Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24937485-20160312150517/@comment-24937485-20160312194501

In a cunning display of shurikenjutsu, Ryouta’s attempt looked ready to assault both Akira and Bijin. But before Akira could react, Bijin already had. One of her kunai hit the airborne shuriken with such precision that all 3, and the additional kunai, sped towards Akira’s position. -Four projectiles….- The Genin moved through his few possible options quickly before the answer hit him. –Yes.-

With a light grin on his lips, Akira looked to see Bijin vanish from sight in a display of immense speed. –A Jutsu?- He wondered as the chakra around his soles vanished and Akira sank underwater in an instant, barely avoiding the projectiles that continued to fly to the other side of the stream before landing in random locations.

Looking up, underwater, Akira could see the sun hitting the surface of flowing blue in a beautiful display of light; the soft, low-tone, echoes of moving water sounding off the underwater walls that were spaced about 2 yards from each other. Holding his breath, the Genin then started swimming towards the side closest to Bijin and Ryouta. While swimming with his legs, the earlier made orb around his left hand dissipated as he performed a new series of handseals. A few bubbles then drifted to the surface as he voiced the technique while submerged.

A few seconds later, the other two Genin could see Akira’s white hair emerge from the stream, followed by the rest of his drenched body as he then hopped onto the grass and began dashing towards Bijin just after her attempt on Ryouta. However, the real Akira continued to remain underwater as he had created a water-clone with 1/10th of his chakra. Hoping to make them believe that it was the real him due to the clone being the same in every way except for the chakra inside it being less.

Rushing forth at mediocre speed, but full sprint, Akira’s clone let himself fall to the ground just before reaching Bijin, sliding over the wet grass in an attempt to knock her feet out from underneath her. If successful, the clone’d then form a quick series of handsseals to make a football-sized orb of water manifest around his left hand; just like Akira had done at the start of the fight. He’d aim this orb up at the Yamanaka, if she had been hit by the sliding-kick, and said “pulse” in a calm tone before shooting the orb off his hands as a blast of water that aimed to slam into her torso-area. Upon making contact, the small body of water would expand to exert a good amount of concussive force on as large a surface as possible. If the initial sliding kick had missed, the clone would still aim to use the Pulse Jutsu against Bijin, but instead would seek to hit one of her legs with it.

The Real Akira was about a quarter through keeping his breath before he would have to resurface for air.