Fusion of Forces: Remnant's Maelstrom

Needing time to reorient herself with the increased strength and come up with a battle plan, the redhead warrior attempted to give herself some breathing room by shoving Naruto and his shakujo aside with her shield. She followed this up by quickly shifting Miló into its rifle form and firing a succession of bullets aimed at the Kyūbi container's abdomen.

Again Pyrrha was caught flat footed when, in a show of grace, Naruto easily spun out of the way of the bullets and shoved a palm into her sternum. Her mind had no time to comprehend what happened in the next few seconds and the next thing she knew was that she had a lovely view of the ceiling and was struggling to get air into her lungs.

A minute or so later, and having finally managed to get some much needed oxygen into her system, the green eyed teen struggled to her feet, using Miló as a crutch.

"You wanted me to fight at the level I did on the pier. It's only gonna get harder from here on in," Naruto twirled his staff.

Only now was Pyrrha realizing what she was up against. She always had an inkling that her whiskered captain was holding back in their fights and that he was far stronger than he let on. To be fair she wasn't going all out either, not having used her Semblance yet and it seemed that Naruto knew this and was hinting that to even pose a challenge, she would have to give it her all.

Using her Aura to numb the pain until it was a dull throb, Pyrrha looked up with her light green eyes gaining their own edge to them. Smirking as the red head readied herself for another round, Naruto rushed to meet her, intent on making his partner take this seriously.

Swinging his shakujo with an almost casual ease, the blond Uzumaki raised a brow as instead of blocking the strike with her shield, Pyrrha had instead opted to catch the blunt weapon with Miló in short sword form.

Feeling Hi no Ishi suddenly gain what felt like several hundred pounds, Naruto realized too late what was happening and received Akoúo to the face for his troubles.

Pyrrha expected to hear the harsh crack of bone breaking, but was instead met with a face full of smoke. Waving away the small grey cloud, the redhead was shocked to see a grinning Naruto casually twirling his staff, looking like he had never moved from his spot.

Already knowing that his sparring partner would be extremely curious as to how he had managed to escape a hit that would have broken his jaw and nose, Naruto moulded his chakra into the needed form and without the need for seals, summoned a doppelgänger who stood at his side, the same grin stretching across its own whiskered cheeks.

"This is my signature technique, Kage Bunshin no jutsu, which roughly translates to Shadow Clone technique. It lets me create as many copies of myself as I want and each is more than capable of dealing out some damage. But, they can only take a single hit before popping, which I still haven't figured out how to fix."

While Naruto was no doubt leaving out a lot of the more technical aspects of the technique, Pyrrha understood the gist of it. Her captain could clone himself at will and, while highly brittle, they were armed with the same knowledge as the original. The only question now was how strong were they in comparison to their creator.

Her analytical mind already racing, the young Huntress in training theorized that it was highly unlikely that they were just as strong as their creator, as not only would that defy at least ten different laws of nature and physics, but it would also be highly unfair.

However Naruto had said that it was his signature technique which meant he no doubt could control how strong each copy was along with all of the other aspects of.

In the end this just meant this spar was going to be a lot harder than she first thought.

Seeing as how Pyrrha had decided to start using her Semblance, and with the hardened glint in her eye, Naruto knew that he was about to find out how his friend had earned the title of "The Invincible Girl".

Then again he wasn't called "Konoha's Most Surprising Ninja" for nothing either.

"Your Semblance is really impressive Naruto," Pyrrha said as she wiped her face of the dirt and grime that had been the result of her spar with her friend and captain.

The blond leader of NNPR only rose a brow, "Says the girl who can control metal."

Having never seen his partner use her Semblance seriously, he had been surprised to find out that she could control it to a great enough degree that she could almost close the gap between them. If she wanted to slow him down all she had to do was make his weapon, kunai, or his other hidden ninja gear weigh a hundred pounds or more. If she needed to avoid a swing, she could just "push" him away by using the same method.

She could even direct her own weapons with her control over Polarity and use Akoúo as a sort of heat seeking frisbee of death.

In a world full of metal, Pyrrha's Semblance was almost unfairly powerful.

But still even she had her limits. Naruto had found that the red headed warrior needed to "tag" the item she wanted to control either by touching it or having it be within a small area around herself, the latter being far more taxing as she needed to exert her Aura outwards which took quite a bit of concentration and effort.

The other problem was her Aura reserve. She didn't have an endless supply of the stuff and while running out of Aura could not cause one to collapse or even die, it did leave the user fatigued.

Even still, Pyrrha seemed to know her limits very well and was good at planning out her moves, even in the heat of battle which combined with her own natural talent and skill and her almost hax level Semblance made for a rather deadly combination.

"Fair enough, but I can't create an almost endless supply of corporeal clones or use wind as a weapon," the sweaty teen replied.

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