<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/1SSykgC.jpg?1)</div><strong>Alexa</strong><br/><strong>Username:</strong>Akane Uchiha<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Konoha outskirts<br/><hr/><br/>Akane looked at the clone of herself being formed. In the show, people hardly seemed surprised by clones and things like that, but seeing herself this way was a little unnerving. Especially when it was beside someone else and she could see just how damn short she was. Being short isn't cool at all!<br/><br/>"Such a lofty title, for someone just using clones! Heh!" Akane got in to a battle-ready stance, and drew one of her kunai from the pouch at her thigh. At least a clone of herself was going to be a nice warm up, get a better feel for how this stuff worked, before really getting in to it with the others! Think hard, send chakra to the legs, and leap! Akane lept towards the tree her own Clone was in, meeting the real girl with a slashing sweep of it's Kunai. Akane saw the metal flashing in the sun, panicked briefly, but she felt as though time slowed... And noticed that the there was a strange misty-form of the attack coming in ahead of the actual arm. Predicting movements, seeing the flow of chakra... this has to be how her Sharingan works.<br/><br/>Akane brings her kunai to block the Clone's strike, ample time given from her eye. Akane lands on the tree branch with it, and the two start sparring back and forth, clashing with kunai strikes, kicks and punches. Akane was getting used to her virtual body, aided by the sharingan that made it seem like her reactions were swift and accurate. It was enough to let her match with the Clone at the start, and as the blows went back and forth, start to overtake it. Though at times, controlling her body, and timing the predictive powers properly was difficult, and it took all of her concentration to do it right. Sometimes, the Clone's kunai would cut in close, drawing a blood in a small cut, or leaving a tear in her clothes.<br/><br/>Akane find her opening, and strikes. An attack far too wide from the clone, Akane delivers a strike to bat the punch aside, further exposing the clone's body to her. She grabs her clone by the front of her kimono with one arm, and stabs the clones wrist with her kunai, making it drop  the weapon down twenty feet to the forest floor below. "Take this, you cheap imitation!" Akane shouts, and crouches low in front of off-balance clone that was bleeding a strange fluid from it's wrist. She places one hand on the tree branch beneath her, and uses it up push up in to a high kick that launches the clone up in to the air. Acting fast, Akane launches in to a hand-seal motion she's practices several times now, at least. "Katon, Gokakyu no Jutsu!" She blows the fireball upwards, and the blast of flame entirely engulfs the clone, and blasts away the top part of the tree. The mirror image shatters, and the clone is defeated.<br/><br/>Akane gets back to her feet, looking proud of herself, hands on her hips. "That's it? All that work for a clone... Hmph. I'm not even that short either!" Akane checks over to see how her partner is doing... And to keep an eye on Haruko and Ayaka. She had a few scratches and cuts that stung, and her outfit had a few cuts, but otherwise, Akane seemed fine for now.