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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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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.

If he'd stayed put then that means he's an idiot, a divine idiot that clearly wanted to turn into a pulpy mess of half dead Hokage. So... nope running, and trying to get a height advantage so he could do another fire and get more of the clones.

Stupid clones.

Annoying stupid exhausting clones.

Where did he go... Where did he go...

If he was turning to his fire attacks now, what would help boost the power on them of he was starting to feel tired? Wind. But he didn't have any wind-nature ninjutsu that she knew of. Next contender was gravity. Gravity meant heights above the water. Kushina led her clones up the trees, sent the message through another clone that she dispersed, hoping to either face him head on or beat him to the top.

On the way up, she ignored the first signs of exhaustion. She may still be fit as ever, but even slowly taking on the beating each of her clones had gotten was starting to take its toll.

Ahhhh noooo. He was defaulting to tactics she knew because he was tiring. No helping it though, he made a running leap to the highest point he figured he was going to get, just ahead of the clone nearest and blew another barrage, backing his way up the slant of the half collapsed tree before jumping to a branch that would have been really bad for a fire jutsu.

Somewhere on equal elevation, he was spotted. After her clone was hit and gone, Kushina ducked out of his line of sight, and signaled to her clones to hold back. Reaching into her pouch, she withdrew an explosive tag and wrapped it around a kunai. Once secure, she scaled up a few more branches, took aim, and flung it at Obito.

He twisted, hearing the sound of the Kunai coming at him, and managed to deflect it away before it could go off... and then it was right back to being in the water. Damn it. He quickly levered himself to the surface since it wasn't a roiling mass this time, but he was still sopping wet for his efforts, and was looking in the direction the Kunai had come from.

She heard him hit the water as she slid back down the tree. She whispered orders to her clones to stay back, but to be ready to deliver an onslaught of kunai with explosive tags wrapped around the grips at her signal.

Meanwhile, Kushina proper decided it was about time to go face-to-face with her opponent again. And as she zipped out of the tree, she was already forming hand seals. Tiger. Ox. Dog. Rabbit. Snake. The last one slammed together as her feet landed on the water's surface.

"Wind Release: Great Breakthrough!"

Within seconds, a powerful burst of wind whipped forward from her clasped hands. The force pushed her back a couple inches as it tore across the water's surface, picking some up as it went. The further out it went from Kushina, the broader its diameter grew, and the more water was flung into the vortex. Just a little more damage to be done. Something she had forgotten about were some of the floating branches that were also picked up. Oops.

His eyes went wide as he saw the veritable plethora of somewhat lethal objects flying his direction and the best he managed to do was to release his chakra from standing on the water and throw himself down. It wasn't fast enough to avoid being picked up, but at least most of the debris didn't hit him even as he was sent tumbling over the surface of the water.

Ow.

She watched as he was picked up in the whirlwind and lifted an arm. Half of her remaining clones flew out of the trees to catch and restrain him.

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