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| - A fortress with the Uchiha clan symbol on it sat in the middle of a forest deep in the mountain ranges on the borders of the Land of Mountains and the Land of Wind. Riyan Uchiha was sitting on the spire overlooking the forested valley below his lonely home. The wind blew through his hair. It had been over a year and a half ago he had gone into this exile. It was time to emerge once more. Down in the valley, a masked female ninja was travelling towards a destination unspesified. The same wind that met Riyan's hair also played with the black locks of the lady, who was no else than the second-in-command of the Masked Shadows, the lady of mystery, Kitsunekamen. But she hadn't noticed Riyan standing above the valley... However, Riyan had spotted the woman in a clearing about twenty kilometers from his fortress. "She'll be my first warm up before I head off to find the others." he thought to himself. Riyan dropped from the spire onto the roof of his bunker, ran to the edge and leaped into the forest below. He then hid himself in a tall tree nearby, lying it wait. However, Kitsunekamen wasn't a ninja easily ambushed. Moments before she came to Riyan's reach, she stopped. "Ok, you behind the tree. You have been spotted, so it's pointless to hide. Show yourself." There was the sound of a twig snapping, as Riyan appeared behind the woman. His black haori flapped loudly as a gust of wind blew through the valley. He turned to face her, "Forgive me for my intrusion. You are the first visitor here since I myself came here a year and a half ago. What are your intentions here?" he asked in his low voice. The dark feelingless eyeholes of the fox mask quietly answered to Riyan's gaze. "My intentions? What gives you the idea that I would just tell them to you straight away? Now... if that was everything, stand away from my path." Riyan gazed back with a hard, soulless gaze. His Sharingan swiveled into view. "I will not. This one will not move until your intentions are stated." he replied harshly. Kitsunekamen tilted her head slightly and laid her hand on the hilt of his katana. "Fine then. Cutting down some tall grass on my path", she said, drawing her katana, "has never proven to be too much trouble." Riyan reached under his haori and drew his own katana, "You're cocky." he started, his Sharingan giving off a fierce glow, "You should not use such words. They do not serve you well." From the eyehole of Kitsunekame's mask, a short glimpse of the red iris of her Akashogan flashed, when she vanished of sight, quickly reappearing behind Riyun's back while making a slight move to send the tip of her blade straight towards Riyan's back. Riyan caught her movement with his Sharingan and whirled around, catching her blade with his own and shoving it away. "A killing thrust for the first attack...not a good idea." he chimed as he formed a Dog hand seal, "Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere!" he cried, firing dozens of razor sharp balls of wind at the woman. Kitsunekamen quickly used her Fox Steps to carry herself out of the attack's path. "You certainly have to make your jutsu faster than that if you actually want to touch me with them." Making a few hand seals, she then announced: "Fire Release: Abolishing Flames." Riyan's Sharingan again caught sight of the flames, "Fire Release: Running Fire!" he shouted, firing off a stream of fire to cancel out the attacking jutsu. "Cleaver. Your attack can appear out of nowhere. Anyone without a proper set of reflexes or my eyes would've been hit by that." he analyzed, as his fire release formed a circle around the two combatants, "You have to be more cunning with me. I saw tricks like that during the Third Great Shinobi War." "I admit your skills with the Sharingan are great. But I am trained by Kurokamen-sama himself to use the power of the Akashogan eye", she said, now taking off her mask. "And I'm still telling you - you should increase your attack speed if you wish to catch me. Power won't do you any good if your attacks can't catch the opponent - that lesson you should also have learnt from the war." Riyan managed a small grin, "Very well. I'll speed things up; Wind Release: Vacuum Great Sphere!" he declared, firing a large, speedy ball of razor sharp wind directly at the woman and crouched down to prepare for the next move. Faster than the eye could see Kitsunekamen reacted. "Blaze Release: Beheading Fox", she announced, swinging her katana. On the path of the swing black flames erupted. Riyan's eyes swiveled into the Mangekyo Sharingan and veins coursed through his eyes, causing the black flames to get put out before his eyes turned back to normal Sharingan, "That technique will never work on an Uchiha with a Mangekyo." he spat, leaping up on a tree limb, "Fire Release: Phoenix Immortal Fire Technique!" he shouted, spewing flame balls in every direction. "Low level techniques such as that are useless at this point of the battle, Uchiha", said Kitsunekamen, her voice turning even darker than before. Her body became enveloped in a strong shroud of dark chakra that dissolved all the fireballs that hit her. "Even with the Mangekyo Sharingan you are still a human... but I am beyond human."
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