A kunai went flying a few inches away a very guarded Laiz as he further traced the direction and angle of the trajectory after less than a second after dodging the first.

Laiz's eyes widened.

With chakra rejuvenating his legs, he forcefully shot to the opposite direction.

On his previous spot was a few kunai planted firmly on the soil. Had he not moved as he did, it would have been planted on his body..

Laiz's acceleration led him sliding away from his previous location.

His attention focused on the figure swiftly leaping from one tree to another. He let out a smile as dust slowly gathered around him, If anyone were to look closer they would see a blue electrical current flowing in his knife sharp eyes.

His figure was quickly engulfed in a cloud of dust caused by friction from his slide.

The other figure squinted his eyes at the soil below Laiz.

'The terrain shouldn't be generating that much dust.. Could it be an Earth jutsu?' These calculations were quickly made by the figure as he continued hopping from tree to tree.

As a veteran shinobi he couldn't look past even at the smallest details, he knew from personal experiences that it could make the biggest difference in a fight. And he wasn't gonna discard this mentality even if he were to fight against genins.

'How sharp..' Laiz had clearly seen the figure's gaze and couldn't help but be silently shocked at the quick observations made. According to the show, the residents of this world shouldn't have a major difference in brain power. Yet the speed of the calculations from the figure should reach close to half his current intelligence.

Which was ridiculous as even half of his intelligence vastly towered over the average. The only conclusion he can make at that was experience.

'I'm fighting against Kakashi. Now, Focus' Laiz quickly repressed his amazement and prepared to attack his opponent, Kakashi.

Laiz increased the amount of chakra dispertion toward the ground, which effectively covered a large area in dust.

Laiz considered achieving the same result using his elemental affinity but, his current method was less taxing on his chakra reserve and let him focus on his elemental senses clearer.

Which was his only eyes at the moment. This was an advantage. All he had to do was close off the flow of his chakra system and he would be undetected even to sensor type shinobis'.

Had anyone else in this world heard this method, they would straight away call it suicidal.

That was because of the role chakra plays in this world. Unlike Laiz's chakra, this world's residences are connected with chakra to a deeper physical level. That's why closing off the flow of chakra would mean death. Each organ would stop functioning including the brain a few minutes after closing off it off and eventually death would come.

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Laiz smiled, knowing full well that Kakashi was probably flustered and disturbed from the sudden disappearance of his presence.

And from what he saw from his Elemental Senses, his guess was spot on.

To an experienced shinobi, not knowing the enemies' exact location was probably a common scenario but they were always able to sense their general presence subconsciously or not.

Laiz had to hand it to Kakashi though, he may have been shocked for some time but he was able to keep his eyes on the dust and remain cautious. The forging of vigilance and patience clearly reflected his current action.

'That's fine' Laiz threw a few shurikens and kunais with his eyes closed, fully relying on his Elemental Senses.

The weapons flew straight into the figure who blocked and dodged all of it.

He didn't have a chance to even glance at where it came from as more came his way.

'How does he know where i am?' The figure kept jumping from tree to tree but was unable to get away from the kunais and shurikens range.

'A thought for later, right now.. I can either rush him now or wait until his supplies run out. I'll wait' Kakashi decided to wait it out before rushing Laiz.

Just after this decision came three kunai headed straight towards Kakashi. He first blocked the one heading for his throat and quickly sped up to dodge the other two.

He sensed another three, this time shurikens heading towards his eyes and chest. He prepared his kunai to block all shurikens as he waited.

Kakashi was in the middle of blocking the shurikens when he felt a familiar sense of danger that he relied on throughout his career to escape death.

He widened his eyes before performing the body replacement jutsu out of instinct.

A puff of smoke covered the previous figure's spot as a log of wood got hit by the weapons in place of Kakashi

Crouched in another, Kakashi narrowed his eye at a lone kunai hitting the log at the back a second after the shurikens.

'When had he..' Even as he scanned for other projectiles, he still had enough composure to assess the previous situation.

Flashes of the previous three kunai hit him as he remembered the flawless control Itachi had towards shurikenjutsu.

'The three kunais!' The figure quickly caught on with the trick and was unsupringly shocked at Laiz's Shurikenjutsu.

Laiz himself remained stoic at the unsuccessful attack. That alone had taken a lot of computing power for his brain to analyze the velocity, angle, force and timing his kunais had to follow for it to clash against each other for one to head towards the figure's back just as he focused on the shurikens.

Not to mention his plans which was backed up by the different possible outcomes.

'Itachi was a monster..' Laiz couldn't help but admire the character which performed this level of Shurikenjutsu with human intellect. It was obviously boiled down to practise but it was still amazing.

Knowing a technique was something, but to perform it was something else on its own.

Back to his situation, he had no more kunais or shurikens.

'Should i use justsu or fight close... I'll take close combat' Had this been a much more serious fight, he would have kept his distance and used more lethal jutsus, but this was a test. He threw enough points to show he was effective in long ranges. Literally.

With that decision, he made his chakra flow through his body once again. He would need it.

The figure quickly realised he could sense Laiz's general direction once more, however he had no chance to actually execute a plan of action as Laiz suddenly rushed out of the dust to confront him.

With chakra flowing through his body, Laiz quickly covered the distance between them.

As Laiz reached the figure, he strenghtened his right hand while he prepared to send a punch.

'Thats too predictable, his form is too unbalanced as well..' The figure narrowed his eyes, already in a stance to counter the punch.

Laiz swiftly threw the punch while the figure stretched his hand to redirect it.

The figure sensed something amiss once again, however he had not time to figure out what was wrong before the punch hit the...

Air?