Thread:Berserkchart486/@comment-25152698-20160122201512/@comment-4869113-20160203172429

But, allow me to organize my contention so it's easier to understand. I'll use textual evidence to support.

''He felt like he was looking into a mirror as he stared into Shibui's eyes. Those green/blue hue twinkled under the dim moon that sought vengeance; they radiated an aura of explosive anger, and Shikaniku would have lied to himself had he not been impressed. "Genjutsu?" He inquired to himself. It was an impressive illusion, that Shikaniku could not deny, yet it was the words and implausibility of this shinobi's offense that ultimately convinced him. Disrupting his flow, a swirl of illusions came to a close as he broke the shinobi's control over his own body. As he stared at the shinobi, he prepared the fan. "So, whatever happened to that piece of paper?"

However, the world remained unchanged. Which could have only meant one thing —there was no genjutsu. Shibui brought himself to speak one last time, blood spewing endlessly from his mouth. He had been fighting back a certain urge, suspending chakra to maintain a specific form. But what was it? What could it have been?

"Naw," he said, before his frame suddenly dispersed into a cloud of smoke, in its wake a log bearing a tag of paper. It was the answer to the Shikaniku's question, though now it was too late, far too late. He could do no more than watch helplessly as his speculation shattered into reality before him, and the hard truth resounded in a bang. ''

Here, we clearly see that Shibui responded to Shikaniku's question shortly after he "dispelled" the genjutsu, thereby the inquiry or the play of the illusion should be completely out of question; it's irrelevant. Perhaps if you had done it while Shikaniku was trying to dispel a genjutsu, it may have worked, but then, at the same time, he was dispelling genjutsu so then he may have just dispelled that one simultaneously. You made an assumption assuming my move was a mistake; that's the problem.

Point Two: Whether he can respond to the attack?

I thought heavily about this, and I genuinely pondered about this, which is why I asked you whether his needles were still in the log. Albeit, I believed they were since you just did a body replacement technique, and so, using that resource I had available, it was fairly easy to simply swing the log away with his shadow. So now, we have this technique that is no longer point blank range, and quickly going away from Shikaniku, which should buy him enough time to swing a fan down and scream simultaneously. He cast the jutsu with the Basoshen, if that wasn't obvious. Again, just trying to add some more zest and flair with the warrior's shriek.

Third Point: The Shadow Clone.

It was created following the attack, but then again, you made the mistake of assuming that your genjutsu would've hit. Even more so, you made the mistake of not communicating with me following your last point, just as I've been asking for us to do since the start of the roleplay. But anyway, after the initial flash of light, while he's in the earth dome, he poofs a shadow clone into existence, as he ventures deep into the earth; no different from what Naruto did during the entire Neji thing, albeit he used a jutsu for his venture into the earth rather than his nails. Afterall, you can't expect him to dirty his hands, right?

So, in a long, but short manner, that's my explanation for exactly how everything happened.