TNA: The Grand Finale

Haru was a little surprised by Youta’s use of the chakra blade, which caused the edge to extend, thus thwarting his attempt at a grab. In addition, the speed at which she swung the blade increased, although not so much that it would cause an issue. The blade was definitely sharpened by the technique she was using. He was thoroughly surprised that she could move this quickly, and the blade was likely going to pose a problem.
 
He would focus his chakra to his hands, preparing himself for the blow. The blade would sink partially into his hand, through his armor. He would draw his left hand back, the wound healing as he did so, the armor also regenerating itself. Haru would fall back slightly, before preparing a rotation. Normally the standard rotation would be enough, but since two of them had already seen him use it, he imagined that would raise some questions. Hyuuga weren’t very prominent in Tengakure, and Haru was pretty much the only one past genin rank.
 
   
Altar began made a dash towards Haru with what looked like a body flicker. Once Altar arrived, Haru decided what he would do. Neither of the two had seen him use this technique. Haru began spinning, forming razor wire that extended outward to maximum distance, which encompassed both Altar and Youta. This would either shred them to bits, or force them back, thus preventing Altar from using his one trick pony move, the chidori, and giving him time to regen before they attacked again.

(Using Protection of the 64 palms)

Stamina Counters: 564/696

EDIT: Forgot that I also used Yin Healing Wound Destruction. Editing my stamina counters to reflect that)

Altar watched in some awe as the ANBU managed to catch the blade, with little damage. It appeared it had delivered somewhat of a sting, however, as he drew his hand back after catching the blade. Altar witnessed this as he was dashing towards the ANBU. He had drawn close now, and was preparing to use the chidori when he saw the ANBU begin spinning his hands out in all directions. Needless to say, Altar didn't want to get close to that, so he decided it would be best to back up and save the energy for the chidori later. He was about to back up, when he saw something. It appeared to be some form of wire, or line. Altar didn't want to risk it being sharp to the touch, so he would stop himself and kick back and off of the ground, sending him slightly into the air, so that if he needed he could still change direction. This would send him flying back at top speed. After reaching seemingly the border of where the razor wire surrounded the ANBU, Altar would take a moment and examine himself for damage. He had escaped, but not without a few nicks and cuts here and there. None of them severe, only mildly present. Nothing he needed to worry about now. However, that move seemed vaguely familiar. He couldn't place it, but it reminded him of something...ah, whatever. Not like it mattered anyways.

Altar would continue moving back and away from the ANBU now, not wanting to take his eyes off of him to see where his allies in this battle were.

Stamina: 155/200

If Youta was not tossed in the way that was previously mentioned Aqua would continue his water dragon going towards Haru and would most definitely hit his barrier, however he would continue with the serpent beginning to constantly reform while the rotation was moving around. If he were to stop it prematurely then the dragon would begin to rush towards him at top speed, threatening to cause damage towards him. However until that time water would constantly splash off the barrier created. Aqua would be able to sense that the water was being sliced at a small scale, but wouldn't be able to discern what the jutsu was.

Clone Two on the other hand would have completed Nativity of a Sea of Trees. At 61 speed the Forest would be created as such: Dense Forest with about 1 foot gaps in between trees in a line in the arena all behind Aqua and clone Two. These trees would rise up 20 meters. Clone One, Youta, Aqua, and Clone Two, if not moved would all rise up on two 5 meter Diameter wide trees with large foliage and branch structures on top, creating a 10 meter wide platform that they could stand on 15 Meters above the ground. After 2 meters to the right and left in front of Aqua there would be more trees but less packed, about 1.5 meters between trees that would be 4 meters diameter wide. On the walls above where there were no trees, about where Altar and the Anbu were, at about 3 meters above the ground, branch like structures would rise up to reach angle about 15 meters high so that a canopy was made at that location, these trees would travel about 10 meters in from the wall. At the area with no trees Aqua would create small leaves that would coat the entire ground. The leaves on the trees were thick but not thick enough to stop the rain from hitting the ground. About five meters above the trees would begin to emerge sharp branches that would go in almost everyb direction, making jumping up without distroyingb said branches impossible.
At this point Aqua would up 15 meters from the arena or rising at 61 speed.

Since Clone One was not needed to catch youta and from the events that followed he would then decide to begin to clap at his top speed, preparing a technique.

[To make things clear Clone Two has 44 AP, Aqua has 55, and Clone One has 84, sorry for the late response, sister was in hospital and school started.]

Youta was somewhat surprised her last moment maneuver succeeded, even cutting into the ANBU's hand as he attempted to catch her blade. God know what would have happened if he had succeeded, probably nothing good for Youta, like being disarmed or even knocked out. This short confrontation scared her, because it showed quite clearly the difference in their power, the damage she managed to inflict was already gone, the wound closed and was concealed by the armor that recovered immediately as well.

Seeing the opponent back away, Youta did the same, she could use a stand off for a moment to think. As the distance increased, the ANBU began to intensely swing his arms around, in some strange way. To understand better what he was trying to do Youta intensified her sight and as Seigan activated she could now see the small strings of chakra shooting out of the man's hands and forming a sort of barrier around him. A moment later Aqua's water dragon would crash into it. Glad she was some distance away from the barrier, Youta raised Shigure which no longer had the wind surrounding it, as the jutsu was undone as soon as the ANBU backed away. It was rather obvious he was very strong at close range and that she will have to make use of her teammate's abilities in conjunction with her own to take him down.

With those thoughts she was picked up by Aqua's trees and whatnot.

[197/242 AP cuz
-20 Vacuum Sword
-20 Chakra Blade used for one post
-5 Seigan]

Haru watched with some satisfaction as Altar and Youta both were forced back by his rotation. As much as he wanted to simply remain in this position, it wasn’t a very good tactical choice. He saw the water dragon approaching him, and decided to take a more defensive, ninjutsu oriented approach, switching up his style to keep the genin on their toes.
 
He figured this next technique would surprise Aqua in particular, and he was intrigued to see how he reacted to it. While the dragon was still a safe distance away from him, he stopped his rotation, and quickly made a tiger seal, followed by a snake seal. The ground instantly gave way to roots and trees, forming around him at 100 speed. The trees would create a half dome, blocking the water dragon attack. Still holding the seal, Haru created more trees, branching out from the half dome.
 
After waiting for Aqua’s trees to finish growing, Haru’s own trees rose up to the platform Aqua had created, breaking any limbs or trees that got in their way, except for the platform and the trees that held it up. At high speeds, the trees closed over the platform, creating a dome over them, and reinforcing the bottom of Aqua’s platform with Haru’s more powerful mokuton. This effectively boxed off Aqua and Youta from Altar. The dome would be 5 meters high at its tallest point, and a half meter thick.
 
If the two were successfully trapped in the dome, Haru would form a log at its top, releasing the hand seal and using the substitution technique to trade places with it. Once there, he would preform three more hand seals, creating two wood clones, which formed on the inside of the dome, both sprouting down from the wood and dropping down from the ceiling. It was time to see how these three handled a one on one fight.
 

Stamina Counters: 429/696


Using Nativity of a world of trees, Wood clone, and Substitution.


Clone 1 Stamina counters: 500


Clone 2 Stamina counters: 500

Altar was trying to plan his next attack, as the realization that he had been abandoned slowly dawned on him. Youta and Aqua were both on a raised platform, and he had no way to get to them. He was having trouble deciding if they had just thrown him to the wolves...er, wolf...in order to stall, or if it had been a snap judgement, spur of the moment decision. He decided he liked the idea of the latter more. So, he was alone with this ANBU. He would either need to fall back and attempt to regroup, or buy time. However, before he could decide, something happened.

Altar would watch as the ANBU formed trees, using Nativity, or so he assumed. The trees blocked the water dragon from Aqua pretty well, as they extended to create a dome of sorts. Altar would move as fast as he could towards the ANBU, now encased in the trees. However, the ANBU would unfortunately take off before he could arrive. He smashed through most of Aqua's trees, before landing where Aqua's platform was and encompassing it in his own Nativity trees.

This was bad. Altar had been effectively cut off from his team. He had no way to reach them, he wasn't near strong enough to break through the trees. He couldn't help. Words raced through his head, but this was no time for that. He needed to calm down and think. The least he could do was try to get up there and examine the dome for weak points, but there was no way up. The ANBU had destroyed all of the trees and branches, save the main ones that formed the platform. He was stranded. His hands shook, his knees felt weak. He had no way of helping his team. God only knew what was happening in there.

Having nothing better to do, Altar sat down, hoping to regain some breath and think before anything happened.

Stamina: 165/200

This would be interesting. As of this point Aqua, Youta, and Aqua's two clones would be on the 10 by 10 meter square that encompassed his tree platform. He would watch as other trees would be created to make a dome, and during that time Aqua would make a ram hand seal. Simultaneously he would begin to pour chakra into thunderfury.

At about the point the trees got to where Aqua and Youta were standing Aqua and his clones had figured out what the anbu was planning. Once the dome was finished Clone one would begin to have his platform lower down by use of clone ones moving earth core jutsu that he used. At the speed of 40 the platform would begin to lower down back all the way to floor of the arena, giving the dome a bit more room, he would wait to see what the anbu would do, if he would in fact still make the clones and substitute in given these changes.

[moving earth core used, clone one has 79 AP, Aqua now has 45 for activating thunderfury.]

Youta would have wanted to get off the platform when she saw the ANBU activate a wood jutsu. She was a bit surprised to see another wood user, to say the least. Also a place where two forests bashed into one another was no place for her, unfortunately their opponent's jutsu appeared to be significantly stronger and faster than Aqua's and it quickly surrounded. Breaking through any of Aqua's extensions the enemy wood was rapidly rising up around their platform, as Youta tried to get off it, but was cut off and trapped in a dome.

A moment later the wall of wood that now stood still would break with a blast, revealing Shigure coated in wind chakra and held by Youta's hands, but her silhouette was starting to blur. The chakra shroud generator was engaged and both Seigan with the wind blade would be turned off in order not to overload it. Hopefully unseen because of the wood obstructing view Youta would slip out of the trap and into the open where she would fade completely.

[157/242
-20 Chakra Blade
-20 Shroud Activation]

Shortly after creating the dome, Youta used her chakra blade technique once more, cutting her way out of the dome. Aqua, meanwhile, lowered the dome down with some sort of earth jutsu. Well, it seemed he hadn’t managed to keep them inside the dome, at least in Youta’s case, as Aqua was yet to follow her out. As she exited the dome, Youta activated some sort of cloaking jutsu, her form becoming transparent to his deactivated sharingan eye. His byakugan, still active, could still make out her chakra signature, clear as day.
 
Since Youta managed to escape, Haru had not released the snake seal that was controlling the Mokuton in order to preform his substitution. He would continue to control his trees, moving them at high speeds as Youta slipped out of the trap. A branch would form from the dome, growing out towards her from behind, before attempting to enclose around her, attempting to pull the blade free of her hand in the process, and dropping it to the forest floor, trapping her and leaving her unable to use her arms, legs, or blade. The only part Youta’s body that would be uncovered would be her head.
 
He would close the crack in the dome originally created by Youta, locking Aqua and his clones back inside the dome. That done, he would create branches from the inside of the dome, attempting to use the same pinning technique as he had attempted before on Youta.
 
Three branches would emerge from the dome, moving quickly towards Aqua and his clones, and attempting to enclose around them, once again attempting to pull free the weapons held by the real Aqua.
 

Lastly, Haru would turn to Altar, who seemed to be recovering his breath. He would cause the wood instead to sprout from the ground itself around him, attempting to enclose and pin his body.

(Continuing Nativity)

Stamina counters: 463

Altar watched as a multitude of things happened.

Someone had managed to break through the wooden barrier, attempting to fall to the floor of the forest. Altar, upon seeing this, would get up and begin to move towards the forest. He noticed next that the dome of wood had replenished. He had seen one figure, but hadn't seen the other. It would appear at this point that they were still trapped inside. However, if he could meet up with the one who had seemingly escaped, maybe they could find a way to free the one still in the dome. He would activate his Meigan, hoping to aid his vision in finding his ally.

However, as he was about to start running, a branch found its way to him. Well, a lot of them, actually. He caught sight of them out of the corner of his eye, weaving their way towards him. He would attempt to push off the ground, away from the branches, but one managed to wrap itself around his leg, pulling him back to the ground. Altar would then spin around, attempting a Chidori to cut through the branch, to seemingly no avail. The branch was much more resilient than he thought it would be. Before too long, branches encircled him, pinning him down. Altar writhed, trying to claw and crawl his way out, but he wasn't strong enough. The branches surrounded him, holding him still.

Altar struggled a while longer, before giving up. He wasn't nearly strong enough to break free. But he needed a way out of this. There had to be a way out...but his mind was only drawing blanks.

He felt his face heat, the embarassing situation he had been caught in finally reaching his thoughts. He had easily been the first to fall. He was trapped, at the mercy of whatever force had him pinned. He had failed.