Rainstorm Chapter 10

Decimation

Howdy, all! Sorry it's been so long, stuff happened in a mythical thing called the "real life." It's scary stuff. Anyways, new chap, and let's see what goes down! As always, fav, follow, and REVIEW (please).

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'Damn it…' Akio thought, grunting as he supported himself using his larger sword as a crutch. He looked up, locking his dark eyes with Muu's impassive, bored stare. The mummified Tsuchikage was twirling his blade absentmindedly as he walked towards the battered, bleeding man.

"My, my, Akio. What a predicament you're in! First, you challenge the Tsuchikage, by yourself," Muu growled accusingly, letting his sword hit the ground with a loud screech as it scratched the rock, "I might add, and then you actually thought you could beat me! You're nothing but a fool!"

The Momochi put more weight on his sword, managing to get onto his knees, and spat blood in Muu's direction. The Tsuchikage sighed at the act, and made an exaggerated effort to avoid the spot on the ground. "You won't beat me, Muu!"

"Excuse me, but who is the one barely standing?" Muu put his finger on his chin, looking up in mock-thinking before continuing, "Oh, wait! It's you, Akio Momochi! I'm as healthy as I was before the fight started, except maybe a little less chakra. Maybe… Nope, I just recovered all of that chakra, so you haven't done anything to me!"

Akio picked up his smaller sword from next to him, leveling it shakily with Muu's head as the mummy leisurely made his way over. "I'd sure like to rip that arrogant head off you, Muu. Won't be long… *cough* now."

"Akio! Now!"

Akio pulled back his arm and threw his blade at Muu, while the one who started the attack, Jiraiya, jumped out of the ground behind Muu with a kunai ready to stab into Muu's neck. The sword and Jiraiya were in perfect sync; they would hit at the same time.

"Akio… please," Muu sighed again; something he was becoming very accustomed to with such stupid opponents. He kept walking forward, and as soon as the two threats were nearly upon him, Muu swung his sword at Akio's blade, hitting it at just the right angle so it dug into the ground next to the Momochi. At the same time, he used his Fission Technique to create another arm from his right shoulder. The arm reached back with such speed the Toad Sage had no time to react as the back of his head was grabbed and pushed into the Tsuchikage's elbow. Jiraiya's world darkened slightly and he felt multiple cracks in his nose when his head hit, and his world darkened completely when Muu dropped him and punted his limp body across the crater.

"I never realized Sannin could be so stupid… If that's the level you need to be to be legendary ninja, then Iwagakure must be a legendary village!" Muu rolled his shoulder as his extra appendage receded. "Akio… you should tell that damn Mizukage of yours to find better allies!"

Akio said nothing, merely picking up his fallen blade as he watched death march towards him.

Konan watched as the toad beside her disappeared in a puff of smoke. Onoki had managed to land a powerful hit on Gamahiro as he went in for an attack, dissipating him instantly.

"You should really stop using summons to fight a shinobi; it's rude," Onoki commented, shaking his fist to get the rock off of it. The brown-haired man flew at Konan as she desperately tried to stop his advance with paper shuriken, most of which the Iwa-nin easily dodged.

"Suiton: Teppodama!"

A large bullet of water cut right in front of Onoki, stopping his advance before he was forced to retreat as more of the bullets rained down on him. Nagato slid to a stop next to Konan, while Yahiko took up a supporting position on top of a rock behind both of them, continuing to pepper Onoki with water bullets.

"Sorry we're late," Nagato commented, starting a series of hand signs. "Futon: Renkudan!" A barrage of wind bullets joined Yahiko's water artillery, forcing Onoki to back up even more as he dodged the strikes. The short man flew between the attacks, which were forming a wall in front of the three.

Suddenly, Yahiko's water bullets stopped, and he jumped down next to them, panting slightly. "Sorry, guys. I don't have enough chakra to keep that going, and it really hurts my ribs…" Yahiko laughed quietly while rubbing the back of his head, before grimacing in pain.

Nagato smiled slyly, stopping his wind barrage to recover his breath. "Dang it, Yahiko! We can't let you go anywhere, even pebbles will hurt you!" Nagato took a deep breath, restarting his jutsu while Yahiko yelled at him.

"IT WAS A ROCK! HEAVY AS A BOULDER!" Yahiko resisted the urge to deck the smug Uzumaki, though containing himself as he realized Nagato was the only one keeping Onoki at bay.

Konan sighed next to them. "Seriously, boys, just fight this battle! Nagato, get Onoki into the sky!" Konan put her hands together flatly, closing her eyes in focus as paper swarmed around her.

Nagato nodded his acknowledgement, and even though he had no idea what the blue-haired girl was planning, he began focusing his attacks on the ground. Dust and rocks flew from the spots his small bullets hit, leaving the Iwa-nin to have to get away from the unsteady earth. He flew upwards, taking a position a fair bit above them.

"What are you brats doing? I mean, honestly. When I'm in the air, you can't touch me!" Onoki leaned back like he would in a chair, flashing an arrogant smile.

"Wanna bet?"

Onoki grunted as the air left his lungs. 'What was that?!' he thought, opening his eyes and turning slightly, only to be hit again. However, this time he was able to see a flash of blue and white. 'So, it's the girl… I wonder how she's flying?' Onoki calmed himself and reached with his senses, finding a flicker of chakra coming his way at high speeds. "Doton: Kengan no Jutsu!"

The figure flying towards him was forced to dodge out of the way of Onoki's stone fist, and stopped in the air behind him. Hearing the faint flapping of wings, Onoki turned, and was honestly amused by what he saw.

The blue-haired girl he had been fighting earlier was level with him, held up by large paper wings on her pack that were constantly falling apart and rebuilding themselves. She was panting slightly, probably from the large amount of chakra control it was taking to keep the wings together.

"You seem to be having trouble, girl," Onoki taunted as he flew closer to her. It was probably much harder to keep hovering in one place; at least, that was Onoki's main problem when he was learning how to fly. It's much easier to throw yourself somewhere than it is to hold yourself in the air. "Are you new at flying? You caught me off guard the first time, but now I know your weakness." Onoki brought his hands together and yelled, "Jinton: Genkai Haruki no Jutsu!"

A small, semi-transparent white cube with a bright, spherical center appeared in front of his hands. He pointed it at Konan, and knowing from his movements the general idea of the jutsu, Konan dashed to the side, narrowly avoiding a small white laser. She came to a stop only to have another laser aimed at her, and another, and another! Konan cursed as she noticed her wings were shrinking; each time she moved, some paper was lost in the air. She came to a halt momentarily, mentally urging the paper to come back to her…

And then her left wing was cut off by a laser.

Konan felt nothing as she fell. She hadn't even noticed Onoki's shots were making her fly higher. All she could do was watch as the clouds grew slightly farther away, and here left wing disassembled itself in the air above her. It wasn't until she realized she could die from the fall that she screamed.

"Gotcha!"

Konan lay where she landed momentarily, not sure how she was still alive. Surely that fall should have killed her! However, when she heard a very muffled and pained whisper from under her did she realize what happened.

"Oi… Konan… That hurt, ya know? Can you… get off of me?" Konan looked down to see Yahiko, face down in the dirt, under her. She began sitting up… only to have someone grab her head and throw it back on the ground. At first, Konan didn't know what was happening, before a white laser cut above the place where her head just was.

"I'll handle him. Don't worry," Nagato said as he removed his hand from her forehead.

"Oh good! You're all in a neat little row…" Onoki put his hands together once more, this time forming a much larger cube of energy. "Muu won't mind if I kill you brats… I mean, he already took out your sensei."

"Wha..?" Nagato took in the full battlefield for the first time since they had engaged Onoki. He was able to see Jiraiya lying in a crater a few meters away from where Akio was just barely dodging Muu's attacks. His mind snapped back to the battle he was in when the chakra in Onoki's hands skyrocketed, and a large blast of energy started coming towards them…

'NO! We can't die here!' Nagato jumped over his friends so he was in front of them. 'We have to take back Amegakure! I'm NOT dying by a stupid laser, of all things! On my first mission!' He put his hands out in front of him, in a futile effort to stop the attack. 'If I can at least keep them alive…' Nagato closed his eyes at the attack hit…

"Ha. Got you," Onoki smirked, cracking his knuckles and stretching. If those kids were that much trouble for him, then he had better start training more! I mean, he was a jonin after all. He opened his eyes to look at his accomplishment, but fear overtook his successful feeling as he saw the red head, standing with one arm out, the wind swirling around him. The boy's friends still lay behind him, both of their faces looking on in shock. Onoki's fear doubled as he saw the kid's eyes; purple and with a ripple pattern through his singed red hair, just like the book in the Tsuchikage's library talked about! That was… the Rinnegan!

"What the hell?!"

"What the hell? What the hell this, you bastard! You tried to kill my friends! It's my turn to attack, now!" Never had Nagato's team seen him so angry. The red head was breathing heavily, and both of his hands were balled into fists. The killer intent around him was suffocating, and his face had hatred that could rival the devil's! He pulled his head back and took a deep breath, before letting loose a wave of fire that encompassed the area in front of him in a vast cone.

Onoki could barely muster a stone wall to block the flames in time, but his thoughts were racing. 'Okay, how is he using a different elemental jutsu?! Wait… it's those damn eyes, isn't it! They belonged to the Sage of the Six Paths! I read about this… Okay, so the powers listed by the book were… umm… Okay, first! The ability to disable ninjutsu, which is what he used to stop my attack! Second is using all elemental affinities… What were the-?!'

The Tsuchikage's student was snapped out of his thoughts when a bolt of lightning singed the hairs on the left side of his head. His wall crumbled from the hole in it and he had to move quickly to avoid another bolt. Nagato had his goal set: kill the one who tried to kill his friends, by whatever means necessary!

The Uzumaki launched another wave of fire, this time immediately putting his hands on the ground afterwards. Meanwhile, Onoki backed away from the wave of flame, trying to get behind a rock to his right, but was stopped as a large rock wall rose behind him, letting the flames engulf the short man.

Konan rolled off of Yahiko as they all watched the smoke clear. Nagato stood, albeit shakily, watching the smoke with hate-filled eyes. The hair he had grown out to hide the Rinnegan during this mission had been singed off by his fire attacks, and he had a splotches of ash and dirt covering his face. His red cloak was burned in places, but he didn't care. All he cared about was whether or not he had to fry that damned Iwa-nin again.

"Konan, get Yahiko up and go. He's been taken care-"

"Shut up, brat!" The smoke cleared to reveal a stone coffin, which crumbled away to reveal a perfectly-fine Onoki. "You really underestimate jonin, don't you?! You're a genin!" Onoki yelled, waving his hand accusingly at the red head. "You are nothing to me! I could have just taken that attack and nothing would have happened to me! Get ready for a real fight!"

Akio was ready. Not to die… no, far from it! He stared his executioner down, knowing that if he didn't get this right, he would die. But… if he could hold out… just a little longer… he would live! Not only that, he would be a hero that killed a Kage!

The mummified man stopped walking, finally reaching the Momochi and grasping his solitary sword firmly. "So, Akio… resigned to your fate, I presume? No matter… I'll give you some credit. For someone who went toe-to-toe with me in kenjutsu, you've lasted the longest. Sure, I messed with you a little bit, but most would already be dead." The bandages around Muu's mouth stretched as he laughed. "Needless to say, however, you still lost… meaning you still die!" Muu's sword came down, aimed for Akio's head.

Akio smirked. Muu had fallen for it! He shifted slightly so he could kick off of his larger sword, using it to propel himself out of line of the attack and picking up his smaller blade, which had been lodged in the ground next to him. The dark-haired man knew that in his state it would be much easier to fight with only his short sword, so he left the larger one lodged where he had been using it as a crutch. Muu's sword hit the ground, burying itself their while Muu lazily pulled it back out.

"You had to make this hard, didn't you?" he asked, slowly going the meter or so Akio had jumped.

'I can't move… so I need to make sure his attacks won't hit me!' Akio thought as he readied himself for Muu's next attack. Muu drew back his blade again, and as he started swinging down, Akio put his blade above him at a horizontal angle to make his attack slide to the ground below him. However, what Akio heard next made him regret this decision.

"Doton: Chokajugan no Jutsu."

"Shi-" Akio was cut off as a blade that weighed multiple tons crashed into his, sliding off of it, and hitting the ground next to him with such tremendous force that it sent him flying. The Momochi literally skipped over the rocky terrain before sliding to a halt meters away. Regaining some of his bearings, he made sure he was still holding his sword, and began sitting up again, only to see a flash of movement by his wrist…

"Now, if you're going to make this hard, I'm going to make it hurt!" Muu hissed as he cut off Akio's left wrist, sword and all.

'No…' Akio thought in panic and pain. 'No, no, NO!' He looked down at his bloody stub of an arm and the hand lying on the ground behind it, not registering what had happened. 'I can't lose! Not now!' Akio didn't even notice as he accidentally swayed out of the way of Muu's blade, staring blankly as he was launched again. He didn't even bother getting up that time, just lying hopelessly on the ground. 'I can't fight now… I don't even have a sword!' He barely registered four other forms in his field of view… That red head was sure giving Onoki a run for his money. Akio just surveyed the scene, not caring who won or lost. 'I broke my promise… I couldn't avenge you… DAMN IT! Akio felt Muu's feet hit the ground behind him, and he lay in wait of his death. 'I'm sorry…'

Nagato knew he was fine. The only thing that could make him lose to the Iwa-nin in front of him now was chakra-loss, and he didn't even notice he was missing any. He vaguely recalled someone saying be careful of hatred… but he mentally shrugged it off as his blasts of elemental attacks continued.

He would kill this man. He would burn his bones, scatter his ashes to the unforgiving wind. This man was a threat, and would be dealt with as such.

"Konan, I'm fine! Really!" Yahiko grumbled as the girl walked him away, supporting him as he stumbled.

"You caught me as I fell, what, four stories? That must have hurt," she replied, turning her head away from his ever-lasting grin. He couldn't even stop grinning when he was in battle, in pain, and complaining at the same time! 'Well… that is why I joined up with him in Amegakure, right? He was my only ray of sunshine at the time…'

Yahiko scoffed. "Well, yeah it hurt! But I'm fine now-"

Yahiko was interrupted as Akio's body crashed into the ground just in front of them. The only way Yahiko knew he was still alive was his slight breathing; the man didn't even move his eyes or adjust even slightly from the position he was in. He was lying on his chest and his left arm was under him, his head turned in their direction but not seeming to register their presence. There was a pool of blood forming under his body.

Konan looked at the crumpled man in shock, and noticed the mummified man from earlier flying toward him, sword raised. 'Wait… Jiraiya said that's the Tsuchikage! We can't take him! I need to get Yahiko away from here…" Konan pulled on Yahiko's arm, but was surprised when it pulled against her.

Yahiko broke free from Konan, leaving her to watch helplessly as he dashed slightly behind Akio. He seemed to pick something up on the way to the Momochi, before jumping in front of the Tsuchikage.

"Don't hurt our friend, idiot!" Yahiko brought Akio's smaller, blood-covered blade up to block the Tsuchikage's attack. Muu, who had lightened the sword to its original weight so he could carry it, didn't have time to reactivate the jutsu and cursed as the genin boy blocked his attack.

"Is everyone these days as disrespectful as you people?!" Muu swore again, backing off to address the boy's strength. He didn't want to be going against a child prodigy, after all…

Needless to say, Muu sweatdropped in disappointment. "Your form if horrible, brat!" he ridiculed as the orange-haired boy stood shakily with both feet parallel and the sword held a bit too high.

"Now, now…" a new voice entered the field, "you have to give him props for trying, right?"

"Well, Mizukage…" Muu murmured happily, turning away from his last targets. "I honestly thought you wouldn't show up! I mean, playing around with your body guard was fun and all, but it got boring after a while!"

Author's notes: I DID IT! WOO! I got the chapter out, and got the Second Mizukage to show up! Review for Yahiko awesomeness and Nagato rage! Then there's Jiraiya =P

On another note, chapter 1 will be revised to sound better soon and this chapter will be updated occasionally with mistakes that need fixing!

As always, favorite, follow and review!

Suiton: Teppodama: Water Release: Water Bullets

Futon: Renkudan: Wind Release: Raging Air Bullets

Doton: Kengan no Jutsu: Earth Release: Stone Fist Technique

Jinton: Genkai Haruki no Jutsu: Dust Release: Detachment From the Primitive World Technique

Doton: Chokajugan no Jutsu: Earth Release: Ultra-added Weight Rock Technique

Just noticed I forgot these last chap, will be fixed soon!