Almost in unison with Nova, Gins body manoeuvred effortlessly to intercept the hand that was set to dispatch a small rock towards the Genin. He extended his palm, grabbing the girls wrist before she even managed to release her grip on the rock in question. His facial expression had changed, the one cheery Akimichi was now poised to kill, his soul piercing gaze aligning with Novas. If the girl attempted to free her hand, Gin would tighten his grip to a point where he would clearly overpower her, for now, he merely stopped the wrist in its tracks.

As the girls target squirmed in the distance, a powerful aura erupted from the giant Akimichi, sending the nearby Genin into shock. His aura was heavy in nature, bright orange in color and even carried a mild odour of deep-fried chips. He locked eyes with the girl, calming himself and his aura.

“I was always taught to protect the weak…” he paused before continuing onto “If you try anything like that again… I’ll kill you.” His tone was direct, unapologetic and serious while his eyes appeared emotionless, lonely and somewhat overbearing but the instant he concluded his sentence he released his grip on the girls wrist before returning to his cheery self.

His eyes returned to normal and with now wide grin on his face, he challenged the girl, “You’re aware of the rule of two… right?”

WC - 228

Skill Used -
Display of Power

The scene was set, the surrounding Genin backed away as the atmosphere grew tense. Gin observed the young women shift into almost a southpaw boxing stance, with her left hand now obstructed by the bulk of her body. He didn’t quite have enough space to perform an effective counter measure, especially with the gap between himself and his foe being so feeble. However almost by request, the opposition continue to bide her time, waiting just long enough for the majority of genin to have retreated to a safe distance.

Looking back at his actions, Gin couldn’t quite understand why he expressed malice towards the young women. He hated the vast majority of Genin in the village as they all treated him like complete and utter garbage prior to his victory at the Chuunin Exams. To some extent, he felt as if he was trying to embody the will of the Raikage. In the moment where he defended the Genin from the pebble he felt as if he had an out of body experience, one that he couldn’t quite explain.

A moment felt like an hour as he reflected on his actions, somewhat displeased as to the lengths he had gone to antagonise the young women. He stood motionless, contemplating whether to accept the brunt of the attack that was to follow as a punishment for his prior behaviour. From the other side of the spectrum, he felt that only the strong should be given the liberty to leave a mark on his body and thus he took to action.

The instant the girls left shoulder twitched to indicate movement, the Akimichi moved to action. His eyes first took note of the positioning of her left shoulder relative to her body to accurately calculate the angle of motion of her hand. He wasn’t too sure as to what the young women had a secondary mode of attack but he aired on the side of caution by subconsciously plotting the most effective angles of trajectory that could be utilised to take advantage of the Akimichis large exterior.

In the moment his eyes darted, his left hand formed three handseals, his right flew into his weapon pouch. The instant the three handseals were completed, a series of chakra-based butterflies would appear around the young womens face, they were orange in color and extremely vibrant, with over ten thousand of the butterflies quickly overloading the womens line of sight. The instant the women looked at one of the butterflies, she would find herself caught in a trance-like state thus mesmerised by the beauty of the surrounding butterflies, compelled to chase after them via this technique. In this instance, the Akimichi would simply invert the womens sense of direction, forcing her to move in reverse while moving forward from her perspective.  

Gin didn’t rely on this top stop the young women; after all he had asked for her best and he was sure that she could deliver. In tandem with the Genjutsu his right hand fished out a Kunai, rigged with Flash Paper. Using the flicking motion of his wrist, he sent it towards the womens centre mass, opting to detonate the paper bomb the instant the Kunai left his fingers. Naturally, the Akimichi closed his eyes, he no longer needed them as he was confident in the trajectory the women would take as well as the trajectory of her sword if she so chose to use it. Having closed his eyes, the Akimichi lowered his centre of mass while moving to his left, the girls right in an effort to avoid the potential trajectories of her Katana. It goes without saying that the girl would be blinded had she kept her eyes open during the detonation of the flash paper, but one thing to note would be that as the Akimichi moved his large frame, he was still able to move his large exterior out of the trajectory of the senbon.

From the context of the use of weaponry and the womens position before approach, a few facts had to be established. The first was that prior to girl moving away, the distance between Gin and the young women was about half a meter. Having moved, the women was no less than 2.5 meters away from the Akimichi. She later assumed a stance akin to southpaw, moving her left leg further back. With the female standing at a height of around 1.72 meters, the effective distance between her two legs was at a minimum of 0.4 meters, assuming the women didn’t extend further than the traditional shoulder width distance. This in turn meant that the women had to straighten her body, covering a distance of 0.4 meters at her outstanding speed of 135 before dispatching a senbon that would then travel a distance of 2.5 meters at a rate of 106 speed, relative to the females new speed of 105.

To align the events, the butterflies would form around the womens face at a rate of 20 speed around the time where she would have found herself directly facing the Akimichi. Around the time in question, the Akimichi would have already dispatched the rigged Kunai that would be detonated upon release, blinding everyone in a 5 meter radius who happened to look into the light. In the same vein, during the time it would take the women to bridge her blades gap of 1.5 meters, the Akimichi would be able to move a further 2.1 meters towards his left, the womens right which would in turn take him out of range of the senbon. Naturally the movement was done a precautionary measure aimed to remove the Akimichi from the Katanas line of trajectory.

Naturally, as the bright light from the flash paper continued to radiate, if either of the duo had their eyes open, they would be blinded. Considering the fact that the Akimichi had made his movement under the blinding light of the flash paper, there wouldn’t realistically be a way for the women to discern his location if not by sound.

In the unlikely scenario that the women heard the Akimichis footsteps, and change of direction, he would be ready to react.