Board Thread:Kōgakure General RP/@comment-30362709-20170430175020/@comment-34754862-20170430214039

Hanzo had locked her in the Genjutsu and was now on the move, the flock of crow’s flying down toward Hotaru would easily attempt to cut into her flesh, luckily she had dodged, but since it was so unexpected some of the Shurikens would land successfully and cause mental strain on her. In the real world Hanzo’s eyes caught a glimpse of Hotaru actually trying to break the Genjutsu herself. It was impressive that she realized it so quickly and Hanzo commended her for that, but the question was would she still be able to keep up with Hanzo? Her hand pulled revealed a Kunai which she then utilized to cut herself, this resulted in her breaking the Genjutsu and waking up in the real world. Hanzo watched carefully as he remained in the same position as before. This was when the real battle was going to begin.

Hanzo had noted the mental strain she had received not to mention she attended to the wound on her arm now. Hanzo then heard her mention that it was a sneaky surprise and that it was a nice Genjutsu, the tears visible from Hanzo’s behalf, he didn’t know why she cried, but he would eventually ask near the end of the fight. Hanzo only replied to Hotaru with “Thanks I’m impressed you broke out of my Genjutsu in all honesty.” After that he nodded and prepared himself as he noted Hotaru’s position returning to that of the Gentle fist stance. Hanzo knew he couldn’t make any mistakes at this point, as he knew for a fact that genjutsu wouldn’t work a second time unless he forced her to make eye contact. With that being said Hanzo decided to show Hotaru the next best thing he could do, something that even her Byakugan would have trouble keeping up with. He followed up and weaved the hand seals Tiger-Dog-Rat, doing this and pushing chakra into his feet he performed the body flicker, but this was no ordinary body flicker. This Jutsu was much more advanced and proved exactly why Hanzo was one of the fastest shinobi’s in Kogakure. After performing this Hanzo would vanish via use of the body flicker, but from this body flicker many afterimages became visible to Hotaru as this was the afterimage clone technique. Each of these after images actually carried some type of matter and made it harder to keep up with the enemy. Hanzo proceeded to use this to his advantage to confuse Hotaru on which was the real Hanzo. If Hotaru noticed she would see about 15 after images around her vicinity in which surrounded her. Each of which performed the same hand seals in sequence making it much harder for Hotaru to tell which is the real one, especially since every afterimage was actually the real Hanzo. This was no Shadow clone and required less chakra especially since it made use of his speed.

During this jutsu Hanzo followed up performing the hand seal Tiger, he then concentrated the chakra into his stomach and released it from directly behind Hotaru. In conjunction with afterimage clones this jutsu was bound to be more effective, hopefully if it landed that is. The fire ball being released behind Hotaru would roar viciously and attempt to reach Hotaru and slam into her from behind. Had it been successful Hotaru would be covered in several burn wounds which would prove to be very painful, easily reaching 2nd degree burns with prolonged exposure. Over all Hanzo continued to keep Hotaru on her feet as the afterimages decreased for a second after the Jutsu. Hanzo would hope this was successful, but if not he kept his guard up just incase she had a trick under her sleeve.