Chapter 38: Let's go Together

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Bishamon turned to face his opponent, the man he had been dying to meet, or more accurately killing to meet, for so long that the scent of blood lingered on him and no matter how much he washed, his wolf family could catch scent of it. Sanjuro was obviously only using the power of a four tailed demon before, but he knew that he would have to upgrade to the full eight tailed power if he wanted to have a clear dominance in the fight. He wouldn't do it because it would just mean that the battle would end all too soon for him and he knew that he could easily fall prey to the one jutsu that the Okami excelled in, the jutsu to cut off a tail, which could only be done by a seven tailed demon, but if would use up a healthy amount of chakra. The serpent in Sanjuro checked his options and found a healthy alternative to going all out, so he decided to separate himself from his body and leave one of his tails inside of Sanjuro's body, just in case his opponent used the jutsu. It was because of this, that he had to stay within a certain range of his host's body or else the connection would be snapped and his host must stay alive, because if he died, it would mean the loss of more than one tail. The death of the host would result in the loss of all of his tails, leaving him powerless before his enemy and in every single way imaginable, fucked. The chakra manifestation of the serpent wasn't that different from Sanjuro's own body, in fact it was modeled after his body in every aspect of height and difference.

"Well then I guess it's time to get started," said the serpent with a grin and his opponent nodded.

"Today is the day I send you to the eighth level of Hell where they put all of the rejected pieces of shit like you," said Bishamon with an intent to kill that was making the serpent's hand shake, but he loved facing an opponent with such hate and rage that he was licking his lips with anticipation.

Bishamon disappeared with a flash and reappeared right next to the serpent, kicking him in the side of the head. The serpent vanished and in his place was a log. Bishamon then turned to blosk the thrust of the sword that would have skewered him had he not heard it coming from a mile away. The serpent began lashing out at his opponent and then he started moving in wild, erratic movements that kept Bishamon guessing on what the next attack would be. After a few minutes of this, Bishamon figured he had had enough of this and started putting his strength into the deflections, causing the serpent to be taken aback and Bishamon then started going onto the attack, slashing in different directions and using kage bushin to appear and assist in his attacks. All while this was going on, the serpent was laughing, as if he derived some sick pleasure from all of this and in his mind, the serpent was thinking of different ways of getting back on the attack. Leaping a few steps back, the serpent spewed acid out of his mouth, causing Bishamon to end his relentless pursuit and was then forced to get out of the way of a katon no jutsu. He was then attacked by a kage bushin of the serpent and after he had disposed of that he had to dodge a hail of shuriken.

"I swear, you just got more fun when you died, will you die and become more fun each time," asked the serpent as he grinned sadistically at Bihsamon, who was moving in whatever direction he was forced to, just like a puppet, but Bishamon knew this and was waiting for the right moment to do something about it.

When the serpent dropped down to attack, Bishamon used an earth style jutsu to transform the ground that the serpent landed on into quicksand, but the serpent jumped in midair to avoid the quicksand and landed right into the way of Bishamon mud wall. The serpent burst through the wall and struck at Bishamon, only to find that it was a kage bushin and a fist in his stomach. The serpent stumbled back into a tree and was continuously pummeled into the tree by a barrage of kicks. Most of the movements were predictable and sloppy with blind rage or at least that's what Bishamon wanted the serpent to think, but he was doing it all intentionally so that he would give the serpent the illusion that he could be easily controlled. When the serpent tried to lead him on and Bishamon just jumped back and used a katon no jutsu that burned off the shield that. Without his shield, Sanjuro thought that it was time for him to get serious, so he then used one of a summoning jutsu to conjure up a large snake that would have swallowed Bishamon whole, if he hadn't jumped on the snake's back and ran right down it, dragging his sword along so that it tore up along its scales. The serpent himself was standing near the tail of the snake and as soon as he saw Bishamon running over one of the hills of the snake's body, the serpent broke into a sprint with his sword sticking out. They met with a roar of thunder as their chakra met with the clang of metal, their powers cutting loose on the earth as a crater formed around them and the snake's body was disintegrated. Then Bishamon pulled his sword off and made another strike and was followed by a counterattack, each blow looking as if it were slower than it actually was until no one could see anything that they were doing. They moved around like flashes of lightning only meeting when one had gotten a hit on the other and all those who were still fighting stopped to observe the strange occurrence that was happening as if it were a natural phenomena that happened as often as a shooting star landing on the earth. Bishamon then used his chakra to turn his sword into a spear and when he thrust, ice shot out of the spear and the serpent was forced to dodge the attack and was caught into the earth dragon jutsu that Bishamon had put in dormant and he had just called upon.

The serpent was thrown forward and into Bishamon's fist only to disappear in a puff of smoke and come out of the ground, stabbing Bishamon in the side. He did not know the reason Bishamon didn't just parry the thrust, but then again, he was too caught up in the battle to notice that approaching Sanjuro, was Kurenai. Her every step was carefully made so as not to give up a sound and she made each hand seal only waiting for the last hand seals that he would have to make, but only if he wanted to and she was sure that he wanted it as much as she did.

"I love you Sanjuro," said Kurenai with tears in her eyes at the boy she had tortured was now the man she was trying to save, the man who loved her. She had lost Asuma and had been parted from him, but she didn't want to be parted from another man in her life. "If you wish to end all of this, you can come with me into the absolution of death, hand in hand."

"Yes, Let us go together," replied Sanjuro as he performed the last hand seals and sent them both into the deepest of sleeps, the eternal rest. Of course, this left the serpent powerless as all of that power followed the host into death, leaving him with nothing and the exhaustion of battle had finally taken it's toll as he fell to his feet.

"Well, it looks like my fun has just begun," said Bishamon as he put the blade to the serpent's neck, his eyes striking terror into the serpent. Now he finally knew fear.