Izu was prepared for a fight, but instead Seth saw through Rin's manipulation and challenged her to a fight. He wanted to object, but there was no stopping the match and he had to just watch. Seth was full of confidence as usual and Izu expected the same reckless attacks that he had seen Seth make before. But to his surprise Seth instead used a shadow clone to go in and attack Rin at close quarters, it looked like the chuunin had learned something. Izu was still confident in Rin's capability in handling her opponent since she was a user of the famous Kekkai Genkai the byakugan.

He watched Rin use her gentle fists on the clone and then moved to attack what she thought was Seth, but it turned out to be a scarecrow with a bit of his chakra on it. Impressive, Izu thought and watched as Seth came out of the ground and threw three kunai knives at the Hyuga shinobi. He was impressed by Rin's speed in maneuvering around the clone and having it hit by the knives instead of her. It looked like she was about to close the distance, but Seth made his Rock Bitter erupt out of the ground. It was strange seeing an earth technique take the form of an aquatic animal, but it was interesting. He saw that Seth used the jutsu as a way of propelling himself into the air.


He was trying to keep his distance, Izu thought to himself and continued to watch the fight go on, but he could see that the chuunin was running low on chakra when he used his Earth style: Rock Viper Jutsu. Rin had played it smart and used his chakra conservatively, she was now in the position to possibly defeat Seth.


[i]“How’s your chakra doing?” [/i] Izu heard her say and he couldn't help but chuckle at the comment. Seth didn't seem to have very big chakra reserves and that was a weakness that his enemies would exploit if he didn't fix it soon. He then watched as Rin came at the Earth technique with a lightning style jutsu, which was the element's weakness. Only Seth found some way to get his chakra back up Izu couldn't see him winning this fight. It looked like his rush to prove something to Rin had blown up in his face and he was now going to pay the price for his brash actions.

"This fight's over" he said out loud, though he was speaking more to himself than to Hayashi.