Previously on Daimyo's Legacy:
The whole house started to shake, almost like an earthquake. Itama glared daggers at the man. Hashirama was about to pounce on the man when he angrily asked.
"What the hell is Takigakure no Kakuzu doing in my house?!
Prologue: Beginning of the end
On that signal, the now named Kakuzu performed a seal-less shunshin as he ran out of the very window he had entered. The father-son duo followed the Taki mercenary in hot pursuit. Hashirama had to resort to his Shikkotsu Woods-trained Sennin mode to prevent any more internal damage to his system.
This brand of arts is called senjutsu - the ability to use your body as a rechargeable battery as far as absorbing shizen enerugi (nature energy) is concerned. Basically, you channel this energy to amplify your physical and innate senses to abnormal degrees, in addition to increasing the durability of your body.The first known human practitioner of Senjutsu was Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo, gaining the skill from the toad sage Gamamaru's home world, Myoboku-zan. Some practitioners get their senjutsu training from Ryuchi-dō, under the tutelage of the Hakuja Sennin, the snake sage. All these senjutsu methods are lethal. Theoretically speaking, one could learn the various styles of these senjutsu training areas due to the fact that nature energy is the common energy source used, as they are no different from the other. The problem would come when the kata will have to be executed. Certain kata are used in conjunction with their respective Sennin mode practices and as a result, it is not known whether the level of nature energy a wielder is accustomed to, can be used to perform kata of another type Sennin mode, hence it has not been tested.
As Hashirama was chasing Kakuzu, he noticed something peculiar about his running patterns. Instead of seemingly baiting them to a secluded area, he headed off to a place he knew was crowded. If what he was thinking was correct, then the one place he head off to is:
Senju Park.
A subtle "tch" could be heard from the Senju head as he formed ten Moku Bunshin, prompting Itama to create his set of ten Kage Bunshin with five heading to the park, planning to form a one kilometer radius around it. To beat a seasoned mercenary, be more stealthy than you can think. Itama applied this "chicken-in-hiding" approach on multiple occasions and it won because it was never expected. Hashirama told five of his Bunshin to layer the radius Itama up and the other five to contact his best subordinates: Uchiha Kagami, Shimura Danzo, Sarutobi Sasuke, Sarutobi Hiruzen and a distant relative key to this plan of his - Uzumaki Satori. Satori had the privilege of growing up in the Senjū household and was trained by his first cousin Hashirama, who found out about his Eye of Kagura. He could pinpoint an opponent's exact location, recklessly throw himself in the enemies' lines of attack, acting like a drunk to distract them and "guess" where your next line would be, all before they even think of retaliating. The result in this case was Kakuzu being put on the spot before thinking of going to a public spot. Immediately after Hashirama sent the clones, the five were told to intercept the assassin, with help from Satori and his guesswork. With five actual opponents and five clones of the Shinobi no Kami facing him, he would be hard-pressed to do something against them. As soon as the original Hashirama came, he grinned. Time for some quick swipes.
With one fluid motion, he slashed at Satori with a Suiton katana conjured up from thin air, without seals. One would think that Kakuzu was as powerful with Suiton jutsu just like Senjū Tobirama but he knew he couldn't afford to lie about such things. After all, he couldn't create an ocean from thin air. Not only did he not have the chakra control for it, he was not a chakra monster. Still, he prided himself in his technique and had a sense of professionalism that stemmed from his love of the ryo. Everything was just all about the money for him and nothing mattered. Except jutsu and ryo.
Speaking of jutsu, Satori countered Kakuzu with a two-stage Kawarimi from his position to Kakuzu's water sword, punching him in the gut before changing his position from Kakuzu to a clone of Hashirama's, which proceeded to decimate him. Horribly.
Using a taijutsu variation he taught the Might family, the Goken, he kicked Kakuzu high enough for start a mid-air barrage of kicks and feints, that not only threw Kakuzu off for a loop but made him realize that he was actually being used like a training dummy used for taijutsu training.
This was useless, being fed lies by the very village you were supposed to die for was one thing.
Agreeing with such lies is another. But going to a great hidden village, a progenitor of hidden villages at that, attacking its leader on the basis that he was rumoured to be ill and was an easy target is one type of fuckery you need to get your screws checked for.
This was a Kage, the most powerful Kage of his generation.
A man who the Bijū hailed as the ultimate 5-0. Yes, the man who captured eight of the Bijū and subdued them by himself, battled a Bijū-level shinobi along with the Kyuubi no Kitsune and came out on top by defeating said shinobi and sealing said Bijū in his wife, gaining control over the Bijū and granting his village the ultimate bargaining chip. The man could be in a coma and still wipe the floor with him. He would definitely kill the elders back at Taki and steal the Jiōngu or whatever his late friend said black lump of threads was. He was sure of it. Right now, he had to survive. Which was not looking good at the moment.
You could spot Hiruzen taking notes on a scroll like a powerless boy with a tendency of saying he wants to be a hero.
"Oyaji, is Hashirama-sensei going to win with ninjutsu or with that funny Goken style of his? I only heard about it from my former classmate Torai." Hiruzen asked.
Sarutobi Sasuke took that as his cue to place a flimsy looking cigarette on his mouth, snap his fingers and create a small fire jutsu to light it. The smell of tobacco would have forced him to concentrate on the fight but this was more of a simulation that chuunin would have to take in the event that they were drugged or poisoned. Nevertheless, whatever was burning was not tobacco.
"Son, it's Goken. Never take it for granted, you never know if you might need to master it like all these other techniques you stole-"
"Oyaji! Stop being a bully! I didn't steal them! I asked for permission from the relevant people." Hiruzen admonished.
"Oh, and where is the the paperwork? Funny coming from someone who hates writing reports but has the time to read hentai and giggle like a fangirl. Ah, Soragakure no Sato is afoot! Nice stuff!" retorted and concluded Sasuke. With a nice puff of weed.
With a sick burn to heal, Hiruzen could mumble "get you next time old geezer" so as to not be heard. What if Biwako was here? She would beat his pervy butt all the way to Konoha Day, if she heard his dad sprout such... impurities. A shudder was shut down before it came to the surface.
Kagami couldn't help but laugh at the inner turmoil of his first non-Uchiha friend. He knew they were friends but Hiruzen would never admit it. Not with how he made Hiruzen spend his first date with Biwako without preparing for it.. not that he would've been ready for it.
Danzo was just asking himself if he could reach the same stage as his long-time friend. He only knew a substantial amount of Fuuton ninjutsu and other non-elemental ninjutsu but beyond that, he was like any other chuunin. Nevertheless, he waited for his call to action when they had to apprehend the assassin.
If only such a time could come.
Kakuzu was close to passing out and he knew that if he blundered, he would be captured. With some last-minute thinking, he threw a flash-bomb, pepper-bomb and two vials of potent poison on the ground, which, upon explosion, covered a wide area. This allowed Kakuzu to run, oh so desperately, for his life, like a coward. And he never looked back. Ever. Curse Konoha!
Never force yourself to do a suicide mission.
Meanwhile at the scene of the fight, two things happened.
Everyone got sidetracked by the bombs and poison vials and...
Hashirama fainted.
Danzo was the first to notice and flared his chakra in intervals to alert the Iryō-nin and Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai Black Ops created and trained by Tobirama-sensei.
Three seconds later, a platoon of five ANBU Black Ops and two Iryō-nin shunshined to the scene, gave everyone a pill containing a liquid ball perceived as an anditote corrosive to the poison, as described by the multiple chakra flares that it was only aimed at stopping mobility. Worryingly, their leader took the full brunt of the cowardly escape plot and was knocked out. In the same time it took the platoon to reach the scene, they left for the Konoha hospital. What would happen to Hashirama? Would he survive this attack. Or would this start the first Great Ninja War?
To be continued...
