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"The weapons of my warfare are infinate..."

XXX Strider walked silently into the bare arena. He saw the many upturned slabs and the high walls and cursed to himself. ‘Hmm, not much to work with on the floor, looks like I’m on my own…’ He thought as he scanned the arena while he walked silently into it. He took no notice of the crowed, yet, because he wanted a full view of what space he had to work with. The two hundred feet was more then enough space for Strider to work with. In Strider’s mind as he walked, the entire place was almost silent. He paid no attention to the noise as he trudged bravely on into what may be his death, yet he wasn’t scared. He was willing to die fighting for ‘fun’; Strider’s all out gambling skills always seem to work well when he was in a ‘scrap for cash’, and today was no exception. Strider dodged in and out of the upturned slabs as he made his way to the center of the circular arena.

XXX Upon reaching the center of the arena Strider stopped. It was then, and only then, that he finally heard the crowd. His eyes scaled the hundred foot fall all the way up to the crowd. ‘Wow full house; to think this was only a "ante up" match…’ Strider thought as he turned in a complete circle to see the entire crowd that gathered. It was as if every seat up there was filled. Strider, not really one to be a crowd pleaser, lifted his left hand and gave the crowd a thumbs up. He listened as the volume of the crowd increased for only that short moment. He let his left hand drop to the hilt that was at his back. His fingers wrapped completely around the small hilt as he pulled the basic sword from it’s sheath. The two foot long and six inch wide blade shone in the sunlight as he pulled the sword from out of the sheath, behind his back. He slowly brought the sword down till it was even with his elbow line, grabbed it with his right hand, held it in a ‘starting’ position, then stopped.

XXX ‘Hell, if I’m going to wait, might as well wait in style…’ He thought as he made some fancy finger work with his sword. His fingers flickered in a sudden blur as he sword, somehow in the crowds eyes, ended up in a downward position. He lifted the sword up a few inches then pushed down hard. His sword made contact with the dirt and slid easily into the earth. It went down to about the six inch mark before stopping. ‘Good enough…’ He thought as he heard the crowd’s screaming die to an almost complete zero as they wondered what he do next. He shot a short glance up and grinned as he released the sword’s hilt. He jumped into the air, summer salted, and landed lightly upon the hilt of the sword in a crouched position. His feet where almost on top of each other, buy Strider was use to it. His weapon training may have been grueling and tough., but his foot placement training was a breeze. Strider remained crouched on his sword as he waited for his opponent. “Let’s do this…” He said aloud, obviously loud enough for the crowd to here because they roared their approval. ‘D**** walls…’ Strider thought as he realized that the walls would make his voice echo beyond belief, no matter how low it was. ‘Hell, let’s just make this quick…’ Strider thought as he closed his eyes and waited to hear his opponents foot steps.

"Will you be able to stop them all?"

[Chakra (25/25)]
[Kunai (10/10)]
[Basic Sword (2/2)]

"The weapons of my warfare are infinate..."

XXX Strider’s eyes stayed CLOSED as the man approached. He didn’t really care about what was being said, because by the man’s slurred tone, he was obviously drunk. ‘Wow, what an idiot…‘ Strider thought as he listened to the sounds that the man made, completely tuning out his voice. The crowd was at and all time low as the fight was about to begin. Strider heard a low ‘thunk’, but still left his eyes closed. The man was talking all the while, but Strider paid no attention to what he was saying. He was waiting on something to happen. He heard minimal movement, but not enough to make his move.

XXX When Strider heard something hit the ground, he knew something was up. Then it started, some sort of bomb went off and his opponent rushed him. Strider stayed calm and still with his eyes closed waited for the precise moment to attack. He heard the heavy footsteps stop and heard the man’s jump. It was then that Strider made his move. As soon as the man jumped he opened his eyes. He summer salted forward, yet low, leaving his opponent flying down to the hilt of his sword. ‘Don’t f*** it up…’ Strider thought as he landed low and pulled three kunai out of his ninja tool bag. He pivoted off of his back foot and let the three kunai fly towards the man’s OPEN back. He shot the kunai just below the man’s spine, which would be a direct hit to the spine, seeing that the man was free falling. Finishing his pivot, Strider bounced backward and stood up. He backed up a few steps in order to leave a ten foot gap between the two of them.

XXX ‘Let’s hope he does better next time.’ He thought as he locked his hands together, ready to perform a jutsu, He left his hands in the Kai hand sign as the wind next to his left side began to swirl. Suddenly, feet could be seen out of the bottom of the mini tornado. This continued till a full wind clone of Strider stood next to him. ‘Kaze Bunshin…’ Strider thought as he waited to see what would happen. ‘There’s only two of me, but seeing that this man is in a drunken state, he’ll be seeing four.’ Strider’s lips began to form an evil smirk as he waited for his opponent to either counter, or become almost paralyzed.

"Will you be able to stop them all?"

[Chakra (23/25)]
[Kunai (7/10)]
[Basic Sword (1/2)]

((I editted my post to state that I moved under Havik's character, so not to get people confused. It's what I meant, but havik thought I went over him, which wouldn't of been possible due to his hammer. So I've editted it to make it clear. It's only two words so it shouldn't be stated that I Gmode...))

"The weapons of my warfare are infinate..."

XXX Strider watched as the dwarf managed to deflect his kunai with his shield. Strider showed no surprise though in his mind he almost didn’t comprehend it. ‘How the hell did that drunk guy manage to do that?!?!’ He thought as he grin faded. ‘Time to get serious!’ He thought as the man landed on the side of Strider’s sword. He watched as the dwarf walked forward some and turned around leaving only the sword in between Strider and Roran. ‘This man is a fool…’ Strider thought as he noticed that the sharp end of the blade was facing his opponent.

XXX It was then that his opponent noticed Strider’s wind clone. ‘Looks like he’s not so drunk after all…’ Strider thought as the man countered him with his own clone of earth. ‘Still, with what comes next, he won’t know what hit him.’ he thought as he clone threw a kunai at Roran’s clone. The kunai was misdirected and hit the an upturned brick square behind it. ‘I will win by clear deception.’ he thought as he heard the man’s insults. “No, I won’t be running. I never have in the first place. Besides, there’s no need to run from someone who’s drunk; even if your fast, you can’t match my speed with weapons.” Strider said as he pressed his hands together for another hand sign.

XXX “Let’s do this! Get serious!” Strider said as he began to quickly run through some hand signs. His clone, in response to Strider’s hand signs, threw two kunai at the man's shoulders. It was then that Strider’s trap sprung. His clone threw a third kunai which ricocheted off ofhis sword. His hilt took minimal damage as the kunai was clearly directed as his foot, due to the angle, it was flying alot faster then the other kunai, so it would hit first causing an opening for the others. “Yadama Furooseigyo!” Strider shouted as the kunai that flew past his sword began to move faster. The intese speed caused the kunai to fly at a mind racing pace, but the only problem was that Roran's sheild was in the way. Strider knew that the shield may be able to block regular kunia, but with boosted speed, it will either be too fast to block or it will sink deep into the metal. Although, if his richocheted kunai made contact, Roran's shield wouldn't be a problem. ‘This is what I love!’ Strider thought as he watched his pan unfold. ‘An amazing stratagy!’ He thought as the main kunai closed in on Roran, while his distraction was already about to make connection with the man's foot.

XXX As the kunai flew towards Roran, Strider’s clone walked and stood in front of Strider. His clone stood in front of him in order to protect him from Roran's clone who might attack given this chance. Strider knew that the clone didn't have time to protect Roran, but it did have time to attack. ‘Let’s hope my plan works…’ Strider thought from behind his clone as he withdrew his sword. ’I must win!’ he thought as he waited for his opponent to try and get out of his trap. The crowd's roar began to echo and made it hard for the two men to hear themselves, it'll be alot harder to think in these conditions...

"Will you be able to stop them all?"

[Chakra (21/25)]
[Kunai (7/10)]
[Basic Sword (1/2)]

Ehh sorry, I was tired... I read over it... I guess I didn't editted it well enough. I was supose to make it fly TOWARDS me, but I didn't have that jutsu. As for the kunai percing your shield. It depends on how much 'power' I have. Basically I wouldn't know. It's like chakra blades, but with a limit. I don't know the limit because I was never told what my limit was, but I took a guess that it would be about 20 due to the fact that I am a weapon master and therefore would learn to better sync my kunai with my wind. Anyways; I'll edit it. Due to the fact that I WAS half-asleep. I take full responsiblity for the screw up.

Scoffing as the kid said he wasn't running Bronze lightly bent his knees ready to move when the boy made his move, his clone doing the same already knowing the path it was to take. Suddenly Strider started forming hand seals as his wind clone began tossing kunai at Bronze, as soon as his enemy started there assault the clone Bronze created bolted toward the two Striders being sure to stay out of the path of the kunai. While the clone made its way toward it's targets Bronze already determined the path the kunai would take and knew which of his plans to act out.

Using the weight of his shield Bronze spun to the left keeping his shield at a angle so not to upset his balance, the spin also required Bronze to shuffle his feet around which of course aloud him to successfully dodge the kunai that was aimed there. The spin was meant to bring him out of range of the other two kunai but to Bronzes dismay Strider's jutsu didn't alow that, the burst in speed and power caused the to kunai to collide with Bronzes angled shield, due to the shield being angled as it was the kunai did not connect fully instead they glanced off the side leaving two large gashes in his shield and a trail of sparks.

With the assault successfully avoided the clone Bronze sent after the two was only a few feet from them now, as it raced toward them it drew it's hammer back and placed it's shield forward to block any shuriken or kunai attempts. While the clone covered it's last few feet Bronze stuck his hammer back into his belt and grabbing a kunai which had a explosive tag attached, however his opponent seeing this would be impossible for he used his shield to cover this action. Finally the clone would be in the position to strike at the Strider clone, how ever just as it seemed the clone would swing his hammer of death to demolish the clone it pivoted its body around the clone instead almost as if it was going for the real Stider who thought he was safe behind his clone, how ever that was not the case either. Just as the clone pivoted its body to be in between the two it exploded in a cloud of dust and dirt that would fill the eye, mouth, and nose of the two Striders. When his clone bursts into the cloud of dust the real Bronze dash forward throwing the kunai and explosive tag aiming it so it would go off just behind were the real Strider was standing. If the boy and his clone were caught in the dust cloud the chances of them seeing the explosive tag hurled toward them were slim to none, if by some amazing chance Strider did make it out of this attack Bronze would be ready.

As the Explosive tag went off Bronze reached into one of his many think leather pockets to pull out a flash bomb as he ran toward the explosion in a long slow arch that bent to the right. He was waiting to see if his opponent had been taken out, but staying sharp, he learned from all his years of hunting not to let your guard down till the animal was dead, and even in the trill of battle there are just some things you don't forget.

" Because dwarfs are ninja to."

No problem man, not that big a deal.