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[[hey, the water orochi kinda was so big it blew what remained of the collapsing roof off the place and the heads shredded what pieces fell tot eh floor. I thought I wrote that when the orochi formed. Ganeni should be having to hold up the roof, it isn't there anymore.

((Ganeni's holding the vital parts of the temple's interior, keeping the wall from crashing to the ground.))

Eiju stopped, taken aback at Shinji's damands before he broke out in a laugh. "You must be joking Hyuuga....I watched your fight against those loser genetic experiments that ifuuki called guards. You may have sued some secret weapon against Jin, but it looks like you've gone and spent yourself before the main event.

"Besides," Eiju said as his fingers flexed and unflexed into fists. "I'm a Tao, I know all your clan's tricks. We are far greater than either of our sire clans ever hoped for. Or do i need to take a page from Haoshijiro's book and remind you?"

Eiju was half bluffing. He was nowhere near his normal strength after what he had done today, but he knew Shinji was bad off as well and he really did know many of the Hyuuga and Uchiha techniques whether or not he could preform them himself. He would probably have to deal with this Hyuuga on a taijutsu basis to conserve his chakra, which meant with a Tao and a Hyuuga, this could take awhile unless Eiju used the fusion style....

[[ It's not that Eiju is really tied up in clans, but all Taos have an innate distrust and dislike of the Uchiha and Hyuugas. Clans have long memories and they still feel shafted by their sire's treatment in the beginning ]]
"Gutsy ********," Tao said as he took up a offensive stance similar to the Jyuuken, though his lower arms and legs were covered in a thin layer of black chakra, forming a slight outline of a dragon head.

Then Eiju shifted into a more laid back, defensive and reactive stance, the shade of his chakra changed to white. Yet again Eiju changed his stance quickly, now coming to a neutral stance, a even mix between the two forms he had just shifted to. The shade of his charka became grey.

"Looks like I have to take you seriously as well," Eiju said as he launched himself at Shinji, his voice strangely sounding as if it had a more feminine echo beneath his strong voice. He came in as a streak, incredibly low to the ground, actually sliding to the end. He then brought his leg strait up, planting his hand to gain more force behind his kick aimed at Shinji's jaw.

Eiju did a quick spin to attempt to avoid the kunai, but was still struck by a few, one in the shoulder and one in his upper leg. He yanked them out quickly and through them at Shinji, still in the air. One of the kunai was covered in wind chakra, the other in lightning type.

"Fool! You are not the only one who can destroy an opponent's chakra network! Let see if you can seal my tenketsu if yours are blown to shreds!" Eiju said as his eyes went red for a moment and he jumped at Shinji and curled his his index and middle finger at the second knuckle and the chakra around his arms flashed black.

He meant to use the black dragon based off of the Hyuuga's soft fist style. If he hit his target, a miniature explosion of chakra would occur. If the blow landed hard enough, it would occur underneath the opponent's skin, severely damaging all tenketsu in the area.

He flew at Shinji with reckless disregard, aiming for Shinji's still useful arm. It seemed he was willing to let himself be struck if it meant striking such a devistating blow to his opponent.

"********!" Eiju said as he landed back on the ground, sinking to one knee. His hand was gripping his shoulder tightly as he tried to focus his chakra to recreate the covering of chakra over his arm that he needed to use his taijutsu style. He found it impossible to focus any chakra into the arm and felt as if his entire body was fuzzy, his whole chakra network felt slow and hard to feel.

"I'll give you this you little s**t," Eiju said as he stood up, flexing his arm even though it felt asleep. "Not only did that hurt, but it was a trick I definitely haven't seen before. Looks like you've been dipping into your clan's forbidden pot of tricks. Or did you think that up yourself?"

Eiju walked over to Shinji and raised his good arm, white chakra flickering along his hands as he unfolded one finger. "You've caught my interest Hyuuga. I think it's a little early to be killing you. I want to see all the techniques you have to offer and steal them before you die. Still I can't have you interfering with my escape now that you hampered my abilities to the point that I can not even hope to engage any of those three for a second."

Eiju made a move to strike at many of the tenketsu in Shinji's legs with his white dragon style, meaning to seal them so he could not walk and Eiju could escape before someone was attracted to this new commontion. He didn't want to have to deal with Tenka, even if he was in a similar state.

Distraught from losing Mai down the hole Rin-Tao looked around for another way down. In her scanning she spotted Shinji fighting with a man she recognised. "Shinji-kun!" She shouted but she knew she was too far for him to hear. She ran that direction hoping to arrive before too much damage was inflicted.


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The ground 50 meters from the main hole shifted slightly. A mound of dirt rose into the air as Sokitsu dug himself out of the cave in he had been trapped in. He coughed and gasped spitting out soil and nursed a bloody head wound. His glasses were missing and his clothes were torn, it seemed as though he had been through more than earth. As if you prove that, he yanked on what he had been dragging behind him. The body of Renta.

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Masayuki barreled through the forest toward the emense chakra he sensed. Trees and other foliage were knocked down and crushed by his rhino charge. But one thing did not move, a walking mountain of a man, Yamazaki. Masayuki peered at his obstacle and cracked his knuckles.