A/N: Hello, everyone! I'm back! It has been 3 months since I updated it. For that, I apologized. I was watching MLB Playoffs all days, and then my cousins stayed at my home for almost a month. I went out of the town few times. By the time I got ready to resume my writing, I had a fever of 101 F. I discovered that I had tested positive for COVID 19 after I went out to take the test. But hey, don't worry! I survived it! At least, it was only a mild symptoms. I'm already recovered since a couple of weeks ago. However, it took some time for me to get ready back to writing. I came back to write my story about 5 days ago.
Anyways, as for this chapter, I did most of the work, but I did not write this chapter alone. I shall give the credit to Divoret (Foremly known as ProNation or VegitoFanfiction) for contributing his part towards my work. He wrote around five thousand words in my story.
Disclaimer: I would like to invite our guest to state his disclaimer for this story. Please welcome our guest, Thedarkpokemaster, to this chapter!
thedarkpokemaster: Yo, it's me thedarkpokemaster I thought I would help my friend Jenny do the disclaimer for this chapter, Jenny doesn't own Dragon Ball or Naruto franchise so don't sue her, please. All she has are her OC's like Paradox and many more.
Jenny: Good, now that you're here, you can change me back to being a male!
thedarkpokemaster: Sorry I can't do that this is too much fun right, Vegeta? (Vegeta says nothing as he crossed his arms over his chest)
Jenny: This is my fanfic, and you won't leave until I've become a guy again, so there, I'm holding you captive until you change me back.
thedarkpokemaster: I don't mind sticking around. I mean, I came back to send Naruko and Sakura home, plus this is my vacation until Coola Arc is over.
Jenny: DAMN YOU, YOU LITTLE RASCAL! (Started harrassing Thedarkpokemaster about turning him back into the male)
Clone Jerry (Slowly closing the curtain): Don't mind them, just enjoying your reading!
Vegeta: Tch...
Chapter 125: Fayre vs Coola
Age 763, December 1- Destroyed Hokage's Mansion, Konohagakure, Land of Fire, Element- Fayre and Kakashi vs Coola
Fayre walked on way to face Coola alone for a long await one-on-one battle between them in any moment. A little smile transformed into the scowl really fast, especially with a huge amount of hatred over the overlord tyrant in front of him. "Let's get over with it, shall we?"
Coola kept his arms folded and made a snicker a little bit. "Care to inquire me about your little strategy? I'm very curious about how that will work out?"
While keeping his eyes filled with hatred towards Coola, Fayre picked up a couple of syringes inside his pockets. "It has been so long time that I have every plan to overthrow you since you abducted me into your spaceship and took me off this planet. This moment is where I take all my revenge on you, not because you took me off the planet, but because you made me do all horrible things that I would never do that on Element! Your attempt to create an inhumane monster out of me had failed to do so, because I will never throw all of my morale value! Unless being forced by you, I will never stoop so low to the level the likes of you and your goons!"
He raised his hands with the syringe in each of them. "For the sake of my brother… for the sake of Rin… for the sake of Kakashi…" That comment just caught Kakashi off-guard. He never thought that Fayre would say it something like that. For decades, Fayre always have hated Kakashi even long before Obito was killed. It seemed like Fayre's perspective of Kakashi had changed somehow. "…for the sake of Konoha… and for the sake of Element… for the sake of all people that you have forced me to slaughter so mercilessly… and for the sake of the universe… I will do my utmost best to stop you and… also for the sake of my revenge and me…"
Fayre gritted his teeth and scrunched his face into a very furious with pure hatred eyes, glaring towards his most hated enemy of all time, Coola, before he stabbed his syringes into his own arms. As soon as he stick them into his own arms, his aura suddenly spiked up, causing the wind to bellow over the stunned Kakashi, who was forced to pull his arms up and tried his best to stay firmly on the ground.
However, Coola remained unfazed, as the unleashed aura continued to grow bigger and bigger that surrounded Fayre. A sudden power-up even formed the crater beneath him. The fragile of all destroyed building nearby began to float up. Even all corpses nearby, like Tsunade and Hirzuen's body, were thrown in the mix with them.
The dark blue liquid inside the syringe seemed to be sucked into the body of Fayre. The Sharingan eyes glowed from his eyes. The rocks from the ground levitated around him.
Kakashi had to bring his hands to his eyes, while focusing on using his Chakra as much as he could to not get thrown away, but he was baffled to witness such an event. 'What kind of power is that from those syringes?!'
The blue liquid from a couple of syringes had not been finished, but while still powering up, Fayre spoke most powerful four words so much that terrified even Kakashi. "…I WILL KILL YOU!"
As Fayre continued to power up through a couple of syringes that stuck into their arms, Coola was never fazed at all, as if he were not surprised by the sudden power up. Coola raised his hand to cover his snicker. "These syringes are the produce of the Ki, aren't they? I must say I applaud you for able to produce these stuffs right under my nose."
"Unfortunately…" Coola brought his hand down. "…if you are expecting to catch me off guard with that hidden Ki powers of yours, then you're mistaken for thinking that. In fact, I always knew that you're building up your Ki at a rapid rate, given your Elementian traits, and in order to have your Ki hidden from me, you stored your Ki into several syringes for decades while hoping to build up enough Ki in order to beat me. It is also the fact that you found a way to exploit your Elementian traits. I already know all about you."
"Shut up." After all the syringes were injected into Fayre's body, a dark blue aura with traces of electricity all around it abruptly formed, causing debris to slowly rise into the air. The sheer pressure of Fayre's powerup caused a shockwave that formed a small crater below him, his feet touching the bottom of the damage ground. "YOU'RE GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THE INNOCENT PEOPLE YOU HAVE KILLED!"
That explosion successfully knocked away Kakashi, as he desperately attempted to stay on the ground firmly, but it eventually failed. Before Kakashi could sail away, he managed to land on one of intact building's wall and used the chakra to stand on the wall, as he stared at Fayre with widened eyes. 'W-What is this? I have never felt power from Fayre like this before…!'
He had been feeling his comrade's power level rise higher and higher ever since he had injected himself with the Ki syringes. Kakashi quickly snapped back to reality and gave himself a mental reminder about how he had to stick with the plan and not get distracted. "Fayre…" he said softly.
Fayre's aura still flowed around his body, but it just transformed the color from white into blue, as his glare still intensified towards Coola. "You're not the only who knows everything about me."
Coola smirked, his eyes squinted a little. "Oh?"
"When you forced me to leave the planet with you, I've been snooping around the spaceship and learned a lot of things about you." Fayre explained. "It was no coincidence that you picked me out of all people on this planet, not because I just happened to be there at wrong time, wrong place, but because you knew more about me. After all these decades of serving under you, I've pieced puzzles together and realized your intention of this planet.
"First thing I noticed several months after you took me to the spaceship, I learned about the Elementian traits by overhearing the conversation between you and Freeza. What I was surprised is that I could easily surpassed you in several years if I had learned to adapt to Ki. At that moment, I have begun utilizing my long-term strategy. But in order to accommodate with my strategy, I must create the syringe to store my Ki inside first, so you would not notice the presence of my uncontrollable Ki.
"Before I have attempted to train myself with the usage of the Ki, I have struggled to discover a vast space of lands to train myself, simply because I cannot be trusted, and therefore; I must be supervised by you or any one of your soldiers at all time. Because I found that it was impossible to train myself without being seen by you, I was ready to fold and probably started considering the Plan B, but Paradox had offered to train me somewhere in a secret without you or any soldiers knowing. However, upon offering me the training, I immediately marked Paradox as very suspicious guy for a long time. I thought it was strange that he was suddenly friendly to me after all these years of disliking people, including me. That is how I realized that you had assigned Paradox to train me. That was the second thing I noticed about you.
"As for third, just few days ago, I fought Uchiha Itachi until the death, and when I was at near death, I have learned that my Mother had been sealed inside me since I was a baby. What's more the fact that my Mother is a Saiyan!"
Kakashi stood frozen and widened his eyes at the last sentence in Fayre's comment. 'He is a part of Saiyan? I've heard a story about a female alien that crashed at the outskirt of the Konohagakure, and she threatened to destroy the Konoha because they feared her. The story that I thought was just a myth.' He took a brief glance at Fayre. 'Even I had heard about a child that the alien gave a birth to, but the family remained unknown for a reason. Probably to prevent angry mobs from committing a hefty crime against the child. But I never expected the child of an alien we had been hearing in the story turned out to be Uchiha Fayre!'
"That revelation was the final puzzle that I have been looking for fifteen years since that day." Fayre continued. He raised his open palm and stared at it. "Often, I always wondered why I was handpicked out of all people here. I've often asked myself a question. 'Why me? Why not other? Was I just there at wrong place, wrong time that Coola just happened to find me there? What if it was not me, and someone takes my place?' After that incident, I always regretted for disobeying the Hokage's order even when I thought the choice I made was the right one."
Check-In Station- Television Room- With Minato, Kushina, and Rin
Minato, Kushina, and Rin watched in silent, as Fayre began his explanation on about how much he regretted most of his actions through his whole childhood. Her heart wounded for Fayre that expressed a powerful narrative of his trauma experience.
*But once I learned of my true heritage, every single feeling I had about making a choice under your tyrant leadership was discarded and instead realized that every choice I made was the correct choice. Because knowing that I disobeyed your order would only result in the death of the Element. By disobeying your order, I'd only put my fellow Elementians in danger. To protect them, I've decided to become a cold-hearted fighter. There was not a single guilt I had after doing a dirty bid for your command. But now I learned of my heritage, I had completed the puzzle as to why I was picked.* There was a tear running down from Fayre's eyes, but he held his head up and tried to stay strong.
Rin smiled with a kind. "You're always the crybaby, but you will be always a strong ninja. That's the kind of man you are. You're strong. Like your brother…" She was sorrow when she mentioned his brother, because she only wished that Obito died instead, so that way she could convince him to give up on his foolish plan.
Destroyed Hokage's Mansion, Konohagakure, Land of Fire, Element- Fayre and Kakashi vs Coola
The body shook, as Fayre attempted to contain the rage inside his body, and allowed tears flowing from his eyes. "It was not because I was just there at wrong time, wrong place, but it was because I was your target the whole time! I can only imagine that if I chose to stay instead of running away, you would have come in search for me and killed other Konoha-nin in the process, just for the sake of abducting me! You wanted ME because I'm the half Saiyan! The idea of the Elementian and the Saiyan co-existing together probably made you tremble in fear, because that made them more dangerous than just individual species alone!"
Fayre pointed his finger at Coola, as the latter smirked, seemed to be proud of what he had done. "The hybrid Saiyan can possessed a high power than a full-blooded Saiyan! That brat, Gohan, is the proof of it! If the hybrid of Saiyan and Earthling is capable of being a high power level, then just think about what the hybrid of Saiyan and Elementian would do!"
Coola had remained silent, as he enjoyed listening to Fayre's rant and simply chuckled.
Hearing the Frostian laugh made Fayre lost his temper, his aura spiked and caused the ground to shake, as the building that Kakashi stood collapsed because of it, and the silver-haired shinobi had to land on the ground. "I've harbored my hatred and my rage towards you for fifteen years, but I've so fed up with you right now! Your day of reigning over planets is over! You can join your brother in the afterlife very shortly. Take your ridiculous brotherly squabble to the hell for all you want to!"
Coola found this very amusing. He asked his opponent with a simple three words. "Are you done?" Fayre's frozen in place was what Coola expected to get the reaction out of him with such simple words. To think a mere sentence could trigger someone like him. Then again, only someone with a high emotion like him could be over-sensitivity.
"Yeah…" Fayre seethed with vengeance and rage, as he stared at Coola with bloodshot eyes. "I AM DONE! YOU WILL REGRET ALLOWING ME TO TRAIN WITH THE KI! I WILL KILL YOU!"
With a sudden spike of his aura, he took off after Coola and formed the crater that he left behind, much to Kakashi's amazement. The half-masked shinobi had to shield his eyes from the dust that just kicked up. 'Incredible! He's beyond the power than I could imagine out of him!'
"AHHH!" Fayre screamed. It seemed that Coola could not see the flash speed of Fayre when he threw a haymaker right on the jaws, knocking the Frostian away. Before Coola could have a chance to put a full stop to the knockback, the hybrid Saiyan teleported above him and knocked him down, smashing onto the ground with a kick, and then he landed on the ground by the tail and grabbed it before jumping and dragging it along with him, then he used his strength to pull it and slammed Coola down on the ground harder, which formed another crater.
"Fayre's much faster than last time! I couldn't even see a blur of his movements!" Kakashi thought to himself in shock, as he stared forward at the fight scene that was unfolding.
He recalled that he fought Fayre earlier, and the power that Fayre possessed earlier was so different from what he saw right now. He began to wonder if a couple of syringes could boost his Ki level at an insane rapid rate. It had to do with how much chakra he had at the time before he began absorbing his own Ki, or at least according to Sakura.
But still, it was too early to celebrate that Fayre might beat him, because it seemed to him that Coola might be toying around with Fayre. Just in case, he should figure out how to use Mangekyo Sharingan.
Fayre was not done, as he then whirled the tail around and tossed Coola up into the sky. Coola spun around through the sky until he successfully managed to stop the spun, as his body faced the sky upward and saw his opponent who appeared above him with the Ki already charging up in his right hand.
"DIE!" Fayre screamed, as he thrust his right hand towards Coola at a close-range with a full power energy wave.
"WHAT?!" cried Coola. The full power energy wave collided onto his body, blasting him towards the ground, and as soon as it hit the ground, it caused a massive explosion.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
Fayre watched the dome of explosion from the above, but he seemed to be dissatisfied and uneasy. He carefully analyzed inside the dome of explosion with his Sharingan eyes. Even though his eyes were no Byakugan, but he could catch the shadow figure that probably twitched. His hunch was correct, as he caught the sudden movement of the shadow figure.
"I SEE YOU!" Fayre screamed. He drew his palm to each of his side, as he gathered the energy that flowed from his body into each of his hand. Once all the energy he needed to gather, he immediately unleashed a barrage of energy wave, feeding the explosion that increased the size of the dome every time the energy wave added to the layer of the explosion.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
His hatred just burned inside his chest so fiery. He HATED Coola so much. He absolutely hated Coola so much that he wanted to see his opponent ripped to shred. It was shown that how much he hated Coola really spoke for itself when he continued to fire a barrage of energy wave insanely.
For the first time in his life, Kakashi felt fear. In any other situation, he always had shown to be a fearless shinobi, considering that he had been went through all trauma experience and fought in many battles and survived them all. It became a second nature to him… until this event. He never thought that he was going to witness a multiple explosion. That was when he realized that a single mistake move could have killed him. He decided to move several feet away from the fight to avoid getting caught up in the crosshair.
The explosion became too bright that Kakashi was forced to shield his eyes. He never expected Fayre to explode with a rage right off the bat as the fight barely started.
Even in the enraged mode, Fayre knew that Coola was still alive, but he refused to finish his attack until he sees that Coola is dead. He refused to calm down until then. Nothing could get in his way of getting his revenge against Coola!
"I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" Each energy wave was thrown to add itself into the explosion, it got stronger every time. The radius of explosion would grow bigger and bigger, and the wind had gotten stronger and stronger as well.
Boom! BOOM! BOOOOOM! BOOOOOOOM! BOOOOOOOOOM!
Kakashi felt the presence of wind that suddenly pressured him and gradually pushed him away, but the copy-cat ninja tried his best to glue his chakra on the sole of his sandals and made sure to stay on the ground without getting knocked away.
A stack of hatred that he felt towards Coola for fifteen years finally let out of his chest for the first time in his life, and it had not emptied out yet.
Flashback Began- Age 748, October 11- Destroyed Building, Unknown Planet Somewhere
"Kill her…" Coola whispered to young Fayre, as they stood beside the dying woman. But Fayre was so scared because he never killed an innocent civilian in his life before. His hands shook so hard, as he held the kunai, fighting himself whether he should kill an innocent civilian or not.
A dying woman that had a blood all over her body stared into his Sharingan eyes with a panicked face and raised her weak hand, flowing with tears from her eyes. "Please… Please… spare me…I-I-I'm… p-p-p…"
"Prove me your loyalty…" A sinister voice of Coola whispered into his ear. "…unless you wanted me to eradicate the Element?"
Fayre was so ready to cry, but he remembered the quote that his brother frequently told him to not cry and tough it up. He decided to follow Obito's advice, and his expression quickly changed from the cry to tough. 'I have to do it for the Element!'
As much as he hated to do this, he immediately plunged the kunai into the dying woman's neck, but before he killed her, he noticed that the woman desperately covered her belly for whatever reason. The guilt immediately hit him, realizing that this woman was pregnant. Instead of taking out a life from a single person, he literally TOOK a life from the couple of life forms. This monster… this monster… just asked him to kill the pregnant woman. 'How could he…?!'
Coola congratulated him for able to muster up the courage and slaughtered the woman like he was asked to. That was just the beginning of his hatred towards Coola.
Flashback Ended
'Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!' Fayre expelled most of his hatred into his energy wave and kept unleashing them towards the explosion repeatedly.
BOOOOOM! BOOOOOM! BOOOOOOM!
Since that day, he was ruled with a fear everyday that if he did not do what he was commanded to, Coola would threat to destroy his homeworld. Everyday, he was forced to kill a million of innocent civilian, because that was the only people that he could handle, considering that a civilian people usually had a low power level, where they could not even handle any level of Elementian, let alone an academy student level.
For fifteen years, he created a new goal—no, a new ambition: To kill Coola. He would sleep in his bed, and then he would dream of killing Coola every day. All he had on his mind was to kill Coola… and nothing else. He waited and waited for that day to come and that was to kill Coola.
Today was the day he would finally kill Coola. No one better interfered with his ambition.
Fayre screamed, as he raised his hands up and created a large energy of sphere that hovered above his hands. Then he hurled it down towards the explosion. "BURN IN HELL!"
BOOOOOOOOOM!
Just when Kakashi thought that Fayre was done with the attack, but he was not. He charged up an energy sphere in each of his hand, and then threw them down, adding to remaining explosion and caused a massive explosion.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Kakashi stared in disbelief at the recent event, as the explosion dissolved, which turned into the massive dust. 'This guy… His Ki must have soaring so high at the point of his rage enough to knock a powerful opponent around.'
The fight may have started just a moment ago. However, Fayre already ran out of breath after using up so much of his Ki in order to kill Coola off, and panted heavily.
His lips sported a smirk and stared down at the dust in a gloating manner. "Heh… How's that? Have I told you that I already have surpassed you now? I'm sure you already regretted that you just allowed me to train with the Ki!"
In a blink of an eye, not even with the aid of Sharingan eyes, he could never saw it coming, as he received a powerful punch right into the guts, as he doubled over and coughed up the blood. His pupils quickly turned white and dilatated violently for a moment.
"Fayre!" cried Kakashi.
Coola's head inclined towards Fayre's ear and chuckled, "Is that all you got? If that is the extent of your power, then you have greatly disappointed me."
Gritting his teeth in the pain, Fayre diverted his pupil to the corner of his eyes towards an enemy. "Damn you!"
Coola smashed his elbow onto the side of the head, sent Fayre down and smashed onto the ground next to Kakashi.
That elbow smash just busted open on Fayre's forehead, and allowed blood to run down from his forehead already. He looked up at the Frostian and scowled. "Damn it!" To think that he became overconfidence, only to be shot down. 'Was it not enough to surpass him, after all? Even when the fight just started, the first blood was drawn already!'
"Are you all right?" Kakashi asked, genuinely concerned about his old friend's health. Anytime there was a blood right off the bat during the fight, it usually was never a good thing.
"I am fine." Fayre kept his glare on Coola the entire time with a scowl. "I will manage it though. Only the issue is how we will deal with this cold-hearted monster bastard!"
Coola crossed his arms and smirked, as he descended towards the ground. "Again, I am disappointed in you, Fayre. If only you had peacefully submitted to me forever, you would not have to experience this horror now. I am a man of my words and I kept my promise to you even until now. I would not have lay a hand on this planet, as long as you honored our bargain on your end. But as seeing that you have so defied me openly, then the deal is officially off."
"Shut up!" Fayre scowled, as he got up to his feet. His forehead seemed to be healed, which both Kakashi and Coola noted. Kakashi seemed to be surprise how quick Fayre recovered from that damage, while Coola was not surprised at all. "Whether if you are a man of your words or not, it remains the same! The thing is, this planet is not the only one I cared about! What I'm afraid is that you're going to terrorize every planet and subjugate them! There is a billion of innocent lives on our bloods! If I won't stop you, there will be more than just a billion! Thankfully, we have one less to deal with it, thanks to a Saiyan! You will follow him!"
"I see." Coola puts his finger on his lips with a snicker. "Then it will be interesting to find out what kind of strategy you both came up with."
Hokage District (Wasteland)- Sasuke vs Neizu
Sasuke was not expecting another sudden punch in the face. His opponent, Neizu, was simply ruthless. The Uchiha's vision was emblazoned with redness, as he felt streaks of blood flowing down from his mouth. Wiping the blood from his mouth, he gritted his teeth in irritation. "What the hell…?!"
Neizu, whose fist was still forward in the air, had a smug look on his face. Folding his arms after and closing his eyes, he smirked at Sasuke. "That's right…" As soon as he quickly wide open his eyes, he vanished out of thin air. Before Sasuke even realized what was going on, the frog-man already had his fist into Sasuke's guts, and ended up causing Sasuke to spew bloods out of his mouth. "I'm at 100% speed! I am surprised however, that you were able to make me use 100% of my speed… I honestly did not expect an Uchiha like you to be a little bothersome…"
Dore cackled, "Oh, Neizu. Maybe you should quit playing around and finish him off. After all, you don't want to make the same mistake as Paradox did."
Neizu scoffed, while still keeping his eyes on his opponent. "True, but at the same time, I can't be impatient like Guure. There has to be a balance. After all, patience is a virtue, and the right amount of patience is what I aim for."
Sauza smirked and folded his arms. "Smart. Very well said, Neizu."
As Neizu laughed with evil intentions, Sasuke placed his hand gently on his stomach and panted heavily. "They're strong, but I need to stall them for a bit longer…"
Sasuke quickly grabbed a kunai from his right holster and threw it at Neizu.
"Huh?" said the baffled Neizu, as he noticed a kunai heading towards him at incredible speed. However, he easily caught it with two fingers. "What kind of joke is this? Puny toy knives like these aren't going to hurt me."
That's when he suddenly noticed that Sasuke wasn't in front of him anymore. 'Wait, what?'
Suddenly, Sasuke apperead behind Neizu, and delivered a spinning round house kick. However, Neizu immediately snapped back to reality, and quickly blocked the attack with the back side of his wrist without even turning around. "Good strategy… You actually managed to distract me there! However…"
Neizu swiftly spun around and delivered a terrifying elbow smash onto Sasuke's chest, followed by a spinning right heel kick that upon connection, sent the Uchiha staggering a few feet backwards. He, however, decided to continue his series of attacks and executed a barraged of punches and kicks onto different parts of Sasuke's body, including his legs, hands, chest, stomach, and more.
The fist rammed the bottom chin, sending Sasuke rocketing through the partly clouds upward at a tremendous speed. It was like a blink of eyes and all of the sudden, he was already above the cloud. How fast did Neizu just send Sasuke there?
Sasuke tried to spin around to stop a high-speed knockaback, but he was unable to, because he felt the tingle of the pain on top of his head. He was not sure what just caused it, but next thing he knew, he found a vision of the ground that suddenly became even closer. When was he being sent down? He could not see Neizu at all, and he didn't even know that Neizu knocked him down at all!
He had no time to think about what next move he should made. If he was not going to do anything to prevent himself from being smashed onto the ground, he probably was going to die. "Ka…me…ha…me…" Sasuke chanted one of signatures that Kame students inherited from, as he cupped his hands to his side and then formed an energy of small blue sphere. Although it may be small, but it should be enough to stop himself from the ridiculous knockback. It was better than nothing after all.
"…HA!" He screamed the name of his upcoming technique, as he thrust his cupped hands forward at the ground, as it released a streaming, powerful blue beam of energy and fired it at the ground to propel himself through the air.
As soon as he managed to propel himself from the ground into the sky with the quick Kamehameha launch, Neizu immediately strike down his back with the Double Ax Handle.
"Argh!" Sasuke screamed, as he felt a great damage inflicted upon his back. Before the momentum could carry him being sent down to the ground, his stomach immediately got smashed by the knee, and then he got slapped in the face by the boot, sending him across the sky.
Sasuke opened his eyes only to find Neizu above him. The frog-man dropped in and slammed his both boot into the avenger's stomach, but not only that he knocked him down towards the ground, but he kept his boot on his opponent's stomach along on way to the ground.
While both combatants were dropping down towards the ground, Neizu folded his arms and stared down at Sasuke, who struggled to break free of feet that stick to his stomach like a glue, and smirked. "What happened to the spirit you had a moment ago? Was my sudden increase of speed a simply overwhelm for you? Shall I lower it to make it easy for you, then?"
"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu! (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)" Sasuke yelled.
In about a millisecond, Sasuke quickly weaved ninjutsu, and the fireball immediately expelled out of his mouth that aimed towards the head of Neizu, whom was caught surprised, but he had enough reaction time to pull his head into his body, barely dodging the great fireball.
"What?!" cried Sasuke.
Neizu stuck his head out again and smirked down at Sasuke. "You almost got me there, but too bad…" Once the fireball exited the atmosphere of the Element, it immediately exploded.
BOOOM!
"Your attack is still too slow!" Neizu finished, as he bashed his double kick onto Sasuke's stomach against the ground, forming the crater, before jumping out of the crater and landing besides the crater, folding his arms and smirked in a premature victory. "I'm above you all. No way you can land a single touch on me anymore, especially when I'm at a full speed."
"Sasuke!" cried Sakura. She gritted her teeth and clenched her fists, as they were shaking in fear. She was afraid that Sasuke was going to die if she was not going to interfere.
Neizu arched his lips into a grin. "Hmm? You still can move, huh?" He noticed Sasuke that crawled out of the crater on the other side, the opposite side from where Neizu stood on.
Once Sasuke reached the surface, he started to feel woozy and his whole body started to tremble. He felt like he was going to pass out at any time soon, but he knew that he could not afford to knock out soon. He felt the sharp tingle inside his stomach, and it clenched so hard, which caused him to clasp his stomach in the pain. He had to rest his forehead on the ground.
'Damn it!' Sasuke cursed in a silent, as his breathe became ragged heavily. It was almost as if the room spun in his head. That double kick into the stomach nearly took the life out of his body, but luckily, he managed it somehow. He spotted the blood that was dripped onto the ground. It must have come from his own forehead, he realized. It was bleeding the whole time since the fight started. 'He's too fast. Not even with my Sharingan. It can't track even any of his movement any longer. What am I supposed to do now?'
The spectaculars could not even begin to describe what they were witnessing the one-sided beating of the Neiz on Sasuke. They feared that if they do not plan to intervene, Sasuke was more likely to die sooner than later.
"S-Sasuke!" Sakura cried out, as she could only watch the fight scene in horror.
"We must help Sasuke! He's in danger!" Gohan gritted his teeth, infuriated with Neizu.
As Sasuke struggled to gasp for breath and get his focus back on, as his eyes still blurred out, before he even realized what was going on, he felt the boot that punted him in the stomach, forcing him to roll away to his back. Then the boot stomped on his throat, and kept still on his throat, as he began to choke and struggled to remove the boot from his throat.
Neizu immediately applied more pressure on his opponent's throat, but the longer his boot stayed on his throat, the more pressure he would have applied. "What's the matter, you little runt?! What happened to all the confidence you got earlier when you successfully made some evasion off my several attacks? Thanks to that special eyes of yours, you only had a spur for a moment. But in the end, I will always be the fastest than you."
Sasuke shut one of his eye down, as he shot up a glare at Neizu and could barely form a sentence, as his voice started to become hoarse. "Shuuut…uuuppp!"
He had managed to push the foot off his throat, and attempted to jump on him.
However, Neizu took a swift right hook onto Sasuke's cheek, knocking him off his feet and onto the ground a few feet away. His body collapsed on the ground like a pile of bricks. However, even after all that beatings and noticed that his teammate and his Earthling friend considered helping him out, he struggled to get back on his feet, and quickly shot a glare at Gohan and Kuririn. "I said STAY OUT OF MY WAY!"
Kuririn freaked out at Sasuke's outburst, while Gohan remained bold and gritted his teeth in anger. "But, Sasuke—"
"Don't take your eyes off your opponent, fool!" Neizu rammed his foot onto Sasuke's stomach, knocking the Uchiha few feet into the air before falling five yards away onto the ground.
Sasuke's lungs rattled like a box of rocks. He tried to catch his breath, as he found himself on the ground, with only mimimal strength left to pick himself up.
Neizu snickered and placed his fists on his hips. "Fool! Aren't you ninjas known for always being alert in a battle? If you claim yourself to be an Uchiha ninja, then why did you take your eyes off your opponent? Clearly, you self-proclaimed ninjas lack basic knowledge a ninja should be possessing in the first place!" he laughed in mockery after finishing his sentence.
Sasuke struggled to get back on one knee, and glared at Neizu. 'That bastard… It's no use… my Sharingan isn't able to keep a track of him anymore… Damn it…"
Neizu strode over to Sasuke and suddenly placed his hand forward at his opponent's face. "Why don't you have a taste of my power before your death? Eat this!"
Before Sasuke could react, a Ki ball formed over Neizu's palm. The Uchiha was too injured to get out of the way, as Neizu laughed menacingly, and fired the Ki blast point blank at his opponent.
BOOOOOOM!
A cloud of dust and smoke formed from the explosion, creating a small crater beneath the two fighters. The Ki blast had hit Sasuke, and had also shot its way to the yonder, damaging the ground below it and leaving trails of long horizontal holes.
"S-Sasuke!" Sakura cried, tears forming in her eyes.
"Oh, god!" Kuririn widened his eyes in shock, his body trembling at the sight of the destructiveness. "Sasuke!"
Shikamaru could only watch the whole scene in shock, as Hinata's mouth fell down a bit. The Hyuuga princess lips pursed, a shiver went down her spine. She could not believe what she had just witnessed. "Is Sasuke… dead…?"
The cloud of smoke began to clear up, revealing Neizu unfazed and unharmed, while Sasuke was back first on the ground, heavily injured. Parts of his clothing were torn, and blood was tricking down from his mouth and left arm. The Uchiha groaned in pain, and took deep breaths.
Neizu laughed manically. "That was only a taste of my power! Now that you have tasted it, I think it's time for you to die for real!"
"That's enough!" a voice suddenly shouted.
Neizu heard the sudden outburst of a voice. "Huh?!" He quickly whirled his head around only to feel a sharp pain on his right cheek, and found himself being hurled towards a nearby rocky boulder, crashing onto it.
Sasuke coughed out a bit of blood and looked at who just had just saved him. Upon seeing the son of Goku, he tried to warn, "Gohan, what are you doing? Get out of the way!"
Gohan displayed a serious look on his face and looked at Sasuke with a sigh. "Sasuke… Stop being arrogant and stubborn. If we don't team up, we won't have a chance of beating them!"
Neizu emerged from the ground and scoffed in irritation. "Why, you…. Out of the way, brat!"
Sauza stared at Gohan with a surprised look on his face. "Interesting…. It was only for a brief moment, but that kid's power level suddenly raised for a brief second before dropping down again… What's going on?"
Kuririn walked towards Sasuke and nodded, "I agreed with Gohan. Are chances dealing with them one on one is too low… probably even non-existent. We should really team up if we want to have a chance of beating them."
"Shut up, and get out of the way. Or you'll both die." Sasuke said bluntly, abruptly trying to stand up, but immediately collapsed on his butt due to the pain he felt and the strength he had lost from his battled with Neizu.
Footsteps were heard, as Sakura entered the scene and placed his hands on Sasuke's shoulder, confusing the Uchiha who looked upwards at her face.
"Why….?" Sasuke could only ask in a single word. He felt too weak to sit up right now, so all he could wait for Sakura to reply.
"I warned you. I can only heal a little, but if you're damaged too much, you won't be recovered fully." Sakura replied with a frown. "I am not going to let you die again, just like what happened back on the Namek."
Sasuke recalled the day how he died back on the Namek against Freeza…
Flashback Began
Freeza chuckled, "I'll show you Hell!" as he suddenly flew up at Sasuke to impale him in the chest with one of his horns.
While Freeza's horn was impaling Sasuke in the chest, the young avenger's chest began to leak out the blood. He lost a lot of blood. He felt great pain in his chest. His face turned into a blue pale. Freeza began to smirk as hie licked Sasuke's blood on his own face.
Freeza was only merely smirking as he pushed one of his horns more into Sasuke's chest, making his suffer the pain even more!
Sasuke began to lose more blood from his body caused by Freeza's horn impaling into his chest. Freeza chuckled, "Oh, my fault, my fault. It seems I have too much power, and can't control myself all that well." He pushed his horn into Sasuke more. Sasuke screamed in pain.
Freeza continued to penetrate his horn into Sasuke's chest up and down, and chuckled, "How does that feel?"
'Shit…. I am going to die at this rate! Dammit! I cannot die…" Sasuke began to lose consciousness.
Freeza stopped penetrate through unconscious Sasuke's chest and chuckled, "So you've finally snuffed it, then?" Finally, he threw Sasuke off his horn to the ground.
Sakura cried, "Sasuke!"
While Sasuke was falling down toward the ground, Freeza gathered pink energy in his hand and thrust it forward to fire a large energy wave at Sasuke, blasting through his chest. Sasuke coughed up a lot of blood and fell down to the ground harder.
Flashback Ended
Sasuke began to feel better when Sakura was healing him at this moment. Now he could finally form a sentence. "I am not planning to die this time around."
"Good. I'm not planning to let you die again this time as well," agreed Sakura. Then she added more. "I realized that you planned to fight him one on one, because you knew that we would only hasten our death if we work together against him. By fighting him one on one, you figured that we might stall until we get some help arrives. But it is not going to work. NO ONE here wants you to die again. We need to work together, so we can protect each other. If you work alone, we cannot protect you."
Sakura hesitated for some explanation, and then she decided to use some words to reason with Sasuke furthermore. "Sasuke… Just minutes ago, you told me that everyone here is dying for the sake of protecting our planet. Do you really want to die here, and let everyone's deaths be in vain?"
Sasuke snapped back. "If we team up, we will end up going down quicker!"
Sakura shook her head and said sternly, "And that's where you're wrong. It was only a few minutes ago, but when you told me to stop being selfish, I understood what you meant." Her gaze dropped onto the ground below her feet. "Now is not the time to be selfish or worry about revenge, or fuel our egos. It will only be our downfall and our incompetence. For the sake of the planet, and for the sake of avenging everyone who died protecting this planet, we must work together, and defeat Coola and his men, even if it costs our lives!"
Sasuke was silent for a moment before he sighed, as he got up after Sakura completed healing him. As small as her healing may be, it is significant to his recovery in every possible way. He still had some damages on his body, but he can manage it. "Whatever you want to do, I don't care." Sakura smiled in a silence.
From a distance away, Dore stood next to Sauza, as he sighed. "What should we do? They're interfering one-on-one fight. Should we do the same?"
"No." Sauza quickly answered. "Neizu already stated that it did not matter to him if someone interfere with his fight or not, he can take them on by himself."
"So he can take all of our fun away for himself? That's just ruining our fun!" Dore roared, as he punched his palm out of frustration. "I want to rip these runts apart myself!"
"Rest assured. We will have plenty of toys for us later. Even Paradox can be your personal toy if you want to. After his failure, Coola probably has no use for him anymore." Sauza pointed out on the last two sentences, which made Dora grin even more.
"I like the sound of that, Sauza!" Dore said excitedly. He began to pump up for the idea of having Paradox as his personal toy.
Neizu chuckled in annoyance when he learned that Sakura, Kuririn, and Gohan now joined in the fight. "So you little runts have decided you want to help Sasuke out? Not to mention you're even weaker than the runt I just fought, and that's laughable! I could easily squash you all like a cockroach if I want to!"
Gohan stepped forward. "You may think lowly of us, but we're not that weakling. We are not going to give up, and we will fight and fight, even if we are going to die!"
"He's right!" Kuririn added, as he stepped forward. "If we run away from the fight, that will make us a coward even more than you are!"
Neizu scoffed. "I wonder how you can do that, considering I'm the fastest than all of you combined!"
Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Fayre vs Coola
"I'm impressed with the result of your training with Ki." Coola praised Fayre, whose was still too infuriated with his enemy. He lifted his index finger up with a smug smirk on his face. "Although, you still haven't reached even 1% of my current form's power."
"What?!" scowled Fayre. Kakashi widened his eyes in shock, but Fayre remained unfazed because he did not believe all nonsense lies that was told by Coola. "You're just trying to make me submit my fear onto you."
"In that case, why not you test your full power on me and find out whether it was all lies or not." Coola said. "At least you will get to experience the wrath of my power firsthand."
The Uchiha suddenly charged towards Coola by leaping from his current position towards the enemy in an instant and delivered a swift right hook. However, Coola seemed unfazed and caught the incoming attack with his hand. The impact of the punch, however, caused a circular shockwave that waved from the spot of attack to multiple directions, breaking nearby rocky boulders. Kakashi placed his arms forward in a cross to block some of the shockwave that had headed his direction. "W-What?!"
"Damn it!" Fayre gritted his teeth in anger, his fist still being caught by Coola.
Coola smirked while holding Fayre's fist. "That was only the demonstrate of the portion of my power just now."
"SHUT UP!" Fayre shouted, and quickly disappeared, before reappearing behind Coola, delivering a ferocious roundhouse kick.
However, Coola delivered a swift back elbow smash into Fayre's chest before his enemy could complete his roundhouse kick, causing Fayre to spew out blood and staggered a few feet backwards, dazed and in excruciating pain.
Coughing out another round of blood, Fayre growled and exclaimed, "BASTARD!" In a fit of rage, he began to form a series of hand seals, before inhaling lots of oxygen and curving his spine backwards a bit. "KATON: Gokakyu no Jutsu! (Fire Style: Great Fireball Techniquie)"
Fayre quickly bent his right knee a little, and leaned forward, blowing a huge fireball from his mouth towards Coola. The fire initially shot out of his mouth in flames before forming as a huge fireball from the outside. Coola turned around and simply smirked as he watched the fireball approach him at incredible speed.
However…
BOOM!
The fireball hit Coola head-on, causing a massive explosion that caused a cloud of dust and smoke to kick up from the origin of the connected attack.
A smirk crawled onto the Uchiha's face. He was certain that he caught Coola by surprise this time. If physical attacks didn't work, then his enhanced chakra and Ki fireball jutsu will work. Ever since he injected himself with the Ki syringes, his power had increased by several times. Things like jutsus would also be enhanced with Ki, and thus causing a lot more damage, both collateral and lethal.
In this case, he was hoping Coola was finished with this one jutsu. However…
"I'm very impressed by that fireball jutsu of yours. Your Ki training has surely made you grow. However, you still haven't reached 1% of my current form's power."
Fayre widened his eyes in shock, as the cloud of dust cleared, revealing Coola standing still with his unscathed body.
Coola looked amused. "Is that really the best you can do, Fayre?"
"Fayre's jaw dropped, his word caught up in his throat. Coola was not even using 1% of his power against the full power Uchiha?! "You're bluffing! There's no way you're still not using 1% of your power!"
Coola sighed, and placed one foot forward with both hands sideways at a 60 degree angle. His pose greatly resembled Freeza back at Planet Namek. "Don't believe me? Then how about this? As a punishment for betraying me, I will showcase 10% of my current form's power. Sounds good?"
As Kakashi watched in shock, he thought to himself. 'Current form? Coola has mentioned multiple times about his 'current form'. What does he mean? But more importantly, Fayre's not able to stand up to Coola…!'
Fayre panted heavily and placed his hand on his damaged chest. "If I were to make an estimation, you're using 90% of your power! So cut the bullshit!"
Coola laughed. "Oh, aren't you a humorous one, Uchiha? Your estimations have almost always been wrong. I'll just demonstrate to you an ounce of my power, then."
Before Fayre could retort, Coola flew towards Fayre in an instant and delivered a knee smash onto his enemy's gut, rendering his opponent's body to double over. Fayre coughed out blood, and fell down onto his knees, his face leaning on Coola's abdomen since he had no energy to move out of the way. The ferocious knee smash he had received earlier was far worse than he thought.
Coola sighed, and delivered a right hook, directly connecting with the side of Fayre's head, and sending him soaring through a large rocky boulder, breaking it into splinters and debris in the process.
Fayre hit the ground hard, as blood seeped a little from the side of his head. Trying to catch his breath, the Uchiha coughed a few times before placed his hands on the ground. "H-How…. Is this possible…?"
"I think I may have gone a little overboard, don't you think?" Coola taunted. "Perhaps I will just stick to using only 1% of my power."
Fayre quickly turned around, and received a sharp kick onto his face, sending the Uchiha flying and crashing roughly around 100 feet away.
"Fayre!" cried Kakashi.
Coola sighed. "I am disappointed. I was really hoping you would actually at least put up a decent fight. However, Ki syringes or not, you still will never surpass me, Fayre."
Fayre slowly sat on his butt, and panted heavily. He had several injuries on his body, including the streaks of blood coming from the side of his head. Looking ahead, he saw the brother of Freeza smirking at him. Just seeing his face pissed Fayre off.
Hokage's District (Wasteland)- Sasuke, Sakura, Gohan, and Kuririn vs Neizu
A strong wind passed by, as Neizu folded his arms with a smug look on his face. "Very well. Be my guest. I hope all of you can at least entertain me a little," he said the last part of his second statement with a wry smile. "In the end, the results will be the same!"
Gohan while still in his battle stance, gritted his teeth in anger. "Don't get ahead of yourself!"
Sakura stared at Neizu with a serious look on her face. "Yeah… We will take you down together, through teamwork. With teamwork, anything's possible!"
Neizu paused for a moment, slightly surprised, before bursting out with a derisive laugh. "Teamwork?! HA! Dore, did you hear that?! These puny bugs are going to try and squash me with teamwork? It doesn't matter how many of you come at me! Even if it's one hundred of you. Ants will always remain ants! Doesn't matter how many are there! Weaklings always do make the best jokes, don't they?"
Dore snickered. "I think that is very hilarious! Words said by weaklings are truly amusing!"
Sauza smirked, firmly believing that Team Z had no chance against Neiz.
Kuririn stared at Neizu with an irate look. "This guy… he's just mocking us…"
Gohan leaned forward a bit. "Then let's team up and beat him together. We have an advantage since it's all of us versus only one of them."
"No, wait…" Sasuke intervened, confusing Gohan. The Uchiha let out a small sigh and eyed the son of Goku. "Don't do anything rash. We have to attack in coordination, if we want to have a chance of beating him."
Sakura nodded while still keeping her eyes on her opponent. "Sasuke's right… If we attack recklessly, then teamwork will be for nothing."
Kuririn said with a smile, "I agree with Sasuke and Sakura."
Gohan nodded with determination and turned his attention back at Neizu, "Right!"
Neizu placed his hands sideways freely. "Come at me whenever you're ready. Of course, if you take too long discussing about your good for nothing plan, then I'll come there and give you the beating of your lifetime myself!"
"Don't get cocky…" Sasuke warned, and placed his hand forward, firing a Ki blast that headed straight towards Neizu.
KABOOM!
An explosion dome formed from the Ki Blast. However, Neiz rocketed upwards through the dome of fire and into the air. Looking down near the explosion, the frog man chuckled. "Fools! That won't work on me!"
Suddenly, Neizu felt something heading his way behind him, and quickly turned around to block and intercept the fists that shot his way. The punches were blocked with both his forearms. Having a good look at the attackers, Neizu snorted. "It's you two shorties, huh?"
Gohan and Kuririn didn't bother to respond, and quickly delivered a barrage of punches and kicks. Neizu, being quick, swiftly dodged the incoming attacks with ease. As the two fighters continued their assault, Sakura appeared above Neizu, and delivered a speedy uppercut onto her opponent.
However, it didn't matter, as Neizu dodged the attack without even looking, shocking Sakura. Wasting no time, the pink haired ninja began to unleash a combination of punches and kicks on her own from above, with her body facing downwards at her opponent in mid-air. All three fighters began to try and land multiple hits on Neizu, failing each time. Gohan, Kuririn, and Sakura's attacks were fast, but not fast enough to land a blow on Neizu. The member of Cooler's Squadron continued to dodge their attacks.
Meanwhile, Sasuke was still on the ground, looking above at the fight unraveling. "This is my chance!"
The Uchiha placed both hands forward with his wrists touching each other, and then brought them to his side. "Ka… me…"
The battle continued in the air, as Neizu laughed in mockery at Gohan, Kuririn, and Sakura. "Incompetence!"
"Ha… me…" Sasuke said, charging up a blue Ki orb between his palms.
Gohan, Kuririn, and Sakura continued to struggle to land a blow, even one hit, but to no avail. At this point Neizu was just toying around with them. "I think that's enough toying around. Let me demonstrate some of my ferocious power!"
Without any additional warning, Neizu jabbed Kuririn chest in a flash, roundhouse kicked Gohan, and headbutted Sakura, stunning all of them as they got knocked a few feet backwards in the air. All three fighters managed to stay in mid-air. However, Neizu wasn't done. The frog man leaped in mid-air at Gohan, and delivered a powerful flying double stomp onto his stomach, making the half Saiyan cough out blood. The impact sent him hurtling towards a nearby rocky hill.
CRASH!
"Gohan!" Kuririn cried.
Neiz appeared behind Kuririn. "Eyes on your opponent!"
Kuririn widened his eyes in shock, and turned around. Neizu's fist was inches away from his face. It was at that moment, a Ki blast suddenly hit the right side of Neizu's face, surprising and irritating the frog man, and thus avoiding the attack from being delivered against Kuririn.
Neizu looked to his left and scoffed. "You rascal…"
Sakura, who apparently was the one who had fired the Ki blast, charged towards Neiz, and shot her fist. Unfortunately for the Kunoichi, Neizu simply sidestepped in mid-air, causing Sakura's fist and body to fly past him. Neizu swiftly raised his knee onto Sakura's stomach while she was halfway past the frog man due to the momentum. The sharp impact on her stomach caused her to spew blood from her mouth. A wave of excruciating pain passed her, as she doubled over. Before she could react, Neizu quickly raised his hands upwards in an axe handle formation, and was about to slam Sakura, when Kuririn suddenly tried to deliver a flying kick.
Neizu, being too fast, quickly kicked Kuririn in the gut, sending the bald midget flying and crashing down all the way to the ground.
CRASH!
Sakura quickly performed a front flip in mid-air, despite the pain, and tried to land a blow on Neizu with a spinning right hook. The punch was actually inches away from Neizu's face. However, the frog man's head sunk in his neck, evading the punch in the process.
"W-What?!" Sakura was shocked, as she quickly pulled her fist back, and was about to kick her opponent in the stomach. The frog man caught Sakura's leg, grinning evilly at her. "Weakling!" He spun her round and round a few times before throwing her far into the ground.
Before she could make contact with the ground, Neizu smirked, and placed his hand forward, firing a Ki blast that hit Sakura head-on.
KABOOM!
"Damn it!" Sasuke cursed under his breath, as he was still charging his Kamehameha. He was waiting for the right moment to fire his attack, and he couldn't just fire it when Sakura, Gohan, and Kuririn were still in attack range. However, now seemed like the perfect time to attack!
"Ha!" Sasuke bellowed and shot his hands forward while still having his wrists connected, firing a Kamehameha wave at Neizu.
The Kamehameha curved its way upwards towards Neizu, the latter only just now noticing the signature turtle style attack coming his way. "What the?!"
The Kamehameha wave was inches away from Neizu. However, because of his speed, the frog man was able to quickly get out of the way. The Kamehameha wave went past him, rocketing towards the sky.
Sasuke stood upright and placed his hands down with widened eyes. His attack failed to land. "How is that possible?!"
Sasuke's head was rattled with thoughts. The Kamehameha wave was super close to Neizu, and yet, he was able to dodge it? Just how fast was he? "That bastard… He's faster than I originally imagined…"
The Uchiha quickly shot a glance to his right at Sakura, who was struggling to get back on her feet. "Good… Sakura's still alive…"
He then looked to his left at Gohan and Kuririn, who were also staggering back to their feet. Hinata's body tensed up, as she watched the battle. "The frog guy… He's super strong…"
Sasuke returned his sights on Neizu and scowled at him. "That bastard…"
Neizu folded his arms and laughed. "Oh, come on! Was that your full power?! Laughable! Absolutely laughable! Now allow me to show you mine!"
Sakura managed to get up on his feet, but she was struggling to stay balance on her feet, as she felt too much damage inflicted on her body, considering after she took that blast head-on earlier. She was lucky to survive. Neizu must have held back his powers for the sake of toying around them. "No matter what we do, we can't even lay a finger on him once! Dammit!"
"Of course, you cannot! After all, I'm one of the fastest in the universe!" Neizu boasted. "As I've said before, I could go everywhere in the universe and make out with some ladies, getting some fast foods, kill a million of people on other planet, and then come back here before you even realized I disappeared at all. That's truly how fast I am! I may not be Butta, but what's difference between me and Butta when it comes to your naked eyes, anyway?"
"Is there no hope for us anymore? Is there any way we can defeat him after all?" pondered Kuririn out aloud. "He's too fast for us. We can't even track of his movement everywhere, even if we have the Sharingan user on our side. Dammit!"
Hearing that, it only made Sasuke scowl and angry that he realized Kuririn was right. Not even with his Sharingan that just level up, the movement of that frog man remained untraceable. 'Only if we can stall a little longer… then we will have some help. As much as I hate to admit, with some help, we will have a chance to gain a victory over him, if we're teaming up with that Ki on way. They still have no idea….'
"W-we…." All sights turned on Gohan, whose had a full of determination on his face, and he shot a glare at Neizu. "W-we cannot…"
"Oh?" Neizu placed his cupped hand on his ear. "What did you say? I cannot hear you!"
The aura quickly flared out of Gohan, as he clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth, trying to build up the courage to shout. "WE CANNOT GIVE UP! WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP! Because if we do, it will be like getting an easy way out! If you're expecting any of us to give up, then maybe you should give up on expecting them!"
Kuririn, Gohan, and Sakura smiled weakly. They were grateful to have Gohan on their side because they felt like they were getting some inspiration from him. Then again, Gohan was Goku's Father, and Naruto was like a brother to him. They were notorious for not giving up no matter what it would take them.
'Hn… Naruto said that a lot," wondered Sasuke, as he stared at Gohan. 'Naruto must have influenced some of it on him.'
Hinata was surprised to hear what Gohan just said. 'He reminds me of Naruto-kun… They have a knack of not giving up no matter what.'
Dore unfolded his arms, still wearing smug smirk on his face. "Since you're so keen on the death so much, I will very well grant that to you. Don't come crying to your mommy in the afterlife when you realized your gravely mistakes."
"AHHH!" Gohan rallied along with Kuririn and Sakura before they charged towards him head-on and immediately delivered a blur of punches and kicks, which Neizu casually evaded them all.
"Huh? You will never get it, do you?" Neizu titled his head to dodge each of punches and kicks thrown around. "I am one of fastest in the universe. You simply cannot outrun me."
He felt a sharp slap on his back. "WHAT?!" He whirled his head around, only to find Sasuke behind him. 'When did he have a time to get behind me?!'
"NOW!" Sasuke commanded, which a trio understood his strategy somehow, and they all immediately backed off.
"WHAT?!" Neizu was utterly confused. In one moment, they were attacking him like a bunch of hungry animals, and then next moment, they were running away from him! That moment he noticed that Sasuke already clasped a couple of his fingers together. 'I-It can't be!'
There was a glow that suddenly brightened behind Neizu, his eyes widened. "WHAAAT?!"
BOOOOOOM!
It was a powerful explosion that kicked up a massive dust that surrounded the victim. It was very well executed strategy that Sasuke came up with. When he suggested that they should coordinate their attacks against him if they wanted to have a chance against him, all of them were totally into it. Sakura, Gohan, and Kuririn were meant to be decoy while Sasuke would sneak behind Neizu while he was too distracted and used a paper bomb with Ki enhanced on Neizu's back. That ought to do some damage on him.
"Did we get him?!" Sakura wondered out aloud. Sasuke did warn them that Neizu might would have survived it, but as long as damages were sufficient to inflict Neizu, they might have a chance to do more damages, as long as Neizu were heavily distracted.
The strategy was not to beat Neizu, but to stall more until the unknown Ki would arrive.
"That hurts me, ya know!" the voice whined, as the dust cleared fully, Neizu stood there, with some damages on him, began to look terribly angry. "You have, at last, touched me. It is a clever strategy you all came up with. Unfortunately, it was as significant damage as you can go far. It appears the hour of toying around you is over. I hope you're prepared for that. Allow me to show you my full power!"
"Bah!" Dore chuckled, a good distance from where Sauza and he were standing away from the battlefield. "That dumbass fell into their bait."
"His own arrogant is his undoing." Sauza said. "Once he gets his pride in his way too much, he has already forgotten about the basic skills. I bet he is going to feel that burn for a long time. I'm sure it stings a lot."
"At least he is about to finish them off."
"Indeed."
"Brace yourself. Looks like he's very serious about finishing us off now," warned Kuririn.
Gohan nodded, as he shifted into a battle stance. "Right."
"We're not going to die right here until our hearts have its final beating!" exclaimed Sakura.
All of the sudden, Neizu disappeared without a trace. Sasuke immediately glanced around, desperately trying to find Neizu.
"Where did you go?!" He scanned the area around, along with his partners, but unable to find him no matter how hard he tried to use his Sharingan eyes. Just in a moment, he spotted Neizu reappeared behind Sakura. "WATCH OUT, SA—"
Next thing he realized; it was like something took air out of his breathe completely. His eyes started to black in and out, as he struggled to stay consciousness, but not before it blacked out, he realized that Neizu was already in front of him. Neizu must have punched him in the guts enough to knock him out. He must have thought that Neizu was going to strike down. Did he strike down Sakura already?
Hinata's eyes were widened after she just witnessed something so incredible moment. In just a blink of eyes, that frog guy already knocked all of them out before they even recollected what just was going on! Shikamaru and Shino were as baffled as they were. It was all unreal. They never had seen a speed like that before.
Neizu picked inside his ear, trying to pull a wax out of it. "What a bunch of pathetic ants! But they managed to hurt me, so I will give them that. I suppose I will give them a swift death right here and now since they deserved it, after all."
Hinata noticed that Neizu raised his hand with the intention to kill Sasuke shortly, and her heart suddenly stopped, as she feared for the worst. He was so ready to finish them off, and then he probably would turn to her, Shikamaru and Shino. Then since there was no one to protect Konoha and the Element, it probably would be perished because Naruto has not arrived yet. She could not afford to lose Sakura and others, not after she already lost Ino, Kiba, Chouji, and others already.
She realized it was now her time to do her job and protect them with all best she could do. She immediately activated her Byakugan, and without a thought, she quickly fired a small blast of her own towards Neizu, expecting to catch him by a surprise, but he spotted it and immediately deflected it away.
"Of course, I can't forget about more runts here." Neizu scoffed, as his attention turned onto Hinata. "Hmm, I see that you're more weaker than these I've previously fought."
"Hinata!" Shikamaru cried, but Hinata never removed her eyes off her opponent at all. "Be careful. One slip up, you're gone."
"Do your best, Hinata," reassured Shino.
"Yeah…" Hinata nodded, reassuring that Shikamaru and Shino were supporting her on that. Then her Byakugan became more intense, as she glared at Neizu. "I can't let you kill them all! I am your opponent right now!" Her fists shrouded into a large guardian lion-shaped shrouds each. "Juho Soshiken! (Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists)
Destroyed Hokage's Mansion- Fayre vs Coola
Angered by his own struggle against Coola when Fayre thought he had long surpassed Coola by just injected his sealed Ki into his body own body, yet to be humiliated by the tyrant lord, he dashed towards Coola, and then swung his fist at him so ferociously, only to have it merely parried by a fingertips of Frostian!
Fayre was taken aback by the sheer strength of his opponent, as Coola's lips quirked into a smug smirk, which prompted Fayre to feel the sheer of the rage and used his other hand to attempt to land a punch, only to get caught by the palm, and later the Frostian would grip his palm onto the Uchiha's fist so tight enough to cause a pain.
Fayre immediately punched him with other fist, but Coola also palmed it and gripped his fist tightly, causing a pain again. After the Elementian was struggling to break free of the Frostian's ridiculous grip, Coola then crossed his fists before pulling him to deliver a headbutt onto the forehead of Fayre, deepening the loss of bloods that was already presented on his forehead.
Instead of moaning about the pain that Fayre just had experienced, he wasted no time attempting to double kick Coola in the face, but to no avail. Upon realizing that there was no damage done to the face of the tyrant lord, he did not want to wait longer to see what would happen, so he decided to use up all of his energy, despite stuck in a fist being gripped by his opponent. releasing the Ki blast in his own fists to denotate between Coola and him.
BOOOOOM!
The dome of explosion bellowed up, the massive smoke kicked up surrounding both fighters, but Fayre immediately escaped from the massive smoke and stayed in the sky floating and waiting until the massive smoke would have cleared. It did not take even a second for the massive smoke to clear first, because Coola immediately emerged from it and before Fayre could just registered what just had occurred, the Frostian whipped his tail on the cheek of the Uchiha, sending him rocketed onto the ground.
Coola slowly descended towards the ground. However, just before he landed on the ground, he immediately spotted a couple of kunai, but he caught them both with an ease, only to noticed that paper seals were wrapped around the hilt of each kunai, as it began to burn them up. In a second, Coola sighed inwardly, as both paper seals denotated.
BOOM!
The thing was that Coola knew the next movement of Fayre, in many years of experience in the battlefield, they already have become predictable. Fayre was no different from any of them.
From the behind, Fayre jumped towards him with a fist raised up, and strike down, only to find that nobody was home. He was shocked, but in this very instant, he recovered and quickly diverted his pupils around rapidly.
All of the sudden, his neck was wrapped around by a tail, and then immediately hurled back onto the ground. As soon as he hit the ground, he quickly recovered and swirled around on the ground, and fired several small fireballs out of his mouth towards an enemy before his foot even landed on the ground.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Multiple explosions were spreading across the ground from where Coola last stood at, causing the dust to fill the air around him. Following by it, Fayre appeared above the dust, as he placed each of his hand that aimed forward at the dust, while spreading out his fingers. There would be electrifying balls hovering on each of his finger on both hands. He took a moment to charge each of them fully before dissipating them at Coola, causing a twin of massive lightning-like that strike down at the target, and it ended up with a massive explosion.
BOOOOOOM!
Fayre panted heavily, gawking at the massive explosion that stayed up for a while. 'Did I do it?' That was all he could think of. He assumed that all damages he caused against Coola was more than enough to even scratch him. Hopefully, that would be drawing some bloods, too.
Afar from the fight, Kakashi watched the fight as it unfolded in very recent. 'It may just not be enough to beat him.' Kakashi stared up at Fayre in a thought. 'At this rate… if I am still unable to activate the Mangekyo Sharingan, with the way how Fayre is right now, there's no chance that he can beat him. I may be of some use to him if I remember how to activate it.'
"Not as if I want to shatter your suddenly developed of confidence, but regretfully, it tickles. Your attacks tickles, that is." The terrifying voice taunted, as the massive dust fully cleared out the air, revealing unscratched Coola. "As you can see, there's not any single scratch on me, if that's your goal from the beginning, that is."
"What?!" cried the Uchiha. His body began to feel tremble after such a revelation. "It is not possible. It's just not possible…"
Despite all attacks he just delivered to that monster, none of his attacks hurt him, even with his Ki-Chakra combo attack. He was still flabbergasted to think that he trained Ki all years, and it ended up becoming a worthless!
Still trembling, he raised his shaky fists and stared at them, still in a huge shock. 'That was my full power, too. I thought I've definitely surpassed him with all Ki I've absorbed. Was it not enough? Did I make a mistake of going up against Coola too early? Was his power beyond my imagination?'
He lost his own calculation by how much he gained power level after injecting himself with the Ki syringes, and knowing that the higher your chakra, the stronger you would have become if you began to train with the Ki. He just wondered if his Chakra training was not enough to surpass Coola's power level, after all. It seemed that the gap between them were still too greater, judging by Coola's 1% of his power level.
"However…" Coola spoke up, causing Fayre to snap out of his thought. "You might have a chance against me… if I were to use my suppressed form."
Fayre and Kakashi widened their eyes at Coola's comment. "What?!" cried Fayre in shock. "What did you mean by that?"
To be continued…
A/N: What did Coola mean when he said that Fayre might had a chance against him if he was in his suppressed form, instead? Can Hinata hold it out against him until the unknown Ki that was on way to the Element from the outer space? Who was that Ki? Find out next time on the chapter of Team Z!
Now that's all folks with this chapter! I won't be busy for the rest of February, so I'm hoping to finish the next chapter before March 10, since I will be flying to Seattle for Ski with my friends. Next chapter, you're going to be in for a surprise! That's when the mysterious Ki will arrive. Sorry, Vegeta is very busy, since he was too focused at this moment. So you won't be seeing any comment from him anytime soon.