Stage 1- Event: D
Description: Participants wander the island until coming across a large, violently flowing river with large, flat stones jutting out from it for a 50 meter expanse. Not long after the participants arrive, Manji the giant penguin shall arrive, jetting out from beneath the rapids and landing on the rock in the center of the river.

Name: Manji
Age: ???
General Appearance: Nearly as tall as Kong. Black penguin with white markings. Has golden hair that frames his eyes and also forms a goatee beneath his beak. Wears a Japanese Straw Hat & Cloak, as well as a 3 foot long branch in his mouth that has been sharpened to resemble a toothpick.
Personality: Extremely serious and a lone wolf. Calm, but quick to anger when his training grounds are trespassed on.
Motivations: Attain the strength to end the centuries-old quarrels over dominance on Genbu by becoming the most powerful animal.
Fears: Snakes
Abilities: Excellent swimmer, capable of swimming even against the river’s rapids. Extremely agile for seemingly no reason as he is able to easily jump from stone to stone without any difficulty despite being a penguin. Incredible strength compared to a human, but less so than Kong, Boss Hippo, or Don Koala. Lathered some kind of tree sap onto the edges of his wings, causing the edges to harden and be used as weapons.
Other: Very stern and honor driven. Will probably allow participants to fight it out for the scrolls on his training grounds if the situation is explained to him. Any conduct that he deems as dishonorable however (sneak attacks, tricks, ‘fighting dirty’, illusions, etc) will result in him immediately attacking the offending party, taking the side of the other participant.



Scroll assignments (This information is exclusively held by each participant. Their opponents must discern who has what scroll other than their own in the thread):

Scroll of Heaven: Joruri
Scroll of Earth: Kikisu

The participants had travelled to the island relatively quickly. All of them were spread out across the island and were set upon specific routes so that when the time came, they would encounter their predetermined opponent. Who was the pale of hair and of complexion Kansen-Suru youth facing upon this day? He knew not, all he knew was that it would be his best bet to bring all of the tools that he had at his disposal. Hefting his bag over his shoulder, he had immediately begun to expend the miniature amounts of chakra in order to reduce the maximum weight of the bag. He still felt some of it's contents, enough to know that there was actually a weight upon his back, but it didn't bother him enough to impede his movements.

So he started on his journey the moment he had been dropped off of the boat from the main land.

Drawing in a deep breath, he exhaled the fresh air and started hurrying on his path.

Within an hour he heard the sound of rushing water, and he hurried over towards it. A thirst had come over the pale haired Genin and it was about time to take a break anyway, who knew when he was going to come across an opponent with the Earth Scroll?

When he emerged from the tree line, he saw the rushing water, in fact it was moving so rapidly that he was certain he'd be dashed upon rocks if he tried to swim in it, worse yet, it looked as if he were to try placing his hands into the body of water, it'd drag him in just as quickly as drowning him.

In front and over the water however there were large jutting stones, there was a fairly large field for him to travel, fifty metres or so he guessed, and he saw a place where he may be able to wedge himself in between the rocks in order to gather water. It was a place located between two of the smaller of the rocks that were jutting out of the body of water, and it seemed fairly easy to enter he determined as he grew closer to it, soon coming to the halfway point on the rocks.

I'll get some water, and then I'll cross.

He had decided as he stared into the rushing water.



WC: 405

Chakra: 145/150
-5 due to lessening the weight of iron sand pack.

The wind blew through kikisus hair, the breeze smelled odd, the sea and water was a different thing to him, kikisu had lived in land all of his life, dry desert air was all that he knew, and now that the exams had started he was walking around on the back of a giant turtle, the whole concept of it was forgien to kikisu, he had never even seen a turtle in normal size, but that was life, kikisu was living threw new things every day.


Kikisu now stood in a large jungle, large trees stood hundreds of feet up, the sounds of the forests denziens were everywhere, birds squaked above and small critters roamed around the trees, and during his walking he saw some evidence of larger creatures, with paws the size of his torso, he was just glad that he had missed the encounter with it. as he was walking he made sure that all of his items were ready for combat at anytime, he checked his three scrolls on his back, they were in order of general usage, they held his puppets, though he had two of them on his back, he had Kawaii wrapped in gauze beside tabok in a separate wrapping. He checked his hip for his spare kunai, it was in place.

suddenly he heard the sound of metal on metal, and went into awareness mode, he ran over to the tree and peaked over it he saw that two ninja were clashing weapons, one had a sickle and the other had a tanto, they were going back and forth, sending attacks nonstop in what appeared to be a desperate attempt to get the others scroll, kikisu looked down at his earth scroll and giggled, the fighting people across from him both had earth scrolls, they were being held right below their backpacks, so neither one saw the others kikisu giggled they were going to tire each other out, he turned around and continued his search for a air scroll, he slid the scroll into his scroll holder on his back with his other scrolls.


As he was walking he heard something, he dropped into a crouch and listened, he heard someone walking, currently he was near a river but he had a lot of cover in between him and whomever this was, he got ready for combat, he made a single handsign making his kawaii puppet a copy of himself, he then attached his invisible chakra strings to it, and focused all of his attention on making his puppet completely lifelike, it looked like a clone of himself, and he made sure to give it his mannerisms, he put the kunai in the hand of the puppet and quietly walked the puppet to the right of the bush, moving slightly forwards so that he could see the kid now walking into a river, hoping that the sound of the river would drown out most of his sound, for it was quite loud, he then made Kawaii walk around so that  it was near far away from kikisu so there would be no way to know where the strings came from it he even found out that kawaii was a puppet, since it looked just like him and the puppets skin was rubber so there was no clicking sound, Kawaii then threw the kunai with all of her might at the kid, aiming for the back of his neck hoping to get the first hit, then awaiting a response from him, he had the ''kikisu'' copy bow at the kid, kikisu stood ready to combat anything that this kid was willing to throw out.

Chakra 130/150
*chakra used on Invisible chakra strings and transformation*

jutus used:

WC-610

In the time that Joruri had stood at the water's edge wondering as to what he was to do, unknowingly to him his opponent approached. But while he spared a few moments to day dream, he began to wonder as to what the different members of his squad were doing. Were spectators able to watch them from cameras? He was expecting an opponent any moment now anyway. Was Shinako already engaging with hers? He wondered if he moved away from the water if he'd be able to hear the sounds of combat. It didn't really matter. Since they were only two out of three members from their squad he was doubting that their would actually be 'squad fights.'

"Hmph." He made a rough sound from the back of his throat, frowning, he dropped down onto a knee, and in that moment the sound of a kunai whistling past his ear was heard. He froze for the briefest of moments as strands of white hair and a faint trickle of blood began to track it's way over the back of his neck.

Glancing over his shoulder to the person that was there, he pushed off of the floor from his crouched position and when he landed took two strides to cross the distance between another rock, allowing eighten meters of space between him and his opponent and ten meters from the water on either side.

He loosened the straps of his bag, reaching backwards and opening up the main pocket, in one of the side pockets was his scroll. He wasn't going to make it so easy for someone to identify him. Maybe it wasn't the smartest thing to do, but Joruri wanted to test himself against the largest amount of people that he could. That meant the probability of people with the same scroll as him would fight him, but then again, that also meant if he won against them he'd be able to share his scroll with members from his village if they so wished it.

Like Asura. He took a moment to reflect, and then he drew out his own kunai and pointed it to the unknown entity.

They stood there for a while, and then Joruri began to move forwards, and then stopped after three meters, closing the distance to fifteen meters. He didn't know what this guy was capable of, so he released the kunai straight to his centre mass, just as a gigantic black mass soared through the air and landed in between them.

WC: 404

Chakra: 140/150
-5 due to lessening the weight of iron sand pack.

Kikisu was ready for this, the kid had gotten slightly sliced form his launched kunai, though only a nick, the funny thing was that kikisu had even ended up surprising this kid with the ambush, he smiled wainly to himself...he wasnt out of the pan yet, the stove had just been turned on, he had no idea was this ninja was capable of, he had fought man people in his young life, and he had learned that he should always play it safe at the start, everyone had a trick up their sleeve if they were going to be a ninja.

Kikisu then watched as he approached his clone like puppet,Kikisu then had the puppet pull out a fake scroll of earth, the real one was with him, but the transformation had given a copied version to his puppet clone, the puppet wiggled it in front of his face and then threw it back into his holder, making sure to see if this ninja even had the right scroll, he was going to fight this kid either way but he was watching the kids face for some sort of reaction.

 As well  kikisu made sure to make this puppets hair a bit longer then his natural hair to match the pink wire hairs length, since that was his greatest weapon at the moment, and since this kid had never seen or met him before he wouldnt notice the differance in length, for it was only slightly longer to match his puppets hair. 

After the kid got closer he had his puppet wiggle two of his fingers in an obvious, come and get some, motion, then suddenly what appeared to be some sort of A figure appeared Kikisu knew that he had to be careful against whatever it was,  the kid was 15 meters apart from him, so he sent his puppet forth.

 Right after the figure appeared his puppet would be coming around to the side of the kid, running as fast as he could to close the distance, after he got close enough, the puppet then feinted a kick with its leg, only going as far as getting the enemy to hopefully try and dodge or block it, directly after the feint the fake Kikisu would swing his head in an arc, swinging his hair around, the 2.5 feet long head of hair would cause countless cuts and slices on contact, the whip of hair was aimed at hand and wrist of the enemy, aiming right at the hand that held his kunai, knowing that if he hit it would surely hurt like mad, though at the same time Kikisu himself was keeping an eye on that weird figure, he didnt know if it was a summoned creature or something else, that could cause him some trouble, Kikisu thought to himself as his fingers twitched back and forth as he masterfully controlled his puppet.
1080WC
Chakra-125 of 150
OOC-As stated in the Puppet rules, these are my puppets stats,
Spd D-3
Str-C-0
React-D-3

The gigantic penguin only seemed to have eyes for him, or so it looked to Joruri. A huge penguin then? It certainly wasn't something that he had been training for in the Leaf Village. It even had a branch in it's mouth which sort of resembled a toothpick. The straw hat on his head sort of reminded him of a rogue samurai he had read about as a kid.

What? Was the only thing that went through his mind as he tracked the puppet coming around the penguin. A kick was sent out, and Joruri temporarily froze. Before Joruri could move, the eyes of the penguin smoldered and then brought both of his wings in between the two, and pushed the two combatants away from each other, separating them with a violent push.

The push sent Joruri flying backwards to a distance of five meters from where he had been previously standing. The same must have been done to the man with the rotating head!

He frowned, but before he could even formulate his thoughts, a loud voicebwas heard over the water, as the pale haired figurevthat was Jiruri was shocked back up to his feet from the sudden sound.

"WHY HAVE I FOUND HUMANS ON MY TRAINING GROUND!"

The white streaked black penguin pulled the branch from its mouth and pointed it at the two to either side of him. It was clear that he wanted answers but Joruri did not want to say something that would surprise and make the creature mad. So he remained silent as he waved the branch violently at the puppet before swinging around to Joruri.

"WHY!?"

He gulped, wondering if the puppet was going to attack him in that apparent ceasefire. "The Chunin Exams. We need to fight to gain an object from each other."

There was a 'hmm' sound, and he nodded his head in accepted.

"I will not allow tricks to be used. But I will allow you." Manji's gaze was focused on the puppet before scanning the tree line and then turning back. "There will be no dishonourable conduct." He retreated backwards and dropped into the water, seemingly tredding it as he roared from the water.

"BEGIN!"

Joruri leapt backwards and brought his hands together, only realizing then that his arms were cut, but there was no time to think about it. The rotating head had probably clipped him as they were pushed away from each other.

Joruri watched the puppet, and croiched, unsure as to what the puppet was made out of. Metal? He could only hope he was that lucky, and he performed a handseal, allowing thevflap of the bag to open up and release an amount of iron sand, swirling in the air before hom before coming into the shape of fiur large rectangles.


WC: 651
Chakra: 125/150

Chakra: 125/150:

5 from bag.
10 from D rank technique.

[OOC]: I will edit in jutsu and wc later, did this from a phone.pm me if probs.

Kikisu was shocked when the large penguin creature swatted them both aside with relative ease, he then heard it yell, and the kid agreed to play fair, and kikisu wasnt going to anger that thing, so he decided on his second plan of attack, he quickly freed one hand and made a single handsign as one of his scrolls rolled out and he released what appeared to be a little demon, with a large shoulder spike and little claws that could extend and a secret in his teeth, he attached his hand to this one and switched his control type of his puppets to balanced control, losing a little reaction time but not that much, and he walked out of the bush and said in an annoyed voice,
Fair Fight....Okay then no more hiding for me i guess, since this is going to be fair
he nodded to the penguin, then attacked savagely, he saw that there were multiple large bricks made from some weird gray sand, he made sure to keep an eye for for anything fishy but made sure to avoid much eye contact with this figure, he was a skinny guy, and since Kikisu had been taken down by genjutsu more then once before, so he couldnt rule it out as an option also watching this guys hands in case of ninjutsu, he wasnt going to take chances, Kikisu then yelled out to the kid,
BRING IT ON LEAF NINJA, FACE THE POWER OF THE DUNE PUPPETEER!
Though normally kikisu was of a much calmer nature, this was his method, right as he was at the end of his sentace he had his pink hair puppet fly at the guy, slightly less human like now, but still with good skill, he swung the puppets hair directly at the kids knee, aiming to injure the limb of this kid, and directly after this assault, he had his small demon puppet fly forwards, aiming to spear the kid in the lower abdomen, this move was slightly staggered as to try and flank and confuse this enemy, it was very hard to block to sides at once, and he was hoping this kid wouldnt have time to react, all the while Kikisu was still on alert for danger.
Wc1400
115 of 140

Used:

Once Manji had said that they would have to fight fair, what appeared to be someone who could be considered to be as thin as Joruri stepped out, and the pale headed Kansen-Suru's teeth grounded upon each other. So this was the guy who had been trying to play games with him since he had originally gotten to the rocks?

Joruri sighed, and then Manji said begin and the Kansen-Suru had lunged backwards, increasing the distance between him and Kikisu by only a handful of meters before the puppets moved towards him. Joruri had almost been hoping that they'd come in close towards him, if only for the obvious fact that he utilized Iron Sand, a well known counter to those who utilized the sand and puppeteers who had experienced it before.

He replaced his kunai into his pouch.

There was no more time to be wasted then, the puppets were being launched at him, and Joruri willed his Iron sand plates at the one that was coming in low to slice his legs. It came fast, it was slower than it had been before, and instead of standing around like a deer in headlights as he had previously, he allowed the puppet to come close and the Kansen-Suru took a page right out of the puppeteers book.

A feint.

A pure flesh and blood kick towards the head of the puppet, but it had already begun spinning, so he rotated on his grounded leg, and willed three of the five iron sand plates to move towards the puppet. They had been manifested moments before the puppets had been moved to attack him, so there was no reason to not have them right beside him. While simultaneously lifting his leg for the kick, Joruri had brought his hands together and gathered chakra. He barely had time to raise his leg before the hair was forced to work through his pants and then perform countless lacerations on his leg, just as his hands were thrown outwards to the creation in front of him, straight at it's main body mass, giving it no time to retreat and perform another attack.

'Gale Palm.'

In such close proximities it would literally be impossible for the puppet to move away in time to avoid the attack. If there was indeed a light layer on rubber acting as skin, then it's main body mass where his attack had been targeted wold have no doubt shredded it and opened it up. There was no time wasted, in that moment the iron sand plates that he had willed forwards previously came crashing downwards into the gap in the rubber flesh that had been made and would most probably spread around the puppet within the next few moments.

The small mimic of a demon had leapt up into the air, and although it had been commanded to strike the shinobi in the lower abdomen, it'd be quite hard to do that to begin with anyway, and although he was no acrobat, he spared a glance upwards to see the miniature puppet coming down and he danced to the side again, this time slower and felt a tear through his cloak and through the first few layers of his flesh, again drawing blood from him as he slid backwards, drawing his kunai from his pouch again.

WC: 566

Chakra: 100/150:

Suddnely he saw it, he was getting ready for ninjutsu, as Kawaiis hair was swung at and bit into the leg of this ninja, the wind blast got his puppet right in the center of mass, tearing the outer rubber shell to ribbons, giving way to its hardened weirwood endoskelton, mostly the torso was exposed, he grimaced to himself, he liked the rubber of that puppet he had made it himself, he had mixed the rubber and cast it he would have to fix it himself when he was done here, that idea didnt make him happy he took hour upon hour on each of his puppets parts, he hadnt had time to fully install all of kawaiis parts, but she had enough on her.

He then had his little demon puppet rush towards this kid, who was just pulling out his kunai, then he released what he considered his puppets main weapon, the little demon pointed his talons at the enemy ninja as he rushed at him top speed, kikisu let his kawaii puppet drop to the ground, he knew that the stuff going inside of it was now useless....not completly though not yet, the rubber of the neck was completly shredded, so Kikisu attached his strings instead to the head, lifting off of the body and spinning it wildly, sending it flying at the enemy, the razor hair flying everywhere, this time he aimed for the eyes, the pink razor wire flying towards the ninja like a pink cloud, directly after that he would have his demon puppet release his claws, shooting out at intense speed to their full length of 1,5 feet, he was aiming to impale the kids gut once again, one hand aiming for his gut and the other for his other thigh area, the claws would then stay at that length they were for melee combat.
110 of 150
*Maintaining Strings*
Wc1750

He had taken out the larger puppet, and for those next few moments, Joruri was confident that he could win the rest of the fight. He was less than seven meters away from the smaller puppet... The one that had cut him.

Once he had begun sliding backwards, his eyes tracked towards the little demon that had cut into his flesh. To have stopped moving would have been death, or at least fatal injuries and the Kansen-Suru wasn't going to allow himself to be defeated so easily.

The little puppet was rushing towards him, and as that happened the two remaining iron sand plates maneuvered themselves just above his head, as if warning the puppeteer and his contraptions to not continue any further towards him, but that unspoken warning meant nothing. To think he'd stop moving would be foolish. So he did the unexpected.

He didn't move.

He reached behind him, grasping one of the scrolls that was in the small of his back and he opened it up, aiming it at the smaller one. As it was opening, he rushed through his words, already planning his next step. "Unsealing Jutsu!" He spoke the words, and the wire was released from the scroll, launching out towards the puppet, and in their close proximity Joruri wondered if it'd wrap around the little one the moment it's talons were released, hopefully constricting it within the thin but strong wire's grasp, and it tightened the moment it had gotten around it's arms, and if it were to tighten around the puppet, Joruri tugged the scroll downwards, and tightened the wires so that the arms would be tied to the chest of the puppet and would be unable to cut through the wires.

He wasted half of his wire on that one specific puppet however, and his overall plan was quite dependent on that one puppet being stopped, but without it's talons was there really a way for it to cut it's way out of the scrolls? While he had been utilizing the wire, he was willing his two remaining sand plates into position. And when the talon that was heading for his leg came close, both plates collided with it, allowing the sand to blow out across Joruri's own body, and thus reducing the damage that attack would've no doubt done to a mere scratch or scrape on his leg, and he twisted to the side, past wounds suddenly all taking their toll on him at once, the scratch on his neck, the lacerations on his arms and hands, the ones on his legs too, and he did his best to spin around so it'd instead hit his back and thus the iron sand, but alas he was too late, and mid twist he felt the weapon tear into the fleshy area of his hip, and he dropped downwards, all the while gathering what chakra he could as he bled.

Is this it?

The pink headed thing went flying towards him. His hands raised up and he released the magnetic pulse jutsu, straight into the flying head as it began it's attack upon him, and he closed his eyes with his arms thankfully acting as shields.

WC: 549

Chakra: 70/150:

The moment that the wire catch flew at his little demon and wrapped around the hands, he released his final surprise for this puppet, he had the mouth open up to reveal red hot teeth, being heated from behind, he un click a catch that released all of the springs behind the teeth , letting them loose directly at the kid , whose hands were just now occupied pulling down the scroll filled with wire, sending twelve red hot tungsten teeth, aimed for his center of mass, then he was dragged down after he had further damaged the ninja hopefully, the puppet dropped as his Kawaii head was spinning at his opponent, but suddenly there was a blast of some sort, and his two puppets flew away due to the metal of there weapons, he smiled to himself, he hoped the teeth were a nice surprise.

He released his control on the kawaii head, he would reclaim it later, it was on the ground not that far away, Kikisu used a single hand and made a handsign, the same one as before, and he released Spink, a large quadrupedal dinosaur, it was a large sail finned dino, with large serrated teeth made of thick solid iron, and the moment he brought his puppet forth he attached his strings and flung it forward, making the dino like puppet fly at the opponent like a mad beast, turning swiftly swiping his large sail back at the wire of the puppet, using its razor edge to easily slice the wire that entrapped his puppet, then he turned swiftly and went at the kid, making a plenitude of clicking noises, rattling its jaws together in a menacing show. once he closed the distance he had spink pounce at the kid, watching for trouble the whole way, aiming to close its jaws directly on the throat, and in a trained formation; practiced many times; His demon puppet, now free followed on spinks tail.

The moment that spink pounced the demon puppet would jump into the air and aim his foot long hand claws as spears, aiming to spear like blades at the kids collar bone area, trying so the second attack followed the first right after the boy either dodged, took the hit for blocked it.

*Maintained Strings*
100 chakra of 150   
WC 2000

With a step he had avoided the teeth that would've otherwise struck him. It wasn't hard to make a change in direction since he hadn't been moving as of yet, and he only felt minor burns upon his flesh and scrapes as he avoided them with a simple twist.

My time is up.

The words echoed through his mind. The magnetic pulse jutsu was released. Instead of flinging Kawaii's head back, he instead simply tugged the metal that was within it's head in one direction in the attempts of controlling it that way, and if he did gain full control without ripping the metal straight out of it's head, he would've shoved the little demon puppet off of the edge and into the water sending him out of sight and unable to be controlled again.

Joruri pushed up to his knees while all of that happened, slowly moving closer to Kikisu all the while. Soon enough he had entered seventeen, and soon after fifteen meters of Kikisu, all the while trailing blood behind him as he shrugged out of the iron sand bag at long last.

He reached behind his back again as he saw the make shift dinosaur charging him, and he withdrew his unfolded Windmill Shuriken. On the journey to Kumogakure no Sato, the Fuma Shuriken had been in a similar position, folded in the small of his back, an image of Joruri that his squad mate wouldn't soon forget. In the instant that Spink closed in on him and open it's mouth, the Windmill Shuriken was pointing vertically in it's mouth and Joruri rolled to the side, suffering through the pain and the blood.

In the event the demon puppet hadn't been disposed of in the water, Joruri's kunai would've found itself in his hand again, as he lunged onto his wounded flank, pushing the blades of the puppet out of their path and towards the floor beside him. He plunged the kunai into the centre of it's body in hopes it'll stay there, but he knew it wouldn't.

He bled from countless wounds but he couldn't allow himself to lose.

With a final leap, he carried himself towards Kikisu, reaching behind his back as he pushed off the ground to reveal his second and final scroll.

'Iron Sand Blizzard!'

The globules didn't even need time to form. They were already formed as they exited from the scroll, crossing the now short distance between Joruri and Kikisu. The globules for the most part were heading for Kikisu's hands and arms. Throughout the flurry, Joruri felt as if he knew that it wouldn't be possible for the puppets to be controlled.

During the flurry, his hands reached back into his pouch to retrieve all three of his shuriken, and he launched them in quick succession as well, straight at the elbow joints of the puppeteers arms.


WC: 502

[OOC]: Still can't figure out which puppet the demon puppet is in your locker.

Chakra: 50/150:

He had dodged most of the damage from these two puppets, since he had just had to pull his demon puppet (infantile) out of the water with a tug beforehand it was easy enough, spink had missed his mark, but he wasnt completely done yet, in his mind right now everything stopped for a moment, this was the crucial turning point, everything hinged on this moment, this was where he would win or he could lose. slipped control off spink for a moment, letting spink rest where he was.

 As the kid started his leap at him, using one of the puppets in his scrolls quickly releasing it and instantly attaching his strings it was ...Minos Talba, the horned one, this was one of the ones that were wrapped in cloth on his back so there was no need for a sealing jutsu, the large minotaurs leg extended to there full length once they were out of the scroll, and kikisus mind became blank after this, there was no conscious thought, just pure instinct and reflex, moving his right hand in sequence with his left, he first quickly tapped Minos Tabla and infused him with a large amount of his chakra, using the Item reinforcement Technique, and releasing his large arm shield, the shield being 6 ft around, also being reinforced, this happened just as the Rain of Golf ball sized pellets started to pelt at him, the large 7ft tall puppet now reinforced with chakra took the pellets as they bounced off, also many bouncing off his shield, the shield being 6ft around and much large then kikisu a few snuck threw and he was hit in the shoulder once, leaving a painful bruise but his puppet was larger then he was so it defended him very well.


At the same time that the jutsu was being released and the shurikens thrown, he was thinking that the kid was hoping to take him out here and now, so that he wouldnt have to worry about the puppet behind him, without that much visual cues, but enough he brought his Infant Demon Puppet in fast and hard, not bothering to make him look real or human like, he just brought him in as fast as he could, he aimed one hand for the kids left arm pit, aim to dig into a vein or artery, and the other hand stabbed for the cuts on the back of his legs, looking to further the injuries there, 
Then he sent his Minos forwards, hefting his large 5ft long greataxe with surprising ease and speed, he sent his large axe swinging at the kids neck in a overhead one armed chop, going faster then most things could with an axe that size, As this happened though Kikisu ended up catching one of the shuriken across his bicep as he moved, slicing a nice cut in his arm and threw his combat robe, he grimaced as he jumped a few meters to the left to get out of the battle zone, he sure hoped that this flourish was his final, he didnt like getting himself cut up and dirty, he hoped that his greater reaction and speed with his puppets would take this fight to the end,.

90 chakra left (i already did the extra five in the last post)

Jutsu used:

WC2600

The globules flew out form the seal, and when he had landed he had gone in a roll, intending to close the distance as fast as he could, but there was no time to do so. He was already in the abyss that was called danger, and he floated within the middle of it. There was simply no way out, and for the briefest of moments he paused, similar to how he had before, and he was simply going to accept his fate.

The globules crashed into the shield, splashing across the amplified protection and Joruri groaned in response. His chakra levels were low, there were few things he could do, and he wasn't the type to continue fighting when there wasn't a reason to, but he supposed he had to. If he didn't, he could die. The horned beast was quite the imposing creation to look at for sure, and from that hesitation from before, he lunged backwards, almost tripping as he did. He knew he hadn't pinned down the puppet behind him, so as he moved, he retrieved the rest of his wire, pulling it out almost completely, when the puppet came in towards him, he intended to tie it up within the wire again, this time with a more practiced and masterful hand. Instead, he stepped to the side for a half step, the first hand going along his arm, carving through his skin and flesh until it went past him, the second hand passing easily between his legs instead of the backs of them, and then he tightened the wire, this time hopefully tightening and restraining it there permanently.

Spinning around again, completely ignoring the demon puppet behind him now, the huge puppet had snuck up behind him and was dropping a powerful overhead strike, one that would certainly split him, and as he stepped backwards, he tripped over the demon puppet, falling backwards just as the great axe came slicing across his face, and he was thrown backwards onto the floor.

He didn't move, he couldn't gather any more energy to do so. He couldn't even gather enough strength to bring his arms together to form a hand seal, but his head rotated upon his neck, far enough that he saw Kikisu and stared into his eyes with a blank look. If he killed him, then so be it. But in that instant Joruri knew that living with this failure would've been a greater punishment than death.

First stage, huh?

He couldn't even gather enough strength to make fun of himself, and when he tried, he coughed up the crimson liquid that all creatures carried within them. His blood had soaked into his clothes already, mentally he scolded himself. How are you going to wear these clothes now, Jo? They're ruined. His lips broke apart into a faint smile.

This is pathetic. He thought, tilting his head again to look back to where his bag was, and then back to Kikisu as if to say the scroll was there.

WC: 520

Kikisu had won...the man had taken a huge hit from his Talbas Axes, carving a large cut into his face, he had actually dropped this guy, he had gotten the scroll that he needed to continue, He got talba to hold his monstrous axe onto the kids neck, not cutting him...though he could the axe was razor sharp, but he held him where he was, he didnt want any sneak attacks, he then got his puppet infant demon to rush and grab the kids bag, Kikisu received it promptly and ruffled threw the contents and pouches until he found the scroll that he needed, the scroll of heaven, he smiled and started laughing as he personally walked over to the kid, he put the scroll into his pouch and kept his axe puppet where it was, the large axe against the throat.

he ripped the sleeves of his robe and bent down to his opponent, he saw now that he was a leaf ninja, he was only a kid, he was still laughing a little, he wrapped the kids leg with his sleeve, stopping the heavy bleeding, and he did the same for his face, since the face cut was deep and bleeding heavily, the other wounds he wrapped in some more pieces of his shirt, he did this still with the minotaur holding the axe, he didnt trust his enemy even slightly, he spoke a quick sentence,
Usually i would throttle you for damaging my Kawaii so, and Demon here is damaged a little as well, i like you buddy, My name is Kikisu Chikamatsu and today isnt your last, but you will remember me
he then pulled out his kunai and quickly cut the chikamatsu symbol onto the front of the kids chest, standing up right afterwards and walking away, saying to the large penguin in the lake,
Thank you my lord penguin, for letting us use your training grounds for our contest, i hope that i appeased your rules i shall leave now
Kikisu quickly collected all of his puppets, he popped Kawaiis head back onto its torso , smiling that the puppet actually wasnt broken, he had just disabled it temporally, the rubber gone but okay, he sealed all but three puppets into their scrolls, keeping Minos, Infant, and Kawaiis on his back, wrapped in there linen, he yelled out as he jumped away,
I hope we meet again on the battlefield, what a battle that will be
He then left, once he was a fair distance away he opened both scrolls together, finding a map, he followed the map, somewhat tired and sore, but still wary, to the falls of truth, he inscribed the seal on the entrance way and he allowed entrance to the temple, he had completed the first round of the exams

Sybmol:

*EXIT THREAD*
2800WC
*COMPLETED 1ST PART OF EXAMS*

His vision wavered as he laid there on the ground. He didn't bother trying to move, if he did then he would no doubt be dead. Behind the blur that coated his vision, he had already determined that it was indeed the large seven foot puppet that had carved a gouge through his face with it's great axe standing above him with that same great axe hovering over his throat. Joruri was tempted to grin, would that anger his opponent? Would it push him to kill the pale haired Kansen-Suru in his impudence? He was accepting of death, he had failed in his goal. How would he possible be worthy of leading the Leaf Village in his future if he failed at the first stage of the Chunin Exams?

Rotating his eyes downwards, he watched his fists, trying with all of his might to clench them in his anger and disappointment. He was too weak, he was dizzy from the amount of blood he lost. He tried to move them, just to slide them across the ground, and at first nothing happened, but soon his hands started to move over the small pebbles that were around him. He stopped soon after, his persistence wouldn't be rewarded here. The chance of being slain by this puppeteer was still high, obviously since he was still in this weak state.

In surprise, he saw his opponent kneeling in front of him after tearing a strand from his clothing and then tying it around his leg. What's he doing? He didn't understand, was he being helped? The one who was so close to killing him was going to treat him? Did he have Medical Ninjutsu? It seemed unlikely that a puppeteer would also be a medical ninja, and it showed in how he operated. It's only first-aid. He thought to himself sadly as he felt the sleeve wrap around his leg. The blade that was upon his neck was suddenly extremely noticeable, and his teeth grinded upon each other. He really wanted to move, but with the blade on his neck or not, he wondered if he'd be able to move anyway.

Soon enough, the same had been done to his face and it took him back to times in Konohagakure no Sato back when he had encountered Shinako again. They had already left the hospital at that time and had found themselves on a road that was familiar to the both of them, it had brought them to training fields, vast green fields with an array of different areas for training. There were dummies for those taijutsu specialists, wooden stumps and targets on them for those who wished to increase their skill in the Art of Throwing. Joruri's bloodstained and cracked lips broke open as he stared at Kikisu in front of him. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know what. Was it going to be thanks? Hateful words? A mixture of both? Instead, he laid there unmoving.

"...Bu...dy...?" The words escaped from his throat quietly, the name that had followed Kikisu's words were indecipherable to the Kansen-Suru and he tried to discern them as he laid there. Rolling the words through his mind, as his flesh was rended and formed into some odd symbol. Beside them, over a dozen meters away was Manji, the gigantic penguin, and before he could even understand what that controller of puppets did he was done and was gone. He stayed there, looking up into the sky.

I guess... It's the thought that counts, he wondered to himself, more sarcastic than anything else. He realized that his blood had stopped flowing out of him, and he heard the sound of rumbling. A black shadow loomed over Joruri, and he blinked away the sunlight... This time his eyes oddly heavier than usual, and he disappeared into the darkness that was the abyss.

The exam was only the First Stage, it only lasted for three days. It was a survival examination, and in the event that there were people who were too injured to actually utilize a scroll to travel back to a medical camp, scouts had been sent out to search for those who were too injured to find there own way out... Or for those who simply so lost that they didn't encounter anyone and never had a chance to locate another scroll.

-EXIT THREAD-

WC: 750
TWC: 4347