The First Date, Zahara had a few options to consider for a night out, first was just a little quiet night away from the village out in the forest. He liked seclusion and quiet, but that hadn't been an ideal one in his eyes and he didn't know what her likes were. Second was a lunch, plain and simple but he didn't like how tactful it'd be -- would feel too much like a regular meet up. Instead, he threw out all the other options and decided to take Lahlil out near the end of the night, after a long day in the office, to an Izakaya. A small little bar with different drinks, sake and snacks that was a frequent haunt by him when he was in the village. Zahara would bring her without much conversation prior, his nerves on end and his mind racing. He hoped for something small, a drink to calm the nerves and somewhere familiar but not secluded.
It was a long day, much of it spent anticipating and worrying over small things, was it a fluke or something more. It felt like he hadn't even a small chance, like a fever dream. Nerves were a cursed thing, so much so he kept his sentient blade tucked away in a scroll and not even Shiro was with him. Tonight, he would rather be alone with his thoughts and spend an evening with Lahlil. Zahara didn't care to leave a name for the lady's secretary, or even wait. Instead he slipped through the office and left a clone behind in the lobby, he was quite impatient to say the least.
A knock upon the office door, three knocks as he said there would be then it opened. He was dressed in plain clothes, simple black nondescript kimono. "Lady Kage?" He said upon opening the door and closing it, a slight bow as he entered. His heart caught in his throat again as he took a few steps in. Bah, calm down. Zahara told himself as he smiled slightly. "You ready for that night out, lass?"
He stopped himself then and breathed in as he could feel his face warm slightly. It been the first time in years since he even done something like this with someone else. Rank had little meaning to him but it didn't eliminate the gravity of who he had been asking out.
"There's a small little bar down by the market, I figured I could treat you to a few drinks and a meal."
... I walk the Path of Tribulations ...
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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:22 pm
tab tab There was no response to Zahara's knocking, not that Lahlil hadn't heard no, the woman had simply found that she much preferred action to where words so often feel flat. To the left, a door would swing open wide, revealing two things: The first was a plain room, relatively minuscule in relation to more traditional living spaces, adorned with what looked like a coffin hanging from the ceiling. The second? Lahlil herself, twirling from the doorway in as dramatic a fashion as she could possibly muster so as to show off her rich purple satin dress. Its cut lifted just high enough to expose her upper thigh on one side.
Unfortunately, any sort of "mature mystic" either the dress or appearance could have earned her was lost in the same instant that her dizziness overtook her, altering her momentum into landing back first into Zahara himself. Shocked fuchsia eyes stared upwards in his own (whether it was from on the floor, or if he had caught her) and slowly, when it dawned that she wasn't in the mortal danger that she had originally thought, Lahlil burst out into a fit of the giggles. "That was planned. I command you to believe it."
Still smiling when she climbed back to her feet, Lahlil brushed away any wrinkles in her dress in order to present it to Zahara again, this time with less klutziness. "Do you like it? I don't usually get called out like this. It was really surprising but I wanted to kind of go all out! Where did you say we were going again...?" Looking at him, really looking at him now, it was almost like he was nervous, she assumed because of her title. Well hell be damned if she was going to let that ruin this for her.
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____✧ Parlor Tricks | Lahlil has become so mastered at the use of fuuninjutsu that whenever she casts a use of flying thunder god or the fuunin specific shuushin, she may leave behind or have placed at her transported location, a fuunin seal from another ability placed automatically. This essentially changes the casting location for the paired ability while still consuming an activation and chakra. To be clear this PA makes it so that as long as she has the activation and resources to do so, Lahlil can simultaneously cast another fuunin with flying thunder god or the fuunin shuushin.
____✧ Shared Information | All information, sensory or otherwise, gathered by anyone who is a part of the telepathic network is shared with the group, not just the Yamanaka. This does require the Sensing Transmission technique from below. Additionally, the user is granted a passive field around themselves that offers that minor sensory capabilities ( limited to sensing the origin point of incoming jutsu ) but can ultimately be upgraded if of the Infinite Perception discipline. This field is limited to five feet per body rank.
____✧ Born in Shadow | All Imitation techniques gain [1] additional use before they are weakened. Additionally, the user's clan techniques are considered one rank higher when attempting to break free.
____✧ Peerless Summoner | You are more specialized in summoning and sealing than sensory. You are allowed to have a mirrored amount of your total ninjutsu slots granted by this class exclusively reserved for sealing. In addition, all sealing techniques are considered overwhelming when in collision with other techniques of the same rank. This benefit only applies to techniques S-ranked and below. Finally, if you are able to summon any contract summon regardless of a bloodline connection of a signed user of a summoning contract you are able to summon beings at one rank lower than normally required and 50 chakra and stamina is granted to them per rank of the summoned creature starting at 50 for D-Rank and ending with 250 for the boss summon, or 300 if a mythical summon is contracted. The user's summoned creatures are able to use any ninjutsu the user has access to that they share an element for as well as any genjutsu, taijutsu, and bukijutsu. Your summoned creature's unique techniques are considered overwhelming at S-rank and below in collisions.
_✧ Somniferous Sight | Latent vampiric powers from the Bat Lord have manifested inside Lahlil despite his death. As such Lahlil has found herself now able to replace the use of handseals with subtle eye movement. This still takes the same amount of time to perform as normal handseals.
_✧ Battlefield Presence | he user's powerful presence on the battlefield strikes terror into their foes. Opponents are able to sense the user's terrifying fighting spirit five feet from the user per body rank of the user through chakra sense. Those within range can have this radiating fearful aura become the trigger for genjutsu, allowing genjutsu to be cast by acknowledging the user. In addition, should an opponent be targeted by a melee technique that is greater in rank than the target's body rank that target has tier two paralysis applied to their legs, requiring it to be broken by Kai equal to the user's body rank, costing the target no activation for that specific instance of kai.
_✧ Infinite Perception | Your specialty is more in sensory than in sealing or summoning. You are able to discover things such as demon chakra, or the type of technique that is about to be active (Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, etc.), even specifics such as Bloodline type and rank from any active sensory technique. This discipline allows the user to be able to sense their enemy’s ninjutsu attacks and their composition, which grants a -2 rank reduction to dodging with the dodge mechanic X-ranked skill so long as it was used within the range of the user’s sensory abilities. You can release yourself from genjutsu at one rank lower in kai chakra release but with no benefit in pain release. In addition, the user's sensory abilities are extended fifty feet per rank of the technique. As a master tracker, you can advance in the ninja hunter and special ops careers for half as many Oinin Butai and ANBU missions completed. Upon reaching Initiate in Oinin Butai, you gain the Eagle Eye perk innately so you can choose one other Oinin perk as well. When you use a sensory technique with jamming you can double the jamming effect, this ability applies to one technique per three posts.
_✧ Scholar – Scholar | You may pick 2 of its disciplines. Additionally, fuuinjutsu and sensory techniques used by this specialization are reduced in chakra cost by five per rank with a minimum of five chakra.
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_✧ Blood Magic | The user's ninjutsu are able to be converted into blood that assumes the same size and shape as the ninjutsu used to create it. If the ninjutsu had an effect such as burning, burns, paralysis, etc, that effect is still in effect as the blood acts in a similar fashion to the original technique. After being cast, this blood remains active upon the battlefield. In addition, the sight of blood in such masses causes tiered mental stress based on technique rank for three posts unless kai is used. Additionally, the user's blood pool is increased by 10 per body rank, allowing them to utilize their stored blood more efficiently.
_✧ Corrupted Life-force | The user's blood has been tainted by the clan's cursed lineage. Their blood has a diseased nature, applying tiered disease upon entering the target's system depending on the user's body rank. A ranked amount of chakra can be applied to the user's blood to make it acidic and cause an equal amount of damage depending on the amount of chakra applied.
_✧ Crimson Swordsman | The clansman is adept at using bladed weapons and excels at slashing foes asunder. Injuries sustained by bladed weapons of the user bleed for an additional post per body rank of the user and reduce an additional five stamina per body rank of the user. Blood produced in this manner when viewed causes tier-one mental stress for three posts unless a D-Rank kai is used.
_✧ Seal Jamming | Seals that are cast by Lahlil may have her scholar's jamming effect placed on them. This only applies the 'hidden from sensory effect' on them, however, and DOES NOT apply the jamming in an area. Only when attempting to locate the seals with doujutsu or sensory effects. This effect is limited to the rank = status tier applied rule.
_✧ Heavy Handed | Lahlil's strikes have become particularly devastating, allowing them to mimic the ferocity usually delivered by great swords. Lahlil may now utilize two-handed bukijutsu styles using only her fists.
_✧ Martial Mastery | Devoting herself to her physical training, Lahlil has become a paragon of the physical arts. Whenever she uses a technique that allows her to mix and match abilities for a single activation, she may increase the choices available to her to include any style (Including those from other types i.e. buki style to tai style). However, this follows normal performance restrictions. Meaning unless she has some means to (Such as a PA) she cannot mix a buki effect with a tai unless she could perform with her fist, or vice versa.
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:45 pm
Zahara Kevali Dead Man Walking
... I am the Serpent ...
He hadn't expected an answer like so; a quiet display to a barren empty room adorned with a macabre casket upon the ceiling nor an answer to his words as he felt something was here. Perhaps not in? Yet not a second thought was given to the room then as he was focused on her a moment after with a display of sultry fashion and a flair of her quirky nature in stark contrast to the both himself and the room. A slight grin, flashy as she was he enjoyed the little flourish with the extra bit of effort she did.
Then a trip up, whether on purpose or accident, Lahlil's graceful spin was met with the curse of two left feet as she slipped and began to fall. It was instinct of him as his eyes turned pure white, his admiring of her turned to concern as he caught her. One arm around her lower back, to stop the fall and the other at the base of her neck to keep her from having a sharp recoil. He held her in such a way like it was a dip in a dance, his face not far from her own and he blinked for a long second as his eyes turned back to their amber hue. Almost asking if she was alright, the lass broke out into a giggle fit and he seemed confused at first.
"Whether it was planned or not, you had a little fun." He chirped a coy remark as he helped her back to her feet and bit his tongue with a step back, looking away for a moment for her to fix the mess she made of her dress. Respectful he thought, or just overly damned nervous. A glance back when she spoke again when she asked if he liked the dress. He spoke for a moment but stammered with"I. Uh." He began before clearing his throat. "Quite stunning actually," Zahara looked at her in the eyes and blinked, shifting with a slight fidget with a quick glance at the dress. By ******** gods the warmed face was quite inconvenient as he was aware of it then.
"It's an Izakaya, an out of the way little bar with all kinds of drinks and decent food. Nothing fancy, but..." He trailed off as he paced the floor once, then he turned back to her with a small chuckle. "I'm sorry, it's just been... awhile, like about six years or so." He cleared his throat again and sighed, annoyed with himself as he shifted once more, a damned hermit with a kage nor did it help with how long it had been. A shrug. "So. Anyway, it's not the most fancy of places but it's one of the only spots I know of here."
... I walk the Path of Tribulations ...
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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:13 pm
tab tab Propping upward but remaining on her knees, The kage sat in an undignified manner whilst pink eyes traced Zahara's pacing back and forth. His floundering was enough to inspire a predatory response from Lahlil, who leaped to her feet in a nimble motion that was purposefully meant to exaggerate her features. "Zeeeeeeeeee..." Even as a whisper the tone from her mouth was demanding in it's attention. Pulling it towards two little fingers that clawed their way up, up, up to the very tippy top of the Sannin’s chest; making sure to stop and pull at every little button on the way. Wrinkles, messy, battle-worn. I like it.
Right down its very core, Zahara’s appearance told a tale. One that expressed a body that was better with action than words, or at least in this situation. “Words are dumb, so try not to worry about them. Let’s just have fun okay?” More than anything, Lahlil was one who appreciated a weighted importance on what was physical. Something which she had anticipated to be a challenge when he had asked her out, but then maybe that was why she accepted in the first palace. Lahlil loved being challenged.
Pale fingers interlocked and pulled Zahara along on her eagerness. A little enthusiasm to put to rest any lingering insecurities, and then hopefully alcohol would clean up what she could not. “Come on! Show me where this place is! I wanna race there, it should be a fair fight for you if I don’t know where I’m going!”
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____✧ Parlor Tricks | Lahlil has become so mastered at the use of fuuninjutsu that whenever she casts a use of flying thunder god or the fuunin specific shuushin, she may leave behind or have placed at her transported location, a fuunin seal from another ability placed automatically. This essentially changes the casting location for the paired ability while still consuming an activation and chakra. To be clear this PA makes it so that as long as she has the activation and resources to do so, Lahlil can simultaneously cast another fuunin with flying thunder god or the fuunin shuushin.
____✧ Shared Information | All information, sensory or otherwise, gathered by anyone who is a part of the telepathic network is shared with the group, not just the Yamanaka. This does require the Sensing Transmission technique from below. Additionally, the user is granted a passive field around themselves that offers that minor sensory capabilities ( limited to sensing the origin point of incoming jutsu ) but can ultimately be upgraded if of the Infinite Perception discipline. This field is limited to five feet per body rank.
____✧ Born in Shadow | All Imitation techniques gain [1] additional use before they are weakened. Additionally, the user's clan techniques are considered one rank higher when attempting to break free.
____✧ Peerless Summoner | You are more specialized in summoning and sealing than sensory. You are allowed to have a mirrored amount of your total ninjutsu slots granted by this class exclusively reserved for sealing. In addition, all sealing techniques are considered overwhelming when in collision with other techniques of the same rank. This benefit only applies to techniques S-ranked and below. Finally, if you are able to summon any contract summon regardless of a bloodline connection of a signed user of a summoning contract you are able to summon beings at one rank lower than normally required and 50 chakra and stamina is granted to them per rank of the summoned creature starting at 50 for D-Rank and ending with 250 for the boss summon, or 300 if a mythical summon is contracted. The user's summoned creatures are able to use any ninjutsu the user has access to that they share an element for as well as any genjutsu, taijutsu, and bukijutsu. Your summoned creature's unique techniques are considered overwhelming at S-rank and below in collisions.
_✧ Somniferous Sight | Latent vampiric powers from the Bat Lord have manifested inside Lahlil despite his death. As such Lahlil has found herself now able to replace the use of handseals with subtle eye movement. This still takes the same amount of time to perform as normal handseals.
_✧ Battlefield Presence | he user's powerful presence on the battlefield strikes terror into their foes. Opponents are able to sense the user's terrifying fighting spirit five feet from the user per body rank of the user through chakra sense. Those within range can have this radiating fearful aura become the trigger for genjutsu, allowing genjutsu to be cast by acknowledging the user. In addition, should an opponent be targeted by a melee technique that is greater in rank than the target's body rank that target has tier two paralysis applied to their legs, requiring it to be broken by Kai equal to the user's body rank, costing the target no activation for that specific instance of kai.
_✧ Infinite Perception | Your specialty is more in sensory than in sealing or summoning. You are able to discover things such as demon chakra, or the type of technique that is about to be active (Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, etc.), even specifics such as Bloodline type and rank from any active sensory technique. This discipline allows the user to be able to sense their enemy’s ninjutsu attacks and their composition, which grants a -2 rank reduction to dodging with the dodge mechanic X-ranked skill so long as it was used within the range of the user’s sensory abilities. You can release yourself from genjutsu at one rank lower in kai chakra release but with no benefit in pain release. In addition, the user's sensory abilities are extended fifty feet per rank of the technique. As a master tracker, you can advance in the ninja hunter and special ops careers for half as many Oinin Butai and ANBU missions completed. Upon reaching Initiate in Oinin Butai, you gain the Eagle Eye perk innately so you can choose one other Oinin perk as well. When you use a sensory technique with jamming you can double the jamming effect, this ability applies to one technique per three posts.
_✧ Scholar – Scholar | You may pick 2 of its disciplines. Additionally, fuuinjutsu and sensory techniques used by this specialization are reduced in chakra cost by five per rank with a minimum of five chakra.
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_✧ Blood Magic | The user's ninjutsu are able to be converted into blood that assumes the same size and shape as the ninjutsu used to create it. If the ninjutsu had an effect such as burning, burns, paralysis, etc, that effect is still in effect as the blood acts in a similar fashion to the original technique. After being cast, this blood remains active upon the battlefield. In addition, the sight of blood in such masses causes tiered mental stress based on technique rank for three posts unless kai is used. Additionally, the user's blood pool is increased by 10 per body rank, allowing them to utilize their stored blood more efficiently.
_✧ Corrupted Life-force | The user's blood has been tainted by the clan's cursed lineage. Their blood has a diseased nature, applying tiered disease upon entering the target's system depending on the user's body rank. A ranked amount of chakra can be applied to the user's blood to make it acidic and cause an equal amount of damage depending on the amount of chakra applied.
_✧ Crimson Swordsman | The clansman is adept at using bladed weapons and excels at slashing foes asunder. Injuries sustained by bladed weapons of the user bleed for an additional post per body rank of the user and reduce an additional five stamina per body rank of the user. Blood produced in this manner when viewed causes tier-one mental stress for three posts unless a D-Rank kai is used.
_✧ Seal Jamming | Seals that are cast by Lahlil may have her scholar's jamming effect placed on them. This only applies the 'hidden from sensory effect' on them, however, and DOES NOT apply the jamming in an area. Only when attempting to locate the seals with doujutsu or sensory effects. This effect is limited to the rank = status tier applied rule.
_✧ Heavy Handed | Lahlil's strikes have become particularly devastating, allowing them to mimic the ferocity usually delivered by great swords. Lahlil may now utilize two-handed bukijutsu styles using only her fists.
_✧ Martial Mastery | Devoting herself to her physical training, Lahlil has become a paragon of the physical arts. Whenever she uses a technique that allows her to mix and match abilities for a single activation, she may increase the choices available to her to include any style (Including those from other types i.e. buki style to tai style). However, this follows normal performance restrictions. Meaning unless she has some means to (Such as a PA) she cannot mix a buki effect with a tai unless she could perform it with her fists, or vice versa.
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 12:44 am
Zahara Kevali Dead Man Walking
... I am the Serpent ...
Zahara caught sight of her body's motion while she sprang up like a jack rabbit as his cheeks flushed again, he blinked once as he had caught himself staring at her and then looked into her eyes. Quick and unexpected she was, he tried to say something or apologize for any indecency he suspected of doing but trailed off then. A spell was cast and he fell for the charm like a dumb idiot.
A sense of dread filled him like hairs standing on the back of the neck, a prickle through the bones and a sinking gut feeling progressively gotten deeper as each little finger inched up his body. Zahara could not breath for the moment as his nerves were shot at her advance. Yet he remained firm in his composure fairly save for the shuddering exhale when she touched his stomach area, a reminder of his scar. It was fear then, the prickle of what were the equal of nettles with her touch, like a bead of cold water down the spine. He held an irrational sense of dread, touching with another was an issue he had to contend with those who got in his personal boundaries. It was a fear of touch by the hand or close intimacy, yet to some he was at ease and others it was downright unbearable.
But this, it was a bizarre mental cocktail of endearment and fear and it was quite effective. He enjoyed and hated the touch all at the same time, the heart rate in him increased and the fluttering insides was the excitement intermingling with the fear. Out of a habit he swallowed once and tensed his jaw when she stopped at the top of his chest as he almost expected something while the mental mosquito went all abuzz.
He couldn't help but caress her cheek during that moment as he ignored the mental crescendo of his inner emotions wailing like a banshee to his infatuation. He felt her soft skin with his thumb tracing her cheekbone as he went against his fears and enjoyed it. The little whisper of her's garnered his attention, any little idle thought was lost in the small smile he gave her there, in a way his silent way of expressing himself. The prickling sense he felt would not go away but instead steel his resolve now.
"Alright." was all he would say in reply to her want to just let loose and not worry of anything. It did little to actually calm his nerves but the tension in body was less now.
Fun. Right. The little things of political weight were thrown out the window, he never cared for clout so why start now? It was then the little click pinged in the sage's head as he felt her hand intermingle with his, fingers together and the shackle shut tight in his mind. The sinking feeling was back and now he felt like his insides took a god damned nosedive accompanied with the fluttering flies in the gut. Then she pulled and the little siren song worked its magic to pull him out of his internal shell, Lahlil was being purposeful now as he could tell as he begrudgingly went along and tried to protest against it. "W-Wait!" He started to say but he cut himself off as she went ahead with a call for a race. She didn't know where? Race?
Zahara let out a quick sigh, she was quick and was eager he thought. He had let her set the pace but he would now begin to poke at it himself. He moved quickly and without so much a word of warning to Lahlil, in a running sprint he would lift her up in his arms, one arm to support her legs and the other supporting her back mid run. A wry grin then as he carried her followed by a cheeky remark. "You already tripped once, lass, let's not chance a second time." In truth though, he just wanted an excuse to hold her a little closer and raise that bar just a tiny bit. He was enjoying it so far.
It wasn't long before the curse of a leader would haunt him and her before they even left. He had jogged down a bit before the pair came across one of the many who were seeking the kage for some a** numbingly dull topic as Zahara would groan aloud.
"Nope, no time, Kage's busy. Pardon me!" Zahara would give no time for the interruptions and didn't set her down. A little idea clicked in his head then. "Sorry for this, I'll fix it right after I promise, lass!" Zahara spoke quickly, addressing Lahlil as he closed his eyes for a brief second and his dojutsu came alive with the world coming alive in his mind's eye. With one straight boot to it, fiery red chakra flared up with a sudden bang and he demolished a good chunk from his bakuton mixed with a fire ninjutsu, disintegrating the debris as he jumped out with her in tow into the village proper as he descended slowly with the aid of fuuton. Zahara's amber eyes were aglow with cyan chakra as he remained true to the word as the little-if-not-maybe-a-large hole was turned back in time and repaired as if nothing had happened in the first place.
His eyes were back to normal soon enough as he blinked once and let out a sigh as he could feel the adrenaline rush pounding at his poor heart and they were in the streets of the village from the quick descent, it took him a ******** will of the gods to even work of a nerve to ask her out in the first place, like hell he was going to let the lady's duties get in the way now...! The short high ran off and the wide grin went away as Zahara stammered slightly as he found a way to try and explain himself then as he set her down, embarrassed now. "Uhh...So." He cleared his throat and blinked rapidly with a rub at the back of his neck, trying to play off the entire scene all nonchalant.
A cough then. "Well. The place is not far, a few streets ahead then hang a left." He explained and then trailed off as he hoped she wouldn't say anything about the little stunt and pretend like it hadn't happened. Nope. It didn't happen, he was just being a gentleman, yessirree. He fidgeted a little. <********> Zahara shook his head slowly. "Sorry. I'm just, nervous." He gave a little smile, ******** nervous wasn't even half of it.
