| [Dec. 29th, 2008|09:44 pm] |
Even going for the soft spots wasn't enough to floor him. Even going for the soft spots with everything she had wasn't enough to floor him. With her chakra and basic jutsu, they'd been a fair match out in the forest. Without chakra or jutsu...
She slid around, ducking a strike here and another one there, relieved that some of her speed, at least, was still intact. She returned his blows in a flurry of strikes, all blocked, and backpedaled again.
Chakra spread out around a person, giving them a sixth sense of where things were. Telling you when you were going to hit a tree or run into a wall. She didn't have chakra.
Tsume jumped as her foot skimmed into the baseboards, started to flinch forward, realized she couldn't, and cursed. The wall wasn't going to let her through; she lunged at Raidou, instead, claws raking for face and chest, already aware she wasn't going to win this bout. She could go down fighting, though. Maybe she could climb the mountain-man. It was worth a shot.
She scratched for his face, twisted her arm around when he blocked, and planted a hand on his forearm, ducking into his guard in preparation to go up. |
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