<div class="floatleft">(http://moe.animecharactersdatabase.com/uploads/chars/5688-1635205895.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Chishio Juro Takeshi<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Waterfall Canyon;  Halfway to Kirigakure<br/><strong>Doing:</strong>Engaging the Enemy<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Nanase Uzumaki, Tsuneo Uchiha, Terumi Azura, Karin Isako; NPC Attackers<br/><strong>Warning:</strong>Bloodletting<br/><hr/><br/>Waking up was not always soothing he looked forward to. There was always the stillness that he felt when waking up, the kind of entropy that requested him to stay in that warm cocoon for just a bit longer. Thats probably why he didn't enjoy a bed sometimes. It was too easy to let your guard completely drop then and thus one can pay a heavy price for it. Also it gave him far too much time to think and let his mind wander and stew. Getting up to his feet he took whatever prep he could to make himself decent for the public in such a short amount of time and then joined the others for breakfast. For him it was just rice and a bit of beef as he wanted to keep light and the energy would work well.<br/><br/>It felt odd the the first steps of their journey were leading him back towards his home. Honestly he didn't expect to catch the fine scent of mist in the air once more. Plenty of water to saturate the skin in a thin layer of moisture. For him this was a place that he could safely be familiar with. He was about to make a small comment about the abundance of water, however it was put on hold. All of that nostalgia was shattered the moment they were half way across the bridge. An ambush spurred the Ninja into a readied posture his eyes looking and darting to each opposing force around the group. Here was where the test of teamwork, was going to truly begin. The order to attack came as expected as he doubted very much that ten ninjas would care to parley for very long.<br/><br/>Noticing he was being singled out by the eight and three, each with a clear poison smeared weapon of hand to hand left Takeshi on the defensive moving fluidly backwards in a display of dodging. He wanted a read on his opponents and wanted to keep his distance. However one lands a clean hit upon Takeshi spilling a good amount of his blood from a brutal wound as blood splash from the... log. A traditional substitution jutsu to be sure but there was a twist to it as an explosive tag was on the log. It bursts with thunderous impact scattering slivers of wood about though more distracting than anything else. Nothing like that would put this pair down so easily. So where was the blood spilling ninja located? Underneath the pair. Blood soaked bandages slipped throughout the boards of the bridge pulling one of the ninjas down trying to suffocate him. The metal gauntlets however saved them from it as it was cut free. Eight would suddenly punch right through the board to try and get at Takeshi whom was quickly backpedaling from the poisoned gauntlets now smashing through the wood.<br/><br/>Flipping through one of the holes made in the bridge now he was once again visible to the pair. Throwing several kunai at Takeshi prompted him to match them with it making them clash and clatter into the bridge. They were closing the distance now trying to flat out overwhelm him with close quarters combat. Good, thats what he was hoping for… His eyes narrowed as more of his bandages upon his arms unravel revealing they were stained with his own blood with multitude of thin cuts upon them. The bandages began to animate now as blood makes them fluid and responsive to his will. All the while dodging their attacks, small cuts were placed upon their arms as he uses the bandages as a means of defense now. The frustration was setting in and one decides to get creative and uses a poisonous smoke bomb to try and break the stalemate. Immediately Takeshi gets out of there as quick as he can whilst the other two remain inside it since they were wearing regulator masks to make sure they couldn't suck any of that toxic cloud in.<br/><br/>Takeshi starts coughing up some blood and drops to a knee. Seeing the poison start to take hold the two come out ready to finish off the young ninja however halfway there one of them began to clutch at their chest and then starts writhing in pain giving a hideous scream. Panicked, his partner turns to have a look but pays the price as well as Takeshi's bandages wrap around the neck, the sides digging into the skin. Twisting the blood soaked wrapping tighter he tosses the thrilled partner off the bridge and then the bandages go completely rigid and the sharp sound of a snapped neck is heard. In the meantime the remaining one then arches up as blood began bubbling out of his mouth. More specially Takeshi's blood, the same blood that had been used to create the ruse of the substitution's true purpose. To get his blood on them, and then their poison onto his bandages. That way he had more than one option to kill them. Since he can control his own blood without fail he weaponized it so that the blood can seep into even the smallest of cuts, and even if it didn't work the poison would still be in their bloodstream. As for the spot of Takeshi coughing up his own blood, that was also thanks to his natural ability. Pulling the corpse of eight back up onto the bridge he tossed it onto the now dying three, whom was suffering from blood filled lungs.