From out of nowhere, the shinobi hopped up on his remaining leg, using her hold on his left leg to keep him suspended in the air as he kept his own hold on her blade secure.
In that position, he lashed out with his other limb towards the bluenette's face, aiming for a clean and powerful connection.
Barely keeping up, the hero was forced to bend her back in a perfect parallel to the ground to dodge the foot, silently thankful that she was so flexible as to move out of the way of such a attack in such close-quarters.
But she soon realized that the foot that she essentially ducked under was still hanging over her head, like a guillotine...
Nonaka Yuki couldn't help but open her mouth to curse before the foot descended on her, like a falling axe, she was smashed in the face and dug into the ground without mercy.
Feeling his heel make contact, Naruto quickly disengaged and backed up to assess the damage he has done, unable to stop the growing smirk that was splitting his face.
Silence prevailed over the area for a split moment, only being interrupted once the teenaged female slowly began to push herself away from her hole, raising her head to look at the shinobi.
Her glower at his direction, as well as the nasty bloody nose that she's got, let him know that she was quite in a lot of pain.
...But more importantly, he found it.
Throughout this fight, his opponent has managed to hold her own against him despite her poor performance against him earlier, somehow managing to keep u[ after she got those eyes of hers.
Well, he was pretty damn sure that he found her eye power's weakness.
That being said, it would be way too annoying to exploit it the conventional way, so he decided to do this the old-fashioned way.
By this point, the hero steadily got up from her place on the ground, her nose covered by one of her metal gauntlets as she glared at the blond's insufferably cheerful smirk as he waited for her to get up again.
Was he really that confident that he would win?
She would disavow him from that notion soon enough, especially with her next move.
Naruto charged forward again, intent on ending this once and for all as their eyes met once more, determination burning burning in both pairs of irises.
A wind-coated kunai clashed with a magic sword as both combatants met with their faces mere inches apart.
Just by taking a cursory glance at their clash though, one could easily see that it was by no means an equal fight, as Naruto was definitely pushing back the female with his greater strength.
This became more obvious when the blond made to knock Sakuya from Yuki's hands, hooking his smaller weapon and attempting to yank it from her fingertips, managing to pull it away from the both of them and leave her wide open for his weapon.
Naruto hesitated for a split-second, before making to stab his kunai towards Yuki's stomach, intent on incapacitating her.
That split moment's hesitation allowed for the girl to back away safely from his stab, making sure that she got away unscathed, but still weaponless.
The shinobi clicked his tongue at that, annoyed at how careful he was being in not doing any permanent damage to her, as doing so could definitely keep him in her faction's shit list.
Still...at least he was able to disarm her.
His optimism vanished about the same time as the hero's sword did, vanishing in a flash of green and reappearing right in the palm of her hand.
That was totally not fair.
Nonaka Yuki, by this point, was now visibly tired, breathing in short and shallow breathes to feed her lungs as she raised her blade again to meet with this...unknown being in open combat.
Her Sacred Gear...it allowed her to raise her own speed to give her the chance to keep up with her opponent, not match them, an ability that absorbed an exorbitant amount of stamina to utilize properly for extended periods of time.
She needed to end this...now.
The hero raised her sword high up above her head, gripping it's hilt tightly as it began to light up with a green aura...and swung.
But unlike all the other times before, the green wave that she had just materialized stayed in place, as if frozen by time.
She twisted her arms and swung her katana twice more, intersecting the first one using different angles, and those waves stayed in place as well.
With her brows scrunched together, focused, the young woman swung Sakuya five more times, creating waves of power that remained still in front of her.
Staring at the waves of power, Naruto suddenly realized that he was in real danger this time, as in front of him were several of those green waves weaved together like a spider web, reminding him of Hinata's special jutsu.
Nonaka Yuki then pointed her sword at Naruto, and uttered one word.
"Fire."
As if the green waves were given life by the singular command, the series of sword slashes moved forward and soared towards the shinobi at frightening speeds, each wave propelling the other to faster speeds as they remained intersected.
Naruto paused for a heartbeat, before quickly moving towards the onslaught with a determined glint in his eye, believing that he wouldn't be able to dodge the incoming attack by running around or jumping over it since it's speed was quickly rising to higher levels.
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