Azure Lily vs Smoker

It has been some time since Inarie last seen Daisuke. Of course with Inarie getting into a spar against Kitsuki the young Kaguya has been rather busy herself. Still Inarie can't afford her team to slack off in training. So naturally Inarie offered to invite Daisuke to an official spar at the academy. It is perhaps not the most grand scale and Inarie is certainly not being open about it. Just that Inarie requested permission to use the Academy's arena as the designated location for a spar. Nothing to gain here except through valuable experience.

The time of day will be set near noon with the sun gradually climbing higher in the sky. The moisture in the air makes it awfully humid. Inarie is dressed in a linen short sleeved shirt with leather brown slacks. A pair of ankle leather boots. Over her shirt is a steel mail shirt that is short sleeved, yet the rest of it travels just past her waist. Slimmed to her form to prevent baggy armor is a leather belt that has a hip pouch of supplies and baldric equipped with a sheathed chokuto. A Kirigakure headband is wrapped around her forehead with the steel plate facing forward. Two small braids of her bangs can be seen framing her face as the rest of her wavy platinum hair is pulled into a fluffy tail.

Her arms remain cross over her chest as she spins a single shuriken on the tip of her finger rather casually. It lightly sings of metal in the air, and whenever it slowed a quick flick of her bird finger increases the speed to which the shuriken spins. Inarie never understood why exactly, but the sound has an oddly satisfying sound to her. Her relaxed expression can be clearly seen as Inarie carries this strong aura of how confident she is. Not blatantly arrogant into believing that she can take on anyone, but there isn't a sharp of doubt in her mind when it comes to fighting. Even if this is Daisuke, her teammate, Inarie intends to push him to his limit. Even if she has to pressure him the whole way.

After a bit of resting from that match against Katsumi, Daisuke began to grew increasingly bitter about that match. He honestly didn't know how to react the first time around when it actually happened, but after having some time to think about it, it really baffled him... isn't there supposed to be an announced winner? it felt like his routine of training his body, just for his stage of his Kaguya bloodline to blossom didn't go full on. He wanted to give Katsumi a proper match and he knew from his time with that one mission at the academy that she liked a good fight. He felt more bad for her than he did for himself on not having a match that went all the way through.

Regardless, it is what it is, they can only lick their wounds for now and only continue to get stronger. There will be plenty of chances for Daisuke to prove himself in the future and until those times come, all he can really do is continue to progress as a ninja, such an occasion has been extended to him by an invite by his teammate, Inarie. If he recalled correctly... he believed that she watched his fight, a second opinion might be helpful but he mainly wanted to be there for the spar as well. He needed to use his actual techniques in a practical sense and get a feel for them instead of just knowing them.

Daisuke went there around the allocated time, his appearance consisted of a light lavender, loose-fitting, long-sleeved zip-up shirt with the Kaguya clan emblem crested on the lower front region, black pants cut off around mid-calf, bandages wrapped around his ankles and finally traditional black shinobi sandals. This has become his new preferred outfit due to the potential of ruining his clothes with his bones, especially with how easy it is to zip down the shirt.

After getting to the academy roughly around noon, he saw Inarie, giving a wave to her as he walked up but kept a respectable distance. "Inarie." he said, giving half a smile. "Before we spar... what are your thoughts on the match between me and Katsumi? it's been baffling me for a bit, and a second opinion could help." he wasn't quite sure on what to make of the whole scenario that happened, and he'd appreciate Inarie's opinion.

Seeing, and hearing, Daisuke approach the academy arena Inarie stops the shuriken from spinning by pinching the center. Then Inarie moved to stash the shuriken into her hip pouch when Daisuke called her name to which she raised her eyes to him. He doesn't really show emotion often, and even if he did Inarie hasn't heard him complain about something. Asking for her opinion of the match between Katsumi and himself even. Which she can only guess it's natural considering it was a lost when neither of them were going at full power yet.

"My opinion is that match isn't a fight. It was just a public display to demonstrate their Genin might. A display to scout out a favorite amongst the rabble." Inarie gave her honest opinion not giving a care on who is listening or not. They can say what they will, but Inarie firmly believes that she right on that. Truthfully she hates trivial matters such as that, but if it was by the will of the Mizukage then so be it. That was neither now nor here as she stretches her arms for a couple of seconds to warm up her muscles a little bit. With a wild spark of raiton over her left arm, a handle of some sort protrudes from her wrist on the palm side. It looked like a mixture of bone black as the night and metallic blue scales. Identical to the process of pulling out bones via Shikotsumyaku, Inarie grabs the handle with her right hand and pulls it out as more sparks erupt from the bone? It reveals a shape similar to a tanto, and where the blade should have been is not white as bone, but rather go a very dark and strangely metallic texture. More importantly, the bone in question is constantly cloaked with raiton chakra as Inarie holds onto the tanto firmly in her hand.

"Show or not, I can't have you fall behind. I don't know how much experience you have with your techniques, but feel free to try them out against me. Shikotsumyaku included of course." This wasn't a traditional spar between Kaguya, this was a spar between two teammates as Inarie is allowing Daisuke to gain more experience with his technique. She was ready to get this started, the question was Daisuke ready?

Used Shikotsumyaku: Draconic Tools Creation -3CP (Affinity)

Stamina: 132/135

Daisuke heard her opinion and it's a valid one, but something didn't sit right with him about how the match went... regardless, it'll be all sorted out in the end. That's what he believes anyway. Those last words were just a bit insulting to Daisuke, but there is truth behind them. He was taking it a little easy after the match against Katsumi to which only gave him a little chuckle, but he pulled down his shirt to expose his upper body completely. "I might've taken it a bit easy, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten what I've learned up to that match." and in just a few seconds, bones erupted from Daisuke's knees, elbows, palms and shoulders, the exact same technique that he used back in his match against Katsumi.

Although the bone that she erupted herself was a bit new to him, considering their talk from their last meetup at the training grounds, he wasn't surprised that she'd eventually be able to weaponize both of her bloodlines. If you move past all the "pure-blooded" nonsense for Kaguya, one could see that there's a lot of potential with Inarie with her bloodlines, it doesn't make her a monster, it makes her an even stronger person physically speaking and Daisuke can acknowledge that, which is why at the display of her bones with lightning, it's giving him the slightly same excitement that he felt back in his match against Katsumi.

He charged straight for Inarie, while his speed may seem slow, his attacks with his bones seemed almost instaneous for the average human eye, assuming that he gets close enough to strike. If close enough, he'd aim for the right side of Inarie's upper body, hoping to damage her non-lethally and if anything, see how she'd block, deflect or even dodge his attack. He isn't completely sure of Inarie's abilities so he's testing out the waters, so to speak.

The Stuff:

Daisuke did ask for her opinion, and so she gave it. Granted Inarie does consider whether or not she might be a bit harsh. However, whether it was truth or not didn't necessarily matter to Inarie. Ultimately, it boiled down to how they deal with a problem. Usually when it comes to fighting, but in this case it is a matter of making the right calls. Part of Inarie wishes to bring out her ultimate weapon to see how it'll fair against Daisuke. However she wants to see if he can handle as she is right now.

Daisuke talked himself into his usual self. Which is fine as long as he didn't start doubting himself again. To Inarie the second anyone doubts is the second they already lost.

With bones coming out the joints including elbow, knees, palms, and shoulders. That was a clear signal as any that the match started, and the first Inarie does is charging up the primal chakra in the form of raiton. Simultaneously, Inarie stashed her tanto under her baldric. Faint pale blue light can be seen from her throat until she opens her mouth to release an arc of lightning at his direction. Hoping to strike him in the chest, and large amounts of volts rapidly assaults his nerves should it hit. Then Inarie follows up with a weave of handseals while backing up to stay out of his reach. She was surprisingly faster than he was, so maintaining the distance shouldn't be a problem unless he gains a burst of speed. Completing the sequence of seals within 1.25 second after the breath. If successful, two flurries of pale blue petals swirl around Inarie's body. Filling the room with sounds of many birds chirping at once.

All the while Inarie watches Daisuke to see what he would do if he can't reach his opponent. She remembers that Daisuke was shooting out bones at Katsumi, so either he adapts or she'll take on the offensive. Inarie brings out her tanto once the seals were complete.

Inarie's stuff:

Daisuke wasn't surprised that Inarie was faster than him, it's a risk he took taking on all the bones of this dance, since it reduced his speed but it's meant to be the ultimate defence in close quarters combat. It seems that it would be the wrong way to approach this, as the lightning was something that Daisuke could perceive in time, but wasn't fast enough to actually dodge it and took on the hit. The shock went across his body and froze him for a second and two, with his focus feeling dizzy but still there, so he went on ahead to rush Inarie as planned.

He brought up both hands, with one hand firing bone bullets at Inarie with one hand and then immediately after, fired off another hand bullet shortly behind those bullets, all aimed for Inarie in her stationary spot. He wanted to get her moving and didn't want her to get the sense that she can only stay away from him by simply keeping her distance.

The Stuff:

As Inarie sees Daisuke being struck by the bolt of lightning, she completes her handseals by the time he recovers. Once Daisuke recovers, she noted that he was still trying to get within close quarters. She was faster than him, although perhaps it was thanks to those bones of his. If only he dropped them Daisuke could maybe catch up to her. Yet to his error Daisuke raised both hands to which Inarie remembered that shooting bones out. Both mass of light blue petals fans out in front of her. Obscuring her position as she throws her tanto at Daisuke's left foot much like it was Kunai.

The thrown tanto becomes dense with raiton coating the whole small blade as it sails through the swarm as Daisuke launched his bone bullets. Now due to the bullets not being a strong conductor and the Raiton is energy. It creates a barrier of sorts where the bullets will be assaulted repeatedly as it passes through. Same with the second half of the bone bullets. Granted this doesn't slow down the bones one bit, and if Daisuke succeeds in avoiding the thrown tanto it will sink halfway deep into the stone while disperse the Raiton Cloak into the ground. Leaving cracks around the impact as the result and the tanto appears to be unharmed.

Simultaneously, Inarie takes a leap back on her flank side. To possibly confuse Daisuke on where she was. In doing so, she causes a large spike of metallic blue scales to protrude from her left shoulder. Where she will reach up with both hands and once she wrapped her delicate fingers around the spike. Inarie pulls it out as it tears through the mesh shirt and nearly cleaves her mail shirt off. She reveals a large two handed sword that immediately coats itself with intense levels of raiton that reminds people of thousands of birds chirping in sync. As she was near completing this, Inarie wills the two masses to retreat towards her. To when Inarie pulls out her intricate dragon blade the mass will spiral around her body. Inarie will begin walking towards Daisuke, to test whether he will be running or try to take her on. With the petals swirling around her, her 40" sword that's almost as big as a cleaver sword, and her piercing rose pink eyes analyzing Dread as large amounts of chakra is visible around her.

Inarie's Stuff:

Whether Inarie simply stunned the man or is uncertain how to proceed. Daisuke didn't move, attack, or really get into a defensive stance. At this point Inarie felt like her strongest ace could cleave through the standard Kaguya Bone. However Inarie would rather not test that against Daisuke. Rather this is to show Daisuke how far she has gone into mastering not just the Kaguya's bloodline, but her father's side as well. A sigh escapes from Inarie's lips after nothing happened for a little while.

With a wave of one hand, the petals dissipate into thin air. With a flick of her wrist, Inarie twirled the giant sword like it weighed nothing to her before plunging it into the earth in front of her. Doing so causes the crackling sonic boom of thunder that was deafening to those in the Academy. Probably scared the kids and make the guards jumpy. Despite the building's structure, the great sword easily sinks into the stone like it was butter until it was about halfway.

"I apologize if I jumped the gun early. I am still trying to get a better grasp of my bloodlines and mixing them into my own." Inarie apologized as she let's go of her weapon. The Raiton Cloak around the magnificent blade dissipates and retains just a large bone sword. Inarie took a couple of steps to the side as she gestures to the sword with her hand.

"This is the strongest combination I can make with my current abilities. I can't do what you or other Kaguya are capable of doing. Not like those bones you fired from your fingertips. Everything I do with Shikotsumyaku I must make my own version of it." She explains as this was a rare chance for Inarie to confront. Before Inarie is the Pinnacle of her power, her strength. To most people just having her bloodlines combined should be impossible. They should be tearing her apart on a cellular level, or so she was told by doctors. Even to this hour, this very second, Inarie defies everything that was thought to be impossible.

"Either way, I must go and rest for the Chunin Exams. I hope this was a valuable experience for you. Farewell, and take care Daisuke." After that, Inarie turns on her heel and proceeds to leave the premises. She has a big day ahead of her, and Inarie can't afford to miss it either.

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After the duel, Daisuke had headed back home. He just wasn't feeling the spar and after it ended, was somewhat relieved. It felt like he had his fair share of battle to last him for a few weeks.

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