Revenge or Justice? [Hunter]

Revenge or Justice:

Ryuzaki Nara:

The night still lingered as Ryu made his way back from the bandit hideout, the full moon was high in the sky and sent out a good amount of light. He had been spotted but he was unsure whether he would be pursued. Ryu wore his usual get-up a pair of ninja tabi that covered bandages that wound around his feet and up his legs until they went under a pair of long shorts that stopped just below the knee, and met a pair of compression shorts. Strapped around his left leg was a long weapon pouch that housed half his kunai and shuriken, on his back right hip he wore a cloth weapon pouch that housed the rest of his kunai, shuriken, explosive tags, smoke bombs and military ration pills. A belt wound around his waist, not to keep his shorts in place but to hold the hanging scabbard of his masters family heirloom, a katana. Ryuzaki wore a black, short-sleeved t-shirt, from just below his shoulders more bandages wound around his arms and his hands, doubling as hand wrapping for close-quarters combat. On Ryu's back two holsters crossed each other, both housing a tanto, their hilts pointing out and down from his back, so they could easily be drawn, his weaponry was mostly designed so that in the case of combat he could draw them while his enemy was caught in the shadow imitation jutsu, and if they had similar weapons they would not also draw them. Around his neck he wore a simple silver chain, hanging from it was a simple gold ring with the Nara clan symbol etched into it, the only sign that he ever belonged to the clan. 

Ryu sat on the floor his back against a dead, blackened tree, he had made his way down the mountainside and he now sat near the edge of a plateau that had a sheer drop in front of him, the plateau itself was around 100 meters in diameter before it climbed up or down the mountain at its edges, he would rest for several minutes before moving off to complete his journey home.

WC: 357

A gentle breeze whipped up over the precipice of the plateau "The winds so nice," Ryu said out loud as he prepared to continue on with his journey. As the girl approached behind him Ryu was unaware of her presence until she reached the 5m mark, at that point he heard her, he span quickly to respond to the noise. As his eyes whipped around he saw only a figure sprinting, nothing other than one thought went through his mind, DODGE. It was too late to counter her attack, she was drawing her katana from her sheath. Ryu could not dodge directly away from the attacker as he would be sent over the edge of the plateau, the precipice was only two meters from his feet. As the blade was swung Ryu pushed off from the tree with his left elbow, flinging his body away from the tree (Split Second) and the attack to the right, he rolled three times at full speed until he regained his feet. Popping up he was now 5 meters away from his attacker, presuming she did not immediately follow up on the attack.

As Ryu mind settled and he was able to actually take in the person who had attacked him, his scar began to tingle, he moved his hand up to it and rested his fingers against it "It's You" he said in a low tone, it was unmistakable, he would never forget the combination of those eyes and that hair, the person that had permanently scarred his face, but also kickstarted his rapid growth as a shinobi. "Why have you attacked me? I'm not the same kid as before, you could have just stayed at that base and got on with your life, or taken the opportunity to pick up and move, now you leave me no choice but to take you down" Ryu's eyes began to scan the girl, trying to pick out anything necessary, however, she was mostly concealed. Ryu took a deep breath as he prepared for the next move, whether it be his or hers.

WC: 347
TWC: 704

Ap and tings':

Ryuzaki's eyes darted around them to take in his situation, close quarters was something he excelled in, but apparently so did his opponent. To his right at a 1m distance was a sheer drop, a similar drop was 10m behind him and 21m in front of him, on the other side of the girl. They were enclosed, this suited Ryu just fine as he formulated the plan of attack in his head. "That is only logical" he replied, although in his mind just packing up and leaving would have been the better option. Ryu was done with words now, he instantly brought his hands together in the Tiger handseal, as quickly as he could followed by the Horse and Clone seal. When they were complete a shadow clone appeared 2m to his left and sprung into action. Ryu followed this up with Rat → Monkey → Dragon his shadow darkened and shot forward at the girl (Shadow Imitation C), after a meter, it split into two, the original tendril heading directly along the 5m path between them and the secondary tendril snaked right and approached the girl from her left, cutting off the 1m avenue between the pair and the cliff. Both tendrils would head towards the girl at max speed both looking to ensnare her, with the secondary tendril only looping in when it was level with her.

Clone: As he was created the clone rushed forward towards the girl at max speed, keeping his 2m gap between his position and that of the original Ryuzaki. When he reached within 2.5m of her he would bring his hands together as fast as possible and form the Hare handseal. When they were clasped his shadow would darken and expand at maximum speed outward from his center (Shadow Imitation Field) until it reached the 5m mark. If the girl was to move at any point The clone would follow her trying to keep to her right and maintain the 2m gap.

WC: 331
TWC: 1034

Ap and tings':

Ryu had created his shadow cloned, a perfect copy of himself, with all his equipment. Ryu took note of the clone moving in his peripheral vision, but his focus stayed on his opponent in front. Taking note of her slight arm movement and appearance of kunai, Ryu started to calculate the options, so far she had only used one attack and it was with a weapon, she certainly had the chakra infusion ability, similar to what Ryu had just learned mere days before. The thought that she was a weaponry specialist shot through his head, but no, he had not gained enough information yet, that was jumping to conclusions. As she began to move her arm upwards Ryu's mind flashed another thought, THROWING. Activating the same ability Ryu moved his left hand away from his right hand, the right hand still maintaining the seal for Shadow Imitation (One-Handed Seals). The left hand making an awkward movement upwards and a hidden mechanism (Hidden Arms Technique) within his clothing activated and brought two kunai to his left hand, which was now free. A kunai rested in between his index finger and middle finger, another between his middle finger and ring finger. At this point in time, she had thrown her weapons aimed at Ryu and the floor beside him, judging by their trajectory. As soon as Ryu's own kunai had reached his hand he flicked them both at their respective targets, one aimed at each of the incoming kunai. As Miyuki had thrown her kunai first, but Ryu's were slightly faster they met each other in the middle distance between the two opponents, which was currently 5m as she had thrown the weapons as she began moving backward. As the weapons met at the 2.5m mark they clashed, Ryu's kunai seemed to win the clash, his throwing strength appearing slightly higher. The kunai of Miyuki was not destroyed, the health of her kunai resisting the attack strength of Ryu's opposing kunai. However, they were knocked off course and span to the floor the one aimed at Ryu's leg landed to Ryu's right, landing 0.5m from the cliff-edge, the other landing 2.5m in front of Ryu and 0.5 to the left. As they span a flash of red caught Ryu's eye, explosive tags, he had not noticed them before as her hands were covering the handles. The kunai both landed on the ground, but did not embed into the earth. Given the trajectory Ryu had to throw the kunai to meet each other, they did not continue towards Miyuki. However, his shadows were still continuing towards her at their cumbersome speed of 60, it would move at 2/3 of her speed and unless she slowed or stopped it would not catch her, it would, however, continue none the less.

Clone: As the clone had moved 1.8m Miyuki was now 3.2m away from him, but then began to move at a pace of 90 speed. As she threw her weapons, the clone drew some of his own from his left leg holster, he brought out 3 shurikens, holding them between his fingers. Flicking them at his opponent aiming at her right knee joint that was closest to him, the shuriken were spaced 6 inches apart by the time they would reach her path. The first shuriken would impact where her target was given the speed she was currently traveling at, the other two spaced 6 inches apart aimed in the direction she was heading, hoping she would either have to stop her current direction. As soon as he had thrown the shuriken, he slammed his open palm into the ground directly in front of him (Earth Shaker). The ground around the clone began to shake and split. The area affected would be 13 meters in diameter, anyone within this distance and with strength 40 or lower would be thrown 8m into the air, with the clone as the central point, the debuff zone (-30 speed & strength) would be in a cone extending in front of the clone covering where Miyuki was and the space between her and the original Ryu.

WC: 688
TWC: 1722

Ap, tings' & math:

As his opponent moved away from him Ryu watched as his clone was able to land a hit to the girls knee joint and disable her, at the same time the earth shaker technique impact her feet and rebuffed her speed and strength, but she was not thrown up into the air as she was still moving backward. As she was hit by the spinning weapons her movement was then halted and Ryu's shadow was able to close the distance between it and the girl. Once the shadow reached her own shadow they joined and her shadow became darker in color, just like Ryu's shadow imitation technique, the girl's movement was frozen. Ryu nodded towards his clone as he began to speak "I would like to show you mercy, however, I cannot. I want you to know that this is not about my face, but about my country, and my village. For them, I must destroy you". The clone drew the katana from his belt and in one fluid motion brought it down in a diagonally slice and cut the girl from nape to hip. As he finished the slice the clone puffed into smoke and vanished. Ryu looked on as the girl died, he then retrieved his weapons and after checking her pulse had ceased returned to his home.

WC: 220
TWC: 1942

Claiming 2100 Ryo +3 Ap, 1800/1875 for Shadow Imitation A > S, 142 words for 261/750 for Dancing Leaf Shadow.

Houred Ken on his recommendation.

Approved