Scott
`` Dis be Highlands ``

*Sana was breathing in and out slowly as he closed his eyes in the middle of the rolling plains outside of Noragakure. He was focusing on the feeling of the wind whistling through the grass and the smell of everything around him. He could smell a rodent or maybe some kind of small mammal nearby, the fact that the smell was familiar to him probably indicating it was something closer to a field mouse or a squirrel perhaps.*

*He thought he might have focused a bit too much on his sense of hearing when he was training, in terms of orientation in a three dimensional space it was certainly more useful than smell, but once nose could tell much more detailed information than hearing could. With his ears he could only tell that someone was behind him, his nose could theoretically tell him who the person behind him was, assuming he knew who they were already. He had read in books that exceptionally talented ninja and Inuzuka could get even more information from someone's scent. Things like body type and sex and even handedness, which sounded a bit far fetched to Sana but he supposed he wasn't an authority on the subject in any way.*

*He had invited Jin over to help him with learning some techniques, mostly his clan's ultimate barrier ninjutsu as well as a specialized seal designed to activate the very item that Jin had constructed for him. Hopefully this would dramatically cut down on the time it took for Sana to be fully primed for combat. Not that it was strictly necessary for him to be effective in combat, but if he wanted to go all out it would take a few crucial seconds that would absolutely slow him down in a pinch.*
Charles
*"Hey, uh, Sana. I guess you already noticed me then."*

Jin moved a hand behind his head, rubbing over it some. His stealth was not exactly trained, but it was something he'd been slowly trying to get the hang of. That being said, comedically tiptoeing through the grass didn't do a whole lot when the crunch of fresh, herbacious plants still sounded out across the field. Still though, it was a worthy endeavor in his mind, one he'd already started formulating a plan for. Not necessarily the most important measure in his plan, but a good one to address nonetheless. He cleared his throat, trying to address a friend and not another blank face rolling across the countryside. Sana was not a blip in his existence - not to the extent that 99% of people he met were. Sana held deeper meaning to Jin, perhaps in ways the Uzumaki could never fully reciprocate, and even somehow in a form that was difficult to understand. It made him uneasy sometimes to think about it, but it truly was the case. Sana was the one and only.

The fucker.

It was only the fucker that Jin would park his train and take time out of his busy train schedule to dedicate a day to. He cracked his knuckles and approached him, taking a seat and casting an arm around the Uzumaki in brotherly camaraderie. Nothing more than that - Jin may have the white hair and the violet eyes of a Kaguya, but he wasn't so gay that his entire skillset was bones.

Actually, well, he was kinda gay-ish. Kana was cute.

*"So. You need things, I have stupid things to try. Maybe some diving underground. I'm pumped."*
Scott
*Sana's ears perked up when he heard the distinct crunch of grass under someone's foot, the scent of oil and coal dust combined with a fainter scent of various things Sana couldn't be sure how to put a name to other than 'Jin'. Opening his eyes to see his friend clasp him across the shoulder, Sana smiled back. He was not all too dissimilar in Jin's evaluation of people and his perceived worth of others, although Sana's attitude was more nature than nurture.*

*It was interesting to note that Jin's clasp felt a lot like Hozen's, he supposed that showed how hard the both of them had been working on their physiques. That ungodly strength was not altogether unpleasant to Sana, but he usually preferred guys to be on the smaller side, at least aesthetically. Plus he had known Jin as a genin, that made it weird. Regardless of the fact that Jin was only about a year younger than he was.*

*Women were more than free to tear him in half however. He wondered were he picked up that particular inclination.*

"Diving Underground huh? Well I'm here to try to make a barrier and a specialty seal, which one were you thinking of trying first? Arts and crafts first and then trying to smash things into a barrier or the reverse? I was thinking of some chakra flow principles and how they could be applied to fuuinjutsu. What kind of stupid were you thinking of?"

*Sana would then shuffle away for a second before pulling out a small scroll and unrolling it. Revealing a long string of half-finished fuuinutsu formulae. They seemed to all revolve around storing a small amount of chakra and flowing it into something once a trigger was activated.*
Charles
*"Oh, I'm fine with anything. This will be sort of me trying to figure out how to like, actually dive underground in the first place, right? It's a very new concept to me, but I mean, if it's available - why not use it, you know?"*

Whac-a-Mole was the first thing on the list, really. Figuring out how to slip into the Earth was a strange prospect in of itself, but one he could certainly figure out given a little bit of trial and error. The air floating between Sana and Jin was palpable with some sort of tension anyhow, perhaps it would become a good motivator for escaping a potentially socially tenuous conversation. After all, Sana had mentioned fuuinjutsu.

He couldn't stand the Uzumaki and their stupid fuuinjutsu, despite being an incredibly prolific user on his own.

*"Uh, yeah, sure, we can talk shop on arts and crafts. This is..."* An expletive was desired there, but instead, Jin's thoughts just sort of trailed off as he stared at the sealing formula. It took him a few seconds to really begin to understand why in the hell this was written this way, until he stared at that juicy neck that the meteorite choker so often slid its tendrils into. Indeed, there was something needfully complex about its internal operations, and yet needing something external to feed it chakra... Was Sana really running dry? Certainly, the Uzumaki legend couldn't run out of chakra. That'd be equivalent to the Predator Unit not having a Monopoly board on them at all times to settle arguments.

A certain seal in Jin's left pocket weighed very heavily upon his soul. An arbiter of his life, truly.

*"You'll have to explain a bit more I guess. I can see what's going on with what you have so far, but unfortunately I'm not a mind reader. I'd be way better at the Auction round if I was."*
Scott
"Ah, I see what you mean. So the Regalia needs to be fed chakra in order to activate right. So I was thinking that instead of taking the time to do that myself, I could get a seal to do that type of simple interaction for me and free me up to do other things with my time. Especially if I set it to an electrical trigger and can activate overdrive and then activate the item as a result of me activating overdrive. I could drastically reduce the time to get into full danger mode."

*He then folded back the parts of the scroll already filled with scrawling formula and showed a newly blank page. Absently doodling on it as he spoke. The seal itself wasn't terribly complicated but it would involve the storage and the injection of chakra which was a higher level concept generally. He didn't need that much chakra in the seal, just enough to activate the regalia. Turning his thoughts to earth release and falling into the ground, He spoke up again.*

"From what I have heard it usually involves one of two principles. Either turning the ground beneath you into a softer more malleable material and sliding through it, or making a hole to drop yourself in, before then doing what I just said again. They're essentially the same but I think one is more advanced than the other. Heard Kugo talk about it while we were training one time. Not that I am an authority on earth release or anything like it. I'm not particularly good at either of your elements of choice, sorry."

*Lightning was very simple in his perspective, it wasn't the jutsu that needed the biggest thing done to manipulate it or what have you. Mainly because manipulating it to anything extreme was exceptionally difficult. Lightning didn't enjoy being used for anything other than obliterating a target usually. With chakra flow you could get a bit more out of it however.*
Charles
*"Fed chakra to activate... Yeah, I get that, but why would this... Oh. Oh, okay, so... **Oh**, okay."*

That did indeed speed up the process quite a bit - a nice streamline that perhaps could've been nice to have built in. There had been little room for negotiation with that metal though - the meteorite he'd sourced for Sana's Regalia had been from a particularly persnickety region of the Frontier, and it'd taken on many of those personality traits in of itself. To convince the meteorite to allow such grand manipulations as he'd performed already was a challenge. Nonetheless, it'd been a shouting match between semi-malleable metal and a man wielding a hammer with enough strength to topple towers. Needless to say, Jin had beaten the creation into submission. It hadn't gone without its challenges though. Getting the tendrils had been weird.

*"Oh, I'm going for the former. I'm fairly experienced with Earth Release - thank the spirits for Heavyweight and Lightweight Technique - but this is just a newish concept to me. I'd rather be able to just fall into the ground at will, which is why I've been trying to practice with a particular variant of the whole underground schtick. See, if I can get underground, I'll be in a pretty tight pocket, right? Then I can just use my armor's natural ability to spew water by taking chakra to 'pressurize' the pocket. Because I'll be able to make the earth malleable, I'll be able to choose which way the built up-pressure launches me. Like those squirt guns the kids down near the river play with sometimes. Little pumps. I'm making a hydraulic pressure chamber underground and now I'm the thing being pumped. Fuck."*

The handseals were weird, but not entirely foreign to him. He'd tried a few times already to drop underground, but not entirely to the best success. Though they had elemental mismatch, at least the two of them typically operated together in a pretty clear fashion.

He briefly wondered why they hadn't gone on a mission in a while. Probably because most of Jin's involved brutalizing top secret sadistic hunting beasts. The sort of thing that brought excitement to a man.

Either way.

Jin cleared his throat, forming the handseals once more and then... Well, nothing in particular. *"I can get earth chakra to leave my feet. I do it all the time. The hard part is... Concentrating it enough to like, drop through the ground. It's hard, you know? Even with pretty decent chakra control."* He rubbed at the back of his head, pulling a coffeemilk out of seemingly nowhere as the hand returned to his side. The pop flew off as he flicked it with his thumb, taking a sip.

*"Just gotta keep the injection ratio small. You ain't need much. Smaller it is, better control you'll have."*