>>5938209Even a jutsu in itself is just a name applied to a specific technique that can be replicated as a rote more than once with the same result. No jutsu requires a name any more than the technique of picking up a pair of chopsticks requires a name.
The kami didn’t care what you called it. The kami only responded to the form of your chakra, and the will you enforce over it as you manipulate it. With that in mind, every jutsu of any elemental nature must have its roots in one core technique. A master jutsu, from which are derived many different facets of power and expression.
And what is the master jutsu? It might be some godlike power, or maybe the master jutsu is the ability for a ninja to simply flex the energy of their own soul, a power which all living creatures were endowed, the master power through which all other power, literal or metaphysical, flowed forth from in great emanating waves.
Your eyebrows raise. That sounded good! You’d better write that down…
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Sunlight Inn Town rises before you as your party crests a hill. It’ll be sunset soon, so the twelve of you pull up to the eponymous inn and begin making your accommodations while the Kumamotos get their carts stored in a warehouse.
You, Naoki, and Akimitsu get a room together.
Masami, Hana, and Fumiko get a room together.
Kin and Aina get a room.
Gin and Tsutsuki get a room.
Hotaru gets a solo suite.
Shota just sort of wanders off without getting a room for himself.
It’s explained to you by Gin that you’ll be here for the two nights, and then you’ll leave the dawn that follows. Tonight is for sleeping, tomorrow is for trading, and after that you’ll be good to make progress towards the fire temple.
Since you’re still somewhat near the leaf village and in civilization, the chances of you getting attacked are essentially zero, so Hotaru concurs with the Kumamotos that you may as well have some R&R until it’s time to leave, so long as you at least vaguely keep an eye out for problems. That being the case, you, Masami, and Naoki are already making plans to posse up and hang out doing whatever you want.
>Naoki just wants to explore in general, maybe check out some shops.>Masami is interested in doing actual activities like hitting a gambling parlor.>You want to do… What?>You have time to do three things total. You can pick your own thing to do, and you can exert influence on what the other two do because you’re the de facto leader of your team.>The other youths in the group may or may not join you depending on whether or not they have work to do and whether or not you decide to do stuff they care about. Akimitsu and Naoki still haven’t made up yet and it’s a little awkward.>Sunlight Inn Town is a small trading settlement that’s sprung up around a travelers inn. It doesn’t have any imaginable amenities like Konoha does, but pretty much any reasonable thing that might exist in a small town with a thriving main street exists here. 