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Shusou watched closely as Shisu pulled back the ribbon. He was sure the blade of the wakizashi was heading towards him. But it was no matter. The straight forward tactic hadn't worked. He needed a more underhanded technique.

As he approached his teacher, Shusou began gathering chakra in his feet. Then, with a burst, he jumped up and over his teacher. At the moment his feet touched the grassy ground, the earth clone that was hiding beneath Shisu sprang up behind her. Having already made the hand seals before burrowing out, the clone placed both its hands on the ground.

"Doton: Kenkou Tenmaku," it yelled. All at once the ground around the clone and Shisu began to rise up in four vertical slabs and two diagonal slabs. It would create a tent made of earth that would hopefully seal Shisu in.

The earth clone began to lose substance. To ensure a mildly strengthened prison cost it all of its available chakra. But it would be worth it if Shusou could stop Shisu's movements for just a bit. The boy had already begun searching through his tool holsters the moment the earth clone appeared. Taking out eight kunai with low-level explosive tags, he readied himself. If he could cave in the health tent, it might be enough to claim victory.



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The earth clone had dissolved back into it natural components before Shisu had burrowed underground and, as such, Shusou wasn't made aware of her vacancy as he threw the kunai onto the earth tent. He placed his hands together forming the tiger seal, muttering a quick 'katsu' to activate the tags. The resulting explosion was small, but it was strong enough to collapse the structure.

Shusou's smile broadened. He'd definitely done it. But he became anxious when his teacher didn't emerge from the rubble. He fought between throwing in another exploding kunai or making sure Shisu wasn't hurt.

His medical instincts prevailed. He ran toward the debris, ready to heal Shisu if she should need it. Ka, realizing his creators concern, ran toward him, in case he needed any of his medical tools, but he stopped as he approached the earth.

"She's not there," the dog creature said. His sensitive hearing wasn't picking up the sound of breathing, not even a heartbeat from that location. But he could definitely hear it somewhere. It was muffled, he couldn't pinpoint where it was, but Shisu was definitely alive and healthy.

Shusou was already searching the pile of rock when he heard Ka's remark. He knew better than to doubt Ka's bat ears. He was the one who granted him that specification. He tensed a bit, though relief flooded his veins. "Good. I didn't go overboard."

But that still left the fact that he didn't know where she was, though he was aware that she could've only gone underground. He had dropped his tanto on his way to the rubble, so he looked over at Ka, who produced another weapon, a stiletto, from the seals on his tongue. Shusou held it with his right hand in a saber grip. "Right then. Let's see where sensei pops up," he said, waiting for his teacher to make a move.

Shusou was a bit surprised. He thought she might use the same tactic he'd employed and ambush him. But this was definitely to his advantage. He needed to distract her. He looked at Ka and gave him a sly smile. "Mild," he was all he said.

The chimera complied. Ka began churning the chakra in his stomach, concentrating on the poisons that his body naturally produced. Then he quickly opened up his mouth, turning the chakra into a large gust of wind which blew the noxious smoke-like gas out.

'Fuuton: Fuujunna Kyoufuu,' Shusou thought appreciatively. 'My brother's wind-type chakra is certainly helpful. The wind won't hold her back for long, but the poison should at least make her nauseous.' Shusou began forming a new set of hand seals. Once the smoke cleared he'd attack with some earth spikes. Then he'd see where the battle took him from there.

The smoke had already begun to clear. The shadow of his teacher was beginning to become visible. Becoming impatient with his waiting he released his jutsu. Slamming his palms onto the ground he yelled, "Doton: Kyougeki Sakusen." His Pincer technique raised the earth on either side of Shisu, becoming sharp spikes that aimed at her body. He planned to stop the technique before it gave her any significant damage, but it would at least make it difficult for her to move.

Seeing victory only a few steps away, Shusou neglected to notice the bombs at his side. Even Ka's sensitive ears, still ringing from the wind of his jutsu, failed to hear the bombs touching ground.

Ka heard it first. The sound of shattering glass resonated loudly in his buzzing ears. He pushed Shusou, who had heard the glass orbs breaking a quarter of a second later, onto his back and prepared to run but not before Shusou took a breath of the gas.

The wind from the chimera's Impure Gale had made the spreading of the gas easier. By the time Ka had made it outside the dense cloud, Shusou was already reeling. He was dizzy, but he hadn't inhaled enough of the gas to lose consciousness just yet. Getting off Ka he looked up at Shisu, who was trapped in his spikes.

Feeling himself slowly losing focus, Shusou made one last ditch attempt at dealing a winning blow. Placing his left hand on his right upper arm, he dissolved the chakra wires. Then, he concentrated his chakra into the blood at the entrance of the cut. He solidified the energy, turning it into small crystals which pulled his blood out in an array of red spikes. "Obieta Yamaarashi no Jutsu," he muttered.

The spikes erupted from his wound at his teacher, chakra crystals forming at an extremely fast rate. But his fogged brain hadn't thought things through. Shisu was too far, and he was suffering the effects of her knockout gas. His loss of focus was suddenly coupled by the speedy blood-loss, causing a series of imperfections in the newly forming crystals at the wound.

They began to dissolve, and with that his blood spikes lost their form, falling in a short red rain not even halfway towards Shisu's immobilized body. 'Crap,' was all he thought, as he slipped into a deep insentience. The blood-loss wasn't bad, but it was enough.

As Shusou fell, Ka quickly made his way toward Shisu. He summoned a tagged kunai and spit it at the base of the spikes. They detonated on contact, releasing the teacher from the jutsu's grip.

"Help him," Ka cried out. The chimera was sure beyond a doubt that his creator needed immediate medical attention. He didn't realize that the blood-loss was within tolerable limits. "Please," Ka added anxiously.

Haruko Tsubame
Nameless Village | Medical Ninja | Chuunin

From her spot a few ways across from the field, Haruko watched her students carefully as they began their teacher-student spar. Not letting anything slip pass her, Haruko studied both of their movements very carefully sometimes curious as to why they chose to do that move instead of something else but praising them after for their quick thinking. Noticing the battle becoming somewhat hazardous, Haruko inched forward slightly in worry. 'You have to trust them Haru. Jumping in coud save them from injuries but it'll hurt their pride...'

Seeing that enough was enough, Haruko ignored conduct and rushed forward. By the time she had reached the group, Shusou was already on the ground and Ka was hovering over his master with concern written all over his face. Dropping into a kneeing position by Shusou's unconcious body, Haruko quickly did an assessment of the situation and took note of them in her head. 'This doesn't look too good. With all this bloodloss, things just might get into a critical state...' "Rei, I need you to transform to your original size and transport the tree of us to the hospital. Ka, I know you're worried but I'll need you to go back into the scroll, Rei won't be able to carry the four of us. Even just the three of us will be a bit much but we'll manage. Time is of the essance right now, with all the bloodloss Shusou-san has suffered, it would be best if we get him a blood transfusion just to be safe."

Doing as he was instructed, Rei rapidly transformed in a cloud of smoke back into his larger form and waited for the three of them to get on. "Shisu-sama, please hurry. Your wound also needs to be treated, that tag won't do much to help but stop the bleeding." Carefully laying Shusou on Rei's back, Haruko hopped on soon after and quickly began to heal his open wounds. As she did that, she waited for Ka and Shisu to follow her directions.

Shisu was about to decline Haruko's offer to ride on Rei's back, but thought better of it. Running to the hospital would only speed up her blood flow and increase blood loss. Hoisting herself onto Rei awkwardly, she sat down before looking over at Shusou. Watching Ka disappear into a puff of smoke and the summoning scroll close up, she reached over to where it was and picked it up gently before placing it in her lap.

"Thank you for the ride Rei-san," she said, patting the summoning softy.