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Yuki watched from the corner as both ninjas spun on their heels towards the impersonator, and inwardly, he chuckled as Ringo warned Daidai about the jutsu. At least they know how bad it would be if they were to get caught in my little jutsu. Too bad we're one step ahead of them.

The Real Yuki made the required handseals in a blink of an eye, and aimed toward the leader of the small pack. "Check." He simply said as he lost consciousness. He had hit his mark, he knew it for he felt himself standing, but the pain was unbearable. For some reason, as soon as he was in the Ringo's body, it felt like his head was on fire. Yuki clutched the sides of his head, and tried to stand still, but the room felt like it was spinning and he had leaned on to a nearby wall to steady himself. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes to view the battle before him, Hisaki and Daidai had disappeared, probably in another room. However, Yuki was more worried about his body at the moment, as the pain that he had just felt could have came from either two things: His body being injured, or Ringo was putting up more of a fight than he had thought.

He turned to see his body laying forgotten on the apartment floor, safe as one could be if they had just fallen. He shook his head, and dealt with the pain as he scouted the area around him. Daidai and Hisaki were still missing, along with Nashi. Yuki figured that they would have stored Nashi somewhere safe, as he was seriously injured by Hisaki's oil based jutsu from earlier, but how fast could they have healed him? A pulse of pain and nausea hit him hard, and then it was gone as soon as it came. His inner mind began to speak words of encouragement, that it was only Ringo trying to fight back and that he needed to help Hisaki. "Damn it Hisaki, where are you?" Yuki grumbled as he leaned against the wall again, feeling the pain return.

Yuki stumbled around in Ringo's body, still disorientated from the extreme swell in will power coming from the ninja. He's never had this much trouble with the Mind Body Switch Technique, in fact, this might be the one and only time he'd have to retreat before he himself gets disabled. Using the small amount of Chakra Ringo has in his body, Yuki will have to try and cancel his jutsu before they both are injured.

He made the necessary handseals, and prayed for his safe return, before shouting, "Release!" He felt the usual funny sensation one feels when gaining back their consciousness after mind controlling someone. A moment passed, then he felt the hard wooden floor under his body, and a rather aching head from when he fall backwards. Yuki tried to get up quickly, much to his body's disappointment, to ready himself for Ringo's counterattack. Surprisingly, Ringo was just standing up himself. "You're a strange one." The Yamanaka commented, with the smallest of smirks slithering across his face. Ringo snickered, "I'm fully aware of your abilities, Nashi told us of what you can do. After all, members of Team Kaju always look out for each other!" His voice grew louder as Ringo broke out into a triumphant pose. Yuki scoffed at his theatrical antics, as long as Ringo continues to be all dramatic, it gave Yuki a small break to at least breathe and calm his senses.

"You give me no choice but to fight you head to head." The boy announced to the traditionally clothed ninja he was about to face off. Ringo chuckled, "You have no more tricks up your sleeve, you're only tactic you've been using is your Family's Mind Controlling abilities. It makes one believe that's all you have." Yuki gritted his teeth, now that Ringo figured out that the Yamanaka had nothing to him besides his own Kekkai Genkai, he was at a disadvantage. Every ninja that knows about the Mind Body Switch Technique knows that the user must be exceptionally accurate, or their target must be stationary. "You shouldn't call checkmate on your opponent unless you actually mean it, because I still have plenty of fight left in me." In reality, Yuki had learned one type of damaging ninjutsu, just in case someone saw through his guise.

Way back, when Hisaki and I were still in the academy, we had a small competition, out of some silly feud one of us started. I remember a lot of people were hyped about it, and even some of the teachers were there to watch us. It wasn't anything hard really, it was three simple techniques all academy students must learn before graduating, and the bet they had made was, if Yuki won, Hisaki would share a scroll with him. It was a pretty close competition, until I proved to everyone that I was as capable as everyone else. Hisaki learned to respect the me and my nerdiness, and gave me the scroll as a reward.

The scroll I was given was quite decorative. Emerald borders with beautiful calligraphy, with a rookie ninjutsu hidden within. It was a wind style ninjutsu, used to damage opponents with a slice of wind boosted with chakra. Hisaki and I practiced our new jutsu for what seemed like a week straight, just to master them. They were above our level, but we were determined. Hisaki nearly burned me a few times, and almost set the training ground on fire too, but he eventually gained control over his technique. Likewise, I almost sliced a few limbs off of Hisaki, and even tore branches off of a few trees, but it was worth it, for moments just like this.

"Wind Sickle Jutsu!" Yuki announced as he made the handseals in a flash. A burst of wind swept through the apartment as a huge crescent of wind was issued towards Ringo as he seemed to stand paralyzed. At the last second, he lunged out of the way. "Only a fool would not have had a back-up plan for a jutsu that well known." Yuki sneered as he made the handseals again and took a step towards Ringo, launching another blast of wind at the thief. "You're psychotic! If you keep doing this, you'll make the place collapse!" Ringo whined as he dodged the sickle again.

Yuki took a second to glance at his surroundings, he was right, both blasts had caused craters in the walls of the apartment, with a slice of the actual attack passing right through the wall. "Well, if you hold still, it won't collapse. I think that is a reasonable compromise." Yuki calmly said as he launched another attack as he heard Ringo whine something, he was panting like a heavy coated dog that just sprinted across a field. "Wind Sickle Jutsu!" Yuki cried as he aimed to injure the man so he would not escape this time. Just as the Yamanaka predicted, he had caught the theif's leg, cutting a good chunk of skin clean off his leg. He howled in pain as he landed on the floor, bleeding. "That's good enough." Yuki thought out loud as he took a look around the current room. I have no idea where Hisaki went, but I do need to take care of Ringo's wound before he passes out from loss of blood. There was a flop nearby that sounded like a sack of potatoes dropped. Too late. He shook his head as he ripped a piece of his shirt off to cover the wound and began to put pressure on it.

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By the time Yuki was confident that Ringo was not going to die from external bleeding, he had several large chunks missing from his wardrobe, to staunch the wound. He now took a minute to decide what his options were at the moment, which he only really had two. Stay here with Ringo until Hisaki got back, or to find out where Hisaki went, with Ringo. Since Yuki's father was a medical nin, he knew how important it was to get people the medical attention they need, he could not leave Ringo behind. "What a pain." He murmured.

Yuki had bent down low, and tried to pick Ringo's body up to carry him on his back. If Hisaki was in trouble, Yuki had to help. The classic ninja was quite heavy, the Yamanaka's strength was not his forte. I have to focus a lot of chakra if I want to get on the rooftop from the window. Carrying somebody while performing wall walking jutsu ought to be a bit more difficult. After his quick disappointing thought, he climbed through the window, with his extra baggage. He gingerly put a foot down on the side of the building, and focused as usual, then he fully stood up on the side of the building, concentrating very hard so that neither of them would fall. At this height, we can severely inure ourselves.

Yuki slowly walked up the side of the building to the top, stopping every few seconds to make sure he had a good hold on Ringo before continuing. By the time he had reached the roof, he saw Hisaki and Daidai in combat on a nearby rooftop. It seemed the Hyuuga had pulled off a gentle fist technique, but it had no effect on the thug. Yuki sighed, These ninjas have very minimal amounts of chakra, attacking it would have been of no use. That's why I can't use any jutsu when I took control of them, except to cancel the mind control. I cannot really help Hisaki too much right now, I'd get in the way, especially with the amount of chakra I have left. Pulling off several Mind Body Switch Techniques and then firing off Wind Scythe Jutsu really does get tiring. Yuki gently set Ringo down as he continued on with his thoughts, If Daidai saw him hurt, he may forfeit the fight, or he might get so fired up that he will want to fight more. Oh well, I'm quite interested to find out what his next move is.

Yuki gasped loudly, he never would have predicted this outcome. He even grew outraged at how they had reversed the tables. I'm the only one who plays puppeteer around here! I will not allow us to fall into checkmate! He seemed to fly off toward the other apartment, almost dragging their leader's body back towards them. He used his focused blasts of chakra to jump from rooftop to rooftop until he was on the same one as the battered Hisaki. "Don't move!" Yuki shouted.

Yuki then pulled out a kunai from his pouch and readjusted Ringo's body so it was sitting on the ground with Yuki down on one knee, holding the sharp ninja tool to the pack leader's neck. "Both of you better stop right now, or I will not hesitate to slice open his neck. I know exactly how to kill a man, my father is a medical ninja and has taught me very well in human anatomy. So leave my friend alone, leave the Ramen, and I will ensure that no one else gets hurt." He did not speak, or shout, but it was more of a threatening bark. He knew he had to make it look real as possible if he was going to pull this bluff off.

"But you is uhh..." Daidai started, obviously not knowing the right words to say, "...that thing where you dont means what you say!" Yuki's heart sank slightly, he knew they were going to call his bluff, but he was hoping that it would have worked first try. He kept his cool facade as Nashi nodded too, agreeing with his partner, "You're only a teenager, you can't kill someone! You're obviously playing with us!"

The Yamanka smiled, "True, I'm only a teenager, but I am also a shinobi of the leaf. So is the boy you have tied up over there, however, we are much more than that. He's my friend, and a friend to me is more important than this village or your lives." He paused as he brought Ringo's head down, so his chin pointed to his chest, "As I said before, I know the human anatomy well. The best way to slit a throat is by bringing the victim's head down like this, so all the fragile Great Vessels are brought together. Therefore, giving you a more accurate kill and they have a very limited chance in survival. By doing this, you not only tear apart the Jugular vein, but also the Carotid." Yuki pushed the kunai slightly into his skin, making a small imprint. "If I were to somehow miss the Great Vessels, or I may be merciful, I could also cause major damage to the Larynx, Trachea, or if I go from behind, the Spinal Column." He pointed to each of the places as he called them out. "So it's now you're decision, will you forfeit, or will I have to actually prove how well I know my anatomy?" Yuki called out. Without chakra, the most I can get away with is calling this bluff. If I really am in danger I will have to use the rest of my chakra and risk passing out. He glared at Nashi, keeping his poker face on.

Yuki let his eyes glance quickly at Hisaki, who had freed himself of the wires just enough to escape. Quickly bringing his attention back to the two thugs, who were both staring dumbfounded at the blond shinobi. "Fine, if you two will not decide, I'll decide for you!" Yuki threw his kunai at Daidai, thinking he would react slower, and then released their boss to perform a few handseals, "Wind Scythe!" He shouted, aiming the destructive jutsu at the already wounded Nashi

Both ninjas seemed to squawk in suprise, Daidai threw himself out of the way of the Kunai while Nashi jumped backwards out of the way, letting the crescent shaped wind attack cut the remaining wires. While those two were distracted, he ran towards his goal, the Ramen container that Daidai had tried to run away with until said ninja quickly sprinted in front of Yuki, blocking his path. "You think you so smart?" He shouted as he got in a defensive stance to block Yuki's supposed tackle. Thinking fast, he performed the familiar handseals for his clan jutsu and shouted "Mind controller thingy!" to surprise the not so quick-witted Daidai. He cried out as he dove to the side to avoid the justu that Yuki had no intention of using.

"No!" Nashi yelped as the Yamanka now had the shipment of Ramen and began to sprint away. Hisaki, Yuki knew, could hopefully find this diversion to be more than enough time to free himself or to help him run away with the Ramen. "Catch me if you can!" Yuki shouted, egging the two henchmen on.

Yuki did an awful lot in just a few seconds: He managed to cut the remaining wires that held Hisaki in place, grab a ramen container, fake-out Daidai, and run away. This made a perfect opening for Hisaki's getaway. Hisaki jumped out of the wirey weaves that held him down, and landed gracefully just outside of the wire piles.

Daidai was hastily chasing after Yuki in the distance, and Nashi had stopped to retrieve Ringo at the top of the nearby rooftop Yuki had been perched on. Gotta take care of Nashi first, then help with Daidai. Hisaki grabbed Yuki's kunai that he'd thrown at Daidai, and flung it at the climbing Nashi. With a gross splooshing sound, it struck his back. He held himself up on the wall for a moment, then fell. He spun as he fell, and landed on the ground face down with a loud thud.

"Well, that was easy." Hisaki said, as he mentally mapped out the remaining ramen packages. There's one in the apartment, and two nearby the apartment. I'd assume Yuki would grab the one in the apartment, then I'd grab the other two... But Ineed to take out Daidai first. He'll screw everything up if I don't.

((woops, forgot about that rule sweatdrop . Didn't really matter much though. We gotta wait another week anyways

edit: oh, and way to flaunt ur fancy-pants 44 in my face xd ))

ssA: Heh ^^;; Ooops~ But yea, it's just a notice for future checks =0