Previous Translations: Yorokobi - Pleasure/Delight/Joy
Yokubo - Desire/Lust
Kajo - Excess
Shifuku no Kurushimi - Blissful Throes/Blissful Suffering
Tatakainouta - Song of Battle
Zeitakuna Kutsu - Luxurious Torment
Hentai-ryu: Erokenho - Pervert Style: Erotic Fist Art
Konton - Chaos
Kanzen - Perfect
Henka - Change
Harakainokeru - Dispel
Aka-en - Red Flame
Aoi-en - Blue Flame
Kiiro-en - Yellow Flame
Orenji-en - Orange Flame
Tankoshoku-en - Pink Flame
Maho - Magic
Chishiki - Knowledge
Unmei - Fate
Nozomu - Hope
Hoho no Chenja - honestly this one is a mess, but roughly means Changer of Ways
Ryuketsu - Bloodshed
Chikara - Strength
Meiyo - Honor
Budo - Martial Arts
Ikari - Rage
Jumon - Incantation
Himitsu no Sewanin - Secret Caretaker(Keeper of Secrets)
Sento - Combat
Same no On'na - Shark-Woman
Maebure - Harbinger
Shibari no Ashikase - Binding Fetters
Kanpeki - Perfection
Reikan - the closest English word would be Inspiration, but it specifically refers to 'a divine creative impulse'
Sekkyo-sha - Preacher
Aijin - Lover
Kaen Hosha-ki - Flame Radiator (Flamer of Tzeentch)
Himeiwoageru - Which Screams (Screamer of Tzeentch)
Shikkan - Disease
Ai - Love
Zetsubo - Despair
Mi Haito - Undivided/Not Divided
Shibo - Aspiring
Koki - Exalted
Chakra no Bato - Coruscating Chakra/Chakra of Coruscation
Gyokai - Industry
In case someone somehow doesn't know, Hi - Fire
Don'yoku - Greed/Avarice
Yokuatsu - Tyranny/Oppression
Yami no Chichi - Father of Darkness/Dark Father
Raimeiton - Thunder Release, what Naruto has decided to name his mix of wind and lightning chakra
Shuryoju - Hunting Beasts (same word for plural or singular), an alternate name for Fiends of Slaanesh, best word I could find for them
Konton no Omo - Lord of Chaos
Kemonojin - a very jank way of translating Beastmen into Japanese, basically would mean Animal-Human
Gyumao - Ox Demon King
Eiyu - Hero
Gyumahime - Ox Demon Princess
Kajomahime - Excessive Demon Princess
Renkinjutsu - Alchemy
Hankami - Demigod/Half-God
Tsunade looked over the four that Shikamaru brought back to her office, the Nara had left with Ino to meet up with Choji and Asuma for a mission to Kusa, "You other three probably know, but Haku-kun is Yukimaru-san, our only current Konton no Oinin." she began, "I hate to do this, but I need you three to accept being drafted temporarily." she explained.
Tayuya raised an eyebrow as Kin and Karin exchanged nervous glances, "Am I not enough to go assist Naruto-kun?" Haku asked simply.
"I doubt it, you'll need a sensor, and those two are former Oto kunoichi so they might have some useful information hidden by untapped memories." Tsunade answered bluntly, "Your mission is to find Naruto Uzumaki and Jiraiya in Oto no Kuni and tell them to return immediately, the chunin Neji Hyuga, Rock Lee, and Tenten should be with them." she explained, "Get some gear ready," she added as she put down three masks like Haku's along with three hitai-ate with Konoha symbols, "I'll worry about code names later, this is an emergency situation, tell Jiraiya the tree needs a toad or it'll only have a hawk for protection."
Haku could guess there was some hidden meaning there, but decided he shouldn't think too heavily on it and nodded. Karin was the first to grab a hitai-ate and mask, she still looked nervous. Kin went next after giving it some thought, but Tayuya scowled, "I was enjoying retirement, but fuck me I guess." she grumbled as she grabbed the final mask and hitai-ate.
Naruto heard two enemies ahead, but something seemed wrong, something about the atmosphere, the killing intent in the air was different from before. His instincts were making the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, he wasn't sure what was different about this killing intent and Harada's unless there being two of them was such a vast difference, but one of them specifically almost felt stifling, suffocating in a way.
Maemi felt it too and became nervous, she wasn't sure what kind of enemies they were fighting but she was worried that whoever it was might actually both be capable of challenging Naruto, so if the enemy teamed up even with Hoshi chakra she wouldn't be able to help. Naruto frowned in confusion as he figured out what felt off and he stopped short of the corner at the same time one of the pairs of footsteps did, "You two don't even seem to be trying to hide, y'know?" he asked.
Then Naruto's eyes widened as he felt the third killing intent in the air directly behind him, he turned and swung at a young teenager reaching for his Kiba. White hair, pale skin, blue eyes, shark teeth, those were the first impressions Naruto got from the boy, wearing a dark purple tank top, beige pants, and blocking his nodachi with a katana held in his own right hand. The two swordsmen met eyes for a moment before Naruto heard the Tatakainouta pick up as he detected the oppressive killing intent behind him.
"Good intuition and instincts, for a self taught shinobigatana." The white haired teen praised with a grin as an orange haired humanoid monster swung a massive fist at Naruto, a blast of some sort from its elbow launching the wild punch into Naruto's left side as he raised his Kujaku Myoho as an attempt at defense. The blonde went flying as the Hoshi chakra shattered, he hadn't expected such raw power but he knew killing intent was in some way affected by the innate ability of the person projecting it.
Meaning the orange haired bakemono with a glowing red mark of Khorne on his forehead was the source of the stifling ominous air. Naruto landed on his hooves, adhering to the ground with chakra to halt his momentum but still kicking up two grooves in the floor as he skid to a stop down the hall, "Shinobigatana?" he asked with a grin, despite the danger, despite being outnumbered three to one, despite how dangerous one of his opponents in particular were, "My magnificent self is a kensei-sama, fool!" he admonished arrogantly.
"Suigetsu-san," The voice of the third assailant who had yet to reveal herself or attack called out, "you know the deal, help kill the Kyubi Jinchuriki and you get to keep the Kiba." she said and the white haired teenager grinned even wider, "And Jugo-san," she continued and the orange haired bakemono raised his head in acknowledgement, "that one in front of you is a friend of the shinobi who killed Kimimaro-san, and even captured one of Kimimaro-san's teammates to turn her against Orochimaru-sama."
Naruto frowned, he was pretty sure he remembered who Kimimaro was, and now that he thought about it his ward was from the same clan as that guy, "Small world." he commented for completely different reasons than it sounded to those who couldn't read his train of thought.
"Kimimaro-san," Jugo began and to Naruto's surprise the monstrous person started crying, "he believed in loyalty and selflessness, a gaudy thing like you." he muttered, his voice becoming increasingly angry as Naruto slid his right leg back into a side stance, his left hand shifted grip to the pommel of his nodachi as he raised his blade to eye height, perpendicular to the ground and pointed at his opponents, "He'd hate trash like you!" Jugo roared as he charged, blasts of chakra from holes bursting out of his back propelling him forwards and another burst propelling his arm at Naruto.
Suigetsu was impressed the blonde had reached such a level of kenjutsu, he could tell the blonde was mostly self taught and had good instincts for kenjutsu. He figured it was a shame the arrogant ninso would die to Jugo, but he also thought it was sacrilege to declare oneself as a sword saint, and in such an arrogant way too. Then his eyes widened as Jugo fell back from his attempted attack when Naruto delivered a swift cut, so fast Suigetsu couldn't see it.
Three spurts of blood alerted Suigetsu to how fast Naruto had gone, the angle was impossible for a single cut, "This bitch seriously just cut three times in one breath, you didn't tell me about that, Guren." he grumbled to the still hidden member of their team, "Why the fuck aren't you helping?" he added angrily.
"I'm Orochimaru-sama's precious next vessel, you're an experiment capable of surviving a team battle alongside Jugo, even against someone like that blonde." Guren answered calmly.
Naruto chuckled as he strut towards Suigetsu, "That Jugo guy couldn't even surv-" he began before he felt the killing intent and turned, lifting his guard on pure instinct with a surprised expression as Jugo's fist crashed into his nodachi and sent him through a wall, "Pretty sure a severed jugular and arm tendons should put you down for at least a little longer than that." he said from the empty storage room he'd been knocked into, still able to manage sarcasm despite the increasing pain.
Maemi had been worried about exactly the situation that was happening, she was able to hide her presence but she could tell that was only because Suigetsu and Guren didn't care to look for her. She couldn't do much, but if she was dispelled she couldn't do anything, so she'd just have to watch Naruto fight until back up arrived, she knew the battle would have to attract attention, but she was concerned if the other three chunin would be able to do anything.
Naruto mentally assessed the situation, with the combat drugs in his system he could focus to a degree he'd never thought possible until Maemi first doped him the day of the bell test. Jugo was powerful, even without being able to sense chakra itself the blonde could tell he had immense chakra. Suigetsu confused him, the guy was stealthier than Haku and clearly wanted two of his swords, so he clearly had ties to Kiri, making the blonde wonder why Orochimaru had someone like that.
Guren was a complete unknown, but from what he'd overheard he should kill her first, Suigetsu could use chakra nagashi, he could guess that much. His tungsten nodachi was too much for a normal katana to handle, but from what he could tell the enemy swordsman should be easier to take down than Jugo, the issue was creating the opening to do so.
Suigetsu frowned, "Hey, does this kid have no sense of danger?" he asked, "Grinning so cheerfully while giving off such sinister killing intent, don't tell me this child soldier couldn't take the pressure and snapped?" he asked as his expression shifted to an amused smirk.
Naruto didn't rise to the taunt, he inhaled as Jugo charged him again. He felt amazing, he felt like his chakra was finally keeping up with his body. The drug in his system made him perspire as it ran through his system to enhance his focus, he flowed Raiton chakra down his nodachi as he exhaled, stepped to the side, and swung. He inhaled again, his breath coming faster as a side effect of the drug affecting his respiration, and with another exhale he stepped to meet Jugo's follow up left hook as his right arm fell to the ground.
Suigetsu's eyes widened, "Uh, Guren? What rank did you say this kid was?" he asked.
"He should be A rank at most, according to Orochimaru-sama's estimates." Guren answered, "Are you saying Orochimaru-sama was mistaken?" she asked dangerously.
Suigetsu wisely kept quiet as Naruto hopped over Jugo with an inhale and kicked off the back of the monstrous person with an exhale, leaping at the white haired teen and swinging his sword with another swift inhale and exhale. Sparks flew as Raiton enhanced nodachi clashed against Suigetsu's katana, "Jugo's down again." the sharp toothed boy said dryly before the blonde shifted and twisted his blade with a shove, ending the blade lock to form a Rasengan in his left hand to meet Jugo's charge.
Naruto hadn't expected the orange haired beast of a person to have regeneration too, at least this one didn't grow two arms when one was cut off he supposed. The Rasengan pulped the offending right arm, and the left one that regrew had what looked like a bone axe that propelled towards the neck of the blonde with a blast of chakra. Naruto inhaled as he leaned back to limbo under the attack, exhaling as he hopped into a spin with a burst of chakra, swinging his sword in the midst of the spin to grant extra momentum and removing both of his opponents arms before his hooves touched the ground again.
"Scary." Suigetsu commented, his sarcastic tone and lack of concern or alarm surprised Naruto. The blonde didn't smell the blood of the young swordsman and visually confirmed water dripping from the dismembered arms, he assumed a sturdy mizu bunshin and so inhaled as he turned turned to cut off the right leg Jugo kicked at him with a swift exhale. To Naruto's surprise he could hear the dripping thing would attack him again but Jugo was already swinging regenerated arms at him, he risked it and stepped to his left as he parried the attacks towards Suigetsu.
The white haired teenager splattered into water, but some of it shot at Naruto, hardened and propelled by chakra to impact into his armor. While the golden fur withstood the attacks his flak vest and mesh undershirt did not and four of the water bullets shot into the right lower side of his torso, he winced and pulled back with a gasp, raising his guard to get slammed through a wall by Jugo's right fist again, an attack that knocked the wind out of him.
Naruto wondered if he was going to develop back problems from how many times his backbone felt jarred by an impact that day, but he supposed the holes in his torso were a bigger problem. He couldn't tell if they'd struck important organs, but it only smelled like his own blood, no bile or anything of that nature, so he assumed he was mostly fine and inhaled deeply as readied his stance to meet Jugo's follow up attack. The blonde exhaled sharply as he swung his sword.
Jugo's attacking right arm was cut off, his left leg was severed, but to Naruto's surprise his momentum halted against the neck of his target as he gasped again. The blade still sunk in, which should be enough but Jugo displayed inhuman durability and gurgled as he threw a punch with his left arm that Naruto barely managed to pull his nodachi back in time to block.
Knocking Jugo's attacks aside was one thing for Naruto, but the orange haired beast had overwhelming power so actually blocking ended up hurting anyway. That time the blonde had to visually confirm his arms weren't blown off by the force, since that was what it had felt like. He knew he was just getting numb from all the hits to his back from being sent crashing into or through walls, and he decided he had enough of that.
"Hoshi: Odama Rasengan." Naruto intoned as he lifted his left palm to the ceiling, his Kujaku Myoho flared up to protect himself as he created a massive orb of coruscating pink chakra that brought the roof down on the entire hidden base. He poured so much chakra his palm burned, but it worked, he could see the sky and smell that it would rain soon. He took a deep breath of the fresh air as Jugo stood and shrugged off the rubble.
"Crap, where'd that shitty temp sword go?" Suigestu wondered as his watery form slithered from the cracks, reforming without his clothes as he looked for his weapon. Naruto figured he should have guessed that the white haired swordsman wasn't normal, his assumption it was a mizu bunshin when he'd seen water instead of blood cost him four holes in his body.
Finally the blonde saw Guren, a pretty young blue haired woman, with dark eyes and red lipstick, "Now we've got room to really fight." Naruto said with a wide grin, although he could feel the stitch work keeping his fur mantle together coming undone from the damage. Just because the fur itself was near indestructible didn't mean the bindings letting him wear it were too, an issue but he ignored it for now.
Guren had used a crystal dome to protect herself from the collapsing base, but she was sweating now, starting to see what Suigetsu meant. She assumed Jugo as he was with that mark on his forehead and Orochimaru's improvements would be too much for someone like Naruto to handle, but Naruto was matching him. The only reason Guren kept her cool was that the blonde was clearly panting despite his ecstatic expression, his child like glee was disturbing but he was respiring harder as the fight went on and he even started to perspire.
As infinite as his stamina seemed, Guren came to the conclusion Jugo was truly infinite and should outlast Naruto, she had faith in Orochimaru's abilities enough to trust what he said about Jugo. Suigetsu was having a bad time, but he found his discarded sword, finding it had been chipped without his Suiton chakra to protect it made him sigh, "Damn it, hard enough to get a solid hit on him when this junk was at least sharp." he muttered, "If I just had those Kiba I could beat him." he added purposefully towards Guren.
The woman sighed, "Fine, I'll help you get those at least, this kid is more dangerous than I expected." she agreed hesitantly as her crystal protection lowered, "I must have misinterpreted what Orochimaru-sama meant." she muttered to herself as she made hand signs.
Naruto decided he needed a moment to take another pill, but he couldn't keep Jugo down long enough to get the opportunity to do so. As he was forced to block a knee head on after removing both arms of his opponent again, his nodachi cut through the offending kneecap to split it in half, going halfway through the left leg itself before the impact knocked Naruto flying back and loosed his lion mantle into a cloak of sorts.
Maemi had narrowly evaded being dispelled, and found where her master was fighting still in time to see his luck as the golden fur he wore protected him from being completely impaled on a wall of crystal spears. Unfortunately the coat had not fully fallen and three of them pierced the lower left of his torso to skewer him, Naruto gave a strangled cry of pain before his Kujaku Myoho shattered the crystals that hadn't broken against his cloak.
He almost tore the offending crystals from his torso but his training told him that doing so if one had damaged the wrong organ could lead to his death, then Guren made another hand sign and he trusted his instincts over his training. Naruto tore the crystals from his lower torso as they began to splinter and grow jagged, seven holes in his lower torso and he was starting to only be able to smell his own blood.
Naruto felt like seven holes in his stomach was a bad omen, a chill going down his bruised spine. Given the situation he decided to risk fighting one handed for a moment, his Kujaku Myoho flared as he pulled out the air tight plastic container. To his surprise, and the surprise of the others, Jugo stopped, "Uh, Jugo-san?" Guren asked nervously.
"Kimimaro-san said medicine is important." Jugo said simply, Naruto blinked owlishly at the simple logic. He decided he shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth and he'd glanced too long already, he popped open the container and saw the last five pills. The blonde was pretty sure he shouldn't, but just the thought of six doses made him feel giddy. Again Naruto trusted his instincts, he emptied the container into his mouth and tossed the empty piece of plastic aside before grabbing his gourd.
Suigetsu scowled and charged, "He's obviously doping!" he pointed out angrily, he swung his sword at the neck of the blonde after the hermaphrodite tilted his head back to wash down the high dosage of combat drugs with fermented blood. Then Naruto leaned back to avoid the attack without bothering to look, then he twisted and hopped to kick the watery boy in the head with his right hoof, landing on said hoof before he kicked out four more times with his left leg. Each left round kick went up, starting at the shins, going up the leg and into the torso before ending with a final kick to Suigetsu's reforming head.
Each kick was delivered with chakra much like Juken and scattered Suigetsu's form again, Naruto gasped and stumbled when he finished. The blonde coughed on the mixture he'd imbibed, his glowing pink pupils seemed to vibrate as he panted. Jugo frowned and charged, swinging his arms again to crush the blonde.
Naruto hopped past Jugo and left the ground cracked where he'd been, then delivered a back kick with his right hoof that snapped Jugo's spine and delivered a burst of chakra to rupture his internals and keep him down longer. Guren's eyes widened in alarm, she realized Orochimaru had in fact miscalculated as Naruto pulled off the top of his lion hide armor over his head and horns with his left arm to let it thud to the ground.
Guren watched as the S rank chunin she'd been told to kill let his tail keep the handle of his sword at waist height and took off his flak vest with a confident smirk despite his sweating and blood loss, then he pulled down the right side of his kimono top down and off his arm to bind the loose cloth around his midsection. He decided to trust Tsunade and Shizune's training on what to do there after he'd disabled Jugo, and he revealed he was wearing a training bra under his mesh armor.
Neji, Lee, and Tenten weren't sure what they were expecting, but the town Jiraiya had been investigating already on fire as the Sannin himself evacuated a burning building with an unconscious young woman on his shoulder was not one of them. Tenten was pretty sure the girl couldn't be that much older than them by the look of it, which prompted her to give the Sennin a disapproving look on pure reflex.
Jiraiya was surprised to see them too, "What are you kids doing out here?" he wondered.
Neji frowned, reminded of how serious the situation had gotten, "We were supposed to find you and help you, but we had Naruto-kun on the mission and we found an Otogakure base." he explained, not sure how to say they'd gone in.
"Naruto-san is fighting an enemy with limitless chakra so we could come and get you!" Lee explained quickly, the Hyuga was grateful his teammate was able to say it.
Then they all saw a massive pink blast in the distance, "...Was that a fucking Rasengan?" Jiraiya wondered, visibly stunned, "Alright, this is serious then, you're in charge of this prisoner, I haven't tied her up yet, check her mouth for hidden suicide pills as you do." he ordered as he handed the girl over his shoulder to Tenten and considered what little he knew of their abilities, "You two, guard your teammate and be careful catching up to me when she's done." he decided.
Neji nodded in understanding as the Sennin leaped to go help Naruto, he knew they were in Orochimaru's territory and didn't fancy his chances against the traitor of the Sannin himself. Lee clenched his fist but stood firm, waiting for a sign from his Hyuga teammate that an enemy was nearby or from Tenten that they could move the prisoner. Tenten worked fast, but didn't want to risk a prisoner that Jiraiya implied was important swallowing a suicide pill so she was thorough about looking for stuff like that before she retrieved the rope.
Kakashi was concerned, from the tracks he shouldn't be too much behind his prey, but his prey was a pair of S rank shinobi. Even with the Eiyu no Mizu he was probably going to die, that didn't concern him. What concerned the jonin was the tracks going into Oto no Kuni, he was worried because from what Jiraiya had told him Orochimaru and Akatsuki did not get along.
Of the two, the organization of multiple S rank shinobi was technically a bigger threat, but Orochimaru was a special kind of threat, his intimate knowledge of Konoha and the things he was capable of doing to enhance others as well as himself made him a threat multiplier if he'd teamed up with Akatsuki again. Kakashi hoped that wasn't the case, all of their enemies teaming up was basically a worst case scenario for Konoha right now.
Naruto intercepted Suigetsu as the watery boy went for the Kiba strapped to his lion hide mantle, for a moment the white haired of the two thought the seemingly discarded weapons were bait but the split second delay between interception and attack told him that the blonde was just winging it. Jugo struggled to get to his feet as his spine aligned itself back into the correct position, and Guren desperately weaved more hand signs with a panicked expression.
Suigetsu's watery body scattered from a burst of chakra delivered by Naruto's left palm, "Damn it that shit hurts!" he complained angrily, he might be able to reform endlessly thanks to the chakra stimulant Orochimaru had developed but getting splattered constantly still hurt and drained him. Jugo had been given a similar stimulant, but Suigetsu had no idea what else had been done to create such an unstoppable monster.
So the white haired teen couldn't blame Guren for looking panicked, he wasn't too worried though, even though he was reforming slower it was going to rain soon. He wondered how long the horned yokai of a shinobigatana would last when it came to stamina, given how well three of them were being matched he guessed those drugs from before helped stamina.
Naruto was glad his opponents didn't have good teamwork since their synergy was impressive, happy that they were such a fun challenge anyway, and joyful that he'd found enemies he could cut down again and again and again. He heard the song pick up behind him and turned to see Guren, his left hand instinctively went to his katana on his hip and when he saw Jugo was still getting up he dropped his nodachi.
Suigetsu hadn't expected that, but Naruto trusted his instincts and lowered his stance as his right hoof slid towards Guren. The two lucid shinobi fighting the blonde recognized the stance as one for iaijutsu, but Suigetsu recognized the minor tells, the lack of true refinement that told him that Naruto really was mostly self taught when it came to kenjutsu. Guren pushed her hands down to the ground towards Naruto and a crystal structure burst from the ground to shoot cyrstal projectiles.
Naruto had expected as many from the sound of the Tatakainouta, his Raimeiton chakra flowed into his sheathed katana and his right hand listed towards the hilt as his left thumb pressed on the tsuba. There was a flash of lightning and Naruto's right arm and his katana disappeared, with a sound of a thunderclap his right arm returned to view at the end of his swing, the ground torn between the blonde and the blue haired woman with countless cuts, her crystals shattered.
Suigetsu narrowed his eyes, as terrifying as that was he could see how much it had damaged the blonde to move at such high speeds. The veins of Naruto's right arm were visibly strained against his flesh, his muscles twitched, and his right hand was flushed all the way up to the wrist as his blood had been pushed there by his high speed movements.
Guren noticed such things too, but was a bit too shell shocked to take any comfort in the fact. She could tell she was lucky the attack had stopped short of killing her, her fingers tingled and she could see that her left middle finger had what almost seemed like a paper cut. She could tell it wasn't one of her crystal blades flying back at her, the cut didn't even hurt, it was too sharp and fast to be a deflected crystal.
Jugo was oblivious and charged Naruto again, the blonde pulled his katana's scabbard from his sash with his left hand and flowed Futon chakra. From what Naruto recalled Raiton enhanced cutting power but Futon could create it, so he hopped and swung his scabbard in a back handed grip, carving a deep gouge in the outside of Jugo's right wrist as he went. The orange haired beast roared, his left fist shifting to blast chakra from there as his left elbow became a spike as it was propelled at Naruto as he spun.
The horned ninso brought his left arm back and the other side of his scabbard cut off the spike before his right arm delivered his katana to remove Jugo's entire left arm, he followed that by smoothly sheathing his sword and leaped at Suigetsu. The white haired teen managed to grab a hold of the Kiba before Naruto could stop him, but as he unhooked them from their holsters another iaijutsu strike cut his hands off at the wrists.
Naruto followed up by decapitating the white haired boy, for all the good that did, in the same motion he used to turn and meet Jugo's next charge. His katana cut deep into the right fist of the monstrosity but blocking head on was still a bad idea, however without walls in the way the blonde could flip and spin through the air as his Kujaku Myoho flared to life and allowed him to land softly as it began to rain.
Guren decided she needed to retreat, to warn Orochimaru of what was going on. She used a Doton no Jutsu to escape into the earth, Jiraiya saw her escape as he arrived and considered giving chase, but he saw that Naruto was still outnumbered and witnessed Jugo and Suigetsu's regeneration, "Just how many forms of immortality is that snake trying to get." he muttered.
"As many as it takes to truly escape Shinigami." Orochimaru's voice from behind him was a surprise, the traitorous Sannin had masked his killing intent well. Jiraiya took some solace that his former teammate wouldn't be able to mask it quite as well if he was attacking, but he knew the man was a master at stalking regardless, "I didn't expect Guren-chan to retreat like that, your student must have surpassed my expectations somehow." the dark haired man acknowledged with a smirk.
Suigetsu reformed faster in the rain and managed to grab hold of the Kiba again, barely lifting them in time to defend against Naruto, but the blonde also still had to deal with Jugo so couldn't press his advantage before Suigetsu fully reformed. Naruto was forced to block Jugo head on again but above ground it was far less stressful on his body, he could flow with the attacks in a way.
Lightning flashed again before it got darker from the sun setting early behind thick clouds, but Naruto could feel his senses becoming sharper, everything felt so right to the blonde. His teeth, his chakra, even his bones spurs and tail felt like they were becoming sharper. For a moment he thought his claws were becoming sharper, which halted him before he glanced at his sword. He realized he was thinking of the weapons his hands held as claws, he was trusting his instincts and his training in equal measure.
Something shifted in Naruto's mentality, he felt no anger towards his enemies but despite this his killing intent increased. He selfishly desired their death, not out of malice or hate, but purely for his own survival and continued enjoyment. Due to how he'd been trained his muscle memory was compatible with his instincts, he pushed his body harder as he flowed his chakra more fluidly, he shifted his grip on the scabbard in his left hand to a forward grip as if it truly was a blade as he carved Jugo's left arm off at the elbow with it thanks to Futon chakra nagashi.
Suigetsu was alarmed to find the blonde was on him in the instant lightning flashed, the blonde had stopped grinning, his expression blank as he swung both his katana and scabbard at the white haired boy. Suigetsu was baffled, convinced that fatigue should be building up, that the blonde should be getting tired from straining his body with such high speed movements. Despite this Naruto was still faster than him, he needed to use everything he knew about wielding the Raito to match the blonde.
Worse was that the scabbard holding up against the legendary Kiba indicated Naruto was using Futon chakra nagashi, Suigetsu was pretty sure it had been Raiton before, and he didn't even know what had happened with that iaijutsu strike that had rend furrows in the very earth. Jugo continued to attack, regardless of how much damage he was dealt. But everything felt more in focus to Naruto, the blonde thrust his katana through the chest of his larger opponent as he stepped inside his attacks, and with a twirl the horned ninso was facing Suigetsu again as Jugo went in two different directions.
Jiraiya was surprised by how well his student was doing, and he could tell the only reason Orochimaru hadn't attacked yet was curiosity. He kept ready, maintaining perfect stillness as he prepared to react to whatever Orochimaru tried. He was worried to see the blonde covered in blood, but seeing as it was mostly Jugo's calmed him slightly despite that adding the additional concern of if Jugo's regeneration even had a limit.
Naruto was vaguely reminded of the Umibozu, he and Anko together had defeated that, but Tenten wasn't back yet so he kept up the aggression. The thought that Tenten might be injured occurred to him and his stance shifted, becoming more bestial as he swung his blades low. Suigetsu felt like he was being savaged by a wild beast rather that attempting to sword fight against a fellow shinobi swordsman, only the fact that it was raining allowed him to keep up but without Jugo taking the aggression off him he was basically just constantly reforming as he tried to defend himself.
A crescent kick disarmed Suigetsu of one of the Raito with a Juken like burst of chakra, then the scabbard tore through his other arm and the katana decapitated him. Naruto shifted his grip on the scabbard and sheathed his sword again, Suigetsu was confused until he saw Jugo stand and the blonde turned to face the Khorne beast in an iaijutsu stance. The blonde focused his Raimeiton chakra again, but this time he decided to flow with his chakra more and leaped as he swung at Jugo's charge.
To Naruto it seemed as if time slowed to a crawl, his katana and scabbard each tore through Jugo multiple times as he spun through the man before his skidded to a stop behind the attempted charge and sheathed his sword yet again. Static sparked in the air between where he'd started and where he'd went as Jugo fell to pieces, the rain allowed Suigetsu to realize exactly how fast Naruto had gone by tracing the static in the air.
Naruto made to turn towards Suigetsu and inhale, but his diaphragm decided to disobey and he coughed as he stumbled instead. With a gasp he realized he hadn't been breathing for a stretch of those attacks, why did he manually need to breath now? Why would his instincts have him hold his breath? He realized belatedly that the action had sharpened his focus to new heights that he'd assumed was merely the six doses of combat drug in his system, but he'd held it for too long and performed too stressful an action while doing so.
Suigetsu was too surprised by the sudden breathlessness of the blonde to take the initiative, it took him a moment to realize the error his opponent had made. It was a rookie mistake, almost every athlete or soldier knew that holding your breath activated adrenaline and triggered certain parts of the brain, but everyone was supposed to know it was a bad idea. Suigetsu knew the blonde seemed self trained, but something about the ninso instinctively not breathing to perform superhuman feats seemed wrong. He couldn't even tell when it had happened, and by the time he composed himself Orochimaru and Jiraiya clashed in mid air above the exhausted young chunin.
Jugo was pulling himself back together, or it seemed like his body was attempting to do so automatically, the heavier the damage the longer it took and being shredded prompted the monstrous humanoid to drag back together, even his blood seemed to cooperate with the idea of keeping a combat ready form despite taking enough damage to kill anything mortal thousands of times over. Suigetsu smirked, as he thought, Naruto had hit a limit, while he and Jugo were limitless thanks to Orochimaru.
Jiraiya stood at Naruto's back as he faced down Orochimaru, "What's your status?" he asked his student, concerned about how breathless the blonde had suddenly become and up close he could tell the horned ninso had taken damage.
"Full of holes, but my magnificent self is fine." Naruto answered as he tried to catch his breath, he could see Jugo getting up as Suigetsu moved to attack but he heard a new sound come to interfere, indicating he didn't need to defend as senbon riddled the watery body of the white haired swordsman before a masked oinin landed between him and the blonde.
"Naruto-kun, full of holes hardly constitutes as fine." Haku scolded dryly as he took in the unique physiology of his opponent and the fact he had the Kiba, the situation didn't look very good to a late arrival. So he unsheathed his tachi and took a basic kenjutsu stance, Suigetsu could tell immediately this person had a far more disciplined training but lacked the raw power and ability Naruto had.
"You may want to back off pal, Jugo's sort of lost it so he might kill you too." Suigetsu warned with a smirk, he couldn't detect any killing intent from the new arrival and he felt confident he could defeat them easily.
"Naruto-kun, I'll try to subdue this water bodied individual." Haku said instead of answering, "Please try to kill that immortal monster in the mean time." he requested as Jugo finally turned to face the three Konoha shinobi before three more oinin arrived.
"Oh fuck." Tayuya muttered, she barely recognized him but she was pretty sure that was Jugo, "That's the progenitor of these Juin, the reason Orochimaru was able to develop this Juinjutsu." she warned the other two kunoichi who arrived with her as her own Juin activated, symbols of Slaanesh crawling along her body before she pushed it to the second level and transformed.
Jiraiya frowned, "If those guys are seriously immortal, you'll need fuinjutsu to lock them down." he informed his student, prepared to fight Orochimaru to the death to give the younger shinobi a chance to survive.
Orochimaru smirked, "There's a piece of the puzzle you didn't consider," he told his old teammate as he spread his arms to leave himself open, "would I grant immortality without obtaining it myself?" he asked curiously. Jiraiya's eyes widened in alarm, he understood the implications of that. The one made of water and the one constantly regenerating thanks to the power of one of the Konton no Kami, they were just test subjects, Orochimaru would save the perfected copy for himself.
Naruto considered his options as he caught his breath, his body ached but he still felt focused, the rain had washed away some of the smell of the blood but it still remained clinging to his senses. The holes in his torso had been closing even as he fought, but his intense movements had kept tearing them open, even with the pressure he'd applied with a makeshift bandage his chemical abuse had thinned his blood and he was now dizzy from blood loss.
But he wanted to fight, with a twist he turned to face Orochimaru, "Lock the big guy down with genjutsu," he ordered towards Tayuya and Kin, "retrieve the Raito," he added to Haku, "you're the Fuinjutsu expert," he directed to Jiraiya as a grin spread from his lips, "my magnificent self challenges Orochimaru!" he declared before he leaped at the Sannin in question. Jiraiya was alarmed, but he knew immediately he couldn't interfere, he could tell it would lead to a rebuttal from Slaanesh.
