Winter's Breeze

== Winter's Breeze ==
A Cloud's Breeze in Winter (Winter's Breeze)
== Technique Effects ==
A Cloud's Breeze in Winter, also known as Winter's Breeze is a traditional chakra flow based attack that requires the utilization of a sword. Wakizashi can be used for this technique, but a katana is most often used when practicing this technique. It requires the user to immediately focus a small amount of chakra into their sword directly after partially drawing it from it's sheath. The user immediately follows this up by aiming the hilt of the sword towards their target and drawing the sword a few inches, holstering it, and partially drawing the sword (Before holstering it again) in rapid repitition. The hilt expels up to five kunai sized ranged chakra attacks from the hilt in rapid succession. These small chakra blasts are highly accurate in short to mid-ranged combat. This has often caused the confusion that samurai are capable of attacking their opponent several times before their blade even appears to have been drawn.
The expelled chakra blasts don't deal much damage on their own (Each feels like a mid-level punch), but can daze the opponent for a short amount of time. This opening often allows the user to quickly close in for a follow up attack.
== Technique Rank ==
C
== Technique Style ==
Winter's Breeze is a form of chakra control developed for users of kenjutsu.
== Technique Origins ==
Iwamato Takeo, one of the great ancestors of the Iwamato family tree developed this technique nearly four hundred years ago. It is a further manipulation of the crescent styled ranged attacks that other samurai were often taught. Nowadays, the technique is kept within the Iwamato clan as one of their secret weapon techniques.
== Technique History ==
Samurai in the Land of Iron have proven capable of using the sword sabre technique to shoot crescent shaped beams of chakra from their swords. In mythology, some samurai were said to be so fast that they could slice their opponent from their sword multiple times before they had even appeared to draw it. This move was created as a mid-powered ranged technique so that members of the Iwamato clan would not be helpless in situations that prevented them from close ranged fighting.
== Technique Pros & Cons ==
Pros:
*Winter's Breeze doesn't require much chakra to utilize, allowing it to be used multiple times.
*As a ranged attack, it allows samurai and/or taijutsu users a means to fight ranged fighters.
*It's a fairly quick attack that can often catch others off guard.
​Cons:
*It's not as strong as other ranged attacks, causing it to be somewhat limited in high level fights.
*The chakra blasts are relatively small and are easy to evade.
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