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Aona... well, three Aonas actually walked into the ring, attired much like her previous match, except for a larger number of scrolls. Two of the three were water clones that had been formed prior to Aona entering the arena; last she checked, there was no rule against entering the arena with a jutsu already in effect.

The three stood at the edge of arena, just on the treeline, arms crossed and identical to one another. She'd already fought a three-for-all match before, and Kei was even involved, though that was really more of a sparring match... and had been so long ago, it seemed.

There would be no fooling around this match, no time for tricks and no time for bad moves. This was the pinnacle of Sachi's young life...it was all or nothing at this point. So, to compensate for the dire situation, Sachi was dressed a bit differently. His attire now consisted of his traditional track pants, a black and white keiogi top, and his chuunin vest. Just underneath his chuunin vest was a new pouch with new weapons for his sound jutsu. This time, he did not carry his massive scroll, but three small ones mounted on his waist, two on one side and the other on the opposite hip. His weapon pouches were full of shuriken and kunai, as well as his razor hook wires. In the new pouch lay five bells of differing sizes, an odd shaped whistle, and a small Frisbee-esque device with slits in the sides.

It hadn't been too long since his body had healed, so he was a bit sluggish coming into the arena, but his adrenal glands would take care of that soon enough. So, taking initiative, he walked into the arena, his bell earrings jingling all the way.

"Ready...?" he softly spoke to his opponents.

Kei...he was one of the only chuunin that he actually feared. It wasn't that he was intimidating, but the fact that his skill was so impressive. Aona was good, but Sachi already had a scope on her abilities, but Kei was a whole new vicious ball game.

Kei chuckled to himself and shrugged, "I don't see why not." he said as he drew his fan from his back and held it with a single hand. With a flick of his wrist he spread the fan open and swept it through the air before him. The resulting gust of wind blew and spread across the arena, where the wind past the ground was crisscrossed with thin lines as the cutting winds moved forward towards Sachi. Using some of the air from the blast Kei began to revolve it around himself to form his usual shield of air.

The water clone easily sidestepped the projectile, the 'cloak' tearing slightly, a few drops of water falling to the ground from it. The clone tsked as it took three very real kunai in hand, drawing its arm back before sending the three kunai sailing at Sachi, all three aimed to pass through the clone on their way to Sachi himself.

As the clone took action, Aona and her other clone had taken up hidden positions on either side of the arena. A barbed kunai sailed through the air from the side that was on Sachi's left, embedding itself in the ground a few feet away from. The kunai's barbs held it tight in the dirt, though nothing else happened with it.

[[How can a clone throw real kunai?]]

((Pre-equipped with real weapons, since they were formed outside of the arena.))

The clone watched as Sachi went skywards, and at the same time the real Aona - observing from the shadows of the trees - made a few quick handsigns, her clone on the opposite side imitating her. The water clone in the center dove inwards as Sachi jumped the kunai, putting itself only two feet from where he would land. There was a clicking sound a brief moment before Sachi's attack, as the wave vibrated the water clone enough to pop it, leaving a decent sized puddle and few more kunai laying on the ground.

As it broke, however, a strange, spiked ball fell out of it; a metal sphere covered entirely with senbon - 110 of them - dripping with poison. There was a small but complex spring mechanism within, operated by a seal that Aona's jutsu activated, and as it clicked, the senbon burst out in a sphere around the center of the arena, likely to strike both fighters given the disorientation caused by the sound attack.

Of course, the mechanism was still very much in a testing phase, and only 77 of the senbon were launched, but that still left about a half dozen flying at different parts of both Kei's and Sachi's bodies at the same speed that an average ninja could throw them. If struck, the fighters would be hit with a poison that would cause localized numbing almost immediately, leading to a more localized paralysis of the muscles. No pain - in fact, it would dull pain throughout the body, while affecting the non-sight senses negatively. Aona was glad once again that she cataloged her poisons so well. ((I'll look up a poison that has the same general effect if you really want to be picky. And yes, I've been planning this since before the fight even started.))

Almost immediately, Aona herself, and her other clone, were struck by the attack. The other clone was barely vibrated at its much greater distance, and the overuse of chakra in its constitution kept it intact, albeit much less stable. Aona herself was suddenly struck with disorientation and nausea, knowing that it had been a sound attack - and that she'd gotten the least of it. She steadied herself against a tree that was somewhere to Sachi's left, her water clone standing ready behind a large rock on his right. Hopefully, her hiding place and trap would give her the time needed to recover, especially given how much closer Kei and Sachi were to the epicenter of the blast...

[[Question...how are both of you seeing me? The clones I created were to make a smokescreen so that you WOULD NOT be able to see me initiate my attack. Read my post again and you will see what I mean. Therefore, you should not be able to anticipate my attack and therefore cannot perform your super counter attacks on me.]]