Chapter 2: tenshi versusmatsu (battle of the sand shinobi)

The two sand shinobi find each other in a small dusty valley void of trees, a sprinkling river runs through its base and further down the mountain.

Matsu looked around quickly trying to see what would be useful, what will be dangerous, and what had no worth whatsoever in his fight.

Tenshi dropped down by the small stream waiting for Matsu while playing with the water and laughing.

Matsu turned his attention to tenshi.

"Did you get hit in the head or something?"

Tenshi smiled as he looked over at his team mate.

"Relax and have fun, this is the exams!"

He waved his hand in the air gesturing that his team mate should join him.

"Come over here and feel the water it feels so good!"

Matsu got an irritated look on his face.

"Stop messing around we are here as a face for suna we cant let people think we are a bunch of kids."

He drew out a kunai while he was talking.

Tenshi laughed even harder.

"Wow somebody needs to relax! Who really cares about the village anyway? So just relax and have fun!"

"We are being tested as we speak and you are just gonna sit there?"

He kept an eye out looking in all directions in case this was a clone as a decoy.

Tenshi slammed his katana into the lake. Then he laid back looking at Matsu.

"Really you need to relax more and have fun. Our kage said the same thing right?"

He smiled again.

Matsu gaped at his team mate. "You've grown cocky with your new found strength."

"Or is it that you're trying to rile me up?"

Tenshi kept laughing.

"Don't you see the best genins are all here? It is going to be so much fun but you seeem to be to serious. If you don't relax you're going to lose."

He watched the sky as the clouds drifted over them.

"So did you see the village I kinda got here late? I forgot the exams were today."

Tenshi rubbed his head looking a bit sheepish.

"Can you tell me about it we have plenty of time? None of us will be going anywhere soon."

As he said that the clone behind the trees finishes the hand seals as 3 walls surround us made of lightning. Using the blade I planted into the ground as a conductor with the other blades. As he stood back up wiping his clothes down and another one of him stood behind Matsu. About 10 feet away holding a kunai.

Matsu smiled for the first time that day.

"It's about time we started."

He got into a fighting stance, "but you shouldn't have left that last fight we had with that other genin"

Tenshi smiled,

"Why's that?"

He with drew a kunai and began spinning it around his hand.

"Because I know how to get out of this prison now."

"Then why don't you try it? Last time I wasn't serious!"

He flung the kunai towards Matsu's right leg while drawing another one out.

"You never looked around when you used your technique," Matsu smiled; "you should have been more careful." the Matsu inside the prison began to run at the tenshi that was in there with him. As he runs some of his "skin" starts to crumble revealing explosive tags. As he reached tenshi he blew up.

When Matsu had reached Tenshi he jumped to the side watching his opponent explode. While the other doesn't move as he is outside the blast radius.

clone1: "What he killed himself what a loser?"

clone2: "It doesn't seem right…"

Tenshi stood outside of the barrier. As he watched the blast inside the barrier he thought,

What's he planning?

he uses clones! Now he did say he learnt some new things…

A scythe flies out of no where. It wraps around a rock. It spun at an angle towards the clone outside of the barrier almost cutting it in half before impaling into

The ground and the chain become slack since no one is holding it.

Tenshi had jumped to the side as the projectile had swung around; he stuck his blade in one of the chains and sheathed it in to the ground preventing it from moving.

He let fly a shurikan in the direction in witch the projectile had come from.

what's he trying, is he staying at a distance?

Both of the clones were watching from inside the barrier while also keeping an eye on the interior of the barrier.

Some shuriken fly from the opposite direction from where the chain had come from at tenshi.

He weaved through the shurikens while watching where they were coming from and then looked back at the scythe.

If he doesn't have clones he can't be in more than one place at once, he didn't move or I would have heard him

Matsu continued to watch his actions from his hidden spot.

Tenshi canceled one of his clones as he reformed it outside of the barrier; and had it follow the chain of the scythe.

Matsu smiled a little as he watched the clone following the scythe and wrap a wire tighter around his hand that extends to wrap and weave through most of the rocks.

In the area he pulls it and the scythe fling back towards the clone.

Tenshi tightens his blade into the ground as the chain on the scythe begins stopping it from reaching the clone.

I'm starting to understand this now.

I thought that would have broken his grip hmmm time to think of another plan. Now that I know that works the way I want it to

So the chances are, he is either at the first spot or the second one if that's the case

The clone sends a kunai towards the first spot as Tenshi sent a kunai towards the second spot. with explosive tags on them*

Both the kunai hit something and from both spots a Matsu fell forward with a kunai in their heads then as they hit the ground they burst into dust; and another Matsu started to run at the real tenshi at an extremely quick speed with his byakugan activated.

As Matsu was just about to reach tenshi a third kunai comes at him from the clone that was in the barrier until it was canceled during the explosion and once again it has a tag on it; but this time it was a flash tag setting off a blinding blast of light.

So he can use clones now …

Tenshi ran at Matsu during the flash of light as he sent a kick to the side of his opponent's head with the second clone sending a kick to the inside of your chest hitting the side of your ribs.

Even though he was blinded he was able to fend off the kick to the head but the one to the chest connects and almost broke a rib. As it bruises the bone Matsu grabbed its leg and threw the clone in the direction of the kick to the head. Attempting to throw him into tenshi.

Tenshi spun himself in the air as he canceled the clone moving his hand through the blood that is now in the air and bringing it down towards your chest with a blade of blood. Formed in my hand from the clone.

Only able to see shadows Matsu stumbled away from the movement that he had glimpsed threw the haze. As the blade cut through the skin on his chest his eyes wince a little bit. He quickly grinned again as his vision started to return.

Tenshi canceled the blood from the sword and planted his left foot on to Matsu's right shoulder turning the blood into a spike on the bottom of his foot. It sunk in his left shoulder when tenshi launched him self a safe distance away. Tenshi quickly formed another clone from the blood.

So it lasts that long then.

Matsu ignored the hole in his shoulder. He continued to watch and analyze.

Hmm he is stronger than me in every way. He is faster stronger and has more chakra. However I think I can maneuver better and he is burning through chakra faster than me

Ok he's taken some decent damage but I can't let my guard down. Getting in close is risky now he can see and I need to keep notice of my chakra levels.

The clone tenshi had just made moved towards the front of him with the other standing a few feet behind him as they watch Matsu's every move. While I stand in the middle doing almost nothing.

Matsu kept an eye on all the clones and Tenshi. He held up to fingers at his side very slightly so as not to be noticed to begin charging his chakra as well.

(Both genin are charging there chakra)

I will end this soon with that jutsu

Matsu was the first to stops charging chakra. Matsu watched his team mate carefully.

It would be idiotic not to assume he has no new abilities so I have to be ready for anything!

"...byakugan!"

Matsu reactivates the byakugan and jumps away from tenshi and the clones.

It's time to use it soon

Now I just need to time it right.

Tenshi taunted his opponent, "So you ready then? If so come at me with all you got!"

Matsu took one wire out of his right pocket. He held it like a whip as he reached out with his left hand and takes hold of another wire that was sticking out of the ground.

More wires I'm getting sick of this!

He began to taunt Matsu again, "isn't your specialty close combat?"

"Yes it is but for this special occasion I have decided to try some thing new! " Pulling hard on the wire in the ground triggers a bomb to go off under the ground throwing a huge dust cloud into the air. As Matsu swung the wire in his hand he cut one of the clones in half with chakra running through it and then run into the dust cloud following the glowing chakra points coming from tenshi. When he reached him he began stabbing his fingers at him quickly.

As the clone is cut in half tenshi instantly formed it into senbons and sent them flying everywhere in the dust as he pulled back and away from the area with his other clone splitting up from me moving to the left side.

He taunted his team mate yet again, "If you want to get me, come and get me!"

Matsu rotated; he blew away the senbon and stood in the smoke cloud for a few more seconds as he figured out what to do next.

Tenshi looked at the sides of himself. The clone began throwing kunai's at the sides of the valley some with explosive tags on them causing them to fall to the sides.

Creating a small dam causing the water to build up before me as he stood and waited.

Matsu hears the water building up I see! That's what he has planned

Seeing Matsu come rushing into the area the clone blew up the exit with an explosive tag sealing off all ways out as tenshi gets into a stance.

"You ready now?"

"Yeah let's end this!"

Matsu got into the hyuga stance.

Tenshi's body began to crackle slightly with lightning surrounding his body similar to lightning armor. Water transmits the lightning everywhere as he looked towards Matsu.

"Lightning blaze!"

"Let's end this battle right here"

As he finished talking, a hound made of pure lightning was formed on the water with a rope of lightning connecting it with him with its power and speed enhanced by 5 times thanks to the lightning blaze mode. It headed straight for Matsu biting down on his right arm while sending lightning into him that was also enhanced.

By the water.

Matsu was getting electrocuted but still attempted to get to the genin.

"Can't give up" he squeezed out.

He fell to the water as the electrocution began to paralyze his limbs but he continued to move towards Tenshi.

He still won't give up. He's going to die at this rate!

"You do know the main exams are after this right?"

Another two hounds from the first one latch onto Matsu's legs. As they bite down the same as the one on his shoulder, the lightning that is going through him increases again.

"Damn! Alright I'll quit for now; but just so I can get through the chunin exams."

Tenshi waited for the chunin to stop the fight before stopping the attack.

"Get off me! " Matsu blew the hounds off him with chakra then got up and walks away.

With a poof a Chunin appears between the genin and pulls the little kids hand up into the air, he has to lean over to do it, so it looks kind of awkward.

"This... Umm eh... The Child is the winner"

Credit goes to Baxter09 and rusayo for putting together this fight.

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