Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us

Anvils and Bushy Armpits

"Thank you for the distraction, Meiko", Masen-Z huffed out before his cracked and worked up puppet armor straightened out and prepared for combat again.

"They shifted the entire battlefield to better suit Chominu's style, we'd appreciate if you helped us clear it up", Meiko relayed verbally what Kiyomi told her mentally making it look more like her own strategy. It wasn't that Meiko hadn't noticed how well this shifted battlefield played into Chominu's fighting style but she wouldn't have placed such a high priority on wiping the surface clean.

"It appears I shall have to use the Gearbeam, I will require some time to concentrate and charge it up. It uses both my own chakra stored into the puppetry wires as well as the momentum energy from the gearwork inside" Masen-Z rumbled out to which Meiko affirmatively nodded. Holding her own for a while, as long as Lithia chose to hold herself back to scope out Kiyomi's abilities, didn't sound like too much of a problem. As long as the payoff was cleaning the slate and making Kiyomi's battlefield preferences satisfied.

"I'm surprised your team hadn't involved themselves, we're making quite a ruckus here", Meiko grinned observing Kidenshi rolling aside and with difficulty getting back on his knees before spitting out a bit of blood aside and picking himself back up. Whatever damage her exchange of blows with the Inuzuka had left, it must've convinced him to throw all of his limiters out the window and go all out.

"I doubt they would, they are using the Snapper-Ants' nesting pods for resting, they possess both minimal healing properties and sound insolation. It'd take a much louder blast to make them suspicious. Also, they may be a bit mean to me but they do trust my abilities so even if they do hear something they'd just take it as me doing my job as someone standing guard", the gear giant rumbled back at the redhead.

Unexpectedly to everyone, a white flash with two crimson red trails blurring behind her like a tail of ionized gas and dust that commonly followed a comet burst out from a rocky cover. Closing the distance between where Lithia hid and Meiko's location in an alarming rate, the Lolita style favoring Uchiha attacked Meiko head-on.

The first palm strike dug in deep into Meiko's lower abdomen driving air from her body and slightly elevating her higher from the force of the strike. It was like the Uchiha girl saw events in slow-motion while she herself moved at hyper speeds even for a ninja. The Uchiha then proceeded to throw a blindingly fast chain of punches that almost disappeared from the range of vision even to the three genin ninja. Even confronted by exceptional close range threat of the Sharingan, Meiko placed a firm block that allowed her to cushion most if not all of Lithia's chain punching force.

Seemingly seamlessly Lithia transitioned her chain punches into a jumping cartwheel kick that smashed straight into the top of Meiko's head smashing her head, face first, right into the ground shaking the ground strong enough to move even the larger rubble rocks slightly.

"Mind Body Disturbance"! Kiyomi's voice echoed from somewhere aside, Meiko's head was too dizzy and spinning to identify her ally's exact direction but with Lithia's guard potentially being lowered the Yamanaka was finally free to hit her hated rival with the Yamanaka hijutsu.

Lithia casually leaned her body back before transitioning her painfully uncomfortable evasive motion into a back cartwheel and landing gracefully on her feet, almost like she was just showing off.

"You are aware that the Sharingan allows me to see chakra, right? I can visually see your mind projectile coming at me from over there and avoiding it is child's play." Lithia arrogantly laughed out into her palm, Kiyomi hid behind her cover once again. The Yamanaka was properly furious with Lithia baiting Kiyomi into showing her Yamanaka hijutsu to a hated rival.