to their name and that I don’t even respect it. I’ll be less of a son in their eyes. I gotta do it.” he smirked to himself, pleased that he’d come to such a profoundly simple realisation.

Tetsuya crossed the distance and planted a boot into the side of the doll. It caught a fair bit of air before the parabolic started carrying it down again, towards the nearly deserted street below, but the failed puppeteer wasn’t even watching. He had his eyes closed, forcing chakra to his fingertips through sheer force of will, letting that everpresent fear of disappointing his family drive the chakra out into a series of five strings, one latching onto each limb, the final string catching the head of the doll. It abruptly stopped in the air and ceded to his beckon before landing with a series of wooden rattles on the rooftop before him.

The Genin grinned in disbelief, and his concentration faltered. The wooden mannequin telescoped down into a pile, but he didn’t care; he’d done it.

”Now, I gotta practice so that I can do this at will...”
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Tetsuya · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject:

(4/5)

By the fifth kick, Tetsuya decided that he’d bruised his foot. He didn’t care. Each time the doll sailed over the edge of the roof and came back with a more elaborate landing, he maintained the strings longer. It was requiring less and less concentration. Another boot, this time evoking a cry of pain from the youth was followed by that beautiful twang of the chakra strings stretching, tensing and receding, bringing the doll back. He didn’t let go. Instead, his fingers twitched as if by instinct and the doll managed a series of steps and experimental arm movements. The link didn’t drop. The telltale rattles and clacks as the doll moved was music to his ears. He bounced the doll around the rooftop, breaking it into a run, making it hop on one leg, swinging both arms with the elation he felt but internalised, content to instead express himself through the movements of his wooden new best friend.

It was intensely private, and Tetsuya felt a little disappointed that he had nobody to share this moment of success with, but in another way he was grateful: he’d achieved this himself. Hiroshi hadn’t had to point out the obvious to him with that long-suffering grin. His Sensei wasn’t there with a disbelieving, exasperated look in his eyes. His mom and dad weren’t there to shower him with affection and praise. It was all Tetsuya, and that was the biggest reward of all.

“Okay, I can control it easily with my left hand. Let’s work on my right.” He muttered to himself, letting the doll fall to the floor, energised by his success.
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Tetsuya · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject:

(5/5)

The sun was dipping down below the rim of the village’s perimeter before Tetsuya managed to maintain the chakra strings from his right hand for any length of time and with any level of control, however it was enough. He wouldn’t get any further that night – he just needed time and practice. Unable to remove the smirk from his lips, he proceeded downstairs and on impulse grabbed the doll with his chakra strings, walking it before him with his left hand.
Two excited yelps came from the kitchen when the doll preceded him in.

“I knew you could do it!” His father exclaimed, pulling his son into a massive bear-crushing grip.
His mother was too choked up for words and busied herself at the sink, preparing dinner. An emotional evening was had where Tetsuya excited relayed the highlights of his days’ practice to them, as well as a solemn vow to practice his puppetry daily until he lived up to the Ayumu name for puppet mastery.

“Tomorrow, I’ll be teaching you a more offensive technique whilst your Dad works on a little something for you.” His mother confided in him as he went up to bed late that night, still unable to wipe the smirk from his face. He didn’t even feel the sunburn on his neck and shoulders until he lay down in bed and almost immediately jumped up, crying out in pain.
Even then he didn’t stop grinning.

(Jutsu Learned)

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