Lightning Bluff:

Masu was left in the room by herself, just staring down the walls getting herself hyped up into the mood of fighting this random opponent she had no clue about thinking and opting out what this person could be like. Noise spread throughout the whole of the arena lashing out back and forth, crowds chanting and cheering Masu could feel the amount of noise just from the touch within the walls and floors. Thunderstrike's rained throughout the arena, creating tremors throughout the floors again it seemed to strike every thirty seconds creating a change or shift in the air somehow. "Masu, you have a few more minutes before you have to come out and be out fighting" The proctor spoke to Masu from behind the door, notifying her that she only has a few minutes left before she finally gets to prove herself to the world. She knew this match was just the start of a journey she wished to accomplish and she couldn't let anyone stand in her way from doing so. "Masu, it's now or never. The proctor opened the door wide, Masu stood up all of her gear is ready for her to go and fight finally. As she walked down the hall way Masu could feel a rush of adrenaline hitting her, small yet vital as she knew she couldn't hold anything back against whoever this person getting in her way may be.

Masu slowly made her way out throughout the gates of the arena arriving and walking slowly inside, inside a bunch of pillars which seemed to get stricken by lightning every so often, she noted down the area of the arena seemed to be rough yet small, amounts of crowds had turned up to watch the fights, people continued talking and screaming their heads off ready to watch the battles under way, the atmosphere was unreal people chanting the smell throughout all of the area had been musty creating a weird sense to this old arena. "Welcome Ladies and Gentleman, are you ready for the first battle, we have Masu Shihana VS Fuyuko Miki! The crowd roared with passion, it was finally happening, the fights which everyone had been awaiting for. Masu looked upon the crowds looking up around and seeing the lightning crashing down around her, the people had been stricken close to silent as Masu raised only her hand pointing in the direction of the entrance, awaiting for this person to arrive.  

WC = 423

The time had finally come. The time where Fuyuko would finally face her very first opponent. This time she was certain of it, unlike her false excitement during the final trial. No this time around her excitement was justified and it wasn’t going to subside. The true test of the exams was about to start, the place where she could truly test how capable she had become over the years. From the moment she had decided to become a shinobi till now. How much did she grow? Was it enough to satisfy herself? She had told people she was only in it for the experience that winning was not really relevant. But her now being here in the waiting room, she wasn’t so sure if she could make the same statement. Now that she had gotten to this point, she actually really wanted to win. “A couple more minutes before your first fight starts.” a proctor told her. After hearing the message she went ahead and sat down on one of the benches in the waiting area. She placed her left hand on her chest, closed her eyes and started to take deep breaths. Trying her best to bring her heart rate down a little bit. It wouldn’t be helpful if she couldn’t get it to work faster when she would need it most during the fight. As she was calming herself down she started notice a loud rumbling noise that had gone unnoticed to her up to this point. She wondered what the origin of the noise was, but she was sure she would find out soon.

Having calmed herself a bit, she stood back up and grabbed all of her gear and prepared herself before the proctor would come to pick her up. Just as she finished her preparations the door swung open with the proctor coming to get her. She followed closely behind as they headed towards the arena. The cheers and the roars got louder and louder as they suddenly got deafened by a very familiar sound. The sound of lightning coming down from the sky. She could hear the announcer announcing the names of herself and her opponent. Followed up by an incredible roar from the crowd. Probably in response to her opponent showing up on the battlefield. She took a couple of more steps up the stairs. The noise from the crowd had gone about silent leaving only the sound of rumbling thunder. She questioned why it had gone silent, was her opponent doing something?

Taking a few more steps to finally see something else than steps in front of her eyes. Slowly but surely the figure of her opponent came into view. Her opponent was a female, it was hard to tell by the distance, but she seemed to be about her height if not a little bit shorter and roughly her age. However the posture she was upholding made her blood run a little bit faster. The pointing finger stance didn’t rub Fuyuko the right way. It made her feel like she had already claimed victory, said that she was better than her. As she left the final step the stairs behind her got closed, closing the gap in the arena. They were centered around the middle her and her opponent probably about 15 meters out of the centre. Looking around her the fighting stage was massive, if she had to guess the total length of the arena she’d put it at about 200 meters if not more. Filled with tall, super ridgid spikes that seemed to attract the lightning strikes. Having finished gathering a rough feel for the size of the arena she focused back straight ahead. It was of little relevance now, all she had to do now was win.

After the sound of thunder had subsided again the announcer spoke again. “If you want out of the tournament now is the final chance.” The announcer looked at both participants for a response. If he wouldn’t get any from either side he would continue on. “When the next lightning strike hits, the match will start.”

If Fuyuko’s opponent would try to start any small talk, she would just simply ignore it. Only focused on the task at hand, waiting for the lightning to hit. As she waited she grabbed her kunai and clenched it tightly into her right hand. When the lightning would strike she would instantly perform the following seals boar, serpant, hare, ox, serpant. After the final seal markings in her left palm started to apear. She tried to hide that by keeping her hand closed after finishing the final seal. At the same time she dashed forward towards her opponent, trying to take control from the moment. But probably more so to show her that she wasn’t the one that would win this fight. However Fuyuko wouldn’t blindly go forward, she would keep her guard up for any potential projectile that might be thrown her way or created through a jutsu. If her opponent would dash towards her as well she would make attempts at trying to touch any of her limbs with her palm and trying to avoid leaving herself exposed for a counterattack.


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Stats:

Chakra 135/150:

The pillars continue striking every 30 seconds before the proctor speaks, allowing for the crowd to be drowned and silenced by the deafening noise of thunder strikes.
"If you want out of the tournament now is the final chance" The last chance for Masu to back out, and she knows she isn't going to do that, her pride was on the line. The girl standing in front of her seemed around the same age, a bit taller than Masu herself, chestnut brown hair about shoulder length in a pony tail, who ever this girl was Masu looked upon her as if she seemed charismatic and not be taken lightly, pulling her arm back towards her and taking a defensive stance waiting upon the lightning strike to strike as it does every thirty seconds, and begin the match. Before Masu could realise it the thunder roared around the arena prompting cheers and the stage to be lit with all eyes focused on center stage.

"Boy, I wonder how hard you have tried to get to this spot, yet you look like just any normal person, nothing significant about you. What could you possibly hold that could beat me Ha!" Masu opted to try and waste time so she could continue timing upon the pillars again with the thunder strikes, awaiting as she knew the next thunder shock would be coming soon, but while Masu was talking the girl opted for a few hand signs, quickly dashing towards Masu herself. Masu thought that in about 15 seconds the thunder would strike again. Masu opted to walk back a few steps reaching closer to the pillar of thunder strikes behind her. The girl quickly moved closer drawing closer towards her, Masu closed her eyes for a brief moment, allowing herself to try and ease closer towards the pillar awaiting for the timing. Masu reopened her eyes, activating her Dojutsu the Baragan, yet she was left confused. No form of jutsu could be seen from Masu's eyes. "Did she even cast a jutsu? Was it hidden whats going on?" Masu didn't have enough time to pinpoint what happened, she needed to continue with her plan, she couldn't figure out what this jutsu could be but she shrugged it off and continued. The girl quickly closed in upon Masu getting faster towards Masu who was only a few meters infront of the pillar the pillar was going to strike again in about 10 seconds. As the women finally reached Masu at hand to hand point, Masu threw a closed punch towards the womens left shoulder, and quickly tried to grapple the women by her right arm trying to pull her and sling her into the pillar quickly letting go and hoping her own momentum would be her own demise. Masu move backed waiting and noting the thunderstrike to splash all around the women and where she had been flung, quickly Masu retreats back a little from the thunderstrike and the shadows which have been cast chucking a few senbons into the smoke of the thunder. Resetting Masu keeps her stance and tries to wait upon what is to come out of the smoke.

Chakra 125/130:

WC = 541

EDITED: Masu reopened her eyes, activating her Dojutsu the Baragan, yet she was left confused. No form of jutsu could be seen from Masu's eyes. "Did she even cast a jutsu? Was it hidden whats going on?" Masu didn't have enough time to pinpoint what happened, she needed to continue with her plan, she couldn't figure out what this jutsu could be but she shrugged it off and continued. The girl quickly closed in upon Masu getting faster towards Masu who was only a few meters infront of the pillar the pillar was going to strike again in about 10 seconds.

There have been problems come to my attention regarding the nature of the Shihana kekkei genkai. Due to this reason, I will be placing this battle in a hiatus while myself and other moderators or administrators work this out.. We will deliberate and pm you each the results of this pause. Then we will continue the battle as planned.



EDIT: Clarified reason for pause.

Ruling: The Baragan has no sensory aspect to it at all, it is not a sensory technique that increases or buffs ones sight. It's considered a sensory technique of its rank only for the purposes of attempting to 'hide' from its chakra cancelling effects which require true line of sight. Meaning that if the user of the Bargan cannot directly 'see' their opponents body, the opponent has access to all of their chakra / jutsu normally. So, a stealth technique a rank higher that would hide you from their sight, would make you immune to the effects of the eye.

Masu is free to make any alterations to her post to reflect this, and the 24 hours to do so starts from the time of this post.

Edited and fixed, Also talk to Aya about my time difference for this post soz for that

The mocking words that her opponent were throwing at her mattered little to Fuyuko. If anything all it did was make her more and more determined to win. Make sure that she would see that her way is flawed and that she should never look down on her opponent whilst knowing nothing about them. She would show her the ways of her ignorance when she was defeated by this ‘non-significant person’.

Whilst charging towards her opponent Fuyuko noticed that her opponent had closed their eyes and re-opened them. When they opened up again she noticed that they were of a peculiar pattern and color, this was most likely the effect of activating their dojutsu. Although she was tempted to back off her charge, she would continue on, she had to keep the momentum going for herself. As she got within about a meter or two away from her opponent they threw a rather straight forward punch towards her left side. Only inching enough side ways to avoid the punch. As she avoided collision with the fist she quickly raised her left hand, attacking the arm from below. Striking at it with an open palm and trying to place the mark above their elbow. While she was attempting to place the mark on Masu’s right arm, Masu’s left arm reached out to her own right arm. As Masu’s hand latched onto her arm she felt that Masu was trying to drag her to the other side to put her closer to the pillar. Fuyuko quickly let go of the kunai in her hand and responded with grabbing Masu’s arm back. Letting herself get dragged a little bit before planting her foot firmly into the ground to stomp Masu from what she’s trying to do. While that was happening she had clenched her other hand again to go for a punch to Masu’s stomach. If the seal had still not been placed by this point she would reach down a little lower with her left hand and place it on the leg which was closest to it.

If Masu had still not broken her grip on her Fuyuko would continue on with short range punches to her belly and chest until she did break her grip. When the grip was broken she would distance herself slightly, getting away from her and the pillar stopping at about 5 meters away from Masu. She would reach into her pouch with both hands. Grabbing one of her railgun coins in her left hand and 3 shuriken’s in her right. Throwing them at her in a diagonal line with, one aimed to the left of her at about shoulder height, one at her current location at her belly and the final one aimed to the bottom right at about thigh height. While the shuriken were flying at Masu she was charging herself up. Letting her raiton chakra flow through her left arm, with the coin placed on top of her hand. She flicked the coin with her thumb, shooting the coin right at where Masu was standing. After having released the coin she would perform the snake seal, gathering up her chakra to coat herself with a small layer of raiton chakra. With that she readied herself for any possible counter Masu might make.


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twc 1435

Stats:

Items:

Chakra 105/150:

The girl seemed unaffected by the words, yet she did seem more fired up to the matter itself, yet that wasn't enough to beat Masu. Facing the girl forwards looking her down with her eyes, the girl neared closer finally reaching to hand to hand combat. Masu's eyes lit up and her face rose to give a smile keeping close to the girl. A close jab towards the girl nearly hit the girl, continuing the girl quickly aimed towards the lower left arm of Masu. Masu finally noticed the girls palms seemed to light up with a mark on it. Masu thought it's to try and avoid any form of Jutsu hitting her arm and tried to pull away her arm yet the slightest touch of the mark hit the hands of Masu seeming to restrict her hands movement for any form of Jutsu casting, and cramping her right hand, Masu quickly reached her hand towards the girls arm and tried to pull her yet she planted her feet, Masu quickly aimed a head kick at the girl and doubled back and after she tried the head kick she kicked the girl with her other foot in the stomach pushing her back into the pillar which was a second from crashing with thunder. Moving back Masu used the kicks leverage to push herself as far away from the girl and pillar as possible as it quickly came crashing down with thunder and lightning.

Masu was left with no hand movement in her right arm, and attempted to hold her stance with just her left arm infront of her keeping the right arm locked behind her back, Masu watched the girl from afar quickly moving 10 metres back from her and the pillar which had came crashing down. Masu kept her feet planted and watched upon the girl in the smoke which had arose due to the lightning strike, which seemed to come shatter a few surfaces of the arena. Masu wanted to avoid anymore hand to hand combat until her hand had fully recovered from the effects.

Chakra 120/130:

WC = 350 / 885

While Fuyuko was reaching out for Masu’s arm with her left palm, Masu pulled it back quickly. However it was too late to completely avoid contact, hitting her on her wrist. Although it was not the spot where Fuyuko had initially planned to hit, it would still be somewhat useful. Making Masu be unable to utilize her right hand for a bit. Very shortly afterwards Fuyuko got pulled on her right arm, but planted her foot in the ground a step or two later preventing Masu from dragging her further. However she used this motion to punch Masu in her stomach, something that she either seemed to not notice or not care about, thinking it might not be enough to faze her. However upon impact she did feel a light bump against her shin. Probably be from a kick she didn’t see from the small distance that was between them. The strength was weak due to either not aiming for where she was getting it or maybe the punch made her unable to continue her full force kick. Regardless it left little effect on Fuyuko.

Whenever Masu’s grip on her right arm would leave she would back off creating a small gap of about 5 meters. If the grip was released just from the single punch or the merciless blows that would have followed it, was irrelevant. When the small gap had been made she would throw her shuriken in Masu’s direction, using it as a distraction from her railgun jutsu. With the jutsu fired she would perform a snake seal, channeling her chakra to coat herself in aura of raiton chakra.

As soon as she finished coating herself the lightning strike hit some of the pillars in the arena. Making a rather intense loud noise one that would leave your eardrums ringing for a little bit afterwards. But it was again the signal for her charge forward. Seeing as her previous hand-to-hand went rather well there was no reason to not keep up that kind of style. After closing the gap again Fuyuko would try to land a noticeable punch or kick. Using her aura as a setup for that. The moment Masu would touch her again would be the best opportunity to land a significant blow. When she would land that blow she would instantly weave the next four seals, Dog, Dragon, Rat, Ram. After which she would drop down and place her hands on the ground. An electric net would spread out from underneath her palms electrifying Masu if she were to get hit by it.



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OOC: Oke, there are a few things I’d like to point out to you. You ignored the fact of me going for a punch to your stomach when you’re dragging me around you. Since you don’t stop me or try to avoid it there is no way for you to dodge it so it connects. Now if we look at the stat rules, you need D3 endurance to fight yourself through the pain caused by D-rank pain. Seeing as I have D3 strength, my fists will do D-rank damage. This means that whatever you really try to do is interrupted. I describe that part lightly in my IC post just now (me thinking that your kick lost its strength due to the punch).

To follow this up, you either release the grip on me instantly and I follow up with the shuriken and jutsu, or I punch you several times until you do so (leaving you with even more damage). But since you disregarded that part you don't really try to dodge them in my previous post. Not sure that you can dodge that anymore either. But that’s up to battle mods to decide.

Further, even if you were capable of fighting through the pain your kick doesn’t make a lot of sense. You’re trying to punch me which I only avoid by an inch, meaning I’m up real close in your personal space. If I’m this close to you, how would your feet ever reach my face? It’s very puzzling. Don’t just think “hey I want to do this” also think “but can I actually do that in the current position?”.

Also please use more full stops. You have a sentence of 150 words in there.

Stats:

Chakra 90/150:

Masu had felt the affects of the stiff punches to her gut for holding onto Fuyuko for to long, quickly Masu was caught off guard trying to pull her hand back she encountered a arm hitting Masu's wrist, quickly having grabbing onto the girls arm, the women planted her feet leaving Masu unable to drag her anywhere, Masu pushed herself closer to the women quickly trying to use her kick and push back for enough distance from her and the women. Yet all that was left was a gap of five metres between the two of them, Masu quickly thought of her next plan yet she couldn't properly think of anything, no matter what she attempted she was deflected in some sort of counter to properly win. If Masu attempted to go hand to hand, the women could also fight back and seemed much stronger for Masu to handle, leaving her to back away from hand to hand. Any form of jutsu Masu wish to stop and cancel, she couldn't the women had jutsu a lot more powerful than most leaving her in a state of uselessness. Masu would continue thinking yet quickly a shuriken would quickly come flying towards Masu, she would quickly jump into the air knowing she is left open she quickly yelled. "This match is useless for me, I surrender."

Masu shocked herself with these words but she knew in the long term she is fighting a pointless fight with no counter that she had available. "I Masu Shihana, surrender the match over for Fuyuko Miki, to claim victory". The crowd was left shocked, most people couldn't believe what happened, just as the match seemed to be shaping up Masu resigned, some of the fans started to yell and scream frustrated wanting to see what both of them were made of. Masu slowly moved towards the girl, speaking to her and closing her eyes for a split second deactivating her doujutsu.
Her pristine blue eyes looked at the girl who had just beat her in the eyes, obviously with a small chip on her shoulder as she didn't expect what this girl would bring to the table. Slowly getting into distance just for these two to be able to talk and hear each other.

"Now look here, right now you are much better than I am. You're drive is a lot better than mine for this competition,
I want you to win it all for me. And in due time you should make your way towards the Land of Wind whenever you see fight and we can fight again once I've trained myself to a better standard. Till then use your wits and don't underestimate anyone as I did. Till then I'll be off in the Land of Wind, I expect you there someday to visit and battle again." Masu slowly turned her back and walked out of the door, knowing what she knew she needed to train a lot harder to become stronger and knew the exact person which could teach her.

WC = 516 / 1401

(Exit)

Masu jumped to dodge the shuriken she had thrown. A smile appeared on her face as this was going to leave her vulnerable. If she's in the air there was no way for her to dodge properly. Taking aim and ready to fire, she held off with shooting as Masu spoke words of surrender. With her hair still slightly raised from the static charge that was running through her body Fuyuko patiently listened. She was still ready to fire at a moments notice until Masu had repeated herself. She lowered her arm and got rather annoyed with the situation. Actually she got even more ticked off and it would show quite visibly in her glare and facial expression. Not only was she unable to show how much more capable she was than Masu, the match was ended as if she wasn't good enough for her.

As Masu was cloing the gap between them Fuyuko tried her best to calm herself down, to no fully snap at the girl. It wouldn't be appropriate. She patiently listened as she got spoken to. But instead of calming down as the words left Masu's lips it only riled her up more. Asking to win it all for her? What kind of lame request was that. First she insults me and then wants me to win it all for her sake? What a preposterous idea she thought. The next words that were spoken were kind of... intriguing. A rematch when the two of them had trained up was very tempting to her in the moment. A match where she would really be able to stomp Masu, she liked the sound of that. Show her really what she was made of. But in the moment she would remain silent, not a single note would escape from her mouth. She just stared as Masu was walked away.

[Exit]

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