Rei Hissori VS Yami no Kira

Rei Hissori was sat in the middle of a copse, cross-legged and meditating. Upon reflection, he had decided that being Raikage was not corrupting him as fast as he thought it would. He had not made any decisions that were for personal gain, and none that had put the Village in danger. Yet.

Suddenly, Rei sensed that he was no longer alone in the clearing. Standing slowly, he drew his sword. "Be you friend or foe, reveal yourself. I have little time for games", he said in a quiet voice that somehow managed to reach the furthest edges of the clearing. Rei awaited his opponent to come forth and reveal themselves.

Yami had chanced upon a lone shinobi in the clearing, seeing no markings to identify him as belonging to any village from his viewpoint he slowed down. The shinobi had sensed him, the drawing of his sword an obvious hostile act that he had to respond to in kind.
"I am neither friend nor foe. I merely am the the darkness of the world's heart, a darkness which compels me to fight this day."
Yami lowered the hood on his cloak and simply walked clear of the trees, into the clearing to meet his opponent, drawing his sword from its sheath beneath his cloak.

Shrugging, Rei knew that diplomacy was not going to work here. Good. He needed a fight after a year and a half of forcing politness. He was a soldier, a hunter, a warrior. It had been too long since his last fight.

Bringing his sword up in a salute to his foe, it smoothly cut through the air as suddenly Rei attacked. He was a blur of motion, the force of his speed sending up a huge dust cloud behind him. This frontal attack may have seemed foolish, but Rei was more than capable of taking a direct attack without getting hurt. He would test his opponent, see his flaws. And then...

And then the true battle would begin.

Rei's sword arched down, with the hunter already thinking of where to land the next blow.

Yami cocked his head to one side, slightly amused at this. A frontal attack? He had not seen such an opening move for many a year. He did not let his distract him however, he used the dust cloud his opponent was throwing up as a basic guide to track him.
Yami leapt into the air, trailing his sword behind him. He performed a mid air cartwheel, using his opponents weapon to give him force enough to move sideways. As he landed, he performed a quick string of handseals, sealing the combination with the dragon seal.
"Karyuu Endan!"
A long breath of flame erupted from Yami's mouth, engulfing the sword. As the technique finished, the sword stayed engulfed in the flame. Yami made a cutting motion toward his opponent, sending the projectile towards him.

Rei watched the flame shoot towards him, unfased. He waited until last moment before he moved out the way, almost in a lazy fashion to anyone who could have seen him do it. To anyone without the Keiji, it would have appeared that he went straight through the flame. The fact that his clothes were slightly smoldering and charred helping that image. He gave a small chuckle, and due to the fact that the throat it came from never usually did so, it morphed the sound into something more sinister.

"Fire? I was born of this!", he said, igniting his own blade as he dashed towards his foe again at speed, the flame sword a blur of heat and light, arching towards the man in blacks' head in the hope of a sword fight.

Once again, Yami tracked the heat, his own fire chakra allowing him to keep its location in check. He had ascertained one vital piece of information, his opponent could use katon techniques. This made things interesting as it meant his own were not going to be as useful as he had hoped. Nonetheless katon was not his only weapon, he had at least two others at his disposal.
He watched the sword until the last possible moment, raising his own and blocking it with the flat edge, a risky manoeuvre if improperly done. He pushed back and launched an attack of his own, keeping the sword held high with his left hand and preparing a downward slash

Rei smiled. It had been too long since he had last fought a decent foe with kenjutsu. Everyone always carried a sword these days, but they mostly always used ninjutsu instead of kenjutsu.

Back and forth, they hacked and cut at each other, blades becoming nothing more than light and sound. Suddenly, Rei saw a chance. His foe cut downwards. Instead of blocking it properly, Rei allowed the blade to slide down his own with the full momentum that his opponent had used. While his foe was off balance, he moved in very close and brought up his knee straight for the man in black ribs...

Yami felt like the knee contact, he flew backwards. But he had managed one thing, as he was flying back from the force of the hit, he had flicked his sword upwards and sliced the cloak, a small cut, but it was a start. The cut should spread because of the small amount of chakra in his sword from the technique earlier.

Watching him fly through the air, Rei didn't hesitate. The Hissori clan were very agile by nature and he wasn't going to stop at this. Rei jumped after his foe, catching up to him before he hit the ground and delivering another kick to his side that would send him into the path of a tree...

This time Yami was prepared, he had used the flying time to prepare his body for landing and also observed his opponents movement. As his opponent came bearing down on him, it became obvious his next attack would be a kick.
Immediately Yami responded, using his sword as a lever, driving it into the ground and using the force to fly back in the direction he came from and underneath his opponents body. He took the opportunity to counter attack while he had the chance, driving his legs upward toward his back

The kick to his back sent Rei flying vertically into the air with a lot of force. While mid-air, Rei never stopped planning. Putting his hands together, his chakra output dissapeared, and as soon as he got into the path of the sun, he dissapeared entirely. For a few seconds, eyes would adjust to the light, but Rei was still not in sight. After a few more seconds, there was a small puft of dust on the ground as 'Rei' landed. Tiny, almost invisible, patches of dust rose slightly as 'Rei' ran towards his foes back, and a almost invisible "swish" went throught the air as a blade came down on the man in blacks' head...

Slight vibrations in the wind reached Yami... Something was coming that he couldn't see and couldn't track like he had the sword. This time he would be relying on another aspect of his abilities. He felt a small movement just above him and quickly pulled out a kunai from beneath his cloak to cover his head as he lowered his body and retreated back slightly.
More able to move, he made a new string of handseals.
"Kaze no Yaiba"
Unlike usual, he did not direct the wind and allowed it to cut everything around him, causing several of the trees immediately behind him to fall and ripping the ground up for 10 meters in front

While making his handseals, 'Rei' immediately used Tonneru no Jutsu and dissapeared underground. At the same time, Rei smiled from his position in the trees and slammed his sword into the ground.

The floor underneigth his foe exploded, and the invisible 'Rei' grabbed at him. While the clone dragged him down and the floor gave way, a dome swiftly formed above the opponent, closing him off...

Yami cursed quietly, a quick examination told him he had been trapped underground and that his opponent also had knowledge of Doton techniques.
Yami also had knowledge of Doton and how to overcome them while he couldn't use the techniques themselves.
He began summoning both elemental chakra types. He would need high level katon power to break through this earth shield. He directed fire chakra into his sword once more, transforming it into the flaming brand and called on a wind jutsu.
"Atsugai"
He directed this at one point in the rock, and after creating a small hole with the force of the wind, he drove his sword into that point, the sudden heat burst from the blade forcing the rock to rapidly expand, cracking it all across the dome.
Yami leapt out amidst the rocks and sent several flying toward the trees at the far side, the ones that had escaped his jutsu previously.

Rei rasied an eyebrow. The man knew his jutsu. Very clever, nicely done. Rei stepped out, allowing himself to become visible again and returning his chakra emissions to normal. He launched himself at his foe, in such a tradjectory that he would meet him in mid-air.

Just before they collided, about two meters away, Rei swing his sword and several fireballs appeard, flying towards the opponent. They missed him by scant inches, and just as they passed by his face, he struck with his sword, with only enough momentum for one strike and then the fall.

Yami saw his opponent 'appear' out of nowhere, close to where he had aimed the rocks. He watched him leap toward him as he prepared another Atsugai attack. He had noticed that the fireballs were never intended to strike him directly from their incoming trajectory being just off what it should have been.
As the technique became ready for release, he saw his opponent had readied a sword blow at him. Yami used his slowing momentum from the leap out of the earthen dome to twist his body enough so his sword could be brought upwards. As blades connected, Yami released the technique and erupted wind chakra from his body
"ATSUGAI!"

Struck by the wind chakra, Rei plummeted to the ground. If he didn't time this right, he was doomed...

The moment Rei hit the ground, he made a seal. Instead of striking the ground, he went straight through it, again using the Tunneling Jutsu (this time leaving a much larger hole). He went quite far into the ground before the opponents jutsu's momentum stopped and he moved under his own power. That was something.

Bursting through the ground, sending rocks and debry flying, he looking very disterbing to say the least. He gave a small smile that literly split his face, a hole appearing in his cheek showing his back teeth. Again, that sinister chuckle sounded through the clearing. Quicker than thought, he pulled out a scroll and drew some blood across the seal. A burst of smoke appeared obscuring Rei for a moment.

When the dust settled, ten swords burst through the summoning mist, all aimed directly at the man in black. And of Rei there was no sign...

Ten swords had been summoned. Yami could see that much. That meant one thing, his opponent had survived and could use high level Doton techniques to slow him down by some method. This new information had been logged and put aside all in an instant.
He had a problem it would seem, those swords didn't act like normal projectiles, those would show some wavering from the wind. This spelled trouble so he had to unleash his counter to such things. Once again he combined his chakra.
"Fire Hurricane"
As he fell toward the ground, a hurricane formed in front of him, setting alight as the halves combined. Swiftly, it headed toward his opponent, cutting stright through the swords on its path toward him. This should make things harder for his opponent he thought.

Despite the emmense fire hurricane that had just been created, a few of Rei's swords had still made it through. Invisible, his chakra emissions gone, Rei was once again in the safety of the trees, retreating from the jutsu his foe had summoned.

But, despite his best attempts of invisiblity, it seemed to be following him!!

One part of his brain focused on his swords, dancing away at his opponent, trying to cut him to shreds. The other was wondering how the hell this hurricane was tracking him. He could not be seen, and he had no chakra to track...

The nin-wire! The chakra he was using on the nin-wire to manipulate the swords was leading the thing straight to him.

His respect for his foe increased slightly. But still his mind worked, and something clicked. He ran around the edge of the trees, getting behind his foe. Unnoticed by the distracted shinobi, the nin-wire encircled him loosely.

Then, with a gesture from Rei, they tightned. The swords would become useless now, but they were, as all of his latest attempts, just a distraction. Rei smiled as he detached the wire from his fingers.

The invisible clone dragged the man in black down into the hole as a dome of earth closed around him. Breaking out, the man did not realise something had been added to his clothing when the clone grabbed him...

As the hurricane the man summoned came towards him, now in the line of it's path lay none other than it owner. With a smile, Rei detonated the tag he had his clone attach to the mans back, with the resulting explosion sending the man head first into his own jutsu...

The irony did not escape Rei.

Yami felt the wire tighten around him and realised what had just happened. He knew that the hurricane would not prove an issue. Before anything else could be considered, survival instinct leapt into play. Luckily the wire had only bound him across the middle, if he didnt have his arms, this would not have been possible. He leapt upwards and tore his cloak from his body. An explosion a moment later propelling him higher into the sky and clear of the top of the hurricane. Now he had a problem, just how was he gonna get safely down....
Then an insane idea hit him, he released the hurricane jutsu, the fire disappearing as the two halves separated and began wind surfing around the top half, using the scraps of his cloak to provide some level of manoeuvrability. That had given him a secondary idea which he could manage, if only just.
It was time to heat things up a whole lot more. Yami collected his chakra and began to radiate it out.
"Weather Transformation Technique."
He began to recover some of his chakra from the minute traces in the air as he landed on one of the fallen trees. Now things should be interesting. He was used to this harsh weather, how would his opponent fare against the force of the desert?

Taking off his cloak, Rei looked at his foe. He had been hurt by the explosion, but not as badly as he had hoped. He dismissed the hurricane before he hit it and he had just made a desert. Well, at least he's used up an aweful lot of chakra, and Rei still had pleanty to go around.

Jumping high into the air, invisible again and low chakra emissions, he pulled out a scroll and summoned a hundred swords. They quickly gained speed, falling fast to the ground around his target. No matter where he moved, at least one would strike him...

Yami looked up... how many swords were around him now?? This was getting tiresome, it was time to pull out more high powered attacks, starting with a wind strike.
"Kami Oroshi"
The wind picked up around Yami, only instead of sending it toward his opponent, he used the vortex to surround him, its energy being concentrated solely on spinning round, increasing its defensive capabilities. He used this break to take one of the chakra pills he kept hidden. Immediately he felt a great deal of his strength return and he let the rest augment his physical being, healing the lesser wounds he had sustained.

Gotcha.

While ninety per cent of the swords where scattered to the four winds, ten of them held true, guided as they were by the nin-wire Rei used to send chakra down, pushing straight through the wind like it wasn't there. They were already on top of him, although Rei could not understand why. His foe seemed to be fussing with his equipment.

Oh well.

He had reckoned on him using his wind chakra to knock the swords off target. Hell, he had counted on it. With the main bulk gone, the foe would take his attention away for a split second. As he had already shown his control over ten swords at once, he decided to add a little something this time. The swords closed on a more attention deprived foe than expected and Rei made the tiger sign.

The ten explosive tags on the ten swords exploded.

Thankfully, the vortex had diverted the majority of the swords, those remaining could be dealt with in a single sword movement at this range. Then they exploded, this was... unexpected. Yami withstood the blast and then noticed why he was able to do so, the vortex had become ablaze with fire. His defensive technique had worked on a dual level. This aided him greatly, now he could focus on healing his new burns when he could. Right now however, he blocked out the pain and finished the Oroshi technique, sending it directly at his opponent. He drew the second katana and reattached the armour to his arms and legs. Now... Round 2 would begin