I wonder what she meant by 'They have fully developed Ookami bloodlines'... I think Kawa's clan name is Ookami, so are they related? It means wolf... so what's the connection? Genma chewed thoughtfully on his toothpick as he eyed his blue-clad opponent.

Raising his kasurigama, Genma dashed forwards causing the long chains to jingle loudly. His opponent held up his double-bladed pole and braced himself, unmoving. I may not have any bloodlines, thought Genma as he released one of the curved blades towards his opponent, but I know almost every single jutsu in Konaha. And that's got to account for something.

The curved blade wrapped tightly around the main section of the metal pole, and Genma pulled back hard, trying to force the weapon away from the other ninja. The blue shinobi pulled at the exact same time, and they were locked in a tug-o-war for a few moments. But Genma quickly drew a kunai and sent it at the red-eyed ninja, causing him to dodge it and forcing his weapon to straighten out. It allowed Genma to pull his weapon away and send it at him again.

This time, the blade missed and stuck into the snow. He turned quickly, looking for his lost target behind him and above him with no success. He turned back to where his blade was still deeply imbedded into the frozen ground and found a large blade heading for his head.

Thinking quickly, he threw his other blade at his opponents foot, wrapping around his ankle and attatching him to the blade imbedded in the snow. The incoming blade stoppped about an inch from Genma's nose, as his opponent found himself on a chain leash. Ugh, too close, he thought as he threw two more kunai. He ran around to the other side, picking up his other blade, and pulling. It's partner came off easily, obviously not tightly wrapped around the other shinobi's ankle. He jumped backwards, taking to the air and hovering while he thought about what to do next. His opponent did the same.

Genma made a string of one handed seals, and jumped back shouting ,"Suiton Suiryudan no Jutsu!" A large cyclone of water was sent at the blue shinobi, taking the form of a dragon and plunging head first into him. Genma strained forward to see his opponent as the droplets of water cleared, revealing him lying on his back, before he disappeared into a puff of smoke. Damn, a water clone?

He spotted the real ninja a few feet behind, and he spun around, slashing the ninja across his neck, before... puff!

"What the?" Genma went through two more clones, before there were no more to go through and he was left looking around, confused. He heard a low growl, and spun back around, coming face-to face with an odd looking blue shinobi. Umm...

"What's with the doggy ears?" asked Genma as he dodged a low blow. The question seemed to infuriate the blue shinobi and he ran forward on all fours, like an animal, towards him. The blue, dog-eared shinobi made a few quick seals and shouted: "Doton: Jouro Konoha Yaiba!"

The snow beneath the blue ninja was suddenly blown away, revealing the frozen dirt beneath, as they were fighting on the edge of the bridge and not on it, at the very edge of the mirrors. The ground cracked, thin spidery lines spreading out from the shinobi's position, and breaking into thousands of small, one-inch plates. They ros into the air and shot forward as Genma, thinking quickly again, made more seals and shouted "Mokudon Jinheki no Jutsu!"

Before the blades of earth could reach him, a thick wall of tree branches and vines shot up from the snow, entwining and forming an inpenetrable barrier. As Genma ran around it to face his opponent, he heard a loud drumming as the earth blades slammed into it and embedded themselves deep into the wood. He skidded to a halt before his opponent could react and swung his kasurigama, releasing it in mid-swing and letting it fly bola-style towards the crouching form of the blue shinobi.

But the shinobi's enhanced hearing picked up on the jingling sound of the chains and he jumped just in time, but it was a little bit too late. The flying weapon caught his right ankle as he used it to puch off into the air, and one of the blades imbedded itself in his heel.

Genma quickly formed more one-handed seals, shouting "Doton, Daibakufu no Jutsu!" The earth and snow around Genma shot forward, exploding towards the blue shinobi in a powereful wave of snow, mud and chakra. It was unavoidable. But before it impacted, the shinobi snarled and transformed into a light grey wolf. A full transformation? Is this what she meant...? Genma raised an eyebrow as the jutsu hit the large grey wolf with incredible force, knocking it backwards and sendig it flying almost to the edge of the dome, where he lay still in a pool of crimson.

Genma folded his wings and stepped forward as the wolf turned back into a human. He noticed that in his hand, he held the abandoned kasurigama in his right hand too late. The blur shinobi sprung forward and wrapped the log chain around Genma's wings and arms, and finally his throat.

As Genma struggled, and thought at the same time Sora was thinking the same thing, I need poison... Genma wracked his mind, trying to think of something he had forgotten before. He was slowly running out of breath as the chain tightened, and he couldn't even reach his bound arms up high enough to try to loosen it. Where was it... I forgot.... It's somewhere here.... Oh, right.

Genma would have laughed had he been able to, as he remembered the obvious. How could I have forgotten.

He opened his mouthe and spat his brown toothpick into his hand, before bringing the sharpened wood into his attacker's thigh, penetrating deep and leaving it in like a bee sting. There was a few seconds of strugling, before the chain loosened and Genma pushed away, gasping for breath.

His toothpick had been coated in a deadly poison which he had completely forgotten about, as he had never before used it in battle, but it had to enter the bloodstream to take effect, so Genma had kept the toothpick in his mouth for 'safekeeping.'

He looked down at the body of the blue shinobi, but his thoughts were broken as three stray needles embedded themselves into his left shoulder. They were from Koumei's fight, and as he grunted and turned his head slightly, he saw around a hundred other needles that had hit home.