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Aki skid to a stop, narrowing her eyes at the scene just ahead of her.

"You're right, Kisuke." she replied, sighing heavily. Nobilis tilted inwards, making a large arc, and landed back on Aki's shoulder.

"Yes Aki play with me instead," purred a voice from above. A girl the mirror image of Aki leapt gracefully down from a high up three. A hgue smilne on her face before she looked up at the moon.

"It's a beautiful day to die don't you think?" she chirped happily before clapping her hands together in pleasure. Then turning a serious gaze to Aki. "Let's paint the forest red, ne?"

Her fingers began to form the sign for a fire jutsu before she took a deep breath in blew a column of flames at the real Aki.

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"That hurt's you know dragon boy. Saying I don't have a soul. You make it seem like I'm not real peoples. But as you can see..." he trailed off slyly to lift up his shirt revealing drying blood over his dead carcass. "I'm made out of many people. Even got someone's heart somewhere around here," he chuckled darkly poking at his flesh then dropping his shirt he pulled out his kunai.

"But you know I'm feeling nice so give me the princess and I'll make I'll kill you swiftly," he grinned happily.

(*sits down in a chair with some popcorn* gah I never really know what's going to happen in fights... But make it clean... oh and no hitting below the belt.)

Aki swore loudly, bounding to the side to avoid being burned. She eyed the copy, before pulling down her mask, smirking broadly.

"You may be a copy," she started, forming handseals with rapid ease, "But only the realy one has a bird."

"Caged Bird!" she roared, slamming her palm to the ground. Six tendrils of chakra shot out from her, slipping up the tree, reaching to latch onto the copy of herself.

"I'll paint this forest with your blood!" she snarled, twisting the chakra to wrap around the copy's ankle.

Yukineko's eyes watched glazedly as her inner demon stirred fretfully. Staring at her comrade's fights, she quickly studied the fighting styles of the "puppets". They seemed similar to the original, but yet not at the same time. This warranted further investigation. Stealing silently away off the roof, she slipped into the darkness of the woods.

"I smell battle" Ogami said as he sat up and dashed out the door, finding it locked and him unable to get out.

"Man , that Ogami is gonna be the death of us..." Doku said putting his bandages back on and turning towards Kasumi.

"But hes part of our team, its our job to fight together, you remember what Tankoui-sensai said before Ogami killed him right?

" 'Always stay vigilant of each other, no matter what the cost, even if it means your life or the failure of the mission', yeah yeah yeah i remember. Well we better follow him and amke sure he doesnt get himself killed. Remember Kasumi, the moon is still full for another 2 days.

"Puppet?" Aki growled, managing to muscle her elbow back, giving her space to move out of the trajectory of the weapon, "Then your controller is nearby..."

Kicking backwards, she easily swung her leg to kick out the puppet's feet, freeing herself from its grasp. Darting to the side, she leapt up a tree, perching on a branch with ease.

Hands flying together, she focused for a moment on the last one,eyes closed for a moment.

"Pheonix Beast!" she snapped, neck and spine arching. Spikes tore out from her spine, claws protruding from her left knuckles. Horns curled from her head, as two pairs of wings split from her back.

"Ready to play?" she huffed, "I'm just getting started."

Pouting the puppet Aki caught her chained sickle, the chain part slivering up her arm to curl protectively around her neck. The puppet paused to coo to her weapon, a finger delicately brushing up against the cold links before she quickly formed hand seals so that suddenly in a cloud of white smoke there poofed an identical chain sickle around her other arm.

"My pets will be happy to play," she smirked as the heads of the chain sickles began to rise to attention. "And believe you me I'm just getting started as well.

Murmuring something softly under her breath and making the necessary hand signals the chained sickles whipped out to their fullest length, falling to the ground. And with a slow turn of her body she began to spin faster like a human tornado, the sickles making a sickening whistling sound in the air as her spinning form barrelled towards the tree Aki was sitting in.

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"Now that we understand each other Ryu lets stop the chatting and let our weapons speak for each other," the Ryu puppet nodded sagely before pulling out a long katana from his back. A grimace marring the puppet's before the sword was freed from his back. The hilt of the sword intwined with a silver dragon.

Suddenly he slams the tip of his sword into the ground and made rapid hand signals making his hands glow before sliding his glowing orange hand across the sword's lenght making it glow as well. The light of the orange chakra burning the grass around the tip of the sword before he picked his katana up and began to slice the air in a sequence of motions.

Firey orange air slices started to move quickly towards Ryu.

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"Someone is sticking there nose where they shouldn't," Hissed Amaya in irritation as she twitched her forefinger to awaken another puppet. "I want you and this puppet to handle the situation. "Because we can't disappoint my little brother," she chuckled darkly barely casting a look at the albino girl.

Snorting Mitsu darted out towards the jingling of warning bells that the intruder activated. The replica puppet of the intruder close at her heels.