The Battle Den Couldn't Think of an Epic Title For

Den’s manipulated fabric took the form of his jounin gear as they walked towards the plains, Den wanting to be dressed for combat. He wasn’t sure how this fight was going to go, Xyxer had been a powerful shinobi in Kirigakure, more powerful than Den, and he hadn’t kept tabs on Xyxer’s increase in power since then, even though they both had moved to Tengakure after the destruction of their home.

Now he had to fight Xyxer, probably to the death.  Xyxer was a powerful water user, Den knew that, and skilled with a blade as well. The fight would begin with them 10 meters away from each other, a nice distance for Den seeing as he hoped he would be fast enough to avoid Xyxer closing in if he wished close combat. Den was skilled in close combat for a shinobi that relied on ninjutsu, but he didn’t want to test those skills here. Den’s sharingan eyes would remain focused on his opponent’s suit of armor, watching for any sudden movements.

As the fight began, Den performed 6 hand seals at 130 speed as he began to backpedal at 55 speed. After performing the hand seals, he would aim his left palm at Xyxer, and out from it a blue mist shot out in a cone at 90 speed. Den would have traveled about a meter by the time he finished the seals and thrust his palm outward. The cone would travel a total of 30 meters, and at its base it would be 25 meters. Upon hitting that distance the mist would then form into a sort of half sphere, with the center point of the cloud being the center point of the base of the cone. Den would continue to backpedal after performing this jutsu, wanting to gain as much distance as he could.

TWC: 307

-1 AP for sharingan
-45 AP from Corrosive Mist
+10 AP from Juugo DNA
Net 36 AP lost

1154-36=1118

Corrosive Mist stats:
90 speed
90 power

Xyxer had walked near Denkiteki out into the plains.. This was a thrilling experience, even for somebody that believed he was enraged.. This was a brother of Kirigakure, this.. was a face he recognised. The same face that was looking up at the Mizukage, Suzaku Shina in the village centre as Xyxer, on his ANBU duties.. protected him. The boy had always had aspirations, it was now that the Demon of Kirigakure would have to see if the pup ever did amount to something. Being ten metres from the individual, the armour still adorning his body.. He went over what he knew about the male in his head briefly. He could manipulate dust to a sufficient degree, he was proficient in the art of medical ninjutsu and he also had his hand involved with space time, he knew that from when he had shown the lifeless body of Rin to him. Very well, it was just how things were meant to be, it seemed. And now.. the male was running backwards while forming hand seals rather rapidly.. His speed now, was also to be noted. A bluish mist soon came from his lips, but that was the least of his worries at the moment.. This man was not at his full strength.. This was a mockery to him. Not bothering to activate his sharingan yet, the male instead, himself, started to backpedal as soon as the hand seals were half way through completion. It was the first tactic people of melee techniques were taught against fighters they were unaware of.. Create distance, scope them out, execute. It was something that Xyxer lived by.

Moving backwards at the speed of 62, it was thankful that there was already a distance of 13 metres by the time the mist had actually escaped the lips of the survivor of Kirigakure as it traveled rather speedily, at least, for how fast Xyxer was moving currently. It seemed to be gaining on him rather speedily whilst moving outwards so that was only one thing he thought of doing now that the mist would actually be obscuring the vision of Denkiteki, and as far as he was aware, he did not possess the white eye as Takeo did and seeing through such a splotch of chakra would be quite.. unlikely for him, but thanks to chakra senses, Xyxer could see the mass of chakra that was Denkiteki from behind the mist, still traveling.. He seemed to have learned the same strategy, how interesting. Now moving diagonally outwards away from the mist, Xyxer drew a simple kunai from a pouch on the outside of his armour and attached an exploding tag to it, hurling it through the mist and in the direction where Denkiteki's mass was, aiming to strike the legs of the male, or if he did in fact move, land 1 metre away from him in the ground. While all of this was happening, Xyxer by now would have escaped the clutches of the mist as it reached it's full length, Xyxer still being 5 metres out of reach of it.. That was a long technique, he noted, as he now enacted the hammer and anvil tactic. Running around the mist, maintaining his 5 metres distance from the fully completed jutsu, moving essentially in a curved line towards the body of Denkiteki, unless, of course, something else was to occur or Denkiteki was to, by coincidence, just run into the mist and camp in there. Though, for natural reasons, Xyxer would call out, "After I bash your skull against the fragments that'll remain of Minorin once I'm done with her, you'll give me back the ryo you stole from the hard working shinobi of Tengakure!"

133 speed Kunai
96 sharpness kunai (+46)
+25 passive boost from the ring, yo

Den clearly saw Xyxer begin to backpedal while preparing his corrosive mist technique, and could sense his movements via chakra sensory by keeping track of where his chakra was. So as the mist escaped his left palm his right hand made a simple half handed seal, his mastery of hand seals allowing him to do so for this simple technique. And because the hand seal was in fact the only requirement, Den was able to perform the jutsu not once but four times with this single seal, activating all 4 uses simultaneously.

At about 14 meters from Den Xyxer would be still backpedaling from the mist, just putting his weight from his left foot and about to put his right on the ground, when the ground beneath him began to move downwards at 80 speed. The chunk of earth Den moved downwards was 5 meters by 5 meters, with Xyxer in the middle, and it would move down a total of 20 meters. The next 3 constructs were roughly 3 cms from the edges of the hole being created for Xyxer. They would exist to Xyxer’s right, left, and behind him, the ones to his left and right were 5 meters and 3cm wide but the one behind was 5 meters and 6cm. The 3 walls were a meter thick and connected at the edges, meaning the only way out was straight up or forward unless someone broke through the walls. The walls would reach their maximum height of 20 meters at a speed of 40.

The corrosive mist would hit the wall behind Xyxer and then begin to form into the cloud, having hit a solid object. The mist would travel down the 20 meters to reach Xyxer if he was still down there at 90 speed.

Den would stop running after reaching 20 meters from Xyxer’s location at the start of the fight, assuming that his plan worked against Xyxer. Due to Den having performed the jutsu before Xyxer would have a chance to throw the kunai, he didn’t have to avoid that attack.

TWC: 653

-1 from sharingan
-40 from Moving Earth Core
-20 from master of ninjutsu
+10 from juugo clan
net loss of 51 AP

1116-51=1065 AP remaining

As this is the post when the cloud will be formed now, corrosive mist will last as a cloud for 5 posts.

It would have been around this time of his backpedalling that Xyxer noticed something quite irritating.. A tremor in the ground, the changing of levels.. His body was going down, and the rustling of earth behind and either side of him echoed in his ears with a slight disturbance in the force being felt. The bastard had only gone and made him not jeer him and so Xyxer was traveling downwards with the mist still coming, oh boy, was it relentless. However, as Xyxer was an experienced fighter and the crackling and groaning of the earth gave away the approximate areas, the Wrath of Tengakure, whilst disorientated mildly, twisted one foot around on the ground whilst throwing his body upwards, now able to pump his adrenaline entirely throughout his body which granted him a much greater movement speed. By the time he had enacted his jump, the earth had traveled downwards to be three meters lower than what it had been whilst he was running on it, and as the male was jumping through the air with the earth still three meters below what it was before, Xyxer moved towards the slower moving earth that had been behind him, moving his hands upwards in order to latch his fingers onto it, with the earth fortunately pulling his body up from the ground and from the mist, the mist really annoyed him as it was so versatile. Even with the movement of the earth and whether it was to continue to go up or suddenly plummet downwards, Xyxer would use the momentum from his jump to carry his entire body onwards up from the earth in the movement of a vault, escaping the misty dungeon efficiently whilst dashing off to the left away from the earth.. It was weird, Xyxer noted, how one plot of earth had been moved much quicker than the rest with, this time, four versions of the same jutsu.. Perhaps it was a mastered version of the jutsu of what he had used on Takeo prior. Jumping down to the left from the earth he'd land onto the unmoved earth once more, a 2 metre drop due to how slowly this earth was moving compared to the others. Once on the ground, Xyxer would begin sprinting once more, continuing on his movement to the side in order to ensure he was at least 10 meters away from the edge of the cloud of toxin, once more repeating the actions in his first movement and throwing a kunai with an exploding tag towards the chakra signature of Denkiteki, aiming to either hit his legs or land 1 meter away from his body. Of course, he would also continue to run, maintaining a distance of 15 meters away from the toxin cloud in a curved line towards Denkiteki, repeating what he was going to say anyway because he did enjoy a good bit of banter, "After I bash your skull against the fragments that'll remain of Minorin once I'm done with her, you'll give me back the ryo you stole from the hard working shinobi of Tengakure!"

Xyxer was too fast, he managed to vault over the platforms as they moved, and escaped the prison Den had created. Den would have to rethink his strategy, having not stopped backpedaling Den decided to begin heading to the right and backwards, as Xyxer had gone to his own left and around the cloud towards him. Den moved at 110 speed, not as quick as Xyxer but fairly fast for a shinobi. As they were both heading away from the cloud Den saw the kunai flying towards him, however it was far enough away that Den was able to make a one handed seal before it drew near, activating his Wood Release: Cutting technique as well as his Earth Spear which required no hand seals. Den didn’t like using wood release unless he had to, but he needed weapons and it was one of his few techniques that could make them.

A shuriken formed in his opposite hand made of wood, and he threw it directly at the incoming kunai at a speed of 137, the wooden shuriken ripping knocking the kunai and explosive tag off course before it came anywhere near Den. Two more shuriken would be launched as Den began to move directly away from Xyxer, one aimed for Xyxer’s left leg and the other straight for his chest. He was prepared to make another seal should his attack plan seem to work, but he wanted to see how Xyxer planned on dealing with the shuriken first. He planned on doing the seal as Xyxer attempted to deal with the shuriken.

Den would still be moving away from Xyxer as he made the taunt, insulting both him and Minorin in one go. Den cared not for insults against himself, but he felt the unfamiliar emotion, anger, begin to rise up within him. It was a rare thing, the last time Den had truly been angry had been the time Taiga had accidentally insulted Minorin, and he buried it just like he had done then. He couldn’t let Xyxer’s words provoke him, lead him to make a mistake.

Let me kill him. Not just his anger had been awakened however, but the Gobi’s as well. He felt the beast’s power grow inside him, and found himself fighting off that as well.

No! This is my fight, not yours! He wasn’t going to let the Gobi influence him either, this was his battle, his responsibility. He was going to fight Xyxer, and die or win on his own. He’d be prepared to make the seals once his shuriken were close enough to Xyxer, depending on how he reacted to them approaching him.

TWC: 1098

Dens stat changes:
Health: 80
Strength: 85

-1 from sharingan
-30 from Earth Spear
-45 from Cutting
+10 from Juugo
Net loss of 66 AP
999 AP left

Shuriken stats:
110 Power/base sharpness
110 health
137 throwing speed speed
158 sharpness while thrown

It seemed like the embodiment of Kirigakure No Sato was truly in this individual, as in fact, not only had he run whilst the destruction of the noble village had occurred, but he was now, still running. In a rather dangerous game of cat and mouse, it was obvious that Xyxer was playing the cat as he bounded across his territory, still not bothering to activate his sharingan, he didn't need it's help as of yet, this opponent.. currently, it was nothing to him. He had ignored the warnings to fight at his fullest strength and instead sought to continue forcing the male to stalk him. The clanging of a weapon and the whistling of the wind alerted Xyxer once more.. His insult had done nothing and he was still focused on the fight. Gods dammit. However, there was a further whistling and two things hurtled out from the cloud towards Xyxer.. Two.. Shurikens.. But they seemed off, their painting.. they seemed to be painted in a wooden camo which was understandable, but this style of painting seemed extremely efficient. Regardless, he did not stand and admire the decor of the shuriken for too long until he realised they were coming directly towards him. It was a simple fix, of course, unless they were suddenly going to change course. He simply pushed his foot down against the ground via his heel and jumped backwards from the shuriken that were approximately 10 meters away from him at this point and heading to his previous location, and thanks to the spinning of his body and curving run once more, that position was 7 metres off from his body so he watched as the shuriken seemed to just whiz past. It did irk him, however, how he had had to backpedal just to avoid being harmed and avoid his fun time..

The gap by now between Denkiteki and Xyxer however was relatively small, only a mere 15 meters. As well as that, the cloud of toxin was now 10 meters behind the body of Xyxer and continuing to get further away thanks to the battle that Denkiteki was moving himself. Changing his path somewhat, he continued to move in a curved line towards the right side of Denkiteki, now finally summoning the awe striking blade of Tidebreaker, holding the hulking metal in his right hand as he continued to close the distance, and, if nothing was to be done to impede his advancement, Xyxer would simply send a horizontal slash towards the body of Denkiteki during his sprinting, approximately 2 metres off from his body with the blade being 2.5 metres in length. Of course, if he was to move, Xyxer would move after him with the slash unless extreme circumstances were to be presented.

And so it was that nothing had been done to impede him in the slightest, not a change of wind, not a teleportation of a missing shinobi, nor even the male himself.. Perhaps the insult he had spat about Minorin had truly shook the male to the core, perhaps.. Something was different about them two now. Maybe the girl herself had abandoned him? Bah, who cares. As the hulking sheet of metal carved itself through the canvas of flesh that was Denkiteki's body, Xyxer knew.. It was not a beautiful painting, it was merely abstract. And well, blood's kinda' pretty anyway. Due to the sword being 2.5 metres long and Denkiteki not being morbidly obese, the sword would go straight through his entire mid section, severing his spine and all of the organs that were unlucky enough to be in that area, leaving him essentially in two neat little parcels for Naoki to wail and lament over. Only.. As the halving of Denkiteki's body had finished.. There was a battle happening internally for Xyxer.. Atlas. Xyxer wished to stamp on the fuckers head to show he was not to be fucked with.. Atlas, however, knew this was a comrade from the land of Mist, and the secrets he possessed himself would be able to forge a bond stronger than the bone in his spine evidently was. With that, the male would pick up the two separate halves of Denkiteki unless he did something super weird, ensuring that he was holding them both in such a way that the organs wouldn't fall out, and sprint towards the hospital at his full speed, with Wrath activated, being most likely a blur to most people with his EMS also activated as he truly believed his speed could save this males life. Of course, when he got there, immediate reattachment of Denkiteki would ensue and well, he shouldn't really die considering Primrose too was cut in half and did not die.

(72 hours yo - Autohit)

(Guess this is what happens when you inform people you're busy over skype rather than making away posts. Sorry for shitty post but you just killed my muse for this fight.)

Being cut in half hurt like crazy, but Den was no ordinary human and such an injury didn't kill him or put him into shock, in fact he was still able to fight despite this. As his torso continued foward, seeing as Den had been running when he was bisected, his hands performed two hand seals. His hands had already been close by when he had been cut in half, so Xyxer would not see any real distinct movements from Den's body as he performed the two seals, which being completed at 130 speed were finished before Xyxer had finished his slash. 

The ground beneath Xxyer would all of the suddenly be mud, and pull him down at a speed of 85 with a strength of 85 as well. Unless Xyxer was able to decipher the jutsu Den was using without seeing his handseals or he suddenly got the urge to fly or something, he woudl quickly be pulled beneath the surface of the mud.

Due to Den's momentum he landed a bit away from the edge of his pool of mud, which was something like 45 meters in diameter or something, but moving at 130 speed Den landed about 65 meters away from the spot where Xxyer had cut him in half.

He landed on his feet, or well, his new feet. As he flew through the air his body created a new lower section, and his manipulated fabric clothed it at 100 speed. Den felt weaker after building his new legs, he hoped that his swamp would be enough to defeat Xxyer. If not then perhaps he would have to resort to more powerful techniques, and he didn't want to have to do that.  

-75 AP from regening half my body
-15 max ap as well (taken from current pool as well)
-3 limbs
-40 AP from swamp of the underworld
-30 Earth Spear
-1 from sharingan
+10 from juugo 
151 AP lost

999-151=848 AP left

You know what sucked? Momentum. It appeared as Xyxer had cleaved through the lesser being, the torso had just.. flew? Through the air, very cool. However, it annoyed Xyxer, 'cos he was trying to, you know.. grab it? Plus as the speed of which it was moving, he knew that if he left it, there may very well be no torso to collect after it struck the ground and became a bloody mess, and as such.. Simply.. He activated his flying skill, manipulating the moisture around his body to instantly carry him from the ground at the same speed in order to collect the body before it hit the ground.. Heh, funny thing.. His chakra senses alerted him that a mass of chakra had formed oh the ground where his body was, closing in at the speed of 85, which, was of course, the earth jutsu. It was almost instant, which was worrying.. Xyxer easily reached the side of Denkiteki, approximately half a meter from him, above the mass of mud above them, and he noticed.. new fucking legs were springing out from his body. Casually flying next to the male, he spoke simply, "Knock it off, eh? You've lost, I don't intend to murder you." His voice was different than what it had been in Tengakure, but alas, he could not take a risk with a man of this capacity.. So, with his sword still in his right hand, he sent a hearty slap down to the chest of Denkiteki, aiming to send him catapulting directly down into the mud below, now 20 metres away from the area Denkiteki had been sliced. Of course, he remained flying to see how the male would react, and whether it would work at all or whether more brutal force would have to be used.

-20 AP from flying
-3 AP from EMS

Den sensed Xyxer soaring after him, his jutsu hadn’t worked. None of them had, and Xyxer had managed to perform what normally would have been a fatal move on Den. He had failed thus far, and he didn’t think he would be able to win this fight. His skin returned to normal as Xyxer moved next to him, he wouldn’t need the Earth Spear jutsu. He could prolong the fight further, sure, he still had his wood release cutting active and could probably move Xyxer away from him, but what was the point?

Xyxer told him to knock it off, and was beginning another sentence when a voice rose up from within Den once more.

You stupid fool. The Gobi’s power welled up within Den, pushing against the seal Den had formed. There would be no visual or chakra based indication of the Gobi battling against the seal as Xyxer began to move his arm, to do what Den initially thought would be the death blow.

No, the indication of the battle would be when the Gobi forced a large portion of her chakra through the seal and into Den’s body, mere centimeters before Xyxer’s blow connected with Den’s chest. Den might have cared if Xyxer was going for a final blow or not, but the Gobi did not.

The beats knew Den’s body and powers well, and activated the boy’s ultimate transformation even as her chakra cloaked him, this other Kiri ninjas armor was too strong for the marginal amount of chakra that the gobi had put into Den’s system alone. The increase in power was more than simply drastic, it had progressed onto a league of its own. Regardless of whether or not Xyxer continued his blow towards Den’s chest, The Gobi would simply ignore the blow as it would not harm the body in this form, the cloak having fully formed before the blow would connect.

Instead the Gobi attempted to attack Xxyer with her own abilities, from Den’s left elbow a chakra arm would shoot out towards Xyxer’s head at 224 speed, the palm of the arm was the size of Xyxer’s head, and the Gobi would have the arm continue after making contact with the front of Xyxer’s helmet if the blow connected, traveling a full 2 meters from Xyxer’s helmet before stopping.

The gobi would land on the ground on all fours, the red cloak covering Den’s body completely. It hadn’t formed Den’s wings or tail, so at first glance onlookers would simply see that Den was a jinchuurki using 4 tails. However anyone who could sense nature chakra would see that Den’s body was absorbing that as well, not to increase his AP any longer but to fuel the form beneath his chakra cloak, his sage transformation form. The Gobi would deactivate the swamp to stop it from draining more chakra.

Den’s current stats
Health: 62
Chakra: 216
Speed: 224
Strength: 99

-180 AP from activating Gobi Cloak
-20 Swamp
-30 Earth Spear
-1 sharingan
-80 from Power of the White Dragon
Net loss of 311 AP (180 from normal pool, 131 from Gobi Pool)
848-180= 668 AP (Den)
240-131= 109 AP (Gobi)