Archer fights kakashi! well, writing fight scenes between characters of different anime is hard... anyway I've done all i can to make it more reasonable. and i hope the readers will like it.
author disclaimer: i don't own fate stay night
The First saga: The scabbard
Episode 4-1 The battle of the copycats (part 2: Warm up)
The clang of steel rang the barren dessert. Continuous streaks of blade strikes struck both ends of the field. It started out as a fight of melee skills. And soon, it became apparent that his enemy had far better mastery of close quarter combat.
One after the other, the kunai disarmed the twin blades. But with each disarmament, new set of blades emerged from thin air. The ninja's melee combat skills greatly outwitted archer's. Though going through near fifteen years of combat experience and having seen every single swordsmanship available in his world. The combat style his adversary employed was nearly incomprehensible, even to archer's clairvoyance. Slowly, archer was drawn into a defensive stance. Before eventually being drawn into a total stalemate.
The ninja's movement was swift, every single hit aimed at his fatal spot, his heart, his head, and…his crotch. Unlike conventional swordsmanship, the blades never brawled in a fight of raw strength. Rather, like guerrilla strikes. The blades elegantly and agilely landed strikes with split second intervals, counter wasn't possible. The moment archer moved his blades his enemy would already have moved out of his sight. He was clearly adept at sealing his presence which surprisingly surpassed that of an assassin servant level.
'70:30? Yeah right'
His experiences told him that his chance here was slim. But like every fight there are always weaknesses to everyone.
"what?"
Soon after disarming him for the fourth time, the swift agile ninja changed his direction of attack, choosing to attack his lower body rather than the upper body. Without having the chance to trace back his blades, archer roughly evaded the ninja's attack, landing hard on the barren ground. He was now thrown out of his defensive stance; his actions from now on will determine the course of the battle.
"Shit!"
Five shuriken strikes landed on him, with split second reaction he rolled his body to the right, but still, it didn't help him from taking one in his leg.
Gasping his breath, Archer stuck out the kunai in his lower left leg and summoned another sword, this time a one handed katana, its name: Monohoshizao, otherwise known as tsubame gaeshi.
'I must create a space between me and him to land a shot of my broken phantasm.'
Another sword fight commenced. This time, archer took the offence, The light katana gave precise control over the range between him and kakashi, resulting in kakashi resorting to a series of shuriken strikes.
'Clang Clang'
two shurikens were parried and the others were evaded, and in that split second gap, kakashi moved his hand to form a fire seal.
"Katon! Huokage No jutsu!"
"Rho aias!"
As the fight heated up more and more peculiar skills emerged from this ninja. The seven shields did enough to neutralize the gust of flame, which managed to punch through two layers of rho aias.
"Kanshou, bakuya"
Immediately, using the dark smoke as a diversion, archer swiftly created a large space between him and the smoke. Moving out of the smoke, he immediately summoned the blades and threw the couple blades, continuing the attack restlessly, another two blades Swirled towards kakashi, ambushing the ninja who was slightly let off by the smoke.
"What the?"
using his kunai, kakashi blocked the initial two blades. But the two blade strikes that followed suit forced him into moving out of the smoke.
What awaited him outside was a sleek black arrow hurling towards his position at supersonic speed. There was no chance for him to escape it.
"Hrunting, done."
With a large boom, archer turned back. Thinking the fight had finished.
"Not just yet!"
archer turned, there were not one but three kakashis trying to ambush him.
"Fuck"
There was no time for him to react; archer covered his head with his hands. Within a quarter of a second, the kunais struck his arms. Defeat, seemed imminent.
"…No penetration?"
The three kakashis pulled back; there was no single scratch in his arms.
'Phew, good thing I reinforced myself. Before the shot'
The minor reinforcement had saved him from assured death. His strikes aren't based on power, protection, if he needed any, reinforcement was enough, he has seen through his enemy's weakness.
"…guess you figured out. I am impressed with you.I'll give you one for that."
He readied his stance, him and the other three bunshins readied themselves for another close quarter combat. And another engagement commenced. This time though, archer was not without defense.
(Trace on, kanshou bakuya, composition: steel, magnet, amber….True wielder: Ganjiang, Mo ye… Wielder: Shiro emiya)
"Another swordfight? That won't work."
Spewing out a cold killing intent, kakashi and the two bunshins engaged, expecting the same outcome, but this time, something was different. As if he had read his moves, archer parried the consecutive kunai blows. Imitating his foe's movement he parried the blades. And landed a strike. The first strike landed on one of kakashi's chest. 'Poof'
And the body dissolved to thin air, another launched a mid air strike, archer parried his strike with bakuya and landed a consecutive strike with kanshou. 'Poof' another one down now, one left.
"Hmm…"
Realizing the disadvantageous situation he was in, kakashi pulled out of the combat and made a ten meter gap and stalled. That signaled it, warm up was over.
"Let me ask you one thing, are you a sharingan user?"
Kakashi pointed his kunai towards archer. His sharp malicious eye focused on the crimson man. His fight moves were read by him. As far as his memories could tell him, the only beings that are capable of such feat are those who bear sharingan and this crimson knight couldn't be any different.
"Sharingan user?... I'm a magic user if you want to know. I specialize in blades. I can materialize any blades that I see along with the moves it's user incorporated."
Said archer, never removing his focus from kakashi. He was slowly gaining momentum, stopping here as he knew, would be disadvantageous for him.
"Your moves were read, melee combat won't work on me anymore, no matter how many bunshins you make"
The wait ended, and archer soon charged in.
"Hmm…so you're basically a copycat."
Said kakashi as archer charged on him.
"Then I won't hesitate. Let me show you the true reason why I was called 'copycat kakashi' in my lifetime."
With that he released his left eye from the restraints of the face cloth and the forehead protector. Revealing a peculiar crimson eye.
"I'm going to get serious now Shiro emiya. Now, let us continue the battle of the copycats."
Heroe de justicia
Chronicles of archer(The battle of the copycats)
By: Velvetroad
Next episode preview: Episode 4-3
(kanshou, bakuya Overedge)
"Our souls hard yet firm"
"Our power, tearing the mountains"
Our swords, Splitting the water"
"Our names, reaching the villa"
"Only one among us can stand under heaven"
That's it for this week, I hope this was okay. The next update will be made around two weeks later. wait till then.