Open Challenge.

[Jae]

Uekyuuchi sat comfortably on the trunk of a fallen tree eating an apple.

[Sharkk]

Dashing across the fallen leaves he found himself hurling his body towards a nearby tree, tagging it he landed near it's base. Crouched he looked about. His tongue tasting the air he aimed to make his eyes meet his prey. And when this happened three senbon found themselves prepared for devastation with text as he hurled them towards his target."

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[ooc; short]

[Jae]

A brow raised at the sound of crunching leaves in the immediate distance, his glare fixed in the direction of the sound's origin while a deep inhale begot a sigh of discontent. Someone was following him and, whatever their intentions were, he wasn't interested in being apart of them. The apple he was eating got lobbed in the direction he'd heard the sound while he instinctively clasped his hands together to form a string of seals as he rose to his feet.

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^1.________

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[Sharkk]

Apr 28, 2011 17:44:31 GMT -8 Sharkk said:

And when this happened three senbon found themselves prepared for devastation with text as he hurled them towards his target."

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Doding the apple he watched as his target took the senbon to the body, now forming a seal the senbon would explode, BOOM! Smirking he licked the air, nothing should be left.

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- 3 senbon.
- 3 exploding notes

[Jae]

Well this was an odd predicament to be in. Had he noticed that the projectiles were contaminated with exploding notes he surely would've made the effort to at least evade them. Things truly looked grim for the young Kikkawa— safe a few minor details that seemed him play in his favor.

Apr 28, 2011 17:44:31 GMT -8 Sharkk said:

Doding the apple he watched as his target took the senbon to the body, now forming a seal the senbon would explode, BOOM! Smirking he licked the air, nothing should be left.

As evidenced by his need to dodge the apple that was, by all intents, non-lethal; the fact that he needed to avoid the apple revealed that it had, at some point or another, passed closely by his assailant. It was clear that the shinobi had been attentively observing his attack as, the moment it made contact, he further committed himself by forming the hand signature that ignited his exploding notes.

In order to signal the explosion at the correct time he would've had to have been faithfully watching to see if his attack landed, and when it did he had immediately brought about the note's detonation— this ensured that the familiar plum of smoke that commonly accompanied Kawarimi no Jutsu would have been masked by the explosion.

His body was replaced by the apple and vice versa, leaving Uekyuuchi behind the serpentine figure. The shinobi had provided himself with a distraction that would be costly in the end as a cerulean hands darted forth to grasp the nape his attackers neck along with a portion of the back of his head. Given his medical prowess, Uekyuuchi knew exactly what he'd targeted.

The portions he'd touched were where his spinal cord and occipital lobes were respectively positioned. The lacerating chakra would severe the connective fibers that sustained their functions, effectively leaving his target blind and paralyzed— had everything gone according to plan.

If not, he was prepared to deal with anything else efficiently and punctually.

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^1. Kawarimi no Jutsu
^2. Chakra no Mesu _{prepped in the previous turn}

[Sharkk]

[ooc; nice lol.]

Though, he considered himself a tactical wiz he ignored that the exploding notes would stack their explosion range. Thus going from a mere five meters, would stack to fifteen, enough to catch himself and his attacker, who at the moment was attempting to attack him. Though once he saw the explosion nearing them he quickly swapped places with a nearby log. Despite this he would still take some damage from the explosion, but hopefully witht he smoke plagueing the defender's vision, perhaps they would take the worst of the explosion, he had to wait and see.

- Substitution Jutsu.

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[tsukuyomi]

Battle Moderator Atsuhiro, reporting for duty.

Unfortunately Sharkk, your post in invalid.

As Jae so thoroughly pointed out (And I believe that it's safe to say you validated it with your OOC comment), you dodged the apple. That alone is enough to give him the advantage with the Replacement Jutsu that he had performed. Couple your exploding tag with the plume of smoke produced from his Kawarimi, and there's no way that you could tell that he was attempting to attack you....let alone that he had escaped the explosion altogether.

You didn't cover all your bases, and you didn't move once you detonated the tag. With Jae's technique already prepared and seizing its hold on areas of you, let alone parts that would both paralyze and blind you (preventing escape or movement), you would succumb to his technique.

Verdict!![/i]

The Chakra No Mesu technique that Jae performed would connect, leaving you at the mercy of his medical abilities. The Replacement Jutsu was a quick one, and by the time you were able to see that he hadn't been caught in it? It would be well too late.

Victory goes to Dr. Kikkawa. This battle is over.

[Sharkk]

[ooc; not arguing this, buuuut! Didn't say Yuu was dodging Jae's attacks. [edit; nvm now that i reread my post I could have won if I hadn't said "blind his opponent." But, you also have to look at it like this, he would be consumed by the explosion as well, so technically it's a draw]

[Jae]

Apr 29, 2011 15:47:36 GMT -8 Sharkk said:

[ooc; not arguing this, buuuut! Didn't say Yuu was dodging Jae's attacks. [edit; nvm now that i reread my post I could have won if I hadn't said "blind his opponent." But, you also have to look at it like this, he would be consumed by the explosion as well, so technically it's a draw]

Even that were so, which I also don't entirely buy into, we would've been on the outskirts of the explosions. Therefore, if there were damage to be taken it would be the minimum amount.

But we'll let the BM decide, even though he kind of already did.

[Axcel]

Jae: +8 exp

Sharkk: +5 exp