In Search of Power [Coal&Takeda]

[Coal]

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Both of his blades would be freed of their respective sheathes in an extremely quick fashion, the flowers blooming around them, which could only lead him to believe that Mokuton was also involved. Several strikes before them (3x2) with each blade were made, sending waves of force forward toward the chakra signals, which were within his thirty-five meter reach. Leaping forward after a short ten meter sprint (putting him around 15 meters when he lands), he would slam both blades down as well, causing a wave of force to rip the earth asunder for twenty-five meters (away from his partner of course), creating a path through the flowers. With haste did he run, hoping that the boy would be behind him, dashing out of the park as quickly as possible, to be on the more favored battle field of the cobbled streets; so as Mokuton could not be used against them. Twenty-five or less, should his attack have succeeded, attackers around them and invisible to the naked eye. Troublesome.

"There are at least twenty-five that I counted."

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[Molokai]

Time to go. Whatever was causing this, it was enough to set his confident partner on the defensive, which in turn put Toru's head on a swivel. As he ran, his eyes never stayed in one spot for too long, constantly scanning for the cause of the disturbance. With all haste he pursued the fleeing Grass ninja, not wanting to stick around to battle alone. Soon finding himself bursting onto cobblestone streets, devoid of life except for he and the Grass ninja, he took in all the details of the surroundings.

The news the grass ninja brought was troubling. Very troubling. Twenty-five enemy shinobi had come after them. Twenty-five. Somehow Toru doubted they could really be considered that much of a threat, but the fact still remained. They had to be clones, at least some of them had to be, because a team of twenty-five individual ninjas just seemed like far too many to send after a pair of investigators. Instead of dwelling on the impossibility of it, Toru accepted it as fact and continued on to business.

"Alright, twenty-five. Assuming they're not all clones, do you think we can take them? I'll stay and fight if you do." Since Toru himself had yet to lay eyes on a single one, he assumed this grass ninja had some kind of doujutsu or was under some kind of illusion himself. Since the flowers were definitely real, it was probably not the latter. Knowing this, ninjas with doujutsu usually operated at a level above normal shinobi. So if he believed they could handle it, Toru was willing to bet they could handle it. He just hoped his partner had the sense to retreat if it got too hot.

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

The projectiles found inside the dolphin's head would contain no poison or other unknown substance within or around them, they were clean, pure normal senbons being shot at high speed towards the statue. As soon as the grass ninja's first sentence would be made [Coal's] a voice would be heard, the same feminine voice as before, this time it came from a near tree, about three meters behind from where you were. With or without the sharingan actived none of you will see anything else aside from the tree.

"So Hinimo was correct... a doujutsu weilder..."

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She would say, the unknown and invicible girl, finished her sentence the voice would have vanished once again. If any of you would try to destroy the tree at any point it would just end up with the flora's destruction, nothing inside it or around it. As for your attacks, all of them would seem to have been a complete waste of efforts, the flowers and petals all around would seem unnafected by any of them, in fact if you would try to touch any of petals you will find yourself in a mystery, they would just simply past through your body as if they would not exist. For the same reason none of your movements would be stopped or halted, meaning you had the chance to leave the park whenever you wanted, meaning your previous run away from the park is valid.

As for the chakra signatures, as soon as you would began to do harsh movements they will began to get away from the place, going in opposite directions as yours, being just to far away from being followed, at least all of them. Sooner or later the chakra signatures would be out of your sight, even with your sharingan activated.

If you would decide to do what you just did in the previous turn you will find yourselves in the streets of the city, no life around aside from the flying brids and some homeless dogs and cats, nothing to worry about, though once again you will hear the voice. If you would just decide to void your previous movements and stay in the park after being witnesses of the past situation the same result will take place.

"So shinobis... you can keep pretending to be detectives... or just end this once and for all"

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She would say, the voice this time could be heard from in front of you, as if the woman would be standing just a few inches in front of you, facing you, looking at you. Though, as stated before, any efforts to try to see or touch the sound source would be useless. "Mashimizu Park... Cray Manor... Three hours... your choice" The voice would state, the two places would seem the places where she would be waiting for you, one was the park you were just a few moments ago, while the other one was a residence, located at the very opposite side of the city. This meant the voice was giving you the chance to fight together as a team or to fight on your own, it was your choice.

If you decide to go and battle you will not have to wait anymore untill the nightfall, though you will not have more time to investigate. If you decide to you can go back to the hospital for the Yamanaka trio, though not mandatory. If you decide to split you can split the Yamanak trio as well, making teams of your choice. The only restriction is that you cannot send a team which consist only of NPC's to a single location, at least one of you must accompany them. Each location will have their own thread.[/font]

Six remaining hours untill midnight

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[Coal]

[Lol. The mask never came off. How could she know I have a Doujutsu? She must have metagame powers. Haha. How would anyone know? I never said.]

[/b] Genjutsu. I‘ll have to be more cautious.[/I] Even as he thought this, that annoying woman would enter his head again, however she provided a name this time. Hinimo. He would have to remember that. Continuing to spout endless annoyance and frill, he found himself getting tired of her, and thankfully she felt the same. Now two locations had been given, completely away from each other, resting on opposite sides of town. A time limit was issued as well, three hours. Once he had the useful bits of information, he would wave away the voice, as if it were mere nuisance or a foul smell in the air.

Already having decided to head back for the rest of the team, he would look back at his partner, deactivating his Sharingan before removing his mask; allowing it to dangle around his neck. Crimson orbs without pupil or iris looked at Takeda, stern and unyielding, burning with passionate flames and yet somehow remaining cold steel as well. Words would pass his lips, while he pulled out a pack of cigarettes, pulling one of the cylinder sticks out with his right hand.

“We collect the other three and then decide which location or if we should split up. The park was Genjutsu as well, so we‘ll need to be more cautious.”

Placing the cigarette to his lips, he would raise his left hand to the tip of it, lighting the stick with raw katon flame. The rhythmic thud of his boots on the cobblestone would begin shortly after, as he made his way toward the hospital, expecting Takeda to follow; as it was not safe alone. Especially with these types of Genjutsu around. He would turn once more to look back at his temporary partner, the cigarette on placed in his mouth, his eyes falling on the boy with a bit of thought before speaking.


“Houkou. That‘s my name. Don‘t forget it.”

He would then continue on the way to the hospital, turning away from the boy, a cloud of thin white smoke curling before him.

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[Molokai]

So the flowers really were genjutsu after all. The fact that they didn't seem effected by the Grass ninja's attacks raised the question of what exactly their purpose was. Toru would have expected blades or some sort of shroud, but they just sat there and let them run. Then the phantom voice from nowhere filled the air with words, the name Hinimo was filed away in his mind, and he observed his partner dismiss the tone as a mere annoyance.

Another name appeared in the air before his eyes, this one too memorized and applied to a face. Houkou, the Grass ninja, who didn't seem particularly interested in Toru's name, walked on like he already had all this shit covered. Straight to business, let's do this.

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[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

[Coal, please, there is an explanation to that, just don't rush, everything will come with an explanation

Anyway, the posts will be there by tonight or tomorrow morning ]

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

Two hours until midnight

The park, as described before will have the same structure, the same destroyed fountain, the same trees as before. Nothing would have changed except for the completely lack of fauna, the very first you visited the place you were capable to find some birds flying around, through the sky, however this time no sign of animals around, as if the nature itself would know what was about to happen. The artificial light given to you by the electrical estructures around the park will give you the ability to see some meters away from your location, though noting to be compared to the natural light of the sun. You will be able to see a man standing in the middle of the park, near the fountain, about six meters away from it, staring at the sky. The man would be very tall, almost the two meters of height wearing a large black cloak that covered all his body but his face. For his face you will see the man wearing a four faced mask, each face with a different expresion, something that could not be seen unless being near enough. The man would be alone, you could see no one around, not even a soul. Staring at the sky he would be waiting for his enemies to appear.

The Yamanaka trio in the way here will explain each of their skills, the male one aside from being part of his clan had medic skills and the strenght that only a medic can have. As for the twins each of them had different abilities on genjutsu and ninjutsu each, making the trio a perfect combination for any team.

[The Yamanaka trio will aid you in the fight while being controlled by me]

[Molokai]

So the trio was the perfect combination of teammates within themselves, leaving Toru the odd one out in several ways. He took each of their skills into account and hoped they could get along with foreigners. As he approached the park, he saw the man whom he would probably be facing. Tall and masked, Toru wondered if the image before him really existed or if it was some other phenomenon. Donning his senbon mastery gloves, he looked to the grass shinobi and silently asked if they were ready.

It is not fear that grips him, only restlessness. A heightened sense of things. The seaborn breeze, coolly kissing the sweat at his chest and neck. The steady breathing of the three at his back, ready to die for him without a moment's pause. Each one of them, ready to die. He stepped forth and issued his challenge, ready to prove that even a man who fancies himself a god can bleed.

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

With a nod, each of the siblings would give you the confirmation of they being ready, time to finish this once as for all. As you, the trio had the same question, would this be an illusion or a real challenge? Immediatly after you would get ready with your senbon gloves the ninjutsu sister would form a strange handseal, one that would resemble the shape of a rectangle, this being a technique of the siblings' family, one that was supposed to control the body of the one, but before doing this she would have hurried to cut the distance between her and the man to ensure the hit of her technique. By when the special handseal would be created she would be about fifteen meters away from the enemy, trying to stay silent and stealth to prevent the man to notice her. From there the technique should miss, after all this enemy did not move at all during this whole time.

As this would happen the genjutsu sister would have casted a technique to dispel a genjutsu if there would be any, telling you that she could sense no chakra around them, nothing to worry about, however, you have been witness of the power of the illusions the enemy can do. The man would at every single moment stay next to you, waiting for the correct moment to do his movement. If you would get near enough, of about twenty meters away from the man you will be able to have a better look at him, having a better description of this man. (with a large black cloak covering his armor)

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Ninjutsu Sister:

Techniques:

Mind Body Disturbance

Genjutsu Sister.

Techniques:

Genjutsu Cancellation (S)

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From now on I will just state the name of the techniques if they are indexed, if custom technique I will post them with the complete form

[Molokai]

Toru was wary of the cloak. While the genjutsu wielding sister claimed not to have sensed any chakra around, he wasn't quite ready to accept that as meaning there weren't any. More testament to his watchfulness was the strange motions the ninjutsu twin went through, apparently ending with no effect despite no motion by their adversary. Handseals would be done in a flash, and a layer of super strong paper would attach itself to his body beneath his clothing, unseen except by those who could see chakra.

As he finished his armor, he completed more handseals and sent forth a pair of clones made from the same nearly-indestructible paper. All of these motions taking barely over a second, he was able to perform them without his eyes ever leaving the cloaked man, creeping forward to get a better look. When he was within twenty meters, he stopped, his paper clones standing beside the ninjutsu sister and three senbon clutched in his fist. Despite the genjutsu sister's insistence that the man wasn't casting a genjutsu, Toru still needed to check if the man himself was real.

With barely a flick of his wrist the three senbon ripped toward his enemy. Aimed precisely, Toru targeted the base of his neck and his kidneys, deadly if the man did in fact receive the hits. With his back to them, he wouldn't be able to tell the needles were coming without some kind of extra sense or doujutsu. That, however, was not what Toru was looking for. If the man really existed, he would either dodge or die, but if he did not then the needles would phase through him harmlessly.

If the man was solid, it meant he was able to be defeated, although Toru strongly suspected the man himself was merely an illusion. Which also brought him to wonder if the man the villagers saw even existed, or if he was an illusion created by the woman belonging to the phantom voice. All of this would have to be figured out, though, and for now he observed the senbon on their flight and watched the cloaked man carefully.

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

Immediatly after the ninjutsu sister would have finished her technique, the one dealing with manipulating the enemy's movements your senbons would be launched, giving you certain security of your needles to hit the unknown man. Surely less than a second would pass, the high speed of your needles and the short distance between you and your enemy would ensure the hit of your senbons. Hitting each of them on the corresponding place, the one that you stated. You, at this point would be able to hear the sound of the metal clashing and piercing through the armor, moments later the masked man would fall down onto the ground, as if the hits would have finished with its life.

At this point none of the Yamanaka trio could say for sure if the man was really dead or not, they could just imagine and hope that he was, indeed, dead. Seconds would pass, no movement or sound could be heard or seen, seemed that this was finally over. In the distance, very far away from where the armored man was, about another twenty meters, in the opposite direction than yours a woman would appear, she would somehow know your location and would began to speak towards where you all were, which more than speaking a yell would take place.

"Hey! No paper armors sir!!"

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With this statement the girl would let you know that she already gained knowledge of your hidden movements, though the way to obtain such an information was still unknown. Due to the distance you could barely see the face, you could see a woman of about the same height of any of the twins that belonged to your team, her hair was quite long, about half the back in a silver color. Her skin was kind of pale, though not as pale to show any sickness, just white. As for her clothing she would be wearing a red outfit, one that allowed to see most of her body, just having enough silk to cover the mature parts and some others of not that importance. She would remain still, waiting for your movements if there would be any, however as soon as she would see the beginning of any movement she would do hers.

As all this would happen, just a second after the girl would have spoken, the fountain that was in front of you, just next to the dead man would began to increase its water pressure, instead of the normal water pressure that was before a violent stream would be. One that would go upwards, aiming at the nothing but the sky, you could see how the water increased its size in about three times, aside from that nothing else happened. As for the Yamanaka trio, they would be waiting for you to make a movement.[/font]

[Molokai]

And with that, their opponent was. . . down? Bullshit. Toru hadn't believed for a second, nor had he even meant for his attack to be deadly, it was merely a probe to see what this man was capable of. Evidently, he wasn't capable of anything impressive, as he was dropped after a single simple move and a little pomp and circumstance. Even the trio from grass seemed astonished, displaying signals that they didn't trust the man to really have died. Toru considered the prone form with a furled brow.

Just as he was about to order the medical ninja to check the body while the rest of the team, clones included, covered him, a voice erupted from the darkness. His attempt at a hidden defense thwarted, Toru's eye twitched in irritation. She knows about the armor. Good for her. Doesn't change a thing. Examining the scantily clad apparition in the distance, Toru wondered exactly who she was.

Then it hit him; she was the voice the villagers had heard, and she was in control of the entire operation. The man Toru had slain not moments ago was an expendable puppet, used to get people's attention while she cast her genjutsu; he didn't matter to any of them. Toru shared this revelation with the grass ninjas, speaking low while mentally formulating a plan of attack. Any suggestions from his allies would have been greatly appreciated at this point.

At the moment, her distance was too great for any kind of direct attack. While she was within range of his paper manipulation, the time it would take for any paper technique to get there would be more than enough for her to do something to stop it. Toru wasn't comfortable approaching an enemy he didn't know enough about, but he knew he had to close distance if he wanted to be in effective striking range.

From what he knew, the red woman was an adept genjutsu wielder, meaning that his genjutsu girl would be the team's only protection if she caught them in one. Also, it meant that she was equally, if not more so, adept at long-range fighting, which robbed him of his chief advantage against most foes. And then there was the geyser of water which suddenly erupted from the decapitated dolphin, which could have been anything from an attempt to moisten his paper to a clever setup for a water technique.

Without more information, he couldn't be sure. He needed to see what she was able to do before he could know how to defeat her. Again addressing the team, Toru gave his thoughts, "We need to get closer, but I don't trust the dead body or the water spout. I'm sending the clones forward to investigate, you guys keep watch for anything that might be a clue to her abilities."

With Houkou gone, Toru suddenly had no problem stepping into his leadership role as chuunin. One of his clones strode forward toward the spout and the body, unaffected by the artificial rain that now fell around the fountain. Assuming nothing interrupted it, the clone would kick over the body and examine it's face, then turn and get a closer look at the red woman. If she hadn't attacked or destroyed it by now, the information would be gained and relayed back to it's creator.

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Sorry I didn't post the techniques. It was late and I was tired, I was just making sure I didn't get booted for missing the IIC.

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

[LOL kk, don't worry. BTW just in case something like this surges or so, the girl's knowledge has a very GOOD GOOD GOOD explanation, the thing about she knowing of your armor, with the time the reasonment will come up ]

A whisper from one of your allies would be heard, coming from the twin having an affinity to illusions "Let's see how powerful her illusions are"" then about half a second would pass while forming a string of handseals just for her to turn to see her sister and give a nod, as if both would be planning something, this last action would cause the remaining twin to start her own formation of zodiacs, however by now the first sister's technique would be already in effect. While still within the sister's sight a genjutsu that would trap the woman's feet onto the ground would be casted, one that would surely stop any movement of her lower limbs, partially immobilizing her, which will immediatly followed by the other sister's attack. Two large rocks of about two meters big would emerge from gaia, each of them about five meters away from the mysterious woman on each side, by a fast movement of both arms, ending with a clap of her hands the rocks would clash to each other, crushing everything between them, on this case the woman. However by then you all would be able to see something, a handseal, a single one, due to the distance it was difficult for all of you to properly see the handseal, one that would cause the woman to dissapear, all of the sudden, vanishing from the sight. Ending up with what seemed to be a failure on the attacks.

As learned in the ninja academy, there are only a few techniques that allows people to teleport from one place to another within an instant. As for the woman, if she was a genjutsu user the most she could do would be becoming invisible, genjutsu was incapable to teleport her or making her move at fast rate, the most it could do was the stated above, making her an invisible being. So if she managed to escape the assault that meant she did not use a genjutsu, giving you another chance to know her abilites, making the sisters think that maybe, this woman was also a ninjutsu specialist, pretty much like the fusion of both twins.

As for the clone, it would reach the desired place, the one where the laying body was. Immediatly, just an instant would be needed after the kick would be made the man on the ground would quickly stand up at the speed of an S rank Taijutsu Master, as this would happen fire would erupt from the man's mouth, covering an area of about ten meters long and about five meters in width, pretty much like a cone. This movement was so repentine and so fast making it very hard to avoid, taking into consideration that the fire expelled came without any advice, no handseals, no warning, no nothing, pretty much instant. True, the fire may not or may destroy the clone, however it would surely cause it some serious damage, as the fire was expelled the man swung his arm, the one helding the sword, in an horizontal way attempting to cut the artificial being by half, as soon as the cut would be done, either if it would be succesful or not the man would quickly step forward at the same speed it stood up, increase the distance between you all by another five meters.

Then, a voice could be heard once again, however this time not the one of a female but of a male and the source was nothing more than the man. "Aw come on... Such an attack will never harm me" then he would just assume an offensive posture, awaiting for you all to make an attack or to evade any attack if any would be made. As for the sisters she may seem to be dealing with something else.

As all this would have happened the genjutsu sister would seem to be in a trance, if you at any point would try to speak to her or catch her attention she would just ignore you all, as if you did not existed. As for the other sister it seemed that she could not move, her body not answering to her wishes, something that you noticed because she told you all this, as if someone would be controlling her body. Up to now she was only doing awkward movements, nothing to worry about, however, having her body controlled she may do anything at you at any point.

So in short words it was you and the man of the trio, as for him he was a medic and an skilled short range fighter, nothing he could do about right now. He tried to awake the sister but was useless, which make him try to aid the remaining woman by holding her limbs and other parts of her body, just to end up with the same result as with the other twin. By now he would await your orders to proceed on what to do.

EDIT: Forgot the techs XD

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All of the techniques exists in the indexes but the one used by the woman to escape the rocks. I promise to post them all in the next turn, the thing is that I would like to give you more information before revealing secrets and so . Also I would like to see your reaction to the things that just happened

[Molokai]

Good, the twins are taking initiative, giving Toru a chance to examine the enemy without expending chakra. Her known specialties so far were simply genjutsu, and despite her skill there wasn't a single technique that could keep her safe from being boulder-crushed. This notion dissolved in an instant when she vanished just before the stones hit. Genjutsu consisted of illusions varying in complexity, but none of them were real in a physical sense, so how in the world did she escape?

Even if she merely dispelled the technique holding her legs, no genjutsu master could move fast enough to escape the rocks once that had been done. To make matters worse, she didn't appear to have formed a handseal at all. From where he stood, all he saw was her do something with her hand before disappearing. Since there were only a few ways to escape at that speed, Toru knew that genjutsu couldn't be her only specialty, which meant he'd have to guess what was real and what wasn't.

Just at that moment, his clone reached the prone corpse and kicked at it. Both he and his other clone took a step back, shocked by the speed of the dead thing and appalled at the fire it spat. Since it's composition was still stronger than any steel and fire was only half as effective as normal, it managed to survive. Barely. So much damage was done, Toru simply released it and allowed the paper to scatter all over the ground.

The lifeless puppet theory suddenly had some credibility. This man had a chunk of metal separating his skull from his spine, and two more lodged in his vital organs, which left little question as to what was going on. The dead man's speech may have been of his own voice, but it was from the perspective of the disappearing woman. Somehow, she was controlling his body.

Puppet or zombie, the way to defeat it was the same; destroy it's body beyond usefulness. If the woman was using the body to fight in her place, they had no choice but to keep severing limbs until it was no longer usable. Unfortunately his twins were now out of commission, which effectively took out half of his team without anybody seeing anything. Keeping his eyes between the dead man and the immobilized twins, he sent his remaining clone to the side of his companion and whispered the plan in his ear.

"We need to destroy the man's body. Anything that you can do to knock him off balance, do it. I'm going to bind him and try to sever his limbs, and when I do I want you to hit him as hard as you can." Toru's next move depended entirely on the actions of the medic, so he would wait for his action to commence.

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

Nodding at your orders the man would whisper back "I can hit incredibly hard, however I would need you to aid me by binding him" and so the man would head towards the armored man. As you could see the man was quite fast, making it hard to be hit in a close range combat. The distance will be quickly cut by the sprint. By when the Yamanaka male would be to where you clone existed the armored man would have moved as well, to that position, katana in hand ready to slice the man, while the man had his fist prepared to hit him. If nothing would stop the armored man he would slice the Yamanaka male before he could hit the enemy. For this point you would have around a second or a second and a half.

As this would happen another problem would surge. The sister that seemed to be controlled by an unknown force would have taken a kunai out of her pouch and run towards where her sister was. Screams of desperation would came from the attacker, trying to stop it but useless efforts would be done, as for the attacked, she would remain on her same state, the trance, making it impossible for her to escape the assault. During the mid run the Yamanaka sister, the one being controlled would yell something "There is the bicth!" while looking at a place around twenty meters behind from where you were. If you looked at the woman you would notice her aiming a handseal, a rectangle one to the controlled sister, something that would make the controlled one to say something else "She is a Yamanaka!" now closer, you would have a better view of the woman, giving you more information about her description

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Male Yamanaka:

Punch [WoK]

Woman [ENEMY]

Mind Body Disturbance [Yamanaka]

[Molokai]

And now two things happened at once, which Toru perceived immediately as an attempt to force him into a choice. Fortunately for him, that wasn't necessary. The paper clone would see the opportunity, see the dead man raise his sword, ready to strike down the brave Yamanaka. But as soon as the blade became ready, the clone made it's move. It's arm extended out and became a sort of chain, moving at the speed of a paper master. It would get there before the Yamanaka took two steps, and immediately try to wrap the man's wrists.

Should the dead man try to slash at the chain to block it, his attempt would merely doom him further. Due to the strength of the paper, no sword could cut through it, and trying to do so would just lessen the distance the chain had to travel. First, it would try to bind the man's wrists. If successful, it would quickly wrap around his arms and prevent them from swinging effectively. While this was happening, a part of the clone would become a second chain and go to tie up his legs.

This action, needing no handseals to perform, would be nearly instant and well within the short time range. If the dead man tried to slash at the chain, it would merely wrap around the blade and continue on it's path up his arm. Unless he could muscle his way out of titanium bonds, he would most likely be stuck. Then the clone had only to assess the damage done by the medic to decide if it wanted to sharpen the chains and put the body through a meat processor.

Toru, meanwhile, observed the controlled twin pull a knife and move to attack her entranced sister. Since the clone had the binding covered (he kept an eye on it just in case), Toru was able to focus on the twins. Just as the clone did, Toru sent a paper chain from his holster to coil around the waist of the sister being controlled. Since her specialty was ninjutsu, it would be more than enough to hold her back while Toru listened to the information she had to offer.

The woman, now close enough to see in detail, was making the same strange handseal one of the twins had made earlier, and it was apparently the cause for the erratic behavior. Knowing this, Toru made a small sacrifice and tossed the sister under control away. While this might have caused her a bit of pain, it freed Toru up to concentrate on the woman and kept her far enough away to be less of a threat.

Turning to the woman, making a note that he was now surrounded in case the male Yamanaka failed, Toru judged her distance and made handseals in less than a second. Beyond the handseals, no other motion would give away the attack that was about to happen. Nine thick wooden branches erupted from the ground and snatched at her legs and arms, growing where they appeared so there wasn't the tell-tale rumbling of some of his other techniques.

Their priority was to grab her hands first, keep them apart so she couldn't form the handseal that let her escape earlier. Since she would still be involved in the mind-control technique, or still trying to escape from it, there wasn't much opportunity for her to react to the branches. It was very unlikely that a taijutsu non-specialist, even one of her rank, would be able to react in time to escape, or be strong enough to force her hands together for the seal.

Contrary to popular belief, six inches of solid wood was a lot to break through with bare hands. Three would attempt to grab each arm, and the final three would try to coil around her knees and pull her legs together. Even if she somehow avoided the binding, or broke free after being captured, the twins would still be free to back him up. As for the male Yamanaka, he and the paper clone could cover the dead man if for some reason he was able to break free from them.

In summary, the paper clone attempted to bind the dead guy with titanium-strength chains, Toru used a chain to toss the attacking Yamanaka sister away from the entranced one, then turned around and tried to bind the woman while she was still in control of the twins.

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Clone:
Kami Kusari (Chain Letter)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: By connecting paper together and projecting it in a straight line, the user is able to create a rope or chain of paper, capable of restraining an opponent or acting as a grappling hook.
Special: ---
Drawback: Durability is defined by the users knowledge of Paper Strength, and maximum length is defined by ther users knowledge of Paper Manipulation.
Description: By grabbing hold of a piece of paper, the user channels chakra through it and connects it to other paper nearby. By doing this, the user is capable of forming a long chain of paper that can be used however they see fit within their range of paper manipulation. This is most effectively achieved through the use of holsters, though their utilization isn’t necessary.
Limit: Paper Release, Paper Manipulation C

Toru:
Kami Kusari (Chain Letter)
Rank: C
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: By connecting paper together and projecting it in a straight line, the user is able to create a rope or chain of paper, capable of restraining an opponent or acting as a grappling hook.
Special: ---
Drawback: Durability is defined by the users knowledge of Paper Strength, and maximum length is defined by ther users knowledge of Paper Manipulation.
Description: By grabbing hold of a piece of paper, the user channels chakra through it and connects it to other paper nearby. By doing this, the user is capable of forming a long chain of paper that can be used however they see fit within their range of paper manipulation. This is most effectively achieved through the use of holsters, though their utilization isn’t necessary.
Limit: Paper Release, Paper Manipulation C


Mokuton Soutei Hashira (Wood Release - Binding Pillars) learned 3x (30 meters, 9 branches)
Rank: "C", "B", "A" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: A technique where branches is pushed from the ground and wraps around an opponent.
Special: "Boar, Dragon, Ram, Boar"
Drawback: This technique is the basics of other techniques. The user must learn this technique multiple times in order for the distance of branches can increases.
Description: After using the seals the user uses the water and earth release in which branches crushes out of the ground to wrap around the user. When the user first learns this technique the user is capable of creating approximately Six Different branches with a width of six inches, with the distance of Ten Meters From the user. Every time learned the distance may increase by an additional ten Meters. When the distance reaches up to a Hundred Meters the type of training becomes B-Rank Training. When the distance reaches Two Hundred Meters the Training becomes A-Rank. When the user reaches to B-Rank Training the width of branches is Twelve Inches if the user desires. When the Training Reaches A-Rank the width of the branches is Twenty Four Inches if the user desires. Each time learned the user is capable of creating another branch.
Limit: Must have the Wood Release

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

Several facts would take place now, firstly, a quake could be felt, one that would be able to felt in all over the park, immediatly as soon as the paper would ensnare the armored man's arm he would spit fire from his mouth like the preious one, this aimed towards the clone, which most likely cover the chain of paper and anything in front of. Luckly, the Yamanaka brother had shushined to the right and finally shunshined back, this time to be just behind the armored man to deliver the hit. If everything would go as planned, the armored man would have just weakened the paper but not destroyed it, meaning it was still under the binding of paper. The medic's hit would land on the head, succesfully taking the head of the man off, such power could easily do such a thing, even with an armor to protect him. However, the armored man's last action would take place as well, a quick and powerful hit from the hand not holding the katana would be made, hitting on the stomach the Yamanaka brother, sending him flying far away, about ten meters, seemed that the power used was comparable to the one that the brother used. Such power would make him hit a tree. Both hits would land at the same time, and despite the paper trying to bind that limb it would be useless, since most of the paper were attempting to bind the limb holding the katana and the legs, the power of an S rank Taijutsu Master should suffice to break the still forming chain of paper on that limb.

Such hit made by the medic would not only chop his head off, but destroy it, allowing you to see that there was nothing inside the armor. Despite the hit, the armor was still attempting to break the chains of paper. Meanwhile, as this happened, on the opposite side of the field you would be along with the sisters and the woman.

The moment you would pull and toss the sister away the other twin would seem to be out of her trance, making her to immediatly form a string of handseals, which result was unknown, at least for now. At this point, you would get a blurry sight, though only for a second, or even less, just for an instant. Your branches would succesfully ensnare the woman, but as this would have happened, the armor would have spit more fire from its mouth, this time more intense and big, capable to easily destroy your paper clone with a single shot.

At this point, the sister that you tossed would be free and began to form a serie of zodiac seals, causing spikes coming out of the ground, in a straight line to be summoned, having the origin just in front of the girl and the destination was the unknown woman. If everything would go as planned, the spikes would pierce the woman's body, ending with her life.

[Molokai]

The events that transpired ended the woman's life, leaving her pinned and useless on the ground while she bled out onto the spikes. With hear death, Toru was satisfied, but the flames at his back suggested that he wasn't yet done. The dead man, now confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt to be something other than human, had lost his head in some spectacular way and was still struggling. Despite the lack of mouth, the flame blast still consumed his remaining clone and left he and his team to finish it off.

Drawing on his paper manipulation field, Toru wrapped an explosive tag around three senbon, effectively creating three needle bombs, and took them in his hand as before. Without a head, the flailing body wouldn't have any senses to detect his attack, let alone somehow evade. With a flick of his wrist, the needles flew, aiming specifically for the center of mass. If they hit, they would embed themselves deep in it's body and destroy it from the inside out when detonated. If it somehow evaded or blocked, despite the lack of sensory organs, the explosion would still blow it to pieces.

His team, still in possession of their heads, would easily see he tags coiling around the needles and hopefully find it reasonable to stay out of range. But the headless body was still a mystery. Toru had thought that it was somehow controlled by the woman, and that her death would also bring it's demise. Unfortunately, this was not the case. The fast and powerful husk of a man seemed to operate under it's own power, with no individual part vital to the survival of the whole.

As such, the only way to defeat it was to, as he had deduced earlier, dismember the body until it was so useless it's controller let it go. Thus, the three explosive tags in the center of it's chest that would blow off all four limbs and vaporize the torso seemed like the most efficient way to do so.

Although, the fact that the husk could live and fight without an apparent controller meant that something else was at work here. The woman was definitely not a lone terrorist, killing people for the sheer hell of it, and this body was definitely not of her creation. As such, he figured that any body capable of movement could be revived in much the same way, meaning that the girl wasn't necessarily less of a threat. Whoever controlled this, it was clear that their power transcended death, and that killing them didn't necessarily mean stopping them. Before he leaves, he'll have to render her body completely unusable, otherwise this won't be the last he saw of her.

[Kama the Popcorn Kage]

As soon as you would hurl the needles, as they would leave your hands the armored man would be vanished, appearing all of the sudden in front of the girl proficient in illusions, however, this just to end with her life. Despite the lack of head the armored man managed to know of the existance of your attack [reason will be explained later] and yet managed to appear, at light speed somewhere else stabing a sword on the woman's stomach, said sword was held on its back, meaning that he was using now a different sword than before.

If that would not be enough, the light speed assault would happen once again, this time decapitating the remaining twin, letting her to meet her sister on the other life. By now, the brother, which was the only family member alive was just next to you, trying to know what to do, however the desperation would seem to be gaining control over his actions. Up to now, the man would make no threat against you, at least not yet.

[Molokai]

What in hell was this? The headless body possessed some kind of extra sense, or somehow still retained all of it's previous senses. What's worse was the fact that it's speed was immense, leading to the demise of half of his team before Toru even processed it's movement. Clearly it's controller was nearby, manipulating it's body while somehow remaining hidden, since nothing could move like that without some kind of outside help. The only problem was that Toru had no way of finding this controller.

More importantly, though, was the fact that the headless body was still a threat. Handseals would be formed over about a second's time to change his paper armor into a paper shield, granting him greater all-body protection. Continuing with his handseals, two more paper clones came into existence beside him. This thing was his worst nightmare, being both faster than him and able to wield fire, and he imagined that if he could feel he'd be quite afraid at this point.

Speaking of fear, his only remaining ally was now experiencing a form of overwhelming terror, threatening to send him into doing something rash. Toru still needed him if he was to finish this thing off, so it wouldn't do for the last man standing to be experiencing panic. "Listen, I need you to be calm. You won't avenge your sisters by losing your head. Just bear with me and we'll get him." Toru hoped that he read the man correctly and said the right thing.

For some reason, neither the headless man nor the woman had made any direct attack against Toru, which previously was a godsend but now seemed rather odd. Even now, when the man's speed was revealed to far surpass either of them, he didn't attack. Knowing of the headless man's abilities, Toru suspected he probably knew about the automatic shield, but he had plenty of previous chances while the armor was present. Strange, very strange, but not helpful when it came to a battle strategy.

Moving his mouth as little as possible, he calmly instructed his medic, "Rush him again. My clones and I will try to pin him down before you get to him. Just remember, if it seems like you can't get him without getting hurt, back off. I don't need you getting killed." Hoping that the man would follow his instructions, the clones would begin to rush the headless man while Toru prepared handseals.

The clones were made of very tough stuff, and as soon as they got within ten meters of the man they would again send their chains out to him, each coming from a different side. Hopefully the Yamanaka would have begun his charge and drawn the attention of the body, forcing it to choose between stopping the clobbering punch or keeping itself from being bound. It was unlikely that it's fire could stop both clones at once, so no matter which way it blew the flames, the other would grab it's body and wrap it tight.

Similarly, if it chose to attack the charging medic, both clones would be able to get a firm grip and hopefully the medic would have the sense to avoid whatever attack was sent his way. Naturally, if the Yamanaka didn't go along with the plan, none of these events would transpire as stated and Toru would act according to the actions taken instead. It seemed silly that the same attack would work twice, but Toru had a technique prepared just for the eventuality that the body reacted differently.

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