Wind Breathing

Wind Breathing (の) is one of the five Breathing Styles derived directly from Sun Breathing.

Overview
Wind Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics wind, specifically powerful torrents of air and whirlwinds, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve purely offensive attacks, most of which utilizing rotating movements to generate swift whirlwind-like slashes that greatly increase the wielder's striking range or utilizing the air around them to deliver sharp sickle-shaped attacks. Users of Wind Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating and manipulating wind when unleashing its techniques.

This Breathing Style is also extremely reminiscent of the real life swordsmanship style, Jigen-ryū, a sword wielding style that emphasizes on the opening strike and high stances.

This Breathing Style was created from one of Yoriichi Tsugikuni's students who attempted to learn Sun Breathing, but due to not being as innately powerful as Yoriichi, they were instead taught an alternated personalized Breathing Style that focused on their individual strengths and weaknesses, which eventually evolved into Wind Breathing.

Known Techniques
Wind Breathing as a minimum of 9 known techniques and forms.


 * First Form: Dust Whirlwind Cutter (ノ　・ぎ) - The user dashes forward at blinding speeds and slashes continuously in a horizontal cyclone pattern.


 * Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind (ノ　・) - The user lifts the sword upwards towards the right, above their head and unleashes four vertical slashes at once down on the enemy resembling claws.


 * Third Form: Clean Storm Wind Tree (ノ) - The user unleashes a whirlwind of slashes around their body that can defend them from incoming attacks and slice up their surroundings.


 * Fourth Form: Rising Dust Storm (ノ) - The user releases several slashes above them from below their target.


 * Fifth Form: Cold Mountain Wind (ノ　らし) - The user creates several circular arched slashes that increase in size from above their target.


 * Sixth Form: Black Wind Mountain Mist (ノ) - The user rotates their body in an uppercut movement, creating an arcing slash.


 * Seventh Form: Gale, Sudden Gusts (ノ　・) - The user leaps into the air while swinging their blade which generates gale-force winds to shred their opponent apart.


 * Eighth Form: Primary Gale Slash (ノ　り) - The user leaps into the air and swings their blade which generates circular torrents of wind that slices up the opponent instantly.


 * Ninth Form: Idaten Typhoon (ノ) - The user backflips into the air and while upside-down, unleashes a powerful gust of circular wind that slashes apart anything below.

Trivia

 * The naming and kanji of Ninth Form: Idaten Typhoon, specifically Idaten is based on the Japanese pronunciation of one of the Mahāyāna Boddhisatva, Skanda. He is a royal member of the Twenty-Four Protective Devas, a group of Dharmapāla, venerated for protecting the Dharma. It is said that a few days after the passing and cremation of Gautama Buddha, evil demons robbed him of his tooth relic. In response to this, Skanda respected the Buddha's instruction to guard the Dharma. This lead to him defeating the demons and returned the relic.