Strangely enough, as he kept eye contact, her focus remained on him, reacting to him, aware of his movements.
Something that shouldn't have been possible at his current speeds...
Yet, to his shock, before his fist could connect with his opponent's stomach, she managed to tilt her body away from the blow, leaving the blond to swing at nothing except air.
Reacting quickly, he pulled his fist back and launched his leg to the side of her head, keen to end this in a flash.
She wasn't giving him that chance however, as she just as quickly ducked under his attack, dodging it just like the last one.
Except now she brought her blade out to occupy the space that her head used to be in, allowing the blond's leg to slam into the business end of her weapon.
But Naruto wasn't having any of that, opting to aim his foot at the very side of the blade, aiming to kick it at it's flat-side in order to knock it out of Nonaka's hands.
A move which Nonaka herself moved to make sure to use to her advantage, turning her blade just enough to make sure his foot slammed onto it's sharpened edge, aiming to incapacitate.
And, for a moment, it looked like it really would incapacitate him, as the foot continued to approach.
Until, at the last moment, when the errant limb halted right before it made contact with the knife-edge.
A standstill immediately followed, with neither opponents moving for a breathe of an instant.
That changed quickly, with the hero deciding to go all in and swing Sakuya around to cut into her enemy's limb.
Naruto, grinning, totally expected that.
Using his other foot, which was firmly placed on the ground, he pushed himself backwards as he retracted his other foot, allowing Nonaka Yuki to overextend herself as she swung at the spot where his extended limb used to be.
Allowing himself to fall backwards at the sudden movement, the shinobi got into a handstand on the ground before he could hit the ground and aimed both of his legs at the flat-side of the girl's blade, and knocking it harshly away from it's original trajectory.
Stumbling from the sudden move that nearly ripped her weapon away from her grasp, the hero found herself unable to continue her assault, leaving Naruto the chance to back up and back-flip back up to his feet.
Blue eyes peered back to the stumbling female, narrowed in suspicion.
How could he not? Nonaka Yuki was not this fast before, yet not only was she fast enough to respond to his moves, her moves suddenly became much more crisp and calculated after she got those eyes.
It was obviously because of her changed eyes, but what exactly did they do?
"Impressive, Uzumaki-san." Yuki spoke up, getting up from her downed position to face the blond again. "You were much more faster than I gave you credit for...but as you see, I have the speed to keep up now, and it's only a matter of time until you make a mistake."
Listening to the teenaged girl's boasting, Naruto had to quietly admit that whatever she did was effective, but he also knew from experience that no power was perfect.
Her so-called True Sight had a weakness, he just had to find it.
And he would.
Without warning, the shinobi charged at Yuki once more while throwing his kunai at her as a distraction, intent on closing the gap between them.
She dodged it as he expected, but seeing her widen her eyes at his tactic, as well as noting how she only narrowly dodged the little knife as it clipped some of her hair threw him off.
What happened to all her speed just now...?
Naruto cursed the fact that he couldn't publicly carry kunai and shuriken, he could've really used some right about then.
Unfortunately, while he still had one more on him, he didn't want to throw his other kunai at his enemy, as he still needed it to help him curb his opponent's blade advantage.
So he had to deal with it for now, annoyingly.
Regardless, Naruto was already on top of Yuki by the time she had turned her attention back to him, using his distraction to full effect.
Caught his eyes with her own, the hero quickly slid her body to the right to dodge the blond's downward kick, retaliating with a vicious slash by her katana, which just so happened to release a wave of green energy at it's very edge.
Forced to back up, lest he get cut, the shinobi attempted to raise his slammed foot from the ground as it impacted the spot where Nonaka Yuki once stood, trying to back up from the attack, aware that he had to move quickly before his opponent managed to take advantage of his bad position.
Through the cloud of dust that the blond picked up, Yuki moved to do just as Naruto predicted and slashed her sword towards Naruto's right side, aiming for clear bisection.
But, to her surprise, the other human raised both of his hands out while tucking his kunai in-between two of his fingers, then slammed both limbs onto the speeding flat-edges of the deadly katana, halting it's movement.
Uzumaki Naruto had just caught the blade between his hands.
Nonaka Yuki, with her eyes wide, just stared at the phenomenon with slight disbelief, never seeing such speed before in her life with a single exception.
Naruto just grinned at this, amused if anything, before he viciously lashed out with his left foot towards the girl's stomach, taking advantage of her stilled body.
Yellow eyes sharpened as the left foot was efficiently dodged when she twisted her body to the right, narrowly moving out of the foot's way.
Then, in a move which the hero took as a small triumph, she moved her right hand from the blade's hilt in order to use it to catch the offending limb into a hold, tucking it under her armpit and keeping it there.
Naruto, ever positive, kept his grin despite what has happened.
And why did that unnerve Nonaka Yuki more than any angry raving ever could?
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