Getting her ass kicked the Kiranomo way

Kira didn't feel terribly comfortable about this entire situation. sure she needed to get some training in so this body could match her mental reflexes but something in the pit of her stomach made accepting this battle seem difficult. Her legs were heavy and her head pounded. Terrified eyes scanned around her, debating if it was too late to run, but she knew she couldn't. Fight our die was how she came into existence and it would not change just because her demeanor was different. 


"He's going to kill you you know" daruku spoke, floating a few feet away seeming more excited then usual. She could feel the hope filling the tiny doll at the prospect of being rid of it's owner for no reason other then because she was a cruel bitch.

     She checked her pockets, not to make sure she had what she needed since the only thing on her person was the hair clip holding her bangs to the left and out of her face, but out of nervous habit. "Shut up daruku. and shuurin stop moping about he wont kill me....I think. He's a very kind man, maybe the only truly kind person i've met in our travels." The light blue doll was set against the warm earth with a worried look upon it's tiny face. She was far enough that Kira couldn't see it but she knew.

Gosh he really couldn't get used to such a dry heat that circled this area draining any moisture that tried to enter. He could feel the air being evaporated from his lungs after each breath causing it to become harder for him to breath. He was walking to the borders to meet with the girl, he found it surprising that she was up and about already. The girl had said something to him about getting her strength back which he admired in the tiny being, even though she had been through a rough patch she was still striving for something more.

"Ah I guess I will test her out and see what the little one has to offer" he would say out loud to no one in particular, mainly just to get it out of his head. He was closing in on the borders of Iwa at this point, he enjoyed being out here because there was no one watching and it allowed him to be himself which at times wasn't the best idea. He did however have some questions to ask this child and maybe during this fight he would get them out in the open and even perhaps an answer. For now though he would just push the girl to her breaking point.

Youka had finally made it to the clearing leading into the borders that intersected all the villages and allowed free passage. He could see the girls tiny figure as he approached she was standing still very nervously. "Hello ma'am I trust you're doing well and feeling better now that you have had time to rest" smiling at the girl he would walk closer till he was only 2 meters directly in front of her. "Are you sure you're up for this, we can wait till you've recovered more".

"No I'm ok." Her head screamed that it was a lie but she couldn't listen. She had to find a way around this fear. 'Fear is the leading cause of death....mostly at my hand child, and while i don't mind doing it it is quite inconvenient and I'd just rather you take care of the problem yourself' Her master one told her. No, that wasn't it.....She shook her head to make the memory clear out. I know who i am, she thought, but right now i have to be who she is. I have to make this child what she needs to be. I.Am.Kiranomo. 

"So how do we um....Start this?" The warmth of her smile was like to the blistering heat around them, though a war raged in her head, causing her eyes to shift from calm happiness to a down turned worry ever so often without her realization. Closing her eyes she called out to the soul blade and with a horrific blood curdling screech Sorrow materialized in her hand, spinning in her hand once before resting against the ground. It felt heavier then normal, though the dimensions clearly hadn't changed. Perhaps it was the lack of muscle mass and memory needed to wield the enormous weapon. She slid her toes under the ball, barely moving it. This would be dificult.

[voiding the 1st part of Youka's post concerning the heat, that's physically impossible.]

The range of Kozai's Mind's Eye of Kagura was 10 km. Thus, it wasn't any problem to track the two as they left the village suspiciously. Hmm... the male was powerful. He didn't trust that, and hoped that he would be able to win in a fight against this guy. Now, how to approach this? They were heading towards the borders, and a hot part of the country. There wouldn't be much moisture, but it would be more than enough. And of course, there would be that hardy plains grass to use as a water source. Kozai was never a a loss for a water source, which is why he loved suiton.

He zoomed over the plains, about 70 meters behind them. Hmm.... judging by the shape an size of chakra, the girl seemed to be weaker than the man, though that could just be a misconception. He would have to wait and see. Kozai was worried that they might be up to something contrary to Lord Echo's plans, which benefited both Echo himself, the village, and Kozai as a whole. He watched as the met and rendezvoused. What were they talking about? Kozai had to find out more. Information was important, he knew.

Kozai was (of course), on a disk of water, and so he splashed down behind the girl. "Yes", Kozai would say cheerily, "let's begin. Nice weapon, you have there, it looks versatile, and sharp." He hadn't seen that weapon before.... he needed to fine out more. He needed to know.... MORE! He spotted the priest. "Pax Vobiscum, Pater. I hope your day has been going well. Have you been enjoying your stay in Iwa? I hope you aren't running away now...." He didn't intend to stop them, even if they were, but he was still curious, nevertheless. The water disk would form into a cold sphere of water floating above their heads, 10 meters above the ground.

This young one had resolved herself to go through with this even though she clearly was having second thoughts. He could already slightly read what little emotion she showed, While she was afraid he commended her for still wanting to do this."Very well, I shall oblige" He would say throwing a swift bow in her direction. He let his chakra senses float freely feeling out the female to gauge how he would handle the situation. Her chakra was at a smaller level than his and he doubted she was suppressing it "Hmm I think I have just the thing for this".

Kira had asked how they would start this spar and right after did something strange, she materialized a weapon from no where not before a deathly howl was heard as if something evil was clawing trying to break from its bonds and enter this world. The weapon was very large and he wondered how the girl would be able to wield such a large weapon with such a small frame. "That's a nice weapon ya got there, allow me to bring out your partners"

Before he performed his jutsu the same man they had met before landed behind the girl. It made the priest suspicious that maybe Echo was having them followed to ensure nothing was happening behind his back. Youka made a mental not of this and would bring it up next time he met with Iwa's head. "I'm doing well child, but this is not the time for talk, I hope you're ready"

Performing the required hand seals for his cutom jutsu he flowed mud directly out of his mouth on to the ground in front of him in a vomiting fashion except more controlled and without the inevitable pass out that came afterwards. In mere moments it would take form standing up and forming to the same size as Youka. This would be a very interesting match up and he intended to turn this into both of them versus himself.

Still focusing his attention on the two that stood in front of him he would send just a thought and the golem would split before everyone into an exact replica of it self barely being held together as the mud constantly moved and reformed hands and feet. "Let's begin".

The distance of two meters that was between them was very easily closed by Youka passing the girl with the weapon completely, is attention turned to dealing directly with the young man that had ambled into the area. He watched the floating water closely noting it's distance and from himself and the man it was hovering above. a solid open palmed push is all he would throw towards the mans chest area to create distance between his two quarries. The two golems would have already moved by now one heading for the young girl it would shamble towards her simply throwing a right hook while the other would attempt a left both aimed for the girls mid section on either side.

If all wen't according to plan Youka would be where the man was at when he landed next to Kira with Kozai being pushed back a meter effectively putting him in the middle of all the action. This day had just began to get interesting, His chakra senses would fully be focused on this man now ready to anticipate and react to what else might come.

What.The.Fuck. She watched Youka spitting mud, which didn't surprise her too much, however when the sediment moved and formed into a creature she stepped back, planting her feet in a three fourths stance, a little past shoulder width apart and a half a foot or so past the center of her body angled at about eleven o'clock and four o'clock in regards to the direction her body was pointed. She was calm and ready, she thought as she pushed the last traces of fear from her expression and prepared for the fight. All of this went out the window however, the moment he sped her direction. 


    In two seconds flat her resolve broke as she let out a terrified squeak pulling her arms in toward her face and accidentally slamming the base of her weapon into her forehead. Disoriented from the sudden trauma she stumbled back a few paces completely oblivious of her opponent until it was preparing to strike. The heavy fist headed her way but her mind knew exactly what to do. It was a horrible tragedy her body hadn't seemed to get the memo. She spun the weapon once more to catch it's fist between the blade and staff of her weapon which was performed almost flawlessly, aside from missing her target. The fist connected with the the staff of her weapon pushing it directly into her body and sending her sprawling back to collide twice with the ground before coming to rest. 

"Argg!!" She pushed off the ground once more bracing herself against Sorrow to prepare herself for the next attack.

Kozai heard them speak, and concentrated a bit. That's odd, his mind's eye wasn't working correctly, so he shut it off, and watched. To his (not so great) astonishment, the man began to perform handseals. What was this, a deathtrap, did the priest intend to kill them? No. Kozai must not allows this. In order to stop the priest from doing these things, he did two things at once. 

The first was the he would use his water heaven's convergence to create a disk-shaped platform, and would fly up on it, using it to support him. He would be a height of 19 meters by the time the golems formed. However... the golems would never get the chance. Forming merely at speed 60, Kozai would form a solid block of ice which would encase the forming golem on all sides and would stop it from forming. Kozai didn't like these earth creations, as they were the bane of water jutsu. The block would not encompass its creator, or the girl Kozai would watch, of course, for anything that could possibly happen. He would also keep close watch on the girl. He hoped none of them would attack him.

Of course, all of this would be done on reflex. When he was done (assuming Kozai's freezing attempt succeeded), he would stand on the disk and rub the back of his head. "Oh, I'm sorry, was that supposed to be used for training? I scare easily, so I acted on reflex, I apologize for any trouble. Continue on, I won't bother you." If he got positive feedback, he would probably descend to the earth. However, if he got negative feedback (or if his freezing attempt failed), he would remain in the air, ready to react to the situation at hand. Hopefully, he hadn't pissed of the priest. He realized that this man... was powerful.

Arcanis had a bone to pick with Kozai.  He had been patient enough.  The man needed to be taught manners.  He sensed Kozai leaving town and began to follow.  he was fast but Arcanis was able to keep up using his "skills".  Arcanis chuckled to him self.  He felt more chakra signatures converging on Kozais location.  Seperating into a clone Arc hid well out of range of the group.  He stayed approximately 400 meters from the group following with his clone.  Watching from the side lines with his Ichimatsugan Arcanis' clone witnessed the actions of each party.  Kozai stood on a water disc as he always did out of combat range.  The clone focused slightly and appeared behind kozai standing perfectly still using his waterwalking technique to stand on Kozai's disc, back to back with kozai.  "we need to talk...What is going on here?"  Arcanis knew full well that Kozai had known he was there and therefore shouldn't be surprised (much) when he showed up.

This man had severely pissed Youka off not only had he interrupted the mans intentions to test this girl and find where her skills lay, He had also just frozen the one thing to measure her strength up to. This day had turned slightly darker in his eyes as he fought to keep the anger from boiling over. He still kept a smile on his face as he watched all of this happen. Everything around him moved slower than him giving him ample time to react to the surrounding occurrences.

Everyone's actions were well within his reacting limit that as his golem began to freeze in front of his eyes he still had time to stop this from fully happening, after all it was a splitting golem, he didn't need the whole creature. Threads would fly from his hands forming a slanted scoop like construct splitting the golem in half before he threw it to the way side to complete its molding. After this was done The golem would still continue on it's attack course for Kira allowing her actions to still carry through.

He would let the man continue on his path floating above him, hopefully the man would fly off and find somewhere else to occupy his time. Then there was another young man suddenly standing as well on the other disk of water. This was beginning to get out of hand, he contemplated killing everyone here, yes even the girl that he had first wanted to train and see where her powers lie. As of right now he held his rage back allowing the threads to re enter his body stitching up where they had torn through once again.

He did notice the other man as someone he had met before, he just couldn't place his name or face right now nor did he care to try. His attention would stay on the little girl ahead of him while his senses would focus on the two above him ensuring that if they tried anything he could counter it to the best of his ability.

[ltr][ltr]She took a second to catch her breath cursing the creature in front of her as she mentally prepared for battle. Her left hand gripped the cold chain a few feet shove where it connected to the ball at her side. With a heaving tug she pulled the projectile towards her, sliding her feet across the ground a quarter turn to the right to dodge it's path in a way that almost seemed like she was gliding on air for a moment before planting firmly back onto the ground in a deep stance. The weapon was heavy, much heavier then her muscles were used to but this time she took the fact into consideration allowing her arm to be pulled with the chain back until it reached the breaking point pointed almost completely behind her. With a flick of her wrist and a sharp piercing pain she curved it's trajectory to wrap around her body one full swing.[/ltr]

[ltr]'I may not have my power,' she thought to herself more as and assurance to continue then anything else, ' but the laws of physics are simple and concise.' An object ...,' she continued her mental pep talk with each motion of the weapon. Her attack was at the least obnoxiously gaudy, though to observers it was like a beautiful dance of finesse and steel, and at best far too slow to not be interrupted by anything even remotely considered fast, but thankfully the distance her blunder had out between herself and the golem gave her the time for set up, or at least she thought. Lifting up onto the tips of her toes she spun twice more increasing speed as the weapon led her body around the waltz and stopping once the flourishing strike had doubled in its initial velocity. She loved her leg forward in a hook kick that caught the chain just before it passed out of reach, changing it's flow once more from horizontal to vertical just long enough to arc up , the ball topping out two feet or so above her head, and then back downward before she allowed the since coil wrapping her leg to slide off in one fluid motion. She struck again as the chain was just passing the tip of her toes and the ball was curving back into it's upward arc planting the ball if her foot against the loop once holding her appendage, finally finishing her set up and sending the spiked ball quickly in a strait line path from her towards the center of the golem's chest.[/ltr]

[ltr]     To say she was satisfied with the attack was an understatement, though one shirt lived as she realized the motions of her attack had coiled sorrow's chain around her wrist causing an unfortunate situation she would need a moment to decipher a solution to. Since she was not blessed with such luxuries she braced for the inevitable, expecting her arm to be broken or ripped off. Thankfully the consequences were not so severe due to her lack of body mass and instead the momentum carried her away with the attack causing an impromptu secondary projectile in the form of her body.[/ltr][/ltr]