Post by songstress on Nov 10, 2006 3:29:36 GMT -5
- This combination style starts on two paths, Tsuki no Kenbu (Sword Dances of the Moon) and Taiyou no Kenbu (Sword Dances of the Sun), and ends at one, Shoku Rekuiemu (Eclipse Requiem). The two beginning substyles and the combined style each count as a separate list. In other words, a shinobi who has completely mastered Santsuki no Mai uses up three list slots.
- It is completely acceptable to master only Tsuki no Kenbu or only Taiyou no Kenbu. The shinobi is not obligated to try and learn the combined style as both of the substyles can easily stand as their own solid style. The shinobi is also not required to learn the two beginning substyles in tandem, but a certain level of proficiency at one style does not equal the same level of proficiency with the other.
- A sword is obviously needed for this style, and it must be a sword that can be freely handled without attachment to the body in any way. No hidden blades, and nothing shorter than a wakizashi is allowed.
- Santsuki no Mai is open to all Leaf shinobi (former or current). Characters from other villages require Leaf GM approval.
- Bunshin no Jutsu is a requirement for learning any special techniques, though not for taking the style itself.
- As an interesting note, those who practice Santsuki no Mai wear their swords slung over their back rather than anywhere else.
Style History: A little-known rivalry that shook the heavens itself existed in Konoha not 70 or 80 years ago. A lot of people at the time, though his name isn't remembered as well now, were familiar with the name Gekkou Tokoshi, the grandson of the brother of Gekkou Hayate, who took Hayate's theories on how the beautiful Mikazuki no Mai could be extended, and created one of the most beautiful techniques ever seen: the Tsuki no Kenbu (Sword Dances of the Moon). It was an illusory sword dance style of Konoha that used bunshins on a higher level. He was called 'The Moon Dancer' because of it, and his sheer mastery and fluidity of technique was unmatched. His own obsession with innovating his style however, made him a terrible Jounin; he neglected his duties, his village, his Genin that he was supposed to be responsible for, and even his own son, whom he found a disappointment because he did not have the natural talent of Tokoshi and could only achieve a couple of his father's works. But the Moon Dancer's sheer beauty with a blade was so fierce and so gorgeous that his accomplishments could not be ignored...
...But that isn't the full story...
What isn't so well-known is that part of Tokoshi's sheer hatred of anything not related to his sword style was in regards to a Leaf shinobi named Kokoro Shado, who was a genius of the katana and the Mikazuki no Mai as well. Shado always found the technique to be too slow with style and lacking substance, and sought ways to change its fundamentals slightly to strike the opponent harder and faster. And thus, he developed the Irihi no Mai (Dance of the Dawning Sun), based on the positions of the sun in the sky, a sword technique that uses chakra to jet the user, appearing on the right side of his opponent, go towards and past the opponent at increased speed for a very short distance with his bunshin clone appearing on the left side of the opponent and doing the exact same technique, and, at the moment of impact, feeding a little more chakra into the clone so that for a split second, the clone becomes corporeal and slices the opponent with the wielder at the same time. The two struck as one in an X-formation, streaming past the opponent after the attack. In this technique, it was blatantly obvious who the real user was and who the clone was, because the clone was very translucent (the user was using the extra chakra to make the clone corporeal for a split-second at the time of striking and for the slight speed-up), because the focus was to strike fast, not to confuse the opponent.
Tokoshi and Shado were bitter, bitter rivals. Tokoshi hated Shado for developing this technique and insulting the Mikazuki no Mai's style, and Shado, in turn, was jealous of the beauty of Tokoshi's sword technique, which he could never quite replicate (even though Tokoshi could not replicate Shado's sheer strike power), though his technique was fluid in its own way. And thus they constantly worked to one-up each other. The two had gone through the academy together, trained as Genins under the same Jounin together, fought to a standstill in a round of the Chuunin exam together and both passed, and developed their own styles under their own technique, Tokoshi the Tsuki no Kenbu using Hayate's theories, and Shado the Taiyou no Kenbu based on his sheer hatred of Tokoshi. The Dances of the Sun and the Moon were created, and the two ninjas feuded day and night in their own private war that no one was even aware of, dueling at one shinobi's house or the other and constantly working to undermine the other's technique. Tokoshi, 'The Moon Dancer', and Shado, 'The Sun Dancer', as they mockingly called themselves, worked hard to make the other ashamed.
But when both men turned around 28 years of age... something happened. Shado contracted a deadly virus from a mission, and fell into a coma, dying less than four months later. Tokoshi was left alone... not with a rival... not with anyone to fight... a man he had dedicated his entire existence to defeating and suddenly finding himself robbed of destiny. Robbed of the very man who had truly driven him to do incredible things with his sword, he realized that without a Kokoro Shado, there was no Gekkou Tokoshi...and realized how much of a real friend Kokoro Shado truly was...
On that day, Tokoshi vowed to himself that he would never stop practicing or innovating his style, pushing aside or outright ignoring everything else, preparing the day when he would die and his spirit would finally get the chance to eternally lock swords with Shado once again in the afterlife. If you had talent with a blade, he would eagerly pass his knowledge onto you, but if you did not have the talent, he didn't wish to waste his time...
But history remembers Tokoshi only as the man who put aside his duty, his life, and even his own son to use his time to work and work on his beautiful sword technique and dance the darkness.
However, throughout his life and till his death, Tokoshi had kept a journal on his own various theories of the continuations of the Tsuki no Kenbu and Shado's Taiyou no Kenbu (what isn't well-known is that he had also made himself learn Shado's style after Shado died), and even the possibility of an Eclipse, a combination technique that uses a mastery of both styles to create a lethal, beautiful, deadly combined style.
Tokoshi's last words in his journal were "It is my deepest regret that the Sun and Moon did not become one. In the moon there is mystery, in the sun there is power. If only my hatred for Shado could have been eclipsed by the sheer magnitude and beauty of our styles... together, we would have danced the stars."
...Perhaps in the last decade or so, a small group of Konoha's talented blade-using shinobi discovered Tokoshi's journal (kindly donated by Gekkou Mitsuki), and using the path set forth by Tokoshi and Shado, whom they now consider legends, used their predecessor's guidelines and their own cunning to update and create advanced sword dance styles (called cumulatively Santsuki No Mai - Sun and Moon Dances) out of both the Tsuki no Kenbu and the Taiyou no Kenbu, and most recently, used Tokoshi's theory on combining the Sun Dance and the Moon Dance to create the ultimate blend sword-style, the Shoku Rekuiemu (Eclipse Requiem). The shinobi have kept the traditional names of all the techniques while also using a little bit of more recent innovations in dance to spice things up a bit.
Thus, a new age of Moon Dancers, Sun Dancers, and Eclipse Dancers in Konoha has arisen, and the innovations of both the past shinobi and the present shinobi may yet see in the future a rise in the number of sword-wielding ninja in the village and possibly even one day rival the thought to be unstoppable sword-users of Mist Village…
Tsuki no Kenbu (Sword Dances of the Moon)
Style Description: Moon Dancers are shinobi who are completely the followers of Gekkou Tokoshi's technique, the Tsuki no Kenbu. They focus on style and confusion for the perfect strike. Thus, practitioners of this style commonly like to twirl and spin their sword when fighting to make the opponent second-guess from where they may strike. In fact, Moon Dancers are most famous for being crafty… If their enemies do not have sharp eyes and swift minds, they are in deep, deep trouble. The flashy movements of these shinobi involve flowing dance steps, not so much quick as beautiful, and are very powerful, combining flair with strength. They prefer to weave as they run at a target, adding more of an overall feeling of grace rather than sheer desire to kill.
The special techniques are based on the phases of the moon, and built off the traditional Mikazuki no Mai (Dance of the Crescent Moon) and culminates with the use of bunshin clones dashing around the opponent in unison to shatter the opponent's target sense and practically guarantee a strike. The more advanced attacks, based off various types of moons throughout the year adds in additional circles of circling bunshins of increasing size around the user, each circle's bunshins moving in the opposite direction from the one smaller than it. For instance, if the smallest circle's bunshins around the opponent are turning left, the next largest circle circling around the target is turning right, and the next larger one left, etc. With such a beautiful and well-timed dance of so many bunshin clones moving in such perfect unison in opposite directions in increasingly larger circling rings, the opponent will be left oblivious to where the strike will come from, no matter how good their senses are.
However, because Moon Dancers choose style over speed, their strikes are not as fast as some other sword styles and can still be dodged if the opponent realizes where the attack is coming from. Also, weapon users enjoy less limb flexibility when fighting than pure hand-to-hand taijutsu artists, and find it especially irksome when they find themselves matched up against those who specialize in long-range attacks.
Style Basis: Ninjutsu/Weapon
Training Methods: Moon Dancers like to train with a friend or two, especially friends that won’t flinch at the possibility of getting cut once or twice. Starting off with warm-ups, the shinobi quickly moves into a kind of sword ‘juggling’, where they whip the blade around one’s body by turning them over one’s arm using the wrist as a pivot point. Style is essential to the Tsuki no Kenbu, after all. Then, applying their sword juggling techniques, the shinobi moves to the offensive, sparring with his partners in this way and trying to land hits while maintaining the called-for grace that Gekkou Tokoshi valued so highly.
Stage One
Stat Requirements: Stamina 5, Strength 3
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Mikazuki No Mai (Dance of the Crescent Moon)
Description: A sword technique that creates two replicas (one bunshin, one real). Together, they attack in a dance of swords that confuses the opponent.
Stage Two
Stat Requirements: Stamina 8, Strength 6, Intelligence 6
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Hantsuki No Mai (Dance of the Half Moon)
Requirements: Mikazuki No Mai
Description: This particular sword dance technique improves the Mikazuki no Mai by adding a third replica behind the opponent that attacks with the other two (two bunshin, one real), creating a three-pronged attack around the opponent in a triangular formation, further confusing the possibility of which angle the attack is coming from.
Stage Three
Stat Requirements: Stamina 12, Strength 8, Intelligence 8
Stage Bonus: +2 Stamina, +2 Strength, +1 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Meigetsu No Mai (Dance of the Full Moon)
Requirements: Hantsuki No Mai
Description: The sword-dance of the Leaf is taken on a new level of mysticism as four replicas (three bunshin, one real) attack the opponent from a target's four corners, two in the front and two in the back, equalizing a change of getting attacked from in front or behind and making it harder for the enemy to determine where to fight.
Shingetsu no Mai (Dance of the New Moon)
Requirements: Meigetsu No Mai
Description: The increased chakra used in Dance of the New Moon now starts to reveal a greater power. The opponent is completely surrounded by five replicas in a circle (four bunshin, one real), all standing around him and attacking at the same time. With so many replicas working together, the odds of selecting from which angle the attack is coming from becomes very low.
Stage Four
Stat Requirements: Stamina 17, Strength 13, Speed 13, Intelligence 14
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +1 Strength, +1 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Garou Tsuki no Mai (Dance of the Wolf Moon)
Requirements: Shingetsu no Mai
Description: The Tsuki no Kenbu’s beautiful style is taken to a whole other dimension with this technique. There are two circles of bunshins surrounding the target, four in the outer and three in the inner. The real user may be in any one of these positions. Also, the two rings are spinning in opposite directions, making it very difficult to predict from where the shinobi will strike.
Roze Tsuki no Mai (Dance of the Rose Moon)
Requirements: Garou Tsuki no Mai
Description: Adds a third, larger ring of five clones around the Garou Tsuki’s original two, going in the opposite direction. There are now three rings circling around the opponent, the inner and outer going one direction, with the one in the middle, going in the opposite direction.
Stage Five
Stat Requirements: Stamina 20, Strength 18, Speed 18, Intelligence 16
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +1 Strength, +1 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Chuushuunomeigetsu no Mai (Dance of the Harvest Moon)
Requirements: Roze Tsuki no Mai
Description: Introduces a fourth ring with six bunshin clones. There are now four rings of bunshin clones flowing around the target that move in complete unison with each other; like a large-scale ballet with the possibility of the user being in any of them and being any distance up to the fourth ring, attacking from any direction. Nearly the culmination of the Moon Dancer style, the innermost and the third ring go in one direction, and the second and the outermost ring go in the other direction.
Aoi Tsuki (Blue Moon)
Requirements: Chuushuunomeigetsu no Mai
Description: Considered to be the greatest legacy of Tokoshi's technique by itself. Five circles surround the target. The user is impossible to identify. The clones now move so fast and so well that they don't even appear as clones anymore, just five solid streams circling the user at remarkable speeds. If the user has not attempted some sort of defense before this jutsu is activated, a sword attack is almost guaranteed to connect some part of the body and, in some cases, do fatal damage. On the downside, an exact body part cannot be targeted, but the chest and stomach regions are the most likely areas to hit.
Stage Six
Stat Requirements: Stamina 26, Strength 25, Speed 24, Intelligence 19, Tactics 17
Stage Bonus: +5 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
N/A
Stage Seven
Stat Requirements: Stamina 35, Strength 33, Speed 31, Intelligence 23, Tactics 21
Stage Bonus: +5 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
N/A
- It is completely acceptable to master only Tsuki no Kenbu or only Taiyou no Kenbu. The shinobi is not obligated to try and learn the combined style as both of the substyles can easily stand as their own solid style. The shinobi is also not required to learn the two beginning substyles in tandem, but a certain level of proficiency at one style does not equal the same level of proficiency with the other.
- A sword is obviously needed for this style, and it must be a sword that can be freely handled without attachment to the body in any way. No hidden blades, and nothing shorter than a wakizashi is allowed.
- Santsuki no Mai is open to all Leaf shinobi (former or current). Characters from other villages require Leaf GM approval.
- Bunshin no Jutsu is a requirement for learning any special techniques, though not for taking the style itself.
- As an interesting note, those who practice Santsuki no Mai wear their swords slung over their back rather than anywhere else.
Style History: A little-known rivalry that shook the heavens itself existed in Konoha not 70 or 80 years ago. A lot of people at the time, though his name isn't remembered as well now, were familiar with the name Gekkou Tokoshi, the grandson of the brother of Gekkou Hayate, who took Hayate's theories on how the beautiful Mikazuki no Mai could be extended, and created one of the most beautiful techniques ever seen: the Tsuki no Kenbu (Sword Dances of the Moon). It was an illusory sword dance style of Konoha that used bunshins on a higher level. He was called 'The Moon Dancer' because of it, and his sheer mastery and fluidity of technique was unmatched. His own obsession with innovating his style however, made him a terrible Jounin; he neglected his duties, his village, his Genin that he was supposed to be responsible for, and even his own son, whom he found a disappointment because he did not have the natural talent of Tokoshi and could only achieve a couple of his father's works. But the Moon Dancer's sheer beauty with a blade was so fierce and so gorgeous that his accomplishments could not be ignored...
...But that isn't the full story...
What isn't so well-known is that part of Tokoshi's sheer hatred of anything not related to his sword style was in regards to a Leaf shinobi named Kokoro Shado, who was a genius of the katana and the Mikazuki no Mai as well. Shado always found the technique to be too slow with style and lacking substance, and sought ways to change its fundamentals slightly to strike the opponent harder and faster. And thus, he developed the Irihi no Mai (Dance of the Dawning Sun), based on the positions of the sun in the sky, a sword technique that uses chakra to jet the user, appearing on the right side of his opponent, go towards and past the opponent at increased speed for a very short distance with his bunshin clone appearing on the left side of the opponent and doing the exact same technique, and, at the moment of impact, feeding a little more chakra into the clone so that for a split second, the clone becomes corporeal and slices the opponent with the wielder at the same time. The two struck as one in an X-formation, streaming past the opponent after the attack. In this technique, it was blatantly obvious who the real user was and who the clone was, because the clone was very translucent (the user was using the extra chakra to make the clone corporeal for a split-second at the time of striking and for the slight speed-up), because the focus was to strike fast, not to confuse the opponent.
Tokoshi and Shado were bitter, bitter rivals. Tokoshi hated Shado for developing this technique and insulting the Mikazuki no Mai's style, and Shado, in turn, was jealous of the beauty of Tokoshi's sword technique, which he could never quite replicate (even though Tokoshi could not replicate Shado's sheer strike power), though his technique was fluid in its own way. And thus they constantly worked to one-up each other. The two had gone through the academy together, trained as Genins under the same Jounin together, fought to a standstill in a round of the Chuunin exam together and both passed, and developed their own styles under their own technique, Tokoshi the Tsuki no Kenbu using Hayate's theories, and Shado the Taiyou no Kenbu based on his sheer hatred of Tokoshi. The Dances of the Sun and the Moon were created, and the two ninjas feuded day and night in their own private war that no one was even aware of, dueling at one shinobi's house or the other and constantly working to undermine the other's technique. Tokoshi, 'The Moon Dancer', and Shado, 'The Sun Dancer', as they mockingly called themselves, worked hard to make the other ashamed.
But when both men turned around 28 years of age... something happened. Shado contracted a deadly virus from a mission, and fell into a coma, dying less than four months later. Tokoshi was left alone... not with a rival... not with anyone to fight... a man he had dedicated his entire existence to defeating and suddenly finding himself robbed of destiny. Robbed of the very man who had truly driven him to do incredible things with his sword, he realized that without a Kokoro Shado, there was no Gekkou Tokoshi...and realized how much of a real friend Kokoro Shado truly was...
On that day, Tokoshi vowed to himself that he would never stop practicing or innovating his style, pushing aside or outright ignoring everything else, preparing the day when he would die and his spirit would finally get the chance to eternally lock swords with Shado once again in the afterlife. If you had talent with a blade, he would eagerly pass his knowledge onto you, but if you did not have the talent, he didn't wish to waste his time...
But history remembers Tokoshi only as the man who put aside his duty, his life, and even his own son to use his time to work and work on his beautiful sword technique and dance the darkness.
However, throughout his life and till his death, Tokoshi had kept a journal on his own various theories of the continuations of the Tsuki no Kenbu and Shado's Taiyou no Kenbu (what isn't well-known is that he had also made himself learn Shado's style after Shado died), and even the possibility of an Eclipse, a combination technique that uses a mastery of both styles to create a lethal, beautiful, deadly combined style.
Tokoshi's last words in his journal were "It is my deepest regret that the Sun and Moon did not become one. In the moon there is mystery, in the sun there is power. If only my hatred for Shado could have been eclipsed by the sheer magnitude and beauty of our styles... together, we would have danced the stars."
...Perhaps in the last decade or so, a small group of Konoha's talented blade-using shinobi discovered Tokoshi's journal (kindly donated by Gekkou Mitsuki), and using the path set forth by Tokoshi and Shado, whom they now consider legends, used their predecessor's guidelines and their own cunning to update and create advanced sword dance styles (called cumulatively Santsuki No Mai - Sun and Moon Dances) out of both the Tsuki no Kenbu and the Taiyou no Kenbu, and most recently, used Tokoshi's theory on combining the Sun Dance and the Moon Dance to create the ultimate blend sword-style, the Shoku Rekuiemu (Eclipse Requiem). The shinobi have kept the traditional names of all the techniques while also using a little bit of more recent innovations in dance to spice things up a bit.
Thus, a new age of Moon Dancers, Sun Dancers, and Eclipse Dancers in Konoha has arisen, and the innovations of both the past shinobi and the present shinobi may yet see in the future a rise in the number of sword-wielding ninja in the village and possibly even one day rival the thought to be unstoppable sword-users of Mist Village…
Tsuki no Kenbu (Sword Dances of the Moon)
Style Description: Moon Dancers are shinobi who are completely the followers of Gekkou Tokoshi's technique, the Tsuki no Kenbu. They focus on style and confusion for the perfect strike. Thus, practitioners of this style commonly like to twirl and spin their sword when fighting to make the opponent second-guess from where they may strike. In fact, Moon Dancers are most famous for being crafty… If their enemies do not have sharp eyes and swift minds, they are in deep, deep trouble. The flashy movements of these shinobi involve flowing dance steps, not so much quick as beautiful, and are very powerful, combining flair with strength. They prefer to weave as they run at a target, adding more of an overall feeling of grace rather than sheer desire to kill.
The special techniques are based on the phases of the moon, and built off the traditional Mikazuki no Mai (Dance of the Crescent Moon) and culminates with the use of bunshin clones dashing around the opponent in unison to shatter the opponent's target sense and practically guarantee a strike. The more advanced attacks, based off various types of moons throughout the year adds in additional circles of circling bunshins of increasing size around the user, each circle's bunshins moving in the opposite direction from the one smaller than it. For instance, if the smallest circle's bunshins around the opponent are turning left, the next largest circle circling around the target is turning right, and the next larger one left, etc. With such a beautiful and well-timed dance of so many bunshin clones moving in such perfect unison in opposite directions in increasingly larger circling rings, the opponent will be left oblivious to where the strike will come from, no matter how good their senses are.
However, because Moon Dancers choose style over speed, their strikes are not as fast as some other sword styles and can still be dodged if the opponent realizes where the attack is coming from. Also, weapon users enjoy less limb flexibility when fighting than pure hand-to-hand taijutsu artists, and find it especially irksome when they find themselves matched up against those who specialize in long-range attacks.
Style Basis: Ninjutsu/Weapon
Training Methods: Moon Dancers like to train with a friend or two, especially friends that won’t flinch at the possibility of getting cut once or twice. Starting off with warm-ups, the shinobi quickly moves into a kind of sword ‘juggling’, where they whip the blade around one’s body by turning them over one’s arm using the wrist as a pivot point. Style is essential to the Tsuki no Kenbu, after all. Then, applying their sword juggling techniques, the shinobi moves to the offensive, sparring with his partners in this way and trying to land hits while maintaining the called-for grace that Gekkou Tokoshi valued so highly.
Stage One
Stat Requirements: Stamina 5, Strength 3
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Mikazuki No Mai (Dance of the Crescent Moon)
Description: A sword technique that creates two replicas (one bunshin, one real). Together, they attack in a dance of swords that confuses the opponent.
Stage Two
Stat Requirements: Stamina 8, Strength 6, Intelligence 6
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Hantsuki No Mai (Dance of the Half Moon)
Requirements: Mikazuki No Mai
Description: This particular sword dance technique improves the Mikazuki no Mai by adding a third replica behind the opponent that attacks with the other two (two bunshin, one real), creating a three-pronged attack around the opponent in a triangular formation, further confusing the possibility of which angle the attack is coming from.
Stage Three
Stat Requirements: Stamina 12, Strength 8, Intelligence 8
Stage Bonus: +2 Stamina, +2 Strength, +1 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Meigetsu No Mai (Dance of the Full Moon)
Requirements: Hantsuki No Mai
Description: The sword-dance of the Leaf is taken on a new level of mysticism as four replicas (three bunshin, one real) attack the opponent from a target's four corners, two in the front and two in the back, equalizing a change of getting attacked from in front or behind and making it harder for the enemy to determine where to fight.
Shingetsu no Mai (Dance of the New Moon)
Requirements: Meigetsu No Mai
Description: The increased chakra used in Dance of the New Moon now starts to reveal a greater power. The opponent is completely surrounded by five replicas in a circle (four bunshin, one real), all standing around him and attacking at the same time. With so many replicas working together, the odds of selecting from which angle the attack is coming from becomes very low.
Stage Four
Stat Requirements: Stamina 17, Strength 13, Speed 13, Intelligence 14
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +1 Strength, +1 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Garou Tsuki no Mai (Dance of the Wolf Moon)
Requirements: Shingetsu no Mai
Description: The Tsuki no Kenbu’s beautiful style is taken to a whole other dimension with this technique. There are two circles of bunshins surrounding the target, four in the outer and three in the inner. The real user may be in any one of these positions. Also, the two rings are spinning in opposite directions, making it very difficult to predict from where the shinobi will strike.
Roze Tsuki no Mai (Dance of the Rose Moon)
Requirements: Garou Tsuki no Mai
Description: Adds a third, larger ring of five clones around the Garou Tsuki’s original two, going in the opposite direction. There are now three rings circling around the opponent, the inner and outer going one direction, with the one in the middle, going in the opposite direction.
Stage Five
Stat Requirements: Stamina 20, Strength 18, Speed 18, Intelligence 16
Stage Bonus: +3 Stamina, +1 Strength, +1 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
Chuushuunomeigetsu no Mai (Dance of the Harvest Moon)
Requirements: Roze Tsuki no Mai
Description: Introduces a fourth ring with six bunshin clones. There are now four rings of bunshin clones flowing around the target that move in complete unison with each other; like a large-scale ballet with the possibility of the user being in any of them and being any distance up to the fourth ring, attacking from any direction. Nearly the culmination of the Moon Dancer style, the innermost and the third ring go in one direction, and the second and the outermost ring go in the other direction.
Aoi Tsuki (Blue Moon)
Requirements: Chuushuunomeigetsu no Mai
Description: Considered to be the greatest legacy of Tokoshi's technique by itself. Five circles surround the target. The user is impossible to identify. The clones now move so fast and so well that they don't even appear as clones anymore, just five solid streams circling the user at remarkable speeds. If the user has not attempted some sort of defense before this jutsu is activated, a sword attack is almost guaranteed to connect some part of the body and, in some cases, do fatal damage. On the downside, an exact body part cannot be targeted, but the chest and stomach regions are the most likely areas to hit.
Stage Six
Stat Requirements: Stamina 26, Strength 25, Speed 24, Intelligence 19, Tactics 17
Stage Bonus: +5 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
N/A
Stage Seven
Stat Requirements: Stamina 35, Strength 33, Speed 31, Intelligence 23, Tactics 21
Stage Bonus: +5 Stamina, +2 Strength, +2 Speed
Stances:
N/A
Regular Techniques:
N/A
Special Techniques:
N/A