The first battle - Gaining of the animal path

Ryuu headed for the Training grounds where a ninja from another village had come to challenge him for his title of Hebunagakure.

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Once he finally got to the north gate he nodded to the guards and walked over to 'training area 6'. "I see you've made it..." Maiki said. "Yes i have, are you ready?" Maiki's only responce was to nod and remove the cloak she was wearing revealing the basic leaf village training outfit with its only difference being long sleaves that come past both her hands and one other thing, she was a teenage girl, not a adult male like he predicted. "Holy shit.." Ryuu whispered to himself as Maiki began a set of hand seals.

"Hidden snake hands" Maiki growled as ten snakes shot out of the sleave on her left arm. Caught of guard Ryuu wasn't able to dodge them all and four of them where able to wrap themselves around his arms, two for each wrist. "Your much slower then i expected..." Maiki said as she took a few steps towards ryuu until she was face to face with him. Ryuu grinned, "eat this b*itch." He growled, as his hands began crackling with his white lightnign chakra which do to the snakes being wraped around his wrists, the current continued though the snakes and into Maiki's body from her hands.

"You ass!" Maiki screamed as the snakes fell to the ground burnt to a crisp, she jumped back a few times while doing handseals, [color=red]Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!" She yelled as she shot a large amount of fire from her mouth at Ryuu. With a smirk Ryuu's eyes began to glow as the large ball of fire came flying at him. "Violent Water Wave" Ryuu growled as he was doing hand seals then brought his right hand up to his mouth and shot a large stream of water at the fireball. When the fire and water conected they canceled each other out filling the entire area with mist. "Perfect.." Ryuu said with a smirk on his face as he preformed a snother set of handseals "Shadow clone jutsu" he said as several clones appeared next to him second before they all walked in a circle surrounding Maiki.

"Its time you lost maiki....oh and just a note...i hope you enjoy being my path.." All of the clones and Ryuu said at the same time. "No!!!!" Maiki screamed as all of the clones and Ryuu ran towards Maiki "Hiraishin(Sparking Electric Needle)" they all said as they jabbed at Maiki's body at the same time as raising there other arm into the air. Seconds later a single bolt of lightning shot from the sky splitting into seven different blasts one hitting each of the clones. As the lightning traveled through all of the clones they dispersed just after the lightning traveled into Maiki's body.

Blood driped from maiki's mouth as she fell to the ground dead from the amount of lightning that went through her body. "Well thats a job done..." Ryuu stated as he pulled a number of rings from one of his pockets, ten total he then put one ring onto each of her fingers.

Ryuu winced as the last ring was placed on her fingers and he began to feel the drain of chakra from his body. Second later the girl stood up as her hair color changed from a dark color to a silverish white, and her eyes went from their green color to taking the state of the Rinnengan.

Ryuu smirked as the two ninja then walked calmly from the training grounds and headed towards the grave yard.