Kikisu let his puppets sit on the ground neatly, he took a deep breath in and smiled to himself, he knew that he had nearly no way to finish this, he had one more trick up his sleeve and if that didnt work he would end up either getting knocked out or giving up. He walked to his left slowly, shrugging at his enemy whom he saw was taking what appeared to be a small break, to catch his breath a little bit. He laughed a little bit louder and called out to his opponant,
Oh nice match, hardest fight ive ever had so far, what is your name again? so i can remember for the next time im in your village? He did this as he was walking to get a god view of him, and as he was speaking he shrugged again and non-chalantly flicked his wrists, in a way that he seemed to be in the mood to chat while his invisible strings became barbed, though they were still completly invisble, and he gave no notion that he was attacking, making it a guise of conversation. He aimed the 10 strings for all over his body in a half hazard aiming style, aiming around the fire.
He knew that if his opponant was tricked by his conversation there would be a few new wounds on him.
Chakra 30

His opponent was laughing at him and requesting his name. Did he not get the name from the fixture for the match, why was he acting at this stage. He could have said something less suspicious like how he was enjoying the match or how he felt about the battle so far. His opponent was approaching him way too carelessly but he was not worried as he looked at his sword rubbing the handle a bit.

Things seemed to peaceful until he felt the change, it was for this reason he would channel his chakra into his sword and activate it as a flicker could be seen as whatever it was got flung ten meters away from him in all directions when they came within range of his technique. As the flame still stood as he looked to his opponent with a slightly cold look on his face as he took a deep breathe. As he defended against the strange attack.

"What is that technique you using to attack me with?" as he was somewhat curious since he knew at the very least they were possibly chakra strings, but those strings had no battle strength so how was he planning to use a supplementary technique to beat him. He did remember in the back of his mind that Kikisu had some strange technique, but from what he could tell it involved invisible chakra strings. However he could not determine what their main purpose was and it was after this that the flames began to drop down as he continued sitting since he knew that his opponent was not yet close enough, or to be more accurate his opponent was still too alert for his attack to work and he needed to take some more time to rest while his opponent prepares to attack him again in whichever strange way he attempts to. 

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5 Earth Nature Scrolls*
Wakizashi placed in the earth
Kusarigama still in bag

All fire is died down now
Close Combat Sensory still in progress

White Edge Defence activated

White Edge Defence:

OOC: detected the chakra strings through sensory and countered using white edge defence

Barbed strings actually, made the jutsu myself, it if wasnt for that blasted sensory technique you have it would have would much well i must say, this fight has come to a real impasse hasnt it now, i guess He shrugged again going through his options, when suddenly he had none, he giggled to himself and looked into the stands briefly, seeing a smile and a nod from his sensei, knowing that she was fine whether he won or lost this fight.
Knowing that his barbed strings had been deactivated though not his normal strings, and since he still had them invisible he decided to try one more move, looking at his opponant, he smiled warmly and started talking again,
Well im sorry if this is going to dissapoint, but i think i am incredibly outmatched, you have more skill then i can dish out as they say, so i For.. As he was talking he was attaching strings to his kawaii puppet that was behind the kid, and as well attaching them to the horns of talbo, taking the head with it, making no noise due to the immense amount of oil that he oils his puppets with, and with the two heads he shot them at the opposite flanks of the kid, one high at the back of his head, and the other (kawaii) at his back, he did this just as he was about the say forfeit, aiming to distract the kid with his words as he attacked.
Chakra25

He smiled as his opponent said blasted sensory as he made a sigh. Sensory was not the only method to detect puppet strings and his opponent most likely did not understand that his words lost all meaning the moment he made his first lie earlier. His opponent even giggled as he began to feel disappointment as his opponent apologised for disappointing him, could it be his trump card he was so proud of would not even be needed.

He did not have anything much to do and until his opponent finished talking he should just wait for an attack. The fight was not over yet, raising your hand may be a sign but his opponent fought with way too much pride to give up. It would just appear odd to give up without having used all his options. He had not wanted to use this defense but he was forced to since his opponent did not want him resting. He felt like his opponent was forgetting something as he tucked in his head hugging his knees while still holding his sword. He felt lonely as he just heard the clash as his kusarigama got knocked into the air and his backpack got hit as he released a flicker knocking the puppet pieces away as he then glared at his opponent with some harsh words as his kusarigama was laying on the floor in front of him.

"Are you done?" His kusarigama did not just defend the back of his head from its position but protected his back as well, but to have it knocked out of its position startled him quite a lot. His opponent managed a surprise attack, but it was a guarded area, and not only that the weird positioning of the strings to even begin to avoid his sensory would be a nuisance on its own. To some degree it was just that his kusarigama which had been made as an offensive weapon proved to be a better defensive weapon then one could realise. And while knocking puppet pieces away with his technique would be effective the fact that some of his stuff was laying on the floor behind him was annoying to say the least.

He dusted himself off as he stood up with his sword in hand as it kept glowing white. He faced the one palm of his hand towards his opponent. "Be prepared to dodge this or you might die"


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5 Earth Nature Scrolls*
Wakizashi placed in the earth
Kusarigama knocked out of backpack

Close Combat Sensory still in progress

White Edge Defence still active



OOC Comment : Was feeling disappointed but could still react due to sensory being able to detect still and having his kusarigama in his backpack which was still on his back which covered the areas you were targeting anyways. He did release the flicker and is currently in a really bad mood since he feels like you messing around now. Also make sure you do find a way to dodge this next attack, it will not kill you but if you end up falling outside the arena you could die though I doubt that but had to make it true to his character. His not much of a killer but when he gets upset he really gets upset

Kikisu saw that the defense was still up, and it make him grit his teeth, he smiled directly afterwards.
Kikisu quickly attached his strings to his puppets again, taking not even a second for him. Kikisu then had taboks forearm open up, launching a smoke bomb at the ground, causing everything around kikisu to become smoke, and as it covered the area around him, he quickly transformed himself into tabok and spun him and tabok around a good few times, him ending up on the center and tabok on the left, hoping to trick his opponant with the switch, and as well he and tabok moved backwards at the same time, walking in the same style and acting as the same. His opponant would then see him and tabok 5m apart, both with their hands in a puppeteering motion, standing still as the grave, both appearing all in all like a puppet, he wanted his opponant to attack the wrong one, if he attacked the wrong one he had his strings attached to his infant puppet to attack the moment he came past him, knowing that while in attack there was much less of a chance of dodging, and even if he came and attacked kikisu he would stab his back with his infant puppet. He was almost done with his chakra.
Chakra 15

As he stood there as the people were gritting their teeth the conclusion was coming as the boy stood there and looked on as his opponent performed an interesting display using a smoke bomb to conceal what might be the beginning of their final exchange. However he was disappointed that this fight may end before he got a chance to use his technique.

He began to remember something hidden deep inside of him. A small boy running in a field of light grass shouting out the words, "sensei".

The smoke cleared as he kept up his guard as the smoke cleared revealing two puppets as he sighed as he lowered his hand, he sighed as his defense flickered for a moment releasing its last wave as he looked towards his opponent. He had a sadness in his eyes as he soon came to realise.

"Kikisu" the way he said the voice was sad as well. His opponents in the past had all taught him something, however it was now that he learnt the truth. He witnessed the earth technique from Kikisu and the manipulation of various puppets, however they lacked something which was critical. "You not a real threat"

As he stood there waiting for his opponent to hopefully prove him wrong as he kept up his guard patiently waiting and decisively hoping his opponent would prove to be worthy of his final technique. The technique that would bring an end to this battle. He was tired and it was not simply out of disappointment in his opponent, but a disappointment in himself. It was probably not clear to his opponent that he was not moving around too much.

In the beginning his opponent jumped around for a bit and manipulated his puppets, meanwhile he just reacted to it and then bought himself a moment only to be attacked again, over and over. He was on the defensive, but what was he defending against. The puppets could not out match his weaponry so in terms of the puppets they had the advantage in numbers but he had the advantage of being able to perform several jutsu if needed. Kikisu's style was not wrong, it was incomplete, had his opponent had just a single decent jutsu or if his opponent had used several of his attacks sooner the fight would have been a lot more difficult. He may have dashed across but that was about as much as there was to it.

His opponent may have had the idea to wear him down with continuous battle, but for people preparing for the chuunin exams you can not expect your opponent to tire out or for them to waste all their chakra. However there were times when you had to know when to give it everything you have.

His opponent may have understood that right now the insult was mainly to make a stab at the lies that his opponent told. He understood that shinobi should not reveal themselves to the enemy, but did his opponent understand that lies can sometimes reveal more then a thousand truths. It was nearly time for him to use his trump card, but he was not in the mood to waste it on a puppet clone, perhaps his opponent was hiding underground somewhere or ran into the distance and hid away somewhere and he was dealing with two puppets. Either way having his backpack damaged already ruined his chances of going in. He could not leave his gear behind as he took out several special kunai then tossed two of them with released metsubishi towards the feet of both puppets as the impact would break open the balls that would release shards of a material seen earlier in battle. This fight was not to be taken lightly and would his opponent be able to avoid his final attack.

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5 Earth Nature Scrolls*
Wakizashi still in the earth
Kusarigama laying around
Close Combat Sensory still in progress

White Edge Defence ended

Two kunai with released metsubishi thrown at both targets feet one each

OOC Comment : The trump card is still there, his not really too energetic and two targets means the technique would not be able to be used to its fullest. Oh and his attacking both of them from a distance, his not going to come at you if he can not figure out which is which and I just realised if you waited for a bit that tactic would have been even stronger but will tell you what I thought of after the battle is over.

Kikisu saw that he threw two kunais, which he dodged both him and the puppet moving in sync, and he noticed the familler smoke and dust of the blinding powder, he was very glad that he had dodged that, after that he suddenly, almost puked, he felt parts of his body giving way and tensing and going into spasm, he knew that he was at the end of the line, he dropped to a knee, both him and his puppet, though only he spit blood, he released his jutsu,
No im no threat anymore, im at the end of the line...Proctor i Forfeit And with that he quickly pulled all puppet to him with intense speeds, wrapping them with the strings all at the same time, as quickly as he could so he didnt pass out,
Seems like you had a last good move in you, im sorry you never got to use it on me, seems like this was a fight with no injuries As he said that his fingers twitched and gave him phantom pains, under his breath he grimaced, memorizing the face of this kid, putting his next puppet design together with his face on it, he only hoped that once it was done he would be able to see it, he even had a name ready for it...Elusive.
He then turned as the crowd stared on in disbelief, sealing his puppets into their scrolls and throwing the scrolls into his bag, turning and walking slowly to the tunnel opening, aiming to no visit this land for a good while, he longed for the sand, and more training. He wasnt good enough, second place wasnt good enough for him, he would strive for number one, as the only puppeteer in the contest he would relish the fact that he had something that no one else had, art.
As he walked through the tunnel, he saw his sensei, she stood with a smug smile and was shaking her head, to that Kiki smiled wanly, she handed him a chakra pill, to make sure he didnt pass out and could walk home, they were leaving immediately.
OOC-Good match im out of chakra- im at 5 and at zero i pass out XD

As his opponent surrendered he smiled as he waved to his opponent and then shouted out...

"That was fun, Kikisu", then he lowered his voice to a whisper that no one could here. "nisan"..

He had learnt so much in this battle, but he wished he could have done more as the proctor proceeded to congratulate him, he looked down as he felt a bit sad that it ended too soon. However he had no choice he never expected it to end like this, he had dreamt of the end and was prepared to finish it with his final trap. However this was not meant to be as he finally took a deep breathe and thought to himself as he raised his hands into the air as the crowd cheered and he gave them a smile.

"This years Chuunin Exam Champion, Lane Elin of Kumogakure!!!" as the crowds cheered as a mysterious man looked on and grinned. With this the Chuunin Exams had come to an end and it was now time for the story to begin.

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OOC comment : Good Match and that last thing you did well I had an idea but will tell you another time... it was fun OOC and IC

EXIT THREAD

Winner : Elin
Runner Up : Kikisu

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