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The castle itself gave Kaigen a small hollow feeling. The feel would likely have to wait to explore but it was hard to dismiss. The Valcano around the castle really gave Kaigen the kind of feeling of a 'till death do us part' kind of fight. It was quite fatal in the sense of feelings could be concern. He could still smell burnt rock. Kaigen usually didn't get teachers. This one had too much mystery to pass up. Zento had this whole castle to train, study, mold, and perfect every technique he could think of. Kaigen never dreamed of finding a spot to just train until he got it right. You remember that part where Zento started his epic yet creepy walk towards the arena? Yeah? Kaigen remembered it too. It sounded like each heart beat matched the steps, the anticipation, the fear, the excitement, and the pain were moving all in steps. The steps were heard as slow and calm, no sense of rush, and no other signs to read.


Kaigen was able to somehow pinpoint the origin of the sounds, but before he knew it, the king has arrived. He stood quite a distance away from him, hell even from a higher ground than the stage, but even he felt he couldn't get away from whatever Zento had in mind. See now the stage had a contestant, and with it, the imaginary crowd would go wild. Imaginary is what it was because to Kaigen, it was elevation in human form. The visual on Zento showed a well tailored man that from a beginner would assume a lost busniess man, but a more experienced type, could see this man was right where he was best. On the battlefield. But now it was Kaigen to face this monster, a man who hopefully, could help Kaigen break through any limits he harbors.


The scroll that came out of nowhere had a reason for it's presence when held by Zento. Once it's origin had been revealed, Kaigen did is first physical reaction: a blink. The blink was caused by curious nature, truth be told, the boy's never seen a scythe in action before. Likely his mistaken and fortune. The swing with the scythe shouldn't had done any kind of physical damage due to the range they were standing. it was a weapon battle, so he knew he had to get closer. For this fight, he choose his Ring of Organized Chaos on his arm. It weaponize his chakra chains to be any kind of weapon he needed so long as it was attached to him. This would allow him to switch things up between defense, offense, and many different flavors of weaponry.


Kaigen told himself he was done being so far apart. Kaigen lightly leaped onto the railing in front of him, sticking a landing of course, with his body surging with energy. Fight and flight type of deal. His body slowly started as a forward body tilt but soon could be described as a freefalling. As the areial shift changes, so did his tactic, when he pushed off the wall with the strength of his feet - A self launching basic for the epic fights like this - propelled him into the air. Quickly making his way to evenly ground, once making contact with the ground with his hands, performed a basic frontal flip. The flipped placed him exactly fifteen meters from his humanoid target. He kept his body and mind as focused as possible eyeing his teacher, especially the scythe, trying to figure out what he was working with.


Before he could really get any kind of hint he was vocally challenged. No time for plans or tactics: it was a specialist battle. He started with something basic for the testing match. His left arm pointed forward for the purpose of Kaigen. Kaigen launched out two chakra chains from his palms. The chakra chains had a mace ball at the ends of them, used for a direct blow. A forward attack could just mean a forward defense. First step would be figuring out how the train move. Zento was the train, and Kaigen needed to know how to defuse him. The chains were an orange color and seeking to hit his opponent in the chest - but of course they both knew it wasn't going to make contact with human skin.

The chakra chains shot through the air like bullets aiming to tame and harm the intended target with speed. The point was to figure out if his target would defend, counter, or change stance. At this point he wasn't sure. Kaigen's mood did not sway or misdirect itself once he finally got a chance to see the defense Zento had against the chains. He did not have any expectations with that basic move, but Kaigen was feeling almost disappointed when he saw him merely dodge it by standard physical means. In Kaigen's mind he almost pictured the man using some kind of ultra fancy move despite the motive being quite basic. Then before Kaigen could mentally no-quite-ponder on it his teacher did something that really pierced the wall in Kaigen's brain.


More like piercing a dagger into the wall with his chains in the middle of them. A pin down? The tactic was noted to be quite deadly by standard terms; however, this was far from an ordinary situation. Five meters was still five meters. The arms of human beings were usually around three feet or so, then let's add the range of the scythe. Let's be precise about this fight shall we? See, what Kaigen was very much capable of doing was extending his chakra and moving freely - within range of the pinned chain - but still more than enough movement area for acrobats. The two mere chains were composed of his left hand, still extended, but he could produce more chains than the ones on the battlefield. He wasn't going to risk his life placing more effort into pulling the sword from the chains just to create a more opening, so he'd just have to fight a bit tied down. No biggie right? Kaigen did a backwards lean just in the clearance to dodge the spinning of the scythe just encase it did try to come around unexpectedly to whack or hack at him.


Change of stance.


A momentary station of not cutting or shredding. Kaigen could mentally note on how his teacher could really swing his weapon around. "Oh, No you don't!" Now it was his right hand on his forearm that made it's way to magic. By Magic: The chakra chains formed into a circular orange shield of chakra big enough to defend himself. Timing was everything. Once the ending of the staff came directly as a threat to his gut, Kaigen did something pretty sick. He released his weight for just a moment before using his left arm to grab a hold of the chain, pulling it and himself into launching forward in a fast burst. The distance being as close as possible, used the shield to try and deflect the staff to the right side of his body, but while doing such, still in forward fast motion.


Combo breaker. The deflection was used as not only a defense but a straight forward opening to an attack. So it was no suprise that right after the chakra shield connecting with the staff his left foot went into the air aiming for the man's side. That was the first kick, second kick was used by the same left leg aiming for side of Zento's left leg. A double kick to the side and knee as fast as he could with a final switch jump front forward kick in his gut to wind and/or knock him off balance. Balanced was the key. He made two steps backwards while keeping his guard ready. He had so much to learn, yet only thing that really mattered at that moment was to stay alive. Maybe through survival he'll learn something. Let's find out.

In order to break old limits, one must strive for new ones. This was Kaigen's way of destroying his limits. Zento Uchiha. The fight hasn't even started yet, they were barely warming up in Kaigen's eyes. Battling was not about strength or power, but the ability to overcome your opponent with any means needed. So far he was attempting to switch his style while fighting a harder opponent. So far no ninjutsu or genjutsu was used. He was trying to focus on the mechanics of his power and work on better executing advanced combat sequences.


The twin took great pride in knowing exactly what he would attempt next. So back to the situation of crisis; the scythe of doom. Naturally he expected his teacher to have something much more potent than an actual frontal attack. The active acrobatics did prove unpredictable; however, unpredictable was still very predictable. So spinning the scythe evading the chain loop action, it placed the scythe right where Kaigen needed him to be. Next part: using the other hand. What he used it for?


One powerful and quick attack. The attack was a forward jab shield thrust to knock the scythe to the ground, hopefully far, but mainly to disarm and detain his teacher. It was used to practically made his sensei bust his shit in an almost desperate attempt to make his sensei fall. The sharingan was good but how good was Zento?. The key was not only not to hesitate once his teacher moved his scythe in safe striking zone but to make his moves as effective as possible. He used the distance of his arm and the scythe which was extremely close to increase his accuracy of course. Speed and Distance right?  The chain that was holding him? Vanished. The chakra chains in his body don't retract inside the user's body, it fades into nothingness once the user is done with them. He played along to catch a glimpse of his teachers game.


A quick three step burst of movements was used by Kaigen to gain a good eight meters of distance. His hands went in the air. Surrender? You are correct. Kaigen was surrendering, but what was it to give. Let's find out. "I must admit I'm a bit impressed. Show me more." Both weapons in his arms easily and without struggle shifted into two orange colored batons shaped and fueled by his own chakra. The batons were two and a half feet long and very thick. He moved into a position to combat his opponent, awaiting a response or something of the sort.

You couldn't be any less shocked at the lengths Zento was going keeping Kaigen alive. It was a specific moment that changed the tide of battle from within Kaigen. Did he really understand what he was getting himself into? One moment. Perhaps he wasn't used to losing like this. To have a man step on your back was giving a clear message. He was out classed. It actually hurt his feelings a bit to be fair about it. So the teacher that appeared gave him a small hint of discomfort. Would it be wrong to assume he would fair better? Despite searching accross the galaxy pretty much, to find a suitable teacher, he managed to feel his ego shattered when he felt outclassed in a series of minutes.



Kaigen didn't have much of a game plan for now, other than survive that is. For now Zento managed to show a creative form of combat. Kaigen was not done yet. He had much to show. Zento's plan to create distance gave Kaigen a chance for more research on the current task at hand. So the moment Zento's body went doing extra flips to get quite literally above and beyond Kaigen it was set an ultimate attack. Zento's sharingan couldn't precept it fast enough in Kaigen's opinion. The range was too close and there was no setup or time to mold chakra. The attack was more fast than deadly to be truthful.



All he did? Four Swords of disruptive chakra bursted from his back and aimed towards Zento. If struck, the target would likely be pierced and their chakra disrupted and nullified. The impact however was just enough to knock him from the sky and/or ground. If of course is the major word. The Uzumaki Chains were basic before Kaigen. He remodeled and strengthen his abilities to extreme heights. He calculated his teachers speed and timing, his own timing, and probability. It was simple. Where is the most safest place from your enemy? Behind them. It was such a basic proceedure he barely pondered on the situation. Almost like second nature.