Board Thread:Important Logs/@comment-31966106-20170512053819/@comment-34754862-20170519070152

Preparation is Key!

Rippu was not a fool, he was extremely agile and swift with his decisions, not to mention he had a clone incoming to his assistance, something no one but Hotaru would be able to notice. Though his combination was successful, he noticed the two golems appearing from the moving earth core. His eyes shot open as he was impressed, it seemed one of them had earth release, not to mention the girl who followed by leaping out mentioned something about sand, speaking directly to Shinra. Rippu wasn’t afraid, in fact he was completely calm, his mind began to race as he figured that his opponent having earth release would lead to some surprising moves. The Golem’s which stopped his flying projectiles which covered their only exit not only blocked the attack, but returned some of it by throwing some of the rocks back at Rippu. Though Rippu wasn’t really intimidate as he easily sidestepped and moved swiftly to dodge them all. After all they were simply throwing it back, it wasn’t like they were infused with chakra or something. That’s when Rippu noticed the boy from Takigakure appear above everyone, not to mention their whole crew seemed to have survived the combination, this was very interesting. It only caused Rippu to gain excitement. He was so focused on his fight he didn’t really pay attention to his leader, he then noted the girl making a run for it herself.

While this happened, Rippu’s clone came to intercept at the perfect timing, arriving he followed by slamming his hands on the ground, the moment this happened 2 Golems about the same size as Shinra’s appeared. Each of which dashed forward and took on the Golem’s shinra had created, this would result in those giants having their own fight, the Golem’s Rippus clone created ran up towards Shinra’s golems and attempted to punch their heads clean off with pure swiftness. Rippu was a complete master of Earth release, so him making these Golem was literally child's play to him. This occurring during the time his Golems where blocking and chucking rocks at Rippu, The clone wasted no time at all as it also continued on forward to take on the real Shinra. Not to mention Rippu’s clone noted Shinra was actually in mid air. The clone proceeded to leap into the sky attempting to take Shinra directly head on. As for the real Rippu who had to deal with so many issues, since he was side stepping and dodging the attacks, his movements were constant so it was hard for Shinra’s clone to even get a grasp on his feet. The moment Myoo’s clone attempted his attack from above, the water bullet travelled downwards towards the real Rippu, he followed by leaping to the side, but the water bullet was still able to hit his right arm. Only causing him to flinch slightly in pain as a large bruise appeared on it.

This angered Rippu as the conjunction of attacks was proving to be difficult to avoid. Though with him constantly moving it worked in his favor leading to Shinra never being able to truly lock him below. As for Obelisk, the moment Rippu dodged the water bullet. He activated a special Jutsu that would be difficult for anyone on the battlefield to notice unless they had special eyes. Chakra strings extended from his fingers from both hands all the way towards 2 dead bodies which was located to his right and left side. This jutsu was known as Puppet Performance: Skilful Achievement with a Human Body, it allowed the user to actually use corpses as a weapon, this revealing Rippu was a master puppet user. The dead bodies sprung into action almost instantly, one heading for Myoo and the other for Obelisk. It should be noted that Rippu continued to move even during the use of his puppets to give them less predictability as they couldn’t read his finger’s moving. This would work in his favor, as the attacks he had sent out would go as follows; Shinra would be dealing with the clone in mid air that attempted to punch Shinra directly in the face, this was to keep him occupied while the real Rippu was cleaning house. Obelisk would have a dead body charging at him the moment he finished summoning Arkham, the dead body attempted to take Obelisk in close quarters combat attempting to keep him busy before the sound Jutsu could even be activated. As for Myoo the dead body heading his way had a sword within its grasp and attempted to bisect the boy on the spot. Obelisk would be met with a one two combo, starting with a jab and a right hand hook, only to follow with a series of kicks as well. Rippu needed some time to actually think what was the best approach. It seemed these kids were much more skilled than he expected, but it wasn’t enough to fully keep him down. The only person who was able to escape being Hotaru as her comrades had given her the perfect amount of cover fire. Rippu personally had no idea there was a clone lurking down below, but either way he kept moving erratically to keep his whereabouts hidden. All Obelisk, Shinra, and Myoo needed was for him to be still so Shinra’s clone could yank him down below. After all Shinra’s clone was unnoticed entirely, it was out of sheer agility Rippu was moving around, only to mask the next attack of the dead bodies as people could tell what limb controls what by watching the finger movements. With Rippu constantly moving it made it near impossible to predict it. How would Rippu’s enemies responded to this? He was covering all his perimeters somehow, this was the true extent of Akatsuki members, they were skilled enough to keep anyone on their toes.