[center][color=#121212][h3][U][B]Kaiu Iouchiryo[/B] – [I]Kurohasu[/I][/U][/h3][/color][h3][sub][i]Close Quarters[/i][/sub][/h3][/center][hr]
Noticing the swiftness with which her quarry responded, Kaiu began to suspect that he was more than he seemed. Not a simple martial artist, but something else, especially considering the chakra she noted gathering to the man's whim. With her weapon swept towards her back she followed its momentum, turning her body so that she faced him as he completed his turn and tried to begin his palm strike. Reading his movements in an instant, Kaiu took a step forwards and to her right slightly, avoiding his strike by ducking under it. Then, as she took her step forwards not only did she slash with her wakizashi, so as to distract his staff, but she also slammed her left wrist, hand angled downwards to turn it into a point, into the space opposite his elbow, her strike moving sideways somewhat. This, if it connected, would likely cause his right arm to move to his right somewhat, likely bending in alignment with the wrist in the process.

As she preformed these actions she created an axis of non-physical, and thus invisible, chakra just in front of herself, near her neck. It began to pull chakra towards itself, though the effect remained invisible as it did so.