Outpost Town

[Deego Horutan]

Deego sighed loudly. "God, you're lazy. Here, then let me do it." Deego walked up to a random cowering bystander. Deego pulled a kunai from his sleeve and swung at the man's throat. But the man wasn't there anymore. Deego face looked as if it were going to drop to the floor. The man was no where in sight. Then a voice was heard. "Now he's twenty meters south." Deego barely had time to react before he went through the air toward Tsuki. He regained his ground and dusted his shoulder. "That didn't even hurt! You just pushed me!" Deego seemed to be yelling at nothing.

[Tsuki Kyoushu]

Tsuki glared at Deego for calling her lazy. When the disturbance happened with Deego, she pulled out her katana to prepare for a fight. She smirked as Deego dusted himself off, "You really shouldn't call me lazy, if he didn't do that to you, I would have." She said while keeping her eyes open for the person that threw Deego.

[Kanbei Tachibana]

Kanbei was standing behind them the whole time. He had his arms cross. He saw the kid say "Yeah, yeah." Then Kanbei popped up closer behind them, making sure to make sure they knew he was there. Deego swung his elbow, but he swung at nothing. Kanbei was now on his shoulders, in the same pose. Deego yelled, "Where is he?"

[Tsuki Kyoushu]

Tsuki glared at Deego for a second, while at the same time taking a kunai from her hair and threw it at Kanbei. However, to anyone else it could also look like she was throwing it at Deego's head.

"You're such an idiot!" she groaned at Deego.

[Deego Horutan]

Deego ducked about an inch and now the man was gone. He had almost gotten a little bit of a haircut from that kunai. "What are you, nuts?! You could have killed me!" There was an arguement brewing. That was when Deego was sent off to the side. Now the man was standing where Deego used to be. Deego was picking himself out of the side of the mountain when the man said, "This is why I don't talk. It's such a hastle..."

[Tsuki Kyoushu]

"It was a risk I was willing to take," Tsuki answered right before Deego was thrown into a mountain. Of course she didn't add the part where she had excellent aim and wasn't aiming for him anyway so there wasn't any way he'd be hit.

When the man was standing in front of her in Deego's place, Tsuki studied him for a few moments with slight interest.

"A man of few words, I like that." She said, "too bad this will have to end badly.." She pulled another kunai out of her ponytail, causing her white hair to fall down alittle past her shoulders.

[Kanbei Tachibana]

Kanbei had his eyes closed. "This battle ends as badly as you let it..." Deego shouted from afar, "Tsuki!? You can't flirt with the bounty!" Kanbei opened his eye. "Bounty hunters... I see..." Now Kanbei's blood was boiling. These people caused so much destruction... and for only their personal gain. It would have been different if they were hired, but this was their choice. Now they had to pay. Kanbei drew his bow and an arrow. He stood in place waiting for the slightest movement, but now the assailants seemed to be still.

[Tsuki Kyoushu]

Tsuki didn't turn to glare at Deego, instead she watched the bounty carefully, assessing his movements, and the changes that took over his face as soon as he heard they were bounty hunters. Tsuki hated the idea of going into a fight without knowing what the bounty was capable of, she hated messy situations, any situation that she didn't have control of.

She forced herself to concentrate, her years of training called forth from their dormant place in the back of her mind. There had to be a way to assess his abilities without having to pay a full price.

Tsuki very quickly did the handsigns to preform the genjutsu Toriburu Bijon [Triple vision]. The way it works is The target will see the user as if there were three of them little on top of each others, making it hard for the target to aim. As soon as that genjutsu was in place, Tsuki performed yet another jutsu very quickly, creating 3 shadow clones.

Choosing the perfect time to get out of the danger zone, Tsuki used flash step, covering her movements with a smoke bomb, at the same time her clones also used smoke bombs as to keep Kanbei off of her trail.

Tsuki was now on a roof of a nearby building, hoping to view things from a distance.

[Kanbei Tachibana]

Kanbei blinked at the new effect on him. He could barely make heads or tails of what just happened, but then he tucked his hair behind his ears. He had his other eye closed, but it was slowly opening. It snapped open and it appeared to be orange and have the appearance of a flame. His pupil shrank to a minimum size. Then, he disappeared. "That isn't a very advanced jutsu, but I shouldn't underestimate them." His thoughts were solid. He aimed for a rock, and shot an arrow. His vision was still blurry, but that was diminishing rapidly. His kekkei genkai was kicking in. The arrow he shot was ricochetteing around buildings and boulders, until it snagged Tsuki's clothes. "Damn. Still not worn off yet."

[Tsuki Kyoushu]

Tsuki fought back a growl as the kunai caught her shirt. Luckily it hadn't pierced her or drawn blood. Tsuki quickly performed yet another set of handsigns to perform a genjutsu called Kunai Shigure no Jutsu [Rain of Kunai Technique]. She chose to make it seem like 100 kunai were flying at Kanbei, while at the same time she pulled out 10 of her own kunai from her pouch and mixed them in with the illusionary ones.

Jumping from the roof of the building, she threw 5 more kunai, once again masking them with the illusionary ones. She came beside Deego while keeping an eye on Kanbei's movements. She had noticed that his eye was a different color which meant a kekkei genkai, but she didn't know what it was capable of. As long as she and Deego worked together, and she managed to stay out of harms way long enough, she should be able to assess Kanbei's true worth.

"My genjutsus aren't affecting him for very long, think of something." Tsuki growled in a whisper to Deego.

[Kanbei Tachibana]

Kanbei exhaled when he saw, the tons of kunai raining, but it looked like much more than originally meant to, due to his previous affliction. Kanbei needed to know what he was up against for real, so he placed his hand near his eye and surged chakra. That was when he flat out annihilated the genjutsu affecting him. He saw it was only several kunai headed towards him, and had almost no trouble avoiding them. Deego, across the terrain spoke, "Damn, he's good. He looks like he's immune to the stuff. That's a wicked eye." Kanbei looked at the two's general direction, then lifghtening fast, three arrows came zipping at them. Deego pushed Tsuki out of teh way and dodged two, but one peirced his shoulder and stuck him to the wall. Deego yelled out "Dammit!" Deego was pulling at the arrow when Kanbei came faster than sound and shattered the wall that Deego was pinned to. Deego barely managed to escape that blow, and once he was free, he distanced himself to where Tsuki was. "Damn! This guy's a freak of nature!"

[Tsuki Kyoushu]

Tsuki glared at Deego, "Well do something.. it was your idea after all." Tsuki stated.

She knew that her genjutsu wasn't going to be a match for Kanbei so there wasn't any point in attempting another, that meant that she'd have to use other abilities. Obviously he had great speed, but if she could sneak up on him, then his speed really wouldn't matter. Surely her years of training in Getsugakure weren't wasted.

She just needed time to think.

[Kanbei Tachibana]

Kanbei saw that Deego kid was injured. Deego whispered to Tsuki, "Hold on." Deego pulled out his three-pronged boomerang and sent it flying at Kanbei. Kanbei deflected it, but it came flying back, homed on to Kanbei: Deego's famous Megarang technique. Kanbei defelected the rang about 3 times before he decided to dodge it, but this was appearantly not working either. Deego was almost about to tell Tsuki to get involved, when Kanbei changed stances. He said quietly, "Fine, let's have it." Kanbei waited for the rang to get in range, when he surged chakra out of his body and caught the weapon out of the air. Deego had his mouth slightly open in shock and his eyes were wide as saucers. No one had ever had enough power, let alone courage to take one of his techniques head on before.

[Deego Horutan]

Deego was incredibly shocked. He now knew this wouldn't be a cake walk. It might even be a bit much for Deego. Deego reached into his jacket. "Tch. Gonna have to up the antee..." He pulled out a new weapon. It didn't look like a boomerang. It was curved, but it looked more like a blade. The curve was edged sharp like a blade as well. deego armed it and threw it at Kanbei. Once it left his hand, it seemed to disappear. This made Kanbei flinch, but when he tilted his head to the side, it passed right by him. Deego dashed after it and threw it back at Kanbei. Now, Kanbei seemed to move an inch to the right, but there was absolutely no evidence of him so much as moving a muscle. Deego was still staring with shock at this mans raw speed. He was getting a little uneasy. He came back to Tsuki's position. "Tsuki... What's up with this guy. No one's ever seen my Aquarang in motion before. I could really use some hel..." But before Deego could finish, Kanbei spoke for the last time. "This is your last chance to leave..."

[Tsuki Kyoushu]

Tsuki let out an annoyed sigh toward Deego, "You really should have done more homework before we made our move here." She growled, focusing her attention on Kanbei.

She had never backed down from a fight, and the fact that Deego couldn't lay a hit on the guy and her genjutsu wasn't working any longer on him either was starting to make her angry.

"If there was some way to slow him down, then we'd stand a chance," she thought out loud, but she really wasn't sure how they'd do that.