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Nara Dev smirked as the guy's ability to fight. "You need to train more..." Nara Dev was already one step ahead of his foe as he wasn't the fastest shinobi. Nara Dev rolled to the side as the lightning bolt flew past him and the wind of it blew his hair. "in strategy and combat." Nara Dev's shadow was already heading for his opponent and it was already in a circle around him. "You lose. There is no way out." Dev's shadow the leaped for Eluamous's. "Once when it touches your shadow, you might as well give up." Nara Dev then smirked as he knew the match was over before it started. Even if he touched the guy's long spear that made a large shadow it would get Eluamous. His spear made it even worse for him to battle against him and Dev had the perfect opponent for him.

Each clone in turn took it's fair share of projectiles and vanished in a puff of smoke. Shisui turned to the young puppeteer a sad smile on her face,"The battle is over now," she nodded as if she could already see the future of the next few minutes. Wings of blackest onyx cracked and rippled with red lightning as they began to lift the young swordman into the air. His tattoo had continued to strech until it covered his whole right arm in a strange 3-d lattice of interlocking dark designs forming a full length gauntlet that streched all the way to his shoulder. It didn't stop there though spreading across his back until dark wings burst from his back his eyes going dull the bright alive glow from before being replaced by something else, what it was, was unclear, but it did not bode well for the young mooon gennin. "Chire, Senbonzakura." The blade still in his left hand shattered into hundreds of brightly glowing petals of sakura blossoms. The tiny blades swarmed surrounding the area of smoke where Yuan was hiding. Now the only way out was through Koujin and with his feirsome transformation it didn't seem like that was a very viable route either. Koujin's feet seemed to float over the ground as he charged forward a blaze in his eyes. He was moving straight into the cloud, and as he entered it the smoke didn't seem to want to come near him an area of clear space around him. There was only but so much room for Yuan to hide and soon he'd have none left as the blades of the his sword began to encroach further where there would be no room for escape without grieveous injury.

He could feel yuan advancing through the smoke, his clan skill letting him sense his opponents movements across the ground. As Yuan moved into slash him, Koujin swept around in a circle looking to strike Yuan with the black pulsing wings that sprouted from his back. It seemed that Koujin would take some damage with this tact, but it would also hit Yuan and throw him off ballance as some of the tiny blades floated back to the blade and Koujin completed his turn with a small dagger sprouting from the hilt of his Sebonzakura.

As Koujin swung his wings around jabbed at Yuan with his reformed dagger, Yuan continued to charge forward. Koujin's wing connected and should have been knocking Yuan off course, but instead, it passed right through Yuan. Yuan seemed to glow slightly as the wing passed through him, and then he continued on, passing through Koujin's dagger, and Koujin himself, a smirk on his face. As Yuan passed through, the blade of his sword began to grow longer and looser. Yuan passed through Koujin completely, appearing behind his back, free from his attack and the circling blades. As Yuan fell back to the ground, he spun around, whipping his long, flexible, superheated blade at Koujin's back. To seal the deal and complete his attack, as his whip-like blade passed through what should have been Koujin, Yuan clicked his teeth together. The cloud of smoke, which was actually a cloud of hot ash suddenly exploded with a massive bang. Yuan hit the ground running. He used a Body Flicker to take him back away from the explosion. Yuan was quickly moving for the docks, but he was constantly looking and listening behind him with his advanced senses. He didn't think that there was any way the swordsman could have escaped that combo without receiving some form of serious injury, but Yuan wasn't taking any chances. This man had more chakra than Yuan, which meant that Yuan needed to cut this short. Plus, he had plans that he needed to follow through on. He couldn't be held up in a single battle for this long. Not when it was of no importance.

As Koujin swung the small dagger around the boy still passing through his body he smiled "kōka hirameke!" The small blade and all the other fragments turned golden as they themselves beames blades of light. The petals of light blades shifted trying to box Yuan in to the orb, but his incorpereal form allowed him to escape the orb of blades. Launching his own sword into the swirling fog of ash and smoke the blade struck something inside of the fog, but what it hit was unclear. Then Yuan lit the fuse of his long prepared technique, but with the blades of his sword now in a full sphere not only would he be putting Koujin in dire straights, but Yuan would also risk anihilation from the blades that would become a powerful shrapnel that would rip and tear through his body the force of the explosion shooting them out at all angles leaving nowhere for the boy to hide from the deadly fragments they would speed towards his fleeing back to strike him. It seemed that he might have made his bomb a bit too well. If he wasn't dead yet from the shrapnel, by the time he made it too the gate he would find Koujin walking out into his path looking singed, but for the most part unharmed by the blast, how he survived the blast was unclear, but it seemed that he had no intention of letting the boy escape. "Did you really think you could kill me like that?

Yuan was hit by the first wave of blades. The petal blades cut through Yuan's right arm and both legs, they cut through his chest and cut the side of his neck. Yuan's mouth opened and blood spilled out. Yuan slowly fell forward. As he did, his blindfold fell, having been cut by the raining blades. Yuan's Purple/white eyes shone and glowed. Suddenly, Yuan caught himself on the ground. He propelled himself forward off of all fours. His eyes were glowing and shining, and indeed his whole body started glowing. Yuan leapt into the air, jumping straight for Koujin in a last attempt to either escape or kill his opponent.