Board Thread:Konoha Missions/@comment-25687356-20161124195423/@comment-24937485-20161209224431

Choking… every fraction of a second was pure torment as breathing became next to impossible. Tsuneo wasn’t dumb, his windpipe was crushed so trying to breathe would only worsen the situation. He’d stop, and closed his eyes, letting his mind do what it did best: Think. “About 18 seconds of life left judging by my current state of adrenaline, inner bleeding, and un-regulated bodily functions. Due to Ieyasu’s increased body size his body-mass should take longer to arrive and he made landing further away than me due to my landing being halted pre-maturely by the food-cart. Judging by that conclusion and the fact that I remember hearing him crash into something further away than me, he will definitely land in about two seconds. I can actually sense him now… with this clarity of mind. Not just him, Ranta too. But someone… someone is more clear than all. Such chakra… up there? Alright then, here we go.”.

All of these thought had taken the Nara less than a second to put in order thanks to adrenaline boosting his little below genius-level intellect now driven beyond that threshold in his final acts that allowed him to string together his thought in what felt like a subconscious instant of which he was actually aware and formulating his plan along with it; a truly remarkable feat of man that was little short of miraculous. His hands found one another in an instant while the opponent was focused on pulling Ieyasu onto the black rod. Due to the enemy grabbing onto Tsuneo, his clan’s hiden would come to effect immediately, without a chance to escape, as their shadows were already connected. At this moment the clone’s movements would be completely negated other than mimicking exactly what Tsuneo would do. And he did the following.

First he ducked and pressed his hands down to the ground so that Ieyasu would fly up and over the clone, through clear air, while the clone would also be pressing hands down onto the ground; the chakra receiver being in between one flat hand and the ground. Tsuneo was now released from the opponents grasp but he still couldn’t breathe, just one breath could reduce 5 seconds of life, and right now each of those seconds counted: Tsuneo had but 15 left.

“Ranta should be close to being done by now. Time for the final step.”

He closed his eyes so the clone wouldn’t be able to see what he was doing. Taking the wire from his pouch to which were attached two kunai with a flash bomb wrapped around each handle, the clone would mimic these gestures but had no ninja pouch to take anything from. Tsuneo then calculated the distance and the angle at which he should throw, and the exact amount of force needed, in the blink of an eye as he tossed one end of the wire, which was wrapped around one of the Kunai, to the clone while keeping his hand held open. His throw was weak but perfect as the kunai landed into the clone’s open hand after which both Tsuneo and the Clone would close their hand before proceeding to throw straight up into the air as hard as they could; the clone obviously having far more power to the throw as that Kunai would fly up far faster and higher, dragging the other one along; going straight up on a vertical path. But before these Kunai would come in sight of the real enemy standing atop the building, Ranta held true and the massive explosion occurred. It’d be amidst the spreading dust and confusion that the Kunai would reach the height of their altitude, above the main enemy.

The explosion had sent Tsuneo crashing into a wall where he was seen with lifeless eyes and blood pouring from his mouth. “Only one second left huh… heh, how boring.”. With but one hand he made the handseal required to detonate the two flashtags around the two Kunai that’d just now be falling down; one exactly in front of the main enemy, and the other lagging somewhere above. The resulting flash of pure bright light was so bright that even Dojutsu wouldn’t be able to see through it, at the very least. At the worst it’d leave anyone blind for at least a few seconds. Due to two flash tags being used the resulting flash was so large that it’d temporarily bask the air in nothing but light, offering Ranta and Ieyasu a chance to make it out due to both their backs being to the light and the distance in between the light in the sky and the ground.

While Tsuneo, Tsuneo’s lifeless eyes still stared at the ground while his lips were curled in a last and final smile, a small smile. His timing of everything had been meticulous, down to the last detail. The flash of light would make it impossible for the main enemy to have aimed, meaning that if the shot was still fired there was less than a minor chance of it having gotten Ranta. In the end he had done everything he could to secure this mission, and died hoping the Leaf would be off a safer place.



“Sou…ka.”



