Diving Feathers and Needles Technique

The is a collaboration - technique that originally makes use of the Dusk Crow Genjutsu, Transformation Technique and. While it is not an official given stat the technique involves itself with to have a superb control over the movements of the needles, as it is intended to hide the Senbon within the Genjutsu and around it. The user begins with a low-ranked genjutsu to alter the environment with the slightest change – involving crows to confuse the opponent – to continue with more subtle alternations. When the sly alternations are completed the crows dive down at the opponent, changing to hundreds to thousands of senbon at the last few seconds, depending on the user’s chakra control, which include illusionary senbon to confuse the foe.

Trivia

 * Izaya demonstrated this technique for the first time in Soaring Wings: The Butterfly and the Crow. However, it’s unsure whether he intended to purposely invent this or that it was a pure accident. Stated by him, the Genjutsu had started where the crows were flying above the intruder’s location. It’s later seen again against a playful battle with Shikon who labeled this technique as “Diving Feathers and Needles Technique” a pun on the use of his Crows in Genjutsu that became deadly Senbon.