Putting the Shin in Hiraishin Pt.1

“Hiraishin, The Flying Thunder God Technique created by the second hokage Tobirama Senju which allows the user to instantaneously teleport themselves to a previously marked location. The technique utilizes a special seal to mark the desired location. Once that is completely they can enter a dimensional void at will to transport themselves to that location. This technique can also be used to transport objects and other people however the size of the item being teleported dictates the amount of chakra required. “ Shin stopped and set the book down to his side. The young jonin was sitting on the ground, legs crossed in the middle of the forest outside of his home, Hoshigakure. He sat in the middle of a small circular clearing in the middle of the forest that extended about 40ft in diameter. The large trees around the area shaded most of the clearing. A few rays of sun gleamed down passed by the leaves of the trees, illuminating the clearing perfectly. Shin sat in iithe center of the clearing, a few rays of light hitting his shoulders and the back of his neck. He was wearing something rather different from his usual attire. He wore a burgundy red hakama the extended down to his knees, revealing his black pants. He wore a set of shinobi dog tags around his neck. Tied to the hakama was a 3ft long blade by a black rope. “So the basics behind this technique is Fuinjitsu. Its basically a summoning in essence. You use a specific seal to place your chakra at a location then you summon yourself through the dimensional void to that marked location. This should be easy considering Uzumaki are naturally gifted in the area of fuinjutsu.” Shin said at he extended his finger and started to draw in the sand. He drew a seal design in Kanji that spelled transport backwards. “I’m going to modify the jutsu to make it easier to use for me. I’m going to place the seal on my body as well. By dispersing minutes amounts of my chakra into the seal I can make it easier to summon myself to that location. However the seal on my body will allow me to summon a weapon or person to my body. That will acquire a lot more chakra however. The person will also move slower because I’m summoning someone without a blood contract. More than likely I’m going to have to only be able to summon someone whose seal has a high amount of my chakra inside of it, too risky if they can find a way to overpower the seal and take my chakra.” He thought to himself as he looked at the sealing diagram he drew. He looked at his right palm and sighed before he extend his left index finger. A dark blue flame began to glow on his finger. He pressed his finger into his palm as he wrote the kanji from before on his palm burning it into his flesh with his chakra. The chakra from his fingered dispersed from his finger as he finished the last symbol. Shin stood up as he stretched his back and walked over to a tree about ten feet away from him. He touched the bark of the tree with his left palm and quickly focused his chakra onto it. He stepped back to see the seal he left on the bark. He jumped back quickly about 30ft as he sighed and closed his eyes,focusing on molding his chakra and the small amount of chakra he left on the tree, trying to connect the two separate pieces of chakra through the sealing formula. Once he pinpointed the other formula he opened his eyes “Hiraishin” he said softly. He felt his body instantly be transported from its location. For a brief moment he was in an area of complete emptiness, the void between time and space. He felt as if he was floating in the air but this space had an eerie feeling to it, the haunting feeling of absolutely nothing but him existing. He looked straightforward at the complete nothingness, staring into the blank white area. The white area became a clear blue sky, the leaves of the trees were in his peripheral vision. He gasped quickly as he realized his was falling backwards out of the sky. He dropped about ten feet from the air, his back colliding hard with the ground along with the back of his in a loud thud noise. He coughed a bit as he extended his arms and looked at the sky. “Fuck this is going to harder than I thought. How the hell am I supposed to move in an area as empty as that void and arrive at my destination? The technique isn’t even a question of speed, its complete teleportation.” He sighed as he brought his hand up and ran his fingers through his hair, the wind blowing some leaves of of the trees around him. “Maybe I need to be moving in some way in order to move in the void. Guess I’ll try that” He said as he lazily stood up and looked at the tree once more. He took a small leap towards the tree as he activated the seal “Hiraishin” he said as he felt his body disappear once more, appearing in the void once again. This time it felt as if he were moving, however it was very difficult for him to tell. “Am I doing it?” He thought to himself before feeling himself quickly being thrown out of the void. He found himself flying through the air this time, fly past the tree he marked into one a few feet behind it. He collided with it harshly, face first. He fell on his back and sighed loudly out of frustration. “What the hell am I doing wrong?!” He yelled as he rubbed the side of his face that hit the tree, picking out a few splinters. “I activated the seal on my hand. I even entered the void and managed to move in the void. What I missing.” He thought to himself as he played in his hair. He bit his lip as he thought to himself. Suddenly the idea hit him like a brick. He jumped up on his feet and walked back towards the center of the clearing. “I need to keep my concentration on that mark and release while I’m in the void in order to complete the connection.” He thought to himself as he began to activate the seal on his hand. Simultaneously he kept his focus on the seal on the tree, activating it and focusing on the chakra it gave off. Shin’s body once again was teleported away from its location however this time when he entered the void he felt his body quickly and violently being thrown forward. He let out a quick scream before he instantly reappeared back, his torso being thrown into the tree so hard that the air was forced from his lungs. He gasped for breath as he slowly slid down the trunk of the tree, rolling onto his back and grunting in pain. “This shouldn’t be this damn hard” He yelled out of frustration as he found himself once again on his back within a 15 minute time frame. “I can’t give up on this technique if I want to become a great shinobi. Tobirama Senju, Minato Namikaze, Naruto Uzumaki, Ay, Shisui Uchiha...all great ninja that came before me whose legacy continued to affect the shinobi the world even well after their passing. What did they all have in common? Speed,something to protect, and a signature jutsu that left them remembered. I have something to protect..Hoshigakure and my fellow shinobi. I already have 1 out of 3. I will get faster with this jutsu.” He said aloud as he stared at the blue sky, feeding off of his own motivation and will to get better. He looked at the seal on his palm “It’s time to become the Red Flash of Hoshi as surpass my predecessors…..”

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On a warm spring day Shin Uzumaki laid back on his bed, watching the ceiling fan rotate as the sunlight shined through his window complementing his face perfectly as his sat there in thought. The chuunin exams were now over and he had the time to continue his training. The reminders of him failing haunted him ever since the day that he first attempted to complete the Hiraishin. He ended up failing and falling countless times in the attempt to teleport. He frowned at the ceiling as he thought to himself. “I’m a goddamn shinobi. I’m a shinobi who represents the Uzumaki clan at that, a fuinjutsu should not be giving me this much trouble.” He thought to himself as he sighed aloud. The young man was dressed in a plain white tshirt with the red Uzumaki clan symbol in the middle, a pair of black pants and black shinobi sandals. “I’m going to get this technique down if its the last thing I do in this world.” He said aloud as he brought his palm up to his face, looking at the sealing marking that he drew on his palm. He could still feel the chakra of the marks he left about a month ago back in the forest. He concentrated on the seals, trying to pinpoint the location of each one in his mind. He then focused his attention on the one closer to him, it became like an image to his head. It was a seal mark placed on the bottom of a tree branch about 30ft high. Shin was able to do this in under a second, although he wasn’t able to complete the technique his ability to effectively track and locate his markings at this point were superb, however his markings were not yet permanent like the ones of his predecessors. He activated the seal on the tree, instantly vanishing from his room in a thin blue light. He felt his body instantly reappear in the main road of the village. He instantly reappeared crashing into a woman, knocking her over, sending a bag of groceries flying up the air. He laid to the side of the woman who had fell on her butt. She looked at him with a face that went from shock to anger as her face reddened with frustration.”I’m so sorry” he said with an embarrassed look as he stood up quickly, trying to help the woman back up. “But hey since you’re here can you help me with something.” He said quickly as he placed his hand on her shoulder, putting the seal for the Hiraishin on her shoulder. “Just stay here and don’t move please”. She started to yell but Shin once again activated the seal, disappeared from her sight, only leaving a small puff of dirt and debris in her face. He reappeared in the forest, crashing head first into the bottom of a tree. “Ouch that hurt.” He said with a grunt as he rolled over on his back, holding his head. He leaned against the tree as a few leaves danced through the air as the fell down to the ground. He looked up, squinting his eyes at the tree limbs above him. A smile came across his face as he noticed his sealing tag on the bottom of one of the branches. Stood up slowly, bending over to pat the dust off of his clothing. “Well I’m making progress I suppose. In a way I’m somewhat at the right location” He turned towards the direction of the village and once again focused on his seal back at the village.He started to focus on it, pinpointing on it once again as he activated the seal, vanishing once more in a mere instant. He reappeared mid-air over the village, falling about 5ft onto the roof of a small building. He bounced up and rolled down, shingles falling and tearing off the roof as he slid off. He fell onto the same woman, knocking her down on her once more. Frustrated she immediately began screaming. Her groceries were now spilled on the ground and her hair was a mess. Shin stood up quickly trying to adjust her hair “Ok Ok I promise you won’t see me anymore.” He said awkwardly laughing as the woman tried to push him off. He grabbed her and placed his hand on her shoulder while she kicked her legs out aggressively, trying to bite the hand that had grabbed her. He withdrew the seal from her shoulder and just as quickly as he had came he once again vanished, causing the woman to fall on her butt again in anger and frustration. Shin reappeared in the middle of the forest, this time standing instead of falling on his butt like always. He was about 10ft away from the tree that held the marking on it. “I’m getting closer to my targets, slowly getting better at this technique.” He said as he looked up towards the branch he tried to teleport to earlier. “I wonder exactly how fast I am though.” He took a decent sized rock of the ground and held it out about shoulder level while he focused on the seal on the branch. He dropped the rock as the wind gently blew carrying a few leaves. Once the rock passed his knee Shin disappeared. Immediately reappearing under the branch, holding onto it with one hand. He looked down towards the pebble which had not yet even hit the ground. He smirked “That's fast enough I suppose.” He let go off the branch, spreading his arms to keep his balancing as he fell out the air. He focused on the seal around the handle of his sword back home. His katana sat on top of a dressed back home in his bedroom. The moment before his foot made contact with the ground. He vanished once more, not even being able to crush the blades of grass below him. Back in the village the sound of a window breaking could as glass fell down to the street below. The villagers looked up to find Shin legs hanging out the window. His legs started to kicking as he yelled aloud in frustration as kids pointed up and began laughing teasing him. Shin screamed aloud “Shut up!” Before he vanished again reappear back in the forest. This time crashing on the ground, rolling on the grass before stopping on his back looking at the sky. “Almost there” he said with a sigh. For the rest of the day he would spend his time teleporting from forest to village, tree to tree in order to improve on the Hiraishin. He was now pushing himself more than ever to achieve his goal pushing his body to its limit, feeding off of his own dedication and motivation until he felt himself about to collapse from exhaustion as he still tried his best to complete the jutsu.

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The morning sun had just risen of the forest just outside of Hoshigakure. The sound of birds singing had filled the air as the sunlight glistened off of the morning dew of the grass. A slight breeze was in the air carrying the smells of the forest. A young man laid in the middle of a small clearing in the forest. The leaves of the trees shaded most of his brown face, a few rays of sitting hitting his cheeks. He was wearing a white t-shirt which was covered in grass and mud stains. The shirt had the Uzumaki symbol in the center. To complete his outfit he wore black pants and sandals. His hair which was usually pushed backwards was now all over his face as he laid there asleep in the forest. He had been there for 3 days, working to perfect his new jutsu, The Flying Thunder God also known as the Hiraishin. The young man’s name was Shin Uzumaki, a jonin from Hoshigakure. He had a soft snore as he laid there asleep with his mouth open, one arm behind his head for comfort. A few hundred feet away a young genin ran for his life as he tried to escape someone that was pursuing him about 30yrds behind him. “Leave me alone.!” He yelled as he looked back to find three shinobi from another village. The young boy drew a kunai, looking back as he ran. He entered the clearing where Shin slept, still looking back at his pursuers. As soon as he looked forward he tripped and fell, dropping his kunai. They boy looked back “what the hell was..” He paused as he saw Shin rubbing his head and sitting up “Why did you kick me in the head kid?” Shin said as he fixed his hair, grabbing the boy’s kunai. The boy helped him up urgently “Shin-sama help me I was on my way back from a mission with my squad when we were ambushed by a group of ninja from Iwa. I’m the only one left Shin-sama. I'm the only one left! They're all dead now...” They boy yelled as he began to panic, gripping his head trying his best to hold back the tears. Shin simply looked at the kid with a confused yet concerned expression on his face as he held the kunai. A swift ruffling of grass and leaves could be heard as three kunai flew out from behind the trees towards Shin’s back. He instinctively turned around,changing to a reverse grip on the kunai as he deflected weapons. He repositioned himself in front of the the genin as the three shinobi ran out from behind the trees. Each one appeared to be at least chuunin level. The were line up horizontally, each one holding a kunai in hand. Shin faced them,his arms hanging down by his side freely as he gripped his kunai loosely showing how relaxed he truly could be in combat. “That red hair….you must be that damn Uzumaki from Hoshi huh.” Two of the Iwa shinobi had formed a quick series of handsigns as they simultaneously struck their palms on the ground “Earth Style: Mudslide” they whispered as the ground in front of them rose up, cracking in front of them violently as the earth shifted forward towards Shin and the boy. Large stones and soil ripped down the trees and carried it along down towards the two as it picked up speed. Shin grabbed turned around, scooping the boy as he started to run away from the landslide. He activated the seal back home as he and the boy vanished instantly before the landslide collided with them. Back in Shin’s home a loud thud followed by the clatter of kitchen utensils could be heard as he and the boy reappeared crashing into Shin’s kitchen counter violently before falling on the floor. Shin stood up and looked down at the boy “Relax kid. Go run and tell someone higher up what happened. Let them know I handle it ok?” Just as quickly as he came he had left, vanishing from the boy’s sight as he reappeared back ok the battlefield, landing face first in the dirt, next to a torn down tree with his marking on it. He grunted in frustration of yet again failing at his jutsu and laid there face in the dirt and motionless. The Iwa shinobi looked at him from about 30ft away with a confused expression. Everything had gone silent as they stared his body down. “Is he dead?” One asked with confusion as he put away his kunai and approached the body. He grabbed Shin’s hair as he pull his head up, pulling Shin up on his knees as he looked at the others and shrugged. In one swift motion Shin brought his arm closest to the man up. Gripping the meaty portion of his thumb and pulling it back to force the man’s grip to loosen and Shin twisted his arm, breaking his forearm and scaphoid as he stood up, taking him down on his back. Using his free hand he unbuttoned the kunai pouch on the shinobi leg, taking out the weapon in one fluid motion and the shinobi hit the ground. The two Iwa ninja then rushed towards Shin. One came towards Shin throwing a powerful punch towards his chest. Shin ducked under the jab, pushing the man’s arm to the side and delivering a quick kick to his abdomen as he stood up. In the motion of pushing his arm he had placed his Hiraishin on the man. The second shinobi had formed a few hand signs, launching large slabs of stone towards Shin while the other fell to his knees clenching his abdomen. The young Uzumaki jumped up and back, landing on the branch of an unstable tree, avoiding the slabs of stone as they collided with the tree he now stood on. The stones ripped apart the bark of the tree causing it to start to collapse backwards into the trees behind him. Before Shin could jump off the tree the broken armed shinobi had stood up and thrown a kunai with a paper bomb attached. The kunai landed next to Shin as the tree fell. The thunderous bang of the explosion was followed by the sound of the tree clashing with the ground. The air was now thick and hot, filled with debris from the explosion. The three shinobi all smirked as they walked towards each other, regrouping as they thought the fight was over. Meanwhile Shin was back home standing in front of his sword, his first successful teleportation so far and it had saved his life. He grabbed the blade and smirked as he focused on the seal back on the Iwa shinobi’s arm. The three shinobi stood back at the battlefield talking to each other. Two of them stood in front of the one with the unnoticed seal on his arm. The one in front began to laugh, rubbing his hand casually in front of his peers. Immediately without warning the was a large splatter of blood as Shin appeared behind him, delivering a swift slice to the nape of his neck. The body fell forward. Both of the Chuunin reached forward to catch it, quickly grabbing the injured shinobi and dashing away into the trees as Shin slowly rose up, letting the get a head start. The swiftly hopped from branch to branch,two of them injured one of them dead. The two carried the body, supporting his weight by throwing his arms around their shoulders. The blood of their comrade ran down their neck and back as they panicked within, desperately trying to outrun Shin. By this time they were at least a a few hundred yards out. One of them finally spoke aloud what they were both thinking “We should've stayed back at Iwa-” the sentence was cut short as Shin appeared in front of them using the seal on the dead man’s arm. As soon as he arrived Shin’s blade had found its way through the chest cavity of the shinobi. Mid-air he blade pierced through his upper body, taking on the full force of both his and Shin’s weight. He fell backwards mid-air with Shin still close to him holding his blade. Shin reached into the tool pouch on the man’s lower back, pulling out a shuriken and placing his seal on it as he turned and threw it towards the last survivor. The remaining shinobi had just landed on a tree branch, looking at Shin and his fallen comrade. As soon as he looked back the shuriken blew past him at a high speed, grazing his cheek before being stabbed into the tree behind him. The man gripped his cheek in pain as Shin reappeared on the tree, using his legs to jump off, spiraling towards the shinobi as he rotated his body mid-air, going past the man and delivering a quick slash up his spinal cord. The shinobi fell forward landing violently on the ground causing him to crush a few ribs as he laid there motionless in his now paralyzed body. Shin had landed on the ground in a crouched position as he listened to the loud thud of a body dropping. He stood up slowly and sighed before vanishing off again back into his home. He appeared in his room, in front of his dresser. He grabbed a rag, cleaning off the blood on his sword before placing it on his dresser. He was excited but at the same time exhausted from using the jutsu so much in such short time “So this is the power of the Hiraishi” he said with a slight smirk that eventually became a large grin as he sat on his bed before laying down and once again staring at his fan. “Mission Accomplished” he said to himself softly as he closed his eyes

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