Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-26021384-20161114022302/@comment-26021384-20161118021449

Shinra didn't see Ieyasu as he moved around, but he felt like there was a pattern forming this as he felt himself going in circles. Ieyasu was fast for sure, even moreso with this technique. Both O and Ieyasu were the blitz of the team, Shinra had to be the long range support and be the foundation. This was training to get him used to both this new jutsu and fast enemies. Shinra went back under the ground as Ieyasu commanded it, his red head disappearing beneath the earth.

Once he was back under the ground, Shinra started following Ieyasu with the pattern he was making. Thankfully Shinra had the hang of the Hiding like a Mole technique by this point, so he could move through the earth and start weakening it all around, as if making a sinkhole. This tactic was to start making any of the anchor points where Ieyasu paused to move to the next one weak and start to shift in the earth. Shinra wasn't resurfacing at this exact moment, trying to get Ieyasu at the vulnerable point where the shifting point of a pause would send him off balance enough for the genin to reach up and try the double suicide decapitation again.

If it worked this time, Shinra would pull Ieyasu under the ground but only to his knees. Shinra wasn't used to pulling people with resistance rather than just carrying dead weights. If the tactic failed though, Shinra was back to digging around under the ground, looking for the next opportunity. Even if it succeeded and he pulled Ieyasu down even a little, Shinra was back to underground, digging away to prepare for the next zombie grab as he would take to calling the technique later.