Jun drilled into the puppet, leaving it with a pattern of swirling claw marks all over its hide. The Kunoichi could tell that this mechanical beast wouldn't be able to take too many hits like that. Perhaps two or three more...<br/><br/>Lilly's technique blew the purple cloud away in a whirlwind of elemental power... Kinsuke stepped backwards, shouting to his comrade, "Kotone! They're blowing the smoke-" But the Tani kunoichi's technique was perhaps a little too strong. Rather than gently blowing the gas over towards their enemies, the technique dispersed it entirely. Whatever remnants there had been of the already weak poison, it was in the air so thin as to be discounted entirely. The young boy stopped mid-sentence, and then smiled.<br/><br/>Just as the poison cloud cleared, Tashi came bounding forward with his blade borne. The girl he charged towards leaned back and her eyes widened. She licked her lips in concentration as she moved the bridges across the strings for one final tuning. The Mibu youth barely made it twenty feet when he felt gust after gust of wind beating against him, stopping him in his tracks. Each plucking of her strings sent another gust his way, the force of the wind in tandem with the sound of her Koto.<br/><br/>The puppet withdrew away from Jun again, crouching low on its haunches again as the revolver mechanism on its' back spun again. "Oh come on... Tell that boy to stop being such a killjoy! ...Don't you want to<em>play</em>?" With another snap and twang of the components inside, a bullet-like cylinder fired out and split apart, needles raining forward towards the kunoichi. Thankfully Xexen and the others would be spared the attack.<br/><br/>Lilly, meanwhile, felt something...<em> tugging</em>on her. She caught sight of the young boy off to their side, one arm outstretched towards her. The sword that she carried began to slide out of its sheathe before she caught it, shutting the hilt tight against the scabbard. The boy merely smiled, a soft giggle escaping his lips as he scratched his nose.<br/><br/>...<br/><br/>"We meet again." The Suna Jounin said as he blocked another one of Maki's punches. The wrappings on his arm began to whirl and spin, binding around the Kunoichi's own arm as their wrists remained together. "Your ninjutsu is superb is always..." He said with a grin, "But it isn't going to make your taijutsu any better-"<br/><br/>The Tani ninja responded by throwing her other bubbling fist out towards him. The shinobi connected his hand against her other wrist... and his bandages flew out and wrapped around Maki's forearm. He brought her hands together and then stepped back, leaving the Kunoichi's arms bound together with his own free to move. The cloth went from being wrapped around his arms, to being wrapped around both of their arms, to being wrapped around Maki's arms and tied together, all so seemingly without the least bit of effort. She stood casually with her hands in front of her waist when she grinned, "And you're still up to the same old tricks, ah, Keiji?"<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">Nobody rolled Init. :p Going to put all the Suna Ninja on the same initiative, though. So it doesn't matter.<br/>Although I like the idea to blow the smoke over to the enemy, I'm going to rule it just disperses it rather than move it. Mostly because that technique deals hard damage, unlike Bifuu no Jutsu (Zephyr's Wind Technique) &amp; Ichijin no Jutsu (Gust of Wind Technique)<br/><br/>Kotone's readied action (Trigger: Any attempt to move aggressively towards her. ;) ) is to make preform a special technique. ::)<br/>Make a ninjutsu check to identify the techniques she's using. ;D<br/><br/>Distance between Kotone and Tashi: 40 feet, all movement towards her is reduced to 1/3rd, movement away from her is doubled.<br/><br/>Jun; Reflex Save (DC 14) to negate 5 points of piercing damage. If hit, make a Fortitude Save vs. Poison (DC 12)<br/>Initial: 3 dexterity damage, Secondary: 1 strength damage.<br/><br/>Puppet is now fifteen feet away from Jun, and twenty-five feet away from Lilly. I'd make a map... but I has work soon. :P<br/><br/>Lilly: Kinsuke missed his touch attack vs. Lilly's worn object with a 17 + range penalties.<br/>Not a technique, so she cannot identify. Could make a Ninja Lore check.</div></div>