She wasn't surprised he dodged her. In truth,she was confident if she actually succeeded at using her deadlier jutsu on him she'd end up in a prison cell, rather than in line for a promotion.
Unfortunately she was stuck, because he wasn't giving her the leeway to use her less deadly jutsu, and she couldn't exactly use genjutsu instead. Not only would it not work on someone like him, but that would give away the nature of her training with Shisui to the Hokage.
Him dropping to the ground was to her advantage, at least. She jumped backward off of the branch she'd been on, to increase the distance between them and so that she would land on the ground eventually, and flung a kunai down to the ground slightly ahead of him.
He could dodge it if he wanted to. When the kunai connected with the ground, the earth would explode outward, shredding apart in (what she felt was) an impressively large and deep fissure in every direction. The epicenter was from the kunai, and the edges were still jagged (if at least sheer), but...as a whole, the long distance version of that jutsu was much improved by using a kunai as a makeshift chakra blade like Sasuke had suggested.
An actual chakra blade would have been more effective, but she didn't see the point when the move was imperfect. Still, there was a chance she might catch him in the sudden sinkhole by surprise. If he did fall in it, she'd land on the ground only a moment or two later to seal the earth around him again.
If not she'd...deal with whatever he did instead. Yes.
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Unfortunately she was stuck, because he wasn't giving her the leeway to use her less deadly jutsu, and she couldn't exactly use genjutsu instead. Not only would it not work on someone like him, but that would give away the nature of her training with Shisui to the Hokage.
Him dropping to the ground was to her advantage, at least. She jumped backward off of the branch she'd been on, to increase the distance between them and so that she would land on the ground eventually, and flung a kunai down to the ground slightly ahead of him.
He could dodge it if he wanted to. When the kunai connected with the ground, the earth would explode outward, shredding apart in (what she felt was) an impressively large and deep fissure in every direction. The epicenter was from the kunai, and the edges were still jagged (if at least sheer), but...as a whole, the long distance version of that jutsu was much improved by using a kunai as a makeshift chakra blade like Sasuke had suggested.
An actual chakra blade would have been more effective, but she didn't see the point when the move was imperfect. Still, there was a chance she might catch him in the sudden sinkhole by surprise. If he did fall in it, she'd land on the ground only a moment or two later to seal the earth around him again.
If not she'd...deal with whatever he did instead. Yes.