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Haruko giggled at Kyoma's comment and smiled without looking away from the battle. "Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't worry so much I'm sure he'll do fine and thanks for having so much confidence in me. You're a great friend you know that?"

((Sorry for being away. Break was very busy for me. Oh, and I have a girlfriend now! Yay for me!!))

Death took the kick to the jaw and didn't even try to block. His head moved to the side with the hit and paused in place for a moment. The counter was good, but the target was poor. Death had done so much hand-to-hand fighting and been kicked in the face countless times already that one more was nothing to him. He hadn't even blinked when he was struck, that's how conditioned Death was. However, it still might have caused regular damage.

Rotating his head back forward, there was a crack from death's neck. That meant nothing as it was just a normal crack and not induced by the kick. Death then rotated his jaw and moved it with his hands while he listened for any unwanted sounds. Everything was in order and Death was fine, as expected. "Well that was a fun kick," Death commented.

Watching Haruko run to Kenji's aid, Death stood his ground to see how the pieces were moving about. Everything seemed logical until Haruko left Kenji. Why did she leave him? He's obviously not OK. Pondering the situation, Death's conclusion was that there must have been some deeper plan, but from who? Anyone could make a counter on Death, Haruko and Kyoma could probably do long range protection and Kenji must have more tricks at the ready. Death needed a plan, and quick.

Death decided to play dumb. It wouldn't surprise anyone if Death fell into a trap, he did that all the time. In fact, Death has fallen into his own traps in the past, which is why he no longer lays them (physically). Whatever his foes were plotting, they obviously wanted Death to aim for Kenji. "Are you still trying to figure out how to organize yourselves?" Death played along and continued what he had done before. "You should have learned by now that no configuration is truly safe, and here you've given me an easy target!" Death's plan began....

His glare moving upon the downed and lonely Kenji, Death stepped forward and began to charge at Kenji. "This is how you do real taijutsu!" Death yelled as he approached his target. Leaping into the air, Death prepared to stomp upon Kenji's head to put him out for the rest of the fight. As he came down upon his foe, he disappeared at the last second.

Without delay, Death hit the ground, landing upon his scarf. Death was back where he started and was ready for what he hoped to be the last few moves. Pulling the four shuriken out of his scarf, which had previously pinned it to the ground, Death threw them all at Kenji. Their journey was sent along a tall arc that would give Death a little extra time. He aimed for the upper back and the arm closest to himself in hopes of disabling Kenji far enough so that he would forfeit but not anything unrepairable.

"And now it ends!" As the shuriken neared their target, Death focused his energy to perform the last step of his plan. This step had been set up already and would increase the success rate of the entire plot. Quickly focusing his energy, Death held out his left arm, blood down and into his hand now form the slice earlier. "I told you that you'd pay, and how better than this?"

Black electricity flowed from Death's arm and shot itself as one concentrated bullet directly at Death's blood on Kenji's face. When the black electricity touched it, the chakra in Death's blood caused the black electricity to grow and multiply so to speak. It grew a storm of doom upon his foe's face, a truly disabling blow. This strike was closely followed by the arrival of the shuriken.

Kenji's move was well executed, to be able to avoid an attack after a quick change like that takes a good amount of skill. Death was happy with this newcomer, he had talent in him. And that talent needed to be watched, Kenji was quick in his moves and clever in his plans. Hearing his sparring partner, Death turned to his right to find a lightning bolt nearly upon him. In a quick defensive attempt, Death raised his right arm to confront the attack. Black electricity flowed down into his arm, but it was a little late in its arrival.

Kenji's electric bolt struck Death's hand at the same time that Death's black electricity flowed into his hand. The attack successfully flowed through all of Death's fingers before it was stopped. There were slight burn marks on the tips of Death's fingers and the electric shock left his hand a little twitchy. Seeing the slight, involuntary movements, Death commented, "Nice one, my hand's weirding out!" Rather than fearing the spasm, Death enjoyed it... he was strange like that.

Looking up, Death saw the effect of his move take place. Kenji was probably terrified since the anti-energy was like nothing else and hurt in unimaginable methods. It was a phenomenon of energy that even Death feared being hit with. "That's going to ache in the morning," Death said as he approached Kenji who was now silently lying on the ground. "Well that was fun, he was a good opponent. I'll have to officially welcome him into the village when he wakes up."

Kyoma followed Haruko to Death and Kenji and rubbed the back of her head as she stared down at the unconscious Kenji. "Wow, Death-sensei, that was epic." She turned to him, giving a nervous laugh.

Haruko watched Death curiously as he began checking out his body for wounds, 'Oh right, he has a dull sense of touch. It must be hard for him to locate flesh wounds that aren't bleeding.' When Death offered his arm, Haruko began forming the handsigns required for her healing technique. With her hands glowing a pale apple green, Haruko nodded in response to Death's statement before healing his outer wounds first. 'His left hand's bleeding and it seems something might be wrong with his right as well, I didn't notice the twitching earlier due to my light panic.' After she finished healing up Death's left arm, she motioned for Death to let her heal his right arm as well.

"There, done." Haruko stepped away from Death and began to scan Kenji for any other injuries besides his leg. 'There's obviously the wound he caused himself but other than that, Death's right in saying he didn't do any physical damage to him. Instead it was Kenji who inflicted the wound on himself. Great technique though.' Haruko quickly healed up his hand before walking back over to where Kyoma and Death were. "Death-sensei, since Kenji's now an offical ninja of this village, I guess there's no harm in letting him stay in the common house then? Its like you said, he just requires some rest and I don't think waking up in the hospital after such an epic fight with you is going to make him feel any better. I'm sure waking up in a room will be much more comforting of sorts? So what do you say?"

{No problem, I've been really busy as well so I'm keeping a lot of students waiting. I feel really bad about it. Hopefully I'll find time to do a posting rush and reply to all of them by the end of tonight. Nice name for the traven thought. Insanity Taven, I like it. smile }

Haruko watched as Death single-handedly lifted Kenji onto his back and nodded. "Alright, lets get going then."