Shade Release: Reflect

Shade Release: Reflect allows its user to twist and distort almost anything by grasping the shade in the very basis of creation. Reflector can affect both material things, such as metal, and chakra. and airy entities, such as air and light. Such jutsu possesses both great offensive and defensive capabilities: by refracting air, the user is capable of generating highly-destructive flying slashes of various size, which possess great cutting power. By twisting anything entering the immediate area surrounding him/her, the user becomes virtually immune to attacks, be them physical or chakra based in nature, with every incoming jutsu or melee assault having its trajectory moved in order to avoid striking the user, who can even send them back at his/her foes. By refracting light, the user is even capable of generating illusions, going as far as to twist reality itself in the eyes of his/her opponents.

Reflect appears to be a very powerful form of Shade Release, granting Zephyr Niigata the fame he has as one of the Great Shamans. In spite of its undeniable advantages, however, this jutsu also suffers from several drawbacks:


 * The user is capable of twisting anything aside from human bodies.
 * The user can only use his/her refracting powers on a single area at a time, either around him/her or elsewhere.
 * The user can momentarily twist objects with elastic properties, but these will be ineffective in both restraining and harming opponents, and will eventually return to their normal state.
 * The illusions generated by the user refracting light won't affect individuals looking at them with artificial or Doujutsu eyes.