Fight (4).

Since Satsuki was tired, that made things easier for me since her failure rate became visible, I would only need one well-delivered blow and all this would be over.

Then as time passed very quickly it happened, there came a moment where she misstepped and her fist deviated from her path.

'Now!'

Then I clenched my fist and punched forward in the direction of her face, when she tried to move her face to her side my fist would reach her chin connecting a blow that would leave her incapacitated.

Just as she was about to hit Satsuki suddenly her mind trembles along with her thoughts causing him to also miss her hit.

Satsuki, who was quite agitated, took the opportunity reflexively and attacked with her kunai that she had in her other hand and incredibly managed to cut Yuu who seemed impossible to touch.

*sslt* The kunai holding a shallow short knife on the chest part of her.

A drop of blood fell on Satsuki's face causing her to snap out of her stupor.

Yuu who had strong vitality takes a big jump back.

She clutches at her chest as she feels her mind rumbling.

'What-' I look in front of me in bewilderment.

I watch drops of blood fall to the floor while I feel the taste and smell of iron on my tongue and nose.

I quickly direct my chakra to utilize energy from nature.

A warm current runs through my body, beginning to close the hemorrhages in my chest.

When I regained a space to breathe I realized that something was dripping from my nose, I touched my nose and sure enough there was dark red blood coming out of there.

'Wow, it seems like I overestimated myself too much' I thought my body would hold out quite a bit and I was probably right but I forgot the fact that my brain is not made of muscles.

Muscles can always be trained by making them stronger over time but internal organs generally cannot, they cannot be strengthened like muscles, they have another, more specific means of strengthening.

Now I can understand why I couldn't look further with the Haki, my brain in charge of processing all that prevented me from doing so.

Thinking this I feel a little depressed, even so he raised his head forward, I am in the middle of a fight, it would be a danger to me and disrespectful to my opponent to leave the fight after all the little speech I gave a while ago.

When I finish thinking, a light layer of wood under my clothes has covered my chest, enveloping the long wound inside it, thanks to this I can stand up without worrying that the wound will open when I exert force.

Although the healing energy of the wood style is still limited in effectiveness, after all my energy is not trained or focused on healing.

A few more drops of blood run down my nose until the arteries inside my nose close.

I wipe the blood off by muddying my clothes.

'The effects of wearing the rings should come soon, it's time to finish this'

I take a deep breath and turn my attention to Satsuki who is breathing heavily.

She is now less agitated than before but she still takes a few breaths of air, the continuous confrontation has exhausted her too much, most likely that last attack was something desperate that not even she thought would work.

Satsuki feels the situation with hopelessness, although Yuu seems to be in bad shape after having dumped all that blood, he still shows no signs of tiredness.

Now that this monster has risen again the last hope of winning has vanished.

I bend my legs a little and jump forward.

Satsuki on the other side reacts quickly and decides to abandon the defense and counterattack.

The 'fight' will be decided in the next move.

She has a branch in her hand but I don't care about it, I stiffen my left fist to block this attack, I will finish this fight with my right fist.

As it is currently it is not a problem for me.

And as I had predicted, he deflected his attack with the kunai and hit his abdomen with my right hand.

*impact* *water*

My fist sinks into her stomach, knocking the air out of her in one movement.

She then flings herself a couple of meters away as she rolls across the grass.

I maintain my position where I hit it.

I relax my body and deactivate the concentration ring when I see Satsuki trying to stand up.

I won, not the way I wanted but a win is a win.

When I deactivate the vitality ring I feel the feeling of tiredness begin to invade me.

"gA- AH- ah- ah hah ha- aUn I haven't lost-" She murmurs those words as she shakily stands on her legs.

I look at him sighing a little at her tenacity.

"Look at you, you barely stand on your legs, you should know when you should give up you know" I say my words with a kind intention, it is foolish to force something that is out of your reach like I did a moment ago, I knew that I was not going to achieve anything by forcing my limits so far.

She hears my words but she is not moved by them, although she still clutches her abdomen and she has difficulty breathing she still makes an effort to speak.

"Hah ah hah- Never" She expresses her refusal with those simple words as she looks at me with a firm and determined look.

I frown upon hearing those words, the Satsuki I know would never say those words.

"Where did you learn that from? I know you and I know that you are someone intelligent and you know your limits, you wouldn't say that"

"A friend taught it to me-" she says slowly with a smile.

She froze me for a moment and then smiled wryly.

I shake my head in response.

'There's no use in thinking like a stubborn mule.' I don't bother talking because I can tell from her look that she's not going to give in to anything.

"Well, I'll teach you what you should do when it's time, forcing something will only bring harm to yourself." I confidently clench my fist to end this once and for all.

I prepare to boost myself with soru once again, I noticed that during this time we were talking she secretly made some seals.

I don't care with them because it won't do any good anyway even if she hits me with fire jutsu, I just have to dodge it.

Then I take a deep breath and jump forward.

Then my eyes widen a little as I felt something stick to my skin, or should I say when something got tangled around my skin.

I am momentarily surprised and even more so as I watch Satsuki raise a hand on the tiger seal, a flare of fire being directed by the metal threads.

I don't lose my cool and prepare to jump up with Soru but just at that moment I felt my mind and vision tremble again, a drop of blood slid down my nose.

Because of this I lost a valuable second I did not have time to prepare to jump again so I no longer had time to escape through the air and instead I began to cover myself with hardening starting from the face (to protect his eyes which would be the most affected by fire).

Then I cover myself with my arms...

thooomm!

Because the fire was redirected by the threads that were around me I had a layer of flames covering me.

So at the time I had the hardening I cast a low water level jutsu that was very short and weak but would also help me suppress some of the fire.

Then a strange mixture happened where the fire turned into steam at the same time as it disappeared.

Then the scene fell silent, I had long since thrown myself on the ground to prevent half of my body from being intact.

You can see a large part of my clothes wet and ash, the blisters are seen in some parts of my body, the hardening covered a large part of my body but I still have not managed to cover my entire body so I have some first and second burns degree.

'I think he was a little careless in deactivating my rings, if I had had them all then I wouldn't have been so slow in activating my abilities although I don't know if my body would have been able to withstand the rings any longer.'

If I had deactivated the resistance ring then I wouldn't have even been able to defend myself.

I get up with difficulty.

Satsuki on the other side is no better than me, she has completely run out of chakra so even moving is difficult for her.

I approach her tiredly.

In her eyes, I'm probably here to finish this in one fell swoop.

She desperately tries to get up but she can't this time, she has reached her limit.

For my part, I still have enough energy so I approach her.

As she began to prepare for the next move she feels a hand on her head instead of a blow.

"Hey?" She opens her eyes confused.