Universal Techniques

Bunshin No Jutsu (Clone Technique)
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Trigger: Must be within eyesight of targets
Description: A jutsu that creates an illusionary clone of the user, in numbers of one or more. The clone disappears after being struck with an attack, and can deal no damage. This jutsu is one of the basics, and required to pass the shinobi academy. The user can create around Double the previous rank. Ex. As - 2, Genin - 4, Chuunin - 8, High Chuunin - 16, Etc

Kakuremino No Jutsu (Magic Cloak Of Invisibility Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Description: A very basic skill utilizing a sheet to help the user in blending with the background. This is actually only used by Academy students.

Nawanuke No Jutsu (Rope Untying Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Description: A basic skill that lets the user invest chakra into a rope or chain to push the knot in it in the right way, so it loosens. This is used to escape from a rope binding.

Henge No Jutsu (Transformation Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Description: A user of this skill has the ability to transform their outer appearance to that of another form, which can be a person or object. However, due to the physical restrictions on the body, the user cannot transform into anything extremely smaller or larger than what they already are. Therefore one could not transform into a normal sized shuriken or a small animal. Neither can the user transform into an enlarged or distented form of anything (therefore no such thing as a small human-sized adult elephant, or a human-sized ant). Therefore the user must always be within the same proportions as the original form of the object. Also, the user does not gain any extra physical ability through Henge. (i.e. transforming into a cheetah will not give you a cheetah's speed) Henge is dispelled when the user is touched in an offensive matter. Thus after the user hits the target in their transformed state they revert.

Kawarimi No Jutsu (Body Switch Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Description: A common jutsu - used to quickly replace a body with a close by object. Creates confusion among the opponent(s) - creating a chance to escape, or return with a larger strike. Useful for avoiding attacks, and hiding from potential enemies. This is a super-speed jutsu, not a teleportaion one. Do not forget, Kawarimi requires a hand sign.

Anrokku no Jutsu (Unlocking Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Description: A relatively easy-to-perform jutsu used mostly on stealth missions and when stealing. By concentrating chakra on a basic lock such as a door lock or on a safe, the user can force the mechanism to unlock even without the key or knowing the code. Nothing about the lock will have changed other than it will open once before it locks up again. This skill leaves no signs of tampering.

Chakra Kami Nawa (Chakra Hair Rope)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank, The user must have long hair
Description: By laying down large amounts of hair, the user can create a chakra infused rope that can bind an opponent's legs to the ground. This leaves the enemy open to various kinds of attack since they are unable to move. In order to be effective, the opponent must be standing on the hair.

Chakra Hikari no Jutsu (Chakra Light Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Low Genin Rank
Description: This jutsu allows the user to make a ball of chakra that produces light. Although it can’t harm anyone it’s useful for when going in dark areas and good for letting your comrades know where you are if you get lost in a foggy place.

Kinobori no Jutsu (Tree Walking Technique)/Kabenobori no Jutsu (Wall Walking Technique)
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Description: By focusing chakra into the feet and keeping it balanced, the user can walk up against vertical objects and cling to its surface.

Kyou Masukingu No Jutsu (Sound Masking Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Low Genin Rank
This ninjutsu helps to cover up any sounds the user makes if they are on a mission that requires stealth. The user sends some chakra to the target’s ears and performs the needed hand seals. Any natural sounds in the area (running water, crickets, wind, ect…) are magnified slightly to mask any soft sounds that the user may make.

Nin Shiki Kaado (Secret Information Cards)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Genin Rank
Description: A technique which conceals information of an individual on a card. The information is burned onto the cards with chakra and can only be revealed by the user's chakra. Of course, this technique can also be used to store information on a different object and conceal it, like a wall, a door, or scroll. This technique cannot be used to burn information to a card that your character does not actually know, or has known at some point in his or her life. In other words, if your character is to put information onto a card about a shinobi, then that character must have met this other shinobi (or studied him through some other means), and learned from him exactly what it is the other shinobi can do before that information can be put on the cards.

Hitoshizeru Bakuhatsu No Jutsu (Hidden Explosion Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Genin Rank
Description: A simple yet effective technique that forces chakra out from the entire body, blowing out smoke and any small surrounding debris. This causes confusion, and allows the user to escape unnoticed. Useful for sneaky exits. This technique is basically the same as using a smoke bomb, and cannot be used for offensive purposes. It simply creates a large cloud of smoke to allow the user to escape.

Ninpou Kawara Shuriken (Roof Tile Shuriken Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Genin Rank
Description: By lifting objects with chakra, the user can launch small objects like roof tiles, small rocks and more at their enemy as if they were shuriken.

Chakra Tsuitou no Jutsu (Chakra Hunting Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: High Genin Rank
Description: During chase procedures, when the user has been closer to the target than 20 feet, and having had the ability to see the target clearly under those circumstances, the user can remember the target's chakra currents. If the enemy uses a Genjutsu, or gains a difference of more than a mile, the user will lose track of the target.

Nioi Ue Fuku no Jutsu (Smell Covering Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: High Genin Rank
Description: This jutsu basically creates a layer of chakra that seals in scents. The user coats himself in a thin layer of chakra, creating an air tight seal that doesn’t allow any scents to escape. If they touch anything a scent is not left behind. (As if they are wearing chakra gloves.) This starts to take up a lot of chakra if used for long periods since a new coating must be applied every few minutes to keep it effective. The user cannot use this jutsu on other people.

Suimen Hokou no Gyou (The Art of Water Walking)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank
Prerequisites: Kinobori no Jutsu
Description: A technique that enables the user to walk on the surface of water by concentrating chakra into the feet. It is also used for training; it allows an individual to learn how to control the release of chakra.

Tessayose no Jutsu (Iron Chain Calling Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin Rank
Description: With a range of the user’s sight in a general given area, the user slams their hand against a surface. Anywhere on the surface in plain sight for the user calls five separate chains to tie down a target. The chains are made of simple iron but are extremely thick and heavy, but dispel once the target is completely free. This jutsu was designed mainly to fight Taijutsu Human Tank users. The chains are helpless against Ninjutsu techniques. These chains are completely normal save that the user can control their movement. Regardless of whether the victim has moved at all.

Shunshin no Jutsu (Instantaneous Body Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin Rank
Description: An ability which allows the user to teleport from one area to another by stepping through a burst of chakra-made smoke. The user has to have been to the area before, distance is limited to about one mile, and it cannot be used in battle except to completely escape. It was most commonly used about a hundred years ago in Leaf but has since been replaced in a number of villages with elemental versions.

Saihen no Te (Hand of Debris)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: High Chuunin Rank
Description: By manipulating the users chakra around small surrounding objects, once can create a hand attached to the ground for defensive or offensive purposes. The size of the hand can vary; however the largest it can get is 5 feet tall. The hand can not move from the position on the ground, but it can bend and grasp. The main drawback though, is that the hand is only as strong as the materials used to make it, so while a hand made mostly out of stones and pebbles would be hard, a hand made mostly out of leaves would be easily broken.

Kisousei Ninpou Kawara Shuriken (Homing Roof Tile Shuriken Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Low Chuunin Rank
Prerequisites: Ninpou Kawara Shuriken (Roof Tile Shuriken Technique)
Description: Much like the Roof Tile Shuriken Technique, but now, the objects will chase after the designated target for a length of 2 minutes The object can not make 90 degree turns, and can only veer left or right. This makes turning around possible, but not sudden. If the object hits something like a tree or rock it will stop.

Hiritsuku Kasumi no Jutsu (Stinging Mist Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: High Chuunin Rank – Low Genin Rank if from Kirigakure
Description: The ninja inhales and sends out a spray of stinging substance from his mouth. The technique itself looks like the fine spray from a hose, with the droplets being a slightly yellowish color. However, anyone who is hit by this technique will feel as though the exposed parts of their skin has been rubbed with a powerful irritant.

Soushuuha (Manipulate Advancing Blades)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin Rank – Genin if from Sunagakure
Description: This technique originated in the Sand and was actually utilized by the Suna shinobi Yashamaru in a failed assassination attempt. By focusing chakra into projectile weapons such as kunai or shuriken, the ninja can make those weapons hover in the air before sending them at his target with the same force he usually uses to manually throw them. Conceivably, the shinobi would be able to attack his enemy with much more ammo then he can hold in his hands. The hover effect can last up to 20 seconds.

Bakuretsu Ninpou Kawara Shuriken (Exploding Roof Tile Shuriken Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Genin Rank
Prerequisites: Ninpou Kawara Shuriken
Description: Much like the Roof Tile Shuriken Technique, but now, when the flying roof tiles or other small objects make contact with their target, they explode. The explosion is relatively small however, not nearly as great as that of an exploding tag, but more like the force of a smoke bomb. The flying objects will explode the moment they contact another solid surface regardless of whether it is the intended target or not.

Tenkuu Hokou no Gyou (The Art of Walking on Air)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin
Note: Cannot be taken at character creation.
Description: The art of walking on water and trees has long been known to many shinobi. However, although many have aspired to walk on the last frontier, the air itself, all but a handful of ninja have failed at doing such a thing.

The first recorded instance of Tenkuu Hokou no Gyou was recorded long ago, in the Country of Wind, ironically. There, a famous ninja had discovered that by focusing his chakra into his feet and propelling it outward with utmost control, he could perform a sort of double-jump while airborne. This enabled him to jump almost twice as high as he normally could and in addition, it gave him utmost control of his body while airborne, making him a superb fighter. The technique was passed down through that fighter's family for years. The secret was well-kept and guarded carefully. However, the family's devotion with which they protected this secret ultimately led to their downfall. They were captured by a rival country and tortured endlessly in order to attain the secret technique. Nobody spoke and they were killed; their assailants figured that if they couldn't have the secret technique, nobody could. For awhile, the art of Tenkuu Hokou no Gyou was lost.

Just recently, a resurgence of this forgotten art has been seen. A few grandmaster shinobi, having remembered stories of the ancient art, have learned to perform the art on their own. In addition, two scrolls containing information on the art have been dug up and been in circulation on the black market for several months, although most who have read the scrolls have been unable to learn the art. As of now, there are very few who know anything about the art and even fewer who can use it effectively.

While airborne, the user can focus his chakra into his feet in order to make a sort of invisible stepping stone to push off of again. This can be used as a sort of double-jump commonly seen from, say, Mario, or be used to push off and change directions in midair. This technique can only be used once per jump, and the strength of the second jump is no greater than the strength of a normal jump. For instance, if your character has a five foot vertical leap, using this technique he could conceivably jump ten feet into the air.

Kage Bunshin No Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Academy Student Rank if they Learn the Technique
Note: Cannot be taken at character creation
Description: A forbidden jutsu that creates clones - which are not just plain illusions (like the normal Bunshin no Jutsu). Each clone is an exact replica of the user, capable of attacking. A direct hit causes the clone to disappear. Chakra is divided evenly between every clone and the original, so creating three clones would leave the user with one-fourth of his remaining chakra. These kage bunshin are also capable of using any jutsu the original shinobi knows (except Kuchiyose and bunshin jutsu), and each kage bunshin may use one jutsu.

Togeyomi (Underworld Spines)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin Rank
Description: A technique that lengthens the hair and changes it to a coat of hardened spines which covers the body. This technique can be used both offensively and defensively. The spines are also varying in texture and strength, often times only able to weather one attack (either received or dealt). It should be noted that when this jutsu is used, the ninja cannot move until the hair has returned to its normal form.

Shoushagan no Jutsu (Vanishing Facial Copy Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: High Chuunin Rank
Description: A rather gruesome but useful jutsu. The user removes the face of a corpse and applies that face to his own, providing himself with a disguise more convincing than a simple Henge. Damage done to the shinobi’s face will be absorbed by the facial copy, but too much will cause it to disintegrate and slowly melt from the user’s face. It can be ripped off painlessly and discarded at any time.

Shuriken Kage Bunshin No Jutsu (Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin Rank
Prerequisites: Kage Bunshin + Ninpou Kawara Shuriken
Description: Similar to Kage Bunshin no Jutsu except that it is used on projectiles and makes more copy of them during mid-flight.

Fuuja Houin (Evil Sealing Method)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Jounin Rank
Description: This sealing technique was created specifically to control and suppress the effects of cursed seals, preventing them from activating. Two concentric circles are drawn on the ground and the ‘patient’ is made to sit at its centre with kunai planted head first into the ground at different points on the edge of the circles. The ninja performing the seal will then use his own blood to write kanji inscriptions in the circle, those symbols converging towards the seal on the body of the ‘patient’. When the preparation is completed, the sealer performs a series of hand seals before finally slamming his palm on the cursed seal. At that moment, the kanji inscriptions will all literally ‘come to life’ and all converge towards the seal. The process is a painful one and causes the weak ninjas to faint. When it is done, a circle like design is seen around the seal, representing that there is a ‘barrier’ around the curse. The Evil Sealing method, however, is ineffective on its own as it relies mostly on the bearer's will to work. Should the cursed person have not enough determination or allow himself to be tempted by the power of his curse seal, the Fuuja Houin would, so to say, be nothing else but a mere decoration. So essentially, the Evil Sealing method depends on the will of the cursed person to keep it at bay.

Shogiyomi (Underworld Spears)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: High Chuunin Rank
Prerequisites: Togeyomi
Description: An upgraded version of the Togeyomi, this version instead creates long sharp spears of hair that extend to about double the arm’s length of the user. Not as fragile as the Togeyomi, the spears can both absorb one attack or make one. But after that, they break down and revert back to their original form.

Bakuretsu Kage Bunshin No Jutsu (Exploding Shadow Clone Technique)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: High Chuunin Rank
Prerequisites: Kage Bunshin
Description: A Ninjutsu technique where the ninja creates a suicidal Kage Bunshin (shadow clone). After creating it, the ninja can cause the clone to remotely detonate and explode in combat, taking anyone immediately surrounding it out. When used in close combat, without the enemy noticing, this technique can be quite deadly. This technique requires the user not just to evenly distribute his chakra, but to give a chakra edge to the exploding clone. For almost everybody, this costs so much it puts the user in a dangerous situation, so that one hit to them can be lethal if chakra isn't molded to perfection...

Shukuchi (Reduced Earth)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Jounin Rank
Description: Originally implemented by samurai, shinobi have learned to use chakra to perform this technique as well. By forcing chakra into the legs, the user is able to go from standstill to his highest speed instantaneously and crush the distance separating him from his opponent so quickly, all that can be seen is little craters left on the ground by his footsteps. This jutsu can be used once per battle and it requires a single handseal.

Chidori (Thousand Birds)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin Rank
Description: The only original technique of Konoha’s legendary Hatake Kakashi, the user focuses an enormous amount of chakra into one hand, so much that it becomes visible and emits a chirping noise like the sound of a thousand birds. The shinobi runs towards his enemy and thrusts quickly to cut through him, and the jutsu is indeed so powerful that it is rumored to be able to halve even a lightning bolt. However, because the user is moving so fast to attack, he is unable to detect any counterattacks executed by the enemy, so it is ideal to use Chidori in tandem with another technique that can alert the user to counters, such as a doujutsu. It can be used a number of times per battle although it requires a large amount of chakra.

Rasengan (Spiral Sphere)
Type: Ninjutsu
Requirements: Chuunin - Possibly Lower if taught by a Master of the Rasengan
Description: Developed by Yondaime Hokage and later adopted by Uzumaki Naruto as one of his signature techniques, Rasengan forms a spiral sphere of compact chakra in the palm of the user’s hand. It does not look like much, but it packs a tremendously uber punch, capable of blowing out holes in metal and blasting enemies through most surfaces, whether they be walls, ceilings, or rocks. In addition to the severe knockback power this possesses, the Rasengan is capable of dealing internal damage, making it a very valuable jutsu. It can be used a small number of times but requires a large amount of chakra and the risks can become deadly.