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Katsuro smiled.  His opponent was smart for his age.  Obviously his change in stand was something to be feared and he was right to stay back.  But his original plan was ruined so he formed his hands together into a form of seals.  Ram. Snake. Tiger. Then, hidden from Kobachi's view, another Ram hand seal was performed. Half a millisecond after that a puff of smoke clouded the Jounin.  After the smoke was gone, Katsuro was still there.  Or seemingly so as the Jounin began running towards his opponent with the speed of the Jounin.  On the face of the Jounin was a look of grim determination as if he meant the death of the Genin.

As he the Jounin neared the Genin he seemingly got ready to begin a series of Taijutsu strikes.  Hopefully to disable the Genin before he got any bright ideas about jumping around again.

Meanwhile, on the backside of Kobachi, hopefully in the young Genin's blindspot, another Katsuro landed with the ease of a taijutsu expert and experienced Shinobi.

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'Definitely smarter than the average bear', thought Katsuro as he watched his student attack the fake sensei.  But the trap had be laid and the Genin had falled right into it.  Now all Katsuro had to do was decide what he wanted to do with his young protege.  Definitely should try to bring the fight up close and personal again. But Landing a jutsu strike would net him two hundred and fifty ryo.  Without a sight, Katsuro rotated his fit, switching into an offensive stance, before pushing off with his lead foot.  Despite his opponent just being a Genin, Katsuro was going to keep his word and hold nothing back, though he would reveal his full hand just yet.

He felt his face become warm and his heart start to beat faster as adrenaline flooded his system.  The emerald field now held a chance of become a red with the blood of the either of them as the fight was just beginning.  Both seemed to have adopted their own fighting styles and now it was strictly up to who was the better fighter, or the better tactician.

After closing the distance between them, Katsuro brought his hands together in a single handsign, Ram, before a spike of wood appeared in his hand. Breaking it off he gave a simple thrust at the Genin's upper right hand side of his chest.  The location should be devoid of major organs in the case of the strike landing but also hopefully cause enough damage for the Genin to concede the fight.

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Katsuro overestimated his speed as he moved within the striking distance of his opponent.  Even teachers made mistakes apparently.  But that didn't stop him from trying to follow through with his attack.  The spike had already formed from his own cells when he saw the left hand snake out and strike at him in the same manner a scorpion's tail would.  A simple elbow block was all it took to stop the Genin's strike in it's tracks.  A kidney strike wouldn't finish a fight so he knew it was probably a combo attack.

Thinking quickly, he raised his elbow and leveled the spike towards his student's chest.  Despite them both being at apparently the same level of taijutsu ability, Katsuro's years of experience gave him the advantage over his young opponent.  He was stronger and faster than him and wouldn't be defeated by a child, though he would boost his ego.  Not by much though.  In the same moment as when he raised his elbow, he pushed the spike towards the right shoulder of his opponent, which had shifted forward as he brought his open palm to strike at his chest.  Katsuro couldn't allow that to happen.

If the plan worked, the spike would enter the right shoulder of the Genin hopefully cutting through the muscle that allowed the arm to move forward and backwards while also doing damage to the joint.  If it didn't work the spike still would most likely enter the Genin's body somewhere on his right side.  Hopefully nowhere near the lung or artery.

If they kept progressing at this rate the emerald grass would soon become crimson and one of them would need to be hospitalized.  Hopefully it was the student and not the teacher.

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A smile formed on the Jounin's face as he felt his arm being pushed off target by around four inches.  The genin was a good Taijutsu fighter but he didn't think ahead.  He had seen him use the spike before but did he really know the full extent he could use it.  Definitely not, unless he had another Senju to watch who used the same combat techniques as him.  The smile would also be evident on the Jounin's face as, with a single mental thought, activated the branches that made the C rank technique may more powerful than a C Rank should be.

As soon as the mental thought went out spikes erupted from the spike went in different directions.  One went towards Kobachi's right shoulder while another went towards Kobachi's right leg.  Another branch tried to pierce the genin's right side.  The other branches that had formed from the spike were nowhere near the genin's body but the damage wasn't done.  Katsuro would follow through with the attack as well.  He would push the spike with the branches as far as his arm would reach.  Hopefully the pain from the branches moving around in the body of the Genin would ruin his will to fight and cause the genin to concede.

Of course even if the branch attacking the Genin's right knee didn't stop it, Katsuro would send a a single, powerful punch towards the Genin's genitalia.  Katsuro was a firm believe in all is fair in love and war, especially nut punching.  If the kick did connect to the Jounin's chin, Katsuro would enjoy his flight into the air, probably talking to the birds that would flit around his stunned head.

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A normal person would have felt something if they had pierced the flesh of another human being, especially so if it had been their student, but Katsuro wasn't a normal teacher.  His role was to make sure his Genin were ready for the brutal life of a shinobi and he was more than willing to do this.  He listened as his student screamed in pain and then listened to him scream at him.  Katsuro didn't dwell on the lack of obscenities a normal person would have let out had they been stabbed in three different places.

The feeling of a sticky liquid and the stench of copper made Katsuro's jaw clench.  He gave the emerald grass a splotchy crimson color just as he had expected to happen during the fight.  His student didn't give up and neither did he.

Katsuro felt the anger pouring form his student as the first karate chop collided with his muscular neck.  The attack did bring the man to his knees.  But as he sank to one knee he pushed the spikes towards Kobachi's body as he lowered his arm.  The movement of the spikes inside of the Genin's body, hopefully cutting deeper and causing more damage internally, would have caused most genin to concede defeat, which was Katsuro's main plan from the outset.  Then he felt the blade the Genin had used earlier dig into his side.  'An injured animal is more dangerous than a healthy one' mused Katsuro as he instinctively moved his free hand to grab the Genin's wrist, the one wielding the blade.  He held the wrist so the blade couldn't be removed from his side.  Hopefully he would be able to stop the blade from being extricated from his side before he was able to regain his standing position.

If he should be able to regain his stance, a quick and brutal knee strike would be sent towards the Genin's left rib cage before he would strike out with his head and attempt to strike the Genin's nose with his forehead protector.  If he wasn't able to regain his feet he would wait to see if the genin attempted a knee strike.

"Admit your defeat."

Katsuro knew he must end the fight quickly.  He was losing blood and his student was losing blood a lot faster than him.  The recovery would be a long one but it would be well worth it.  His student learned a valuable lesson.  At least he hoped he did.  Don't underestimate your opponent and don't leave yourself open.  Of course, Katsuro learned that very same lesson from his student.  

Of course now there was the problem of a blade flying at his face.  He watched Kobachi's eyes as he waited for the blade to strike him down.  Which it didn't.  This was his chance.  With Kobachi and himself looking straight at each other, his useable hand would be unseen, hidden beneath Katsuro's torqued arm and Kobachi's own arm.  A single handsign.  And one that students often used to begin their schoolyard bouts.  The Sign of Confrontation.  Even if Kobachi saw it he probably wouldn't recognize the meaning of it.  Not until the giant ass Wooden Dragon erupted from the ground and stood over Kobachi.  If the genin attempted in killed the Jounin, the dragon would simply crush them both.

Of course just as he performed the seal of confrontation he would speak only a few words.  "Admit defeat Genin before you bleed out.  Your lesson is over but if you wish to continue there is one lesson we must all learn eventually."  As he finished speaking the wooden dragon would come from the ground and hover over the two fighters.  If Kobachi could still think with the blood loss he should realize that even if he did kill the Jounin, he would still lose the fight by being crushed by the Wooden Dragon. This time his hand offered the Seal of Reconciliation to the Genin, though no jutsu would be formed from it.

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Katsuro smiled. He would have indeed been struck down had it been a real fight but there should have been enough chakra used to activate that it would have been able to breach the earth and attack the enemy. Of course he didn't plan on testing that hypothesis anytime soon. As the Genin began to fall backwards, Katsuro reached out with his good hand, the one previously holding the Seal of Reconciliation and grabbed the kid by the Gi. He didn't want the kid to suffer head trauma as well as the massive injuries he had just suffered.

Curiously, after setting the Genin to the ground, he watched the monkey stand up to both him and the massive wooden dragon. Katsuro would never admit to losing a fight but he nearly did. He had underestimated the skill of his opponent and suffered wounds because of it. He wouldn't do that again. Even if it was a scrawny Genin.

With a grunt of pain, and one arm hanging limp at his side, he took a knee next to the wounded genin. With a quick pull and forceful pull, Katsuro pulled the branches from the genin's wounds, causing it to bleed more. Without a second thought he rolled the kid onto his stomach, reached underneath him, and stood bringing Kobachi under the crook of his arm.

"Bring the blade to the hospital," He said to the monkey before disappearing in an instant that only a jounin could do. Soon the Wood Dragon sunk back into the ground, leaving a filled in hole where he had come from.

{Exit topic carrying Kobachi}