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Easy. She flips out of the way.

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Another barrage right at where she's about to land.

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She flips her fan over her shoulder with a brief windburst, deflecting both the metal and her trajectory.

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A wind user. Great.

...She pretty much has two options. Try to overwhelm her with the Twin Rising Dragons, or close into melee combat. That fan doesn't look too maneuverable...

Mind made up, Tenten takes out two scrolls, unraveling them and jumping at the same time, twisting to throw a arsenal's worth of weapons at her opponent. 

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Same trick, same counter, just slightly scaled up. Opening her fan wide, Tsubasa slings a sustained gust at the incoming weaponry, scattering it to fall harmlessly across the floor.

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Tenten lands, twitches her fingers, and sends the weaponry flying right back at Tsubasa from all directions.

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She sets her fan perpendicular to the ground and spins completely around, creating a widening vortex of high-speed air to push the attack away.

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As she stops - 

There's a scuffing sound behind her, like barely muffled footsteps, and a whistling in the air.

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-Flicker for distance, turn, mark the target-

"Wind Release: Wind Scythe!"

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Tenten drops, trying to slide under the slicing winds.

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Tsubasa redirects her attack to slide up and underneath Tenten, pushing her into the air.

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She goes flying.

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She intensifies the jutsu to the point where it begins to slice like it is a scythe.

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That draws blood. 

Tenten rights herself, flickers to the side then back towards Tsubasa, sweeping her staff at her legs.

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She slams her fan down into the floor to block, then vaults over to launch a chakra-boosted kick at her opponent's center of mass.

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Which connects, slamming Tenten into the floor with a grunt of pain.

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Tsubasa grabs her fan again and- "Wind Release: Wind Scythe!"

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Tenten's unable to get up in time, and is blown straight into the wall, knocking her head against the brick and slumping, woozy but still conscious, leaving her struggling to get to her feet.

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She can fix that. She closes the fan and snaps it to her back, closing with Tenten at a quick run to deliver a series of disabling blows.

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And Tenten's down for the count.

The fight's called in Tsubasa's favor.

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She jumps back into the stands, next to Kankurou and Elieyha.

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"Took you long enough. Shouldn't play with your food."

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"Shut up."

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Tenten is taken away by medics, and the next match is called: Uchiha Rian versus Kin.

...Rian had been kinda hoping she'd get a pass, but. At least she has abilities that don't rely on chakra. Her best bet will be to end this quickly. 

She goes down to face her opponent in the arena, hand resting lightly on the hilt of her sword. When the match begins, Kin idly tosses two senbon with bells attached. Rian dodges easily, eyes narrowing - she thinks she recognizes the trick, but she doubts Kin's plan is so straightforward. And both the other Sound genin had sound-based attacks...

The bells ring from behind her, and Rian reflexively dodges, risking a glance - Kin's manipulating the bells with nin-wire. Clever.

Kin throws another few senbon - mixed bells and plain - but Rian's already moving, giving the attacks a wide berth, her eyes picking out the slivers of light even without her sharingan. 

Closing like this will be difficult, so...

Rian's hand goes to her pouch, and she jumps, twisting to throw a set of nine kunai at Kin - who dodges, smirking, except two of Rian's kunai had intentionally gone off the mark, one bouncing off the other to fly at her opponent's unprotected back. It sinks in, and Kin curses.

Rian lands, the bells ring again, and wow she's getting dizzy - 

Her eyes narrow. That's not the seal on her neck - Kin must be doing it somehow, which means Rian's window to finish this just got shorter.

She pushes through the sensation of vertigo, mentally blocking out her body's insistent message that the ground is spinning. Only the input from her eyes matters.

Rian lunges forwards, twisting out of the way of yet more senbon, and she's on Kin, drawing her sword and slashing at the other girl in the same motion. Kin dodges, barely, Rian's chokuto catching the front of her vest. Rian shifts her grip on her sword, and presses the attack.

Now that she's close, it's ultimately little contest - the best weapon Kin has is a kunai - and Rian isn't shy about drawing blood (this girl threatened Sakura and works for Orochimaru, and Rian isn't normally bloodthirsty but there's a whisper in the back of her head - ). 

The fight ends when she forces an opening to trip her opponent. Rian's on Kin before the other girl can recover, kunai trapping her hands and the edge of her sword at her neck, cutting in slightly. "I suggest you surrender," Rian says, calmly.

Kin glares, but does so, and Rian gets off her. Kin rips herself free and rubs at her neck, then leaves for medical treatment.

Rian cleans her sword and returns to the watcher's area.

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"Strange fight," he remarks.

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