Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of Games of Body and Soul

Bloom

Mana's head was buzzing with thoughts that hindered the situation at hand more than they helped. It made her movements heavier, generated that short and insufferable delay between her body ordering a movement and the movement coming out. Even more so than usual really.

Konoha was using her sword imbued with chakra coating and made to shine nature's green. Luckily whatever damage she had sustained from the previous combination attacks that landed on her had affected her speed somewhat, at least enough to where Mana could keep her opponent at bay.

Now was not the time to think things through, time was literally fighting on the opponent's side against them. Mana may have bought Chominu some time before the allergies set in and start swelling up his airway again but that was a temporary solution. They needed a way out and Usubane – their strongest physical hitter had already failed to bust out.

"Magic Spark Jutsu!" Mana chanted out, placing her palms up front and expelling a strong flock of puny sparks of Lightning Release chakra that was an annoyance more than anything else. Konoha covered her face up, the bright flashes and the stings of the bursting sparks had done their job once more.

The woman coughed out and grunted in pain while a powerful impact hit her in the back – Usubane had recovered placing a mighty dropkick while she was being ignored. There were a few things more spectacular than the lower body strength of a ninja rabbit, a direct hit like that must have driven all air out of the body of the rogue ninja giving Mana the most she could ask for – a chance.

The kunoichi leaped forward placing a stiff jumping front kick in the face of the opponent who was flying right at her after Usubane's kick sent her Mana's way. Konoha's body bent backward in a very gruesome angle making ground for a little hope to rise up within the magician's heart that maybe this struggle was finally over. The green glow of her chakra-imbued blade had faded away as well once the woman crumbled to the ground, hitting the floor with the back of her head first.

"Holy shit! That was an awesome combo, Mana-san and I play together so well!" Usubane shrieked out, overpowering the pain and the fatigue in her body.

"Bane-chan, please do not get distracted!" Mana pleaded the rabbit who just glared at the magician with a dumb face for a moment before recalling her role in this assignment.

"O-oh, sorry!" the female rabbit bowed half of her body in regret of getting sidetracked and leaped back to hammer at the slightly cracked dimensional walls. "Hot Feet!" she yelled out while her calves set ablaze with Fire Release chakra and the rabbit delivered a swift and thunderous combination of blows to the dimensional wall. Once again, the cracks widened and spread like webs of a spider all across the dark void but to no avail.

With each passing attempt to chip at the dimension, it seemed that the next hit would finally do it and set them free but every hit only repeated the same promise instead of delivering on it. It appeared that the Konoha ninja were out of luck that day.

"What a pathetic plan..." Konoha's voice grunted. "You idiot, you'll kill us all if you destroy this dimension. We'll be stuck forever in a space between pocket dimensions, that's if we can even survive the conditions of absolute nothingness and the dark flow tearing us apart at the tiniest of levels."

Mana turned at the rogue ninja, she was a bit surprised that Konoha could still stand let alone possess the will needed to fight. Her forehead was covered with streaks of red while bits and pieces of her cloak tore off with each mighty jutsu that hit her and bit by bit broke through her augmentations or every mean fall. The woman's hair was messy and scattered all over her face, slightly concealing the battle-worn condition the woman was in until the blood soaked into her sunny hair making them resemble the color of a cherry tree petal.