Dome of protection

{ Kuki's Pov }

I stood there in the middle of the arena with wind blowing against me as my teammates,Hozuki exhaustingly fell to the ground,grabbing the neck of his armor,stopping his face from hitting the ground.

"You did enough,now rest"

I calmly said as I used my arms to throw him to 19th division's samurais in the stands.

Even though this was one of our plans,doing this to your own teammate leaves a bad taste in my mouth,but considering Hozuki's condition,it couldn't be helped,I'll treat him some soba later.

Before me stood two girls flabbergasted,a girl with light blue hair tied up in a ponytail ,amethyst-like purple eyes,shark-like sharp teeth and a relatively short and petite build.She gave off the impression of a feisty chihuahua.

The other girl had shoulder length brown hair with a hint of yellow,her yellow eyes had a captivating golden shine to them,with a slim and tall frame,her aura eludes grace and elegance.

The two were contrasting in appearance and personality yet from what I could observe,their teamwork is no joke,with the Hozuki clan girl's offensive power and the Brown haired girl's skillful countering and parrying,they were effective in both offense and defense.A formidable pair indeed,seeing these two in actions really gets me excited!

Right now there's only a single thought in my noggin:

'This is gonna be so fun!'

I smiled as I felt my body brimming with chakra,holding onto all this chakra,my reserves are increasing!Let's do this!

{ Third person Pov }

Seeing that that Kuki had eliminated his own teammate,the two girl's minds were running in circles trying to figure out the person in front of them.Taking advantage of their confusion,Kuki hastily threw the now unconscious Hozuki into the stands and summoned two big knives(with chibi Hanabis on them of course) and dashed forward towards Mizugestu ,deliberately avoiding Hori's range.

Mizugestu who was still surprised instantly regained her composure the moment Kuki started moving,she made a few quick hand seals before spewing out water bullets at Kuki,Kuki swung his knives at the bullets splitting them,while the bullets weren't too difficult for Kuki to deal with,the power behind those small bullets were no joke,although Kuki managed to destroyed them,the recoil caused Kuki to slow down his approach,leaving enough time for Hori to sneak into Kuki's blind spot and lightly wounded him in the stomach.

Surprised by Hori's swift and silent attack,Kuki began to grin.Deciding that he couldn't win against these two if he continued to hold back,in the midst of his attack,Kuki abruptly retreated.

Kuki made his hands into a triangle just before steel spikes grew out from the ground in a quick motion,stopping Hori and Mizugestu from pursuing Kuki.

'Steel release: dome of protection'

Kuki thought to himself as he used the abundance of chakra in his arsenal to summon large steel pillars from the ground,the steel pillars grew until they touched at their pointing tip and then contorted into a spiral,encapsulating Kuki inside of a dome of steel.

Hori and Mizugestu approached the newly appeared steel object with caution,they initially thought it to be a trap but when they reduced their distance,nothing happened at all,causing them slight confusion.

Inside of the dome,Kuki was Immersed in his own world,trying to figure something out in the midst of a battle.He remembered what he observed from Mizugestu when she used hydrification,utilizing his byakugan,he could deduced that Mizugestu performed the technique by infusing her water nature chakra into individual cells in her body,he could tell that the technique required incredible dexterity as a slip up could result in an exploded limb.

Activating his byakugan,Kuki observed his own mana as he started to move his chakra throughout his body from his torso to each of his individual limbs and finally to his head.So far,the process was no different from performing full body chakra flow so he managed with relative ease.Now comes the hard part,Kuki started slowly guiding his steel natured chakra into each of his cells,his whole body was aching as each of his parts became unimaginatively stiffer.

Sensing the risk that's gonna befall him if he continued to let his chakra go wild,Kuki used his refined gentle fist skills to hit his own tenketsu points,stimulating his chakra and reducing his stiffness,Kuki was regaining control.

Meanwhile,Mizugestu was getting impatient,having already waited for about 30 seconds,she rashly pumped his right arm full of water,drastically increasing the muscle mass of said arm.Reeling it back before throwing it forward at the dome with fearsome might.

As her hit landed,she was barely able to shake it but alas it was intact,the strike caused a defending sound to ring out,as if she had hit a ginormous bell,the sound caused Mizugestu to stagger backwards as Hori and the audience simultaneously covered their ears.

Enraged that her attack had no visible effect. Mizugestu decided to go all out while Hori just waited patiently as she had no means of delivering an attack sufficient to destroy the dome.

Mizugestu pumped a great amount of water into both of her hands,making her two arms comically disproportionate to her small frame,she held her sword high while both of her hands as she prepared to split the dome in half out of rage.

But as she swung her sword downward with incredible speed,the pillars creating the dome suddenly retracted into the ground,reviewing a young boy with messy jet black hair,different colored eyes and a massive grin standing tall with absolute confidence.

Knowing that this could kill Kuki,Mizugestu tried to stop her strike but it was in vain,her whole being was already in motion.Seeing the incoming disaster, Hori rushed in to parry the blow but she was not fast enough considering her weak physique.

While his death was imminent,strangely enough Kuki did not dodge.On the contrary,if anyone would pay attention to his face right now,they would see an excited smile,as if he had gotten a Christmas present.

In a split second,as the blade was a foot away from splitting his head,Kuki held up his right arm in a swift and oddly casual motion directly meeting with Mizugestu's incoming blade.

The audience simultaneously held their breath and closed their eyes in horror, not wanting to witness a murder.

The arena went quiet,before a loud noise broke the silence.

But rather than the noise of Kuki's blood splattering as everyone had expected,all they heard was the noise of something shattering.

As everyone opened their eyes,they saw Kuki still standing tall and Mizugestu's sword missing its blade.