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Chapter 126: Fayre vs Coola Part 2
Age 763, December 1- Destroyed Hokage's Mansion, Konohagakure, Land of Fire, Element- Fayre vs Coola
Amid the long-await battle between Coola and Fayre, the latter was utterly speechless at the revelation, as was the copycat ninja. The heel-turned-face Uchiha gave his opponent a long stare until he mustered up a courage to speak up but stuttered a bit. "S-s-suppressed form…?"
Although he had heard about the Frostian's ability to transform into multiple forms with a terrifying power level, he did not know that Coola was in his final form the whole time. He always thought that Coola was in his first form the whole time. That would explain why Freeza and Coola were not look alike when he first met his younger brother.
'That's right…' Realization dawned on his face silently. He recalled back to the day during Sasuke's training when Sasuke described multiple forms of Freeza to him.
Flashback Began- Age 763, November 20- Rocky Mountains, Land of Fire- With Sasuke and Kakashi
On the top of the rocky mountain cliff, Kakashi and Sasuke were sitting down against the boulders on their back to rest from a rigorous training. Kakashi was extremely impressed that Sasuke already adapted to the training of Chidori in only two weeks. Only few more days before Kakashi could let Sasuke train elsewhere on his own.
He scanned around the area. There were multiple holes on each of boulders that Sasuke had pierced through. Some boulders were even destroyed because Sasuke tried to enhance the Ki into Chidori. Unfortunately, it was not as forgivable as Rasengan was. The Uchiha survivor may use the Chidori about 5 times as much as he can because it would use most of Ki more than the Chakra itself. However, if he decided to enhance the Ki into Chidori, then he may only use it twice per day.
Sasuke worked so hard to perfect the jutsu before he could face Coola and his men. Not only that he focused on developing his new jutsu, but also focused on improving his power level. Just a day after they began training, Sasuke told him that he did not want to die again. He explained a little bit about Freeza, the one who killed him, so he did not want to die again, especially to Freeza's brother.
While they were resting, Kakashi would like to use an opportunity to talk to his student about Freeza. "Sasuke…"
Sasuke took a sip of water, as he swallowed the liquid and took a brief glance at Kakashi, then stared at multiple destroyed rocks that formed the hole. "Yeah?"
"You mentioned that Coola looks like your old enemy, who happens to be his brother. The name was Freeza, right?" Kakashi began, glancing sideway at Sasuke, who remained stoic. However, he did notice that Sasuke was terrified briefly. "It appears that by just mentioning his name, you look rather terrified. Did something happen to you on that day?"
Sasuke scrunched his face down, as he gritted his teeth. "Freeza was so terrified that his power level was insanely too high that none of us could manage to par on the level with the likes of him. We could not budge him once, even during his first form or rather his most suppressed form."
"First form? Suppressed form?" Kakashi raised his eyebrows at the word. "In other words, he has ability to transform himself at will?"
Sasuke nodded. "That's what terrified me the most. I was sure that it was not just me, but everyone else in the fight. They were all terrified of him. Upon learning of this revelation, we were all terrified so much more. His first form was too much for us. After he transformed into his second form, that's when he killed me. I was no match for him…"
"How many forms did he have?" Kakashi's curious quirked up when the second form was mentioned.
"Four. The fourth form is his final form and true form." Sasuke recalled the time when he went into the check-in station and watched the whole fight afterwards. "He only suppressed his form into his first form is because the fourth form was too much for him to control his own power."
"I see." Kakashi remained stoic. Although he did not show it, but he was already trembled inside. 'If he's terrified of Coola, it does appear that Coola must have possessed the similar power as his brother.'
He did not have to ask a question, because Sasuke already answered it for him. "I-I-If Coola is anything like his brother, then we're going to be in trouble. Especially when he is probably already in the final form. The worse thing is, if he lives in that form, he probably has an ability to control his own power level! T-that's why I can't afford to slack off! I must train myself in order to be able to put up a fight against him. I'm sure Naruto and Sakura are doing the same thing."
'That's not good news, huh?' Kakashi thought. 'This might be the first time that the entire shinobi will be completely powerless against him.'
Flashback Ended
"W-What did y-you mean by t-that?!" stammered Fayre. That was the first time that he had heard from Coola since he was abducted. It was no secret that a Frostians have an ability to transform. For very long time, he always had thought that Coola was in his first form, as the Frostian once pointed out that every Frostians is born in their true form, but required to suppress to their lowest level form once they turned 3 by the laws.
Coola covered his hand on his mouth with a snicker. "Oh, you didn't know that? You see, this is my true and final form. As you can see, I have been in this form my whole life since I was seven."
"Y-you can't be serious!" Fayre's legs were quivering upon learning that Coola had been fighting him in the final form the whole time. No wonder why Coola was too much for him! "Did you state that you're required to revert to your suppressed forms where you can control your power easier, by laws?"
"Correct." The Frostian slowly moved his arm from his mouth down to his side, along with his another hand in the stance similar to Freeza's manner. "It's the laws. However… By laws, to transform into our most comfortable true form, we must pass exams and obtain the certification that we can go anywhere in our final forms, as much as we're pleased to. I achieved that feat, something that even my Father and Freeza could never do that!"
Kakashi stared blankly and had gone into a deep thought. 'That's what Sasuke is truly afraid of. The ability to transform beyond their power level. The ability to ascend into the unthinkable power level where it's nearly impossible to hold them off. But not completely impossible. According to Sakura, Freeza was defeated on Planet Namek. I can't begin to imagine how powerful Coola is, if he went back to his most suppressed form. What if Fayre still cannot handle him?'
"Anyways… It should take only a second to revert my form to my very first suppressed form." Coola said with an evil smirk. Suddenly, his body glowed bright for a second, before it was revealed that his form changed.
Coola was a little bit taller than Freeza when he was in his first form, looked a lot more like a child. He had a large chesnut-shaped skull with two straight horns that was a little longer than Freeza. He also had a tail with a spiked end, which was thicker in width, as well as having three talon-like toes for feet. He had purple skins, as well as purple sections on his head, shoulders, and abdomen. He had wristbands and ankle bands with brown sections with lines on the front.
"This is my first form," announced Coola before he folded his arms behind his back, smirking. "Would you do me a favor by testing my form?"
'Hmm…' Kakashi's eyes narrowed, as soon as Coola revealed his first form. 'Somehow, even in his suppressed form, his presence is still intimidating.'
"Make fun of me, would you?!" Fayre snarled, feeling angered that his opponent mocked the difference between their ability. "You will regret de-transform, because you will learn that I'm not a mere toy that you can play with!"
"AHHH!" Fayre screamed, as he boosted his Ki to his maximum level. "YOU WILL PAY FOR EVERYTHING WHAT YOU DID TO ME AND MY HOMEWORLD!" He immediately took off towards Coola at incredible high speed, but his opponent was never the one to flinch.
As he reeled his fist back, Coola took note of that and smirked, as he raised his arm, absorbing a powerful punch that caused a shockwave that went over Kakashi, nearly knocked him away, and formed a huge crater beneath them.
"That's all you got?" taunted Coola.
Fayre scowled, and then he threw another punch with his free hand at Coola, who raised another arm to block a punch. Much to his frustration, he threw a barrage of punches, as both combatants began to take up into the mid-air and continued their exchange of blows. Every single punch Fayre was throwing around, Coola parried all of them with ease!
In the moment, Fayre's eyes widened, as he saw several punches coming towards him. In a panic, he dodged all of them, and quickly retaliated by attempting to kick his opponent at mid-section. Unfortunately, Coola pulled up his knee to counter his kick.
"DAMMIT!" Fayre gritted his teeth, still in frustration. He could not believe what just happened. No matter what, he still could not touch Coola at all.
"Are they fighting on equal?" Kakashi watched the battle in the sky, as it continued to unfold. "No… Even when it seems like they're fighting on equal. Coola does not break a single sweat. That means…" It was frightening to think that, because if Coola was in his first form and was still able to fight on par with the hybrid Saiyan, then that should tell a lot about this formidable enemy.
Coola suddenly whipped his tail towards Fayre, whose was caught off guard, yet somehow managed to raise his side arm to block an attack. Following by it, Coola delivered a punch right to his face, only to be blocked. They would then exchange their blows altogether, but not only that they flew around all over the battlefield, they always were teleporting everywhere. Every time they teleported, they would collide their fists each other, sending shockwave.
Kakashi was left speechless by that intense fight between Coola and Fayre. 'What a fight! Their power levels are way beyond our skills. In our league, we are no match for the likes of them! Boy, am I glad that we don't deal with them on daily basis.'
In one place, Coola was nearly punched in the face, but fortunately, he was able to bring up his tail just in time to parry punch. In another place, Fayre almost got kicked right in the side of his neck, but he also brought up his arm to save his own neck just in the nick of time.
They would parry each other every time they teleported, and then a little later, they started to lose patience with each other, as they started to increase their intensity and exchanged their full-blown punches and kicks but continued to teleport everywhere.
'They're both incredible.' That was all Kakashi could think. He was still not getting used to this level of fighting so much that he completely forgot about what he was supposed to do in this fight.
Then in very next moment, Fayre and Coola collided each other in the mid-air and continued to exchange their blows, as they began descending towards the ground. However, as they were descending towards the ground, more and more dusts were spreading until it would cover the entire battlefield. Kakashi was forced to shield his own eyes, so dusts would not get into his eyes.
Once they touched down the ground, they locked their own hands into each other, struggling to test a battle of strength between them, while powering up their aura, in hoping of overpowering other ones. The longer they were doing that, the more expansion that they would form the crater.
Shortly after, Fayre just realized that Coola began to overpower him and started to push him down towards the ground. Much to his chagrin, he had to use his both feet as a double kick right into the midsection of his opponent, doubling him over.
Fayre earned a victory smirk, but it was short-lived, as Coola got his revenge by punching him right hard in the guts, doubled him over also.
"You bastard!" Fayre glared at Coola, who still rubbed his stomach with a smirk. Coincidentally, they both threw their punch at their face at exactly same time, as each fists docked each other's cheeks, knocked both away.
Each fighter would stop their own knockback, as they skidded their feet backward, and then braked. Only Coola who kept standing, and Fayre collapsed to his one knee on the floor right next to Kakashi.
"Damn it! He's tough bastard!" Fayre mumbled. "Here I thought I can surpass him the fact that he's at his suppressed form." He felt like he was still outclassed in terms of power level regardless. He gritted his teeth, as his agitation started to build up. He really wanted to kill Coola, but it would seem like he could not even beat him in any forms. However, he refused to give up his hopes, as he was still optimist, thinking that he could beat Coola if he would find a way.
"Are you holding up well?" asked Kakashi, still keeping eyes on Coola, who stood, waiting for Fayre to take an action. "It looks like you're having a hard time against him."
"Yeah, I'm fine." Fayre responded, as he stood up. "I thought I'd cruise through the fight against him, but I am wrong, after all. But I'm not going to give up. This is where you come in, Kakashi."
"Yeah, the strategy we discussed early?" whispered Kakashi.
"Whatever it will take, even if it costs your life, without your help, I cannot defeat him. Not at least alone!"
"What's the matter?" Coola shouted from a far distance from where Fayre was standing right now. "Are you thinking up another way to beat me? Now do you realize how terror my power is, even in this form, and I am at its full power. Just imagine how terrifying power I would possess if I were to unleash my full power in my true form."
Kakashi and Fayre were sweating by just thinking about what Coola would look like if he happened to reach maximum power in his final form. It must be most terrifying experience ever Kakashi would have face. That was the same for Fayre as well.
The half-masked man noticed that Fayre was suddenly shaking in fear. "You're shaking."
Despite reassuring him that Fayre was holding up, but the truth was that he was already scared. His palm clenched into a closed fists, as they were shaking in quiver and tears started to form on his eyes. "Damn, I'm a crybaby as usual, am I?"
"Hm?" Kakashi raised his eyebrows at strange question.
His eyes shadowed his eyes, as he hung his head down, staring down at the floor. "You have no idea how much suffering I had under Coola's reign over me." He rubbed his tears off his eyes, turning his head up to glare towards Coola. "I have my morals, he doesn't. It doesn't matter how old they are, he asked me to slaughter them all! I was made to do them when I voiced against killing of the children who is left defenseless! As soon as they were invaded by us, they all lost their futures, and all younglings would never know what their future lies because they DIED! During my first mission as a member of Planet Trade Organization…"
He could never remember that very moment that he would forever remember. By just remembering that very moment made his chest boiled, as he leaked murder intention glare towards Coola, who merely scoffed.
Flashback Began
Paradox, Guure, Fayre, and even Coola came together to purge the entire planets. At first, Fayre did not plan to kill any of defenseless people. Instead, he would only kill all soldiers who fought for their planets. He kept reminding himself that they were only soldiers who signed up to die. That planet was full of weaklings where Fayre could handle them easily.
After killing one of soldiers, he came across a woman with the round belly, assuming that she was a fat, because judging by her appearance, she looked like a fat woman based on her cheeks. However, his morale would not allow him to kill any defenseless citizens. He was going to leave her alone, but Coola caught him and walked up to him.
"Please let me live! I have a family!" pleaded the woman with tears running down from her eyes. He spotted a couple of surviving boys immediately came in front of her and tried to protect her. They gave him a desperate glare.
"Kill them." The voice spoke, causing Fayre to whirl his head around, only to find that Coola stood by him. "Remember… We do not allow any single surviving natives here on this planet."
"What?!" Fayre cried in shock. "Are you insane? You know there's no way I am going to kill defenseless children!"
Coola smirked, folding his arms. "Unfortunately, you don't get to dictate how you decide whether if they will live or not. Only the person who have authorize to make a decision…is…" He pointed his thumb at himself with an evil grin. "…ME!"
"Still…" Fayre protested. "Why can't you kill them if that will satisfy your bloodlust?!" Both boys tensed up, as they were fully committed to protect their Mother.
Coola closed his eyes with a light chuckle, then he opened his eyes again. "Because I want you to realize where your loyalty lies. Depends on where your loyalty lies. However, if I find that you're not loyalty to me, you know what I will do?"
Fayre gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, trembling everything on his body. He knew what Coola intended to do, if he would not prove his loyalty to him. Coola would go on to destroy Element if that was the case.
"Fine…" Fayre's heart clenched so much that the flow of waters was running down from his eyes. "I will do as you ordered, my Lord." No matter what he wanted to do, he was FORCED. And he HATED it. He turned around and spoke three words to desperate family. "I am... sorry."
Flashback Ended
"And then…" Fayre's aura suddenly flared due to his rage finally blew through the roof. "I FOUND OUT THAT THEIR MOTHER WAS PREGRANT! HOW COULD HE FORCE ME TO KILL A PREGRANT WOMAN?!"
Kakashi widened his eyes, yet he had said nothing, as he continued to listen to Fayre's ranting. There was a side in Fayre that he never knew about.
"Since that incident…" Fayre let his aura disappear, as he started to feel calm and frowned. "Mission after mission… I was remorseless. No matter what age they were, I have killed them. With each kill that I was forced to do, I was beginning to lose my sanity."
Coola laughed a little bit, as he was enjoying the rant of his ex-soldier. But he remained silent, as he allowed Fayre to keep talking.
"When I came to this Element, I was blinded by my grudge and my desire was to kill you for what you have done to my brother and me. I wanted to blame you for all my suffering that I had to live with as a member of Planet Trade Organization." Fayre continued. "Then we came to Element in seek of Uzumaki Naruto. I ended up fighting Gai and his students. I killed two of them. But I STILL DON'T FEEL REMORSE AT ALL!"
Kakashi recalled that he was saddened by the death of Gai and Neji when Lee and Tenten rushed back to Konoha and informed the Hokage of news. It turned out that Fayre was the one who killed them, after all.
"I did not feel a single remorse until I fought a certain person right before I went out to fight you, Kakashi." Fayre was referring to his brother, whom he found out that Tobi was Obito. "That opened up my eyes. I remembered my original mission, and that was to kill Coola once I have gotten stronger after years of training with the Ki and storing them in syringes!"
Fayre had to vent his feeling towards Kakashi, and how much he suffered. It did feel good to vent, but he still had to live with guilty that he killed a lot of people on the behalf of Coola. He rubbed his tears off with his forearm. "I'm so sorry… Kakashi, for what I did not know what to do. I should not have killed Gai and Neji in the first place."
There was a sobbing from Fayre. Coola wanted to laugh that Fayre was such a crybaby, but he had his manner, so he would let him to cry it out. Because there was no way that Fayre could focus on the fight if he was still crying.
"You're the same crybaby Fayre as ever." Kakashi spoke up, and Fayre gave him a wide eyes stare. "I understand how you feel. My Dad had to make a tough decision and it was the consequence that he had to live with, which drove him to commit suicide."
Fayre frowned.
"Which leaves me to answer your question that you always have been wondering your whole life." Fayre knitted his eyebrows in puzzlement, as Kakashi continued. "Because of my stupidity and my arrogant, after the death of my Dad, I made a commitment that I was not going to do the same thing that my Dad did. I was to follow every law and regulation in the shinobi world. The truth is…" This was the chance he had, but whatever he was going to say depends on Fayre's reaction. "I believe I am the responsible for the death of Obito, your only brother!"
"What?!" mumbled Fayre softly. He could not believe what he was hearing from Kakashi. He was never told that until now. Then realization soon hit him, but his next comment would have to wait, as he was waiting for Kakashi to finish his explanation.
Kakashi stared up at the sky. "There were arguments between me and Obito whether if we should rescue Rin or not. Due to my stubbornness, I strictly followed the laws whereas it stated that the mission must be completed before everything. He disagreed with me and went after enemies to rescue Rin. I planned to act on my own to destroy the bridge alone, but I changed my mind. So I decided to help Obito. But… even when I thought it went well, I failed him. I failed Rin. I let them to die, so I live to regret with my bonehead decision ever since."
Kakashi turned his attention back to Obito, who was still speechless. "Had it not for my stubbornness, he would be still alive. Rin, as well. So I understand how you're feeling. Even when mistakes were made, as a shinobi, we have to move forward and not make the same mistake from happening again. Whatever the crime you have committed a lot, I forgive you. I hope you can do the same for me."
Fayre remained silence for a while. "I forgive you, too." He wanted to let him know that Obito was still alive and he was the one who killed him. But he did not want to upset Kakashi, as it would distract him from the fight against Coola. His expression changed as soon as he learned that he was forgiven, and his determination face stared towards their enemy. "I mean, no one is perfect. We are all humans. Perfect doesn't exist, after all."
"Yeah." Kakashi responded with his head nod. "We are all taught to not repeat the same mistake that we made, and only that we can move forward. It's hard after the death of Obito and Rin, but I'm trying to move forward."
Fayre stepped forward and shifted into the battle stance. "There's more reasons why we should defeat Coola for once and all. I will never let him threat this planet ever again! He made my life more miserable enough! I don't want to drown into a miserable life my whole life!"
"Agreed." Kakashi stepped forward, as he gripped his wrist to stretch his hand around. "I shall assist you in fighting him. In the meantime, I will figure out how to activate Mangekyo Sharingan."
Coola giggled, which made Fayre scowl again. "Two on one? That's what you're hoping to defeat me? You might have a better chance of defeating me if you're teaming up with someone similar to you, not some weak Elementian. Instead of two on one, it's still one on one, don't you think?"
"Shut up!" Fayre demanded, glaring towards him. "You're valuing our power levels too much. Little did you know, power levels do not matter, as long as we can find a way to expose your weakness. Once we expose your weakness, we are going to exploit it all fight! That's valuable assets every fighters should learn!"
"Good luck." Coola scoffed, as he unfolded his arms and prepared for another round of fight. "My weakness is not that easy to be exposed, you know. With any luck, you guys will be done in before you even discover my weakness."
Hokage District (Wasteland)- Hinata vs Neizu
Hinata's Byakugan became more intense, as she glared at Neizu. "I can't let you kill them all! I am your opponent right now!" Her fists shrouded into a large guardian lion-shaped shroud each.
Neizu placed his fists on his hips and knitted his eyebrows in confusion. "W-What's that technique?" He was confused for a while, before it turned out that he pretend to be confused, as he glanced towards his partners and laughed. "You see this young lady? She thinks her technique is capable of finishing me off, huh?"
Dore and Sauza joined the frog man in laughing out loud. Sauza spoke up. "She's nothing compared to other runts you fought. You're putting icing on the cake right now!"
"I take back what I say about wanting to fight them. I don't think it'd be fun to fight these weaklings. You can have them all, Neizu." Dore admitted. "I only want to fight stronger opponents here, but I guess it will have to wait later. Besides, Sasuke is getting weaker and weaker anyways."
Neizu then glanced towards the team leader for an approval, and Sauza, with every confidence in his body, replied back by simply nodding his head.
The approval of his leader got Neizu aroused with excitement and he grinned, glancing back at Hinata. "You heard them. I can have you all, you little ants! Now, are you prepared to be treated as a rag doll shortly? Or would you prefer me to treat you like ants rather than dolls? As ants, it's quick death, after all."
Hinata furrowed her eyebrows and gritted her teeth before she charged towards him, as she raised her fists that was shrouded into a large guardian lion shapes. She swung her fist around at Neizu, who effortlessly dodged it by the inch of his face. Grunting, she swung another fist of her, only to miss narrowly again. She released a barrage of punches empowered with her jutsu, but there was not a single scratch on him!
"He dodges all of her attacks so effortlessly!" said Sakura obviously, who woke up from temporarily unconscious recently and had watched the battle currently.
"I am not surprised." Kuririn was defeated in a sigh. He had a bit of migraine when he woke up from the unconscious. He felt like he lost all his hopes because there was no one who could be strong enough to defeat them. If Sasuke could not, then Naruto probably could not. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that Coola was far more powerful than him. Even if Naruto can match up against these guys, there was not possible that anyone, even Naruto, could hope to fight on par with Coola! 'At this rate… We need Goku so badly. He always find a way to beat him. I know he always has. But I doubt he will come here. I guess my dream won't be true. I won't marry and I won't have kids. What a bust…'
"Hinata…" Gohan, who never had knocked out as he simply stayed awake after taking a tough hit by an opponent, began to concern for Hinata, knowing that she was too weak to take them on. He recalled that she was unable to match up against Guure, whose defeated her so effortlessly. But he admired her courage and determination. Even when she knew that she was too weak to face them, she was willing to sacrifice her life for the sake of others. She fought and fought hard to buy sometimes until reinforcement arrives. There could be mysterious Ki user that was on way from the outer space or there could be Naruto.
Only Sasuke who remained unconscious since then. He took damages on his body too much, and his both Ki and Chakra were too exhausted at this point.
Frustrated by the cocky grin of Neizu, she attempted to increase her Chakra, and even a bit of Ki, unleashing barrage of punches. However, all her attacks were in vain, as Neizu continued to dodge each of them. He seemed enjoying dancing with her, based on his grin.
Shikamaru and Shino were speechless just witnessing Hinata who was too desperate trying to touch him for once. "She's powerless against him." Shikamaru finally spoke up, breaking the silence that filled the air between him and Shino. "She basically contributed next to nothing, but stalling for time. That's what her main goal was. However, would it work? At any rate, he might become too boring with her and finally kill her, then rest of us afterward."
Shino pressed his glasses with a simple head nod and continued to remain silent, as he preferred to watch the fight.
"What's the matter?!" Neizu taunted his opponent, dodging punch after punch. "Have you forgotten that I'm the second fastest in the universe next to Butta, not including Cold Family? But wait… he died. Does that make me the fastest in the universe?" He giggled when he finally realized that. "I didn't die first. He died first. Do I deserve a bragging right over Butta, then? I can't wait to roast him when I die… of natural cause, that is!"
Due to his distraction from his realization, there was a sudden energy wave that came directly from one of Hinata's guardian lion's mouth. His eyes widened, and his self-defense reflex quickly kicked in, as his head sank down into his body. Once his head popped up, he noticed another fist RIGHT BY his eyes! Even though he panicked a little bit, he vanished out of thin air with ease, once again BARELY dodged her punch.
He thought he got away, but he was wrong. As soon as he teleported behind her, all of the sudden, another guardian lion fist was already on verge of punching him in the face. "WHAT?!" He realized that once he moved from one place to another place, it only takes a millisecond to use his speed again. And Hinata did it in between millisecond! What's more, how did she know he was teleporting behind her?
He was forced to parry her punch. He was disgusted with how he allowed that to happen. He preferred dodging them, instead of blocking them or parrying them. Because he did not like someone to hurt any of his limbs. Dodging them won't absorb damages but blocking or parry would. Hinata pestered him with barrage of punches once again, pounding on his arms all the way.
Her eyes were filled with determination and wanted to show him that she was not a toy that he could fool around with. She wanted to give him everything she got right now and right here.
Meanwhile, rest of speculators wondered how Hinata could do that in a millisecond. There was something they must have missed. However, Shikamaru, on other hand, just realized what Hinata just did a moment ago.
"I see. That's what she did…" said Shikamaru.
Only Shino who could hear him because he was standing next to him. All other spectators were far away. "What do you mean?"
"She waited until he was distracted by whatever he was fantasizing in his head…" Shikamaru began, "…when she fired the Ki at him, she turned around to her back immediately and started throwing a punch before he moved." Then he grinned, feeling a little jealous. "I envied him. She may have discovered his weakness. In fact, it is two weakness. One, he is easily distracted by everything. Two, he has his patterns. She somehow figured out his pattern from where he moved from one to another one. He used the same pattern again and again, so eventually, she's able to figure him out. I did not notice until now. When he wanted to use his speed to move from one spot to another spot when facing his opponent, he always goes behind his opponent. Then next, he goes around in front of them. That's the major flaw he has right now."
"There's a reason why she is a fighting genius." Shino said in a compliment of his teammate. "That's because—"
He was interrupted when Neizu screamed in frustration towards her. "DAMN YOU!"
He tried to get away from her, but soon realized that his arm was already grabbed by one of her guardian lion shaped chakra. He struggled to get away, but he could not, as he was still forced to parry every single of her punch. He did not understand why she tried hardest to land a single punch on him when she should know that it was IMPOSSIBLE!
But why did she TRY?!
That was what frustrated Neizu the most. He reached at the point where his rage started to boil up. He had decided that he was completely done with all of them. 'They have pissed me off! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! I should not be struggling against a weakling like her. NOR THEM!'
Sasuke finally woke up from unconscious. He felt that his body was too heavy to push up. Upon realizing that he was too damaged to stand up right now, he decided to lay on the ground for a little while, but not before he noticed that Hinata was pressuring Neizu currently. 'What the-?!' He was as shocked as everyone else.
Before Neizu could make a move, he was caught by a surprise once, as Hinata quickly fired the blast from her guardian lion shape chakra's mouth towards him, but this time, it was a lot bigger than it was before. Gritting his teeth in irritation, he raised his palm to block an attack, but she would not let it go, as she continued to keep pushing him with her blast. She decided that it was not enough to push him away, so she let another arm go of Neizu and then immediately fired the same size of the blast at him.
"WHAT?!" Neizu blocked another blast. Now he had to deal with both blasts that continuously pushed him away. Even though he could go anywhere in the universe only in a matter of seconds, but he did not have a good physical condition enough to leave himself unscratched if he happened to receive a hit like that. He would get hurt regardless of their power level. That was why he relied on his speed too much.
"AHHHH!" Hinata screamed, attempting to push over her limit. The size of her energy waves started to increase for every second that Neizu held them down.
"H-How is t-this p-possible?!" Neizu stuttered in panic. He began to feel that he was being pushed back a little bit. "She's just a weakling! I AM NOT GOING TO LET THE WEAKLING ANT HUMILIATE ME LIKE THAT!"
For very first time in his life that he had to go beyond his speed limit, he disappeared right before her energy wave could succeeded into overtaking his body.
The energy wave flew all the way to the high sky until it dissipated. She rapidly altered her pupils in search of Neizu, but there was no sign of him. Her stamina started to hit tank already since she used up most of her Ki. Not to mention she was still not getting used to use of her Ki. She was too exhausted so much that she completely forgot about his weakness.
"BEHIND YOU!" Gohan pointed over the direction behind her, as he screamed in desperate attempt to warn her.
Hinata widened her eyes in shock, as she quickly turned around, only to get gut punched by the frog man. That took almost entire air out of her body, as she coughed up the blood, spitting them on the floor beneath them. She nearly blacked out at this moment, as well. She certainly thought she was going to die after that powerful punch.
"HINATA!" cried Sakura, although she was still powerless to move because of how much damages she took before. She did not want another shinobi to die like this. Konoha lost enough shinobi already.
Neizu roughly grabbed handful of her hair and glared directly into her eyes, as she struggled to break free of his grip. "YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS HUMILIATION!" As he screamed in rage, he dragged her hair down to the ground, slamming her face on the ground flatly, inflicting tons of damage on her face so much that she started to bleed from her forehead and her nose. "I should never let my guard down. I made a huge mistake and I won't repeat that mistake, but you will pay a price for my mistake!"
Dore shook his head and face-palmed. "He said that, but he keeps making the same mistake over and over again. Has he learned nothing?"
Sauza remained silence, as he was laughing at Neizu's bonehead traits. No matter how many mistakes Neizu made, he always had done them again and again. It was only a matter of time before he croaked in the end. It could be today. It could be tomorrow. It could be next year. Who knew?
"Damn it!" Kuririn clenched his fists. He wanted to get up and help Hinata as much as he could, but his body would not allow him to. "Why can't I move?! MOVE! DAMMIT!" If no one was going to help Hinata, this was going to be an ugly end to all of them.
Sasuke could not recall if he spoke to Hinata, but she was still a shinobi of Konoha regardless. He did not want her to die either. It was his will that allowed him to move his body, even when his body tried to say no. He completely ignored his own body and managed to get up on his feet, then he fired an energy wave towards Neizu, who was caught off guard once again. Unfortunately, the frog man disappeared and appeared back at the same spot.
After using some of his Ki, he collapsed to his knees and panted hyperventilation. "Dammit…" he grumbled. "I can't do anything about it…"
"Damn, you're still alive?" Neizu chuckled when he found Sasuke struggling to get up from his knees. "Just you wait. Once I've dealt with Hinata, you will be n—"
Much to his chagrin, Hinata still had her eyes filled with the determination, almost as if she refused to give up, her fist, still shrouded in a guardian lion-shaped chakra, was a short inch of his nose once again!
Thanks to his super quick reflex, his head temporarily sank into his body, narrowly dodging the punch, and as he exploded with the rage, he screamed "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" as he delivered a powerful backhand to her cheek, knocking her away from him. Her body rolled over and over on the ground.
Sauza chuckled. "The same mistake he made in most recent…" As Dore rolled his eyes over, the leader continued. "Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder did him disservice."
"Do you not know how and when to give up?" Neizu slowly strolled towards Hinata and glared at her. "It seems like you really want to be ants instead of rag doll."
"Because…" Everyone else was amazed that Hinata still fought hard to stay conscious and still managed to stand up. Everyone else were done for, yet she managed to fight the battle between her mind and her body. In the end, her mind always won. Her head hang down. "I simply don't know how or when to give up. In my whole life, I always have admired Naruto the moment I set my sight on him."
"Naruto?" Neizu raised his eyebrows. "That name sounds familiar." Then realization suddenly hit him. Was that the same guy that Coola had been seeking?
Hinata looked up and grinned towards Neizu, as the blood ran down from her forehead through her white teeth. "He is the inspiration of my life, and he is the reason why I became the girl I am now right now. He's my idol. He never gave up no matter what kind of adversity is against him, he refuses to give up. That's why I always have admired him for very long time. No matter what you said to me or no matter how much damage you have done to me, I WILL NEVER GIVE UP!"
"Hinata…" Sakura had no idea how much Hinata really admired him since she was a kid. He knew that she had a crush on him, but she thought it was just a silly crush. But it turned out that it was because there was something that she saw in him.
"Then you want to die that badly?" asked Neizu. "It seems that Elementians are full of suicidal people."
"So you understood that, you stupid frog." Hinata chuckled when Neizu was agitated once again. "I am going to fight and fight hard until you kill me. If you want to kill me, I'm not going to stop you. At least I died trying hard to protect my planet. A sacrifice is worth more than your speed, don't you think?"
Neizu chuckled with every bit of annoyance in his tone, as he raised his palm forward, drawing Ki into the center of his palm. "Fine, I will grant you your wish. You better not regret that you made a wish. After all, you don't want to make a wish that you will regret."
"Fine by me." Hinata grinned, pulling her fists to her side. "With that said, don't think for a second that I'm going to give up here. Until I die, I will keep fighting!" She ran in a zigzag towards Neizu, even though she was already worn out. But she completely ignored her body's protest. She could feel every crack on her body, but she was stubborn to listen to her own body.
"Run in a zig-zag, huh?" Neizu kept his aiming on her the whole time without a problem. He could read her every move right now. "But it doesn't work against someone like me. I can detect your movement, even if you try to trick me. I will make sure to hit you on first try. NOW DIE!"
Then Neizu fired his finishing technique, as the large purple wave fired towards her, which seemed like it was going to erase her body if it happened to land a hit on her. Hinata knew that she could not dodge it no matter what. It was too big enough that she could not dodge it. But she never panicked once. She still kept her grin, but this time, it was a sad grin.
'Sorry, Naruto…' Hinata smiled, even though she was going to die soon. 'I won't be alive to see you anymore.'
"HINATA!" That was the first time that Shino had an outburst, as he screamed for her name. At this distance, there was no way he could possibly save her life! All he could was to watch in horror.
"HINATA!" Sakura also screamed, but she was nowhere to be found.
BOOOOM!
As soon as large energy wave reached its destination, there was a small explosion, and a decent size of smokes kicked up.
"HINATA!" Sakura also screamed, but she was nowhere to be found.
"Where did she go?!" cried Gohan, who was surprised that she disappeared all of the sudden.
Kuririn looked around, trying to find Sakura, but it was no lucky. "I have no idea!"
Shikamaru and Shino were baffled to witness what just happened here. Was Hinata killed right there? Shino collapsed to the ground, as tears started to run from his eyes. It was uncharacteristic of him to cry during the battle like that. "Hinata…"
Shikamaru was completely sure that Hinata's body had been destroyed completely. Coola and his men were monsters!
Sasuke punched his fist onto the ground, baring his teeth in anger. "DAMN IT! DAMN IT ALL!" He could not save Hinata! He was unable to will his body to move again like last time, but this time, it would not allow him to. "DAMMIT!"
Neizu grinned darkly, as he let his arm down and watched the smoke that just started to dissolve. "That serves her right. She should just stay down, and maybe that will not be a waste of time. But she just had to do it and suffer my wrath."
Sasuke shot him a glare. "Y-You bastard!" How could Neizu say a cruel stuff like that?
The frog man noticed Sasuke again and grinned sadistically. "Oh, I haven't forgotten about you. I did say that I will deal with you once I've dealt with this little ant." He began strolling towards the last Uchiha survivor, who was too weak to get up on his own. "Allow me to end your suffering right now."
But not before he heard the voice that screamed "SAKURA!". His eyes widened when he instantly recognized the voice.
"IT CAN'T BE!" Neizu glanced back at the spot where he last looked at. The smoke completely dissolved, as it revealed that Sakura had shieled Hinata and apparently hugged her. "When did she have a time to save her?"
It was Sakura who took most of damages, yet somehow still alive. But her consciousness started to fade out and in. Apparently, Sakura tackled Hinata, but turned around, so her back could absorb the entire damage to herself.
"W-Why?!" Hinata left her mouth hanging, still could not believe that Sakura risked her life for her. "Why did you save me?! I was going to sacrifice my life!"
Sakura chuckled weakly, still hugging her, as she averted her pupils to the corner of her eyes to her comrade. "It's because of Naruto."
"What?" Hinata asked in a confusion. "What does this have to do with Naruto?"
"When you spoke of Naruto earlier, you, too, inspired me through the words of Naruto. Thanks to you and him, I was able to force my body to move SO I CAN SAVE YOU! Had I been a lot healthier, we will not be in this mess." Sakura said with a warm smile, yet she felt her body staggered with each second passed. "You admire Naruto a lot, do you?"
Hinata gulped. She did not know what to say but remained silence to allow her to continue speaking.
"I can't describe how much I am happy to hear when you said he is the inspiration of your life." Sakura said. "This is very first time that I have heard from anyone else. You started to make me feel like I don't deserve him at all, especially that I have treated him horribly before his first death. You treated him better than anyone else."
"Damn." Sakura cursed a bit before she started to pass out and collapsed onto Hinata. Apparently, she could not get a break from near-death experience. She had experienced them multiple times ever since she dropped Danzo during the beginning of the invasion.
"Sakura!" Hinata cried. She moved Sakura's body off her and rushed to check on her pulse, only to find out that there was still a pulse! "She's alive! She's just barely hanging on the life right now!"
"S-She risked her own life to save Hinata on the verge of being wiped out." Kuririn was baffled, not only that Sakura found a courage to save her, but she had a mental battle with her body. In the end, she won and able to move at a high-level speed.
"She's not going to die, is she?" worried Gohan. Although he was relieved that Sakura was still alive, but judging by the expression on Hinata right now, it could not look good right now. She was on verge of dying at this moment.
"Oh, no." Kuririn shook his head. "I don't believe she will! She's fighting between life and death right now. She will clung to her life to keep herself alive."
Sauza started to grow impatient after Neizu appeared to struggle to finish them all off. "What is taking so long! When are you finishing them off for sure, Neizu?"
"Yeah! This is third time that you said you'd finish them off, but you did not. You should walk the walk, instead of talk the talk," said Dore.
Neizu looked at Sauza and Dore who stood side-by-side from very far distance. "I know, I know! I'm going to finish them off RIGHT NOW! I am sick of these persistent ones already!" He then began strolled slowly towards Hinata and Sakura.
The former tried to shake her, in hoping of wake her up, but to no avail. "Damn, Sakura! You can't die on me! NOT LIKE THIS!" Why did it have to happen? Kiba, Chouji, Akamaru, and Ino died during this exact battlefield, because Team Z fighters were unable to protect them. Because Paradox, and Guure, and even these three were too much for them! There was nothing they could about it, yet she was very furious about this. If Sakura died right here…
Hinata's fist clenched tightly, as she was shaking them angrily. "I can't…!" She thought of senzu bean, but then she remembered that Sakura used up the last senzu bean. There was no way to restore her to her full health anymore. 'What should I do?'
"You have outlived your usefulness, you know." The frog-man, who still strolled slowly towards them, grinned evilly. "And your luck won't last longer, as they will finally run out eventually. It's only a matter of time that your luck will run out. I believe it finally has run out, as evident by your little ant friend there. But she should not have risked her life to protect you. You're nothing but a piece of cake ants. At least she's more useful than you!"
Hinata looked up at Neizu, who was coming towards him. She looked panic, as she returned her gaze at her dying friend again. "WAKE UP!" No matter how many times she shook her back and forth, Sakura would not wake up at all! What useful jutsu could she possibly bring Sakura back?
Still on his knees, Sasuke felt angry that was building up through his chest. If Sakura died… he was going to lose it. 'What am I going to tell Naruto?' He had to be prepared in case she died, he was afraid that he would be the one to be bad news bearer to Naruto. Yes, there may be Dragon Balls that exists in the universe, but no one wanted to die, even when they were expecting to be revived by the wish of Shenron.
"How dare you taking mockery of me?! ME?! Me, the fastest being in the universe?!" Neizu complained, taking a step closer and closer to kunoichis. "I never thought I'm going to say this, but y'all scared me already. I must not toy around with you any longer!"
Only if she could do something about it. She was not a healer like Sakura. She came from a clan that was only trained in hand-to-hand combat and nothing else. 'Wait…' She instantly realized the moment she thought about healing. 'I can heal. As a member of Team 8, the only team that have all three ninjas that can track down the people by any types. I had to learn how to heal in order for my team to survive. Even though I'm not good at healing, but I can manage most of it. I CAN SAVE HER!'
"Hinata! Sakura!" cried Shikamaru. He was worried that their luck finally ran out when Neizu finally reached his destination, as he stood over, shadowing Hinata and Sakura. Hinata was too caught with Sakura dying and all, as she already began to place her hands on Sakura's chest, glowing green from her palm.
'Please…' Hinata shut her eyes down, and several tears dropped from her eyes. 'DON'T DIE ON ME!'
Neizu glared down at Hinata, before her demeanor changed from the scowl into an evil grin. He raised his right hand up above his head, and his hand was shrouded into the small sharp blade with the Ki. "This is what happened when you try to humiliate me. I'm so ashamed that I allowed this to happen. I cannot afford to dawdle around. I still can't believe I, the fastest being in the universe, ALLOWED a weakling like you to inflict damages on ME! Say hi to your friend in the afterlife world for me. Oh, well. It's like killing two birds with one stone."
He swiped his hand towards Hinata and Sakura. "DIE!"
"HINATA! SAKURA!" screamed Gohan. He was unable to move his body, as he watched Neizu going for a kill in horror. Sasuke froze in place for a moment. Kuririn shut his eyes down, not wanting to see what was going to happen. Shino's fists clenched his fist, as he could not bear to witness Hinata's death. Shikamaru remained silence. Dore and Sauza grinned. Hinata was completely locked by her healing. Sakura remained unconscious, as she had no idea what was going on.
Suddenly, Neizu stopped a short inch of Hinata's face. His eyes widened open. "What?" He retracted his hand and stared up into the sky. "What's this powerful Ki I'm sensing up there?!"
Not only Neizu who sensed sudden flare of Ki, but his own comrades, and rest of other Team Z fighters as well, besides Hinata (who remained oblivious, as she focused on healing Sakura), Shikamaru and Shino.
Kuririn and Gohan looked up at the sky. "W-Who is this Ki heading from the outer space?" asked Gohan.
"I don't know." Kuririn said. "Is it an ally or an enemy?"
'So you finally have arrived. Whoever you are, you're just in time.' Sasuke thought, but he hoped that it was their ally instead of enemy. The last thing they wanted to see was another enemy. Because that unknown Ki was their only hope at this point.
Shikamaru was puzzled by the recent unfolding of the event. He was as much confused as Shino was right now. "What's going on?" For sure, he thought that Hinata and Sakura were going to be done for good. But why had Neizu stopped?!
Dore frowned, staring up at the sky. "Is that another one of our allies? Have Coola call in other soldiers?"
Sauza shook his head. "No, I think it's an enemy. If that is the case, Coola would have let us know about the incoming ally. For sure, it is an enemy. Whoever that guy is, he's more powerful than rest of these pipsqueaks." He spoke of their current enemies at this battlefield. "But I'm certain that this energy signature is not stronger than us, though."
They had to watch the sky where the Ki came from carefully. Eventually, they finally spotted the Capsule Corporation spaceship slowly descending towards the battlefield.
"I-Is that…?" Gohan pointed his finger at the spaceship. He immediately recognized that spaceship. It was exactly identify the same spaceship that Goku landed back on Namek.
Kuririn nodded. "Yeah."
Even though Sasuke was pleased that it, in turn, was their ally, but at the same time, he was not happy to learn that it was the same guy who stole the spaceship and took off in search of Goku. "Vegeta!"
'What does it have to be Vegeta, of all people? Why can't it be Goku?!' scowled Sasuke. He never liked Vegeta since the first time he met him back on Earth. Even on Namek, Vegeta never changed even a slight bit. 'Why is he here?!'
"Who is this guy?!" Neizu completely forgot about what his main goal was supposed to be: finishing off Hinata and Sakura. But there he was, gawking at the spaceship that recently touched down like an idiot. Then he smirked. "Is this a spaceman? He better regret that he toured to this planet."
"There's a slight possible that he learns how to control his Ki. His current power level does not seem like he's really at right now. Whoever he is, we both have to be ready." Sauza said. He did not want to be too cocky, thinking that whoever that person was would be a piece of cake. That person could be familiar face they met again.
The door of the spaceship slowly creaked open until it came down to the ground. The shadow figure emerged from the inside with his arms folding.
Sauza widened his eyes in shock, as he immediately recognized that face. "VEGETA!" He heard that Vegeta was part of the group that defeated Freeza. But the humiliating part of that was that Vegeta died with tears in his eyes after being killed by Freeza back on Namek. But made no mistake about it, he knew that Vegeta had improved greatly since last time Coola Armored Squadron saw him.
"What is he doing here?" asked Gohan.
"I don't know." Kuririn replied. "But he must have sensed Coola's Ki during his tour to find Goku. Or maybe he expected to find Goku here."
Prince of all Saiyan stood proudly on the platform of the spaceship, scanning the whole Konoha. "So this is Element." He finally spoke up. "I came here because I sensed Coola's Ki, so I thought I should come here to finish him off, just like Kakarrot finished Freeza off. But I did not expect to meet you again… Sasuke…"
Sasuke scowled. "Vegeta…"
"Gohan…" Vegeta smirked, recognizing this brat. Why was this brat here along with that bald midget too? "You are the most unexpected person I'd ever hope to come across. What are you doing here on this planet?"
Gohan did not answer.
Vegeta scoffed, and when he noticed the pale eye Elementian currently healing the unconscious pink-haired girl. "Typically… She's useless as always. She should quit being a ninja. That won't do her any good, after all."
"Why have you come here?" Sauza immediately demanded with a question, glaring towards Vegeta. He heard the story about Vegeta that he betrayed Freeza, as well as Planet Trade Organization. "Do you realize you have a bounty on your head right now? Alive or dead?"
Vegeta glanced over at Dore and Sauza who stood side by side and smirked. "I am here to kill Coola and all of his men. I took care of most Freeza's men already."
"You what?!" Sauza was stunned that Vegeta would go that far to wipe out Freeza's men. "Do you have any idea what you have done?! Now you make your bounty worse than it should be. Coola-sama and Cold-sama will be furious when they learn of this."
"They can try." Vegeta raised his fist, as he clenched his fist. "I have gotten far stronger than ever before. I already have surpassed Coola."
"You?" Dore spoke up, as he could not contain his laughter. Erupting with the laughter, he pointed his finger towards Vegeta. "The same Saiyan who is known to rival with the only one and one Kewie?!"
"Yeah, yeah!" Neizu nodded, placing his fists on his hips, displaying a smug smirk. "As clear as the blue sky, I remember that you got your ass kicked… by us! What makes you think you already have surpassed Coola-sama?!"
"Never mind that…" Sauza took a step forward and held out his hand and created a purple beam of energy. It shaped like a sword, but it was a lot more like a real sword, unlike Neizu who created a small blade. "I will take care of him in no time!"
"Will that frighten you that you will run away like a chicken would if I told you that I killed all of Ginyu Special Squadron?" Vegeta reminded them. It was amusing for him because as soon as he revealed that he was the one who killed the entire force, rest of Coola's Armored Squadron freaked out. "Even Dodoria and Zarbon…"
"I-Impossible!" Neizu yelled, seemingly freaking out most out of all. "T-There's not p-possible that you are the one who killed them! You can't even beat them!"
Vegeta scoffed. "What are you talking about? You must have heard rumors about them… that they were killed in action. Surely, someone killed them, is that right?"
Neizu never felt fear in his life before. If Vegeta managed to kill Butta, that means it could not be good. Vegeta could kill them all if he wanted to. But then he reminded himself that he was the fastest in the universe. Butta must have lagged a bit, in which that got him killed. "Yeah, we all heard about that. There was another Saiyan survivor, but I doubt you're the one who defeated them."
A pure-blooded Saiyan grinned even wider, confusing his enemies again. "Who said I am the one who defeated them? I will admit that I got some help, but he has too much of soft heart enough to call himself a Saiyan. So I finished them off instead." Gohan frowned at the mention of his Father.
"ENOUGH!" Sauza suddenly leapt towards Vegeta, who still stood on the platform of the spaceship. "Why not you prove it to me RIGHT HERE?!"
"Gladly so." Vegeta grinned sadistically before he also leapt towards Sauza in the mid-air. In blink of an eye, he ruthlessly blasted Sauza through the head before the latter could even swing his blade. The headless body dropped to the ground, motionless.
"SAUZA!" Dore screamed, astonished that Sauza was killed too easily LIKE that. He thought that it must be fluke. Little did he know, Vegeta would prove him wrong once again. Due to heightened rage, he flew up towards Vegeta and threw a barrage of punches. However, Vegeta evaded every single of these thrown punches.
"VEGETAAA!" Neizu appeared right before Vegeta in a blink of eyes, but Vegeta appeared to have no problem with his speed, as he continued to evade every single of Neizu's punches and kicks, despite the frog man used his maximum speed. "WHAT?!"
Kuririn and Gohan could not believe what they just witnessed in this event. "H-He dodged the frog-man's attacks. I didn't think it'd be possible," said Kuririn. Gohan nodded, as he was also dumbfounded.
"W-Who is h-he?" wondered Shikamaru. He recalled the story that Sakura told him of her times before Team 7 came back to Element, along with rest of their friends. A Saiyan named Vegeta was mentioned in her story. The way how she described Vegeta looked exactly like that man. He was surprised to see a Saiyan here. From what he was told, Vegeta left Earth in search of Goku. Somehow, Vegeta got here.
Sasuke began to recover from all damages he took from before. He successfully climbed up to his feet and watched the battle between Vegeta, and Dore & Neizu. His fists clenched, as he started to feel jealous of him. 'He gives Neizu problems when I could not even do the same thing to him. When I thought I found a way to beat him, he always counters me. But for some reason, Neizu can't counter him. He has gotten stronger a lot than last time.'
Few second had passed since Neizu and Dore began coordinating together by attacking him, but to no avail. In the meanwhile, Hinata used up some of her chakra, though exhausting to use it, she managed to heal Sakura, whom would slowly open her eyes.
Hinata could not be a lot happier to see Sakura still alive. "SAKURA!"
Sakura blinked, as she felt a bit groggy. "H-Hinata? Am I still alive?" Before she could say anything more, she heard a rage scream from Dore, which allowed her to follow the direction of the voice, only to find that Dore and Neizu were battling Vegeta in the sky right now! "V-Vegeta?! What is he doing here?!"
"DAMN YOU!" Dore screamed in a rage, throwing a straight punch towards Vegeta, who then ducked down, only for a fist to go through and clocked Neizu, sending him falling towards the ground. Before he could register what was going on, a punch in the guts took nearly entire oxygen out of his body, and also spewed bloods out of his mouth. "ARGHHH!"
Dore was unable to retaliate back, as Vegeta double kicked him right in the chin, sending him sprawling up into the high sky and then he teleported behind him before delivering a double-ax handle, smashing him back down towards the ground very fast. Neizu managed to stop his falling, as he spun down and landed on the ground and looked up only to find that Vegeta charged up the Ki before charging down towards the hulk-like guy.
"DORE!" cried Neizu, desperately reaching his hand for his comrade, even though he was TOO FAR away from them.
About the same time Dore had his back smashed into the ground and coughing up the bloods, Vegeta would land his knee smash right in the middle of the throat, ended up breaking his neck for good. After Dore got hit by knees to his neck, his body would twitch every second, and he was unable to move. That attack had possibly paralyzed him for life.
"Hmph…" Vegeta stood by his opponent's head and smirked down at him. "Were you confident a while ago that I was the same guy last time you had seen of me? Well, you are wrong. You see, there's nice thing about the Saiyan is called Zenkai Boost. Every time a Saiyan is near death and when they're recovered, they're getting stronger! That's what you get for underestimating us, the Saiyans!"
"No! No! No! No!" Neizu was flabbergasted that such an event like this would ever happen in his lifetime! This was the first time that Sauza and Dore were defeated that easily! In blink of an eye, both Sauza and Dore were defeated before they could realize! He could not allow this to happen, but he realized that he must escape this battlefield and let Coola know about it. "I AM LEAVING!"
He slowly stood up, hoping that Vegeta would not notice him, as he quickly turned around and tried to run away, but stumble a bit before immediately charging up to his full Ki so he could flew at very high speed.
"Hey! He is running away!" cried Kuririn.
Unfortunately, for Neizu, Vegeta spotted the frog-man who used this cowardly tactics to run away. "Where are you going? Don't tell me you need to go bathroom?" He jumped in between paralyzed man' legs and lifted a single leg before tossing Dore towards Neizu.
Neizu glanced over his shoulder, only realizing that paralyzed Dore was following right behind him. "WHAT?! How did he toss that dead weight extremely far?! Not to mention the speed of his toss was ridiculous fast."
Vegeta raised his open palm, as he pointed them at both Dore and Neizu directly, gathering the Ki into his palm. "This is my little experimental attack, but it's something that I came up with the attack and even the name. It's my new favorite attack."
"BIG…" Vegeta fired up his blue aura, as he began to build up the Ki gathering in front of his palm. "BANG…" As he was charging his attack up, it started to shine and became too bright for rests of speculators' eyes so much that they had to shield their eyes.
"W-What is this i-incredible power I'm sensing from?!" Kuririn muttered in shock. "Is it Vegeta?! He has gotten a lot stronger since last time!"
"Apparently, he used the Gravity Chamber to accumulate his power level, just like Father did," said Gohan.
Vegeta screamed loudly, "…ATTACK! BIG BANG ATTACK!" The large energy of blue sphere launched from his palm, sending its way towards Neizu and Dore, in which the former stared back over his back in panic, desperately attempting to speed his way up more than his maximum power, but it was in vain.
"NOOO!" Neizu screamed in the pain, as the large energy of blue sphere had completely obliterated them until there was nothing left in them, but ashes which was left over in the sky. The Big Bang Attack sphere would then dissipate right after their death.
Smirking, Vegeta moved his arm down. "They're gone. Now…you're next, Coola!" He felt satisfied that he killed all three of them that he always had grudge against for decades. Ginyu Special Squadron all were dealt with. Now he also had dealt with Coola's Armored Spaudron as well. All left was that he should kill Coola, and then King Cold and all remaining men from Planet Trade Organization. He assumed that Paradox and Guure were probably got rid of by these little runts.
However, he felt that Big Bang Attack technique was not completed yet. He realized that he would need to work to master that new technique.
Destroyed Hokage's Mansion, Konohagakure, Land of Fire, Element- Fayre vs Coola
Kakashi tried to remember how he unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan in the first place. Back when he plunged his hand through one of his comrade, Rin's heart, just before he passed out, his Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo. However, since then, he never figured out how to activate it again. But he knew he could use it at a time like that, like Fayre suggested him to. Fayre wanted him to use the Mangekyo Sharingan against Coola, even when Kakashi would not be participating in physical fight. He was given a support role to assist his current partner.
No matter how much he strained his eye, it would not just budge at all. So frustrating that he could not even activate it for the sake of the world. 'What am I going to do? I can't afford to give up. Somehow, I must find a way to use it.'
Currently, Kakashi was watching the exchange of throwing punches and kicks between Fayre and Coola in the sky. As he noted, they both seemed to be on equal, but there was something bothering him for a while now. Coola appeared to remain calm and collected, plus he was too nonchalant while exchanging his blows with his opponent. Fayre, on other hand, appeared to be very frustrated and agitated.
Grunting, Fayre blocked a kick to his forearm, but quickly realized that it hurt him so much, even though Coola was in his suppressed form. 'Damn! He still has that much power anyways? Even in his first form?'
Coola's lips curled up into a smirk, locking his eyes into his opponent's shocked eyes. It was like he sent a silence message something like 'You're not good enough for me'. He did not say that, but even so, his silence stare was more than enough to make Fayre angry.
Fayre's face was seething with a rage. He moved himself up in the air, dodging the sweeping kick of Coola, and then placed his hand on his enemy's leg and used it as a handspring to bounce himself up until his palm was at the level of Coola's face.
Coola widened his eyes in shock. Quite frankly, he did not expect this at all, as Fayre gathered every single Ki in his body that flowed all the way into his palm.
"Say hello to my new attack!" Fayre placed his palm right in the face of stunned Coola, as the small flame-like energy of sphere formed on the top of his hand, but it continued to grow. Once it expanded to the size of his face. He shouted his attack name. "Katon Havoc Burst!"
A roaring flame of sphere fired a blank point through Coola's face, as it flew BARELY past by the First Hokage's monument. Not too long after it had disappeared from their sight, somewhere in extremely far, far distance…
BOOOOOOOOOM!
A massive dome of explosion, surrounded by the flame, erupted up all the way into the sky, not only that, but it also nearly expanded to the village of Konohagakure. If that were Coola's power, Konoha would have been done for.
Kakashi was baffled. What did Fayre just do? He never knew that Fayre was capable of performing this such destruction attack! All he could think of was about how Fayre pulled off this and that if Coola was dead already.
The lips of Fayre twitched into a premature victorious grin. "Take this! Maybe you should not have gone into the first form! Then you would have survive!"
Kakashi somehow had a bad omen about this. There was no way Coola would be killed that easily. It was too suspicious to tell whether if Coola was too dumb to get himself killed easily or he simply played Fayre right into his plan. He suspected that it was the latter, as seeing that his old friend was too distracted by his own thought.
In very next moment, he was confirmed to be right about suspecting this event. He then spotted the pink beam that zoomed towards unsuspecting Fayre at very high speed level. "FAYRE!" His panic eyes widened in fear of allowing Fayre to be killed right there in front of him. Because he was too determined to not let him die, his Sharingan eventually evolved into the Mangekyo Sharingan, this eye was of similar appearance to Obito's eye and subsequently, the wormhole materialized in front of Fayre.
"WHAT?!" said Fayre, very surprised. He did not expect that the wormhole would appear in front of him out of nowhere. Not just the wormhole, but the death beam as well! The death beam went into the wormhole and then disappeared.
Kakashi panted heavily, his left eye suddenly bled out. 'Apparently, I can't overuse this level of Sharingan. It is taking some of my life out already.' His eye was in the pain right now, but he had to tolerate it, as he was still able to see clearly.
Fayre stared down at Kakashi, who still stood on the floor seemingly panting hyperventilation. 'He did it…He finally did it… Only the drawback of Mangekyo Sharingan is that Kakashi is not an Uchiha. It can eat his lifespan VERY FAST if he's not being careful.' Then he looked back at Coola far away from the village of Konoha, who finally revealed himself after the massive smoke cleared. 'I can't afford to let him overuse it. Somehow, I have to find a way to beat him sooner.'
Coola chuckled. "You almost got me. But your attack is far inferior to me. But as your name implies, it is, indeed, a havoc."
He glanced around himself, as the place around him was destroyed. The area where Coola stood in right now used to be incredibly beautiful forest and some cabins there, good fitting for camping. Now they were no longer, as it was not now a dark, ugly wasteland. They used to look too green, but they were not anymore. Not to mention that there were still lasting flames lingering everywhere about 100 miles of radius.
He returned his gaze up at Fayre. "Look at what you caused a destruction. Your attack is a havoc, but it still doesn't impress me, not even in a slight."
Fayre began to smirk, which Coola immediately noticed and asked. "Why are you smiling? Aren't you afraid of me any more?"
Fayre raised both of his fists, quickly powering up himself again. "Because I am so confident that I CAN BEAT YOU! I just realized you're not as strong as you seem to be anymore. Unless you are intimidated enough to go back to your final form, you're just one of other weakling that you often ordered me to kill."
With a chuckle, Coola shook his head, as he ascended into the sky until he was at the same level as his opponent. "Before or after?"
"What?"
"Before or after your Elementian friend activates his—what is that evolved Sharigan thing called again?" Coola pondered for a second before he managed to recall the name. "Oh! Mangekyo Sharingan! Just like you possess those special eyes. Was that the name? Am I wrong?"
'Not good! We were supposed to keep our trump card a secret. But now it's out too soon…' thought Fayre, scowling.
"Your friend has a quite useful technique. However…" Coola snickered, pointing his finger directly at Fayre. "There's a drawback of using that technique, do you realize that? What if I were to do this…?" He fired his finger beam at Fayre, only to be sucked into the wormhole again.
"Kakashi!" A concerned Uchiha cried, when Kakashi collapsed onto his knees and nearly fainted. He looked around, glaring at his former boss. "You bastard!"
"And this?" Coola laughed before he fired another energy beam towards Fayre once again.
Kakashi was groggy a little bit, but right as he noticed that Coola fired yet another Death Beam, he immediately used his Mangekyo Sharingan to materialize the wormhole in front of his partner, absorbing the beam into it. His eye was bleeding through the bottom of his eyelids. At this rate, if he kept using them like that, he was going to die. However, he refused to give up. If he was going to sacrifice his life to protect Fayre, then so be it. He felt like it was worth to sacrifice to protect the village. Without Fayre, there would be no one to keep Coola busy. At some point, Coola probably would have gotten boring and decided to blow up the planet. 'I can't afford to give up.'
"Every time he used it, he's losing every bit of his lifespan." Coola explained. "Does he intend to use it when I attack you with my Death Beam? Or does he intend to use it for something else? Either way, he's going to die, no thanks to your useless strategy."
Coola fired another beam at Fayre, which obviously got sucked into the wormhole and disappeared again. "Ho-ho! There he goes again."
Fayre sent his worried glanced down at Kakashi, who struggled to keep conscious. Kakashi had to fight his mental off to not knock out. Turned out that he was too determined to perform an action that would require their strategy to be successful no matter what.
Now that Fayre was very doubtful of his own strategy. Now he was no longer sure if his strategy was going to be succeeded. He gave this strategy a second thought about it and had considered telling Kakashi to stop doing that.
"Now how about this?" Coola smirked, pointing his finger towards Fayre. "How many times can he do this until he dies? One more? A couple? Or maybe ten of them? Shall I send ten of them at once to test his fate?"
THAT'S IT! For years and years during his servant under Coola, that monster always found a way to make him suffer since he was threatened that if he did not join Coola's forces, Planet Element would be destroyed.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Fayre's rage suddenly emerged, as his aura spiked up much higher than the normal and screamed louder even that reached the heaven.
In one moment, Fayre was floating in that same spot, and then once he blinked, Fayre suddenly appeared in front of him and already pulled his punch. "WHAT?!" Right after he yelled in shock, the fist clocked him full on the nose, knocking him away.
Following by it, Fayre appeared above him where Coola's stomach was facing his opponent, and then delivered a powerful elbow smash into the abdomen, sending him smashed onto the ground. Then he knees smashed right in the middle of the stomach, making Coola doubled up and spat out some of his saliva from the mouth.
After Coola received the knee smash to his guts on the ground, his body would bounce up, as he spiraled around until his body was upside down in the mid-air.
Fayre glanced over his shoulder, and his eyes were very furious, glaring at him. He swung his fist around, backhanding Coola away from him. That backhand punch would knock him away very far from him.
Fayre powered up again, what seemed like there was no limit to his Ki in his rage mode. "THAT'S ENOUGH!" He dashed towards him at a high speed beyond his normal maximum speed. Not even Coola could detect his movement when he managed to stop his own knockback by skidding his feet on the ground.
"DAMN!" cursed Coola. "To think I'm struggling against him!" He was going to take off back to Fayre, but he was caught off guard when Fayre kicked him right on the chin, sending him sprawling into the sky.
It did not take too long before Coola had to grip himself and stopped himself in the mid-air, as he glared down at Fayre. "DAMN IT! Now come to think of it, he's the hybrid Saiyan. I have heard the rumor about the hybrid Saiyan. They have an ability to boost their power level when their emotions intensified."
However, Fayre's rage never subsided yet. He curled his fingers and placed both his hands together at chest level facing the same direction (so that the palm of one hand was on the back of the other.)
Coola widened his eyes, recognizing that move. 'This stance is-?!'
"THAT'S ENOUGH, COOLA!" Fayre growled, still glaring at Coola. "Gyallic…" Then, once enough ki was gathered, he thrusted both hands forward to fire a powerful, huge, fuchsia-colored ki beam that emanated from his hands and body towards Coola. "…HO!"
"WHAT?! Is that…?!" Coola gritted his teeth in panic and immediately placed his hand on the front of powerful energy wave, attempting to stop it. However, as he was desperately trying to nullify it, Fayre's power boost in his rage mode was TOO MUCH for him! "I-It can't be…!"
Coola was given no choice but to power up his aura in order to hold his own against the powerful energy wave. He succeeded pushing it towards his opponent. However, much to his disbelief, Fayre somehow found a way to increase even beyond his power level and a debris lifted into the air, surrounding both fighters as well as Kakashi. Fayre pushed back the energy wave back at Coola.
"WHAAAAT?!" Coola screamed. "THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE!" As he gritted his teeth in frustration, he started to consider transforming back to his final form to save himself. But he decided against it once he calmed down and started to figure stuffs out.
Meanwhile, Kakashi managed to get up on his feet, despite feeling overwhelmed by the level of each combatant's power level. He stared in disbelief at his former rivalry. 'Is this the same crybaby Fayre? He has become a lot more powerful than before. Is it because his rage harbored inside him for decades, and then he finally let it out? Is that the cause of his sudden boost of power level?'
"I MUST NOT LOSE! I MUST NOT LOSE!" Coola mumbled, repeating the same line. "I MUST NOT LOSE! NOT TO FAYRE! NOT TO FAYRE!"
Although it took a while for Coola to figure everything out, he maneuvered his body around the energy wave, as it escaped to the outer space. Upon hitting another planet, hopefully uninhabitable planet…
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The bright of light could be seen all the way to Planet Element. All fighters in this battlefield had to shield their eyes, and they all even feel the force of the strong wind that came across them. Only Fayre and Coola managed to stay on the same spot. However, injured Kakashi, on other hand, knocked away until his back smashed into the intact building, as it collapsed onto him. Fortunately, his head managed to remain unscratched. However, unfortunately, his entire body was trapped in the debris, as he could not get out of it no matter what.
Market District- With Bulma
Bulma clung to her life, as she held onto the intact tree, hoping it would save her from unforeseen strong wind. "What's going on?! All of the sudden, there's explosion from the outer space!"
Her body tensed when the tree began to break off. "NO! NO! NO! Don't fall off!" However, the tree did not listen to her, as it finally broke off and flew along with Bulma clinging her body on the body of the tree. "NO! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"
Near Front Konoha Gate- With Konohamaru
Konohamaru stood with his back against the wall of the Konohagakure next to the gate, so it could prevent him from being knocked away. "Is this Coola's doing?! If so, what an incredible power! How do we beat him when he's being like that?!"
Hokage's District- With Team Z and Vegeta
Sakura had to hold Hinata back, so the strong wind would not knock Hinata away. Kuririn and Gohan also protected Shikamaru and Shino as well. Sasuke, despite being battered and bruised, held on his own. Vegeta, still floating in the mid-air, held his own against the strong wind as well.
"What's going over there?!" Kuririn cried, referring to the fight between Coola and Fayre.
"Who is fighting Coola right now?! It seems like he can handle Coola. Whoever that guy is… he must be strong, right?" wondered Gohan.
"This planet could have been destroyed if the attack hit this planet." Shikamaru pointed out, gritting his teeth with a sweating dropped on his head. "We are very lucky that we're still alive."
"It's all the same, whether if it is this planet or another planet…" said Sakura. "No one is lucky here. We must protect our planet and neighbor planets whatever it takes to. We can't let any more planets to be destroyed."
"Hmph…" Vegeta figured out who Coola was fighting right now. "I believe another Ki belongs to Fayre. Uchiha Fayre."
"UCHIHA?!" cried everyone, except Sasuke, who remembered another Uchiha on Coola's side.
'Why is he fighting Coola?' Sasuke thought. 'Was he serving under Coola last time I saw them?' He could never forget about how Fayre revealed every secret that Uchiha possessed. He was still angry that Fayre would choose to betray them, but not just the Uchiha, but also betrayed every Elementians.
Vegeta descended and landed on the ground, folding his arms with a smirk. "This fool… He thinks he can take on Coola by himself. There's no way he is beating him. Last time I met him, he was the crybaby. But I am not surprised that he was going to turn against Coola sooner or later. He must have copied me when I rebelled against Freeza."
'A crybaby?' Sasuke frowned, feeling a slight disappointed to learn that another member of Uchiha was a crybaby. 'What kind of Uchiha he is if he is crybaby?'
"I thought there is only Sasuke and Itachi, who are last survivors of the Uchiha clan?" Hinata asked. "I have no idea there's another survivor, too."
"DO NOT SPEAK OF MY BROTHER!" Even at this point, Sasuke could never forget what Itachi did to him and his family, and the entire clan. Every time he heard Itachi's name, he was so furious. He glared at Hinata. "He is no Uchiha! Neither is Fayre! They both betrayed the Uchiha! I'm the only last Uchiha survivor!"
"I can speak of your brother whatever I want to!" Hinata shot back. "Do you think your clan is special? My entire clan is probably DEAD! I AM ONLY ONE LEFT, TOO!"
"AND THEY WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE!" Sasuke began ranting. "And your clan is not the only one. I am sure many of other clans have been wiped, no thanks to Coola and his men! Even if there is no existence of Dragon Balls, and your clan is still dead, at least you don't have someone like Neji wiping out your entire clan!"
Hinata remembered why she never spoke to him. He was very self-entitled jerk, who thought his clan was superior to all clans and he was more important than all shinobi! That was the one of reason why the Hyuuga clan rarely spoke to Uchiha clan, because both clans always have HATED each other for as long as they knew. "You don't get to badmouth Neji! He will never do like Itach did!"
If she was the same girl as she used to be, she would be afraid to stand up to him if he told her off like that. But not anymore. She was different girl that she used to be. She was not shy anymore. She was not stuttering anymore. She was not nervous anymore. He treated her like she was nothing, and that made her so mad.
Sasuke scowled, reminding himself that was exactly the reason why he never spoke to her in his life, despite that she was too shy, but she was still the Hyuuga. When Neji asked him what his name was before the Chuunin Exam begins, he outrightly ignored him because he never liked the Hyuuga clan to begin with.
"That's enough, two of you!" Sakura had to butt in the arguments between Sasuke and Hinata. "Have you forgotten what situation we are in, right now? We have no time to bicker each other. We still have to save the world!"
Before she could say more to them, there was a sudden flash of light from the distance, and all people turned their attention to it. Turned out that Paradox's body emitted the light so bright that everyone had to shield their eyes.
"Is that Paradox?!" asked Vegeta. He thought Paradox was dead, because it seemed like he stood unmoved. He thought it was strange to see someone died by standing like a statue there. But he figured that Sasuke casted genjutsu on him.
"What is he doing?!" Kuririn watched Paradox, who suddenly disappeared out of thin air. "WHERE DID HE GO?!" No one had answers for it. There was no sight of Paradox EVERYWHERE! It seemed like Paradox was gone for good. Disappeared, just like that. He never came back even after they all waited for a while.
"What's going on?" asked Gohan.
Sakura stared in disbelief. "I thought he's under the genjutsu? How did he get out of it?"
Sasuke punched down at the ground, clenching his fists. "Damn! He escaped, when we're supposed to gather more intel from him about the remaining of Planet Trade Organization!"
"Either way…" Vegeta clenched his fist as he raised his hand, smirking. "It doesn't matter where Paradox goes. I will hunt him even to the end of the universe. With that said, I will take my leave. You guys can just sit back and have a little nap or whatever. I will take care of Coola… BY MYSELF!"
Not wanting to hear what rest of Team Z fighters had to say, he immediately took off into the sky and flew away on way to the battlefield where Coola and Fayre were fighting right now. "YOU ARE MINE, COOLA!"
As the rest of Team Z fighters watched Vegeta taking off, Kuririn felt the urge to facepalm. "Is he crazy?! After what we just witnessed, how could he still think he can take on Coola by himself?! Unless I investigate what's inside his brain, I can never understand how his brain works!" He finished that sentence with a sarcasm in his tone.
"He's a fool! That's what he is!" Sasuke scoffed, as he turned his eyes on the rest of his allies. "We're going there too!
"But Vegeta said—" Gohan tried to point out, but he was interrupted by Sasuke.
"Who cares what he said?!" Sasuke yelled, scowling. "Why should we listen to him? Knowing him, he's going to get his ass kicked! That's why we are going there to ensure that he won't get his ass kicked, as much as I loathed him!"
"R-Right…" Gohan gulped nervously. Sasuke seemed to be in bad mood since he got his ass kicked by Neizu. Not to mention that Sasuke was too jealous of how Vegeta handled Sauza, Dore, and Neizu easily. He thought it was best to shut his mouth and not say anything.
"Instead of flying…" Sasuke looked at each of them. "To avoid our presence being detected, we're going to converse our Ki and stay low, as we are jumping from the roof to roof."
"Right. Shino and I are coming, too." Shikamaru spoke up. "We are not going to join the fight, but we will simply watch the fight from the distance. We wanted to witness the demise of Coola." Shino nodded in the agreement silently.
Hinata stepped forward, despite her brief bicker with Sasuke. "Me, too! I am not going to fight, as well. I want the same thing Shikamaru and Shino wanted."
Sasuke nodded, acknowledging them. "Just don't hold us back." Then he turned his gaze over the direction where Vegeta went ahead to. "We're off now!" Sasuke and others immediately took off their feet to hop on each roof on way to next battlefield.
Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Fayre vs Coola
Fayre panted heavily. He had used up most of his Ki against Coola, but it did not work out as he expected to, unfortunately. On bright side, he managed to anger Coola further. He smirked, realizing that he successfully frustrated him. That was the first time that Coola expressed frustration during the fight. Usually, Coola would be calm and collected, unlike Freeza.
Coola gritted his teeth and clenched his fists in frustration. 'Damn him! He caught me off guard. Who would have expected him to exhibit such a power during that moment? His power drastically rose along with his emotions! By the way, if memory serves me, was there a hybrid Saiyan brat who gave Freeza some hard times back on Namek?'
"Very well." Although Coola was still angry, but he managed to calm down and sent his glare down at Fayre, who acted like he won the round against him. "You have angered me which you should have not anger." He spreads out his fingers, as he pointed his palm towards Fayre, slowly gathering the purple-colored energy sphere in front of his palm, as it continued to expand. "Now I realized that all Hybrid Saiyans are a threat to me and my family. They all must be exterminated! I can't have them wreak havoc on us when they lose their temper! NOT ONLY THAT I WILL KILL YOU, BUT I WILL WIPE OUT THE ENTIRE VILLAGE AS WELL!"
"YOU WHAT?!" Fayre cried; his panic rose to next level. That was a sudden change of plan made by Coola. They were supposed to wait for Naruto to arrive. But Coola already had run out of patience or so it seemed. He could stop that energy sphere which just turned into a gigantic sphere, but he was not sure if he could stop it, considering even at that size, it already became impossible for him to put a stop to the attack!
Kakashi slowly opened his eyes. 'Fayre…' His eyes were already blurred, thanks to the overuse of his Mangekyo Sharingan, but he was not going to give up. His pupils moved upward, only to find that Coola was charging up his attack. Judging by the size of that ball, Coola planned to wipe out the entire village. That could not be good news. 'In that case, there is one more thing I will need to do.' Despite unable to move due to being trapped by several stones around his body. Stones would not budge at all, so there was another way he could do something about that gigantic sphere.
Realization dawned on Fayre's face. 'He's too strong! He's too strong!' He was beginning to give up on the dream of defeating Coola. He knew that Coola was too much for him, even in that first form. At first, it may seem like he was on even with Coola. However, it turned out that he was wrong after all. Coola, in first form, was still stronger than him. His rage boost was only a little of assistance, but it diminished only for a short.
He fell to his knees and his hands, tears started to form on his eyes. He mumbled, even that Kakashi and Coola could hear him. "He's too strong. There is nothing I can do… I'm too weak enough to take him on alone. DAMN IT!" He slammed his fists on the ground repeatedly, much to his frustration. "All I want is to make him pay for it, but I'm still unable to!"
'Fayre…' Kakashi felt bad for Fayre, whose goal was to defeat Coola his whole life. He glanced up at Coola, who giggled after his former soldier shed tears. 'If I use it one more time… I'll exhaust all my stamina and chakra.' He shut his eyes, as he was prepared for this moment, what seemed like a last moment soon. 'This is the best method I have right now to save the Hidden Leaf!'
"I enjoyed having you as a part of my squad." Coola grinned evilly. "Such a shame that you have to betray me to protect this planet. Too bad you failed, though. Goodbye, Fye…"
Fayre shut his eyes, not wishing to see what would happen when Coola would launch the attack soon. 'It's over! It's all over! No one… No one can beat him!'
Coola simply released the gigantic sphere from his palm towards Fayre. Fayre never bothered to look up, as he already had lost all his hopes completely.
Kakashi quickly opened his eyes, as the Mangekyo Sharingan spun around in his eye, as he strained his left eye, causing his eye to bleed even more. He used up all his chakras to make the wormhole bigger, so it could absorb the entire sphere into it and closed.
"What?!" Coola muttered in shock, as he looked down at Kakashi. "Even with his level of chakra, he still used them?"
Fayre widened his eyes, immediately realized that Kakashi just used Mangekyo Sharingan again. "KAKASHI!" His head snapped up, quickly noticing that Kakashi already started to doze off several times. Fear strike in his heart, once he realized that Kakashi was going to die shortly!
Kakashi gawked up at the sky, as he started to feel the life drain out of his body. 'Well… it seems this is it for me, too.' In this very moment, he thought of Obito. 'Seems this is as far as it goes… for me to see the future as your eyes. Obito… Rin… Sensei… Looks like I will be seeing you soon.'
His eyes remained open, but his right eye became gray. That was the sign of his life came to end. He had become lifeless, as he no longer moved any part of his body.
Fayre waited and waited for Kakashi to move or at least said something, but nothing came out of him. His eyes wide open, as his fear had become realistic. "Kakashi… Kakashi… Kakashi! You can't die… NOT LIKE THIS!"
Coola slowly descended towards the ground, as he landed his feet. "So… he finally passed away. Good grief. That technique of his is starting to annoy me."
"Why?! Why?!" Fayre punched the ground repeatedly until he scrapped his both knuckles, as it started to bleed. "WHY, KAKASHI?!"
Coola turned his eyes back to grieving Fayre. "It was a heroic sacrifice in the end. I have commended him for his bravery sacrifice, even when he knows that there is no chance for you and him to defeat me. Not everyone have guts to sacrifice their own life, not when it was inevitable to die."
"SHUT UP!" Fayre punched the ground once again, and this time, the ground beneath him dented a little bit. "How could you kill him?!" He snapped his head up, glaring at Coola.
Coola covered his mouth and snickered a little bit. "I kill him? Surely, you are mistaken for assuming that I am the one who killed him. As much as I wish I was the one, but I have to give the credit to correct person. Like I said, it was a heroic sacrifice. He knew what he signed up for, and that… was what he chooses."
Fayre grabbed a handful of dirt into his hands and started to become more sorrow. "Damn…" Coola was right. But perhaps it was his fault that he brought Kakashi over with him to fight Coola. He thought if Obito had that ability using Mangekyo Sharingan, then Kakahsi might be able to use it. 'It was my foolish strategy that killed him. It's my fault!' Tears continuously dripped from his eyes into the ground.
"Anyways…" Coola looked up at the sky, as he immediately sensed a powerful Ki coming this way. "I will deal with you later, Fye. It seems you got another friend coming this way."
"Whaaat?" Fayre glanced up and realized that Coola was right. He sensed a Ki coming this way. There was a tiny figure approaching them. He was at disbelief when he realized it was Vegeta who arrived at this battlefield and landed. 'Vegeta? What is he doing here?'
"You have arrived, at last." Coola greeted him with a smirk. "Vegeta…"
Vegeta had his arms crossed with a smug smirk. "Coola…"
To be continued…
A/N: How can Fayre face the demise of Kakashi? Has he lost all hopes once he realized he was no match for Coola? Is it true as Vegeta claimed to be, that he already has surpassed Coola? If true, can Vegeta end Coola's reign? Find out next time on Team Z!
Me: I hope you all enjoyed my chapter! Apparently, it was the Element that we approached. Not that I expected it would happen in reality, but there it is. I am currently stuck on Element. I have to find a way to make sure that I don't write myself being caught up in the crossfire or something. Can you help me to figure out? Anyways, if you all are wondering how Fayre learned Galick Gun? Well, it will be explained later. We're approaching closer and closer to the end of Coola Saga. Please stay tuned for future chapters. In fact, I am more looking forward to the end of Coola Saga more than every readers here, because I'm starting to get tired of fighting every chapter lately. Lol.
Instead of constantly writing Team Z everyday, I have decided to try different methods by switching stories after each chapter completion. I think it will be great benefit to me. That way I can finish a chapter every week. So every two weeks for Team Z, but we will find out. I'm experimenting it for a while now. Ya know, something needs to refresh my mind off Team Z every once in a while.
See you next chapter! :D
