Permanent biological manipulation sounds like a bad idea.

Couldn't we just go the Naruto route and assign one clone per task in regards to really hard jutsu?

And then have stuff explode in our face a lot because chakra wasn't meant to do what we're doing?
 
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To my understanding True Magic is End Game. We need True Magic to unlock Magecraft. So, I assume magecraft is End Game.
 
To my understanding True Magic is End Game. We need True Magic to unlock Magecraft. So, I assume magecraft is End Game.

Not really, we need only the very basics of True Magic to unlock our Circuits, which is easier because we've learned it once already. Beyond that, True Magic is HARD.

On another note, the vote is closed!

[W]Accept

[W]Carefully, as a cousin

[W]Shisui
[W]Mama
[W]Papa
[W]Naruto

This time, SV were too divided, so SB gets all the winning votes!



Adhoc vote count started by AoMythology on Aug 16, 2018 at 1:44 PM, finished with 166 posts and 21 votes.
 
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To my understanding True Magic is End Game. We need True Magic to unlock Magecraft. So, I assume magecraft is End Game.
Ah, I see the confusion. True Magic worth a damn is End Game, but just mimicking whatever we did before at the most basic level should be enough, in the same way that punching a keyboard technically puts letters on the screen like typing an essay does. We only need the former to "unlock" our Circuits.
 
Hm... what are the advantages to Rin's magic over chakra?

Storing mana in an incredibly expensive medium (jewels) and Rin's disease spell and tantric mana regeneration?
 
Hm... what are the advantages to Rin's magic over chakra?

Storing mana in an incredibly expensive medium (jewels) and Rin's disease spell and tantric mana regeneration?

Not many. It's the conceptual shit magecraft is sometimes capable of that is a threat to ninjas.

It's mainly for helping her channel True Magic that I gave her Circuits.
 
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Not many. It's the conceptual shit magecraft is sometimes capable of that is a threat to ninjas.

It's mainly for helping her channel True Magic that I gave her Circuits.
well, one advantage is that it isn't chakra. chakra sense should not be able to feel it.

It also is a different source of energy, so even if chakra is exhausted magecraft is still available.
 
I say we should learn magic if for no other reason then Rin would learn magic, even to the detriment of her other skills. My head canon is that she's devoting herself 110% to elemental jutsus because they remind her of her memories of magic, like an echo from her past life.

Ironically considering her combat prowess, Rin is and has always been an academic first and foremost.
 
Story 10 (The Academy Starts)
[]Accept

[]Carefully, as a cousin

[]Shisui
[]Naruto
[]Mama
[]Papa

This was hard to write.

Warning you now: there's a lot of profanity in this chapter.

You decide to spend your time with Korin.

You two spend your time quietly speaking about various things. No training, just being together as mother and daughter.

She offers to teach you the Taijutsu of the Uzumaki clan, but you say, "next time. For now, I just want to spend time with you, Mama!"

You remember Naruto. So, you tell your mother about Naruto very carefully - it's apparent he is disliked by the majority of the adults of the village. You say, "Mama, I found a cousin on the Uzumaki side of the family with my sensory yesterday."

"Really!" Korin says enthusiastically, "are you certain? What were they like? Wh-"

"Whoa, slow down, Mama!" You say, lifting your hands. Then, you tell her, "his Chakra was very similar to yours, yellow color and all."

"Really?! What was his name?!" Korin says.

"Uzumaki Naruto," you tell her.

She goes very still. She says, "are you completely certain that was the name?" Turning her head toward you suddenly.

"Yeah," you say, weirded out by her reaction.

"Did he have anything strange in his Chakra?" Korin asks this time.

"No," you say, "other than feeling like sunshine, nothing strange was going on with his Chakra. That verbal tic of his, on the other hand… I mean, who has a verbal tic like 'Dattebayo'? Right?" Smirking, trying to lighten the atmosphere.

Your smirk disappears very quickly when you feel the disturbance in your mother's Chakra - she is barely containing it now; her body has gone even more still this time, but it's probably the calm before the storm.

It dawns on you that your mother has a far greater Chakra reserve than you ever expected, even knowing about the Uzumaki clan.

True to your prediction, your mother says, "that motherfucker! Fucking old goat fucker, with a goat chin, goat-ass-sniffing, goat-smelling, goat-blowing, goat-tongue-speaking son of a whore!"

She starts pacing, continuing her tirade. Once or twice, she stomps on the floor and cracks it; probably using Chakra enhancement, her Chakra Control is exceptional-

Never mind that! What the hell is wrong with your mother! You hadn't heard her curse in years! She even said-

You try asking her, but she doesn't even hear you. So you slap her, only to be backhanded away.

Korin gasps, snapping out of her funk. She says, "oh, no! I'm sorry, my baby - I didn't mean to!" Panicked.

She fusses over you. Well, you've had better ideas than startling a ninja, even a retired one. Now you've got a bleeding cheek and a black eye, and you got off lightly. You're still in shock, so you don't complain about your mother fussing over you.

Well, at least you stopped your mother's… fit? Temper tantrum?

After you both calm down, you get her to your father for him to defuse the situation. Judging by how Mama said something about murdering the Hokage during her tirades, it's a wise decision.

-----

You go and meet Naruto, finding him easily in the same place you've met him, not even truly needing your Mind's Eye of the Kagura.

"Hey, Naruto," you say.

"Rin," he greets in kind, "you came! After all that time, I thought…! Never mind. Wanna play?"

You nod, and play a lot of games with him, including 'ninja', which is an odd combination of tag and Hide and Seek. It feels… nice. You didn't get to play much in your old life, if at all.

Got Skill Stealth at E rank
Your speed has gone up! D- -> D

At some points, you see a masked, silver-haired man with one eye covered hanging around Naruto, but you ignore him. You consider he might be a pedophile, but when you report him, nothing comes out of it. You are still cautious around him, though.

You repeat the meeting with Naruto many times this month, until he tells you he's going to start the Academy this week, and won't have as much time anymore. He looks slightly sad.

You say, "it's all right, I'm joining the Academy this week too," smiling at him.

"How?" Naruto says, "I thought you were a year younger than me. That's what you said, right?"

"Yes," you say, "but I'm starting early."

"This is going to be awesome!" Naruto says enthusiastically.

You have gained the Trait 'Naruto's only friend'!
Your reputation with Naruto has become D rank

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The entrance ceremony for the Academy includes a speech from the Hokage himself, and various parents are there, including Fugaku and Suiho, though the Clan Head looks like he'd rather be elsewhere.

You aren't very impressed by the Hokage's speech -this Will of Fire stuff just sounds like patriotism taken up to eleven- but you can tell this man truly believes in what he's saying, so you'll reserve judgment for now.

You meet your new classmates, who include a particular brown-haired boy with a dog and a blond girl who is almost certainly a sensor. You remember them from the park, even though you never met them from up close.

The boy with the dog is now 'complete'. He also has a bond with his dog that goes beyond just being connected through Chakra; you can tell. Said dog also has an active Chakra system.

'So this is what a pair of Inuzuka partners is like,' you think.

Naruto and Sasuke are both also there, and greet you.

Then, Sasuke says, "how do you know Rin?" Suspicious.

"She's my friend!" Naruto replies, "how do you know her?"

"She's my cousin," Sasuke says, a bit smug.

Then, they get into a fight over you. It would be amusing, if it weren't so pathetic.

An adult who may be your teacher comes close, and you bop both of the idiots on the head.

"Ow ow ow," says Sasuke, "do you have to hit so hard, Rin?"

Naruto says, "that light tap hurt you? You must be a wimp!"

"What was that, you yellow-haired idiot…?" Sasuke says, annoyed.

Naruto replies with, "you heard me, you duck-butt-"

Unfortunately for him, Naruto never gets to finish his sentence, because you grab both of them by an ear and get them to a seat each, sitting between them.

Your sensei enters, and he's a slightly overweight man with a goatee in his late twenties. He introduces himself cheerily as Funeno Daikoku, and asks that the students introduce themselves, too.

When Naruto's time to introduce himself comes, the man simply narrows his eyes, but gives no other indication of dislike. When your time comes, he seems more… anticipatory? The same with Sasuke.

In front of the entire class, you say, "I am Uchiha Rin. I'll be in your care," refraining from saying anything overly bold.

And so the introductions go smoothly. Fortunately, the first year of the Academy has only half days, and Saturdays are completely free (as are, of course, Sundays), so you won't lose all your free time.

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The name -and philosophy- of the Uchiha clan's taijutsu style reminds you of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do. You have also seen other strange coincidences, like the names of the Sannin matching the Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya, a myth from back on Earth, or the name of the Hokage's father having been Sarutobi Sasuke.

Suiho offers to find you another tutor for the Uchiha taijutsu; someone who truly is great at it. He will keep teaching you ninjutsu himself, either way. You accept; you like training with your new father, but you haven't met many of your father's cohorts.

So, a week later, you meet your tutor in a training ground. You say meet, but only the clan head is there. Wait….

"Greetings, Fugaku-sama," you say, bowing deeply, "are you to be my new taijutsu tutor?"

"…Indeed," he says, "let us say I owe Suiho a favor and leave it at that."

"Understood. It is a great honor to have the Clan Head himself teaching me either way, though, Fugaku-sama," you say, making sure to be polite.

The man shakes his head. He says, "you are quite different from your brother," though he isn't smiling.

You aren't sure he is even capable of smiling.

He runs you through the kind-of stances of the Uchiha style, but mainly, he tries to make you understand its philosophy and increase your speed, flexibility, stamina and strength. When you ask him if the Uzumaki clan's taijutsu is compatible for mixing with the Interception Fist, he pauses.

Then, he says, "that is a very good question, Rin, which calls for a bit of a lecture on history and even legends.
The Uzumaki clan usually were very good at predicting what the opponent were going to do and controlling the flow of a battle, had been since times immemorial.

>>As such, their taijutsu style, the Whirling Tide, evolved along similar lines as the Interception Fist. The philosophy of having a style without a style, of taking from other styles only what's necessary and discarding the rest, of flowing like water, is said to have come from the Sage of the Six Paths himself. The Senju clan never made use of such a thing; their members were overall too diverse to stick to any one -or five- styles.

>>But before the founder and first Clan Head of the Uzumaki, Princess Kushinada, even splintered from the Senju clan, she supposedly dug into old practices and made the first iteration of the Whirling Tide style. So, in short: yes, the two styles are very much compatible."

You listen very carefully - Fugaku-sama has a way of captivating his audience, and is a fantastic teacher.

The stat Speed has gone up sharply! D -> C-
Dexterity&Flexibility has gone up sharply! D+ -> C
Strength has gone up! E -> E+
Ninja History has gone up greatly! C- -> B-
The Stat Taijutsu has gone up greatly! E -> D
Skill 'Interception Fist' has gone up colossally! E+ -> C-
You have been a very attentive student! Rep. Fugaku: E -> D-

At some point, he manages to get your encounter with Naruto out of you. He doesn't seem prejudiced against the boy. But when you mention the one-eyed masked man, his demeanor changes. He tells you that the man has an implanted Sharingan, which the clan only tolerates because he was given it willingly, and doesn't seem very fond of the fact that Suiho personally taught Kakashi how to use the Sharingan in the past.

You wonder if there are others out there with an implanted Sharingan. If you were paranoid, you would be suspicious of every ninja with a covered eye.

…Actually, paranoid you has a very good point.

You also learn the Uzumaki clan's Fuuinjutsu Style and taijutsu with your mother. You put a lot of time and effort into them, and you manage many breakthroughs. You work with both her and Fugaku-sama to make a 'new' taijutsu style.

Stat Taijutsu: D -> D+
Stat Chakra: D+ -> D+ (halfway through C-)
Skill 'Whirling Tide' has been learned. It has progressed to D- thanks to a relatively high Taijutsu Stat
Skills 'Whirling Tide' and 'Interception Fist' have merged.
You now have Skill 'Interception Tide' at D+
The Skill 'Sealing' has gone up sharply! C- -> C+
You can now use the Fire Sealing Method: E rank, as well as other elemental sealing methods such as Water
You can now make modified Storage Seal Scrolls

You spend more time with Korin as well, and you also learn more about the Uzumaki clan and its secrets.

You are in awe at how much the Uzumaki clan had accomplished and how many abilities they hid, and you say so.

Acquired training option 'Adamantine Chains'
Learned how to have others bite you to heal them!
Reputation with Korin has gone up! C+ -> B-

You also train with your grandmother; she teaches you about the Uchiha clan's Sealing Style; you start learning how to make weapons imbued with special abilities (the Uchiha made most of the swords the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist use today, during the Warring Clans era).

She tells you that Shisui was never interested in the Uchiha style of Fuuinjutsu, and that she's glad you are. You very carefully do not say anything, but she realizes what you're thinking anyway.

Nanako says, "if he doesn't like me, he can say so to my face; if he's a chicken, well…," cackling afterwards, making you smirk.

The Skill 'Sealing' has gone up sharply! C+ -> B
You can now make generic Blood-relation locks!
You can now enhance a very recently-forged weapon slightly using seals
You can now use the Fire Sealing Method: D rank, and equivalents in other elements

She also teaches you human anatomy, how to climb trees without hands and the very basics of Yin Release and Yang Release. For now, your medical skills are fine according to her - you need to learn more about the human body to get much further.

You got the skill 'Anatomy' at D- rank
Stat Intelligence has gone up! A- (8/10) -> A (1/12)
Stat Chakra Control has gone up sharply! D+ ->C (Your Chakra Control is now chuunin level, 2.5/5 in Konoha stats)

You go to meet Itachi in a particular Uchiha training ground. On the way there, you feel Fugaku's and Itachi's Chakra close to one another and agitated. Are they arguing?

You try to eavesdrop and hear something about Itachi's duty to the clan, and how he's the bridge between village and clan. Itachi is acting passive-aggressive, and brings up the fact that Fugaku has also started teaching the same young Uchiha - who is eavesdropping on them right now.

Stealth skill: E
Stealth check Fugaku partially off guard: needs B- - Fail!
Stealth check Itachi on guard: needs S++ - Epic Fail!

Wait, what?

…You get out of hiding, and greet the two of them with as much dignity as you can muster.

Fugaku shakes his head and tells you, "I take back what I said that other time - you're exactly like Shisui," leaving, but not without a few parting words for Itachi, "remember what I said, Itachi."

You see the look at Itachi's eyes and his active Sharingan, and you recoil; it's almost like… hatred? His Chakra is all but undetectable, but you can feel an edge in it that has never been there before.

Itachi sighs and deactivates his Sharingan. He says, "I am sorry you had to see that, Rin. Now, shall we?"

You aren't certain you want to be alone with Itachi right now, but you also sigh and head for the training ground.

You learn how to throw shuriken better from him, and how to become more nimble. Neither of you speaks more than is necessary; you are wary of him now, and he's more stoic than ever. You don't progress as much this time, but he does show you the trick he has taught Sasuke and tells you to 'work on it and you'll get it someday'.

Skill 'Projectile Throwing' has advanced from D- -> D+
Stat Dexterity&Flexibility has gone up! C -> C+

He also asks you if you've learned how to burn a leaf. You reluctantly tell him that yes, you've done that.

He tries to teach you a jutsu called Housenka Tsumabeni, which is about using Chakra Flow to imbue shuriken with Fire.

Luck check: needs A+++ to succeed, B+ to barely manage anything
You have: C- plus three ranks A- plus one rank - pass
You learn skill 'Housenka Tsumabeni' at F rank!
You create skill 'Hiding in Smoke' at D+ rank!
Skill 'Pain Tolerance' has gone up! B -> B+
Stat Chakra has gone up! D+ -> C-
Stat Ninjutsu has gone up! E -> E+

You burn yourself quite a bit, but you manage something. Itachi tells you it's not nearly enough to work towards the rite of passage for Uchiha, but it's enough for you to improve it on your own eventually.

To progress 'Housenka Tsumabeni' past F+ rank, you will need at least B rank Dexterity. For going past E rank, you need at least A- rank Dexterity

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You spend time with Shisui, learning how to counter genjutsu and killing intent, then make your own. It goes REALLY well. Your brother teaches you how to counter genjutsu; it takes you a few days to get it down so well that even he has a hard time getting one to stick while putting in some effort.

Then, you learn how to produce them. It takes you a few months, but you manage to get one to stick for more than half a second while he is holding back a bit, which is a testament to just how good a tutor Shisui is.

Learned skill Killing Intent. It has progressed to D rank
The stat Genjutsu has gone up by Are You Even Human! F -> C
Learned skill 'Genjutsu Release'. Your Origin intervenes! 'Genjutsu Release' has progressed to A rank

It goes so well, in fact, that he teaches you something else, too. It's called the Body Flicker, and it's just as much his specialty as Genjutsu. At the first few tries, nothing happens. When you manage it at first, you smack your face on a few obstacles, which makes Shisui fuss over you, then laugh at you.

"I'm glad you think this is funny," you tell him, annoyed, but that makes him laugh even more.

He doesn't laugh when you reach a skill level that it takes a chuunin years to reach in only a couple months.

Shunshin (Body Flicker) has been learned at C-
Skill 'Body Flicker' has progressed to C+ rank
Stat Speed has gone up! C- -> C

"Wow," Shisui says, "I'm impressed, squirt. Very impressed. Your growth has been nothing short of miraculous."

"Not a squirt," you say, "and I had a great teacher."

"Aww, shucks," he tells you, honestly blushing.

Too bad you don't have a camera on hand to capture the moment, but those things aren't exactly… stealthy, anyway.

Your reputation with Uchiha Shisui has gone up! A+ -> A++

You still have a really bad feeling for Shisui, though. You tell him to be very careful, and-

[]Beware of Itachi
+The boy has been acting… strange, lately
[]Beware of one-eyed men
+Kakashi can't be the only one who is covering an implanted dojutsu

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Fugaku-sama has made you and your father an offer: he is going to teach Sasuke the Great Fireball, and would like you to join the two of them to learn it too. You look at your father, but he tells you it's your decision. You-

[]Accept
+A chance to show up Sasuke!
+A chance for two social links to go up (Sasuke and Fugaku)

[]Decline
+A chance for one social link to go up (Suiho)

Regardless of your decision, you choose to spend time with your father now.

This time, he teaches you the Kawarimi (Substitution / Body Replacement) no jutsu and the Henge (Transformation).

Your Tranformation is rather… bloated, at first, but your Chakra Control and attention to detail prevails over the month.

Substitution takes only a few hours for you to get - knowing the Shunshin helps a lot in that regard.

As for the Clone jutsu….

"You managed to produce a Clone, Rin? I heard from your mother about your Water Clone, but a simple Clone, too?"

"Yes," you say, "it's pretty easy, once one has learned how to control their Chakra density."

"Let me see your Water Clone," he tells you.

You make a Tiger hand-seal and make a Water Clone. Then, you show him an Earth Clone, which was easier to invent after you had gotten down the principles of elemental clones.

"Unbelievable," he says, shaking his head, and 'pops' the clones, carefully avoiding getting muddy and wet.

He tells you that your hand-seals are a bit sloppy, so the two of you work on that.

Skill 'Hand-seals' goes up sharply! E -> D-
You have gotten Skill 'Kawarimi' at D- rank
You have gotten Skill 'Transformation' at E rank
You have gotten Skill 'Clone' at E+ rank
You have gotten Skill 'Water Clone' at D rank
You have gotten Skill 'Earth Clone' at E rank
Stat Ninjutsu goes up sharply! E+ -> D

After you are done, the two of you sit at the porch of your home. He tells you, "I'm very proud of you, Rin. Never forget that!" Ruffling your hair, which is spikier than it was in your previous life.

Your reputation with Uchiha Suiho has gone up! B -> B+


Spend the most time with (pick 4):

[]Itachi
[]Sasuke
[]Mama
[]Papa
[]Grandma
[]Shisui
[]Naruto
 
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Welp, that's a lot of progress.

[X]Beware of one-eyed men

[X]Accept

[X]Sasuke
[X]Naruto
[X]Shisui
[X]Grandma
 
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[X]Decline
+A chance for one social link to go up (Suiho)

[X]Beware of one-eyed men
+Kakashi can't be the only one who is covering an implanted dojutsu

[X]Mama
[X]Grandma
[X]Shisui
[X]Naruto

Wow, you are really pumping these out!
What type of monster is Rin, to get A rank Genjutsu? o_O

Can we have Naruto interact with our mom and learn about the clan?
Also, maybe by warning against one eyes, Shisui can keep his eyes.
 
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[X]Beware of one-eyed men
+Kakashi can't be the only one who is covering an implanted dojutsu

[X]Accept
+A chance to show up Sasuke!
+A chance for two social links to go up (Sasuke and Fugaku)

[X]Sasuke
[X]Shisui
[X]Naruto
 
Hmm. Who should we tell Shisui to beware of? Itachi could get the two to cooperate in working against the clan, but given how well that went in canon...? One-eyed men, has Danzo lost his original eye yet?

I'm tentatively in favor of decline. Need to level the social links to our parents.
 
[]Beware of Itachi
+The boy has been acting… strange, lately
[]Beware of one-eyed men
+Kakashi can't be the only one who is covering an implanted dojutsu
At first glance this seems obvious - warning Shisui about Danzo? Exactly what we want! Danzo only manages to steal Shisui's eye because of his already-stolen Sharingan using Izanagi to catch him off-guard. Is there any benefit to warning him off Itachi instead that I can't see?
[X]Beware of one-eyed men

[]Accept
+A chance to show up Sasuke!
+A chance for two social links to go up (Sasuke and Fugaku)

[]Decline
+A chance for one social link to go up (Suiho)
2 links v 1 seems pretty clear, especially with Sasuke being the only one here that will survive the massacre, if it goes ahead. It would be nice to get our dad to A Rank though.
[X]Accept

[]Itachi
[]Sasuke
[]Mama
[]Papa
[]Grandma
[]Shisui
[]Naruto
Can't really abandon Naruto, and taking Naruto without taking Sasuke is probably a bad idea. I'd like to get our dad to A Rank, and I think we might manage to get Shisui to EX Rank due to our bonuses if we keep at it.
[X]Naruto
[X]Sasuke
[X]Shisui
[X]Papa
 
Whilst Itachi IS being weird, surprise doujutsu is a much worse thing. Also Itachi's a teenager. He's probably just going through a rebellious stage.

Unrelatedly, FUGAKU IS OUR TAIJUTSU INSTRUCTOR!?!?
 
[X]Beware of one-eyed men
[X]Accept
[X]Sasuke
[X]Naruto
[X]Shisui
[X]Grandma

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As i recall, the only reason shisui was defeated by danzou was his almost 100% sense of ease around him that caused him to blue-screen when he saw him as a threat.

Giving him even slight paranoia around eye-patch wearing guys should hopefully prevent that.
 
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[X]Decline
+A chance for one social link to go up (Suiho)

[X]Beware of one-eyed men
+Kakashi can't be the only one who is covering an implanted dojutsu

[X]Mama
[X]Grandma
[X]Shisui
[X]Naruto
 
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