Takeo vs The One Tail

Takeo slid down a small incline to a halt at the bottom. His eyes scanned the area slowly. Boy did he hate having to write the first post in topics. Whatever, didn't matter too much. The man was currently on the outskirts of the Shadow Country. He had been here the last few weeks, searching the area. He was on a mission, one of his own design. What exactly it was though not even he was sure. Takeo had yet to decide how to approach it you see, but he'd get there eventually.

The area he was in was barren. Nothing much lay around this area. Takeo was on the southern border of the Shadow country you see, which of course bordered the Wind Country. That country was pretty much just desert. Not much life was around these parts. Takeo was following a dirt path, his eyes on the terrain ahead of him. About two hundred meters or so ahead of the young man lay the beginnings of the Wind Country. Takeo could tell as such because the dirt changed to sand further ahead. The difference in terrain presented itself with a nice little border line didn't it?

Takeo allowed his white eye to scan the area ahead of him. For the most part there was nothing of note. Seemed like he had arrived at another dead lead. Takeo was hunting you see. He had visited several villages in the Shadow Country borders. Each of them had tales, stories about how the sand around the borders had come to life. Weird right? But Takeo decided to investigate it. It would allow him a chance to take his mind off of recent events.

He didn't feel right anymore. It was as if his mind was failing him. Shadows danced in the corner of his vision constantly. The ghosts of his past? Probably something like that. Maybe his implanted eyes were beginning to reject him. A cruel joke played on him by the gods..or god..or whatever. The man was equipped with all of his usual gear and such. No shirtless apron shenanigans this time unfortunately. The man was here on business, and he'd aim to take this somewhat seriously for his writers own sanity this time.

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Posting on this account because I can't log onto Takeo for some reason.

AP: 1099

-1 from Byakugan being activated.

So as the man scanned his fore front paying no heed to the area surrounding him, either above or below The towering 50 meter tall beast would prepare his attack from where he waited beneath the ground suppressing his chakra in hopes of hiding.  The preparation would be simple, activate it, Tak would be at the perfect location and the perfect distance from his tunnel that all he would need to do is channel chakra into the earth and transform the entire area into a great pit, in such a way that almost immediately following the activation the intruder would be pulled downward.  The whole area 70 meters outward from where the man was standing would begin pulsing inward, but the pulsing wouldn't matter as the locations would place Takeo already within the center of the jutsu making escape nearly impossible.  For good measure sand armor would be activated to ensure a quick and immediate death, since the world was full of powerful shinobi hoping to steal his freedom and Shukaku was not one to gamble on such things. The earth would clasp the man at a speed and power of 140 pulling him down at the same speed so that before Takeo even knew what was occurring he would be pulled underground and suffocated.  The earth would not even finish pulsing the first time.  Mounds of earth would rise around him while the clumps of earth grappling his legs and the wind surrounding them attempting to passively remove its effects would be rendered useless sealing him up to his knees.   This action would force the tunnel he was in to collapse but that would not bother this monster as he would easily mold into the ground with no difficulty assimilating into his own chakra enhanced ground like an Antlion securing his prey.  Should the man have any counter to this the ground he was on would have already sunk and the earth around him out to 70 meters wouldve begun pulsing in toward him raising up 5 meters around him similar to a wall. Shukaku would begin his movement through the ground toward his dead prey having to move close to 60 meters at this point to reach the man, but only moving at a speed of 10, continuously scanning the area with his chakra sensory to ensure he was heading in the right direction, no rush since if the intruder wasn't dead already he would be soon.


1150 total
-50 Antilion
-100 Armor
-20 HLAM
980 remaining

OOC:

Takeo rubbed his hands together, a frown on his face. Quite a boring day so far. Nothing of note really happening and the like. Still, the tunnels and such underground proved for an interesting sight. Takeo had noted them a few hundred meters ahead, his Byakugan allowing him to see through the ground and such. Giant moles must live around these parts or something. Didn't seem to be any around though, likely teaching blind little girls how to earth bend or something.

Anyway, Takeo continued forward a few more feet. Then the strangest thing happened. His chakra sensory picked up something about sixty or so meters below him. Odd. Takeo didn't expect anything underground to be capable of having such a high chakra level. Unbeknown to Takeo, the beast below had activated it's Sand Armour in order to further increase the power of the jutsu it was about to perform. Quite naive of the beast to assume Takeo would just let it get away with such things. His hands which are rubbing together quickly changed positions ever so slightly. With that Takeo's body flickered from the spot, moving at a speed surpassing that of most living creatures forward about a hundred meters. The beast would be unable to tell of course, giving it's reaction time. So it had no reason to cease in it's actions, activating the jutsu that would begin to pull the ground downward.

The young man turned, dropping his hands to his side and glancing downward. His white eye's gaze pierced through the sinking ground, now finally catching sight of the beast that lay in wait. An interesting creature for sure. Likely that cause of these rumours, and definitely not a giant mole from the looks of beast. "Well, isn't that interesting." Takeo commented to himself. The man rummaged around in his satchel for some interesting things. Taking out a kunai with an exploding tag attached Takeo would prime it before tossing it over toward the center of the pit. A way to test the waters one could say. The kunai would travel and such eventually exploding when it reached the pit area thing.

If for some reason he didn't manage to get out of the jutsu in time, which seemed unlikely anyway, Takeo would just activate his booster and One Way Road thus just living through anything.
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1088 AP

-1 Byakugan
-10 Body Flicker

OOC reply:

Interesting how events would unfold in the process of Shukaku's life, so many that he could hardly remember the order in which they occurred some major and some minor, and in his mind this would be another that would be lost in the folds of time.  His attempt to kill the intruder would appear to be thwarted as the man would easily clear the area before the antlion was even activated however, at such a speed that it occurred prior to Shukaku even noticing, at least to some regard, this wouldn't be the first time his attempts were thwarted in his long life. He would not notice the movement quickly enough to even change his mind on the activation of the justu but he would notice it prior to swallowing the half assedly tossed kunai so that well before the kunai even landed the antlion jutsu would be all but finished deactivating. Having only accomplished  molding the terrain in the area into an unstable and uneven arena leaving raised clumps of hardened ground all across the area which descended downward slightly toward the center of the formerly flat earth which at its center would have been where Takeo would have been had he not run away.  What a waste of Chakra, the beast thought to himself, when dealing with annoying pissant humans, things never were as he wished.  Takeo now stood 100 meters closer to the wind country roughly 30 meters outside of the antlion placing him 50 meters above Shukaku, there has to be some form of triangulation formula which would give the exact distance but shukaku wasn't a marine sniper so lets just say a roughly 135 meters angled distance separated them. Shukaku had continued moving directly up only 10 meters, directly below where the kunai would land harmlessly in the pit and assumingly explode harmlessly as these things had a time limit, and Shukaku would be nowhere close to it.  

He would deactivate the armor deeming the distance from which the two now stood safe enough to do so, instead preferring to save the chakra for the inevitable close combat that would eventually take place, taking solace in the fact that solid earth separated him and the man,  He knew these humans had Earth using techs that could ruin his day but maybe the man did not know where he was at, or did not possess any useful AoE long range techs.  So shukaku would continue his slow movement toward the surface concentrating on Takeo's location using the innate chakra sensory.

(Edit Note accidentally posted without AP totals, went ahead and added immediately following, if this is something you wish to argue i will remove them.)

-20 for HLAM
960 remaining

Takeo observed the movements of the beast with his left eye. The man crossed his arms and waited. Unless there was something happening that would warrant him to do anything Takeo would simply stand there and wait for the beast to make its move. Yep, that's all he did. Indeed.

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1087 AP

-1 Byakugan

Kk just wanna throw this out, due to my work schedule it will be past the 72 hour mark before I post, but not by much, please be patient with me

Takeo's weight shifted from his left leg over to his right. Then back again. Then back again. Then back again. Then back again. Then back again. Then back again. Then back again. The young man ran a hand through his hair. So he might as well do something productive right about now. The beast was intent on taking it's time. That was fine, Takeo had nowhere else to be after all. He began to ponder. What could he work on? Then it came to him. Ah yes, genjutsu. The cheapest of tricks in the book. Takeo was proficient in the art himself but tended to refrain from using the techniques. However lesser beings would likely try to do so against Takeo. There were numerous genjutsu in the world many of which are bullshit stuns that for some reason lock your body down. Thus the generic genjutsu release stuff just wouldn't cut it. Thus Takeo needed to master the jutsu in order to truly make use of it. So Takeo would spend a couple of minutes dicking around trying to genjutsu himself and then release it. It was all sorts of random nonsense, but no techniques were actually cast.

The beast was still intent on taking it's time so Takeo could do this freely. As the seconds passed by Takeo let his chakra move throughout his body or something along those lines. Like for real how do you learn mastering a jutsu this is such a pain in the ass. He thought back to his time as but a simple newgen shinobi with no skill to back up his prodigious power. There had to have been a time when he was under a genjutusu or something. Using that as a starting point the man would continue on his little exercise. And then he totally nailed that shit. Like completely and utterly Takeo had mastered the genjutsu release stuff which now allowed him to not have to use a dumbass handseal. Lucky that, because you never know when someone might try and cheapshot you randomly.

All of this took place in like two or three minutes, not much time passing.

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1086 AP

-1 Byakugan

Genjutsu Release Mastered

The once highly energetic battlefield had now come to a complete standstill with Takeo doing nothing, making no actions.  Did the man wish to speak to tailed beast or did he want to bait the great Shukaku into coming out into a more dangerous position.  Shukaku would take the bait any day.  Unlike his 8 tailed brother who was a skilled tactician, his pride would not allow him to back away from any challenges.  If this man so wished to meet him on the field of battle then his wish would be granted.  Unfortunately it would be a very slow ascent to the surface, only moving 10 m at any given time.  So as it would stand Takeo would do nothing, and as long as that statement remained that way Shukaku would move directly toward the surface at 10 meters per post, which allowed for a 4 post time skip following this one.  If an action made would by the still man would alter that, Shukaku would be prepared to strike or dodge whatever he deemed necessary.  At the end of the 4 posts, should nothing occur Shukaku the One tailed beast would rise from the ground 100 meters away from the man, in the center of where the antlion activated.  Gleaming at the man bloodthirst in his eyes and a great grin upon his face.

(should nothing happen in the 4 posts, CD on sand armour refresh, and Takeo would regen the ap from  flicker)
-100 ap for 5 post of Hlam

The time would pass by uneventfully. There was a slight breeze, allowing for Takeo's fancy jacket to billow out dramatically behind him. The ground in the center of the pit began to shift. Takeo moved his full gaze over toward the area. Finally the beast showed it's face, Takeo smirked slightly in response. "So you're the cause of all these rumours then." The white haired man said plainly, eyeing the creature carefully. Takeo had not seen anything quite like it before. Sure, Takeo had fought creatures about the size of this before. However this being was entirely different. It's chakra was quite high for one. Higher than most normal shinobi in fact.

Takeo vaguely recalled something Xyxer had informed him about. A similar creature that had appeared in Kumogakure some time ago. A relation perhaps. Maybe even the same creature. Takeo wasn't sure. "Now then. What should I do with you I wonder?" Takeo asked himself, folding his arms once more. The man took a brief pause before calling out to the beast. "What are you exactly?"

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1081 AP

-5 Byakugan usage for the skip.