Kaede was a flash past Natsumi, who could barely turn before the kumo nin was already rushing past. In a blur, she got to the man reaching out her hand for the man... but before her there was only a splash and broken earth. The water and dust kicked up into her face, causing her to bring her arms up across her face in response. Kaede looked down, seeing the earth shattered before her.. two arms and two legs protruded from the rubble, blood slathered the rocks that obscured what was once a man's body. The water had already filled back in... There were two small gaps in the water. Not long after, a pair of bandaged legs rose up out of them, and a fist formed in the center of the debris, then an arm, then an entire body.<br/><br/>A woman knelt before Kaede, still in the stance of a completed punch. She was covered in bandages save for her forearms and feet under black pants. Her mouth was covered, her eyes green and cool, lazily drifting over to Kaede in the moments following her appearance. The woman's hair was shaved on the sides, with a long unkempt mohawk and bushy ponytail... An Iwagakure forehead protector was sewn into the back of her pants. The last thing Kaede noticed... her fist and part of her forearm was completely dark and shiny like black steel. It faded back to a normal color as the woman stood up and turned to Kaede.<br/><br/>"I... I don't believe it." Natsumi said, looking at them both with her big blue eyes wide, "Mujin Meisai."<br/><br/>The woman in front of Kaede closed her eyes and smiled, as far as she could tell with her mouth obscured under the bandages. It was even accompanied by a little giggle. The earth under them was shattered... enough, it seemed, to displace a plate of stone underneath the Torii. One end of the ritual gate began to list, and the base started to crack. Kaede had seen such a punch before... it was not unlike her own.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Reflex DC was 25.<br/>Tetsuma uses an action point and full power attack. Rolls a 20 to hit after modifiers. (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4814627/) Action point gives her one more, though she really didn't need it since he is flat-footed... still has his class bonus to defense, but isn't wearing any armor. (I forgot that at higher levels, you roll more than one d6 and take the best one...)<br/><br/>Poor defector dude got hit with a technique that does quite a bit of damage, that enhanced her power attack... with a slam that counts as an unarmed weapon, and some sneak attack in there too. Defector dude rolls a mighty one on his fortitude save and gets sent... seventy one feet into the ground, since the attack came from above... he suffers some additional damage. All tallied up, 79 damage. (http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/4814617/)<br/><br/>There's some ninjutsu at work related to her skin... but Kaede can't identify it. There's also Mujin Meisai, a ninjutsu that Kaede also cannot identify. :P<br/><br/>What she<em> does </em>recognize is Strength Rank 5 and Taijutsu: Gouken - Konoha Kaiganshou.<br/><br/>Testura: -23 Chakra.<br/>Defector: Super dead.<br/><br/>Random note; The Torii is about 9 meters tall, like the Nakayama shrine gate. Objects falling near the surface of the earth fall at a rate of about 9.8 meters a second. Kaede had to get to the man within 9/10ths of a second to save him. The average human reaction time is 1/4th of second, so... assuming a reflex roll of 10 is average, that means Kaede's reaction was about 1/10th of a second. So she had 8/10ths of a second to get to the man. Using Shunpo, a move action to get to the man and an attack action to grab him- she's moving at about 2 feet every 1/10th a second. So... by the time the poor guy got splattered, Kaede must have been about 4 or 5 feet from him.<br/></div></div>