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* Jutsu list:
Suiton: teppoudama - (C-rank) Water style: gunshot - User spits a powerful ball of water towards the target.
Mikadzuki no mai - (A-rank) Dance of the crescent Moon - User attacks the target through an intricate sword dance, while his shadow clones distract the opponent.
Suiton: suiryuudan no jutsu - (B-rank) Water style: water dragon projectile technique - A column of water in a shape of a dragon that attacks the target.
Fuuton: shinkuu gyoku - (unknown rank) Wind style: vacuum sphere - Projectile of compressed air.
Fuuton: daitoppa - (C-rank) Wind style: great breakthrough - A strong gust of wind. Can be used to empower fire jutsu.
Fuuton: shou - (C-rank) Wind style: palm - Original jutsu that sends rather weak ball of compressed air towards the target.
Fuuton: atsugai - (B-rank) Wind style: pressure damage - This jutsu creates devasting wind blast.
Rariatto - (unknown rank) Lariat (Lightning plow heated blade) - taijutsu attack that is based on wrestling move. Attack causes massive damage to the target's chest or stomach.
Imari - (demonic technique) Menacing ball - A ball of yoki that turns into an energy beam that disintegrates everything on its way.
Unnamed yoki blade blasts - (demonic technique) - Blasts of yoki that can deliver strong cutting attack to the target.
Akasha's unnamed sealing technique - (special technique) - Western sealing method that allows suppression on the demonic energies. Akasha can use it when is in complete control over Naruto's body.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Naruto or its characters. I do not own Rosario + Vampire II (First part too, actually), from where the name Akasha Chisen (Bloodriver) comes, either. And, of course, I don't own Red Eyes either - Naruto's nickname in the bingo books comes from this manga.
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'thinking of the higher beings / Kyuubi and Akashi talking to Naruto in his mind'
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chapter 9: Siege of Kirigakure no Sato, part III
Eighteen rebels, some of them wounded from facing the guards and traps that were here and there in the palace, finally managed to break the door that had separated them from their leaders. The group quickly entered the chamber, ready to fight any opponent, but were faced with none. The chamber had signs of fierce battle having happened there just minutes ago, but the only enemy in the room – the leader of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, Houzuki Mangetsu – was dead. As were two of rebellion officers... Kagerou and Choujirou, both of whom were seated against the wall of the chamber, were alive, but clearly were in no shape to continue fighting.
"Ishida, how are they?" Kimaru Bouroku, the man who took the role of the leader of the group, said to the only ninja among the eighteen who knew at least the basics of medical techniques. Ishida nodded and approached the two downed shinobi and ran simple diagnostic techniques on them.
"Choujirou-dono is mostly fine, it just physical and chakra exhaustion." The 'medic' said. "Kagerou-dono, on the other hand has suffered several broken ribs and some of her inner organs are bruised and there is a small internal bleeding. She also has a head trauma and minor chakra exhaustion." Ishida reported. "I'm afraid, that without medical help she won't pull through."
"Then do what you can, till the medical squad arrives here. Fuuma knew what they sent their clansmen into, but it would be better for us if their losses are minimal." Kimaru said. Ishida only nodded – he already knew what he had to do – and started using his most powerful medical jutsu to make sure Kagerou would live.
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Back to the Mizukage's office, two jinchuuriki were standing opposite to each other with their swords drawn and ready for the inevitable fight, but both also knew that the first one to make the move would be at the disadvantage... Naruto was the first one to lose his patience as ha launched a small but very fast ball of compressed wind at the Mizukage. Yagura, though, was not only a 'perfect' jinchuuriki, but also a very skilled ninja even without his beast, so dodging this attack wasn't hard for him.
"I see... You are a wind user." The Fourth Mizukage observed still in his bored tone. "Don't worry, though, your affinity won't save you. Suiton: teppoudama!" The Kiri jinchuuriki sent a very powerful ball of water at his opponent, but the Genocide evaded it, while shifting his sword to look upwards instead of being pointed at Yagura.
"As if relying on just one thing will let someone survive in the ninja world." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki replied, while summoning two shadow clones without using handseals. 'Mikadzuki no Mai!' Sure, Naruto hated Konoha, but that didn't mean he was above using a powerful jutsu originating from that village... So the red-eyed blond and two of his clones simultaneously charged at the Mizukage, performing quite and intricate dance with their blades, that were now surrounded by the wind chakra.
"Is that all you have?" Yagura asked as he had evaded the clones completely and blocked real Naruto's sword with his zanbatou, that somehow didn't even get a scratch from all this. The Kyuubi jinchuuriki just smirked as he suddenly jumped upwards. A moment later two of his clones made a slashing movements, aimed to cut the Mizukage in two. The clones actually succeeded in doing so... Only for Yagura to turn into water and explode, destroying Naruto's both doppelgangers and almost sending the original into the wall.
"Water clone." The red-eyed blond observed, as he saw his opponent – hopefully the real one – emerge from the shadows of the corner of the chamber. "I should have expected as much. Though I didn't know there was an exploding variation..."
"There are a lot of things you don't know about this world, monster." Yagura said, still in his bored tone, while he did a sequence of single-handed handseals. "Suiton: suiryuudan no jutsu!" Puddles of water that were created by the clone – both from the water jutsu it used, and from its own demise – turned into water dragons that tried to rip the Kyuubi jinchuuriki into pieces...
"Monster?" Naruto asked, while destroying one dragon with a low-level wind blade from his sword and blowing the other with a fuuton: shinkuu gyoku that he had channeled though his free hand. "That's rich, coming from the man who had started the war against the men and women of his own country." Yagura answered nothing, attacking the younger blond with another water dragon instead. The red-eyed swordsman moved out of the jutsu's way and, covering Akasha with wind chakra, tried to slice the Mizukage into two. Once again, Yagura managed to block Naruto's sword with his zanbatou without the massive blade sustaining any damage at all.
"Can't you see that fighting me is futile? Accept your fate and die, monster." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki looked into the purplish-pink eyes of the Yondaime Mizukage.
"No, today will be the day when you will no longer soil the Earth with your deeds and your self." Doing a quick handseals with his free hand, Naruto thrust it forward, towards Yagura's stomach. "Fuuton: shou!" The wind technique threw the Sanbi jinchuuriki across his office, but that was pretty much all that it could do to him. The Mizukage recovered quickly and, while still airborne, send a powerful water bullet back at his opponent... This time Naruto wasn't fast enough to dodge the technique completely, and it hit him on the side of his stomach and threw him backwards, tearing a part of his cloak. Thankfully, it couldn't damage the armor vest the red-eyed blond was wearing, thus leaving him unharmed... As the Kyuubi jinchuuriki tried to regain his footing, Yagura was already attacking him with that zanbatou of his.
"Die, dirty-blooded monster." The Mizukage said, still barely showing any emotion in his voice, as he tried to cleave the other blond in two vertically. On the instinct, Naruto raised Akasha to block his enemy's blade, but to his surprise, the blood-red sword broke into two under Yagura's powerful attack. Even knowing that things had changed from bad to worse, the red-eyed blond was determined to fight for as long as he was alive – and he wasn't planning on dying any time soon – so he threw himself backwards, hoping not to be cut by Mizukage's zanbatou as well. And he more or less succeeded in this as the giant cleaver hit only his armor, leaving a deep scratch mark on it, but not penetrating it.
"Fuuton: daitoppa!" Yagura had no chance of evading such a jutsu at point blank range, and thus was sent crashing into the ceiling of his office. Now that he got a moment to catch his breath, Naruto finally completely realized what happened to his sword. 'Are you there, Akasha-shishou? Are you OK?'
'I should be fine.' The vampiress replied. 'I'm within you for as long as that jutsu is active, not within the sword.' Her master breathed out in relief. 'Though I would like you to make that bastard pay for what he did to ...my sword. And you will need to get me a new sword soon – I can't stay within you forever.' Naruto nodded and got ready to continue fighting. Just in time to see his opponent standing up... Pumping more chakra into what was left from his sword, the red-eyed blond completed it to its original shape creating pseudo-matter from the energy he was pushing into it.
"Fuuton: atsugai!" Using his chakra for several different purposes simultaneously was draining, thus the jutsu was less powerful that it would normally be, but it still could be counted as a B-ranked one... And as Yagura was still recovering from Naruto's previous attack, he didn't have an easy way of avoiding the incoming technique, unless...
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Mei just finished dealing with the Kiri ANBU she had run into. Even if she had taken down the first two within the first several seconds of the fight, doing the save with the other two proved to be not an easy task, even with the help of the acidic mist... Still, she won and was ready to go help Uzumaki, when a wave of powerful killing intent passed through her being. It took her a couple of moments to realize what exactly was the source of this monstrous KI.
Yagura was now using his bijuu's powers, and it was a common knowledge that fighting jinchuuriki, who even without his beast was a Kage-level ninja, one on one was a suicide. Hoping beyond hope that Uzumaki would last long enough for her to get there and help him, Mei raced through the corridors of the palace towards where the Sanbi jinchuuriki was...
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Naruto did a step backwards as the blast of killing intent from Yagura washed over him... As the aftereffects of his last technique disappeared, the red-eyed blond could see that the Fourth Mizukage was now surrounded by a greenish-brown demonic cloak with three tails that somewhat resembled a turtle in it's shape. Yagura's clothes on his stomach were torn apart, showing a rapidly healing wound. Naruto managed to hit him after all...
"I will destroy you!" The Sanbi jinchuuriki said in a low demonic voice, before his three 'tails' shifted to pointing at the red-eyed blond and balls of chakra appeared in front of them. Moment later three powerful streams of water were racing towards Naruto. The swordsman of the rebellion evaded all three with relative ease, only to be forces to dodge a swing of Yagura's zanbatou – the blade was now held in the yoki-formed hand of the demonic cloak, which could extend at Mizukage's will... As he had, barely, escaped being cut in two by his opponent's cleaver, the red-eyed blond was sent flying into the wall behind him by a powerful punch from Yagura's cloak's other hand. "Die!" The Sanbi jinchuuriki roared as he got ready to unleash another one of his water blasts, and Naruto who was yet to even stand up had no way of dodging this attack.
'Naruto-kun, you need to use the powers of the Kyuubi.' Akasha said. 'I made sure that the rude beast would be willing to share some of its power.' Were his situation not so bad, Naruto would have at least chuckled at this.
'I know. Let's do this.' Just as a powerful stream of water was about to hit the red-eyed blond, crimson yoki exploded outwards his body in what could only be described as a pyre, protecting him from the incoming attack and making sure that the damage he had sustained so far was healed in a matter of seconds. "If you want to play a demon..." Naruto said as he stood up. "...Make sure that there isn't someone who can too out there." The Kyuubi jinchuuriki was sure that even if wasn't in the state of 'tailed' yoki cloak, with his natural speed and strength, he will be able to match Yagura as he was now. And not being the one to give his shocked opponent time to recover, Naruto attacked the Sanbi jinchuuriki with a powerful punch to his guts. "Rariatto!" The strike was so powerful that it sent Yagura through the wall and out of the building. At the same time he now had a large bleeding wound on his abdomen that Sanbi was trying to heal...
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Mei entered Mizukage's office just in time to see Naruto, surrounded by a pyre of crimson yoki, disappear through the large hole in the wall that Yagura 'created' a moment before that... The red-haired kunoichi froze on spot: she knew that something was different about Uzumaki with how strong he was, but never could she imagine that he actually was a demon container...
Battle between Kage-level shinobi was one thing, and she actually could be help there, being such ninja herself, but the battle between jinchuuriki was something on the entirely different level. She would only a hindrance for Uzumaki now and nothing more than a bug to crush for Yagura. It was in her best interest to stay the hell away from where the two demonic containers fought.
Still, as the leader of the rebellion, she will have to punish him for withholding such important information from her... But as the image of the feral red-eyed blond swordsman in a ripped cloak was still fresh in her mind, the idea of her punishment for Uzumaki quickly descended into the BDSM area, thanks to all those hormones she was suppressing for years...
Shaking her head to clear it from unneeded images, Mei approached the window of Mizukage's office and, leaning slightly against the cool glass, started observing the battle that raged in front of the palace...
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Naruto went for the guillotine drop, hoping to finish the fight before Yagura transformed into the Sanbi, and, thanks to the ten stores he had to fall down before he would reach his target, the attack was really deadly... The Yondaime Mizukage, who was still recovering from the lariat, saw this too and tried to block the other jinchuuriki's drop with his zanbatou. The cleaver, though, wasn't strong enough, and broke. At least it had absorbed a good deal of the power behind Naruto's attack and actually redirected it a little, thus Yagura was now having only a part of his right side destroyed, instead of being broken in two...
"I will not lose to a bloodline monster like you." The Sanbi jinchuuriki hissed, though with him lying on the ground, broken from the onslaught from his opponent, it sure didn't sound as intimidating as it otherwise would. Those words were followed by an explosion of yoki that threw Naruto across the yard and towards the palace's wall... Thanks to the Kyuubi's yoki flowing through his body, the red-eyed blond recovered quickly and landed onto the wall, instead of crashing through it.
'Shishou, can you make sure that the Kyuubi doesn't take over me? I need to enter my tailed state if I ever wish to defeat that thing.' The red-eyed blond thought as he watched Yagura transform into the big demonic turtle that was the Sanbi.
'Yeah, no problems there, Naruto-kun.' The vampiress replied, while sending him a mental nod too, and Naruto let more of Kyuubi's power to flow into his system, which resulted in the pyre of yoki around him morphing into a fox-shaped demonic cloak with two tails
'Hey, nine-tails, how about you tell me the most powerful attack I can do in this form?' Naruto asked.
'And why should I help you any more than I do now, flesh bag?' The Kyuubi boomed from behind the seal that kept it at bay. The red-eyed blond mentally shrugged.
'Maybe because it will make sure that you are the strongest tailed demon out there? You know, defeating Sanbi at its full power with just a mere fraction of you own strength and all.' This made the overgrown fox to think for a moment.
'Very well, I will help you this one time, hairless monkey.' It boomed. 'Be ready to witness my power!' In reality, the tails of Naruto's demonic cloak moved turning up above blond's head, while some of the yoki detached itself from the cloak and formed a rather sizable ball of energy between the tails. Suddenly the ball imploded, becoming not any bigger that a chestnut and changing its color to dark-red. A moment later the yoki that was concentrated in this ball burst outwards in a crimson beam of energy that raced towards the towering form of Sanbi, burning a trench in the ground as it moved... Yagura in the form of the Sanbi sent a column of water to stop the incoming attack, but that wasn't enough, and Naruto's imari slammed into the ugly head of the three-tailed beast. The colossal turtle did a step backwards, before rising onto its back legs, as it prepared to unleash some powerful attack... Not wanting to see what exactly the Sanbi could do, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki attacked first.
"Eat this!" The red-eyed blond slammed his yoki-covered arms onto the ground, sending two powerful bursts of demonic energy towards Yagura's Sanbi's rear legs. The bursts took form of the energy blades, similar to what water cutter technique looked like, and a second later collided with the columns that were Sanbi's legs, actually leaving cuts on them... The beast let out a deafening roar and collapsed onto the ground with enough power to cause a small earthquake.
'Master, let me take control over your body.' Akasha said to Naruto through their mental connection. 'We need to end this fight now: your opponent has merged his body with the demonic one, while you are only surrounded by yoki. In other words, your body takes some damage while his doesn't. Plus you can only keep this up for as long as you have chakra to keep the leak in your seal opened, and your chakra levels are already low.' Now that she had told it, the Kyuubi jinchuuriki could feel that, indeed, he was already close to chakra exhaustion... But the vampiress wasn't finished. 'Back when I was alive, I was a mistress in the sealing arts, even though they were different from those used nowadays, and I'm pretty sure that I will be able to revert your opponent back to his human form. But for that I need it be still and not fighting back, like he is now.'
'Do it!' Naruto sent her, while giving her a permission to do what she needed in order to end this fight... The feeling of being a passenger in his own body, that the red-eyed blond experienced a moment later was possibly the strangest thing he had felt in his life, especially as he heard Akasha chanting something in a language he could not understand... They appeared in front of the Sanbi, and Akasha, using Naruto's chakra, formed a sealing circle in front of blond's right hand... Yagura could see that his opponent was about to do something ...interesting, and tried to stop him, but Akasha in Naruto's body was faster and activated the sealing circle before the Fourth Mizukage could even charge his attack up.
'Looks like it worked.' The vampiress observed as bluish lines spread out of the sealing circle and criss crossed Sanbi's body, before forcing it to shrink and reshape back into Yagura's human form... By this time Naruto was once again in control of his own body, and so he attacked the other jinchuuriki with a vicious punch, sending him across the yard and into the wall that surrounded the palace...
"Die!" Naruto roared as he extended the arm of his demonic cloak with what was left from his sword in it to cut Yagura's head off... Unfortunately, the red-eyed blond forgot that he shouldn't kill the Mizukage as it would result in Sanbi being released from its seal to do as it pleased. So as soon as blade decapitated the Sanbi jinchuuriki, the three-tailed beast once again appeared on the battlefield in its full glory... And with his chakra reserves completely drained, Naruto could no longer keep the demonic cloak around himself, so he let it go, lest it did some permanent or even fatal damage to his body. Not that he had energy to even run away from the beast in front of him anyway...
Suddenly four beams of bluish light hit the giant turtle from four sides. With his mind in fog from his exhaustion, it took the Kyuubi jinchuuriki some time to recall that there was a sealing team among the ninjas of the fifth group – the group that attacked the palace – and the beams of light were them using a four point sealing technique to imprison the Sanbi into the specially prepared sealing pot they had... The beams of light got shorter as four ninja of the rebellion approached the bound beast, while the fifth one placed the sealing pot underneath the three-tailed demon. Now, the five men through their shared effort forced the Sanbi into its new prison...
As soon as the sealing was completed and the Sanbi was of no danger to the rebellion any more, Naruto finally allowed the darkness to overcome him, as he collapsed on the ground unconscious.
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