Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-34754862-20170630233851/@comment-34754862-20170704080621

Zaiko and Kideme were fast on their feet, but they were underestimating the enemy. The wind user had successfully pushed the powder away keeping their team safe. But then Zaiko appeared in front of him. Zaiko was confident to attack so close as he went with gentle fist and attempted to strike at Tatsu’s heart. But he was no fool, and he wasn't going to let Zaiko beat him so easily. Tatsu followed with turning his body slightly before the palm would land on him. This would change the location of impact from zaiko’s attack. Tatsu turned his body enough to be struck just in the center of his chest, avoiding his heart entirely. Though the attack was powerful enough to knock him out. Meaning now there was two enemies. Zaiko would have just finished dealing with Tatsu as Rodan noticed and went for the offensive instantly. Since he followed up on great breakthrough, this meant he was ready to attack the enemy as he was free from forming hand seals. Rodan would then follow with forming the hand seal Rat to capture the enemy where he stood. Doing so he channelled his chakra as the ground below Zaiko cracked and began to rise up attempting to swallow the boy where he stood. This was done the moment he hit Tatsu, leaving him little time to respond. Had this been successful it would crush Zaiko and kill him on the spot. Leaving nothing of him as he got cocky and got close. It would also take Tatsu, but Rodan wanted to win the chuunin exams and believe sacrifices needed to be made at times.

This meant only Kideme was left if Zaiko was captured and defeated by the bedrock coffin. Had this happened Zaiko would never get a chance to attack Gozuro, not to mention give kideme the signal. Meaning she would need to follow this up on her own. Regardless she still had Gozuro to worry about if she was trying to capture Rodan. Gozuro would notice her attempting to capture Rodan, which lead to him acting and responding. He body flickered out of sight and appeared directly next to kideme before she could activate the jutsu she attempted to use. His fist was closed as he attempted to slam it directly into her face and send her a few feet flying. Gozuro was here and he was going to provide the backup Rodan needed. Had this been successfully Kideme would gain a large bruise on her face. Not to mention her exhaustion would increase significantly at this point. She was using jutsus and moving as if she was fine. The curse mark slowly throbbing as it attempted to take over once more. She needed a source of power, a source in which the curse mark was trying to feed. This being a thing would also cause Kideme to struggle with responding to the punch. Had zaiko survived and threw the kunai at Gozuro he would've dodged it with the same body flicker. As he would need to deal with Rodan. How would kideme and Zaiko respond to this? Zaiko was about to be crushed if he didn't respond fast. If not Zaiko would still be occupied and slown down to make any moves. Meaning Gozuro would be able to intercept and dodge anything he threw at him. Not to mention, Zaiko had to deal with Rodan. As for Kideme she just needed to be strong and fight hard, but the powers of the curse mark in her weaken state was easily able to consume her mind. How would she fight this off? Kideme and Zaiko were in a tough situation, but at least Tatsu was now out of the picture, the fight being much more fair now as it was down to 2 vs 2.