Taijutsu (Stance)
Rank: 4 (A-Class);
Learn DC: 19, 4 successes;
Perform requirements: 11 ranks (DC 21);
Time: 1 swift action;
Components: M;
Range: Personal;
Target: You;
Duration: Stance;
Saving Throws: None;
Chakra Cost: 15.
You maintain a careful guard as you search for any gaps in your opponent’s awareness. Even the slightest move provokes a stinging counter from you.
While you are in this stance, any opponent you threaten that takes any sort of movement, including a 5-foot step, provokes an attack of opportunity from you.
Your foes provoke this attack before leaving the area you threaten.
Your opponents also cannot use the withdraw action to treat the square they start in as no longer threatened by you.
Taijutsu (Stance; requires Dodge (f) and any 2 Dachi stances)
Rank: 4 (C-Class);
Learn DC: 17, 2 success;
Perform requirements: 7 ranks (DC 17);
Time: 1 swift action;
Components: C, M;
Range: Personal;
Target: You;
Duration: Stance;
Saving Throws: None;
Chakra Cost: 12.
This stance is used against masters of spears and large weapons, and the main focus is to slip under their guards and attack them where they are weakest: in close combat. To gain any benefit from this stance, the user must be wielding a single melee weapon of one size category or more smaller than himself, and have at least one hand free.
The user can only apply the benefits of this stance to his Dodge target, providing it is wielding a reach weapon (see dodge feat). When fighting in a square adjacent to his
dodge target, the user gains the ability to make an attack of opportunity with his held weapon against the target if it moves away from the user, even with a 5-foot step, to strike back at him. If the target takes a withdrawal action or moves away but does not attack the user, he gains no attack of opportunity. The attack of opportunity is made before the opponent strikes.
This stance does not allow the user to make additional attacks of opportunity in a round, and does not allow the user to make an attack of opportunity if the target moved using some method of instant transportation, such as the Shunshin no Jutsu or Hiryuusen ninjutsu and taijutsu techniques.