>>5806995>>5807004>>5807033>>5807042>>5807085>>5807087>>5807096>-1 Will of Fire. You have 1.You begin generating copious amounts of mist using the Hide in Mist jutsu. You haven’t tested this jutsu in detail yet, and this was as good a place as any, considering you needed some cover in this vast expanse of blankness so you could generate ideas about what to do next. You’re hoping that as you expel mist, your chakra will remain in it. You’ve always assumed that it would. Unfortunately, you are wrong, at least, in part.
As the mist exits your mouth, it is temporarily charged with your chakra, the same way that your water bullet remains charged with your chakra. But it seems that unless the jutsu you’re forming includes a method of you remaining in some kind of active spiritual control over the material you’re generating, your chakra slowly fades from what you’ve made as it becomes more of what you were trying to make.
In the case of Hide in Mist, the initial mist coming out of your mouth is a bright <span class="mu-b">blue</span>, and that <span class="mu-b">blue</span> forms a shell around you. However, try as you might to exert your will on maintaining your chakra in the mist, now that it’s outside your body the chakra is doing what the formation of hand seals and focusing of your spiritual energy last called upon it to do: Make more mist. You can search with your unconscious awareness of your chakra in the mist and grant it more power, but you’re only managing to breathe new life into one pocket of mist at a time, before that pocket of <span class="mu-b">blue</span> fades away into more of your concealing screen.
At least it was interesting to look at. It looked like a blanket of white fog, full of flickering <span class="mu-b">blue</span> fireflies, which would randomly explode into small nebulae of <span class="mu-b">blue</span> before becoming new mist full of <span class="mu-b">blue</span> fireflies. The second you stopped focusing on your awareness of your chakra in the mist, even those <span class="mu-b">blue</span> motes would quickly fade.
You feel the presence of the demon rush past you, out of sight and presumably beyond your pocket of fog. This was a very large space, possibly infinitely so. It was circling overhead. Watching. Waiting. The exact moment it could detect you or the <span class="mu-b">blue</span> motes disappeared; you had no doubt it would move in for the kill. In the case of it detecting you it would no doubt damage itself on your residual <span class="mu-b">blue</span> chakra to land a killing blow, even if it sustains some damage itself. Damage would heal. A dramatic, violent death would not. And the second you let go of your focus on the jutsu, it would be in the creature's logical interests to start flying through the fog, attacking wildly and dispersing it.
