Settling In Part 2

Keeping a close eye on every part of the mad Kat’s body, the first thing noted was his arm’s movement away from the attempted grab, now leaving his left hand free to do whatever. Basing things on instincts alone, the same movement was also the prompt for the lad’s follow up attack; an attempted blow to the jaw by his right knee. With quick thinking, the first inner gate within the auburn haired boy’s body would proceed to open. Further allowing for Katsuragi’s attack to not make contact, seeing it coming within the very instant of it nearing his mark. Being quicker to the draw than before, the scorpion’s left hand would speedily move downwards, pushing it out of the way so that way the kick wouldn’t land. He’d do this by nagging gut feeling that there was a feint maneuver within the dodge, not even glancing downwards but still being able to know precisely where it was headed. His left hand would push down and out on the inner portion of the city slicker’s thigh.

All the while this was also being used for a set up to his own attack. Still taking a lower stance than his sparring partner’s, Hiko’s right arm would quickly flex. Each muscle within it starting to contract as chakra began to flow forth through it. At the same exact time that the block would happen, the miscreant rogue would lunge forward with a lot of brute force behind this attack to the leather clad lad’s abdominal region. If his hit had been successful, the pure brute force behind this punch had the potential to rend the skin from the stricken area. A very nasty kind of technique which at point blank range would’ve been hard to avoid especially given the timing of it. Additionally, had this blow to the left side of Kat’s stomach managed to be unavoidable, the aforementioned former convict would then be thrown forward (Hiko’s perspective, backwards for Kat) 10 meters.

”Come now, Katsuragi! Don’t tell me that’s the best you can do. And here I thought you were gonna be a tough opponent.” He’d use the gritty words to somewhat poke fun at the other missing shinobi’s feeble attacks so far; keeping the tone of the battle light hearted and all in good fun.

WC: 357
TWC: 2413

Combat Stuff:

Seeing is believing.

And now Katsuragi was finally seeing the potential behind Hiko’s arsenal, as it would seem. And the power didn’t stop there, it was only a simple deviation of the true strength behind the Tau. There were big plans. Big enough to the point where one would need some kind of heavy hitting within their wheelhouse. The grind certainly wouldn’t be coming crashing to a halt either. It was only the start of actually gaining the necessary traction in order to fully commence these ideas and schemes which had been carefully concocted in the depraved mind of a somewhat insane lad. At the end of the day, there was still ample time to get this work done. Neither of them had thankfully scorned anyone here in Tanbo too much to the point where they’d have to worry about anyone coming after them anytime soon; but regardless that still didn’t mean the duo could go about slacking off and becoming messy within their approach to things.

Only a devilish grin would be offered as a response to Katsuragi’s stunned comment. ”Because you’ve underestimated me. Just because I have strings waiting to be set free like a beast from their cage that is a body, doesn’t mean that the body itself can’t pack a punch. Also, I’m a user of the eight inner gates, certainly you must have heard of that at the very least. But alas, for now, let’s stop here tough guy. We should also consider heading out to other countries soon.” The verbal response was paused there, looking onward towards the other Tai specialist to take a glimpse at how he would initially react to this thought.

A hand would be raised to silence any potential outcry towards it. ”I know we practically just arrived here, but we’ll need more people in order to get anywhere, wares too if you’d wanna get a black market set up. I was thinking of heading out to Konoha soon, Howl told me he’s traveling to Suna as well. The offer will be on the table if you’d care to join either of us. I’ll make sure to stop by your hometown on the way.” After saying this, he’d remain around to listen to what Kat had to say, and after hearing it, he’d then head to his room further in the hideout.

[Thread Exit]

WC: 392
TWC: 2805

Claims:

Misc-
Thread Exit

Techs/Skills-
750 words to Nukite, completing it for C Rank with 25% max stat discount
1991 words to Evening Elephant, was previously 72/2063 completing it from here w/ 25% max stat discount
64 words to Earth Release: Rock Shelter, 64/750 (will be completing with 25% max stat discount)[/b][/b]

Approved for Hiko

Exit Claims approved for Katsuragi!