- And to think that I once called you my companion.
The boy further ahead said, walking around Tayuya, surrounding her along with the other members of his group.
- Zaku, I don't give a shit. I know I never called you companion.
She said, slapping her hand on the ground, and soon, three huge creatures appeared behind her, and quickly advanced towards the team in front of her.
The first to be attacked was Zaku himself, who jumped backwards while launching some explosive Kunais at one of the summonses. However, the summoner didn't even seem to feel the impact, and sinking part of his body to the ground, he advanced quickly towards him and threw a powerful punch that sent him flying upwards.
Gritting his teeth, he points his hands at the summoner, and a supersonic blast of air rushes forward against the summoner.
The creature, named Doki, raises its arms and defends itself with a thin barrier of chakra.
Tayuya took advantage of the moment and leaped towards Zaku, hitting him with a kick on the side of the neck and sending him violently to the ground.
Still in the air, the girl felt something on her leg, and soon, she was pulled to the ground by Kin, who began to tie her body with almost invisible lines.
However, Tayuya quickly makes a few hand seals and sinks her body into the ground, at the same time a Doki also penetrates the ground.
Kin began to be pulled from various directions by her lines, until suddenly her body is violently pulled forward, causing her to lose her balance temporarily.
Time enough for Tayuya to emerge from the ground and punch her heavily in the stomach, at the same time as Doki grabs her head and throws her several times on the ground.
Deflecting to the side, the girl punches Dosu in the face, but Dosu quickly recovers and punches her in the stomach, creating a powerful sound wave that exploded the surrounding area. But Tayuya was quick enough to dodge it in time.
Making a few hand seals, she begins to run to the side while spitting numerous fireballs towards Dosu, who tried to dodge, but the fireballs were too many and too fast to avoid them all.
Sending a sound wave as it hit the ground, it creates a barrier in front of him, and Tayuya cancels the attack.
Soon Tayuya felt a strong kick to her back, throwing her forward, followed by a blow to her stomach and face, causing her to crash into some trees that fell from the force of the blows.
Getting up, she groans slightly in pain and looks at her attacker. That man with the strange eyes.
"I didn't even feel him approach."
- You Dosu team are as weak as I heard. Surprising that Orochimaru let you accompany us.
He said with a cold voice, standing in an awkward fighting stance as he stared at Tayuya with a certain indifference.
- Fuck you! Stop thinking you're better than us!
Zaku shouted, with one hand on the side of his neck.
- But I am. I told Mr. Orochimaru that just me and Juugo was enough. Argh... try not to get in the way.
The three Doki attacked the Dosu team members while that man advanced towards Tayuya, who's eyes widened at his incredible speed and jumped to the side.
The man quickly canceled his attack and turned around, attacking Tayuya while she still dodged.
The girl groaned in pain, and went off balance. The man began to attack her viciously, where the girl did what she could to dodge his fast and strong attacks, which with each movement, created a gust of air.
At one point she managed to counter with a punch to her abdomen, but he also hit her in the arm. They both pulled away and faced each other.
"Shit... he's targeting my chakra points"
She looked at her trembling, immobilized arm. The movement of her limb slowly returned, however.
"But it doesn't last long... he didn't hit accurately... it's different from the Hyuga style, but very similar."
She got into battle stance again, staring at him. He didn't have much chakra, but his taijutsu certainly made up for that.
"Still, he's dangerous."
He attacked again, and the girl moved, leaping behind a tree. The man nevertheless punched the trunk, and the impact of air hit the girl, who was thrown backward.
The man moves forward, however, Tayuya stops him by spitting a fireball in his direction and making some seals soon after.
- Suiton: Mizu no Tatsumaki!
Mixing some water with the bit of the wind element that Naruto taught her, she creates a strong, large tornado of water that quickly moves towards the man.
He was pulled in by the jutsu, and just by getting close, his body began to receive several cuts from the force of the wind.
Gritting his teeth, he began to spin rapidly as he expelled chakra from his hands. A small barrier formed around his body.
The tornado crashed into the barrier, and they both competed to see who was the strongest to the point of destroying the other's jutsu.
At one point, Tayuya hid her presence and sank to the ground.
The man begins to expel a little more chakra from his hands, and forcing the jutsu forward, he undoes the water tornado and looks at the place the girl should be.
He widens his eyes at not finding her, and soon, from the ground, Tayuya appears, giving him a powerful hook on his chin that threw him up, at the same time that, with her other hand, she stuck a kunai on his abdomen, grabbed his leg and, concentrating chakra on her arm, threw it to the side, with enough force to destroy some trees on the way.
Something she learned from Naruto in those years, was to be unpredictable.
Juugo stretched out his arm and tried to pierce Naruto, however, the boy jumped up and used his arm as momentum while launching a Rasengan in his direction.
Juugo retracted his arm and used it to defend himself from the large blast of wind.
Looking annoyed at Naruto, he dodges a sword attack coming from the boy, and counterattacks with a punch to his stomach, grabbing his head soon after and throwing him heavily to the ground.
- My brother's sword... you have the audacity to-
The Naruto he was holding spat in his face and sent the middle finger, disappearing in a cloud of smoke soon after, startling Juugo, who felt his body being thrown violently to the side.
Recovering quickly, he pinned both his arms to the ground and stretched them out, molding his limbs into the shape of a drill and piercing the ground below Naruto.
The boy leaps back and begins to dodge the fast attacks coming from Juugo's arms, until in one moment, Juugo manages to hit him, throwing Naruto violently to the side.
He starts running after the boy, who also started running at high speed, and both started exchanging blows as they ran, destroying trees with their own bodies (in Naruto's case, clones) as they tried to hit each other.
One of Naruto's clones pops up from the ground and grabs Juugo's leg, causing him to stumble, and quickly, the original kicks him in the stomach and throws him backwards.
Running quickly, he appears in front of Juugo and kicks him in the head, causing his face to drag on the ground while still being dragged by the force of the blows.
Juugo stood up with an angry scream, staring angrily at Naruto.
The man's face was twisted, half of his left side was a dark coloration and his eyes were yellow. Several jet-like protuberances appeared on his back, and his energy changed.
"Whoo, watch out, he absorbs a lot of senjutsu. Even more than I thought when Tayuya mentioned it."
Juugo moves forward in the blink of an eye, and lands a powerful punch to Naruto's face, who is thrown backwards as his body spun viciously in the air.
Even faster than before, Juugo appeared behind Naruto and grabbed him still in the air, throwing him viciously to the ground several times, destroying the ground and staining it with the boy's blood, until he threw him up and landed a powerful kick to his chest.
Naruto spat out a certain amount of blood as he felt his ribs break, and felt his back crash into numerous trees until he hit the ground, where he was dragged for a few more feet.
"... Ouch"
"I told you."
Covering his body with some red chakra, he stood up with difficulty as he felt his body regenerate.
"You... are incredibly good at motivating me... my goodness."
"Oh, sorry, it's not my problem, Tayuya has warned you before, now stop complaining."
Looking up, he faces Juugo. His body was transforming right in front of him, the "jets" on his back lengthened, spines were born on his elbows and his skin seemed to become hard as stone.
A kind of exoskeleton.
" I can' t take it lightly. I'm going to have to use your power."
"Why do you insist on saying that the power is mine? The chakra is totally yours, you stupid animal."
"But it was originally your grumpy bastard, hell fox."
Snapping his tongue, Naruto bows slightly as he lets his power flow freely through his body. A strong gust of wind exploded around his body, the ground below him cracked and the rocks around him were decimated as that red cloak encased his body, with three tails of red fur with blue and gold details swaying gently behind him. A symbol appeared at the base of his abdomen. His regeneration increased, as did his power.
Naruto squeezed the hilt of his sword, the sphere on the border between the hilt and the blade glowed bright red, and the coloration of the blade changed to crimson similar to his eye.
They both stared at each other, and in the blink of an eye, they advanced against each other.
Naruto attacked with his sword, and Juugo with his arm.
The two kicked each other away, until they advanced against each other again. Juugo tried to smash Naruto to the ground, but the boy sidestepped tried a slashing blow with his sword, which didn't hit, since Juugo also sidestepped.
Stepping on the ground, Juugo cracks the dirt and moves towards Naruto, punching him in the face and grabbing him. With his other arm, he creates two reinforced appendages with jets and concentrates chakra. A blast of concentrated chakra happens, however, not on Naruto, since the boy has broken his arm and turned it towards himself.
Juugo is thrown violently backwards by the impact of the large explosion, but recovers while still in the air, feeling his own regeneration activated.
Stretching out his arm, he grabs Naruto again, and with the other, pierces the boy's abdomen, who spits blood and groans as he feels his body being thrown to the side.
Leaping towards him, Juugo lands on his abdomen and begins to violently punch Naruto. With each blow, the ground cracked more, and the gusts of air from the impact destroyed the surrounding area.
In one moment, Naruto grabs Juugo's arm and thrusts his sword in, pulling him down and delivering a strong punch to his face, followed by a kick to the side of his neck, sending him flying away.
Juugo, however, recovers and moves towards Naruto again, punching him hard in the stomach and sinking him to the ground, stomping on his head soon after.
Naruto explodes in smoke, and another Naruto gives him a strong knee to the face, making him spit blood.
Angered, Juugo pierces the boy's body again, and throws him to the ground.
However, Naruto emerges from the dirt and grabs his leg, his sword staying on his thigh.
Juugo screams and tries to attack him, but Naruto throws the sword up and it explodes in a cloud of smoke.
Following the sword with his eyes, he is surprised to see another Naruto appear from the sky and grab the sword, cutting part of his abdomen with the blade, and throwing the blade aside, disappearing once again in a cloud of smoke.
Using the jets on his back, he moves away from there, dodging another sword attack Naruto would give.
They walked away, and faced each other. Juugo touched his wounds, looking at them for a few moments.
- What is it? Can't regenerate?
Naruto teased, playing with the sword in his hands.
- Your brother's sword is great... that's how he did this to my eye, I understand how you feel.
Juugo growled, and Naruto just smiled.
- You know... I heard about you, I feel like we are best friends.
He put the sword in his ring, and began to concentrate an absurd amount of chakra.
- Tayuya told me everything about you. How you destroyed a village just because you felt like it. How arrogant you were because you were Orochimaru's strongest lackey.
A loud, deafening noise began. The surrounding air rumbled, the strong winds around Naruto cut through even the ground, and a sphere formed in his hand.
Juugou advanced quickly, but two of Naruto's clones stopped him, coming out of the ground and hitting him with rasengans on his abdomen and face, sending him backwards again.
- She told me, especially, about your transformation. Your regeneration. The sword is a great way to kill you, really, but... I want to make sure you are dead.
The sphere in his hand began to expand, soon, four blade-like edges appeared, and Naruto raised his arm up.
Juugo sank his arms into the earth and expanded them. However, Naruto jumped up and created a few more clones, which stopped Juugo's attacks and damaged his arms, which soon regenerated.
The ground around him exploded in smoke, and countless arms concentrated with chakra grabbed him and pierced his body.
- I created this jutsu thinking of you. Fuuton- Rasenshuriken!
He said with a smile, and immediately, threw the jutsu.
Juugo's eyes widened as he felt the great power behind this... thing, and expelling chakra through all the protuberances on his body, he jumped to the side, destroying all the clones that appeared in front of him.
What he didn't expect, was that the Jutsu would bend him, following him, too fast for him to escape. Especially since Naruto had done two of those things.
(lol)
Gritting his teeth, he concentrates chakra in his hands and hits the ground. A huge, thick wall of chakra imbued with senjutsu formed around him.
However, the jutsu cut through the wall like butter, advancing toward Juugo.
Concentrating chakra in the jets on his back, he flies to the side, and the jutsu hits the floor.
A smile momentarily formed on his lips, for now, he would only have to dodge one more.
However, the smile died as the jutsu expanded, swallowing him, giving the perfect opportunity for the other to hit him in the abdomen.
The two jutsus merged, and a huge sphere with countless, millions of microscopic blades of wind that ruptured every nerve canal in his body. What was worse, was that each of these individual blades were hitting his chakra circulation system, damaging it, and destroying all of them one by one.
Juugo felt his body being practically disintegrated, hit on a cellular level. And soon, his eyes rolled back and everything went dark.
As the jutsu crumbled, Naruto walked to the huge crater with calm steps, and picked up what was left of Juugo's body.
His head, the only thing that remained. Naruto threw it in the air a few times, until he drove his sword into its forehead.
If what Tayuya said about Orochimaru was true, then he would have to get rid of the head as well.
"I need your help."
"Argh... you still can't do it yourself? Four years of training that and-"
"Yeah, yeah, I need your help."
The fox sighed again, and a red cloud emanated from Naruto's body.
Kurama appeared beside him, the size of a huge bear, and with her hand, she helped Naruto make a mini rasenshuriken, while with one of her tails, she threw Juugo's head away.
Naruto threw the jutsu, and a sphere, still large for such a small jutsu, swallowed Juugo's head, also disintegrating him.
- I'll tell you what... if you get caught by your own jutsu... we're dead. I mean, you are dead.
The fox said, going back inside Naruto's body.
- Yeah... I know... I created a monster.
"Be proud... just don't let this technique fall into the wrong hands, it's too powerful."
Sighing, Naruto turns around and starts walking towards Tayuya, however, upon feeling that chakra, his eyes widened and he clicked his tongue.
"But I don't have a minute's peace in this shit!"
Tayuya groaned as she stood up, wiping the blood that trickled down her forehead as she stared at the man in front of her.
The dead body of the man she had fought earlier was lying beside her, and another man, with an unfriendly expression, was staring at her.
- I thought about it... I didn't believe it could happen, but I decided to come anyway... this guinea pig was just a prototype, but... the results were worse than I imagined.
Tayuya smiled.
- Should I feel honored that you came, Orochimaru?
The senin looked at her seriously, walking a few steps towards her.
- You have grown... become stronger than I expected, I admit, I can feel it. It's a really shame... you were one of the best guinea pigs... why do you refuse to use my gift?
- Ah, not even dead will I ever use the cursed seal again.
- Really? Hm... I wonder how much stronger you get when you use it.
The senin sighed and picked up his sword, concentrating a certain amount of chakra on his blade.
- Really, a pi-
He was interrupted by a strong kick to the face, which emitted a powerful gust of wind and threw him violently to the side.
- Tayuya!
He shouted her name, running over to her and helping her up.
- Ha... haha... where's Juugo?
she asked weakly.
- Dead, and he's going to stay that way.
"Naruto, you used too much of my regeneration. You still can't keep my tails active for long. You can't beat him, get out fast."
He looked at the spot where the senin had fallen, and clicking his tongue, began to run with Tayuya, again, in his arms.
As he pulled away, however, he felt his body creep and his throat close up. Wondering, how the beating of a heart that was meters behind him suddenly stood right beside him.
- Hm, so you are the Demi-human.
He felt a strong attack on his abdomen, throwing him to the side along with Tayuya and destroying some trees he passed by.
- If what you said is true, then... what a valuable specimen.
Naruto felt his neck being gripped tightly and his body lifted into the air, he felt Orochimaru's eyes looking him up and down.
The senin's sword pierced him, and he spat out blood, but soon, the wound regenerated.
- That chakra... I've been watching you for a long time, ever since I got your chakra from that torture chair. Wow... these tails... they look like...
He was interrupted again by a water dragon hitting him, and Naruto fell to the ground, coughing a few times.
"This guy is strong!"
"Nah, he's not, but for you, he is, run."
- Naruto!
Tayuya called his name, helping him up, and they both started running.
Naruto created some clones, which soon, advanced towards Orochimaru as he ran, retracting his chakra cloak and tails, just as his regeneration returned to normal.
Naruto had to brace himself to keep from falling to the ground. His body could barely hold three tails. Not to mention that he used too much chakra. For a few moments, he felt as if he would pass out.
The clones were doing a decent job of slowing the senin down, which allowed them to run far, although, they could not continue.
Tayuya fell to the ground, groaning in pain as she placed her hand on her abdomen.
- Wait, he didn't hurt you, did he?
the boy asked worriedly, and she lifted her shirt. There was a mark on her abdomen, quite large, where the surrounding area was purple and with apparently infected veins.
"A seal... I don't know that one specifically, but it may have been made because Tayuya was once one of his test subjects."
- Tayuya, come on, let's go!
- No way... he'll know exactly where we are!
He clicked his tongue.
"Can you undo it?"
"I don't know, like I said, I've never seen that seal before... and it's not like you can pass your chakra to her, it would just make it worse."
Naruto helped her to her feet, getting the information from her destroyed clones and feeling Orochimaru approaching.
- Fucking blondie, leave me, just run.
- Are you crazy?! Who knows what that guy will do to you!
- Who knows what he'll do if he manages to capture you! Don't you understand that your power can't fall into his hands?!
She pushed him away, propping his back against the tree behind him.
- Tayuya, this is not the time, come of your own free will or I will be forced to carry you.
The girl rolled her eyes and took his face in both hands, pulling him close.
A kiss, rather lingering. Naruto's eyes widened as he felt Tayuya's soft lips against his. So surprised, he didn't even hear Kurama in his mind.
Tayuya broke away after a while, and gave a smile at Naruto's surprised face.
- Whenyou're older... I'll give you something much better... but only if you go.
She pushed him away, and he stared at her, lost. The words simply couldn't reach his mouth.
"... Kurama"
"If you fight, you will lose. You know, you've heard a lot about Orochimaru, you're not ready for him yet."
Starting to walk backwards with staggering steps, the boy stares at Tayuya for a while longer, until he turns and starts to run.