Training turning sparring, redux (P, NK)

While it was certainly a powerful technique, at least considering the company, the Suiton made quite the splash, which meant that Masaru spotted his two opponents shortly after the jutsu had been used. They seemed to be rather focused on each other at the moment, which probably meant that they had seen his clone and had fallen for it. Seeing that he was on the opposite end of the training ground, compared to them, he would have to move quite a bit through the trees in order to get to them, which meant that if he did that, the fight would most likely be finished.

After weighing the pros against the cons, Masaru decided to run towards them in what was pretty much a straight line, although he readied himself to dodge. He would, naturally, prefer not having to dodge, as pretty much all of his body still hurt from the explosive tag. He would probably have to take tomorrow off in order to recover from this. But the straight line was among the cons for running against them like this, with another being the fact that if they saw him, it would remove the element of surprise that he had hoped to take advantage of, since his opponents possibly believed him to be knocked out.

However, one of the pros was that they would hopefully be too distracted with each other to notice him, hopefully allowing him to get quite close to them before they noticed him. If that was the case, he had decided, he would stick closely to Ayumi, trying to use the previously hidden kunai, which was now in hand, to prevent her from forming hand seals. Well, this was assuming that Kahen did not knock her out right now, in which case he would try to use the same tactic against him.

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As she was moving towards him with her full speed, he moved his fist with unexpected power. She was surprised it was coming from the same guy who she thought she injured pretty bad. Still, she was fast enough to move her head to her right before she fell on him. Her weight wasn't much, but gravity wasn't the only factor since she left the tree with additional speed. She would most likely manage to make him fall with this speed. If so, after this she would expect a surrender from Kahen by staying on top of him with her kunai on her left hand pointed at his throat.

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Kahen eyes shot open as his fist went past her head. Her body collided with his and the force behind her weight pushed him down. It seemed like slow motion to Kahen. He felt his legs come out from underneath them as they flew to the earth. He saw the her kunia was slowly coming up to his throat. He used his other hand to put his hand up to hold her kunia advances and he used his other hand that was over her shoulder, and grab her hair. He knew this was a stupid move but it's the only way to get out of this situation. If he is able to grab her hair, he would throw her off him to the right, but only a couple feet. His body would hit the ground and knock the wind out of him. He would then try to re catch his breath as he try's to semi get up and run. All his stamina is up and he is gasping for air.

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Their little tumble had allowed Masaru to cross most of the distance between him and his two opponents, and he had to think rather fast if he was to intervene in this. After quickly measuring the distance between himself and them, hoping that his calculations were correct, he threw the kunai he had left, aiming directly at where Kahen’s hand ought to be in a moment. However, he did not intend to hit him, as the wire was still attached to the kunai, and while Masaru closed in to the two of them, he gradually twirled the wire around one of his fingers, so that before the kunai potentially could have hit Kahen’s hand, it would stop just a few inches away, hopefully scaring him enough to pull his hand back.

After this, Masaru would pull back the kunai, catching it, so that he once again had it in his hand. He silently wished that he had another, but he would probably not be able to get close enough to hold a kunai to each of their throats. Or well, he could probably get close enough, but not without possibly making his two opponents team up against him. Nevertheless, it felt like this spar was getting closer and closer to its end, and while Masaru had spent quite a bit of the fight just watching, or rather, especially because he had done so, he would like to at least have some influence in how it ended. As such, he would try to get behind Ayumi, with the kunai in his hand hopefully held against her neck, hoping to force her to surrender.

But even if that did happen, which he was far from sure about, he would still have to deal with Kahen. While he had taken more hits throughout the fight than Masaru had, his overall stamina was probably at least twice that of Masaru’s, at least in the start, and that explosive tag had taken its toll on him, so he dearly hoped that Ayumi had hit him hard with those abilities of hers.

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She was about to bring her kunai to his throat when Kahen's fist slided over her shoulder and held her hair. Ayumi was in pain and forgot about making him surrender, she moved her kunai to his neck and barely managed to cut his skin a little before being stopped by his other hand and being thrown off him. She was raged, it was unexpected for someone to pull her hair so strong like that in a sparring, she felt like some of her hair was torn off but luckily it wasn't. She wanted to attack him but just like him, she was running out of stamina. She saw him gasping for air as she stood up and started walking towards him with an angry face and her kunai on her hand.

{I think she has 2 stamina left.}

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Kahen never saw the kunia Masaru threw, since his attention is focused on Ayumi and at that, they were falling. He felt her kunia prick his neck, allowing a little dribble of blood to come out, before he threw her off him by the hair of her head. After Kahen hit the ground he slowly lifted his head up. His eyes went blurry for a second when he hit his head off the ground, but his vision came back quickly and saw the redhead moving towards him. She was angry and she had a kunia. Kahen guessed that she didn't like her hair being pulled. He lifted himself up with the back of his arms but they completely gave way, making him fall back down to the ground. He couldn't move, he was completely wore out. Thought he didn't want to surrender, that was his only option, unless Masaru did something for him to get away. Kahen huffed and puffed as he tried to say he surrender but he couldn't get the words to come out and Ayumi was inching herself closer and closer.

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Masaru could not help but flinch a bit, as Ayumi was being thrown away by the hair. While people got hurt during spars, he had just been hit by an explosive note, he felt like there were some unwritten rules, and pulling people by the hair were among those. Nevertheless, Kahen seemingly paid some price during the throw, as he hit the ground after it. Was that it for him during this fight? Well, Ayumi certainly did not seem to think so, as she chose to walk towards him. Well, one thing that was good about this was that they seemingly still had to spot Masaru. Did they really have that much tunnel vision? Well, Ayumi looked slightly murderous, he could understand that, due to the hair, and Kahen did not seem to be able to move, as he was not getting out of Ayumi’s way.

Nevertheless, while Masaru could understand if Ayumi would like to take a bit of revenge, it would probably be pretty disproportional right now, if she were to take it, so better not let her take it. Masaru tried to move in behind Ayumi, trying to get his kunai in front of her throat, hoping for surrender, while trying to diffuse some of the tension. “Ayumi, we are in the middle of a fight. Rash decisions are thus only to be expected, and people should not judge each other too much for their actions during a spar. I, for example, do not think less of you because of the explosive note that you set off against me,” he mentioned this specifically, hoping to make her feel a little guilty for it, in order to make her forgive Kahen for his pulling her hair.

“So please forgive Kahen. You are both ninja of Konoha, and your lives may very well depend on how well you can cooperate with each other. Some grudge from a spar would be a silly thing to die for.” While he said this, he tried to act as if he still had plenty of energy back, although it was taking most of his leftover energy not to huff and puff. Why had he not expected there to be an explosive note or something like that? Well, it would probably be long before he would make another mistake like that again.

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Ayumi was slowly walking towards Kahen, unsure of what to do with him. She was raged but she wouldn't kill anyone without good reason. She would probably kick him in the ground a couple of times and leave him there semi unconscious to find out if Masaru was fine. Masaru looked in pretty bad shape after the explosive tag, Ayumi was wondering if she overdid it and if she should have waited a bit longer before the explosion.

As she was walking a kunai was directed in front of her throat from behind her... could it be Masaru? The question went away when Masaru started speaking, seemed like he saw what happened and was afraid Ayumi would do something stupid. She smiled with a clearer mind after his words "You're right, I wouldn't hurt him too badly anyways but.. alright I'll let it go if he apologizes. By the way I'm surprised you're still standing." she could see he was exhausted from the frequency of his breath and his hand shaking a little, it was natural since he used clone technique at such a hard time. Her explosion's damage was nothing to underestimate, and the spar was pretty tough overall too, she was also hardly standing.

Finally she would push the kunai with her right hand and sit down. "I guess Masaru won this one huh? It was certainly a great spar." she smiled.

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Kahen's eyes wondered to Ayumi as she slowly crept up to him with her kunia as he laid in the same spot he crashed into a few minutes ago. He was strung out and wore out. His white shirt shirt was now dirty, and the sweat that had formed made it stick to his body. His brown hair stuck to his forehead and his chest weaved in and out as she approached him. Then Kahen saw movement from behind Ayumi and then noticed a kunia at her throat. Kahen sighed in relief for when he saw Masaru holding the kunia at her throat. After that Kahen's breathing became subtle.

Kahen listened to them talk. Kahen was angry, he had to apologize. Kahen shook his head angry. Then he realized he let his emotions get the best of him once more. She was girl after all, and they don't like their hair being pulled. Kahen smiled from the ground, and he leaned up once more and held himself with his arms. "I am sorry for pulling your hair, but you would've done the thing same in my situation," Kahen stated with big smile. Kahen looked at Masaru with a questioning look. He had only seen him at the beginning of the spar and at the very end, since Ayumi said he had won. "We should spar again some time, maybe when we're a bit stronger." Kahen laughed.

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”I am not sure that I can claim total victory here. If you had used that explosive tag a bit earlier, it would have been me who was lying in the tree over there, not my clone.” Masaru said with a shrug, although he was trying not to sound too satisfied with himself. He had never expected the spar to end up with him, an academy student, winning, since his opponents were both genin. But that was probably what had saved him. The two of them had probably underestimated him or somewhat ignored him, which had allowed him to get in close and end it at a time like this.

“But yes, it was quite the spar, if not quite a hurtful one,” he said, with a chuckle. He had some marks from the explosive tag, and the cloak that he wore had quite a few holes after the explosion. Not to mention the twigs in his hair et cetera. “And if we do it again, I will hopefully be able to do more than just waiting for you two to tire each other out, and then swoop in and force the one who is standing last to surrender. In fact, I will be able to do that, mark my words.” He said, smiling a bit with the last words. Famous last words, anyone? Nevertheless, he did not want to have another match like this, a match where he could do nothing but hide himself until his opponents were tired out.

“But on the topic of my winning… I would say that we should call it a draw. In a real fight that explosive note would have knocked me out, if not outright killed me. But please do tell me, did you expect either of us to attack the clone, or was it just a precaution?” He asked Ayumi, while sitting down as well.

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