Kaiiaki vs Ari

## Kaiiaki vs Ari 2-17-16

Kaiiaki: - "W-where...where am I...?" Kaiiaki's eyelids fluttered open as she awoke in a dark, dingy room. The room smelled of slight mold, it made Kai's nose crinkle in disgust. "Why...why am I here...?" Kaiiaki could only weakly mutter the words out of her mouth. Her body was lying down upon something hard, a table? And her her arms and legs were chained to this table...why was she chained up like an animal? All of a sudden, the memory of an anbu bringing her here when she had first entered the village of Hoshigakure flashed within her mind. And then she remembered. "HEY!!! LET ME OUT OF HERE YOU BASTARDS!!" Kaiiaki screamed in her impish voice, that had suddenly taken on a darkened tone. All she received was silence and darkness for a few moments. All was quiet except for the sound of the rattling of chains upon her ankles and wrists. Then, a voice similar to the anbu's before spoke through the darkness. "Do not struggle Nine-Tails. We are only trying to help you control your power." ~Flashback end~ Kaiiaki sat in the middle of the Hoshigakure training grounds, her butt sitting upon the dank, dark soil of the area. These training grounds were darkened, and mostly void of any plant life here. A small stream about 20 feet off towards the west served as the only source of running water in the whole Training Grounds.. It truely was a depressing place. Kaiiaki sat there rubbing her temples with her small glittering fingers. It had only been a few days ago when she had joined on as a shinobi of Hoshigakure. Yet on the first day, she had been more than overwhelmed. That day, the anbu had contained her, and told her what she was. "A jinchuriki..." The news still was so unbelieveable. She had a real live monster inside of her flesh. Not only that, but one that fueled and lived off her hatred towards others as well. It was like they were a perfect match for each other in personality. This "Demon Fox" apparently sensed negative emotions, and could feed off the negative emotions of others, including her. Which would be easy, as she acted hateful 99% of the time. "Demon fox...she patted her small belly, that had been wrapped in a numerous amount of bandages. She now wore the outfit of a proper Hoshigakurian. A bluish grey ninja top suited over her upper half, with a matching arm guard on the right arm. A simple bandage wrapped around the opposite arm. Upon Kaiiaki's bottom, she wore a tan ninja skirt over top of blue ninja leggings. She wore the boots of a Kunoichi, and pouch of a proper shinobi. Contained within this pouch were the proper amount of senbon, smoke, and paper bombs that she usually carried. And last but not least, a Star headband shone upon Kaiiaki's forehead. A statement of her being a ninja of the Land Hidden in the Stars. She was all prepared now for whatever lay ahead of her. And apparently, today it was another ninja of her same stature in rank. This was to be a test. To see if she could work with others on a team, or if she would just kill them all. The Hoshikage had ordered Kaiiaki to spar this ninja, Ari Junrei. And they were giving her the benefit of the doubt. More of a free reign. Because there was no Jonin or anyone supervising this fight. That she knew of, of course. So there she stood, waiting for this ninja to show up and make his presence known. She was ready to show what she had.-

Andikins: {AJ} Before we get into the whole story of how Ari had arrived at the sparring grounds before Kaiiaki, let's discuss how he made his way from his house at the Junrei clan grounds. You don't mind reading some backstory do you? Of course you don't, this is just the first time you are reading this, right? That was the second question mark you've read. Enough breaking the fourth wall of narration, let's talk about the water boy. Well for a genin, he was a little older than most, at the age of sixteen, but that was likely because of 'romantic related' accidents from his possible fiances (more about them at a later date if you want to dish the gossip out like a couple of cheeky bitches). Well he was still a genin, aside from the whole accidents things, he was also being held back until recently due to his clan's uneven standing with the village until they were able to prove themselves loyal and worthy. Doing just that, he was now free to further his ninja career however he could, and he was going to do that facing off against someone from the crystal clan. Well at least it was another genin, but he just had this overbearing feeling that it was going to be something that was not what it seemed on the surface. So Ari was getting dressed and ready, slipping on his short-sleeve shirt with his clan's symbol displayed clearly across the entire front, going from the chest to the stomach. getting on his zipper ridden pants and open toed tabi, Ari stowed away shuriken in the multitude of his pockets, evenly distributing the weight of the fourteen thrown weapons in his various pockets. He got his bucket hat on, making sure the Hoshigakure headband was sticking out front with the star engraved right on the front. He got on his sleeveless overcoat, his clan's symbol ont he back of it with a few Hoshigakurian stars scattered here and there. Being a genin, you had to represent your village in dress, at least in some manner, though the chunin and up could wear things of their own hoice from what he had seen (must be because of hiding their affiliations for the sake of spying or something, whatever). Ari just decided to go with the flow as he got his hands into the fingerless gloves with baggy arm warmers. All that was left was fastening his two bottles of electrolyte fortified water to his belt on his left hip and slinging his leather quiver that held his Three Kingdoms sanjiegun. Buckling the top of the container, Ari set out off into the village and made his way off toward the appointed location of the spar, before dawn. Why before dawn? Well he wanted to get out of there before Fuu, Kasumi or Haruko showed up. So he found a set of branches in one of the trees to rest in by the stream and wait for Kaiiaki. Only problem was that Ari found himself falling asleep and only waking up when Kaiiaki was there. Though his presence was only made known when the lad's sleeping body shifted for a more comfortable position, and found that comfort replaced with a thud as he hit the ground. All that came from Ari's body as he faced the tree after falling out of the imrpomptu bed was, "Bluh." Getting up and stretching, he twisted this way and that, catching a glimpse of Kaiiaki in the process, "Oh hi, sorry 'bout that, didn't mean ta fall asleep." {AJ}

Kaiiaki:-Kaiiaki had been so lost in her thoughts, so entranced by them that it was as if she was in an entire universe of her own. If someone would have come behind her and tapped her on the shoulder, she probably would have jumped out of her skin. And she nearly did so as well when she heard the shifting of a body upon a tree nearby. Kaiiaki jumped up, all ready in all attack mode, as she saw a boy fall down from the tree. His rump hitting upon the dark soil below. "That hair...those eyes... that has to be him." Kaiiaki whispered to herself. The boy called out sleepily towards her, as if she knew who she was. So no doubt about it, it was the one she was meant to fight today. "Well look at you." Kaiiaki sneered at the boy, her words coming out clipped and short. "The fight has not even yet begun and you are already fumbling around on the ground. Hah." Kaiiaki wasn't going to fool around with this little twit, the opponent she had been given was an insult to her skill level. But perhaps if she could just take him out easily, she would receive an award. She stood a fair amount of distanct away from him, about 20 feet. But she wanted to get more of a distance on him, since she was better as a long distance fighter. Kaiiaki pounced away from Ari off to the west of him. She stopped at the distance of 60 feet facing him. This should be enough distance to form her jutsu and get the combined attack together.  Kaiiaki slowed to a stop, then began to form the handsigns Ram → Dog → Monkey and raised her open palms out, the right on top of the left palm. "Crystal Style: Jade Crystal Mirror." By doing this, she was able to use her chakra to mix within the molecules of the air, crystalizing them and forming them into the shape of a Kaiiaki sized snowflake mirror. This mirror took on the shade of pure white in its crevices, and in the middle, reflected off Kaiiaki's image perfectly. This mirror could not be destroyed by simple means. It was just as durable as any crystal jutsu that Kaiiaki could muster. Crystal in itself had few weaknesses. But this was only the beginning of the attack. After forming the crystal mirror, Kaiiaki pulled out a smoke bomb from inside of her pouch. She threw it towards the ground. About 30 feet in front of her, and watched in explode on contact of the ground. This bomb dispelled smoke at once began to deploy its contents all around the area. It surrounded about a 50 feet area, the cloud shrouding Kaiiaki's entire appearance and crystal mirror.-

Andikins:{AJ} "Uhhh, sorry? Didn't mean to startle you." He tried to strike up a conversation with the girl before she sent an insult his way, "Well that's a little uncalled for, you would fall out of a tree too if you were used to sleeping on your side." Just rhetorting with casual humor, Ari wasn't one to get irked easily by insults toward his character. She almost immediately tried to put some distance between herself and his person. Still a tad bit groggy, Ari scratched his head when she created a giant crystal mirror, with her image inside of it and then created a a smoke screen using a smoke bomb, kicked up some dust from the ground and some thick smoke itself. Well whatever she was planning, it was seemingly a distance attack that would be shooting out from the smoke screen. Ari reciprocated by running headlong toward her, in a gradual jog at first so he could prepare his tactic. Performing the quick hand seals for it, Ari gathered water chakra within his arms and forming shuriken made from water on his hands, "Water Shuriken Jutsu!" He threw a volley of the shuriken, five in total, in such a quick succession that he assumed that the mirror would be scratched. The mirror would not be scratched at all because of the strength of the crystal, however, catching the dust particles of the smokescreen and the dirt that was caught up by the burst of the bomb, the shuriken that he threw would become mud shuriken. As each one would strike the mirror, it would be smudged along its body by the mud splattering it. When he got through the smokescreen, Ari skidded to a halt, reaching into a couple of his pockets, preparing to whip out some real shuriken as he saw the lack of damage to the mirror and no Kaiiaki coming out from behind it. {AJ}

Kaiiaki: - With a flip of her glittering hands, Kaiiaki formed the handsigns Horse → Ram. After she made these handsigns, a crystal clone version of herself appeared within the mirror. Jutting its physical appearance out into the physical world within 2 seconds. A soft swoosh was all that could be heard as the clone flew out from the mirror, and pushed Kaiiaki back unto the ground. Shortly after that, water shuriken came flying towards the mirror, coating themselves with mud and caking her perfectly good mirror up. "Damn you." Kaiiaki cursed at the boy for wrecking her work of art. But at least she had been able to get at least one crystal clone out of the mirror. She would just have to work with what she got. With the one clone, she directed it to run towards Ari and engage in some basic taijutsu with him. As soon as the clone started running, Kaiiaki dropped another smoke bomb 15 feet behind her. This would give her clone enough wiggle room to approach the foe in the taijutsu match of his life. With a foe that could not simply be defeated with a simple punch to the head. While the clone would do this, the real Kaiiaki would be beyond the smoke bomb threshold, about 60 feet behind them off to the southwest. Basically, the clone would try and keep him in position while she would finish up her destructive jutsu. Kaiiaki stopped as soon as she heard the scuffling of feet, they had now probably found each other and were going toe to toe by now. Kaiiaki formed her chakra with the air, using the combination of molecules to form the color of an Amethyst crystal thorn. This single thorn branch from her right hand, then grew from the left hand as well. These branches branched outwards in the northeast direction, forming into 3 and 4 threads. These threads would be sharp enough to slice anyone into swissed cheese. But she was trying not to kill him. Just tie him down at least. She felt the urge to spill his blood upon the dark soil of Hoshigakure. So much, that it was pulsating within her being. Almost like it was...alive. ~"Nine tails...~ Kaiiaki thought to herself. That had to be where the source where this was coming. Nonetheless, she tried to shake it off with the concentration of her attack. Within 5 seconds, the crystal thorns were a second away from entering the smoke and entraping the boy. And if he was caught by them, he wouldn't be able to move unless he wanted to snip off an arm or leg.-

Andikins:{AJ} "Oh come off it with the smoke screens already!" Ari, leaping backwards and out of the smoke screen instinctively while there was a single clone to deal with and a disappearing real Kaiiaki, Ari was left having to result to his clan's kekkei genkai when the clone came barreling out of the smoke screen. Dragon > monkey > dragon > tiger, "Flowing Current!" His liver kicked into overdrive and Ari was able to now freely control his body's water levels and distribution. He even had enough time to uncap and squeeze about half of one of his bottles of water into his mouth like a sports drink. All the while he was jogging backwards, holding up his free hand with a finger held up to signify waiting a moment for the clone. Taijutsu was his clan's specialty, as was devastating long range, but their best feature was just how they thrived under pressure. And the pressure of a crystal clone and crystal finger nails growing like something out of a horrific children's story was pressure enough for Ari. He was being kept in one spot alright, but only for a short while as the clone came at him with a flurry of a right-left punch combo followed by a windmill kick. Ari responded with two quick leans to the left and then right, even bending inhumanly backwards underneath the windmill kick, which he used the leverage to do a handstand, kicking the clone in the process and landing back on his feet. Then came some of the thorns and some of the clone's attacks again. "Hup! Wohp! Guh!" Sounds were coming from Ari as he focused on dodging the relentless assault of the clone, using its body to vault himself to and fro past and over the thorns that kept growing this way and that. Honestly, he was just making the field for evasion smaller and smaller, but he was refusing to even get hit. "Hey hey!" He tried to get Kaiiaki's attention while doing an aerial roll right over a leg sweep from the clone, giving it a good close palmed smack to the temple along the way, landing on his hands and feet really low to the ground, where he got off a breakdance style leg sweep for the clone's lower body and stomach region. "Hey! Kaiiaki! Isn't the purpose-" He got cut off having to bend over backwards and watch the thorn pass just straight over his body while he had to roll along the ground to find enough room to stand, "-the purpose of a spar to NOT kill each other? I mean I'm a fan of showing off as much as the next guy." A side step with a far lean to avoid a diagonal attack from the clone again and a thorn at the same time, "But this is kind of excessive!" {AJ}

Kaiiaki: -Kaiiaki didn't bother to listen to the boy complaining about how rough she was getting with her fighting. She was there to win, not to play around like a little child. "You shut your mouth..." Kaiiaki growled through her teeth, daring him to say another word towards her. "You have no idea what this is or what I am. And, you do not want to." With a tone of finality, Kaiiaki clipped off those words. The crystal clone closed the distance between herself and Ari, she ran forward so that she now stood about 4 feet in front of him, her body facing the west direction. With a vital strike, Kaiiaki's clone aimed a dominant punch towards his lower abominal cavity. That area just so happened to be the location of the organ; the Diaphragm. Her fist flew through the air, hoping to get a dynamic punch. If she were successful, she would have cut off the necessary muscle for breathing. With it damaged, he would be left gasping for air. Kaiiaki's clone pulled a paper bomb out of the back of her pouch, keeping it concealed with her left hand as she aimed the punch. If her punch were to fail, the clone would activate the paper bomb. Off to the side, the real Kaiiaki moved off to the west of the two. To be exact, she was about 50 feet away from them. A perfect amount of distance away so that she would not be harmed by the blast radius if the bomb did go off. While the clone approached with her attack, Kaiiaki did a little trick of her own. The crystal thorns remained in the ground from where they grew earlier, off to the southwest. And these crystals didn't grow stale like a jar of spinach. She could easily form the crystal off of those to stab towards his position now. These crystal thorns appeared to be 4 inches in width. There were about 6 branches in total right now. All stretching towards the boy. The closest branch before had been about 20 feet from him. And these crystal thorns formed rapidly towards him. With their speed, they would reach him in about 4 seconds. Unless of course, Kaiiaki paused her attack. "Give up now. Before I slice you to bits." Kaiiaki curled up her bottom lip in disgusted. With two attacks coming on him at once, and at such speed. The boy would have to act fast if he wanted to live.-

Andikins:{AJ} Okay so he was getting cordoned off to less and less space, giving him little room to even counter. Just what was with this girl? "Look, I don't CARE-" He had to slide backwards, his feet and hands outward more as his stomach went back to avoid the punch at first, "-what you are or whatever! I just like persuing my hobbies: breathing and living!" He quickly grabbed the clone's wrist, moving water to his legs more and kicking off the ground while quickly regulating that water from his legs to his arms to get a quick flip up over the clone's body, but with the coming explosion, Ari was sent flying through the air and landed on the ground with a bounce and a few tumbles. There was no way he was going to be able to fight on fair ground when this girl was more than ready to kill him over a simple training spar, but hey, to each their own psychotic choices. "Alright! I give up. You win this pointless spar with absolutely no reward to warrant this kind of aggression." {AJ}

Kaiiaki: - "Ha. Haha. Hahaha!!" Kaiiaki's impish evil laugh set off into the space around them. The clone had been grabbed by Ari as he tried to send himself flying through the air. He landed with a loud thud upon the black soil. At that moment, he had spoken the words that he would give up. Perhaps this had been too much for him. "Hmph." Kaiiaki took her left hand and waved it over the entire area of crystal thorns, the crystal clone, and crystal mirror. With this, she broke down the chemical bonds of her chakra with the air molecules. This shattered the entire crystals that had been made. They fell to the ground below, disappearing into a amethyst glitter dust. Kaiiaki's grey eyes flickered to the boy on the ground, a sliver of a black pupil in the middle. "Pathetic..." Kaiiaki's black kunoichi boots scuffed on the soil as she walked over towards his body. She looked down at him, looking into his eyes with her own. She stared at him with her cold eyes, bringing a deadly silence with them. And then the words, "If you ever get the idea to get weak on me. I will kill you." The girl hissed at him unsparingly. Suddenly, Kaiiaki's neck jerked around, searching for the watching eyes. Nothing came of the search, she figured they had disappeared when they had the chance. "I want you to always remember this day. For as the reminder of what will happen if you ever get in my way. From now on, I am your teammate." With those last words, Kaiiaki turned her back on the boy, and exited the training grounds.-