The only way out of this one is down, and Naruto's as willing to take that route now as he ever was. It's difficult work to turn the piece of ice still clutched and melting quickly in his hand into a kawarimi. Difficult for Naruto, that is. Difficult, but not impossible.
Seamlessly trading places with the copy, he sinks silently below the water's surface, making as quickly as possible for Korra's feet above him. He only makes his move in the moment after she must be realizing she's been had, wrapping his hands around her legs and pulling his face out of the water to bob behind her.
The smile on his face looks satisfied and slightly wild, even if the effect is ruined by plastered pale hair.
"Swarming you would've been the plan, actually, yeah," he says. "One Naruto for each limb. That's the best way to cripple most low-level shinobi. It's gotta work on bending, too, right? Then again, you're the Avatar. You'd be able to do something about it anyway. So I'll save myself the trouble of trying."
And okay, maybe he'd been talking strategy with Shikamaru too much over the last couple years. He fully expects a pounding from Korra for being a sneaking sneak anyway.
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Date: 2013-12-04 10:17 am (UTC)Seamlessly trading places with the copy, he sinks silently below the water's surface, making as quickly as possible for Korra's feet above him. He only makes his move in the moment after she must be realizing she's been had, wrapping his hands around her legs and pulling his face out of the water to bob behind her.
The smile on his face looks satisfied and slightly wild, even if the effect is ruined by plastered pale hair.
"Swarming you would've been the plan, actually, yeah," he says. "One Naruto for each limb. That's the best way to cripple most low-level shinobi. It's gotta work on bending, too, right? Then again, you're the Avatar. You'd be able to do something about it anyway. So I'll save myself the trouble of trying."
And okay, maybe he'd been talking strategy with Shikamaru too much over the last couple years. He fully expects a pounding from Korra for being a sneaking sneak anyway.