Byakugan - Unfinished

Name: **Byakugan** (Jutsu)

Technique cost: Origin, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan Kekkei Genkai (Acquired either at character creation or later on), Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Chakra cost: 1 chakra per round

Weaving: Free action

Range: Personal

Effect: The Byakugan is one of the ultimate visual jutsu, known and feared across the world. It's abilities are simple in concept but versatile to an extreme. When activated the user is able to see all around themselves in a 360 degree arc out to a range of 30 ft per character level. The user can essentially see everything in this sight radius unless it is entirely concealed, such as an item in a closed box. This also gives them the benefit of improved uncanny dodge. A foe succeeding on a knowledge ninjutsu check DC 40 is aware of the secret blindspot of this jutsu, a small area just above the thoracic vertebrae and able to ignore this improved uncanny dodge. As the user grows in power their Byakugan can evolve substantially, gaining many more benefits. This jutsu lasts one round but can be extended in 1 round increments by paying another chakra each turn.

Name: **Penetrating** **Byakugan** [Technique]

Technique cost: 5, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Effect: This ability, the most famous aspect of the Byakugan, allows the user's gaze to penetrate through objects. As long as the Byakugan is active the user can effectively ignore concealment, as well as the obvious benefits of being able to see through objects and people.

Name: **Expanded Byakugan Range** [Technique]

Technique cost: 8, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Effect: A ninja with this technique can extend their gaze much farther than normal.  When using the Byakugan the ninja can now expand their sight out to 10x their previous distance. However a ninja cannot possibly process that much high detail information at once. As such each turn as a move action they select an area inside their maximum sight range with a radius of 30 ft per level and count themselves as perceiving that area. Anything large scale, such as a caravan of people, a forest fire, large buildings, or a giant monster is always noticed if inside the area of their byakugan sight, even if it isn't being focused on. This ability may be taken multiple times, each time increasing their maximum sight radius by 10x (100x the second time it's taken, 1,000x the third). This does not follow the usual rules for multiplication. Taking this multiple times does not increase the area that can be focused on at a given time.

Name: **The white eyes that know the heart** (Technique)

Technique cost: 5, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan Jutsu, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Effect: A ninja with this technique can see the faint distortions in a person's chakra and heartbeat when they lie, and they can begin to peer into the souls of others. While using Byakugan a ninja with this technique adds their level to sense motive rolls. Additionally while the Byakugan is active the Ninja can always act in the surprise round as long as at least 1 other creature in the surprise round has a heartbeat.

Name: **Medical precision** (Technique)

Technique cost: 2, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan Jutsu, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Effect: The Byakugan's ability to see minute biological details makes it an ideal tool for a medical ninja. While the Byakugan is active the user adds their level as a bonus to all heal checks.

Name: **The white eye that knows the soul** (Jutsu)

Technique cost: 14, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan Jutsu, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Chakra cost: 16

Weaving: Standard action, no hands

Range: Close

Effect: A ninja with this technique can see more than the physical world, they can gaze into the heart and soul of another creature. This requires the user to be able to see the targets eyes unassisted, meaning without the use of tools or the Byakugan. The target makes a will save and if it fails they are held helpless as their mind opens up to the gaze of the Byakugan. Each round the Byakugan user can view a memory up to 1 minute long that best answers a question they want an answer to. There is no need for careful wording, nor can the target effectively deceive or mislead their opponent. If desired the Byakugan user may continue viewing the memory in 1 minute increments, or may ask a new question each round, but every turn they use this jutsu they pay the chakra cost again. Though the target continues to remain helpless, if they are attacked, threatened or take damage they instantly and automatically escape this jutsu before whatever attack against them is resolved.

Name: **Reading ahead** (Jutsu)

Technique cost: 20, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan Jutsu, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Effect: A ninja with this technique has become so adept at reading tiny motions and gazing into the world around them that they gain a sense of whats going to happen before it even does. While their Byakugan is active the ninja may choose to act at any time in the initiative order, including during someone else's turn, interrupting their action. They could for example choose to act as an opponent begins weaving a fireball jutsu and use their move action to move out of the area of effect, and their standard action to attempt to disable the foe with a stunning fist. On the round following this out of turn action however the Byakugan user is moved to the bottom of the initiative and cannot use this ability for that turn.

Name: **Seeing the threads of fate** (Jutsu)

Technique cost: 20, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan Jutsu, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style

Chakra cost: 50

Weaving: Full round action

Range: Close

Effect: The greatest power of the Byakugan is the ability to see into the very future itself, to glimpse the fate of others. By taking a long look at someone the jutsu user may predict a major event in their life. This generally comes as a vague message, along the lines of "By blood you will be betrayed". Or "The higher road leads to glory". As it's difficult to isolate very precise details. One of the major uses for this jutsu however is to track a change in prophecy. If a ninja's fate had been "You will live a life of peace" and they accept a mission they may consider the implications of a Byakugan user using this jutsu again only to warn "The knife in the dark cuts deepest" may want to reconsider their job selection.

Name: **Extended genjutsu** [Technique]

Technique cost: 14, Yang style, Wind Style

Prerequisites: Byakugan, Basic Yang style, Basic Wind style, Basic Ying style, 14 int, Basic Genjutsu,

Effect: One of the lesser known abilities of the Byakugan is it's talent for extending the range of genjutsu. A Ninja with this technique can use any non touch range Genjutsu to target any creature it can see with their Byakugan. This does not circumvent other limitations of genjutsu, such as those which require the target to see the user, but it does eliminate the need for line of sight and line of effect and ignores the genjutsu's normal range.