Karura (Kumoton)

Subject: Karura (Kumoton) Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:50 pm

Karura Clan

Village – Kumo

Clan Information – Karura clan members are able to utilize Kumoton (Cloud Release). This bloodline combines wind and water .

Clan History – The Karura are one of the lesser known of Kumo's clans. They live offsite the village, calling the Sasayaki Summit home but have pledged their allegiance to the Lightning Daimyo and the Cloud. They have an affinity with heights and have traditionally served as sky-bound scouts.

They are natural enemies with the Shakuton clan, whose Scorch Element disrupts the clan's ability to draw water vapor from the air to form clouds (coalescence). These same tendencies put them at a disadvantage in Suna's desert.

Clan Members –

Name: Kumoton
Class: Bloodline
Rank: D-S
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: Varies
Range: --
Type: --
Description: Kumoton is the point from which all other clan techniques spawn from, it is the infusing of wind with water chakra, resulting in clouds. There are many levels of mastery over the manipulation that can be achieved:

D-ranked: 1 Skill Point in Bloodline, allows for a Karura clan member to use D-ranked Kumoton jutsu.

C-ranked: 2 Skill Points in Bloodline, this technique allows for the use of C-ranked Kumoton jutsu.

B-ranked: 3 Skill Points in Bloodline, allows for B-ranked Kumoton techniques.

A-Rank: 4 Skill Points in Bloodline, allows for A-ranked Kumoton techniques.

S-rank: 5 Skill Points in Bloodline, allows for S-ranked Kumoton techniques.

Name: Cloud Release: Shuriken Creation
Class: Bloodline
Rank: C
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 2 Skill Points in Bloodline, 2 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, 2 Skill Points in Craftsmanship
Range: --
Type: --
Description: The user forms a number of handsigns, causing a shuriken to congeal in their hand. Deceptively hard (because the cloud was hardened with the user's chakra), the weapon can be thrown swiftly, but its strength is less than that of the standard weapon-grade.

Name: Cloud Release: Flying Nimbus
Class: Bloodline
Rank: C
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 2 Skill Points in Bloodline, 2 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, 2 Skill Points in Chakra Control
Range: Far
Type: Supplementary / Attack
Description: The user forms a number of handsigns, causing vapors in the air to congeal and form a semi-hard cloud mass. A flying jutsu, the user will stand or sit upon the cloud. The posts in which the user can sustain this jutsu is stamina / 2.

Name: Cloud Release: Flying Nimbus
Class: Bloodline
Rank: C
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 2 Skill Points in Bloodline, 2 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, 2 Skill Points in Chakra Control
Range:--
Type: Supplementary
Description: The user forms a number of handsigns, causing vapors in the air to congeal and form a semi-hard cloud mass. A flying jutsu, the user will stand or sit upon the cloud. The posts in which the user can sustain this jutsu is stamina / 2.

Name: Cloud Release: Heaven's Prison
Class: Bloodline
Rank: B
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 3 Skill Points in Bloodline, 3 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, 3 Skill Points in Chakra Control
Range: Mid
Type: Supplmentary/Attack
Description: The user will form several handsigns, holding the last one. From the open air, five clouds will form around the target, begin to assume a dome-like shape, and merge together. The inside of the dome is doughy, capable of absorbing B-rank impacts, while the outer shell remains tough and resilient. If caught in the prison, targets will have to use an A-rank attack to break through or a C-rank wind jutsu to blow the clouds away.

Name: Cloud Release: Fleece of the Ram Technique
Class: Bloodline
Rank: B
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 3 Skill Points in Bloodline, 3 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, 3 Skill Points in Chakra Control
Range: Close
Type: Defense
Description: The user will form several hand signs. Clouds will congeal and wrap themselves around the user's body, making them look like a ram. The clouds offer protection from impacts below the rank of the jutsu, but, more significantly, take advantage of kumoton's wind element. When hit by lightning attacks A-rank or under, the clouds merely absorb the lightning, safely insulating the wearer. Although the cloud-armor itself is light, the maneuverability is sacrificed, resulting a speed decrease, -5.

Name: Cloud Release: Ram's Furious Charge
Class: Bloodline
Rank: B
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 3 Skill Points in Bloodline, 3 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, 3 Skill Points in Chakra Control, Fleece of the Ram Technique
Range: Close, Mid, Far
Type: Supplementary
Description: Use of this jutsu is largely dependent on whether or not the user was charged by a lightning jutsu while wearing Fleece of the Ram. The user, lacking affinity for lightning due to their inherent wind/water combination, is unable to, himself, initiate the technique. The white clouds become swollen and black. The user holds their hands in front of them, focusing the lightning between the storm clouds. The energy can be released in a linear blast or can be dispelled as an electric orb. Using this jutsu returns the clouds to a neutral state.

Name: Cloud Release: Storm Front
Class: Bloodline
Rank: B
Element: Kumoton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 3 Skill Points in Bloodline, 3 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, 3 Skill Points in Chakra Control
Range: Far
Type: Supplementary
Description: The user strings together twenty handsigns, causing the sky to thicken with clouds. This is needed for jutsu of greater magnitude.

Name: Cloud Release: Downpour Technique
Class: Bloodline
Rank: C
Element: Kumoton --> Suiton
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 3 Skill Points in Bloodline, 3 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, Storm Front Technique
Range: Far
Type: Supplementary
Description: After the Storm Front Technique has been used, the user can string these ten signs together, causing a downpour that will last four posts. Fire-element jutsus are weakened by a rank.

Name: Cloud Release: Cyclone
Class: Bloodline
Rank: A
Element: Kumoton --> Futon
Stat Requirements:--
Pre-requisites: 4 Skill Points in Bloodline, 4 Skill Points in Ninjutsu, Storm Front Technique
Range: Far
Type: Supplementary
Description: From the sky, a funnel cloud touches the ground, indicating a rabid band of high-moving wind. Proving dangers to the user and foe alike, the tornado unleashes heavy whips of wind, capable of cutting and pounding a foe. Ninja without the Chakra Control to anchor to the earth (less than 3 Skill Points) will get sucked into the vortex, and, when the jutsu dispels after one turn, be set on a two-story free-fall.