They were on Stalemate (http://youtu.be/sUUE0IrCIp4). Tashi listening what others spoke while he keenly observed the bird and how situation build around it.<br/><br/><em>When facing unknown jutsu....most wise and common practice is to be cautious around it.</em><br/><br/>Tashi then thinked, the guy was sneaky and he knew varied jutsus. The wire jutsu, puppeteer poison clouds, summoning jutsus and nerve point paralyzing jutsus. So lots of bag of tricks, but would he be good enough summoner to summon anything really reliable and good defense against a whole ninja village? What if he has just discovered some rare summoning jutsu or new one but is merely adept at it and unable call anything too strong?<br/><br/><em>So he may be bluffing to buy time for himself......but to do what? He cannot escape so would he be trying deliver message about our location and numbers while we stand confused here standing about his armored crow summon?</em><br/><br/>Tashi then drew his blade and said; "I am going test how skillful this crow is. I have trick which may work here bypass any defense what that crow has unless it knowns jutsu too. I think he is bluffing to buy himself time to send message out or prepare long preparation jutsu." Tashi after saying so moves front of the crow, blade tip facing down on the earth. He is not far from crow but nor he is close to any conventional close range attack. He takes solid standing stance and he slowly raises his blade up. He channels his Chi from earth up his limbs up to his arms all way up to the razor sharp edge tip of his sword. Then he slams his sword down hard on the ground!<br/><br/>Earth rumbles when dirt and rock flies in direct line pattern towards the crow! Also directly towards the guy what it's protecting under! Crow may not be shaken from the attack much but the impact and shock of his slice will travel along the ground, underneath the earth's surface to strike on heavily injured target!<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Tashi moved and then performed Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu - Do Ryu Sen (Earth Dragon Flash). It is 30'ft long line attack which is 5'ft wide. It's D classified technique so he auto performs it. It costed 3 chakra to perform.<br/><br/>It does 4d4 dmg to first target it meets along the way and it's reflex save based dmg so reflex save halves it (or negates altogether with evasion). Save DC is 19. However not sure would crow count as first target to be hit as it stands directly above the guy (and it's leaning down to shield him). The attack travels along the ground and then kind explodes on foe (think shock wave impact). So kind of coin toss idea that Tashi either hits crow (and see how tough it is as it cannot perform reflex save vs the dmg as it cannot move even a inch it seems) or it hits injured shinobi what it guards (as shock wave travels under the protective wings and hit on prone target who cannot make reflex save or at least gets penalty to do so as attack strikes directly from ground on his back).<br/></div></div>