...She'd point out that she was certain he asked for her kenjutsu the day before, but it worried her a little bit that it might segue back to that conversation in general. And there wasn't really a place for argument while sparring...or testing, which this was much closer to.
In truth, perhaps she was better considering it a test than anything else, but without knowing exactly what he wanted out of her, that made it difficult to know what to highlight or focus on.
There were at least a few techniques she could use with her jutsu that weren't deadly, though, and they would aid her efforts to actually land a strike (or force him to parry or strike back) on him. If he refused to attack her, she had no other choice but to concede and leave, or to continue pointless attacks that really did nothing for displaying her abilities and went against her instincts to a frustrating degree.
She inclined her head slightly, considering him a moment, then. She wouldn't concede. That would be a disservice to her master and whatever he'd said to the Hokage to convince him to test her. Even if she was found wanting, to not try would be an insult to him.
Thus, once again she summoned a burst of chakra to aid her speed and charged ahead. Not at the hokage this time, however, but over him. It was more indirect to leap over him and then sprint into the trees behind him, but if she'd simply run, the disturbance of the air would have given away which direction she went. And, of course, she chose to run past him, rather than anywhere else, because from what she understood of the Sharingan, he still needed to be looking in her direction for it to do him any good, even if he were to choose to activate it.
Thus, it would give her time to activate her jutsu, hidden among the branches of a large tree. It took longer, hiding in the tree, than if she'd simply been on the ground, but she felt it was a necessary strategy all the same against someone like him. In the tree, she could perform her signs, and then place her palm against the trunk, summoning a slim core of earth to cut through it and down to the ground.
There were few times this particular trick had any real use, but hiding in a tree was one. The tree hid her connection to the ground, and thus allowed her to manipulate earth as if she were on ground level, touching the ground, but in a place her opponent shouldn't suspect.
It was, of course, a failsafe, though. Ideally her jutsu would actually work, two thick walls of earth rising from the ground on other side of him, too tight to allow him to move at all, but far enough not to do him harm innately, and leave him open for any follow up attack she wished.
She expected it was far more likely he'd dodge that, however, and thus keeping her position hidden so that she could continue to try to capture him with earth was much more important than the initial attack.
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In truth, perhaps she was better considering it a test than anything else, but without knowing exactly what he wanted out of her, that made it difficult to know what to highlight or focus on.
There were at least a few techniques she could use with her jutsu that weren't deadly, though, and they would aid her efforts to actually land a strike (or force him to parry or strike back) on him. If he refused to attack her, she had no other choice but to concede and leave, or to continue pointless attacks that really did nothing for displaying her abilities and went against her instincts to a frustrating degree.
She inclined her head slightly, considering him a moment, then. She wouldn't concede. That would be a disservice to her master and whatever he'd said to the Hokage to convince him to test her. Even if she was found wanting, to not try would be an insult to him.
Thus, once again she summoned a burst of chakra to aid her speed and charged ahead. Not at the hokage this time, however, but over him. It was more indirect to leap over him and then sprint into the trees behind him, but if she'd simply run, the disturbance of the air would have given away which direction she went. And, of course, she chose to run past him, rather than anywhere else, because from what she understood of the Sharingan, he still needed to be looking in her direction for it to do him any good, even if he were to choose to activate it.
Thus, it would give her time to activate her jutsu, hidden among the branches of a large tree. It took longer, hiding in the tree, than if she'd simply been on the ground, but she felt it was a necessary strategy all the same against someone like him. In the tree, she could perform her signs, and then place her palm against the trunk, summoning a slim core of earth to cut through it and down to the ground.
There were few times this particular trick had any real use, but hiding in a tree was one. The tree hid her connection to the ground, and thus allowed her to manipulate earth as if she were on ground level, touching the ground, but in a place her opponent shouldn't suspect.
It was, of course, a failsafe, though. Ideally her jutsu would actually work, two thick walls of earth rising from the ground on other side of him, too tight to allow him to move at all, but far enough not to do him harm innately, and leave him open for any follow up attack she wished.
She expected it was far more likely he'd dodge that, however, and thus keeping her position hidden so that she could continue to try to capture him with earth was much more important than the initial attack.