Hayate Namikaze vs Hinaku

“Tch. What a boring day…where’s everyone been?” –Hayate
muttered as he was perched up high on a tree branch as he looked around him,
his eyes stretching from side to side. One hand of his was placed on the trunk
of the tree, his hand flattened as his palm rubbed up against the birch. The
other hand hovering ontop of his blue forehead protector which blocked the
sunlight out of his face that casted a shadow over his olive complexion which
darkened his usually bright blue eyes down to a more somber tone. The unusually
cool air seemed to reinvorgate the young boy, as he seemed full of energy and
life, due to his proud and upbeat demeanor. He wore a combat ready outfit,
marked with silver arm guards, metal plated gloves and a small sword holstered
to his back and attached to a brown leather strap that wrapped around his body,
covering a thick line of his chest and stomach. - “Hmm..maybe someones over at
the training grounds, I bet I could probably find Toka there. Hah.” –The boy
laughed as he put a hand under his chin and rubbed side to side before
chuckling to himself, having thought about Toka training rigorously. The boy
groaned as he waved both arms around in a circle before grabbing his right
forearm with his left and tightening the fingers around the muscle before
pulling it back and forth to stretch it out before reversing and doing the same
to his remaining arm. Reaching down he’d pick up one of his legs and bend it
quickly to a ninety degree angle and tugging at it before letting it drop back
to the branch beneath him, with the sandal scuffling a bit as it did so. Letting
out a few more groans he signaled the end of his stretch by a deep breath to
collect himself. Just after that he began leaping from branch to branch as he
made his way to his final destination. His arms lay carelessly behind him,
seeming lifeless as they fluttered slightly up and down in the breeze. There
was always a smile etched onto the boy’s face and it seemed to grow more and
more apparent when he was in motion, almost as if he just loved the thrill of
moving and jumping like he was. Looking up above him he snickered as he saw a
thick branch just out of his reach, the brown log just protruding outwards
almost as if it were taunting the boy. Mixed in with a groan, the boy leaped
out from motion and spread his arms outwards as he latched himself onto the
branch, all ten fingers gripping onto dear life as the inertia of his movements
began to take place, as the boy’s hands began to twist as his legs shot up into
the air as they went higher then the branch itself. Grasping on tighter, the
boy’s legs were planted ontop of the branch as his hands were still coiled
around the wood. In an instance, the boy kicked off from the branch projecting
himself back into the open air and quickly falling back down to a branch
beneath him, as he stopped and held onto a trunk again, smiling. Hayate was
known to be quick and acrobatic and more importantly, a rigorous trainer.-
“Huh?” –He mummbled as he caught something out from the corner of his eye as he
looked to see a pale faced, white haired boy who was drenched in the color back
from head to toe. He smirked.- “Hinaku.” –Hayate muttered underneath his breath
as he leaned over to catch a full glimpse of his fellow genin. As Hinaku
continued to walk towards presumedly the training grounds a loud ruffle came
from Hinaku’s right side up above in the tree line as Hayate came bursting out
in a full leap with his right leg leading the way with both hands coiled up
into fists as he came plummeting to the ground around 10 feet infront of
Hinaku. Hayate’s left left hand ran through his brown locks as each finger
divided it up into individual strands, pulling back a good portion of his hair
as his right hand swiftly plunged itself into a small holster on his thigh and
speedily recovered a Kunai that was latched around his pointer finger, which he
brought up infront of him spinning the weapon of choice around his finer coyly
before catching it in his palm with a tight hand wrapped around the metal.
Hayate started down Hinaku with a competitive natured smirk.- “Where ya been
Hinaku? Team 1 hasn’t seen you around in a while. What gives?” –He chirped over
at the solem looking Genin, who was noticeably shorter than Hayate and had a
pair of water tubs wrapped around his waist which signaled him to be a Water
user and those tubs looked heavy.

-As Hayate leaped through the air and his eyes sized up
Hinaku, he managed to catch a glimpse of his teammate forming just one hand
sign, it could have been a full jutsu with one hand sign or just a part of
another one, either way he had performed something. When Hayate landed, he was
all set and ready to go. Hinaku had his usual blank expression on his face,
which seemed to irk Hayate slightly as both of his teammates were prone to
having no emotions mixed with bad attitudes. Hayate lifted his eye brows and
let the hair he pulled back fall back into place as few strands spread over his
face. He seemed a little surprised for Hinaku to actually apologize for
something, he would have bet on his teammate just scoffing it off. At this
point, Hayate was constantly observing Hinaku as his intentions were very clear
from the start, he wanted to fight even before Hinaku challenged him. So his
eyes were sizing up his opponent right from the start. He had already made
quick note of some downsides to Hinaku’s figure. He wore those two water tubs
on each side which allow balanced him off with weight still added on several
pounds to Hinaku’s step, which would be a flaw going forward. Besides that,
Hinaku always was a stand-off person and never seemed to let anyone know much
about him, which was something that made Hayate curious this time around when
they were meant to spar. The intensity and fire building up in Hayate was
unquestionable at this point, he was a shinobi known for his love of compeition
and a fight between squadmates, and well that was just icing on the cake. His
eyes grew with that intensity with every minute as he couldn’t help but smile
when Hinaku suggested a fight. However, his face seemed to become more like
Hinaku’s as he saw him draw out his blade. He noticed Hinaku’s facial
expression just slightly change into a frown which seemed to put Hayate on
edge.- “Hinaku never shows any emotion..not even slightly like that.’ –Hayate
thought to himself as he looked back to first jumping out of the tree line and
catching a glimpse of Hinaku performing a hand sign.- ‘It looks like he did
something to himself, but I don’t know what yet.’ –He again thought to himself
as he continued to look over his opponent, this time with a coy smile on his
face.- “Hey whatever you say, Hina.” –Hayate chirped over to him again.
Generally he tended to be a very modest and kind-hearted boy, but the fire and
intensity created from a chance to fight consumed the young genin at this
point. He thightened his grip around his Kunai one last time before throwing
his head back over in the direction of Hinaku.- “Look out!” –Hayate yelled as
his arm, in one fluid and swift motion, flung itself out infront of him,
turning into a flat 180 degree angle with all muscles stretched out as he
whiped the Kunai out of his hands and projected it into the air, the tip of the
blade headed to the dead center of Hinaku’s chest. Hayate was skilled with his
ninja tools, he favored the Kunai and practiced on his home-made signs fairly
often in the forest here, which was also almost like having home-field
advantage for him. His fingers spread out unevenly, as Hayate watched closely
as he was ready to observe his opponent.- ‘What will you do…’ –Hayate again
thought to himself as he prepared himself for what should be, a tremendous
fight.- /E

-Hayate watched as the Kunai sailed towards Hinaku piercing
and shredding the air as it did. There was a loud metallic clang when Hinaku
deflected the incoming blade aimed for the center of his body. In one fell
swoop he managed to not only block the kunai but send it flying into the ground
a few feet to the left of him, a talented deflection. Shortly afterwards, it
would be Hinaku’s time to attack and Hayate’s turn to play defense a little.
Hayate watched closely as Hinaku began his next move. For a Namikaze, Hayate
was fast and because of that he could also tell that Hinaku was fast too just
by the way he was able to accelerate at such a tremendous speed as he galloped
towards Hayate. His keen eyes managed to pick up some hand movements going on
behind him and although trying to keep it as quick and suttle as Hinaku
possibly could, the day was bright and a movement like that could be seen and
noticed by anyone, even an academy student. However, the actual item Hinaku had
retrieved would be another whole story that Hayate had no way of finding out.
He knew it could be a variety of things but in the end he would only find out
about it once Hinaku put it on display. As Hayate raised his arms to start his
defense he heard three small explosions just as he saw smoke begin to pile up
behind Hinaku and quickly make its way towards Hayate. Normally, Hayate would
be inexperienced when it came to battling potential blindless from the smoke
but since his fight with Toka, he managed to be able to devise up some
anecdotal information on it. As the smoke quickly approached Hayate he knew
that it was absolutely essential that he get out of his position as he almost
lost his life when Toka did the same trick last month. His head beamed to the
left as he looked to a nearby tree up above him which was about 12 to 15 feet
away from him, which the perfect branch protuding to the side of the trunk.
Hayate was hasty in his jump as he knew that the real attack would be coming at
any moment and as quickly as his Namikaze body allowed him, he leaped off from
the ground and quickly landed onto one of the branches with one leg bent and
the other laying flat on his shin with both hands resting at his sides. He
watched as the smoke enveloped the area he was once in as suddenly a large
flash swarmed the area which caused smoke of the smoke to dissapate from the
sheer force of an explosion like that, if anything it managed to make the smoke
a little less dense allowing Hayate to see through it just a bit. He smirked as
he looked onwards, knowing that he was right on how an attack would quickly
ensue once the smoke bombs were deployed.- ‘Thanks Toka.’ –He thought to
himself before swiftly reaching behind him and pulling out four Kunai, two in
each hand in which he’d cross his arms over eachother allowing his hands and
fingers to overlap as he flung them back the opposite way, relieving his hands
of all of the Kunai as they again soared the air aiming directly at Hinaku. The
smoke was clear enough to see the a general figure but not much more due to the
three smoke bombs that were deployed. Hayate was unaware of the fact that
Hinaku was blinded but this surely didn’t help in Hinaku’s defense of this
attack.- /E