Sagisō
“Um...I think you misunderstand. I am supposed to be the strong one here...maybe I haven’t been clear? Forgive me. I won’t mess up like that again.”
These words, pompous as they might've been, went through one ear and out the other. Seeing that the Jinchuriki wanted to start flexing, she too would begin to flex, but whereas the Jinchuriki's sole option was to flex raw power, Sagisō could flex their numbers and —if Kin had anything to say about it— superior coordination.
The jinchuriki clearly expected them to stand still while he went about his theatrics, but Sagisō wasn't interested. When the water sphere was forming overhead, she was relaying a plan to her teammates while flashing vivid hand signals which she knew her Nadeshiko sisters would recognize.
She spoke in low tones, only enough for her immediate team to hear. "We'll need to make this quick, but we'll be dashing in that direction—" she pointed in the direction of team Guren, "—while leaving a few surprises for our opponents."
She flipped her eyes into high gear, reading the movements of Yukimaru's chakra like an open book. Judging by the speed of flow, movement, and machinations of the chakra, she made a fairly accurate guess at when the sound shinobi's just would be completed. "5 seconds...then we light this place up." Her gaze traveled to Furījia and Kiro, the implication couldn't be clearer. Their lightning chakra would be used to put on a light show.
Her accompanying gestures relayed the message to Koki'o and Amari. "We'll start on his signal, trust me, you can't miss it." She could clearly see the bubble of water even as it sank through the ground, influencing the water in the underground reserve. Figuring he would cause it to erupt from the ground, as he had done once before, Sagisō figure that would be as good a signal as any.
When the first geysers penetrated through the rock, Sagisō sprang into action, expecting her team to follow right behind her. She charged right at Kiro, flashing him a wink and she sprung onto his shoulders and used them as a springboard to catch some air. Four Kunai appeared in her right hand, and three in her left, the former tagged with paper bombs and the later with smoke bombs.
She flashed another wink, this time at Yukimaru, as the smoke bombs in her hand exploded releasing smoke that quickly began to fill the area, obscuring his vision and hence his ability to guide the water geysers into her teammates. Unperturbed by the smoke, she took aim.
The kunai went flying towards Yukimaru, colliding in mid-air and orienting themselves around him. The trio of kunais would form a small inner triangle around him, while the quartet of paper-bombed kunai would form a square box outside the triangle.
The paper bombs were set to explode, and thus send the inner triangle of kunai hurling towards the jinchuriki with deadly speed. Meanwhile, the explosions themselves acted as a 'cage' to keep him locked in. Granted, the explosions would blow away the smoke allowing the jinchuriki to see, but by then the kunai would already be hurling towards him from the force of the blast.
However, Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon did not end there. As soon as Sagisō had thrown the kunai, she'd retrieved a Fuma Shuriken littered with paper bombs which she subsequently threw heavenward. She'd thrown it at an arc so that it would whirl into the jinchuriki from above. The was the moon and the true kill-shot of her shurikenjutsu technique.
However, even that would not be the end to the Jinchuriki's problems. Shura had moved off moments before even Sagisō herself, and his wind scythe carved a very eye-catching path through her smokescreen. It would likely be the first thing Yukimaru saw, and thus the first thing he focused his attention on. It would act as a smokescreen for her Shurikenjutsu, distracting him while the seven stars and the moon closed in.
Unfortunately for him, even Sagisō kunai maneuver was but a distraction so her teammates could set up. With her Byakugan active, she could clearly see as they bustled below her...
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Furījia
The minute her sister had leaped into the air, Furījia began weaving hand seals. When Sagisō's Seven Star kunais went flying, the heiress bit her thumb and pressed it against the muddy ground. "Summoning Jutsu!"
Arriving in a flash of sparks was K'waule, the Filolial. By this point, the smoke had already set in, but it would matter little. The most complex tasks had been left to those with the Byakugan, while the others only needed to make a dash for it in the direction Sagisō had indicated.
Using her Byakugan, Furījia directed her summon as the massive bird snapped out with its beak and latched onto Shura's chain, intending to drag him onto it's back before taking off in the direction Furījia had indicated —towards Takato! After pulling Shura onto its back, it would rush over to Takato and pull the Nara into its beak, then rush for the exit indicated by Team Guren.
These two orders were only two-thirds of what Furījia had instructed the summon to do at her sister's behest. The third task had been to wait 5 seconds, and then release a surge of lightning chakra into the ground. The summon's main role was to work in tandem with Kiro and Furījia to light things up.
As for the Hyūga heiress herself, she began inching in the direction Sagisō had indicated while gathering her chakra. Five seconds later— perhaps four or three at this point— she would release a surge of lightning chakra into the ground in coordination with K'waule and Kiro.
Kin's basic solution was strong, incredibly strong, and such a strong base would, as all strong bases do, begin to break into its components when placed into a solution of water. That is to say, it would dilute in the water (produced by Hyōryugetsu's rain as well as the water techniques which had been thrown around earlier) by splitting into its ion components. When placed in water these ion components would act as...charge carriers!
That was to say, the muddy puddles before them were not only conductive of electricity, but their conductivity had been amplified by the addition of charge carriers. Needless to say, the electricity would spread across the ground indiscriminately. Only the lightning users, who were the source of the jutsu, and those too far away for the current to travel to would be spared.
As such, it was an opportune moment for the attack to be launched while both Shura and Sagisō were airborne. Thus, while Yukimaru had been distracted by Sagisō and Shura's attacks, the lightning surging through the puddles would catch him off guard.
As a bonus, the surge of lightning natured chakra had a chance to stunt the movement of all the earth-natured chakra in the immediate area, hindering it through means of elemental advantage.
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Koki'o
"Amari, we're running, now!!"
Having clearly seen Sagisō's signals —which hadn't explicitly detailed her plan but focused on simpler messages such as 'Run!', 'Wide-scale attack!', and 'Back me up!'— Koki'o immediately began acting on them. She told Amari to book it, while she herself began weaving hand-seals for a basic fireball jutsu.
This fireball would, however, be anything but basic. The twin scorpion tails attached at her waist began to overlap infront of her, the wicked stingers on their end forming into a pair of reticles for Koki'o. As Sagisō's smoke screen erupted, Koki'o narrowed her eyes. In a few seconds, she would breathe her scorpion-tail iron-sights.
As the super-heated chakra passed through the scorpion-reticles, they would begin to produce a special type of venom...ignitable venom. The stream of fire leaving Koki'o's mouth, rather than red, would be the corrosive green of poison. These flames would not only burn but infect anyone foolish enough to handle them carelessly, and they would be headed right for the withered trees. The perfect kindle provided by Yukimaru.
The flames would lick at the trees, consuming them with their venom-flames, and as most fires do...producing smoke. Toxic smoke.
Felled by the flames, the withered trees would collapse, falling into each other until all the withered trees in the area were alight with the foul tongues of flames. The fire would spread around the battlefield's outskirts via the trees producing a poisonous ring of flames. This ring would have one gap, the small expanse of the bush where team Guren was located. Koki'o had no idea why Sagisō wanted them to escape in that direction, but it wasn't unreasonable so she complied.
Koki'o's best guess was that Sagisō had indicated her teammates to escape in that direction. The smoke produced by her own flames would mix with the smoke from Sagisō's smoke bombs, creating a deadly bog across the battlefield. Unless the Skill Star was trying to bury everyone on the battlefield beneath the smog, the escape bath needed to have been made clear.
Of course, Koki'o was delaying the attack slightly. She would act almost in tandem with the cooperation lighting jutsu, and that would leave a very narrow window of opportunity where the shinobi on the battlefield needed to rush out of the toxic encirclement lest they inhale the fumes.
Hyōryugetsu
Scowling, the Hōzuki gave Kai a glare, “It’s Hyōryugetsu! Say it with me, Hyō-ryu-getsu!”
Slightly annoyed at the way he’d addressed her, she gave him a look of joking scorn. As she moved to continue her berating, her expression shifted. Head snapping on her neck, she whipped her gaze in the direction of the battlefield, taking note of the series of developments. Her rains were more or less unobstructed but any of the battle’s smokescreens. Only the droplets that fell onto the geyser failed to provide sensory feedback, but the geysers could hardly hope to block every single drop of rain from hitting the ground.
She was thus, still pretty clear about the happens of the battlefield even if she could no longer see it clearly. As several shinobi began to move in tandem, all preparing for something big, Hyō decided — ”It’s time we left!”
She began to liquify her chakra, conversing the formless energy into globules of water inside her body that added to her overall volume. In addition, she began to absorb all the nearby rain water, allowing her body to swell rapidly.
With her newly increased volume, she acted as one, large, sentient wave, fully intent on sweeping her teammates along in her volume as she rushed towards the sea. It was much safer there, and she had remembered Hama-sensei rushing off in that direction.
Hinagiku
“Ahaha~ Speak of the devil and he shall appear my dear~”
Bursting into sudden, uproarious laughter, Hinagiku eyes were locked onto the sky. No, rather they were locked onto the twisting snake’s nest of geysers that had obstructed her vision of the horizon. Her eyes twitched with sudden excitement, the Byakugan becoming apparent as she gazed at the battle only a few kilometers away.
“You wanted to join the Grand Finale~ yes?” She directed at Pakura, “and you want a Jinchuriki~?” she fired in Hama’s direction. “Well ladies, fate is on the horizon, and it looks like we’ll be able to make it back in time for afternoon tea!”
Slowly, and almost lasciviously, she licked her lips. “Hope you don’t mind a little exercise before then.”
She threw her chin in the direction of the revving battle, realizing that there were not one, but three Jinchuriki ripe for the picking. “Keep up now, or you’ll be left with the scraps.”
Leaving behind her voice, she shot off in the direction of the battle, her eyes ablaze with the light of opportunity.
