[x] Dance Between Raindrops. This trait allow the user to more effectively evade the aim of their enemy, their speed confusing the targeting ability of their opponents even further.
 
[x] Dance Between Raindrops. This trait allow the user to more effectively evade the aim of their enemy, their speed confusing the targeting ability of their opponents even further.

[x] It should be easy enough to occupy his attention for a short while. This will be safer to the hostages, but harder on you.
 
Forgot to address this:
It strikes me that we pointed out a few updates back that our greatest weakness was a lack of solid defensive options, and that in any situation where we weren't able to take full advantage of our speed to instagib our opponents, we'd be at a loss regarding defensive options.
While I am, in general, okay with us going all in on bonus XP expenditures, I feel like picking up a skill that mitigates the flaws of that plan proooobably is a better idea than picking up a skill that exaggerates the plan even further.
So, no, trying to dodge tank with the skill that's not meant to be used for dodge tanking isn't actually that great an idea.
In the event of actual stuff that you want to tank instead of dodge, you use UFF's secondary mode:

  • Sealing Art: Uchiha Flame Formation. This seal can be used in two ways, though it is the substance produced. The first method creates a vast, cylindrical barrier of chakra that protects whatever is contained within it and burns anything that comes into contact with it. This version of the technique costs 200 chakra. In conjunction with a specifically designed anchor-seal, it can be used to create a short lived 'shield' of chakra, identical to the barrier formed by the larger application. This version costs 4 chakra per use.
That's 1.3 chakra after discounts, for a lower-yield version of a technique that stopped the Eight Tails.
We're actually pretty covered.
 
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That's 1.3 chakra after discounts, for a lower-yield version of a technique that stopped the Eight Tails.
We're actually pretty covered.

I can't help but think that the application with 1/50th the chakra cost has around 1/50th the durability. Shunshin is still my choice due to it's general utility, but I don't think we can say that the temporary barrier solves our squishiness - it almost certainly can't handle the high-end bullshit we face.
 
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[x] It should be easy enough to occupy his attention for a short while. This will be safer to the hostages, but harder on you.

Hostages first.

[x] Shushin mastery. This trait allows the user far greater control over the Shushin, making it a viable move in combat. Specifically, straight lines are no longer a limiting factor.

The second coming of Shisui! Also useful for both offense and defense. Let's burst into rose petals and go really, really fast.
 
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Shunshin Mastery might also make Itachi BSoD when we meet him with Sasuke, and start giving him mid-combat flashbacks.

I want to see that.
 
[x] It should be easy enough to occupy his attention for a short while. This will be safer to the hostages, but harder on you.

[x] Dance Between Raindrops. This trait allow the user to more effectively evade the aim of their enemy, their speed confusing the targeting ability of their opponents even further.

Between the fact it allows us to dodge-tank without expending chakra, and the fact it has a really cool name, I can't go past it.
 
[X] Cut him down.
-[X] Do it as efficiently as possible.
*purses lips*
You want to run the risk of unleashing a bijuu inside Konoha for the second time in two decades.
Even if Suna wasn't currently a Konoha ally, and Gaara the son of their Kage, this would be dumb.

Dancing between Raindrops seems like the better option for dodging.
No it isn't.
This is a C-rank technique:
  • Wind Release: Great Breakthrough. This jutsu sends powerful winds at a wide area, sufficient to cause damage to enemy ninja but enhanced by thrown weaponry. Costs 5 Chakra per use.
And there are the various Fire techniques that Orochimaru was apparently throwing at Naruto's mobs.

You can't aim-dodge an AoE technique; you can only get the fuck out of the way.
Dodging Between Raindrops gives you no protection against something simply aimed at your general area.
Like the Wind techniques Temari uses, for example, or Gaara's larger sand techniques, or one of Kankuro's poison clouds, or a Clone Great Explosion, or even one of Itachi's Grand Fireballs.
 
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*purses lips*
You want to run the risk of unleashing a bijuu inside Konoha for the second time in two decades.
Even if Suna wasn't currently a Konoha ally, and Gaara the son of their Kage, this would be dumb.

I'm fairly sure that's supposed to be a joke. There was a gigantic argument about that being the leading response to a write-in only vote in We Stand In Awe last night.
 
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[x] Dance Between Raindrops. This trait allow the user to more effectively evade the aim of their enemy, their speed confusing the targeting ability of their opponents even further.
 
[x] Shushin mastery. This trait allows the user far greater control over the Shushin, making it a viable move in combat. Specifically, straight lines are no longer a limiting factor.
 
You know with all this talk about Shisui it is plausible the reason Hisana was spared is that she is his half sister, and the explanation in this AU for why he was never able to gather any support among the Uchiha despite being so widely respected by them. Admittedly only two points of evidence for this is that Hisana's mother was always away on missions in other words a similar work ethic as Shisui, and the fact that she is Sasuke's cousin.
 
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