The battle between Mifune, Neji and Black Star escalated as they started battling across the walls on the swords that were now embedded into the stone. Neji again jumped through the air and tried to smash down onto Mifune but he jumped to another sword and Neji had to scramble and grab the sword and it came loose so he grabbed it and jumped back onto another sword and threw the previous sword to Mifune who used his current sword to guide it around and launched it into the hanging platform which cracked with the crack traveling to the edges, it didn't shatter however. Mifune then jumped forward and grabbed the blade in the platform and used it to swing up onto the hanging floor with Neji and Black Star hot on his heels. Many blades were collected back into his sheath over the course of the battle and he let them fall again and they fell and were wedged into the stone cracks in the floor. He then focused on his blade just as Black Star ran forward in an attempt to get a strike in with Tsubaki in ninjato form and they clashed blades Neji ran in from behind and Mifune used an arm and grabbed Black Star's arm and threw him at Neji who already extended his palm to strike but had to lean to the side and was caught off balance "indefinite strike!" Suddenly Mifune started grabbing swords and impaled each one of them within Neji when he was done Neji collapsed on the ground unable to move and Black Star was hanging on the edge about to fall. "I warned you before and you did not know when to give up, this is your fate." Mifune raised a sword, blade down and prepared to bring it down onto Black Star when he felt the power again of someone he faced long ago, a demon warrior and Black Star launched himself upward and had Tsubaki transform into the demon sword. "Shadow Star" he said the moment he landed and his shadow extended at an incredible speed and rose from the ground and was prepared to strike at him but Mifune ran forward and cut through the black tendrils and again they matched crossed blades. They both shouted off their moves Mifune with the infinite one sword attack, and Black Star with his Shadow Star attack. Mifune dropped his second sword and in the flash of a millisecond the battle was finished and their blades crossed, 50 strikes from each blade and no one outside the field would have noticed.
Suddenly Mifune gasped and sputtered out blood on the ground and collapsed onto the floor, Black Star also fell on the ground in pain, just glad the battle was over Tsubaki morphed back into her human form and tried to make sure Black Star was all right, along with Neji. She sighed realizing how they were both just injured, apparently Mifune never intended to kill after all, and the whole coughing blood thing was an after affect from one of the strikes from Neji in the first place. She sat lifted Black Star and prepared to move him to the lower floor, she did the same with Neji she then set them down when Neji struggled to get up "w-we can't g-give up yet." Tsubaki walked over and said "You are in no shape to even move please don't force my hand." Neji got on his knees and finally realized there was one extra person in the room then before. He looked in shock and said "who the hell are you!?" "I'm Black Star's weapon" Tsubaki said while smiling in a friendly manner "But where did you- how did you, what are you?" Neji sputtered out trying to get a logical grasp on the current situation. "I'm a human with the weapon blood, I got it from my parents and them from theirs. I'm able to become a weapon in order to fight. Yet most people know this already explain how you have never heard of this. If I'm correct life has been like this for centuries." Neji finally understood the situation completely "you weren't sent through time like you thought, somehow you broke through a dimensional barrier he then saw someone approaching and he wore thick round glasses and had long white hair. Neji realized who he was immediately and tried to get up only to barely succeed in such a simplistic task. The moment he was on his feet he coughed up another lungful of blood and heeled over in pain. Tsubaki realized that without Black Star she couldn't fight. "Neji I'm going to turn into a weapon but first have you had training in Ninja weapons it's the only way I can fight right now. Neji nodded and said "I will do my best" he looked back up and shouted to the guy "you damned traitor I ought to kill you for what you've done Kabuto!" Tsubaki transformed into her chain sickle form and Neji grabbed her but she was surprised to feel no soul conflict, what happens when two souls aren't compatible. But she didn't even feel his soul at all and sure her soul was widely compatible but the emptiness was strange so seemingly soul resonance was impossible, unless.