An Evening Gentleman's Duel

[Dagron Hoshigake]

It had existed since the domination of their Samurai precursors. A vibrant expanse of land with looming, elegantly bent cherry blossoms. Throughout the ages mother nature had nurtured the foreign beauty, even long after the shinobi wars came and went, unscathed by the repetition of war. It became not the center of attraction but a land marked with shrines of various religions. The land was soaked with prayers and shined radiantly, knowing the pilgrimage of many, but offering only its grace and majesty to the religiously hopeful people of the land. Only in the depths of night, when the sun fleeted behind the peaks of mountains did the preternatural dance among the fallen petals; Sprites of the fallen not yet keen to their passing mimicking the living ritualistically.

On one such night Ip Trang, a warrior more than ninja, entered the moon-bathed holy land. Even at night the soft pink and white petals fluttered and coated the land, despite the thin churning mists that crept to and fro tree trunks. It seemed even as the sprightly dead drifted through the air and disembodied voices nightmarishly groaned into the night, Ip's nerves were as steel. Like death itself he was a cold, immovable figure against the night, a quest soul-bound sought to be completed.

The deeper the Kumogakure shinobi encroached within the deep forest, the darker and more tortured the spirits became. Scenes of warriors hung and decapitated became more prominent, accompanied by the horrible screams of frightened children as brutal scenes replayed throughout the land. Even the trees seemed to wilt away and cower, limbs drawn in, toward the center of the land where the terrors were at their worst. It was there that the largest shrine stood, having endured nearly a century, housing only the cruelest of fates to be see.

Each step beckoned a prayer, devoured an ounce of courage. Fear gradually penetrated Ip's psyche and the voices met in passing became unnerving, terrifying, until the final step and been taken and the shrine opened up before him. The rays of the moon shone radiantly and shooed away the unnatural, revealing only the pinnacle of religious work. A large Buddha stood over a small bowl where incense were burned, though now only filled with ashes where it had been neglected. Prayers a many had been made here, but only one Ip thought that mattered.

On his knees Ip's hands clashed together and his thoughts poured out into the air.

"I seek only a worthy challenge."

[Messatsu!]

Several distinctive seconds cruised swiftly along the currents of time as Yuuza's mind continued to flit with thoughts of power and his sister. The moons silvery influence spilled aimless upon the expansive land that would soon develop into a land of bloodshed and death. Yuuza's muscles swelled and thrummed with steaming activity as trickles of sweat dripped aimlessly over his flesh, perspiration was evident to this fact, but obscured to any potential onlookers thanks to his steel mask.

However, his traveling regimen came to an untimely halt as his auditory senses flared in response to the presence of another. He came to a perfect stand 10 meters from the mans forefronts as he gazed upon the kneeling warrior in the most spiritless of ways. Pitiless orbs of bright purple contrived themselves forward onto the being afront. His eyes radiated beneath the darkness of his mask like a moon would under the sheets of night as his body turned to face the male before him properly.


Lets get to it

[Dagron Hoshigake]

Deathly wisps lingered at the first steps of shrine where gathering mists parted at Yuuza's feet. Like Ip, he was immovable by the phantasmagoria of nightmares that flitted between trees and reiterated their final words in horrific scenes. though ethereal, they were a thing of true evil to be trapped within the mortal coil, but as Ip rose and turned, listless eyes met and a sea of unspoken animosity boiled up. As if some empyrean entity heeded Ip's wish, Yuuza appeared to meet the challenge-- A God given warrior. A nukenin no less.

" I see.. "

As the moon reached the pinnacle of the night sky and its opalescent radiance brightened the hallowed lands, a surreal tranquility settled over what had only moments before seemed a haunted dream-scape. Only the rasping of wood and steel filled the air as Ip unsheathed Huángjīn Shídài from its scabbard, his free hand fumbling around pockets in his suit for odds and ends. There was no doubt this fight would be a true test-- A match of equals decided by the Heavens.

[Messatsu!]

Focused eyes of everlasting hell remained hard upon Ip's position as he came to a dispirited stand and turned to face Yuuza properly, though animosity billowed into the air, respect had still been present. But only as warriors. The mist seemed to dissipate from the two men as if its very influence was threatened by their own, well, it should be.

And so it would begin.

The dissipation of mist played in both men's favor, blessing Yuuza with full visibility, allowing him to catch sight of Ip aiming to achieve his weapon. Yuuza followed suit, gripping suigai as he pried it from its dark prison, sending it upon a horizontal path parallel to the plateau of Ip's waist. With a charge of semi-tangible power, a liquid, arced blade of suiton chakra crawled along the currents of air, antedating his search for support items. Two more swings of mordacious lust followed the first, one vertical and the other horizontal. Had his attacks found home, their target would be nothing more than a limp sack of meat.

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Suigai {Lit: Waters Edge}
Rank: A
Type: Melee/ specialty/ offensive
Special: Suigai has one major ability, also must have suiton release in order to wield.
Description: Suigai looks like an oversized elegant cleaver, it has no tsuba and no proper hilt; making the user hold the cloth-wrapped tang. Suigai is 1.75 meters in total length, and has a black blade with a silver edge.
Cost: Free {from promotion, never used my free B ranked weapon}

Kirikatta {Lit: Watter Cutter}
Rank: B
Type: Offesnive
Range: 10 meters
Chakra consumption: High
Special: Kirikatta travels 10 meters, plus another 10 after being retrained.
Description: Kirikatta draws from the wielders Suiton chakra, molding it into a pressurized arc of highly condensed water. The outcome of such is a slash attack being released that flies forward in only a linear fashion. This slash takes the form of a wave and is so sharp that it can easily slice through boulders. Each time the users fires Kirikatta, B rank chakra is consumed. Kirikatta moves at a speed equal to that of a thrown kunai x3.
Domain: Suiton

[Dagron Hoshigake]

Like quicksilver Huángjīn Shídài flickered into existence, guided with practiced movements. Where fire once flared within the agile shinobi's eyes, smoldered hazily an arcane power. The moment the blades of water left Suigai, Ip moved subtly to the left and leaped from the shrine several meters (9ft/3m), avoiding the first malicious volley of water blades. From the moment Huángjīn Shídài left it's scabbard, Ip had begun tapping into his dense reserves of energy which had begun to manifest within and gather into the blade. An extension of his very being to become a tool easily capable of destruction.

In one swift motion as the final blade of water bit into the buddha statue, Ip's jian curved through the air and released the trapped energy in a single, virulent twist of wind. For Yuuza only the slash would be visible, but the malevolent intent fell on the slicing winds that rushed toward him, covering thirty three feet across and traveling twice as far, leaving cherry blossoms scarred and the land with small gashes. If Yuuza could not escape the Kamaitachi, a similar fate awaited him, though not entirely lethal. As the Kamaitachi traveled forth, Ip found his odds and ends in the form of two Kunai, soon encapsulated by fuuton chakra before throw in two different directs bordering the Kamaitachi should Yuuza attempt to escape on either side. Coated in the element energy, the Kunai traveled traveled the distance in half the time it would have taken otherwise.

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Kamaitachi (Cutting Whirlwind)
Rank: C+C ( -100 )
Type: Offensive / Fuuton Ninjutsu
Range: 10+ meters
Special: Size of tunnel opening measures 5 meters, and wind blasts can travel 10 meters; each time relearned, the mouth grows by 5 meters and the blast itself travels an extra 10 meters..
Description: This jutsu was brought to fame by a legendary Suna shinobi from long ago, and was named after a mythical creature able to command the winds on a whim. After channeling wind chakra at either their weapon or limb, the user swings it around and brings forth a most intense tornado, coming out from the weapon/arm. Once it strikes the user, the tornado tips upward and takes the user up, keeping them imprisoned by the strong currents, and delivering multiple waves of cutting/slicing damage onto their bodies, as well as dropping them hard onto the ground afterward.
Domain: Fuuton.

Kaiten Shuriken (Rotating Shuriken)
Rank: D+D+D ( -75 )
Type: Supplementary / Fuuton Ninjutsu
Range: 10+ meters
Special: Wind boost travels up to 10 meters and can control up to 5 projectiles at a time; when relearned, the wind gains 10 extra meters of travel and 5 more projectiles to control.
Description: One of the simplest Fuuton techniques, this supplementary technique allows the user to take any secondary/projectile weaponry they have on them and coat them in Fuuton chakra. This allows the user to shoot them at high speeds under the wind manipulation, adding rotation and tumbling power to increase the speed of normal weapon attacks, as well as its deadliness.
Domain: Fuuton.

[Messatsu!]

Suigai's extending power greedily bit into the Buddha statue, only hinting at the reality of failing to damage his designated target. Yuuza's eyes burned brightly with the fires of combat, as he keenly watched Ip leap to the side of the last blade. Sadly, yuuza preceded his landing as he seemingly slipped through the grooves of reality, this was all to the naked eye of course. In truth if was the mere application of footwork and chakra which granted him to perform a high speed, frontal movement.

All before kamaitachi was even given the gift of life, Yuuza had already been standing at Ip's previous position before he jumped. And in that moment he slipped into physical form, suigai sliced at the openness of air doubly, creating a 'plus' sign of death. If only real math could kill. Nevertheless his attack aimed for Ip, hoping that his attack would connect. Sheathing his blade of liquid death, his hands clapped together in an ancient ritual of power, one that allowed him to summon forth a plethora of mist, intermingling itself with the others.

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Kirikatta {Lit: Watter Cutter}
Rank: B
Type: Offesnive
Range: 10 meters
Chakra consumption: High
Special: Kirikatta travels 10 meters, plus another 10 after being retrained.
Description: Kirikatta draws from the wielders Suiton chakra, molding it into a pressurized arc of highly condensed water. The outcome of such is a slash attack being released that flies forward in only a linear fashion. This slash takes the form of a wave and is so sharp that it can easily slice through boulders. Each time the users fires Kirikatta, B rank chakra is consumed. Kirikatta moves at a speed equal to that of a thrown kunai x3.
Domain: Suiton

Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Mist Technique)
Rank: D, D, D, D, D, D, D, D [200]
Type: Supplementary / Suiton Ninjutsu
Range: 0 -10 meters
Special: Fills a large, 10 meter area with mist as long as the user keep the technique flowing. Each time retrained, area of mist expands by 10 more meters. Mist blocks out all doujutsu requiring clear visibility.
Description: Though very basic, the Hidden Mist Technique allows for the stealthier side of combat to rule. After forming a few simple handseals, the user causes the area surrounding their target to be covered in fog. The low visibility allows the ninja to silently and secretly assassinate their target, as they can move unseen, and if careful, unheard.
Domain: Suiton.

[Dagron Hoshigake]

When Ip's Kamaitachi found his opponent intangible, vanished within the jet stream of slicing winds, it was left to Ip's keen sight to follow the near-vanishing Nukenin. Though the body was not as quick to change position, knowing Yuuza's was enough suffice. Another fit of power swelled and blossomed throughout Trang and in an instant he too vanished ephemerally. In place the water carved a deep cross shape into the moist dirt, spreading soil about chaotically before mists roiled into existence and coated everything in a dense film of moisture. In those moments Ip pulled out a single shuriken and two bakutags (Expoding Tags x2), which he fitted into the small circular opening in the center of the shuriken.

This ex-shinobi was an avid Suiton user. In this mist, Ip was at a disadvantage. Using every under-handed tactic was something he would need to do.

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Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique)
Rank: D+D ( -50 )
Type: Supplementary / Ninjutsu
Range: 0 - 10 meters
Special: Flickering is forward-moving, meaning the user will rush almost instantly to wherever they are facing. The user can flicker once per thread, plus once more each time retrained.
Description: Shunshin no Jutsu is a basic ninjutsu technique used across the shinobi world by all, ranging from the most basic shinobi to the legends of lore. Considered is a high-speed movement technique, it allows a ninja to move short to long distances at an almost untraceable speed - to an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. Such a feat is accomplished by using chakra to temporarily vitalise the body and move at extreme speeds they would otherwise be unable to reproduce. In the end, the user will appear and disappear in an instant, allowing them to retreat or attack suddenly should they need it. To facilitate the movement the ninja will often use nearby elements such as mist, sand or leaves to mask their appearance or disappearance.
Domain: Shunshin - Universal Ninjutsu.

[Messatsu!]

Having obscured both he and his opponent under the masterful guise of Kirigakure no jutsu, the two now fought as blind men beneath the radiating moon. His hands form a single seal, summoning forth the most basic of abilities a shinobi could possibly use in his days of war and combat, academy clones. Though these five clones lacked elemental substance like their watery siblings, their purpose of distraction had not changed, nor will it ever.

The clones themselves came into existence, a tuft of smoke foreshadowing their existence, not like they could be seen. Sharing what little of a mental connection they had, they all ran towards Ip's direction in a nonsynchronous pattern of footfalls. Simultaneously Yuuza traveled 6 meters his far left, yet, his own steps came to a muted nothing. Quickly his body sunk down into the earthen floor with a simple crouch, and underneath the guise of his mist, Yuuza called upon a stigma of power, one that could effortlessly lay waste to his opponent. His digits twisted and converged, matching one another perfectly. As his ritual of power ended masses of waters conglomerated from his gourd, using every single drop, generating a whirling sphere of water with a circumference of 15 meters. Surely the man afront lost track of Yuuza through the mist, and potentially his clones; he lacked the sight a Hyuuga so how could he? Nevertheless a single seal was made once again, yet, only to dispel the summoned mist, revealing Yuuza's power over the waters to his opponent if he'd no been distracted.

And so it began.

Moving at speeds faster then a fully thrown kunai, 2 tentacles sprouted from the sphere, charging in a straight forward path towards Ip. Two others were then birthed, plunging outwardly (left and right) in an arc to converge uponYuuza's foe from the both sides, yet, something happened, one out the pair airted its path mid-flight, rising above him to converge downwardly instead. Another four tentacles were given light as two of the four lunged in an arc(opposite of the previous) attempting to flank the enemy should he have managed to dodge the other tentacles. The remaining tentacles remained for support, ready to deflect any and all incoming attacks. But if the man managed to dodge the tentacles, they would not stop, nay, instead they would follow him relentlessly until they tasted flesh and blood...and soon his corpse.

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Bunshin no Jutsu (Clone Technique)
Rank: E, E, E, E, E [20]
Type: Supplementary / Ninjutsu
Range: Self
Special: Allows the user to create a clone without substance that resembles the user in every way, including retaining its movement speed. Clones cannot mold chakra nor perform jutsu, nor can they harm. Up to one clone can be made, plus one more each time retrained.
Description: Bunshin no Jutsu is a Ninjutsu technique which every ninja learns at the Ninja Academy. The Bunshin technique creates a copy of the ninja without substance that, although easily seen through by those with doujutsu, can fool the normal eye easily. Why? Simply because although without substance, the copy resembles the ninja in every way. This clone can function as a distraction or as means to confuse one's opponent, though no real damage can be done by it. Finally, as soon the Bunshin gets attacked or comes into contact with an opponent, it will disperse.
Domain: Academy Student Ninjutsu.

Suiryuuben (Water Dragon Whip)
Rank: A
Type: Offensive / Suiton Ninjutsu
Range: 0 - 30 meters
Special: Sphere exists as long as the user is willing to put chakra into it. Sphere measures 15 meters and floats just above the user's head. Up to 10 whips can emerge at once and attack anything within the user's eyesight on command, 360 degrees; retraining adds 10 more tentacles each time.
Description: Suiryuuben is a ninjutsu technique utilizing Suiton which will allow the user to generate a whirling sphere of water capable of both defending from attacks and carrying out its own strikes. After forming the necessary handseals, a large sphere of water forms above the user’s head. This sphere can then emit whips of water, razor sharp at the tips, which can seek out and impale their assigned targets. The whips move slightly faster than the user’s current build allows them to, and can swat away incoming attacks, reform if their limbs are cut off, and impale anyone that comes near.
Domain: Suiton.

[Dagron Hoshigake]

Though the mist served a more sinister purpose, a subsequent veil against the opalescent moon that subjugated the ethereal within it's revealing glow. The moment the mist first kissed the earth and gripped the land in it's moist fingers, the souls of the dead illuminated the hallowed land shrill cries that pierced even the haze, if only a disembodied, muddled scream. Torment once more thrust the land into a phantasmagoria of spiritual carnage, filling the air with undesired sounds of ruthless replayed murders and battles that brought the weak into their current state of despair. Whether it unnerved Yuuza or not, Ip was, and long before the mists cleared on command, while the clones still flitted sightlessly through the mists, Ip took a single deep breath to disperse the mists and the horrors around him. The moon held the key.

As he leaned forward, he dug his heels in, letting out the fuuton amplified breath. Within thirty three feet the mist was blow away from the air and with it the clones that had rushed forward foolishly. The mental link would be severed and in their place Ip manuvered himself before Yuuza dispelled the mists and summoned his watery technique. In those brief moments allotted, Hyuang Shidai was raised above his should and drawn back while chakra coalesced within the edged weapon. Though Yuuza had vanished within the mist, it was only a matter of time before they parted-- He could see no better than Ip, of that Ip was sure.

As the mists faded on command and Yuuza was revealed to the frantically searching eyes of Ip, he could see the distance gained, but as well the monstrous technique that had manifested in such a short time. Truly a master of his craft, the suiton user was ready to finish the fight not long after it began. Ip's ideas were the same, but the results would be staggeringly different. As the first two tentacles took flight, the blade dropped and in it's wake a horrible storm liad hidden. Though powerful, the technique lacked adamant form, making it's liquid bands like easily shredded fodder before the powerful gale that spread out rapidly. Invisible blades danced across the air like casually thrown sickles, stabbing and slashing violently and without specific target. In the unmanageable spectrum of the Daikamaitachi, life was forfeit.

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Daitoppa (Great Breakthrough)
Rank: C ( -50 )
Type: Offensive / Fuuton Ninjutsu
Range: 10+ meters
Special: Wind blast can travel 10 meters, plus 10 more each time relearned. Due to the pressure of the wind blasts on the lungs, this can only be used once per thread, plus once more each time retrained.
Description: A staple Fuuton technique, Daitoppa allows the user to blow a single strong current from their mouth, expelled in a cone like fashion forward which carries enough power to knock anything in its way down. This technique is very simple to execute – the user makes the right seals, simply takes a deep breath, and let’s go!

Dai Kamaitachi (Great Cutting Whirlwind)
Rank: B+B+B+B+B+B+B ( -700 )
Type: Offensive / Fuuton Ninjutsu
Range: 10+ meters
Special: Wind blast can travel 10 meters, plus 10 more each time relearned. Pierces barriers 'B' ranked and bellow.
Description: This jutsu was brought to fame by a legendary Suna shinobi from long ago, and was named after a mythical creature able to command the winds on a whim. After channeling chakra to a limb or weapon, the user executes a large swipe, letting loose an intense wind in a one hundred and eighty degree cone. The winds are razor sharp, cover a wide area, and can cut through trees like butter.
Domain: Fuuton.

[Messatsu!]

Continuing to dump buckets of life onto Suiryuuben Yuuza's eyes narrowed as his mist was dissipated and Ip's cold steel whipped through the air into what could only be described as an aimless swing of ones sword. Sadly enough that was far from the case. Ordinarily without the aid of sharingan or the Hyuuga's byakugan, Yuuza would have been utterly oblivious to the plethora of gale blades, however, wind always manifested physically through means outside of its own. In this scenario, it was the dismemberment of Suiryuuben's tentacles.

His efforts In Stopping Suiryuuben's wrath were fruitless, for their limbs would simply reform and continue onward with their unending assault, however, two limbs that had been cut refused to reform, instead, manifesting out of its epicenter and arcing around Yuuza's body along with the remaining two that hadn't been used. They encircled him, protecting him from the oncoming attack (waist down) but all the while Yuuza himself took action and withdrew suigai, only having enough time to hold him out horizontally with its flat body facing Ip. This act would protect his arms and head as he tilted it downwardly. Given Suigai'snature and material it withstood the blades as they passed through the water. Suiryuuben played its roll, lessening Daikamaitachi's damage, however, its power still managed to send portions of his body armor asunder.

Bare flesh and slow runs of red paint revealed themselves as the verdict of Ip's attack, threatening indeed, but nothing fatal. Had Yuuza's armor been absent its possible he wouldn't even have a torso.

"Tch, damn you!"

The four destoyed tentacles reformed around Yuuza, leaving various openings for clear visibility as the other six continued to feed upon Ip.

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Suiryuuben

[Dagron Hoshigake]

Even as the cherry blossom trees were rended asunder within the Daikamaitachi, traveling restlessly beyond the fighting grounds, Ip knew that it wasn't enough to defeat this Nukenin. He had fought many battles and perhaps had more experience than Ip in the arts of ninjutsu. However from the moment he was pushed through the academy, to the point he destroyed Gungnir(wrist&all), a calculative intellect grinded away at the best methods of utilizing his arsenal of techniques and equipment effectively in the field. Shinobi were machines built to destroy. The soldiers of an army honed to kill merciless, though spoiled by the lies that they were anything else than tools to destroy. This man, Yuuza, was once such a shinobi under the rule of a village-- A weapon forged to destroy without question.

As the Daikamaitachi began to pass, the tag modified shuriken was coated in a thin layer of ethereal chakra. An airy power that brought an almost weightless feel to the steel throwing star. Before Suiryuuben could take to the air once more, the shuriken soared through the air, but unlike a Kunai, traveled at a blurring speed straight for the sphere of water. Ip's hands collided there after to form a focusing seal, his body warping and distorted within a cloud of smoke that faded. The tags within the shuriken exploded, hurling fragments of steel aimlessly, while the explosion, near Suiryuuben, served to disrupt it's remanifestation only for a little longer. Where Ip once stood, took flight a small humming bird. A bright yellow little creature in contrast to the dark atmosphere and pink that littered the ground.

To the common eye though, it would first seem like he disappeared until the tiny creature took flight, zipping into the air carelessly and called to Yuuza tauntingly. Then it turned and weaved side to side, adding meter on meter of distance.

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Kaiten Shuriken (Rotating Shuriken)
Rank: D+D+D ( -75 )
Type: Supplementary / Fuuton Ninjutsu
Range: 10+ meters
Special: Wind boost travels up to 10 meters and can control up to 5 projectiles at a time; when relearned, the wind gains 10 extra meters of travel and 5 more projectiles to control.
Description: One of the simplest Fuuton techniques, this supplementary technique allows the user to take any secondary/projectile weaponry they have on them and coat them in Fuuton chakra. This allows the user to shoot them at high speeds under the wind manipulation, adding rotation and tumbling power to increase the speed of normal weapon attacks, as well as its deadliness.
Domain: Fuuton.

Henge no Jutsu (Transformation Technique)
Rank: E
Type: Supplementary / Ninjutsu
Range: Self
Special: Allows the user to transform into any person, object or animal of normal/small/miniature size. Transformation can be held for one turn, plus one more each time retrained.
Description: Henge no Jutsu is a very basic ninjutsu technique which every ninja learns at their respective village's Shinobi Academy. Henge allows the user to transform themselves into any person or object. This allows the ninja to move with stealth or to trick their opponents.
Domain:Academy Student Ninjutsu.

[Messatsu!]

With is torso and bodily extremities trembling from the baleful powers of Daikamaitachi, Suiryuuben continued its assault. Yuuza could feel his chakra reserves cleaving away at its source to achieve absolute emptiness every ounce of power would manifest itself as the herald of Ip's death. Suiryuuben's ambit of desolation reached far and wide in all direction, there is no existing angle in which it cannot strike or defend, truly the perfect attack and defense. Ip's shuriken sped through the airs with great purpose however, their paths would come to a premature end as 2 of the tentacles that went after Ip stopped short to apprehend the shuriken. The first missed, however, the second arced and whipped it back towards Ip himself, who now had been veiled under the guise of smoke.

If suiryuuben had eyes it would have undoubtedly have been gulled by Ip's elementary chicanery, however, having retained the ability to act upon its own accord, it gave Yuuza much time to keep his eyes upon Ip, even as he faded into the smoke and emerged a creature of the sky. Despite this, the reality of distance (height) and use of maneuverability through the atmosphere gave him an advantage. Even still it was nothing Suiryuuben's appendages could not reach.

Given its distance of reach and speed it could catch the bird. Surely ip wouldn't be effective in the air as a born and raised bird, it would be plausible that his body would need time to adapt like a new born, but who was Yuuza to judge. Never the less they lunged and whipped for Ip, traversing with precipitous speeds, aiming to end this fight. If he missed then Suiryuuben would be forced to die, exhaustion was beginning to rear its ugly head.

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Suiryuuben

[Dagron Hoshigake]

Mighty, though tiny wings flitted through the air at almost sixty flaps per second. A precarious creature, it moved like lightning within a small space, despite Ip having never transformed into such a strange creature before. This speed, even with its' lack of definite balance, allowed it to effortlessly avoid the tentacles and shuriken at the cost of fumble through the air skyward. Suiryuuben was a devastating technique, no doubt the Daikamaitachi of Suiton, and were Ip anyone else, would be a finishing move. Thoughts buzzed through the tiny head of the hummingbird and it zipped and weaved higher and higher, no less than thirty meters into the sky when the limit was reached and the transformation technique ended.

No longer with wings to carry him and Suiryuuben at a set distance, Ip had one last chance to finish this duel before something fatal brought him down. He drove Huángjīn Shídài above his head as he fell towards the ground and slashed, a rippling of air and an unmistakable drain of chakra ripping away energy and directing it downward toward the ground where Yuuza, Suiryuuben, and its weakly rising tentacles. Unlike Suiryuuben, Daikamaitachi could not be sustained over a period of time, but in a single burst, it held aimed at taking down its targets in one fell swoop. Geared for crowd control, a single target was faced with a true problem if the master of this technique unleashed it in full.

The air would be riddled with pockets of slashing air, but at a distance, Yuuza had ground and time to cover his retreat. Suiryuuben would not last forever, not within the blade-storm of Daikamaitachi, and neither would he if he did not abandon it completely and make his leave. A worthy opponent, Yuuza would no doubt be met again if he decided to retreat, better prepared.

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Daikamaitachi hurrrderp.

[Messatsu!]

Suiryuuben was indeed a devastating technique, however, its 15 meter condensed, spherical form would not be destroyed so easily, not like the tentacles themselves. Great deals of water mass and pressure laid within the sphere itselve, however Coupled with the clutching hands of exhaustion, Yuuza had no choice but to dismiss the mighty power of Suiryuuben. Daikamaitachi managed to slice away at its exterior however it merely dissipated and spilled aimlessly over the surrounding area, sadly, for Ip, yuuza had already flickered backwardly 20 meters.

By this time Daikamaitachi had still been plummeting towards the ground uncontrollably. In that time Yuuza relinquished himself of suigai and drew forth a stigma of power (4 seals) power after the slicing winds tore into the earthen floor and before Ip himself neared the ground as gravity played its hand. A plethora (3) of clones billowed from the spilled waters of Suiryuuben, all standing in a triangular formation 5 meters apart from one another. Once Ip fell within range they would explode in attempt to ensnare him within a sphere of suffocating waters, if he'd been caught, it would be over. He refused to wait and see the final verdict of his strategy should it have failed, instead his hands flickered in near incomprehensible blurs, molding what little chakra he had left within his reserves.

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Shunshin- Retracting flickerx2



Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu (Water Clone Techqniue)
Rank: C, C, C [150]
Type: Supplementary / Suiton Ninjutsu
Range: Self
Special: Clone speed matches that of the user. Up to one clone can be made at a time, plus one more each time retrained. Explosion range covers 5 meters. For every 4 clones simultaneously detonated over an opponent, the effects of 'Water Prison' can be achieved without needing physical contact. Same 'Prison' effects apply.
Description: With this technique, the Suiton user is able to call upon aid from a perfect copy of themselves. Comprised purely of water, this clone retains the user movement speed and can share linked mental judgement. Best of all, physical strikes fixed on a point within their body will force it to break up into a puddle and join the mass below, able to avoid danger and regenerate anywhere the water exists. Finally, when defeated, the clone explodes into a blob of water that aims to take over the nearest opponent available. If found, the water envelops the victim whole, drowning them in the user's cursed water and setting up more attacks of the same nature.
Domain: Suiton.

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