As soon as the kick came within range of the Special Jounin, it seemed he wasn't going to allow Niko's original plan to go smoothlly. He took his left hand and grabbed Niko's leg firmly. Next thing you know, Tatsumaru threw Niko like a shot put as far as the Naka River. The force and speed of the attack by this strong Uchiha didn't phase Niko what-so-ever. In the back of his mind, he knew a simple Taijutsu combination wouldn't work on someone as skilled in the art as Tatsumaru was. Sure, Niko was pretty well aquainted with hand-to-hand combat along with jutsu associated with such, but he wasn't on par with Tatsumaru, not just yet.
Crashing into the water, he began swimming up top towards breathable air, along thinking of a counter-attack for the man who catapulted him through the skies. Reaching the surface of the water, he watches in the direction of his enemy as he diverted and foiled the attcks of Niko's new teammates. Using the Dragon Fire Technique (Katon: Ryūka no Jutsu), a Fire Release jutsu that requires wires to accomplish. Simply, one uses the wires to direct the effective burst of flames towards a target with deadly accuracy. Using that jutsu, Tatsumaru managed to rid the Aburame's groups of bugs and hit the Hyuuga as well.
Alas, it was a "Substitute" Hyuuga that Tatsumaru hit with the jutsu. Giving praise to the squadmate mentally
"Well done, Hyuuga." Immediately following the evasion, the Hyuuga clansman rushed towards Niko to check on him. ”You okay?” he asked. Without giving Niko a chance to respond, he continued. ”Ok, apparently hand-to-hand combat is not working so this is...”
Before he as able to finish the sentence, both of them looked in the direction of the rest of their squad. Tatsumaru was rushing straight for the young Aburame. Hearing "Doton: Kengan no jutsu!” (which is japanese Romaji for Earth Release: Fist Rock Technique), they both witnessed himdig his arm into the dirt while running swiftly, building up a gaumtlet made of earth and chakra. Immediately, the Hyuuga exclaimed ”Shit, that Aburame kids in trouble, Fūton: Rasen Fuusen!” and firing a total of five balls of wind at the charging individual.
Without taking a breath, he addressed Niko ”We only have one shot at this, because I can feel my Chakra levels dropping, so here is the plan, Ill use Fūton: Daitoppa (Wind Release: Great Breakthrough) and you have the choice. Jump inside the tunnel of wind and fly towards Tatsumaru to grab the bell once your within arms reach of. Or, use a Katon technique, aim it at the tunnel once im no longer inside, and give him a taste of his own medicine. Decide, I have to perform the jutsu now!”
This time, the Hyuuga continued talking while taking a deep breath ”Lets see how you like this!" Standing straight and clapping his hands together, readying the attack to aim straight for Tatsumaru, he finally exclaims "Fūton: Daitoppa!" (which is Japanese Romaji for Wind Release: Great Breakthrough) and a large tunnel of wind starts racing towards their newly appointed sensei. Niko quickly thought to himself
"I'll do the latter and enhance my technique using the Hyuuga's wind tunnel." Leaving no indication of his plans to counter-attack Tatsumaru, he rushes at him with remarkable speed. Purposefully staying a foot behind the wind tunnel at all times in order to hit Tatsumaru with the jutsu without failure. Looking ahead, the Aburame is lying on the ground, yet bugs spawn from him instanteanously as he reclaims his footing and swarm Tatsumaru.
"Those chakra suckers will hold him off for awhile. Yet, that doesn't mean the plan has to change in any aspect except..." mentally pausing for a short second to conjure up another piece to add to his strategy.
Suddenly, a figurative lightbulb sparked itself in Niko's head.
"...I can grab the bell before the blast hits him!"He had a short window before the wind tunnel hit Tatsumaru, so he conjured up his chakra for his contribution to the wind tunnel. Planning on using the Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu (translation into Japanese Romaji is Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu). Forming a Tiger hand seal in motion, he releases the jutsu and emits a large fireball at the wind tunnel. The concentration of wind turns into a giant mass of fire heading for Tatsumaru.
Not hesitating for a moment, he advances at his fastest speed, beating the fire tunnel in a non-exisent race. He arrives at the bug-covered Tatsumaru and quickly uses the Leaf Gale technique (Japanese Romaji is Konoha Reppū) on the waist of Tatsumaru. The rear spinning kick clears that area of Tatsumaru and the bell is still placed on his waistline. He swiftly grabs it and dodges out of the way of the large fire blast heading for Tatsumaru and, a realization that Niko had just noticed, his Aburame squadmate.
Niko yells in a large breath "Get out of the way Aburame!" and awaits to see how the two react the the impact of the large fire tunnel racing towards half of his new Genin squad.
- Chakra usage:
-15 Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu (C)
-10 Leaf Gale (D)
125 / 150
- Fire (Element) word count:
2,721 / 2,000 words
Fire Element / Katon C > B