Eragon

OOC: Sorry for lateness; exams and stuff have ruined my timetable... I need to ask ya some stuf on MSN about Claire's general attributes(as in, regarding her speed, so I don't.. godmod and dodge someone at Itachi's level) so, if thats okay, I'll post after I ask ya that.. just sending this so it doens't look as if I'm.. neglecting this or delaying it.

EDITED

The fire jutsu, having missed it's target, seemed to explode in a minature fireworks display casting sparks, ember and ash flinging harmlessly into the air; obviously a case of crowd protection in the validated case of Claire's dodging the technique; however, such a manuvre still left Jiraiya open to the sudde downwards slice from above, and it was with an expression of grit and surprise that the ninja hermit rapidly formed a set of habdsigns in counter-attack. Had the Caymore been aware of chakra, perhaps she could have sensed it buzzing in the air; instead, her blade merely sliced through a sudden puff of smoke, much like the one he had used upon entry, but in reverse; simply pu, tha he vanished instead of arriving, and instead, appeared at the far end of he arena, bent down on one knee, breathing deeply.

'I just about got that body flicker...' he reflected slowly, his chest moving in and out to the rhythmic breaths. 'I must be getting old...'

'Still, she's faster than I thought she'd be; to vanish like that, even before me...'
'Could she be with Akatsuki?'

Regardless of the grim thought hat had emerged within his mind, a slim smirk crossed the shinobi's features as he rose to his feet, the wind catching and tossing his hair as he did. With the same hopping acton as before, he leap into he air, clapping his hads together as his wooden sandle's interlocked fo a moment, lading wih his feet spread wide apart; it almost seemed as though he were about to perform another pose.

'In that case,' the writer afirme for himself, as a wave in the form of a dome expanded from him, reaching to the corners o the arena without harming so much as a sigle molecule within, 'this barrier jutsu should even things up a little...'

OOC:Sorry for the post; I couldn't think what else to write.

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