"Ninja Arts: Flash Step Technique" is a silent, smokeless and much faster variant of the "Body Flicker" created to quickly move from "Point A" to "Point B" in the least number of "steps". The intended goal was to be able to travel from one village to another in minutes depending on the distance distance.
Creation and General Overview[]
An older, long-deceased leader of the Kitsune clan was inspired to create this move as a faster, longer-ranged and overall much more battle-viable successor to the "Body Flicker Technique". The first requirement was to erase the need for hand signs, which meant one would need a good enough feel of their chakra that they could perform the control necessary for what he had in mind on an instinctual level. By erasing the need for hand signs, the practitioner would gain a significant increase in control of their chakra and therefore cut down on the cost to chakra reserves to the point the drain was at the barest minimum possible. By reducing the cost of chakra by such an amount, the practitioner would instead be forced to rely on their raw physical stamina and build up their durability in order to handle the strain on their bodies. By doing this, the technique would be classified as almost strictly a Taijutsu technique.
This clan head's goal was to have a technique that was not only faster, more stealthy, had a much longer range, and was incredibly chakra-conserving, the goal was to be able to potentially travel from one village to another in minutes with the intention of being able to travel from "Point A" to "Point B" in the least number of "steps". While this clan head unfortunately didn't live long enough to discover the maximum range for a single step, he did know that the technique is dead useful when used consecutively in close-quarters combat or to get out of the path of destructive long-range ninjutsu among other things. This clan head had recorded this technique in the clan's library prior to his death, including a note that he had fully intended to create an offensive variant - something that he left to the generations that followed.