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Azran had spotted Akimoto sitting on a bench board, and feeling slightly board himself he had foolishly challenged her to a match.

Not a straight match obviously since a gennin had pretty much no chance of beating a jounin in a straight fight unless they happened to be having a really really lucky day, but rather a bell test to keep things interesting.

Akimoto had a bell tied to her waist, and all she had to do was simply keep Azran from taking it from her any way which see wanted except by using lethal force.

The field that had been chosen for this match was circular in nature with a few small trees near each end and a small pond in the center. The ground was covered in a mixture of low cut grass and sand, with several small boulders scattered about.

Azran was standing near the edge of the pond, his overcoat billowing in the breeze as he waited for Akimoto to arrive so that their challenge could commence.

"Ready or not Akimoto-san" Azran called out knowing that in all likely hood she was far more ready then him. Trusting out his left arm towards her hip, he pointed his clawed index finger straight at the bell. With a snap-his sound similar to a grappling gun, the claw suddenly shot straight froward a line of chain trailing behind it as it flew thought the air at astonishing speed towards the black haired girl.

(ooc: Each of the chains can be fired only individually, but you grabbing even the one would still have the same effect)

Azran's eyes went wide as Akimoto lithely grabbed the chain out of mid-air. He'd never seen anybody fast enough to pull that stunt off before. But then again she WAS a jounin so why should he be surprised she'd done it. After all the chain was fast, but it wasn't like it was moving at the speed of sound or anything.

Azran thinking quickly tried to concentrate chakra to his feet even as Aki began to pull on the chain but he was too late to ancoh himself and fell head first into the water with a loud humiliating splash.

"Well at least if I'm underwater she won't be able to see what I'm doing." He thought his slapped his right hand over the chain. "Electric charge jutsu." He mouthed as he channeled a surge of electricity directly into the metal chain forwards hoping to shock Akimoto on the other end before she could let go.

Azran could feel the slack on the chain as she let go, and quickly started to retract it only to blink in bewilderment as he noticed that the tip of a kunai had been wedged into one of the links of the chain, preventing him from retracting it completely

"What the?" Feeling suspicious, he non the less reached out and pulled the kunai out so and was genuinely surprised when nothing had happened. "Maybe she's trying to play mind games with me." He thought.

His head was feeling light and he realized he was begining to run out of air. "Shoot I can wall walk but I haven't learned how to water walk yet." He thought as he began to swim towards the nearest edge only for a huge rush of wind to suddenly part the water and fling him bodily onto the shore from whence he had started.

Azran sputtered spitting water of out his mouth and quickly pushing himself back up onto his feet. "Oh man, oh man, oh man. What was I thinking taking on a jounin!!! She's going to muderize me!" he thought. If the water hadn't dissipated much of the force of the wind before it had struck him, it would have flung him a hell of a lot harder then it had.

"Well so much for plan a. As Westly would say it's time to get sneaky" He thought with a sigh as he loaded the kunai he had unstuck from his chain with a condensed electrical charge.

"Here you can have this back." He said as he tossed it towards Akimoto casually handle first in the hopes she'd catch it and stun herself long enough for him to scramble behind a nearby bolder.

Azran grunted a Akimoto trust her palm towards him from across the pond which resulted in an invisable force slamming into his chest sending him staggering back a few steps.

As she explained why she hadn't fallen for the rigged Kunai he cursed slightly but silently as he fought to regain his breath. "Darn, how was I supposed to know her kunai had a seal like that. " He thought blithely

"That's basically my only non standard academy level jutus too, she's not going to fall for that now even if I use my own kunai. My only chance now is to try and trick her into a trap, but it isn't going to be easy." he thought as suddenly the ground began to shake and crumble around him.

Fighting to retain his footing Azran did the only thing he could think of forming a quick seal, he produced a bunshin of himself standing beside him.

Each of the two Azran took aim at the tree nearest to them and fired out all 5 chains of the hookshot, sending the claws deep into the tree bark as an anchor and then retracting the chains using them to pull him rapidly towards the tree and away from the crumbling ground.

Now it was up to Akimoto to guess which one of the two Azran was real and which was the illusion, which would hopefully give him the time he needed to hastily place down a trap.

Feeling more then seeing the clone disperse Azran shuddered as the predatory gaze of Akimoto fell over him and then vanished a moment later, alone with any sense he had of her location.

"Ah crap I am so screwed." He thought truly realizing for the first time just how over his head he had gotten himself. "Well at least I hope I'm making this interesting for her." He thought as he pulled his claws out of the tree then stood back to back with it. With any luck at least that would keep the wily jounin from sneaking up on him from behind.

Taking out 5 slips of paper that looked similar to explosive tags but had different writing on them, he threw them to the ground a few meters away from him in a star shaped pattern that was about 3 feet wide and across.

Then using the most basic genjutsu Westly had ever taught him, he waved a hand causing his custom made shock tags to waver between visible and invisable for a few seconds before totally vanishing from sight.

Now with any luck he could trick Akimoto into stepping into the pentagram which would trigger the tags to go off and stun her. At that range, even if it was only for a few seconds, it would give him the opening he so desperately needed.

Azran could feel the surge of chakra from behind him as Akimoto formed a couple of clones and he gritted his teeth wondering just how long the jounin had been hiding right under his nose.

It didn't really matter however as he caught three blurs for a split second shot out from behind the tree his back was up against to the other tree's in the arena.

"Give up? Not until I at least make you sweat a little first." He called back as he drew a water balloon out of his coat pocket and lobbed it towards the nearest of the three girls.

The punch was so fast Azran could barely see it, let alone react to it. The clones fist drove itself hard into his ribs causing stars to explode in his eyes and forcing Azran to cling onto the tree with his clawed hand in order to keep himself from falling over.

But even as he was being hit he retaliated, his left hand gripping onto his Tanto and drawing in one one lighting fast slash straight towards the girls outer waist where the bell lay in an attempt to cut it free.

Since Azran was unsure if he was fighting a clone or not, he held his blade in such a way that if it hit Akimoto directly then only a few millimeters past the tip would sink into her flesh meaning it would be nonfatal but painful blow.