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I really don't remember where I came across a lot of the stuff from Naruto and HP, there's just too many stories I've read to be able to parse them properly.
Dance Puppet Dance! (Transhumanist Naruto OC)
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Different country; different shit actually
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Date: Three months nineteen days after awakening
Subject: News
I heard that the Iwa teams got pulled back, they'll probably be split up and set to Ame and Kusa. Iwa has it so easy, they have so few borders to guard.
I guess that means that our camp will be scheduled for dismantling as well. It was just here to make sure that Iwa didn't invade, so it'll probably stick around for a few weeks to make sure that the enemy retreat isn't a trick before being taken apart as well.
Akemi decided that if I have so many bodies then there would be no problem in having me take over the whole rations distribution system. It's really just a ploy to make sure I can't keep myself entertained with other bodies.
Date: Three months twenty six days after awakening
Subject: Bored
So bored. What happened to the 10% pants shitting terror I was promised from this war? I want my money back.
Date: Three months thirty days after awakening
Subject: Uuugh
Terry Pratchett once said that humans could fetishize anything except boredom. Ninjas apparently have realized that too.
Fuck them. Fuck them all to hell!
I even tried meditation, that's fucking bored I am. Didn't work. Probably no brainwaves, heartbeat or biological body, so the physiological changes that in turn cause the psychological benefits, which in turn cause physiological benefits, all couldn't happen.
Date: Four months four days after awakening
Subject: Yes!
We're blowing this popsicle stand!
So long Sanji, so long Akemi, you horrid bastards.
Still have to trek back to Suna before being redeployed though.
Date: Four months six days after awakening
Subject: Suna
God I missed this place. Must have spent too much time here as a child, because when I look at the terrain and the buildings all I can think is that it looks like home.
Really screwy.
Genin Shuzaku, you are wanted in the Kazakage's office. Come with us.
Huh? Yes sir.
*fwoofwoofwoosh*
Do you have to use sand for you shunin? You're getting it everywhere.
Kazekage-sama, we've brought him
Good.
So Shuzaku, I've heard you did as well as can be expected out in the field.
Nobody seemed to want to put me to the test so I took a chance to do what I was recruited to do.
Why didn't you report the location of the enemy camp first?
It wouldn't have mattered. None of the people at our camp could have done anything against them, any assault would have been a suicide mission, and they would just changed base locations afterwards. Since I'm the best choice for suicide missions by far, it seemed reasonable to cut out the middle-men and make the mission something achievable.
Hm, logical. Still, I'm going to be putting you under someone that can give better oversight. No more gallivanting off without orders.
Yes sir.
…Now, think critically about the attack. What could you have done to have a higher success rate?
Well, the only thing I can think of is that if I had better puppets, ones designed for close combat or to imitate jutsu, then the damage done to surface encampment would have been much greater.
I thought all the puppeteers had access to those.
Maybe, but I never studied under a puppeteer, so all my puppets have about the same capabilities as fresh genin, though considerably faster and stronger.
I can see how that would be a problem… Not much that can be done about it though! Try to work out how to do what you need as much as you can, take some resources from the Brigade barracks, or buy them with your bounty money. When the war is over we can focus more on getting you up to par.
Right sir. So, where am I being deployed?
Sea country.
That'd be contested territory with Konoha and Kiri right?
Correct. So your talents will be put to good use. They're trying to disrupt our shipping lanes over there. They can't be allowed to succeed or the war will become much harder.
Understood. Have you read about my proposal to have small puppets at all the bases to allow for instant communications?
I have. I can't in good conscience allow you to know the locations of all the bases. However, what we'll do is box up the puppets. That way they won't be able to see where they're going and you won't know the exact locations.
You do realize that I'll still hear anything that's communicated through the network right?
That'll just be reports. All the sensitive orders will still happen by courier.
Yes sir.
Date: Four months seven days after awakening
Subject: Preparations
I've got three days till I have to head to Sea country. I'm not sure how my puppets will do with the water, might have to get some kind of wood varnish or wax to protect them.
It's surprising that Suna nin do well with water at all. But then, they're a bit like Arab traders from the middle ages, they need to trade so badly that they end up going much further afield that any of the other groups.
Though they still rely on ships, not like the Kiri nin that just swim or water walk everywhere. It really wouldn't surprise me if water walking was part of the reason why the explored world is so small. The distance that a shinobi's chakra will last while water waling is much shorter than the distance that an ocean going ship can travel with the winds.
None of the Daimyo are going to trust traders to explore for them, they're using a Confucianist mercantile system where merchants are scum. Which honestly kind of explains Gato, poor guy. And none of the shinobi villages want to engage in exploration when they have enough enemies right where they are. The idea of going off and finding allies is laughable.
Seems kind of contradictory at first, having merchants be reviled but Wind country rely so heavily on trade. Thing is, the traders out of Wind country aren't legally merchants, but rather lower leveled nobles and second sons trying to build up their personal wealth before feeding it into the economy. That's a totally different thing, in the Confucian system.
Date: Four months nine days after awakening
Subject: Aquatic puppets
I've been working on puppets in the shape of cephalopods. My thinking is that tentacles are easier to mimic than fish. Though I've been filling the internals with sand so that they won't float. Floating sea-puppets would be such an embarrassment.
Haven't quite settled on a style to them yet. It will probably depend on what sorts of creatures live around Sea. There's no chance that the area is devoid of cephalopods, the Elemental Nations are a ripoff of Japan, it has them.
Date: Four months twelve days after awakening
Subject: I'm on a boat!
I can't get that song out of my head.
Had to go down to the capital of Wind and catch a boat to Jiro Island.
Nicest thing about being a puppet so far, can't get sea sick since I have no stomach.
Date: Four months twenty days after awakening
Subject: Sea country
Boats are really slow, much slower than foot travel. Still, we finally got there. I spent a lot of the time focusing of other bodies. Some of the disposable puppets I left in Claw, they've started moving more towards the west, so they can wrap around and find a way to Hidden Star village. A few of the communications puppets have been shipped off towards their destinations. I recognize a bit of Ame around one of them, and I think another might be in River country.
You must be Shuzaku, it's a pleasure to meet you. My name's Kaga, I'll be umm, your superior? Your supervisor I guess is more like it. You're the only puppeteer here so all I can really do is sign off on what you need and try to work you into any operations the rest of us have planned.
Thank you for meeting me. I hope we get along well, I'll try to stay out of your way and not make too much trouble.
No, no, don't worry about it. I read the file on you, parts of it are too classified for me but I get the impression that you're supposed to be some kind of terror weapon. Is that right?
More or less. I can't really be killed, not very easily anyway, so the main aim is to throw me into a bunch of suicidal scenarios and just generally destroy the enemy morale.
Heeeh… then have you thought about what kind of epithet you're going to try to get? You know, in the bingo book.
Not really. Is that important?
In some cases it's not, but in this instance, where your main job is scaring the shit out of people and being a nightmare for them, yeah it really is.
How would I even be able to choose a name? Aren't they posted by enemies?
Oh, that's simple, we just get one of the smaller villages to post you in their books, then whenever one of the bigger villages decide they want you dead they're pretty much forced to take that data on faith. How else do you think names like "Shinobi-no-Kami" got in? No enemy would ever give an actually cool sounding name to someone they hated.
I suppose that's true. So what sorts of names would I try for?
Depends I guess. You have lots of bodies right? So maybe "Thousand Faces" to imply that anyone and everyone they meet could be you in disguise. Or maybe "The Scavenger" since you grabbed up all their injured, like a jackal picking off the weak from the herd, forcing them to pay more attention to their medics and distracting them.
I'll give it some thought. I wouldn't be too surprised if Iwa already was writing one up on me.
Nah, they probably think that raid was by a whole squad of puppeteers, not an individual. The fact that you don't even need to show your main face in combat means that you could easily get multiple entries, then Suna could just acknowledge the one that works the best for what we want.
That's a pretty cool system.
Eh, it's what everyone does to one extent or another. But, word of advice, you don't want to try for something too cool sounding. No one's going to believe some punk called "Crimson Death" or "Black Wind" is actually a bad ass, they'll just think he bribed the right people. And nine times out of ten they'd be right.
Date: Four months twenty two days since awakening
Subject: Sea country
I've been working on my puppets, getting set up for the new biome. Got a few seagulls in the works, bought some fish and cephalopods at the market for dissection. Now that I'm at a trade center I might try going back to some of my earlier ideas and give laminates and ceramics a try for my puppets. Those have got to have different pros and cons than wood, especially around here.
This far away from Iwa using ceramics would be a really good counter to Konoha's fire jutsu and Kiri's water.
I've also given some thought to what Kaga said, about planning epithets out ahead of time. The main thing that it reminded me of was the movie Predator, where the alien goes around and hanging his flayed victims from trees and ceilings. Scared the shit out of people, and it would give me an excuse to collect chakra networks without letting on that I'm doing experiments in human-puppetry.
Something to think about at any rate.
Date: Four months twenty eight days since awakening
Subject: Scouting
Got my birds up in the air. Unlike before, the three groups here aren't even trying to hide their encampments, not enough room for it. This is more like Ame, where they all send troops into one area to duke it out. Kiri's on Taro island while Konoha's on Demon island, with the contested zone being Mother island.
I think in the show Kiri won this conflict, since Sea was under their purview, but that might have just as easily been a later war.
I don't really have any plans as yet. My recon over the enemy bases has shown way too many high leveled shinobi to ever pull off any kind of assault. I might be able to sabotage them, or fight them indirectly, I'll work on it.
Date: Five months two days after awakening
Subject: Ceramics
I've taken shredded bamboo and woven it into a lattice structure, then set it into a cast and poured liquid clay into it. That seems to have worked alright, but the material is a lot like plaster. As an experimental piece however it proves my theory correct. I got a few of the shinobi stationed at camp to try throwing fire and water jutsu at it, it stayed pretty much undamaged.
Maybe I can figure out some sort of Earth jutsu that can manipulate the consistency and placement of clay.
AN: If the Kazekage seems really forgiving, it's because he's trying to butter Shuzaku up. I tried to write Kaga as being just super chill, as a juxtaposition from the previous commanders who both took their jobs and the lives of their people really seriously.
Subject: News
I heard that the Iwa teams got pulled back, they'll probably be split up and set to Ame and Kusa. Iwa has it so easy, they have so few borders to guard.
I guess that means that our camp will be scheduled for dismantling as well. It was just here to make sure that Iwa didn't invade, so it'll probably stick around for a few weeks to make sure that the enemy retreat isn't a trick before being taken apart as well.
Akemi decided that if I have so many bodies then there would be no problem in having me take over the whole rations distribution system. It's really just a ploy to make sure I can't keep myself entertained with other bodies.
Date: Three months twenty six days after awakening
Subject: Bored
So bored. What happened to the 10% pants shitting terror I was promised from this war? I want my money back.
Date: Three months thirty days after awakening
Subject: Uuugh
Terry Pratchett once said that humans could fetishize anything except boredom. Ninjas apparently have realized that too.
Fuck them. Fuck them all to hell!
I even tried meditation, that's fucking bored I am. Didn't work. Probably no brainwaves, heartbeat or biological body, so the physiological changes that in turn cause the psychological benefits, which in turn cause physiological benefits, all couldn't happen.
Date: Four months four days after awakening
Subject: Yes!
We're blowing this popsicle stand!
So long Sanji, so long Akemi, you horrid bastards.
Still have to trek back to Suna before being redeployed though.
Date: Four months six days after awakening
Subject: Suna
God I missed this place. Must have spent too much time here as a child, because when I look at the terrain and the buildings all I can think is that it looks like home.
Really screwy.
Genin Shuzaku, you are wanted in the Kazakage's office. Come with us.
Huh? Yes sir.
*fwoofwoofwoosh*
Do you have to use sand for you shunin? You're getting it everywhere.
Kazekage-sama, we've brought him
Good.
So Shuzaku, I've heard you did as well as can be expected out in the field.
Nobody seemed to want to put me to the test so I took a chance to do what I was recruited to do.
Why didn't you report the location of the enemy camp first?
It wouldn't have mattered. None of the people at our camp could have done anything against them, any assault would have been a suicide mission, and they would just changed base locations afterwards. Since I'm the best choice for suicide missions by far, it seemed reasonable to cut out the middle-men and make the mission something achievable.
Hm, logical. Still, I'm going to be putting you under someone that can give better oversight. No more gallivanting off without orders.
Yes sir.
…Now, think critically about the attack. What could you have done to have a higher success rate?
Well, the only thing I can think of is that if I had better puppets, ones designed for close combat or to imitate jutsu, then the damage done to surface encampment would have been much greater.
I thought all the puppeteers had access to those.
Maybe, but I never studied under a puppeteer, so all my puppets have about the same capabilities as fresh genin, though considerably faster and stronger.
I can see how that would be a problem… Not much that can be done about it though! Try to work out how to do what you need as much as you can, take some resources from the Brigade barracks, or buy them with your bounty money. When the war is over we can focus more on getting you up to par.
Right sir. So, where am I being deployed?
Sea country.
That'd be contested territory with Konoha and Kiri right?
Correct. So your talents will be put to good use. They're trying to disrupt our shipping lanes over there. They can't be allowed to succeed or the war will become much harder.
Understood. Have you read about my proposal to have small puppets at all the bases to allow for instant communications?
I have. I can't in good conscience allow you to know the locations of all the bases. However, what we'll do is box up the puppets. That way they won't be able to see where they're going and you won't know the exact locations.
You do realize that I'll still hear anything that's communicated through the network right?
That'll just be reports. All the sensitive orders will still happen by courier.
Yes sir.
Date: Four months seven days after awakening
Subject: Preparations
I've got three days till I have to head to Sea country. I'm not sure how my puppets will do with the water, might have to get some kind of wood varnish or wax to protect them.
It's surprising that Suna nin do well with water at all. But then, they're a bit like Arab traders from the middle ages, they need to trade so badly that they end up going much further afield that any of the other groups.
Though they still rely on ships, not like the Kiri nin that just swim or water walk everywhere. It really wouldn't surprise me if water walking was part of the reason why the explored world is so small. The distance that a shinobi's chakra will last while water waling is much shorter than the distance that an ocean going ship can travel with the winds.
None of the Daimyo are going to trust traders to explore for them, they're using a Confucianist mercantile system where merchants are scum. Which honestly kind of explains Gato, poor guy. And none of the shinobi villages want to engage in exploration when they have enough enemies right where they are. The idea of going off and finding allies is laughable.
Seems kind of contradictory at first, having merchants be reviled but Wind country rely so heavily on trade. Thing is, the traders out of Wind country aren't legally merchants, but rather lower leveled nobles and second sons trying to build up their personal wealth before feeding it into the economy. That's a totally different thing, in the Confucian system.
Date: Four months nine days after awakening
Subject: Aquatic puppets
I've been working on puppets in the shape of cephalopods. My thinking is that tentacles are easier to mimic than fish. Though I've been filling the internals with sand so that they won't float. Floating sea-puppets would be such an embarrassment.
Haven't quite settled on a style to them yet. It will probably depend on what sorts of creatures live around Sea. There's no chance that the area is devoid of cephalopods, the Elemental Nations are a ripoff of Japan, it has them.
Date: Four months twelve days after awakening
Subject: I'm on a boat!
I can't get that song out of my head.
Had to go down to the capital of Wind and catch a boat to Jiro Island.
Nicest thing about being a puppet so far, can't get sea sick since I have no stomach.
Date: Four months twenty days after awakening
Subject: Sea country
Boats are really slow, much slower than foot travel. Still, we finally got there. I spent a lot of the time focusing of other bodies. Some of the disposable puppets I left in Claw, they've started moving more towards the west, so they can wrap around and find a way to Hidden Star village. A few of the communications puppets have been shipped off towards their destinations. I recognize a bit of Ame around one of them, and I think another might be in River country.
You must be Shuzaku, it's a pleasure to meet you. My name's Kaga, I'll be umm, your superior? Your supervisor I guess is more like it. You're the only puppeteer here so all I can really do is sign off on what you need and try to work you into any operations the rest of us have planned.
Thank you for meeting me. I hope we get along well, I'll try to stay out of your way and not make too much trouble.
No, no, don't worry about it. I read the file on you, parts of it are too classified for me but I get the impression that you're supposed to be some kind of terror weapon. Is that right?
More or less. I can't really be killed, not very easily anyway, so the main aim is to throw me into a bunch of suicidal scenarios and just generally destroy the enemy morale.
Heeeh… then have you thought about what kind of epithet you're going to try to get? You know, in the bingo book.
Not really. Is that important?
In some cases it's not, but in this instance, where your main job is scaring the shit out of people and being a nightmare for them, yeah it really is.
How would I even be able to choose a name? Aren't they posted by enemies?
Oh, that's simple, we just get one of the smaller villages to post you in their books, then whenever one of the bigger villages decide they want you dead they're pretty much forced to take that data on faith. How else do you think names like "Shinobi-no-Kami" got in? No enemy would ever give an actually cool sounding name to someone they hated.
I suppose that's true. So what sorts of names would I try for?
Depends I guess. You have lots of bodies right? So maybe "Thousand Faces" to imply that anyone and everyone they meet could be you in disguise. Or maybe "The Scavenger" since you grabbed up all their injured, like a jackal picking off the weak from the herd, forcing them to pay more attention to their medics and distracting them.
I'll give it some thought. I wouldn't be too surprised if Iwa already was writing one up on me.
Nah, they probably think that raid was by a whole squad of puppeteers, not an individual. The fact that you don't even need to show your main face in combat means that you could easily get multiple entries, then Suna could just acknowledge the one that works the best for what we want.
That's a pretty cool system.
Eh, it's what everyone does to one extent or another. But, word of advice, you don't want to try for something too cool sounding. No one's going to believe some punk called "Crimson Death" or "Black Wind" is actually a bad ass, they'll just think he bribed the right people. And nine times out of ten they'd be right.
Date: Four months twenty two days since awakening
Subject: Sea country
I've been working on my puppets, getting set up for the new biome. Got a few seagulls in the works, bought some fish and cephalopods at the market for dissection. Now that I'm at a trade center I might try going back to some of my earlier ideas and give laminates and ceramics a try for my puppets. Those have got to have different pros and cons than wood, especially around here.
This far away from Iwa using ceramics would be a really good counter to Konoha's fire jutsu and Kiri's water.
I've also given some thought to what Kaga said, about planning epithets out ahead of time. The main thing that it reminded me of was the movie Predator, where the alien goes around and hanging his flayed victims from trees and ceilings. Scared the shit out of people, and it would give me an excuse to collect chakra networks without letting on that I'm doing experiments in human-puppetry.
Something to think about at any rate.
Date: Four months twenty eight days since awakening
Subject: Scouting
Got my birds up in the air. Unlike before, the three groups here aren't even trying to hide their encampments, not enough room for it. This is more like Ame, where they all send troops into one area to duke it out. Kiri's on Taro island while Konoha's on Demon island, with the contested zone being Mother island.
I think in the show Kiri won this conflict, since Sea was under their purview, but that might have just as easily been a later war.
I don't really have any plans as yet. My recon over the enemy bases has shown way too many high leveled shinobi to ever pull off any kind of assault. I might be able to sabotage them, or fight them indirectly, I'll work on it.
Date: Five months two days after awakening
Subject: Ceramics
I've taken shredded bamboo and woven it into a lattice structure, then set it into a cast and poured liquid clay into it. That seems to have worked alright, but the material is a lot like plaster. As an experimental piece however it proves my theory correct. I got a few of the shinobi stationed at camp to try throwing fire and water jutsu at it, it stayed pretty much undamaged.
Maybe I can figure out some sort of Earth jutsu that can manipulate the consistency and placement of clay.
AN: If the Kazekage seems really forgiving, it's because he's trying to butter Shuzaku up. I tried to write Kaga as being just super chill, as a juxtaposition from the previous commanders who both took their jobs and the lives of their people really seriously.
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Loving this~
I really like what you did with the epithet thing. I don't think I've ever read a Naruto fic that had the God of Shinobi getting his name on the sly. On the subject of epithets, how about The Faceless? Or you could be a dick and steal Sasori's 'Akasuna' schtick, since he hasn't earned it yet. Gundan (軍団) or Taigan (大群) are both ways of saying a large amount of people, or a legion. "Tasū" (多数) which means a large number or a multitude.
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This should be the other way around. Shinobi no Kami. Kami no Shinobi means "Ninja of the gods."
I really like what you did with the epithet thing. I don't think I've ever read a Naruto fic that had the God of Shinobi getting his name on the sly. On the subject of epithets, how about The Faceless? Or you could be a dick and steal Sasori's 'Akasuna' schtick, since he hasn't earned it yet. Gundan (軍団) or Taigan (大群) are both ways of saying a large amount of people, or a legion. "Tasū" (多数) which means a large number or a multitude.
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Woow, my first grammar correction. I'm moving up in the world. Fixed.
I'm not really going to focus on it too much, more of just a way to to guide his actions during psychological operations, rather than as something where everyone goes "oh no, that guy!! We'd better all piss ourselves in abject terror while fleeing". A lot of Naruto stories put way too much emphasis on the power of a bad ass name. But really, no one ever really seems to care about The Monster of Kiri, or the Demon of the Mist, as names, they care a lot more about the individuals and what they can do.
Just delurking to tell you that this is one of my favorite Naruto story's so far.
I kinda like the journal thing because I see it so rarely, I don't think its better or worse that the normal way but I just like it because its different. Wouldn't want every story to be like this though.
As for names, only one I can think of is Legion. Not very creative and not really fitting...
I kinda like the journal thing because I see it so rarely, I don't think its better or worse that the normal way but I just like it because its different. Wouldn't want every story to be like this though.
As for names, only one I can think of is Legion. Not very creative and not really fitting...
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Oh, I know. I'll probably never use it again after this. But I really do like unreliable narrators and situations where the narrator doesn't just tell the audience what they're feeling. With the journal, he already knows what his own motivations are, which his emotional reactions to things are, so they never get mentioned and have to be intuited by his actions and reactions.I kinda like the journal thing because I see it so rarely, I don't think its better or worse that the normal way but I just like it because its different. Wouldn't want every story to be like this though.
Thanks, though I'm not quite sure why it works as a story.
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Watching.
I will point out that the stomach isn't the cause of seasickness, it's the inner ear. This doesn't really matter in this case -main character is wrong about something, but they're still logically immune to seasickness unless their presumably-chakra-based inner ear equivalent is capable of creating the same problem so the story is fine- but it's a common misconception.
I like that the story has given real thought to the physics. I don't have a lot to comment on that end, myself, as Naruto is so incoherent on that end that really any sensible physics system for ninja is going to deviate from canon, so unless or until you lay out something that is internally incoherent or renders a canon event that the narrative is keeping nonsensical, really, anything goes.
One thing I do want to comment on is that Naruto canon's approach to technology really isn't that inconsistent. In particular, we're mostly looking at ninja, and a lot of personal utility devices are basically inferior to a trained ninja knowing the right technique. We don't see cars particularly in the setting, but the story's focus is on people who can run/ninja leap at speeds comparable to a car while being essentially unencumbered by terrain. Furthermore, civilian car usage as we know it is dependent on the government bothering to lay out road networks to support it -in the USA, the interstates were originally a military project to ensure the Army could rapidly deploy to anywhere from anywhere, more or less. They weren't produced for civilian use, even though that's the purpose they serve nowadays. With ninja being the primary soldiering unit of the world and getting virtually no value out of automobiles, the governments of the world would have to decide it was worth the commercial value of long-distance transportation of goods etc to have any reason to be providing the kind of road networks that make cars practical.
Conversely, a gas-powered boat engine (as we see in Wave Country) is actually a huge step up in performance over rowing or sailing or whatever without any need to produce some kind of sea road network to support it. Similarly, construction vehicles are designed to operate smoothly in terrain not specially prepped for them to move through.
Between the fact that the focal characters have little use for various technological apparatuses and the implications of ninja on the world dynamic, various technological differences between the Elemental Countries and the real world actually work quite well as an internally coherent setup.
... the above basically stops applying once we hit post timeskip, though. Suddenly technology is largely thrown out the window for psychic shields and rain-based detection systems and general mysticism and the setting seems to entirely forget that stuff like handheld radios exist and everything I've said above is essentially irrelevant because what technology?
I will point out that the stomach isn't the cause of seasickness, it's the inner ear. This doesn't really matter in this case -main character is wrong about something, but they're still logically immune to seasickness unless their presumably-chakra-based inner ear equivalent is capable of creating the same problem so the story is fine- but it's a common misconception.
I like that the story has given real thought to the physics. I don't have a lot to comment on that end, myself, as Naruto is so incoherent on that end that really any sensible physics system for ninja is going to deviate from canon, so unless or until you lay out something that is internally incoherent or renders a canon event that the narrative is keeping nonsensical, really, anything goes.
One thing I do want to comment on is that Naruto canon's approach to technology really isn't that inconsistent. In particular, we're mostly looking at ninja, and a lot of personal utility devices are basically inferior to a trained ninja knowing the right technique. We don't see cars particularly in the setting, but the story's focus is on people who can run/ninja leap at speeds comparable to a car while being essentially unencumbered by terrain. Furthermore, civilian car usage as we know it is dependent on the government bothering to lay out road networks to support it -in the USA, the interstates were originally a military project to ensure the Army could rapidly deploy to anywhere from anywhere, more or less. They weren't produced for civilian use, even though that's the purpose they serve nowadays. With ninja being the primary soldiering unit of the world and getting virtually no value out of automobiles, the governments of the world would have to decide it was worth the commercial value of long-distance transportation of goods etc to have any reason to be providing the kind of road networks that make cars practical.
Conversely, a gas-powered boat engine (as we see in Wave Country) is actually a huge step up in performance over rowing or sailing or whatever without any need to produce some kind of sea road network to support it. Similarly, construction vehicles are designed to operate smoothly in terrain not specially prepped for them to move through.
Between the fact that the focal characters have little use for various technological apparatuses and the implications of ninja on the world dynamic, various technological differences between the Elemental Countries and the real world actually work quite well as an internally coherent setup.
... the above basically stops applying once we hit post timeskip, though. Suddenly technology is largely thrown out the window for psychic shields and rain-based detection systems and general mysticism and the setting seems to entirely forget that stuff like handheld radios exist and everything I've said above is essentially irrelevant because what technology?
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Thus kindly I scatter...
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The Hassassin??
Only thing I can think of. Plus, my naming sense kind of sucks...
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can u summarize all the chakra and puppeteering related skills and techniques that the MC know so far? its getting kind of confusing to keep track of.
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Oh, I know. But even if whatever chakra equivalent did send the signals for sea sickness there wouldn't be the nerve endings in the abdomen to trigger to sensation. He might, at most, feel disorientated and dizzy but he wouldn't feel ill.
Exactly, and that's a lot of what I was talking about. In Shippuden they use laptops for medical aid, Naruto as a kage uses one for paperwork, they have digital screens when during the chunin exams they were using CTR and during the academy they were using flashbulb photography. Then during the Clan Wars, or really any point before the main story, everything was straight up pre-industrial, no electricity or any sign of tech. The changes and advancement is way too fast. The only way it works is if either the objects are one-offs and can't be used for general consumption, or if some group is really pushing for reverse engineering of some cache and then selling their discoveries to all parties as part of a burgeoning military industrial complex.
Of course the OOC explanation is that they just shoved in whatever tech was common when those chapters came out, since the whole thing ran for over a dozen years, there were a lot of changes.
All of that probably won't be a major issue though, since none of the flashbacks to the adventures of the Sannin during their youth showed any tech, so the advancement hasn't really begun yet. Things still look a lot like Tokugawa Japan probably, but with more magic slinging ninjas running around.
Right so...
- Chakra threads
- Sealing yin energy into stuff to control them
- Using the sealed yin energy to cause a mental invasion
- Harvesting yang energy from a similar process to the above
- Sealing scrolls
- Explosive tags
- Bunshin, Kawarimi, and Henge
- Basic control exercises
- Basic Earth Release exercises
- Throwing arts
- Assorted academy stuff I can't be bothered with
- Rope-Dart usage
- Hiding like a Mole Technique
- Making simple wooden puppets
- Making puppets in imitation of rodents, birds and aquatic animals to various degrees of similarity
- Making ninja 'pokeballs', (though that isn't really how they'd work)
- Controlling dead insects
- Exploiting the simultaneous control over multiple puppets to allow for instantaneous communication
I think that's everything. I might have to make myself a spreadsheet so you don't go "why didn't he just use XYZ there"
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- a nice place
yesss. looking good so far. I can feel the badass growing.
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the mc needs to learn more jutsu. puppeteering is a small subset of the ninja arts. are u goon use the yin techniques to learn the enemy's jutsu when u capture him
I'm kind of curious what would happen if you attach one of those puppet seals onto the teapot that's currently holding Shukaku. Quick and dirty jinchuuriki? Explosive decompression?
Another thing to look into is natural energy. Since you have multiple bodies, pulling Naruto's sage mode clone trick would be pretty easy, once you figure out how to sense it. ... Or just slap one of those puppetry seals onto a tree, I guess.
Another thing to look into is natural energy. Since you have multiple bodies, pulling Naruto's sage mode clone trick would be pretty easy, once you figure out how to sense it. ... Or just slap one of those puppetry seals onto a tree, I guess.
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It can? Are you sure you aren't talking about Orochimaru's Hiding in Surface Technique?
That he does, and yes he is. But the thing is that ripping apart someone's mind pretty much makes them useless, and he's only killed three people so far.
Shukaku travels back through the seal and attacks the mental collective. Suddenly there are dozens of bodies each getting surrounded by mountains of sand with ominous laughter coming out of them. Oops
Instant ents. I'm not very sure how useful natural energy would actually be, since it can't really be used for regular jutsu, the Rasengan can only use it because it's pure shape manipulation. As something to make the puppets faster and more resilient it would work, but possibly not much else.
The reason he couldn't just pull the same type of thing as the shadow clones is that there the clones each had a separate chakra network, yin and all, and then they were returning that chakra by popping. Actually, doing it that way should have killed Naruto, since the chakra levels of the clones would have been very different from those of the main body, and the clones are always shown as having achieved stable sage mode before popping and not getting just enough so that the main body is stable.
Then there's the fact that apparently Orochimaru wasn't able to use senjutsu any longer once he abandoned his original body.
Oops indeed. Sounds like a good reason to pull your mental intrusion trick on an Uzumaki.
I was honestly thinking more about the benefits that could be gained by suddenly being a sensor. The ability to get stronger bodies is nice, but the real benefit for someone like your character would be the extra information provided.
Offensively, you could seal some natural energy and then release it into someone as an attack. Sage mode is so obscure that very few people would know to balance their chakra quickly enough to avoid the petrification.
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- Elsewhere
That tenth time it's the Shinobi no Kami.
Chaos Blade
Procrastinating Writer
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- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dunno, the alternative is rather badass as well, Shinobi of the Gods? I mean your success is measured both by your enemies and your patrons (and on the patron front you really can't go any higher
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Raids
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Date: Five months three days after awakening
Subject: Update
I was thinking about maybe using what I've learned from making octopod puppets and using it to make ones similar to the Hunters from Halo, or Durge from Star Wars. A giant mass of worms acting as a gestalt whole. There wouldn't be any sort of repair function, but damaging any single part would be a lot less effective, and they'd have a much easier time changing shape to adjust to different enemies.
It might also lead towards the creation of artificial muscles, which could then be used to create more realistic puppets for prime avatars or infiltration. I might want to learn some medical jutsu for that though, I think that if I did the Terminator thing and put fresh skin over the top of a puppet body then I could pump enough medical chakra into it to keep it alive without blood flow, though naturally that might cause some problems with pallor.
Oooi. Shuzaku, you here?
Yeah Kaga.
Given any though on what we talked about?
I have actually. Do you think you could get the genin stationed here to run around with lanterns and insect netting for me? I want a few thousand bugs if you can get them.
What for?
I think I'm going to aim for being called "Thousand Eyes". I'll seed both the other camps, and the whole set of islands with insect watchers. The intelligence from the others will start leaking no matter what they do, which will drive them to paranoia, thinking that there are traitors and spies in their midst. From there a few kidnappings and replacements will fuel their paranoia until they can hardly function well as a unit.
Kiri might stay alright with all this, but Konoha has always prided itself on its teamwork, if they can't trust each other then their teamwork will start to form cracks and they'll be at a disadvantage. Add in the disruption of their supply lines and they'll start to crumble slowly but surely.
Damn! You think you can really pull that off?
Probably. No promises. There are a few things that could possibly counter it. The biggest question would be if the Aburame's kikaichu kill other insects or not. My thinking is probably not, since they eat primarily chakra from their host.
Is there anything else I can do to increase your chances of success?
Do you know who is stationed at the enemy camps?
Only really the big names, I don't keep track of the ones below jounin.
There are that many jounin?
A few for each group, also quite a few from Suna ya know.
Who are the big names you remember?
Well, there's Hiruko, he's not very powerful but seems fairly intelligent about how he fights. Hyuuga Genba, main branch Hyuuga member that's playing chaperone to a few branch clan members. Oh, there's also Maruboshi Kosuke, the Eternal Genin, but he's at upper jounin strength. That's all for Konoha's side.
For Kiri there's Chukichi of the Hiding in Frost, Hozuki Hogestu and two Kaguya clan members.
Fuck… That's a lot of power to contend with.
No one's saying you have to fight those guys. Leave that to us jounin. All you need to do is make sure that the people under their command are sufficiently nervous.
It's actually not that bad overall. The Seven Swordsmen are all off fighting Kumo, Konoha's big names are mostly in Ame along with ours and Iwa's, plus Hanzo the Salamander. This region's, not quite secondary, but the victory would be economic and not political, so there's a lot less emphasis placed on it.
Yeah, I know. It's just that the combat powers of my puppets are each fairly weak, if I had gotten sent to Ame then I'd just be more cannon fodder getting thrown into the grinder.
Have you worked on the flame throwers, spring loaded blades, water projectors, anything like that?
You know about that?
It was in your file
Right. No, not really. I have a bit of an idea on how I could pull some of them off. Flame throwers would probably be a variation on exploding tags, letting the flame out slowly over time instead of all at once. Water bullets would possibly use something similar to an exploding tag to shoot the water out at high pressures. The spring loaded blades could be retracted with a lever, so long as it was part of the puppet as a unit. So the ideas are there.
Should probably stop procrastinating and do that. It'll probably bump the power of your individual puppets up to fresh chunin level, especially since they can use jutsu. I've also got you a share of the recycled scrap pile, in case you want to start using metal for your puppets again. It's all just broken tools and equipment, but that shouldn't be a big deal for what you're wanting it for.
Thanks
Hey, if you can do what you say you can then it's well worth my while.
Date: Five months seven days after awakening
Subject: Bugs
Got my army of insects. The genin have been working hard for me, the insects fill a couple of liter jars. Probably a couple thousand at least it looks like. Not sure how many of those will be damaged from the rough treatment though.
It doesn't really matter, applying seals to insects is a process with exponential growth, which means that it really doesn't take that long no matter how many there are. At least I think it's exponential, I might have that wrong, it might be one of the other forms of geometric progression.
Should have the prototypes for the upgrades to my puppets ready in a few days.
Date: Five months ten days after awakening
Subject: Upgrades
I shipped off the insects to both enemy encampments and the main island, started getting them into position over time. Everything's above ground for these ones, so that makes it easier. Only one team with an Aburame on it, and it seems that the kikaichu don't eat other insects, though I've been keeping mine away from her anyway in case she's an entomophile and decides to examine them by chance.
Got the first set of upgrades ready to test.
Testing of flame thrower: heat is too high for metal, the conductivity causes smoldering where it contacts with the wood. Next time use a ceramic tube. Maybe water cooling?
Testing of water bullet: pressure too low, chakra structure seems needed to combine spherical shape with high velocity. Using other fluids as through a hose, or maximizing the water pressure to act more like a short range pressure cutter might be possible. However, high pressure fire hoses tend to whip out of control if not held securely, indicating that the range between the storage seals and the nozzle would need to be quite short or else the puppet would tear itself to pieces.
Testing of spring release traps and weapons: worked as expected, it was always the simplest aspect. The ability to manipulate internal components of the puppet as a matter of course reduces the majority of the needed mechanical contrivances. The main sections of the limbs and torso are generally open enough that I can toss a few blades into them with no problems.
Next will come arranging them for specialized functions, like the capture puppet Kankuro used at one point.
I know that there are dart throwers and blow guns in my old world, but they either had something to allow for the buildup of gasses, or a flat end for a spring to rest against. Senbon would be the ideal projectile, and indeed there was something I once saw about needle shooters in the show, but I can't quite figure out how they'd be possible without either a specialized cradle or some sort of chakra cheat.
Something like the shuriken rifles from 40k might actually be easier, though it'd have to be hugely oversimplified. Essentially a vertical clip of standard shuriken, with either a crossbow mechanism or a horizontal leaf spring to project it.
Wasn't there Hidden Sky that attacked during this war? Might try to do something with that, they had some pretty nice stuff, and I'm pretty sure they only got defeated due to leafy plot armor, either that or some glaring weakness that got massively exploited.
Date: Five months thirteen days after awakening
Subject: Plots and plans
Submitted my first intelligence report. Enemy patrol routes, movements, rosters, supply schedules. We already had some of it, but the idea here is to publicize what we have by exploiting it as blatantly as possible.
There's a "low risk" area some of the Konoha teams are being sent through for a reward, a break from combat. There's an ambush planned on them. Then there's a medical shipment for the Kiri base scheduled for two days from now, the Kaguya clan members need some of the drugs to deal with their finicky bloodline and berserker tendencies.
After those take place I've got my own plans for a follow up act at their camps.
Date: Five months sixteen days after awakening
Subject: Plot results
Konoha got three dead and six injured from three teams, that's 100% casualties. While our teams only had two injured. For the other mission the shipment was confiscated with ease, one of our guys died but the transport team from Kiri was wiped out to a man.
What I find hilarious is that there's actually a higher chance of becoming a genin in Kiri than Konoha. Konoha, in the show, graduated nine students out of a class of about thirty, less than a third of the class. Kiri has a graduation rate of a little under fifty percent, some of the winners die of their injuries.
Though Konoha did have a batch of backups, people that were mostly desk workers in flak jackets. Having the majority of the civilian population be made up of academy failures probably caused a lot more trouble than it was worth, especially when the daimyo would likely give at least as many benefits as they did. That might all be based on stories though, I've yet to infiltrate Konoha to find out for sure.
Date: Five months twenty days after awakening
Subject: Chemical selection
Sedatives was a good choice before, I'll make sure to grab a few of those. I also want some water soluble poisons dump into water and food supplied. I doubt most of those resources will be unsealed for the shinobi camps, they certainly haven't been anywhere else I've seen, but as a way to turn the civilians working with the shinobi against them it should work great.
Oh, right, I also want to get a few neurotoxins. Do neurotoxins even exist in this world? The fastest poisons we ever see take hours or days to kill, but that might just be a plot thing. Conotoxin could kill in five seconds flat, and a lot of others weren't much slower. It might be kind of like how poisons in Chinese novels work, where they unbalance the chakra system to the point that it starts killing the target. That'd be both a good and bad thing, since it'd mean that poison was somewhat unreliable but that it is also much simpler.
Date: Five months twenty two days after awakening
Subject: Kidnappings
I timed it right, most of the Hyuuga are out on patrols, there are two left and one of them's asleep. Should be early in the second shift of the day, nobody expects an attack just after the sun's come up.
The open toes and heels of shinobi sandals make it so easy to get to non-sensitive spots of the skin. Really, they should fix that. It might have helped that I coated the bugs in topical anesthetic, maybe not, for all I know it's not even enough to have a measurable effect on the sensation.
One bite every half hour, spread across two hours. Yeah, that branch Hyuuga is useless now. Get in my casket!
I love my puppet birds, so useful.
Yeah they'll activate his cursed seal, but probably not for a few hours, and it definitely won't stop me from doing what I want with him.
The other one I'm doing is to grab one of the medics. I think Tsunade trained these ones personally, but she made that stupid rule about them not going into direct combat, they're trained to dodge a lot and be support. That means that none of these guys are any good at fighting.
I've got a bug aimed for one of their mouths.
It sucks to swallow a bug, but it's infinitely worse when that bug clings on behind the uvula and induces vomiting with drops of ipecac.
I'm actually surprised that one worked. Someone suddenly starting coughing and vomiting with little explanation would be suspicious enough to me that I'd suspect enemy action immediately. It will probably never work again, too abnormal.
I really don't want people to start noticing the bugs. I could tamper with the IV drips, cause random deaths amongst the wounded, but that'd cause people to look more closely at the evidence than I'd like. So long as it'd just disappearances and the like then they'll likely assume it's a talented infiltrator, or someone with a travel/stealth jutsu.
Date: Five months twenty three days after awakening
Subject: Leaf nin resources
Placed yin seals in both of the shinobi I took yesterday, rooted through everything I could find. The medic was indeed trained by Tsunade, as part of a batch pumped out from an accelerated six-month course. All he really knew were the Mystical Palm and Chakra Scalpels. Nice jutsu to be sure, but not much direct use to me until I started working more with the living and recently deceased.
The Hyuuga, he didn't last very long after I took him. Activated his own cursed seal. I don't mind, the Juuken is almost useless to me, if I get my chakra onto someone the last thing they need to be worried about is me sealing a few of their tenketsu.
I'm getting a microscope sent over from the hospital tent. I'm curious about this, will probably use the medic as a control, that way I can see what the eyes of a bog-normal guy looks like in comparison to those of a byakugan.
Not quite sure what to expect with that. It's a doujutsu derived from Kaguya herself, so it might be total bullshit, no explanation at all. But then, people have transplanted every kind of doujutsu before, and Madara figured out how to force the evolution of both the sharingan and rinnegan. So it can't be completely irrational.
With update with results of examination.
Subject: Update
I was thinking about maybe using what I've learned from making octopod puppets and using it to make ones similar to the Hunters from Halo, or Durge from Star Wars. A giant mass of worms acting as a gestalt whole. There wouldn't be any sort of repair function, but damaging any single part would be a lot less effective, and they'd have a much easier time changing shape to adjust to different enemies.
It might also lead towards the creation of artificial muscles, which could then be used to create more realistic puppets for prime avatars or infiltration. I might want to learn some medical jutsu for that though, I think that if I did the Terminator thing and put fresh skin over the top of a puppet body then I could pump enough medical chakra into it to keep it alive without blood flow, though naturally that might cause some problems with pallor.
Oooi. Shuzaku, you here?
Yeah Kaga.
Given any though on what we talked about?
I have actually. Do you think you could get the genin stationed here to run around with lanterns and insect netting for me? I want a few thousand bugs if you can get them.
What for?
I think I'm going to aim for being called "Thousand Eyes". I'll seed both the other camps, and the whole set of islands with insect watchers. The intelligence from the others will start leaking no matter what they do, which will drive them to paranoia, thinking that there are traitors and spies in their midst. From there a few kidnappings and replacements will fuel their paranoia until they can hardly function well as a unit.
Kiri might stay alright with all this, but Konoha has always prided itself on its teamwork, if they can't trust each other then their teamwork will start to form cracks and they'll be at a disadvantage. Add in the disruption of their supply lines and they'll start to crumble slowly but surely.
Damn! You think you can really pull that off?
Probably. No promises. There are a few things that could possibly counter it. The biggest question would be if the Aburame's kikaichu kill other insects or not. My thinking is probably not, since they eat primarily chakra from their host.
Is there anything else I can do to increase your chances of success?
Do you know who is stationed at the enemy camps?
Only really the big names, I don't keep track of the ones below jounin.
There are that many jounin?
A few for each group, also quite a few from Suna ya know.
Who are the big names you remember?
Well, there's Hiruko, he's not very powerful but seems fairly intelligent about how he fights. Hyuuga Genba, main branch Hyuuga member that's playing chaperone to a few branch clan members. Oh, there's also Maruboshi Kosuke, the Eternal Genin, but he's at upper jounin strength. That's all for Konoha's side.
For Kiri there's Chukichi of the Hiding in Frost, Hozuki Hogestu and two Kaguya clan members.
Fuck… That's a lot of power to contend with.
No one's saying you have to fight those guys. Leave that to us jounin. All you need to do is make sure that the people under their command are sufficiently nervous.
It's actually not that bad overall. The Seven Swordsmen are all off fighting Kumo, Konoha's big names are mostly in Ame along with ours and Iwa's, plus Hanzo the Salamander. This region's, not quite secondary, but the victory would be economic and not political, so there's a lot less emphasis placed on it.
Yeah, I know. It's just that the combat powers of my puppets are each fairly weak, if I had gotten sent to Ame then I'd just be more cannon fodder getting thrown into the grinder.
Have you worked on the flame throwers, spring loaded blades, water projectors, anything like that?
You know about that?
It was in your file
Right. No, not really. I have a bit of an idea on how I could pull some of them off. Flame throwers would probably be a variation on exploding tags, letting the flame out slowly over time instead of all at once. Water bullets would possibly use something similar to an exploding tag to shoot the water out at high pressures. The spring loaded blades could be retracted with a lever, so long as it was part of the puppet as a unit. So the ideas are there.
Should probably stop procrastinating and do that. It'll probably bump the power of your individual puppets up to fresh chunin level, especially since they can use jutsu. I've also got you a share of the recycled scrap pile, in case you want to start using metal for your puppets again. It's all just broken tools and equipment, but that shouldn't be a big deal for what you're wanting it for.
Thanks
Hey, if you can do what you say you can then it's well worth my while.
Date: Five months seven days after awakening
Subject: Bugs
Got my army of insects. The genin have been working hard for me, the insects fill a couple of liter jars. Probably a couple thousand at least it looks like. Not sure how many of those will be damaged from the rough treatment though.
It doesn't really matter, applying seals to insects is a process with exponential growth, which means that it really doesn't take that long no matter how many there are. At least I think it's exponential, I might have that wrong, it might be one of the other forms of geometric progression.
Should have the prototypes for the upgrades to my puppets ready in a few days.
Date: Five months ten days after awakening
Subject: Upgrades
I shipped off the insects to both enemy encampments and the main island, started getting them into position over time. Everything's above ground for these ones, so that makes it easier. Only one team with an Aburame on it, and it seems that the kikaichu don't eat other insects, though I've been keeping mine away from her anyway in case she's an entomophile and decides to examine them by chance.
Got the first set of upgrades ready to test.
Testing of flame thrower: heat is too high for metal, the conductivity causes smoldering where it contacts with the wood. Next time use a ceramic tube. Maybe water cooling?
Testing of water bullet: pressure too low, chakra structure seems needed to combine spherical shape with high velocity. Using other fluids as through a hose, or maximizing the water pressure to act more like a short range pressure cutter might be possible. However, high pressure fire hoses tend to whip out of control if not held securely, indicating that the range between the storage seals and the nozzle would need to be quite short or else the puppet would tear itself to pieces.
Testing of spring release traps and weapons: worked as expected, it was always the simplest aspect. The ability to manipulate internal components of the puppet as a matter of course reduces the majority of the needed mechanical contrivances. The main sections of the limbs and torso are generally open enough that I can toss a few blades into them with no problems.
Next will come arranging them for specialized functions, like the capture puppet Kankuro used at one point.
I know that there are dart throwers and blow guns in my old world, but they either had something to allow for the buildup of gasses, or a flat end for a spring to rest against. Senbon would be the ideal projectile, and indeed there was something I once saw about needle shooters in the show, but I can't quite figure out how they'd be possible without either a specialized cradle or some sort of chakra cheat.
Something like the shuriken rifles from 40k might actually be easier, though it'd have to be hugely oversimplified. Essentially a vertical clip of standard shuriken, with either a crossbow mechanism or a horizontal leaf spring to project it.
Wasn't there Hidden Sky that attacked during this war? Might try to do something with that, they had some pretty nice stuff, and I'm pretty sure they only got defeated due to leafy plot armor, either that or some glaring weakness that got massively exploited.
Date: Five months thirteen days after awakening
Subject: Plots and plans
Submitted my first intelligence report. Enemy patrol routes, movements, rosters, supply schedules. We already had some of it, but the idea here is to publicize what we have by exploiting it as blatantly as possible.
There's a "low risk" area some of the Konoha teams are being sent through for a reward, a break from combat. There's an ambush planned on them. Then there's a medical shipment for the Kiri base scheduled for two days from now, the Kaguya clan members need some of the drugs to deal with their finicky bloodline and berserker tendencies.
After those take place I've got my own plans for a follow up act at their camps.
Date: Five months sixteen days after awakening
Subject: Plot results
Konoha got three dead and six injured from three teams, that's 100% casualties. While our teams only had two injured. For the other mission the shipment was confiscated with ease, one of our guys died but the transport team from Kiri was wiped out to a man.
What I find hilarious is that there's actually a higher chance of becoming a genin in Kiri than Konoha. Konoha, in the show, graduated nine students out of a class of about thirty, less than a third of the class. Kiri has a graduation rate of a little under fifty percent, some of the winners die of their injuries.
Though Konoha did have a batch of backups, people that were mostly desk workers in flak jackets. Having the majority of the civilian population be made up of academy failures probably caused a lot more trouble than it was worth, especially when the daimyo would likely give at least as many benefits as they did. That might all be based on stories though, I've yet to infiltrate Konoha to find out for sure.
Date: Five months twenty days after awakening
Subject: Chemical selection
Sedatives was a good choice before, I'll make sure to grab a few of those. I also want some water soluble poisons dump into water and food supplied. I doubt most of those resources will be unsealed for the shinobi camps, they certainly haven't been anywhere else I've seen, but as a way to turn the civilians working with the shinobi against them it should work great.
Oh, right, I also want to get a few neurotoxins. Do neurotoxins even exist in this world? The fastest poisons we ever see take hours or days to kill, but that might just be a plot thing. Conotoxin could kill in five seconds flat, and a lot of others weren't much slower. It might be kind of like how poisons in Chinese novels work, where they unbalance the chakra system to the point that it starts killing the target. That'd be both a good and bad thing, since it'd mean that poison was somewhat unreliable but that it is also much simpler.
Date: Five months twenty two days after awakening
Subject: Kidnappings
I timed it right, most of the Hyuuga are out on patrols, there are two left and one of them's asleep. Should be early in the second shift of the day, nobody expects an attack just after the sun's come up.
The open toes and heels of shinobi sandals make it so easy to get to non-sensitive spots of the skin. Really, they should fix that. It might have helped that I coated the bugs in topical anesthetic, maybe not, for all I know it's not even enough to have a measurable effect on the sensation.
One bite every half hour, spread across two hours. Yeah, that branch Hyuuga is useless now. Get in my casket!
I love my puppet birds, so useful.
Yeah they'll activate his cursed seal, but probably not for a few hours, and it definitely won't stop me from doing what I want with him.
The other one I'm doing is to grab one of the medics. I think Tsunade trained these ones personally, but she made that stupid rule about them not going into direct combat, they're trained to dodge a lot and be support. That means that none of these guys are any good at fighting.
I've got a bug aimed for one of their mouths.
It sucks to swallow a bug, but it's infinitely worse when that bug clings on behind the uvula and induces vomiting with drops of ipecac.
I'm actually surprised that one worked. Someone suddenly starting coughing and vomiting with little explanation would be suspicious enough to me that I'd suspect enemy action immediately. It will probably never work again, too abnormal.
I really don't want people to start noticing the bugs. I could tamper with the IV drips, cause random deaths amongst the wounded, but that'd cause people to look more closely at the evidence than I'd like. So long as it'd just disappearances and the like then they'll likely assume it's a talented infiltrator, or someone with a travel/stealth jutsu.
Date: Five months twenty three days after awakening
Subject: Leaf nin resources
Placed yin seals in both of the shinobi I took yesterday, rooted through everything I could find. The medic was indeed trained by Tsunade, as part of a batch pumped out from an accelerated six-month course. All he really knew were the Mystical Palm and Chakra Scalpels. Nice jutsu to be sure, but not much direct use to me until I started working more with the living and recently deceased.
The Hyuuga, he didn't last very long after I took him. Activated his own cursed seal. I don't mind, the Juuken is almost useless to me, if I get my chakra onto someone the last thing they need to be worried about is me sealing a few of their tenketsu.
I'm getting a microscope sent over from the hospital tent. I'm curious about this, will probably use the medic as a control, that way I can see what the eyes of a bog-normal guy looks like in comparison to those of a byakugan.
Not quite sure what to expect with that. It's a doujutsu derived from Kaguya herself, so it might be total bullshit, no explanation at all. But then, people have transplanted every kind of doujutsu before, and Madara figured out how to force the evolution of both the sharingan and rinnegan. So it can't be completely irrational.
With update with results of examination.
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awesome. try to get into genetic engineering/sequencing and genetic code. being able to grow a dojutsu with a mix of your own cells and and the bloodline cells would be awesome.
Did you happen to keep the bodies once they were killed? Magical Chakra Bones have to be good puppet material.
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They're not dead yet, nor captured. Just miserable.
Fixed
Ah, okay. I misread the line about the transport team being killed to the man and thought you were talking about all the Kiri teams in the area.
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- Location
- Cornfield County, Ohio
The Kaguya were in the camp, the shipment with their drugs was attacked before it ever reached them. As for myself, I'm curious as to what can be learned from those drugs... Any exploitable weaknesses that might allow him to capture them alive? Magical Chakra Bones are probably a good thing for Shuzaku to have, but having Magical Chakra Bone Factories is even better! QQ before I go, what kind of background does the SI have? Was he a scientist before getting ROB'd into Shuzaku? Just wondering where he's pulling some of his info from... Neurotoxins, advanced dissection techniques, etc. How much did he learn in the Naruto-verse, and how much did he bring with him?
- Location
- US
The stuff he knows is pretty much just whatever pops into my head when I'm writing. It's not a true SI because how I would actually act if in Naruto would be very different, as would the skills I'd aim for, and he does't share much of my personality, but his knowledge is basically just a reflection of mine.