Quote:I'm not saying it's dull per se, just that I don't see the point in covering it in detail if I'm not going to change anything, espescially when there's a good dozen other fight scenes in this sequence already.
Well, not that exciting if you don't see anything interesting about playing chess. ^_^
Quote:That's the bunny! And I didn't say he had to do it alone. Shino springs immediately to mind, and / or Haruno Ichimaru, the ANBU jounin.
'Beetle hunting'? Looking for Kabuto, you mean? Well, with Serenity finished and him likely among the ninja that've thus been freed up to take off for the more active parts of the battle, he'd be the logical choice - even if describing K as having a twisty mind is like saying a snake walks funny, he'd still be the best qualified to try and guess where he'd go next...
Quote:Well, it's supposed to be an emotion-affecting genjutsu, that reverses the targets goals, so they'll consider freinds enemies and enemies freinds. Instead, it made her love-rival into her target and her target her rival, plus dropping some inhibitions, per ... whoever it was, I can't rmemeber now... the post about her coming on and clingy with Rikou and Neji laughing his ass off (granted, he'd just be smirking, more likely) in the prelims - but even after being released and she goes back to mainly focussing on Rikou, she can't quite see her rival as being so terribly bad any more...
Tell me more...
Of course, it takes her most of the interval between the preliminary rounds and the finals just to stop curling into a beet-red ball of embarrrassment, and only the fact that she has to pay attention now or Naruto could get hurt is able to make her actually talk to Rikou without relapsing (*pichupichu* "... that's... not fair..." ) in the fight. By the end, though, the shared brush with death turns them into freindly rivals at worst, both glowing after being thanked by their mutual interest.
Now, granted, they are still only twelve and thirteen, no no one's going to be popping off for a roll in the bushes, but I seem to recall SOMEONE (nudge nudge) waving a "Go Poly" banner at one point, so I'm guessing WHOEVER that might have been could possibly interpret these events in accordance with what they wanted to see.
- CD
ETA: A few notes on what I said before, though no one seems to have taken issue with them - Hotaru probably has had her Heal and Wound gates fiddled with, not Life and Death, and the Star of Destiny seal in Chidori is the "Special Bird" used in one of the versions of the seals shown used to perform it - which seem to be different every damn time. Well, bag that, it's the version with "Special Bird," which is one of the Stars dealing with lightning and focus.
Full Moon Shines Through the Gate uses all of the Stars to build a perfectly balanced structure of chakra around the user (requiring, obviously, that they have the control to put exactly the same amount of chakra into all 108, and even Usagi doesn't have enough to just pour the max into each one) and then disrupts it with, literally, just a breath more.
Also, saying that the Stars each channel just slightly less than the amount of chakra that will harm the user's body doesn't mean that's the same for everyone - Sasuke's reserves aren't anywhere near two thirds of Kakashi's, rather Kakashi's chidori are considerably more powerful, so if, for example, it was an RPG and Sasuke had a chakra pool of five, with each Chidori taking two points, Kakshi's pool is probably twenty or so and each one can be up to six points... only more so, unless chakra points were like Kingdom Hearts magic points. The fact that this makes Usagi's pool in the region of 120, given that she has to do a summoning first that's strong enough to last long enough to do the technique, and there's a high minimum for each Star, is why I keep saying "The Chakra Pool that Makes Jounin Cry." Only the San-Nin, kage, and some Akatsuki would have more on their own, and jinchuuriki when their demons are cooperating. Of course, it's no good if you can't use it, and Auntie is quite firm about not letting Usagi just call her up and smash enemies with overwhelming force, at least until she's TRIED to fight on her own or is obviously overwhelmingly outmatched. Also, as noted, finding time to use more than one or two Stars in a series of seals when you're in a combat situation is a challenege on its own, since they can't be rushed or interrupted - normal ninjutsu, if pumped with abnormally huge amounts of chakra, are usually the rule with the occasional single-seal Stars technique like Blade of the Crescent Moon. (AKA the Golden Frisbee of Doom, Discs of LunarTron, or Moon Tiara Action.)That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Next morning, Harry found himself butt-naked in the other side of town, mouth tasting of lima beans. - from Uzumaki Harry by Shadow Crystal Mage
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