Hikari Bloodline: Hikari no karada (Body of Light)
Bloodline Ability: The Hikari have the ability to use light in their jutsu as they would other elements. Unlike other advanced elements the Hikari's light release is not a combination of two basic elements, but a stand alone primary elements. Hikari may have two other elements like all other Shinobi, but Light must be their primary element. As part of the bloodline the Hikari have phosphorescent lines running beneath their skin, which they can cause to glow a pale blue light. These lines are the paths along which chakra flow, and the special chakra the Hikari possess can shine and give off light at will. This glow can light up a 20 ft area, and the light provided is enough that anyone can see easily within that radius. The Hikari are able to make specific parts of these lines glow, and can isolate the glow to specific parts of their body.
When a person is hit by any light element jutsu, they are 'marked' for one post, the area where they were struck glowing slightly. If hit by another light jutsu before the mark fades they are drained of 10 chakra. A target can only hold one mark at a time, and a jutsu that detonates a mark does not proc another, unless stated. A single jutsu cannot both mark and detonate unless otherwise stated.
Clan History: They say when that when the world was created three forces struggled for power, darkness, light and the angles who joined both sides. These early wars are lost to the overwhelming decay of time until there is nothing more than whispered tales of legends half forgotten a millennium ago. Truth fades into obscurity, reality lost. Obscurity fades into history, the things we record, and take for fact. History fades into legend, and those who believe are ridiculed. Legend fades to dust, and so it is with the origins of the Hikari. There is a legend, and who is to say it is not the remnants of truth, that a millennium ago stars fell from the heavens in the creation of the world. These stars were pure, and made from light that made the sun seem dim, and dull. These lights fell over endless oceans and mountains, forests and plains. As these lights struck, they faded, dulled by the earth on which they found themselves. Over the many years, only one light remained bright, hidden deep in an ocean as deep as the stars are far. It was on a fateful evening when a lone sailor was struck by a storm, many say the storm was an omen of the many wars to come that would befall the land, but nevertheless, the storm sunk his ship to the bottom of the sea. As it sunk, he was trapped inside, kept alive by a tiny pocket of air in which he could stay. Darkness surrounded him as the boat sank further and further, until he was about to go made from the solitude and the cold. It was when he was at his lowest, that he saw a light right outside his window, he stared and was amazed, that in the pitch black depths of the ocean, something was glowing. Knowing that he was a dead man, the sailor swam from his boat towards the light, hoping to die in its warm embrace, but as he drew nearer the light pulled at him, and when he reached out to touch it the light rushed inside him, filling him to the very core of his being. He looked around to see millions of fish, each glowing with an inner light just like he was now. The fish surrounded him, and in a rush of water raced him to the surface.
Many years later he married, and he and his wife bore child. Like his father, the boy possessed an affinity for light, and glowing lines appeared under his skin to comfort him in the dark. Time passed and the family stretched into generations, each possessing the same abilities bestowed by the light unto their ancestor. Years later the family, now having taken the name Hikari, meaning light, moved into the village that now resided in the very ocean their great ancestor had found his salvation in the light. To this day they still reside there, grateful for the mercy that light bestowed upon their ancestor, and now bestows upon them. They are a light in the dark ocean floor, and are well revered by their other villagers. In the most secret meetings of their clan's they speak whispered words of a truth that they have kept hidden for generations, they are the descendants of the men who fought in that first war as angels and demons for both sides in the struggle for dominion in the world's creation. The Hikari know the origins of the ancient light which gave them their powers, it was the corpse of an ancient Seinaru fallen from the heavens and preserved for millenia on the ocean floor. The Hikari possess a fraction of the immense power of the Seinaru and have a secret name given to them long ago by the Guardians and the Seinaru themselves. Angels. To this day they watch and wait, fearing the time their clan will be called upon to defend the source of their power if the war of dominions begins again.
Location: Fukamigakure
Limit on Jutsu: 3D, 2C, 2B, 1A, 1S
Genin (D Rank)
Name: Beaming Rays
Rank of Jutsu: D
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: 25ft
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. The user forms a gun with their fingers, and is able to shoot narrow rays of light at a speed of 30mph. They can shoot up to five rays, that extend up to 25 feet before becoming ineffective. These rays last for 2 seconds after being shot, and any who's flesh comes into contact with them will suffer first degree burns to their body and be marked. 2 post cooldown.
Name: Shining Body
Rank of Jutsu: D
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance:Self
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. After the required handseals the user overloads the chakra in their body, causing it to glow as brightly as the sun. For the duration of this jutsu the target glows brightly enough that if anybody were to look directly at the user they are blinded, thi blind is only effective while they are looking at the user and looking away will remove the blindness. Looking back at the again while the technique is beign used will cause the blindness to return. The user is able to move during this technique. Lasts 2 posts. 3 post cooldown.
Name: Bending Light
Rank of Jutsu: D
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: Self
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. After the required handseals the Hikari member uses their unique chakra to bend the light around themselves, causing them to become invisible to the eye. If stationary the user becomes fully invisible, but if they move the effect will ripple, causing them the technique to only be 70% as effective. Lasts 3 posts. 5 post cooldown.
Chuunin (C Rank)
Name: Blazing Sunburst Blade
Rank of Jutsu: C
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: Self, (30ft for the extension)
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. After charging the user summons a blade of light 4ft in length. This blade is extremely hot to touch by anyone other than a Hikari, and is able to pierce iron with
its point and on contact with skin will cause second degree burns and cut an inch into flesh. This blade can extend and retract up to 30 ft in length at will, extending at a speed of 25 mph. The blade leaves a trail behind it that lasts as long as the blade does, though this trail is merely cosmetic. When struck the blade has the durability of iron, but the blade will not break, it will simply let anything that can break it slide through. Lasts for 3 posts. 5 post cooldown.
Name: Starburst
Rank of Jutsu: C
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: 50 ft
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. Two balls of light form at the end of the user's fingers. On the user's command these balls shoot out at a speed of 30mph at a target. Upon striking the target, or on the users command, the balls of light explode and shoot out a beam of light per ball that home in on the closest enemy at a speed of 35 mph. If struck by these beams, the target suffers second degree burns where the light strikes, in addition they are drained of 10 chakra, and marked. These beams are able to pierce steel. The balls can be held on the fingers for one post. 5 post cooldown.
Special Jounin (B Rank)
Name: Twenty Beams of Light
Rank of Jutsu: B
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: 100 ft
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. After performing the required handseals the user opens their palms, and twenty beams of light shoot out at their target. These beams travel at 50mph and home in on their target, but only ever travelling in a straight line, zig-zagging when it needs to change direction. The beams can travel around corners and over/under obstacles but can only pierce iron harndess and below, otherwise they are blocked. These beams leave a trail behind them that lasts as long as they do, though they do no damage. When one of these beams strikes a target the others become harmless and accelerate at blinding speeds to meet up with the target. Once all the beams arrive they detonate causing second degree burns in a large area where the first beam struck, and draining 20 chakra, they also mark the target. The beams and trails can last for 2 posts before fading. 5 post cooldown.
Name: Light Binding
Rank of Jutsu: B
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: 75 feet
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. Light shoots out from the five fingertips of the user and accelerates towards a target at 50mph. Upon striking a target they wrap around them as beams of solid light, draining 20 chakra from the target to maintain their binding, and immobilizing the targets body for two posts. The target can break free of the binding by spending 10 extra chakra to overcharge the beams, causing them to become ineffective. The binding lasts for 2 posts. 5 post cooldown.
Jounin (A Rank)
Name: Body of Light
Rank of Jutsu: A
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: Self
Description: Requires charging equal to handseals. The user's body glows with light, and their whole being seems to be made up of it. This state charges all of the chakra within the users body, causing the clan members physical form to become made of light for a short period of time. While using this technique the user gains a 60% increase in speed, and all Hikari clan jutsu's chakra cost is reduced by 10. Also while in this form techniques that do not use enough chakra will simply flow through the users body, effectively protecting them from all B rank and below techniques for the duration of the technique. Once the technique ends to user recieves a 40% reducton in speed and is unable to mark their opponents with Hikari jutsu for a total of five posts. Lasts for 5 posts. 7 post cooldown.
S Rank
Name: Finales Funkeln
Rank of Jutsu: S
Element Affinity: Hikari
Type: Ninjutsu
Distance: 200ft
Description: Requires handseals. After the required handseals the users body becomes filled with light chakra and pulsates for two posts and cannot move during this time, all those within 100 ft of th user can feel an immense pressure coming from them. After the two posts the glowing stops and the user floats roughly a foot off the ground. A small beam of light shoots out from between their hands in front of them at blinding speed, almost appearing instant. Immediately afterwards a humongous torrent of light chakra shoots in a huge beam in front of the user, this beam is 10ft high and 10ft across. This beam travels at 120mph in a straight line, and cannot be moved. Anyone hit by the beam will be suffer extreme burns to the majority of their body, and anyone below A rank will be instantly drained of their chakra and suffer intense burns. A rank and above will suffer intense third degree burns, and are drained of 50 chakra if they survive. After use the user suffers severe drawbacks from focusing such a great amount of chakra, they incur a 50% increase in the cost of any jutsu used for the next 5 posts and are unable to use Hikari jutsu for 2 posts. Once a topic use.