1x1: Naruto AU RP: AiraSkylar x kitten;

[kitten;]

{{ You shouldn't be apologizing for that! xD Then I apologize for this one, also~ }}

Kiro;
Slowing her pace significantly, Kiro stopped behind a tree, certain that her opponent knew exactly where she was. There was no point in thinking otherwise, and she had to be cautious...
Taking a deep breath, Kiro carefully thought through her plan; all she had to do was get behind him, but that would be literally impossible if he knew where she was. Without that advantage she wouldn't be able to defeat him by stealth, so brute force? Perhaps she could stand to battle until he dropped; although the two kunai and the explosions hadn't helped at all, Kiro had some energy left. The adrenaline hadn't completely worn off yet, and just as she was trained, she could block the pain.
Her eyes snapping open, Kiro remembered what she had in her pocket. It hadn't occurred to her now, but of course! It made perfect sense; it was just a question of whether she could do it or not.
Slowly taking out a scroll, Kiro unrolled it and concentrated on the symbols, calling upon her Chakra. This was the hardest thing she had probably ever done, but she had taken it on a whim this morning, maybe hoping she could use it--perhaps this was her chance. Smirking faintly as the symbols were memorized, Kiro made a few hand signs--having to start over after fumbling twice--but eventually bubbles appeared out of nowhere, charged with enough Chakra to make a thick smokescreen. The bubbles refused to pop, and danced around the small set of trees as if they knew exactly where her opponent was. She watched the large flock of them carefully, looking for patterns in the way they moved. If there was anything irregular at all, then that was where he was; hopefully the Chakra would confuse him enough so she could come in.

{the rest of} Team Eleven;
Clone whipped her head around as she heard an explosion; biting her lip as she asked frantically, "Kyo! What happened?!" She couldn't see what had gone down and was too far away to use any of her other senses. Forcing herself through the crowd and back to the railing she tried to make sure Kiro was alive and okay, but so far...nothing. The battle didn't appear to be over, but she could be hurt...
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Kyo winced slightly as he heard an explosion, using his height to look over the crowd. Kiro appeared to be hurt, but she wasn't going down without a fight. Upon hearing the explosion, he saw Clone freeze, memories advancing upon her like a storm; he watched with slight concern as she made her way to the railing, trying to figure out what happened. Noru would tell her. She was so paranoid...
~
Noru looked up at Clone, who was trying to see what had happened. Pulling on her sleeve, he yelled over the noise of the crowd, "Clone! She's okay; she got out in time! Now calm down; you're going to stress yourself out before your battle and you won't be able to win!" He saw the Genin relax, and nod, but her expression still looked slightly pained. He just hoped that Kiro would make it through this...but she finally seemed to be using her brain to strategize something. Noru lost himself in the battle until he saw, a few moments, later, bubbled emerging from the small copse of trees at the edge of the arena. Hoping that it was Kiro who had used the Jutsu but doubting it, Noru looked for any signs that she was still alive--there! At the edge of the trees, her hands held in an unmistakable symbol. She had actually channeled her Chakra enough to do that? Since when was she even able to use handsigns?
~
Kyo watched the battle with dry interest, but he felt a small hint of concern as the tag exploded; she had landed pretty hard there... Of course, the two kunai embedded in her body wouldn't help either. It hadn't even been that long and it was shaping out to be bad for Kiro.
He nodded and smiled at the Genin, saying, "It's alright--actually, it happens a lot." the smile was feeling slightly more at ease taking up residence on his expression, and he found that he preferred being amiable towards than others than being that interrogator they didn't know. "I have faith in Kiro, but she's far too nervous and she needs to start using her head. If she gets close enough she'll have an advantage, but it all depends whether she has enough stamina left."

[Aireiya]

((Is it okay to control the Naruto Canon characters? XD))

.:αкιнιкσ:.
Akihiko jolted when he felt Kiro's chakra suddenly expand. 'She's using a sort of dispersion technique,' he noted as he tried to pinpoint her chakra once again. However, this time, the smokescreen seemed to be covering the Shinobi, and thus, since he couldn't see her, he was at a disadvantage. Thinking quickly, he made a Shadow Clone of himself and told him to stay put before running out of the trees and going back into the open, remembering to keep his chakra hidden. Hopefully, the girl would attack his Kage Bushin, which would allow him to tell where she was. He had left one of the Chakra Type kunai with his clone, so if the girl got close enough, he'd be able to regain his advantage.

.:тєαм αкαι:.
Aira nodded at Kyo-sensei's explanation. "Does that mean she has low chakra levels?" she decided to ask, since there was no way she was going to be fighting against Kiro in any of the rounds anyways. "But Aki's not gonna let her get close enough and he's gonna try to make sure she doesn't come within fifteen feet of him," she added, backing up her teammate.
Kaito seemed more pleased at her reply this time, and he turned back to watch the fight. "GO AKIHIKO!" he yelled, attracting a lot of unwanted stares. His violet-eyed teammate stared at him blankly before clamping a hand on his mouth.
"You are way too loud," she commented. "Keep your voice down, or I'll pulverize you," she threatened.
Eyes wide with shock, her orange-haired teammate merely nodded and waited for her to un-clamp his mouth.
With a sigh, she did so. "Don't forget," she reminded him, before turning to Team Eleven's sensei.
~*~*~
Yukiko sighed as she watched Kaito's antics. He reminded her so much of the son of the Fourth Hokage, the one that was currently in Team Seven. 'I wonder if they're related,' she pondered randomly, only paying a bit of attention to the battle. She trusted Akihiko enough to know his limits, so she didn't have a problem yet. However, if his chakra suddenly decided to behave differently, then that would be another question.

[kitten;]

{{ I don't see why not~ c; }}

Kiro;
She heard the faintest of rustles from outside the small copse of trees; smirking, Kiro knew that it had worked. She had successfully flushed him out of the trees. Now, finally, she could probably get close enough...
Tiptoeing silently at the outside edge of the trees, away from the large open space in the middle of the arena, Kiro avoided where she had suspected a body to be--it was a Shadow Clone, or perhaps the kid had seen straight through her underlying intentions--but there was no time to change anything now. If it didn't work, she would have to adapt and move quickly--the latter being one of her specialties. Seeing the form of the actual opponent, clutching a strange kunai, Kiro took a deep breath before jumping up in the air, revealing herself from the trees, and sending a rain of at least a dozen kunai and shuriken onto the opponent, hoping he wouldn't react fast enough to get out of the way.
Kiro landed badly; she fell to the ground, on one knee, white pain engulfed her shoulder and leg. If this was what getting hit this hard by an actual kunai felt like, she wasn't sure she could hold out much longer...but then again, she would prove to them that she could do it. Standing up, albeit slowly, Kiro took a steadying breath and watched hopefully for any results.

{the rest of} Team Eleven;
Clone winced slightly as a rather enthusiastic Genin, or she at least hoped it was a Genin, yelled some encouraging words to one of his teammates. Turning around slightly, she was about to yell something particularly vulgar to the kid when a tug on her sleeve stopped her. Noru, of course; she couldn't see, but she could feel tiny, almost minute, vibrations coming off of his body in waves. He had seen what she was about to do and was scared for her...? Since when had he actually cared so much? Shaking her head swiftly, she turned back to the battle, listening intently. There hadn't been many major explosions, but she suspected that Kiro had thought of a strategy; the battle wasn't over yet.
~
...Did Kiro have low Chakra levels? He had never really paid close attention; she just seemed to avoid any and all Jutsu that involved handsigns. She wasn't great at manipulating it, either, so maybe she didn't have any at all...? A quick glance at the battlefield told him he was incorrect; there appeared to be chakra-charged bubbled floating into the air, most likely a product of her work. His mouth hung open slightly as he considered the possibility of her even completing a Jutsu before he quickly closed it. she had complained on over a dozen occasions when she had been forced to use Chakra and failed without even trying, but maybe this was different. Maybe when it got down to everything, she actually did have the skills.
After a quick moment’s pause, he said, "It's not that--she just doesn't know exactly how to use it. Those bubbles would be the first thing she's actually completed," He added, glancing at Aira for a moment before turning his gaze to the arena, seeing that the boy was out in the open, Kiro not far behind.

[Aireiya]

((Would you mind excusing me from the RP for a while. Got major writers' block for the Naruto-verse.. >.> Sorry.))

[kitten;]

{{ It's fine c: Just post whenever you're ready~~ }}

[Aireiya]

((Wait, did Kiro aim for the Akihiko within the trees, or the one in the middle of the arena? Sorry, my brain's kinda jumbled up at the moment. XD))

[kitten;]

{{ Oh sorry, my post was pretty confusing xD She aimed for Aki in the middle of the arena. c: }}

[Aireiya]

.:αкιнιкσ:.
Akihiko had reacted pretty quickly to dodge the sharp projectiles heading his way. However, he couldn't dodge them all, and suffered several shallow cuts which he hoped wouldn't cause him to faint due to blood loss. It would be too risky for him to try and heal himself in the middle of a battlefield, so that was out of the question. Thinking quickly, he dispelled his Shadow Clone to conserve chakra and took a few seconds to formulate a new plan.
His chakra was still kept hidden, so it would be hard for his opponent to tell how much he had left, he hoped. Feeling inside his kunai pouch, his hands ran over a lot of them before he picked one at random and threw it at the girl, aiming for a non-vital point. He silently prayed that she would dodge it correctly, because if she didn't, it would hit a vital organ, and he didn't want that, at all.
Following the direction of the kunai he had thrown, he zipped after it, poised to strike after the girl dodged, if she decided to. Hopefully, that wasn't a clone he was after.

.:тєαм αкαι:.
Aira nodded at Kyo-sensei's explanation. "So she's kinda like Rock Lee then," she said, referring to the taijutsu specialist. However, he had no chakra reserves at all, though, so that was where they differed. Although she had replied, her eyes remained trained on the arena the whole time, her eyes carefully scanning Akihiko for any fatal injuries. When Kiro threw the shuriken and kunai, her breath hitched when she saw them graze Akihiko. "Please be fine," she prayed, knowing that Akihiko had the least stamina out of them.
"Oi Aki! You're making Aira worry over here! Get serious already!" Kaito suddenly cut in, easily disrupting his female teammate's thoughts and irritating her.
She raised a fist and brought it down on top of his head, but she had to jump a little to do so - she wasn't that tall. "Baka!" she barked at him before turning back to face the battlefield.

[kitten;]

Kiro;
Black spots danced at the edge of her vision; her own heavy breath echoed in her ears, the blood pumping through her veins like fire. She had lost a lot of blood by now and the pain coursing throughout her entire body wasn't exactly helping her stay awake in this competition. Lost in her own thoughts for a moment, Kiro barely managed to dodge another kunai that sailed her way. It left a deep cut on her arm, and she clutched it, trying to regain her breath. She must look like she was beaten now...perhaps she could use that to her advantage?
Eyeing the boy carefully, she took a step back, hand still clasped over arm. Her eyes darted around the arena carefully, taking in the situation. She wouldn't have much time to move if she wanted to take him down and it would certainly hurt, but she could always try. It was either this, or attempting to blow up the entire arena--she would prefer that nobody died today.
Taking a deep breath, Kiro blanked out her mind from the pain and charged at the boy, ducking slightly and sending a kick towards his shins.

{the rest of} Team Eleven;
Clone yawned, deciding finally that there would be no way she was going to figure out what was happening. Sliding off of the railing, she told Noru that she was going for some fresh air and would be back soon. Not knowing what was happening was starting to scare Clone and she couldn't work herself up if she was going to battle soon...
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Kyo shrugged, saying, "Well, she's not half-insane, but their fighting styles are pretty similar."

{{ Sorry, I have pretty horrible writer's block and I felt bad for making you wait ;u; }}

[Aireiya]

.:αкιнιкσ:.
Akihiko was moving too fast to dodge the kick and thus suffered a pretty hard bruise. The force behind it was stronger than he expected, since he was thrown brutally off course. The boy scolded himself inside his mind- he had underestimated the reflexes of his opponent, and now he was paying the price. Standing up, he swore that it wouldn't happen again.
Since the bruise was hindering him more than he would have liked - also including the fact that it hurt like nobody's business - Aki summoned a small amount of chakra to heal it to some extent, just so that he could move better. Once satisfied, he pulled out several shuriken, holding them carefully in his hands, before throwing them all at the same time. Barely giving her time to react, he continued firing the sharp weapons at the girl.
If he was going to go down, he wasn't going to do it alone.

.:тєαм αкαι:.
Aira grinned at Kyo-sensei's answer. "Lee-kun isn't insane - he's completely bonkers," she said, stifling a giggle at the end. A shout caused her to redirect her attention to the arena, where Akihiko and Kino looked like they were about to collapse. Making several hand seals, Aira cast a genjutsu over herself so that she could use one of her Kekkei Genkai without the others knowing.
Activating her Sharingan, she carefully assessed her teammates injuries and chakra levels. They were lower than she would have liked, but he seemed to still be holding his own, so that was something. Calming down, she deactivated the Bloodline Limit that she received from her mother's side of the family and dispelled the illusion before it got too obvious.
Beside her, Kaito was silent, most possibly thinking that the fight was nearing its end, and that the next combatants would be announced soon. He was nervous, she could tell, so she gently entwined their hands together and squeezed his in reassurance.
The orange-haired male wasn't expecting that, and his eyes widened before he turned to face her and grinned, showing her that he would be fine.

((Heyy, no big if you've got WB. I can wait. ^.^))