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Pakura then immediately dashed forward at an incredible pace as she quickly arrived at Rasa's location and swung her sword in a vertical slash but just as she was about to strike him, Rasa waved his hand, and a suddenly, a huge stream of shiny gold dust appeared out of his clothes and created a small wall in front of him.

As Pakura's sword struck the wall, it easily sank in, making Pakura very happy but sadly, it was short lived as she found that once she got halfway down the wall, she was no longer able to move her sword any further and the hole that she created had already been repaired. She quickly decided to let go of the sword and took a step to the right as a pile of gold dust suddenly spurted out from the ground where she had initially be standing. She then quickly utilised the kunai as she lunged inwards, aiming to get a slash on Rasa's throat but she was not able to get the kill as Rasa had interrupted her by replying with a straight hook to the face which Pakura just barely dodged as she felt the fist scrape against her cheek. Shock appeared on her face as she realised the intensity of the difficulty level that this fight was on.

Retreating a few steps backwards, Pakura stared at Rasa carefully, analysing how she was going to attack... She had decided that her main issue was her speed which she was not very strong at so she decided to change her approach. If she was strong enough to melt Rasa's gold dust then that would be a different story but her scorch release had not reached such temperatures yet.

'I need to try it,' eventually deciding upon an approach, she began to make a few hand signs. Suddenly, the air around her suddenly began to heat up as a ball of a strange mix of red and orange fire appeared in front of her and it began to revolve around her. She inserted a huge amount of chakra into the fireball, causing it to glowing in an extremely luminous light that furiously heated the surroundings as the temperature rose extremely steeply.

"Scorch Release Mode," she mumbled as she brought the ball and controlled it to fly in the direction of Rasa at a scary pace. As soon as she threw it, she began to bend her legs as she concentrated as much chakra as she could on her legs, so that she would be able to explode with more speed.

She waited patiently as she saw that it happened exactly as she had planned. Rasa had brought out a large amount of gold dust to protect himself from the scorching heat.

Boom! A huge explosion sounded as a sonic boom occurred, clearing up all the dust that would've been swept up. As the fireball struck the gold wall, it immediately exploded, resulting in the wall exploding into bits, leaving a gap for Pakura to capitalise on.

'I have broken his defence!' thought Pakura as she dashed forward at a speed which was around three as fast as before and she quickly filled her kunai with scorch release chakra which resulted in it beginning to glow red and Rasa seemed to have stuck in his track causing Pakura to think that this was her victory but just as her kunai was getting close, she saw her body suddenly stop in her tracks as she seemed to have stopped moving and a small smile appeared on Rasa's face. Confused at what stopped her, Pakura made the mistake of looking down which temporarily distracted her, giving Rasa an opportunity to strike which he took as he suddenly reinforced his fist with gold dust and struck out clearly on Pakura's abdomen.

"Ack!" Pakura immediately spurted out a mouthful of spit as her body immediately curled up into a ball in pain as she clutched her belly as she went flying backwards about five meters but before she could fall down to the ground, she felt something stopping her landing on the ground. She turned around, only to see Hitori who had caught her with a big smile on his face as he said, "You improved your close combat in this short amount of time, I'm impressed."

Hitori slowly placed her down on to the ground as she forced herself up once again. A look of disbelief could be seen on her face as she asked, "But how? I thought that I had managed to sneak past your defences?"

"Haha! You did do well to get past my defences, Pakura, but your speed did not improve enough to be able to take me out yet," Rasa laughed with a smile as he kept nodding, "However, I am very satisfied with the amount of skill that you have shown."

"Pakura..." Hitori whispered, causing her to turn her gaze towards him, "You keep attacking. I'll help you. I'll deal with the speed, you deal with the attack damage but leave your kunai. If that doesn't work then I'll join in on the attack. Be careful, you would've lost you life if you did that attack on a bandit who was stronger than you."

Pakura resolutely nodded as she acknowledged her mistake. Hitori then handed her sword back to her which he had collected while Rasa had been distracted with Pakura.

"Here we come!" Pakura shouted confidently once again as she set herself up.

Hitori's hand slowly pushed his arms forwards and the iron sand could be seen suddenly gathering under Pakura's feet right after she threw the kunai upwards into the air, enabling her to use both her hands to hold the sword.

Pakura then dashed forward at an astonishing breakneck speed, thanks to the additional push from Hitori's iron sand, and as she was quickly arriving at her target at about seven times her previous speed, Pakura brought the sword up into a completely vertical position and pulled it back to right above her head as she prepared a vertical slash.

She now began to intergrate a huge amount of scorch chakra onto the sword and it could be seen glowing in an impressive neon red light that just screamed danger as it began to leave an afterimage, similar to how glowsticks do in the dark when you swing the very quickly. As she was just about to reach Rasa, she could be faintly heard whispering, "Scorch Release: First move: Halving Blade of Calidity."

Rasa had little time to think as he urgently raised his hand, creating a wall of gold dust that just managed to set itself up right before Pakura brought her sword up and swung it down in a very calm and controlled manner.

At the same time that this was happening, Hitori had been utilising his iron sand to make it extremely hard for Rasa to escape as he directed his iron sand to latch onto Rasa's feet.

'Very clever...' thought Rasa.

Boom!

A loud explosion could be heard as a big explosion of dust and sand was suddenly formed from the impact of the gold wall and the red slash.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A series of metal striking metal then sounded as the dust cloud reached it's peak. However, in the dust cloud, an extremely quick red glow could be seen flying in a particular direction before a sharp and clear clang sounded. Using that as a guide, Pakura took a deep breath as she raised the sword once again, holding it vertical but this time, it was placed in front of her. The sword quickly began to glow red once again and Pakura could be heard speaking something else this time, "Scorch Release: Fifth move: Fervorous Trinity."

And at that moment, she quickly swung her sword out three different times and three different sword rays burst out from the sword, in a asterisk shape as they headed towards the other small red dot that was still speeding across the scene.

Boom!

Another huge explosion sounded, and this time it did not sound like the explosion where Pakura's sword hit the gold wall.

"Did we get him?" Pakura mumbled out as she randomly slashed her sword at the air, imbuing it with wind chakra, causing create a gust of wind while blew away the the think dust clouds surrounding her as she thought that she had successfully struck Rasa.

"No..." Hitori's voice suddenly spoke out as he was revealed from the dust with an arm outstretched towards Pakura.

Seeing this, Pakura immediately turned back and saw a big square shield made from iron sand blocking a huge fist that was made from gold dust. Pakura immediately retreated towards Hitori.

"Hitori, I really must commend your intuition and prowess," Rasa's voice sounded as he appeared from the back areas of the cave, completely unscathed but there was a big gold dust wall with three huge slash marks engraved into it.

"As if I am just going to allow my friend to get hurt while I sit by and do nothing..." Hitori uttered as he took a step forward and smiled, "Let's get more serious now. Pakura, I'm joining in the attack as well now. I'll create an opening for you, use your scorch release in that exact time."

As soon as he said this, he began to release a huge amount of Iron sand from his gourd and they immediately began to form in the shape of arrows with a swing of his arms. And very quickly the number of arrows began to increase to over two hundred. A smile appeared on Hitori's face as he spoke, "Magnet release: Iron sand arrows."

Swoosh!

Immediately, a barrage of arrows had been sent toward Rasa at an incredible pace.

A/N: This will be the last one for a while. Sincere apologies