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In TVHIT, there is an arena. In this arena, people meet to train and battle. Some for recreation, others for violence.

The Wind howled, growing intensly warmer by the second, then in a ripple of condensing air and steam Drake appeared and kicked Tailz in the face.

(OOC : a free for all battle area? purely for battle? and no one is posting? XD HOW COULD YOU ALL?)

Otokage was walking around the town when he noticed a piece of something stuck in the ground. He bent over to expect, surprised to see it was a piece of the same boomerang that his clone had broken earlier that day.

Wonder how she does that...

All of a sudden he realized that it must be some sort of jutsu, and that its user had to be nearby. Deciding to make a more dramatic entrance than just walking in, he made the handsigns, activating kinte no jutsu. He sank into the ground, trveled a bit, and then rose out of it next to Drake.

He looked around for a moment before seeing Midori. He turned towards her and asked, "Hows that weapon of yours work?"

"The boomerang that seems to keep breaking," Otokage said, drawing one of his swords. This was a combat arena, after all. With two other chuunin.

Otokage let the wind knock him back, sinking into the ground when he landed. He took a small scroll out of his pocket and, from in his little air bubble, made a short series of handsigns. Another sword popped out of the scrool. After sheathing the sword he started with, Otokage launched himself out of the ground at Midori, making a shallow cut at her right arm.

As Otokage sunk into the ground Midori could sense the presence of a new arrival and it distracted her for a split second as her foe suddenly poped out from the arena floor and slashed at her right arm with a sword.

As the sharp blade cut thought the thin fabric of her shirt a loud screeh of metal clashing against metal rang trought the air as Midori lept back just a touch too late to avoid the blow.

However as she moved away a metalic sceen could be seen though the small hole Otokage had created in her clothing, thought wither it was from an arm guard or one of her hidden weapons she was infamus for was impossible to tell at this point, and Midori wasn't telling.

Which ever it was, the point was that it had blocked the slash from doing any real damage, though the force of the blow would shurly leave a bruse for days.

Midori frowned considering how to best counter Otokage's abilty to slip thought the ground like a fish might slip through water. As long as he could do that things would be...difficult to say the least.

She had several ways she could potentialy deal with the problem amd yet becuse she could sense she was being watched she was reluctent to use any of them in case she would need it for a more important fight like the upcoming second cell wars.

Figuring that simple was best she decided to go with a way that wasn't dependent on her personal abilties. With a slight kick against the ground she launched herself several feet into the air and stayed their thanks to her wings. At least in the air he wouldn't be able to suddenly pop out at her if nothing else.

But still that wasn't enough to neutralize him. She had to do something to force him out of his zone and into hers where she would have the advantage, and luckily she had just the prefect object ready to do the job thanks to her previous experince at this same arena.

Prep time could be a very very dangerous thing, and Midori had wisely measued out the arena's dimensions on a previous visit in order to prepair some rather specailized equipment.

Pulling out a scroll from her inner shirt she unrolled it summoning a giant mesh net made out of thick intertwined reinfored copper cables wide enough to cover the entire arena floor and with spacing between the wires too small for any human being to slip thoguht.

It had been quite expensive to procure but money was no object to her. Her clan was very very well off and she made a small fortiune every time she made a big hit on an assianation mission which went a long way to explain how she was able to afford her perverable ansanl of weapons that she had available to her at the flick of a wrist.

For now she simply let the mesh drop to the floor knowing that Otokage and Drake would probally avoid such an object falling on them. But she didn't mind if they dodged it as this was only the set up stage of something much larger to come.

Midori's hawk like eyes missed nothing as Otokage sank into the ground, exactly like she predicted he would.

But what she hadn't expected was for a whole to open up in her mess net so easily soon after words. The cooper wire was thick and tough and yet somehow Otokage had managed to part it like it was nothing.

While she was still puzzling over how he was doing this she could feel a change in the air around her as Otokoage burst the ball of material he had been gathering sending a hail of shards towards her.

Midori lifted a hand quickly rasing a defensive wall of surging wind upon which most of the shards harmlessly bounced off but it wasn't enough to stop their sheer numbers and several shards broke where able to break thought thought their momentum was reduced enough that they where only able to cause a few light gashes, mostly on her legs and even one on her left cheek.

Glaring down him Midori decided that it was time to up the anti. With a flick of her wrists a thick copper cable appeared in each hand with a kunai lashed to each end. Quickly she tossed one end of each cable to the very edge of the next so the the cable was intertwined with the wire mesh.

Then with an evil smirk which was hidden behind her mask she tossed the other ends of the cable straight into two electrical outlits which where stationed at opposite ends of the arena.

With a loud thunk the kuani tied on the end of the cables pierced the outlits and suddenly thosands of volts of electricty were being pumped throught the kunai into the wires and finally into the net turning almost the entire floor of the arena expect for Otokage's small hole into an extremly shocking trap.

Midori smirked, What ever Otokage had done to snap the wires, he likely couldn't do it anymore with out electricuting himself severly. Now to try and flush him out of the ground she simply dropped a poision smoke bomb down to the hole Otokage had made in the net and watched as it exploded into a small cloud of purple miasma.

Midori was bemused as Otokage erupted from the ground and switfly transformed into a more reptilian like being complete with his own set of wings.

She started at him for a few second admiring his new look, clearly the man had some good taste, and he was certiantly proving himself fun for her to play with so far.

"I like the new look, you should wear it more often." She commented lightly as she thought about withere to ingage at close combat or remain at range then settled to contiune snipping until she could assertan his agility in the air.

She watched passively as Otokoage attempted to ininate a fire jutusu and was only rewarded with a few sparks for his effort. The seal she had placed on the field earlier on that had been meant for Drake had finally come in handy after all, even if it wasn't against the intented target.

Pulling out a Kunai with a liquid nitrogen tag attached to it Midori grined.

"Let's see if that transformation of yours makes you cold blooded to go along with it." She said causually as she tossed the Kuani at Otokage knowing that in a couple of seconds once it reached him that it would explode into a burst of super freezing gas.