As Benitsubaki dodged the small boy she faced off against, seemed to be on his way to something even more. Much to her relief, what happened was the creation of a fireball, though it was headed towards, her she didn't seem to bothered about it. Instead she simply had it at its approach, and since it was already expelled from the small boy reached out for it. With this much fire in her possession she turned the fireball upwards pushing adding her own to it and making it spread out like a flower blossoming in the sky as she sent it upwards towards his own attack. This took some rather precise timing, but it was about all she could manage to try, and stop the large attack overhead. If successful the flame attacks would cancel each other out and she'd be left dusting off her hand.
Meanwhile, Benihime was palming her face, and looking at her son. She wanted to argue with her son, but couldn't really bring herself to. He made a very valid point. "If it makes you happy." the young woman said to her son, with a mental note to herself that he wasn't allowed to name any attack she'd be forced to use. As this happened she got to watch her mother do something very interesting with the use of the Kekkei Genkai she possessed. Benitsubaki redirected Hakudoshi's large fireball up into his other attack to cancel the two and creating a large blossoming flower out of the fire. "Sou ka, that's pretty impressive. I didn't know you had it in ya'," she said about her mother, who simply looked at her daughter and rolled her eyes. Knowing full well this was intended as a compliment but not seeing as such, simply given how they usually spoke to each other. Her mother's attention soon diverted to Hakudoshi, who obviously didn't have to be too concentrated on anything. The idea that he could do all of this while still maintaining his ability to do other things, let her know his skills weren't to be questioned. "That is... oddly resourceful. I can't deny your skills. The title of Fire Rat is yours. Congratulations," she said bowing to the young boy. "Do look after your mother, she seems to listen to you at least." And with that Benitsubaki seemed to be done with this fighting deal. She truly was a great deal weaker, but she could at least have more than a fleeting bit of faith in this pair.