Crystals vs Diamonds

## Crkou Inariystals vs Diamonds 3-22-17

Kaiiaki: -A slight wind blew through the skeleton trees belonging to the forest outside of the village. The day was silent, eerily so. Blackened clouds scattered throughout the sky, forever instilling a grey outlook upon the silent Star Village below. The village rarely ever saw the thing such as sunlight. Only once in a blue moon did the Sun dare to peek through the clouds and grace the village with its warming rays. Perhaps that's why it was difficult to grow anything in this village. The soil was mutable, blackened just as the clouds above. Only at night, were the villagers able to see the sky above. That was when the sky glowed in the starlight night. At those times, it was Kaiiaki Kurisutaru that ventured out into the night. However, today she was out a little earlier than usual. It was about an hour before twilight, and she had found herself in the whispering winds of the forest. Wind softly blew at her purple pastel hair, blowing the strands in random directions. The cold air bit at her sparkling grey skin, causing goosebumps to arise on the uncovered flesh of her arms. Instinctively, she shivered, pulling at her black arm warmers to further cover herself. The rest of her body was covered in a black sweater tunic, shorts, and leggings underneath. It was enough to keep her decently warm in the early Spring air. Even though this sort of spring still felt like winter because of the chilling sky overhead. It would make the temperature feel about 45 degrees. "The fools that call themselves the Elders.." Kaiiaki spat at the ground. No one was around to hear her. Yet she continued to talk to herself. "Where in the fucking hell is that bitch I am supposed to fight. Did he pussy out already?" Kaiiaki sneered, her purple lips drawing up in that of disgust. Grey eyes continued to search the skeleton tree forest, searching for any type of life. ~It is not as if I do not enjoy their little tests on me...how they like to see if I can in fact keep the power of the Nine Tails in check when I fight. But I tire from manipulating them.~ She thought to herself, somewhat thinking to the dark demon that lie within the back of her mind. "Perhaps my power worries them." She began to pace around, her black sandals clicking off the dark soil. "Why else must they continue to push my patience." The sound of her impish voice suddenly cut off from its annoyed tone. A twig had snapped off in the distance, perhaps about 30 feet off to the south of her. Quickly, Kaiiaki reached into her back pouch for a shuriken to combat the threat with. However, another snap of the twig revealed it to be just a frightened white rabbit. "Waste of my weapons." Kaiiaki shrugged, pushing the shuriken back into her pouch. She felt around back inside of the pouch, double checking now that she had her usual equipment with her. 6 shuriken, 5 senbon, 2 smoke bombs, 10 paper bombs medical kit, sterile needles, and various herbs to treat poisons and wounds. Everything there was in order as usual. Kaiiaki would have to remind herself to thank her older sister Dahlia for remember to re-stock her pouch. With a satisfied nod, she moved her arm back to her side. While she was stuck there, her mind wandered to many a topic. The strength of her Crystal Release how much stronger she wanted to be, the father of her son, Yukio, becoming a Jounin. The thoughts flickered into her mind without much rhyme or reason. She managed to chase them off within a few minutes with the remaining thought that she should stay on her guard. She was in fact purposefully sent to the outskirts of the village to fight with a man she had never met before.-

Tenkou:-The cloudened skies of Hoshigakure no sato barely illuminated the fields, however the light of the moon was more than enough to give clarity to the outskirts of the village, right at the edge of the forest, the air feels tense as the battle nears to its beginning. After making his way to the designated spot for the spar to occur, the 6’1 feet tall male stands straight, positioning himself at a rough 20 feet away from his female opponent analyzing her attire and equipment, while he himself sports a lightweight outfit, that offered him mild protection against projectiles with his carbon based chest piece that also protected his back, along with a pair of shoulder plates made of a light layer of stainless steel to cover them on top of a black long sleeve undershirt, which only covered his right arm, hiding a wrist band that allowed him to summon up to 100 shuriken, along with a pair of elbow pads to keep his joints warm and a pair of insulated gloves that stopped electrical currents to flow into his body, but allowed his to go through just fine. His pants were nothing out of the ordinary, a comfortable fit of polyester fabric that allowed good flexibility and very mild protection with an excess of fabric around his waist that served no purpose, other than aesthetics. His closed boots that stretched all the way to the middle of his calves and had a thin layer of insulated material at the soles, serving the same purpose as his gloves. On his left ear a pair of fangs that had a sentimental meaning for him and a red scarf that accentuated his outfit, and also allowed him to use it in several versatile ways when needed. Strapped on his back, a large sized shuriken and on his lower back a steel Chokuto tucked between his pouch and his waist, where he kept 20 senbon and a small vial of a specially made liquid that helped re-moisturize his eyes when needed. Tenkou smiles as it’s been a while since his last encounter, being that one time he was on border patrol duties and had to face a pair of deadly bandits that almost took his life from him, his excitement was concealed though, as even when he was smiling, you could see the determination in his eyes, a pair of bright diamond-like eyes, that reflected the light present as if a diamond reflected it instead, it was alluring and quite difficult to gaze away from them, as the sight of such eyes had become a true rarity over the years. The eyes belonged to a clan that had a few members scattered across the globe, as a very reduced few of them were able to awaken the Doujutsu of the clan; The Kyoukan. A Doujutsu that allowed the holder to bend whichever light caught in his eyes to redirect it towards his opponent’s retina if he/she was in range by reflecting it and angling it at will using the eye and chakra in order to be able to distort what the brain of the victim conceived as vision, at the cost of gradually draining the Kyoukan from its moisture, potentially leaving one with dried up eyes and losing vision perpetually. Tenkou’s smile slowly vanishes, as he focus on her potential moves, letting his chakra flow inside his body, while going through his eyes, it made them sparkle lightly.- “Forgive my late appearance Lady Kaiiaki, my name is Tenkou, from the Inari clan, I believe I was assigned to conduct friendly sparring with you tonight, please go easy on me” -The political tone he gave to his words gave away a hint of his personality, and as he readies himself, he held his left hand upright forming the standard seal while his right hand rests on the hilt of his Chokuto-

Kaiiaki: -" You have kept me waiting long enough." Kaiiaki spoke through gritted teeth. So the man had finally decided to show himself had he? Perhaps he hadn't been frightened by the rumors after all. The whispers throughout the village had stilled recently. Thanks to Kaiiaki's unwilling need to save the village from the hordes of the undead army. She would have to go back to terrorizing the streets soon enough, or the citizens might think that she was going soft. The first terror act, would have to start with this one it seemed. "Catch me. If you can." Kaiiaki laughed in a cruel tone, one that lacked any sympathy for his situation. As she laughed, she formed her hands into the handsign: Ram. With this, she activated the chakra within her core, then moved it towards the outer layer of her body. This layer of chakra covered her, coating her physical body. This happened simultaneously, and as she continued to laugh, she morphed into the surface beneath her. She had disappeared from sight, now underneath the ground. She felt the earth above her, its suppressing mass. Her body was mallable to the earth and any solid object. She could pass through it without trying hardly. She was surprised she had been able to master this technique, with her natural affinity towards Crystal Release. One might think she wouldn't have talent for anything else outside of her Kekkei Genkai. But this technique, was one she was able to master completely without any trouble hardly. Kaiiaki slipped through the dark soil, moving around in it, coiling in the ground beneath. She began to mix her chakra within the ground. Her presence was an unknown location to him, but she was closer than he thought. After mixing her chakra, Kaiiaki instantly formed Chakra Thorns inside of the ground in a circle around her. 10 branches formed each semi-circle. Each one consisted of a single base branch, with the width of about 3 feet wide. In the next 2 seconds, 6 branches would branch off from the base. These would span the width of about 12 inches. They would grow out of the ground and pierce the area above, attempting to stab through the feet of her opponent. If that attempt would miss, additional branches would grow out and attempt to slice through his achilles tendon. In the ground below, Kaiiaki silently listened to see if her attack would lay a hit.-

Tenkou: -Her words strike him and make him feel a bit awkward, as he wasn’t one to like letting people down, and as she utters her next string of words, he lightly flinches, smiling. Observing patiently as she snuck into the ground beneath her, he doesn’t waste any time and switches the hand-sign he prepared earlier and complimented it with his right hand, that was previously resting on the hilt of his blade, after a few seconds, a gust of wind starts to circle and grow in strength around the sole of his feet, growing taller and fiercer by the second, until it reached his knees and is now a gust of strong wind circling around his legs in a tornado fashion. As she sneaked around in the soil beneath him, he didn’t squander in second thoughts, he knew she either attack him directly after coming up, or would extend her Doton jutsu in some way, so to avoid getting caught up into something of the sorts, he jumped up, boosting his leap with the fuuton jutsu surrounding his feet, allowing him to reach heights of about 50 feet up with ease. While in mid air, he performed another set of hand-signs, biting his exposed forearm until it bled to perform his summoning jutsu just before reaching the highest point of his jump. “Kuchiyose!” At his feet, a large brown and white feathered peregrine falcon of around 10 feet of height and a wing span of around 15 feet spawns, catching him at the point where Tenkou was about to start his descent, thus giving him a platform to stand on as the large bird kept him above without effort. The male gazes down onto the spot he was standing on, noticing how some chakra strands erupted from the ground where he once stood. “Good call..” With the higher ground (pun intended), Tenkou smiles, closes his eyes and starts focusing his chakra in silence, with both hands together in front of his chest as the falcon at his feet carefully and meticulously observes the ground below him, making use of the perfectly designed evolution of their eyes, giving them a very accurate and wide vision to be on the lookout of any possible changes on the battle field. He whispers with a sly smirk and his eyes still closed.- “...Catch me if you can..”

Kaiiaki: -Kaiiaki listened in the ground below for any sign of her attack striking the man. When she instead heard the sound of a blustering wind, she knew that he had found someone to counteract her attack. ~Mother fucker.~ Kaiiaki thought to herself. Although, it was impressing to see that he at least knew enough to keep himself alive. For now. Disgruntled, Kaiiaki moved through the earth, searching for the roots of a tree to morph herself into. Most likely he had moved position after her crystals had attempted to impale him. She wanted to get a better view of the new scenery. With a simple shift in chakra, Kaiiaki moved through the roots of a nearby tree, then continued to move up the height of a tree. When she had moved up about 7 branches worth, she morphed her face slightly out of the tree. It was just enough so that she could see the scenery. ~So he's on a falcon now..~ She thought to herself, commenting on how he had escaped her fist attempt. Kaiiaki quickly concealed herself back within the tree she was coiled in. Kaiiaki began to mix her chakra with the minerals within the ground directly beneath the bird and fanned out that chakra to a radius of about 15 feet. With this, she began to form crystal thorns from beneath the ground in that radius. The branches burst out of the ground, up into the air above. These crystal thorns would span the width of 5 feet, and span a whopping 20 feet out of the ground. ~Goddamnit they're up too high.~ Kaiiaki cursed at the range. ~Let's try another approach..~ Kaiiaki formed the handsigns: Ram → Dog → Monkey, and opened her palms towards the outside of the tree. When she did this, an indigo colored crystal snowflake formed outside of the tree. It spanned the width of about 5 feet in height and 4 feet in length. Upon formation, 4 clones identical to Kaiiaki popped out of the crystal mirror. However, her opponent would not know which one was the real Kaiiaki. Kaiiaki commanded each clone to use the Hiding in Surface technique and slip into the tree adjacent to hers, and about 10 feet from the bird that the man had summoned.-

Tenkou: -As Tenkou kept focusing his chakra while riding Kasso, the bird kept his eyes focused on the ground, and out of the corner of its big eyes, it caught a change in the scenario, something emerging from the bark of a tree. Falcons are great hunters, and their eyes are their main tool, that fact allowed Kasso to see a face barely poking out to scope the area, and a few seconds after, it vanished. “Tenkou.. she’s hiding..” The bird relayed and the male smiled in silence wrapping up his chakra preparation. Suddenly, out of the ground, a set of thorn-shaped crystals shot upwards towards the male and the bird direction branching out, trying to reach them, the bird simply rose a few feet before it realized that they have reached their maximum height at 20 feet and Kasso returned to the standard 50 feet mark where he was earlier. “Shoton..” The bird relayed and Tenkou nodded, pressing both his hands against its feathery back and yelling in unison: “Ninpo: Fuuton Daikamaitachi!!” The Falcon quickly began to flap its wings, sending waves of wind that would collide mid-way against one another, creating ripples of violent wind that were capable of cutting through almost anything, enhanced by Tenkou’s chakra, the jutsu became twice as powerful as any other shinobi would only hope to achieve, the waves of destructive wind clashing against the crystal branches, crushing them down, trees, cutting them down, rocks, splitting them to pieces and doing dents into the ground as the fierce wind waves crashed onto the earth, destroying the balanced environment for the sake of taking out the replicas of the female he was requested to fight with, and hopefully forcing her out of her hiding spot. Tenkou would open his eyes, observing the destruction he had accomplished, trying to look for her, hoping that she wouldn’t have found herself caught in the mayhem, Kasso also was on the lookout, using its big round eyes to scout the area of destruction, which easily spread to around 35 feet around the area where her face was first spotted and the clones appeared and vanished. Using some of the blood still dripping from his forearm, he makes the necessary hand-signs again and whispers. “Kuchiyose..” On his shoulder, a regular sized Falcon with white feathers and gray accents along with a piece of clothing across its chest that had an imprint of the name of the bird spelled in Kanji “Sokki” appeared, and after giving out his command to the bird, it flew away further up, hiding in the clouds at a blinding speed, as Falcons belong to the fastest family of fliers, vanishing from sight before it could be traced. Tenkou Scouts the area, once more trying to find his target-

Kaiiaki: - ~Oh how exhausting...~ Kaiiaki grunted at her opponent inwardly. He was keeping her moving. For once, this wasn't an opponent she could just defeat in one move. Perhaps she could if she was really trying to kill him. But for the sake of entertaining the elders, she would play nice. Kaiiaki commanded the clones to slip into the surface of the ground using their technique. She would perhaps pull them back later for further use. Kaiiaki herself slid out of the tree, burying herself into the roots that still remained in the ground. She was lucky to escape from such a jutsu with the cuts from the wind scraping at her skin. If it hadn't been for the protection of the tree, she could have been in worse condition. Thankfully she had been able to slide into the uncut part and slip back into the ground below, as had the clones. She lay beneath the ground that had sheltered the once before crystal branches. As expected, they did not last as well as she wanted them to. Tenkou had in fact toppled the branches over, almost destroying them completely. She would have to think smarter if she wanted to beat him without killing him. Suddenly, Kaiiaki winced from the pain of the cuts on her arms. She realized blood was oozing from the cuts that covered her sparkling skin. She surveyed the damage, seeing no major wounds that would need immediately stitching. In the least right now she would have to stop the bleeding. Her right hand pressed against the cuts on her left forearm. She was attempting to exert enough pressure to stop the bleeding of the cut. While she would do this, she would focus on mixing her chakra with one of the crystal branches still rooted deeply within the ground. Then, she would command two of her crystal clones. The first clone would mould into the crystal branch using the surface technique. Without prior knowledge of the clone entering the crystal branch underground, none in the surface above would know that the crystal branch contained a clone. Next, the 2nd clone grabbed onto the base of the crystal. She would ride it with it, using chakra on the soles of her feet to stick to the crystal's surface. ~Now go!~ Kaiiaki shouted mentally towards her clones. Kaiiaki quickly mixed her chakra within the minerals in the ground. Using chemical compounds mixed with her chakra, she was once more able to create crystal branches on to the previous one rooted into the ground. Instantly, the crystal thorn would jut up into the sky, as if it were attempting to stab the air itself. It fully formed at 30 feet, then another branch formed on top of the original, increasing the range. This next branch formed instantly, adding another 10 feet up into the air making the total distance 40 feet. The first clone pounced up into the air, pulling out a shuriken with a smoke bomb attached. The clone aimed to land upon the giant bird's back, aiming her shuriken at Tenkou from only about 8 feet away. She crushed the smoke bomb right before throwing the kunai at Tenkou's chest. The smoke dispersed, following a radius of about 10 feet in width and height. If he didn't take action against the kunai, the first clone would aim to slice into the bird's neck with an additional shuriken. Without wasting the smoke, the second clone jumped into action. The clone merged out of the crystal branch, pouncing upwards towards the bird's underside. Quickly, she forced the handsigns: Tiger → Horse → Rabbit → Rat → Dog before reaching out to attempt to grab the bird's feather's on its belly. If the bird would decide to strike out with any movement, the clone would strike out with her Chakra Scalpel that she had just formed. This would render the movements useless by cutting through the muscles and tendons of the intended target. However if the bird wouldn't attempt to strike back, the clone would grab onto the bird's underside. attempting to use chakra scalpel to cut the major muscle tissue and tendons needed for flying. It wouldn't harm the bird majorly, but it would prevent it from flying.-

Tenkou:-After minutes of silence, Tenkou worried that he had killed the female with such a big scale jutsu, but maintaining his current altitude he remained at bay, waiting for something else to happen, the silence was unsettling. Suddenly she comes out of the ground, as if nothing happened and began to climb up the remnants of the crystals pillars, soon enough they began to spring up, stacking up in height one after another, and the female riding it along towards Kasso and him. After evaluation, he wasn’t certain that the female was bold enough to come at him directly, so he assumed it was one of the clones from earlier, seeing as he couldn’t break the crystal in its entirety, they have had to resist the cutting waves of wind somehow, so this was a big lead to him. “Kasso, brace yourself..” As the clone pounced up towards them, Tenkou quickly made 2 hand-signs and placed his right hand at the hilt of his steel chokuto, electrifying it with his Raiton, that although a bit sloppy, it proved useful in several occasions, he quickly unsheathed his blade and deflected the shuriken coming at him with ease, sending the incoming weapon several yards away and down to the ground, while at the same time, Kasso flapped its wings to dispel the scattered smoke without struggle, thus reducing the amount of smoke around to a bare minimum, causing almost no visual impairment on him nor the bird. As this happened Kai’s clone landed on Kasso’s back, but as she pulled out another shuriken, the male didn’t waste a single second and began to clash with her, using his electrified sword to parry the strike dealt to his summoning, successfully blocking it, steel on steel would actually cause that the electricity running through his blade to be conducted to her shuriken, and thus electrocuting her, hoping that this would cause a stunning effect on her to give him advantage as such close quarters. As this went through, the second clone that came out from the crystal tried to surprise Kasso from below, but as vigilant as the Falcon was, he could spot her as she pounced and swiftly used its mighty left talon to catch her with it, crushing her without mercy as she performed her jutsu. “Tenkou! Clone” -”Deal with it Kasso! I’m busy myself here >o<” As Tenkou clashed with Kaiiaki on top of the Falcon, the bird struggled as the clone tried to fight back, slicing its talon’s joints, but not before he could lay a big crack if not crushing it to bits with the power he had in them, both of them hoping that this would be enough to get rid of the two undesirable on board-

Kaiiaki: -Kaiiaki cursed as she felt the first clone dissipate. It was no doubt the doing of her opponent, Tenkou. However, that one had been the distraction clone. So she had expected it to fail at any sort of attempt on his life. The second clone had remained intact, for now. It was being held by brute force, she could sense. But the clone had told her through telepathy that it had at least been able to slash enough tendons, ligaments, and muscle, that the bird had loosened its grip enough for her to slip out and clamp herself on to the bird's underside. Having done that, the clone now aimed to strike at the bird's major flying muscles, tendons and ligaments. Without those, the bird's wings would be useless and it wouldn't be able to continue to fly. Given the close proximity of the clone on the bird, it was pretty much a guaranteed hit. And it couldn't come any sooner. Kaiiaki was beginning to feel the drain of the clones on her chakra network. Even with her extraordinary chakra reserves, she couldn't keep using the higher-ranked jutsu and maintaining the clones as well. Not if she didn't want to start tapping into Kurama's chakra. That always came with a cost. A cost of blood from those most unfortunate to walk into the back alleys of Hoshigakure. Kaiiaki decided to reserve her chakra and release the remaining two clones in the ground. She perked up slightly as she felt their return. She would still have to leave the ground soon though. Maintaining this jutsu alone was enough to make her feel slightly fatigued. But at least she had stopped the bleeding from the earlier attacks. The clones had bought her enough time to do that. She was sure this next attack wouldn't fail. The clone was too close to disarming the bird her opponent rode on. The bird would soon fall to the ground below and she would take her vantage point. Kaiiaki slipped out of the ground, unveiling her eyes to the world above. She landed her sandals softly on the black soil, finally coming to surface. From above she could see the bird struggling, Tenkou on top, and the clone in action. It was acting relentlessly, just as Kaiiaki would had she been in the position of the clone. There was one thing strong within her, and that was the will to survive no matter the cost. Kaiiaki quickly forced the handsigns: Snake →Ram→Dog. "Crystal Release: Crystal Funhouse," She spoke out in an even, cold tone. This was her own personal jutsu that she had created only months ago. The jutsu was still young, but the sadistic nature of it played to her personality. "Do not worry...when your bird falls to the ground below.. you will not follow... you will have all the comforts of home...my home." A grin slowly stretched upon her eager face. Kaiiaki combined her chakra with the molecules within the air, using the chemical compounds to morph into her ever famous Kekkei Genkai. She was forming a staircase, step by step behind Tenkou about 4 feet. Although this would look harmless to the common eye, he would soon be surrounded. If the bird would fall, or in summoning animal cases, "disappear" Kaiiaki would keep Tenkou from falling to his death below. In fact she had something else in mind. Within two seconds, an Indigo colored crystal staircase had formed in the height of 7 feet and width in 4 feet. The staircase appeared as if it was going up towards the sky. But then Kaiiaki flipped it, turning it backwards with the gesture of her right hand. With another gesture, she formed an identical staircase, now turning sideways from the backwards staircase. With any common knowledge, it would appear if one was stuck in a Genjutsu with the trippy ways of crystal staircases in the air. ~Now...~ With a sudden burst of chakra, Kaiiaki aimed to form four base walls spanning the length of 30 feet and width of 20 feet. Regardless if the bird had dropped or not at this point, Kaiiaki would attempt to trap Tenkou and the bird within it if it still remained in the air somehow. She was sure it would drop at any second from all the damage the clone had been able to take on it.-

Tenkou:-Tenkou was midly surprised as to how easily the clone broke as soon as it got in contact with the electrically charged blade, perhaps this was their weakness, and it showed, as it showed no signs of resilience to it. “Tenkou the clone on my chest!” Spewed the bird, he quickly turned to see what was going on and as the clone grabbed onto the Falcon’s chest, Kasso immediately poofed, disappearing before he could get in any further harm, causing Tenkou to starting falling, pointing his still electrically charged blade at the exact point where his Falcon’s chest was, trying to impale the clone that held onto it before it could react and make it break, having such a small distance between them, would make it extremely difficult for it to avoid or block the incoming stab. Whether he got the clone or not, A crystal cube would start to form around Tenkou, giving him no time to react as it closed on him, successfully trapping him inside. “I guess it’s time..” Tenkou looks around, looking for an exit, and soon finding one, a small window that lead to the outside, he quickly let chakra run into his Doujutsu, redirecting a small amount of light entering his eyes outside towards the sky, impossible to trace, since it wasn’t a ray, it was more like a small shot, that only a trained and very powerful eye could notice. He waits patiently and closes his eyes, counting down in his mind as he pays no attention to the cube surrounding him, thinking that she’ll most likely use this trap to wear him down, and cause no imminent threat to him. “5.. 4.. 3.. 2..” He counts in his head and holds his two hands together forming a hand-sign, in the meantime, Sokki, the regular sized peregrine falcon that was summoned earlier and was on the wait for his command caught the signal, sent in the form of light, and immediately began its descent. Peregrine falcons are the fastest hunters on earth, allowing them to reach nose-dive speeds of easily 200 m/h however Sokki, was specifically trained to reach faster speeds, allowing him to reach 300m/h without a problem. The bird took no more than 4 seconds to reach the exact spot where Kaiiaki stood, most likely oblivious of this bird, as she never saw it fly into the clouds, hunting for its prey. As Sokki reached Kaiiaki with a full-speed nose-dive, he attempts to graze her right shoulder with his razor sharp claws, that in case they hit her, would most likely render her arm useless because of the incredible force of the hit, whether it was a hit or not, the distraction was enough. “1..” He finishes counting down and performs his Hiraishin, teleporting exactly at the spot where Sokki was, thanks to the piece of clothing with the Kanji of the bird’s name, this was Tenkou’s seal, which allowed him to perform such technique, however at a great cost, as this move was by no means easy to perform and had a high chakra toll. After teleporting, Tenkou lands behind Kaiiaki, holding his electrified chokuto against her throat as he stands still, shaking a bit, hoping that this, was enough to intimidate her into not moving. “Please.. don’t move.. I don’t want to hurt you.. or get hurt instead..” His sparkling white eyes were focused on the lady, observant of any move she could make, hoping that she’d decide, that this was enough, for the sake of both-

Kaiiaki: - The sound of something cutting through the air was the first thing that caught Kaiiaki's attention. But where was it coming from? Her grey eyes searched around in the sky for anything causing such a sound. There, up above was that of a bird speeding towards the Earth. "Oh you poor chess piece..." Kaiiaki chuckled darkly. The bird was going so fast, it wouldn't know what hit it. Kaiiaki began to form chakra above the shoulder it was aiming for. But before she could form a crystal there, she felt the disturbance of her chakra from the Crystal Funhouse. "God damn it!" Kaiiaki screeched in an impish sound that almost sounded inhuman. Tenkou had escaped by using some sort of teleporation technique. Before she knew it, the bird had swooped down, scraping her shoulder with its sharp claws. It felt as if 4 knives had just stabbed into her shoulder all at once. Kaiiaki let loose an inhuman sounding scream that let loose from her lungs, stabbing its volume into the air above. With a wound like this, she would need stitching to stop the bleeding and soon. But as she felt the rage begin to take over her, she felt a different type of chakra begin to course through her body. Her eyes flipped from their usual grey to a burning red boil of flowing hatred. With these eyes, she looked upon her opponent, hate radiating off of her like the heat of a burning ferocious sun. "You..." She growled with an underlying tone of darkness to it. Kurama was beginning to show his face. "You dare threaten ME!" Kaiiaki screeched in a psychotic, manic tone. With his sword pointed at her throat, her eyes boiled over with loathing from the demon dwelling within her. Kaiiaki formed a crystal branch directly behind Tenkou, only 4 inches behind. This branch would grow up to the length, up to it was right at Tenkou's torso. It would reach out and stab Tenkou right through his intestine if he so much as made a move on her. This put them at a stalemate. And perhaps if they continued this fight, would put Tenkou at an even greater disadvantage since the blow caused Kaiiaki begin her transformation into the 9 tails. She would easily be able to dodge the sword's blow with the added speed from Kurama's strength. However, she didn't think he would be that lucky.-

Tenkou:-Tenkou quickly slides his blade off her throat and sheathes it back in place, hoping that she’d realize he would no longer continue the fight, Sokki carefully glided towards him and landed on his left shoulder holding itself up by digging its sharp talons against the shoulder plates of his armor. He looks over at Kaiiaki, smiling, hoping that her anger had settled down enough to spare him from any pain. “Kaiiaki.. forgive me for hurting you.. I hope we can become friends.. and use this to learn for future battles..” Sokki screeches and poofs back into its resting hills, as Tenkou bows down at Kaiiaki, acknowledging her strenght with respect-