Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us

Of Safe Roads Not Worth Taking

"I thought your snake would not attack me", Kiyomi twisted her lips upward in a deceitful display of discontent. Truthfully, she just needed some time to relieve the strain of the Substitution Jutsu, a technique that allows a person to replace themselves with an object around them, allowing that object to take the damage even thought for a moment it'd appear that the person was damaged.

It was a commonly used and an incredibly useful technique but it was no panacea to any manner of attack. First of all, it only worked on physical or material attacks, taijutsu and ninjutsu were fair enough but illusions couldn't have been substituted out of. Secondly, it was useless against an opponent with a greatly higher amount of speed as such an enemy would've seen through it and possibly intercepted it. Third, the object needed to be focused on, similarly to how Academy instructors told students to keep their eyes on the target when they threw knives at it.

The object needed to be clearly thought of and it needed to become the sole, dominant thought to focus the entire body's effort into the technique. Then finally, after the boost of speed and replacement transpired, the user was left strained, usually it doesn't really impact other techniques like ninjutsu and the sort but it makes the body completely numbed when performing speedy or overly acrobatic techniques such as the Body Flicker Jutsu and others.

"I told you already, Anaron will attack when he acts as a part of the ring. Dahomey Eyes is a taijutsu technique that involves the ring corner, tossing the opponent into the air making them land and smash their head right in the ring corner. Anaron's tackle was fair game", Othello G stretched himself out as he continued to nimbly move around the ring, never stopping in one place and allowing Kiyomi to take target for her signature clan hijutsu.

Finally remembering that she was in the middle of a wrestling ring, Kiyomi timed her movements to perfectly mirror Othello's, moving around the ring in a perfectly opposite angle before dashing back, heading for the Anaron's extended body for a bounce off of the elastic flesh and skin of the reptile. Just as predicted, it appeared that Anaron had read Kiyomi's intentions and relaxed its body allowing the girl to bounce off of it as if its body were actual ring ropes, maybe even softer. The Yamanaka felt the surge of speed gained from the bouncing movement as she headed towards her opponent who proceeded to bounce off of the opposite side and come at her.

"Uranus Uppercut"! Othello G yelled as he threw his fist, forearm and the entire hand up to the shoulder up trying to dig it under Kiyomi's chin. However all that Othello's uppercut hit was just a surge of air as the blonde dove under him with a sliding movement before pushing her upper body off the rock with her palms shoving herself upwards while she positioned her right leg vertically upwards in a knockout sky kick aimed, similarly to her opponent, under Othello G's chin.

The resistance that Kiyomi's foot encountered after her foot slammed into the middle-aged wrestler's lower chin was intense. Almost matching that of trying to kick a small planetoid away but with a strong intensified flow of chakra in her lower area Kiyomi managed to make her force move things up a bit by tossing her opponent into the air from the force in her kick.

Focusing a strong flow of chakra into her lower legs and her thighs Kiyomi froze momentarily before freezing the intensified masses of chakra in her feet. Then, in one motion, she forced it all out of her feet, creating another miniature circle of chakra flow in her legs before her body fired off after her opponent in a pursuing dash upwards. The girl's hands firmly locked around the wrist of her airborne and still dazed opponent before flipping the man over her shoulder in a powerful throw down, however she didn't let go of the man's hand. While Kiyomi risked a possible recovery and counterattack, the young woman chose to instead of finish her over the shoulder throw right before hitting the ground so that the force behind the throw as well as behind both their falls was focused on her opponent's back.