Sparingly Sparring

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Itsuki mean mugged for a sec as Takeo seemlessly and, honestly, gracefully evaded his attack. I was hoping the environmental factors would allow it to travel quick enough, but he's just too fast... I'm gonna need some assitance, I think, he thought to himself. Though, almost like a game of chess, his opponent and himself mirrored each other's moves, whether it be conciously or subconciously. Takeo summoned his winged devil, and proceeded to attack him. He rolled forward, out of the way of the suiton attack, seeing it coming moments before it did so. However, he was a bit frantic when noticing Takeo launching a subsequent jutsu. Thinking on his feet, he dove in the water and shot down about 8 feet beneath the surface, hearing the wind tearing behind him. This is opportunistic! he thought to himself, continuing on with his earlier though and summoning his turtle and clinging onto his shell. The two began to sink immediately, Tochitama visibly pissed at Itsuki for putting him in an awful situation out of no where. The two hit the bottom of the lake, where they proceeded to walk along it to the bank, keeping an eye on Takeo as he emerged ready for defense as they held their breathes and approached the surface. Once he breached, he faced Takeo. "Shall we get back to it?!"

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[Takeo]

Kokuun

Takeo

"Knowledge and awareness are vague, and perhaps better called illusions."

Despite both Kuromaku and Takeo attempting to collapse on Itsuki he used the water to his advantage. I should have expected as much, considered the chuunin as Itsuki sank down. Takeo's Sharingan immediately picked up the other chakra signature, and he spoke claiming, "he used his summon," to Kuromaku. The raven flew eight meters above the water before Itsuki's emergence. Takeo's accurate dojutsu trained on Itsuki and his turtle summon; meanwhile, Itsuki suggested resuming their fight. Takeo was often quiet in moments like this and did not communicate verbally. His raven summon flew down towards Itsuki and his turtle in a blitz. Kuromaku first used Sensatsu Suishou around Itsuki and his summon followed by Magen: Jubaku Satsu specifically on his rival turtle summon. When the torrent of water needles collapsed on Itsuki and his summon Takeo leapt off of Kuromaku with his hands forming the tiger hand seal using Katon: Gouryuuka no Jutsu. His raven summon veered around Itsuki and flew back up into the sky while Takeo launched two dragon headed fireballs at Itsuki from above. The chuunin was still falling down and flipped into a diving position allowing him to slip into the water. His two fireballs had rocked the lake above and began to cause somewhat of an updraft in the sky. Takeo himself was actually unexpectedly blasted further down into the water. Instead of swimming back up Takeo clapped his hands using Fuuton: Reppuushou while facing away from the water's surface. This wind release jutsu propelled a large gust of wind from Takeo's hands, but opposed to using it offensively he used it to propel him high out of the water. Kuromaku responded by flying below the chuunin and catching his short descent.

Takeo of the Sharingan

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His eyes were trained on Takeo's chest as he and his crow summon continued their attack from the sky, soaring at them at high speeds, Itsuki prepared himself. Thusly, when Tochitama's mind and senses were engulfed in Karamaku's genjutsu, he quickly reacted to this, the easiest trick of many the dark duo Takeo and Karamku had up their sleeve. Itsuki knocked Tochitama in the back of the head and spoke to the summon, "quit slacking off! And prepare yourself, we've got incoming!", and his summon responded snappily, "you dragged me into combat without warning, how dare you!", "oh shut up! Get ready!" Just then, Tochitama noticed the oncoming Karamaku's water needles and prepared himself by utilizing Tama no Tochi and Doton: Doroku Gaeshi. Itsuki and Tochitama braced against the back of the earth wall as they listened to the many thunks and thuds of the two jutsu clashing, but Tochitama's wall stood sturdy despite cracking slightly. This was not the case when Takeo swooped by and launched fireballs at them though. The first fireball ruined the integrity of the wall, destroying the sides and blasting around it, causing Itsuki and Tochitama to get knocked down; but the following fireball utterly destroyed their defenses and sent them flying back into the lake. Tochitama sank to the lake bed, intending to regroup with Itsuki. Itsuki was sent skipping on the surface of the lake and received some first and second degree burns on his shoulders and back, but it wasn't anything he wasn't accustomed to. He collected himself and his chakra at the soles of his feet, standing on the surface of the lake nearby where Takeo had dropped down into. Itsuki gritted his teeth from the pain and focused his chakra into his legs as he prepared to jump and time it so that he would grip Takeo in mid-air before he could get too much altitude. If this would suceed he intended to use Hayabusa Otoshi to drive him back into the lake down with him, though if this wouldn't succeed he would utilize Raiton: Issen on his newly nearby airborne opponents.

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[Takeo]

Kokuun

Takeo

"Knowledge and awareness are vague, and perhaps better called illusions."

Takeo was surprisingly excited to use his fuuton jutsu to launch himself out of the water. Yet his happiness was brief as Itsuki managed to intercept him in the sky. Kuromaku's immediate response was to use Suiton: Suidanha on Itsuki's side. Takeo was attempting to brace his arms in between Itsuki, but he knew they were going to crash into the water. Kuromaku's suiton jutsu also damaged Takeo some as the chuunin crashed into the lake; meanwhile, clouds above darkened and thunder began to rumble through the sky. The chuunin was smashed through the water with an unexpecting amount of force; he sank and his vision blurred. Shakuton chakra began radiating throughout Takeo's body, and he used Bakuyaku To-Chi while underwater. The condensed orb of shakuton chakra evaptorated a large amount of water around him creating a crater underwater. Takeo took a deep breath and created two crow clones at his side. Before the water could collapse in on Takeo and his clones they propelled the real Takeo above out of the water. He flew just above the lakebed and rolled back onto the water to face Itsuki. His two crow clones quickly began swimming up towards him; simultaneously, Takeo coughed up a pool of blood before speaking to Itsuki. "That one really got me," he wiped some blood from his mouth. "If only Yume was here," muttered Takeo as he two crow clones rose above the water by his side.

Takeo of the Sharingan

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Takeo and Itsuki beamed back down towards the depths of water that they had just rocketed fourth from. As they plummeted back to the lake, though, Itsuki made out Karamaku coming in for an attack from above from the blurry mess that was his vision as they were flying back to ground level. Karamaku released a powerful blast of water from it's beak, and as a reflex Itsuki activated his Chi no Yoroi, as the already present blood would make this armor cover his body quicker than his hardened cell technique. Though, it still wasn't fully quick enough, only covering about half of his body and hardening partially before he was struck by an aerial beam of pressurized H2O. This sent him and Takeo shooting downward even harder as Itsuki's shouts of agony were drowned out by the lake. He continued to swim away rapidly as he watched Takeo save himself from the depths just as well, though he was followed by two familiar looking faces. "You're telling me!" he said to Takeo as he dangled his damaged arm a bit, it had been rendered useless at this point, the muscle fibers were too damaged for Itsuki to use efficiently not to mention it's dislocation. Itsuki fixed that quickly though, gritting as he reset his arm, "I'll need to visit Yume for that one. I'm about done, man, I'm gonna finish this with a fucking bang!" Itsuki slowly raised his heavily damaged arm to the other moderately damaged one and performed Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, and using his shadow clone and his good arm he began forming the shape of the rasengan. Once a spiraling ball was formed in his arm he stared down his opponent and began to charge. Though, as he was dashing it occured to him that Takeo could just return the favor 3 times over, in response to this he dispersed his shadow clone and instead transferred that same chakra back into his rasengan. "Oodama Rasengan!"

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[Takeo]

Kokuun

Takeo

"Knowledge and awareness are vague, and perhaps better called illusions."

Itsuki used a shadow clone to create a sizeable rasengan in his hand. Lightning struck near the lakebed and a large downpour of rain began to fall. The rainfall was cold and abrupt, but it relaxed the chuunin's muscles. There was only one proper response to Itsuki's jutsu; Takeo alongside his two clones each used Rasengan. The trio of Takeo charged at Itsuki as well only to be greeted with a much larger rasengan. Before the jutsu made contact Takeo managed to make use of some of Kurama's chakra in defense. When his three rasengans collided with Itsuki's massive rasengan Takeo barely used Shoki Jinchuuriki Moodo on himself. He only made use of a small amount of the fox's chakra to provide him with a slight defensive cloak. The jutsu's created a large explosion that blew up both of the chuunin's clones into a crow dust. Takeo himself was blasted at least fifteen meters back on the lake's surface. He skipped before colliding with Kuromaku's wings used as a brace. A large amount of blood ejected from the teen's mouth when he crashed into his summon. "I've got you," muttered the raven as he partially wrapped his wings around Takeo. His bijuu cloak had only formed one tail and it quickly dissipated as Takeo used his remaining consciousness to suppress Kurama's chakra.

Takeo of the Sharingan

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The two chuunin, and old friends, clashed as the hodgepodge of jutsu clamored and errupted into a massive explosion. This sent the two both flying back, far. The damage they recieved was immense, Itsuki came to a rolling stop amongst the bushes in the treeline surrounding the lakebed. He lay on his back, struggling to sit up and examine Takeo's condition. He was out cold. "HAHAHA! You fucking bastard, you tried! Using the jutsu you STOLE from me, you clever bastard, but I had a BIG trick up my sleeve, huh?! Hahaha! Now... er... time to... ugh! Get us back to the village! Ergh! What the hell?!" Itsuki began to get extremely pissed and flail, to the best of his abilities. His body had sustained so much damage it had given out on him at this point, he was unable to move. He would lay there pinned to the ground awaiting Takeo's reconstitution or his own. -Thread Over-

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