Axel formed a handsign. "Disturbance." She said, aiming her box shaped hand sign at Vladdy. Vladdy jumped in the air and threw shurikens to cancel Axel's focus.
"Do you really think you can get me with one of those things?" Vladdy laughed.
"Yes I do actually." Axel said, using shunpo and appearing behind Vladdy, giving a blow to the head.
Vladdy got up quickly, but not quickly enough to escape the disturbance technique. Her body wasn't under her control anymore. She looked at Axel, "What, I have no partner, how are you going to do this?" She said.
Axel didn't say anything. Instead, all on its own, Vladdys hand reached for a kunai, which was brought to her neck. "Give up?" Axel murmured.
Vladdy focused, and Axel gasped, sweating. "W-what?!"
Vladdy laughed. Didn't you see my opening act? I'm not weak anymore."
Axel struggled controlling the justu, but Vladdy regained control of her body. She threw the kunai at Axel, and, simultaneously, created three shadow clones, and charged.
Within moments, Axel was knocked back against a tree, blood dripping from her jaw.
"Ouch." Naruto laughed.
"Don't laugh yet Naruto." Shikamaru smiled, somewhat entertained.
Staggering, Axel got up, wiping her face. "Damn." She sighed.
Vladdy smiled. Without letting Axel getting back to her feet, she threw another punch to Axel's gut. Blood drops landed on Vladdys cheek, from Axel's mouth.
Axel laughed, and Vladdy was confused. Suddenly a little POOF! gave it away. "Shadow clone." Vladdy ground her teeth, turning quickly, her senses alerted. She had already torn up the ground, so she wouldn't come from underneath, but Vladdy wasn't waiting. Her ice wings were still in tack. "Soar." She whispered, concentrating.
Suddenly, all of the training ground within a fifty meter radius of Vladdy was pure ice. "Try staying up there now." Vladdy said, just in time to see Axel gently land from the trees.
"Gotta hand it to you Vlads." Axel said, her bloody-bruised lips turning upwards at the corners.
Axel watched Vladdy closely, not wanting to receive another blow. At the same time she started thinking. And then, she started running, to the dry woods of the remaining training ground.
"The hell?" Vladdy said, closely following. Suddenly, Axel, whom was only about 20 yards in front of her, used shunpo, and was out of sight. Vladdy stopped and gazed around, she had been led into the dense part of the forest. She waited. Listening.
She finally sensed it, but it was too late.
She held her arm tightly. "Ouch." She said, looking at the chakra burn down her arm and a part of her leg. She started to heal the burns, but since they were from chakra, not fire; it was much, much harder. "What just happened?" She said, looking up.
Suddenly, it was dark. She was floating is utter darkness. "DAMMIT!" she screamed, fully aware of what had just happened. "This is what I get for not paying attention, but how does she plan to use this against me?" Thinking of what Axel would do with her classic mind-disturbance technique.
Suddenly she felt pain in her gut, had she just been stabbed? Was Axel stabbing her body, wouldn't that just happen to her in return?
Then she awoke. The sun was much lower in the sky. How long has it BEEN?!
She looked down, horrified at the sight of the blood at her gut. She quickly healed the opening of the wound.
Suddenly Axel was in front of her. "I wanna have a little more fun, and besides, it's not like I can kill you," She winked.
Vladdy scanned her up and down. "How do you not have the same wound?" she gasped.
"Let's just say, I altered the mind-switch technique. If I don't spend too much time in your body, the damage isn't returned. "
"And how long is that?"
"I can last about 20 minutes before the effects are returned."
"Hmph. And the shit you hit me with?"
"Similar to Naruto's rasengan, but nothing like it, mainly just chakra build up." She held out her hand, Magenta-tinted chakra forming in her palm. It did not have the swirling power of Naruto's, instead it was calm, bleeding little external chakra.
"Arushio-ne no jutsu" she said.
They exchanged eye-contact for a few moments, and then raced back to the clear field; the ice melted.
Both of them were distracted for a moment. "Sensei?"
Neji chuckled at how beat up the both of them were, and was sad that he missed most of the fight. "Continue." He gave his students a smile.
The two of them grinned and continued to go at it.
Wow. They've really grown. The amount of chakra I've felt released is amazing. Where was I when they transformed from my genin to these true Kunoichi? He looked at his feet, distracted. What sick world this was becoming, he thought of Tsunade's mission assignment, and whether he would take it or not. His mind raced around what a horrible childhood he had, and how awful people were, lacking so much compassion, so much…sense. He didn't know if he could stand it much longer.
Both Axel and Vladdy breathed hard. Neither of them had had a workout like this for a while. The stared long and hard. Simultaneously, Vladdy charged with all her might, and Axel shot with all her lightning. Vladdy, building up force. Axel, building up energy.
Vladdy threw her fist, as Axel pushed her glowing palms.
But there was no explosion of chakra, in fact there was nothing. In fact, both had been stopped.
