Type: Weapon
Rank: N/A
Range: N/A
Chakra Cost: N/A
Damage Points: N/A
Description: Fugu is a hollowed 1.5 meter long wooden stick, made with the Chakra Tree wood. It is a personalized weapon, allowing only the user to wield or manipulate it (Even if the opponent has Wood chakra or similar). By charging chakra into the Fugu and blowing through it, the user can shoot out Chakra-materialized thread needles, which gain substance and properties based on the technique used. These thread needles are the same size as vaccine needles, thus, to the naked eye, they become hard (yet not impossible) to see when in motion. Upon hitting a target, they serve to infuse their element into the target's body, albeit in a very small area.
#1: Needle Shooting - The Main purpose of the Fugu stick is to be a blowgun weapon. The user is capable of loading it with Needles or performing Needle-based Bukijutsu or Ninjutsu through it. This can be done chakralessly, by physically loading the hollow tube with ammunition and then blowing through it or spinning the tube, which can launch the needle up to mid-range with great speed and accuracy. Once per turn, the user is capable of passively infusing 10 chakra into the Fugu stick, to boost the needle's damage and range by one tier ( +20 damage, +1 Range ). This is done in the same time frame as the technique used.
#2: Needle Materialization - Through the user's Fuuinjutsu mastery, the user is capable of performing Jutsu through the Fugu Stick, which will then materialize the jutsu with all its properties and damage into the shape of a threaded needle. This Ability does not bypass handseal requirements or range restrictions, such as turning a Rasengan or a shield Jutsu that goes up to short range into a raw chakra-style thread needle that can be shot up to short-range, to deal damage or release itself in the original shape. Similarly, one can create a chakra needle from a Genjutsu technique, and that will also be bound by the range that the Genjutsu had originally. The needle can then be used to pierce a target and deal the damage and auxiliary effects of the original technique. Alternatively, it can unseal the technique back into its original shape, expanding to full size and dealing the damage that way. Another example would be turning the Summoning Technique into a needle to summon the desired animal in the spot pierced by the needle. This ability is done by performing hand seals interwoven with the Fugu. A rank techniques can only be turned into needles 5 times per battle, and S ranks can only be turned into needles 3 times per battle. Forbidden Ranked techniques can't be turned into needles. After S ranked usage, this ability cannot be used for two turns.
#3: Form Manipulation - The user can change the form, density, and height of the Fugu stick at will, allowing the user to wield the Fugu like a staff, or for greater accuracy. The user is able to change the size of the Fugu stick up to 3 times it’s original size and even able to change it’s form into that of a different weapon, albeit limitedly, taking the shape of generic weapons through which the user can perform other categories of Bukijutsu, such as Kenjutsu for a sword or 9 Verses of Shakujo for the homonymous weapon. Losing the hollow tube will revoke the access to the #1 and #2 abilities, but the ranked form change can be embued into attacks of defenses using the weapon itself, acquiring the S&W of Neutrality to Tai/Ken and Elemental Ninjutsu. Form Manipulation can be actively used once per turn. This ability can collectively be used 5 times a battle and costs 30 chakra to perform, burning a cost of 5 chakra per turn to sustain. To transform into a different weapon altogether, the user must expend 40 chakra and these changes last up to 3 turns each with a cooldown time of the same length.