Cloud Strife, JENOVA infused SOLDIER, vs Copy Ninja Hatake Kakashi
	Cloud Strife unsheathed his buster sword and gave it an experimental twirl. Across from him, Hatake Kakashi did a running leap and somersaulted into the air, twiling 720 degrees before landing in a crouch. The two stared at each other.      Cloud broke the silence by running at the ninja and swinging his sword. Kakashi nimbly jumps over the blow and throws three kunai, which Cloud blocked with the flat of his Buster Sword. As Kakashi descended from his aerial assault, Cloud swung his sword upwards in a reverse figure 8. Just as the sword is about to hit, Kakashi's body suddenly flickered and disappeared, only to reappear 3 feet behind Cloud.      "Body Flicker Technique!"      Copy Ninja Kakashi had accumulated a great number of Jutsu throughout the years, and Body Flicker was one of them. As Cloud turned, Kakashi threw another kunai, hitting Cloud in the leg.      Cloud grew angry. Swinging his sword, he lunged at his opponent. "Cross Slash!" Kakashi felt a strange energy coming from Cloud. He quickly pulled off his face
mask, revealing the implanted Sharingan. Its three dots moved a little, then focused on Cloud's limit break. As Kakashi dodged the sword blows, his Sharingan added the limit break to Kakashi's already impressive library of techniques. As Cloud's final swing hit the dust, Kakashi called on his Sharingan again, this time to recall a technique he had seen a few matches ago.      "Fo Shan No Shadow Kick!"      Unable to react quickly enought, Cloud was pummeled by seven kicks in rapid succession. Cloud's mind quickly raced to the first tournament, when Yang Guo had hit him with one of his Ultimate Melancholy Palms.      The No Shadow Kick angered Cloud some more. As he summoned a Blade Beam, Kakashi's Sharingan kicked in again, adding the limit to its registry.
And so the fight went, Cloud and Kakashi trading blows (usually Kakashi dodging and Cloud getting hit), Cloud getting pissed off and using a limit break, Kakashi dodging the limit break, Kakashi's Sharingan adding the technique to its registry. It was quite a humiliating experience for Cloud, who had been eliminated in the first round at the first Mount Hua, and a field day for Kakashi, who now had eight new techniques, as well as moves he picked up from watching fighters from the previous rounds.      Figuring that eight techniques in one fight was a pretty good deal, Kakashi decided to end the match. Subtly controlling Cloud's techniques with his Sharingan, the Copy Ninja mentally pricked Cloud into attempting an aerial attack.      "Death from above!" Cloud leaped into the air. Kakashi leap up to meet him. Cloud brought his Buster Sword down, expecting to split Kakashi's skull like a ripe watermelon. Thus, one could imagin his surprise when he suddenly found his sword stuck inside an actual watermelon. Meanwhile, Kakashi Change-of-Body-ed to underneath the SOLDIER. Charging chakra into this fingers, he suddenly unleashed the 1000 Years of Pain technique. In the stands, Naruto and Sakura grimaced.      "Ouch."      "Yeah...Super Powerful Ass-Poke." Sakura shuddered.      Stunned, Cloud dropped to the ground, where Kakashi finished him by releasing a Tiger Genocide he had copied from the Sagat vs Wong Fei Hong fight. Amid cheers, balloons, and autographed copies of Make-out Paradise, Hatake Kakashi advanced to Round 2 of the Mount Hua Kungfu Tournament.
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