Daidouji landed back in the river, her feet splashing into the small stream, as the dust settled and smoke cleared around her. She narrowed her eyes and clenched her fists, looking around for Ravage: the kitsune having vanished from sight. Nothing. There was only silence. Daidouji clenched her fists harder, continuing to glance left and right. Ravage crawled down the side of a tree trunk and landed silently a few feet behind Daidouji.

"You're faster than I thought..." Daidouji looked over her left shoulder. "To dodge my attacks like that."

"Well..." Ravage smirked. He jumped back as Daidouji reappeared in front of him and smashed her fist into the ground. Ravage kicked the chunk of ground sent flying at him into pieces and then blocked Daidouji's follow-up elbow strike with his right arm. "I'll admit it was a little tricky." Ravage chuckled. Daidouji backflipped away from Ravage as he went in for a sweeping kick. Daidouji cracked her knuckles and then her neck.

"Hmm, I might be getting rusty with that technique if it was only a little tricky... no good, I'll have to train harder." Daidouji spoke to herself. Ravage dashed at her and she blocked his roundhouse kick with her left arm before throwing him back. Ravage recovered and safely back on the ground. Both of them reassumed fighting stances as the river ran around them.

"Heh." Ravage and Daidouji set off running at each other. Ravage opened up with a rising uppercut but Daidouji dodged around it and kneed him in the stomach before roundhouse kicking him towards a tree across the river. Ravage landed perfectly on its side and jumped to another as Daidouji flew st him. She stopped herself from smashing through said tree with a flying kick and jumped after Ravage. The two proceeded to jump off of tree trunk after tree trunk as they progressed through the forest, repeatedly clashing in mid-air with a variety of punches and kicks that cancelled one another out as they leapt from trunk to trunk. As Ravage jumped from one tree to the next he grabbed hold of a branch and swung around it before launching himself at Daidouji. Daidouji's eyes widened just before she was hit, Ravage striking her across the face with a flying right hook. The two broke out of the tree line and flew over a ravine just as Daidouji turned the tables on Ravage with a left hook to the face followed up with a right hook before she wrapped her legs around his waist and flipped the two of them around. Daidouji proceeded to flip herself and Ravage forward before smashing Ravage into a cliff face and then repeatedly kicking him in the torso, pummeling him into the wall wigh each rapid kick. "Arrgh!" Ravage's aura flared to life and he grabbed Daidouji's face before it faded away and then smashed her head into the cliff face. The demon then ran up the wall, dragging Daidouji along, before reaching the top and throwing her away onto solid ground. Daidouji tumbled across a clearing as Ravage landed back down, the shinobi recovering directly afterwards and jumping back onto her feet.

"Your power... it's unlike any other demon I've ever encountered before." Daidouji commented.

"Ehh, I'm not using any more power than..." Ravage was cut off by Daidouji.

"No, I mean it feels different." She interrupted.

"Ah well, that's understandable." Ravage shrugged before reassuming his fighting stance. "So are you a demon hunter or something?"

"I'm a shinobi." Daidouji answered.

"What?" Ravage lowered his guard and gave Daidouji a bewildered stare.

"A ninja." Daidouji repeated herself.

"What?" Ravage repeated himself. "How? I mean I've met some ridiculous ninjas in my time, and you're not actually the most unbelievable one, but seriously. Hell, you couldn't even pass as a classical ninja that blends into crowds: you're as subtle as..."

"Yeah I don't care for being subtle, if an enemy appears before me I will destroy it however I see fit." Daidouji folded her arms.

"Then how are you a ninja?! Does the concept of stealth not exist here? And I ask this as someone who is friends with at least two ninjas who are on planet-busting levels." Ravage questioned. "Hell, one of them commonly reaches levels far beyond that, depending on the timeline, and they still have respect for subtlety." Ravage threw his hands in the air.

"Just shut up and fight." Daidouji reassumed her fighting stance.

"And I was starting to think we had hit it off... maybe you just aren't the talkative type." Ravage joked.

"Aaaarrrggghhh!" Daidouji charged at him.

"Gah." Ravage jumped back before recomposing himself and then rushing off to meet Daidouji head-on. Ravage and Daidouji clashed in the middle of the open field, hands locked together as they struggled and tried to overpower one another. The ground cracked up around the two as an aura of flames znd bio-electricity engulfed Ravage and an aura of yellow energy engulfed Daidouji. Daidouji's eyes flashed with power as did Ravage's right eye but both held their ground and their struggle remained as a stalemate, their auras beginning to lift up little bits of the ground around them whilst kicking up dirt with the winds produced by them.

"Grr." Daidouji and Ravage butted heads but still neither of them budged.

"So how do you get that shine in your hair? Unnaturally good for a delinquent, maybe I should try some products on my fur some time." Ravage inquired.

"Grrrrr..." Daidouji grated her teeth.

"You know what, yeah, that wouldn't feel right: I like how natural my fur is and I honestly don't mind the unkempt style." Ravage smirked. Daidouji headbutted him again before picking him up and throwing him over to a rock. Ravage bounded off said rock and before he even touched the ground Daidouji had caught up with the kitsune and kneed him in the face. She then picked him up by the neck and threw him up against the rock before delivering powerful kick after kick to his chest: with the 3rd kick sending Ravage through the rock and smashing it to pieces. Ravage pushed himself back up afterwards and caught Daidouji's follow-up punch with his left hand straight after. He grinned as Daidouji jumped back and six blue spectral katanas appeared around him: spinning around his torso.

"Humph, only 6." Daidouji readied herself. Ravage chuckled.

"Toki yo tomare!" An orange pulse radiated from Ravage and time came to a halt.

'You're going to exclaim that each time aren't you?' Ravage's grandfather asked as Ravage walked over to Daidouji.

"Maybe..." Ravage shrugged. He put his hands in his shorts' pockets and watched as his summoned swords appeared around Daidouji, each one now pointed at her. Several more sets of six materialised around Daidouji which each second passed, Ravage summoning them at intrervals. The kitsune turned his back on Daidouji and took a few steps away from here as the last six summoned swords surrounded her. "8 seconds have passed." Ravage looked over his shoulder. "9 seconds have passed. Time resumes."

"What?!" Daidouji was caught off guard and saw countless summoned swords pointed at her from every angle. "H-how...?" She muttered, grating her teeth and clenching her fists.

"I summon six of them at a time. There is 8 sets there. Can you count how many you'll have to destroy, it'll be much harder if you try to avoid them after all." Ravage spoke up.

"I don't have time for such college level math!" Daidouji exclaimed. Ravage's right eye widened.

'It's... it's simple multiplication... I mean, I know this isn't the worst thing but...' Ravage's grandfather muttered.

'She does look like a delinquent...' Ravage replied.

'It's simple multiplication!' His grandfather snapped. 'Ahh my head!'

'You don't have a head, you're dead.' Ravage responded.

"Argh!" A sharp pain hit Ravage's head. "That stung..."

'Ok you do...' He sighed internally.

"See, even you don't know the number." Daidouji thought Ravage was struggling to do the multiplication himself.

"Hold on." Ravage stopped time again to talk to his grandpa. "Really good in a fight; a fantastic cook, but a math failure..." Ravage spoke to his grandfather.

'So you but she traded simple math skills for cooking skills.' He snarked.

"Hey!" Ravage frowned.

'Your cooking is trash.' His grandfather taunted him, though Ravage knew he was right.

"How would you know?" Ravage asked.

'We share a body.' His grandfather bluntly replied.

"Wait, all this time you could..."

'Of course.' His grandfather cut him off. 'I sense everything from your pain to your sense of taste to your hormones, even if you don't know yourself about those.'

"Really?" Ravage scratched his head.

'No, of course not. I don't feel anything unless I take a physical form.' Ravage's grandpa dropped the ruse. 'Though about your hormones...' He chuckled.

"Wait, what are those again?" Ravage inquired.

'Alright maybe her education isn't so much an issue next to your education...' His grandfather sighed.

"She's a good fighter and a good cook, all I ask for in anybody. Besides, what education?" Ravage questioned.

'Good point.' Ravage's grandfather responded.

"Thank you." Ravage smiled. Time resumed.

'Don't thank me, Ravage.'

"Hold on for what?" Daidouji asked, confused that Ravage had just asked for her yo hold on and just stood there afterwards, as she was still surrounded by Ravage's summoned swords. Ravage turned around but as he completed his 180, Daidouji had escaped the summoned sword cage and reappeared in front of Ravage.

"Ahh, crap..." Ravage sighed as all of his summoned swords crashed into one another behind Daidouji.

"Your focus seems to be a little off." Daidouji cracked her knuckles.

"That would be my..."

"Ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora, ora!" Daidouji battered him with a flurry of rapid punches, striking the kitsune with lightning fast blows all over his body.

"Oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww, oww!"

'Well, she has a point.'

'Thank you, grandpa...' Ravage bitterly remarked.