Lily and Rose Vs. Hop [DE] [P]

Jens was in the blazing hot desert, accustomed to the heat though, this did not escape him from having a small amount of heat beading down his forehead. He never let the heat affect his clothing though. He still remained in a orange vest with a white, long sleeve shirt beneath it, part of his chest exposed with it's low cut off. With light brown pants and matching standard ninja sandals, not to mention his gloves match as well. Acting casual with his collar popped, reaching all the way to his cheeks, and blonde wavy hair still as wavy as usual. Always ready for a fight with his katana, a blade that was 30 inches long and a 6 inch long hilt. Butt bag filled with plenty of 'goodies'[Sting Grenades(3), Fake Exploding Tags(80), Kunai(4), Hira-Shuriken(30), Smoke Grenades(3), Fragmentation Grenades(3), and Knives(4)].

As he walked in a path that was perpendicular to the river, he halted to see a girl nearby, twenty meters away from him. He choose to make no motions, say nothing, practically nothing that could cause something bad to happen. He wasn't in a fighting mood, but he had the will, energy, and spirit to do if needed so.

Jens had multiple surprises from this girl's actions. The simple walking towards him already put him on the cautious side. The second she formed hand seals he immediately went onto his toes, his heart picking up at a faster pace. How she talked to him though was now in a way that he perceived as a mixture of flirty and taunting. He let his mind fumble around with it to make it a simple challenge. He wouldn't kill if he didn't have to, but he could use a spar.

"A friendly spar, why not? But I don't wish to harm a lady, so let's see whose really weak." On that note, he took the offering of the first attack and quickly weaved some hand seals. During his response to her call to battle, he noted the water following her, assuming it was related to her jutsu. A strategy to this quickly came to mind, simply testing what this jutsu actually did, and discovering it's strength. Finishing the six hand seals in two seconds, he held the last seal as for the third second, twenty ravens made of pure lightning chakra appeared. Each one hovered one meter off the ground, in front of Jens, these lightning birds all two feet in wingspan.

In control of each raven, he maneuvered some of them to attack the woman, merely as a test attack. Ten went off in attack. Seven made a frontal charge to her, all aiming at her torso, going in a straight line to cut down travel time. The other three, once three meters away from the girl, broke off from the pack and traveled one meter above her, then curved back to hit her in her upper back region.

"This sword of mine's isn't my weapon of choice anyways." He shouted to the woman as he held out his right hand in front of him, as chakra quickly built up and formed a lightning bolt. A Zeus' Bolt in hand now, three feet long, gripped firmly, held a foot away from his body, parallel to the ground. Never taking his eyes off the woman to see this jutsu she casted, he watched to see her reaction.

The jutsu the girl had used turned out to be a water type jutsu for deflecting apparently. Good, then this girl will prove to be a real challenge. Her leap in the air was the most noticeable thing that he believed he could work with. This leap seemed a little overexerted and unnecessary for a successful dodge, not to mention the extra time it was required for the 'little fiasco,' which was the second person that Jens did not realize was present handling with the dispute between the three ravens maneuvering to her back side, while it truthfully did take two seconds, was only half of the time that the whole tactic of that and the jump combined equaled.

This meant he had a four second time frame to act, which was enough. Using the first two seconds to build up the chakra in his feet and ankles. With the third second he could logically determine the girl's location as she would three quarters of the way through her jump. His body positioned so it'd be a straight line in that direction, and fortunately enough still within his ten meter range. The fourth second went to using his Shunshin to move to the desired spot, which would be two feet of a gap between the two, and he would be off to her left as a result of his calculation not being perfect, which was possible.

If this attempt to gain the distance had succeeded, he would now be in perfect positioning to attempt to thrust his bolt at her, which remained in his right hand and now facing the woman's body, to strike into her body. Whilst the jutsu was intended for being used as more of a javelin, it still was a spear like weapon, so logically she could be attacked with it as a melee weapon. While he had not a killing intent, he did not realize that the bolt would pierce her stomach if the bolt was successful in stabbing her.

At this point it was obvious Jens could not avoid some damage in this situation. She aimed to hit him in front of her though, and luckily, that would only be the forearm of his right arm, which had put itself in the way to attempt an attack with his bolt, which had now been cut in half, and the whole bolt was allowed to fade away as his chakra began to dissolve into thin air, it would've been destroyed by the following jutsu anyways.

As the razor winds attacked his forearm, he suffered rather serious damage, as his arm, managing to remain in tact, now had the muscles within the arm in nerve-wracking pain. While he tried to resist it, the force of the wind was too much, and he found himself rapidly spinning as a result of only his arm getting pushed, and with his shoulder forcing this rotation. He tried to jump away from the girl, or find some safety for himself, though by the time he could ask himself this, he had lost balance of the violent spin, and fell over, tumbling off a couple meters away from the opponent. Luckily, he avoided any more damage from the wind jutsu.

He prayed he could survive through this temporary lack of defense, as it was his only hope.

Jens was in a desperate moment to simply live. He wanted to live and prove victorious in this fight, or he wasn't a true fighter. Since the kunoichi seemed to either choose to or by coincidence hold off her next attack until he was on his feet again, he had an opportunity to react. He ended up finding a barrage of needles heading in his direction. This resulted in much more damage than he had already suffered with the previous wind jutsu the girl used. He had eight cuts spread around his torso, two on his right arm, one on his left, and four on each of his legs. This was only a result of the general gap between all the needles, as they seemed to spread out during their travel path.

As he was doing this, he mustered the pain of multiple needles assaulting him, accepting the possibility of dying, believing he needed to get a counter in somehow against this, and it wouldn't change anything if he tried to defend against these needles, so he worked to reach his left into his butt bag. Thanking the gods that the needles missed his vital organs, he got a hand on a kunai. He spotted the girl, running, her mistake being that she had her back to Jens while doing so. The grenade still in air, he threw the projectile to hit her in the back, unable to get a decent aim with this much pain and distance hindering his desire to incapacitate her with it.

Realizing he had to escape the danger of an incoming grenade, he focused his chakra in his feet and ankles, then used Shunshin to try and escape the grenades range. Unfortunately, while he would escape the killing range in time, he did not realize how close the grenade would land, and he would still have to face damage as he was within the wounding zone. Multiple fragments hitting him, he was now in severe pain. Moving anything hurts. He pretty much had to give up on using his right arm for fighting, it being a bloody mess now, his vest and undershirt ripped in multiple spots, blood running down his chest from where the rips were.

He may not be able to tell, though he could be in relief that once he could see her clearly, she would be damaged as she was actually only 14 meters away from the grenade, as the grenade landed one meter in front of him, so she would be suffering damage as well in the end.

[OOC: Sorry for being so technical, it happens when you need to struggle to get a hit in lol]

Jens was now in a moment where he was just struggling to hold on and, if lucky, get a lucky hit in. Adrenaline being the main thing to make him any bit more successful in his attempts, he anticipated the kunoichi's next actions, drawing his katana with his left hand from it's sheath strapped to his right waist, and entered an All Directions Posture. While he hadn't contained enough experience with Gyakusatsu to do much with the stance, he could use it to let him respond to attacks a little more effectively. He had finished this stance just in time to counter the foe's jutsu.

Meanwhile, the fact that Jens still had lightning ravens left, by some odd luck the Razor Wind technique just barely missing the remaining ones, he mentally commanded them to attack while he was entering the All Directions Posture, and simultaneousness with the girl forming hand seals, they began a charge at her. They would disperse from their group formation the moment she finished her hand seals, and attempt charging into her once she fired off the water orbs. Three heading straight on for her right side, making it a straight line, two arcing around and attempting collision with her chest, three for the body that was appearing out of the body that was Jens' foe, and geometrically, traveled so they were non-collinear, and moved out so that one was more than three feet away from the other, making it impossible for the straight-edged blade to hit them all at once. Also considering there was no way to be aware of this as the kunoichi was focused on hitting Jens, they had the advantage of stealth.

As the four water orbs charged at him, he brought his blade's blunt end to take on all four orbs. This would be an easy task, as even though they were moving in an arc, they still all aimed for the same spot, making them an easy target to destroy. The blunt end would meet with each ball, and using the strength he had in his arm proved it to be somewhat challenging, though he managed to avoid getting hit, though now he had to be cautious, as this most likely put much stress on his blade to endure the hits.

Luck was on his side now, as the girl appeared not to use any of the other six orbs. He did not know that the kunoichi only intended to use more orbs when he dodged the orbs, and he had chosen to take them head on and block the blades with his blade.
Now in need of a quick way to attack, he dropped the blade in an instant after blocking the orbs, that blocking action plus the dropping of his katana taking a total of two seconds, he immediately reached in his butt bag and pulled out a fragmentation grenade of his own, pulling the trigger device, and threw it as hard as he could with his injured strength, and it would land at her feet of wherever she was at the moment he threw it.

Using this as a momentary distraction, if the shinobi found himself in no incoming hazards, he would begin to form hand seals, working as fast as he could with his weak arm, and then readied to use the jutsu the moment he found an opportunity, pending on how she reacted to the grenade.

[OOC: PM'd a Battle Mod for the jutsu]

The story wasn't over for Jens' Thunderstorm Ravens yet, as there were two which hadn't attacked yet. As the kunoichi used a water ball to try and counter the grenade, Jens was able to foretell the danger of this, and had enough time, to collide with the orb before it could reach the grenade. With the power of the two, they would cancel each other out as the ball would lose it's shape upon colliding with the concentrated chakra entity. This allowed the grenade to continue it's path untampered with, and still land in front of the girl, exploding the same second it touched the ground as the eighteen meter travel path it went would definitely consume most of the time. Since she spent this precious time to save herself using a water missile to try and return the orb, it seemed she had no time left. Was death inevitable?

The final raven would have little use on it's own, so Jens decided to let it pursue the girl and charge into her, it wouldn't be capable of much now anyways.

Temporarily in the safe, as the kunoichi now would not be making any more water orbs, as she seemed to be intending on creating more orbs the moment when the grenade was sent back to Jens, but as this never happened, she would not make orbs apparently.

In an attempt to prepare himself in the case of her living the grenade, Jens prepared another attack. Deciding the Fire Bolt Technique he had prepared last round was no longer of use, he didn't fire it off, and let the chakra go to waste, in exchange for not wasting time preparing another jutsu. Forming hand seals once again, at the same time he used his previous raven to counter the water missile, his weakened arm struggling to do so in three seconds, he held the last sign as twenty more Thunderstorm Ravens would appear before him, two feet in wingspan each, hovering a meter in front of him in a neat set up of two by ten, below his face so his vision would not be hindered. Now to see if the kunoichi would survive?

[OOC: It's okay, as all of these are attempts anyways]

The foe's tactics would prove successful, though Jens wondered if that was what she exactly intended for? As it would take the water orbs a single second to travel to the grenade, this would give the grenade a longer travel time, making it move forward another 4.5 meters closer to the kunoichi. And yes, the grenade would be hit back, but not back to Jens, but simply back a couple of inches, 5 to be exact, the orb meeting the grenade at an odd angle, forcing it to move backwards said distance. [OOC: To clarify, your last post said the orb would knock the grenade back, but not where.] True, this did not put Jens in the safe zone, though this stroke of luck did spare him from death.

As nothing was done to prevent the grenade from making contact with the water orb, the backup orb would now apparently simply continue forward, astray from Jens and the grenade.

The grenade now at a new angle, with two seconds to detonation, the kunoichi only choosing to react to one of the four possibilities in the previous post, no preparations for in case the grenade does not reach the shinobi or if she was still in the danger zone during those final two seconds, it would leave her with no choice but to take the blast. Of course this left Jens in a bad situation as well, but, at least he finally was getting some injuries in.

As Jens took the injuries of more fragments of the grenade shell hitting him, he was now in sheer hell from pain. One more serious injury and he'd faint from pain, that was something he could recognize. The same second the grenade should go off at the time Jens had intended, his Thunderstorm Ravens would finally appear, and these would be his main form of combat now. He sent five off to the direction of the kunoichi, though by the end of this round, they would only be five meters away from the girl, and an extra five would be five meters behind those ravens, leaving an arsenal of ninjutsu ready to fight for him for the moment. He now remained vigilant for the opportunity to attack, his thoughts were as he drew a kunai from his bag with his left hand.

The kunoichi managed to pull off another lucky moment, avoiding all the fragments. She seemed to use that same water type jutsu, and sword was used to block it similarly to how she used it before, the only difference not making it exact was the fact that she used the skinnier edge to block the fragments for some reason, causing more casualties than if she used the wider edge. This battle was seriously against Jens, though he didn't give up completely yet.

A form of wind type jutsu was used to destroy his Thunderstorm Ravens, irritating him, but not letting it make him too negative on the outcome. Luckily, the needles did not reach him, preventing him from suffering any more injuries.

As the enemy began a dash at Jens, he began to build up chakra in his feet and ankles, preparing to use his last Shunshin, and making sure it would count. True his legs were injured, though the jutsu provided him with the same amount of speed, only costing some strain on his legs as he was reaching his limit with the jutsu, and a tad more chakra to reach the same amount of speed.

The time being used to prepare the jutsu consumed most of the time that the technique would cost. The moment she halted, ten meters away from Jens, he moved at the near-instantaneous speed that would be what Jens intended for the prelude to the final actions of this painful, so called 'spar.'

He would reach the kunoichi the same instant she began weaving her hand signs. Her focus seemed to be completely put onto the forming of the hand seals, the unlikeliness of her responding to the attack he planned was high. That attack being his kunai would be positioned so once his Shunshin traveled to the length that would bring him a few inches away from the kunoichi, and plunge into her abdomen. The stab would not be fatal, not wishing to kill anybody, though it would make fighting a lot more difficult. The girl's blade would not be an issue as she would logically have forced it to move out away from in front of her, a result of momentum, as there was no stated effort to make sure the blade remained in front of the two bodies that seemed dominant. With Jens' kunai plunging into his foe the moment he used Shunshin, the girl's reaction time would not be sharp enough to respond in time and block it, avoidance seemed unlikely.

The moment he had stabbed her, he jumped backwards, still holding his kunai in hand as he did so, ready to respond to an attack, aware of the kunoichi's actions, in case she attempts another attack. His jump would bring him a total of 1 meter away from the opponent.