She's Kind of a Genius?

D-rank: Harmony Road
D-rank: Modification Seal: Solid State Formula
D-rank: Base Sealing Method: Storage Formula
C-rank: Base Sealing Method: Storage Formula Lvl 2
C-rank: Modification Seal: Liquid State Formula
B-rank: Harmony Trick: Melody
B-rank: Base Sealing Method: Storage Formula Lvl 3
B-rank: Modification Seal: Gaseous State Formula
B-rank: Modification Sealing Method: Conversion Formula
B-rank: Trick Speed

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It had been just a day since she arrived in the Land of Anguish among the Kukinorite Clan, and Jazz was already being made to read Fuinjutsu scrolls, in an attempt to gauge her intelligence. Sure she had been brought around her mama's shop before and had witnessed her making the seals on some of the armor she made but she hadn't truly understood it beyond the fact that seals could do almost anything. It wasn't until Lynx-sama had taught her the basics before telling one of the clan members who actually utilized it to teach her more that she had actually began to understand exactly what Fuinjutsu was all about.

Fuinjutsu was in essence are a type of jutsu that is used to seal; objects, living beings, chakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object. This results in a number of unique effects with the most basic being for simple storage while others can even allow the object which has something stored within it to take traits from that which is stored within. Not to mention apparently, Fūinjutsu could also be used to unseal objects either from within something or someone which served to reverse the effects. Meaning while Fuinjutsu itself was a useful and powerful branch of techniques it do anything and likewise anything it can do had it's inverse which canceled it out. She was delving more deeply into Fuinjutsu theory discovering that layering an even numbered seal over an odd numbered seal and vice versa results in an imbalance which causes the connection between the sealed entity and the object it is sealed in to be lost.

She had already begun drafting up her own seals, this was done in the mornings as she had a strict schedule, she woke up at six o clock sharp, took a ten minute shower and was clothed before eating breakfast for five minutes and then brushing her teeth after. Once that was done she was to do her morning warm up and progress into her training excersizes, which as of right now was her learning the Melody Road from her ancestor Cadmus Naito's scrolls. Once she was done with that which took four hours she took another ten minute shower before moving on to seal theory. Due to mama's departure she was being trained to learn seals as they couldn't rely exclusively on Jasmine to produce regalia for them. Rather Lynx-sama had told her that she was being pressured by the other Elders to train her in it, on the race chance that Jasmine is unable to continue producing chakra skates and regalia.

Her Kukinorite training sessions were brutal though, as she had to endure the conditioning exercises which had been amped up due to her being able to recover and catch her breath far quicker than normal shinobi could. She didn't know why initially however Lynx-sama had told her that da was actually useful for something other than having sex with mama after all. Her ability to regain her stamina quickly was because they had been feeding her something in the baby formula that she had drank when she was much younger. She didn't remember much but she did know that it tasted wonderful so it couldn't possibly be medicine, all medicine tasted icky. Either way it was because of that formula, that Lynx-sama had to completely rework her training regiment making it harder so that she would benefit more from it.

Initially she wondered why they were forcing her to train so hard but after the punishment she recieved for throwing a tantrum instead of training she learned better not to ask. Rather she should be grateful that Lynx-sama was taking the time out to educate her in such a way as she was privledged enough to be raised to be the heir of the Kukinorite Clan. Heirs did not question, they also didn't throw temper tantrums when they didn't get their way. So she learned to put up with the intense training, while she could pick up certain things by observing it they wanted her to actually train only a select few and rely on her observation to harness other things in the middle of combat, that way thanks to her ediec memory she would retain the information while using her body to get the most potential out of what she did train. It was why she learned Trick Speed rather than focus on building speed tiers, they knew her body could handle the speeds but they didn't want her training them until she was older.

According to Lynx-sama it was important to not train muscle groups until they were actually fully developed as a child lest they stunt her potential by her body growing muscles to suit something her body wasn't naturally suited for. It was for that reason that her training regiments were mainly endurance and cardio training. While she was reading about how to utilize her ancestors roads. It was only after one day she had unconciously utilized the Melody Road during a spar that Lynx-sama had took her aside and actually asked her exactly which road she felt out of the 6 she had read about did she feel suited to. She had replied that she wished to learn each one except Vector she felt that Vector shouldn't be touched, as it was her ancestor Cassandra D. Kukinorites road and thus was sacred instead she would develop her own road in order to finally succeed her. Lynx-sama was initially speechless but she regained her composure and smiled actually smiled at Jazz, it was in that moment that she knew she would do anything to make sure that Lynx-sama approved of her actions.

She was currently learning how to create storage scrolls, she knew eventually they would brief her on more advanced methods of fuinjutsu but the Base Sealing Method: Storage Formulae were the most basic levels of fuinjutsu capable of being taught to her. So she was starting with them. She had proven to be a quick study of course, she had mastered level one within a couple of hours while level two came by the end of the day. Earlier today she was working on level three it was more complete but at the same time she understood the difference enough that she quickly mastered it as well. It was only after that, that they had decided to educate her in the Modification Seal: State Formulae, which were the next step in Fuinjutsu. Essentially one was capable of storing different things within a storage seal based on the exact composition of said material, which were based on the states of matter.

Solid, Liquid, Gaseous made the three known states of matter and thus were the building blocks to any novice seal user, Energy, Unstable and Unknown made the three unknown states of matter and were the next level up something which adept seal users needed to know in order to even begin to attempt to master the craft. She didn't mind of course, to learn it Fuinjutsu was interesting to her and considering she too had inherited the inability to utlize Ninjutsu like Jasmine had, Lynx-sama had instructed her to learn Kujutsu to counter it out. She would use her intelligence for the more technical types of jutsu, both Fuinjutsu and Kugujutsu to give her the much needed edge against the competition. Something that she would need since unlike other Shinobi she wasn't able to really make use of what was considered the most spread around jutsu type.

Thankfully the Kukinorite clan didn't need ninjutsu, rather they only used it to supplement their Roads mainly so that they weren't blocked completely by Defense Tiers or nullified by Senjutsu. Initially it was figured she too would suffer from that however, Soul Tech came to her rescue, and she knew she would be capable of utilizing it in conjunction with her Roads to make sure she didn't suffer from the most gaping weaknesses of her clans techniques. But it was merely the after thoughts on her mind, her main focus was on mastering both Solid and Liquid State Formula so that she would be able to learn more.

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Word Count: 1363.

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C-rank: Vector Trick: Axis
C-rank: Sadistic Defense: Rock Skinned
C-rank: Rhythm Puppet Technique
C-rank: Sight Trick
C-rank: Blessed Sealing Style

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Jazz D. Kukinorite, having adopted the Duo seeing as Lynx-sama said that all those worthy of learning the Vector Road would be granted said name, honestly it was a select few, as it was a difficult road to master and something that couldn't simply be taught. No it was in her blood and it was her blood which allowed her to make the specific movements and grow accostumed to riding the Vector Road. It of course helped that she had a very high intellect and was able to easily break it down while watching Lynx-sama preform the most basic of movements. Initially she hadn't wanted to learn it but then Lynx-sama explained that it was a right of passage since Cassandra's daughter for the destined clan heir to learn the road it was of course why she had to be made. After all Roxas Kukinorite was unable to learn the Vector Road seeing as he didn't descend from Cassandra Duo and thus didn't have the rightful claim tot he Kukinorite Clan headship. Of course training the road was the easy part rather it was utilizing the signature technique which had Jazz struggling for a few moments before she understood the concept.

Utilizing the movement of a kick while in her field and wrapping the electric current around the projected attack that..honestly was the basis of the Axis like the Fang & Thorn that came before it. She too wanted to create her own version but currently lacked the experience to forge her own road and thus her own tricks stemming from it. Thankfully there were other avenues to keep her buzy first and foremost being her utilizing the Ring Road in conjunction with her puppetry technique to create a Kukinorite specific one. How Lynx-sama had gushed over it seeing as it would help many Kukinorite who wished to delve into puppetry but hadn't the chance to do so without forsaking much of their clan training. Now it was something which could be incorporated into it and thus was something that Lynx-sama approved of. Ever since meeting Ka under the urging of Lynx-sama, Jazz likewise continued to improve her training of Trick Speed eventually managing to have her eyes adjust to the speed gained through momentum via Sight Trick as before that she had kept crashing into things. Thankfully she had mastered the use of Sadistic Defense and thus after the first scrape simple tensed her body before impacting the ground so her physical body couldn't be harmed.

But ultimately her greatest achievement had nothing to do with her tricks or her puppetry, no it was in her study of Fuinjutsu having managed to create something completely new by utilizing Nen as a basis to write seals. The result was Nuinjutsu written on the conciousness and empowered by the will of one's mind it's limits currently unknown. It was what was in her most recent letter to Lynx-sama after all it wasn't something she wanted to delve into without permission as she knew it was something that could potentially be dangerous to now only those around her but herself. Despite that she was drawn to it..it was something to call her own a technique type that she originated on her own just using her intellect along with the study of seals as well as Nen to create something which combined the aspects of both yet transcended them due to going in a completely new direction.

Training Complete
Word Count Needed: 500
Word Count: 573.

No Training until... Sat. Oct 11.

approved

D--rank: Silica Road
C-rank: Two Cross Unseal
C-rank: Silica Trick: Mirror
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Trick: Rhythm Step
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Trick: Rhythm Operate
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Trick: First Trigger
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Trick: Second Trigger
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Trick: Third Trigger
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Trick: Fourth Trigger

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Jazz was working on her puppets, having thankfully procured enough money from her damnable sensei, thirty thousand Xel to be exact which she had decided to head out to the the Dipugakure armory in order to purchase puppets, she had recieved a Standard Medium puppet when she was a genin simply due to her showing her interest in puppets but she had decided to sell it off in exchange for more Xel. The reasoning was simple, she had decided to focus on the use of Small puppets for now as she knew her own body size was small and it would be too much of a pain to utilize puppets that were bigger than her in battle at her current level. Later on she would delve into that but for now she had small hands and could afford to make small puppets which could be disguised as dolls in case she needed to infiltrate locations. She had decided on a set motif for the three of them having read about a myth of sorts which depicted legendary shinobi who utilized animal magic in their craft. Apparently they each were the best when fighting alongside another their team work working flawlessly together and each possessed a summoning contract. Likewise it was said each of them beat each other like rock, paper and scissors in fact a spin off of said game was created due to them namely Slug, Snake and Toad.

She had decided to look for more legends surrounding them but unfortunately she wasn't able to obtain anything more than the Snake being very flexible, a capable swordsman with a legendary sword known as the Grass Cutter, half snake half man and often using poisons to bring down opponents. The Toad being capable of utilizing Oil along with fire and having a unique fighting style involving the use of his hair and was known for the use of Fuinjutsu. Finally the Slug was super strong capable of launching victims flying with a single fist and creating craters by slamming her foot into the ground, she was apparently a skilled medical nin supporting her teammates yet using her medical knowledge to fight on her own if need be. Together they were called the lengendary Sannin, she had asked Lynx-sama about them and she was told not to believe in myths as they were simply a fairytale from a time long ago but instead she should focus on more important things like her training.

She did just that, but she decided to hold on to them and make her puppets based around them after all if they were a myth then her using them in battle would make them into reality. To that end she used her perfect recall to remember her mothers own creations and used that to fashion her own version using her own knowledge of Fuinjutsu to create puppets completely unique to her. She knew of course that they were quite weak but it was mainly due to her not possessing the unlimited budget that her mother seemed to have, regardless she made do with what she had and would constantly work on improving them as she got more money later. Once the framework was done she would test them out moving her limbs in various sequences while riding the Ring Road in order to trigger her various Rhythm Step Variations. It took a short while to iron out the kinks but eventually she was able to get them running as well as using their hidden mechanisms with ease. After some more practice she got the knack of utilizing two of them at once running them through a series of sequences to allow them to operate seemingly autonomously and then she would use her Doppelganger to battle herself to test how they functioned in combat.

It took her a week but she was able to iron out the various details smoothing them over and etching her trademark into them a Black Widow Spider with a purple hourglass on it's stomach with a reddish-pink J in the center of the hour glass. That was her signature the Widow Line of Puppetry also known as the Purple Secret Technique staying true to the common collective of techniques all puppeteers..well true one's anyways named their techniques as. It was her pride as a puppeteer to finally be able to show that she was indeed one of those who had their own color and though she wasn't known now she would endevor to spread her name through the world one step at a time. Now all that remains it putting them in the actual feild though she was sure between her own control over her puppets and her Doppelganger she would be able to use all three simultaneously as it was when they were used together that they truly became dangerous. Now if only she could figure out what to do with their last slots, perhaps she could find a way to utilize her new found mastery of the Silica Road to incorporate sand? No..that wasn't true to their respective motiffs it was so difficult, no she had promised herself never to deviate from the motiff of her various collections she had to stay true to the artistic vision. She would figure out exactly what to do for the 5th slot perhaps she could find a way to...incorporate the Summoning Technique. Excellent, it's finally finished.

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Specialization Training - Halving Solo Training.
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Jazz was finishing the blueprints of her Legendary Sannin series, she had decided to work on a system to allow her to create minature wind up marionettes that she would call Clockworks and utilize them as a method of diversifying this specific series. Similar to the myth she would have them be Toads, Slugs & Snakes respectively so as to go with each of the puppets, all of them would look like toys however as she had decided since she was small there would be no point to making large puppets. Instead she'd use her own body size making them smaller than herself so that they were easier to repair and use in battle, besides it wouldn't do for her to not be able to carry them in battle at least not naturally without the aid of her bloodlust. Either way she had decided on making them the improvements to the legendary sannin line rather than reformating her already formidable puppets it was through clockworks that they would become something noteworthy.

Each of the Clockworks had the same start up factor it always involved a wind up key which was capable of being wound in two different directions to utilize two different functions and she had allowed them to be wound first before rapidly sealed away so that when they emerged they could simulate a rapid action due to the wind up sequence being held in stasis inside of the seal. This was to ensure that when a Clockwork was summoned it was immediately battle ready and she would leave it to the future puppeteers to come up with the remaining ones. She herself had only provided the first ones which were smaller Clockworks which depending on the chakra price could be summoned as much larger versions. She would leave details on how to create Clockworks to her legacy when she eventually begun storing her puppets around the world but for now she would settle with what she created. Truth be told while she was excited for using them in battle as her specially treated wood was something that only became more durable and resistant through battle, feasting on the blood of it's enemies in order enhance its abilities. This would be something signature to her infact she wouldn't even leave any trace of how this wood was treated to her legacies, the reasoning being that she wanted it to be something common to all of the Widow Series. Her trademark constantly evolving puppetry that will stand the test of time, sure for now she knew she couldn't make sure they lasted for that long other than constant maintenance but she knew she'd eventually be able to make a seal which woud allow for rapid repairing through a conversion matrix based on her mothers Conversion Seal in other to flow chakra into syncronized pathways which atomizes stored materials in an triple layered storage seal connected to her Digitized parallel pocket dimension in which case the atoms are rearranged into the exact composition of the damaged puppets in order to fully repair it.

She giggled to herself as she decided that she'd first write that and maybe just maybe if she was feeling nice would include the simplier explaination...no she wouldn't anyone who couldn't grasp Master level non-dimensional sealing wasn't simply worthy of utilizing her puppets to their full potential. Sure she knew that the masses would not be able to appreciate her works of art after all they lacked the sheer intellect to compare to her own however she was sure at least the smart ones would understand it enough to see the value. She would of course include certian things into each of the tombs of the collection so as to influence puppeteers who lacked any of the collection to them in order to make them "stumble" upon them. Once they obtained one she knew that her vague mention of the additional collections would make them hunger for them and it would further accelerate the growth of puppeteers as they would pit her own creations against each other allowing them to hone their skills against tools which were equivalent to each other instead of whatever inferior creations that their peers might create.

She would likewise include a means for them to add to the raw material cache so that upon killing or detecting an area when a required raw material that any of the collection needed outside of combat the puppets themselves would go to acquire it so as to transport them to the mass collective. Similarily she would include a "ranking" system known by the puppets and not their owners in which case when opposing puppeteers have acquired enough skill with a particular collection and come across another collection user upon losing to the victor the spoils. This was to ensure that they didn't kill each other for the collections as the puppets would only disappear and go back to one of the 72 different potential caches they could be stored. The only way they would remain in place is if the victor was equal or lower than the opponent that they defeated, and how to increase ones ranking was based on how many opponents had been defeated with said collection, how long and most importantly how many puppeteers the individual had faced since acquiring the puppet collection. It had nothing to do with the individuals actual rank as a Sannin could be weaker than a Genin if said genin was a puppetry genius the only disparity was in experience she understood that due to her own strength being comparable to a Chunin already. With her puppets she could even take on a T. Jonin with ease, a Jonin would outclass her for sure but that was only because she wasn't developed yet and hadn't built her own physical abilities yet so as not to stunt her growth.

She had long since planned on utilizing her created technique style Nuinjutsu in order to grant sentience to her puppets of course within specific limits, she knew that she was a Manipulator & a Conjurer under normal circumstances mainly as a result of her Super Genius level intellect however when she was affected by bloodlust she became a Specialist capable of utilizing all six types with one hundred percent efficiency as a result it was childs play for her. whether it was through her normal Nuin type or when she was affected by her bloodlust to further enhance her contract making abilities. The true extent of their sentience of course would only be able to be utilized by herself and herself alone in which case she planned on essentially making them Autonomous but....she knew there was an alternate means of doing so. It was why she had studed the Ningyo Clan hoping one day to encounter them and steal the secrets of their books and learning how to create puppets which had sentience on their own so she would have a base to build further upon. Sure it wasn't needed but she likewise wanted to kill them all so as to eliminate their weakness cultivated due to relying on their puppets being sentient. She wanted to remake them in her own image so that they would grow further an additional legacy more like the red herring of course which distracted others who were not worthy from her true legacy the Widow Collection of Puppetry.

She would sigh looking outside to check the time revealing it was quite late but she first wanted to go over the blueprints one last time to make sure she had absolutely no errors. She would start with Toad, the first one she envisioned it's main capabilities being with Oil and Flames as well as being the only one of the three which was capable of versatility on the field due to utilizing Fuinjutsu tags. It had come out as she liked as it would be the Mid-Range, Offensive and Area Control portion of the trifecta that was the Legendary Sannin Collection. While each of them were powerhouses despite their tiny size Toad was the defacto main damage dealer and could do so most effectively from Mid-range though it was no slouch in long ranged combat she knew it didn't have many options in terms of short Range but that could easily be fulfilled with Toad Clockworks. Next was Slug, the only "female" of the collection with it's main capabilities being physical combat, Acid and acting as a mobile chakra battery for it's companions it was the only one capable of supplying the other two with chakra on the field so to replenish their abilities while being able to siphon ambient chakra out of techniques in order to refill it's own reserves. Slug was the Close-Combat, Support and Tank as she was the one which would be in the heat of battle despite it's vital use mainly because of those massive reserves, while better in Short-range and could handle Mid-range to a certain extent it would be reliant on it's Slug Clockworks for additional ranges as well as repair in battle. Finally Snake the last one she had envisioned and the one which had given her the most headache in coming with abilities for, despite that she liked it the most out of the three due to it's lethality. Snake was the Ranged-Combat, Evasive, Damage over Time as it was very capable at running interferance on the field barraging victims with various concoctions of poisons that she would have a lot of fun creating so as to inflict differing effects and essentially ensure that victims who did come in contact with Snake's poison would succumb to the effects without being able to shrug it off. Snake was best at long range, barraging opponents over distances however it could likewise be useful in Short Combat as well with its deadly mechanisms but Mid-range was were it's Snake Clockworks would have to fill in the blanks.

Jazz would crack her neck as she memorised the blue prints before storing them within Digitized Storage for reference later even though she knew she didn't need it seeing as she had perfect recall. It was just in case her memory was tampered with so she didn't lose her information on her creations. She had pushed up her inoculation with small doses of natural poisons in order to build up a natural resistance to them up until she was able to acquire antidotes in case she did end up fatally poisoning herself. She knew of course her own resistance to poisons, diseases, as well as temperature and even in terms of regaining her breath during spars had been enhanced due to her Da's actions something that she was eternally grateful for. It was very useful and she knew she had an edge against others who hadn't simply been created and then systematically fed stimulants while developing while her Mother and Lynx-sama had been bred for war she was created on the genetic level for that express purpose. It wasn't that she didn't notice that she was capable of harnessing electrcity something which she had kept an absolute secret from Lynx-sama as she knew it wasn't natural. No it was something else something that made her more than just a Nova-Human hybrid she was spliced with something..something more. She knew she could generate electricity and while she had intially suspected Lagiacrus she realized it might just be something more mundane like an electric eel.

For that reason she knew she couldn't tell Lynx-sama as having shared genetic traits with a common animal wasn't something her "perfect" being could potentially have, and had begun experiementing with it in secret knowing that it would only be something to further her ambition. She had found out that she could utilize it in three different ways, the first being low charge which was useful for sensory, and scrambling the electrical impulses in a victims body having tested it on mice and once one of her servants. That was the only one which didn't hurt her to use, the second one was discharging electricity to paralyze, immobilize, stun and electrocute victims which was painful to her but she realized was perfect to trigger her masochistic tendencies and empower her Nen. The last one was the most powerful which not only caused her intense pain but actually consumed her life-force to use yet the electrical discharges were far more powerful capable of filibrating muscles at the weakest level and leaving gaping holes in struck targets at the most powerful she had dared to do. She planned on developing techniques which made use of her abilities and finding out exactly why it was added clearly "her mother" couldn't have known so it was probably her..."Father" Kyoshiro Kurogane...she would have to seek him out at a later date and find out exactly why he had tampered with her dna.

Training Complete
Words Req. = 2000
Words = 2145

Advanced Specialization Training - [Sealing Specialist B-rank +2] Weekly Training
B-rank: Modification Sealing Method: Transfer Formula Lvl 2
B-rank: Summoning: Lightning Flash Blade Creation

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Jazz was studying additional fuinjutsu from the Dipugakure library, she had just finished meeting up with Roxas Kukinorite, her jonin sensei and apparently he wished to gift her a large sum of cash. It struck her as odd but perhaps he realized that out of everyone on the squad she was the most serious and well most in need of funds as Kugujutsu was her primary combat style. As a result she accepted it as well as Cassandra Duo Kukinorite's scythe the one which earned her along with her exploits the title of Reaper of War Cassandra. She had sealed it away into her sealed storage from the get go not wanting it to get damaged or anything, deciding when she got back to her hotel that she'd analyze it more closely to find out exactly how best to use it. She had read about it due to Lynx-sama instructing her too but there was a difference between reading something and being able to analyze it first hand it tended to make it much more real. She was currently working on two specific seals, the first was more so a summoning technique than a true seal meant for unsealing something from a stored sealing array even if said scroll wasn't present.

For a B-rank technique it was quite versatile and she found that she would be able to utilize this technique for much more than just transport but it would become a key factor in her puppetry. This was mainly due to being able to summon things in an instant just by touching the sealing "marks" which can be drawn anywhere. The greatest advantage of this technique is that the time between taking out a ninja tool, taking the right stance and actually throwing it is greatly reduced. It would mean while being limited to ninja tools it is still a formidable weapon her arsenal especially when she would eventually begin to make puppets who utilize large amounts of projectiles. She had seen her folly in regards to the blueprints for the Legendary Sannin line, while using wind up keys for tension and firing was innovative it wasn't for everything. Rather in her next line of puppetry she would take care to lower the amount of wind up keys needed for mechanisms which weren't projectiles meant to break contact with the puppet such as extendable arms, legs and the like. Thus her true projectiles would be able to cross distances much faster, she had begun reading about the Touch formulae which was even better truly it was just what she would need to get an edge against those who looked down on puppetry.

The second was Transferal Formula Level Two, she had already master level one which dealt with transferring chakra through seperate sealing arrays to keep the interconnectivity that puppets must have to sync joints, limbs and mechanisms to the core framework. The level two however added an additional factor namely blood, she was very well acquanted with the use of blood in puppets having created her own mixtures using her "mothers" fusion formula to create new variants which combined the versatility of non-blood materials with blood plasma to still be viable to be transported through the transferal formula. She had taken the expression putting ones sweat and blood into their creations to a literal effect as while making the blue prints most of the core components of basic parts involved the use of her own blood due to noting that her Sadist bloodlust was keyed to it and seeking to incorporate such an effect to her creations. She had tested it on a random leaf she obtained in the training ground gathering about ten in total and linking them together with the transferal formula after altering them with drops of her blood. The result was when she spilled blood on them they became more durable with additional blood added to continue to augment it, as a result she decided to test it with materials specifically rated for their durability when she got the chance.

She would sigh, thinking about puppetry and fuinjutsu caused time to pass by rather quickly the day was almost completely gone and it was time to rest for the next one.

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Word Count = 702
Training Complete

Approved

Advanced Specialization Training - [Sealing Specialist B-rank +2] Weekly Training
C-rank Primary Elemental Sealing Method
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Today was the day the materials for her puppets would arrive, she hadn't been able to sleep all night due to this anticipation the excitement of being able to finally create her very own puppets by her own hand. She had been going to the Dipugakure hospital regularily and drawing her blood in preparation as a result she had quite a bit of her blood currently being stored in the mini refrigerator within her hotel as it was a crucial component in her puppet creation. She still had Raizen Denkou's body in the storage seal having stumbled upon it in an alleyway in Dipugakure and deciding to keep it for herself without alerting anyone. Sure she found out who it was and the records would probably have him reported as missing but for now his body valuable to her she was using it as her practice for the eventual creation of human puppets as well as a more accurate discovery of the anatomy of humans. So despite the various dissections she preformed she kept the body in very good condition having drained the blood and collected the useful organs namely the eyes, brain, heart and testicles while all the others were discarded. She had gotten lucky as well with the last one as apparently she was able to collect some residue sperm which no doubt would prove useful if she was into breeding more. She only had enough for three possible fertilizations and for now she was storing them until she absolutely needed them. The eyes were a disappointment she thought that he might of possessed the Raidengan but apparently it was never activated, or at least that was until she asked around a bit finding out that most likely it was dormant and would of never been activated. For now she had to wait before trying to do anything else, while she was a puppeteer and a Super-genius she wasn't officially trained in medical theory and application and didn't want to ruin the first human specimen that she had managed to procure. So for now she would bide her time until she learned enough to do just that, doing so by studying more fuinjutsu as it always kept her busy.

She was studying two seals as of now, the first being Primary Elemental Sealing Method which according to the book she read was the gateway into elemental chakra manipulation or rather the storage of it and eventually advanced applications would allow one to actual seal fire within it. It was only after accomplishing that, one was able to further harness that ability to create Element Seals which were capable of imbuing elements into items which are already sealed within scrolls or to add elements to weapons as part of the elementalization process. Apparently it was through element seals that samurai weapons were created, though the process of making them were held secret by blacksmiths. The Kukinorite clan knew how to make elemental conduit weapons, while the Rikigaku were perhaps the only ones besides Blacksmiths who were capable of creating weapons with special abilities so she knew by visiting her cousins she would be able to learn more about such things. It was important to her to learn how to imbue her puppets with such things in order to make them more effective on the field sure a diverse selection of raw materials made abilities almost a moot point but it was always good to have something a little bit extra just in case.

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Training Complete

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Advanced Specialization Training - [Sealing Specialist B-rank +2] Weekly Training
B-rank: Digitized Storage: Second Code – Storage Area
B-rank: Digitized Storage: First Code – Storage

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Jazz was currently practicing with two of her doppelgangers all three of them utilizing a different style of combat in order to reflect on the pros and cons of each style and how to seemlessly intergrate them with one another. The first doppelganger weilded the War Scythe in combat while simultaneously manipulating Toad, the second doppelganger was making use of the Rikigaku Tamer which hummed ominously as said doppelganger controlled snake as well the two possessing a similar movement style. Finally Jazz herself who wa unarmed yet was the only one wearing Castilion while Slug was in front of her as she was to utilize that in battle, the point of this exercise was to learn how to fight and manipulate her puppets simultaneously in combat how to switch from simply moving and from using the Rhythm Puppetry to jolt them into action and cover her weaknesses. She wasn't going to be going at with all out but it was more so a sparring type of thing. While she was doing that several open books were around the training grounds as she was multi-tasking yet again.

They would begin with Dopp 1 rushing forward while Toad darted off to the left to confront Snake the two puppets would engage in their respective attacks Toad attempting a palm thrust while Snake bend around it and lashed out with a headbutt knocking it back. It would move in keeping up with the momentum with a snap kick but it was suddenly halted as Dopp 2 had to avoid the kunai thrown by Jazz before having to quickly use her Rikigaku Tamer to wrap around Dopp 1's war scythe and jerk it upward lest she be dismembered by the weapon. Jazz would waste no time by entering the fray with Slug punching the ground to knock Dopp 1 off balance while Jazz came from above with an axe kick which Dopp 1 blocked with the pole portion of the War Scythe. Jazz would use her arm to block a follow up kick by Dopp 2 as the latter descended before all three would disengage when Toad used it's flamethrower all of them backing up before Dopp 1 and 2 had to deal with either counter parts puppets. Jazz on the other hand was speed reading through Fuinjutsu before dropping the book and using Slug to block Snake's Kusanagi which was aimed at her position only to be forced to move as Dopp 2 teleported in front of her attempting to strike her solar plexus with a palm thrust which was obviously charged with a Soul Purge.

The counter attack was simple a side step followed by a right low kick to knock Dopp 2 off balance a quick hop to give her upward momentum before front flippiing into an ax-kick while Dopp 2 was still off balance. But before she could land the finisher she was hit out of the air by Snake coming to the aid of it's controller having managed to slink away from it's battle with Toad and Slug. Sure enough Dopp 1 was eager to join in as she threw the reaper scythe of war with Jazz narrowing getting cut up by it causing a spray of blood to emerge from the wound on her shoulder all three tensing as their bloodlust increased to new heights. Jazz would turn ducking under a kick backed by D-rank strength by Dopp 2 by dropping onto the floor in a crouch as Dopp 1 teleported catching her thrown scythe and joining the fray. The next moments happened smoothly as if it was choreographed due to the speed of the combat, first Slug would lash out with a chop which was blocked by the War Scythe Dopp 1 planting the scythe into the ground and using it like a pogo stick to jump upward as Snake attempted to use Kusanagi to pierce through her stomach. Jazz would sweep Dopp 2's legs but end up struck from behind by Toad but recovered nicely by not only teleporting to where Dopp 1 had jumped to but dropkicking her out of the sky right into Slug's upper cut blood bursting out from Dopp 1's mouth. Dopp 2 would use this to her advantage using Snake to mule kick Toad from the immediate area before kicking the bottom of the War scythe causing it to become dislodged and spin upward before catching it and swinging down blocking Jazz's repeated stomping with Castilion as she came downwards. This was just a feint as Slug would use the distraction to close the distance and utilize a Finger Flick of Doom to launch Dopp 2 several feet away allowing Jazz to land safely. Done and Done. Jazz said utilizing her newly memorised techniques to seal away, the War Scythe, Slug and Snake into her Digitized Storage before skating over to Toad and sealing it away as well.

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Word Count = 815
Training Complete.

Approved

Perfect Specialization Training - [Sealing Specialist A-rank +3] Weekly Training (1 A, 8 D)
A-rank = Modification Sealing Method: Touch Sense Formula
D-rank = One Cross Unseal
D-rank = Three Seal Barrier Technique
D-rank = Initiation: Divination
D-rank = Initiation: Types
D-rank = Initiation: Focus
D-rank = Initiation: Capability
D-rank = Initiation: Contracts
D-rank = Initiation: Levels
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"Styx Memory Flashback"

Another attempt at learning this jutsu but instead of doing it alone Styx was using The Queen as a sparring partner. No real words had to be said because The Queen already knew why she was there and it was going to start rather quickly. With the Inferno road already activated The Queen charged at Styx, and simply threw a kick released a barrage of “Thorns” at her. Styx herself also knowing a few things about the roads released her own “Thorns” as a counter. The resulting explosion of the two almost equally powerful “Thorns” created a large explosion of wind, something that as one could say officially marked the start of the battle. Through the explosion they came 6 bullets aimed directly at The Queen, but that wasn’t anywhere close to enough to stop her. Throwing her leg up into the air, similar to how one would perform a heel drop, the Queen created a large pillar of fire not stopping the bullets but slowing them down enough so that the Queen can ride the pillars updraft and avoid being filled with holes. Her maneuver almost worked but Styx had almost predicted her movements and was waiting in the air above to kick the Queen back down, which worked perfectly. That working wasn’t exactly a good thing when it came to The Queen since all in all she was a little crazy, well more like a sadist. Her pain only began to throw her into a frenzy, unknown to most this making her a lot stronger than she was before. And well it looks like it was starting, The Queen starting to laugh frantically before charging forward at Styx something that at first took Styx off guard but there was no time for that. Styx reacted with a jump to the air and the Queen followed close behind releasing a “Fang” followed by a couple of “Thorns,” she was Kukinorite and knew exactly how to use her roads to the fullest. Styx using her projectile accelerators to stop the “Fang” only lead to her being barraged by the “Thorns.” The Queen’s frenzy wasn’t something just caused by her pain but also the pain from others, so her finally getting a hit on Styx started to form a worse frenzy than the one before. The only thing that could be heard was The Queen’s sadist laughter followed by loud crashes of the two colliding together. It was safe to say that the two were on equal grounds in terms of road ability but in other terms they gap might be a little bigger. This fight was going on for hours, lightning strikes were being caused, wildfires started to arise in the floating land, and massive blood covered craters can be seen everywhere. For The Queen this was the perfect place a blood filled furnace, why was this because she wasn’t just a sadist no, she has grown into an arsonist when she mastered her Inferno Road. Enough of what the Queen is lets get back to the battle. The Queen was in the center of the battle ground spinning around at an intense velocity creating a firestorm to emerge around her. Doing enough spinning the Queen stopped and quickly set all the blood on fire, only raising her insanity, but also setting fire to everything that was covered in blood. Unfortunately Styx was also blood covered so even her blood was set on fire, well the blood that was all over her body, the Queen may have been good but not even she could light internal blood on fire. Just like one learns in fire safety, Styx stopped, dropped, and rolled all over to get the flames off her. It worked but the battle was still going on and The Queen has already began her next assault, another barrage of “Thorns.” Styx was growing tired of this assault and threw up her projectile before pulling out her Conjuration Katana which lit up before she released a massive blast of icy wind which froze the flames seeing as she had entered her infinity atmosphere to do so The Queen having managed to avoid being frozen by taking to the skies. But as it so happened it was nothing more than a diversion as Styx appeared under The Queen and threw her into the air. It was the Dance of Scattering Falcons being used as Styx appeared in the air seeming to barrage the Queen from every direction having re-equipped her projectile accelerators. It wasn’t normal hits more like it was a barrage of close range shots each one to non-lethal spots so she wouldn’t die but be incapacitated for a little while. It was over, The Queen fell to the ground and Styx was right over her holding her projectile accelerators to The Queen’s face. That was the logical sign that the battle had ended and it was a good one in the end. Styx had learned a lot from it including how to finally activate her Infinity Atmosphere without her Regalia albeit the huge drawback at the moment, that’s all this was a learning experience even though it might have destroyed the training grounds. Oh well things happen now don’t they.

"End Flashback"

Jazz would clutch her head wondering why she had these flashbacks they were painful and alternated between flashes of memories, she wasn't Styx N. Kukinorite she was Jazz D. Kukinorite that was who she was no matter what her memories told her. The only thing was that she didn't know who she was, the memories in her head, her personality everything she remembered Styx she ccouldn't remember how she was prior and tried to find out anything on how she was at least because her daughte- no Lynx sat her down and debriefed her. She was to be her own person and grow stronger with the knowledge now in her brain, she knew the Kukinorite inside and out whether it be politics or the various roads that Styx had seen in her life time, sure she could not preform them but she could identify when they were used. She needed to harness this knowledge nad put it to her advantage as now her training to harness her Roads was beginning the next step was simply to advance to chunin rank.

She would open her book on Fuinjutsu to the page that she was on regarding unsealing jutsu, she initially got one of her clan members who was competent at it to help her with seals she got wrong but she needed to be more self reliant what if she ran into an Inkan or another fuinjutsu user who used a seal on her. She needed to be able to counteract such seals and thus she developed the One Cross Unseal in order to give her the edge she needed to unravel low level D-rank seals. She would practice it a couple of times on a Base Seal Storage Level 1 until she got the hang of it and then would move on to the next seal she wished to learn. It was more of a hybrid between sealing and barriers, the Three Seal Barrier Technique was primarily a weaker version of the Five Seal Barrier Technique which like the original involved restricting entry into an area however instead the user places three sealing tags around their location. If any one manages to enter through a secret entrance of the protected hideout, a deep mist is created barring entry and the only way to get rid of it is remove the tags around the protected area. It was not as useful as the original but it had it's uses mainly because it offered a weaker level of protection yet, the cost wasn't as high as the other technique. She would test it by triggering it with a shuriken only for the mist effect to be emitted causing her to smirk and then use her One Cross Unseal along with her two doppelgangers to remove the tags at the same time.

She thought about how she could use them it battle only to realize exactly how she could do such a thing, smirking to herself before moving on to the next thing namely meditation to harness her nen and delve into the intricate nature of the new technique art that she herself had created. Nuinjutsu was complex it was something which she knew to have limitless potential similar to Fuinjutsu and Juinjutsu and it was up to her to discover exactly how to harness it to it's true potential. She knew before she could begin she would first have to Initiate it, using her Nen to bridge a deeper connection into her mind and establish her skill using it. She was ultimately glad she waited until now to do so, as she understood that her increased intelligence as unnatural as it was to be a Hyper-Genius was a boon towards Nuinjutsu. It was due to this intelligence that she was able to understand and develop the means of testing her Nuinjutsu type using something she referred to as water divination filling a clear glass with water and placing a leaf in the center. As she channelled her Nen into it the glass would warp becoming a sphere with the leaf in the center said leaf would begin to spin rapidly. She was a Hypergenius her first primary was Specialist, and her second was Manipulation she had already outlined the others writing them down and affixing tests for each of them, her hidden Nuinjutsu type was easy to use to figure them out wonder why..

Word Count Needed = 1600
Word Count = 1604

Approved

Perfect Specialization Training - [Sealing Specialist A-rank +3] Weekly Training (2 A, 2 B)
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*Styx Memory Flashback*

Today was a day for introspection, Styx noticed that her parents were quite odd as her father Cadmus was passive whereas Nyx her mother was rather aggressive. Cadmus, besides his laziness and over all lack of drive to hurt other people rarely let other emotion surface, he had an easy going nature but it was overshadowed by the rare occasions that he displayed curiosity. Weird considering he was lazy and being curious usually required one to search for answers, regardless there were occasions that he was actually motivated making great strides especially when it regarded the medical field. Once he had told Sytx that him, Cadmus, had found himself drawn to it more and more especially due to Nyx's ability to never leave a mission without getting some sort of injury on her body. After multiple repeats of him playing field medic every time he patched his former crazy fellow juggernaut now wife up. One would think she never needed it due to her natural regeneration and overall inate durability being enough to naturally piece her body back together however sometime the extra push that he gave her was needed to save her from the brink of death.

Styx herself had thought the medical art's to be rather practical however upon stumbling upon Cadmus's journal she learned how he felt about it. "it wasn't just practical to be a medical ninja it was positively amazing".
*End Flashback*

Medical Nin huh...that would be useful when mixed with my Kugujutsu especially if it allowed me to delve more into the cellular structure of potential targets, after all just blacksmithing knowledge wouldn't get me by alone. No I need more knowledge so I can make the best puppets possible only then can I become world reknown. Still even so...fuinjutsu, kugujutsu, medical ninjutsu all these things I have to learn who would of known becoming a puppeteer was so daunting. Jazz said with a sigh slightly annoyed at the choices she made prior to the Brain Charge, Styx had no experience with puppetry she was more so a straight up brawler however Jazz was a tactican and while it was good to view combat from both spectrums it also meant her body currently was more built for strategy than brute force. Her puppets were powerful that was no question especially now that she was able to infuse more blood into their structure to make them more hardy and she already had come up with tactics to prevent her incapabilities from being preyed upon that wasn't an issue truly.

As such she devoted more time in the library trying to figure out more complex fuinjutsu formulae but resolving herself to find a means to gain some sort of physical conditioning when she got older, as of yet she wasn't able to build up her body since she was physically so young but she knew she would eventually grow fairly quickly. As such she was aiming for the Tokubetsu Jonin promotion so that she would be able to fast track herself into the medical program as soon as possible and thus shy away from the frontlines. She was already thinking of ways to boost her own funds after all the creation of puppets wasn't exactly cheap. Besides if she used her fuinjutsu knowledge she would be able to give the ASN additional items and equipment and boost their economy so they weren't completely dependent on Epsilon for everything they needed. So far she only had ideas for storage scrolls as she knew she was able to have far more items capable of being stored within the basic scroll that were currently for sale. She figured that she would simply make small modifications to what was already in the shops and then sell them back for a profit to make more Xel. Once she made herself more well known she could sell the patents to the village and then make money as more individuals purchased said items.

More advanced storage seals, adding a combustion effect to the explosive tags currently available, making basic barrier seals for purchase. These were all ideas that she currently had after all no one else seemed to have the gall to create them and they wondered why we were so at threat from the Shogunate. That wasn't to say she would attempt to compete with Blacksmiths or anything no she was merely trying to improve things that only shinobi would utilize for just easier access. It wasn't like she could make things from scratch other than Puppets and she would never make mass production puppets not until she was officially a puppet master, what she could do however was improve on common products for the average shinobi. In reality it was all about the Xel she was poor and she refused to ask the clan for a stipend to fund her puppetry no she would be self made making strides on her own while anything referring to the clan would then be funded by it. Otherwise everything would come out of her own pocket so that any losses wouldn't affect the clan only the gains as it should be.

I should probably go meet up with the rest of the squad...maybe even check out the clan library the village library has all these annoying restrictions on it since I'm still a genin. Whereas the clan library while open to me is lacking on fuinjutsu knowledge..so frustrating have I really reached the limit to my growth as a genin in terms of Fuinjutsu knowledge? Jazz thought to herself after she finished the book, sure she knew it was going to happen eventually as a genin she was too restricted in the knowledge she could obtain but she didn't think it would happen so soon. She needed to advance in rank their were rumors of a Chunin exam of some sort going to be in the works soon what she wanted however was more than that, it was to not only just become B-rank but perhaps to catch the eye of the judges to show that she was worth not just that promotion but rather perhapps being streamlined to the Jonin rank she so covetted. Sure it was unlikely and all since her sensei had gotten killed but she was sure if her squad did extremely well and got rid of the rest of the competition perhaps she would be able to show them that Team 7 was above the level of the rest.

Still, even if she couldn't become a T. Jonin she could always attempt to go for Chunin rank and take the Medical Nin exams shortly after, passing that would get her to A-rank and from then it was child's play to get to Combat Medical Nin.

Training Complete
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Approved

SS-rank: Sadomasochist
S-rank: Forbidden Lineage – Lightning Release Armor
S-rank:  Purple Secret Technique – RingxHarmony Principle: Rhythm Melody
A-rank:  Kinesis Trick: Senpusha
A-rank: Forbidden Lineage - Chidori
A-rank: Forbidden Lineage – Bolt
A-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Principle: Electrostatic Beat
A-rank: Purple Secret Technique - Ring Principle: Rhythm Step Triality
A-rank: Thread Release: Earth Grudge Fear
A-rank: Mystical Healing Palm Technique
A-rank: Sadistic Defense – Steel Skinned
B-rank: Dead Soul Technique
B-rank: Hyper-Genius Level Intellect: Unnatural Intelligence
B-rank: Clear Element Soul: Chakra Scream
B-rank: Forbidden Lineage - Electroreceptors
B-rank: Psionic Release: Chakra Scalpel Technique
B-rank: Psionic Release: Psychometric Sensory
B-rank: Kinesis Trick: Fuharenjin
B-rank: Brain Charge: Styx’s Sadism
B-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Forbidden Lineage: Synapse Dowsing
B-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Poison Distillation Brewing
B-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Poison Mithridatism Treatment
B-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Ring Principle: Rhythm Harmonize
B-rank:  Jiongu Puppetry Style
B-rank: Sadistic Defense – Iron Skinned
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Ring Principle: Ninth Trigger
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Ring Principle: Eighth Trigger
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Ring Principle: Seventh Trigger
C-rank: Purple Secret Technique – Ring Principle: Sixth Trigger
C-rank: Chakra Scalpel Technique
C-rank: Kinesis Trick: Accelerant
C-rank: Kinesis Trick: Fuuhajin
C-rank: Kinesis Trick: Control
C-rank: Forbidden Lineage – Electroplaques
D-rank: Concentration Technique
D-rank: Wáṣerotapa – Feint Kick
D-rank: Kinesis Trick: Oxygenate
D-rank: Kinesis Trick: Siphon
D-rank: Kinesis Road
D-rank: Wáṣerotapa – Intercepting Gradient
D-rank: Thread Soul: Strings
D-rank: Run
D-rank: Forbidden Lineage – Lightning Generation
D-rank: Forbidden Lineage – Electric Organs
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Jazz had just gotten promoted and while that was all well and good for the simple fact that she could now officially become the acting clan head of the Kukinorite clan, the fact remained that she was still far too weak. Odd coming from a girl who dominated throughout the entire exams but in her own opinion it was simply her intelligence that helped her match up against those who were superior to her in well, brute force. Sometimes thought what one needs is both intellect and brawn and thus once the rest of the clan finished celebrating her promotion and her becoming the youngest jonin in well history she had hit the library to browse the new selection. She hadn't found anything of too much interest but that was simply because she had read through most of the interesting subjects in her clan's library at least the ones which weren't barred from her previously.

Now as clan head this was a non issue allowing her to study about her ancestors, Cassandra D. Kukinorite, Nyx Kukinorite, Cadmus Kukinorite, Kiki Kukinorite & Wingsoka Kukinorite. She shared blood with all of them yet she had yet to harness that which she inherited from all of them, just mainly Cadmus and Nyx. She needed to experiment on what she had from the rest, Wingsoka was easy well at least it used to be easy for her according to the reports she read on the individual who occupied her body previously. Kiki she was similar to in personality though she couldn't find any examples on the body flicker technique which was upsetting considering she herself had never thought to learn it in her life. Either way she would remain in the library for an hour and upon stepping out she would head straight for the training grounds while wearing her air treks.

Upon arriving she would spar against two of her clan members using her ability to replicate movement she saw to keep up with them and gradually got use to taking their hits better shrugging off a blow by an Osoroshii samurai rider of the Gaia road even though he could put a crater in the ground, what's more she stood her ground thanks to her sadism influenced blood lust overpowering her mind and granting her unnatural strength. She would spar with them for two hours until both of them were too bloody to continue with Jazz simply dusting herself off and beckoning another set this time three to spar against her. She was quite impressed by her clan they had grown since her own generation, well Styx's generation they were incorporating alot more into their roads it was as if somewhere along the line someone had revamped all of the training exercises so that the clan could become stronger in combat. Just like before she would emerge victorious with nary a scratch on her even though her clothes were burnt and shredded leaving her almost naked with only a couple of fabric preserving her modesty. She would take that as an excuse to take a break and would eat to refuel before changing her clothes.

While she was on her break she was wearing about electric eels which she had discovered by pure accident that she shared some genetic materials with due to the body being spliced with one. Initially Lynx had been furious however when she quickly pointed out that her possessing electricity just made her more able to replicate her ancestor Cassandra's techniques Lynx quickly backed off. While Jazz had yet to be successful in harnessing her electricity she had found out a couple of things about her body. She built up electricity while moving her electric organs and while tiring she could do it both while standing still or moving or even to the point where she could move and further move her electric organs independently to generate even more electricity. Upon storing it she had a maximum limit where anymore she would potentially overcharge and end up discharging the rest outward violently hurting herself in the process. As she sat down and read she would manipulate the electricity within her body as if it was an extension of herself wrapping it around her arm which she found boosted not only her durability but likewise her speed and response time.

She knew that it was the first step in learning how to utilize Lightning Release Armor, and worked at it, mastering the concept within thirty minutes while moving on to other methods of harnessing the electricity in her body. She discovered that she naturally emitted valance electrons into the air giving her something similar to the field of the Rising Road and that in her temples she had specialized organs which gave her an additional sense, Electrolocation. That was quite useful to know it meant she didn't have to constantly set up her barrier in order to sense things, and it was always good to have another sensory medium just in case as well. Upon mastering the lightning release armor she noticed that trying to use her electricity for ranged pursuits caused it to disperse rather quickly the farther it moved away from her body. She tested it on a training post and discovered what the maximum distance her lightning could cover before having it's strength reduced and though it was inferior to chakra in terms of distance covered she found it was still useable for her own purposes. After all her lightning was an unintentional bonus which gave her a slight advantage against those who weren't born to be super ninja.

Her forays into utilizing the electricity she generated to replicate actual ninjutsu had been limited, it wasn't as flexible a she thought however she managed to create a projectile technique that she based somewhat on the way to utilize a Fang, except it's speed was constant even though it's damage wasn't. She didn't mind it though considering her "Bolts" as she named it could cover a lot of distance very fast and it would serve it's purpose of being used to keep up the pressure. What she was most proud of though was her being able to replicate Chidori, even though at the moment it was flawed because it took a fair bit of time to generate the electricity unless she had an ample supply of electricity stored up she had completely eliminated the need for hand seals. Ah yes that was another thing all of her electricity didn't use hand seals to focus and that to her was the most beneficial trait of her being spliced with an animal. She would even notice it's effect on her sadistic and masochistic tendencies as surprisingly the primal nature of her genetics allowed her to perfect the unique genetic quirk that had only been found in Nyx prior due to her training, Sadomasochist.

With it she noticed her blood lust triggered more easily, as the smallest bit of bloodshed was enough to excite her, and set her off it had taken a fair bit of control exercises but she quickly suppressed the destructive impulses. This was because while she was Jazz she had the memories of Styx the only one who managed to completely control her Sadist gene, for Jazz it was easier as she tapped into the emotions that the report said she used to have. It was basic Kukinorite conditioning something Styx herself had never been good with due to her explosive personality traits that she inherited from her mother Nyx. However when in her bloodlust state Styx was the most terrifying due to her lack of emotion and the sheer efficiency that she obtained as she became almost robotic in nature. Jazz noticed that it was far easier to maintain the state in comparison to what she could as Styx as eventually it would wear off and she would become just like her mother in combat.

However now that issue was completely solved, solved to the point where she could practice her puppetry while surrounded by blood, and not just practice but calmly do so and create more methods of manipulating her puppets. It was fairly invigorating as she had eliminated the flaw of her rampaging because of blood, and could do so with the clarity of mind that could allow her to utilize her brain to it's maximum capacity. A lot of the discovery had to do with the anatomy books she read on electric eels, upon discovering that little genetic oddity she had researched everything she could on the critters and reviewed her medical reports from the clan to study her body structure. She would find that the reason she was heavier than a normal girl of her height and age was because she had another layer underneath her skin in between it and her muscles, her electric organs were essentially completely sheathing her body.

Add into the fact that she had confronted Genmaru and assimilated his Thread Release into her Soul Core and well, now her body was technically even weirder than before, it was Skeleton, Organs, Circulatory Seal Network, Thread Altered Chakra Pathways, Jiongu Threads, Electric Organs & finally Skin. It made her more difficult to take down, not to mention prevented her from bleeding out as easily as a normal person, on the flip side her organs were just as vulnerable as a normal person while her chakra pathways despite being comprised of threads were all in the same places as her tenketsu and gates were originally. Internally though she was very much removed from being a normal person and she had taken albeit accidentally one of the first few steps to becoming a Self Puppet. Thanks to her internal structure changing though she found it easier to train her body after all her muscles were now comprised of threads and she felt like she could take a lot more punishment than before. If that wasn't enough she had trained her body repeatedly sparring with others with no breaks in order to train her Sadistic Defense now she was sure she could sustain blows from even Ka's new level of strength. Sure without locking herself in place she lacked the raw strength not to be sent flying from taking a blow like that head on but it would no longer turn her body into mush.

That had happened over a couple of weeks considering the process of altering her body had knocked her out for a while. Thankfully she had already returned to Dipugakure before confronting Genmaru otherwise she would of been able to travel with Ka. Once she woke up though she had thrown herself back into her training analyzing medical tests and brushing up on her puppetry while doping her body with her poisons in order to build a natural immunity. The wonders of chakra and a very efficient body, one could say she was built to push her limits and that was before her system got altered into what it was currently. While otherwise she still functioned like a normal person and her insides were quite different her blood still flowed like normal blood did, it just took a different pathway. As a result she could still eat, breakdown substances and even get poisoned or become sick, it's just where normal people had a circulatory system her blood flowed through seal networks keyed to all of her organs.

Another plus side to her doping herself to build an immunity was that she was able to make progress on her medical ninjutsu. Though Styx even in her memories was only capable of it to a basic degree, Jazz knew that if she wanted to become the best puppeteer possible she would have to become a competent medical nin as well. Now while she might not be the type to heal injuries, but her quest to mastery all forms of puppetry required her to know anatomy like the back of her hand, and the inner workings of the body to a startling degree so that her creations could be as life like as possible. It also certainly helped with poison creations, after all the best people to know how to take someone apart are those who have to put it back together. She had practiced with some cadavers in the hospital and managed to pick up the Dead Soul technique after being taught by one of the more eccentric shinobi who catered to the dead. For her she was always interested in a new style of puppetry no matter how obscure or difficult, it was just another notch in her complete and utter mastery of the art. She had tapped into Castilion's element to not only improve the chakra scalpel technique but develop another sensory medium to boost her overall amount to eight in total. Psychometry, one of the least focused on branches of abilities that the Psionic Release nature transformation granted, and yet fit her perfectly. After all being a puppeteer information gathering to better make her puppets was absolutely necessary and it would only end up making it that much easier for her.

She had used the corpses to her advantage in learning how to reactivate the synapses in their brain and gather information that way sure it was rough it only gave her an idea of their abilities but it would be enough. When she got into human puppetry it would be crucial in finding the best bodies for creating her masterpieces and she was going to be quite selective. She always did wonder why human puppeteers only used one body but she understood that most of them didn't have medical experience nor the intellect to learn how to piece together a puppet from scratch. No they mostly just hollowed out a body and make it into a puppet in order to retain what nature already provided for them. Sure it was still a genius application the Red Puppeteer was truly an innovator in his time just like the White Puppeteer was in regards to his Titanic Puppets but she wasn't trying to become an innovative master. No she was trying to become a master of masters transcending the title to become a Grandmaster of all types of puppetry in the world. Once she had achieved that only then would she innovate to further break the limits of Kugujutsu, taking from the sum experience of all the puppetry styles throughout her life.

To that end she had been working on polishing up her Rhythm Puppetry, now she was sure she had enough skill to not only manipulate her Legendary Sannin line but likewise do so while using her Oriental Kingdom line when she did create them. She could activate the mechanisms up to the Ninth trigger and the speed which she could move them was now on par with Vacuum Release. Furthermore she was learning how to retain the orders she gave so that she could use them more fluidly and not have to remain in a position or incorporate the movements into her own all the time. She had even managed to learn how to use her Doppelganger's to manipulate her puppets like the had originally intended on doing the moment she thought up the Rhythm Puppetry style. Now she could remain free to move while her Doppelgangers micromanaged her puppets for her, even more so when she had to manipulate above the norm as they would be able to guide their own puppets and act in place of her.

With her Electrostatic Beat being the guideline to allow her to fashion complex maneuvers and combinations with her puppets on a whim and at a moments notice while using her natural intelligence to formulate how applicable it was. She even refined her brewing methods to concentrate her poisons further in order to amplify their potency after she borrowed a textbook on chemistry from one of the scholars the clan employed. She had even manage to further fine tune the movements so that they were no longer jerky and relying on positioning the moment she took them out of storage. After all she wanted to keep them out longer and not be too vulnerable when moving them in and out of storage. Sure she had worked on the speed since her fight with Summer had shown her the weaknesses in her ability to counter high speed movement but she realized that she needed to make it more smooth. If chakra strings could make a puppet dance with the minimal amount of effort then her Rhythm Puppetry should allow them to be fluid enough to do the same and then some it had to be an alternative good enough to offset her inability to use chakra strings normally. Well at least originally now thanks to her Earth Grudge Fear and some Soulless shape manipulation she had been able to create her own variant of chakra strings using actual threads. She was ecstatic enough to want to use her Oriental Kingdom line with chakra strings as the basic method of movement unlike how her Legendary Sannin line was meant for Rhythm Puppetry and to a lesser extent Puppet Sync.

However it wasn't her puppetry that she made the most gains on but rather her Road, she was able to put it into action her body being mature enough to utilize her Road without breaking from the stress it put on her body. Sure eventually she knew she would find a way to mitigate the damage from preforming Tricks without having to activate her Infinite Atmosphere but for now it was enough that she could actually be a true Kukinorite. It was called the Kinesis Road, and she had honestly been immensely impressed with her former self when Lynx had informed her that she had created it by drawing from the Vector Road. She saw the similarities but it was in her opinion an improvement, sure Cassandra's personal road was extremely powerful both against members of the clan and others but it was more geared towards support and control. Jazz had for all intents and purposes kept said control and granted it offense and defense a fully all-rounder road with ties to Ring and thus didn't disrupt her puppetry at all. She was really bright, even without the brain charge she could of gone far and now with Styx's thirty-eight years of memories and experience on top of their combined intellect well now not even the sky was her limit.

The Kinesis Road was very much a masterpiece, it revolved around Kinetic and Potential Energy and was very effective at physical combat. It was ultimately only possible because of Jazz's inherited Principles. She had obtained Fuel from being related to Nyx with the brain charged memories of Styx only making them even more vivid since she had actually seen the Inferno Road being used, likewise she had inherited Harmony from Cadmus and finally Polarity from Cassandra. Like Inferno Styx had seen Harmony but had Polarity had been easily explained to her and only witnessed for a brief interval when Cassandra had inspected her as a child. From there Jazz's own studies had allowed her to read up on and finally actually practice on using them. Rhythm she got from the Ring Road, while Slice was from the Bloody Road, Nitro was from the Sonia Road once more she was thankful that she was female as it was integral and last but not the least was Field from the Rising Road something which would only end up benefiting her thanks to her own natural projection abilities due to her electric eel DNA.

Using those Principles she was able to formulate and develop the four Main Principles of the Kinesis Road. They were Siphon, Oxygenate, Control & Accelerant and each were the result of combining her inherited principles into Fusion Principles despite them being the Main Principles of the road. Siphon was the result of Polarity plus Slice plus Rhythm,  Oxygenate was the result of Crunch plus Nitro, Control being Jack-in plus Field and finally Accelerant was Fuel plus Slice plus Field. Siphon the first revolved around kinetic energy sapping and leeching during movement and upon doing so converting the sapped kinetic energy into potential energy which was then stored within Jazz's AT's. It was only a temporary thing and would fade away after time because of the nuances of mechanical energy however it was still something she could exploit to remove her physical combat weakness. Oxygenate was closely tied to it and revolved around using the converted kinetic energy or rather potential energy storage and emission. This is because the stored potential energy can be used to replenish Jazz's own energy expenditures while causing her pain in the process because it wasn't naturally hers to begin with. However it could also be emitted outward from her skates which lead to the Fuuhajin which meant "Wind Breaking Blade". It was her version of the Fang geared towards inflicting pain and bloodying her opponent cutting them up bit by bit like an actual solid blade despite using the displaced energy from her inertia.

Moving past the Fuuhajin which was the most basic offensive technique in the road's arsenal was Control which was a support ability with kugujutsu ties. Namely hijacking control over a victim's nervous system exploiting the close ties between the electrical impulses of the nervous system and a victim's ability to consciously control their body. It was transmitted through things like vibrations and using that vibration it would sync to their nervous system disrupt it and exploit said opening to hijack it. It would work wonders when she decided to incorporate human puppets or even against living targets. Finally there was Accelerant which entailed the use of blood as a catalyst for stamina expenditure, or in simpler terms those bloodied by her Fuuhajin or even just in contact with blood would find themselves becoming more fatigued as the blood triggers a bio-electric response to cause their body to burn stamina more rapidly. It was for that reason the Fuuhajin specialized in inflicting bleed damage rather than actually causing harm, the more stamina they waste the more available for her to latch off and thus benefit.

However she could take it one step further and infuse her life-force into her Fuuhajin to supercharge it and turn it into a Fuharenjin "Wind Breaking Chain Blades" which was geared more towards power, and can even cut through incoming mental and chakra based techniques on par with it in strength. Unlike the Fuuhajin though it didn't slice at all but rather depleted their stamina depending on how much they were bleeding or were coated in blood. As a result the typical strategy was to pepper them with Fuuhajin's and then follow up with a Fuharenjin as a finisher. Even further because both of them were created from just inertia she would be able to release them and they couldn't even be tracked by normal eye-sight nor did they even displace air, thus only those with the kinetic energy of the Kigan or could deduct the exact size of her projectiles could hope to dodge them. Even more than the Fuharenjin she learned thanks to manipulating her own produced electricity to fuse her Bolt and Fuuhajin together developing Senpusha "Drilling Windmill". It was more visible considering those with electrolocation could pick up on it, however it was very fast, clocking at vacuum release speeds to make a cartwheel of electrokinetic energy capable of not only shocking someone caught by it enough to cause their body to spasm but cut them open at the same time. Thus they bleed, spasm and lose stamina while they spasm preventing them from being able to lock up their body and thus opening them up to Control's body manipulation. Of course they could force their body to stop jerking however it would cause them to expend more stamina thus tiring them out further.

All in all even though she wasn't anywhere near mastering the road yet, it was very much geared at bringing down targets by making them tired while damaging them superficially enough to preserve their bodies to be turned into human puppets. While likewise opening them up constantly to potentially being controlled on the field, and all in all not upsetting her own personal fighting style Waserotapa as it was also heavily kick focused. She had already started on learning how to increase her jump height with Run knowing that her Waserotapa would end up requiring her to get the high ground and compete with people larger than she was. She had even managed to incorporate Ka's bastardized intercepting fist bastardizing it further into her Interception Gradient. Though, she knew thanks to her own ability to accelerate her processing speed it was closer to the Mishura Clan's fighting style than his was at any rate. That along with her Feint Kick and she'd be able to feint out actual physical kicks to instead releasing Fuuhajin and it's variants and use it along with her intercepting gradient to intercept hand seal use to make her very dangerous in close range.

However beyond all of that she had finally learned how to not only tap into her Sadist and Masochist tendencies but fuse them together and harness her primal dna in the mix to create something new. Her Sadomasochist passive was the pinnacle of the Sadist Gene and she had informed Lynx that she had perfected it and when asked to prove it had actually overwhelmed all 13 of the clan members who had been put against her. She was now capable of generating electricity as long as she sustained pain a natural response keyed to her electric eel DNA using pain as a stimulus to produce electricity to counter predators. Her blood lust was refined further now the smallest amount of blood could trigger her blood lust, yet thanks to Styx's own control over Sadism now she could maintain ruthless efficiency. Especially in regards to the chakra scalpel technique, her knowledge of anatomy would allow her to target death points to fatally injure anyone unfortunate enough to engage her when she was properly worked into a blood lust induced frenzy. Now when she dished out pain onto others via her Kinesis Road tricks such as Fuuhajin she would be able to use it to trigger her Nen at lower costs as their mind becomes more susceptible to damage from her Nen Tech. Finally her triggering of her Infinity Atmosphere allowed her to inflict damage to her own body in order to power up her tricks even further a high risk high return last resort sort of strategy. It stayed true to the roots of the Sadist gene after all Nyx was the creator of the Inferno Road which was still one of the most dangerous Roads of the Kukinorite Clan and Styx's own custom road Tempest was on par with her mother's in terms of lethal qualities both to her opponents and herself. After all it was due to her strongest Infinite Atmosphere trick, Infinity Cycle: Permafrost Avalanche that she had ended up killing herself. Sure she had taken out all thirty of the hunters sent by the West Continent in the process but if she was going to die. Her, Styx N. Kukinorite was going to die on her own fucking terms, but she couldn't exactly dwell on it sure she had been informed on how she died but didn't know the actual thought process behind it other than knowing herself. Or rather who one part of the Jazz that she was used to be.

Now she was ready, she was strong enough to actually deserve her promotion to Jonin. Sure she had the tactical and mental mind of a jonin but power and versatility wise she didn't feel like she was worth it. Now after a solid three months of training well she was very much a Jonin, at least she was a solid B-rank. She would do missions get more experience and show off her new skills to get the probationary portion of her new rank removed and become a jonin before making her move to the West Continent to become an ambassador. It was funny though, did her teammates even know exactly how far she had left them in the dust? Either way they would have to get stronger as well, after all Team 7 was filled with potential she just ended up showing hers quicker than they did, after all..

She was kind of a Genius.

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No. of Day's until Jazz can Solo Train = 44 Days.