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I'm creating this just to see how far i can push these three, and how well they would work together. I'd rather this fight be between S, S, & Z and three Kage-rank shinobi, since otherwise this is just going to be waaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast.

Samedi drew his 'sword' and stepped forward, cherry blossom petals instantly beginning to float around him and forming both a sort of mobile cloud and congealing into a dagger-gauntlet on his free hand. Zattenai and Shigoro both sank into the ground and came up behind Near, so that he was in the middle of a triangle. Zattenai's gloves were off, and ice was forming around him from his Hyoton chakra surging. Shigoro was orbited by a whip of floating mercury, a Tease the size of a small dog unfolding from his palm.

"You mist make the first move."

"We will not attack first."

"At least, not directly."

((Can't say that they all looked up like that.))

Samedi stood stock still as a blur appeared in front of him, then stepped aside as the electricity of the Chidori flowed through the whip of mercury that was now guarding Samedi. Shigoro gestured with it and, still thrumming with electricity, it contacted Near, channeling thousands of volts through his body.

Shigoro looked up at the ice spears and scratched his chin as they passed through him. Zattenai alternately shattered and redirected the ice spikes, so that they were coming at Near, and Samedi simply raised his 'sword' and stood still as the spikes were sliced each neatly in two by the blade that rose from his 'sword.' "Would you like us..."

"To attack you now..."

"Instead of redirecting your attacks, Near-chan?"

Samedi stepped out of the cage of icicles that had formed around him by slicing a doorway in it, Zattenai climbed out of the chunks of ice around him and Shigoro simply used his 'pleasure' to escape.

All three spoke at the same time. "With pleasure."

Shigoo simply looked up at the snow as it fell around him, the first lumps passing through his body before he was buried. Zattenai thrust his fist out and created a small shockwave with the speed that slowed the snow before he used his Hyoton to compress it into a dome of ice to protect him. Samedi began to twirl his 'sword' in a tight circle, creating a whirring shape over his head as the frozen water came towards him.

The snow fell aside as Samedi stepped out, a rapidly-rotating disc of petals above his head. "Now we will attack in earnest."

An orb of mercury surrounded the paper bombs and solidified, deadening the blast so that it only melted a small circle of snow. Shigoro stepped out from the snow and crossed his arms over his chest, palms up, as a dozen Tease each the size of a large cat sprouted on his arms and shoulders. "Prepare for death, Near-chan."

The snow lifted itself off the ground and flowed towards Zattenai, concentrating itself into a single orb of ice a foot across and dark as tar, supercompressed to the point that the air around it hummed with the pressure. "Enough ice, kid. I can control it, and they can just bat it aside or ignore it entirely."

The clones on each side of Near were simultaneously sliced in two by two waves of petals from Samedi as both Shigoro and Zattenai hurled their respective projectiles towards Near, the ice shattering into a cloud of fragmented razor shards and the Tease opening their ravening mouths wide as they prepared to devour him. As this happened Samedi was suddenly everywhere at once, slashing and sending individual petals towards Near, each one with the cutting power of a battleaxe. "You will not dodge this, Near."

((NOTE: The ice shards are coming from below Near and slightly to his left. The Tease are approaching from the exact opposite side. The petals are slowly forming a dome all around Near.))

((I assume the ice shuriken are genjutsu as well? If not this post is going to look pretty stupid.))

Shigoro closed his eyes and smiled, pointing at a point off to is left. The Tease that Near had dodged changed course and hurtled towards the location that Shigoro had pointed at.

Zattenai tried to control the ice shuriken, but got nowhere. "They're genjutsu, Samedi!"

Samedi snarled and slammed the 'sheath' of his 'sword' onto the ground. "KAI!"

There was a burst of chakra that blew away all the genutsu within earshot, the ice shuriken vanishing and Near appearing exactly where Shigoro had directed his Tease. "We can detect your demon chakra, Lord Yukikage."

He sank below the ground and appeared from a doorway in the air directly behind Near, all the Tease that were headed towards them stopping immediately. Shigoro held his hand up in front of Near's face, displaying a Tease that was almost dancing with fury and eagerness, its psychotic teeth gnashing and chomping at the air. "And we can always evade your simple attacks. think of a bigger force, please."

Samedi raised his 'sword' and spun it in a circle. "Tansenzakura: Senbon Kageyoshi"

A wave of blossoms rose up behind him and concentrated into a ring of perhaps fifty or sixty swords, each one screeching with the compressed chakra that it was made of.

Zattenai turned to face Near and extended his hands so that his body was in the shape of a cross. Ice swords formed on his arms, the ice stopping just short of his elbows and the swords each extending some ten feet from the tips of his fingers. All three of them ocne again spoke in unison. "Surrender or die, Lord Yukikage."

Samedi, Shigoro, and Zattenai all calmly looked around. When they spoke their voices held perfect unison, creating a disturbing effect with the differing pitches. "Yes, let's. And the rules can change at any time."

Samedi banged his 'sheath' on the ground, causing on effect. He began stalking in a circle, speaking in a ligh, clear voice. "First rule: Our techniques work at the pleasure of the one who is 'it.'"

Zattenai tried to summon Antares but nothing happened. He tried forcing his way into the ground, but again nothing. "Second rule: the one who first declares the end of the game while he is 'it' will win the game. Third rule: The winner gains nothing except the ability to start the game again if he wishes."

((You're really going to hate me for this, but I'm taking their power lists from the way they were set when I started this battle, and that means that Shigoro's 'pleasure' can 'choose' anything, including illusions, to touch or not touch.))

Shigoro smirked. "Fourth rule...""

He stepped sideways and through the illusion, leaving the Gobi's technique entirely and holding a kunai to Near's throat. He smirked as a Tease blossomed from the tip. "...I am 'it.' Kill, Tease."

((He can choose what does and does not touch him. He just made it so that the genjutsu didn't touch him. And the Tease are... best to just think of them as meat-eating butterflies with the teeth of a Doberman.))

Shigoro smirked. "Yes, we shall. But first... I am 'it.' I declare that Samedi Sibadaki is 'it.'"

Within the illusion Samedi and Zattenai heard Shigoro's voice. Samedi heard where it was coming from but couldn't reach it. He settled for slicing the demon dog in two. "I am Samedi Sibadaki, among the humans of this mortal plane none can match me for skill with illusory arts. This is my world as much as yours, Demon. Sixth rule: Humans are the only beings allowed within the boundaries of the game field. Seventh rule: the game field covers the ground and air within one mile of whoever is 'it.'"

There was a look of terminal surprise on the two halves of the Gobi as it was suddenly shoved away from Samedi by its own illusion. Zattenai smirked and readied himself for the next attack.