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BAIKA NO JUTSU!!!

[Anyone who’s near the edge of town might hear the echo of Luffy’s voice before a huge boulder sized ball comes rolling through town at high speeds, accidentally crushing anything that isn’t an actual living squishy being in it’s path.]

MOVE! MOVE MOVE MOOOOOOVE! [Yes. That giant boulder thing is actually talking. And the voice that's coming out of it is Luffy's. Luckily he has enough control to the point that he won’t accidentally crush anyone. Well. Hopefully. He might just... nearly crush a few people that’s all.]

I NEED TO GET TO THE STORE!

[Luffy actually had a somewhat valid reason for his brashness this time though. He was starving and as a member of the Akimichi clan, that was never a good thing. Especially in his case. But feel free to try and stop him, wtf, or whatever. He might even slow down and try to talk to some peeps if they're consistent.]

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[Well after that whole mess is over, Luffy is at the grocery store, happily munching on whatever foods he can get his hands on. He decides to go ahead and open his journal to ask the general public a rather general question.]

Guys! [He says with a mouth full of food.]

If you could only eat one kind of meat for the rest of your life... what kind of meat would you eat?

[OOC: Luffy has been AU’d to Naruto’s world for the event! And has become a member of the Akimmichi clan. If you aren't aware the Akimichi clan are basically a family of people from Naruto's world who converts their body fat into Chakra to use special techniques. The problem with Luffy is that his metabolism is way too fast for him to properly gain weight. So in this AU he's considered a failure amongst his clan, and instead of trying to gain weight, he constantly eats throughout the day. Attempting to convert what little fat that does manage to stick into chakra.

Naruto "Castmates": To keep things simple, he probably doesn't have... that big of a relationship with any of you guys. He managed to become a Chuunin after timeskip, but during the first half he was put on a fail Four-Man Team (since they were too fail to three man) that didn't really get anywhere. =I

He might not be the best Akimichi around, but his Taijutsu techniques are effective and his strength is far above average for his age. His ninjutsu is okay, but his genjutsu is terrible. His chakra pool is huge but of course it's not as stupid as Naruto. As far as what KIND of jutsu he uses I'm thinking short to mid range.

As a side note, I'm still doing Script Frenzy so I'm gonna be slow!

Edit: Oh yeah! I forgot about this but Luffy has been staying at Community Housing Building 1, Floor 7 and rooooom #35. If that hasn't been taken. If not any other room on the Seventh floor.]

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TENDRILS TOO? Since when did you get those?!

[Not that he was ever... keeping track of your abilities back home. HE THOUGHT YOU ONLY HAD THE SHADOW THING.

He starts trying to dodge and flip out of the way of them, trying to make sure he doesn't get hit by any. During any moment of space he has to breathe he does throw a quick kunai though. More to try and distract Shikamaru from attack than anything.]

...what do you think I was using at the start of this fight, idiot?!

[How well that distraction works depends, Luffy. Shikamaru indeed focuses on it, but Shadow Sewing is one jutsu he's very good at multitasking with. He directs one tendril to deflect it, while pushing the both of them towards the treeline.]

[Damn. This open field definitely limited the range of abilities he had to maneuver around those tendrils with. Well whatever. Doing this will make him more more vulnerable, but it might be the only option he's got at the moment.

Luffy suddenly halts his running momentum, and instead starts to run the other way towards Shikamaru. This isn't for long however. Only a quick second or so of ninja running before he does a massive leap forward into the air as high as he could go. If things go his way, he SHOULD land a good five or so yards behind Shika.

But for now he's hoping the tendrils can't leave too far from the ground!]

HAH! What about THIS Shikamaru! [And ya know what! While he's up here take a few kunai being thrown at you too! He only has about one or two left after doing this however. It's alright, he wans't gonna need them anyway after he was done digesting.]

[Canonically and with good lighting, they can actually stretch a good twenty feet in the air. But doing that would go against the flow of his plan.]

How do you know you're not right where I want you?

[He drops some kunai out of his sleeves to deflect those. At the same time, his shadow will sweep in to pick up the fallen weapons, intent to throw them right back. If it works, you'll have a lot to dodge Luffy.

Depending on what he does, there may be something else mixed in there too.]

--!?

[He only has one more left. And he uses it to deflect as many as he can, but still some of the kunai manage to hit him directly. Mostly in the forearm or upper part of his body. He winces, but he doesn't pay more attention to the wounds other than that. He was sort of used to taking a lot of pain in fights at this point.

"Damn! I really messed up big this time. I'm not gonna be able to do much until I hit the ground. But my food should be almost digested now. Just need to stall a little longer..."

But until then. Come oooon gravity pull him to the ground! And hopefully away from whatever else Shikamaru has planned for him.]

[Shikamaru continues to throw the fallen kunai, aim changing as Luffy gets closer to the ground. Before he hits though, Shikamaru will slip a different kind of blade in with the barrage: one of his chakra knives.

It will be coming in lower than the kunai, and should hit the ground (and his shadow) without coming close to hitting him if left alone. Maybe it'll have a chance, if Luffy focuses on protecting himself from the kunai.]

[Unfortunately for Luffy, he IS going to focus on protecting himself. He didn't talk to Shikamaru much or go on a lot of missions with him in their world so he doesn't know a lot that he's capable of.

So when Luffy hits the ground he's going to grin confidently at Shikamaru.]

Heh. You did good up until this point. But now I'm gonna--

[Wait. What? Why can't he move...? Shikamaru doesn't have a shadow attached to his shadow so... why can't he go anywhere? What the hell is going on!?]

--!? [Give him a second as his brain tries to process this.]

...success.

[He grins, letting the shadow tendrils drop the remaining kunai and recede back to its natural shape.]

You were preparing for something big, yeah? Seems my timing was perfect.

[He doesn't get it. Shikamaru's shadow isn't touching him. WHY CAN'T HE MOVE! He struggles to move with all of his might though.]

What did you do to me!? Hnnnng-- I CAN'T MOVE! HOW?? Your shadow isn't touching me!

Yes and no. Take a look at your feet.

[He might at least recognize those as Asuma's weapon, if he ever met them. Meanwhile, Shikamaru will be walking forward.]

[At his feet? Luffy looks down and-- oooooh.]

Asuma's weapon!? You had Asuma's weapon all this time and you didn't even tell me?? But how did it freeze me in place, is this a new technique?

The metal conducts chakra. Asuma's chakra is wind-natured, so when he uses them, it has a different effect than when I would.

[He gestures to the blade.] Kage Mane Shuriken no Jutsu. Now that it's successful, this would be the part where I'd take your food to make sure you can't replenish your chakra.

[Which. He won't do just yet, because this was only a spar. He's curious to see if Luffy surrenders.]

[Luffy let's out a sigh... dammit. This was not a good situation to be in was it? His head seems to hang low, for a moment as he let's go of the kunai that was in his hand (with great difficulty since he sort of is immobilized right now). It was of no use to him anymore anyway.]

I see... That makes sense. [...] So I guess this is the difference between a failure shinobi, and a real one...

...

I give.

[You know when Luffy dropped the kunai before? And all those words he was going on and on about? It was to distract you from what he was doing with his OTHER hand that was resting at his side. Which honestly wasn’t doing much from the looks of it. But one thing about it was that it was resting on his side RIGHT where one of his pouches were.

There’s a sudden click noise immediately after he says “I give.” and a spring loaded hidden kunai releases from his sleeve. He couldn’t exactly move it so his finger was slightly in the way of the release which cuts it pretty bad, but its all the contact Luffy needs to infuse the kunai with just enough chakra to cause a faint blue aura to surround it. The kunai cuts open his pouch and a explosive tag, his very final one starts to fall out of it. It has a slight cut on the side of it from his chakra-imbued kunai which was just enough chakra to cause it to light.

Luffy looks at Shikamaru and grins as the explosive tag floats slowly to the ground between him and Asuma’s weapon that’s stabbing his shadow.]

Heh.

Edited 2012-05-12 04:51 (UTC)

[BOOM!

The resulting explosion knocks both the weapon out of his shadow and Luffy away at the same time. Luffy has to tumble along the ground rolling for a few seconds but he very quickly flips to his feet and runs straight at Shikamaru. The side of him that the explosion happened on ripped his clothing badly and his skin on that side was covered in blood and bruises. It was obvious that this meant far more to him than a simple spar.]

I might be a failure, and I’m not as strong as you guys, but there’s no way something that simple was EVER gonna BEAT ME!

BUBUN BAIKA NO JUTSU!! [His right arm becomes massive like a giant’s and he launches it directly at Shikamaru!]

Edited 2012-05-12 01:39 (UTC)

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