Privacy Outside the Village

Mianyi stares after Tonou as he heads out into the dark dunes. "…"

She trots to catch up to him and his puppet, looking around at them and their surroundings for a moment as if unsure what is going on. She then takes up a defensive stance with a kunai in her hand and waits for Tonou and his puppet to make the first move.

Tonou looks down and Kaze. Flexing his hands he can feel Kaze movements as if it was an extension of his body. Kaze lunges forward at Mianyi, firing two small senbon from underneath the sleeves of each arm. Kaze then dives leaps into the air and curls into a ball, attempting to strike Mianyi.

In the darkness of the night out on the dunes, Mianyi has a difficult time seeing the thin slivers of senbon that are ejected from the puppet's arms. She's aware that something is coming, but it's hard to tell what. She moves quickly to the right, since staying in one spot would be foolish, and manages to avoid the two senbon by sheer luck of moving at the right time. She tries to duck and roll under the follow up attack, but is hit by the puppet landing, so her execution of this is less than graceful and she takes a good thump.

Mianyi half rolls, half scoots away, enough to give her some space to make a mini tornado and send it at the puppet, letting it pick up some sand and try to pick up the puppet as well to toss it away from her. If she can get it a bit aways, she'll throw a kunai at it. It's too dark for her to aim well enough to try and strike a joint and potentially disable a limb, so she aims for it's body to do damage. Just after she throws it, she suddenly regrets it, since damaging it would mean doing harm to Tonou's beautiful creation.

Kaze is sent backwards a good fifteen feet from the mini tornado, but over-all seemed unscathed. In fact, if anything, he seems faster. "Kaze... wind." Kaze doesn't just seem faster, he is faster. Tonou flexes his right knuckles, causing Kaze to move to the left, side-stepping the incoming kunai. Kaze then lowers his mouth, and unleashes a tennis-ball sized gust of concentrated wind right at Mianyi. The tennis-ball sized wind attack will give a good thump if it lands, but nothing to damaging.

Mianyi knows the meaning of 'Kaze' but she was not expecting, well, that to happen. She frowns slightly as her wind release jutsu appears to just power up the puppet, although inwardly she thinks that is a very clever idea. She rolls away from the small gust of wind. Out here she is able to think logically, knowing she is in no danger with Tonou here and this being a friendly spar. She throws a shuriken experimentally at the puppet to see if it's movements are slower after it used that attack. Maybe it used up the chakra it absorbed from her attack?

Kaze does seem a bit slower after the release of the attack. Kaze takes the shuriken full force, but it simply lodges in Kaze and continues his movement toward Mianyi. His arms raise, hidden behind the long sleeves, and suddenly extend out of the sleeves doubling in length in attempt to grasp Mianyi.

Well, it looks like Mianyi can't use her ninjutsu techniques against this puppet, seeing as how he absorbs wind nature chakra. She highly doubts that poison is something that would work against an object that doesn't need to breathe, so that leaves taijutsu and physical blows.

She crouches low in preparation for the puppet's oncoming attack, but is startled to see it's arms suddenly reach for her. She uses her position low to the ground to help launch her away, although sand is a poor platform for such jumps. One of the elongated arms succeeds in grabbing her ankle as she jumps away, bringing her to the ground. In response she tries to twist around the arm, looking for a joint at which to bring her hand down hard in hopes that will gum up some of it's workings and let her free.

Kaze releases and leaps backward, except the leap is beyond human. It manages to leap all the way back to Tonou. [color=purple]"Thanks."[color] One word, one meaning. The spar was over. He knew what he wanted to work on and what to fix as he busily begun messing with Kaze's various contraption. Middle of the night, in the middle of a sand dune, and still he busily worked trying to adjust certain components.

Mianyi gets up and brushes some of the sand from her cloak. She looks curiously at Tonou, hard at work already out here in the dunes in the middle of the night. Quietly she walks over to where he's working in the dark. "We should get back to Suna."

"Go then. I will be back later." Tonou lifted Kaze and carried him under his arm back to the cavern below. He had more work and testing to do, and would probably spend the night in the cavern messing with his new puppet. Tonou was starting down the path of a puppet master, and Kaze, his own invention, would be the strongest puppet to had ever graced the Earth. He would see to it.

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Mianyi sighs at that, but doesn't argue. She knows what he's up to and he is most likely safe out here. She trudges back to the village and returns to her own home and bed. Briefly she wonders what is motivating him to spend so much time alone and outside the village working on a puppet, but then she drifts off to sleep and has mostly pleasant dreams.