Starring:
Sekisetsu, Rise, Meruin
Date: Unknown (log received September 13, 2010)
Summary:
No summary provided.
"Academy Style Brawl: Battle of the Strongest Students"
Hananosei Lake [Fort Kyuusen]
Hananosei Lake [Fort Kyuusen]
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Very large lake, should be a blue green color for some reason, with pink flowers all over the place. There's a fishing house somewhere too.
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The breeze which was being carried over the lake, when coupled with the heat of the unforgiving yet bright lit sun carries an odd sense of comfort. As though the two forces at their extremes had produced something that was just enough on one side to leave someone content. Meruin looked up at the position of the noon day sun before bringing them back down on the glistening waters of the lake. It was a usual haunt of his when he came to do missions here. The only one he allowed himself. Calming…
The small boy was up near the tops of the trees surrounding the lake and near to the path, hidden from view. And he was resting.
As for Seki. Well, even though they had been on a mission together, she tried her best to avoid the kid. She would look to where the air had been coming from, the breeze feeling well to her skin, but only after the sun had beat on her rather annoyingly. She tried training out for a change. It was something they had time for due to a break in the mission, and seemed oppurtune, sure, but Seki had been really only been battling that part of her that was lazy. That in itself, was hard work. Meruin would probably know that she was there, but she wouldn't probably have detected him any. After all, Seki really hadn't wanted to.
The sound of crunching would proceed Rise's arrival at Hananosei Lake after briefly assisted with a mission. Occasionally, she winces and peers at the arm still wrapped up in bandages as she goes before shrugging it off to keep a better look out at where's she going. "Aaah—-*eye narrows*…is that who I think it is?", She whispers as she puts the overcooked meat/payment for the mission back into the bag. "Maybe I should…"
Meruin takes note of the both of them and then partially ignores them, promptly fading from the important part of the scene.
Looking around, hearing the crunching, Sekisetsu would turn around, with her guard up obviously, handseals moving before she could even find out who it had been! But when the voice would come out, Sekisetsu would quirk an eyebrow. It hadn't been Meruin? Oh well. She would look to Rise, and wave her hand dismissively, before turning back around, and look to her training once more. Who cares if this had been a Kumo nin, Kiri's current enemy!! It didn't matter, and apparently nor did Rise for some reason to Seki. Had she forgotten who Rise had been? Or had this been something to say Rise hadn't been a threat?
Rise's eyes narrows to slits as an 'imaginary' angry tick mark would appear on her forehead. 'Yep. Atitude-chan alright…I wonder if…' She runs forward without a second thought, drops the bag in another, then lunges forward with a straight kick for sekisetsu backside with little warning. She didn't care if they were supposed to be enemies, and if she had to be honest, nor did she really care about being dissmissed so easily. All that Rise wanted this time… was an outside assessment of her abilities. And who would be better then her personal rival.
It turned out that Seki never really was not seeing of Rise as a threat. She really just didn't have any concern for anything except beating Meruin, or at least making it so that the kid couldn't do what he wanted to her… whatever that may be. She was trying to make sure the training she did would have an effect, focusing her chakra before a handseal, when all of a sudden, a kick, would seem to fold the girl in half, bending her abnormally, right over Rise's leg!! Had Rise broken her in half? A poof of white smoke would indicat other wise.. A clone. Seki would be seen sort of walking away, mentioning, "Damnit! I'm sooo hungry! Where is a ramen stand when you need it?", pouting and uttering a variety of curses.. Again, Rise seem to be disregarded..
Rise comes to a sliding stop that almost puts her face first in the water. "These clone technique are just—-Uuuugh!", She huffed out and raises a foot to stamp her feet…but something interfers. A fresh memory reminding her of how things were for her now. "Sekisetsu! How about this? We have ourselves a spar and If I lose I get you three bowels of ramen at the nearest stand, but if I lose…mmm…ahah! You'll have to wear something of my choosing! So what do you say?", She asks in attempt to go the more honorable route.
The blond student of the two here would then seem to stop at the saying of her name, before then looking to the girl, and the mentioning of her three 'bowels' of ramen.. She would wince, at the thought of noodle and veggie filled intesting, and gag alittle.. "First off… Ewwww!!! Secondly? I don't know who the hell you are but the fact that you know my name, is wierd… and makes you seem like a stalker or something. I don't take wagers with stalkers, so Nyah!!!", a tongue being poked out mockingly before she would stand there with her nose turned up, and her arms folded.
Rise grits her teeth and growls childishly. "First off, we met like four or five times already so you should remember me already. And second…Why the heck would I stalk someone like you because trust me with an personality like yours….", Rise began to blush and facepalmed lightly at how she started to sound. Even so, she wasn't ready to back down just yet. "You know what. I have a better idea. I'll help you jar a few memories out of your head and THEN—", Rise form goes hazy as she bursts forward even faster and launches a spinning kick with both her legs aimed at Sekisetsu head.
Poor Rise, had probably would have stopped talking due to Sekisetsu not even listening. Seki just had other things on her mind. She would look to Rise as she would seem to prattle on, and yawn, stretching out, and turning around, before then she would hear the girls threats. When someone threatens, Uncle Niyami always said to be ready. Sekisetsu had been ready, but only because with the way things were going, her new fan just wouldn't seem to let her go. When she would feel the wind blow, one seal would be held in front her, emitting a large aura of heat from her body. Both of Rises feet would hit a white hot barrier, hazy, and visible only when the Taijutsuist heels would impact, being set aflame.
Sekisetsu would then turn around, and sigh, before saying, "Okay, look.. I don't remeber you, so this fight, isn't going to really end that pretty. So.. with that being said, I got two choices for ya.", two fingers being held in front of the girl. "Either you quit this noise, and leave me alone, or…", and with that, flaming pillars would shoot from the ground around her, 4 in total, before then copies of her, would seem to climb out of each, like they had been open doorways.. Then with that, the student from Kiri, would seem to emit a heat that would envelope the entire small area around them, and continue with, "You might not leave this place in the shape you came."
Poor Rise, had probably would have stopped talking due to Sekisetsu not even listening. Seki just had other things on her mind. She would look to Rise as she would seem to prattle on, and yawn, stretching out, and turning around, before then she would hear the girls threats. When someone threatens, Uncle Niyami always said to be ready. Sekisetsu had been ready, but only because with the way things were going, her new fan just wouldn't seem to let her go. When she would feel the wind blow, one seal would be held in front her, emitting a large aura of heat from her body. Both of Rises feet would hit a white hot barrier, hazy, and visible only when the Taijutsuist heels would impact, being set aflame.
Rise smiled gently and began loosening herself up a little more with a few short stretches finished with her hopping from one foot to the other. "If persisting means that you will take up my challenge then as…as Shirokiri, Rise an aspiring martial artist I must accept it.", She stated for once without the barest hint of her usual bluntness, cockiness, or outright attitude that has shadowed her most of her life. "Besides this wouldn't be the first I left some foreign place worse for wear." She stated with a wink before rushing forward. Not even once bothering to give the clones a second thought just yet unless the speaker proved to be a fake as well. Midway she leaps and comes down heavily with a axe kick aimed for sekisetsu leg. And depending on what happened next, rise would pursue or continue with circular leg sweep followed by an uppercut to the chin.
"…. And what in the hell did that do with anything thing that I just said? It wasn't a request, you moron, it was a warning." Seki would say this with a shake of her head before she would then look to the girl, rather harshly. Rise didn't really answer anything. She just acted all cool, and then said something that was really cryptic. It made Seki think she was even more weird. Seki would face palm, and then the attacks would come. A large amount of her scroll would be loosen, the kick sounding off against an iron scroll like it had been actual metal, as the first blow was blocked. However, Rise was versatile, and in close range combat, Seki wasn't that good.. The sweep would knock her off her feet, as planned, before the uppercut would send her up and back.
Seki would roll like a ball, and flip to her feet, hand seals, as she would go on the move.. Now while Seki would have been actually strafing left, Rise would have been subject to a genjutsu.. If the genjutsu had been successful, Rise would see the blond student, growing a bone from her body, like that of the Kaguya, from her forearm, and with a whip of her hand, throwing it right at the Taijutsuist at high speeds.. Meanwhile, Rise would have more to contend with, as two hardened seals, would have been thrown at her from behind, one meant to cut her, and the other, meant to light up her life, and start things off wit a bang..
With only so little time to respond, Rise quickly answers, "Warning, request, does it really matter now that I've lit something in you", before attempting to leap to the side of the bone only to cut by it. And yet, there was no pain. Confused, but undaunted Rise proceeded to still keep up her footwork in dodging the seal on instinct while the other explodes just mere inches away from her face. Within an instance her eyes narrow to pinpricks and close in attempt to block out the sudden flash that for the time being has her immobilized. Even still, this did not stop her from forcing herself to calm down and settle into different fight stance. One hand is folded behind her while the other is presented before her with all five digits facing perpendicular to the ground and her legs close together in a rigid straight up stand. "How did you get those bones to shoot out of you like that? Some type of, kekkei genkai?", She calls out in attempt to draw her counterpart out and give her a direction to attack in. Idly her mind wonders back to the first attack…
One thing about Sekisetsu was that even though she had been not really smart.. Even though she was loud, and could be a tad bit angry when it came to allot of things, she had been a natural when it came to ninjutsu. Not so much strategy mind you, but the simple performing of such. All she could remember in her head, was Takeshi telling her about how straightforward Taijutsu seemed to be. Sure, it had points where one could throw a feint, or fake out, but it still relied on the basics.. You take the arms, your opponent can't punch or stab you. You take out the legs, your opponent can't chase or kick you. You take out the eyes, and your opponent usually can't see where you are.. The last one rang a bell this time.
Even though Rise was talking, Sekisetsu wouldn't do nothing but chuckle under her breathe. Had she actually believed in that genjutsu? It was a funny thought. Uncle Niyami had been right! She would say nothing as she would prepare for he next attack, a large focusing of chakra, even for her, being required, as Seki would then began a familiar handseal chain. One that most Uchiha practiced as a right of passage.
Rise has reconnected.
A chuckle, a scent, the build up of power, and then finally time. It was more then Rise needed to find her target despite the lack of site and rush towards her almost recklessly. Her arm was still causing her excess pain from her previous training as well as being used so strenuously yet it still wasn't enough to stop her just yet. Just like before Rise would take the gambit of going aerial like before and give her eyes the extra necessary time to adjust being reopened midway through her stomp to drop kick to send Sekisetsu down if not stagger back.
And hit or miss, she continued her assault with a leap forward and rotating her body around so that one kick would follow directly after the other albeit lower. Last but not least, she would finish a final kick to the noggin, but stops just short of hitting the girl. "Heh, had you worried for a second yeah?", She asked before retreating a few paces away just incase the girl had another trick up her sleeve. The one thought throughout the battle that kept nagging Rise was the exact "why" Sekisetsu didn't attack with the copies yet.
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As Seki would draw chakra, she would try her damndest to draw what she needed as quickly as possible. After all, the flash bang tag, only blinded for a few seconds, just enough time for a quick follow up, but not enough for a strategic chakra focusing. She would look to Rise, who had been managing to come out of the stun as soon as she thought, and widen her eyes… and then it would happen. The attack would start.. Rise would drop kick a clone right off the bat, Seki's hand sealing just ending as the girls foot would be above her head… And with much of the girls movement being invisible due to its speed, Seki would follow another of Takeshi's teachings.. When you can't see, expand. "Sometimes a targets visibility will limit your ability to pinpoint your attack. When all else fails, make an attack big enough for your aim to not matter."
Sekisetsu would follow this principle but in a different form, the word, "Summoning!", being shout, just as a hand would plunge into the ground, causing Rise to kick nothing but a heavy oak wood carved Tanuki figure, one that had been similar to those found at temples. The wood would make a nice thunk sound when struck, before disappear.. Of course Seki would seemed to not have been able to follow the last kick, which when it would come down, would be enough to widen Seki's eyes, in surprise, especially when it stopped. A feint.. That bitch! Seki would gnash her teeth as Rise would back away cockily.. She would snarl as a response to the question but then, as Rise would back away, Seki would instantly begin grinning, wider, and wider, and wider.. Had Rise forgot about the clones? Because Seki sure hadn't. Rise would feel an arm come around her neck, Seki's forming seeming to hang on her like a best bud. Rise would hear the sizzling, and see smoke coming from off the form. Soon "Kai..", would be said with a whisper, and one last seal, before the form of Seki hanging on Rise, would show its true nature… in the form of about 45 explosives tag, all entering there final stage.
"Finally my sight is bawhat the! Hey let me….Shi*BOOOOOM!!*", an explosion of light, sound, and a great cloud of debris would hit the area right where Rise was standing and apparently engulf her completely. By the time the dust cloud remained portion of the kumo nin would remain except a heavily singed muffler floating to the ground…and rise's most prized possession aside from her father's knife.
"Your a just as crazy as I am.", a voice only speaks up once just barely enough time passed for a good surprising backhand to the face. "*giggles*..And I-I think I'm starting to fall for you", she continued with a false tremble in her voice to disturb the girl even more before continuing her attack with an even greater leaf whirl wind attack meant to launch her into another clone. 'A-a-am I really s-starting too…no, no..that's even more…', Her cheeks begin to heat up and become a light pink over her strange introspection.
"Finally my sight is bawhat the! Hey let me….Shi*BOOOOOM!!*", an explosion of light, sound, and a great cloud of debris would hit the area right where Rise was standing and apparently engulf her completely. By the time the dust cloud remained portion of the kumo nin would remain except a heavilly singed muffler floating to the ground…and rise's most prized possession aside from her father's knife.
"Your a just as crazy as I am.", a voice only speaks up once just barely enough time passed for a good surprising backhand to the face. "*giggles*..And I-I think I'm starting to fall for you", she continued with a false tremble in her voice to disturb the girl even more before continuing her attack with an even greater leal whirl wind attack meant to launch her into another clone. 'A-a-am I really s-starting too…no, no..that's even more…', Her cheeks begin to heat up and become a light pink over her strange introspection. (re for log.)
As the boom went off, Sekisetsu would be trying to hold her position, the force of 45 explosive tags going of, being enough to make some air push any normal person away. Heat would surround her in a barrier thick enough to absorb the force, but still interrupt Seki's vision as to what happened to Rise. As the smoke and dust would go away, the spot where the tags went off, would be vacant, and black. Nothing was there. Had Rise been incenerated in the blast? Seki wouldn't know, and just when she would try and guess what, looking to the knife and the muffler, she would hear the voice… And with that, handseals would be made, scroll paper seeming to unloosen itself, before Rise would smack it.
"Man, I know cockroaches harder to get rid of, than you!!", would be said as then the greater Whirlwind attack would bash, right into a clone, fire bursting into nothing. Well, Rise.. their goes the other clone.. Did you want to know where more had been? Well.. try behind ya. For a clone had been on her heals, just as she would land the kick, attempting to bash into her and send her flying, only for Seki to take aim on her now airborne target, and get to shooting. "Fire Style!! Great Fireball!!", would be heard in stereo as one would sail into the heavens, trying to envelope the girl in nothing but flame.
Both of Sekisetsu's attacks were just too fast for Rise to get completely out of the way from both of them. And in the end she only manages to push herself far enough for her legs to take the brunt of most of them. In a crumpeled burning heap she hits the ground hard enough for the sound of something breaking on the inside to be heard.
'World's gettng pretty dark….I guess….I pushed a little too hard…..' She thought while doing her beast to will away the pain…but to little avail.
'….Who am I kidding…. Since…' Rise subtly shifts enough to pull out a soldier pill and press it to her lips. 'Sine when….have I given up so easily…' She continues before swallowing the pill with a low gulp.
Even after the rush of more energy, she still refuses to stand until the pain had dulled enough where will could could actually mean something more.
Looking to what she had down, Sekisetsu would whistle, rather amazed at her fire clone had healed.. and sent the girl airborne. But that wasn't the worst part.. A large wince, and then, "Whoa!!!", would be following the fireball's connect, and with that another wince once the body of the small girl would land. No wonder the Mizukage stopped when he saw Seki use it for the first time. This thing does /damage/. Sekisetsu would blink… "Ummm.. yeah.. You okay over there?", would be said as Seki would blink at the flaming heap, all before Rise, like some kind of zombie, would come to a stand. "Wowwwww.. what a girl!!", would be said by Seki, right as she would peer to Rise, wondering just how in the hell she had been so freaking good about standing up to face her.
Well, certainly, Seki wasn't going to bother in figuring that out. Distraction time! Seki would look to handseal, and make a few images be seen in the mind of her opponent. While she would be running to hide in a nearby tree, Rise would have been seeing Seki prepare for her attacks. First genjutsu would project boney saws, eight in total, seeming to eject from the student's arms, and back, and with flails of them all, they would fly, information at the poor Taijutsuist. And if that hadn't been all, more handseals would be seen done in the genjutsu, as Sekisetsu, would stick both of her arms in front of her, unleashing from visible pores on her body, bugs, recognizable ones, at that. Kikaichu. The ones the Aburame use.. They would swarm around her, and cloud the battle field, making it difficult for Rise to see. Meanwhile Seki would be hiding in wait.. for her next attack.
Coincidentally just as Seki attacked with genjutsu once more, Rise would try to give herself something else to distract her from the pain. Yet, even biting deep into her bottom lip enough to actually bleed wasn't enough to overide the pain of the fire still clinging to her legs. Because she wasn't facing sekisetsu either she never even saw or bothered to try and see her next attacks that would still manage to loose even more of new found strength. '….Just…a little more…then maybe….'
Sekisetsu was sure her genjutsu was working but for some reason, this girls torment seemed to override anything that would probably be an indication. Seki's conscious, virtually non-existant until now, was begining to come out of its coma, and ask questions. 'Have I gone to far?' 'Have I that much an advantage on this girl?' She would look to Rise, and blink, wondering if maybe this fight could end without her actually dying.. 'I gotta at least knock her out. Man.. this is pathetic.' And with that she would seem if more reactions could be gotten from the girl, when about 3 hardened tags would be launched to Rise, only to stick to her, and drain some of the chakra she had in her system.. At least it should tire her out.. wouldn't it?
Rise continued to endure Sekisetsu's attacks. Twitching and even giggling a little from the tags hitting her, but also using that time to do a brief analysis of her target whereabouts from where and how each tag landed on her. When the time was right, she rolled along the grounds towards where the last tag had came from and along the way peels them off while putting out the fire still along her legs.
When it came time to get to her feet, she slammed her hand against the ground when an opportunity came for the semi-perfect launch. During her trip she twists just enough so that she'd awkwardly hit the ground running. "What the!? Is that your mom in a skimpy outfit!!!", She yelled out as a distraction before sucker punching Sekisetsu in the jaw. "OMG! That can't be the Mizu KAGE!", She continued and pointed behind Sekisetsu before going for an even harder punch to the chin, followed by a simple leg sweep to drop the girl. If she succeeded with the last, rise would put her foot down on Sekisetsu's neck and press down just a "little" bit in warning.
And Seki, was actually sympathizing with this girl. The nerve… Again, scroll paper would glint metallicly, moving of its own accord to protect Seki with a hardness almost akin to iron. This was getting annoying.. As Seki would look to the girl and her attack, she would hear the mother comment, and her brows would furrow dangerously.. "No this bitch didn't!!", would be scowled out, as another punch would then smack hard into a wood, with a painting of a swearing gesture on it, obviously directed to Rise parents in return. But when the last attack would come at her, Seki would find her self lacking one element to help her avoid such a hit.. Chakra.. She would take the foot to her forearms, and be knocked on her rump… snarling at Rise.. "You…. are so dead.. This is the /last/ time I ever don't go in for a kill.", all the while struggling to a stand, as she would summon alittle bit of chakra, Seki's body even now aching with the burning of her limbs.. "Won't you just, die already????"
Even though blood was begining to drip through the guaze along her right hand, Rise couldn't barely contain the tight smile sprining into being as she finally takes the time to reread the message on the scroll she punched into. It was almost enough to push her over the edge… Almost…
But no matter how much she tried to cave into it her anger completely, her first time meeting with atara would constantly pop up into her mind and force her to grudgingly hold her peace a little more. Or at least when under situations where dieing was a very real possibilty.
Before she responds she closes her eyes and tests her bodies current damage both internal and external by twitching or twisting her body just a enough to get a feedback of pain. '……Legs are almost useless……my right arm won't move no matter how much I try….. and I'm almost out of energy even with the soldier pill…. plus…*opens one eye to glance at sekisetsu*… I guess..I pushed a few too many buttons for her to get serious…. *groans*' "Why am I so….", She trails off barely midway and forces herself to stand at attention and give a bow. "I conceed the match sekisetsu, and I'm….*deep inhale and exhale*…. Sorry….", She says relunctantly and turns away. "I still have plenty of candy left over in that bag soooo, yeeaaaah…Anyways! Ja ne!" She states briskly before jogging a bit in place and making a run for it. Knowing full well that she risked taking a fireball to the butt if not something worst for turning her back to the enemy.
With every blood drip, and every step that Rise took, Sekisetsu would have a fearful, and intense flinch. Seki was tiring, and at the moment, this, person infront of her, Rise, had taken all but every last drop of effort that Seki had put forth, and still lived. Even if it had been a weakened, and bleeding mess, this girl from Kumo, as far as even Sekisetsu could tell, was still energetic enough to whip her butt, and Sekisetsu, didn't have enough chakra to do anything about it at this point. Anything more, would be like trying to get blood from a turnip, and the bad news was that our student, had not been a plant. Rise looked angry, and Seki, felt angry. This battle was mentally and physically exhausting, enough to make the poor kid want to go home, and curl up in bed.
And with this intensity, both kids either exhausted, bruised, burned, or bleeding, a silence had been in the air, indicative to a last showdown, a stand off for all the marbles. Sekisetsu knew that if Rise had been to attack right now, she had halve of a chance of taking the hit, and being able to give back another. So right now, trembling was a comment occurance, both from exhaustion, impatience, fear, and eagerness to get to action. It was suspence in his purest form, and for the first time ever, it was enough to madden Sekisetsu rotten. Just when Rise would seem to test, and twitch, in what would look like stretching and readying, Seki would seem to be preparing to seal, just incase things would get dicey. And when all this would be coming to head, Seki now believing that she would be subject to an attack she could not defend, and a fight for which she would not last.. Rise would open one of her eyes, causing Sekisetsu to back way.. 'Is this it??', would be said in the girls mind, in wondering of whether or not Rise, would actually attack.
But then Rise would speak, and it would make Seki's jaw /drop/. And if that didn't beat all, not one would Rise have surrender, and given Seki the win, but, she would have then appologized, offered candy, and left… Like nothing ever happened.. Sekisetsu's jaw would stay grounded for quite a while, before the girls arms would hang loose, dropped, as she would fall to her knees.. "No this bitch didn't.." would be muttered once again, as she would look to Rise, wide eyed.. "Just when she had me.. she gave up? How in the hell does that happen?? She had the kill and left? Really??", would be said in disbelief. "She must think she is better than me!! Well I will /not/ be out done.. YOU HEAR ME, RISE!!! I WILL NOT, BE, OUT DONE!!!!", would be growled out into the air, as tears would roll down her eyes.. Sekisetsu had thought she was being pitied.. Something like honor had grown into the girl right then.. And thanks to Rise, a new Sekisetsu would grow from this.. one that would be taken as a threat… and never pitied again.
