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Shisu listened while everyone assumed their positions. Glancing to her right, she saw Aamaranth-san's clone grip her scythe and charge into the clearing. Instantly, Shisu's clone jumped up, pulling a ribbon coming out of her boot. Running out of the woods silently, she pulled the ribbon all the way out. At the end of the two ribbons were wakizashi. These wakizashi had an 'm' shaped end, making it very easy to latch onto things. Tying the ribbons to her wrists, she broke through the edge of the trees. Holding the ribbons about two foot from the wakizashi's hilt, she swung them in circles nect to her, building the momentum up to launch them.

Shisu's clone watched everything going on with her Idou Sougan no Jutsu and noticed red orbs floating above the enemy's hand. 'What in the world are those things?' she wondered. Flipping between her normal vision and temperature distinguishing vision she determined that they could only be metal spheres. 'Why would he have metal spheres?' she questioned herself, a small line of confusion forming between her eyebrows. Shisu circled the wakizashi once more in her right hand before letting the ribbon slack, letting her catch the hilt of the wakizashi in midair. Keeping the momentum up in her left hand, she continued her charge, speeding up now.

Akuma sent his clones in multiple directions. As the clones followed the other clones, they each performed a series of hand signs and their kunai appeared. Each fired a pair of kunai at the surrounding trees and what was unseen was that the kunai had a trigger chare that would explode if the line was tripped. Akuma waited patiently for his clones to relay information to him.

Shisu's clone watched as the enemy ninja dodged Amaranth-san's attack with a simple back flip. While he was in midair Shisu's clone sent the wakizashi she had been holding in her right hand soaring towards the intruder with all of her strength. Gripping the very base of the ribbon attaching her wrist to her wakizashi she prepared to pull back at the slightest signal. At the same time, she caught the hilt of her second wakizashi in her left hand ready to launch that one or deflect any incoming projectiles Haruko-san had previously warned them about. If her wakizashi hit the enemy ninja there was no doubt it would impale him as long as he wasn't wearing any armor.

In the mist of his back-flip he could feel the pushing off a magentic object against his magentic field. As it pushed closer and closer Jishaku quickly spun his body side-ways as he noticed the other girlw as coming at him with a slash and a small orb in her hand. Jishaku used his magentic abilities to move the wakizashi into the small orb that was coming at him, making it look like Shisu's aim was completely off when it was actually dead on. As the slash neared his landing Zone, Jishaku used the magentic field around him to suddenly hold him still in the air until she finished her slash then slowly floated back to the ground 12 feet away from them. He was not even trying, he had guess they where only clones mainly because the one known as baltic sent out five clones. Jishaku's thought was if he did it, how does he know if these are real or clones? Jishaku then stood calm and watched them.

Shisu wore a mask of shock when her wakizashi missed Jishaku. And not by any small distance either. She couldn't believe it. She had always had exceptional aim. Then she realized her wakizashi was heading straight for Amaranth-san's energy orb. 'Chikushou,' Shisu exclaimed in her head. Quickly jerking the ribbon she tried to pull the wakizashi away from the ninjutsu, but it wouldn't budge. It just continued it's path towards the orb. Shisu grimaced as the wakizashi hit she orb. Jerking back on the wakizashi's ribbon once more she found that she had control of it again.

The wakizashi flew back to her quickly and Shisu's clone reached out, plucking it out of the air by it's hilt. Looking down at it she was horrified to find the steel rusted and the fabric wrapped around the hilt frayed and worn down. Focusing her chakra she sent it over the blade, using it to slice off the layers of rust. Sighing in defeat, she shoved the now deformed blade into her boot. 'Now, how the heck did he move my blade? He didn't touch it or anything. And how did he hover in the air,' she asked herself, chewing on her lip.

'I wonder...,' she began in her thoughts, 'Let's try a little experiment...'

Pulling out three of her specialty shuriken from her sleeve, Shisu's clone launched them directly at the enemy who was now standing across the field. Shisu's shuriken had pockets of chakra inside each blade that allowed her to control them from almost any distance. As Shisu's shuriken drew closer to the intruder she focused on them to see what happened. If the direction of them was changed she would notice and in the case they were redirected to an undesirable location she should be able to regain control and redirect them again. At least, that's what she hoped for.

Jishaku was bored...but impressed the low levels where showing talent but to much talent. Jishaku was not the only one making mental notes in this battle field, it was obvious. Jishaku glanced up at the crowd of people on a building, deciding to leave it alone. Jishaku then felt a pulling against his magnetic field...shuriken! But he could feel something else about them..something that was holding them. Jishaku let out a sigh, "I have to make them think I am telekentic.." he thought. As the shuriken neared Jishaku whispered to his shield, "Get ready..." As the shuriken neared Jishaku pretended to move them as he pretended to fail and they flew by him slicing gashes into his arms and legs, silver blood ran from their position.

Right after being slashed Jishaku watched as Amaranth seemed to freeze time and move around him. "A time manipulator?" he though as he looked at the frozen trees, grass, and clouds. The dirt in his faced failed earlier as he easily dodged it. He let her hit him in the back as he fell forward and slammed into the ground. When Jishaku stood up he turned to face Amaranth and Shisu. Two chains on Jishaku's back fell and hit the ground. He held out his hands as the chains floated into them. As Jishaku preformed a spin he slammed both chains into the ground as they expanded a few feet before impact causing a wave of wind and earth flying at the two, he was tired of fighting what he assumed clones.

Shisu watched as her shuriken cut the enemy leaving gashed oozing silver blood. Shisu assumed she should have felt a little proud to get the first successful hit in, but she didn't have time to feel any emotions at the moment except frustration. She thought she had it figured out, but his suposed failed attempt to control the shuriken had thrown her off. In the middle of her thought all of a sudden everything, including herself stopped moving. Not even the wind seemed to stir.

As suddenly as she had become immobile she was mobile again. The only change she could see was that Amaranth-san was suddenly 10 feet away from where she was and she was now located directly behind the intruder, parallel to the ground, flying directly into the enemy's back, knocking him to the ground. Shisu watched him stand within seconds not even seeming phased.

While this had been going on Shisu had been directing her shuriken to turn around and they were now traveling back towards the intruder aimed to embed themselves in the small of his back and in the gap between his shoulder blades. Shisu watched as two of the enemy's chains dropped from his back and hit the ground before they defied gravity and each floated into one of his hands. Quickly, Shisu shoved her right hand into her boot pulling out a kunai. One of her specialty kunai. Now, with a wakizashi in her left hand and a kunai in her right she thought she was ready for whatever the intruder was going to do with those chains, but she was wrong.

She watched as he spun through the air slamming both chains into the ground sending a wave of earth and air flying towards both herself and Amaranth-san. Shisu wore an expression of frustration on her face as she realized that her clone really couldn't do anything about the oncoming wall to save herself. Glancing over at Amaranth-san's clone she was frustrated to realize she couldn't do anything to save her clone either. Looking back over at the wall she frowned and before being hit by the wall tore the bottom of one of her pockets off letting two of her special knock-out bombs spill out into her hand before lobbing them up into the air at an angle so they would come down near the intruder. The nice part about the bombs were they wouldn't break until she released her chakra cussion around them. Closing her eyes, Shisu's clone was hit by the wall and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

The real Shisu flinched by the flood of first-hand experience she recieved from her now gone clone and started arranging the new information in her head.