Bit of old fisty' cuffs' aye... (Finished!)

[Oyushi]

Oyushi had been sent by his sensei for yet another fight. He supposed it was his best option, he passed most of the tests with ease, and the sensei's were reasonably practical. They knew the best challenge would come for training fights. Also it helped him by letting him practice his own jutsu on live target's which helped him identify flaws in them. But never the less these fights were beginning to bore him. Opponent's with little to no skill, placed against him because the sensei's did not want him to get hurt.

Again, he knew nothing of his opponent, their speciallity, their jutsu, how they like to fight. Really this didn't worry the leaf ninja, he was sure that the opponent would be another pathetic hopeful, barely worthy of his time. Not to say that he wouls be mean to them, just that he wouldn't find the fight very challenging. Oh well, what could Oyushi do, training was training, that was just the way things were. No matter what kind of training you do, it is going to get boring fast. Oyushi sighed and sat on the ground of the training area.

It was a nice little place. A small enclosed area with high walls surrounding it, about three to four metres high and very solid looking, despite the overgrowth, covering their surface. The area itself was circular and about ten metres in diameter, open in the middle but with piles of boxes and crates around the outside. Oyushi figured this had used to be some kind of storage area, but it was clearly no longer used. The best part about it was the peace, it was calm and relaxing, it was so quiey that Oyushi felt like he could go to slepp, despite it being visciously hot in the middle of the day.

Because of the extreme heat, the leaf genin had taken off his jacket and rolled up the cuffs of his pants to make them more like shorts. He now only wore a t shirt and the sun beat down on the seal on the base of his neck. He touched it. It was amazing, it was so powerful and it was the only thing keeping him alive. He tried to hide it as much as possible to keep that weakness a secret, but now, today he had no choice, he would literally boil if he had left that jacket on.

He took a swig out of his drinking bottle and set it down on the ground beside him. He stood and began stretching and mentally preparing for his opponent to arrive, he hope it would be someone with at least a little talent, a challenge would be very welcome.

[Haruka Kunimitsu]

Haruka walked out onto the sand courts. She had been looking for a good sparring partner for a few day now, only finding people that she could beat easily. She spotted a boy taking off his jacket. She smiled. "HEY! YOU THERE!" she yelled over to him. "You look like you're ready for a fight! You up to the chalenge?" She ran over to him, that way he wouldn't have to yell his reply.

[Oyushi]

Oyushi smiled and watched her run closer, this one didn't seem so pathetic, maybe the sensei's were deciding to give him some real training. She ran up to him and he stood up straight, smiling a cheeky smiled.
"Sure, the question is, will you be up to it."
He stepped back to give them a little distance before the fight and bowed to her. It was always good to be polite.

He quickly assessed his opponent, she didn't seem to be too affected by the heat, maybe she was from around here. She didn't seem to be any bigger than he was, and she wasn't very over bearing of threatening in appearance. But never the less she had an air of confidence as if she was either a high genin or a chunin. She was dresssed in green and had blue tips on her clothes. Oyushi guessed that those colours suggested youth, which meant hopefully she was too elite.

He tightened his hands into fists and perpeared for the coming battle. It sounded like it could be half decent.

[Haruka Kunimitsu]

"Can i handle it?" she said repeating his question. "Let's just find out. But first..." she unbuttoned her foldover shirt and set it on a rock, leaving her with her white tank top. It was far to hot out here for her to battle with her heavier over shirt on. She narrowed her eyes, examining her new, and spirited opponent. "Shall we begin?" she said mockingly, preparing her hands for her elemental possetion sign.

She wasn't too frightened. This boys seemed to be a bit younger than her. She just hoped he would be a good sparring partner. As long as she got that, she was perfectly content with the battle, win or lose.

[Oyushi]

She unbuttoned her shirt and Oyushi raised his eyebrows, not knowing what to expect, but she was in a white tank top. Oyushi shook his head and smiled, distractions aye. She prepared a hand sign and Oyushi stared at it, he wasn't sure what it was, but chances are she wouldn't go all out with her most powerful jutsu right at the start... would she? She asked if they should begin and Oyushi smiled again.
"Why, waste time, after all I'm looking forward to getting back into the shade after I beat you."

He launched himself forward as fast as he could towards her, he covered the ground quite quickly, easily encompassing it in pounding strides. His hands flew up infront of him and he performed a series of hand signs quickly and precisely. Ox, Dog, Tiger, Rabbit, Bird, Ram, he thought as he excecuted them. He prepared a defensive jutsu just incase, after all she was probably about to use something and Oyushi had no clue as to what it was, and it definitely paid not to get hit by any attack if you could avoid it. Oyushi gritted his teeth and pushed his legs to go faster, he had to get into taijutsu range before she could unleash her jutsu!

[Haruka Kunimitsu]

Unexpectedly, the boy began charging her. She quickly changed her handsign to form her special clone jutsu. She did it quickly and slamed her hands on the ground, "Earth clone jutsu!" she yelled. Four identical clones formed from the rock around her. She had them all shuffle possition to to confuse him. "Try that one on for size..." she had them all say in unison.

[Oyushi]

Oyushi sighed a silent sigh of relief. After all, for all he knew, she was about to shoot fire at him or make exploding kunai fly at him or something. Clones were far less lethal. Of course Earth Clones like this, could still give you a fair whack but it was nothing compared to being blown up and caught on fire. With clones, the boy knew all he had to do was utilize his high speed taijutsu and he'd be fine. He sprinted up to the nearest clone and jumped towards it. Show Time...

He threw out his fist towards the first version of Haruka's head and followed with an upper cut to the stomach when he landed. The boy then threw his arms out, spinning himself around and swinging his foot at the next Haruka in a jumping spinning heel kick. He landed and headed for the next girl, he ignored the ones he had hit, hopefully they would be gone by now but if not, he would deal with that later.

He grabbed at his thigh and pulled out a kunai, slashing at the latest Haruka's chest with the small bladed weapon. He then threw himself back to the back wall of the arena, looking out to assess his handi work and hoping that his taijutsu training had paid off. This was definitely a tougher opponent than usual, to use an earth clone jutsu, they must be quite skilled indeed. Finally, something interesting.

[Haruka Kunimitsu]

Haruka's first clone was throw back by a swift punch to the gut. It propped itself up, no major damage sustanned, but surprisingly, it had made quite a dent in the rock. Haruka was hit by the his second attack, a spinning kick, landed Haruka square in the chin.

She was knocked back as he continued to his next target. She put her hand up to mouth and few the stickly red liquid coming from her lip. 'Crap, if he sees me bleeding my cover's blow...' she thought, quickly cleaning it up. She stood back up, slightly shaken by the kick. She pulled out some shuriken and waited patiently.

The other clone was attack by his kunai, causing a small chip to come off of the clones rock form. Haruka smirked as he went back to the wall of the arena and thought it the perfect time to throw her shuriken. She did so, charging him with great speed and throwing them as she went, having her clones follow behind her to cover her.

[Oyushi]

Oyushi was shocked, there was barely any damage sustained by any of them, a chip here and a dent there but no really damage. And his hand hurt... Then he noticed something, the one he had hit with the spinning heel kick was the only one that seemed bothered by his attack, wiping it's face with it's hand. Was that the real ninja? He got his answer soon enough as the girl drew some shuriken, the only version to do so, and charged forwards, thorwing them at great speed towards him. They spun and curved towards his body as he raised his hands in the sign of the ram. The shuriken thudded into the boy's figure, knocking him off his feet and slamming his back into the wall. But as he began to fall back forward there was a puff of smoke and the truth was revealed. The crate fell onto the ground with the shuriken stuck in the wooden side.

There was another puff of smoke to the left of the girl and Oyushi appeared, jumping off the wall and flying towards her, he was glad that he had prepared that substitution jutsu earlier, after all it had probably just saved his hide. And now it was time to wrap this up, she would be off guard, probably distracted by the fact that he attack had failed. Oyushi guess that then she would chuck some ranged weapons at him. That wouldn't be a problem. He raised his hands infront of him and once again there was a puff of grey smoke and the boy was gone. Oyushi smiled from her shadow. Step one, he was in her shadow and nothing but a jounin could see him here. He made sure he held his breath however as otherwise she might hear him breathing.

Now it was time to excecute step two, then it would be step three after that and then it would all be over. He shook himself, he couldn't get too ahead of himself. Focus on step two. Oyushi swung his foot out in a low arc at Haruka's feet, aimed to sweep out her feet and drop her to the ground. He leaped up and swung his foot around brutally fast in a crescent kick. If the first one failed this should work as she would have had to jump to avoid the first one and she would now be open for the second kick. Not that there were alot of ways to avoid the first seeing as she didn't even know he was there. But oh well. Better safe than sorry he guessed. Step two complete.

[Haruka Kunimitsu]

Haruka groaned angerly as her shuriken attack landed in the substatuted crate. "Stupid subs..." she mumbled. She heard another pop to her left and saw the boy flying towards her. She made her hand sign and said, "Elementla possetion!" quickly pulling some over her water out of her pouch. She froze it into a barrier, to ward off any sudden attack. She was surprised when nothing came.

She liquidized the ice again and looked around, holding it in midair beside her. "We'd you go you little coward?" she asked outloud. Suddenly her knees buckled as she was kicked in the back of her leg. She fell over and whiped her water back to meet her attacker. 'What was that?' she thought, propping herself back up. 'He came out of nowhere. Almost like he was coming from... my shadow?" She suddenly realized that she knew him. "Wait a sec, you're that twirp that was spying on Kyo's sleepover!" she yelled, remember how the boy had just suddenly disappeared.

[Oyushi]

Well that didn't quite go as planned. Oyushi had been successful in hitting her with the sweep, but the second kick had been bloacked by water, which had then swung back at him, causing him to call off his attack and jump back to the wall again rubbing his arm from where it had been impacted by the water. It surprised him how much the water could hurt. Haruka smiply got back up from the sweep and gave a glance to her shadow. Oyushi wondered if she had figured it out, that could make step three more difficult. He sighed and made a quick analysis of the situation.

He couldn't stand around all day, he'd have to do something soon, or she'd come at his with either that water, or the earth clones. He wasn't sure that she knew how his jutsu worked so he figured he'd give step three a try, at least. Then she called out, telling him that he was a twerp and telling him she recongnised him from the party. She did look a little familiar... But never the less, he knew he had to move. He casually leaned back on the wall, concealing a hand sign behind his back and created a clone behind the crate beside him. He then substituted himself for the clone and hoped she hadn't noticed. He used the Shadow Strike Jutsu to slip into her shadow and began performing hand signs. This was looking like it would be the end, either way. He was too low on chakra, this would probably be his last jutsu in this fight.

[Haruka Kunimitsu]

Haruka moved her water back into her pouch, desiding to switch elements for awhile, just to keep her moves unpredictable. She shot the earth up under the boy infront of her, throwing him high into the air. No matter where he landed, it wouldn't matter. She had her eye on her back, just to make sure that he didn't attack her from behind as he had down before.

[Oyushi]

Oyushi watched from her shadow as the replica was slammed by a pillar of earth and thrown high into the air, turning into smoke in mid air. He gritted his teeth, that was alot of power packed into that attack. He became worried despite the fact that she couldn't see him. Now his cover was blown and she would probably look in her shadow first, after seeing his jutsu the first time. That meant he had to get step three done faster; he increased his hand speed putting everything he had into the speed of his hand signs. Finally they were done and he reached down toughing his fingers to specific spots on her shadow, it was time for the final step four.

Oyushi jumped out of her shadow, and landed lightly on one of the earth clone's shoulders, pushing off and doing a forward summersault to over by the wall again, he needed distance so that he would have time to see her hand movements before she attacked because otherwise with one highly draining jutsu going, he wouldn't be able to substitute to avoid her attacks. But they say the best defence is a good attack, so the boy raised his hand towards her in an open palm, then crumpled it into a tight fist. The girl's shadow shot up and became taller than her, a large imposing horror. It openned it's shadowy mouth and launched forward biting at her with it's viscious more than real enough maw.

The leaf genin smiled, it was the beginning of the end, there weren't very many weaknesses for that shadow being and most of the time it would take an opponent far too long to discover one. With it's high speed and large claws and teeth, the shadow puppet jutsu was easily capeable of tearing a victim apart, not that he would do that to a sparring partener, but it was a powerful jutsu. Oyushi just hoped he could finish her quickly, he was starting to run very low on chakra.

[Haruka Kunimitsu]

Haruka turned to face her own towering shadow. "What in the world..." She mumbled in amazement. She expected him to do something with her shadow, but nothing like this. She had to try something though, so she rubbed her hands to create some friction and fire combusted from it. She threw one hand in the direction of her opponent, the fire flying in that direction, and the other hand at the shadow. She wasn't sure what fire would do to a shadow, but she had to try something.

[Oyushi]

Oyushi smiled as she cowered and reeled in shock at his jutsu, ah, being part of a clan was so useful at times. But just as the shadow was about to hit her she threw her own jutsu. A fire jutsu, the boy knew the theory of the power of his jutsu, it's weaknesses and resistances in theory. It was time to test the practical side of things. The fire ball exploded through the shadow, blasting out the back of it. The leaf genin cringed, would it pull itself back together like the theory said. Sure enough the jutsu pulled through. Reforming itself and howling in dusgust at it's attacker and beginning to slash wildly and Oyushi's hand commands.

Unfortunately he then noticed the fireball coming at him. Crap... The boy threw himself sideways and the shadow faltered, stopping for a moment as Oyushi was forced to concentrate on avoiding the ball of searing flame. It grazed past him, clipping his leg and burning the edge of his leg. But it wasn't over then, he landed heavily on his side and jarred his arm. Luckily although his arm couldn't seem to move, it wasn't the one that controlled the shadow puppet, and the dark being resumed it's relentless frenzy of slashing attacks with the brutal claws on it's hands, but the puppet was more jerky than before. Oyushi knew he was beginning to lose control, he couldn't concentrate properly and the jutsu was suffering for it. This battle would be over very soon, either way.