Formless Shadows

This technique was one used by the very first of the Nara Clan and preceded their shadow-manipulation abilities, establishing them almost. For centuries following however, this technique would generally become more lost and lost and labeled forbidden due to the mental burden it places. A millennia later, Shikaniku would come to awaken this technique by sheer coincidence which has led to his extremely varied skill-set all incorporating different styles into his shadow-manipulations. While the Nara supply form to their shadows to grant their dark doppelgangers an array of feats, this technique focuses on assimilating individuals by removing their form and leaving them as nothing but a blob of chakra. In this technique lies four handseals all intended for a specific technique in this process of assimilating individuals.

The first handseal Rat activates the beginning handseal which allows him to extend his shadow towards the desired targets. Fusing their shadows, Shikaniku is given domain over their own shadow and movements just as he would his own shadow and body. The second handseal boar commands their shadow two fuse with the body turning them into a living shadow similar to his own shadow-like transformation. The third handseal is where Shikaniku pulls their shadow-like body closer to his and into his own. The last handseal seals the deal; his shadow is stricken of all form and anything in it. His shadow becomes the imprint on the ground that many fail to notice, and all unused chakra in it returns back to the wielder. For anything trapped in his shadow, it also becomes stricken of all form. The result of these people, whom has now become nothing but form is erased from the world. All that is left is the chakra that remains which is returned to Shikaniku: their experiences and physical energies included. With such, everything that they were or may be are now Shikaniku.