ARENA 4 (TOSHIHIKO YOINAGI VS. ZENAKU UCHIHA)

THE ARENA IS AN INDOOR ONE. (DON'T FEEL LIKE BEING DESCRIPTIVE SO PICTURE THE ROOM THAT THEY FOUGHT IN DURING THE PRELIMS IN NARUTO). THERE ARE NO PLACES TO HIDE, AND NO NATURAL ADVANTAGES AS COULD BE FOUND IN THE FOREST. THIS WILL BE AN ALL OUT BATTLE BETWEEN THESE TWO SHINOBI.

Toshihiko silently followed the protector that lead her to the arena. She didn't look back to see if her opponent would come too. She bit her thumb thinking about a few tactics. The cheering crowd you could already hear from the entrance hall. Slightly annoyed she tried to focus on her thoughts. Her opponent was a Uchiha and of course most of the shinobi new about the noble clan. When they entered the indoor arena Toshihiko gasped at it's size. There was nowhere to hide , the way Toshihiko liked it the best. From the crowd she was able to hear a to her familiar voice. It was high for a males voice and already as she turned to face the person she could tell it was her father. Shy Toshihiko smiled and rubbed the back of her head. He was acting quite strange since he was always the serious type but now he almost cried and didn't stop bouncing around his seat. The other watchers seemed to be annoyed by him. "Make me prouud Toshi-SAN!" Without comment she followed the protector who told her to stand there until her opponent would arrive. From the moment she stood there her expression turned cold and it seemed that her green eyes became darker.

Zenaku followed after the proctor and his opponent entering the large arena. Seeing the large crowd all yelling and screaming zen simply scratched his head and walked in facing his opponent. She had a light blush on her face as zen heard a distinct yelling in the crowd.
Make me prouud Toshi-SAN!" Looking over at her before the match began zen speaks to her. Friend of yours? Anyway i wish you the best in our match. A moment after that zen makes a serious face closing his eyes only to slowly open them again revealing red eyes. Sharingan! Zen wastes no time activating his kekkei genkai and immediately begins to study is opponent while slying putting a hand behind his back out of her vision and gets in a defensive stance waiting for her move...

It seemed like Toshihiko smiled to herself while Zenaku spoke to her. Her expression didn't change but a fading grin you could read from her face. "Not exactly. He is my father." she replied calm. She wasn't sure why but she didn't manage to look her opponent in the eyes. They were both ready to fight and she just waited for the protector to give them a signal to start. "Thank you. Good luck to you too Uchiha Zenaku.." Toshihiko continued to speak. Her arms where still crossed while she focused and took cognizance off her own weaknesses. Before the protector announced the battle to begin Toshihiko could feel the energy coming from her opponent. She swallowed hard and tried not to let him notice how nervous she was. Many shinobi are aware from the Kekkai Genkai from the Uchiha Clan , including herself. It's not like she ever fought one off them but still she had fear looking them in the eyes. With her great speed Toshihiko might have a good chance. Slightly mad about the fact that Zenaku obviously released his sharingan before the battle started Toshihiko took notice that the first strategy she thought of woudln't work now anymore. Taking a deep breath she could tell that the protector would give them the signal any second now. He stood between the two participants with his hand raised. "The battle between Toshihiko Yoinagi and Zenaku Uchiha will start NOW!" as soon as he ended the speech he jumped with great speed out of the fighting area but stood close enough to end it if needed. In the very same moment Toshihiko herself focused her cold,green eyes on the feet from her opponent. With great speed she ran towards her opponent pulling out 3 shuriken throwing them at him. It was hard to predict his moves now but she really couldn't look him into the eyes. Charging chakra at the bottom of her feet she used it as a urge to jump the last few meters and used the jump as another urge for a hit aimed for his face and a kick with her right leg for his belly. On guard she just looked at all the parts of his body that didn't come close to his face. If he used genjutsu Toshihiko was 100 % sure she could dispell it.

Zen stood waiting as he heard Toshihiko speak. Not exactly. He is my father." Zen grinned at this information knowing that this fight had a certain importance to his opponent. I see, well i should expect an even better match now. Zen focuses his eyes on the proctor for a moment before hearing him speak

The battle between Toshihiko Yoinagi and Zenaku Uchiha will start NOW!

Zen instantly turns his attention back to Toshi as she jumps back. He stands there analyzing every one of her moves as she rushes towards him tossing 3 shuriken. Zen reaches down and grabs his kunai and deflects all 3 as he sees his opponent go airborne with a jump. He thinks to himself. Bad move. Reaching from behind his back zen takes out 1 shuriken with an explosive tag and a flurry of senbon. He tosses the shuriken first followed by the 4 senbon at Toshi knowing she's airborne and can't dodge and jumps back outside of any range she would have to reach him and forms a single kata when the shuriken is about 5 feet from her and the shuriken explode to create a distraction so that the senbon can hopefully fly hitting their target safely. The needles flying towards her from the front but making it extremely difficult to block them all or evade since she's in midair.

Zen then begins a flurry of katas

Toshihiko expected that her opponent would dodge the shuriken but what she didn't expect was his counter attack. While she was jumping he tossed three odd looking Shuriken. While she was in mid air she reached for the bag around her thighs to pull out a kunai to deflect them and just in case he added something to them what she couldn't see exactly her other hand found it's way to the hilt of her katana. Her eyes widened when the shuriken weren't less than 5 meters in front of her they transformed into a various amount of senbon. "Crap." she said to herself and pulled out the katana in time. With great speed and technique she used her weapons and was able to deflect most of the senbon. You could hear the silent tone they made falling to the ground. It made it harder that she was in mid air and couldn't move out of its range. Landing in front of him she wasted no time making several flips back. Panting she stood several yards away from him revealing the smoke bomb in her hand that she had pulled out with the kunai. With no comment she activated it and threw it towards her opponent ignoring the pain that was coming from the weapons that found their way into her body. 2 in each of her legs and 4 senbon in her torso which started to bleed a little but to her luck it wasn't that bad cause it could have end worse. Immediately she tossed the Kunai aside and placed the Katana back in it's sheet while performing 4 Hand seals. Her expression was mad , almost pissed while she focused on their chakra flows. Focusing especially on hers she spited out a high amount of hot ash into the cloud from the smoke bomb saying the name of her technique quiet almost whispering "Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning". It costed her a lot of chakra but it was her most effective jutsu and the smoke bomb should confuse zenaku. Toshihiko kept it up as long as she could and held back not clacking her teeth until the right moment would come.

Zen watched as the shuriken exploded into a barrage of senbon as the kunoichi took out a kunai and sword to deflect most of the attacks but grinned at the fact that some senbon connected. She lands and back flips as her wounds begin to bleed from the senbon that connected. Too bad!

That was the only thing zen said as the girl landed and began doing backflips away from him taking out a smoke bomb. She tosses it at zen as zen jumps back tossing a kunai to ignite the blast between the two warriors and begins katas as he escapes the smoke cloud. Zen having finished his own katas thinks to himself

Katon: Kibaku Kyuutai

Zen holds out his hand and pours fire chakra into his palm to create a sphere the size of a basketball as the smoke actually starts approaching him. ...the hell?! Zen jumps back tossing the large fireball into the smoke cloud knowing that if it's a smoke cloud then his opponent wouldn't see the oncoming ball of fire either. Zen aims so the 10 foot diameter of the explosion from his jutsu would not only strike sending a large amount of wind to blast the mysterious smoke in all directions but also have a high probability of striking it's user hiding in the smoke. Zen lands and forms a kata and holds it

While Toshihiko spited the ash out , her opponent forgot that she threw the smoke bomb at him and wasn't hiding in the smoke bomb either. She could see the outlines from a attack in the cloud in form from a ball. Before it reached her she pulled down her headband to cover her eyes a little but not too much that she couldn't see anything anymore. Doing a carthweel out of the attacks firing line Toshihiko panted heavily. The heat was painful enough but at least she didn't take any serious injuries from it. Toshihiko thought already that her opponent would try to distribute the smoke but that was a mistake. Prompt the young kunoichi wrapped 3 exploding tags around three kunais , threw them into the ash cloud and clicked with her teeth. As the ash started to ignite Toshihiko activated the exploding tags which helled up the entire explosion even more. This was definitely a blinding technique. It was no problem for her to see since her headband she had pulled down earlier , gave her a nice shadow for the eyes. Running with a great speed in a arch around her opponent she pulled out her katana from her back and aimed with her fist for his stomach and with the weapon itself for his neck but not to actually hurt him with it.

Zenaku watches as the fireball he threw landed creating a large blast radius creating a crater or rocks as a something moved on the other side of the smoke as he holds his kata. He can't make out what was going on as a moment later the strange smoke explodes in a huge burst of heat and light scorching the ground. Zen stands there closing his eyes knowing he's outside of the danger zone. He yells out temporarily blinded.

What are you planning?!

As the explosion occurs zen hears a noise from behind. Turning around and opening one eye he sees a his opponent attacking full speed and is stabbed in the neck while holding his kata. Falling to the side zen bursts into a cloud of smoke leaving behind a large rock from the crater having used Kawarimi no Jutsu. The rock however is covered in explosive tags that immediately ignite preparing to explode in a few seconds

'Kawarimi No Jutsu?!' Toshihiko thought to herself upset. The rock was covered with explosion tags and she couldn't move to fast to avoid the blast with a jutsu since she was in the middle of her attack. What she was able to do was covering her face and chest with her arms. "Tch." she said panting while looking for her opponent. Her arms and legs were covered with burnings but she made sure that her fingers wouldn't be so hardly injured that she cant use a jutsu anymore. He didn't seem to attack her even if he had a good chance to do so. It gave her a feeling that her opponent underestimated her again. Toshihiko's view fell on her arms. They were covered with burnings from the explosion. It was a rather small explosion compared to the one she was able to make with her jutsu. Now she started to get frustrated but you couldn't tell by her expression. She took quite a lot of injuries already since she wasn't able to finish her opponent off quickly as she was usually able to do with her genjutsu. Even if his sharingan isn't that strong yet it would be just smart not to use her technique on him. Placing her katana and the kunai back in it's place she believed that going on like this would be the smartest. The smoke from the explosions slowly vanished and her view fell on her opponent that was standing at the very same spot that the rock was previously placed at. Not even one second after she had eye contact with her opponent Toshihiko pulled out 3 smoke bombs and made a sound like she just smirked but it was the same emotionless expression as always. She threw two of them into the direction where her opponent stood and one around her. She believed that they must confuse him and she knew that the stronger smoke cloud was the one where Zenaku stood in at the moment. Now Toshihiko knew she had to react fast and not let the same mistake happen again. Eventually it will cost her a lot more chakra for using her technique at her almost full level this time.‘Prepare Uchiha‘ she thought to herself while she formed the 4 hand seals from earlier. Her arms and fingers were shaking and she tried to hide it as good as possible but the explosion did harm her more than she had expected. Again the same ash was coming out of her mouth while she said quietly the name of her technique again. While the hot ash was coming out of Toshihiko’s mouth she ran around the smoke bomb her opponent was in and tried to spread out the ash as best as she could. Her legs started to shake heavily as well so she had to stop and beware. If Toshihiko wouldn't be careful he could attack her. She could hardly keep herself on her feet and using this jutsu was painful enough. Toshihiko knew if she wouldn't end this in time this will be her fail

OCC: I edited the post. I took more damage than I previously mentioned. And I didn't use the substitution jutsu since I was in the middle of the attack.

Zen stands there as he appears across the arena watching his opponent make contact with his rock covered with explosive tags and the resulting explosion clearly surprising her. He grins as he watches his tactic work but finds it completely absurd that it only did that much damage. As he sees his enemy escape the cloud of smoke he readies himself as he sees her body begin a motion. She tosses 2 smoke bombs at him which he quickly jumps back to put more distance as he tosses 2 shuriken to connect with them in midair causing them to explode nowhere near him.

Smoke bombs again?!

Although the smoke bombs don't reach Zen he's still blocked by a wall of smoke as he suddenly realized something. There was a chakra fanning out in the smoke approaching him as he felt heat approaching as well. Suddenly he looks to his right and sees something. His enemy was circling the smoke cloud in front of him spewing some type of hot ash at the cloud of smoke he was supposed to be in. Looking at his opponent he sees her and comes to realize what her strategy must be.

It seems as though you've underestimated the uchiha clan! Now you'll pay for it!

Zen tosses 2 kunai with tags at her as he jumps back further from the cloud of smoke while performing katas.

While Toshihiko spitted ash out she, watched he opponent carefully. The ash cloud wasn't very dense yet but she knew that she didn't have the energy to move now. By is expression you could tell that he was surprised by the fact how well Toshihiko was able to 'swallow' his attack. It was funny that he thought that she was underestimating him. Actually she thought that she was the one being underestimated , because it seemed he wasn't taking this fight serious at all. While the ash cloud slowly got denser Toshihiko replied quiet. " I am sorry if I give you the feeling that I am underestimating your clan. In fact I am not underestimating you at all... You are a very good opponent but-.." in the middle of her sentence she broke off. It was better not to finish this sentence after all and there was no time for big talks in the middle of a important fight. Maybe it would be better to give up because she had to take quite a lot of injuries already. Before Toshihiko couldn't see Zenaku anymore she saw him preparing a attack. She has to at least finish this last attack that she had planned earlier. Grabbing for 3 Shuriken in her equipment bag , Toshihiko suddenly saw the shadow of something coming through the ash cloud. Quickly she tossed the shuriken into the ash cloud while she saw two shuriken with explosiong tags flying towards her. Quickly she formed 5 handseals for Kawarimi No jutsu and in time she managed to replace herself with a stone.
A brief look fell on her new surroundings and Toshihiko believed she was behind him now, because the fading smoke bombs from earlier where in front of her now.
'Shit. That was way too close.' she thought to herself mad. The smoke was still coming out of her mouth but it didn't add anymore into the arena. Now was the perfect time to activate it. There was still one technique she wanted to use which will probably be her last one as well. Slowly , performing again handseals , she clicked her teeth to activate Haisekishō. The already hot ash started to ignite again.

(OOC: If you threw shuriken at my kunai with tag then that would of made them explode. If they explode then the ash cloud explodes ^_^)

Zenaku watches as the two kunai with tags he threw collide with the shuriken thrown by his opponent causing them to ignite and explode. As they explode they ignite the ash cloud in one large explosion as Zen finishes his katas

Bushin no Jutsu!

A total of 4 Zen appear in the area and spread out from the explosion of ash and heat. One bushin gets caught in the explosion from the impact of the kunai tags and ash jutsu and simply vanishes. Zen turns around and runs with the rest of the bushin as he catches sight of his enemy. Zen then runs full speed towards her forming katas. He can feel himself getting tired from prolonging the match. He finishes katas and reaches out in an attempt to grab his opponent to try and end the match...

OCC : Yeah. No Probs ^^ xD

Toshihiko knew that the tags with kunais would cause a part of the ash to explode. She had no free hand and it probably was the quickest way to get rid of those shuriken in her hands. It didn't matter since this will be her last move. At least it seemed that he was being more serious now. After this match she will surely try to figure out more about the Uchiha Clan. It is always good to be informed very well about the clans and their bloodlines. As well it seemed that they were really interessting. While she performed hand seals the sweat was running down from the side of her head. The explosion was really hot and the burnings from Zenaku's replacement hurted in that second even more. A slightly twisted with pain expression appeared on her face while she watched her opponent getting closer to her.She could see him clearly with his 3 fellow created duplications. Toshihiko believed that the real Zenaku must be on of them too and the way the clones moved it seemed like they were regular ones not the shadow clones , but she wasn't really sure. Prompt she pulled out 4 Kunais that she held between her fingers. Toshihiko was surprised that he let his guard down or that this attack was just a distraction from something else.
Before the clones reached her she could see him grabbing for her. Tossing them at the Zenaku's she crouched down to increase her urge for a backflip. Making the last handseal while she was in mid air Toshihiko took a deep breath storing chakra in her lungs for her probably last jutsu. Performing a ring with her thumb and index finger in front of her mouth she quietly called out the name of this technique "Katon : Gyakyouu No Jutsu." Creating a large fireball she blew out all of the chakra she had stored in a few seconds ago while pulling out her katana again. Hopefully this hit would land and if not she'd probably be in serious trouble.

Just another nameless face in the crowd Hantei stood watching the fight. From the mezzanine he had a pretty good vantage point, and given the space he took up with his barrel he had plenty of elbow room. It was nice to finally get to see a fight between some of the villages strongest Genin even if it was the last one. He had no idea that getting his forehead protector required so much paper work, and the fact that he had to retake the test didn't help things move along any faster either. It did however give him some much needed training time and experience. Still he wasn't use to living in the heart of the village with everyone else but slowly he was coming to accept his life as it were right now.

"Go go go go!" he found himself screaming down at Toshihiko. He was never really good with names and this time was no exception. To be honest he didn't remember anyone of the peoples names that he met that day in the forest. The only thing he remembered was the fish and how good it was. Thinking back on that time Hantei smiled before taking a big bite out of his grill fish on a stick that had become his daily treat not too long after his meeting Toshihiko and her friends. Standing there enthralled with the battle below he was oblivious to the less than pleased remarks being made about him from other spectators. It seemed that nobody really appreciated a person with a large metal drum on their back standing up in the front row of an event such as this.

Though Hantei wasn't a fan of violence himself, he sure did like a good fight, normally. For some reason in this situation he wasn't enjoying the fight all that much. Maybe it was because his friend was losing, and even to someone like him who was an inexperienced fighter he could tell that Toshihiko was in trouble. There was something about the guy she was fighting, and he didn't mean the fact that he seemed to be yelling about people doubting him. It was in the kids eyes. They were different that normal peoples eyes that was for sure, and whatever they were they were giving him some unseen advantage. Toshihiko wasn't going to win this fight, and she might end up getting really hurt in the process. Slowly a metallic substance began flowing out of Hantei's barrel and quickly made its way down to the battle field, seeping into the ground. Taking a glance at the officials who couldn't seemed less conccerned about Toshihiko's well-being Hantei decided it would have to be him who put a stop to things. Carefully he began going through a series of hand seals, watching his hands in order to make sure he didn't mess up. "Kuromukou Hitsugi no Jutsu!" he said finally. Looking up from his hands Hantei saw the massive fire blast that Toshihiko fired. "Wow," he thought to himself as he watched the fire fly from the mouth of the exhausted Toshihiko. As the blast left her lips and headed towards her target Hantei's justu took effect. The metallic liquid from his drum shot out of the ground at four points with Toshihiko in the middle. Within seconds they extended outward connecting to each other creating a protective wall around her. Once the wall had completed a top to the box filled in, locking both her in and any attacks directed towards her out.

"Now for my entrance." Hantei thought to himself as he placed his foot on the guard rail of the mezzanine. Just as he was about to jump his foot slipped and he feel crotch first on the bar. Letting out a high pitched squeel Hantei tipped over and fell the two stories to the battle field with a loud thud. Laying in a hole uniformly shaped to his body he groaned, "Stop the fight..."


ooc: I was asked to put an end to this because it was dragging on too long.

While Toshihiko saw her technique getting closer to her opponent she hoped that this attack would finally succeed. All the time , deep down in her mind Toshihiko knew that she wouldn't stand a chance against a Uchiha. It was almost frustrating her so much she couldn't think right and placed her hand once again around the hilt of her katana. The weapon was to balance out her weaknesses and she knew them very well. It did help balance her skills out but her opponent had a better card and she couldn't just see that it was the truth. Suddenly Toshihiko noticed a to her familiar presence. Prompt she stopped moving and jumped back a little as her view fell on four odd points on the ground. They were symmetrical and she was in the middle. It looked like liquid and she knew that she had seen it somewhere. A flash of insight came to her and her view fell on the crowd. "Kairiki?!" Her breath caught. It couldn't be possibly a technique from her opponent so it must be him. There was only once she saw this liquid before and this was back at the day in the woods with Hakuryuu , Akasora and Kairiki. Toshihiko almost panicked as she could see that in seconds fractions a wall building up around her. It all happened so fast. The surroundings where gone in seconds and now all she could see was 4 walls building up around her. Where Toshihiko could see the arena's ceiling , there was now a wall too. The sound of the metal crashing on the other parts of the metal walls were loud and in the same second Toshihiko fell exhausted on her knees. Frustraded while hoping it was Kairiki's technique and not her opponents she pulled her own hair. It was cold and dark around her now and she could feel the tears coming up in her eyes. Pulling harder she tried not to cry. It would make her look like a bad looser. Her father probably was more than deeply disappointed by his own daughter now. Toshihiko lost and her father was watching everything. Toshihiko's dark green eyes turned normal again as she wiped over them with her other hand. A few moments passed and she finally calmed down a little. Groping over her chest Toshihiko pulled out the four senbon stuck in her torso and the other four in each of her legs. 'What were you thinking?' she asked herself. Her left leg was covered with burnings from the explosion. Parts of her dress were burned away and her left shoulder was heavily injured as well. First now Toshihiko realized the physical pain her opponent caused but she seriously couldn't care less about that now. Crawling slowly to one of the metal walls she pressed her cheek against the cold metal. Her breath was heavy and she just wanted to know what exactly was going on. But all she could hear was a loud crash.

A shower of boos rained down to the arena floor. It was clear that the spectators weren't happy with Hante's decision to step in. "If I didn't slip they'd be cheering right now, I know it," he said as he pulled himself up out of his hole. Just as his head popped up he was forced to duck back down to avoid the fire explosion from Toshihiko's attack. Once the coast had cleared popped his head out of the hole a few times making sure nothing else was going to come flying at him. From above he could hear the laughter of a few young kids comparing his appearance to that of the whack-a-mole game.

Deeming the situation "safe" Hantei hoisted himself out of the hole and onto the stadium floor. There was still a fair amount of dust in the air which made it hard to see the effect that Toshihiko's fire ball had on her opponent, but at the very least it seemed that it might have prevented him from attacking for the time being. Rushing on to the steel shelter he erected in the center of the stadium he found himself having to hop over various fires still burning on the floor. Fifteen seconds into his search Hantei slammed hard into one of the boxes steel walls. He hoped that the disgruntled spectators would assume that he was blinded by the smoke and that's why he banged into the product of his own technique. He knew the truth though. If it was a clear day and nobody around he would have some how found a way to meet the wall with his face.

"Aww geez," he said rubbing his nose. "Hey are you Ok in there?!" Calling out to Toshihiko he knocked on the side of the cold steel, but he couldn't hear her. Taking a step back he extended his hand out laying it flat against the metal wall. "Disperse?" he asked the wall. With the release command spoken the steel walls and roof softened before turning back to liquid and imploding. Making sure to keep the liquid from convering Toshihiko turn his hand over, and with the palm to the ceiling he clenched his fist and brought it in towards his body. With that motion he took command of the silverly mass that slowly began swirling. Then as if it were being poured back into the drum it began to feed itself back into the hole it initially escaped from before hardening, corking itself.

Approaching the downed Toshihiko Hantei felt a wave of sadness sweep over him. He'd taken too long to react ,and as a result she'd gotten hurt. Though her head was down he could still tell that she'd been crying. "I'm sorry," he thought to himself. Rather than state the obvious he decided it might be best to gloss over her current predicament. "Hey you did good, and you don't even look like you got in a scuffle." He said with a smile. Extending his hand he offered to help her up. "Let's get out of here and go check out the medical bay, I think I might have a concussion."

Zenaku waits for the large fireball to almost hit him as he holds his last seal from his jutsu vanishing in the fireball as a strange wall appears between his opponent and himself.

After the jutsu finishes an unknown warrior enters the arena attempting to help Yoinagi out of the arena as the crowd continues to boo.

Zen appears having used his last Kawarimi No Jutsu at the last moment. As Hantei turns to try and take Yoinagi out of the area Zen stands between them and the door forming katas

You interrupted my match! For that you can get a taste as well!

Katon: Kibaku Kyuutai!

Zen begins to pour katon chakra into his hand creating a beach ball sized ball of fire and he holds it in his hand preparing to unleash the attack

Toshihiko reached out and and took Hantei's hand and used it to pull herself to her feet. Aside from needing assistance to stand she seemed to be able to keep her balance by herself. Shooting Hantei a look that said -let's go- both the ninja made their way towards the exit. The crowds boos continued to grow louder, and Hantei could tell the were getting more and more agitated and might even get to the point where they'd start throwing things at them. In anticipation of the garbage barrage Hantei popped the cork on his drum and slowly began leaking the mercury out from his drum. Suddenly the crowed feel silent, and then broke into a thunderous applause. "What's going on?" Hantei asked himself, but making sure that weary Toshihiko didn't fall over was taking his full attention.

You interrupted my match! For that you can get a taste as well!

Hearing Zenaku's words it then dawned on him why everyone was cheering. Apparently the fire ball didn't incapacitate him like Hantei hoped it would, and as result he still wanted to continue the fight. With Zenaku now blocking their path both Hantei and Toshihiko stopped. Even though her chakra reserves were nearly depleted Hantei could feel that Toshihiko was ready to fight if she needed to. That didn't matter though. With Hantei currently being the one more fit to do battle out of the two of them he'd be making the decisions. Grabbing her wrist he lightly tugged her arm pulling to a point where she was positioned slightly behind him. "I didn't come here to fight you. I came to take my friend away from here." Hantei said to Zenaku. "Also you just got done fighting and despite that scary face of yours you wouldn't be able to defeat me in your current condition.." Stomping hard on the ground Hantei sent a minor shock through the ground. A circular crack formed around both Hantei and Toshihiko. Cracking loudly the the small area inside the circle collapsed dropping both ninja inside. Vanishing for a few second they reappeared shooting out of the sink hole atop a rapidly rising steel pillar. Placing his hand on Toshihiko's head forced her to duck down as he used his head as a battering ram, smashing through the ceiling. Swirling out of the hole the last bit of mercury disappeared through the hole in the ceiling, both the ninja's whereabouts unknown.

Zenaku looked on as Hantei spoke.

Also you just got done
fighting and despite that scary face of yours you wouldn't be able to
defeat me in your current condition..

Zen held his jutsu before closing his eyes causing the jutsu to vanish fire dispersing as it does. Opening his eyes he reveals his sharingan gone. Before he could say a word Hantei vanishes from his sight. He takes a step back waiting to see what would happen as a large pillar rises crashing through the ceiling taking the two shinobi with them. Zen sighs knowing his chakra is almost depleted.

Sheesh, somebody always has to get involved.

Zen makes his way out of the arena as the crowds begin booing at the missing kunoichi and the unwanted intruder who took her. He walks to a gate where two shinobi were on guard. They point him to the medical bay and he proceeds out.