Nao's stuff

[RESTED FORM]
In rested form, Shinnouryu is a simple katana with a green wrapping around its hilt. Due to the difference in style, Nao barely uses it without releasing. It’s scabbard is green as well.

[ZANPAKUTŌ SPIRIT & HABITAT]
Living up to its name, the spirit of Naomi’s Zanpakuto is pretty much just a young, green dragon. When they first met, it appeared to have barely left the nest, and could only fly ineptly, but over the years, it had grown quite a bit. Not enough to ride on it, but at least sufficiently to really converse beyond ‘Hungry!’, although that is still the spirit’s favourite topic. It lives in what appears to be an ancient ruin, overtaken by jungle. Shinnouryu appears to be a simple minded being, but has recently shown first signs of a very sharp mind, although in combat it still tries to sometimes pressure Nao to ignite just something, in order to feed upon the flames.

[SHIKAI PRESENTATION]
Shinnouryu’s release fundamentally changes the zanpakuto’s appearance. Forsaking any resemblance with a sword, it instead becomes a long, slender staff weapon, made of what appears to be black metal with green ornaments. The staff is easily longer than Nao herself, but otherwise rather plain, appearance wise, as long as it does not create a green glow or flame on the tip.

[SHIKAI ABILITIES]

MAITE, TORU[蒔いて,取る, Sow and Reap]
This is pretty much Shinnouryu’s signature ability. It can create green reishi flames at the tip at any time, which can be used to burn, or to stick to a place or target. Like most flames of its kind, the green fire feeds off of spirit particles, growing in size. While it largely behaves like most flames, and therefore burns, this fire does not try to burn through things like hierro, but instead feeds on the reishi supplied to such defensive techniques, draining the target and growing larger if a person has insufficient control over their flow. Not defending against it, though, causes the flames to cause burns instead and spread over a spiritual being’s body. Attempts to suffocate the flames with insufficient spiritual power are bound to only strengthen it, although water from natural sources in the human world douses them just as well as normal flames. Aside from that, they burn until they can no longer sustain themselves, or are harvested by Shinnouryu itself. Sweeping over spread flames allows the weapon to absorb them again, for as of yet unknown purposes.

KASAI NO SUIRO [火災の水路, STREAM OF FLAME]
The only thing Naomi would ever use on range, this ability allows her to fire a concentrated beam of fire from the tip of her weapon. It is a very straightforward and fast attack, which only has a diameter of one foot. On her own, she can just use this as a short burst with limited range, but if she has gathered some fed flames, she can hold the stream for a few seconds, causing it to follow her weapon’s movements like some kind of laser. Deals focused burns and spreads the flames again, although it does not have any kinetic force.

KASAI NO NAGORI[火災の余波, TRAIL OF FIRE]
A sort of defensive technique, this allows Shinnouryu to leave behind a trail of flame, usually not flickering higher than a foot, but possibly recreating the size of any fed flame it had reabsorbed. Those flames simply stay in the air and do what they do best – feed off reishi.
Obviously though, since they persist in midair, they do not get much to burn, even in the Seiretei, but they are well capable of burning anything made of spirit particles crossing them, allowing for projectiles to be destroyed, unless they are either too big and strong to be fully consumed in time, although flames will latch onto such objects and continue to try, or plain too fast to be affected before they are hit.

NAKIDOKORO [泣き所, VULNERABLE POINT]
Shinnouryu’s least favourite type of use, this technique does not absorb flames created by the zanpakuto, but instead utilizes them in a different way. In fact, it is pretty much just the logical conclusion sowing the flame, but not reaping it, instead, well, burning it.
Basically, whenever Naomi strikes a flame currently attached to a foe or even structure, this ability causes her zanpakuto to compress the flame further and further, no matter the size, which then causes it to violently release away from the weapon, very much resembling an explosion. While this does increase the potency of her strikes a lot, it also causes the blade’s spirit to become quite annoyed, and does not allow her to store any flames.

I just renamed Zanjutsu to Bojutsu. Should I still have some remnant of Zanjutsu flying around, or just call it redundant?

Hokays! I did that and switched Hakuda and Bo again, since it makes more sense for her that way. She'd done hakuda longer, after all.

I think so? I am not entirely sure about the physics there, just imagined it to be like, well, a fire. Doesn't draw anything from the surroundings or so, but might keep on burning if it hits like, a tree in soul society or so, I guess? I am fine with that not working though, if it makes some kind of problem.
Also, what's with the also?