Tower Arena

Roku thought their positon could be worse, but Ginryu had a point. If he had used a jutsu to escape earlier, this could be only a time delay. But if it was him, he could escape any moment - wouldn't put it past him to simply flee with space-time ninjutsu and try to obtain Kiyoko's power another time.

Roku let out a huff. He wished he could simply let a wave of lightning coat the box and fry him, but that would fry Kiyoko too, and she was in bad shape. Besides, the raiton might weaken the box and give him a way out. They had to think of a way to defeat him, both before he escaped but without harming Kiyoko.

"Yamamoto Jin, Madjafuuma Roku!" the Jikankage says loudly, his hands held in the final signs of a jutsu. "Samurai from the Land of Iron are not taught jutsu, however, in the years I have had as my position I have picked up a few tricks. Now, I am no master by far, but, this jutsu I am about to use will give you exactly thirty seconds of time in which to free that girl and put an edn to this, do you understand?"

Jin looked up at the Jikankage and nodded. He had heard there were special time jutsu that could allow the user to, withing a certain area, manipulate time for a few moments, but he never thought he would even see one being preformed. "Alright then...Ryushiton: Thin Barrier!" With that all the dust in the area began to accumulate around the prison and settle in a thick layer on the floor, so that there was a wide gray ring around the entire rock prison. "Roku, whatever your most powerful jutsu is, get it ready, but don't get in that dust, no matter what. When the Jikankage uses this technique, I'll step through the bars, and get Kiyoko away. After that he'll tey and escape, so let him have it."

Once the jutsu was ready Jin moved towards the cage. Because he was the one who set the barrier jutsu up, it wouldn't affect him, but anyone else who stepped on the dust would become trapped and the dust would quickly cover their entire body. It should be too quick for Gyaku to use his space-time jutsu to get away, but just in case he wanted Roku standing by. Ginryu was on the prowl as well, not having to be told to kill Gyaku is the barrier trap or Roku didn't get him.

"Alright, Jikankage-dono, when I get inside, use the justu." Jin said, and the Jikankage nodded. "Hiding Like A Mole Technique!" Jin then finished a series of handseals and passed through the bars of stone, becoming solid ocne more on the otherside. What he found was Gyaku, standing over and unconcious Kiyoko, his right hand glowing with some justu. It looked like he was about to slam his hand into her, but just then he glanced up, and the time stop jutsu went into effect. Jin sprinted across the prison floor, moved Kiyoko out of the way, then began to knock Gyaku away, but just as he was about to punch him the jutsu let up.

Jin's fist goes through Gyaku, then Gyaku's hand slams down on the center of his chest, knocking him back and out. gyaku then slips through the prison walls, cursing, and gets caught in the dust justu by suprise.

(okay, go all out on him. use whatever justu you like and make the outcome of it whatever you like as well, cause we all know he really survives, but it can looks as if he died :D)

Roku made a number of handsigns then crouched on all fours, lightning rippling along his body, even the veins in his eyes rippling and sparking as if made of lightning. When Gyaku appeared and Jin and Kiyoko were clear, Roku opened his mouth, summoning a wave of chakra, and yelling, "Raiton: Crashing Thunder Dragon!" And a giant dragon of pure lighting roared from his mouth, filling the room near Gyaku nearly floor to celing as it crashed in a wave over Gyaku, continuing to wash down the arena for a few seconds, the whole area filled with waves of lightning - even if Gyaku had gotten out of the dust and warped for a moment, the dragon was too big - he would have to warp right back into it when he exited the jutsu.

Jin was barely concious. It felt as if all of his chakra was gone he felt so weak, but he was still awake enough to feel the air crackle around him as one of the four stone walls came down with a crash. Electricity and dust filled the air, and for a moment he felt paralyzed and couldn't breath, but eventually it all passed, and slowly his strength came back to him, almost as if the lightning had given him a little of it's energy.

"Oh...my chest..." Jin says, sitting up. There is a perfectly round circle burnt through his shirt, and on his chest there is a perfectly round black circle., the edges of it red. "Damnit, this is a sealing jutsu!" As he placed his hand on the circle he could feel it changing into the three-sectioned yin yang seal Gyaku used on his subjects. Cursing he grabs up a kunai and cuts the skin off before Gyaku's chakra has a chance to invade his body. "I will not become a looking glass for that bastard!"

After a moment Jin walks out of the wreckage, Kiyoko on his back, unconcious still. Through the hole in his shirt can be seen the jagged bloody hole where the seal had been. Well, it isn't really so much a hole as a place where his skin is missing down the muscle...

The medic-nin see him and rush over, but he places Kiyoko in their arms and sends them off, wanting to see what's left of Gyaku first. Turning around he sees a blackened pile of ashes, and a scorch mark where Gyaku had been only moments before. Moving closer he sees something in the ashes, and upon inspection he finds it is a kunai, a bit oversized, and that it looks as of there had been something wrapped around the handle.

"I've got a really bad feeling," Jin says, turning to Roku and the others, holding it out. His chest still bleed and he is pale, but he ignores the pain. "There was something wrapped around this kunai, and with a man of his skills..."

He trails off as the medic and his father rush over to him. other medics go over to Roku as well, and Ginryu nods to Jin and his father then dissapears in a puff of smoke.

Roku waved off the medics, walking over and inspecting the kunai. The thing wrapped around the handle was scorched away mostly by his Raiton, but enough remained to trigger a memory - the 4th Hokage of the Leaf, Minato, has used something like this - it let him warp from kunai to kunai instantly - he even had a secondary seal added to make it chakra-free, too - if Gyaku had learned his technique and had placed a kunai outside the tower before the entrances were sealed....damn, he thought. Slippery bastard.

He glanced at Jin's wound. Impressive will for him to cut away his own flesh to prevent a jutsu, he thought. He made a handsign and a single cloud ghosted past the medics and settled over Jin's self-inflicted wound, soothing the raw muscle with cool moisture as the muscle and skin slowly re-knit and healed under the cloud. He would leave the lesser injuries to the medics.

"How's Kiyoko?" Roku asked. "I'd heal her, too, but don't know how my clouds will mix with her infection."

"Well it's about freaking time some medics got here." Walking away from them, she came up behind Roku. "And I am fine, I'll live. Although I only lived because of the infection." With that, she turned on her heel and went back to the medics, who scolded her for not letting them finish the bandages. It could be seen as a playful fight, but that didn't matter. She had no major wounds, and she looked around for Sho, but he was no where to be found.

(okay, so i think it's safe to say this rp has just about come to an end. anyone who wants to make their last posts go ahead, or we can possibly continue on for a couple more posts, but i see no real point. if anyone is interested i can make a new, seperate naruto rp soon, but i guess the sequel of this one is still going.)

Jin was out of it, not paying attention to anything but the kunai. He was suprised when the cloud appeared, and as it did it's work his chest began to itch like crazy as it healed. When it was fully healed there was a perfect white circle where the mark of the seal had been, and looking over he imagined he could still see his flesh on the ground where he'd thrown it.

"Thanks Roku," he says quietly, turning his attention to him, then smiling as Kiyoko walks over and says she'll be fine. "He may have gotten away, but at least he didn't get what he was after. I think we'll get him one day, we're still young after all." He then looked over to his father, who was now speaking with the Jikankage. "I suppose this means the Exam is over now though, too bad. I was hoping to face you in the arena next."

He then laughs and watches as his father turns and uses a jutsu to sink the remains of the stone prison back into the ground, eraseing all traces of the fight that had just happened, save for the ashes and scorch marks.

"I wonder what will come of this though? Will they send somone after him, to try and figure out where he went, or did he really get away clean?"