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...
Kapitel 396: Ch396. The second match 3
In his satisfaction, Kimimaro forgot one vital thing. Tayuya was a kunoichi and her specialty was genjutsu and sound manipulation.
While he heard "I give up.", the audience and the proctor heard, "Fuck you, shithead.".
Because of that, he relaxed his body, thinking she already surrendered and that was when Tayuya sprang into action, tackling Kimimaro's body to the ground.
His back impacted the ground as Tayuya straddled his chest and stopped the pointy and sharpened end of her flute an inch from his left eye, prepared to ram it straight through his skull at moment's notice.
Unfortunately for Kimimaro, his eyes were one of the very few weak spots on his body he couldn't coat in his bone armor.
Kimimaro blankly stared in astonished shock at the smug and winning expression of the redhead as the realization suddenly clicked in his mind.
"You tricked me!" He exclaimed in disbelieving exasperation, still finding it hard to believe he fell for such a basic trick.
"Well, duh, genius! I am kunoichi." Tayuya dryly deadpanned.
She was genjutsu mistress. Most of her Jutsu were based on tricking people. It was laughable how ninjas were always wary of high-level genjutsu, yet, they would fall for a few simple words simply because they expected her to say them.
After all, who would have thought the brash and crass girl with raging temper would be cunning, right?
"Do you give up?" Tayuya gleefully asked, enjoying the situation immensely, even letting the sharp point of her flute to near Kimimaro's eye enough to make it extremely uncomfortable for him. He tried to back away but under his head was hard ground which prevented this course of action. He couldn't even turn his head in fear of damaging his eye anymore.
Gulping down, Kimimaro realized he could easily skewer her boy. She was straddling his chest and he could eject his sharpened ribs. But this would definitely make her ram the flute through his skull.
Tayuya was an experienced kunoichi and knew he could do that. She angled her flute in a way that the shock from being skewered would jerk her hand down and... Kimimaro shuddered at the picture of what would be left of his brain after that.
Basically, he could either give up or suicide while hoping to kill her in the process.
'What a scary bitch.' He bitterly thought.
Inwardly sighing, he accepted that this was his loss. "I give up." He emotionlessly said and a smirk appeared on Tayuya's face for some reason, Kimimaro instantly knew she would not let him live it down for months on end.
His immediate future seemed very bleak indeed.
...
"Hmm, quite impressive, wouldn't you say, Lord Otokage?" Pakura shrewdly looked at Orochimaru with the corner of her eyes while a teasing smirk was plastered on her lips.
"Yes. Very curious indeed." Orochimaru spoke with unveiled interest, his eyes not leaving Tayuya.
Not giving Pakura his full attention was quite impolite in this situation but Orochimaru couldn't bring himself to care about diplomacy. Not when he saw something interesting.
Pakura, however, took this as the green light to subtly retaliate.
"I heard the girl was once your kunoichi." She uttered with a barely-veiled glee noticeable in her tone. This naturally made Hokage, Raikage, and Tsuchikage interested in the topic, causing them to try to subtly eavesdrop. Pakura did not care and just continued, "Who would have thought the girl would get so much stronger in such a little time after leaving your service, huh? Quite the coincidence, don't you think?"
Hearing her, Orochimaru frowned.
He wanted to scowl, glare, and most definitely wittily threaten the impudent woman but he could not allow his emotions to slip. Not in front of the other Kages.
That's why he had to be satisfied with a small frown.
He wasn't about to answer Pakura's question though. He only wordlessly stared at her, barely concealing his hostility in his unamused deadpan look while trying to play the part of the victim in this verbal ping-pong.
Of course, this role suited him well for the moment. He didn't believe he would be able to keep himself from verbally lashing out if he opened his mouth now.
No matter how calm he tried to stay, the proof that he didn't handle Tayuya's training well was right in front of him. What really made him mad, though, was the fact he did not see her potential. He wrote her off far too quickly and thought he knew everything there was to know about her abilities.
Being proven wrong stung his ego as hell.
When Pakura realized Orochimaru was not going to answer, she clicked her tongue, "Cheh. You are no fun."
It made her disappointed that the big bad snake kept his calm. She could understand why Tsunade came to cause trouble during the last break between the matches. These breaks were boring as heck.
The problem was... neither of the five Kages was in the mood for small talk. The tension between them was palpable even if they pretended it didn't exist and acted as if nothing was wrong. Only a total moron would not notice the discontent, though.
Unfortunately, Ringo was seated on the other side of the Kage box so that was also not the solution to Pakura's boredom.
Fortunately, Shikaku unknowingly came to her rescue.
"I thought the girl is genin from Uzushio. Do you say she worked for Orochimaru in the past? Isn't Uzushio concerned about betrayal?" He curiously asked.
His voice betrayed nothing of his intentions. Neither was there accusation nor disapproval. Just pure curiosity.
"Oh! No. from what I know, Uzushio is fine with her past. They are fully certain her past loyalties are the thing of the past." Pakura exclaimed, too happy to explain while ignoring Orochimaru's stormy and disgruntled look.
He even had to incline his head downward to hide it under his hat.
Pakura revealed a slight smile at that and continued, "Honestly, Suna has some trade agreements with Uzushio so that's how I know about the girl. She was apparently a diamond in the rough. Only an utterly brainless idiot would waste her potential." She dismissively waved her hand left and right in front of her.
Ringo snorted at Pakura's sunny disposition as she uttered those words. The look of anger flashing through Orochimaru's eyes was simply far too amusing to ignore.
Raikage and Tsuchikage also seemed entertained even though they tried to hide it and pretended they heard nothing. They definitely would not be joining the conversation. The redheaded girl was strong but considering that her combat style depended on her flute, in their minds she was not as big of a threat as Kazekage was making her out to be.
Nor was she as impressive. They comforted themselves with the thought that they had someone more talented at home and that was the end of that matter for them.
Unfortunately for Pakura and Shikaku, their chat about Tayuya came to an abrupt end when Hayate announced the end of the break and started to announce the next match.
"The third match will be between..."
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