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Who: Kushina and whoever
When: Arriving March 1st, late morning, until leaving March 9th, mid-afternoon
Where: In and around Konoha, between the village gates and the travel seal if you really want, ...seriously, just everywhere when she's not spending quality time with her family
Notes: Just come say hi 8| Aforementioned quality time with family will be most mornings from March 2-9, and all nights. But family teammates are always welcome to dinner. >3>

No matter how many times she came back to Konoha, she always made a point to walk around different parts of the village. It felt necessary to reacquaint herself with the streets and various landmarks after spending so long away from home. And meeting up with friends is a must too. On a couple afternoons she even takes some time in one of the training areas by the river. No reason not to keep sharp, even if she's technically on vacation.

Whether you're looking for her or not, that bright red hair of hers isn't hard to miss.

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None of her clones could find him and each and every one of them was steadily getting just as annoyed as the original. Genjutsu was definitely her weakest link, but she had always kept working at finding ways to combat it. She'd had a few breakthroughs, but camoflauge when she didn't know it was there? Still nothing for that. She made a mental note to see if it was possible to learn her niece's technique next time she was back in Uzushio. It sure would come in handy in a situation like this.

Kushina hidden explosive tags up and down every tree in a five meter diameter circle around her location, making sure they wouldn't be visible for anyone coming in. No tree would be left standing surrounding her position once they were set off. And then she'd corner him in her barrier. Seemed like a pretty solid plan, if she did think so herself.

How to handle this... Up until now he hadn't made any clones of himself, but he slipped into a section that was dipped from the explosions but not cleared and made three earth clothes, swiftly scattering them at a dead run after putting the henge on them too. They ought to take care of most of the explosions as he made his way closer to Kushina himself...

BANG. BANG. BANG. Three starting points for the explosion?! Now he was using clones! Plan A failed, but she was gonna nail him down even if she collapsed from chakra exhaustion. Time for Plan B to be made up on the fly. She released her existing clones and created new ones. Nearly 40 shadow clones total. She had one take her place in the center, ready to fight, and bounced back to hide among her clones, where she'd blend in perfectly. They spread out in a circle, pushing out toward the explosion, each hoping to run into the real Obito. If he destroyed one, the others would immediately change direction to turn on him. Each ready to stick a tag on him.

He stilled, checking to see if his distraction worked... and wow that was a lot of Kushina now.

Crap.

Okay so he was clearly going to need to be careful or he was going to get dogpiled. Staying away from the ongoing explosions, he worked on creeping along the paths of silence left behind, going for the most intense number of 'Kushina' in hopes she'd be there.

If not he was so screwing himself here. Time for non-fatal area stabbing to see if he couldn't take a slew out before she caught up to his tactics.

Sorry Obito, but with each clone dispersed, more fly in to fill its place. But after ten or fifteen clones, Kushina realizes where he's stabbing. She holds back a ways to create more clones to send in to his location. A steady amount so they trickle in. An apparent never-ending flow of clones in an overwhelm-and-exhaust tactic. An old trick, but a classic.

Well, this was just not-good. She must have caught on... but there was an advantage to it too, and he sprung forward, letting one stab throuh him without contact before grabbing her and flinging her into others to start making his way forward. Better he take as much care not to exhaust himself on that front as possible.

Pretty sure that she was planning something, he didn't plan to stay still for it.

A couple more clones vanished. Kushina swelled indignantly and nearly yelled, but she had to keep quiet. Besides, a few of her clones nearby had taken to attempting to beat on him for going intangible. More clones surged forward, a few of them shooting out chakra chains in an attempt to hold him down.

Even though she wasn't sure if it'd work, she just had to try and continue to wear him down. So she continued making clones since her chakra levels would be fine for a long while.

Okay this was bad. He would tire out fast if he tried to stick around... so he bolted, stopping any attempts to fight her at all as she redoubled her efforts an he bolted. He was fast!

Hopefully fast enough he could get away from her before he had to rest that ability for a while. Which wouldn't be long at all. Not cool, he needed to not be on the defensive.

She was no Yellow Flash, but she was pretty quick too. Her clones were not letting up, sticking right on him. And when clones stopped getting destroyed, the information on his actions stopped coming. And that's when the real Kushina ended the clone production line and sped up to hide in the center of the group.

The moment he got to the edge of the group he threw himself free with a burst, hands going through seals and he flipped, slamming his hands down in a flip to set off a jutsu to throw a wall up behind him as he completed the motion and kept going.

The nearest clones hit the wall and fell to the ground before poofing out of existence. The rest out of eyeshot of the wall were able to detour around or over as the nearest clones that hadn't slammed into it hurried to not lose sight of him and catch up.

Perfect! He'd used the obscuring factor of the wall to send off a clone running as he himself dove into the ground, making his way back under the mess of clones and hurrying to find a spot, thankfully using Earth jutsu for all this, to emerge and see the effectiveness of the ploy.

Soon her clones had converged on Obito's, still unaware of the switcheroo. And suddenly, from somewhere behind Obito, a flash of red flying at him, fingers already forming the Tiger seal, characteristic of most fire jutsu.

"Konohagakure Secret Taijutsu Technique: One Thousand Years of Death!"

Fingers pointed right for his butt and found their mark. Bullseye. A few seconds after contact...

Poof!

The clones nearest started a giant ruckus, several of them calling for Obito's blood. Word took longer to pass down the line, but eventually every single Kushina present knew. The Hokage had escaped. And now she was on the warpath.

Emerging, emerging was good as he heard the outraged cry go up, and he made sure he was covered before emerging, keeping an eye peeled for tags before running, keeping as silent as possible as he skirted the destruction perimeter to find a better vantage point over the mob.

Word was quickly passed back through the ginger mob to stick in sight range of each other. In one long wave, they'd move back over the direction they came in. But Kushina quickly called up four others. She sent them each to a corner of the training ground's perimeter to set up a wide chakra chain barrier. Even if Obito was cheating and going intangible to escape, it would at least keep out anyone not involved with their game.

For the best, that. They probably should have done it earlier, but he didn't realize how close to the edges he was until he almost got pegged with a chain. He managed to dodge quickly enough to avoid it and not be noticed, but it was far too close to comfort, sending him closer to the center where the conflict happened to have.... ended up with a mob.

Yay. Time to keep a genjutsu up full tilt then.

The clones were continuing to comb through, searching high and low. Oh she'd curse her inability to quickly sense genjutsu later, but for now, unless one of them bumps into something solid that shouldn't be there... Well, he'll be alright.

Until he's found, that is.

This was bad, super bad. So. How to handle the super bad..... Yes! He made sure he wasn't in line of sight, made three earth clones, put a genjutsu over them, then sent them out to pick up pebbles and start raining them on Kushina's clone hard as hard as they could. Satisfied, he started to circle so he wouldn't get caught up in any retaliation since they were going to be coming from different angles.

One of the clones vanished under the hailing pebbles as the two nearest converged immediately. The rest soon swarmed in furiously and spread out in different directions, including the original. Each one hellbent on tracking down Obito.

In each direction, things were about to get rather messy. One clone had an idea, and the sound of it triggered the same idea from about half the other clones.

"WATER RELEASE: EXPLODING WATER COLLIDING WAVE!"

Water surged up through the trees, crashing through and uprooting several. Waves pounded against the barrier, but were safely held back. The clones maintaining said barrier were at least spared destruction on the outside. Nearly a dozen vanished as more water swept through the barrier-sealed area while the rest quickly escaped to the trees or even rode the waves.

The original Kushina? She had calmed down and was more confident that this plan would work. Perched in a tree with several clones, the four of them-- and all the other clones remaining-- were all keeping an eye out for Hokage-kun.

That...

That sucked.

That really sucked.

There was no avoiding the wave, so instead he let it carry him, not having any particular desire to try drowning himself after all, and looked around with paranoid worry as he tried to keep up his genjutsu.

He was so screwed right now if she spotted him and he needed to work out a defensive tactic to use until the water settled down enough that the waves wouldn't dunk him.

Still... taking a deep breath, he went under the water, deciding his best bet would be to try to find some trees that had been brutally decimated to ride... but not... to get hit with under water.

So unfair her chakra reserve was massive.

So very unfair.

Well his Sharingan was unfair. Gotta use what your clan gives you.

Kushina flagged down several clones and sent them to search underwater in case he got caught in the flash flood. A dual purpose there. Locate her opponent and make sure she didn't accidentally drown the village leader. She'd work on that think ahead before acting thing. ...Later. Some battle habits died hard.

Obito noticed her looking for him but as he wasn't drowned, he didn't see any reason to let her find him, finally catching hold of one of the branches. He was tiring a little, which was bad, and he needed a second to gather himself otherwise he was going to get caught. Tired equaled stupid equaled so needed to not get the pulp beat out of him by Kushina-nee.

He plastered himself against the top side of the tree and tried to keep himself as still as possible as he attempted to sort out her current positions. Aside from 'everywhere'.

The clones swam around for a while, searching as carefully as they could until surfacing to swap their findings. All found nothing, and to share with the rest, one dispersed. The other two scattered to search above the surface with the rest, still sloshing around.

Well, this was a bit of a clusterfuck. He'd had such a nice advantage too...

Oh well. Time to go big or go home really. Making sure that as many clones were in his view as he could manage, he drew in a deep breath, molded chakra, then promptly sent a volley of fire at the lot of them. The second he stopped he had to run he knew because otherwise he was so dead.

Several clones got caught in the fire while a couple at the back dodged and gave chase in the direction the fire came from. The other clones and Kushina proper bolted from their lookout spots and headed toward directions he could've gone. She knows he's too smart to stay put after something like that.

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