<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/>Even as her body was being wracked with pain, her stomach hurting and her back slammed against a tree, Akane was thinking about the balance on things. She knew deep inside, that two people entirely new to this game should be roughly evenly matched, but that didn't feed in to her fantasy! She got to her feet again, wiping some blood from the corner of her mouth and her chin with the back of her hand. She'd have to work very hard to reach her fantasy of getting to be a super cool shinobi, better than the rest! And even though she was getting her ass beat by Ayaka for the most part, she was learning, her eye growing keener against this foe and memorizing her moves.<br/><br/>"That's not enough to keep me down!" Akane growled. With each hand she reaches down to a pouch at her thigh, grabbing two shuriken, and flinging them at Ayaka, without much of a plan behind them. Even more shuriken and assorted tools came back her way, thrown deftly by Ayaka to deflect the pair Akane had thrown and to assault her again. But this time, Akane was already in the midst of a hand-seal. Bird seal! "Fuuton, Wind blast!" A blast of wind suddenly whips around Akane's long hair, surging forwards from behind her, and knocking aside the thrown ninja tools, and throwing Ayaka off her balance. With her guard open, Akane ran in with the wind. A short jump lead in, foot landing just past the tip of Ayaka's spear, sending it's blade in to the dirt below, Akane standing atop the shaft. She slammed her next foot down further, knocking the spear from Ayaka's hands, landing upon solid ground once more, and setting in to a swift spin that ended with a kick, her heel hitting the side of Ayaka's abdomen. A jarring impact to a rather soft spot on the body, just like what Ayaka had done to her.<br/><br/>Akane was starting to feel a strain on her body, a quite unfamiliar feeling, figuring it was just some standard physical exertion. Panting for breath after delivering the kick that knocked Ayaka to her knee, a brief pause before she could muster up enough strength to attack again. Akane raised her kunai, and came at Ayaka, though the delay gave the other shinobi enough time to raise her defenses, kunai clashing together, with Akane trying to press her advantage and keep aggressive. Her blade was ducking and weaving around Ayaka's defenses, scoring cuts and little stabs on her, but Akane was being careful to not go to deep, while still trying to win the fight. They traded blows and parries back and forth, until Ayaka could position herself away, turning the clash to where she could pick up her spear again. A thrown smoke bomb at her feet, but Akane saw it coming. She leapt back from the cloud of smoke, just as Ayaka expected, giving her time to take up her spear, and face off against Akane properly armed once more.