Ishimaru's Childhood Medical Training

[Pikachu]

It was dark and dank in the underground layer of the now rogue Sannin Orochimaru. However, it was off no bother at all. Here he felt safe, free from all the bloodshed and carnage that had existed in his life since his family was killed off in the crossfires of the Mist Village Bloodline massacres. Orochimaru had offered him a home, and all he had to do was serve him, an order he gladly obeyed. And to do so, he had begun to train under Orochimaru's right hand man Kabuto. For Ishimaru, a mastery of medical jutsu would allow him to help Orochimaru in his quest for immortality.

However, Kabuto was busy today. They were preparing for the arrival of some kid named Sasuke, and with all this attention on him, Ishimaru was already annoyed with him. What was so special about this kid anyways that everything was being dropped just for him. No matter though. He would just continue with his studies, and hopefully one day get the drop on him and eliminate him.

For today's lesson, he was going to focus on the series of Humor Imbalance jutsu. They were the opposite of most medical jutsu. Instead of healing, they ruined a person's health. However, to get any inclination that the training was working, he would need a living target. And at the moment, he was the only one available.

He started by focusing chakra in his hand, like he would do for the Chakra scalpel. However, this jutsu didn't cut, but messed with a person's internal systems to create the symptoms of disease. From what he read, the technique activated the immune system like a disease would, or at least the low level one. This would make the body experience the symptoms of common illnesses such as fever, runny nose, inflammation, sore throats, coughing, etc. Not very deadly, but one cough during a jutsu and you could have it backfire on you. Besides, one had to take baby steps before they could run.

His hand began to glow a slightly sickly green and red color, signify the jutsu's dark intent. He took a deep breath, and then punched himself in the stomach. A smile appeared on his face as he felt the effects of the technique begin to take effect. His skin felt clammy, and he was burning up to the point he wanted to strip down to just his underwear. His breathing became labored, and his nose felt stuffed up. If it wasn't for the fact that he had trouble breathing, he would have laughed at the jutsu's apparent success. It also didn't help that a second later he began to loose consciousness.

"Okay, I think I used to much chakraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa." He moaned out the last part as he fainted.

Name: Mild Humor Imbalance Technique
Element: None
Chakra: 10
Rank: Genin
Description: The user places his hand on the enemy and uses chakra to disrupt their medical well-being. Can cause minor symptoms such as mild fevers, coughing, inflammation, etc. Not a fatal move but can serve as a distraction in the middle of a battle.
Specialization: Medical

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[Pikachu]

It was about an hour later before Ishimaru found himself waking up, with a wet cloth on his head. Someone must have moved him back to his sleeping cell, because he was on a bed with his shirt off to the side. He felt much better, a sign that the jutsu had worn off by then. Of course, he had no clue how long the jutsu had lasted, so he had no idea what the effect's strength was. For all he knew, it lasted only a minute after he fainted. And unless the opponent fainted, that wasn't good enough time. It had to be extended longer.

He swung his legs to the side until he touched the cold, stone floor. For a second he shivered, and almost decided to put the shirt back on. But in just a few seconds he'd be sweating and suffering a fever, so it would probably be best if he didn't do that. He took another deep breath, and began to focus the chakra into his palms until the sickly green-red color appeared.

"Alright then, let's reduce the amount of chakra so it doesn't affect my system so drastically. I'm pretty sure that fainting is not part of it at this point. All it should get is a high fever and other minor symptoms."

He threw a punch into his stomach again, and soon found himself collapsing onto the floor. Even while his thinking was being impaired, he started to mentall check what was going on. His body heating itself up to kill the germ, also known as a fever? Check. This, of course, was causing all the other symptoms associated with heat such as sweating. Was his throat sore, a sign of extra blood going to infected areas and thereby causing swelling and soreness? A quick cough followed by pain told him that was the case. Everything was working as it should.

Of course, there was one issue. Since he wasn't fainting, he was going to be feeling like crap for awhile until the technique's chakra wore off and his immune system began to go back to normal. It was all part of his research into medical techniques of course, but he made a note to begin finding new subjects for him to test the techniques on. Unless, of course, he wanted to end up vomiting his entire stomach out onto the floor once he started doing the more powerful techniques of the group.

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[Pikachu]

It was several weeks later before Ishimaru would gain a chance to practice on other techniques. This Sasuke kid finally arrived, and everyone became obsessive over him. Ishimaru still did not see why everyone wanted this kid. He was nothing but a selfish, self-absorbed brat who didn't even care about anyone. Of course, Ishimaru was willing to admit that he was like that as well, but this kid took things to a whole new level.

"No matter, though. Give it some time, and I will surpass him as a ninja." Ishimaru said to himself as began to practice his next technique. This time he decided to focus on enhancing his own physical capabilities. He lacked the strength to be of any major threat in a taijutsu fight, so he had to make up for it somehow. Since he was a medical-nin in the training, what better way than to use jutsu to do it.

So there he was, in his chamber, shirt off (it would be easier to detect changes in muscle mass that way), and sitting cross legged on the floor to help with concentration.

Taking a deep breath, he began to focus his chakra into the muscles on the upper part of his body. He was attempting to use it to increase their mass indirectly through the speeding up of the protein-creation process, as well as other processes related to muscle-creation. This only occurred temporarily, and eventually his muscles would return to normal as the chakra support gave way. Still, for a time, he would have enhanced physical strength, something that would give him an edge in a fight.

As the chakra worked it's way through his body, he felt his arms get rigid for a moment. He panicked for a second, thinking he might have paralyzed them or something, but eventually he felt some pain in them that told him otherwise. He gritted his teeth, and watched as his arm began to twitch. With each twitch, he noticed the muscles on his arms becoming more pronounced. He knew that wouldn't be enough to actually do anything as the size of the muscle wasn't the actual point when it came to strength. Still, the fact that he was able to affect his muscles through the use of chakra was a good sign. The twitching could probably not be helped though.

He stopped the flow of chakra, and waited for the muscle growth to stop before getting up. For a moment he felt a little dizzy, but eventually he regained a sense of balance. Looking himself over, he thought he looked rather good. While it wasn't the toned body of a taijutsu expert, it wasn't anything to sneer at. Of course, it was all temporary, and probably within the next half hour the chakra-enhanced proteins would work their way out of his system.

One thing he did notice, however, was that his arms felt rather sore now. While he did expect such things to happen, it was a bit worse than he thought. As he worked to improve the technique, he would have to make sure to add a numbing agent to not only lessen the twitching, but to lessen the pain from the process.

That, off course, made him wonder about the side effects of this technique. He'd have to explore it later, but for now, he was going to rest and wait for his muscles to return to normal before giving it another shot.

Name: Buffout Technique
Element: None
Chakra: 10 to Activate; 5 Per Post to Maintain
Rank: Genin
Description: Using chakra, the user is capable of temporarily increasing their strength and physical ability. Long term use (as in almost having it activated on a permanent basis) can cause muscle deterioration.
Specialization: Medical