The Nara Clan

Kaidoh Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:17 pm

- Clan Name: Nara Clan.

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- Clan Jutsu:

Stage 1
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Name: Kage Mane (Shadow Bind)

The essential Nara technique, the Kage Mane is a move that commands your own shadow to stretch out and reach for an enemy’s shadow and while the shadow’s actual movement can’t be termed fast, should the two connect, the Nara is then capable of making his opponent mimic all of his actions.

The user is also capable of capturing more than one person in the shadow bind. Its maximum range is limited to how much shadow is in an area – you are limited to your shadow’s total surface area (and the shadows you can connect to) and no more. The Kage Mane itself moves fairly slowly when compared to ninja of a similar level to the user and thus needs to be employed tactically.

Name: Kage Genko (Shadow Fist)

The Shadow Fist technique is usually used as a simple extension of the Kage Mane though it can be used alone. When an enemy becomes captured by the above technique, the user form a fist from the shadows at his enemy’s feet and cause it to punch his opponent once.

Name: Kage Maku (Shadow Film)

This technique is a simple little jutsu used for “getting the upper hand” on someone – quite literally. The user’s shadow becomes a non-conductive surface, the same as if you were standing on an area with nothing on it, a fresh area so to speak. Useful when you’re in an enemies battlefield (surrounded by water and mist-nin, grassy planes and grass-nin for example) this technique could give you the small yet helpful edge you need.

Curiously, when this technique is active the user can walk without their own shadow moving with them though once you step off the shadow the technique is cancelled.

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Stage 2
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Name: Kage Yuukai (Shadow Fusion)

Simple in theory, but slightly harder in execution than the previous level of techniques: effectively when this jutsu is activated the user slinks into the shadows around him and becomes neigh indistinguishable from the darkness he has blended with – the user has literall sunk into his own shadow for this technique. Capable of moving at his normal movement pace, but unable to go where his shadow cannot reach (the operation range is identical to the Kage Mane), the user is afforded with an excellent technique as long as the terrain proves cooperative.

Name: Kage Odori (Shadow Dance)

This jutsu is fundamentally similar to the Bunshin no Jutsu. Like a fishing line, it creates a harmless clone , that mimics the users own actions, like a real shadow. It can be placed in the middle, beginning, or end of the users own shadow. It essentially becomes a bobber, if attacked, the enemy is already in the users shadow, its hand over lapping the person. This can lead into any technique. This is most useful in large areas of shadows, under clouds, trees, etcetera. Depending on how large the person wants the harmless clone to be, the users shadow becomes thinner , typically shorter in range as well.

Name: Kage Tansetsu (Shadow Forge)

At first glance the Shadow Forge appears identical to the kage Mane in every respect. It is started with the same handseal and travels in the same manner and with the same speed. However, with a second hand seal the user causes the Kage Tansetsu to accelerate quickly to a combat pace and as it approaches it's target the shadow lifts off the ground and attempts to impale the target with a blade of raw shadow.

Name: Bachiatari Gokuin No Kage (cursed seal of the shadow)

At first this seal was believed to be a konoha jutsu. It turned out that it is acutaully a Nara clan forbbiden jutsu. This jutsu has been forbidden as it is a cursed seal that will pass on the knowledge of all Nara clan jutsu that the user knows to whomever the seal is placed on. All gennin are taught this forbidden art incase the Nara clan should come to an end then they will place this seal on the neck of a close and trusted friend to keep the knowledge of the Nara clans shadows jutsu's alive.

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Stage 3
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Name: Kage Ori (Shadow Weave)

An easy technique to explain, the user takes a projectile of some sort and attunes it with their shadow. This projectile now acts as a sort of homing device and when the user throws it his shadow follows up to its maximum length. While this does mean the user’s shadow isn’t as manoeuvrable as it usually is, it is possible that the user’s shadow can be made to go faster than it usually would if they’re good at throwing.

Name: Kage Tami (Shadow Mat)

Even the best laid plans can sometimes go to waste, and as such it’s important to be able to defend yourself when they do. The Kage Tami is a simple and incredibly basic technique designed to cover the Nara’s hide when everything suddenly starts to go wrong. By manipulating their own shadow they bring it up in front of them and use it as a kind of screen against an attack from one side of them.

Name: Kage Kichou (Shadow Screen)

As a defensive technique, the Shadow Screen offers a further dynamic to the Nara’s tactical arsenal. When this jutsu is performed the user’s shadow takes on a distorted quality – almost as if there were ripples in it. When the shadow of a physical object touches the user’s shadow this jutsu goes off and effectively activates the Kagemane – attempting to freeze the object in its tracks.

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Stage 4
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Name: Kage Kubi Shibari (Shadow Neck Bind)

The shadow neck bind can only be described as a killing move. When an enemy is trapped by the Kage Mane the user channels his chakra to activate this technique. Hands form out of the shadows and creep across any victim trapped inside the Kage Mane…coiling themselves around their throat before slowly choking the life out of them.

Name: Kage Ashikase (Shadow Trap)

This technique requires the user to fill a tag as if it were a cup with his own shadow. Though the Tag is constantly bound to the user, since it is a shadow after all. It can be thrown or dropped anywhere, and the user can walk away. The tag can be activated once someone is close enough for the shadow to exit and just bind someone to the ground, keeping them on the floor, or if their close enough, even bind them in Kage Mane.

The tag can be thrown as far as the user wants, as long as he can stretch his farther to that point. A small sliver of a shadow constantly follows wherever the tag is until the point its to far. What the technique is doing constantly, is pulling out more and more shadow as the user walks away. If the user stays close to the tag, when someone comes around it can leap out of the tag and extend to long areas. However if you are further away from the tag, unless stepped on, the shadow just cant leap out of the shadow. This technique is cancelled by walking to far, which is usually about 30 feet per rank.

Name: Kage Nui (Shadow Sewing)

Different to the other jutsu simply because this is a directly offensive technique, the Kage Nui is performed in much the same manner as the Kage Mane – with a single hand seal the user causes his own shadow to stretch out across the ground at the exact same speed – but with a second hand seal the user is capable of causing his shadow to split into a multitude of tendrils sharp enough to pierce flesh and impale the unwary.

Name: Kage Musha no jutsu (Shadow Warrior)

This is an alternate version to Kage Bunshin no jutsu. This causes the shadows around the Nara to arise taking his or her shape but remaining all black. There is a limitation to how many can be made.
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Stage 5
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Name: Kage Kurinuku (Shadow Drill)

This technique can be as useful as its name in itself. The users shadow slides up someone while in kagemane as if going into neckbind, but instead a more typical swirling motion begins on the target. Once finalized, the shadow will literally drill into the person to the users liking, and pull out, the remains of what it dug into plopping against the ground as the shadow reverts to normal.

Name: Kage Hiseki(Shadow Tracking)

Different to the other jutsu simply because it uses the opponent's shadow as a advanatge. Using the shadow to transfer your body to hide within the shadow, this jutsu is affliated with using the chakra, as long as your chakra is intact with it you're still okay.

Name: Kage Anouen (Shadow Un-rooting)

This technique is relatively simple, and almost exactly like shadow film, only on a much larger setting. What it does is slide under any object, and then creates a separate path for the object to slide down, no matter how steep the area their standing on is. It literally pulls the object as if on a treadmill. The shadow is traction-less and when on a separate shadow, the user can bind someone first, slide under any object, and send it rolling at frightening speeds.

Name: Kage Senshi (Back Stab)

A more efficient – and certainly more brutal – version of the Shadow Neck Bind, the Shadow Back Stab functions in a similar manner regardless. This technique creates a knife of shadow that then attempts to stab the trapped foe wherever the user desires and it deals damage equal to what the user would have done by stabbing an opponent with a kunai directly. Unlike the Shadow Neck Bind (which can be done on more than one person), the Shadow Back Stab may only be used on one person and ends the user’s Kage Mane after its use.

Name: Kage Shirudo no jutsu (Shadow Shield)

Another defensive maneuver that has saved many a Nara. It causes the shadow of the Nara to swirl under their feet and when a taijutsu attack comes at them the shadow rises creating a wall. If the enemy is caught in the wall it is similar to Kagemane.

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Stage 6
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Name: Kage Jishaku (Shadow Magnet)

This technique first requires shadow bind. The next step is to send small tendrils onto the enemy, as is miniature shadows attempting to bind. What they do is go after each and every small shadow on the enemy, folds of clothes, shoulder blades, anything. Then, they attempt to connect to the enemy’s shadow. Literally everything starts to be pulled down until the pure pressure begins to snap inside them. First, their front is brought down, then their back attempts to attach to their shadow, and begins to snap forward

This can work for anything to bring it down, trees can begin to bend or snap, doors being rips off their hinges to slam down. Though this is just an added thing, almost never used for that purpose.

Name: Kage Shintai no jutsu (Shadow Movement)

This rather versatile jutsu can only be used at night. This allows the Nara to move freely among the shadows as if he or she is popping out from out of nowhere as if they were using Konoha Shunshin No Jutsu. The same rules of Konoha Shunshin No Jutsu apply to this

Name: Kage Migawari (Shadow Substitute)

Migawari is a term used in folk law to describe a doll which receives the misfortunes of its owner, and the Kage Migawari could be said to have been named after that particular myth. The user manipulates his shadow and causes it to rise from the ground and “stand up” as if it were another person (though it is still obviously the user’s shadow). The user is capable of directing the shadow to move about as if it was a bunshin, and the technique’s primary use is as a solid defence. Essentially, the Substitute gets in the way of an attack and blocks it for better or worse. It has the user’s “stamina” when it comes to taijutsu and when dealing with ninjutsu any attack will subtract its stage from the Substitute’s stage and should it reach 0 in that manner the Substitute disappears (even if the stage is higher it will block that one attack).

Usually employed as part of a decoy or a diversionary strategy, the Kage Migawari is nevertheless a useful delaying tactic should the Nara be caught unawares. Of course, it goes without saying that as long as the Migawari is active the user’s shadow is unavailable for use in other Nara techniques.

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Stage 7
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Name: Kage Oomata (Shadow Stride)

This rather versatile jutsu acts much like a normal ninja’s sunshin would. Unlike a sunshin however, the user requires a shadow at least large enough to step into completely to perform this technique and likewise requires the user to be able to see a shadow large enough to completely cover his body to step out of again, and the user cannot move until he has completely exited the shadow. Unlike a regular sunshin however this technique can be used in combat to full effectives and makes an effective assault jutus.

Name: Kage Hanketsu (Shadow Sentence)

Essentially, this is the Nara’s ultimate finishing move. As its name suggests, it is a death sentence to all those who are condemned to it. With an enemy trapped by the Kage Mane, the Nara uses this technique in an attempt to leave almost nothing left. Acting almost like a Continuer version of the Kage Nui, this jutsu inserts dozens upon dozens of razor sharp tendrils into the captured enemy – consuming him in shadow – before explosively ripping them apart from the inside out. It would take a man of great stamina to resist these probing tentacles but there is no doubt that the most sure defence against this technique is to avoid the Kage Mane to begin with.

Name : Kage Seken no jutsu (Shadow World)

This technique veils a 15 foot area in dense shadow, such that the sun cannot shine through. In this area the enemies are stuck in total darkness unable to do anything to stop it. The Nara only has to alter his or her chakra to do jutsu. If the enemy can run out of the area he or she is free and able to do something against it, but the Nara won’t let that happen. After the jutsu is done how ever the Nara is exhausted and will only be able to run from battle.

Name: Kage Hifu (Shadow Skin)

This technique requires two conditions to be fufilled before it can be used. Firstly, as stated, the enemy must already be bound by the Kage Mane and secondly they must have at least one open wound on their body. This wound is like a gate way...it's open and therefore light can get inside and with that comes shadow. This of course is a bad thing for the enemy, it allows the Nara to get underneath their skin.

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- Clan History: This clan from Konoha Village is known for its ability to manipulate their shadow. Utilizing this ability the clan member can attach their shadow to the shadow of another individual, and then take control of the user. Resulting in the affected person replicating or "shadowing" the exact movements in mirror form of the clan member.