*The fire warms Guv up slightly, but only barely manages to even minutely dry his clothes. The night has approached, consuming much of the warmth of the fire with the chill it carries forth, but Guv notices a far more interesting detail within the shadows, a figure moving haphazardly throughout the cloak of night, leaping downward from a branch from a twinkle of his left eye, the figure being barely illuminated by the hazy fire. Guv doesn't sigh as he normally would, nor make a comment, but merely lowers his right hand and twitches his two pointer fingers of the hand inwards towards the palm, motioning Yangus to climb upwards, which he promptly does until he's inside the tunic pocket. The figure, meanwhile, approaches moreso, now more visibly, but still a hazy figure; in reaction to his forward motion, Guv creates the verisimilitude of inattention, poking the fire with a nearby twig he left for such an occasion while keeping track of the figure through a slight glance to his left; he also esoterically begins to send Suiton chakra funneling through his hands, storing an immense amount through them. The figure then crouches, preparing a dash stance, a kunai barely hinted in his right hand, seemingly being morphed with fuuton chakra to increase itss sharpness. Guv turns, and expresses a pseudo-shocked expression... but then claps his hands before slamming them onto the ground on the left side of the ground below the log. Through his hands forms a swift, large stream of water dashes towards the figure, creating a circle of water about twelve feet in diameter. From this forms a pillar of water that's about six meters tall that pushes the figure up about twenty feet before collapsing onto the ground. As the pillar collapses, Guv forms the Bird → Dog → Snake → Rat handseals, which causes eight portions of the water to condense, with the final hand seal acting as a signal for the droplets to spark upwards, mostly keeping the figure in mid-air while coalescing about two meters above the man, and twenty-two meters total above Guv, thus being difficult for Guv to see through the pitch black night. Because of this, Guv barely morphs the ball into another pillar of water with a pseudo-maw onto it before sending it down onto the mid-air figure, mustering whatever strength and chakra connection Guv currently had. While the dragon-like pillar of water had immense strength behind it, it's the downward velocity from such a tall height that causes the most damage onto the poor figure, causing a loud thunk sound to be heard as the figure crashes into the earlier made puddle, while also creating a small crater to be formed underneath the figure when he crashes into the ground. Guv now gives off a bona-fide shocked expression before haphazardly dashing towards the figure. What he saw next... is a mess.*
*Water was sprayed and splashed everywhere from the collision, with clumps of dirt scattered throughout the area. Thick mud blocks much of the easy approach towards the body, but the body itself is the most disturbing detail. The body lays lifeless within the puddle crater, blood oozing from the collision site on the man's chest, but two details truly disturbed Guv. The first is that the man's headband possessed not the banner of Konoha, but rather the banner of Kumo, what was such a man doing in a relatively isolated corner of Konoha... but something more morbid awaited upon the man's face. The man possesses a shocked expression, his dead lifeless eyes shocked open, as if... as if he didn't know Guv was aware. But Guv also sees a hint of sadness within the dead man's glance... did he have family back in Kumo? Brothers, sisters, parents, a wife, some kids... yet here he was, dead... no different than the people of Azai, or the past Konoha shinobi. But... if Guv didn't fight, if Guv didn't live... then Agnes... Guv now sighs. Such is the way of this world... Agnes wishes to change it, but it will consume her if Guv doesn't live, and Guv knows... he doesn't want to know the consequences of his death. Thus Guv must live, and thus must be the focus of the world's hate, if only so then Agnes may thrive...*
Advantages:
1.) This jutsu multi-step performance actually allows it to defend against numerous jutsus and also many of the normal defenses behind the jutsu. For example, any Katon streams will immediately be stopped predictably by the water pillar pushing the opposing shinobi upwards, but the same can be said for any such streaming jutsu. The reason for this is that the user of any streaming jutsu needs concentration for the stream to be continued, and thus any distractions or interruptions of the stream will cancel out the jutsu. Mind, because this jutsu travels alongside the ground in a stream of water, mid-air streaming jutsus or jutsus capable of traveling through water will still need to be cancelled out, as this jutsu won't necessarily prevent them from continuing towards the user of this jutsu.
Now, the second portion of this jutsu creates eight balls of water that strike the opponent upwards. This makes it near impossible for the opponent to regain balance in order to move away from this jutsu, and thus allow the third portion, the dragon, to strike them downwards, thus causing considerable damage, and potentially killing lesser opponents from the velocity caused damage. Thus, the second step disturbs most potential dodges to this jutsu, and the third pretty much kills them, thus making the first step the crucial step to block for most shinobi.
2.) Knowing this, this jutsu is great for disrupting the opponent's movements and jutsus while allowing you to take advantage of the long gap during this jutsu to re-take the offensive as the dragon collides with the shinobi, as it's this step that frees the user to prepare new jutsus.
Disadvantages:
1.) If the shinobi manages to move away from the move mid-stage, by use, for example, of the wind stream jutsu by first preparing their stomach with a rock armor jutsu to better deflect the damage while also allowing them to retain their vision of the ground, and then using the wind stream jutsu to move away from the jutsu, this forces the opponent to finish the move, thus allowing the shinobi to strike them with a swift jutsu, for example, the False Spear of Darkness. However, this may be seen as meta-gaming if not prepared correctly, thus caution should be used with this counter.
2.) A safer, and frankly easier, counter is to just block the stream from ever approaching your position. The best method to do this, while also gaining a height advantage over your opponent, is using the Greater Earth Moving Core jutsu to increase your height as the stream moves towards you, thus making the stream crash into the wall, preventing the rest of the jutsu from being performed. This is because this jutsu requires a stream of water, which counts as a streaming jutsu, with all the disadvantages that entails, to travel towards the opponent, with this stream being visible to them. Thus, this allows a poignant opponent to easily use this jutsu to their advantage, and thus take a distance advantage over their opponent. This makes this jutsu easier to use in situations in which the opponent's vision is blocked or impaired.
*Guv hears a twig break, and swiftly turns to his right to notice another shinobi beginning to form rock armor around his body, an Iwa banner more clearly across his forehead. He bears a more frustrated expression, his eyes narrowing at a frightful pace, his face grimacing at Guv, yet his teeth bared with malicious intent.*
"Gr... you bastard, you dare disgrace us..."
*Guv, clearly still shocked from earlier encounter and not truly thinking straightly, performs a Tiger hand seal before storing an immense amount of chakra within his chest. He feels it about to burst out of him, leading the Iwa shinobi to bear an only momentary confused expression, before releasing the chakra as an extremely potent stream of water, bursting out of his mouth in such a powerful speed as to mostly obliterate the opposing shinobi, regardless of his rock armor, which crumbles away as the stream hits it. In the end, nothing but a bloody stain at the front end of the now destroyed tree in front of which the shinobi laid... alongside two fallen trees behind the shinobi... he had heard from Aigis about the incredibly potent power that certain jutsus possessed, yet placed emphasis on how life would always return... how the hell could that be true... how... how... how....*
Advantages:
1.) This jutsu is far easier to prepare than the last merely requiring a hand seal and then chakra storage into the chest/lung before release. The payoff is an incredibly cutting and powerful stream of water that can cut through most obstacles, as well as fluid in that it follows the head movement of the shinobi performing said jutsu. Thus, it carries numerous offensive and defensive capabilities, although these don't really differentiate from the other jutsus of this sort.
Disadvantages:
1.) However, this jutsu is still, at the end, a streaming jutsu that depends upon the mouth for proper performance. Thus, the mouth needs to be available to streaming, and thus any jutsu that clogs it or increases the difficulty of breathing will cancel out this jutsu. Then, any jutsu that either interrupts the streaming or unbalances the user will neuter this jutsu by stopping the stream of chakra sent into the jutsu, and thus cancel the jutsu itself. However, because of this jutsu's potent power, rarely will there be visual problems, as this jutsu's power can probably dispel most smoke or mist easily, and cut through most obstacles with ease. However, the performer of this jutsu is still vulnerable to Genjutsu, thus care is still needed to ascertain environmental and mental normalities before using this jutsu.
*A third shinobi jumps it, absolutely scared of Guv now, and immediately performs a few hand seals before slamming his hands onto the ground, causing the ground to sink some meters below Guv. Guv merely concentrates some more chakra into his chest before expelling a stream of water, thicker than earlier, but with less power as well, into the pit... Guv paid no attention to the ramifications of it... not noticing the cries of the poor boy, only a genin of Iwa...*
*Some hours later, Guv laid near the fire, poking it with a stick, his clothes still wet, though he gave no care to it now. He began to wonder, both as to what Agnes would say, but also as to why a squad of shinobi were here, and with ill intent at that... most of all, how could any shinobi remain sane when kids have to die like that. Surely this will bite him one day...*
Advantages:
1.) This jutsu utilizes a less powerful stream than the earlier, thus serving not as much of a cutting role as a filling role. Thus, while not a potent offensively, as it won't cut through walls and obstacles as easily, it will fill up pools much more easily, serves to increase one's mobility much easier (as with the previous jutsu, the potent power behind it increases its lack of predictability in regards to proper control and regulation over its mobility), and also push away obstacles, which serves its own purpose as a mechanism for offensive defenses
Disadvantages:
1.) Pretty much the same as the previous jutsu, really nothing different in this regard (forgive me for the laziness here)