Board Thread:Kōgakure Missions/@comment-34754862-20170502042019/@comment-24714922-20170506074101

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Upon landing on the Hawk's back Takahiro had attempted an immediate strike against the man's abdomen. However, Takahiro's tanto met resistance and it soon became clear that man had used Earth Spear to harden his body and provide himself with extremely durable armour. Takahiro recovered from the blocked strike, his sharingan allowing him to perceive the events of his battle with crystal clarity, because of this, Takahiro could see the forming of earth spear on the man's arm as it swung towards Takahiro's own stomach. If it collided it would mean the end of this spar. Takahiro wasn't the most physically powerful shinobi. But his was most definitely one of the trickiest. And boy did he have a trick up his sleeve.

Within the split second of seeing the fist coming towards him, Takahiro's eyes would change as he activated his Mangekyo Sharingan. The three tomoe of his Sharingan swirled into a five-pointed star like pinwheel. While adding no bonus to his normal Sharingan abilities it did allow access to a few new and powerful techniques. Focusing chakra to his right eye, a first for him but something just seemed so natural, almost like it was ... Instinct. Doing this would activate the second stage of his Kamui ability. Intangibility. Takahiro with his little experience with the Jutsu and only natural instinct on how to us it, he could only manage 5 seconds of intangibility, but really he needed no more than 2.

What happened next was something worth writing down in legend. Takahiro stepped forward into the punch, already something that could be considered stupid if not suicidal, perhaps his actions would even leave his attacker confused, for why would someone willingly walk into an attack like this? However when the fist made contact with Takahiro it seemed to just travel through him. Amazing He thought to himself as he stepped THROUGH the man. His attacker would no doubt be left feeling shocked, if not downright terrified, for all intents and purposes. Takahiro was a ghost. When Takahiro emerged on the other side of the man, unharmed and unfazed, he spun with such speed and ferocity as he lifted the Tanto that he would effectively remove the burden of this man's head from his shoulders and send it falling to the ground far below. The adrenaline from the fight was the only thing keeping him from reacting to the pain his right eye was in he would have time to deal with it later. Takahiro would now finish off the giant hawk before entering a free dive to the ground below to assist the ground team. [Will make contact next post]

Meanwhile, Wedge who had been diving down in order to disperse of the mist that hindered his allies. Upon reaching a low enough altitude he would perform the Gale technique, which effectively dispersed a vast majority of the mist making it much easier to fight within. However, Wedge had not been aware of the one who had body flickered behind him and copped the thirty shurikens to his underside. Thankfully due to his immense size, the shuriken would not kill him but the did leave him severely wounded.  "Damnit, I'll need to recover from this, its much too severe to carry on. But not before clearing this damned mist"  With a pain induced cry Wedge dove into a corkscrew, with his wings outstretched, focusing wind natured chakra to his whole body which resulted in a small tornado, big enough to disperse the rest of the mist if sucessful. Before reaching the ground however he desummoned himself due to his injuries, returning to the Eagle Realm.