Kuromaru Kaguya
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XP: 35
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Taijutsu: 7
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 1, 2023 5:03:46 GMT 10
"No, please - AAAUUUGH!!"
"HAAAAAHHHHGH!!!"
Screams echo through the air of the late night, followed swiftly by the sounds or tearing and bodies hitting the ground. A man in an expensive-looking Yukata scrambles backwards, dirtying his ring-covered fingers and ripping his clothes.
"N-no...! This can't be happening!!" the man stammers in terror, his eyes wide. Three shinobi, all bearing the sigil of the Fūma Clan upon their armor, two men and a woman, lay dead on the ground as their blood slowly pools around them. White objects, what appears to be bones stick out of each of them. They had been utterly mauled by the man standing in the shadow of a shattered wall.
Twin orbs like glinting, pale green moons leer at the man. The man in the shadows begins walking forward, stepping on the neck of one of the dead shinobi as if they were nothing more than a rock. He begins a deliberately slow approach towards the scrambling man.
"Please... No! I don't deserve this!!" the man pleads. Whether that was true or not did not matter to the being standing before him.
"...Try to die with a little dignity." a cold, flat voice says. The being steps into the meager candle light. He pulls one of the long bones out of the body of the nearest dead shinobi as he approaches.
"HIIIYAAAAAAAAHHHHGH!!!" the man screams, putting his hands up in a pitiful attempt to protect himself as Kuromaru Kaguya leaps towards the man, aiming to lay down the killing blow.
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Takeo Lee
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XP: 19
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Taijutsu: 6
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Post by Takeo Lee on Aug 1, 2023 5:27:23 GMT 10
Through the screams, the fighting, and the crunching of dirt under foot, a noise could barely be heard moving closer. The closer it got the louder it got, but it was still clearly masked by every scream out for help or from pain. It was hard to pin down just what it was at first, but it was constant, and likely a bit obnoxious. It was more obvious to be a scraping sound as it was now right on top of those close enough, or conscious enough to hear it. A man wrapped in bandages, every inch of his visible body covered in them, a hood dropped down revealing jet black messy hair, dragging behind them a scythe, leaving a long trail to the location of the screaming. A single footstep is heard as the dragging sound stops, mostly drowned out regardless, as the long metal hilt of the weapon shoots between the man begging, clashing with the bone aimed at them. The bandaged face moved directly in front of the Kaguya to grab his attention, so close their noses were almost touching, making the piercing stare impossible to ignore.
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Kuromaru Kaguya
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Ninja Rank: D
XP: 35
Ninjutsu: 1
Taijutsu: 7
Genjutsu: 1
Technique: 1
Toughness: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 3
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 1, 2023 9:27:47 GMT 10
The weaponized bone's point hammers into the broad side of something metal, halting its forward momentum. The man Kuromaru had been targeting yelps in surprise - both at the sudden appearance of a weapon that saved his life, and at the visage of a person that could certainly be compared to a shinigami of folklore, what with the bandages and sickle.
Kuromaru's eyes narrow as he now stares into the eyes of a newcomer. They were fast; but not that fast. He drops the bone and jumps back a few paces, measuring his new foe. They were heavily bandaged, obscuring their face.
"...Another would be hero I see." Kuromaru says flatly, smirking at the new arrival. He kicks the elbow of one of the dead shinobi. "Looking to add your body to the pile? I can oblige you, if so."
The panicked man prostrates himself at Takeo's feet, holding desperately to his lower leg.
"Thank you! Thank you! You saved my life!" the man says pitifully. Tears stream down his cheeks, like a child terrified. "He killed my guards! I own a restaurant - get rid of this monster, and I promise you'll have free meals for a year! No! For the rest of your life! Please! Don't let this monster kill me!!"
"How undignified." Kuromaru says, disgusted and leering at the man. He looks at Takeo. "You can die for him if you like, but he will be dead by night's end. I've been paid well to see to it."
Confident in himself, Kuromaru begins walking towards the two, a beast's grin on his face at the promise of spilling more blood.
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Takeo Lee
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Ninja Rank: D
XP: 19
Ninjutsu: 1
Taijutsu: 6
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Speed: 3
Stamina: 2
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Post by Takeo Lee on Aug 1, 2023 9:48:43 GMT 10
"Another wannabe psychopath, I see." He watched the bone bounce off the ground, and looks back up as the attacker immediately backed off. Bringing his weapon parallel to his body, he dropped the flat point against the ground, leaving the blade leaning up against his head. Looking down at the dead body, he didn't seem too phased by it, though it was hard to tell any facial expressions with his face wrapped to this extent. His eyes didn't give anything away, nor did his earlier tone of voice outside of mocking the comment made towards him. Looking down at the man grabbing at him, he raises his weapon and gave him a bonk on the head with the shaft and grumbled. "Why aren't you leaving? You're in the way. Run." Giving him a few more light bonks, he didn't seem to keen on what he was being offered, or even giving attention to the man any further. He had saved him, and now his attention was focused elsewhere, so the groveling was at best annoying him, and distracting him. If the man he saved still hadn't run, Takeo would give him a swift kick to the shoulder and step free, draping his weapon over both shoulders and waiting as his soon to be opponent walked towards him.
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Kuromaru Kaguya
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Ninja Rank: D
XP: 35
Ninjutsu: 1
Taijutsu: 7
Genjutsu: 1
Technique: 1
Toughness: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 3
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 1, 2023 16:21:37 GMT 10
The bonk on the head and stern command to flee was all it took to convince the man to high tail it out of the place. Still in a state of panic, the man trips over himself as he rushes to his feet. Kuromaru watches impassively as his target slips away into the dark. His brooding eyes level back on to Takeo.
"Silly thing to do, saving his life now." he says, casually grabbing and pulling a bone imbedded into the woman shinobi's chest. It slides free with an unpleasant squelching sound, and drips with the victim's cooling blood. "I know his name, where he lives, where his workplaces are, and where his closest friends and relatives live and work. All you've done is buy him a few additional days at best."
Kuromaru stops, and raises the bone up, pointing the sharp tip at Takeo.
"I will kill him, as I was paid to do." he says, a small smirk alighting his face. "And calling my a psychopath is also silly. I am an assassin - a shinobi. This is what we do. I just get to choose who and where the coin comes from."
Kuromaru's pale green eyes glint in the dimly lit room as another candle fizzles out. He looks over at the candles briefly, and then back at Takeo.
"You have eleven minutes." he says cryptically.
With a sudden lurch, Kuromaru lunges at Takeo! He plunges the tip of the bone straight for Takeo's throat!
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Takeo Lee
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Post by Takeo Lee on Aug 3, 2023 4:55:58 GMT 10
"And just like that, he's gone. No more reason to fight." A single blink and no change otherwise in the way he stared down the Kaguya. His voice didn't change much either, somewhere between unimpressed and uninterested, as if he had just woken up from a long nap. The whole pulling bones out of his body thing was definitely a curious act however, but he was accustomed to not showing much emotion or giving much in the way of reaction. Being covered in bandages didn't do much for showing his feelings at any given moment, to be fair. "Gross." He was clearly less focused on the response and more on the disgusting sounds pulling out the bone had made. He wasn't dumb, so it wasn't hard to assume this was some kind of jutsu or special technique, but it wasn't pleasant to watch. The shape it was in, sharp, pointed, and wielded like a short blade made it obvious the intent, but now he just wanted to see what else this guy could do. "I take back what I said. Time for fighting." It was almost as if he wasn't listening, even though he had internalized all that was said. He wasn't too concerned with the man he had just saved, even if he didn't want him dead. He was protected, he had left, and that was as far as Takeo cared at the moment. Now it was time for something interesting.
This guy was clearly going to attack him, but now he was determined to fight back for no other reason than to see what else he might do. During his talking he had started stretching, bending down and touching his toes with his scythe in both hands even as the man charged at him. Standing up and stretching his arms over his head he made eye contact with Kuromaru, and just as the tip was headed for his neck he shifted his weight to his right leg and pivoted to move. Twisting the scythe blade to point to the sky, he swung down with the opposite blunt side and cracked it across the top of Kuromaru's hand. |
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Kuromaru Kaguya
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XP: 35
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Taijutsu: 7
Genjutsu: 1
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Toughness: 1
Speed: 1
Stamina: 3
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 3, 2023 8:10:16 GMT 10
The bandaged person's reaction was faster than Kuromaru thought it would be, and their scythe slams against the back of his hand, blunt side. The impact jars Kuromaru's hand, causing the bone he held to clatter to the ground. Kuromaru instinctively leaps back, and gazes at the weapon wielding man.
"Interesting... A Taijutsu and Bukijutsu specialist..." Kuromaru surmises aloud. "That speed will be problematic to deal with. But..."
Kuromaru pulls his arms into his wide sleeves, and brushes his yakuta off to hang over his sash, exposing his torso.
"I don't often get a chance to try this. But you seem like a worthy opponent so far. You're fast, at least - so let's see what else you can do." he says, smiling.
Kuromaru's head suddenly dips forward, as if a puppet on strings suddenly had one cut, and he leans forward. The skin at the nape of his neck bulges, and then abruptly splits open. Bone rises out of the apparent wound, and Kuromaru's right hand rises to grab the bones. He pulls the bones up, revealing entire vertebrae - he was pulling out his own spinal cord! As he does so, there is a sickening cracking sound as he pulls - unbeknownst to Takeo, Kuromaru's Kekkei Genkai was rebuilding his spine at the same rate he was removing the old one.
There is a nasty sucking POP sound as the last part of the spine is pulled out, and Kuromaru straightens his posture, audibly cracking his neck as the new bone structure settled.
The spine doesn't stay straight, indeed wobbling in Kuromaru's grasp.
"I call this, Dance of the Clematis: Vine." he says. He suddenly spins on his back left heel, whipping the spine around! And like a whip, the spine stretches and lashes out, the vertebrae sheering through the walls of the house behind Kuromaru, and threatening to wrap around Takeo!
Should it succeed in wrapping around Takeo, he would be swept off his feet, and slammed through the wall of another nearby home!
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Takeo Lee
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Ninja Rank: D
XP: 19
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Taijutsu: 6
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Stamina: 2
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Post by Takeo Lee on Aug 3, 2023 14:01:52 GMT 10
There was a mixture of pride and confidence in his own skill with the strike, yet a slight surprise given the way his opponent had spoke. He truly expected a top tier assassin to be coming, and what Takeo considered to be a pulled punch was enough to swap the weapon from his grasp. This was exactly where he knew he had to take a mental step back as he could hear his master scolding him not to let a success dictate the fight and lead to an immediate failure. Stepping back he spun the weapon and planted the tip on the ground and a hand behind his back, taking a deep breath and trying to clear his mind and focus. Once he had reevaluated, it was clear this opening attack was likely to test him, and not an overconfident opponent, but it still gave him a window into how he might try and fight. This was where he slotted into his element, quiet, focused, and trading blows with another fighter. When it looked as if Kuromaru was getting series, his eyes closed, as he reached up and dropped his hood, exposing more of his hair, and showing just how much of his head was covered. Before he reopened his eyes he could hear the noises coming from the Kaguya, opening one, then the other, and stretching the bandages with the face he was making. The more he saw, the more he wasn't exactly sure what he was looking at, as it looked like the guy was literally ripping out his own spine. What kind of crazy jutsu allowed you to rip out your bones, now being the second time he had witnessed it, but far more unsettled this time. "Gross" There was a slight twitch of his head at the noises being made, and a clear tighter grip on his scythe as he watched. His eyes drop immediately to Kuromaru's feet, then back up to the weapon, narrowing his attention. the muscles in his legs began to tighten as he prepared to move, leaning down a bit as if he was a human spring ready to launch. Just as the weapon came snapping at his body, he shot forward with far more speed than he could sustain for more than a second or two, slipping under the makeshift whip and closing the distance between the two.Throwing a quick elbow at Kuromaru's guy, he didn't quite gauge the distance as his speed didn't propel him all the way through the attack, giving at most a glancing blow. His body was already as low as he could be and still keep his balance, as he gripped his weapon with both hands, his body seemingly moving far faster than normal as he twisted to swing, but his muscles looked to temporarily bulk, and the point of impact slowed, but with increased strength compared to a normal strike. |
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Kuromaru Kaguya
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XP: 35
Ninjutsu: 1
Taijutsu: 7
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Toughness: 1
Speed: 1
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 3, 2023 15:41:49 GMT 10
In a flash of movement, the two become a blur to the naked eye. Takeo expertly evades Kuromaru's attack, allowing the whipping spinal cord to carve a furrow across the street, kicking up shards of stone and dust. Kuromaru takes a step back, but sees an elbow aimed for his hip, forcing him back another step. The second attack came as a flash of steel - the blade of the scythe carving up from low near the ground. Were he anyone else, such a slash would have gutted him then and there. But he wasn't anyone else. But this was no idle misstep; bones - what looks like Kuromaru's rib cage - suddenly pierce through his flesh and skin, forming like thorns and intercepting Takeo's elbow first, and then his weapon! The elbow slams against bone with a dull THUD, and with a sound like steel meeting steel, the scythe impacts against the hardened bones, causing a brief flash of sparks. The tip of Takeo's scythe had just enough curve and length to still cut slightly into Kuromaru's chest, but the damage was superficial. Kuromaru's weapon arm had fallen back to the side, clearly having been intentionally brought out of the way. He looks down at the scythe, and then back at Takeo with a knowing smile. The blade held Kuromaru aloft for a moment before he pushes off the blade and lands deftly a few feet away. "Very good. You have a killer's instinct when pushed." he remarks. "You are certainly more skilled than those pitiful guards were." Kuromaru discards the spine, noticing that it's structural integrity was spent. The bones jutting from his chest like thorns retract back into his body, and the skin reseals over where the openings had been. He openly observes Takeo. "So, your speed is a match for my own - but..." he regards Takeo with a smirk. "I'm a little harder to cut down than that." Kuromaru thought about following through with another attack, but he'd just learned two more things. This opponent's speed allowed him to make swift counter attacks, and it was the kind that he could easily follow up with another, stronger attack. It was a style of combat that was very much like his own. That was the first. The second, was that this opponent's Taijutsu was stronger than his own. Not by much, but by enough that there was a very real possibility that this fight could last a long time, enabling the target to get ahold of the authorities and rally more shinobi to his defense. There was also a real possibility that this person would be able to defeat him - a prospect that excited Kuromaru. He seldom encountered truly strong opponents. This one had literally come out of nowhere. The realization that he had found someone finally capable of meeting him head on in a clash of pure Taijutsu skill was an almost intoxicating feeling. This person was worth killing. Actually worth it. Kuromaru's smile becomes wicked. This small time assassination had just gotten much more costly for his client. No one had warned him of a shinobi like this being in the area. At least now he could raise his fee. "No... I've learned three things... you prefer counter offensives..." he says, more to himself than to Takeo. "You can take the initiative, but you've been waiting for me to move first... interesting..."
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Takeo Lee
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XP: 19
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Taijutsu: 6
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Post by Takeo Lee on Aug 4, 2023 10:52:15 GMT 10
"You threatened to kill me earlier. Only returning the favor." This felt like the closest he had come to actually trying to mortally wound someone, not because he had never swung with killer intent or had a desperate fight, but those bones...The feel of his blade scraping across them had certainly been a new experience, and the way it vibrated from the blade all the way up to his shoulder was the most unnerving part of it. A solid defense but just enough give to show it was in fact Kuromaru's bones, and not just a trick. His eyes went to the bone he dropped to the side, feeling much less like a weapon tossed to the ground, increasing the morbid visage of this battle with every one scattered. A scythe wielding mummy fighting with an assassin pulling out his own bones for weapons; it was certainly an unusual sight even for Shinobi battles. Spinning his scythe as he backed away, finally getting back to a somewhat normal stance, he held the weapon to his side before finally letting it fall over his shoulder. His head turned and he leaned in trying to listen, but not fully making out exactly what was being muttered by his opponent, clearly not directed at him. Narrowing his eyes he dropped his blade back to the ground, but this time blade end first. Starting to lean forward, he got into an unusual stance, looking like something between a sprinter setting up on the block and a snake looking to strike. His body was as close to parallel with the ground as it could be, as the sound of his blade scraping the ground could be heard for only a split second before he rushed forward. His dodging abilities were certainly quick, as was his attacks, but this made them feel like a crawl in comparison. The scythe spun in his grip to face upward as he was suddenly right in front of Kuromaru, almost frozen as he moved near to a normal speed, and at the last moment his muscles tensed and his scythe snapped over his shoulder, aiming to bury into Kuromaru's left shoulder. The entire time his eyes were wide, staring straight into his opponents with an unwavering glare. His mouth was hanging open just a little, and in that brief moment he looked more like a striking serpent than a man.
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Kuromaru Kaguya
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XP: 35
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Taijutsu: 7
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 5, 2023 9:57:31 GMT 10
"Oh."
That was all Kuromaru had time to say. The enemy had moved away, and braced themselves for combat - but the speed that Takeo moved at was far faster than Kuromaru thought they would be capable of. He didn't even have time to properly look at the weapon lashing down towards him.
What happened next was entirely due to instinct and intuition. Thick bone sprout through his shoulder and clavicle, forming what looked strikingly like a pauldron over his shoulder and neck. Once again, metal met bone, but sparked and made the impact sound of metal striking metal. However, the force of the blow was significantly different to the one before.
Kuromaru was hammered down to his knees, only preventing being slammed face first into the ground by putting out his hands to catch himself. Kuromaru slid out from under the blade, and leapt backwards, landing atop a single story home's roof. He gazes down at Takeo, intrigued.
"That was quite something... You'd have cleaved my arm off, had I been anyone else." Kuromaru says, his way of complimenting Takeo.
But now he was in a pickle - this shinobi was much stronger than he'd expected, making it now three times he'd underestimated them.
"What is your name?" he asks curiously.
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Takeo Lee
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Taijutsu: 6
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Stamina: 2
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Post by Takeo Lee on Aug 5, 2023 13:16:01 GMT 10
Despite the bursts of speed he showed off, he wasn't so quick without a bit of work to immediately chase, so he stood back up straight and took a minute to catch his breath. The way he fought took a lot out of him even if it wasn't immediately noticeable, as he had to expend mass amounts of physical energy to reach such speeds, even if for short amounts of time. Letting the length of the weapon rest across both shoulders, he draped his arms over it and looked, closing his mouth and narrowing his eyes. While his opponent was far enough away, and talking now, he dropped one arm as he squatted down and pulled out a sharpening tool. Holding his blade out in front of him, he completely stopped paying any attention to Kuromaru in the middle of the fight and began sharpening his blade a few times, looking it over, and sliding the tool back into a pocket inside his hooded coat. "That was the intention." Twisting his weapon he rolled his neck, looking back up. "Was curious if you could regrow an arm with all those bones you are pulling out." At the ask of his name, he raised his hand and made a finger wiggling motion towards Kuromaru, shaking his head. "My family name is Lee." Charging straight forward suddenly, he bent down grabbing the broken spine weapon that was tossed away earlier, clearly useless as a weapon now, but not what he had in mind for it. As he kept running he didn't leap up to meet Kuromaru, but kept charging forward at the house, then with a loud grunt tossed the broken spine right through the window before he jumped with his weapon out in front of him and right into the house. There was only a few second of silence after the sounds of movement after crashing through the window, then Takeo's blade slicing a hole right through the ceiling and out through the roof. There was a second slash, then a third, none seeming to actually be aimed at the Kaguya, until the fourth came with Takeo bursting out with a square hole left in the roof. Takeo was jumping straight up into the air, planting his weapon on the edge of the hole as he cleared the roof, using the planted weapon to change his angle, aiming to knee Kuromaru in the back.
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Kuromaru Kaguya
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 6, 2023 3:02:07 GMT 10
He hadn't expected the man to answer, really. But now Kuromaru knew that he belonged to the Lee Clan. And it seemed that this one was still full of surprises. The Lee used Kuromaru's discarded spine to shatter a window and slip into the building he stood atop of. The instant the first blade came through, Kuromaru leapt back and out of the square - and out came the Lee in a flurry of debris.
Using their weapon as an anchor was cleaver, but Kuromaru was ready. The bones of his chest bulge against the skin and pierce through, forming what looked like a white breastplate. Takeo's knee rams into Kuromaru's bone armored chest, knocking the Kaguya off the roof!
Kuromaru hits the ground and rolls backwards onto his feet.
"His Taijutsu is too fast, too strong. I can't get an opening... not yet..." Kuromaru assesses verbally to himself. "I just need to exhaust him... But easier said than done."
The onslaught the Lee set upon Kuromaru was intense - others of their level should have already been winded by now, depleted of their chakra or their stamina. But, Takeo was still preventing Kuromaru from moving onto the offensive.
"...Even if I do move into the offensive, he can overpower my attacks..." he surmises. The bones covering his chest and shoulder shrink, and re-enter his body. The flesh and skin knit back together, as if the torn flesh had never happened.
Kuromaru chuckles to himself.
"I may have to consider retreating... It's been a while since I have been forced to flee a perfectly good battle." he says, amused by the sudden turn of events. "But not yet... let's see what more this Lee is capable of..."
Kuromaru turns, and runs down the street - he needed to move the fight away from this place. It was far too public, and the destruction they caused, as well as the fighting he had earlier against the Fūma shinobi guards, will have attracted unwanted attention.
Whether the Takeo would follow after was up for debate, but if he did, Kuromaru would lead a chase up the side of a sheer cliff and onto a plateau a quarter mile away from the town, where he would stop and turn back to face Takeo further.
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Takeo Lee
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Post by Takeo Lee on Aug 6, 2023 10:23:23 GMT 10
Once more his attack landed, but once again the enemy created a protective shell the soften the blow. The force of the attack sent Kuromaru off the roof, but he knew full well the actual impact did very little damage. Leaning forward much like before, he watched closely and tried to listen in, trying to figure out what was being said. It felt like a conversation he was being left out of at this point, as he could hear the words just barely, and he could see the mouth movements, but he couldn't make anything out. Leaping off the roof he stabbed his blade into the edge to swung downward, letting his feet hit the side of the house. Using his chakra to hold on to the house, he bent his knees and gripped the weapon, and given how he had attacked a few times, perhaps by now it was more obvious what he was going to do. That same action similar to a coiling snake waiting to strike out, staring down the Kaguya. "Your threats were so convincing. Don't run away now." With a quick pull against his weapon to use it as a fulcrum, his legs pushed against the house, leaving a heavy dent, launching his body forward. His weapon was close against his back for as little drag as he could manage as he aimed towards his opponent, having to land on his feet and make chase given the distance and the start Kuromaru had on him. As he began to run up the cliff he stuck out his scythe, letting it drag as if he was trying to purposefully slow himself down temporarily, then pulling it back and sprinting as he cleared the edge, launching himself into the air. Doing a quick singular hand sign, there was a puff of smoke around his body, as now two of Takeo landed next to one another.
Immediately both ran forward then split apart to pincer Kuromaru from either side, or at least make it seem that way, as Takeo made sure to keep his speed matching that of the clone so not to make it obvious which was the real one. Both raised up their blades, planted their feet on either side of Kuromaru, and swung, aiming for either shoulder.
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Kuromaru Kaguya
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Post by Kuromaru Kaguya on Aug 9, 2023 9:15:25 GMT 10
"Clone Jutsu... so you do have some aptitude for Ninjutsu." Kuromaru mutters, leering at the two of the same enemy before him as they speed towards him. They split away from each other, mirroring each other's movements, and come back together to deliver a two-pronged attack!
As they approach, Kuromaru crouches, preparing to spring into action. The bone of his left shoulder bursts through the skin, and Kuromaru pulls the bone out with his right hand. It was the fused together bones of his upper and lower arm, forming together like a grotesque sword. The bones in his arm begin regrowing as Kuromaru springs up - as the two blades came together, Kuromaru slams his bone sword between them, completely stopping their momentum with the clang of steel meeting steel!
Unable to tell the difference between the real Lee and the clone, Kuromaru simply uses his momentum to spin horizontally to the right, and aims a fast kick at the chest of the Lee on that side before landing and readying himself for the next attack.
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