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Kakashi Strikes
Kakashi walked into the middle of the clearing not taking his eye off of Tobuza. They stood staring at each other; the only sound was that of birds all around them.
I can't take my eye off him, one opening and he'll attack. I can see the hatred in his eyes thought Kakashi.
Tobuza wasn't moving a muscle, not even blinking. A gust of wind rose up scattering dead leaves everywhere and they were both surrounded by a swirling mass of colour. Tobuza's fringe fell down over his left eye and as he raised his left hand to move it from his sight Kakashi sprung into action.
That's the opening!
He threw four kunai straight at his target, Tobuza focused immediately on them. He dodged three with ease and caught the final one on his finger and started to spin it.
"Hmm is that it? You won't catch me out Kakashi, your little brats have given me the perfect warm up, ha ha ha!"
"I will admit your skills are very advanced. If there are no shinobi in the Earth Village who trained you?" questioned Kakashi.
"Ha ha that's easy… It was you!"
Kakashi looked stunned, "I taught you?"
"Don't get all starry eyed on me. Yes you did teach me but not only you, I have the wonderful ability of seeing a jutsu or training technique once and then being able to master it!"
That's it! His speed must be Might Guy and the cloaking- no doubt Jiraiya, he's the only ninja that can evade my sharingan effectively.
"Ok, no more bed time stories let's do this!" snapped Tobuza, kunai in hand. He advanced on Kakashi like lightning.
As Kakashi blocked his kunai with his own he thought, His speed!...It's faster than Guy! He pushed him back twisting in the air bringing his right leg up to meet Tobuza's head. Tobuza grabbed his leg and smirked at him. Kakashi frowned and placed his hand on the floor swinging his other leg at Tobuza who had no option but to release him and move away.
Kakashi stood back up. "Looks like I underestimated you, but not any more!" he reached for his head band and lifted it to reveal a vertical scar running from above his eyebrow to beneath his mask. He opened his eye revealing a bright red iris.
"Aww…another sharingan, but this time it's fully established. This is more like it!" smiled Tobuza.
Kakashi sprinted straight at Tobuza his fists and feet flying towards him. Every blow was blocked. The two ninja were so fast that to Sakura they were just a blur.
Kakashi swung his right fist and grabbed a kunai with his left. As Tobuza blocked his punch Kakashi swung his left arm with kunai in hand around himself. Tobuza lent backwards to avoid the weapon then jumped back away from his opponent.
"Ha ha Kakashi, you can't hit me with that!" As the words left his mouth he felt blood running down his cheek. Touching his face he looked at his fingers, "But…But I dodged it!"
"You obviously haven't studied me hard enough. I can concentrate my chakra to extend the blade of my kunai invisible to the naked eye!"
Tobuza face twisted with anger, "That's it I'm going to finish it!" He started to perform hand signals.
"No, he can't be…" Kakashi started as he somersaulted backwards. He just managed to reach safety as Tobuza created a massive fire ball. Suddenly Tobuza emerged from the middle of the flames on the attack causing Kakashi to catch his breath unexpectedly. Kakashi knew he was going to have to use the full strength of his sharangan to beat him. Tobuza jumped into the air fist ready then disappeared. Without his sharingan Kakashi would never have seen him moving behind him. The Copy-Nin spun around and blocked his leg.
Tobuza looked shocked, How did he?… Never mind, he wont block this!
He spun on his hands and bounced backwards over Kakashi and kicking him in the back knocking him forward slightly. Kakashi retaliated with a leg sweep narrowly missing Tobuza as he jumped out of the way.
Kakashi started hand signals. "Earth style Ground Swallow jutsu!"
As Tobuza fell down to the ground the earth opened up beneath him. He couldn't correct himself quick enough and fell straight into the gaping hole. Kakashi closed it with another hand signal. Then there was silence. Kakashi took a deep breath and started to walk back towards his pupils. Suddenly Tobuza's hand came out of the ground and grabbed his ankle.
"What? Head hunter jutsu? How?"
He felt Tobuza tug his leg into the earth then before appearing in front of Kakashi. He swung his knee at the Copy-Nin connecting with his chin throwing Kakashi backwards. Tobuza smiled. 'Puff!' Kakashi was gone. All that remained was a log.
"What?... What is this?"
"It's a technique we train our pupils from the start, it's quite basic really," said a cool voice behind him. Tobuza spun round just in time to see Kakashi flying towards him. He had to react quickly and did so by performing hand signals that Kakashi knew too well. Shadow clones! Kakashi struck the closest one. 'Puff!' It exploded. He did a hand stand spinning around with both legs outstretched taking out most of the clones surrounding him, then sprung up and landed on another.
One left.
He reached into his pouch throwing four more kunai in the direction of the final figure. Tobuza dodged them all- again with great ease. One sailed past him imbedding itself into the trunk of a tree a couple of feet away.
"Are you losing your touch Kakashi? That wasn't even close,"
There was a faint hissing sound and Tobuza turned to the tree at the side of him. He noticed the kunai had a small a tag on it burning. Tobuza gasped and jumped as it exploded throwing him backwards. Kakashi advanced at full speed as Tobuza landed and rebounded towards him. They connected in mid-air blocking each others fists staring at one another. Tobuza was snarling like a dog.
He is a lot stronger then I thought. But how? wondered Kakashi.
"I'll never give up until your dead!" growled Tobuza.
They pushed each other away and both skidded backwards along the ground, both doing hand signals. "Earth style Whirlwind of Terror!" they said simultaneously. Then they were both lifted by swirling winds. As the winds brought the two men together they used every opportunity they had to strike at one another. As the jutsu ended both landed hard on the ground. Kakashi sprung back to his feet breathing heavily as Tobuza slowly got up on the other side of the clearing.
Hmm he reminds me of Naruto. He's so determined…he will never give up, thought Kakashi.
I don't know how much more of this I can take! Tobuza thought. I'm nearly on empty… I hope I have enough to do this!
Tobuza started more hand signals. Kakashi was too far away and couldn't make out the individual sign.
What're you up toTobuza?
"Earth style Dueling Dragons!"
"What?! That can only be done by the Third Hokage! He cant!"
The ground started to shake as two dragons made of earth rose up behind Tobuza. They started to sway and without warning one struck straight at Kakashi. He jumped out of the way just in time and it exploded into a cloud of dirt. The other laid low and shot across the ground towards Kakashi.
"I'm running out of chakra, I can't out run this thing for much longer!" he jumped out of the way of the sharp teeth. Suddenly it turned back on itself and rushed at Kakashi again. He ran through the trees then back into the clearing. It had vanished. Kakashi collapsed onto one knee breathing heavily. "Where are you?" he whispered as it rose behind him and came crashing back down over him. Kakashi had barely moved out of the way as it exploded into dirt as it slammed into the floor.
Tobuza fell to one knee. I'm completely out, he thought.
How much more has he got? I'm running seriously low… thought Kakashi.
"Seems like luck is shining down on you Kakashi Hatake! I will return and then I will destroy you!" stated Tobuza as he disappeared.
Kakashi sighed, visibly relieved, "I can't believe how powerful he is. If he'd had enough chakra those Earth Dragons wouldn't have turned to dust, they would've kept pursuing me until they tore me to pieces. But how did he learn that? The Third mastered that as a last resort to protect the village… Sakura collect the scroll," he commanded before lowering his voice again to think out loud. "I need to see the Fifth Hokage straight away about this."
"Ok sensei… What about Sasuke and Naruto?"
"I'll deal with them; I have just enough chakra to take them both back to the village," Kakashi set off towards his fallen pupils as Sakura collected the scroll. Kakashi picked up Naruto and Sasuke; sweat dripping from his head band. "I need to ask Tsunade something," he said as he jumped into the trees followed by Sakura. They set off towards the village.
Watching from top of the trees Tobuza stood breathing heavily, gasping for breath. "That jutsu took so much out of me. If only I'd had enough chakra Kakashi would be no more… Till next time Kakashi." With that he set off deep into the woods.