"Come on, Kiyomi, you can do it"! Meiko cheered for the Yamanaka unexpectedly from the side. The sheer surprise of realizing that both Meiko and Masen-Z were watching made Kiyomi's mind, kind of, snap out of the trembling sensation that realizing she needed to take high risks in this battle brought.
While the blonde felt that Meiko's attempts at cheering her up were really cheesy, somehow, they worked. They worked at least at calming Kiyomi down. The pressure of knowing that losing here meant the end for her entire team stopped mattering as much, the expectations that Chestnut Hanasaku as well as her own clan and her team had for her stopped holding Kiyomi down.
One thing that was crystal-clear at this point was that Kiyomi needed to stop trying to outwrestle Othello G or even fighting using that style. When fighting fair she had little to no hope of beating the man, her punches and kicks simply bounced off of him leaving little to no damage no matter how augmented they were and she was just tiring herself out and getting herself ready for a "What-What" finisher.
Still, she had little to no options of changing her style up in this ring. Her ninjutsu affinity was for Earth Release techniques, at this moment Anaron was covering up the busted ring floor with his body, which meant that Kiyomi would be unable to use them unless the rocks somehow broke through the snake's body. That meant that the jutsu would come out later and weaker as they would struggle to bust through the snake already. She needed to think smarter, think broader and improvise.
Just as Othello's feet propelled the large wrestler forward, throwing him into an acrobatic roll forward, aimed at placing him behind Kiyomi so that he could lock her into a suplex or strike from behind, the blonde's own hands occupied themselves with hand seals. It was a lethal race as to who would get to their attack first. Luckily enough, the technique on Kiyomi's mind was simple enough and required very few hand seals.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough"! Kiyomi chanted as she jumped up and turned her upper body around, stretching herself to turn back so much that her sides started hurting. A little bit more and she would have most certainly flexed a muscle.
At the same time Othello placed himself behind Kiyomi as a smaller snake burst through and out of Anaron's scales. The purpose of the smaller reptile was to wrap around Kiyomi, it didn't look like the snake that performed the "What-What" but it still looked quite capable of constricting Kiyomi until she could no longer breathe or move and would end up passing out of air shortage.
Luckily enough, the Wind Release technique of Kiyomi's secondary, weaker, elemental affinity delivered a powerful pushing shock which shoved the user herself out of harm's way seeing how she was in the air and didn't use her feet for holding her balance still. Kiyomi's weightless and relaxed body was thrown backwards from the aftershock while the windblast hit Othello right in the face up close.
Shaken by the powerful wave of wind, Othello G braced himself as the smaller snake once again disappeared under Anaron's scales from where it initially appeared. The powerful wrestler soon regained his full composure, having not only withstood the tremendous toppling force of the raging windstorm containing all the power of a hypercane compressed into a single wave but also recovered from it far sooner than any ninja of his rank reasonably would. The first sight that met his eyes was Kiyomi in a jumping punch stance, her fist cocked back and winded up, ready to wreak havoc upon Othello G's face.
"Apep Suplex"! Othello G yelled out as his body moved many times faster than even the mental command for the blonde to unleash her prepared punch. The speedy powerhouse dashed right behind the airborne opponent trying to grip at her lower abdomen before dropping his body back for an immensely powerful suplex. He would have knocked Kiyomi out completely had it not been for the minor detail that his vehicle sized arms phased through the girl's body dispelling a floaty mirage.
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Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us
FanfictionSecond book in the "Tales of the Ninja Magician" series. A story about Nakotsumi Mana, a stage magician who follows up her dream of changing the violent world around her and becomes a ninja. Based on the world and setting of Naruto created by Masash...
