Kapitel 394: Ch394. The second match 1
"Could Kimimaro Kaguya and Tayuya come down to the arena?"
When Rei heard Hayate say that, he groaned and mumbled, "So it was not a coincidence."
It wasn't impossible to have teammates fight each other in this kind of event since the matches were 'usually' chosen at random but it was very rare.
The problem with that was that Konoha was the sole party who chose who would fight who and this matchmaking was starting to appear very fishy not only to Rei but also to his girls.
Tsunade expertly ignored three unamused pairs of eyes gazing in her direction, opting to enjoy the delicacy in front of her. It was just an excuse for her to not raise her head and meet these looks but it worked.
When Orochimaru heard who would be fighting, he couldn't help but perk up in curious interest. He definitely had a bone to pick with Tayuya for deserting but when he found out that she was included as a genin from Uzushio, he couldn't help but find it funny.
That feeling left him the second he attacked the Uzushio team in the Forest of Death.
He briefly scowled remembering that encounter. It should have gone entirely his way but...
The Uzushio brats were strong and he wondered how Tayuya became so strong in such a short while.
But Tayuya didn't seem like her usual self-assured mocking self right now. Considering that the Kaguya kid was in a team with her, that could mean only one thing. She was not sure of her victory.
'Interesting...' Orochimaru subtly licked his lips.
After all, he was very interested in a survivor from the Kaguya clan, and in the fight against him, Kimimaro did not do much. His prowess was mystery and Orochimaru did not like mysteries.
If nothing else, Tayuya could prove as a tool to test the boy's skill before Orochimaru deals with her in the invasion. The last time the girl was lucky to have teammates around her but no matter her improved prowess, Orochimaru was certain he could take her on in one versus one.
After all, strength was not everything in the ninja world.
Hayate started the match off and jumped back but unlike the previous one, the two combatants didn't instantly jump at each other.
Kimimaro and Tayuya stared at each other in the arena, Kimimaro stoic while Tayuya was visibly in a bad mood from this match-up. As part of the same team, they sparred with each other on a regular basis so they knew how the other fought, and needless to say, Kimimaro was not Tayuya's favorite opponent.
"Oi, bonerhead. I am gonna wipe that indifferent mug of yours outta your face." Tayuya scowled as she saw Kimimaro's perpetually unbothered expression.
Most of it was because Kimimaro's uninterested facade was pissing her off though. Surprisingly, they were honestly quite evenly matched most of the time.
That's also why Rei suspected foul play with this match-making. So many match-ups would have been a total curb stomp for one of the participants, yet, two matches already were quite evenly matched. Coincidence? He thought not.
"You are welcome to try." Kimimaro indifferently spoke, not rising up to her insult.
He was focusing too much on shifting his bones to create a layer of chakra-reinforced bone armor under his skin. Honestly, they fought so many times already... he wondered when Tayuya realized the trick in beating him in the most efficient way was to strike fast and not give him time to create this armor layer.
Tayuya, on the other hand, thought that he had his armor up since they entered the arena so she didn't bother stopping the initial banter. The slitted yellow eyes of a certain pale shithead boring a hole into the back of her head were creeping the funk out of her. She needed to center herself and insulting Kimimaro seemed like a good way to calm herself down.
She would naturally prefer sending a shockwave at the pale pervert but he was currently in the Kage box and pissing off Lady Pakura and Lady Ringo was suicide.
She could only grumble under her nose about lucky pale shitheads before focusing on Kimimaro again. She knew this fight would be an extreme pain in her ass. Not only will she have to hold back to a degree but Kimimaro was not the easiest opponent to counter with her abilities.
'Fine... let's do this!'
As that thought passed through her head, Tayuya swiftly raised her flute towards her mouth.
She knew Kimimaro could and would wait for hours on end for her to do the first move if only to get the initial advantage since he was a close-quarters combatant.
Worse yet, the bastard's bone armor took almost no chakra to maintain because it was concentrated in his body, hence, the chakra was not really leaving it so he could preserve it.
As much as she hated to give the advantage of reaction to him, she had no other choice. She once tried to wait him out and it ended in them staring at each other for four hours before she cracked and furiously attacked, screaming bloody murder and various colorful insults at him.
Four hours of her life were totally wasted by that bastard!
The second Tayuya started to move her hands, Kimimaro also shot forward in a burst of speed, disappearing from his spot in the eyes of most of the audience and appearing in front of Tayuya, his arm ready to strike as a sharp, sword-like bone was pushed out of his palm.
Tayuya was very experienced fighting Kimimaro so she expected this and prepared her first attack accordingly. She did not panic from him being so close. She just blew into her flute, sending a melody into the surroundings while watching with the corner of her eyes as Kimimaro's bone sword neared her neck...
Kimimaro pushed himself to his physical limits, fighting them for just a bit more speed... but he instantly realized he was not fast enough when a shockwave appeared out of nowhere and impacted his stomach, bending him over and sending him flying towards the wall behind him at speed most chunin had trouble following with their eyes.
Tayuya noticed that Kimimaro's body created a small dent in the wall surrounded by a multitude of spiderweb cracks before the impact of his body to the wall sent the surrounding dusk into the air and denied her visibility.
Resisting the urge to click her tongue, Tayuya blew into her flute a few more times, sending shockwave after shockwave into the dust cloud, straight at the place where Kimimaro should be embedded into the wall.
It was such a brutal display that many ninjas in the audience winced despite not being able to see through the dust cloud. The redhead was clearly ruthless and they wondered if there would be something more than just a bloody smear left from the Kaguya boy.
After twenty shockwaves, Tayuya finally stopped her onslaught and jumped back a few times to widen the distance between her and the place where Kimimaro landed. She also didn't go far enough to reach the wall behind her to leave herself some place for maneuverability if it was needed.
The dust started to clear out and the audience waited with bated breaths, wanting to see Kimimaro's state when...
Kapitel 395: Ch395. The second match 2
The dust started to clear out and the audience waited with bated breaths, wanting to see Kimimaro's state when...
Kimimaro burst from the dust cloud in a powerful leap, instantly dispersing it due to his speed as he flew straight at Tayuya like a bullet.
Tayuya was forced to throw herself to the side in order to avoid him. She barrel rolled on the ground before using the momentum of her body to spring back to her feet, inwardly prepared to fend Kimimaro off once again.
As she predicted, Kimimaro landed in a crouch on the side of the wall and used his chakra like a spring, propelling himself into another powerful leap as he aimed the trajectory of his jump to lead him towards Tayuya.
She was a long-range fighter while he was a close-quarters combatant. It was only natural he had to be aggressive in this exchange if he wanted to win.
This time, however, he did not have the advantage of surprise, and Tayuya was prepared for him. The second he heard the flute melody, he knew he was too slow even before the shockwave hit him.
Tayuya watched as Kimimaro twisted mid-air, 'kicking' straight at her shockwave... in a way absorbing it with his kick.
'Friggin bone armor!' Tayuya inwardly groaned.
Any normal person would have their muscles shredded by such a shockwave but not Kimimaro. He just had to have an ability that could completely counter her Jutsu.
Kimimaro finished 'kicking' the shockwave, which completely stopped his momentum and made him fall back onto the ground. He wasn't given enough time to start rushing at Tayuya again. Instead, he had to spin and punch forward, intercepting another shockwave sent at him by Tayuya.
Tayuya started to create an onslaught of shockwaves with her flute, sending them at Kimimaro from all around him, forcing him to spin and twist, sometimes intercepting them, other times weaving in between them but he was avoiding almost all of the damage which was definitely pissing Tayuya off.
The shockwaves were pretty much invisible and Kimimaro had to depend on his chakra sensing to locate the direction from which Tayuya would attack... to the audience it seemed as if he was fighting some invisible foe and some civilians looked at him funny as they thought he simply went mad.
The ninjas suspected genjutsu for the most part, mostly because of Tayuya's weapon of choice. Only very few noticed a hint of what she was doing.
Orochimaru, on the other hand, couldn't help but frown as he witnessed the technique to make shockwaves with chakra in the sound waves. This was the reason why he so quickly retreated when he tried to attack Tayuya's team. The Jutsu was very interesting but he had a hard time coming up with a way to replicate it. Hence, the frown.
Poor guy... there was no way he would realize he first had to learn sound-based genjutsu and then alter it into ninjutsu. After all, most ninjas believed that genjutsu and ninjutsu were not 'mixable'.
It didn't help that he was successfully misdirected into thinking Tayuya needed her flute for her Jutsu.
Down in the arena, Kimimaro had had enough of this irritating work-out but he had a hard time finding a way out without showing more of his abilities than he was allowed.
He knew causing this level of shockwaves was effortless for Tayuya and she could continue for hours on end. During their spars in the Village on the Other Side, she usually leveled a small forest from the collateral damage of all her shockwaves.
These shockwaves had the power to barely crack the ground... there was no way they could affect his body through his bone armor. Tayuya clearly knew that too and was only trying to annoy him.
She knew full well that he hated moving around more than necessary during fights, yet, here she was forcing him to 'dance' with her attacks in order to not give away an indication of just how durable his body is.
This continued for a few minutes, Tayuya trying to lock Kimimaro into defense while Kimimaro tried to find a way out of his predicament.
The audience absolutely loved this fight. They were not loud, instead, their attention was fully grabbed as they watched the redheaded girl playing her flute and the white-haired boy trying to defend from some kind of invisible foe.
The only clue that Kimimaro did not, in fact, go mad, was how the ground underneath him cracked whenever he clashed with... whatever was attacking him.
One would think the spectators would get quickly tired of this display but, on the contrary, they watched with bated breaths to see who would fall first.
Will the girl make a mistake and let the boy out of this deadlock or will the boy run out of his stamina first? They couldn't wait to see!
They had no idea the two combatants in the arena could go at it in this manner for hours...
Kimimaro finally decided to 'bend' the rules a bit in his favor. He let one shockwave 'slip' his attention, causing it to harmlessly glance his shoulder, using it to break Tayuya's pace.
She had it all calculated to a genial degree, every attack covering for another and they all weaving together in one massive 'symphony', as she liked to call it.
But Kimimaro fought her enough to discover a small flaw in her ingenious technique. Now that one of these coordinated attacks was disregarded, it was ever so easy to just weave through the remaining ones since their tempo was out of sync with Kimimaro's movements.
Kimimaro knew quite a few of those powerful ninjas watching this fight would notice his body withstanding the shockwave with no trouble at all but he didn't care anymore. Tayuya's shockwaves did not feel like a massage to him. Every hit felt like being violently shoved and while it was harmless to him, it felt extremely irritating.
It was as if he was being bullied without the ability to 'hit' back and the thought made Kimimaro grit his teeth in frustration.
Tayuya was clearly using his emotions against him because she knew exactly how he felt about being in this kind of situation.
Kimimaro finally escaped Tayuya's onslaught. From experience, he knew this would mean Tayuya would have to change her melody, which brought him a few vital moments.
This time, he would not be too slow!
Tayuya's eyes widened as Kimimaro increased his speed to the allowed limit in one big burst.
Her mind blanked and her body reacted instinctively... she didn't have the time to think about a counterattack anyway. She swiped the flute away from her mouth and since it was the only durable thing she had on hand, she used it to block Kimimaro's sword that aimed at her neck.
Flute locked with a sword made of bone as Kimimaro and Tayuya's arms shook with exertion. Tayuya pushed more and more chakra into her arm, visibly losing this match of strength as Kimimaro's sword was pushing her flute back, nearing her neck.
She snarled in frustration and shock at how bad her situation suddenly became.
Escaping backward would hinder her movements give Kimimaro the much-needed advantage and would most likely end the match.
Evading right was no option because of the strength she had to exert on her right arm. If she tried, Kimimaro's sword would simply cleave through her.
Trying to flee underground would be a gamble. In any way, she would need to stop pushing against Kimimaro's sword for a second, and there was the chance a part of her head would get chopped off.
Fleeing upward... that required more skill than she was allowed to show in this match.
Frankly, if she could show her full power, this deadlock would be an easily solvable inconvenience at best. But she was not.
Her only feasible escape route was to the left but she couldn't really jump to that side because her opponent was clearly expecting it, if not outright welcoming that outcome. Only a bone bullet would await her if she tried and she liked her body without unnecessary holes.
"Fine." She discontentedly grumbled through her gritted teeth with annoyance written all over her expression. "I give up."
It was ever so obvious she hated to say these words but there was nothing she could do. She couldn't use her flute and she had orders to not show too much of her abilities.
Showing a strong Jutsu dependent on her flute was acceptable. Showing that she didn't really need her flute and could cause shockwaves... much stronger shockwaves than she showed in the match... with any kind of sound was definitely not acceptable.
That said, Kimimaro was holding back a lot too so there was nothing Tayuya could complain about.
Or so Kimimaro thought, too satisfied with his victory to notice that...
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