A Familiar Face... [P, NKILL]

Nero's clone would see Xyxer doing a front flip at him, then aiming a kick towards his face. The clone would jump to the right side of himself, left of Xyxer, because jumping backwards was harder. The clone, as he jumped, aimed a kick at Xyxer's back, where was his blind spot, though it would't hurt him nearly as much as usual, since Nero was jumping to the opposite direction to Xyxer's body. Nero himself, by the way, was watching the whole thing, smiling. "That kid..." thought Nero, "has indeed improved his skills a lot... I can see that even now... He is mudch faster than last time... It's a bad luck for him that I am faster too... Anyway, let's see what he is able to do without his jutsu or weapons, and what he is capable of with them ?"...

Xyxer just continued to smirk as he felt his body land on the ground with a single hit, but he saw that the clone had simply moved to the side so he swung his body around with his arm up to try and hook his face with a swift hit, but as it turned out, the clone had gone for a kick to his back as soon as he had done that. He immediately used his momentum to spin the arm in the way of the leg, and since Xyxer did not have his ANBU equipment on him, he was wearing his 'Ninja Bracers', so the blades on the Ninja Bracer would wait hungrily for the leg of the clone.

Nero's clone was doing the kick as he was watching Xyxer's moves with all of his attention. As Xyxer used his momentum to attack him with the Ninja bracers, which were the same as Nero's, the clone stabbed the ground between the bracers of Xyxer and his leg, and swinged himself in a crescent shape to turn around, and dodge the attack as the bracers would clash his sword.

[sorry for the late & short post]

Xyxer quickly twisted his arm as the sword was caught inbetween the blades of the ninja bracer. As he did this, the clone would be disarmed if he didn't react soon enough, which he probably wouldn't since he'd have much less speed than Xyxer. As he did that, in a moment's notice Xyxer unsheathed his Heaven's Sorrow Ninjato and had it going straight for the windpipe of the clone, which would have been unable to be seen by both Nero and the clone due to it's trajectory.

[You won't be faster than the clone. Your speed is boosted to 90 with the ninjato, when the clone has a 100 speed]

Nero's clone would still be facing Xyxer when changing his direction, holding on to the blade on his right hand. WHen Xyxer twisted his arm, the clone would simply jump off, taking the sword back. As he would step on the ground, he would realise Xyxer coming at himself with a ninjato. Nero would, with the sword on his right hand, defend himself against the weapon of the ANBU by a clash of weapons, as he would then send a slash towards his side with his blade in his left hand.

Nero would be watching this, as he realised Xyxer made the move from a direction he could not see himself. "If" thought Nero "I didn't have the speed advantage, or the swords unsheathed, he would have taken both the clone and me... He has really became much stronger at the end...". Nero would than use transformation technique to transform himself into a raven and land on a branch of a tree nearby. "Hmmm..." Nero thought "Now I really wonder where Habee has been lately, or what happened to him... There was once a talk about war, but I thought it was not going to happen... There must've been something else that has happened to him... Maybe missing ninjas, or thugs... I don't know... Either way, I have to locate him some time affter this spar... Well, at least I should try to do it. I at least owe him that much...

[WC : 1336]

[Don't the clones only get a tenth of your stats? I'm sure I saw that somewhere, sorry if I'm wrong]

Xyxer quickly deflected the blade of the copy by using his ninjato, simply jumping backwards after he had finished that. He made a single hand seal before water began to spew out from his mouth. As this happened, his body got sent into the air from the force the water was being spewed out as he seemed to stand on top of a wave collecting at the bottom of his body, his chakra channeled into his feet so he could stay on top of it. The water rushed in it's flow towards Nero and his clone as did Xyxer after he had finished the technique in 5 seconds flat. His ninjato was held out as he usually had it in a reversed grip so he would be using the surprise of the collateral attack, the speed granted by travelling the wave and the opponent's need to channel chakra into their feet. As he did this, the ninjato was heading straight for the throat of the clone in what would have been a devastating technique if used on a real person.

The water would create a small sea due to how much chakra Xyxer had.

[First, I haven't found anything about it except this : The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. Also, Nero is in the shape of a raven now, js.]

Upon Xyxer's move, Nero himself, who was in the shape of a Raven at the moment, flew some trees away to dodge the Water Release attack, as he realised the clone got killed by Xyxer. The clone would turn to its natural lightning state, and electrocute Xyxer through the Ninjato and the arm that is holding it, and probably paralyze him. Nero, in the form of the creature that represents his clan, would smile (not literally, he was in the shape of a raven after all, and ravens couldn't smile, it was a mental smile...). He would be thinking "The fight will start soon...".

[WC : 1440]

A sudden surge of electricity flooded his body which would have made most spasm, but instead, he just stood still like a statue. His muscles contract and he was finding it hard to move through the electricity currents sending the wrong messages to his brain, but none the less his strength and willpower made him stay still. He was unable to do anything at this point in time so he just stared right ahead of his body, hoping that his effect would soon wear off.

Nero released the transformation, created another shadow clone from lightning, far away from Xyxer, as the clone himself used the same technique, to become the same kind of raven Nero himself did a while ago. Nero used the technique himself too, once again. The raven with the red eyes, that was Nero's clone, flew towards Xyxer's numb body... The raven would then land on a branch of a tree that Xyxer could see from his point of view. After some seconds, the clone released the transformation technqiue, looking at Xyxer from the branch, sitting on it... His red eyes would meet Xyxer's eyes... "Don't worry..." he would say, "The effects of the jutsu will wear off soon enough... And then we may start our spar for real...".

He would then jump down to the ground to grab Xyxer's body. "If you stay like this, some of your body parts will stay numb even after the jutsu..." he said as he lied Xyxer's back to the tree that he was standing mere seconds ago. He then continued talking "Despite that fact, we can call it 1 to 0... Now... When your body overcomes the technique, I would really like to battle against that sword of yours... Do you feel like using it ?"... Nero would sit in front of the ANBU, and wait for the effects to wear off, as he could predict when time exactly it would happen...

[WC : 1677]

Xyxer had hardly been able to concentrate while under the affects of the electricity, let alone hear whatever the clone was saying. All he could see was his lips moving as the electricity pulsed around his ears and made him hear only static for the duration of the clone's effects. However, when he finally got rid of the effects, he heard a few words from Nero, "Sword of yours.. Do you feel like using it?".

Xyxer knew that he wanted nothing more than to hurt something with that sword, but he nodded his head in hopes that he would be unable to. His hands pushed off from the ground slowly as he forced his body to stand up. He looked around briefly before he walked for a few seconds on the vast expanse of water.

[Would that count as a rest?]