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Kemuriburu Name: Kemuriburu
Location: Kazangakure
Type: Ninjutsu (main), Genjutsu (sub-main)
Bloodline: Smoke Release: The Kemuriburu Clan specializes in a subsidiary of Katon ninjutsu that is unique to the clan. This subsidiary allows the creation and control of dense smoke, allowing the members of the Kemuriburu Clan to make smokescreens without requiring the use of tools. At higher levels, the smoke can become more dangerous, and members can make either combustible or poisonous smoke (with the use of certain jutsu, and the effects of the poisonous smoke must be approved by two staff members). There is, however, a limit to the volume of smoke that a clan member can use:
- Genin: 10 cubic feet
- Chuunin: 20 cubic feet
- Tokubetsu Jounin: 30 cubic feet
- Jounin: 40 cubic feet
- S-rank: 50 cubic feet
Along with the range that the clan member can control the gas
- Genin: five feet from the user in all directions.
- Chuunin: ten feet from the user in all directions.
- Tokubetsu Jounin: 15 feet from the user in all directions.
- Jounin: 20 feet from the user in all directions.
- S-rank: 25 feet from the user in all directions.
In other words, the ninja can only control enough smoke to make a zero-visibility smokescreen filled to their maximum range. In other words, a genin can control as much smoke as it takes to create zero-visibility conditions everywhere within five feet of their person.
In addition, smoke techniques can be blown away by large-sized wind ninjutsu (for example, a large gust will blow away the smoke, but Asuma's wind-style Flying Swallow will not), and it can be smothered out by Suiton chakra. Oddly enough, this means that the Katon subsidiary is weak against Katon's strength and weakness (wind and water, respectively).
Members of this clan typically enjoy smoking to some extent, though not all of them smoke cigarettes. When a clan member has started using their clan jutsu, their skin will begin to emit a small amount of their chakra in the form of wispy smoke. This can serve as a warning to others that they are about to use a clan jutsu, and at S-rank, the smoke that comes off the clan member can be thick enough to be used as a smokescreen on its own.
Current Members: This clan is
OPEN.
Clan Jutsu[s]:
Jutsu Name: Filtering Technique
Rank: E
Element: N/A
Ranges: Self
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This passive technique can allow the user of the technique to not be affected by their own smoke jutsu, and is always active. The clan member coats his or her lungs and throat with their chakra, allowing only air to pass through their throat. This technique makes it impossible for the user to be affected by poison that is normally taken into the lungs, though the user will still be poisoned through other means. However, it does not protect against water, and clan members are still susceptible to drowning.
Jutsu Name: Smoke Creation
Rank: E
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Self
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This is the most basic technique of the clan, and is usually the set-up for most of the clan's special jutsu. The jutsu allows the ninja to create smoke out of their own chakra, or to increase the amount of smoke coming from a natural source. The amount of smoke that can be produced is limited to the user's own limit to the amount of smoke that they can use.
Jutsu Name: Smokescreen Jutsu
Rank: D
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Close, Medium, Long (depends on rank of user)
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This jutsu allows the member of a clan to create a smoke cloud thick enough to obscure normal vision to 0% visibility. After performing handseals, the user will inhale some smoke in some form or another, combine it with their own chakra to increase production to a larger scale, then blow it out in one large burst of smoke that can engulf the area. Although it can reduce visibility greatly, this does not work well on chakra sensors or ninja with dojutsu. Because the smoke is made using natural smoke, any opponents caught in it without eye protection and a gas mask or other method of filtering air will find it difficult to breathe without coughing and their eyes will water, making it more difficult to see for one post after they exit the smokescreen.
Jutsu Name: Smokescreen of Confusion
Rank: D
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Close, Medium, Long (depends on rank of user)
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This jutsu is only able to be used by a member of the clan who smokes marijuana instead of tobacco. Just like the normal smokescreen, this one can reduce visibility immensely. After performing handseals, the user will inhale marijuana smoke and combine it with their own chakra to increase production to a larger scale, then blow it out in a burst of smoke that can engulf the area. This jutsu will also not be an effective smokescreen against sensory ninja or dojutsu, but there is an added effect. Just like the original Smokescreen Jutsu, this technique causes blurred vision and coughing, but extended exposure (for two posts) can cause the opponent to feel dizzy and less coordinated for the next three posts. This effect is also present in the user of the jutsu, however.
Jutsu Name: Smoke Clone
Rank: C
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Any
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This jutsu can create clones made entirely of smoke. After performing handseals, the user of the technique will take in a lungful of air and combine it with their chakra to increase production of the smoke. When the user breathes out the smoke, it will form into a replicate form of the user of the technique. This clone is not physical, however, and cannot hold objects or attack an opponent. However, when it is attacked and "hit", it will explode outwards into a smokescreen, and it can even detonate at will.
Jutsu Name: Unmoving Smokescreen
Rank: B
Element: N/A
Ranges: Any
Type: Genjutsu
Description: This jutsu can only be used by a clan member with genjutsu as one of their specialties. This technique creates the illusion of a large smokescreen that is being emitted from the body of the user and enclosing the opponent in the blinding smoke. The illusion is not affected by wind or water, which will usually dissipate most smoke ninjutsu, although the user of the technique can still be hurt by either technique. The genjutsu can be dispelled by Kai or with pain, and is easily seen through by dojutsu.
Jutsu Name: Greater Smokescreen
Rank: B
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Medium, Long
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This jutsu is an improvement on the original Smokescreen Jutsu. Instead of simply inhaling smoke, lacing it with chakra, and exhaling it into a smokescreen, the user will inhale the smoke and supersaturate the fumes with their chakra before exhaling it into a smokescreen. This has the added effect of making the user of the technique invisible to sensory ninja and dojutsu ninja as well, due to the chakra overload. In addition to making it more difficult to see through, this makes the smokescreen slightly more difficult to disperse via wind jutsu, and requires a gust-form wind ninjutsu of the same rank to dissipate the smokescreen.
Jutsu Name: Perfected Smokescreen
Rank: A
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Medium, Long
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This technique allows the clan member to lace their smokescreen with one type of gaseous vapor, allowing the smokescreen to become either combustible or toxic after one full post of handseals. Toxic smokescreens, however, require medical knowledge, and so the user of this technique must be well-versed in ijutsu as well as ninjutsu in order to use the toxic version of this technique. In addition, the poison used must have the approval of two members of staff before it can be included in this jutsu. When the combustible smokescreen is used and fire is introduced, the entire cloud of smoke will burn quickly in the form of an explosion. If the user of the technique is caught in the combustible smokescreen, they will also be burned by this technique.
A smokescreen cannot be changed to become combustible or poisonous; it must be made so. In other words, once a combustible or poisonous smoke is made, it cannot be un-poisoned, nor can it be made less combustible. Once created, the smokescreen cannot change, except through dissipation or introduction of the smokescreen. In addition, if one chooses to learn to use the toxic smokescreen, they will be unable to use the combustible smokescreen as well. The same is true for when one chooses to learn combustible smokescreen. The two types are not able to be used in conjunction, and learning to perform one makes the second impossible.
Jutsu Name: Hardened Smoke
Rank: A
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Medium, Long
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: The user must first already have a smokescreen in the topic. After performing two full posts of handseals, they will hold the Snake handseal, and the smokescreen will stop and harden. This causes all those inside the smokescreen to slow to half-speed, but the user of the technique must hold the handseal in order to keep the smoke hardened, making it impossible for the clan member to make any use of other jutsu or weapons. The smokescreen does not affect ninja with taijutsu or kenjutsu as their "main" specialty, meaning even genin can escape this jutsu. This jutsu cannot be used in conjunction with Shadow Clones or other physical clones.
The jutsu can also be hardened so as to become solid, but only if the clan member is directly touching the smoke. This makes it possible for the clan member to "ride" on a cloud or platform of smoke, though this has the same weakness as the more offensive version.
Jutsu Name: Masterful Smoke Twister
Rank: S
Element: Smoke
Ranges: Close, Medium
Type: Ninjutsu
Description: This is the greatest technique of the Kemuriburu Clan and is only usable by ninja at A-rank. This technique requires two full posts of handseals before the user of the technique pulls off their shirt to expose as much skin as possible, allowing the smoke tendrils to rise off their bodies. When the clothing is pulled off, the clan member will extend their arms and spin, causing the smoke to twist around them as it thickens. This is the last chance an opponent has to attack or escape before the real jutsu begins.
The user of the technique continues to spin and creates a funnel cloud of smoke, which can pull in nearby objects which are not rooted into the ground and even people and lift them into the air. This can be used to smother an opponent with smoke or pummel them with debris or weapons, or it can be ended after the opponent has reached the apex of the twister, causing them to fall to what is likely to be their death.
Clan History: This clan is one of the first to have been created in Kazangakure. When the clan was young, its members would ritualistically breathe in the fumes that would spring up from a volcanic vent near the village. Although a large number of the clan members would die from inhaling the toxic fumes, some had built up a resistance to this smoke. Although immunity to toxic fumes was not considered by most to be particularly useful, the Kazankage at the time gave the Kemuriburu clan its official title of a ninja clan. For the next few years, the Kemuriburu clan was used only as ambush attackers to be used against invaders. By hiding in vents filled with toxic fumes, they could remain hidden until an enemy came too close and was grabbed and pulled in by the clan member, killing them quickly and efficiently.
However, it became clear that this very small role would not be needed very often and was not in great demand, as enemies rarely went near volcanic vents. This prompted the clan leaders to try and develop a more successful method of using the clan's immunity to smoke and poisonous gases to their advantage. After an unsuccessful attempt to create a ninjutsu that actually made volcanic vents near the opponent, the clan leaders found something that
did work. After breathing in the toxic fumes and lacing it with their chakra, they could increase the volume of the toxic fumes to incredible sizes. This prompted other ninja in the clan to try the same. This made the clan far more successful as ambush attackers, and the clan has thrived in Kazangakure ever since.
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