Naruto: Winds and Changes

Naruto charged in, deciding that letting this woman go on the offensive was a bad idea. He came in with a horizontal slash from the left, one which his enemy easily blocked. Pushing off her Naruto spun around and came in with an upwards slash from the other side. His opponent jumped back to avoid it, but her eyes widened when she saw a thin green blade of wind coming at her.

She held up her arms in a cross guard and covered them in crystal, letting them take the brunt of the attack. It was a good thing for her that she did as the wind blade managed to cut a decent sized chunk out of her crystal and would have no doubt taken her arm off had she not reinforced them.

Bringing her arms down the woman was just in time to see Naruto in front of her, coming in with a powerful lunge that would impale her in the chest. However like all powerful ninja she was able to dodge the attack, twisting her body to the side and using one of her blades to redirect the attack, even though it was nearly at point blank. At the same time she used her other bladed hand to lash out at the blond, cutting into his side before he could regain his balance.

Naruto hissed in pain as he tumbled forward before using his momentum to roll along the ground, coming up on his feet. The moment he did however, the blond was forced to spin and bring his blade up to block an attack from the crystal user. Already knowing she would come at him with her other blade; Naruto pushed her away and dodged to the left. He came at her again, swing his blade in a horizontal arch, one that his opponent blocked but due to the angle and force caused her to stumble backwards and become slightly off balance.

Using this opportunity Naruto slashed at her again, enhancing his blade with wind chakra to slice through her. Only for the figure he had sliced through to turn into crystal as it split in half down the center. A Suisho Bunshin!

"Shoton: Kasui!" the moment Naruto heard the jutsu announced he made liberal use of the Shunshin to dodge the incoming crystal spears, which impaled the ground he had been on just moments after he had vacated it.

Turning Naruto found the woman a little ways away, already going through another set of hand seals. "Shoton: Assai Chuuseki!" Another large crystal pillar slammed into the spot he was located on, crushing the area and creating a crater, as well as generating a powerful shockwave as spider web cracks spread out from the center of impact.

"It looks like that got him," The woman said with a smirk.

"Not quite!"

Her eyes widened as several hands burst from the ground and grabbed onto her feet and ankles. Right in front of her Naruto burst up from the ground, a spinning orb of purple youki in his hands.

"Rasengan!" He thrust the orb of violent energy forward, slamming it into the woman's chest. However rather than drill into flesh, blood and bones like normal, the woman shattered into crystalline fragments.

"Damn it!" Naruto growled, he was really beginning to hate those clones. He would have wondered if this was what it felt like for people to battle him when he heard Guren's voice call out another jutsu.

"Shoton: Shakou Okuchou Nemi No Kujo (Darkened Masses, Wave of Destruction)!"

As the jutsu was called a shadow came over Naruto, making him look up to see what appeared to be a wave of crystal bearing down on him. "Kami I hate my life."

Kimimaro was forced to dodge several more sand spears that Gaara had launched his way, weaving between them as he tried to close the distance between him and his enemy. However as soon as he passed through the spears, a large pillar of sand smashed into where he was standing. Or where he had been standing, since the moment he had seen the sand pillar rushing towards he had dodged to the left.

As he came in closer Kimimaro let loose with his sword, lashing at Gaara and making the blade elongate to compensate for the fact that he was not close enough to hit the red head with a standard attack. Before it could get too far, sand shot up from the ground and latched onto it, ceasing its forward movement.

Holding out a hand, Gaara made a 'come here' motion, and in response the sand yanked on the blade, making Kimimaro fly towards him. The Ichibi Jinchuuriki made several more motions with his other hand and caused a wave of sand to slam into the bone user, sending him flying back and skidding along the ground as the sand rend into his flesh.

However that did not deter Kimimaro, who unleashed a sword slash powerful enough to create a shockwave and disperse the sand. As the Kaguya stood up, Gaara could see that his attack had done a lot of damage, rending the flesh off of Kimimaro's face and body. It also revealed that his attack had not been able to penetrate the older teen's bones, which looked almost like armor underneath all of his skin.

"That attack was most impressive, had it been anyone else, I am sure they would have died," Kimimaro stated. "However, an attack like that will not work on me, my bones are so dense that they are harder then steel and weak attacks like what you just used will not work on me."

"Then I suppose I will have to try something more powerful," Gaara proclaimed, his voice not giving away any of his feelings. The red head raised his arms and sent out a powerful wave of sand, one which Kimimaro attempted to dodge. He succeeded but it was a hollow victory, as the moment he did another wave was in front of him, and this one managed to latch onto him.

The sand began to wrap around Kimimaro's form, and no matter how hard he struggled he could not seem to break free. Soon enough even his head was covered up as the sand became a cocoon.

"Sabaku Kyū." Gaara made a clenching motion with his left hand, causing the sand to clench and squeeze, crushing the pale skinned bone user and sending blood flying out of the sand.

Gaara frowned as, rather than feeling the satisfaction he normally got when crushing an opponent with his sand, he felt resistance from the inside. Before he could wonder about what it meant the sand cocoon burst, scattering away in all directions. When it cleared it showed Kimimaro, who had taken on a dinosaur-like appearance complete with a tail. Several large bones also protrude from his now darkened brownish-maroon skin.

"That was impressive," Kimimaro said, his voice not belying the pain he was in. "Very impressive, it seems that I will need more effort to beat you."

Gaara grunted, "And I'll need more sand to crush you."

Guren panted a bit, before regaining her breath as she stood. She looked at the mass of crystallized landscape that her jutsu had caused; it almost looked like a sandy beach, were it not for the fact that A, there was no water and B, the sand was actually thousands of light pink crystals.

"Damn," she cursed as she looked at the clearing, "I forgot Orochimaru-sama wanted his corpse for study."

"Didn't I tell you I have no desire to let that pedophile touch me?" A voice spoke up behind her. Guren's eyes widened as she spun around and they landed on Naruto, though he was not looking as good as he had when the fight started. His whole left arm was bleeding rather profusely; it looked to have been skinned by a hack-saw, if such a thing were possible.

Though that did little to change the fact that the blond brat was still standing defiantly in front of her.

"How did you survive that?" Guren growled in frustration, "That was one of my most powerful jutsu! There is no way you could have survived!"

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