Storm Breathing

**Storm Breathing** (嵐の呼吸, *Arashi no Kokyū*?) is a Breathing Style that is a combination of by both Wind Breathing and Thunder Breathing.

## Overview

Storm Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics storms, specially the destructive power of storms, hurricanes and tornadoes, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve utilizing movements that are a combination of the fundamentals of Wind Breathing and Thunder Breathing. When utilized properly, users of Storm Breathing visualize themselves seemingly creating and manipulating wind and lightning simultaneously when unleashing its techniques.

Storm Breathing was created by an individual in the Sengoku period called Fuka Igarashi (五十嵐 風香) who was skilled in both Wind Breathing and Thunder Breathing and learned them both from Takeshi Hayate and Shin Kaminari. She later came up with an idea of combining their respective fundamentals, the end result being a combat style that perfectly suited this individual, and she named it after the destructive power of hurricanes. Thus, Storm Breathing was born.

After the death of Muzan Kibutsuji, Storm Breathing, like Sun Breathing and the other Breathing Styles, became a ritual dance known as the **Arashinokami Kagura** (嵐の神 神楽, *Arashinokami Kagura*?, lit. "Dance of the Storm God") offered to Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the Japanese god of storms. It was done by surviving members of the Igarashi family.

## Weaponry used with this Breathing Style

Most known users of the Storm Breathing have wielded Nichirin swords whose blade has a cyan color.

## Techniques

Storm Breathing has 8 techniques and forms.

* **First Form: Eye of the Storm** (壱ノ型: 台風の目, *Ichi no kata: Taifū no Me*?) - The user jumps upward as they unleash several circular arched slashes from a high guard, tail guard and horizontal slashes, with each slash increasing in size and diameter from above their target in order to encase said target in the center as the slashes made generate powerful blasts of wind that slice up the opponent as do the actual slashes themselves.
* **Second Form: Magnificent Maelstrom** (弐ノ型: 壮大な大渦, *Ni no kata: Sōdaina Dai Uzu*?) - The user rotates their body in both uppercut and downward movements as they releas a series of powerful long-ranged upward and downward arcing attacks that create a barrage of spinning and twisting slashes preformed at extremely high speed which can strike an opponent to pieces, strike an opponent from afar or as many opponents as possible.
* **Third Form: Tengu Twister** (參ノ型: 天狗竜巻, *San no kata: Tengu Tatsumaki*?) - The user swings their sword rapidly around themself to unleash a multitude of powerful circular slashes that generates a powerful tornado around them that can be used to blow away projectiles, defend them from incoming attacks, suck in and shred targets caught in the attack and slice up their surroundings.
* **Fourth Form: Rolling Stormy Sky** (肆ノ型: 動揺嵐風の空, *Shi no kata: Dōyō Arashi-fū no Sora*?) - The user takes a large breath and does seven large powerful arced slashes that shred through anything it touches, which can be done in rapid succession or seven separate slashes, as they are released they get released they progressively get stronger than the one before it. Afterwards, the user would leap into the air and attacks from above with several consecutive slashes, sending a rolling wave of air blades down at the target.
* **Fifth Form: Tempest of the Paragon** (伍ノ型: 亀鑑嵐, *Go no kata: Kamekan Arashi*?) - The user slashes in all directions progressively getting stronger causing a windstorm to kick up, which gets stronger the longer the user continues, and can even cause the ground to cut up creating loose dirt and other debris which gets caught up in the windstorm. The attack is strong that it can cut anyone to bits if they are within the windstorm's range.
* **Sixth Form: Thundering Hurricane** (陸ノ型: 雷鳴颶風, *Roku no kata: Raimei Gufū*?) - The user will first either crouches down or ducks down, as close to ground as possible, and perform a quick draw of their Nichirin blade. They then launched himself upward while spinning in a complete circle, with their arms swinging while the rest of their body is curled itself into a ball. The technique generates three circles of wind that traveled away from the user along a vertical axis. They winds generated by and the technique is so strong that it is known and confirmed to be stronger and faster than the winds that a skilled Wind Breather can manage to generate.
* **Seventh Form: Sweeping Storm's Rage** (漆ノ型: 嵐の怒り掃除, *Shichi no kata: Arashi no Ikari o Sōji*?) - The user dashes at the target in a zig-zag motion unleashing a barrage of slashes to leave deep cuts on the target's sides then decapitate the target with a single slash once close.
* **Eighth Form: Raijin's Roar, Splintering Earth** (捌ノ型: 雷神の咆哮・砕ける大地, *Hachi no kata: Raijin no Hōkō - Kudakeru Daichi*?) - The user leaps and backflips into the air and while upside down, they deliver a flurry of countless long-ranged slashes downwards which unleash powerful gusts of circular wind that slashes apart anything and everything below, decimating dozens of targets at once and capable of uprooting and cracking the earth.