[h3][color=ed1c24]Kojiro[/color][/h3]

Kojiro felt something profoundly wrong as he felt his technique go off without so much as a hitch, other than he himself being dragged into it. If something had blocked it, as he had expected, the blank space would have given it away on the earth, and Zume wouldn't have just gone unresisting. That man was too strong for that.

Above him his tessen fell, right towards him.

[color=ed1c24][i] Finally, some relief, I couldn't hold this technique as strong as it is for much longer as I am [/i][/color]

Kojiro glanced upward, though he couldn't see Zume at his current height he saw the wind disrupting the dust slightly above him, though the technique was too well held together in it's X to be merely blown away, though a hole that quickly reformed itself was left in it's wake. Was Zume that far above him? That seemed impressive. Kojiro couldn't even see him, but the details of where the gust was gave him a good idea of the direction of the man at least, still above him.

[color=ed1c24][i] Oh good, I don't have to maintain control of the technique, it's headed upward anyways. I don't have to changed direction or anything[/i]
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Kojiro snapped the tessen out the air with his dominant hand, and swung it at his feet, freeing himself from the suction of his own technique, starting to fall out the air. 

Kojiro continued falling along it as the Spear came at him. Again he filled his tessen with chakra, and slammed it forward with such precise timing that it reflected how long he had spent with the weapon. As soon as the spear touched the chakra, he snapped it open, causing it to violent be flung to the side, seperating the force that drove it in two, and sending it flying to left, straight into the dust X technique, if Kojiro was lucky, sandblasting it to oblivion. He quickly shut his fan again, ready for more projectiles as he fell. 

Kojiro's eyes dimmed, turning back to brown, with no red underlining, and his sword changed from a red ito to a black one. Around him, silver dust started to gather, leaving guiding the technique and slowly regathering into his blade once more.

The technique itself was still held together by the massive volume of chakra in it, and it's direction, continuing it's upward course. It was probably going to reach a few miles in the air before it stopped. It did however stop growing. The ground stopped feeding it, leaving a massive crater from where the technique had shot out of the ground. It slowly spread dust in the air around the area, still coated in his chakra. The X took up 1/2 a mile across, and 3/4 a mile long. It was no longer under Kojiro's control however. Kojiro shook his head at the thought. He wished he could reenter Sage mode in an instant. 

[color=ed1c24]"And so the hunter becomes the hunted."[/color]