"im in" ibuki grimaces at king
"very well" king chuckles "whenever youre ready" ibuki and butcher square up, both are tense and ready to strike, waiting for the other to make the first move. the two fighters start to circle around, as if establishing the size of their battlefield. out of butchers sleeve a kunai slides out.
i cant help but think to myself what king said about stealing jutsus. is that why my jutsu didnt work before? fuck... im worthless... i cant process this so i choose to not try.
finally butcher makes a move, he throws his kunai at ibuki but he dodges it, the chain retracts back into butchers sleeve and the force and speed of that looks almost as if it has recoil to his arm itself.
ibuki is a talented shinobi, unlike mayumi who just became quiet after akiras death, ibuki became more angry. he became a complete shut in and thats probably for the best interest of the rest of us due to how violent he can be. hes a year older than i am and the only people that could ever beat him in sparring were me and kazuya, even the senseis had trouble keeping up with him. his fighting style is ruthless and almost messy. he wields a sword and several formidable jutsus, he even created one himself, it has the ability to manipulate what can only be described as the plane of reality hes in thats in a 25 foot radius. there are ways to counter that move but your speed and timing have to be near superhuman, if you get caught in that jutsu youre basically fucked.
butcher throws another kunai and ibuki effortlessly dodges, butcher throws the second and ibuki flips over it, butcher begins to throw and swing the kunai in a frenzy, ibuki draws his sword and deflects the kunai, they dont have a pattern and flail sporadically but ibukis reflexes are sharp and hes able to deflect every one of them. butcher pants heavily, his heavy chains seem to be dragging him down.
"my turn" ibukis sword catches on fire and he slashes it through the air, flames leave the sword as a kind of projectile, butcher manages to dodge it mostly but his arm is hit badly. the flames make full contact with a tree behind butcher and the tree is cut in half, catching ablaze. where butcher was cut is bright red and it looks like his skin in melting off.
butcher swings his kunai wildly and i see it zoom right by me. i look over to my left, oh god this cant be happening. sitting next to me was mayumi, the jutsu king has us under has left us unable to move our limbs, and next to me is mayumi, her stomach torn open by butchers wild kunai. i dont know if i want to scream or cry or both, i cant even begin to process whats happening, how is this real how the fuck is this real why is this happening.
"mayumi!!" ibuki lets out a blood curdling scream and I feel myself start to cry, i cant tell if its out of sadness or fear. everyone looks terrified at ibukis rage, he raises his hands and performs his special jutsu, but something is wrong, usually it creates a type of field thats completely blue but this time its darkness, i struggle to breathe as the darkness swallows everyone whole.