Rogue Ninja Assault [Team, Private, Eli]

Mission Details:

Dominick's morning consisted of the usual request of the council, requesting that he take care of some "Exclusive Matter's outside of the walls of the village. It wasn't anything new to him, lately he's being getting a lot of jobs dealing with large numbers of enemies or stake-outs. Just recently he handled a mission dealing with recent robberies in the darkest section of the village. He was asked to "Eliminate the Issue", so that no mention of it would come to the village striking fear. He believed the main goal of the council was to project Komgakure as the peaceful village even with it's actions behind the scenes. As usual Dominick closed his contracts, no matter how wrong it would've seemed, his principles made him who he is today. The Level-Headed Prodigy, a man who kept his opinions to himself for the most part. As he entered the building he was instructed into the office, where his supervisors explained the importance of his task. "Lately we have gotten word of murders & robberies around the village. Travelers have strolled along into the village, on the brink of death. Once we patched them up the witnesses would say Shinobi most likely missing, have been terrorizing the path ways through the villages. I understand that your willing to take this am I correct? And another thing, your targets from what we have heard from the reports are a bit strong. We've assigned you to a team this time. Make sure you clean up afterwards alright?. Dominick's eyes seemed emotionless but he understood his task, and made way towards the village entrance. He'd wait there as he went over the files for the request. "Clean up afterwards.....they expect me to let lose and hide the evidence", he thought through his mind. He was fine with it, he had been lacking on his training as of recently and needed to restore his confidence in his abilities. Now he would wait at the entrance...for his team.

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After barely making it into the village, Elixar found himself starting another mission. He'd been scheduled to start a mission at this time, and the detour and delays out at the Cliffmark Coast had really set him back, not giving him the time to prepare he would have liked to have used. From the looks of it, there was already someone there, dark skinned, moderately tall, built, composed and sporting dreads on his head. He fit what Elixar could remember of the brief description he was given of his teammate.

"Hideaki-kun?" Elixar would ask lazily. He was late, tired, and had just completed two missions back to back, and was assured that this one would take longer due to its higher ranking. At the very least, he was thankful he wasn't taking part in an A rank mission that day, it would be a pain after today's activities and he wasn't particularly well equipped at the time being. "Sorry I'm late, let's get going, explain the mission on the way." He was curt but aware that despite him being a rank of higher authority, the two were indeed the same age, and Hideaki had gotten there first, so it was Elixar's best interest to at the very least act like he was given Jounin for a reason.

He would turn to leave unless prevented from doing so and would begin to walk with a brisk pace. One would most likely pick up on the fact that Elixar, at the time being was still unarmed with the exception of a well hidden kunai, alluding to the possibility that he was adept in either ninjutsu or taijutsu, with the latter being the more commonplace. Something that he would likely have to clear up before they got into combat - because there was going to be combat, there's always combat.

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As Dominick stood by the entrance to the kumogakure, he thoroughly went through the requirements & description of the mission multiple times until his team-mate would arrive. It had been awhile since Dominick was assigned towards a team mission, altohough he had high confidence he could pull it off by himself. But there wasn't anything wrong with someone always watching his back.

"Hideaki-kun?" , a voice not that distant reached his ears. From the looks of it, it could've been his late teammate. The boy wasn't that far away, so Dominick could get a better run-down of hi appearance. He seemed around the same age as himself and yet Dominick could tell he was Jounin. "Sorry I'm late, let's get going, explain the mission on the way." Why was he apologizing? Dominick could understand he was late however, he was a higher rank even though they were around the same age. "Right, Lets get moving." Dominick understood they were running behind schedule, and proceeded to taking the lead walking toward the outskirts of the village.

As they walked, Dominick's eyes constantly wondered around, for the weakness he couldn't sense Shinobi that well, he had to rely on his eyes' and ears. As usual he was well adapted for the mission he began to proceed on. He was holding several kunai, and 10 meters of ninja wire, his personal trench knives & his knowledge of several Ninjutsu techniques. It was safe to say that having a partner would increase his chance of coming back home untouched or atleast alive for the matter.

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'He seems pretty down to earth.' Elixar's first impressions, thus far were pretty good. He seemed to have already caught on that Elixar was no bumbling genin, aided by mission information or not, his scoping had been correct and he'd given a level headed, down to earth response. So the two got moving, leaving the gates of the village after a brief introduction. Well, one-sided introduction, at the moment, he hadn't introduced himself - being late - he hadn't really had time to think of a simple way to do so, and as such - omitted it until felt the time was right or necessary.

As seconds passed to minutes on their journey without much interaction, Elixar found himself observing his partner, they were the same age but their attire, styles and equipment differed significantly. It was clear that Hideaki was confident in his abilities, moreso than the average level-headed Chuunin, but with the equipment he carried he obviously knew what he was dealing with. He jogged ahead of the boy and turned to face him, backpedaling with accuracy that suggested an understanding of the terrain outside Kumogakure.

"Ehhhh, you've got quite a bit of kit on you, Hide-kun~. Say, are you rich? What's your fighting style?" He realised that the questions seemed both airheaded and completely independent of each other, but the need to break the silence was growing as they began to reach the most likely area of combat. Elixar had learned that even a slight, jovial, non-serious chemistry was better than none in these situations - on the plus side, the more they looked less like ninjas, the more likely the bandits would come and attack them, giving the two boys the element of surprise... and whatever elemental ninjutsu the two had in store.

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Dominick could feel a set of eyes looking him up and down from behind him. It would only be natural for someone to be curious, as did Dominick the first time he sat eyes on the Jounin he was partnered with "Elixar". Dominick reflects almost acted up, as Elixars foot steps increased, only having him appear ahead looking straight at Dominick confident in his running abilities. It was possible he was still observing Dominick, as only take a mere glimpse from the back wouldn't give much detail about who Dominick was. "Ehhhh, you've got quite a bit of kit on you, Hide-kun~. Say, are you rich? What's your fighting style?", his partner seemed to be openly curious to ask such bold questions while attempting conversation. "No, I'm not rich but my father was a historian who studied techniques of all elements. My mother specialized in Taijutsu, and I take after her more. You could I specialize in Taijutsu", reaching for his pair of trench knives to show his new ally. This wasn't the only reason he decided to reveal his personal weapon, for the last several minutes he felt two presences falling them. They were most likely the two lower ranked shinobi from the information. There was an opening with a lake up ahead, and Dominick planned to make contact with them there. He found that in his best interest he wouldn't tell Elixar, for plausible deniability. He'll toss a smoke bomb, and replace himself with 2 clones as he watched from the trees waiting to strike.

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[This is your mission so I'll leave descriptions to you for the bandits, I'll start doing longer posts to give you more to work with when we're in combat]

'Taijutsu, hmm?' Whilst it didn't particularly surprise him, part of him was hoping he'd be able to meet with some cool, hidden ninjutsu type, or a user of puppetry or sealing techniques. They were rare in numbers, not being one's standard specialisation of choice. But he could respect a martial artist, being one himself, although begrudgingly learning to defend himself should he for any reason be without his sword. Hideaki showed Elixar his primary weapon of choice, dual wielding trench knives. It made sense as a Taijutsu user, but it did give away that he was primarily upper-body based rather than finishing things with kicks. Not that this was particularly uncommon in fighters, in fact, specialising in kicks like Elixar was generally seen as uncommon. Despite this, Elixar couldn't help but feel a pang of annoyance. The chibi personification of his inner thoughts snarled at the sight of gleaming weapons and cursed the blacksmith that was holding his own blade hostage, the image of the blacksmith, clad in loose rags and leather to protect his broad chest, from which inside his large lungs blasted hearty laughter. The grey hairs spiked and seemed to jiggle uncontrollably with each blast of laughter.

On the outside, his face remained barely neutral, instead just making an approving sound from lips that unco-operatively refused to part. He did however smirk, realising that the act of showing the trench knives was not just to show his superior, but also the discreetly prepare themselves for the battle that was about to take place.

At the smoke bomb, Elixar took one heavy step back, kicking from the ground so that he burst from the smoke cloud with as much speed as possible. If the pursuers had taken Elixar's pseudo-surprise'd reaction as anything to go on, they'd likely engage him whilst he was in the cloud, so the only logical option was to distance himself from the cloud as quickly as possible.

Upon touching the floor he would lean back and jab his kunai into the the edge of the lake-water. Without giving himself time to identify where the pursuers were coming from he would swing the kunai so that the water would be drawn from the lake to cover his body by making an arching wave across his body to form a wall in front of him. The rushing water would obscure him from view to give him time to move. He would stay light on his toes, putting all of his weight on the balls of his feet so that he could react as fast as possible. If anything broke through the obscuring wall, he would hop up and tip so that his feet were now above him, giving him the correct positioning to nosedive into the attacker, kunai first. A blast of water chakra would erupt from each foot to send him twisting down into the floor, preferably right through a surprised opponent.

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Jutsu used: Rolling Rain
Jutsu Prepped: Axle of Rain]

[I'll leave the D rank bandit's actions to you, want me to do the C ranked?]

Elixar seemed displeased with the fact of Dominicks fighting style being so common as it was. He knew well himself that he would his ninjutsu as a trump card, giving that he carried on a powerful set of techniques along with him. As they approached the closing, Dominick proceeded to throwing a small smoke bomb covering the entrance of the opening. Within the smoke, Dominick formed the clone seal revealing 2 identicial versions of himself, stood side by side. In the midst of the confusion he darted out of the smoke, making sure no one not even his teammate would be able to spot him in the tree lines watching. Living his clones to fight in his place, he'd beable to figure out the weaknesses of his enemies & create a finishing attack from afar. From a tree branch not that far from the smoke, Dominick watched as the two D Ranked shinobi exited the smoke walking.
On the outside, his face remained barely neutral, instead just making an approving sound from lips that unco-operatively refused to part. He did however smirk, realising that the act of showing the trench knives was not just to show his superior, but also the discreetly prepare themselves for the battle that was about to take place. They stood there holding hands, to his surprise they were twins. Two dark-skinned twins, one male & one female. They were dressed down head to toe in black jumpsuits and weights that limited there speed. As the female of the two darted towards Elixar, the male began wielding hand-seals. Dominick couldn't make out all of them but noticed "Horse" and "Ram". From the waters surface not far from Elixar to water dragons appeared on the sides of him reaching the air at about 6 meters, up and began to descend right above him. As he looked around the Lightning User had already revealed himself to the clones, beginning his attack. He must not have noticed the both forms were clones. The clones didn't seem to stray that far away from Dominick, for the reason they fought with there own pair of trench knives. As one clone vanished from receiving a kick from the top of his head, the other clone also followed as he was pierced by a Kunai.

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The two ninja moved separately, despite being ranked genin, their teamwork was on another level. The girl burst through the wall of water as Elixar had anticipated. He propped himself on the balls of his feet and was about to pounce upwards like a hunting cat but as he went to move he heard the splash of water behind him. Water dragons erupted from behind him, forcing him to dive to the side rather than upwards, he no longer had positional advantage as the water dragons crashed down on his previous position. Both of the dragons had missed their intended target but it was wishful thinking to assume that they had miscalculated and the water dragons had struck the other twin.

It was at this point that Elixar noticed that the two were of very similar appearance, likely born at a similar time. Their teamwork was now explained based on this visual confirmation and he began to formulate a response. 'If that water dragon had started a little later they would have caught me in the air. I'll have to be more careful.' His best bet was to distance himself from the lakeside, he no longer had an advantage by hanging around there.

Deciding this, he dashed towards the male twin, kunai gripped firmly in his right hand, dangling behind him as he sped in. There wasn't much distance between the two so as long as he was quicker than he was, he'd be able to put him down. It was a little unfair to the boy what he was about to do, but with only a kunai at his disposal and a partner who we was learning to co-operate with on the fly, against two synchronized genins and a chuunin who had been reported to combine ninjutsu with them flawlessly, and taking into account that these guys had become accustomed to taking lives, Elixar didn't really have the luxury of taking it easy on them.

He would near the boy hopefully before he could react with a ninjutsu, forcing them into a close quarter situation. Elixar would bring his right arm up to his left shoulder and then swing across his body for an arching diagonal slice once he was in stepping range of the male twin. He would then make his move. If the boy was unable to react in time, the kunai, imbued with Elixar's own lightning chakra would cut deep into the boy's stomach, providing he wasn't hiding any chain mail behind his clothes. If the boy stepped back or attempted a quick evasive step, Elixar would drop the kunai mid swing and step in the direction, following the boy like a wraith hunting a lost soul. Following the boy with empty eyes he would catch the airborne kunai in his left hand and performing an arching swing into the twin, same as before, this time with greater speed and strength behind it, now powered by an unmistakable killing intent alongside an adrenaline rush.

With one part of the trio down, hopefully the water and lightning combo would be weakened. If Elixar was able to take out the other twin, then he'd get the opportunity to observe his partner against an individual of relatively equal skill when it came to rank face value. Thinking this, he would give himself the luxury of taking his eyes away from the other twin and glance over to his partner's fight and see how he was doing.

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[Jutsu Prepped: Early Summer Rain - RP out how you want the twin to react, I gave either option]
[OOC: Sorry it's late, thanks for waiting]

He still believed he should wait and watch from a distance, his senpai seemed to be handling the situation seeing as ho he was able to defeat one half of the water duo. Slicing the weaker link with an arched swing ,His plan was simple and smart at the same time seeing as the skilled Taijutsu half would take awhile including the back-up of the second twins long range assaults, it was best to take out the long range annoyance. With him now only dealing with the second twin, her eyes raged from the sight of her sibling slaughtered. Before Elixar had time to execute her as well, she starting performing hand-seals, instantly spawning 4 other clones most likely through the water clone technique. What was surprising was that she started to hone her power, that expelling it expanding her power. It would seem as she had simply release a limiter she had placed on herself but it was a mode much like the eight gates. Her skin turned as blue as the lake she had stood on, becoming the element of water herself it seemed.

As he stood in the trees, he equipped his trench knives, seeing as the Chunin was in a state of confusion, and attempting to aid the surviving twin. She must have been the key component for the Water + Lightning Execution techniques. Dominick leaped forward into the air, descending no more than a few meters infront of the direction the older shinobi was heading. As he landed, the impact caused dust & debris to travel about 2 meters in diameter.  As the smoke cleared, the two Chunin stood face to face, causing the atmosphere to give off a deadly aura that could even reach Elixar. "Well if it isn't the Prodigy of the Cloud...Dominick Hideaki. Nice little distraction you caused back there, watching from a distance, a cowards move."He threw his hands up, and smirked attempting to break his composure. "Missing-Nin....Class C the Lightning Fiend. Prepare yourself!", dashing at the Fiend, who drew his own kunai. As Dominick was less than 5 feet away they engaged in close quarters combat. The fiend dualed slashed near Domininck's mid-section but his evasive skills were unmatched as he returned the blows with a jab to the right cheek, and a left hook to the left rib-cage. The point of the trench knives peirced his opponents skin with each blow causing mild bleeding. The fiend wouldn't stop laughing, he laughed harder and harder not even attempting predictable moves anymore just straight lashing out. Even Dominick had a hard time receiving cuts on his left thigh and torso, yet not deep enough to be labeled fatal. Dominick propelled himself into the air sheathing his blades, into there pocket and releasing a smoke bomb. As he landed into the smoked, he revealed his Water scroll, completing the requirements, water began to spread across the ground reach his enemies feet. Dominick proceeded to to create hand-seals, "False Darkness", as a spear of lightning pierced the smoke, entering the mid-section of his opponent.

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Jutsu : False Darkness

(Thanks for waiting, not really sure what I can do with this post, and I don't have much time so this is short)

Elixar's speed gave him the advantage on the slash, not needing to perform the follow up step for his specialized technique. In taking down the ranged user, he seemed to have sparked a killing intent in the close combat twin. Her blood boiled and she initiated a technique that showed he was more than just a little wet behind the ears, a technique Elixar had never seen before nor cared to understand came into play. Her skin became a dyed blue like the clear water lake had become from its reflection of the clear sky above. Elixar tensed and placed his kunai in his left arm, keeping it in front of his midsection and his stance wide and grounded. There was no use in attacking mindlessly whilst he was unsure of how the technique functioned and how it would aide the twin, so he would wait and defend and then counter attack with extreme prejudice at the slightest opening.

Meanwhile, his partner was getting acquainted with his opponent, seemingly gaining the upper hand with a smoke bomb and lightning release combination. It sounded like a direct hit from the sparks and sizzling, but Elixar doubted that the missing nin would go down with just one strike, if he could, he wouldn't have been missing for so long.

The area's former calm. peaceful nature gave off a blood-lusted atmosphere to anyone who would walk past. All Shinobi locked into battle with there counter-parts. It seemed like a trump card was triggered causing Elixar to slower his moments waiting for results as he studied his opponent. Dominick on the other hand, attempted to finish his prey off with a cheap shot consisting of a long range technique & smoke bomb. To his disappointment his opponent walked towards him licking blood from his right hand which contained a seal. It couldn't be possible, this info hadn't be sent to the council or at-least put into the mission files. It wasn't the fact that he was a lightning user, he sealed Dominick's move instead of using evasive actions. Dominick stood tall watching his enemy walking slowly toward his direction. He quickly drew both of his trench knives, and waited pacing forward one foot at a time. "I understand why they didn't send me alone. I would've lost a limb at most."Dominick attempted conversation, only to receive a response that was a bit civilized & fearsome. "Heh...You seem to know you around Lightning, which increasing its deadly outcome due to small tricks. I haven't had fun like this in awhile.....SO WHATS IT GONNA BE DOMINICK HIDEAKI!, the Fiends face showed a large portion of joy. This man seemed to enjoy the presence of death, indicating Dominick would show zero mercy. Any request that he vows to complete, will be completed. Both men met in the air, commenced combat, Dominick threw a roundhouse kick, only to be blocked in stabbed in the lower leg area with a kunai. He pushed off his enemies chest, pacing back ending up back to back with Elixar.

The two ninja seemed relatively matched, it was actually quite interesting to see how they had faced off. Hideaki had been the clearly level headed of the two, but despite this was looking like he'd taken the short end of the stick when it came to battle damage. He kicked off of the ninja's chest and skidded next to Elixar, trench knives drawn, the two now stood back to back.

"You did well. That sealing technique caught us off guard. How's your leg?" Elixar kept his eyes trained on the younger ninja who had yet to make a move. Despite being fueled by rage and using a technique that Elixar wasn't particularly familiar with, the girl seemed to not be in any rush towards her own demise. Her skin seemed to glint in the light, a sort of reflection like the water that she was standing on top of, noticing this Elixar had an idea.

"Let's switch targets, her body looks to be mostly composed of water at the moment... moreso than usual, your lightning release should have the upper hand here. Besides... The Lightning Fiend looks like he'll be some fun." When he was sure that Hideaki was on board with the plan, Elixar would move clockwise around him, giving the two the opportunity to now change targets without so much of a verbal response. He would sprint, full speed to engage his target, swinging with a diagonal slash from bottom right to top left using the kunai in his right arm. Had the Lightning Fiend seen what had happened to the ranged ninja? Would he hesitate?

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"I'm alright, he caught me off-guard with the Kunai.", Dominick's willpower wouldn't allow himself to admit that he was fucked. The Kunai dug deeper than it actually seemed, under his clothing he was suffering from blood loss at a moderate rate. He wouldn't allow himself to die in such a place like these, nor would he allow his slayers to be mediocre Shinobi who don't like the authority. The pressure that the Two Cloud shinobi felt at this moment wasn't pressure from a time-limit, it was pressure from ignorance. A lightning user with a Sealing ability, and an unknown water ability that could become fatal without proper caution.

"Let's switch targets, her body looks to be mostly composed of water at the moment... moreso than usual, your lightning release should have the upper hand here. Besides... The Lightning Fiend looks like he'll be some fun." Dominick didn't give Elixar enough credit for his thinking, he could probably tell that he sustained more than just a scratch from the kunai injury. Elixar darted towards the lightning fiend, as the fiend began weaving hand-seals. His eyes were to fixated on his former opponent he forgot to watch out for the female. As he turned around, he was met with a foot that connected with his jaw bone, launching him backwards. As he skidded across the water, several water arms erected from the surface holding him down, as the female walked forward. His hands seemed to beable to connect with each other, in case he needed to perform a jutsu of some sort. She spotted his fingers reaching for each other struggling as his forearms were being held back. The water elementalist darted toward him...jumping into the air attempting to take his head off with a kick. "SHADOW CLONE JUTSU!", able to perform a clone seal, an 3 exact copies of Dominick were created. While in mid-air, two clones attacked each air able to pin her down into the waters surface. As the third clone, had finished preparing the Water prison handseals, the clones trapped the female inside.

The fiend responded quickly, forming handseals as Elixar closed in on him. His eyes narrowed to follow the speeding negro shinobi. Elixar found himself stepping to the side to take a wider stance and stepping in a wider circle around his opponent. With the fiend being an enigma at this point, it was wise to keep safe when dealing with potentially fatal sealing techniques alongside lightning jutsu that had earned the fiend his name. Elixar switched his kunai into reverse grip and focused on moving with as much speed as possible. He gave up on his initial attack and now focused on making a tight circular movement around the shinobi, trying to keep in his blind spot as long as possible.

It seemed that the fiend wasn't as bad as Elixar was giving him credit for, he didn't seem to be phased by Elixar's speed, so he mixed it up, he wasn't familiar enough with the shadow clone jutsu to try and make it effective, but he was fast, smart and really willing to get away from this mission as fast as possible, so he took a deep breath and pivoted on his heel. Swinging his knee towards the fiend. Being behind him, the fiend spun to face Elixar, holding his arm up in guard, breaking his held handseal to protect against an attack that never came. Elixar dug deep and planted his foot firmly into the ground and pressed off of it, throwing all of his weight forward as he moved. His momentum shifted in the opposite direction to the one he was moving in and now he was against and off balance ninja who was now once again blind to Elixar's position due to his shoulder blocking him from view.

Elixar circled around, predicting the direction of movement from the other party, he'd managed to gain a 60:40 in advantage. He stayed in the blind spot and shot forward, sweeping low as the ninja reacted to the sound of him darting in. Elixar was gone from his sight, the fiend had reacted to the sound of the ninja moving but was met with no ninja in sight. He was met with the searing pain of a kunai tearing through the side of his shin, drawing blood as it did so. He got so much of a glance down as an almost snaking Elixar slipped past him, kunai dangling behind with his body almost parallel to the floor. Elixar placed his right hand out an braced himself to roll over and leap from his position, once again disappearing from his opponent's sight. The fiend was always one step behind, looking to where Elixar was, but not where he is. Elixar touched against the nearest tree with one foot, swinging the kunai from his left hand to throw it at head height towards the ninja, intentionally missing contact. If he'd gone for the kill, a reflexive block would send the kunai skyward, leaving him unarmed, this much his experience had taught him.

In the same throwing motion he shot straight to a tree opposite. He kicked straight off of the tree and slammed knee first into the base of the fiend's foot whilst his arms covered his face from the kunai. His legs buckled under the unexpected pressure and his balance shifted skyward. Elixar followed through with a slide into a full sprint, running to the tree and tapping off of it again. He was a blur, speeding from tree to tree, surrounding the ninja with his unrelenting pace and constantly shifting angles.

Rearmed with his kunai, Elixar sensed that the ninja was beginning to reach a state of full panic. A lightning jutsu scorched the tree to his left. No longer was he blasting shots of lightning to where Elixar was, but now just guessing at Elixar's flight path. Unluckily, Elixar was already anticipating this and now shifting from circular movement to bouncing his momentum across to the other side, forgoing the circular motion and even going so far as to reverse it. With each blast of lightning draining chakra and building to an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, the blast become less ad less accurate. Elixar touched a tree moments before a lucky blast of lightning zapped the tree, blasting a huge scorch mark throughout the crater it had left in the tree, Elixar was already away from the tree, trailing through the air, eyes sharply focused on his opponent, glowing with a ferocious golden glow. From his foot, the sparks from the previous technique were crackling out of existence. He'd not been hit, but the impact sparks had caught his right foot as he left the tree, it was mildly numbing, but Elixar ignored it, he still had one other perfectly fine leg, and he had the opportunity to end it. As he sailed over the opponent's head he flipped his body so that his left leg would be the contact point with the tree.

He shot off like a rocket and blasted water chakra from both his feet, twisting in the air like a speeding nail. He pointed the kunai forward and invoked the axle of rain technique, shooting towards the lightning fiend as he turned towards Elixar almost in slow motion. The added speed from the technique got Elixar there faster than the fiend could turn. He broke his twist and rolled over forwards in the air, using the momentum to perform a horizontal slash as the fiend turned. He kunai sank into the exposed nape and cut deep, nearly cutting straight through the spine. It left the nape as quickly as it entered, leaving a wide open slash in the back of the man's neck. Elixar hit the floor feet first, crouched over with the kunai brought up to his face from the follow through of the swing. He would wait until he heard the slump of a lifeless body hit the floor before he stood.

Rather absentmindedly, he would then perform some crouches to either side to stretch out his legs and dissipate the lactic acid build up with some heavy breathing, treating that display of rampant speed as if it was relatively commonplace in his fighting style. It occurred to him, his partner probably was done by now. He glanced over to Hideaki, hoping that he hadn't just stopped fighting and started watching Elixar's display on how to monopolize a target with speed.

[Jutsu used: Axle of Rain
Effective Speed Stat: 90
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OOC: Come on man, it's been a week.

Both ninjas were subdued, although the little one would be kicking and screaming as Elixar literally dragged her ass back to Kumogakure, through the streets to toss her back first through the elder's door. He at this point would yell expletives, demanding an explanation to which Elixar would say "Rouge Ninjas dealt with, this one survived, she seems useful." It was rather nonchalant of him, but he was tired from dragging the girl through the streets and ignoring the stares he was being given. He had places to be, people to see. In fact, with his newly accquired funds he would be heading down to the blacksmith's to pick up the weapon that he was owed, hoping that there would not be any weird tricks to halt his progress and generally get in the way of his day to day life.

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