Type: Supplementary/Offensive
Rank: A
Range: Short-Mid
Chakra Cost: 30
Damage Points: 60
Description: Rheotaxis is a behaviour where animals will turn against a current, lining their body with the water motion. The user will create a very thin mist, invisible to the naked eye, though clearly visible by Doujutsu, around the terrain, with a pattern of clearly visible, albeit small, water mosquitoes, which are nodules of aggregated mist. The water particles will have a similar property as the Mist Rain technique, where instead of the water eating the chakra from other techniques to make them weaker, which is essentially absorbing chakra within other techniques, Rheotaxis will have the opposite effect. The thin water particles will almost allow themselves to be absorbed by the chakra within other techniques. Lightly suspended in the air, they will follow the current of foreign chakra and turn towards the source, so even the smallest hint of chakra will move the suspended particles.
Practical speaking, when an opponent moulds chakra to perform a technique within the mist, the water particles will quickly converge towards the enemy, to follow the chakra, while the mosquitoes turn into needles that implode onto the man with speed similar to a drawn arrow, piercing him and interrupting the technique. This can be used offensively, up to Mid Range, or in a supplementary version, at half the chakra, up to Long range. This C rank version of Rheotaxis does not deal any damage, but allows the user to pin point an opponent by following the direction of the non threatening mosquito needles.
Note: While the mist can stay indefinitely on the field, without the user having to maintain it, it will only have a single usage, as the whole mist will converge as needles at the first foreign technique that is being moulded within, effectively unloading the technique.
Note: A Rank can only be used 3 times per battle and requires a 2 turn cool down.