a new toy

[Kuki's Pov]

Narrowly blocking and evading the chakra blades that were sent flying at him by Kuzo from Zoku's back,droplets of sweat trickled down face as Kuki's grin grew wider behind all of the bandages.

Changing his footing abruptly,Kuki started dashing towards Zoku's right legs while preparing his knives.Seeing this, Kuzo quickly changed up his katana with chakra and launched them at Kuki.

"No you don't "Kuzo stated as he swung his blades at Kuki,anticipating the attack,Kuki took a leap backwards and threw his knives towards Zoku's Achilles heel.Kuzo was unable to react in time causing his smug expression to crumble as he helplessly watches the knives cut his brothers right Achilles heel.

"Arghhh"Zoku screams in an oddly high tone as his left leg becomes weak,allowing Hozuki to slowly push him back.

Not giving them any time to recover,Kuki hastily jumped towards Kuzo while having his hand performing a triangle seal.

"Big knife Justus!!"Kuki muttered as a jumbo sized knife abruptly appeared in his graphs ,seemingly out of nowhere.This caught Kuzo by surprise,his eye widened as his body jolted to the right,narrowly dodging Kuki's strike.

With this ,Kuzo was no longer on Zoku,He tried to recover his position but it was in vain for Kuki was standing between him and his struggling brother.

"No more hiding for you hehehe"Kuki chuckled with a twisted grin,this caused Zoku to take a step back as the expression Kuki was showing doesn't look like the look of someone facing an opponent,it was of a child looking at its new toy.

Wasting no time at all,Kuki launched himself at Kuzo,his short jet black hair flowing violently as he created another big knife in his left hand.Blue aura flowed out from his hands covering his knives.Kuzo held up his Katana in a defensive stance.

Kuki swung his knives down at Kuzo in the shape of an X.He swung down with all his might,it seems like Kuzo isn't even attempting to dodge yet as Kuki swung down,he felt nothing but his knives hitting the ground.

"Naive"a voice rang from behind Kuki, startling him as a blade slashed his back.Blood spurted out from Kuki's back.Fortunately,the wound was as deep as it seems,although he was surprised,Kuki did manage to react.

"I'm not as weak as you think kid,you won't be able to defeat me if you can't catch my movements!"Kuzo stated as he got his stance ready once again.Seeing that Kuzo shouldn't be underestimated,Kuki finally activated his byakugan,veins started popping up from around his right eye.

Kuzo took a stance and then disappeared before suddenly appearing behind Kuki again.Swinging his sword down at Kuki's open wound.

*Klang* "how!?!"Kuzo gasped as Kuki managed to read him like a book and blocked his surprise attack."Your footwork is predictable"Kuki said and continued "the mirage style footwork is pretty predictable once you identify it".

The footwork that Kuzo used is a footwork used by samurais that specializes in surprise attacks,as for why Kuki knows this so well,Isane had made sure to drill the information about different kinds of ambush techniques commonly used by samurais into Kuki's noggin because of his tendency of attacking his opponents head on with caution.

The mirage style is a type of footwork that requires incredible ankle mobility since it requires the user to flow their chakra into their foot,launching them high speeds,making it seem like they disappeared.

"Tsk,I was saving this for the finals"Kuzo said as a blue aura covered both of his legs.he started to disappear and reappear in different spots near where Kuki was standing at high speeds,making it difficult for Kuki to keep up with.

His right eye was beginning to hurt as the wound on his back continued to leak blood,the situation was not looking good.