Manda Vs Lucious

The cut clean forest grass only reached up to a person's toes. The large scale trees provided perfect scenery for this battle that was about to come. Manda stood at one end of the open field forest with his arms folded across his chest with his sky blue sharingan activated to it's full form and his akatsuki robe following the breeze of the wind that currently was going against his body. Manda stood tall with a slight slant of his body shifting to the right with his left leg straighten out and his right leg slightly bent like he doesn't even appear to care at all about the fight. He kept his energy calm and relaxed and he kept his guard up and just stared out forward.

Kureno, being tall and large, saw his leader, his cohort, and put his straw hat down a bit over his eyes. He couldn't be bothered to look into his opponents eyes, namely them being Mandas. He didn't bother unsheathing his swords yet, rather, he took a stance, one palm in front, one palm in back, close to the hyuugas, but meant more for defence, and yelled out to his opponent,

"You ready over there?"

He had asked because he didn't want to charge on his leader like that, even though it'd most likely give him a huge advantage in this battle, and a chance to win it without much issue. Yet, he suspected, no, knew that his boss would be much stronger than that. To have helped him when he did, to have allowed him to escape, and be able tot be simply cut down by someone like Kureno? God, that was stupid. Stupid even thinking that. Even running and attacking would have less effect than what he was doing currently. Therefore, he got out of his stance, and unsheathed one of his blades, the one on his right side, and put it foreward.

"If you want to make the first move, go ahead."

Manda doing a quick whirl of his whole body, as the anticipation was growing bigger and he took off dashing forward, getting more than half way to where Lucious was standing at. Manda then quickly jumped into the air and quickly did a series of signs that took one second to perform, and took his landing onto the ground as his chest go big and the air in his lungs full of flames and as he took his landing, he fired three bullets out of his mouth. The first bullet was going straight forward towards Lucious, following the other two bullets which would come out of his mouth two seconds later. The bullets traveling far to where they would be aimed directly at his chest, if impacted, he would suffer from second degree burns.

Kureno, not having gotten his name for nothing, dashed to the side, having dodged the bullets. He then sighed, and figured if the boss was doing that right off the bat, it'd be a fun fight. A very very fun fight. He'd jump up and attempt to slash Manda straight in the chest, except he wouldn't be looking at Mandas face, he'd look at his gut. He didn't like looking his opponents in his face, especially those with Dojutsu. It didn't matter that the Dojutsu happened to be Sharingan, it's just that any dojutsu could be fatal. He also wasn't using both blades yet, he found no reason to. He did, however, hope that Manda had more then that under his belt, otherwise, why would he have a Dojutsu, and a bounty and have been able to assist him? No, he wouldn't have. He also wouldn't have managed to get that far in that time without having tricks, but Kureno had his own bag of trick, don't you worry.

There is one thing that bothered him, it was the ease it which Manda seemed to have went at this fight.

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Manda noticing Lucius running towards him from the side. Manda pulling out his kunai from the back of his pouch and holding it in his right hand with a tight grip. Manda then putting his hands together and making the hand sign of the tiger and as he charges it up and then separating his hands away from each other as the genjutsu is already placed on the kunai and just awaiting for it to make contact. Manda looking at Lucious jumping in the air and attempting to slash Manda on the chest, Manda then slightly going into a crouch formation and blocking the sword attack just barely as this man clearly had the size to make even Manda a bit nervous if this genjutsu would work or not. The moment the clashed happened, White feathers started to fall right above Manda and Lucious, even if Lucious is staring at Manda's stomach area, he would clearly notice the white feathers not just falling by the side of Manda's body, but also his peripheral vision would also notice the white feathers, as they were piling up all around them and Manda hoped that he would be caught by this genjutsu.

The clash had knocked his hat lower, causing his vision to be complete black. He, having swong that blade with 1 hand, took out his other blade, and swong just as hard against Manda to try to screw him over. He didn't know about the genjutsu, and wouldn't. He was figured that  Manda would be using Genjutsu, as he knew it would be the perfect time to do so. He closed his eyes on top of them being covered due to his hat falling forward a little bit. Luck seemed to be on his side today. It didn't bother him though, having faced Genjutsu users before. He's faced most things before, be them human, or animal, or even neither. He could face a demon of hell, and not be worried that he couldn't win. Plus, he used to be one of the legendary 7 swordsman of the mist, how in the hell was he going to lose to someone like Manda? He couldn't be worried.

"Not bad weather up here, but I'd suggest we get on the ground before one of us gets hurt."

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Manda noticing that his hat had gotten lower, to block his vision from the genjutsu that had just happen. This man was lucky to not have seen the genjutsu that had just happen, but Manda was a smart man. In a split glance of the hat covering his eyes, he notice his closed his eyes shut and Manda quickly having a grin over his face as this would mean that he wasn't going to expect anything since his senses of sight is being closed just temporarily. Manda then noticing the man lifting up his other arm and about to slam his sword against Manda. Manda now having a full view of the man's eyes being closed. Manda taking his roll over to the side of Lucious' feet avoiding the second blade and making his body stagger a bit since Manda moved away from the clash. Manda then having rolled to the side of Lucious, then fixed his footing correctly and leaped forward as he was in mid air, he did the two hand signs within less than a second and twirled his body around while his legs were still forward and him looking at Lucious' back and shooting out a sticky substance which would first land right behind his feet and starting spreading the moment it took it's landing behind his feet. Manda then took his landing away from the syrup substance and turned his body correctly to have his front part of the body aimed at the back part of Lucious' body. Manda then holding the tiger hand sign and expanding his chest and firing up to three large balls of the fire balls that changed into a fire dragon's head. One would be fired directly at the back of Lucious' body, the second would be firing right above Lucious', which if he chose to jumped in the air to evade the syrup and the first fire ball, he would be awaiting the fire ball in the air, and he shot the last one on Lucious' right side of the body just a bit off it, so if he chose to dodge to the right side of the body, Lucious would be impacted by the fire. If he chose to also dodge left, he would be landing on the syrup where the majority of it is located at. Manda had hope this plan would work and he then awaited to see what this man would do.

Kureno landed upon the ground, and as he heard the Syrup hit, he ran the other way, although he heard the fire-ball in time, and jumped into what seemed like another one. He then did something insane, he started spinning fast in the air. Him spinning the the air cause a wind, a small tornado, type thing to happen, and split the fireballs just enough for him to then land behind the Syrup, and look at his opponent. It was pretty much all he could do. He then said,

"Jesus. You almost had me there."

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"You may have avoided all of that, but you won't be avoiding this...
Manda took his run forward while applying chakra to his feet so that he could run across the syrup without being stuck to it. Manda then after being reaching the end of the syrup, stopping at the grass and then Manda quickly held the horse sign and then building up intense into his system by inhaling so much to the point where he couldn't bring more air into his system anymore. Manda then exhaled the fire wall of intense flames forward towards Lucious, This fire wall was close within range of Lucious that it would be that much harder to avoid it by going up, left or right, this grand fire wall was that huge that he would be surprised if he avoided it.

Lucius, being on the ground, started to spin around fast, almost violently, and using wind chakra that he forced to course through his blades, he spun. He spun until there was a mini tornado which turned into a flame tornado, and then once Manda was finished with his jutsu, he'd let it die down. He was having fun, but having fun and edging on dangerous area. He, yes, wished that he didn't have to do all these things, but it was Manda he was fighting.

"Not too bad, am I?"

[spoiler=Jutsu]Name:Wind Release:Great Torando
Rank: A
Type: Nin
Element:Wind
Range:With in 3 feet of the user
Duration: 1 post
Hand Seals/Charge: N/A
Description: Allows the user to create a tornado with their swords via spinning.

Manda then stopped what he was doing and walked away from the fight with his hands in his pocket and a yawn escaping his mouth.

"Be ready when we actually do combat with the world"

after saying that Manda vanished into thin air and left the scenery.

[EXIT]