Training team Juumoku (Shin Uchiha, Kirin Ranmaru, and Itami only)

Shin's clone poofed away as it landed on the ground from his own throw. He was shocked that Kirin had made a replacement jutsu. His own combonation jutsu with his clone seemed to have been worthless, but atleast he was getting better at it as he practiced. He then put away his lighter, looking over it for a moment. He watched her come out of hiding, hearing her give up. He smiled softly and walked up to her. He bowed to her and put out his hand, "You put up a good fight, Kirin-chan."He praised her and grinned at her. He wondered what it would be like to fight against Itami. He looked at him with his eyes curiously. He knew that Itami was naturally a very good person at heart, and would not want to fight... But Shin wanted to see what he had.

Kirin walked over to Itami and smiled. "It's yourturn Itami." After he go tup, Kirin took his seat on the rock and watched.

Itami slowly rose form his seat and walked over to the field. he dragged his feet while he walked. Once he reached the point where he was not to close and not to far, he stopped and looked up at Shin. "I am ready." he said in an impassive manner. He did not get into a stance or pull out any weapons. he simply just stood there, waiting for Shin to make the first move.

Shin watched Itami's moves as he seemed to be careless if he fought Shin. He smirked though, hoping that he would be easy to defeat such as Kirin was. He then examined his surroundings. Rocks to the right and left, he was about a few meters away from him. He got into a stance and took out a kunai. He then threw the kunai at Itami and waited for his reaction. He kept up his guard though, not wanting a sneak attack coming at him.

As the kunai raced towards him, Itami reached into his pocket as if to pull ot a shiriken or kunai. But instead, he pulled out a rock. While Itami had been watching Kirin ad Shin fight, he was not watching the whole time. he hadbeen kicking some rocks around an decided to keep a few. Itami threw the rock directly at the kunai. The rock struck the kunai just enogh to make it deflect it's direction. Itami did not even blink as it sped past his face. Not that anyone would be ableto tell; his bangs covered his eyes. Itami and Shin were obviously the best out of the team and would promise a good match.

Itami knew that the Sharingan could watch the movements of other people, his only chance was to make a move that he could not escape from, or a move that he would not be able to see at all. Even so, fighting Itami prove to be difficult to watch his movements. This is because much of what Itami does is not planned out. Most of hisfights were just instincts or last minute additions toa move. At any rate, he needed to tred carfully.

Shin knew his sharingan isnt developed enough to read Gen, Tai, and Nin, and then use it later. His wheel only had two tomoe. He had to unlock the third comma some way, but he knew that if he fought someone bigger, badder, and tougher than him, he might be able to unlock it. Shin sighed softly and then started to make a series of many, many handsigns. He put his fingers up to his mouth and breathed in deeply, "Fire Dragon Flame Projectile!"He shouted and released his breath, blowing a large jet of flames at Itami. He kept it going for a good 5-10 seconds. He then cancelled the flames after the 15th second hit, as the wind blew away the embers.

As the flames died down, not all of the fire seemed to dissapear. Between Shin and Itami was a large fireball. because of Shin's own flames, it was unnoticed as it shielded Itami from the fire projection. The fireball was connected to Itami's mouth... but as he retracted his hand from the side of his face, he cut off the jet of fire and sent the ball sprawling towards Shin.

As Itami watched to see if the ball would hit, he began to make more handsigns, getting ready for his next shot.

Shin suddenly saw a fireball headed toward him, surprisingly from the quiet and calm Itami. He gasped slightly, finding it was surprising to him. He was already alittle worn out from using all the ninjutsu he had used. He groaned and began to decide on what he was going to do as he stood infront of incoming fireball. Shin quickly came up with a plan and sprung backwards with his feet, using as much force as he had. He landed quite a bit of distance from the fireball and took a turn to the right, dodging it completely and out of his way.

He then took out a kunai as he kept running, placing an explosive pouch on the ring of it in a quick motion, that it was possibly to be unseen. He then threw the kunai towards Itami's feet. He stopped running and stood in a could of dust from his stop, and put up a handsign, about to ignite it.

Just as he completed his handseals, the kunai landed at his feet. he instantly noticed the bomb on the end. It seemed that he was going to need to use more chakr athan he wanted to escape and still continue with his plan. "Kagebushin no Jutsu"

Five shadow clones appeared as he finished. Just as the the bomb went off, two of the shadow clones used all their migth and shoved the remaining people backwards and away from the blast. The explosion was loud and mixed in with the smoke of the clones being destroyed. Itami stood up several feet from where he originaly stood. Two clones stood next to him but seperated. each clone then began making handseals. Itami pulled a kunai from his pocket and placed it in his mouth by the handle. As he ran towards Shin, he also started a chain of handseals. As he got within striking distance, he spun around for a spin kick.

Shin could feel the adrenaline running through his veins. All he could hear was his heartbeat. All he could see was Itami, and his clones. His sick and twisted mind had snapped just then. He was in his killer mode now. As his team mates didnt know, Shin is a very kind hearted person, but his intents and fights are deadly to the least. Once he snaps, theres no stopping him.

His eyes narrowed as he glared at Itami, watching the smoke clear away to reveal the rest of him. He smirked, an evil one at that. Everything to Shin had seemed that time was slowed down itself, he was so intuned with everything at that moment. He watched Itami spin around, his foot right out at him, as if he was about to land a strike with his foot. He reacted quickly and took out, yet, another kunai. He jabbed his kunai outwards at Itami's incoming kick, hoping it would have stuck somewhere in his foot or leg, stopping it. As he held the Kunai out, hie crossed his two fingers over his other two fingers holding the kunai, "Bushin no jutsu!"He called out as a clone poofed from behind him.

The clone then ran to the left, as Shin released his grip on the kunai and ran to the right. Shin was secretly holding a very invisible, but strong wire in his hand, as his clone had the other end. They both smirked and held onto the wire tightly, as they began to run the same way; downwards, behind Itami.

OOC: if you are confused, think of it this way:
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Itami had been making handseals along with all of his clones, but now he was ready. ust as the kunai was about to strike his leg, the was a sudden poof of smoke. Itami had used the replacement jutsu one himself, but not with a piece of wood. Instead, one of the clones had ben replaced, and in a different stance, the kunai missed him. Itami may not be able to read movements, but had had seen how Shin fought and gathered much from this. He also knew some of the more famous jutsu used by the Uchiha and knew exactly what was happening. All in one sudden motion, the wire wrapped around the clone as he yelled.

"Ryuuka no Jutsu - Dragon Fire Technique"

The clone caught fire to both ends of the wire that lead back to Shin and his clone. As the clone poofed away from catching himself on fire, his own flame traveled down the wire towards both Shin and his clone.

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Just as the Real Itami used his replacements technique, one of the other clones was ready with his own jutsu. "Mizuame Nabara - Starch Syrup Capture Field" The clone breathed in a large gut of air and then expelled a sticky liquid from his gullet. He sprayed it up into the so that it would rain down on the tangled clone, Shin's clone and Shin himself. The stickyliquid covered approximately 20 square meters as it poured down upon the field.

"Nandashite!??!!"Yelled very confused Shin as he saw Itami poof away, and flames coming from his clone. The flames travelled up his wire, as it struck his own clone first, and then began to travel faster and faster to Shin. He then released the wire, then moving his foot into a motion that it kicked the dirt, making the soil and pebbles break and hover in a cloud of dust. The fire was put out by the dust that Shin was hiding in. As soon as the cloud of dust blew away in a gust of wind, he looked up as he saw liquid like syrup fall from the sky, coming from Itami, or his clone.

Shin had to make a move, and quick to avoid the capture of the starch field jutsu. He then crossed his fingers, making a replacement as a log was caught in the sticky, liquid field of a starch substance. The real Shin was hiding in a tree off a mountain side, very close from the plateau they were training on. He had activated his Sharingan ability, seeing 3 or 4 Itami's on the field. He looked directly through them all, seeing one had a blue chakra system. The others did not. He smirked and then stood on the top of his tree, taking out a Windmill shuriken from his backpack. He was getting serious now.

The windmill spread its four blades, as Shin threw the windmill accuratly at the real Itami. As it spun faster and faster, getting closer, it poofed. The real Shin emerged from the blade's smoke and had its fist outwards, Katon chakra focused in his fist as he was about to land a hit straight to Itami's face. Flames seemed to be emitting from his knuckles and hand. This is how serious he was. The person that threw the Windmill shuriken had been a meere clone.

Itami sensed his chakra as he came flying through the air. One of the clones threw several at Shin's clone while Itami quickly made some handsigns. The last clone then breathed in a gust of air and expelled it quickly. "Sunabokori - Dust Cloud". As the wind escaped his lungs, he used additional power of natural energy to emit a large cloud of blinding dust around Itami and the oncoming Shin. The cloud of dust made it extreemly hard for Shin to see as Itami finished his handsigns just in time. Outstretching his hand, he caught Shin's fist in his palm. The fire from Shin's fist started to burn his skin as he used his jutsu.

"Suirou no Jutsu - Water Prison Technique"

Still clenching Shin's hand, the sticky liquid that they stood on rose up and surrounded Shin. The watery liquid put out the fire from their hands as it became a prison.

Shin closed his eyes as he saw nothing but a dark, thick, cloud of smoke engulf Itami and his clone. He tried not to breathe it in as he then opened his eyes, seeing in how he was trapped in a starch field bubble of some sort. He remembered that the stuff he was in was very sticky, and not going to touch it. He took his hand off of Itami's, examining it as he saw he caused both himself and his team mate to burn. He quickly felt regret and guilt. He sighed and said quietly, ".. Yosu desu ne..."He closed his eyes and waited for Itami to release him.

OOC: ".. I give up..."

As he heard his words, Itami released the jutsu and fell to the ground. He had used more chakra than he had originaly wanted. He had needed to create 5 clones and had each use jutsu. his plan had worked but he would not have been able to keep him in the prison for long. he slowly stood up as his clones dissapeared. He looked at his hand that now had a burn upon it. his expressionless eyes starred at it and then at Shin. He had been a good match and they had trained well. But the day was getting away from them and they needed to be somewhere.

Itami lazily walked over to Kirin and held out his hand.