Hanbei had two wins under his belt so far, and he didn't feel like he deserved either of them, he had had enough of the fighting, enough of the hurting of other people, and no longer wanted to compete in this STUPID competition, however he was conflicted, he had seriously hurt two ninja who he had no ill will toward, he hadn't wanted to hurt either of them, but one of them was far more hurt than the other. Her look of shock and her rag dolling across the ground only to be nearly hit by a falling pillar before the proctor had come in to save her. Hanbei had done her best to heal her to the best of his abilities, and maybe even saved her life, but the images in his head from the event still scarred the poor boy.

As the mouse of a boy entered the new arena he was greeted by the heat, there was a small brief about how the room was going to change temperature rapidly, but hanbei had yet to see the effects. If this was the beginning of the heat cycle it looked pretty dangerous. The spikes which came up out of the ground looked brutal, gleaming a hot red while the walls of the outside of the arena mimicked the same. In the grandstands he could see his father. Folding his arms proudly as he watched his son, so close to progressing into the semi-finals. Hanbei didn't know if he wanted to win, and if he did, he doubted he wanted the prize at the end of it. Didn't the ninja of the world have bigger fish to fry, rather than competing in these pointless games for enjoyment?

Hanbei looked at the sand, and realised that in this arena there was no high ground, which he did not like at all. There was no advantageous point to stand on that wasn't a location that got painfully hot or cold every couple of moments. So there was very little that he could do. One thing hanbei did notice however was that the humid air around them was waising up in the hot cycle, which would no doubt create some inaccuracy should he try to engage in long range combat, but Hanbei could see through it for the most part, his eyes were unnaturally keen, but it still only gave him about thirty meters of true line of sight before it got distorted, removing the effects of his ace eye after that distance.

So Hanbei did what he thought would be best, he ran and ducked behind a set of the metal spikes, the white and gold outer layer of his clothing as well as the raising temperature would camoflauge him against the white coarse sand, complimented with the red glow of the spikes, and digging into the sand a foot and a bit, hanbei had vision of his opponent's entrance point using the doppelgänger jutsu to leave a replacement of himself where he was meant to be. Standing in the middle of the arena far enough away that the haze in the air as well as the well lit arena would diminish any shadow it would have had anyway.

And so, Hanbei waited for his opponent to show up, holding the jutsu in place until he had the opportunity he was waiting for... If he could limit his opponent's movement with his first strike, and limit his ability to dodge or evade, there would be very little opportunity for him to be able to make up the distance between hanbei and himself, in that time, hanbei would shower his needle techniques down on him in a rain ending this before it began, at least... that was the plan.

Chakra 145:

Heat cycle turn 1 (I'll keep track <3)

After progressing to the third round, Izumi would have liked to think herself unstoppable, but she only had fought once so far.  At first she had been glad to hear that she got a free pass to the second round, but now she felt at a serious disadvantage.  Her opponent, Guanyin Hanbei, had gone through two fights already and would have much more experience than her. To be blunt, she felt totally unprepared.  The only thing about this round was that there weren't any limits.

Stepping into the arena, Izumi felt glad there weren't any added restrictions for the match.  There were red hot spikes sticking out of the sandy arena everywhere.  Izumi criss-crossed her way around several as she approached her opponent.  The heat inside the arena was crazy hot and Izumi was sweating within seconds.  Looking around her, the walls gleamed a hot red color as well.  The only things that weren't glowing were the sand and the glass ceiling.  This arena was quite the dangerous one and would keep both combatants on their toes.

Once she was well inside the enclosed arena, the Examiner shouted, "Begin!"  Izumi didn't wait for a second, jumping up to the arena's ceiling.  Flipping upside down, she planted her feet squarely on the class ceiling, focusing chakra there to keep her from falling.  This way she could get a bird's eye view and be farther away from all the hot steel spikes and walls.  She looked down at her opponent and discovered a second of her opponent, her five feet long red hair fell past her head.  "Using a clone technique, eh?" she asked out loud.  The one she had already seen had been out in the open, leading Izumi to believe that the second Guanyin should be the real one.  It was a clever trick to start the match off with, but now that advantage was most likely gone.

Izumi didn't like to strike first, so she would wait to see her opponent's next move.  The match would depend on how well she controlled herself.  She remembered Kazu-sensei's words to use her temper in her favor instead of charging into certain death.  The little boy below her didn't seem too harmful, but then again he did make it to the third round of the Exams.  There was definitely more to this boy then what meets the eye, and Izumi planned to find out just what it was.

Chakra 145/150:

(Small ooc note, hanbei looks like a girl to anyone who doesn't have S rank med >.> just a flavour thing.)

Hanbei almost didn't wait for the announcer, though as his opponent had surely entered the room, he prepared his jutsu to intercept her actions. His eyes locked on her as he triangulated her position. It didn't take long for the chakra within his coat to cover the palm of his hand, anticipating the call to begin, Hanbei without springing himself from his hidden location as his opponent began the process of jumping twenty meters in the air. Threw two of his black senbon for her at ludicrous speeds, easily matching that of the speed of a cricket fast bowler. The two black needles became coated with a quick gust of wind as that speed seemingly doubled in an instant.

The course of the needles would seek to intercept her jump mid way before she reached the roof, in taking a vantage point like the roof, she put herself in a couple of disadvantages immediately, but the needles surrounded in their guiding gust of wind would trace her now unchangeable course as she was still en route to the roof each of them guiding front on to the center of her mass, close enough together that she could not slink between them. She was going to need a jutsu to be able to escape the attack, and Hanbei thought that his attack was a rather clever one, he felt a small tingling of pride in his strategy, the two needles were sharp enough, fast enough, and thrown perfectly enough to penetrate her lower abdomen and exit out her back so long as they did not hit bone.

If the needles were to miss, the micro vacuum would curve them up to hit the panel of glass she landed on, shattering the glass with the B rank impact.

Hanbei now had the vantage point he wanted, because now she was in plain view, and a distance away from the small ninja. obstacles lie the spikes between the two of them would hamper her approach. It was the perfect set up for a ranged jutsu user. After the gig was up, the double moved to where hanbei was, the mirror image and himself literally beginning a combat dance, spinning around each other and mimicking their movements to ultimately confuse his opponent, like shuffling a deck of cards, pooling on his weapons again beneath the arms of his long silks, he drew another eight of his needles, four in each hand in such a way without chakra aided sight to penetrate the thickly layered silks, it would be impossible to discern his actions until he actually performed them.

Not that after some time that the opponent would not be able to tell that Hanbei throws needles. It was more about hiding the amount and camouflaging where he was throwing them for until it was absolutely inevitable...

Hanbei's eyes followed her every movement, watching her and observing what little of her she could, though this far away, things were looking positive. It was hard to remember the steps to the dance of the cherry trees while amongst this level of heat, but the heat did not really bother him, he would wait for his opponent's dodge to attempt to land the next attack, should she fall, he would be ready with his spiders web of needles to catch her as she fell, he was only about twenty meters from the ground she would fall to, so it was not a far stretch. The fight had begun, and everything was looking up Hanbei.

(Sum up, you begin to jump, hanbei throws needles to intercept your path at VERY fast speeds while your vulnerable, if they miss he tries to break the glass you're jumping to and then meets up with his clone and they spin around each other lots to mix themselves up, and wait.)

Chakra 135:

Turn 2 Of heat Cycle: Temperature getting ready to change.

Izumi leaped into the air, ducking her head forward and pulling her knees to her chest in a front flip so she could land her feet on the glass. However she was just executing the flip when two black needles struck her back, the high speed of the needles were the perfect match for her speed, catching her right when she was most vulnerable. The needles went right through her back and out Izumi's front, only to catch in her black vest. The pain was excruciating, her eyes went wide and she opened her mouth in a short cry of pain.

Izumi came back around in her flip and landed on the glass. The two needles were so small that they hadn't effected her flight path. She glanced up at her chest that now was higher than her head, the two black needles were so tiny but covered with blood that she thought the needles were painted red themselves. Izumi used her pain to fuel her anger and she pulled out the two needles. Snapping them in her hands she yelled out at her attacker. "Fuck you, ya little bitch!"

This Guanyin girl was quite the little menace and those needles was pissing Izumi off. This time there were just two needles and there would definitely be more. The fake and real Guanyin kids were running around in some kinda dance. It made no sense to Izumi what exactly was going on, but it didn't really matter. It was her turn to fight, and now that she knew Guanyin was a ranged fighter, she needed to get in close. Izumi launched herself at the pair of brats and readied her fists to take both of them out in one blow. A fist for each was perfect equality and with Izumi's speed with the addition of gravity pulling her toward the two girls, she would be nearly impossible to dodge. Izumi roared as she flew at her opponent, her mouth in a wide grin in anticipation of Guanyin's reaction.

Chakra 145/150:

Hanbei scored her with the two needles, but noted as she attempted to crush the C rank weapons with her bare hands without the effect of chakra the two pristinely forged weapons fell to the ground. Hanbei was unhappy that she had damaged his needles, but there was plenty of them where they came from, with a flex of his chakra, Hanbei ran chakra down his sleeves as his opponent dove down for the two of them with her fist coiled like a meteor Hanbei would be hard pressed to move in time in such a manner.

But that was not in his intentions, similar to his first fight, he had no plans to move or avoid her momentum, the timid boy's mind could compute what he had to do, but to do that he would have to stand firm. She dove in for him though he no longer was defended by the pillar like spikes which had once given him cover. As they changed and warped their temperature in such a way that the temperature dropped significantly in only a few moments.

Crossing his arms to either side of his waist, Hanbei's double span in front of him obscuring hanbei from view. Though he began to mimic hanbei's actions in raising both of his arms as if to throw Hanbei's two fist-fulls, full of needles, hanbei would use the illusion to create an expectation. The image would make the motion to throw the needles, and no neeldes would come, until Hanbei's eight solid needles came hurtling through his copy a moment after, hoping to dupe his opponents potential guard, but if only that was all.

Hanbei used the deadliest skill in his arsenal, the chakra which he had lined his sleeved with activated the Sitting needle technique, the three dozen needles which he had used to eliminate his last two opponents shot directly at her while she was in the air, meaning it was not simply eight needles that she had to dodge or avoid, it was forty, each of them as brutal as the two he had thrown before, though only half as fast, and each of them heading directly for her as she careened downward directly toward Hanbei, making her almost impossible to miss.

As was the usual intention, the range of the needles were not all aimed directly at her body, but were instead spread out over a meter or so in every direction, patterned like a shotgun in a single conical wave. Though, with the jutsu as well as the true needles penetrating it and dispersing it completely, Hanbei unfortunately did not have the time to infuse the ability with one of his other skills, as she had jumped down so quickly, the naked needle jutsu was all he was able to muster.

Hanbei did not want to hurt this person, but he was fighting in self defence at this point, forcing him to defend himself as hostily as possible. But he had not taken into account her momentum like last time, he had not had the time to evade the speed of her strike, making the choice instead to intercept her movements once again with a difficult to dodge Senbon attack rather than evade, taking to the offensive as was the namesake of the guanyin clan.

Things that did not cross Hanbei's mind were the needles she had thrown away earlier, even though they were his, he did not count on them being able to be used as a substitution tool, which could lead to her being the first person in the exams who was able to dodge the technique, though she would have to be fast, and overcome her anger in such a way her reactions alone would have to dictate her evasion. It would be the test of her mental to physical prowess which would lead her to being able to continue in this fight.

chakra 120:

Cold cycle turn 1

Izumi soared through the air, now more in a launched free fall as she descended on her opponent. The girl had noticed this and moved so that one stood in front of the other. This was to be expected from a long range fighter, and Izumi had predicted the girl wouldn't try to dodge. The girl in front made a throwing motion with both arms and Izumi prepared herself. Falling down at Guanyin made for one big disadvantage, that being she couldn't dodge an attack while falling. There wouldn't be a way for her to move, but that was Izumi's plan. She waited for the needles to come at her, but they didn't until just a moment later. So the clone must be in front, Izumi thought just as eight more needles were shot at her.

The needles hit Izumi as she came down on the little girl, her body exploded into a small cloud of smoke. The smoke quickly faded just as soon as it had appeared, revealing a clump of sand in place of Izumi's body that fell before the clone's feet. Interestingly enough, right where that clump of sand fell was where Izumi was hiding, below the sand using her 'Double Suicide Decapitation' jutsu. Not wasting any time, she pulled out both her hands to grab the ankles of both girls. Izumi wanted to make sure she covered her bases, not trusting her assumptions that the one in front was the clone.

Once her hands got hold of an ankle, she would pull her opponent down under the sand all the way to their chin. Grabbing hold of each ankle would dissipate the clone, that is, if Izumi's assumption that Guanyin only knew the basic clone jutsu that was taught to genin. After pinning them in the densely packed sand, she would pop out of the sand and pummel the real girl's pretty little face. Being a practitioner of Wing Chun, Izumi would use the basic rolling of punches that was taught to her. Using a fast and circular motion with her fists, Izumi could land up to twenty fast punches within a couple seconds. Guanyin's little face would be battered and bruised by the time Izumi stopped.

She wasn't going to hold back, either, seeing as Guanyin's two needles from before had done heavy damage to Izumi's insides. The needles were small, so she didn't see any bleeding when she had first took out the needles, but they had been covered in blood. Ripping right through her body had created lots of internal bleeding. Izumi didn't have very long before she would pass out, so she needed to finish the fight fast. She could feel the pain as she moved, but the extent of it was not known to her, though soon side effects would help her realize just how bad of a situation she was in.

IF, somehow, her speed wasn't enough to grab Guanyin's ankle, Izumi would retract her arms and hide within the sand. The arena's temperature had dropped severely and she would try to keep herself warm within the sand while hiding from any more of the little girl's needles. Being beneath the sand would be a much better predicament than completely out in the open like she had been at the start of the match. It seemed that her fate would boil down to these next few moments on whether she won or lost this match.

Chakra 130/150:

Hanbei watched as his jutsu faded as his needles pierced through the air, his opponent had reacted too late, each of the needles sinking into her skin, and as they did so her facial expression changed, but as they sank in deeper there was something wrong, as there was no other sign of impact, Hanbei stared in an amount of disbelief as his opponent vanished before his eyes, leaving behind nothing but a plume of sand falling to the ground, Hanbei recognised the technique instantly, and with quick natural reactions for an attack from behind, clapped his hands together ready to substitute, spinning to look and see if she was striking from behind him.

When he didn't see her, he clicked, the sand hadn't come from the surface, but it was too late, Hanbei could feel the fingers around his ankles and he was being dragged down before he knew it, his fingers interlacing quickly from the shock of the pull as he was dragged underground to shoulder-height. Everything that began to happen from that point onward happened so quickly there was the taunt, but Hanbei did not expect the speed in which her blows came, it hit him once, and his actions to escape staggered, blow after blow rained down on him until he was able to duck his head taking a hit to the back of his head and it not hurting enough for him to perform the substitution about half way through the rolling blows.

Appearing on the other side of the arena, having swapped with the two needles he had thrown at the beginning, he stumbled from a standing position to fall on one knee, blood falling from his face as well as the split from the top of his head. Slightly dazed and his vision blurred with a split lip, he didn't look like he was in the best of shapes, though, he had something which could fix that. Clapping his two hands together, a wave of healing energy washed quickly over his body, sealing the wounds rapidly and recovering from the pain even as the adrenaline was intending to to numb the pain. Looking up and standing as he wiped the blood away, even the budding bruises faded from his face, but now that he thought about it, this gave him a unique opportunity.

My healing pulse is unique, I can use it rapidly without hesitation, so, at this rate, I can heal my wounds, and you can't heal yours... I can stall you out, you can't win. I'm sorry... How do you think I got this far?

He hoped that she hadn't seen his other fights, but the more he thought about it, she did not know about his needles, so that was impossible. Which made this an interesting tactic to use in the fight. But Hanbei was no fool, beneath his long sleeves he had already slid eight more needles in between his fingers and was ready to throw them at a moments notice, his eyes fell sympathetic on his opponent looking at the wounds at her gut, but now almost 40 meters away, she would have to run the gauntlet to reach him again, and Hanbei would not make it easy... She had taken damage reaching him the first time, and barely scraped out of it.

chakra 105:

Cold cycle 2

The bruised girl's face disappeared just before Izumi finished her roll of punches, the genin's face turned into two little needles.  "Come back here, ya pussy!" Izumi yelled out as she quickly stood up to look around the arena.  Her quick movement brought a wave of pain up at her from her chest.  "Fucking hell!  That little bitch and her damn needles!"  Clutching her chest, some blood slowly flowed out of two small holes.  The blood was running down her exposed stomach, her vest only covering the front and back of her chest, stopping just at the belly button.  She was losing blood, and more than she knew as the internal bleeding continued within her.  Gritting her teeth against the pain and the cold arena, Izumi knew time was running out.

Searching the arena, she spotted Guanyin about 20 meters away from her.  Several spikes, frozen over with cold ice, stood in her way.  It would take some time to get the girl again with all the weaving she'd have to do to get past the spikes, but they did present something Izumi didn't notice before.  A new idea formed within Izumi's head.  She didn't know how well this would work, but she didn't have many options left and this seemed like the only way she would get close to Hanbei.  Ignoring the pain coming from her stomach, Izumi unhooked her vest, it was constricting her breathing and being soaked in blood only made her more cold.  Izumi stood before the whole arena, shivering in just a red sports bra and tight, black pants as blood spread all over her now fully exposed stomach. The pain was getting worse, but Izumi had to fight through it if she wanted to win this match.

Breaking into a quick sprint, Izumi weaved through the first few spikes.  She would stop and turn behind one of them, using the spikes to block Guanyin's sight on her as she made a clone.  13 meters away from the opponent, the two split off in different directions, flanking the girl on both sides. weaving through more spikes as they closed in on Guanyin.  Repeating this with more spikes as Izumi got closer to Guanyin, she formed a clone where she was and another where her first clone was.  So the two Izumi's became four.  There were two to Guanyin's left and two more on the right, and they were closing in fast.  7 meters away and Izumi formed the last two clones.  This last part was the most crucial of all.  She and the first clone had started running back in front of Guanyin, meeting at a spike at exactly the same time.  Using the large spike for just a second of broken eyesight, that is if Guanyin was watching these two at the moment, the two final clones were made.  Izumi had been crossing over to the left (Guanyin's right) while the first clone crossed right (Guanyin's left).  Coming back into view, the first clone would run around the spike and go straight at Guanyin, while another clone would follow behind him and then break off to the right (again, Guanyin's left).  The last clone would shoot out to the left (Guanyin's right) and arch in a wide turn towards Guanyin.  Izumi would halt, hiding behind the spike for a just a second to let the clones get close and take up Guanyin's field of vision before popping out herself to attack.  The other two clones that had continued on each of Guanyin's flanks would turn towards the girl.

The clones would reach Guanyin like so:  The clone running right in front of Guanyin would reach her first, diving into a sliding kick.  Next would be the clone that had followed the first for a bit before breaking right, coming at Guanyin from the girl's left hand side, getting ready to punch the girl in her face.  Clone number three that was taking a wider turn in would reach just then at Guanyin's left side, going for a jumping kick to the girl's left shoulder.  The last two clones would come at Guanyin's back from the left and right, reaching her at the same time and ready to punch the girl if she tried to dodge away from any of the first three.  The real Izumi would be closely behind the first clone, forming rock around her arms and fists in a Doton jutsu as she came to attack Guanyin.  Izumi's slight delay would give her the chance to sneak in while the other clones would take away her attention.  For added measure, Izumi would scream, using the clones to all mimick her and block out the sound of her real footsteps in the sand as they all charged in.

With this attack, Izumi was relying on her Doppelganger Technique to be enough to hide her true self in the wave of her clones attacking the little girl.  The pain in the running just added fuel to Izumi's anger.  She would show this girl how strong the Will of Stone was as she would strike the girl hard with two punches to the stomach to beat the air out of the girl's lungs, followed by a vicious uppercut to daze the girl.  Then Izumi would use her momentum to get in close, wrapping her hand around the back of Guanyin's head and throwing her down at the ground only to be caught short with a sharp knee to her throat in an attempt to crush her windpipe.

In all of this, Izumi had to keep in mind the girl's needles would probably appear at some point.  Her run was proof that she knew to be wary of her opponent.  During the weaving up to her opponent, there would be several abrupt switches in direction in case of long range attacks.  All her clones would do this, as losing any of them before they reached the girl was not acceptable.  Once they were in close with Izumi charging in behind them by just a slight delay, the speed and surprise would be more than enough to overwhelm the little Guanyin.  Or so Izumi thought...

OOC: I realize this attack will probably end up confusing.  Feel free to PM me for any help you might need! :)

Chakra 110/150:

As she moved her head to begin to run in his direction, Hanbei began to walk backwards, hurling his needles in pairs in long paintbrush like motions, one after the other as he threw the second he would slip one replacing the first back in his hand, cycling his ammunition from the straps which surrounded his wrists, he had needles to spare, but it didn't take long for him to notice the second of the clones, then a third, he thought she could be moving from many locations at once, which was bad, focusing on the ones he could see as they began to surround him and bridge the gap, tracing each of them with needles attempting to break their visage and discover the snake in the grass, he noticed the insubstantial nature of the clones as the area became hot again, his sharp eyes could pick up the humidity not breaking over them as they got close, there was no disturbance, no slick stream that followed them disturbing the humid wavering air as they got within ten meters preparing for a group attack, it seemed there would only be one way out.

Hanbei puffed out his chest and took in a breath, waiting for the prime moment before jumping rapidly, aiming his head down and exhaling a giant gust of air as the clones got within range, the lose sand upturned and washed over the area in a massive cloud, able to push a person back a few feet as the sand kicked up within a good 5-10 meters, more than enough to catch her and the clones in the dust storm. accompanied with Hanbei's jump as he would sail above the clones slightly backward, high enough to somersault backward and look down to the screen of sand that had been kicked up and washed over the area, warping the way light would penetrate it, and dimming it enough for there to be shadows cast within the haze, but only one of them would stand out. Holding fist fulls of eight needles once again, he flowed chakra through his body to his hands, coupling the black needles with eight white shining needles held between them also.

His arms crossed one over the other locked onto the single shadowed image and hurled them down, the black needles which absorbed light would be almost invisible within the dust shroud, while she would more than likely be able to see the bright ones as they penetrated the cloud, and all less than a few moments after the sand would whip up, potentially stinging the female ninja's eyes and hopefully dazing her for a moment as the needles were aimed for her general torso area, unable to aim them quite as well as he would normally like with so many in each hand. Hanbei landed on the sand afterwards and looked to wait for the dust to clear.

Hanbei continued to step backward, not allowing his opponent to make any easy ground on him, but now he found himself with little more than two handfuls of his needles left, running low and biting his tongue he still had the ability to fight her in melee, having not yet actually revealed his kekkei genkai to any of his opponents. This woman had put up a much better fight than any of his other opponents, landing blows, and being of the first to actually dodge his sitting needle technique, Hanbei's throwing needles would hopefully pepper the ground and his opponent, she seemed the type to be angry, but hopefully Hanbei by the end of this all would have enough chakra to be able to heal her wounds to the best of his ability.

If she got out of this, he only had a few more needles, and not enough time for his cool-downs to ware off, but he still had one surprise...

one more surprise.

Chakra 80:

Heat cycle post 1

Just as Izumi closed in on the girl, a great wind kicked up the sand and shot Guanyin up and away.  "Damnit!"  The sand flew in all directions and the wind pushed her back a few feet, her back slamming into a red hot spike.  She quickly hopped off, her back burned at the touch while trying to block the sand from hitting her eyes with her arm.  Glancing up at Guanyin in the air, she just noticed a pack of white needles that seemed to have shadows flying with them.  Izumi spun around and hid behind the spike that had burned her.  The needles clashed with the spike and ricocheted into the sand.  The amount of sand in the air made Izumi choke hard and fall to her knees behind the spike.  Blood came out of her mouth when she coughed out the sand in her throat.  Coughing up blood wasn't a good sign and her abdomen was killing her now as well as her back.

Looking around the spike, she noticed her clones had vanished.  The brat had been fooled by the clones at least, which meant some needles were wasted on them.  At least they had done something, but Izumi would need something else in order to hit Guanyin again.  One thing Izumi noticed during her dash at the girl, was that her face wasn't bruised or bleeding.  The only logical explanation meant that Guanyin knew some medical ninjutsu.  Staggering to her feet, she felt weaker and in so much pain, she didn't know how much longer she could stay on her feet.  Her hatred for the Guanyin girl was the only thing fueling Izumi now.

Screaming loudly against the pain, Izumi dashed straight at the girl.  This would be her last attack it seemed, considering her state it was quite surprising that she was still standing.  Rushing at Guanyin, Izumi wouldn't stop until the girl had her own souvenir of the match, no matter what.  She was in a rage now, her short temper completely unrestricted as she shouted her battle cry, "FFFUUUCCCKKK YYYOOOOUUUUU!!!!"  Jumping up before getting too close to her opponent, Izumi spun her hair in a fast 360 degree spin, sending a wave of fire at the little girl and all around Izumi.  Falling in behind the flame, Izumi would slam her right foot against the girl's throat.  If the girl dodged the jutsu, then Izumi would land where Guanyin had been, then bounce back in another leap towards the girl again to catch her in the middle of her dodge, slamming both her hands, spread out to jab at the girl's eyes.  Izumi was completely pissed off at this fight, although secretly she enjoyed it as this was the best fight she had ever had.  Immediately following either the kick or the punches, Izumi's long hair would make an easy reach of the girl, whipping hard now with her Doton chakra nature, to smack the girl's annoying little face.

Chakra 90/150:

Hanbei reacted in the away he had been trained to react, the needles which were already in his hands let fly quickly as she flourished her hair, looking to interceopt her movements,but that was where something interesting happened, the kinetic force of the hair and flame took some of the needles from their side,their thin,light nature alloowed themb to be knocked aside with some relitive ease, leaving only three of them flying to attempt to connect with the berserking ninja. Doubting she would be stopped hanbei rose both of his arms in defence as the leg crashed against them with enough speed and force to knock Hanbei from his feet. Throwing him backward and causing him to slam hard against the ground, hanbei managed to roll backward, looking up at his opponent who was throwing her fists in his direction.

Hanbei was not the kind to be overly hostile, but she was close, and though the Guanyin were nown in certain circles at combat ninja,Hanbei had yet to use his Kekkei genkai. Ducking the blows to the face slow enough for her to remove his hat, allowing his long brown hair to flow back as he lowered his stance, creating a fist there would be a flare of ruby light from his hand as the chakra from his kekkei genkai needle formed rapidly. The bright blood red needle was a sign of the Guanyin ability to use non elemental cell degredation, literally mirroring the medical process and potentially blackening and killing the cellular structure of parts of the human body the same way the healing process repairs them.

The needle extended rapidly to its short sword like length of two feet long aiming for the gut and up into his opponent as he situated himself under her arms and aiming it for her exposed chest, driving the blade upward as it was being created so that there would be almost literally no time for the ninja to react. Though the needle of Drakpo was not the most powerful technique in the world at this stage, its quick extention t its full length would hopefully catce her off guard, as she would not up until now have ever seen hanbei's hands.

With the blow hanbei drove his shoulder tiward the girl, and if the red needle hit it would create a deep wound as well agonising pain though not enough to kill her cells, but it would throw them into a frenzy as the nerves over the limp area. the needle would disappear on impact,its chakra causing the pain and paralysis effects as Hanbei finally had nowhere to run for this entire fight. having finally reached him,she had made the mistake of using her substitution jutsu before the ranged fighter had, allowing hanbei the opportunity to outmaneouver her with his hail of needles, but she had been the first person, even the jounin Binsu, had not been able to run Hanbei out of ammunition... this girl would be dangerous if he had of had just a few needles less.

chakra 65:

(3674 words: Trained 3 c rank jutsu  3000/3000)

Three needles shot through the wave of fire, stabbing into Izumi's chest but her momentum was unhindered.  Her pointed hands just missed Guanyin's head and instead caught the girl's hat.  Izumi crashed straight into the girl, and Izumi's breath was forced out of her lungs as she felt a huge wave of pain coming from her stomach.  Guanyin's red needle and struck her deep in the stomach.  Her whole body went numb all over, her arms collapsing behind Guanyin.  They were stuck together now, Izumi slightly higher as she bent over the girl's head slightly.  Izumi couldn't move any part of her body, the red needle had paralyzed her, not that she could have done any damage with her body, as weak as she was now.  The internal bleeding had gone too long without medical attention to allow her to move.

The only thing that still could move was Izumi's chakra-enabled hair, which had now wrapped around the girl, using all of it's length to wrap around the girl's head to just above her belly button.  Izumi's concentration was fading as the red needle had not only forced all of the air out of her lungs, but a huge spray of blood shot out from her mouth as well.  The hair burned the little girl, her shoulder rammed into Izumi's chest.  With the hair wrapped around her opponent, Izumi slowly grinned, her eyesight failing her as she was about to pass out.  "You're one tough little bitch," she said as she closed her eyes.  Her body slumped over and her head hung over Guanyin's head, her wounds getting the better of her. Izumi's hair eventually slackened it's tight grip around the girl, reverting back to its normal state and swaying in the wind over Guanyin's back.

The fight was over.


(OOC: I felt like Izumi's hair was the only thing that wouldn't be affected by the paralyzing effect, thus calling an auto-hit as it hadn't been mentioned in your last post.  Hope that was within my liberty.  Either way, fantastic match!)

OOC: Oh, i never wrote it in, hanbei took the burns, his guarding his face was meant to include that, so, he has full frontal body burns, but it didn't effect his actions much. he just guarded his face, he had no escapes from the hair.

Solstice and a medical ninja both jumped down to see the damage, it seemed that an early wound had been most of the deciding factor as well as the albeit cheap nature that the long ranged ninja had used to out manouver her opponent, though in the end they both seemed worse for wear, the paralysis of that needle had dropped his opponent, but the young needle user had first degree burns over most of their front body. They both needed seeing to quickly, Solstice took to cooling the burns on the both of them with her ice, as the medical ninja worked to repair the internal bleeding as quickly as possible. Once Hanbei's burns were removed enough to grip his hand, Solstice rose it high to the crowd as the Mizukage announced the winner!

Hanbei Guanyin moves to the next round!