[PT1] Deadly Duo

[Rui]

Midori, Midori, Midori. What had Midori gotten himself into this time? Standing in the middle of the arena, he’d carefully gaze upon the other side. It was as if he wanted to go there, but in all reality, he had been waiting for his opponent to enter the arena. Sighing, he’d begin mumbling to himself. However, unlike others, because of the Kekkei Genkai that every member of the Kuro-Shiro clan inherited, he had actually been composed of two halves: white and black. Therefore, the conversations were genuine.

[aramlyis]

Kaku's four mental occupants had been slightly nervous about signing up for such an activity, nervous didn't block out other emotions however.Three out of four of the persona's were rather looking forward to the encounter. The Warboss was just that- a boss of war in his own way. He represented the baser side of Kaku, which in this case was one half of his bloodlust. The other portion lay in the bloody hands of the Chaos Prince, a being of undeniable depravity- fighting wasn't something in specialised in, but being down right spooky was up his alley.
The Primarch took manifestation rights of his drive to succeed and grow stronger, with the Farseer taking up the rear with her words of careful caution.
All components of his mind felt a little uneasy at being late, but whence he arrived Kaku moved quickly forwards, sliding his hands into his specialised pouch as he did so. Removing from it a handful of seeds, Kaku slowly approached his opponents rough position. He'd give his foe one chance to take the initiative.

[Rui]

Once his opponent blessed the field with his presence, Midori made his move. Dashing forward, he had currently been fifty meters. At forty-six meters, two hand seals were performed. Upon reaching forty-two meters, he would abruptly stop. Completing the last hand seals needed for his technique^1A, he’d swiftly inhale air. Exhaling the air from his gullet, a lethal yellow gas, covering twenty meters, with it being twenty-two meters away from his opponent, had been emitted. If he were to inhale it, he’d be stun, but the purpose of the technique was to obscure his next actions.

Using the gas as a cover up, he’d perform hand seals for two more techniques. After the first had been performed^1B, he’d dash through the gas. Due to his resistance against its paralysis effect, he didn’t need to worry about it hindering him. As for the second technique^1C, it would allow him to acquaint himself with his earthen brethren. Midori had been the sneaky type, so with his next maneuver; he’d pay respect to his battle style. Closing distance, it was a matter of time before this battle was over.

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1A. Stun Spore
1B. ?
1C. ?

[aramlyis]

Due to the immense distance between them, it was of no surprise that his opponent ran forwards. Still, if he was to come to Kaku(rather then the other way around), then the pale dark haired boy was not one to argue the point.
Idly scattered the seeds to the ground, they quickly bloomed with a hidden application of chakra, causing him to be surrounded in a four by four meter area of foliage. It was at this time that Kaku noticed that his opponent was making seals as he dashed across the arena. Idly nodding to himself in a absent minded fashion, Kaku allowed just a moment of brief mental conversation to take place, in which a mighty mental below lit up his physic plane. "TAKE TO THE SKY BROTHER!" Following the advice of the mighty Primarch(he had heard no disagreement from the others) Kaku's hands lit up in a series of motions. He finished his sequence roughly a moment after his opponent had finished his and executed the effects. Running to the side of his patch of foliage, Kaku jumped away from the oncoming cloud of (what looked like) poison. Maybe if it'd been pink he wouldn't have been so nervous about entering it. As his feet cleared the ground, the flowers beneath him came to life, submitting themselves into a bird like shape, rising up beneath the ascending boy, the creation added to his latitude, and took him soaring upwards and over the cloud not dashing too far however, staying within two meters of the gas 'til he hovered above it's point of origin confused as to where it's creator had gone.

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Hana Ninpou: Haeru (Flower Ninja Technique: Shine)
Rank: D-D-D-D
Type: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Range: 10 meters.
Chakra: Low
Special: The user can grow up to a 1x1 square meter's worth of seeds at once. The technique can be relearned numerous times, increasing the square meter size by one each time, up to a maximum of 10x10 meters.
Description: A deceptively important jutsu, this technique is the baseline for all Hanakora techniques. By using the Hanakora's special chakra techniques, the user is capable of immediately causing a seed, or group of seeds, to burst into full bloom.
Domain: Hanakora

Hana Ninpou: Hishou Tori (Flower Ninja Art: Soaring Bird)
Rank: C
Type: Ninjutsu / Supplementary
Range: ---
Chakra: Mid, Very Low per turn to maintain
Special: Creates a large bird created out of flower petals which the user may ride upon or use as a flower source.
Description: It can be difficult for a fighter who uses flora to combat opponents who take to the air. In this instance, the user can take the fight to them by creating a large bird (up to 10x10 meters in size) made of flowers which can fly through the air. As long as the user maintains contact with the bird, it will maintain its shape, but if a full turn passes in which the user is not on the bird, it will fall apart. The bird flies at the same speed that the user would move on the ground, and can be used as a flower source, although one should be careful not to use too much of it since the user is riding on it.
Domain: Hanakora

[Rui]

Already being thirty-four meters away, Midori continued to close distance. By the time he covered twelve more meters, he had reached the end of his cloud, emerging from it, while still dashing forth toward his opponent. Instead of continuing straight, he’d dash off to the left, and begin circling the flower creation. This had been done for multiple reasons. Hopefully, the boy could keep up. If not, he’d find himself swept off his feet by the hands of death. Unbeknownst to him, another technique^2A had already been set.

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2A. ?

[aramlyis]

Idly abandoning his position below the point of origin from where the technique had come from, Kaku moved up on again- floating around the cloud, retracing his steps while looking for his opponent, he found him at his original starting position. Or moving away from it, roughly half way really. It was likely that his opponent would notice the shadow presented by the bird and it's rider, it was also likely he would look up, and notice a small pouch dropping towards, hurled at the average velocity of most thrown projectiles. It would then explode if it got within two and a half meters of him.

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-Soaring Bird

Exploding Pouch
Rank: C
Type: Tool / Area of Effect
Range: 0 - 5 meters
Special: 5 per pack
Description: A variation on the exploding note, these pouches contain a myriad of ball bearings and other metallic projectiles that, when detonated, spread forth even more
Cost: 500 per Pack

[Rui]

It had been as if Midori had become the prey, and the predator, which was his opponent and their bird creation, was prowling, waiting to dive down, and snatch him off the ground. However, it didn’t happen exactly as thought. The man had opted to drop bombs on him. With him being twenty-five meters high, it wouldn’t take long for Midori to circumvent the area. He had more than enough time to escape the blast. And since the radius had been a meager five meters, it wouldn’t even touch him.

[aramlyis]

His opponent had made motions to evacuate himself from the parameters of the explosion, leaving himself a large enough margin of error, approximately a second between the detonation and his leaving the rough location of the explosion.
Clapping his hands together, Kaku went through the last few motions that designated the creation of a Ninjutsu, however it was unlikely that his opponent would see such a thing, as he was currently angled away from his line of sight.
Swooping over head(8 meters above the ground), Kaku completed the motions and the effect was instantaneous.
Twenty flowers immediately separated themselves from the rear of the bird and fired off at the average speed of all thrown projectiles, the twenty shuriken would cover a large spread of earth, hopefully leaving little to no room to dodge as they covered a 5 meter by five meter area around and on top of his opponents current position.

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-Soaring Bird
-Hana Ninpou: Hana Shuriken (Ninja Flower Art: Flower Shuriken)
Rank: D-C
Type: Ninjutsu, Offensive
Range: 15 meters
Chakra: D/C: Low, B/A: Mid, S: High
Special: The user must have flowers nearby to use this technique. The user can only target up to 10 flowers originally.
Description: A fairly simple technique with the potential to do a lot of damage, Hana Ninpou: Hana Shuriken allows the user to, after the completion of handseals, cause the heads of several nearby flowers to levitate into the air, begin to spin rapidly, harden their petals, and then fly towards the opponent. The number of flowers capable of being targeted by this technique is dependent on the user's Rank of the technique.
~D- 10 Flowers
~C- 20 Flowers
~B- 35 Flowers, user can change direction of the flowers in mid-air once.
~A- 75 Flowers, user can change direction of the flowers in mid-air twice.
~S- 100 Flowers, user can change the direction of the flowers in mid-air three times.
Domain: Hanakora

[Rui]

Not having any long-range techniques, Midori was forced to run. Not everything was as it seemed, though. If his opponent had been paying close attention, he’d notice something was off. He had been careless, is this is what Midori would use to his advantage. Although it would cost a lot, it would be a price to pay for victory. The moment his opponent swooped down to eight meters above the surface, Midori would stop. By the time, the attack that Kaku had used would have hit him. Just like that, he had disappeared. It had been a clone.

The real Midori, deciding to make his move after the move was over, emerged from the ground below, and leaped into the air. This would be powered by the chakra within his body. He had used just enough to leap ten meters. Having already prepared a previous move underground, his arm had grown thorns. During the jump, he would swing his arm to bash his head in, and knock the boy off the bird. He would fall down, and Midori would take his place upon it. It had been a temporary maneuver, but allowed him to gain footing to perform more hand seals^3A.

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1B. Clone Technique
1C. Mayfly
2A. Thorn
3A. ?

[aramlyis]

As Kaku had been peering over the side of the bird to determine the result of the attack, he witnessed his opponent successful dupe him, and then promptly leap out of the earth towards him, his trajectory would carry him onto the back of the eagle, but the most worrisome aspect of his opponent's sudden entrance was that he had mutated his arms into a long branch of some sort. Not bothering to defend himself beyond slipping out of the way of the branching arms, Kaku had been forming seals as soon as he saw his opponent leaping from the soil below, the most most useful thing about the Hanakora Techniques being that they were all relatively similar in design. Unfortunately for Kaku, the first stage of his plan would be quickly foiled as his opponent would cover the ground between them relatively quickly. So instead of allowing himself to be knocked off his creation, Kaku leapt away of his own free will, allowing gravity to drag him swiftly downwards as he completed his set of seals.
The result would be deadly and amusing as the bird shifted and mutated into a pair of Kakus. A replica of the original, carrying his equipment and everything. This was an important thing to note as the pair of clones quickly shifted away from beneath their foe and withdrew a specialised knife: the Kris. Stabbing upwards, they intended to injure their opponent so that he would be easier for their progenitor to deal with. One struck at his intensities, the other attempted to jam his knife into the opponents knee-cap, while it wasn't an arrow, it would do.

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Hana Ninpou: Hana Bunshin (Flower Ninja Art: Flower Clone)
Rank: D-D-D
Type: Ninjutsu
Range: ---
Chakra: Low
Special: The user must have at least 10 flowers in order to find enough petals for the Bunshin. Allows the user to create one clone, plus one clone for each time the technique is relearned, up to a maximum of 10 clones.
Description: A classic deception with a Hanakora twist; by utilizing nearby flower petals and shaping them with chakra, the user creates a Bunshin that can be used offensively, defensively, or simply just to attempt to get an opponent to waste time attacking or defending against the Bunshin. Once struck, the clone will dissipate into a bunch of falling flower petals. Since the Bunshins are made out of flower petals, the user is capable of using the Bunshins as a source for all Hanakora techniques that utilize flower petals.
Domain: Hanakora

Kris
Rank: C
Type: Primary / Knife / Melee
Description: A kris is an asymmetrical dagger famous for its distinctive wavy blade. Also known as a 'snake blade', it curves constantly from the tip to the hilt, crating extra edges ideal for slashing and slicing, but even better when stabbing an opponent's innards.
Cost: 5,000 Ryo

[Rui]

From the perspective of Midori, the fight had been coming to an end. With his opponent of his bird, it would be easier to take him out. First, he’d have to deal with the clones. The moment they began to form, he’d grab on to the one to the left. This had been the one that attempted to strike him first. Tightly hugging the clone with the spike arm, although not enough to disperse it, he’d rotate in the air. This was to switch^4A positions between the clone, and himself. This would cause the latter clone to stab the other clone with the Kris.

He’d then pause, raise his hands back to slam the clone down toward his opponent. It didn’t matter what happened to it, but it was enough to buy him some time. Using the arm he’d just slammed the first clone with, Midori would bend his elbow toward him, and swing out to slice it across the stomach. This had been intended to get rid of the second clone. Immediately after, while still airborne, he’d inhale, and exhale, releasing the noxious yellow gas once more. It had been enough to paralyze Kaku. Bringing his arm in front of him for the final time, he’d aim down, to impale his opponent midair, and slam his body to the ground, using the spikes to ram through his torso.

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3A. Stun Spore
4A. Body Replacement Technique

[aramlyis]

The curious thing about Kaku's fighting style was that it simply had no need for dominion techniques, a concept that allowed it to routinely outperform most other releases. Under the correct circumstances of course. It was a requirement of his that he had to plant and grow flowers for his techniques to function. It was however- a smaller worry once completed. When he had fully developed his flowers to perfection, he could use them in relentless assaults, over and over again. Until he ran out of chakra, which didn't typically happen in a fight, as he never tapped into that much of his supply in a fight.
As soon as Kaku touched the ground, he continued to form seals, a period of time which roughly coincided with the appeared of his clones and the brief burst of combat that resulted in one of his clones dispersing, the other being hurled towards the ground- where upon it would also explode. The time this took was roughly a second, in which Kaku had made himself scarce from the general premises, having covered a four meter space between his point of impact (which would be roughly the same as his opponents as they had fallen from the same area while airborne. There was then a space of one second exactly before Kaku displayed one of the more violent tendencies of his Clan.
Ten petals from his earlier barrage of floral shuriken rose up and shot towards the location of his opponent, each aiming for a general area. Four of them were aimed towards the ground, whereupon they would explode violently, the other six were positioned so as to severely restrict the possible escape points of his foe, they were also lined up on each other so as to explode upon impact. When all was said and done, in the space of about half a second, the destructive power of five fully powered explosive notes was unleashed in the locale of his opponent.

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Hana Ninpou: Hyakka Seisho (Flower Ninja Art: Many Explosions)
Rank: C Rank
Type: Ninjutsu, Offensive
Range: 20 meters
Chakra: Mid
Special: The user must have flowers nearby to use this technique. Must know Hana Ninpou: Hana Shuriken.
Description: The user performs the required handseals for the technique. Upon completion, a number of targeted flowers, not exceeding 10 flowers, quickly levitate into the air, their petals solidifying and sharpening, which then fly towards the opponent. Upon impact, the flowers detonate, each with the collective force of one-half of an explosive tag, releasing a thick cloud of heavy black smoke.
Domain: Hanakora, Katon