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"When you're all dead," Shinji focused his chakra in an instant and ran up the wall, flipped over the side and attempted a one-legged drop kick. His hood was draw back by the up-rushing wind to reveal Hyuuga eyes.

Sokitsu entered Kyuujo and sought out Sabu. It seemed as though he had just caught him leaving. Ganeni was with him.
"Yohiro-sama. I have news of Ifuuki's whereabouts." he said with a bow.
Sabu smiled. "Good work my boy. We were just on our way to Konoha. Fill me in on the way will you?"
Sokitsu nodded and they set out.

While Shinji was preoccupied, Jin moved his hands in a string of seals and bit his finger. He placed his hand down on the ground for a summoning technique. Whispering something, a large mole with sunglasses appeared lunging at the hole Shinji created.

The mole vanished after the impact and Jin rushed forward to attack the now wounded Shinji. However, Mai had other plans. Finally breaking out of the suprise of Shinji's sudden appearance, Mai dashed forward and swung Zasumaru at Jin's exposed back. It struck deep and an ugly gash developed spurting dark blood. "You b***h!" Jin spat and turned toward her.

Jin took the palm to the back and howled in pain. He spat blood on the forest floor. Turning his head at Shinji he flashed his blood stained teeth in a feral sneer and sank into the ground. "This...isn't over...Hyuuga.." His head sunk into the ground and he vanished.

Mai leaned on Zasumaru. She was a bit bruised from the battle. "Who the hell are you anyway?"

Mai turned to her teammates. "WTF was that?"

Rio's face was drenched in sweat, he was exhausted, and that was a tough thing to do to the Ohmu, their bodies just didn't quit. However, a three free for all training match with Issui and Akira always seemed to draw on and on and on. Akira was impossible to sneek up on for Rion int he open, and even int he forest, where he was the most advantaged, Akira's sixth sense and his 'Eyes that See Truth' where nearly impossible to fool. Akira had him on speed big time too, skill was arguable, but Rio probably couldn't win a purely taijutsu contest against Akira.

Issui was the sliest of the three, never where he couldn't escape from a hold or hadn't planned for something they thought up, never backed into a corner. He was the most fluid with his skills too, he had had the most years of the three to hone transition and integration of tai, gen and ninjutsus. In the middle of the fist fight he might already have you caught in his Kanryuu no Suisei, or use a bad fall to draw his sword with you noticing. Rio didn't know how, ut he always seem to find a way to be near at least a small body of water, in which neither Akira or Rio had a chance if they were to fight in the water against Issui.

Rio's ninjutsu had given him the upper hand in the scuffles he had just gotten into with Issui, his Diamond minefield had caught Issui off guard, and he thank god it hadn't been Akira, he could have walked through the entire trap without getting hit once, he would have seen them coming.

HE could tell that Issui was even more worn out that him and he decided that now was the time to strike. Moving as fast as he could he rushed Issui, pulling his over sized Kwan-do off his back, the cloth wrapping falling off it as he did. He brought the weapon down on Issui with monumental force, only to have it blocked by Issui's sword, the force of the colliding weapons sending a small gust over the nearby grass. With a quick motion Rio tipped the staff back and shoved he other end forward, which had another curved kwan-do blade on it.

Issui flicked his blade tot he ground and pushed off it, using his foot to push Rio's weapon into the ground, sticking it in the dirt. With a whirl he spun around and brought his arm to bear into Rio's back. Just as he did this Akira came from nowhere at blinding speed and hit Issui's lower back side as well. As Issui turned to face Akira, neither of them noticed that Rio had crumbled into a pile of dirt before the real Rio came from beneath the ground as he cried out, "KOSOGA!"

His body was stressed to the max, one could see the vein under his skin were flush and his muscle stressed to their limit as he instantly accelerated his body to maximum speed and strength from a stand still, giving little time to react to either of the other ninja, who had be intent on taking the other one out. At the last second Rio's fists stopped, centimeters away from Akira and Issui's heads, Rio's breath heavy from not only performing his strongest taijutsu, but from the enormous effort it took to stop the move once it started.

"Game?" Rio said between breaths.

"Game," The other two Responded before dropping their battle positions, Akira sheathing his half drawn swords and Issui letting his hands drop from a half completed seal set. They had just enough time to catch Rio as he lost his legs due to exhaustion. He had done more fighting this round of sparring, taking on Issui and Akira more than they had taken on each other.

As they helped him walk down the road he smiled and said, "Hey, that mean that you both have to pick up the tab for our next meal huh?" The other two just sighed, knowing Rio was going to eat a feast on his own after this spar....