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Testing
Sasuke stood, pulling the bandages off of his eyes and looking to Ryuu.
"Relax Sasuke," Ryuu grinned, his two Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan glowing slightly as Sasuke's did the same.
Sasuke's eyes were still ellipses but with small, black, three-pointed, straight-bladed shuriken inside them. Both had only recently recovered from the transplantations and had had Shizune destroy the old ones. Aside from them finally getting their perfect eyes, Tsunade had woken up and resumed her role as Hokage, and it had been decided that Naruto and B would be confined to an island in the Land of Lightning. Ryuu and Sasuke only knew because Ryuu was going to be one of his guards both to keep him there and keep the Akatsuki away from him. Sasuke, was being left in the village to fight in the war. Ryuu had also requested that Hinata be allowed to go with Naruto and had gotten permission. Then, Ryuu had gotten to the much less...favorable stuff. Namely telling Tsunade about his and Sasuke's exploits regarding Danzo and their reasoning, resigning from ANBU, and telling Tsunade about Nagato and Konan. Tsunade had been less than pleased about Nagato, almost relieved about his resignation, and unsurprised about Danzo. Then, she had written a letter to Nagato offering to have a peace treaty signed with him, in secret, of course, that involved her removing the rods from his back so he could recover fully and move of his own power.
"I'm perfectly calm," Sasuke grinned. "Just can't believe you're ditching me after we fight."
"Well, unlike you, I don't have all day to stand around and get fat," Ryuu grinned. "Some of us have to be useful."
Both charged and threw a punch at each other, blocking the other's. Ryuu jumped, flipping over and swinging his foot down at Sasuke. Sasuke leaned forward, swinging one foot up behind him and blocking Ryuu's kick with the bottom of his foot. Ryuu jumped off of Sasuke's foot, landing a distance away and spinning in time to catch Sasuke's wrists as Sasuke attacked with a pair of kunai. He spun, throwing Sasuke and drawing his trench knife and Fu's kunai. Sasuke charged again, slashing at him and Ryuu fought against him, blocking each attack and slashing back, with a matching result. After several minutes, Sasuke leapt back, putting his kunai away and drawing his sword. He sprinted forward, slashing at Ryuu and Ryuu blocked it with his trench knife, now in his left hand without Sasuke having seen him switch, then slashed with his tanto, which Sasuke hadn't seen him draw. Sasuke leapt back and grinned.
"You're getting better with the Body Flicker Technique," Sasuke commended. "More creative."
Ryuu bowed then sprinted forward again. Sasuke streamed his Lightning Chakra along his sword and Ryuu streamed his Wind Chakra along both of his blades. Sasuke blocked the tanto and ducked under Ryuu's trench knife. Ryuu spun, slashing at Sasuke from behind and Sasuke flipped his chokuto over his shoulder, blocking the trench knife then kicked Ryuu's other wrist, stopping his tanto. Ryuu leapt back and put his trench knife away, creating a Vacuum Blade on his tanto which began to glow white. Sasuke charged forward, slashing at Ryuu. Ryuu blocked the chokuto and swept it aside then slashed at Sasuke, who blocked the attack with a foot to the forearm again. Sasuke formed a Chidori Spear in his other hand which drove itself at Ryuu. Ryuu moved his free hand into the way and formed a full Lightning Blade. Then, he pushed his hand forward. The Lightning Blade cutting through the Chidori Spear instantly and driving itself at Sasuke. Sasuke leapt back as Ryuu looked down at the Lightning Blade and extended a blade like Sasuke had learned to do to make a Chidori Spear.
"Is that a Lightning Blade Spear?" Sasuke blinked.
"I'd call it a Lightning Sword," Ryuu shrugged.
"How hard is it to maintain?" Sasuke asked.
"Not," Ryuu shrugged. "Making it fucking sucks though."
Sasuke nodded and formed another, copying Ryuu's, and the two charged, slashing at each other with their jutsus. When their blades met, electricity began to fly off of the point they touched and blast the ground around them, chunks of stone rising into the air around them before electricity hit them and reduced them to dust. After a moment, Ryuu shoved Sasuke back and slashed with his Vaccum Blade. Sasuke blocked it with his chokuto then jumped into the air over Ryuu's Lightning Sword. Ryuu slashed at him again with the Vacuum Blade and Sasuke blocked it again. Sasuke flipped over, landing behind Ryuu and Ryuu spun, slashing at him with the Lightning Sword, only For Sasuke to block it with his own. Then, Ryuu was gone, standing opposite Sasuke and grinning. Sasuke looked up just as three of Ryuu's creatures began to fall toward him, each wielding an Amaterasu spear. Sasuke formed his Susanoo and it slashed the three creatures' spears, knocking them aside before Sasuke leapt out of the way, his Susanoo's upper body forming in full and Sasuke flying up to the head of it. It looked reminiscent of Itachi's full Susanoo except purple and with a ball of Amaterasu in it's right hand.
"Impressive," Ryuu smirked. "You know, I kinda wanna see mine. But, I don't need it."
He switched his creatures' spears into swords and they charged forward, slashing at Sasuke's Susanoo. Sasuke's Susanoo formed a sword out of its Amaterasu ball and blocked the three swords, shoving them up and slashing them across the chest, killing all three.
"Hm," Ryuu mused thoughtfully. "You used Genjutsu to slow my Genjutsu creatures down. Impressive. Alright, let's see about my Susanoo."
Just before he was able to try to form it, a flurry of papers shot out of the trees, spiralled around him for a moment, then retreated into the other side of the clearing.
"Nagato's here," Ryuu smirked. "Sorry. Guess we'll test my Susanoo later."
"No fair," Sasuke complained. "We never get to just spar anymore without an interruption."
"To be honest, any sparring match between two Susnaoo would end in massive collateral damage," Ryuu pointed out. "Anyway, Tsunade's going to need help keeping Nagato alive. So, I'll see you later."
And with that, he left, following the flurry of papers, which he knew was Konan.
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