Rin grunted as she slid through a mass of falling dirt that previously made up a clone of Akio just before Seth and barely managed to avoid his rock biter jutsu. [color=fff200]“Of course.”[/color] She whispered to herself as she stood up looking in the direction from which the shout came. Even though Akio was obscured by the woods her byakugan had no issues locating him. At this point she was thankful her initial plan worked out. Both the shadow clone and lightning based jutsu used very little of her chakra reserve. She had failed to notice the real Akio with her byakugan amidst the chaos of combat. But she knew that mistake would not be made twice as she now focused at least some of her attention on watching the forest constantly. She scanned it for other shadow clones or to see if this was another shadow clone. She compared both ‘Akio’s’ chakra levels to see if there was any difference which would be indicative of which was the real one and which was the clone. She also checked underground for more clones and she also took note of one of the Akios who was attacking her shadow clone. She immediately dispelled it rather than leaving it to fight the other clone, intending to further conserve chakra.

As Seth recklessly rushed forward to attack Akio, Rin could do nothing but grin at his hotheadedness and rush towards Akio in his shadow. She considered using him as distraction for another of her attacks but as the Kirigakure shinobi took the lead Rin realized he would provide a far better distraction. She took position on a tree to the left of Akio as the savage slime was about to hit and threw another series of, this time, regular shuriken. She would then use the body flicker technique to move to Akio’s right and attack at the same moment her own shuriken would hit. She also would make sure to attack at such an angle that if Akio would dodge her taijutsu attack her shuriken wouldn’t hit her instead.