The dust clouds obscured everything what the eye can look at. Satoru watched from outside, building up chakra for another attack.
Ay felt his entire body burn. Electricity coursed through him, making agony flow through his body like blood.
He had activated Lightning chakra mode at the last second, and still couldn't take all of it. He took a deep breath, before he tur...
Satoru was already a few feet from him, sword in his hand glowed with wind style chakra. The pressure from the wind chakra was suffocating, as if air was being drawn away from Ay's lungs.
He swung with power, powerful gales burst out of his sword, clearing out the ground of the dust cloud.
Ay blocked with arms, facing tiny cuts, before being sent flying from the force of the winds.
The moment Ay landed on the ground, Satoru shot a breakthrough, straight at his feet, the blades from the winds turned ground where he would land into powder.
The moment Ay landed, his legs left the blow of winds, making him stagger, only to face a downward facing slash. He dodged to theside, the dodge was a mistake, which he learnt shortly.
Satoru instantly appeared behind him and landed a kickinto Ay's back, the mastered Chakra augmentation fully in action.
Wind style chakra penetrated his defenses and entered his body, damaging from inside and outside.
Ay used the force of the kick to move away, showing that the attack didn't do much damage.
Satoru scoffed, before chasing him down like he was a prey, the lightning step was ready to give him a speed boost.
He instantly caught up to him and thrusted his sword, aiming at Ay's eyes, the only open window in his skull to the brain,
Ay coated his arm in lightning before punching the sword up, making it go over his head, only for Satoru to abandon the sword and pull out Fumikage.
Ay realizing it was a katana meant for swings, repositioned himself, facing the barrage of slashes. His arms flared up with chakra activating the lightning chakra mode only in his arms.
Each time Satoru slashed, Ay met it with a punch, redirecting it before taking a step back, before doing it again.
The Ay took hit he understood how Satoru's sword works, 'it's a jack of all trades...which means he doesn't have the output of the other sword to kill me.' Ay thought, smashing his hit straight onto Satoru's sword.
Chakra burst out in all directions, Ay kept up with the pressure on Satoru put on him, despite his hands going numb and bloody from punching the sword.
'Have fun using those numb bloody fingers for any handsigns!" Satoru had a faint smile on his face, enjoying every time Ay grunted in pain.
Ay jumped back before looking at his knuckles with helplessness, then, glanced at Satoru's smile, it was disgusting to look at.
'He's enjoying this...way too much.'
Satoru looked back for a split second, a chakra string attached itself to Arashi-ken. He pulled it towards himself, the closer it got the faster it was.
Ay built up chakra in his legs as well as his hands, ducking under a swing then deflecting a slash with his leg before making distance.
'You won't get away! Your speed won't matter anymore.' Satoru thought, his sword approaching.
At this point the sword came rushing like a rocket aimed straight for Satoru's arm. The moment the sword came an inch from stabbing Satoru himself, the string loosened and he moved his hand.
The sword headed straight for Ay, and Satoru accelerated it even further by shooting a wind bullet.
Ay amplified the Lightning chakra mode to the max. He barely evaded the blade from hitting him, but dodging or hitting didn't matter to him.
The sword kept going on its path before a 'poof' sound came out, the sword transformed into a shadow clone.
"Dodge this, you speed demon.' His clone threw a kunai at Ay at full power who couldn't get away in time.
The kunai hit his thigh, easily breaking through his defences and splashed blood on the floor. The kunai continued moving with a whistling sound.
Satoru charged at Ay, this time with both his swords. 'Two swords style shadow of the storm clouds'.
Satoru closed the distance and blocked a punch from Ay with his Fumikage before swinging the Arashi-ken, leaving a tiny cut on his chest.
Ay continued to step back, slowly, dodging, blocking and parrying. Satoru kept throwing hundreds of swings in a span of a minute.
His body was now riddled with slashes, his dark skin was painted red from the several wounds which marked his body.
But none were enough to bring him down.
Satoru made a diagonal slash from top right to bottom down. The fumikage left a black trail as it passed. Ay bent back to dodge before his fist lashed out like a spear.
Satoru brought Arashi-ken between himself and Ay's fist. He pulled his fist back to punch again, only for Fumikage's pommel to be smashed into his chin.
The sharp part of a sword wasn't the only thing that he had to worry about. Satoru was sharpening the handles, pommel and even his sandals as he kicked.
And kick he did, one that made Ay get knocked off his feet.
Ay crashed far away from the force of Satoru's kick.
Ay watched Satoru come closer, both his swords were equally likely to be the attack, but he had memorized it all.
Satoru swung his Arashi-ken at Ay who jumped above it. His arm was pulsating with chakra as it neared Satoru.
Lightning style four finger assault.
The attack hit Satoru's arm and the sound of a crack was so loud that everyone heard it. Satoru screamed in pain as he looked at the bone protruding out of his forearm.
His sword fell from his hand and Ay quickly threw it out of the stadium. By rules, any ninja tool from outside the stadium is not allowed in the fights and if any ninja tool is sent out, then it cannot be used again.
Ay stepped back and smirked, Satoru stared at him bloodshot eyes, holding onto his wound and stopping the bleeding.
His strongest weapon was gone.
Ay's smirk didn't last long as Satoru's expression returned back to normal. He instantly used a chakra scalpet to cut the wound and began using chakra string to fix himself.
Ay didn't stand and watch, he charged with his chakra mode active, only to be tackled by the shadow clone from earlier.
Ay pushes the clone off of him, and rushes at Satoru who was healing his hand.
'This is a trick to buy time.' Ay thought, enduring the hits from the clone. The clone latched onto him and self destructed.
Ay coughed up blood, his back was damaged but he kept going, his hand already building up chakra to punch Satoru till he couldn't stand anymore.
Satoru looked at the approaching Ay wide eyes, his chakra barely managing to close the wound and stop the bleeding, his bone still wasn't fixed.
'Did the clone not work? He figured it out!' Satoru thought, though he did notice the faint trace of blood on Ay lips.
Ay charges at Satoru, who had his right hand unmoving, relying only on his left hand. Satoru swung at Ay to defend himself.
Ay kicked the sword as it neared him, before stepping to dodge the kick and grab his leg. He punched him in the face so enough force to create disgusting sound.
Satoru crashed back into the ground. He instinctively used his right hand to get up, which made him scream in pain in pain, the wound opened back up, Satoru could see the bone stick out again.
He mustered up his strength, overly leaning his left side as he got up. He swung his sword at Ay only to be punched again. This time the force was enough to make a crater.
'He's going to finish the battle soon.' Satoru thought, another fist neared his face.
Satoru weakly got up, spitting out a tooth. Ay was already a feet away from him, coldly watching him. Satoru looked at him with hatred.
Satoru couldn't do anything...except crawl...crawl for his life. He left behind a trail of blood from his hand and now also his mouth.
Ay calmly followed the trail, his eyes held pity for Satoru, not because of the sorry state Satoru was in...but for the state Ay will leave him in.
Satoru weakly kicked Ay's shin, doing nothing. He kept kicking Ay while crawling away.
Ay caught his leg and hit it so hard, his leg broke and made a disgusting wet sound.
Satoru screamed in pain once again. Tears threatened to escape his eyes, as he grit his teeth to the point his gums bled.
In a worthless attempt, he began wildly swinging his sword, which was futile as Ay was out his range and was standing, while he was on the floor.
The medics watched patiently, first they had prepared tools for stitching sword wounds, when Ay would return.
Now, it seems that they will require the tools for reconstructing bone when Satoru returns.
"Come on. The match is over, we gotta heal the brat!" The lead medic said, bringing out the stretcher and entering the stadium.
"Poor guy...he had his hand and his leg broken. That Ay guy is a monster to be able to defeat both the konoha shinobi." A woman exclaimed, she bear to she more blood and was about to leave the stadium.
"Wait! Just wait a bit longer... please! I wanna see who wins." The man said, intently watching the match
"Isn't it obvious? That kid from Kumo will win, the other one doesn't have a chance. It's a waste of time to stay here and watch." The woman said, before sitting back down.
"Yeah...you're right I guess. The leaf guy lost." The man said, the couple just like many others began leaving the area.
'I have to win! No matter what, I HAVE to. I NEED TO!!!' Satoru looked at Ay with pure unbridled hatred. He forced his arms together, ignoring the searing pain in his broken arm.
The bone kept in place was broken out by Satoru straining himself. But he didn't care and continued weaving handsigns.
Ay's arm lashed out at Satoru, hoping to hit him in the neck and knock him out, once and for all.
"Poison transmutation: wind dispersal!" Satoru transmutation his chakra into poison before releasing out a powerful wind Breakthrough in all directions, spreading the poison in all directions.
'This poison causes chakra fatigue and brain fog, the civilians will probably be fine, the medics will heal them.' Satoru ignored everything and set his eyes on Ay.
The moment Ay heard the word poison, he powered up and retreated, making a massive distance between them.
'It's better to abandon a strategy than get poisoned by something I don't have the cure to.' Ay looked around to see the poison cloud spread towards his direction at alarming rate.
"There is no place for you run anymore! The cloud will encompass the entire stadium and eventually get to you!" Satoru shouted out at him, quickly using the time provided to heal himself.
"If it will encompass the entire stadium...he is near the boundary! The civilians behind him will be affected before I get affected. Shoud i interfere? I'll win definitely if I let those guys deal with it." Ay powered his lightning chakra mode and charged straight at Satoru.
Satoru readies himself to defend from Ay's attack, only for him to run past by.
'What am I doing? WHAT AM I DOING?!? Why am I running towards these guys?' Ay couldn't control his own legs as he rushed straight for the boundaries.
"S-Saito! What do we goddammit!? Should we interfere or let them continue, the people might get hurt if we don't!" A chunin said, looking at the poison cloud which came dangerously close enough for everyone to see what it actually is.
"D-dad?! Wh-what is that? It's scary...will we get hurt if it comes here?" A tiny girl asked her father who instantly lifted her and placed her on his lap, in a protective embrace.
"Nothing will happen to us sweetie!" The father said.
"Set up the barriers, it's a poisonous gas, so it will be tricky to deal with!" The man named Saito, the proctor replied.
The chunin was about weave handsigns to see they were to late...few of the civilians were meters away from the cloud.
Ay jumped straight into the cloud before the chunin could react, curling up into a ball and weaving handsigns.
"Lightning style electromagnetic murder!" Lightning escaped his body like a roar, the intense heat from his lightning warmed the air around him to the point Ay steamed.
The intense heat neutralized most of the poison and heated up the air, causing it to rise up, taking the remains of the cloud with it.
Ay fell to the ground in pain, the amount of chakra he released at once was more than his body was meant to release, especially when his chakra mode was already taking most of his chakra.
Ay stood up to see Satoru slowly get up in pain, his leg was still being healed by a shadow clone. He took a step and felt something...
...It was more difficult to breathe, there was lesser and lesser oxygen in each breath.
'This guy...he gave his entire plan for that? Was getting poisoned worth it him? Well, my chakra reserves are almost completely depleted. I'll have to take it back from my clone.' Satoru slowly unsheathed Fumikage.
'Argh...my lungs feel like they are burning! I won't last long if I don't win, I'll have use my everything!' Ay had analyzed his reserves, he had too much chakra and not enough time to spend it all.
"Lightning chakra mode full throttle!"
"What do we do now? That kid got poisoned because he saved the civilians, which we should have. Do we stop the match for unfair practices?" The chunin asked Saito.
"He wasn't forced into making that decision, he knew what would happen as a consequence. That barrier would have mitigated the victims to only a handful, so the medics would have dealt with it easily. We will let the battle go on, if he loses, then he loses."
Satoru lower his center of mass, shifting his weight to the uninjured leg, ready to evade and buy time when needed.
Ay mimicked his stance and prepared to to rush out and defeat him before the poisons defeats hum.
Both knew it was a race against time.
Ay rushes straight at Satoru, who as expected dodged and began running away.