They obviously had a breakdown in communication somehow. She'd come into the fight with the expectation that he'd be testing her skill with the blade, but instead she found an increasingly agitated Hokage demanding something of her that she couldn't give.
Whatever it was he wanted.
She caught the flurry of weapons with her own blade, quick and efficient, but she was stuck in a defensive posture. At the start of the fight, she'd expected it would be easier to counter his attacks than attempt to land an attack while he was waiting for it, but--nothing she did was landing. All she really had left was genjutsu and attacks that, even if she didn't hit him dead on, would seriously injure or kill.
He couldn't expect her to use those against him. It went against her nature to try to kill someone who was on her side.
Maybe, if she just...
If she could get him to be distracted or hold still or--
This close she could tell even through the goggles he didn't have his sharingan activated. (Not that she'd meant to look but--the angle made it impossible not to see in passing) Still, it did give her an idea. A bad idea, but something she was willing to try. As close as he was, it would be almost impossible to craft a counter jutsu in time to prevent it from happening at all.
Chakra flared along her blade once more in excess of what was required to reinforce the blade, but this time it wasn't in the format of a mud trap. Instead, she used it as an easy conduit, her blade, his blade, his chakra network. It would be much quicker than the mud attack, and allow her to activate at least a simple genjutsu--like infinite fall--without taking the time to make complex hand signs (which she didn't have time for) or attempting to get the distance that would allow her to form complex hand signs (which would allow him to prepare and resist)
It was a thing she learned from her mentor: genjutsu at its most basic was seizing control of your opponent's chakra network and manipulating ot to change their perception. At its simplest, only contact of chakra and chakra network was necessary to activate one. Complicated hand signs were for transferring chakra long distance, and for crafting complex genjutsu that knotted up chakra networks in specific and difficult to detect or escape manners.
She didn't need difficult though, just moments to attack--
no subject
Whatever it was he wanted.
She caught the flurry of weapons with her own blade, quick and efficient, but she was stuck in a defensive posture. At the start of the fight, she'd expected it would be easier to counter his attacks than attempt to land an attack while he was waiting for it, but--nothing she did was landing. All she really had left was genjutsu and attacks that, even if she didn't hit him dead on, would seriously injure or kill.
He couldn't expect her to use those against him. It went against her nature to try to kill someone who was on her side.
Maybe, if she just...
If she could get him to be distracted or hold still or--
This close she could tell even through the goggles he didn't have his sharingan activated. (Not that she'd meant to look but--the angle made it impossible not to see in passing) Still, it did give her an idea. A bad idea, but something she was willing to try. As close as he was, it would be almost impossible to craft a counter jutsu in time to prevent it from happening at all.
Chakra flared along her blade once more in excess of what was required to reinforce the blade, but this time it wasn't in the format of a mud trap. Instead, she used it as an easy conduit, her blade, his blade, his chakra network. It would be much quicker than the mud attack, and allow her to activate at least a simple genjutsu--like infinite fall--without taking the time to make complex hand signs (which she didn't have time for) or attempting to get the distance that would allow her to form complex hand signs (which would allow him to prepare and resist)
It was a thing she learned from her mentor: genjutsu at its most basic was seizing control of your opponent's chakra network and manipulating ot to change their perception. At its simplest, only contact of chakra and chakra network was necessary to activate one. Complicated hand signs were for transferring chakra long distance, and for crafting complex genjutsu that knotted up chakra networks in specific and difficult to detect or escape manners.
She didn't need difficult though, just moments to attack--