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David was indeed surprised when sand started flying onto Jishaku. At first he wondered if the ANBU had gotten bored and started an attack, but soon the jutsu became recognizable. A sand claw. Was he trying to enhance his grip? Or just block the damage? Admittedly, the claw would easily withstand the potential damage from his staff. Keeping hold of it however, was impossible.

David's stance remained steady as Jishaku, despite pulling on the staff, still slid right off due to the instability David had created on it's surface. He could have turned his hand into a vacuum powered octopus limb and still slid off. That alone would throw off the man's balance, lending to David's followup, but it was not to be as the man suddenly lunged forward, rolling under Yamatano and onto... David's territory. Better known as the sandy ground of Sunagakure. Wondering just what made him run, David glanced down. Kensei... And fire. Looking forward again, David started walking. His arm shot out towards Yamatano, either to push him away or pull him close, depending on how he reacted himself. Either way, a moment later as the flame blasted upwards, so too did sand, wrapping around the young kage and holding off the flames. Tiny droplets of molten glass falling from the barrier the only indication that the fire actually did a thing. Convenient bijuu indeed.

"Well well. That is a surprise." David spoke, still walking through the fire. Soon enough he was out of it, barrier dispersed, standing on the edge of the building where Jishaku had started, looking down at the man, and the sand constructs around him. Sand sharks. One of the more elegant tricks sand users employed. Useless against David of course, but a fair try, and as he'd heard, a fun trick to use at times. "You really are unpredictable. A fool, obviously, but an unpredictable one." David shrugged as he spoke, a sly, cruel grin sliding onto his features once again, and he jumped down to the ground. A show more obvious than any other. With sand users, you stayed away from the sand, because their attacks could come from anywhere. Walking into the lion's mouth, was a show that he didn't care in the least about this new trick the man had been hiding. It didn't make him stronger, it didn't make him more dangerous. In fact, it made him less dangerous.

"Did you forget who you're fighting? The one thing you got right, and you seem to have forgotten it." The boy tapped the skin under his eyes, bringing attention to the deep rings, the signs of a person who never slept. They were lighter than they once were, since his coma, but still darker than anyone else could manage, since it had been months now since he woke. The evidence of a host of the Ichibi. The most powerful sand user in existence. And this man wanted to fight him with sand? "Send them. Let's see how that works out for you."

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[Chakra: 80/90]
[Sand: 24]
[Mission Points: 58]
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Chuunin|||Uchiha|||Katon|||Raiton|||Bird Summoner|||

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Kensei sighed in frustration after seeing Jishaku use sand to escape an attack from the three shinobi. He was going to jump out of the building And continue to assist with the fight. Well he was until he saw when Jishaku and David land. "Great more sand." Kensei felt  useless now and would only get in the way or killed if he tried to help. Instead he took this chance to finally follow orders given from the raikage. He rubbed some of the blood from a cut on his arm that he recieved from landing roughly on the sand. Once he began spreading the blood on his left hand he started to do a series of hand seals before slamming his left hand on his right arm. This caused a puff of smoke to appear which went away after a couple of seconds. On his arm appeared a parrot with tape wrapped around its beak for a reason only Kensei knew why. The parrot looked angry as it tried to yell at his summoner only to have everything muffled. Kensei flicked the parrot on the forehead to shut it up and cleared his throat. "Shut up and listen. I need you to fly to the raikage and tell her we found Jishaku and we're currently fighting  him. Oh and the guy in charge of the village won't let us leave until Jishaku is defeated." kesei finished speaking before he finally remembered something. O
"Oh yeah and Jishaku is using sand Hutus so your suspicions were correct ma'am." Kensei once again flicked the parrot on the forehead to make it fly off towards Kumogakure.

"Alright that's out of the way." Kensei climbed out of the hole in the building and saw Yamatano and Sora heading in the same direction. He already knew there was no point in sticking around for David's fight unless to copy jutsu or make sure the traitor was dead. Instead he deactivated his sharingan and got ready to follow behind Sora and help out around the village. "Yo David! You better win!" Kensei shouted before running off.  
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As Jishaku began to talk, David was distracted by a shout from behind him, and turned his head to see Kensei running off. Sora and Yamatano were also headed in that direction, Yamatano riding his snake. Beyond all three... Shinji? So the boy had arrived for the fight after all. But why were the others regrouping on him? Was it the Iwa headband, since Jishaku had shown up wearing one himself, and they thought the two were together? Maybe the Kumo nin would make that mistake, but Yamatano? He knew Shinji as well as David did. Probably better since they had been teamed up in the exams, and it had been Laxus' warning to Yamatano that first revealed Jishaku to David himself, so no, Yamatano wouldn't have fallen for it. Perhaps then the white haired boy was seeking an ally?

And then, even as he was going through those thoughts, something flitted across his vision. A bright colored bird. A parrot. Parrots did not naturally come to the desert, so how? ... Of course. Someone in the area was a bird summoner. It wasn't one of his people, so it had to be either Jishaku or Kensei. The genin were out simply because genin didn't have the chakra power to summon, except perhaps demon hosts, and Yamatano was already a snake summoner. Shinji could have done it, but there was no mention on his profile, and he didn't feel the other boy was likely to hide such a thing.

In any case, the bird was flying away from the fight, not towards it. And that meant it was a messenger of some sort. Holding out his left hand, David made a fist, and pointed his thumb upward, then twisted his arm, aiming it down. Instantly, an ANBU flashed across the sky to grasp the bird in his hands and bring it back down. They wouldn't kill it, but they would stop it from escaping the village. It wouldn't do to let Jishaku call for reinforcements.

Unfortunately, as David turned back to Jishaku, he realized that he had spent far too long looking elsewhere, as the sharks were already in motion. It would be close then. He wouldn't have much time to retaliate. Assuming of course that he had intended to in the first place. No, what he wanted now was a show of power. The man was greatly underestimating him, and what he contained. "Suna Shikaku." David breathed out, and felt his perception shift in an instant. He could clearly see the sharks approaching, even when they were fully under the sands. He could feel the sand that was displaced when they moved. It wasn't hard to determine really, but some might not realize just by looking, that a jutsu like that didn't move through the sand by it's own power. No, the jutsu had a shell of chakra around it, almost identical to the Sunagakure technique, which displaced the sand and pushed the sharks forward. And if you blocked that displacement? Well, then the shark was frozen in place.

Swinging the same hand as he'd already held up for the signal to the ANBU in front of him, David jerked it downward, thumb still held out in the same gesture as if it was intended for Jishaku all along. Simultaneously he let out a wave of the Ichibi's power over sand, not moving it to take control of the sand and move it about as he normally did, but spreading it widely, freezing it in place, and creating an environment several yards wide around him in which the sand sharks would be unable to move. He couldn't wrest control of them from Jishaku, as he'd have loved to do, since the man's chakra was laced through them, but he could block them, by lacing his own chakra through the very sands they attempted to pass. Two chakras could not inhabit one body, and thus, the displacing chakra could not enter the sand David controlled and push it aside. Thus, Jishaku's sharks were frozen under the earth.

And with that done, David simply smiled. Even using words to enhance this moment wouldn't make it any better, so he wouldn't bother. Jishaku should have known better than to believe any such attack would reach the boy. At least, if he knew it was coming.

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[Chakra: 79/90]
[Sand: 24]
[Mission Points: 58]
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Chuunin|||Uchiha|||Katon|||Raiton|||Bird Summoner|||

[I've been busy with work/borderlands 2 and I couldn't think of anything]

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→Kensei didn't really get that far from the battlefield but he sighed in frustration when he saw the others head back to the fight. He turned around quickly only to accidentally slip on some sand . He recovered from the slip but stumbled back into the fight. In all honestly he wanted to stay out of it now that they were on sand. He reactivated his sharingan and was waited for the right time to strike. He saw Sora preparing something, but he couldn't tell what it was.. I don't know what she's planning. Hopefully it will help. Kensei thought to himself as began to pick up speed. He would wait for the others to attack so he wouldn't mess up their plan.
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David's eyes lazily trailed after the second set of sharks as they moved away in the direction of the snake. Did he intend to kill the snake with them? David didn't know much about snakes really. The ones that lived in the desert usually kept their distance from people, and the ones that didn't had never really bothered him, and he'd equally left them alone. But, scales were a natural defense, and a giant snake had giant scales. Would even an enhanced sand shark be able to penetrate that? He rather doubted it. It was more likely the monstrosity would grind them to powder when it ran over them.

On the other hand, if they did survive, it would give the group of ninja that had apparently congregated on the snake something to do, and keep them out of his way a bit longer, so he chose to ignore it. Either way, it didn't seem likely to hurt him or anyone he actually cared about.

Turning back to Jishaku, he raised an eyebrow at what the man was saying. He was apparently still holding to the kage bit, which only meant David had to make his defeat utterly humiliating, just in case the foreign nin truly believed it. And even if they didn't, it would go into their mission reports anyways, and their kages would not be so easily convinced. Luo in particular, since he knew nothing of the raikage, would likely see through the whole thing in a second. And then... Shukaku? So the man wanted to fight the Ichibi itself? What kind of fool was he really? Unless he was hiding a level of power beyond even what destroyed the tower, he was no match for even that supposedly weakest of the bijuu.

"Of course the village is in disarray." David finally responded, a hint of anger crawling into his voice. This fact had inconvenienced him more times than he cared to count, and even more so in the last few weeks. "Ever since I can remember we have been forced to defend against demons, incompetent leaders, rogue S ranks, one of our own kages went mad and attacked us. How could the village not be in disarray when every other month some idiot decides to attack us?!" he snapped the last line, which held particular upset for him. Every time he settled down to train, he was forced to deal with some rogue factor. First came the chuunin exams. Not such a bad deal since he'd been promoted, and managed to get some training in anyways. Then Cloverfield as soon as he got home. Followed immediately by a years coma. Who knew what he could have done in that year? And then just as he began training again, Zane attacked the village, forcing him to come out again. That didn't last long and he didn't even get to fight, but it lead to his unfortunate instatement as temporary kazekage. A position he was growing to despise, as he'd been stuck in that office dealing with immigrants and diplomats ever since. And now Jishaku wanted to attack as well, adding himself to the unending chain of events that conspired against not only Sunagakure, but David's ability to train and advance himself.

"And Shukaku?" David spoke again, calmer, quieter. "He's pretty much just been laughing this entire time. It's honestly getting quite distracting, so please, stop trying to amuse him."

Finally tired of the banter, and seeing that Jishaku didn't plan to attack himself, David decided it was his turn. Yamatano, if the sand sharks were as useless against them as David expected, would likely try that leaping attack again, judging by his posture. Shinji, if he got it close, could use those devastating punches of his. He didn't know what the girl could do. But everything seemed to require Jishaku not move... Waiting for a few more seconds for the others to get close, David ran through a short series of seals, running forward to get within range of Jishaku before shouting the name of his jutsu. "Suna Ouchi!" The name would be familiar to both Jishaku, and Shinji as well, since he'd used it in their fight. A jutsu that made a pit of sand directly below the user. In most cases. With his mastery of sand, it would seem entirely possible that he could manipulate the jutsu to appear nigh on wherever he wished. And the jutsu itself, at it's base, was designed to conform to the shape the user wished as well. He could potentially create a massive area of motion inhibiting quicksand using that technique.

But that's not what he was doing. rather than a pit appearing below the two as described by his called jutsu, ropes of sand materialized directly below Jishaku, four in total, two darting towards his legs, one seeking to capture his wrists, and one for his torso. If he took the escape route David hoped for, leading with Suna Ouchi, the sand ropes would easily capture him in midair, leaving him exposed, if only momentarily, to whatever attack the others had planned.

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[Chakra: 77/90]
[Sand: 24]
[Mission Points: 58]
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