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Reina would watch the weapons fall, her eyes gliding over each one. Her armor had grown once more. Her head, legs, and chest were all covered by her chakra armor. Half way to full power was the thought of this Reina. She was rather enjoying herself while her opponent was no doubt hating this whole thing. They'd been fighting for quite a long time and the only noticeable wound she had was a small scratch under her foot. Not only that but he forgot his jutsu while she did not. And yet he was more than liking thinking she was mocking him by her not performing jutsu either. He was more than liking wishing he could tear her to shreds. She smiles as he revives and watches him with great amusement in her eyes. The weapons would begin to rain down and all Reina was doing was staring at her opponent. He was preparing to attack in the midst of the weapon rain. She finally looks up as the weapons draw near. She focuses chakra into her hand while also increasing the strength of her chakra armor. She would first back flip, kicking away a few weapons, before becoming upright again. Some weapons would graze her unprotected arms but the wounds wouldn't handicap her much. She then makes an attempt at grabbing a few weapons. She grabs two kunai and three shuriken as she receives a few more wounds from the falling weapons. She would fling one shuriken at her opponent while placing the remaining two on her middle fingers. The weapon she threw was meant to miss but she wanted to see if her opponent would flinch or not. If he continued on he would strike her and wound her hip and left arm slightly. The wounds to her arms weren't that bad but it was painful. Apparently this part of Reina didn't mind the pain. The kunai she had caught would be in either hand. Once his attack would strike she would simply slash either of his wrists with one hand then jab at his stomach with the other. She would then leap eight feet away from him.

Reina slips to the side. "Tut, tut. Scratch me a few times and I'm okay but try and kill me and you'll pay." This Reina was corny. The real Reina was far funnier.

Back in Reina's mind the real Reina was remembering her exploits over the years and just how she was able to stay out of communication with everyone. And... just how she made it so Drago couldn't find her by using the ring. It wasn't the easiest thing to do, hiding. But she was pretty good at disappearing as many could probably tell. She was a magician after all. She remembered times where she was extremely close to being caught but evaded it or smooth talked her way out of it. She never raised a hand to anyone in order to wipe their mind or to 'convince' them to forget they'd seen her. She was a people person and rarely used skills to erase peoples minds. That wasn't something the other Reina did. Anyway, she was found by Ella and Sai but wasn't exactly spotted. She'd warned them not to try and make her return. Ella was the one who kept objecting. She wanted Reina back and for the team to group up again. It wasn't the same. Ella never had to stay away from Reina. She'd disappear for a while but would always return. This time Reina was the one who disappeared and she didn't plan on coming back. Sai tried convincing Reina to return. Despite their closeness, Reina objected. She would not return. In return she struck up a deal with Ella and Sai. Reina would return if she was truly needed if they could cover her tracks. Ella thought the idea was simple enough but the ring on Reina's finger posed as a problem to her hiding as Sai had pointed out. Sai figured he'd try and alter the item. Once Reina returned it would be back to normal. But for now the link between Reina and Drago was severed. Reina wasn't about to leave her ring with her friends for two reasons. Reason One: it would be suspicious and might draw unwanted attention. Reason Two: it was hard enough not seeing Drago for so long. She wanted everything she could that connected her to him. Not only that but, should she come to face with great trouble, she would want to have something to remind her to fight until the end. She wouldn't give up. And, on the off chance she died or maybe she was wiped of her memory, she would have the rings to supply her with every memory she had lost with or without the help of an Ichazuki like Sai. The ring was the foundation for many memories or Reina's. The wedding where every last one of her friends was present. Shaneko, Tebayai, Nimen, Ella, Akou and Sai, and Anthro. Anthro meant a so much to her as Ella. He was there for her for so long. As an Aburame up until an Akasun. Her husband as she walked down the isle. His face was priceless. She wanted to laugh but she couldn't let herself slip up and cry from happiness. The time where she spent time in Hidden Federation. She traveled around with Drago and her son. It seemed like a family outing. Then there were the bad memories. Her sensing Akou's presence traveling away from Federation. Her ultimatum. Her fighting all of those people and killing the boy Joker. Her realizing it was all to buy time and Akou and Naomi were gone. She wouldn't forget. They were all important. The good, the bad... the mediocre; it was all important to her in one way or another. And now, this memory, would stick fresh in her mind. She was a bit happy that the male hadn't been killed killed. He kept sprouting back in a sense. She only wished she could condone for her subconscious acts. She contemplated long and hard. If she could get him to sleep... maybe she could make him forget. It would prove useful, anyway. He had seen her and might inform others of her wrong doing. Then again, no one else had. But did that matter? He had experienced death time and time again. It couldn't be good mentally. She would take away the memory of those deaths... if she could. But she was no Ichazuki. She wondered... could she somehow become a makeshift Ichazuki to erase his memory... or possibly alter them?

On the outside Reina would thrust the kunai towards her opponents heart. She would use her strength and speed for the strike. She wanted to get her fill before he started running around and performing his blasted jutsu. He was no pushover so it was a chore to kill him as many times as she had. Hopefully this would count in her total kills of this male.

"Don't think you're special! I know Death too," she mutters with a pout. Reina was contemplating on cheating and using a jutsu but sighs in her head. That wouldn't be much fun. Besides, she found it more enjoyable to mock him. The kunai would simply strike her in the chest and stay there a moment before she would repel him with an immense burst of chakra. She had chakra to splurge anyway. She oozed with chakra. Her opponent was rather fun but a bit dull for her. "Run, run, run. Hit, hit, hit. You sure don't have much variety," she mutters. She seemed to neglect the fact that she was the one who stole away his jutsu in the first place. "You just charge right after me. Haven't you ever tried using those big odd colored eyes of yours?" She wasn't going to admit that she didn't know his eye color. She doesn't look in peoples eyes. She had numerous experiences where she or someone else looked into someones eyes. She looked into Ella's and Akou's before but that was different. She trusted their eyes and knew exactly what they were. This guy was a sort of mystery. You don't go investigating peoples eye colors in the middle of a battle. What if they had a doujutsu like the Sharingan or something? She focuses again as she notices her opponent had caused her some damage but not so much that she up and start healing herself. She could always wait for the last minute for that. Loosing consciousness from blood loss or simply making it so her blood doesn't run out are methods she'd use. Her wound was bad but not lethal. She had a gash across her stomach. She winced and grinned now and then. She poked at the wound and suddenly her fascination died. "Ow," she murmurs looking at her opponent. "Look... guy... I've been real lenient. I haven't used many jutsu and I've been playing this gave for a while but... I have to say... I'm a little bored with you." Who needs moves like Rage Melody when you're like Reina. She knew exactly what buttons to push because she could imagine herself in his place. She could imagine fighting someone far stronger and constantly losing. She could imagine having someone mock him by numbing down for them. She could imagine how irritated and angry and annoyed he might be. She figured she'd play on it by making it seem like she was doing him a favor by not using jutsu and for letting him come back to life time and time again. That was actually more of the real Reina's doing but it came off wrong thanks to the jerk side that was in control. Reina just wanted to stray his thoughts. She wanted him to focus on her and hopefully bring her back to reality though that more than likely wouldn't happen until she got her fill of kills. She wondered how she'd convince him not to inform others of her sudden change in person. She didn't want people thinking of her as a menace and threat. She sighs in her slumber. Oh but she was so why try and hide it. How could she show her face again? She planned more and more on running away after this. It would be best. She'd really disappear this time. No circumstance would bring her back this time. She was a horrible person and deserved worse than banishment. On the outside she hoped he would get so absorbed in attacking he slip and she'd get another kill in. She claps her hands together and grins at him.

"I can afford to," she purrs. Could a normal person sneak up on an animal and them not know? Of course not. What was Reina to him actually? Was she his typical opponent? He was trying and she found herself marveling at that fact but she was trickier to sneak up on. Even if she was blinded or if she had every single sense of hers cut off she would know someone was attacking her through animal instinct in her anthro form. Her Beast Seal made her an animal. Sneaking up on her would take way more than natural speed for her opponent. He needed his jutsu to even come close to defeating her. That was why she stripped him of them. Without them he was nothing more than an easy target. She was having fun taking his strikes though she knew he was aiming for more. She would not allow him to defeat her. She was finished ducking around. It was time she started to pick up the slack. She was already in her half beast form so the full use of her seal was usable. She would sweep pass him with ease and come up behind him. "You seem perkier," she murmurs using the special ability of her seal to appear behind him and slash down at him. Question was, with what? Her nails had grown quite long and she was slowly taking the actually shape of a White Tiger. She would slash down before sweeping around to the front of him and slashing again and again. Her bottom became more and more like that of a White Tiger. Eventually she stops slashing and flings back from her opponent. She would then focus every ounce of her speed in order to flash towards him. Her movements were swift and gave off the illusion of moving in slow motion. She wound ram him so hard with her head in the chest it would literally stop his heart. Her chakra armor was covering ever part of her but her arms which had yet to be activated. She needed more kills.

All that she could think was how much he'd changed. He altered much like she did but his transformation was oddly different. It drew her nearer to drawing back into the safety of her mind but she had to get her fill of kills. This male would give her her kills. She could only wonder if the battle would become all the more intense with him in this new form. Her eyes blaze as she pats a paw to the ground. You could tell she was still Reina in the manner she carried her form and her shape. Unique, she had a lean figure and looked rather delicate compared to many beasts. But it was all inner strength. Reina began to contemplate more and more on performing a jutsu. He wanted her to do more than little magic tricks and quick movements. Her tails sways as she contemplates on her next move. Something dazzling! Something amazing! Something weird! She had to show her opponent up. He looked cooler than her. She hisses lowly as he growls and the flames increase on her form. She was torn between angry that the spotlight was on him and excited that he had taken a change she hadn't expected. Reina, in any form, was captivated by new things. It hit a nerve or something. Same old, same old was boring. New and strange was lovely. She could so easily remember when she first met Akou. He was looking at some dead animal in the forest. Weirdo. Not to Reina. She thought he was amazing. She didn't care if he was somebodies kid, which he wasn't since he was an orphan, she snagged him up and made him hers. She loved him and he loved her. Then he was stolen from her. Reina regained herself after remembering the fact that she had a reason to kill this male even though he was so very interesting. Sometimes he was bland to her but would suddenly become this strange and wondrous thing. The real Reina didn't want to kill, the darker side of Reina didn't want to destroy things that she liked, but what about her animal side? She lets out a loud roar as she glowers at her opponent. "Me attack for once? In case you hadn't noticed, I'm the one doing all the fighting. You're just dying." She smirks again. She wondered if he was the type that didn't much care for her taunts or her arrogant way of talking or her overly cocky attitude. Maybe he was more than some guy to kill. He was so... different. She had long ago realized his trick to reviving because he came back the same way time and time again and he had been using that move alone for the past few attacks. She could figure out numerous ways to combat his ability as her eyes told her how it worked but she didn't want to. She found it much more to her liking to fight him without worrying that she'd sent him to the Afterlife and have to await his return or something. She liked him. Not in a weird way but in an admirable way. All three parts of Reina liked him. But in the end they had to keep killing him. He was actually giving them much needed power. He was valuable. Perhaps the real Reina could explain her reasons to him later. For now it was her animal sides turn. She creeps towards him listening to every change in the air that she could. Her tail felt around for odd presences. Soon he would be freed of her jutsu. It wasn't very long lasting. Then she would start using jutsu rather than simple magic. She figured it would be fun to stay and fight him a while longer. She would fling herself towards him with her head aimed for his chest. At the last minute she would leap up and ram him in the head. "Head shot," she mutters.

She meant what she said about stepping up her game. Her reaction time was very good. The thing was transforming back took time for her. She could sense an attack coming but she was vulnerable in the air in her current form. So why not eliminate the transformation? Instantly her form would flicker into her human form. Without thumbs how could she block his strike? She used her own Orochi Power to eliminate her ability to transfer in any way which would revert her back must faster than transforming back. She would grip his hand in one hand and his face in another. His strike was partially successful. He grazed her as he often did and blood dripped from her wound. His whole other series of attacks would pose as null once she reverted back. A simple fix. Now it was her turn. Tearing and cutting was good but neck breaking was also good. "Counter my move will you?" She would use her strength, speed, flexibility, and her propulsion to launch an attack. She would form a sort of hand stand while still holding on. His face would aid in balancing as his head is cocked upward. She would then fall to the ground nimbly before snatching him up and into the air. She would slam him into the ground in front of her before allowing her Orochi Power to return her powers. Claws would fling into his neck as she held him in her grasp. All of this was so fast he could react though it would only slow things down. She had natural strength which was only enhanced by a few passives moves. Some she restrained but others she found hard to. Like Drago she was capable of using Speed Is Everything. The name might suggest she increases her speed but it actually increases her speed. It isn't something she uses like a skill. Her body type enables. It. her strength is equal to that of a taijutsu with plain hand to hand alone. She had always been using this throughout the fight but now she wasn't going to hold back. Her inner beast was competitive and bitter at the fact that not only could he keep reviving, could manipulate flames like her, could someone change form, but he took death so well... on the outside anyway. Her beast side was jealous. She would pound him dead using her fists. She would revert back to human form with the use of her Orochi Power and then dash back from him. "I bet you didn't expect that. You did catch me off guard. I didn't exactly know what was happening until I felt the pain and swiftly countered. Nice try," she mocks. "I hope you died again. I'm ready to get even stronger."

Seemed as though she wasn't the only one getting stronger. He might look like someone that was wondrous at flames but Reina knew her standing. His manipulation was of a lower level to her own. But his form was for more than show. He was stronger and she knew it but just not how much stronger. With an opponent like him in her midst using jutsu would be rather good but she refrained. She would simply use her form to her advantage. If she could perform jutsu then she would use the flames to conceal her and shift her position over and over to confuse him before striking but she wasn't going to do that. She would go for solely passive techniques as the time for jutsu was coming upon her. Time to play. Her head would fall forward, her form reverting to that of the White Tiger, as chakra swirls around her forming two purposes. The flames would snake around the field as it dancing around the pair. Then they would shoot toward the new form before her before stopping and concealing Reina's side of the battlefield. Reina had more control than him though he could snake his way through the flames. By then she would have a strong defense up. An immense chakra barrier created from a technique she was taught by Drago in their days of sparring. The barrier would protect against threat she can see, or in her case sense, coming. For the time being she would heal until the game truly began. Jutsus usable or if she grows bored of snoozing. Her wounds would heal as she slept and her chakra would whip around violently with the more chakra she focused.