Well, this made things a bit more difficult. After what Ozuko had bragged about, Tao expected him to be able to bring down the weight of a mountain on someone with the wave of his hand. Well, this made more sense, after all. "Alright..." The boy narrowed his eyes at their teacher still waiting for them to make a decision. The whole 'a ninja must always be prepared' rule was being thrown out the window here. Sure, they tried to work as a team but the amount o time they had spent just standing around talking about how to do this had left them open to any amount of attacks. Had Nagisa not simply stood there, the group would have been fried by now. "Ozuko's right. No matter what we do, one of us has to fight sensei. There are only two bells, but there are only two opponents as well. There are three of us, let's use that." Tao took a step forward, holding his left hand over his right and stretched the ball of embers into a small wave of fire now surrounding him. "Change of plans...you two go after the bells in any way that you can. Use teamwork, think about how to synergise your attacks. Move and act as one...alright?" He turned to look at his teammates for a second. "I'll fight sensei." He had to admit that the amount of adrenaline in his system was moving in overdrive due to the opponent in front of him. He had absolutely no chance against Nagisa but that didn't matter. All he needed to do was to keep her attention on him long enough for the others to get the bells from Lee. 

[i]"I was really fucking quick to sacrifice myself for the idiot and Shingetsu..."[/i] The thought made Tao laugh slightly, his eyes traveling to the the ground for a brief moment. Was he trying to be a hero? No, that wasn't it. He just wanted this task to succeed, no matter if he could move on or not. One of them would be left behind either way, there was no way around that and there was no reason to be stuck thinking about that. [i]"Just complete the mission, Tao."[/i] If there was another way, he would probably have strived for it but they had gone through three different plans and they had been given more than enough time to come up with one that worked. This would have to do. 

Putting Tao in front of their teacher was first of all his own choice, but out of the three, Tao had the most flashy attacks. They would force Nagisa to keep her eyes on him even if just a little. "Here I come, Sensei!" Swiping his hand through the air, a flat slashing wave of fire went straight for their teacher, moving in the same angle as his hand. Following the first wave, another two got launched as well. She would probably be able to dodge all of them, but as she did, the others had a chance to get the bells. "Now, work together and get those bells." He spoke quietly, hoping his teammates could hear him.