Another One[Mugetsu]

[Tyro]

Area: Chuunin Exam Area, 50x50
No Attacking First Post, Site Rules Apply
Start 20 meters away from each other

[Mugetsu]

He stepped into chuunin exams arena with senses wide open, masterful, artistic eyes survey the lay of the land, assimilating all that should aid him. He spotted several areas of trees, bushes and other various plant life. His feet casually struck the earthen floor before he came to a complete halt, feet spread shoulder length apart as his arms rested to his side. His hair whipped about aimlessly with passing winds as flickering images manifested within the recesses of his mind. A project was underway. He'd stand there aware and ready, waiting for his opponent to step forth.

[Tyro]

There his opponent was, walking in as leisurely as Akio himself did. He wondered if either of them truly wanted to fight. It was a nice day, blue sky, few clouds, and sunny, but not hot. Good weather. But these preferable conditions for relaxing, and meditating, were the same as optimal fighting weather. The wind was slow, and Akio was...comfortable.

That wasn't to say he wouldnt be ready to fight. His secondary items, kunai and tags were placed on him, as well as his trusty katana on his left. He reached the 20 meters started point and waited for his opponent, his eyes ready to track movement, and body ready to react.

[Mugetsu]

"BEGIN!"[/b]

The announcers voice resounded within the confines of Kumo's ears, a signal foreshadowing what could possibly be an artistic and entertaining fight. Not seconds after the signal to fight was given had Kumo reached in to one of his hip packs and palmed a kunai. With a flick of his wrist it would leave his hands with creamy, heavy speeds. Its trajectory would carry it across the metaphysical space that laid inbetween the two opposing forces. Yet the kunai began to falter towards the ground once it neared 12 meters. Obviously the weight of the throw was not good enough successfully clear its designated distance. *Pap* The kunai hit the ground and as it did the intended flash came, easily blinding the Kumo's foe should he fail to cover his eyes which would be highly unlikely.

Simultaneously as the flash came had Kumo turned around with precipitous speeds and hid himself with a masterful crouch inside a tall succession of bushes. The cluster of four trees and bushes made quite camouflage. However, it was not enough. Wasting no time he began to mask his chakra completely thanks to this sensor ninjutsu and as he did not even a byakugan (under C rank) could even sense him. Batman?!

Kagura Kinzu (Kagura's Supression)
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary / Sensory Ninjutsu
Range: See 'Mind's Eye'
Special: Allows the Sensor to suppress their chakra so that other sensors or even chakra sensing vision cannot spot them.
Description: With this enhancement to Kagura Shingan, the sensor is now able to block out their chakra signal, so that other methods of chakra detection cannot trace them. While they remain nonetheless visible, without a chakra trail the sensor is free to move about stealthily without having fear of getting caught.
Domain: Sensors. Kagura Shingan 'C'

Light Bombs Used || 1/2

Kunai Used || 1/4

[Tyro]

BEGIN!?

The sound came suddenly, cutting through the airwaves. He was sure it was meant to excite him, give him the need for more bloodshed, but it didn't. His emotion was controlled as he stared at his opponent, blinking barely. Hardly a moment after the arena announcers...announcement, his opponents moves began. A kunai launched quickly, he made mental note that the boy did not move quite as fast as him, although not many did.

Akio had dug into his packs when he saw the kunai drift downward, and dig into the ground with a quick pop. His arms went up, as he didn't expect this move, though his defense shielded him a little, he was aptly blinded for a moment. With his eyes closed and stinging, he still dug into his pack and drew a kunai into his right hand, left outward to defend, but felt nothing in an empty slash, but he did hear a rustle of leaves, distant but sure.

As soon as his eyes could open, just a few seconds with small blurs still existing, he managed to see...nothing of his opponent. However, he couldnt have gone far. Most of the arena was barren, the closest cover being behind him, four bushes.

Suspecting this hiding spot, Akio did the most sensible thing, within hardly a second an exploding tag was wrapped around his drawn kunai, and let fly straight, twenty meters into the bush, and then the seal to explode the projectile made. The bushes were mostly clumped together, and a strong 10 meter explosion would uncover and disperse them.



-1Kunai

[Mugetsu]

Simultaneously as the flash came had Kumo turned around with precipitous speeds and hid himself with a masterful crouch inside a tall succession of bushes and trees. . The cluster of four trees and bushes made quite camouflage.

"10 meters short" He spoke as he watched his foe's kunai falter during the course of its trajectory, but Kumo had yet to reach safe haven. And so........*BOOM!!*" An explosion rocked the earth with its concussive blast, its beating flames salaciously reached for Kumo's flesh, and possibly his life. Before the explosion would reach the trees he took refuge behind the back row of the four trees, hugging the tree with his back. The tree shook violently, Kumo could feel it attempting to uproot from the earthen floor, truth be told it would have had it been caught within the eye of the explosion. "That was close, I was too careless in my retreat, made too much noise"

Clouds of smoke rose from the burnt flora and trees that laid in the front row of it all, further obscuring the line of sight between the two. His senses flared as he climbed upward onto the apex the tree silently to crouch upon a bough (8 meters high). As the smoke from the explosion faded to the winds Kumo had still been hidden from plain view to any onlookers while his mind continued to concoct a plan for he couldn't combat with the man blow for blow, that much he could tell. A portion of the bushes ceased to exist, well they did, but only as a small pile of ash.

He needed away to draw the man in towards his position without being detected to be able to successfully deploy a Genjutsu and end the match. Silently reaching into his pack he dropped a kunai to the earthen floor birthing a 'clicking' sound, hoping to be enough to draw him close or have him bring forth another attack so he could analyze him further.

Kagura Kinzu (Kagura's Supression)
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary / Sensory Ninjutsu
Range: See 'Mind's Eye'
Special: Allows the Sensor to suppress their chakra so that other sensors or even chakra sensing vision cannot spot them.
Description: With this enhancement to Kagura Shingan, the sensor is now able to block out their chakra signal, so that other methods of chakra detection cannot trace them. While they remain nonetheless visible, without a chakra trail the sensor is free to move about stealthily without having fear of getting caught.
Domain: Sensors. Kagura Shingan 'C'

[Tyro]

[Nice job stating that distance after, helped your defense a lot.]

His kunai was off by a lot. He doubted if the boy would even feel a wind because of the distance, should he be hidden in the bushes. How silly of him to launch it and miss his mark. It wouldn't matter, he would continue forging ahead at least he had his opponent on defense from the looks of it.Akio made quick work of the ten meters, doing a quick run to remain twenty meters from his opponents guessed position. On the way, he picked up his opponents wayward kunai, as it was still dug in the earth. This would occur as he maneuvered through the bushes and made his way up the tree.

In the distance, Akio would get word from his opponent. Yes, a single click, metal against earth by the sound of it, audible only because of the long fall to the ground and the clear airs. His opponent must have been planning something. Akio let a small breath go as he dug again into his packs, and readied four more kunai, tagged. Although the twenty meters wouldn't allow his opponent to see the parchment as they all existed in his fist. He loosed the first to the midsection of the tree, only about five meters up, but the explosion would crack it, and several other trees, and the follow up kunai not a second behind would fully split the tree in two, and bring down his opponent(unknown to him.

His third kunai would be readied, but not launched, for as the tree came down Akio saw nothing behind it (unless you jumped down, behind it). If he did see the opponent behind the scenery, which he expected, he would stop his actions, and wait. But should he be in the wreckage that had fallen, another kunai would be launched to him so long as Akio was out of the radius.

+1Kunai
-3Kunai

[Mugetsu]

Before the explosion would reach the trees he took refuge behind the back row of the four trees, hugging the tree with his back.

He surveyed the land from the apex of the towering tree that laid within the back row of the four trees, his chakra covered feet hugging the bark. The sun, slowly but surely sunk behind the northern wall of the chuunin exams arena, its golden brilliance was bleary behind the aimless clouds that lingered above. He watched on with open senses and artistic gaze, analyzing the mans form of attack as he managed to throw a series of kunai like a trained shinobi. However, as the male threw his series of kunai Kumo had launched his own not even a second behind. The Kunai's trajectory shot forth to Kumo's perfect west, landing some 5 meters away into the earth. Not seconds later had the puff of white smoke triggered the replacement for the kunai - Kumo. *Pap..pap*

The sound of metal jarring against bark reverberated in his ears"damnit", he leapt once more to continue his westbound path of travel. *BOOM!* He came to a rolling stop landing just outside of the blast, being caught by only a cloud of smoke which had been birthed by the explosion itself. And there he was, face to face with his opponent once more as he came to a perfect stand. He equipped himself with yet another item, smoke bomb. He thew it frontally, just reaching a little over 10 meters as it exploded, obscuring his line of sight as well as his foe's. With a powerful, silent dash he ran into the smoke headlong. Usually a smoke bomb would induce gagging and coughing, however, due to the bandages that remained wrapped around his torso up to his nose prevented such falterings.

His body sunk to the earth as low as it could with a trained crouch before forming a succession of hand seals. Without warn 5 identical 'clones' shot forth through the smoke running in a triangle formation. They closed the distances with ease; the leader of the pack jumped into the air to come down with a spin kick as the others spread outwardly to flank the enemy with close range combat.

SIMULTANEOUSLY

Veiled under the influence of his smoke bomb he palmed his last kunai and launched it with the flick of his wrist towards his foe as he would surely be occupied by the clone. The kunai's trajectory would carry it 2 meters at the front of Kumo's opponent, exploding upon physical contact.

Kawarimi no Jutsu (Body Replacement Technique)
Rank: E
Type: Supplementary / Ninjutsu
Range: 0 - 5 meters
Special: Switch is near-instantaneous. Can be used once per thread, plus once more each time retraned,
Description: This jutsu lets the user quickly switch places with another nearby object, such as a plant (normally a section of a log), an animal, or even another person within reach, the moment an attack hits. This creates an optical illusion, making the enemy think the attack was successful. The user can then use this confusion to escape or launch a counter-attack - i.e. exploding tags can be attached to the replacement for an added surprise.
Domain: Academy Student Ninjutsu.

Kasumi Juusha no Jutsu (Mist Servant Technique)
Rank: D [25 EXP]
Type: Supplementary / Sight Genjutsu
Range: See special!
Special: Up to 5 servants can be made, plus 1 more each time retrained. Clones cannot exist more than 50 meters away from the user.
Description: Kasumi Juusha no Jutsu is a universal sight Genjutsu technique that creates false attackers to delay and confuse the enemy. Though these servants are not real, the actual ninja is able to remain hidden and throw projectiles such as kunai and shuriken matching the movements of the servants. This makes it appear the false servants are capable of attacking. When the enemy attempts to attack the servant, they will merely disrupt the servants illusion body but not destroy it.
Domain: Genjutsu - Illusion of Sight

Kunai used || 4/4

Smoke bombs || 1/3

[Tyro]

He could see the projectile come out of hiding after the second kunai was thrown. He didn't know what the projectile was, but the quick linear movement denoted that Akio's opponent had lived still, and now he at least knew his general position. He charged forward as soon as the kunai was thrown, for he was not in range of an explosion regardless. He began his sprint and carried himself a full ten meters forward before his opponents kunai had dug into the ground below him and began to sputter gas in hardly a moment.

The gas would need a few moments to build up to its full intensity, so so long as Akio's head was above the smoke he would inhale and exhale sharply. He would also make note to steal the kunai on the ground for it was undamaged. This action would take no time at all as it occurred just after Akio made it to his position. Now within some range of his opponent he was able to keep his eyes on his body, and the Tracker on his right eye allowed him to know their distance even when the gas obstruction was borne.

However Akio was not fool enough to stay in that position. Quickly as the smoke covered him and hid his position, he began moving towards his opponent and drew his sword, only about five meters forward. Soon as it was drawn with his Samurai ability he was able to get off one slash before most people could react, and still reach his opponent who was a distance away, and follow with three more to Mugetsu's lower torso.

Akio predicted though that the sound of him drawing the blade would alert his opponent. So after the first strike, the one that would be most surprising, Akio would lose his third kunai that was pretagged, fired to his opponents last position to land after a hopeful eleven meters and inside the dirt near his opponent before exploding.


[Few things. One, I should be able to interrupt your handsigns with my first strike. They may still go on, but you'd lose your arms and neck. Second I know I said "lower torso" but because your crouching, I would be striking your higher parts.]

[Mugetsu]

"Damnit!Unable to evade any of the samurai's strikes as his hand seals were masterfully interrupted with severe cuts, his death came with a artistic 'bang'

((OOC: Gave up. as soon as you got in range to strike it was over, plus I don't have shunshin. Well played anyhow. I'd like a rematch but with my conditions and with better skills.))

[Tyro]

[Thanks. Very good fight, a definite challenge. Rematch when we're stronger sure ]