<div class="floatleft">(http://41.media.tumblr.com/8608be2bf18ddfe5f3dbfb915d94666d/tumblr_n3eugdMNvL1tx8ce6o5_1280.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Karin Isako<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Waterfall Canyon;  Halfway to Kirigakure<br/><strong>Doing:</strong>In Battle with her opponents<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Nanase Uzumaki, Tsuneo Uchiha, Terumi Azura, Takeshi Chishio;  NPC Attackers (Specifically Ninja Attackers 6 & 9)<br/><strong>Warning:</strong>Get out of the way;  Squish<br/><hr/><br/>Thud!!  Thud!!  Thud!!  Thud!!<br/><br/>That was the sound of Bōrudā's footsteps as it ran towards the ninja that were in front of Karin.  As expected, the ninja timed it just right and dodged the slow-moving puppet before it crushed them underneath it's massive weight.  Six dodged to the right, twirling his spear rapidly to increase his jump range slightly.  Nine and his summoned creature dodged left before splitting apart.  They judged her to be defenseless, which was partially true.  The two attacking ninja used rapid hand signals to coordinate their assault as Karin maneuvered Bōrudā in a wide arc to bring it back down on Six.  Again, Six dodged the slow-moving puppet easily, cartwheeling until he was beside Nine.  Six sneered at the young girl from behind his mask, believing her to be a reckless ninja who had great power, but no skill at using it.  He was confident that he could take her down easily and motioned for Nine to go help Two and Seven.  Nine, being the more analytical of the two, refused as he tried to figure out where the other puppet went.  He'd lost sight of it when he was forced to dodge the bigger one and now couldn't sense it.  Neither of them had any experience with puppet masters other than the fact that they were near defenseless up close and apart from their puppets.<br/><br/>As Bōrudā thundered towards them, Six and Nine exchanged more rapid-paced hand signals for their plan to attack.  They knew that the big puppet was slow and required a very wide arc before it could be used against them a second time.  Nine's plan was for Six and his summoned lizard monster to pin her from two directions while he came up from behind and take her down.  After that, they could turn on the girl who just took down Two and Seven, the big brutes who had no brains.  However, their time for planning was over as the giant puppet came onto their position again.  Again, they dodged at the last moment, the three splitting up and surrounding Karin in what might have been a killing formation.<br/><br/>The Lizard creature extended it's claws and leaped forward, it's intention was to rip her eyes from their sockets.  Six came up from behind, the spinning spear tip whirring loudly in a high-pitched whine as he charged her back.  He would make sure that no matter how she dodged, backwards, left, or right, his spear would pierce her through.  Nine, having leaped up, pulled a short blade from it's sheath, the gleam indicating that it was extremely sharp and well made, a dangerous weapon indeed.  He would make sure that even if she leaped up, she would be unable to defend against the blade.  There was no way that she would duck as doing so would put her at risk of being killed by Six or the lizard.<br/><br/>It was a foolproof plan, one that had taken many lives and the lives of ninja who were much more well defended than a girl who's only weapon was in the middle of it's wide turning arc.  Of course, this would only work once, but they could see that it wouldn't work on the others anyway for various reasons.  This girl was the best target to do this coordinated assault.  From an outside point of view, it seemed that Karin was doomed to be skewered or ripped to shreds and there was no way out.<br/><br/>Six reached Karin first and pushed his spear through her back, over a foot of it ripping out of her chest and spewing green blood everywhere.  Time seemed to slow as Nine, who was nearly fifteen feet above them, saw the green blood.  Green blood?  It should be red, right?  What is going on?<br/><br/>Seconds later, a huge explosion of smoke where Karin stood happened and the lizard creature appeared where she was.  Seconds after that, the lizard creature that was lunging towards them also exploded into smoke, but instead of Karin like Nine had expected, a huge, rolling, spike-covered ball of destruction rumbling towards the impaled and dying lizard and Six.  Six had no time to react other than to raise his eyebrows before both him and the lizard disappeared underneath nearly a thousand pounds of Puppet before shredded chunks were spat out behind it.  What remained was two very flattened, blood-splattered stains that have been pierced hundreds of times by the puppets spikes.<br/><br/>Nine turned his head to look at the giant puppet that he had thought was too far away to be of any harm and was in time to see it explode into smoke, revealing Karin with a smug smile on her face.  He saw her lips move in one word,<em><strong>"Checkmate."</strong></em><br/><br/>Despite that, such a substitution took a LOT out of her mentally.  Substituting twice isn't a problem, but substituting with Bōrudā was very difficult to do, especially when it was in motion.  Nine seemed to see this and landed lightly before running towards her, the blade swinging upwards.  However, the blade didn't even come close before it was snatched out of his hands by some unknown force and thrown nearly two hundred feet where it embedded itself into the bridge.  At that moment, Nine was too surprised and already too close to react when Karen focused some chakra into her fist and slammed it into the chest of Nine.  It wasn't anywhere near as bad nor as strong as something that Nana-chan could have done, but it was impressive nonetheless.  Nine flew backwards and landed on his back after bouncing and rolling for a few meters.  Before he could get up, Taranchura leaped from it's hiding spot and landed atop of him, two of its legs piercing Nine's arms and two piercing his legs.  Taranchura then lowered it's razor sharp mandibles down over Nine's neck and beheaded his head cleanly.<br/><br/>Karin was kneeling, fighting the slight headache that came from such a complicated technique, but was still able to fight.  This was a good thing as eight of the ten ninja had fallen in almost ten minutes.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>While this was happening, Ninja One watched in disbelieve as mere children killed his best warriors.  Never in his forty years had he ever seen such a pathetic display!  Once his masters heard about this, it would be his funeral.  However, if he could kill the brats himself, there might be retribution in his favor.  Hell, if he killed that witch with the sword, he may even be allowed on the counsel.<br/><br/>One started to make symbols with his hands, ready to unleash a frightening jutsu that he had invented nearly a year ago.  It's only downside was how long it took to prepare.  As he continued to focus his chakra and ready every symbol in the right order, Ten threw his chain whip at the center of the bridge.  Upon impact, the mist around the four ninja solidified in a combination of Ninjutsu and Genjutsu, creating a high-level barrier with him at the center.  It wasn't a physical barrier, but it may have well been.  Any technique fired at the barrier would be reflected back with thirty percent more force.  It required a lot of focus, but once it was up, it wouldn't go down until the caster was dead.....at least in theory.  The barrier would remain after his death for another five minutes afterwards.<br/><br/>Ten stood and looked at each of the brats in the barrier,<em><strong>"You may kill me, I may kill you, but the fact remains that none of you worms will leave this bridge alive."</strong></em>As he said this, he whipped his chain blade in a wide arc, sending a spray of needle-sharp blades of water in every direction, an almost impossible technique to dodge.**  Still, it was a distraction that would allow him to fill the barrier with a thick mist, making seeing all but impossible.  After that, the real fun would begin.  Ten was much stronger than the weaklings they fought before and One was even stronger than that.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><em>**The needle attack will kill the two ninja that Nanase spared unless they are somehow saved by one of the group.</em>