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Magma
Boruto flexed his hand, watching it as a tingling pain shot through his arm from the simple motion. He needed to blow off steam. he hadn't been able to in the two days since sparring with Kitsuchi. He knew the pain would be getting worse rapidly over the next day, but Sasuke claimed they were closing in on the missing Jinchuriki, so he wasn't all that concerned. Already he could see the signs, as he activated his Dojutsu. Tailed Beast chakra hung in the air, not much, but a little. Small clouds of an orange haze that was barely visible and were often no larger than a fist floated through the air, only visible to his Dojutsu and Sasuke's, which was how they were tracking the Jinchuriki. Well, that and the obvious signs of battle. All around them were gashes, craters, and channels in the ground that had been plowed up.
"He's not far now," Sasuke said, stopping.
"Then why are we stopping?" Iwabe asked.
"Because we're surrounded," Mitsuki said.
Boruto looked up at the mountains around them as forms began to grow out of them. At first, Boruto thought maybe they were shinobi, but when they were fully grown, they were simply humanoids made from molten rock with some patches of steaming obsidian over their bodies, the lava underneath the obsidian plates glowing. There were dozens of the odd creations.
"Lava Clones," Sasuke said, looking around. "Don't touch them. They're bodies are super-heated."
"Understood," Mitsuki said, forming hand seals. "Wind Style, Great Breakthrough!"
He exhaled a blast at one of the clones but when the blast reached him, a cloud of steam shot backward off of it and its glow faded slightly before returning and it continued.
"Earth Style, Falling Earth Spears!" Iwabe said, forming hand seals rapidly.
Dozens of stone spikes suddenly sprouted from the ground around several of the clones. Those that hit the clones' obsidian plates broke apart on impact, but other spikes were able to drive themselves between the spikes, impaling the clones. The clones began to slowly fall apart, their lava insides inching along the stone for a moment before the stone melted and they fell, reforming and standing, continuing.
Next, Mitsuki stepped forward, forming hand seals. "Lightning Style, Snake Lightning." He held his hand out, firing a snake made of electricity at a clone but when it hit it, it simply dispersed into the ground, using its body as a conductor.
"That won't work, they're stone, and stone conducts electricity," Denki said.
"You're both idiots!" Sarada snapped, stepping up beside Sumire, both forming matching hand seals before setting their hands on the ground.
"Water Style, Liquid Bullet!" both shouted before firing a blast of water each.
The blasts hit a pair of lava clones directly and there was a loud hissing sound as the clones were enveloped in steam. Then, after a moment, they walked out, their movements slower but still steaming from the heat and slowly growing hotter again.
"Water Style it is," Boruto said, walking forward. "Everyone get clear. I'm going to need room."
They all turned, sprinting at one side of the ever-shrinking circle before flipping over the line of clones and sprinting toward the top of the a mountain. As they ran, Sasuke looked back toward him as Boruto began to form hand seals.
"Finally have enough chakra to try one of those jutsus," Boruto grinned. "Water Style, Exploding Water Shockwave!"
He bent forward, water exploding out of his mouth and flooding the area instantly, a massive tsunami of water slamming into the Lava clones with a loud hiss that was instantly silenced and drowned out by the crashing waves. Then, finally, it stopped, Boruto standing atop almost ten feet of water, held in place by the mountains around them, which kept small depressions in between them every so often, this particular one being one of the larger ones.
Boruto bent forward, panting and wiping sweat from his eyes, grinning. That was a lot more powerful than he expected, and considerably more draining. He straightened up, grinning from ear to ear and looking up at the others. Just as he turned to them, he froze, eyes widening as the water below him began to heat rapidly. He leapt off of it and to the others just as it erupted into bubbles and steam, quickly boiling away in a matter of moments, the lava clones all standing again. Boruto groaned.
"Nice going," Sarada said, rolling her eyes. "You really showed them."
"He had the right idea," Sasuke said. "We just need to be a bit smarter about it."
He formed several hand seals before inhaling. A moment later, a massive tidal wave of water crashed down on the nearest two clones before lightning chakra streamed along it, electrocuting them. Even though they were conductors, when he let the jutsu end, they crumbled away into chunks of broken obsidian.
"Break the stone to expose the core to water," Sasuke said. "That will allow the water to stop them."
Boruto nodded as Sumire stepped up beside him, forming a pair of finger guns and rapid-firing water bullets into a pair of the lava clones, small jets of steam bursting out of their backs. Sarada grinned, Sharingan active.
"Hah, I can do that too!" Sarada snorted, firing the same jutsu, slightly slower.
Boruto thought back to Takigakure, remembering a sword made of water. He held his hand out, focusing, but all that gathered in his hand was a ball. He focused his chakra into it, deciding to improvise, and hurled it into a lava clone nearby. The ball of water then exploded, water blasting through the clone and then flooding down at the rest. Sasuke instantly dropped, landing on the water with a Chidori, lightning streaming through it and blasting the five clones unlucky enough to be hit.
"Impressive jutsu," Mitsuki said. "How did you do that?"
"Luck," Boruto said, forming hand seals. "Water Style, Water Trumpet!"
He exhaled a powerful blast of water that smashed into a clone, cooling it temporarily and solidifying it before flooding down over another. Once the jutsu had ended, Mitsuki blasted them both with a Snake Lightning.
"We'll work together," Iwabe said. "Everyone, hit them!"
Boruto and Sumire began to form hand seals together, both firing a Water Wall which then crashed back down on several clones. Once it ended, Mitsuki blasted a couple and Iwabe smashed his pole into the other, using its body to form a Stone Hammer. Boruto fired a second Water Trumpet at another group of clones as Sumire formed a Water Bullet as big around as Boruto's torso and fired it through a clone, destroying it. Mitsuki and Boruto used Wind Scythes to blast the group he had weakened just as Sasuke flipped and landed back beside them. They stopped, watching the last handful of clones begin to merge, growing into a single massive lava being. Boruto, Sarada, and Sumire instantly blasted it with a Water Style Jutsu and its body hissed loudly, steam rolling off of it, but when the water faded, it had barely been affected.
"Well that sucks," Boruto said, forming several hand seals. "Gale Style, Laser Circus!"
His Jutsu shot outward, blasting through the creature completely but it simply staggered back a step then swiped at them. They scattered, all escaping its massive hand, which impaled itself on the mountain, coating it in lava and melting it, freeing and restoring its hand. Boruto landed on the side of a mountain beside Sumire, both opening fire with Water Bullets. The creature unleashed an unearthly roar as it raised a hand, blocking the practically harmless projectiles and stepping forward, punching at them. They scattered just as Sasuke leapt over the creature, forming hand seals.
"Water Style, Super Exploding Water Shockwave!" Sasuke shouted, a much, much larger tsunami of water exploding out of his mouth and onto the creature, being entirely evaporated as it did, but successfully cooling the creature almost entirely. "Blast it!"
"Lightning Style, Snake Lightning!"
"Earth Style, Boulder Cannon!"
"Water Style, Water Bomb Jutsu!"
"Wind Style, Pressure Damage!"
Their attacks, a lightning snake from Mitsuki, a single massive boulder from Iwabe, a massive blast of water from both Sumire and Sarada, and a massive blast of wind from Boruto, slammed into the creature from different sides, causing a massive explosion, chunks of obsidian flying in every direction. When the explosion cleared, the creature had been destroyed, and in its place, stood a single, grinning shinobi. He wore red pants ending around mid-calf, a scratched out Hidden Stone Village headband, and black sandals. He apparently liked to go bare-chested, exposing his well-toned torso and arms, and had a katana slung across his back. His arms were crossed, a cocky grin on his face.
"Well well, the great Sasuke Uchiha, and the son of the great Naruto Uzumaki," the shinobi smirked. "I'm honored. Truly. When the Four-tails said someone would try to save him, I truly didn't expect that someone to be Sasuke, or for that matter the Hokage's son. I figured the Hokage himself would show up. Imagine my surprise when it's the one guy that can actually successfully beat my Lava Clones."
"We're here for the Four-tails," Sasuke said. "Come quietly or die when we extract it."
"Right," the shinobi snorted. "Because it can be removed without my death, right?"
"It can," Sasuke nodded. "Naruto can remove it and leave enough of its chakra to keep you alive. But you have to come quietly."
"I don't think so," the shinobi said. "I think I'll just kill you all instead."
He drew his sword, grinning as he did. However, Sasuke wasn't in the mood to play around. Before the shinobi could react, Sasuke's Susanoo's arm was pinning him to the ground. The Shinobi merely grinned though.
"Nice try," he grinned before dissolving into lava and seeping out between the Susanoo's fingers, reforming as a Lava Clone beside it.
At the same time, half a dozen more formed around them, all of them growing to double the normal height. Then, the shinobi landed on top of a mountain across from the others, grinning, katana on his shoulder and lava beginning to spread over his body. He grinned as he was fully enshrouded with lava and turned to Sasuke, who drew his own sword.
"Take the clones," Sasuke said. "I'll handle the Jinchuriki."
"The name's Blaze," the shinobi said. "Odd name, I know, but I was always destined to be the Four-tails' Jinchuriki."
"Wait, I thought the Five-tails was the one they sealed into a Jinchuriki," Boruto said.
"They did," Sasuke said. "But the Lava Style was the Four-tails' specialty. Clearly, this man went rogue and made himself a Jinchuriki."
"Indeed I did," the shinobi grinned. "So, shall we begin?"
Sasuke nodded, leaping at the shinobi, who moved to meet him. As they fought, Boruto and the others turned to the clones, Boruto, Sumire, and Sarada firing a wall of water each at them. the clones made no move to avoid it, but as soon as the water hit, their heat seemed to intensify as the water boiled away to nothing. Boruto growled in annoyance, holding his hand out and gathering water, forcing it to change shape until he was holding a water sword identical to the ones the Takigakure ANBU had been wielding.
"You copied their jutsu all on your own?" Mitsuki asked.
"Figured it'd be helpful," Boruto shrugged.
"It won't be able to stand against the lava, though," Mitsuki pointed out.
"Don't be so sure," Boruto grinned, sprinting down the mountain, speeding past one of the lava clones and slashing it, a loud hiss ringing out as steam shot out of the gash the sword cut into the creature, but the sword held.
Boruto spun around behind the clone as its lava began to leak out of the gash. Then, it fell away, its lava cooling quickly.
"Oh, I get it," Mitsuki mused as he stared at the sword. "It's the Seven-tails' chakra."
"That's right," Boruto grinned. "Useful for something other than one massive blast after all. Like this one."
He raised the sword then swung it downward, the sword deforming into a blast of water that exploded skyward again, expanding rapidly before crashing back down on the Lava clones.
"Impressive," Iwabe admitted. "But I still have the better jutsu."
"Oh yeah?" Boruto grinned. "Let's see it."
"Earth Style, Mountain Jutsu!" Iwabe shouted, slamming his hands into the ground, a massive section of ground on each side of the clones breaking free and flipping up, crushing them in the middle. "Ha! I win."
"Great job," Boruto said. "You just gave them a hell of a lot more molten rock."
"What?" Iwabe blinked just as the resulting dome of stone began to glow red before exploding, a massive lava clone even bigger than the last standing in place of the others. "Oops."
"Leave this to us Iwabe," Boruto said. "You're just going to make matters worse."
Boruto began to form hand seals before slamming them both into the ground. Suddenly, five massive barrier pillars fell from the sky above the creature, crashing down on its back and pinning it to the ground. The pillars were all orange with golden seal script connecting them at the top. Boruto sighed as the seal was in place, standing and grinning.
"Got you," Boruto smirked. "Now, let's try this again. Water Style, Water Trumpet!"
He began to blast the creature, Sumire and Sarada joining in instantly, but after a few seconds, the creature began to rise, its body moving around the barriers. As it continued, more of its body began to solidify itself, until it finally roared, the barriers shattering altogether as its body shone brightly, lava beginning to flood out of it, its obsidian plates sinking into it and leaving it as nothing but lava. It roared, turning and throwing a punch at Boruto, the creature's fist extending at him. He dove out of the way, swearing as he fell off the mountain.
"I really don't want to summon Gamakichi here," Boruto growled. "I doubt he'd appreciate that much."
He flipped, landing on his feet and beginning his Water Trumpet again. As he did, the creature began to stomp toward him, until someone appeared beside Boruto, raising a hand. He was wearing monk robes underneath a dark grey traveling cloak. As he raised his right hand, the sleeve too long for his hand, Boruto saw the confident smirk on his face.
"You're a big one aren't you?" the man grinned. "Beast Wave Gale Palm!"
A massive demonic-hand-shaped blast of glowing blue Wind Chakra formed before his hand, shooting outward and blasting into the creature's gut, the raw power of the blast cooling the creature and blasting it into pieces.
"Whoa!" Boruto shouted. "That was awesome!"
"Thank you," the man said, turning to him and cocking his head before grinning. "You're Naruto Uzumaki's son, aren't you?"
"You know my dad?" Boruto asked.
"He's and old friend of mine," the man smiled. "My name's Sora."
Just then, an explosion shook the ground from the distance just as the pieces of Lava Clone began to glow again, reforming as individual clones.
"You'd better go and help Sasuke," Sora said. "No doubt he can handle the man on his own with ease, but you're the one with the Jutsu skills to extract a Tailed Beast."
Boruto nodded, turning and sprinting away from the clones, running up a taller mountain and stopping, seeing Sasuke and the Jinchuriki dueling on a mountain top in the distance. The man flipped over Sasuke's sword and exhaled several spheres of lava at Sasuke, which Sasuke avoided, allowing them to blast the ground in the distance. Sora was right. Sasuke in no way needed Boruto's help.
Boruto turned back to the Lava Clones, who had combined into a pair of larger ones. He sighed, sitting down and closing his eyes, searching for the seal, picturing the room from before. A moment later, he was there.
"Welcome back Boruto," Chomei said. "You're making excellent progress adjusting your body to my chakra. The more of mine you use, the faster you adapt."
"Good," Boruto nodded. "Because I'm about to need a lot of it."
"I figured," Chomei said. "My brother Son Goku is a handful. He's prideful and powerful in his own right. Of course, that said, my sister, Kokuo, the Five-tails, is even more of a handful. She's a pacifist by nature, but any Jinchuriki she has gains the ability to augment their strength and speed with steam. That Jinchuriki will be dangerous."
"Understood," Boruto nodded. "How much longer until I can open the seal fully?"
"A couple days," Chomei said. "I'll let you know. For now, though, here. This should be enough to deal with the Lava Clones."
Boruto nodded as he felt Chomei's chakra filling him again. He opened his eyes in the real world, standing and forming hand seals rapidly. Once he was ready, he leapt into the air over the two Lava Clones.
"Water Style, Super Exploding Water Shockwave!" Boruto shouted, blasting one of the two.
The water was removed by its body instantly, but the body was instantly blasted into rubble by the others. Boruto flipped, landing on the ground, forming hand seals again.
"Water Style, Flash Flood Jutsu!" Boruto said, setting his hands on the ground.
Instantly, it was like a switch had been flipped. One second, the ground was perfectly dry. The next, water was exploding out of every rock surface around them, flooding the area rapidly and slamming into the Lava Clone. It unleashed a painful shriek of pain as it was rapidly cooled. Then, as it faded, Boruto shot forward, slamming his palm into its leg. Cracks shot along its body instantly before Wind Chakra suddenly exploded out from the inside, reducing the clone to dust.
"Impressive," Sora said, walking over. "I had almost forgotten how helpful it was to have a Tailed Beast's chakra."
Boruto blinked in surprise, looking over at him in surprise as Sora's eyes turned red with slit pupils.
"Those eyes are..." Boruto trailed off.
"Kurama's," Sora said. "When I was born, some of his chakra was sealed into me. It wasn't much, in comparison to the real thing, but it's about the equivalent of the One-tail, so I can't complain."
Boruto opened his mouth to speak just as Sasuke landed in front of him, setting Blaze on the ground, unconscious.
"Can you extract the Four-tailed Beast without having to seal it inside of someone?" Sasuke asked.
"No," Boruto said. "But I can keep him unconscious with a mental seal."
He formed several hand seals, placing two fingers to Blaze's forehead, red seal script spreading from his fingers before flashing and fading to black.
"He'll stay unconscious until I unseal it," Boruto said. "And since the release jutsu requires my blood, he'll be out for a while."
Sasuke nodded and picked Blaze up, throwing him over his shoulder. "Which way to the Five-tails Jinchuriki?"
"Chomei?" Boruto asked.
"South several hours, but you should rest first," Chomei advised.
"Chomei says that he needs to rest and restore his chakra before he can accurately track the Five-tails, since it's in a Jinchuriki. He should know where he is by tomorrow."
Sasuke nodded. "It can't be helped then. We'll head back to the Hidden Stone Village for the night. That will give me time to report to Naruto anyway."
A couple of hours later, Boruto finally collapsed onto the bed, groaning but smiling, drifting off to sleep quickly.
A.N: I still need help with the stuff I said last chapter. Fight match-ups, Land of Time members, and relationships.