Team Z

by murderdeath21

Naruto accidentally opened up a strange portal, which sucked him and his other two team-mates inside of it where they were transported from the world of the ninja to the Earth! Watch as Team 7 meet strange people, and discover technology that they never thought they'd ever see. Start from Saiyan Saga! Updated: Edited Chap 1 & 2!

116. Guure's Patience

A/N: SORRY, SORRY, SORRY! I know it's been a while since I last posted this story! The thing is, I had gotten major writer's block for almost full seven months. Every time I tried to come back to finish the story, I got writer's block again. Couldn't come up with something good to write. It is kinda like you have gotten in a slump during baseball season or any sport season, ya know? Couldn't get the base hit for last 7 games or something, for example. So yeah, like that, I can't find a way to get new idea for what was going to happen next.

So I had to put this story on hold for a while. I had to read 10 or 20 different fanfiction stories to get some idea. It didn't work. Tried to watch few animes to get new idea. Still doesn't work. Apparently, I'm kind of writer who goes with the flow to get some idea. I'm kind of writer who would go crazy and write as I make up the story or something!

However, not just the writer's block I had to deal with. In April, baseball season is back and still going on now. So that, and I had vertigo for two months, on and off. Vertigo is not funny. It prevents me from doing whatever I want to. Then I visited San Diego twice in two months. So it consumed my time to write the story. Luckily, my Uncle is willing to give me one of his ten laptops. Ten laptops?! Well, he owns Bowling Alley, and he's moving to other Bowling Alley. That's why he has about ten laptops or so.

I HOPE YOU WILL FORGIVE ME! I DEEPLY APOLOGIZE IF I KEEP YOU WAITING LONG! REMEMBER THIS: I WILL NOT ABANDON THIS STORY EVER! I WILL FINISH THIS STORY, NO MATTER HOW MANY YEARS IT TAKES! And I'm confident that I can update this story a lot quicker. No writer's block for me anymore, I hope so. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball franchise or Naruto franchise! Thedarkpokemaster, I'm going to read your next chapter soon. :)

---

Chapter 116: Guure's Patience

---

Age 763, December 1- Hokage District, Konohagakure, Land of Fire- Gohan and Kuririn vs Guure

A fist shot towards the 6-years old boy with the bowl-cut hair, connecting its fist against a cheek of the kid, sending him sprawling across the pavement. Afterward, it was not necessary to lock the opponent with his own eyes from the behind, as he already made an elbow smash against the face of a bald midget, but not before he spun around and delivered a powerful punch right to the face, as the body was sent smashing through the window of a building.

Despite what Guure believed in, as much as displeasure he was, he was given no choice but to 'play around' for a while until the time ticked, just as his partner ordered him who was granted a permission to give an order around by Coola. In other words, he was ordered not to kill a couple of pipsqueak in his wake.

And he definitely hated wasting time. He certainly thought he could stand around and performed no such as action, which would allow him to run out of his time, so that way he would not run his patience thin. But no, Paradox just had to go ruining his plan and deliberately stated that if Guure would not do anything, the clock would not begin running until either of pipsqueaks or frog-face started fighting.

While he got caught in his little ponder, when Gohan and Kuririn noticed that he let his guard down, they took this opportunity immediately, and they were charging towards him from each side respectively, from where they were knocked to earlier.

However, little did they know, Guure never had his guard down in the first place. Despite being caught up in his ponder, he simply raised his both hands to catch both pipsqueaks' fists and then gripped them tightly.

"What?!" Kuririn said in a surprise. He certainly thought that Guure's guard was down. Not only that, Guure was also fast, and he caught both fists with no effort at all! He cringed and shut his right eye in the pain when Guure gripped his fist tighter.

"That hurts!" exclaimed Gohan, as he looked at Guure with pleading eyes, but the frog-man held no sympathize for this brat. "Let go of this!"

"As you wish." Guure said politely. Guure released their hands, but instead of completely letting them go, he grabbed both of their head and slammed their head against each other, causing a red bruise on their forehead.

Gohan and Kuririn were disoriented when their head collided like that. They were too busy trying to get out of their confusion state, but not before Guure delivered a super kick right to the face of a bald midget, sending him through the light pole, as it broke in the half, and top half fell apart.

"Kuririn-san!" cried Gohan. He scowled at Guure, as he immediately rushed towards him, but before he could throw a punch around, a fist shot into his guts, doubled over in pain. He felt his hair being picked up with the knee smashed up the square of his jaws, knocking him away into the sky vertically before the gravity found him, as he began to fall towards Guure.

Guure's stoic face stared up at Gohan, but he chose to do nothing. He just watched Gohan falling back to the ground. He recalled receiving a punch to the face by Gohan whom was in a rage mode. But now? Gohan was very weak right now, and he could not even fight back. He was struggling.

'I wonder why…' Guure thought, watching Gohan landing a fall right next to him. 'His strength is nothing compared to that moment when he lost his temper. He was strong back then.' He certainly recalled having his face hurt badly. 'Apparently, his battle power drastically changed within the emotional.'

Gohan was grateful that Guure did not go up above him and knocked him down with the Double-Ax Handle like most enemies loved to do that to him. But still, that hurt him very badly. Like really badly. What kind of strength that frog-man possessed?

He could feel his body being weakened after receiving a knee smash to his jaws like that. He was almost losing conscious, but he managed to keep his consciousness by just thinking about what kind of fate would await Element, and his friends, and as well as his family.

Here his opponent right before him was really strong. If the frog-man was really strong, then how strong that man behind the frog-man really was? He shuddered to imagine the kind of strength that man would have. Then again, if the frog-man and that man were really that strong, then Coola must have possessed unimaginable strength and power right now. Just like Freeza.

His body curled up painfully. He struggled to get up, but before he could manage to get up, a foot stepped on his head, forcing him back down on the ground. He almost could feel that his head was crushed, like it was a mere toy to the frog-man.

Guure narrowed his eyes down at Gohan, placing a pressure on the head of Gohan, ensuring that the kid would suffer more pain. "You… You attacked me, as if you were stronger than me a while ago. Your power skyrocketed when your emotional drastically changed. I see the potential power in you. A future power that you have yet to possess. A future power that you will hold will be a threat to the universe. With the power like that, I must not allow you to live any longer, because I simply feel threatened."

Gohan widened his eyes, slowly glancing up to Guure whom shot him a glare. 'Is he going to kill me right now? A future power that I have yet to possess. What's he talking about?'

"However…" A gruff voice held in his tone. "Because I am on the order not to kill you for no less than an hour… but that was not the reason why I don't kill you right now. You have inquired my curiosity. From on now, I am going to unleash your power back. A power that you demonstrated to me a while ago. By doing that so, I am going to make you angry."

With that said, he already set his tone by roughly picking him up by the hair like a rag doll and punching him in the gut, delivering a pain that sent a throbbing into the gut. "I understand that this is going to hurt a lot. Please bear with me, for that I am going to mold you into a powerful fighter that I have yearned to see for a while now. Let your anger out. I want to see your rage explode!"

He punched him in the face, leaving a blood on his forehead. "Show me what you're really capable of! Unlike most people who contains too much anger and allowed their rage to explode who they usually weakened themselves to where they can be defeated easily, but you are the most unique person ever I have seen. You never had become weak when you allowed your rage to explode. Don't hold back your rage! Bring it out! Show it to me!"

Gohan slowly opened his eyes and chuckled a bit weak. "Heh… I've experienced a lot worse than that. You will have to do more than just that." He could never forget that Vegeta, Recomme, and Freeza pummeled him really badly. That time where he wanted to go home and crawl into the bed, and watched as his Mom tucked him in the bed. But not now… He got to be tough here now. It was not time to get scared at this moment. Predators intended to prey on the people with a fear, because it was easier to make them scared and admit defeated that way.

He reminded himself that he was half Saiyan. No Saiyan would be so coward enough to flee from the fight itself when there was an opportunity to prove to his enemy that he would not back down until he would die.

He did not know why he felt that way, but he was sure that it was part of Saiyan blood.

Guure's eyes narrowed when Gohan mocked him like that. That was part of Saiyan blood, all right. Saiyans had high pain threshold, that's for sure.

"Then I will make sure that I'll beaten you within the inch of your life if that will bring your rage out." Guure spoke in a matter-of-factly tone. With that said, Guure had begun pummeling him at every ounce of his body, ensuring that Gohan received most severe wound he would ever have experienced… all for the sake of seeing Gohan losing it.

He gave Gohan a bunch of good brutal punches right on the tip of his nose, including his cheeks, his eyes, and his jaws. He was going to give all of his strength to see bloody face of Gohan. But he was not done. It was not just face that he wanted to pummel, he began shift his focusing on the abdomen of a little brat before beginning to repeatedly punch him in that area.

Two times. No, three times. Maybe five times. That's when Gohan was beginning to lose his breathe. Guure could heard the ragged breathing from the kid. However, no blood had yet to come out of his mouth. The frog man was aiming to see that as well.

"Damn, where's popcorn when I need it?" Paradox grinned, sitting on the large rock with his leg leaning on his other leg while folding his arms. "That's so brutal, man! Have you no heart for such a kid? Not that I care, but I'd recommend giving him a boo-boo kiss. He could use a heartwarming from you. What say you, frog bastard?"

Still gripping bruised and battered Gohan's hair roughly like a rag doll, he glanced over his shoulder at his comrade, giving him an annoyed stare. "Shut up." That was all he needed to say before returning his eyes on the beaten kid.

"Ohhhh…." Paradox quickly put his hands on his left chest, faking a hurtful face. "You wounded my heart… Oh! Look at what you have done!" He screamed, clenching his left chest, as he fell to his knees, almost as if he was having a heart attack right now. "Bastard, you gave me a heart attack! I'm going to die!" He wailed a lot of tears from his eyes, as he collapsed to the ground, with his tongue stick out of his mouth and his eyes remained open, almost as if he died already.

Once he learned that Guure ignored him, he immediately sat up with the pout on his face. "Aww, you're no fun! That's fine, but you have about 40 minutes left. Have fun!" He waved at him cheerfully.

"Tch…" Guure glared down at Gohan who had yet to open his eyes. "I don't care if my opponent is even a toddler, his life is nothing of matter to me. I am going to kill you in about 40 minutes' time. If you're not returning in something I greatly interested in, I will make sure to make your life hell."

"Oh, what a heartless!" Paradox shouted, teasing him a bit.

Still ignoring him, Guure resumed his little conversation with Gohan. "Do you think you can withhold me for whole 40 minutes? We will see if you're strong enough to withhold me. What say you?"

Despite being bruised and battered, Gohan opened his eyes to level a glare against Guure, but no words came out of his mouth. It was almost as if he was attempting to intimidate Guure, but that did not work.

Guure quietly returned the favor to Gohan by swiftly punched him in the guts, forcing him to cough up the blood. He just realized Gohan would no longer speaking to him. "In that case, I will do my best not to speak until you show me what I so longed to see again."

Wordlessly, with the release of his grip on the handful of Gohan's hair, he continued to pummel within the inch of the life out of Gohan, insisting on seeing the soaring power of that brat again. He made sure to deliver every attack to Gohan. Whether it was uppercut, hook punch, straight punch, kick, and knees, etc… Gohan refused to lose his temper, as he allowed his opponent to continue beating him in a silent.

Only Gohan could hope to stop the beating would be when Kuririn or someone else could stop him from doing that so.

That was ruthless aggression.

There was no stopping to Guure beating him up. Gohan just did not have a gut to bring his power up. There was no reason for him to lose his temper. He would defend himself, but there's no way he could because Guure just would not let him.

"You're not the type of guy who will submit to your opponent easily, are you?" Guure glared at the struggling boy who recently slowly opened one of his eyes and returned his glare at the frog man.

"I will…" Guure narrowed his eyes when Gohan began. "... not give up! I will not give up!"

Guure nodded, although his expression remained stoic. "Good. I will make sure that you will not give up. I won't let you die, anything but expect that I'm going to arouse your powers to me! Show it to me! Use your anger and show it to me!"

With one blink of an eye, a swift punch already blew onto the guts of a little kid, almost as if it the punch went through the body cleanly. It barely swallowed the little kid's whole oxygen, as Gohan was gasping for an air and his eyes dilated worse, but not just that, the blood spewed out of his mouth. He coughed up a little more blood afterward.

Gohan's eyes blurred so much that he could not see anything but Guure. Before he realized it, his face got smashed into the ground, making his face spilling the blood. Not only his face, but his back head was also hurt, that must mean Guure knocked him using Double-Ax Handle.

Gohan struggled, but just right as he was about to push up, his back got smashed and knocked back down against the ground. It seemed that Guure would not let him up anymore.

"Why aren't you angry right now?" Guure asked with very curiosity. "Are you supposed to be angry when you're receiving a brutal beating from me?"

"I am…" Gohan groaned in the pain, since he received too much brutal damage from the frog man. He could feel his chest burning, but he can't be sure if he's angry or it's just that he felt heavily injured in his chest. However, he was pretty sure it was the former.

"Tch… What is it you were going to say?" He stepped down on the head of Gohan and held him back to the ground, as the kid struggled to break free of it. "You will not stand up for more than 3 seconds unless you're letting your anger out!"

Paradox watched all that with a confident smirk. 'Guure… This is your true color. Despite what you may think of yourself, you're most certainly enjoying the fight here. Otherwise, you'd not be torturing them and constantly lowering their will to fight. What you're fighting is not a battle of strength, but it is a battle of mentality. Gohan's resolve to never give up versus Guure's patience. However, when it comes to battle the guy with the resolve to never give up, Guure will most likely lose in a battle of mentality, but he may most likely win in a battle of strength. You won't last one hour against the guy like that! I'd bet you a piece of chocolate bar that you will not last 20 minutes—no, yet better 10 minutes, against that brat.'

"Speak when you're spoken to!" Guure scowled, delivering a swift punch to the cheek of 6 years old fighter, knocking him a little away before he began walking towards him. He hated it when a brat refused to speak to him fast enough. All the brat did was to compose himself, while staying down on his knees. He failed to see how or why the brat did not come to use his power by letting out all of his anger. That was a shame to see such a potential fighter to go waste. That potential power of his would be greater in the future if he were to use his power properly. Only Gohan should have done was to use his anger to boost his power.

"Aren't you angry even though you're suffering so much from me? I could do so much worse than this to you already, if you didn't already know. Because if you're not going to show it to me, I'll warn you now. If you don't do it sooner, I would lose my patience. When I lose patience, things are not going to be pretty for you."

Gohan was beginning to feel his body being weakened. It could mean that was the limit of his pain threshold. There was a darkness constantly fading in and out from his vision. He was about to black out, but the will in him was too strong. He managed to stay consciousness. He would hate to receive an earful scold from his mentor and Dad. Naruto would be disappointed in him if he gave up like that.

He knew he was too weak to fight the strong opponent like Guure. That's why he was unable to do anything. But he could not give up. He must find a way to overcome the strength of that frog-man.

"I am…" Gohan slowly pushed up to his knees, which he struggled to get up quickly. His whole body was too ached to get up after all. "I-I… Oof!" He did not finish his sentence, as Guure gave him a punt beneath the stomach.

Afterward, Guure stepped on Gohan's head and held it against the ground, almost as if Gohan was his slave. "Speak it plainly. I hate it when people are stammering or stuttering, or when they never finished their sentence. That's wearing out my patience thin! Finish your sentence! What is the sentence you're going to form?! Say it!"

Gohan clenched his teeth. What an unpleasant event it turned out to be. He never expected to face an opponent with no patient. But he doesn't know what he's feeling right now. Either it was anger or frustration, but he hoped it was the former, hoping that it would satisfy Guure.

He could feel his head being crushed. If he didn't do something about it soon, his head was going to be squashed like an ant.

Enough was enough! He was not about to be held down onto the ground forever, and pitied by his own enemy or his own allies. By increasing a little amount of his power, he managed to use up his strength to push the foot off his head before charging towards his opponent.

"I am angry!" He yelled, despite his voice did not sound confident, as he propelled his fist towards Guure's head, only to miss and swoop past him. He grinded his teeth. He somehow knew that it was not going to be possible to land a critical hit on him.

"That's good. But…" Guure glance down at stunned Gohan who recently missed him while on the process of falling. He raised his elbow up before pulling it down. "…That is not enough!" He sent a powerful elbow smash on the top of Gohan's back, nearly breaking his spine in the process and caused him to cough up the blood as well.

Coughing up the blood, if it connected to Gohan's spine, he would have been paralyzed for life unless senzu bean would cure him. He got his hands and knees on the ground, gasping for an air. 'Ugh… This is nothing, compared to ReaCoom or Nappa. Either, Guure is weaker than them, or that I already have gotten used to ridiculous damage I have received.'

Guure then proceeded to grab Gohan's hair roughly and picked him until he was on same level as his eyes. "Indeed, you were angry. But that was not enough, as you have yet to demonstrate your true power in this very place. Thankfully, you're the reason why I haven't lose my patience, only because you already inquired my interest up. You have enough time to demonstrate it before the time is running out. While we're at it, I am going to bring your true power, and that's only way you can beat me… probably."

"Urghh…" Gohan slowly opened one of his eyes, levelling a glare at the frog man. But he chose not to say anything.

"I see…" Guure narrowed his eyes. "You know I do not appreciate that type of behavior. When you're spoken to, you must respond them back in a manner. By punishing you, I will crush your body until you can't handle it anymore unless you bring your true power out."

Guure wrapped his arms around Gohan and squeezed him using a bear hug, making Gohan screaming very loud. "AHHH!"

While sitting on the pile of rubbles crossing his arms, Paradox's mouth curled up into a smirk slightly. Because he was bored, he quickly searched for something and once he found it, he picked long wooden stick and held it beneath his mouth.

First, he cleared his throat as he began speaking. "Aww, how nice of Guure to do that! He gave him a friendly hug. Oh, wait! Oh, shit! That's so brutal! It was not a friendly hug. It is a bear hug! He's going to crush his body! Stop it, Guure! Oh, my god! He has a family! Shit! I think I just hear his ribs cracked. He's going to split in half! Wait… I think Guure got Gohan good. Gohan looks like he's light out." He mimicked a voice of a certain commentary from a certain TV that he grew up watching back on his planet.

Despite Gohan already unconscious, Guure still squeezed his body with all his might, and while he was at it, he glanced over his shoulder and shot his partner a glare. "Shut up."

Paradox pouted, even with his stick beneath his mouth. "Guure told me to shut up. No fun! How am I supposed to have fun while watching my favorite partner torturing six-years old boy?! Mic drops." He tossed the stick away, and folded his arms in a pout like a 3 years old boy.

Guure sighed, as he looked around at the unconscious boy still in his bear hug. "Anyways, like I was saying, you're not given a permission to set even one foot on the ground for more than 3 seconds unless you're absolutely bringing out your true power. There's hidden power that lies in you. Unleash it and I will allow you to set your foot on this filthy land."

He squeezed Gohan's body even further, which jolted him awake and forced him to scream loudly. "If you don't wish me to crush you as such, get angry!"

Gohan's screaming had gotten quiet little over time, as he began glaring at Guure. Even though he did not scream, he still gritted his teeth in attempt to withhold the pain that he was given to.

Guure narrowed his eyes, noticing that Gohan withheld his strength. "You may have gotten used to the pain I gave you, because my strength was on par of ReaCoom. I am the type of agility guy, but I know how to hurt you without the need to rely on my strength alone. There's many ways to make you scream. For example, I exploited Earthlings' weakness… If I were to use them in a way you would not be able to handle, it would be this, for instance…"

He adjusted his arms around Gohan's back and then placed his both arms on the little bottom of his neck and top of his back, then he pulled them together into that area. There was a sound of crack in that area. A little.

However, that caused Gohan to scream louder than he had scream before. Tears even threatened to spill from his eyes. "AHHHHH!"

"Like this… No need to rely on my strength as long as I can damage a certain area. But the longer I hold to that area, the more damage it will be done to that area. In other words, I'd break your neck if you're unable to show your anger, and you probably will be paralyzed for life. I'm going to increase my strength for every minute. By the time is ticked, you'd be paralyzed unless you show me what you're really capable of."

Gohan writhed in agony as Guure continue to crush his spine little by little. At one point, Gohan tried his best to break free of his opponent's bear hug, but it was in vain.

"Don't even think about breaking free. Your strength alone won't free you. And even if you were strong enough to break free, you still could not because I already weakened your strength by squeezing your spine. Keep resisting and it will be worse, I promise, unless of course, you bring out your true power."

Before he could squeeze more out of Gohan, there was a blast on his back, which scorched some of his clothes off, forcing him to drop the kid.

Gohan, who recently regained his consciousness, widened his eyes, as he spotted Kuririn, who had bleed on his forehead, already placed his hand forward with his other hand gripping his wrist, smirking proudly that he managed to stop Guure.

"You pipsqueak… How could I forget you? Hide and wait for an opportunity when I was distracted, and you blindside attacked me. Clever… but… that's not enough." Guure scoffed. "I wish I can kill you right now, but I think I will play around with you."

"Stop it!" cried Gohan. "Don't hurt him please!"

But Guure did not listen to him. He immediately charged towards Kuririn, who was not fazed by his sudden movement.

Kuririn's lips still smirked, and he clenched his fists, lowering them to his side. "Bring it on! I have a trump card in reverse only for you! You're finished!"

"Nonsense! You have no such a trick up your sleeve to take me on!" Guure hissed, powering up his aura, as he was going to kill that bald midget because he was getting on his nerve lately.

'That guy… He's so overconfident… Where did he get that coming from? This should be interesting.' Paradox thought a smug smile on his face. He was very curious what was going to happen next.

Kuririn grinned. He knew Guure would charge at him like that. He discovered Guure's weakness by taunting him and luring him to kill him. Now he lured him and he already came up with the idea, a way to kill him that he never thought of using that before. If he used it against Nappa, Vegeta, and Freeza, they would have died easily. The technique that no one could survive no matter how strong they were. But he should have thought of combo before.

Kuririn placed his hands to the center of his face with the finger spread towards his eyes. At that moment when Gohan realized what Kuririn was going to do, so he immediately shut his eyes closed. "Taiyoken! (Solar Flare)"

Suddenly, the light flared out and brightened everything around him in this area, blinding Guure in the process, but not only him, but Paradox, who was spectator, also affected by it, except Gohan and Kuririn himself.

Having being blinded, Guure brought himself to a halt and clutched his eyes in the pain, writhing in agony. "My eyes! My eyes!"

Kuririn leapt backward to distance himself far away from Guure. "Now for my combo…" He then raised his hand upward, grinning proudly.

Gohan blinked his eyes few times before he finally realized it. 'Ahh! You're going to use it against him while he's blinded?'

"Damn… Why didn't I think of it before?" Kuririn chuckled. By raising his palm forward, he already formed a razor-sharp disc of Ki hovering above his hand. Now… "Kienzan! (Destructo Disc)"

After shouting the name, he hurled it towards the blinded frog man, as it sliced through his body in a half. Guure's body that was sliced in half spilled a lot of blood, and his eyes opened widely, probably in shocked that he would soon meet his fate in next minute.

Gohan was speechless to witness such a stuff that was just happening. He could not believe what he was seeing. Guure went down so easily after all he have been struggled to fight back?

Recovered from the blindness, Paradox slowly opened his eyes, only to witness that Guure's upper body flying away from his lower body, blood spilling out everywhere. "What?!"

Kuririn was surprised at this too, but he grinned. "All right! It works! I call it Taioyken-Kienzan Combo!"

"Heh… It doesn't quite work…" The voice got their attention to Paradox, who still sat on the top of rubbles, folding his arms. "Look carefully, and you will find out why."

Kuririn widened his eyes, as he quickly glanced around only to find the bottom of upper body began to morph constantly, but not before it began squirting something from his bottom upper body gradually.

Gohan and Kuririn's face soon met with the terror. Who knows their current opponent would be capable of doing a such technique? They thought only Namekians could do that. But the way that frog man was currently regenerating grossed them out. It was almost as if the doctor pulled the baby out of woman's womb.

"Heh…" Paradox chuckled. "Not only Namekians that are capable of such technique, but Froggers, as well. However, I will let you in a little secret. There's many more than millions of species in the endless vast of space, or so I heard, but probably about 2% of them that possessed such as that technique, per Coola-sama. I have encountered 3—no, 2 species, but one of them that I have heard of, that has an ability to regenerate. Namekian and Froggers are one of them. Other one that involves pink blob, not even my ancestor knows what kind of species he is, but I was told not to go near him no matter what if he ever comes back."

He waved nonchalantly, while his other hand was too busy picking his ear. "Anyways, the point is, you should not expect that there's only one that could regenerate like that. So yeah…" He smiled smugly. "Have fun, pipsqueaks. I might have to spank your butts if you get in a trouble, although."

Kuririn and Gohan both ignored Paradox's humorous comment on that last part, as they were staring in horror at Guure's regeneration.

The regeneration was completed. Guure's lower body were already full grown back. He took his time to stand up fully, as he stretched his entire body for few seconds before settling his eyes on the terrorized Kuririn.

Kuririn's entire body was shaking hard, so that he's sweating right now. "My combo… It… failed?"

"That's…" Guure narrowed his eyes, looking down at frightened midget with disgust. "correct. However, I will give you that one for making fool of me. Who knows you'd come up with that lethal combo? Now I have deemed you as a threat, and now must be eliminated before it can ensues my life dangerous anymore. I have no choice but to use my Medas."

Kuririn raised his single eyebrows in confusion. "Medas?"

"BEHIND YOU, KURIRIN!" yelled the battered and bruised boy.

Kuririn's pale grew, as he slowly glanced over his shoulder, only to find another Guure morphing into a person, towering over him. He turned around with his entire body trembling in fear before another Guure. 'When did he…?'

Then his mind jolted, recalling that he used Kiezan to split Guure's body, so both separated bodies must have regenerated and regrown their other half body. He was so scared. So scared that he could sense Guure's dark aura shrouding around his body. He could tell that Guure was royally pissed off.

Despite being frightened, Kuririn quickly shifted into his stance, but before he knew it, he received a punch to the guts, doubled over, spewing the blood out of his mouth.

"Kuririn-san!" Gohan cried. Soon, his eyes hardened and glared at Guure, as he tried to get up, but his whole body stiffened right now. His whole body was in pain right now. "Stop it…" It was not enough for his voice to reach Guure, because it was too soft and very low.

Guure growled before grabbing the midget's bald head and slammed it against his knees, causing a nosebleed. Afterward, he swung his arms around to clothesline the pipsqueak, sending him away towards his Medas.

With that, his Medas simply stood over there, but by reversing his strength before releasing it, he uppercut Kuririn into the sky by placing his fist on his staggered opponent's back.

Kuririn slowly opened his eyes, but he gripped himself to stop the knock away before turning around only to find two Guures charging towards him. He gritted his teeth in frustration. What should he do? What would he do if he was Goku? 'Shit! What would Goku do in this situation? Think hard!'

He remembered how Goku managed to use Kamehameha by using his feet against Piccolo Jr. That was clever trick of Goku to do that. Other time he remembered that Goku used double Kamehameha to blindside attack Freeza, and succeeded by landing a hit on Freeza.

Then realization hit him. 'Double Kamehameha?! That's it… If I can destroy them by using Kamehameha, but can I certainly do this? All right! Here goes nothing!'

Pulling his both hands to his side, he opened his palm and began chanting the name. "Ka…" The blue energy sphere began glowing on each hand.

"Hmph…" Guure scoffed at the sight of Kuririn's technique, thinking that he could take on that mere technique. They were nothing to him after all. Even after seeing Kuririn charging up the technique, he and his Medas would still charge towards him, as if they were reckless.

"Me…" Kuririn's blue energy sphere continued to grow, and his white aura suddenly appeared around his body, as it began to spike up. "Ha…"

'Hmm…" Paradox looked up at Kuririn who continued to build up that technique. 'His Ki is skyrocketing when he's building that energy sphere thingy. Interesting technique you have, but that's not enough to destroy Guure. You're powerless before him at this moment.'

"Me…."

Gohan stared up at Kuririn's new method of technique in awe. "Kuririn-san…"

Guure and his Medas continued to soar through the sky towards the bald midget who continued to concreate all his Ki into a pair of his hands. 'For a little pipsqueak, he's able to increase his Ki powers by tenfold by just concreating it into only his hands. Impressive feat, you have potential inside you if you train with the right type of training form and hard. However, that is not sufficient to wipe me out with that power alone.'

"HAAA!" Kuririn shouted, thrusting his palm forward, immediately releasing the burst stream of blue energy wave straight towards each of his opponent; powerful, but not enough to take his enemy, as two Guures would anticipate, deciding to stop and dared to take on double Kamehameha himself, managing to catch them with his own mouth.

"As I said earlier—what?!" Once Guure returned his sight on his opponent, there was nowhere for the bald midget to be found. He immediately learned that he could no longer sensing him, already frantic scanning the area just for a single person. "Where did he go?!"

He spotted Paradox laying on the rubble with his arms folding behind his head, smirking or laughing at him for losing the sight of his opponent, which would earn him a scowl. Ignoring his idiot partner, he still struggled to find Kuririn. No matter where, Kuririn could not be spotted. "Show yourself, or I will wipe this town out just to find you! You may not realize it, but I'm this close to kill you. You're wearing my patience thin out!"

"Good!" The voice startled him. It was behind him. He immediately looked around, only to find the sharp energy of disc slicing through his body in half before a series of discs cut remains of his body into many pieces apart before small Kamehameha wave wiped his remains out.

Kuririn then raised his both palm upward, both smirking and grinning. "One down, one to go!" Just as he spoke, he already formed another Kienzan on his each hand before throwing both Kienzan simultaneously.

The frog man reacted too late, as he attempted to evade them both, but one of them cut his whole arm that apart his shoulder torn, leaking loads of blood from it, as separated arm fell away. Afterward, his reaction greatly improved by dodging every single of upcoming multiple Kienzan that continued to throw upon him.

Despite constantly evading them, none of single Kienzan even touched him once since he lost his arm. With little effort to dodge them, he was able to create a dust surrounding him by just launching a small part of Ki blast on a couple of Kienzan.

Once the dust came up, Kuririn would immediately stop, because he did not want to throw away the remains of his Ki unnecessary. However, he still hoped that at least several of his Kienzan would manage to scatter the enemy into many pieces. If he did, then he would be prepared to wipe remains of his body as well.

A figure of shadow emerged from the dust, descending little under the midget before grabbing the ankle and hurling him down towards ruined building, in which Kuririn landed and jumped, as the large Ki blast completely demolished the ruined building. This was destructive one, in which the impact nearly knocked Kuririn away.

Kurirn glanced down at the dark smoke that recently breezed from the destroyed building and gritted his teeth in panic. 'Whew! If I didn't dodge it, I would have been done for sure!' As soon as he looked back to his enemy, Guure suddenly appeared in front of him. "What?!"

He set up his arm to guard his own face before Guure could make a contact with it. However, the frog man's fist was powerful to break the guard, and send him stumbling back. Immediately after, Guure charged towards Kuririn, who then quickly moved his hands forward directly at his enemy and began firing the barrage of Ki blast at him.

Guure casually raised his arms and cross them in front of his face to guard himself against the barrage of Ki blasts, kicking more dust from the air that surrounded him.

Once the massive dust fully bellowed around the frog man, Kuririn then performed his final move, as he put his front hand with his other hand gripping the main wrist forward, producing a powerful Ki before launching it at Guure, creating a decent explosion.

BOOM!

Kuririn panted heavily, watching the smoke, as it was getting dissolved soon. "Heh…" He smirked. "Did… Did I get him?"

But the smoke dissolved, revealing Guure floating there, unharmed, with his arms cross in front of his face. "But that's not enough."

Kuririn chuckled sadly, "I knew it was too good to be true. Why am I not surprised? My attack won't hurt you after all." He mumbled at himself without everyone hearing what he said, while scratching his bald head.

At that time, when he attacked Guure with a barrage of Ki blasts, he knew it was not going to kill him. It's just that he was not strong enough to beat Guure. In fact, it was not his plan to defeat Guure. His original plan was to stall Guure until Gohan recovered himself first. That was all he needed to. Once Gohan's recovered, they both would able to fight him together all-out. They were excellent at working together as a teamwork. They have been teamed up since the day Saiyan arrived on Earth. That was what he intended to do that.

"I believe you dropped it a little while ago." Guure spoke, letting his arms down, and slowly opening his mouth widely. "I shall return to the rightfully owner of this!"

"This what?!" Kuririn was confused, but his expression quickly shifted to surprise once the familiar technique was released from Guure's mouth towards him. "What?! That's my Kamehameha technique!"

Kuririn hurriedly pulled his arms in front of his face, attempting to block his own Kamehameha that was returned to him, but he was unable to hold it back, as it broke his guard away and few parts of his Gi got torn up, rendering him unconscious. But even after he had gotten into unconscious, he was still at the height where he could be squashed if he fell down there.

"Kuririn-san!" Gohan was horrified to see Kuririn began falling at this moment. Even though he was recovered by a little recently, he could still feel his body stiffened as he attempted to move, but he was able to ignore it nonetheless before he made his way to his friend and caught him before Kuririn could hit the surface.

He gently landed Kuririn on the floor. He could notice that Kuririn scrunched his face, obviously suffering in the pain. "Kuririn-san! Wake up!" But Kuririn would not wake up, so Gohan had to tap his cheeks few times before Kuririn finally regained his consciousness, but his eyes were not fully opened.

"Are you okay?!" was the first thing Kuririn heard when he regained his consciousness.

Kuririn could feel his whole body stiffened very tightly, which means he received too much damage to his body, and it was one shot by Guure. Simply Kamehameha relaunched back at him, despite he blocked it, it still damaged parts of his body anyways.

Despite being injured badly, the midget chuckled, but not in a way that he can easily laugh because of injury. "Heh… I can't believe I got K.O. again, but for what it was worth, you're recovered well. I think I'm going to take a nap right now." He quickly drifted off to his dream world again.

"Do not weep for that pipsqueak, brat." Guure's arms folded in front of his chest, descending slowly towards the barely damaged building. "You have no need for such allies, as you are strong enough to take me on. I am your only enemy. Focus on me. Two eyes must remain on me at all times. If you cannot keep your eyes on me even for a second, I will exterminate your little friend and he will never know whether he's alive or not." He landed his feet on the roof, staring down at Gohan across to on the roof of lower damaged building with those cold eyes. "Let me reassure you. If you're distracted in any such manner, I will exterminate him immediately!"

"SHUT UP!" Gohan screamed in a rage, looking up at Guure with a furious face, and clenching his fists, as his entire body was shaking. He gritted his teeth and tears started to come out of his eyes. He could not believe that Kuririn was nearly killed, but he also regretted that he was too weak to save Kuririn from nearly killed. Because of Guure, Kuririn almost died on the spot, and that frog bastard even had a gut to tell him that he was going to kill Kuririn if Gohan could not keep an eye on his enemy.

That pissed Gohan off.

Guure unfolded his arms and raised his eyebrows in question at the enraged kid. "Brat… Have you finally get on your edge?"

Gohan's lips were trembling before he bit his lip in attempt to calm himself down, but he could not due to sheer of his rage that was about to explode. "L-L-L…"

The frog man narrowed his eyes. "I told you before. No more stutter or stammer from you. That's my new rule for you. One more stutter or stammer from your mouth, I will exterminate your little friend as well."

"LEAVE KURIRIN ALONE!" Gohan finally exploded his anger, powering up his aura before taking a charge towards his enemy. With the blink of an eye, Gohan delivered a powerful headbutt directly to the chest, inflicting a severe damage to Guure, as a said man coughed up the blood a bit.

It was almost as if the world was frozen to Guure, as well as Paradox. Guure gritted his teeth, staring shockingly at enraged Gohan. 'Certainly, he gave me what I want to see… his anger, but still… But it should be impossible for him to inflict a pain on me with a headbutt with my armor on, unless… unless… he's powerful than the credit I gave him for.'

Paradox suddenly sat up with the glee expression on his face. 'Seriously?! I thought it's going to be boring fight, especially it was going to be one-sided fight, but I never expected something like that to happen! That brat… You're awesome! It makes me excited and itched to play around with you. You brought a pain on that bastard, and he's going to be pissed off soon. Amazing! You proved me wrong. You make the fight little more interesting. You have woken me up, so show me what you're capable of. Heh… This is going to be fun!'

Immediately after Gohan's hard headbutt, he released a quick barrage of punches right to Frogger's stomach, rapidly doubled him over. Every time Guure received a punch to the guts, the level of pain had multiplied! At some point, Guure's saliva was leaking from his mouth, as pain was too intense for him.

"Damn you!" Guure hissed. He raised his both hands in preparation for knocking him down with the double-ax handle, but before he could make his next move, it was too late, because Gohan was the first one to give him a boot to the square of his jaws, sending him rocketing into the sky.

Before he could stop himself from being knocked away, Gohan already made his next move, as he appeared above him and rapidly stomped the hell out of his stomach before flipping kick right on the top of his face, knocking him down and smashing through several buildings, as they collapsed away.

Shortly after, Guure broke out of the rubbles that collapsed upon him recently, and jumped higher into the sky. His teeth clenched, soon fell to the victim of rage, and his hands were shaking violently.

But what he did not understand was that Gohan was stronger in his rage mode than before. Last time Gohan had gone into a rage mode, the pain was not intense as it was right now. He could not figure out why, but that's what it made him pissed off. He wanted to know why, but he realized if he was going to experiment more on that brat, that would get him killed.

'Paradox's order—no, Coola's order—is no longer concern of mine! Dragging out fights can get me in a dangerous situation and I can die because of that. I have seen many fighters doing that, and I finally understand why. This is the reason I dislike dragging fights out! That type of fight will just get me killed. For the first time in my life, I'm defying your order, Coola-sama, and for that, I apologize. I shall accept any punishment you shall deliver to me. They're threats that must be exterminated immediately!'

His thought derailed immediately when Gohan appeared in front of him and knocked him up with the backflip kick to the square of the jaws. He clenched his jaws, leaking intents with his glare towards Gohan, who was still not flinched due to the rage that resided inside him. "You damn brat! You have thinned my patience out! As of right now, you will die—"

He was interrupted when Gohan shouted, "MASENKO-HA!" Six years old boy suddenly fired a beam of yellow, very powerful at that, up towards the frog-man.

"A brat like you…" Guure hissed between his teeth, as his rage began to build up inside his chest. He should have known that he should disposed of Gohan and Kuririn quickly, but it was Coola's order that he must obeyed now. But that was no longer the case. Coola's orders meant nothing to him, especially when he was about to be defeated by a mere brat. "...SHOULD KNOW WHEN TO STOP! DIEE!"

With a quick release of his hand, Guure fired a powerful beam of purple down on way to upcoming a powerful beam of yellow, soon colliding each other. Both beams then were struggling against each other, trying to overcome other one. That collision caused the flare light for a moment before Paradox's eyes became accustomed to it.

"WOW! Amazing!" Paradox gripped the handful of his long blue hair, laughing manically. "Here they're trying to kill each other, but I'm willing to bet on that brat to get rid of Paradox for sure! That should take care of him for me, that's for sure!" Then he looked at Gohan, who was still in rage mode was still pushing the beam struggle, as it went back and forth between them, and frowned. "Though I'm concern about him. I'd like to play around with him, if he's still alive, if possible though."

"Oh, well." Paradox shrugged his shoulders and grinned. "I will be cheering on you, Gohan. Was that his name? All right!" He pumped his fist up, cheering on Gohan. "GO GOHAN!"

In the term of strength of beam struggle, the winner would be Gohan, since no matter how hard Guure was trying to push the beam struggle to the boy, but Gohan always seemed to find a way to push the beam struggle away back towards Guure.

Although Guure held them back for a while, desperately trying to find a way to overcome it again. Unfortunately, Gohan found his upper strength as he yelled, "Ahhhh!" and suddenly sent the beam struggle rocketing back, astounding Guure.

"WHAT?!" Guure screamed, as he braced himself for the impact before the beam seemingly extinguished him, causing a massive smoke surrounding in the sky.

All Paradox could do was to stare in awe. "WOW!" Since he met Gohan, he knew he would like that brat. That's why he wanted to play around with Gohan. By seeing Gohan determined to fight for himself and his friends had gotten Paradox excitement soaring.

Gohan just did his job done well. With a smile, he descended slowly and landed on the ground, as he fell to his hands and knees. At least he killed Guure, so the less scum people, the better, especially in this universe. But at that moment, that was his first kill. The one he destroyed back on Namek did not count, because there's no way he could tell if that guy died or not, since that guy fell into the lake.

After realizing that he got his first kill, at first, he was scared, but later, his trembling lips slowly turned into a smile. "I did it! Mr. Piccolo-san, I did it! I killed him without the help this time!" It may sound crazy that he rejoiced after killing an enemy, but what's done is done. He just defeated the most threat to the universe. His eyes darkened. "From on now, I won't be scared anymore. I will be brave boy, and I will save everyone from the evil guys. I will make sure that I will deliver the justice to next enemy I will face!"

He glared sideways at Paradox. Right now, he was determined to kill Paradox next, and then he would be determined to kill Coola as well. Without evil guys in the universe, its universe would be at peace, he realized. So if he were to get rid of all evil guys, there would be no killing, no war, no unnecessary threats, or no people would be trembling in fear before them anymore.

'Mom… Sorry, with dangerous people in the universe, there's no way I can keep studying. I will abandon my dreams as a great scholar. I will keep training to get stronger so I can surpass Dad! Not just Dad, I will surpass Mr. Piccolo-san, Vegeta-san, Naruto-san, and Sasuke-san!'

"That's not quite done…" Gohan snapped out of his thoughts and looked up, only to have his eyes widened. The voice revealed to be Guure, unharmed, barely out of massive smoke.

Fear etched onto Gohan's fear, as his body was beginning to quiver. "N-N-No way! I-I killed you!" His rejoice had gone into the drain really fast. If Guure was still alive, it would mean Gohan was still unable to kill his enemies without the help.

Guure snarled, leaking a huge amount of killing intent towards Gohan. "I know I should be grateful for that I survive, but it irritates when you were laughing at my supposedly death! I don't laugh at the people that I have killed, because deaths are not meant to be taken light of! I find that you have no honor upon slaying people!" His tone just sent a shiver into Gohan's spine. He landed next to kneeling Gohan. "YOU ungrateful BRAT!"

With that said, Guure backhanded the kid right on the cheek, knocking him away, as Gohan's back smashed against the damaged building's wall, screaming in the pain.

'Heh…' Paradox smirked. 'He snapped. He lost it. All for that brat's laughing… At this rate, he's ready to kill you at any moment. You have my sympathize, Gohan. However, I do hope you'd survive this even longer. Just a little longer, because…' He only moved his pupils to the corner of his eyes at the sky on his left. 'Two powerful Ki coming on way here… One of them is closer to here, and it's trailing other five weaker Ki. But other one possesses the large Ki is on way very far away from here… probably from very end of the village. In about five minutes, that Ki would arrive.'

Paradox's smirk slowly twitched into a huge grin. 'It's going to be fun! I can't wait to see the frustration on Guure's face when new people keeps showing up to this fight. He absolutely hated interruption or a people that gets involved that has to do nothing with them. If you can't hold back your emotion, you're going to die. Your emotions is your greater weakness, after all."

Dark aura leaking from the frog man's body, as he slowly walked towards the pained Gohan, who struggled to climb up to his feet, but used the wall as his support to get up. "Do you know what the honor defines in any battle?"

Gohan clenched his teeth, glaring at Guure, but said nothing, but to listen to Guure's ramble.

"When it comes to the honor, warriors should have three important conditions in order to be acknowledged peacefully. One, a warrior shall not be fleeing from the battle out of cowardice, in which it may sealed their fate unless reasonable. Two, a warrior shall give out with the best of their strength. No prolong fight. In other words, don't drag the fight out."

Paradox scoffed. "In other words, I am not honor warrior, eh?"

"That's right." Guure glared at him for a brief before returning his sight on Gohan, still walking. "And three, a warrior shall not provoke opponents into exposing their weakness through emotions. After fighting you, you passed all conditions to be acknowledged as an honor. I was going to acknowledge you, but… the worst of all, you laugh… at someone's death, no less."

Guure stood, towering his shadow over Gohan, and snarled. "There's actually additional condition that automatically disqualified you from being acknowledge as an honor warrior, despite passing all three conditions. The condition is: 'A warrior shall not laugh at the opponent that he or she took a life into their own hands. Otherwise, they are disqualified from being acknowledged as an honor warrior.' Those rules were created in my home world. It was created by my ancestor."

Guure sighed before begin his telltale. "Back on my planet, it had nine countries. Once upon a time, it used to have 3 countries. Each kingdom would rule one's country, but there was a peace between them. It never had a conflict between them, and no disruption would ever occur between them. They only worked together in case should aliens ever come to invade. But one day, when a King fell, new King would rise. However, the problem is, new King would not follow old King's ideal and philosophy. He purposely isolated his own kingdom called 'First Kingdom' from other two kingdoms called 'Second Kingdom' and 'Third Kingdom', because he did not wish other two kingdom to buy their items and then sell for a higher price."

Gohan raised his eyebrows in confusion. No actual name for these kingdoms or those names were actual name? But by that time, he realized Froggers had no creativity. They could not come up with the good name for the kingdom after all.

"Old King contested them, because he believed the peace would remain forever if they worked together well, and then conflicts would never occur between them ever. However, New King disagreed with him. Once he became a king, his first order was: Capture all guests who were currently in First Kingdom, and guests who were coming to the kingdom soon, and then enslaved them forever. But no one realized that New King already became insane the moment he took a power into his matter. He executed every single person who dared to oppose him, even if it's his own children."

Gohan widened his eyes. 'His own children?'

"He was the cause of the suffering on Frogger. He vetoed too many requests by his own people, even when it was reasonable. He starved his own people to their death once they became poor. He thought highly of himself, and he thought he's above them. If he did not like that person on the first sight, he issued an order to execute them immediately on the spot."

Gohan gulped. "So why did he become insane? There must be the cause of that insanity."

"I don't know." Guure replied with the frown on his face. "In the history book, it said that he became insane because the item that was in his possession before until the Father took his item away and sold it for a high price to other kingdom. But little did his Father knows, that was very value to him. So that's when he became insane, and once he became King, that's when he started doing that. He executed the person who bought that item, but he later found out that the buyer did not have that item anymore. So he decided to wage the war against Second Kingdom, all for a certain item. But not just that kingdom he waged against, Third Kingdom joined the force with Second Kingdom against the First Kingdom. A lot of lives were lost in the war, but Second Kingdom and Third Kingdom earned their first victory in the end. In fact, it was my ancestor named Gare who singlehandedly stopped the war by simply killing the First Kingdom's king. Many Froggers began to acknowledge Gare and warriors would bestow him with the honor. It's now called 'Gare Honor'. But Gare knew there was going to be more conflicts and war between them in the future, thus creating new rule for Froggers, though only applied to military."

"All for one item?" muttered Gohan, but it did not go unheard.

"Indeed, all for one item." Guure glared down at Gohan. "That's why I don't laugh at the people that I took a life away from! You, on other hand…"

"No!" Gohan shouted. "I'm not laughing at your death…" He frowned. "well, if you actually died. I was rejoicing!"

Guure scrunched his face into the enraged furious. "REJOICING AND LAUGHING ARE THE SAME THING!"

"That's not true! I was rejoicing that I'm still alive after all these times I'm struggling against you!" Gohan shouted again. "I would never laugh at people if I kill them!" He quickly guarded himself from Guure, who was ready to kill him. "And I'm not going to die right here! Mom is waiting for me back on Earth!"

Guure growled, "It doesn't matter anymore! Either way, you're going to die. I have already deemed you as a threat, due to the fact that I was almost killed by you in your enraged state from the earlier incident! I CANNOT ALLOW YOU TO LIVE ANY LONGER MORE!"

He extended his palm forward, charging up his Ki, as the dark red energy sphere of Ki (due to his enraged mode). Paradox noticed the sudden change of Guure's usual color Ki, which made him smirk in silent. In which it would be powerful enough to erase Gohan out of his existence. "DIE, BRAT!"

Gohan quickly closed his eyes, not wanting to witness his own death, but only to find that nothing had happened to him, so he woke up and his eyes widened.

Guure's entire body halted for some reason, almost as if he was paralyzed at this moment. He did not fire that energy sphere yet. 'Why can't I move?!'

"Heh, Kagemane no Jutsu succeeded!" The voice behind Guure said, which caused him to turn his head around at a said voice, only to find that it was Shikamaru clasping his both index and middle fingers together, smirking. "In case if you don't know what it is, it's a technique that can only be used by the Nara clan that allows us to extend our shadow and paralyze you."

Guure gritted his teeth in irritation and scowled. "So there's more pestering brat like you to interrupt my fight with that brat over there! A technique like this…" He expanded his current energy sphere on his hand, as he spun around and threw it towards the stunned SHikamaru. "…WON'T WORK ON ME! BEGONE!"

The stunned Shikamaru was shocked. Because he was too shocked, he was unable to make an attempt to dodge it, despite knowing that he was going to die if he could not force himself to move.

But…

"SHIKAMARU!" Luckily, the giant size of one hand grabbed him and pulled him away from the blast that barely touched him and caused explosion.

BOOM!

Shikamaru's savoir sighed with a relief. "That was so close. Are you okay, Shikamaru?!"

Shikamaru snapped out of his shock state and looked at Choji before nodding. "Yeah…" He looked at Guure again and scowled. "I should have expected that it would be happening like that. But…" Then he smirked. "Gratefully, we already have Plan B, should this ever happen already."

"Shinranshin no Jutsu! (Mind Destruction Jutsu)" A female cried out, revealing herself to be Yamanaka Ino, placing her hands together forward at the frog-man.

Suddenly, something was invading Guure's body. "Wh-What… is this?" His eyes widened when he noticed his hand raising by itself, only to have it caught the kunai which was thrown by Shikamaru. His face darkened, glaring at the blonde girl. "What did you do to me?!"

Ino held her hands forward, keeping her aim on Guure and gave him a smug smirk. "You're going to die. Don't you even try to resist my technique. No matter how strong your mind would be, Yamanaka mind is always the strongest here! Just kill yourself, you jerk!"

Guure's hand gripped into the hilt of the kunai, as it was trembling, and it slowly raised up above his head. "H-How is this possible?!" He could not believe himself that he was being dominated by a mere woman in his mind. He broke free of Nara's shadow technique easily, but he could not broke Yamanaka's mind control technique?!

However, he was able to hold his hand up back, much to Ino's surprise. His fist was shaking, trying his best to keep it up. All he could do was to concreate all his energy into his mind alone. "Fortunately, I'm not Elementian like you used to battle here. I'm not like them. You see, I have no patience here. As soon as I'm free of your mind control, I'm going to kill you immediately."

"No way!" Ino scowled. "I'm not letting you win this!" She strained, putting a pressure her chakra into his brain.

He looked up at his fist and much to his chagrin, his fist lowered slightly, but despite that, he also put a strain on his face, attempting to get rid of a weird tingle inside his head, which was the different kind of energy source. "H-How…"

"Your body contains Ki right?" Shikamarau began, "When unfamiliar energy source entered your body, your Ki will attempt to drive an unfamiliar energy source out of your body. Normally, Ki would drive an unfamiliar energy source away from their body, and vice versa for Chakra. But not in Yamanaka's case… When your mind and body are connected, it became one, and thus it makes Yamanaka more powerful with the mind alone. Basically, if your mind and body are not on the same page, you cannot defeat Yamanaka. From my understanding, Ki users don't usually concentrate their Ki into their mind unless you're sensing Ki or you're psychic-type fighter."

The kunai in Guure's hand still struggled to back up, but continued to drag itself down towards his chest slowly. "I see…" He mused. "So as long as my mind and body are not the one, I cannot defeat Yamanaka? Indeed, but one thing you're wrong, it's you who doesn't know anything about me!"

"What?" Shikamaru muttered, as he stared at Guure in suspicious. 'Could it be? Could it be that he still has something up his sleeves that we never though? Does he have a hidden technique that we couldn't possibly know about it?"

"Let me warn you." Guure informed all of his opposing players.

Shikamaru narrowed his eyes, beginning to suspect that Guure indeed had a hidden power. Gohan frowned. Kuririn, who recently woke up, rubbed his head and groaned, starting to listen to Guure's warning. Paradox's interest just perked up, wanting to find out what Guure's hidden powers would be. Chouji was already nervous about what was going to happen next, but he knew he had to be courage, facing this powerful opponent. Ino scowled, struggling to force her opponent to kill himself.

"Listen, guys. I will only say this once, because I will not repeat myself." Guure grumbled calmly, despite having to resist him from killing himself under the influence of the Yamanaka. "I'm done with prolonging the fight long enough. I will no longer obey the order of Paradox, even though it came from Coola-sama himself. I will destroy every single one of you guys. I will not hold back only once after I have dealt with that brat myself." He glared at Ino, who only scowled even more.

"For you, girl." Guure still battled his mind with Yamanaka's mind control technique, as he slowly raised his fist up. "I will warn you more specifically. If you're not going to release me, you will suffer the damage to your brain and possibly diagnosed with Organic Brain Syndrome for the rest of your life. Either you release me or you will suffer it."

'Wait… Could be he bluffing?' wondered Shikamaru. 'If we release him, he may be on killing spree, which could have ended our life in a second. But if we don't release him, either, he is bluffing or he could damage her brain.'

Ino scoffed, shooting her glare eyes towards him. "You're bluffing! I'm not going to let go of it! Let this be lesson to you why you should not underestimate the Yamanaka!" She screamed, as she pressed her hands forward, attempting to regain the control of her mind control technique.

"Are you certain?" asked Guure calmly. No smirk or frown or anything. He was surely confident of himself that he could break Yamanaka's mind control technique. "Are you certain that you will risk going that far to risk yourself?"

Shikamaru noticed that there was no reaction from Guure. Just a stoic expression. He frowned, suspecting that Guure indeed had a hidden technique.

Shikamaru gritted his teeth, trying to figure out what Guure's plan was. 'But on second thought, he still might be bluffing. No visible expression or reaction from him. His face was just… a poker. No emotions whatsoever. As if this is the game of poker. Imagine if I'm in the game of poker, either I might fall into his trap or not. If he says something that would either ensues his victory, it's either bluffing or not. In the worse scenario, if we think he's bluffing, he will either die. But if we think he's not bluffing, we will release him and even worse, he will wipe us out immediately. But in the worse scenario, if we think he's bluffing, he may not be bluffing, and he may potentially hurt Ino further, and then kill us afterward.'

Clenching his shaky fists, he shut his eyes in frustration, but at the same time he was scared. He never faced someone as strong as Guure and Paradox were right now, or even Coola. 'Damn! It's risky move. But I'm feeling bad about this. No matter what, the situation we're in right now is very crucial. If we're releasing him, he will kill us right away. If we don't, Ino may die. So right now, I can only move to Plan C, especially the crucial situation we are in right now.'

After long resolve to decide, Shikamaru looked at frustrated Ino. "Ino, release him right now!"

Ino was taken surprised by Shikamaru's comment. "What?! No way! I am not going to release him!"

"Think about it. What if he's not bluffing? If he's not bluffing, you will die!" Shikamaru reminded Ino, who scowled in response.

"Technically," Guure spoke, "only if you continue to sustain that technique against me despite taking damages to your brain, then yes, you will die. The longer you use that technique against me, the more damage shall be done to your brain. Surely, you don't want that to happen to you, are you?"

"I'm still not giving up although! You're bluffing!" shouted Ino back. She then looked at Shikamaru who was more concerned what was going to happen afterward. "If you are worried that something might happen to me, then help me by strengthen my technique. And if it won't work, then Choji can attack him head-on to stop him from whatever he's going to do to us. Simple, right, Choji?"

Choji nodded. "We're a team, so we should help each other. I will come over and help you guys if I see you guys in trouble." Whenever his teammates could be in trouble, he knew he had to have a lot more courage in him to help his teammates out than he thought. His teammates were precious to him, so he couldn't let them die.

Though Shikamaru looked uncertain, but he decided to contend that and helped Ino by performing his shadow technique and entangled Guure's entire body to pull his fist down to kill himself. 'Still… I have a bad feeling about this.'

Guure noticed that the shadow creeped towards his right arm which reinforced Ino's mind control technique to bring his arm down in order to kill himself. But he was not fazed at all. His eyes darkened, as he stared at Team 10.

"You pipsqueaks honestly think you could combine to take me down? You have been warned and it shall be your regret forever. Look at yourself, girl…"

Just as he said, Ino found out that her nose already began to leak blood. She widened her eyes. "What?" There was no way to explain how she could possibly have a nosebleed by just performing Yamanaka technique, unless she used a technique which allows her to send a telepathy message to many amount of people in the area depends on the radius, but she had not learned that technique yet.

Or did Guure do that to her? Or at least that's what Shikamaru thought. Choji began to worry about Ino's healthy. If she just got a nosebleed out of nowhere, then that would mean it's bad thing.

However, Gohan knew something bad was up, so he tried to intervene, but his body would not let him. He could feel the pain in his entire body. He was getting beaten up by Guure really badly, so all he could do was to struggle. Hopefully, he would save Ino, should Guure try to kill her soon.

Kuririn had that similar thought, but all he could do was to stare in silence. He just barely woke up, but while he's at it, he could only wait for his recovery and began figuring out what strategy he should use to beat Guure.

Ino scowled. She knew that it was coming from Guure himself, but it would mean he could resist any mind control that would be thrown at him. "If you want to play hardball, then I will gladly play it with you!" She wanted to prove that her Yamanaka technique was the strongest, but at the same time, her guts were telling her to stop doing that or she would be killed, but of course, she ignored it, because that was what she planned to do that.

After all, the fate of the Element fell on their burden, so it was their job to save the world, so that's why Ino refused to give up. She would continue to press that until the time she would die.

"A shinobi or kunoichi will NOT back down!" She suddenly weaved her signs which was instantly recognized by Shikamaru and Choji.

"Wait! Don't do that tech—" Shikamaru desperately tried to stop Ino, but it fell on deaf ear.

It was too late. She already shouted the name out. "Shintenshin no Jutsu! (Ninja Art: Mind Transfer Jutsu). As she pressed her clenched hands forward at Guure, she immediately collapsed into an unconscious which left her body defenseless.

Shikamaru showed his concern, not because she chose to mind control Guure by leaving her soul of her body into his body, but he was concerned because Ino was willing to kill herself inside that body if that's what it would take Guure down. 'Damn it!' He did not want her to die just yet. He could not let that happen, but she did not listen.

He clenched his fists, as the tears started to form on his eyes, shutting his eyes, feeling that he was not strong enough to stop the enemy and not strong enough to prevent Ino from doing that. But he realized this was the way of a ninja. Every ninja on this planet was willing to sacrifice their lives by all means if they had to.

"Shikamaru…Choji…" Guure's voice called them out, but that was not him. His tone was too friendly at this moment, which indicated that it was Ino in his body right now. "Sorry, I have no choice. If I don't do it, he will…" Ino/Guure closed their eyes, taking a deep breath before continuing. "As a kunoichi, I know what I must do. To save Konoha—no—to save our planet, I must kill myself in order to kill him, or it will be a lot worse out here."

Choji's tears also started to form on his eyes. "No… Ino… You don't have to do it!"

Ino/Guure gave Choji a sweet smile, but at the same time, there was tears forming on their eyes as well. "Choji… Shikamaru… It was fun. I never thought you guys would be my closest friends, especially with all bonds we have during our missions. I will miss going out with you, especially going to Choji's favorite restaurant. And most important of all, I was happy when you asked me out, Shikamaru. I want to say I love you. So… this is…" Ino/Guure then began to swing their kunai down towards their chest. "Goodbye!"

"INO!" cried Shikamaru and Choji, fearing that she would successfully kill herself.

But…

The kunai stopped itself by their chest for some reason, surprising everyone, including Paradox. No one knew why it stopped itself. Only Guure would know why, because Ino's body already woke up, and she started clutching her head and screaming in the pain along with a massive blood coming out of her nose. Not to mention Guure already moved himself on his own accord right now.

"INO!" Shikamaru cried, immediately running over to her side for her help. Choji was already shaking his body in response to his reaction to the sudden change of event here. He noticed that she still clutched her head in the pain, but he didn't know what to do but all he could do was to pull her into a hug, attempting to soothe her. He still couldn't figure out why she was like that. Was her brain already damaged as Guure previously stated that it would happen?

Everything just happened so fast! It was out of blue!

Before everyone could react to that event, Guure immediately raised his hand and set his aim at Ino, including Shikamaru who hugged her on that spot before quickly firing his yellow energy ball towards Ino and Shikamaru which prompted Choji to scream their name out.

All Shikamaru and Ino could do was to stare in shock, as they froze in fear. It was coming… Their death, that is.

However, much to their surprise, Gohan suddenly appeared in front of them with the determination look on his face and put his hand forward to lay on the enormous energy of yellow sphere as it made a contact. He had to strain himself in attempt to swat the ball somehow.

"I…" Gohan began, making himself work of that energy ball, as he continued to struggle to push the ball away. "I… I won't…"

"Gohan?" shocked Shikamaru.

"I won't…" Gohan's feet pushed back a little bit, as it scrapped the dirt a little bit. However, he was sweating as hard as it was before when he battled other opponents. Perhaps it was because he already took too much damage, but he would try his best with all strength he had right now.

"I WON'T LET MY FRIENDS DIE!" He screamed with the top of his lung before pushing an enormous energy of yellow sphere back towards the frog man. However, Guure calmly disappeared just as his own energy sphere would make a contact with him, and reappeared at the same spot. His energy sphere continued to sail away towards several intact buildings about few miles away, as rest of spectators except Guure watched on.

Little moment later…

BOOOOOOOOOM!

Several intact buildings had gone in a flash along with massive explosion which turned into a monstrous mushroom cloud. Several reactions were:

'There's no way we can beat him! I don't think I can give out my courage in this fight,' thought Choji.

'Just what is his power? How strong that man really is? He casually fired that blast with that much power like it was nothing! If he wanted to, he could destroy this planet if he wanted to,' thought Kuririn.

Shikamaru had that shocking face when he saw that monstrous mushroom explosion. 'We could have died! If it was not for Gohan, my body—no Ino and my body would have w-wiped out before we knew it. I don't think we can take him on, even with our Plan B or even further plans, especially after what we just saw here. Gohan and Kuririn had taken too much damage, and even if they're healthy, they won't be able to defeat Guure.' He gritted his teeth, second guessing himself. 'Is running away our only option? No, if we're running away, he will chase us and finish us off anyways. What is the best way to resolve this against formidable opponent like him?'

Gohan panted heavily, trying to recollect his oxygen back, giving a long hard stare at stoic Guure. But he was not happy right now. 'He intends to kill us right away with no remorse. I can't let them die here!' Before he could move on to attack right away, he fell to his knees, apparently due to too much damage taken. 'Damn it! I'm too hurt to move right now, but I'm not about to give up! I can't let my friends die!'

Even with the massive headache and blood that continues to run down from her nose, Ino tried to calm it down a little bit and looked at Guure, reflecting most recent past where she controlled his mind.

---

Flashback Began

Ino/Guure then began to swing their kunai down towards their chest. "Goodbye!"

"INO!" cried Shikamaru and Choji, fearing that she would successfully kill herself.

But…

The kunai stopped itself by their chest for some reason, surprising everyone, including Paradox. No one knew why it stopped itself.

---

Ino's Mindscape

Before she could have succeeded stabbing herself in Guure's body to kill both, Guure somehow suddenly morphed from the ground out of nowhere, suddenly startling Ino, but before she could react to the current event, the frog man grabbed her by the throat and began strangling her and lifting her up.

"Argh!" cried Ino. The strength of his hand was too strong for her to break free. Despite unable to break free, she began to wonder how a person could go into one's own mindscape, unless that person is a jinichuuriki. Guure wasn't one of them. Maybe it's because Guure was alien, or it's because of his species' traits? Or is it because he was a Ki user?

"Not only that I am able to produce clones in real world, but also here inside my body anywhere." Guure explained that Ino previously wondered about. "In fact, I was trained to resist a technique that should allow them to control my mind, so all your mind control techniques are now flawed. There's no chance for you to defeat me no matter how much you struggle. As matter of fact, you now have two options. Undo your technique… or…" His eyes darkened a lot more that would leave Ino haunted forever. "Not only that I will kill you, but I will make sure to make your soul suffer, so you will be trapped in the endless vacuum of space infinity without able to reborn into the afterlife world."

Ah, that explained it. He was trained to deflect any mind control technique that might would effect on him. But his latter choice, though… It feared her more than anything she experienced.

"What is it? Choose. You have only matter of time before I decide to rip your soul off and strand it in the endless vanity of vacuum space. Indeed, you can be revived by the Dragon Ball if it's done correctly. If they think you're dead and they want to revive you back from the dead, it will not work. Dragon Ball will think you're still alive. It means you won't go back to your original body unless they wish you to return your soul, which it will not happen. I am going to lie to them that you died, should Coola-sama and we ever failed.

Ino gritted her teeth, debating with herself whether she should release her technique or not. But it was tough choice to make. If she released him, he would kill her on spot. But at least she can be brought back to life with Dragon Balls. But if she didn't, he would trap her soul for eternity and they will never know that her soul would be trapped in a vacuum of space. She could call him bluffing, but that serious look on his face showed that he was telling the truth.

So which choice should she choose?

A)Release Guure

B)Attempt to mind control him completely

She was torn between these two decisions for good few seconds before she made a final decision. She got no choice. He looked like he was really serious about it. She chose A choice, and she mentally weaved her sign and released her mind control technique on him immediately.

---

Flashback Ended

'Damn. Sorry, I can't do anything to him. If I could, I would kill him in a second. But he's too powerful and he resisted my technique with ease.' Ino thought, looking at her blood on the hand that came off from her nose. 'She really did damage on my brain. It hurts so much!'

Suddenly, blood came out of her nose so fast and she quickly clutched her head in the pain. "ARGH!" She could not shake that pain or whatever it was off, as she attempted to drive massive headache out of her head.

"Ino!" Shikamaru immediately checked on her whatever she's having a problem with at this moment. "Ino! Are you okay?!"

However, Ino could not answer that question as she was too busy fighting the damage to her brain at this moment. Guure was more than happy to answer it for her.

"As you can see, it's obvious that she's not okay. She shall require a healer. Or she will die slowly and painfully." Guure stated coldly. Shikamaru and Choji looked up and shot him an irritating glare.

"What do you mean?" Gohan asked him, wanting to know what happened to her. His whole body was in pain because he took a blast too hard that could have been done Ino and Shikamaru in. Gratefully, he survived, but he didn't think he could move very much, let alone fighting again for a while. At this rate, if he was not recovered soon, everyone around him will die!

"When she was attempting to transfer herself into my body, because my body was trained to resist any mind control technique, my body already automatically gave most of my negative energy into her entire brain." Guure tapped his finger on the side of his head. "Here in this brain. It all started from there. For every 30 seconds, negative energy is slowly eating a chunk of her brain and crawl all the way around her brain."

"What?!" shocked Shikamaru.

"In other words, in your world, it is as you usually called… cancer." Guure stated that last word with a cold tone, yet at the same time he indeed enjoyed catching them terrifying at the time like now.

It was almost as if the world stopped to Gohan, Shikamaru, Choji, and Kuririn. He was giving her a cancer? No way! How did he have that power to give her a cancer?! It was impossible! It should be done by a human natural.

"You may be confused right now. How did I give her a cancer?" Almost as if Guure could read their mind and he answered their question for them anyways. "To answer the question, no, I cannot. However, my body is full of poisons everywhere. We Froggers are trained for any type of technique that may endanger our life. After hard work of deflecting all any kind of technique, we were able to win many battles as much as we can without worrying about people that may cheat in the fight. Because you invaded my mind, my body was trained to make sure that your brain is flayed and you will die slowly and painfully. My body is contagious."

"Damn!" Shikamaru glanced down at his girlfriend briefly before giving his enemy an angry glare, yet at the same time he was so terrified of him. He realized that Guure could kill them at any given time. Ino and he could be dead a while ago if Gohan didn't save him and Ino. He would have to thank that kid later. That kid was tougher than he thought. He would have to owe him later… if they survived, that is.

Standby from not too far away, Paradox's arms still folded as he chuckled softly. "Interesting. Didn't know he has that ability. It's going to be interesting to find out who will win."

"With that said," Guure raised his hand and opened his palm, aiming at Ino and Shikamaru, whom the latter immediately acted to defend her with all he could have right now. "I am still going to kill you both." He showed them his malicious smirk, who was no more than eager to kill them immediately.

He was going to kill them both! Gohan realized that, but no matter how hard he tried to move his body, he took too much damage and his body failed him every time. Every time he tried to get up, his body would send a zap through his body or something. "Damn it! I can't let them die! Nor this time!" He didn't want to repeat the same history he had experienced against Saiyans and back on Planet Namek. Too much deaths at their stake right now. There was a battle everywhere in this soon-to-be destroyed village.

He looked around the village. He could see that it was already ruined. Too much damage to the building and elsewhere.

"DIE!" Guure shouted. He then fired a powerful blast of his dark purple energy wave towards them at rapid speed, which caused Shikamaru to freeze, while Ino was completely unaware of her surroundings. Gohan remained frozen in shock, as he recalled how he witnessed many of his friends died, he couldn't let that to happen again! But his body refused to obey him no matter what!

"INO! SHIKAMARU!" cried Choji in alarm.

However, a blue energy wave collided with dark purple wave, causing it to deflect away through an intact building in which it was destroyed immediately, causing the smoke to erupt between Guure and Ino/Shikamaru.

Gohan's eyes were widened, as he looked around only to find very proud Kuririn holding his arm, smirking. "Kuririn-san!" Gohan cried happily.

Kuririn chuckled. "Looks like I have some fight left in me. That means I'm not done yet. Take that, you ugly frog freaky!" As soon as Guure darkened his eyes, Kuririn was taken aback by his expression. 'Shit! I shouldn't say that! He might kill me this time for sure!'

"NO ONE HURT INO AND SHIKAMARU AND GET AWAY WITH IT!" A familiar voice screamed as his rage subdued. That was Choji who already gave in to his rage. He got tired of this shit. He almost witnessed his friends died twice, if it weren't for Gohan and Kuririn saving their life.

Guure turned his head around. "Wha—" His voice trailed off when an enlarged fist punched him in the face by a surprise, knocking him away through several buildings.

But once he got up, his face suddenly met with another brute force of Choji's enlarged fist, bashing him through several more intact buildings. Once more again, he got up and expected it would be another straight punch, but he saw that Choji was not going for a straight punch. Instead, he opened his palm and swung his arm around him, much to his surprise.

With that, a slap of Choji's brute strength had sent him sprawling across the already destroyed building with full of rubbles there.

"Indeed." Guure stood up, unharmed. "Your technique is really powerful. With your brute strength, if you learn your Ki, you could destroy many people easily. You could provide your assistance to Coola-sama if you'd agree to me training you the use of Ki."

"NO! I will not associate myself with the likes of you guys!" Choji shouted angrily, as he began to infuse his chakra inside his entire body.

Gohan and Kuririn were very curious. What was Choji going to do? Shikamaru gritted his teeth, because he had a bad feeling about that. Ino was too busy clutching her head. Paradox's lip twitched into a small smirk.

'Sorry, fat kid. This is the moment where you will die.' Paradox looked around at his partner's expression. It was very deadly expression. 'That's the face when he is ready to kill his opponent. Hehe… You're out of luck, fatty.'

First, Choji tucked his both arms inside, then his legs, and finally his own head inside his own clothes, which turned him into a human-sized ball. "Nikudan Sensha! (Human Bullet Tank)"

Gohan and Kuririn were amazed by Choji's jutsu. But Guure was not impressed by one of his petty technique. "Interesting technique. But a useless one, though. I will show you why."

Shikamaru stared at Guure and wondered why Guure was still calm. Could it be… Suddenly, realization dawned on his face. 'It can't be… Could he be still having his trick up his sleeves? He's definitely ready to kill him right now!'

"Stop it, Choji! He looks ready to kill you!" His desperate scream had failed to reach Choji's ear when he already made his move, rolling over towards Guure. 'Damn it! I forget that his Nikudan Sensha has a side effect. When used, it now negates his ability to see and hear anymore. He can only use his technique when he knows where exactly his opponent was.'

"Indeed." Guure said maliciously. "I am definitely ready to kill you!" His dark aura emitted from his body, as his excitement all just for killing to finish the fight as soon as possible. Screw Paradox's false rule. He's going to finish them all off immediately. He never had a patience for prolong fight anyways. He slowly raised his hand up, waiting for Choji to roll closer to him.

Just before Choji could land a critical hit on him, Guure casually stopped Choji's Nikudan Sensha with just his barehead on the top of Akimichi teenager's head. He grabbed Choji's hair roughly, as his malicious intent showed, which terrified everyone else.

"What?!" cried Shikamaru. He could not believe it. No one could stop Nikudan Sensha with just barehand even once. Surely, there was a flaw in his technique. Dosu already proved that when he fought Choji back in Chuunin Exam. But he never once had seen or heard of someone who managed to stop the Akimichi's Nikudan Sensha!

"As you can see, I managed to stop you. It is interesting technique, but a useless technique if someone were to discover the flaw in that technique. Once you performed that technique, you were left open and defenseless, as you're unable to counterattack. Nothing but constantly rolling around in attempt to wreck your opponent." Guure explained before he made a wicked smirk. "I must say I'm more than itched to kill you right now! You can see I am unable to resist the temptation. Fight is too long, and my patience already have become thinned. Therefore, you shall be my first victim during this battle."

"Choji…" Shikamaru suddenly looked over his back at Ino who softly called out to Choji. He could tell that she had that same feeling as he had. She had gotten worried about Choji right now. "Stop that frog man… before…" She coughed up the blood again, panting heavily before she collected her oxygen again.

"Ino!" Shikamaru cried, beginning to worry how long Ino will have before she would draw out her final breathe. At this rate, she could not be saved. Two of his teammates were going to die soon! He was getting anxious. He could not calculate his own strategy. Guure was too far powerful for their good, even Gohan and Kuririn!

"Shika-kun…" Ino's rasp breathe snapped Shikamaru out of his anxious thought. "Hurry up before it's too late!"

Shikamaru nodded before setting his glare eyes towards Guure that already took grasp of Choji's hair. 'She's right. I can't afford to let myself scared of him. As a ninja, I must defend this village, and I'm going to save my friend!'

He clasped his fingers, and his eyes showed a lot of determination. He clearly remembered how he became friend with Choji. That time when his friends made fun of Choji's fatty, and that he would slow them down because of his fat. Shikamaru came to defend Choji and told his friend to back off. If they wanted to get to Choji, they would have to get through Shikamaru first. Eventually, they gave up and backed off. That's how they became best friends.

He was not going to let Choji die!

He quickly weaved his sign. "Kagemane no Jutsu!" He quickly extended his shadow that crawled towards Guure underneath his feet. He smirked. "Kagemane no Jutsu, succeeded!"

'Now you can ambush him, Kiba!' thought Shikamaru. He glanced at the building far away that had not been destroyed. 'Do it now while you can!'

But Guure's dark chuckle caused him to look back at him. "What a little fool you are. Did you think it'd work on me the third time?"

"What?!" Shikamaru widened his eyes. He remembered he tried it on him two times before and it didn't work before. He clenched his fist and gritted his teeth with anxious. 'Why did I think the third time's a charm? Of course, it will never work on him. Shit!'

Ino widened her eyes, realizing that Choji was going to be killed by the hand of that frog bastard. "Someone… Someone stop him! Shikamaru, do something!" She pleaded Shikamaru to save Choji again.

Shikamaru began to sweat, as he was trembled with anxious, knowing what was going to happen. 'He's too strong! I don't know a way to beat him! I have no strategy! Not with weaklings like us here, at least! Gohan and Kuririn aren't strong enough to be on equal against Guure. Hinata just barely learned the art of Ki, so I don't think she can give him an enough challenge. Only one person we can rely on is Team 7!'

Regretfully, he shut his eyes, as tears started to flow from his eyes. "I'm…" He muttered quietly. "...so sorry…" More of his tears streamed down with all his heart right now. "…Choji."

He had no choice. It was impossible to beat him unless one of Team 7 would be here right now. There was no way to save Choji, as seeing that Guure had Choji in his grasp right now.

"You heard him. He sent you a farewell message, you fatty brat!" Guure laughed manically. "You will see him in the afterlife really soon enough anyways!" Then he pulled Choji's head out that separated from his shoulder, sprouting a load of blood out, as the body collapsed, leaving himself a headless.

Gohan and Kuririn were shocked to witness that Guure would do such a most astonishing cruel murder just like that!

Shikamaru's tears continued to stream down his cheek with his eyes shut. "I'm… so… sorry… There's no way I can stop him. All I can hope is that you will forgive me, Choji!"

Ino yelled, "CHOJI!" Tears quickly ran down her cheeks, already mourning Choji's death, just like that.

Paradox chuckled lightly, not minding the cruel death of Choji. He had no problem with that, but he stared at Guure, almost as if he had a victory in his grasp right now. 'Damn. I would like to fight that fatty too. I see the potential in him, but oh well. At least, Guure is beginning to become unstable the longer the fight drags on right now. You're getting weaker right now, you frog bastard!'

Leaking malicious aura out from Guure's body, with the head of Choji still in his head, he slo wly raised the head up and showed everyone in this battlefield what he was capable of. "I killed him. He was no match for me. I ripped off his head, so you can see how I demonstrate my way of killing to you. That's what I am going to do to you. I'm not about to play game with you. I'm going to get it done quickly." He casually tossed the lifeless head of Choji away, landing nearby traumatized Ino. "I am going to dispose of you all immediately."

"NO! CHOJI!" cried Ino. Once she had gotten upset, her brain was fried for a moment there, causing her to clutch her head in the pain.

Gohan and Kuririn glared at the frog man with their hatred right now.

'If the legend of Dragon Balls are true, according to Sakura. Then I will bring you back to life, Choji, and everyone who had been killed by Coola and his men after this battle! I will make them pay for it!' thought Shikamaru.

"Who shall be next?" chuckled Guure darkly.

"That would be me!" A enraged voice screamed, drawing attention from bystanders and Guure from the distant building. "Gatsuga!" There was twin twisters that propelled themselves towards him.

"No!" Shikamaru widened his eyes so fast as he looked around at the distant building where the enraged voice came from. "STOP, KIBA!" He tried to warn him. Given how powerful Guure was, there was no way for Kiba to beat him!

"I suppose you are next. After all, you were going to ambush me either way." Guure was not surprised. He knew that there was other pipsqueak and a dog hiding in that building. He spotted them long ago since Shikamaru first arrived. He also spotted another guy in the building in the opposite way long ago as well. He could see through their plan, but it would never work anyways. They were too weak for him after all.

Shikamaru noticed the expression on Guure's face. He began to sweat anxiously. 'He knew it all along?'

Both twisters kept passing over around him several times, damaging some concrete, as evident by many holes on the concrete, and later it would kick massive dust every time they passed around him. They made a contact with him few times, but they didn't faze him at all.

It had been going on for about 1 minute, which made Gohan and Kuririn wonder if it worked after all. Shikamaru still doubted that it worked. Guure was rather confident that he would kill off Kiba and Akamaru. 'Hurry up, Hinata! At least you somehow can hold him off for a while until Sakura gets here! Or at least Naruto or Sasuke if it's possible somehow.'

"This will do it." Guure quickly raised his hand, catching one of them and somehow grasped one of them in a strangle. The one he caught was Kiba.

"KIBA!" cried Shikamaru.

Other one twister suddenly stopped, and he landed on the floor. It was Kiba, who cried for his partner. "AKAMARU!"

Indeed, that 'Kiba" quickly puffed into a smoke, and it turned out that it was a full-sized adult large-breed dog with white fur that resembled a Great Pyrenees. All Akamaru could do was whimper in a fear, knowing that he was going to be killed off right away.

Guure stared at the dog who he strangled at this moment. His lip quirked into a dark smirk. "I see. A dog. I am disappointed that I did not catch you pipsqueak first. I suppose this will do." He turned his head to look at stunned Kiba. "Most likely, you will break down once I'm disposed of this annoying dog."

With that said, before Kiba could deliver any words out of his mouth, he snapped the dog's head with a single clench.

"AKAMARU!" cried Kiba. He just couldn't… He did not spend all of his time with his adorable ninken (Ninja dog) just to see him die like that right now! His Akamaru was gifted to him by his Mom and his older sister about three years ago! And Akamaru died too soon. He only wished it would have been him instead of his poor dog. Now his dog died due to his failure of protecting his dog. He should have known better that his dog and he could not take on Guure.

Once he realized he made a foolish move, now it was all of his fault. Because of that, Akamaru died. If he didn't make a foolish move, Akamaru would never have to die!

He slowly sunk to his knees and then he slammed his fists on the ground, with the river of tears running down his cheeks. "DAMMIT! I AM SUCH AN IDIOT!"

Shikamaru grimaced at Kiba's sudden outburst. 'He's blaming himself. I can't blame him though. We were desperate trying to beat him, but all he did was to kill us one by one right now! He's too much for us to handle right now. At this rate…' He looked back at Guure, and his face scrunched into a scowl. 'At this rate, we will be gone before any of Team 7 ever arrives here. As a strategist, I must analyze the depth of his fighting ability. What's his strength? What's his weakness? How can I expose his weakness? We can't do that unless we have another Ki user here. If Hinata gets here, I could get her to team up with Kuririn and Gohan against him.'

He glanced sideway at the battered and bruised Gohan. 'It will take a while for him to recover fully. To be recovered that fast, we would require a healer, or any healing pill if we could. Unfortunately, I don't think soldier pill will work on any Ki user.'

He then looked all the way past Guure at Kuririn who still stood, but looking pretty much damaged. 'He just recovered, but it is not enough. Despite that he's able to fight now, he will run out of his stamina pretty much, given that he's taking too much damage earlier in the fight. We can't afford to lose any more fighter here.'

Shikamaru returned his stare at Guure who still focused intensely at the dead dog. 'If Sakura gets her power returned, I'd like her to be here instead of Hinata. That's only way we can finish Guure off. But I don't mind Hinata either, but it will only make a fight little difficult. How troublesome…'

Gohan was beginning to feel the boil with the rage that resides inside his chest. He wanted to kill him so badly. Like right now. He never thought of killing people before, but the way Guure said was too cruel. Too bad, his body disagreed with him at this moment, as he was still unable to make his next move. He got no choice but to wait patiently for his body to recover. He would like to eat senzu bean right now, so he can make Guure paid for what he had done to Choji and a dog!

Kuririn was not shaking with anger, but in fact, he was shaking with fear. The enemy he was fighting right now was literally killing people left and right without any hesitation! He began to wonder if there's monster like Guure truly existed. Who would have no quarrel about killing people quickly?

With a dark chuckle, Guure tossed the lifeless body of the dog away to his side. "I'm saving it later for my meal. After we wipe out the civilization of the Element, of course." He said that with a hollow voice, and it scared everyone, but Shikamaru and Gohan. They were already shaking with the rage, but at least, Shikamaru could control his emotions. He was waiting for Hinata or Team 7 to arrive very faithfully.

'Anyime… please, I beg you to!' thought Shikamaru.

Guure stared around at all of his enemies. "I already have killed two of you, I believe. That would mean there's six more of you guys."

"Six?! Did you say six?!" Shikamaru asked with a shock. 'So he knew it after all?! That there's Shino lurking around somewhere here?'

"Did I stutter?" Guure replied. "I did say six. There's six of you. There's someone hiding over there…" He looked over at the detected building. "… waiting to ambush me when I would be about to strike a final killing blow. Is that right, bug boy?"

A boy with black sunglasses emerged from the doorway, staring at him through his sunglasses. No one could tell if he was glaring or not. But Shino was rather quiet.

But some like Kiba knew that Shino was bitter and very upset that his teammate's dog had died. He must have figured that there's no way they could beat him, the same way Shikamaru figured out.

Shino replied with his flying insects buzzing around his body, in preparation of relentless attacking his enemy.

Guure chuckled. "It's no use. You could not beat a frog no matter how many insects you are using."

Shino reluctantly sent his insects back into his body where they usually resided in. If there's one thing he learned, Guure was going to kill him either way. If he made his move, Guure would dispose of him immediately. It would not be worth to risky, given the situation here. He saw the whole fight that just happened. Choji and the dog were brutal death he had seen recently.

"6 more of you left…" He slowly turned around at Kiba who had not recovered from the shellshock yet. "It will be five of you left after I deal with this pipsqueak. Then I will wipe every single of you guys."

He put his hand forward at the shocked Kiba, as the energy sphere began to glow from his palm, preparing to kill Kiba very soon. "Just like I told you guys, you will see the fatso pipsqueak and your dog buddy in the afterlife."

As much as Kiba was shellshocked after Akamaru's death, but he knew there was nothing he could do. He was going to die anyways. 'Sorry, Akamaru.' More of tears flowed down his cheeks, starting to sob. 'I can't avenge you. I am going to join you very soon. You were everything to me. I could not bear the pain in my heart, so that's why... I want to see you! All I hope is that you'd forgive me for getting you killed. I should have hidden in that building, then everything would be fine! None of this…" He clenched his fist, allowing his tears to rain down on the ground along with the actual rain. He pounded his fist on the ground where there was a fill of small pound that grew from the rainfall. 'NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!'

"BEGONE!" Guure laughed manically again before firing his powerful energy wave towards the very depression Kiba. None of the fighters could do anything, as they watched in horror at the scene.

'Here it goes!' Paradox smirked, as he spotted the shadow figure leaping in front of the powerfull energy wave, and catching the energy wave with her both bare hands.

"Huh?! There's someone there in front of Kiba!" Gohan yelled, pointing out at the scene.

"What?!" Shikamaru briefly stared at Gohan before whipping his head around, staring in disbelief at the scene. It was true. Someone was in front of the energy wave, trying to protect Kiba from Guure's energy wave! Once he got glimpse of that shadow figure, it now became clear, as her face finally revealed. "Hinata!"

Indeed, the person turned out to be Hinata. Her face grimaced, as she struggled to bounce it back towards Guure. That was her first time to lay a hand on the opposing Ki technique, but she had to figure out a way to stop it, or she and Kiba will both die!

Kiba snapped out of his shellshock and looked up at Hinata in disbelief. "Hinata-chan?! What are you doing?!"

"I am not going to let you kill every single of them, including my boyfriend!" Hinata screamed at Guure. "GET LOST!" Instead of reflecting it back at Guure, she managed to change her approach during that struggle, and pulled it away, swatting it away very far away, zooming all the way over the mountain behind her.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Ino and Kiba were left themselves a speechless when they saw that massive energy of explosion dome expanding too far behind the mountain. They could see that many miles away! It was really large. But were there a people though? They regretfully thanked Coola and his men that they were dead beforehand if in the case. After all, if they were alive, it would be Hinata who killed them. Not Guure.

Hinata diverted her pupils to the back of her eyes, 'Damn! I hope there's not a village over there.' She turned her glare eyes towards Guure, who glared back at her. By just looking at her made her pissed off. He just killed Choji and Akamaru with no remorse!

"So another pipsqueak comes to interfere with our fight. How many more of you guys are going to interfere with our fight? I will kill you now." Guure emitted his dark purple aura from his body, definitely looking ready to kill Hinata immediately. He was beginning to lose all of his patience. He was going to crazy if the fight didn't end already.

Hinata glanced at the headless body of Choji and a corpse of dog with the broken neck, making her boil with the rage even more. "I will make sure that you will live by my wrath hundredfold as you made them by your wrath!

However, Guure's dark chuckle had gotten on Hinata's nerve. "Stop laughing!" His laughter had become more insane and insane. She was going to explode with her temper if he would not stop laughing!

"SHUT UP! STOP LAUGHING!" Hinata demanded angrily, but Guure would not give in to her, which drew her last straw. She almost cried when she learned that Choji and Akamaru died. She was not going to let Kiba die next! If he died, she would break down. But she was not about to let her fragile emotion to come back at her! Therefore, her sorrow had turned into a grudge angry with hatred towards Guure.

"You will have to kill me if you want me to stop laughing!" Guure taunted her. "That's why I want to get the job done. Dispose of them quickly, but the fight have been dragged on too long! LET ME KILL YOU AND BE DONE WITH THIS USELESS FIGHT! I KILL YOUR FRIENDS! I AM SO HAPPY! THAT I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT TO! I AM DONE WITH PARADOX'S BULLSHIT ORDER!"

'Tsk… tsk… He finally snapped. He can't handle the duration of fight. It has been 45 minutes. I bet 5 more minutes he will finally snap.' Paradox thought to himself.

Hinata had an enough of Guure's annoying laugh. "SHUT UP!" She powered up her white aura and propelled herself towards Guure with all her rage. HE WOULD NOT BE FORGIVEN FOR ALL HER FRIENDS HE HAD COLDLY MURDERED!

To be continued…

---

A/N: Uh, oh! Can Hinata take down Guure? How strong is she? Strong as Gohan and Kuririn or weaker than them? And Sakura will arrive in one minute. Can Hinata and her comrades survive against Guure's killing sprees by the time Sakura arrived? Find out next time on Team Z! Also... RIP Choji and Akamaru! :(

Next chapter on Team Z

The continuous of Hinata, Konoha Nine, Kuririn, and Gohan versus Guure

Kakashi vs Fayre

Rock Lee vs Hana (Takeo)

The continuous of Tsunade, Hiruzen Sarotobi and ANBU vs Coola

Bulma's POV

See you on next chapter! :D

P.S you probably noticed that my English grammar is bit of rusty. I need to improve my English grammar again lol