Sora placed his hands together, "Shadow Gathering Technique," he said aloud. His shadow split into multiple tendrils and two of them caught the kunai thrown at him. He then created a clone of himself using the Shadow Clone Jutsu. The real Sora launched himself, with the kunai not fused with his chakra, straight toward Ichiru, acting as a diversion while the clone would take the kunai fused with his chakra and appear by Ichiru's shadow to stab the kunai into the shadow so that Sora could activate his Shadow Imitation Shuriken Technique.