Hello readers, larger chapter than usual with not 1, but 2 battles! Enjoy.
I do not own Naruto or Bastion.
Impervious
Cornered
" Ha, you sure like to talk big." The fat one the bunch sneers as he smacks his hands together. I glance from each opponent to the other deducing my situation, and it doesn't seem to be in my favor. First off, it's 5 vs. 1 against probably formidable foes and being enclosed in this cavern if I were to summon the Hydra the whole place would collapse and most likely kill me. So problematic, but I have plenty of weapons in my arsenal.
" Careful Jirobo, he did manage to defeat Kimimaro, although it was with the aid of his summon. Focus." Kabuto instructs to Jirobo, but I like to think of him as the fat one. Easier to remember.
With a brief pause the fat one is the first to charge me in where I jump up into the air to dodge his bull rush, and I look to my blindside to see the lanky one is about to fire an arrow at me.
" Finish him Kidomaru!" The pale one instructs as Kidomaru unleashes the bolt. I focus my chakra and I perform my body flicker technique to evade it, and I end up about 20 meters away hiding behind a pillar. Now I can pick them off one by one.
" Where did he go?" The girl questions out loud and I can also hear Kabuto mumble, " He's fast… now I see why Kimimaro had problems."
They all then go down to a whisper to where I can't hear them, so I take the liberty to activate one of my favorite jutsus. I whisper out loud while making the half tiger hand sign, " Ninja Art: Hidden Mist Justu." And the entire cavern becomes shrouded in a thick mist. Now I can use my lightning style sonar technique to locate them, and as long as one isn't a sensory type I should be fine.
" What is this?" Jirobo blurts out in a rage, while I then hear his teammates whispering to tell him to 'shut up'. I focus my chakra once again to start locating them, since to keep constant tabs on them it will require a steady small stream of my chakra, so a long battle isn't in my favor.
" Tayuya, find him with you're Doki." I hear Kabuto command and I begin to hear a flute play. Quite beautiful skill as I can hear it flutter from Dm to Asus2 as well as B and Gm, but Doki are trapped souls of the damned so what has music got to do with that.
Once the music starts playing I sense 3 other entities in the arena that are not human for sure, and are closing in on my position. If I can't hide out long enough to form a plan I might as well go in guns a blazing. I dispel the mist and I hear, " I can see again!" From the fat one and I hear Kabuto say, " Kidomaru, ready you're bow." I peek around the corner and I see that the girl is the flute player controlling the Doki. I guess she will be my first target. I quickly create two water clones, and I shunshin off to hide behind another pillar father away while my clones buy me more time to think.
" Over there!" The pale one shouts as he points to my one water clone that steps into the open. My clone charges at them throwing kunai at them which they all dodge fairly easily, and Jirobo steps and punches my clone into water, my sticky tar like water.
" Gotcha- wha? I'm stuck!" Jirobo shouts as the humanoid body of water holding Jirobo's arm has planted him in place helplessly, and this is when my second clone steps out from the shadows to attack. " Hold on, he's attacking again. Tayuya, dispose of him. I'll cut Jirobo loose." Kabuto commands as he springs into action.
Meanwhile I'm sneaking around very carefully laying traps around their area to spring up genjutsu when they eventually give chase, then I can engage the flute player and take care of those troublesome Doki.
The Doki attack and destroy my other water clone, which just disperses into water since it cannot affect the Doki, and Kabuto manages to slice the tar like water off of Jirobo who looks very drained.
" I think that water stole my chakra…" Jirobo pants as he puts his hands on his knees. Kabuto looks at the puddle of water with a bit of curiosity for a moment from what I see, and then returns his attention to the outskirts of the arena.
" Running away isn't doing you any good." Kabuto states to the arena for me to hear, so I decide to step out from the pillar I'm behind. I managed to booby trap the area very nicely thanks to my speed, so as long as they play along I shouldn't have a problem.
" Got 'em!" Kidomaru shouts as he launches another arrow at me, which I barely manage to side step. Those things are wicked fast. " He dodged it again! I'm going in; cover me Tayuya!" The pale one says and Tayuya replies, " Alright Sakon." And she begins to play her flute once again, and it seems the notes control the movement of her Doki, but I can't decipher which ones do what. Not that it'll matter in a second.
Sakon manages to see my trip wire and avoid it, and he almost says a remark, then his eyes go wide. The trip wire was the trigger to my genjutsu, Genjutsu: Object Hypnosis. I begin to charge the now unconscious Sakon and Kabuto runs up to face me. I also see Kidomaru is preparing another bolt to launch at me, so I go full speed at Kabuto and the encroaching Doki.
I see Kabuto has prepared a long chakra scalpel he looks to cripple me with, but I quickly change direction and run past him, leaving him out of position to attack, so he goes to wake up Sakon. " Gotcha this time, this is special!" Kidomaru shouts as he launches yet another arrow, which I avoid but seems to be turning around to strike me again. Great it targets enemies, but this may work to my advantage. With the Doki and Arrow hot on my trial I charge Kidomaru, and I body flicker behind him just as I close in on him, leaving him impaled by his own arrow.
" What?" He hoarsely says while coughing up blood. I then form a water prison around him and I make two more water clones to attack Tayuya as fast as I can before Kabuto can get Sakon awake, and Jirobo seems almost out of chakra since he was attached to my tar water earlier, which I made extra powerful since I wanted him out of the picture, and he can hardly run as it seems.
I jump to avoid the Doki with Kidomaru in my water prison, and my clones charge Tayuya, and I decide to make two more water clones, 1 to keep Kabuto and Sakon busy for a moment, and the other to lock up a tired Jirobo. If I can trap them in my water prison, I'll defeat them in stellar fashion.
My clones rushing Tayuya seem to be too much as her flute skill can't control the Doki fast enough to counter, and I manage to have one clone throw a kunai knocking the flute out of Tayuya's possession since she seemed to preoccupied.
" Darn it!" She screams and she looks to activate a curse seal and destroys a clone of my own with a shurikan, but my other clone captures her in my water prison. That's two captured.
Both my other clones have been defeated and it seems Sakon, Kabuto, and Jirobo look a little tired from dealing with my clones speed, especially Jirobo since he's in his curse mark state.
" I'm going to crush you!" Jirobo shouts as he activates his second curse mark state and rushes me, and Kabuto just frowns at the fool along with Sakon. I smile as I use my free hand to weave a few signs and I spew out my Water Style: River Flood: Sticky variation at him, which stops him in his tracks and continues to drain him of the rest of his chakra.
" You idiot… head on attack won't work." Sakon mocks as he stares at the trapped as he struggles to free himself from the solid blob of water encasing him, and eventually he'll drown if not freed since my water after release acts more like a solid than liquid. " You go after his left, I'll go right." Whispers Kabuto, and then Sakon and Kabuto charge me while throwing shurikan and kunai. I maneuver out of the way to dodge the weapons carefully while keeping the prison holding Kidomaru intact, and I quickly muster up 2 more water clones that charge at the two attackers.
I then follow up by using my free hand to use my Wind Style: Wind Cutter technique to hopefully slice one of them up, but they dodge my wind attack. Good thing I can use Wind and Water style from my mouth, or it'd be much more difficult.
I see my two clones focus on Sakon, and after one kicking Kabuto away my other clone quickly out does him in the speed department, and traps him in the water prison. I now have 3 in my water prison, and 1 drowning to death in a blob of my water, so I think I can ask Kabuto where Orochimaru is.
" Where is he Kabuto? You've lost this match." I state and I can see the frustration erupt upon Kabuto's face.
" He's not here is you're wondering. He is currently the Kazekage, who just so happens to be meeting with his old sensei tomorrow in Suna. The old fool will certainly die to Lord Orochimaru, and you can't get there in time to help since it's over a week away, even with you're speed."
I hate to admit it, but he's right. There is now way I can get there, but the Hokage can hold his own even if he's old. I shout back at Kabuto, " So do want to finish this?" and he just lets out a condescending chuckle.
" I'm not stupid, but next time will be different." Kabuto says before fleeing the arena, and I'm left with the four I captured. I form the half ram sign, and I use my Wind Style: Slicing Gust; Execution Variation on the inside of my water prisons along with my clones, and I turn the inside of the water prisons into a blender of blood and guts instantly killing Sakon, Kidomaru, and Tayuya beyond recognition. As for Jirobo, it seems he's already lost consciousness in the water and will drown in another minute or two since he has lost all of his chakra and energy.
As I dust myself off I hear a large gate open of some sorts in the arena off in the north, so I look past the pillars to see…. hundreds of Orochimaru's experiments rushing my position sporting curse marks. Damn that fucking Kabuto, if I didn't have my hands tied I would have killed him as well.
I pull out a kunai and I begin to fight the army of freaks attacking me, and even though they aren't skilled I'm getting nicked up by a few of their crude weapons. After about 10 minutes of ridicules fighting I manage to get to the end of the group with quite a few still after me, so I finally make my way back to the vent I entered in from and I jump back up into it, leaving the angry horde bellow me. I quickly navigate the small tunnel back to the outside of the mountain and I run down it a ways back into the forest to take a much-needed break.
After expending a fair amount of chakra I could really use some food and water, but the Hokage fighting Orochimaru is on my mind for tomorrow. I really hope Suna knows that their leader had been killed, and Hiruzen can handle himself. Also, I wonder how Tsuma did with her battle? Although thanks to the time shift she'll only probably get done once I'm back, which is fair enough.
Bonus!
(Kimimaro's P.O.V)- Before Tsuma's battle
Tsuma is a strange one, that much I can say for sure. Yushin-sama wasn't lying when he told me to watch out for myself. She has already tried to get me to do…questionable things, which I flatly refused to do due to their vulgar and tasteless nature.
As she brings me back from the store to buy me food and a shirt, which I was actually thankful for since I was getting a few stares down the street, Tsuma has been talking about this "creepy alter thing" she has to go to, and bring me along. Not sure if I should be excited or worried, and with her you really can't tell.
Back in the motel room I ask her, " So what is this alter you speak of?" and she just huffs at me. Really. " Look, I'll just show you. I have to get this over with or grandpa will get angry and not show me any new jutsu, so I'll just transport us there." She says while taking a strange scroll out of her pocket and unravels it across the floor.
" Just stay close to me, as I use the transportation technique." Tsuma orders with a hint of nervousness.
" Have you used this before?" I ask to her and I get a shrug in response. I don't like that. " I've seen sensei do it plenty time, and he trusts me enough to let me do it, so here goes nothing!" She shouts and activates the seal before I can get in another word in, and we are sucked in.
Next thing I know we land in a very dark and sinister temple like arena with many different shrines surrounding the place. This is some other world.
" Don't touch shit, now I have a battle with Hense, so just sit and watch ghosty." Tsuma barks as she marches off toward the temple with the writing 'Hense' above it, and did she just call me ghosty? I'm not going to forget that.
I see a well like structure and a panel, which she puts her hand on and pours some of her blood onto it, and then she steps back. " Ok, now this is where weird stuff happens." Tsuma cautiously says to me. I feel a slight change in the stale air, and I see a body emerging from the well slowly. It is Tsuma, but the facial expressions are different and so are the movements. This must be her challenge.
" It has been so loooong since I've had a female challenger, and a good one at that! Pyth really undersold how beautiful you really are darling." Hense shouts as she runs her hands across her body playfully, and then stares at Tsuma. Now I'm looking two strange girls that are the same, and now this is really confusing.
" You talked with Pyth?" Tsuma exclaimed and the other Tsuma let out a cackle.
" Of course! He was a little beat up about it, but I, Hense, the goddess of pleasure and pain shall give you a true challenge, maybe one that will hurt so good, hmm?" Hense declares in a very dramatic fashion, much like Tsuma herself but more pronounced.
" Whatever, let's finish this." Tsuma says as she sets out her first jutsu, which sets out a bunch of kunai with some kind of special tag in the ground, but I can't tell what it is.
" That's cute! You already know I can use your own moves against you, but did you know I could do this!" Hense shouts as she picks up one of the kunai and stabs herself in the stomach. I look at Tsuma and she is clenching her stomach as well…. like they are sharing the pain.
" Feel the beautiful pain my dear!" Hense maniacally stammers as she jabs herself again as both Tsuma's let out a howl of pain as she falls the ground. I even notice that Tsuma is also bleeding in the exact same spots with holes in her stomach.
" I'm not…giving up yet." Tsuma musters to say as she struggles back up to her feet and looks herself back in the eye. " Oh a tough one, eh? Well take this!" Hense shouts as she goes to stab herself again, but this time stops just before she stabs herself.
" I think I got it." Tsuma says with a smirk as she is clutching and invisible arm in front of her with both her hands, and Hense's arm appears to be held in place by an invisible force.
" So you figured it out, but that doesn't mean you've won!" Hense hisses back at Tsuma as she continues to try and stab herself, but the she starts moving back. It looks like Tsuma is pushing the invisible entity infront of her back, and Hense is moving back toward her alter.
" No! You're not shoving me back in that shit hole!" Hense cries in vain, but Tsuma has Hense overmatched in power barely as the bleeding girl has now pushed Hense up against the well.
" It's over you stupid bitch." Tsuma snickers a she quickly lifts her invisible foes while Hense floats in the air while still struggling, but Tsuma appears to be faster even though they are alike in every way. Hense is the dropped into the well she is hovering as Tsuma drops her arms, and we both hear Hense scream, " I'll remember this you runt! You'll pay bitch!"
After a few seconds I see a brief flash of light come from out of the well, and then the shrine lights up. I guess Tsuma passed whatever test, but she then collapses while clutching her stomach. I run over to her side to check it out, and it appears to be the two nasty stab wounds from earlier that are pretty serious.
" Ugh…I need help." Tsuma moans as she rocks back and forth to ease her pain.
" Just hold on." I state and I run back to grab the scroll, and I lay infront of her, and I say, " Send us back and I can get you to the hospital."
" I'll try ghosty…" She manages to say as she activates the seal and sends us back. Yushin-sama won't be happy if I let her die, and I definitely don't want to see that dragon monster again. I just hope she can hold out until I get her to a medic.