February 18 - Houzuki Suigetsu
"Focus, Suigetsu. You want to become one of the Seven Swordsmen one day, right?"
Suigetsu brushed off the hand ruffling his hair and scowled. "Yeah, yeah, but you promise we can spar after this, Mangetsu-nii?"
"It won't be a very long spar if you don't practice your hydrification right now," answered Mangetsu with a small smile. "Now, try it again, but focus on the technique this time."
"Okay, okay…" Suigetsu mumbled. He held out one hand and eyed it closely, willing it to turn to water.
"We're starting with one of your hands because it's an extremity. We'll move on to the rest of your arm once you can liquefy your hand." Mangetsu watched his brother attempt the technique.
Suigetsu glared at his hand, which was still stubbornly solid. Pursing his lips, he shoved more of his slowly flowing chakra towards it, imagining that his fingers were turning a little bluish, a little fluid…
"Feel your chakra. All Houzuki have water type, so this transformation will be natural to you. Turning to water is a strange sensation at first, but it becomes normal with time…" Mangetsu went on lecturing, his eyes never leaving Suigetsu's hand.
His hand was becoming very numb, Suigetsu noted. It is turning to water, not just falling asleep, right? I've been holding it like this ever since we started. I've been pumping water chakra at it for all this time… Huh. My wrist feels weird. I can barely even feel my hand now…
Sweet mother of swordfish! His hand was turning to water!
"Mangetsu-nii, I'm doing it! I did it!" Suigetsu thrust his wrist towards his brother, his limp hand flopping along after it.
"Not completely, Suigetsu. It's not completely liquid or solid, I'd say," commented Mangetsu, prodding at the floppy appendage thoughtfully. "It feels more like jelly than water."
Suigetsu moved his wrist towards himself, studying the gelatinous texture of his hand with rising horror. "Nii-san! What do I do?!"
"First, calm down, Suigetsu. I went through this intermediate stage too," Mangetsu soothed. "You'll figure out the rest in no time."
"But what about right now? How am I supposed to hold a blade or even eat like this?" wailed Suigetsu, flailing his limp hand towards his rather amused brother. "You promised we could spar today! Now I can't even move my hand by itself—it just sort of oozes around!"
"Well, for now, let's tell father that you have mastered self-jellification, at least."
"Nii-san! My hand is jelly!"
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Notes: Apparently Mangetsu's birthday was on the 15th, so he gets to share his little brother's scene in this series. I didn't have him on my calendar, but hey, he turned out to take over this scene somewhat anyway...
I have no idea what it would feel like to turn to water, but I tried to imagine it. XD
Thank you for reading! And thank you to Illuminated and Zoeyoong for your support. Next up is Senju Tobirama.