Board Thread:Rebirth: Applications/@comment-24384232-20141110050250

1) Name the technique(s) you are applying for and what character(s) are they for.

Yamanaka Akihiko - Flying Thunder God Technique

2) How will said character learn said technique(s)? This is where things get interesting. The point of this question is do invoke a unique answer, an engaging one. How does your character learn the mechanics behind the technique they are learning. Make it interesting and original (not bland, and exactly the opposite). This and the last question are crucial in the overall judgement. Even the learning from the scroll method works, if you make it very original. Here, describe the actual training methods your character used to learn the technique, and more.

Akihiko to his eternal amusement, discovered why the other reason the Yondaime as hailed as "Konoha's Yellow Flash". It was an ordinary day, nothing particularly special about it, no assassinations to plot, no wars to fight and certainly no nobles throwing their daughters at him. Which made it a Monday; or Getsuyobi (月曜日); Day of the Moon. Akihiko often pondered if insanity always began its treck on this day, and now he has irrefutable proof. As he wondered to the womens bathing area, to begin his weekly prank; he found it incredibly amusing to use his Yamanaka techniques to induce chaos and drama between the villages kunoichi when things were getting just a little stale, he came across a most interesting sight. Perplexed, he was sure that his hidden location was only to him but apparently it was known to a predecessor, he found a most interesting seal. Curious, he quickly copied the contents of the seal, before beginning his Monday routine.

After thoroughly amusing himself, and and forever immortalizing yet another tantalizing scene featuring Konoha's most beautiful kunoichi, he returned to his private study to examine the seal. After a fruitless four hours of pouring over research notes and sealing formula's, he found that he was no closer to unearthing the seals secrets than when he began. So he decided on a more practical solution. Summoning up a Shadow Clone he instructed it to begin experimenting with the seal. Following the insubordination of Clones 1-74, and another six hours wasted arguing quite literally with himself on the dangers of blindly messing with seals, he managed to come to an agreement with a like-minded clone. When the first memory came back to him, Akihiko awoke having been rendered unconscious for over half a day, and nursing a headache that made a hangover feel like morphine. Memories of his clone being violently shredded and then scattered across spacetime apparently has a discomforting effect on the original.

After several more unsuccessful experiments, and weeks of therapy, Akihiko finally managed grasp the secrets of this technique. A very elaborate and unique coordinate system that seemed to account for geo-spatial location, in relation to heavenly bodies, and some fundamentals regarding the supposed "dimensional void". His first successful foray using the Flying Thunder God technique promptly took him to one of the more popular hot-springs of Suna. Unfortunately he was not prepared to stealth and barely avoided an international incident involving the sisters, daughters and mothers of some of Suna's governing council, and shinobi clans. Having peaked his curiosity, Akihiko discovered to his delight that these markings covered much of the elemental nations, specifically keyed to places, most notably hot-springs and on a few occasions to private residences of influential female members of the court and shinobi clans. He also uncovered evidence, though it was unsubstantied, that the Third War may have been started over the stolen virtue's of several prominent members of society.

Returning home, Akihiko was determined to absorb this technique into his arsenal. To that end he spent months researching the unique phenomena of the instant teleportation of the Flying Thunder God. He found that its analogy to a lightning rod was both inspired and patently flawed. The markings are indeed that, markings. But their complexity only becomes apparent when one realizes that the reason they are so complex, and composed of seals largely relating to facing, direction, orientation, and spatial distances. This was combined with seals whose function related to recognizing patterns such as the movement, and position of heavenly bodies such as the sun, the moon and the stars in the night sky.

The configuration and calculations that are required to even use the technique were astronomical, and even then the majority of them were clearly automated through the use of the seals. What the sealing formula provided was the ability to mark areas within this geo-system, bend spacetime, almost as if the distance between the two points were being reduced to arrive. But what the Second and even the Fourth Hokage's lacked was the ability to sense, visualize, and identify naturally occurring points within the world around them. Having learned the sealing formula, Akihiko began applying his own knowledge and understanding. But when he began cross-referencing his findings with known uses of the technique and how other summoning techniques worked he learned that his theory was in fact relative. At some point along the line he had mistranslated several fuinjutsu symbols, which is odd because when he tested his theory it worked. Out of one-hundred tests, he had one-hundred successes. He could not comprehend the oddity of this. Despite having clearly starting off with the same foundation he had ventured off course inventing an entirely new method of employing the technique.

In a typical Akihiko manner he accepted the reality before him, and etched the secrets of the technique into his mind. Sadly when he returned to duty, he was forced to explain his absence to the Sixth Hokage, who promptly classified the technique as an S-Class secret, and had one final order; "Show me." he said. To this day, Akihiko remains banned from every bathhouse in the Land of Springs. Bringing the subject up is the only time Akihiko's face becomes flushed with embarrassment.

3) How will the character make unique usage of this technique(s)? Similar to 2, describe how the character would use the technique uniquely and what purpose does the technique have in their story. If they cannot use it uniquely, then you may want to rethink publishing the application. The point of this question is not to be a rehash of how it is used in canon, as the point of applying is to take techniques and expand/use them in original, interesting ways. If a technique doesn't have a unique usage that can be thought of, then don’t apply.

Akihiko's sensory perception has proven to be an invaluable tool in his ability to employ the Flying Thunder God technique. One fundamental is that by connecting his chakra to any given seal he can teleport himself instantly to its location. So he proposed the idea of placing the seal on his crown chakra. The Yamanaka techniques all employ a unique hand-seal in which a closed circle or square is formed using the hands, this is presumably where their chakra is focused through to allow for their mind-body possession. Instead, Akihiko throws his spirit forward, imprinting the technique on him, then using the seal teleports his body immediately after wherein the two recombine. Unlike the original version, this one does not rely on the pre-established rule of creating a marker before hand, allowing him to instantly teleport to any location within line of sight. However when he teleports there is a brief window where his mind and body reconnect that leaves him vulnerable. Thus this version of the technique while useful in general reconnaissance and travel has little value in combat.

However he has discovered that he can using his telepathy create mental projections of the seal and make instant short-range jumps, typically those within a five-meter distance, however to do this he focused purely on evasive tactics and is unable to perform any offensive techniques while his mind is occupied in this manner. Despite the gains with combining his telepathy and Yamanaka Clan techniques with the Flying Thunder, applying the sealing formula beforehand to objects such as kunai and other surfaces remains one of the most effective approaches to using the technique to maximize its speed, evasion and offensive enhancing capabilities. 