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
Yuki no Yoroi - Armor of Ice/Snow
Hyoton no Fuin: Yuki no Haka - Seal of Ice Release: Tomb of Ice/Snow
Sasuke felt the urge to panic, he couldn't decipher the hand signs with his Sharingan, which meant the Tsuchikage was using either a Kekkei Genkai or a Hijutsu that had requirements invisible to his Sharingan. He tried not to panic as what he at first thought was a translucent cube but became what Aoki informed him was actually a tesseract of three different chakra natures, he was surprised his evolved Sharingan could actually tell that and realized he was dealing with a Kekkei Tota.
The Uchiha wasn't sure if Kekkei Tota were even inherited, he didn't know much about them at all but from the sounds of it they were in the same realms as Mokuton, a borderline mystery. He struggled to recall if he'd read what the Tsuchikage was capable of, if it had ever been mentioned in the academy, as he poured chakra through his Juin and prepared to attempt to counter it.
Shino managed to wrestle his opponent to the ground and rammed his kunai into his throat, he looked up to take in the situation around him as his kikaichu were no good in the current blaze the battlefield had become. He was glad the injured had been evacuated at least but Taki had suffered losses, Iwa's retreat was surprising and he glanced up to see what was happening. The Aburame was distracted from this by his body suddenly and forcefully dragging the scythe of the kusarigama into his body, the chain dragging in against his ribs as the scythe travelled viscerally down his arm and leaving him in dibilating pain until it finished.
Shino decided that was the most painful boon he had ever received, he could feel the weighted end lodged in the hole to stop toxic fumes escaping his lungs at least, but his right arm was mangled. The Aburame could feel the chain was practically coiled in his body as he inspected the blade of his weapon sticking out of his forearm just shy of his wrist like a macabre mantis claw.
Sakura wasn't sure how exactly to respond, she realized she wasn't much of a match for her current opponent in a straight fight. But she was a kunoichi, Khorne didn't care from where the blood flowed, she was an Ikari no Ninso, her brass skin, molten blood, and horns were all proof of her past success. She stopped trying to copy Naruto's bizarre footwork and lowered her stance, she stopped trying to think of a way to beat her opponent.
Sakura screamed as she charged, flaring her chakra and leaving an indent where her right foot had been as she crossed the distance. Thanks to her tail she was able to lower her center of gravity more than even a well balanced shinobi, which forced her surprised opponent to lower his own stance and guard to match or be gored in the leg. She lashed out with her arms as well in a low pounce but her arms were knocked aside. So Sakura rammed her left horn into the left clavicle of her opponent and leaped to throw her body weight into the goring tackle that took the taijutsu specialist off balance.
Sasuke slipped his dagger into his shuriken holster and thrust his right palm out, his fingernails extended into talons as his purple chakra flared, feathers burst from his arm around his wrist, but to his alarm the tesseract of chakra was merely slowed down and still coming at him. He forced more chakra and reached into his equipment pouch, his fingertips disappeared as he lifted a hyorogan to his lips, he wasn't supposed to take another one within three days minimum of using the last but he popped it into his beak and swallowed it dry as the strange Kekkei Tota disintegrated more of his right fingers and blood dripped from the opening.
The winged Uchiha forced himself to focus as he lifted his left hand and poured more chakra, he risked using some to pull back as he tried to stop whatever ninjutsu the Tsuchikage had used with his Harakainokeru. To his credit it was shrinking but more of his right hand disappeared and by the time he'd fully halted it he'd deactivated his Kiiro-en and his Juin flowed across his body without pattern as if he'd been painted a luminescent rainbow.
Blood dripped from Sasuke's right wrist as he glided to the ground, alive much to the surprise of the Tsuchikage. He assessed the damage, unaware of the fifth tomoe now in his Sharingan as that deactivated too, and noted that he hadn't even felt the tips of his left fingers disappear until he saw the missing tips. The Uchiha wondered if his body or his pride was more damaged from that exchange as he struggled to stand, his Juin calmed down but left his skin grey and the sclera of his eye blackened, the iris gold even in its currently deactivated state.
Kakashi was pretty sure he had less than a minute until brain death, he managed to avoid going into shock as his opponent tore the spear from his chest, he felt it. Whatever jutsu was being used made a connection between their bodies somehow, he considered trying to get a warning about the ability out but he hand no time. Whatever it was it was different from normal chakra, chakra was being used but as far as the Sharingan could tell they weren't truly touching chakra.
Kakashi attempted to continue his charge as a last desperate effort but Hidan cut open his own left leg, which tripped the jonin up and send him stumbling to his hands and knees coughing up blood into his mask. Then to the surprise of both of them a green blur slammed into Hidan, a right foot sandal cracked both of the combatants ribs and launched Hidan out of the circle, "Kakashi-sensei are you okay!?" Rock Lee asked frantically.
Kakashi coughed as he reached for his mask, that kick had cracked his ribs too, but he should be dead by now, "Somehow I'll live," he said, not sure if he believed it himself but his vision which had darkened was returning and he realized with some surprise that his heart was already beating again, "don't let him get your blood." he warned after he lowered his mask to get air that wasn't blood soaked into his lungs.
"I stabbed us in the heart how the fuck are you alive!?" Hidan snapped angrily, pointing his scythe threateningly but his attitude was too much like a child's tantrum for either Konoha ninja to take it too seriously despite the killing intent being anything but childish.
"I guess I'm just built different." Kakashi chuckled with an amused smirk, he could tell Lee had already activated the first of his Hachimon, "Go all out Lee, he's actually immortal, break his bones and decapitate him." he ordered as he closed his Sharingan eye to conserve stamina, he was showing a lot of faith in Lee's taijutsu but it was mostly that he lacked the stamina to keep fighting even with regeneration keeping him alive.
Jiraiya wasn't entirely sure what happened, he'd heard something whistle through the air but as soon as Kakuzu tilted his head to look the area around the nukenin became an inferno. The Sannin actually had to leap back and raise his guard to avoid some stone shrapnel, he wasn't too surprised that Kakuzu was fine, although the black threads gave him a hint as to how inhuman his immortal opponent was, "What just hit me?" the nukenin asked blandly, glaring in the direction the attack had come from.
Jiraiya decided whoever had done that was on his side, he wasn't sure how whoever that was pulled off long range attacks but he assumed it was probably Tenten and leaped to intercept Kakuzu as the nukenin leaped in the direction the long range explosive attack had come from. He wondered how Iwa would react to such a fighting style, he vaguely recalled that someone in their Bakuha Butai had similar attacks, but from what he could tell Tenten had somehow surpassed that range even with visual obstacles in the way.
"Direct hit, but he's still standing, thankfully Jiraiya-sama is there to intercept but now they're in close combat." Neji informed Tenten, he was surprised she was able to pull such a feat off even with his assistance. On the ground beneath them a grid was inscribed, the kunoichi had even pulled out a ruler and done measurements, asking Neji the exact distance. It was far more refined than the shot she'd pulled off against Sasori.
Neji wondered if this counted as a combination ninjutsu or shurikenjutsu, or just bakujutsu. Tenten had launched a rolled up ball of kibaku fuda using Reppusho to enhance the speed of the projectile to ludicrous levels. Hitting a target at such a distance would be impossible without the combination of ninjutsu and his Byakugan, but he didn't really understand the math behind the grid his teammate was using which seemed crucial in the accuracy of the throw.
"That jerk survived that? What is he made of?" Fu asked, her assistance amounted to keeping an eye on the prisoner Jiraiya had captured, who was glaring at all three of them.
Neji frowned, "Good question, looks like a patchwork monster with five hearts, his keirakukei is also absurdly large and loops over itself." he explained, "Actually, it's moving, his keirakukei can move. What even is he? He has your village symbol!" he pointed out, alarmed by what he was seeing inside the nukenin.
Fu shrugged, "I've never heard of anything like that." she confessed, "Although it's not like I know every secret my village has, and maybe it's not even from my village since he's a nukenin." she muttered.
"You don't have any idea who he could be?" Tenten asked, confused since she knew most of Konoha's nukenin at least by reputation.
Fu shook her head, "Nah, he didn't ring a bell. Asshole tricked me by pretending to be friendly." she muttered, Neji decided not to mention that it sounded like she was gullible since he was sure she knew the red clouds were the mercenary group working with Iwa and that the nukenin very clearly had a slash on his hitai-ate.
Sakura felt her breath leave her as a knee slammed into her solar plexus, the Iwa shinobi beneath her followed up by getting her horn out of his shoulder and kicked her away a moment before she could recover. The kunoichi rolled to all fours with a growl, her opponent raised an eyebrow but hopped back as she spat molten blood at him. Then she reached into the ground beneath her and tossed chunks of earth at her opponent as she crouched deeper before she leaped at her opponent, the man was alarmed but leaped aside from the chunks of earth and Sakura grabbed the ground to forcibly pull herself to the ground in a crouch before she pounced after her retreating opponent.
Sasuke and Shino both noticed the way Sakura was fighting had changed, both couldn't help but compare it to the Inuzuka taijutsu but somehow more feral. The pink haired girl threw a right haymaker as her opponent landed and stepped to his left to avoid the telegraphed low angled punch, then her right hand opened as she reached for her axe on the ground behind him. The Iwa shinobi's eyes widened and he lifted his left leg in a swift snap kick to her forearm to stall her before he followed up with a side kick to her head from the same leg that knocked her away from the axe.
The Tsuchikage glanced at Sakura as she rolled into a crouch and he considered the current state of things, he was confident he could kill the young Uchiha but the tengu-like young shinobi somehow effectively blocking his ninjutsu shook him. Even if he had still dealt damage with it, his jutsu wasn't the kind of thing to be blocked. The more he thought about it the more strange it was, shinobi usually focused on evasion but the three ninso holding the camp, and even the ninken of the currently disabled ninso, were sturdy enough to endure blows and jutsu that would kill a normal human.
Clearly the Konton no Ninso were not normal anymore, but the Tsuchikage realized only then that it went beyond the realms of bizarre Kekkei Genkai or body altering Kinjutsu, the Uchiha gave off the air of a cornered animal despite, or perhaps because of, his currently desperate situation, the Aburame had somehow assimilated a weapon into his body and effectively used his body as an anchor to hold a blade in place to disarm and kill one of his shinobi, and finally the pink haired girl barely seemed sane, in fact the kunoichi seemed to have completely snapped but was cognizant enough to lure her opponent towards her weapon and go for it which was concerning in itelf.
The Tsuchikage came to the conclusion that certain elite personnel were missing, to his knowledge Kakashi Hatake shouldn't be too far and that man was apparently in charge of the Konton no Ninso answering directly to the Hokage. The Godaime had made some subtle waves with that move, but few had yet developed a force to counter them. As well the Eiyu no Mizu had yet to make an appearance, so the wizened old Kage decided not to risk being stalled further by alarmingly durable young ninso.
Sasuke watched the Tsuchikage begin hand signs and recognized the man glancing towards Sakura, this angered him for a few reasons. To him it seemed the Tsuchikage had decided he was as good as done for, and with blood spilling from his right wrist where his hand had been he wasn't sure if he was in a position to disagree. On top of that the Tsuchikage was aiming such a ninjutsu at his teammate and he couldn't do anything, that was particularly annoying.
Then the Uchiha realized something strange, his Sharingan wasn't active but he could distinctly feel the chakra of the surviving Taki shinobi, although he only just realized how dire some of their situations were, including one seemingly unconscious in a tent that was on fire. As soon as he realized that he became aware that he was not as tired as he expected after expending so much chakra and Aoki finally informed him that his Juin had finally evolved, Sasuke hadn't considered he'd get a transformation like Tayuya and it hadn't occured to him that his skin turning grey was said transformation for him.
The young ninso wondered why he could sense chakra but he got an idea, "Good grief, underestimating me?" he asked as the bloodied tips of what remained of his left fingers ignited with blue flame as he lifted his arms, "I blocked yours, so try to stop this Aoi-en!" he challenged as he curled his left hand fingers at his right wrist and blue flames ignited the stump and launched in a wide angled cone towards the Tsuchikage.
Perhaps announcing his challenge was not the best move, although it did stop the ninjutsu of a Kage descending upon Sakura, the balding old man changed the target to the Uchiha himself. The Haruno noticed the threat had been pointed at her and took control of herself as she finally noticed the state Sasuke was in, a manic look in his golden eye as six blue tomoe spun around the currently slit pupil. To the surprise of the Tsuchikage his tesseract went through and disintegrated some of the blue flame, but he lost sight of it as the fire seemed to roil like water as it converged towards him despite his ninjutsu.
The Iwa taijutsu specialist was startled by that, he'd never thought anything would stand a chance against the Kekkei Tota of the Sandaime Tsuchikage. But he recognized their forces were retreated and recognized his injury would need medical attention soon, so he leaped away as Sakura rushed towards Sasuke. The Uchiha was preparing a Harakainokeru so he was not prepared for his kunoichi teammate to tackle him and take the Tsuchikage's ninjutsu to her back as the two fell.
The next thing Sasuke realized was that Sakura was hot, burning temperatures even, "Get off." he demanded as he tried to take stock of the battlefield, his vision had gone white for a moment and he wasn't sure if it was because of the ninjutsu interacting with Sakura's brass choker or his head smacking against the ground. The kunoichi moved to obey only to find her clothes had been destroyed by the jutsu despite her body and choker being fine, which caused steam to come out of her ears with a whistling sound. Sasuke didn't see the big deal, she'd been more naked before and she still had scraps on this time.
Sasuke took in the battlefield, Shino was alive, or at least standing, and some of his blue flames had caught dying Taki shinobi and healed them, others had been prematurely cremated but those saved by the flames seemed too baffled by their own survival to realize those cremations had been premature. Furthermore where the Tsuchikage had been was a charred rock, next he took in himself. His left fingers had been cauterized by the flame, but his right hand had grown back with fresh pale flesh that hadn't grown fingernails yet.
"How are we even alive?" One Taki chunin asked, baffled since he'd been disemboweled until the blue flames had healed him but set others on fire.
Sasuke knew an opportunity when he made one, even unintentional opportunities could be capitalized on, "I just threw the flames, thank Tzeentch-sama for your lives." he preached plainly and the Taki shinobi glanced at his hands, it took the blame for the dead off of him and foisted it off to a Kami who held domain over Fate itself white it also encouraged those who had been healed to praise the Kami. Sasuke wasn't sure why Kami needed worship, but if he needed to create followers to maintain the good graces of the Lord of Fate he would take any opportunity presented, especially those that happened by chance.
"I'm gonna wring that old pervert by the neck..." Sakura grumbled to herself, Sasuke decided not to point out the intention was to kill not strip. Then he realized the tail of the girl had changed slightly, becoming longer as brass spikes emerged from the end, he still thought the pink fur looked a bit silly but he decided it was less creepy than Naruto's hairless tail and kept his thoughts to himself and Aoki.
"What do you make of the Konton no Ninso?" The Tsuchikage asked his shinobi who encountered them.
"That ninken was surprisingly strong even without his shinobi around." One piped up dryly.
"I thought for sure the flames would deal with that Aburame..." Another muttered, adjusting his glasses.
"Not human." The taijutsu specialist spoke up as an iryonin tended to his left shoulder, "I thought something was off the entire time I was fighting the kunoichi, I'll need a weapon to properly deal with her, a bludgeoning weapon though, her body is too sturdy and built for violence for me to finish her off unarmed and cutting her seems like it'll just make her more dangerous." he began to explain, "Put plainly, they're basically a group of bakemono with shinobi training. At a certain point that girl dropped all pretense of discipline and it felt like I was trying to fend off a mountain boar, only faster and more agile, complete with getting gored a little." he finished with a gesture to his left shoulder.
His explanation surprised a few, mostly since mountain boars in particular were rather vicious, some became so large they were nicknamed as if they were monstrous mountain gods, Yamanokami, no shinobi believed they were true gods but some folk without training could easily be convinced they were natural disasters rather than animals with the destruction they could cause. There were few animals that chose to be violent with humans despite the risk, most lived far north but aside from creatures large enough to view a human as potential food, boars and badgers were particularly well known.
The Tuschikage frowned, "The Uchiha blocked my Jinton: Genkai Hakuri no Jutsu." he stated bluntly, "Furthermore it seems that the choker of the kunoichi really does render her immune as she simply body blocked it." he grumbled, understandably irritated that his until recently unstoppable ninjutsu was blocked by a pair of young teenagers.
Jiraiya was startled when a mask burst from Kakuzu's open flesh, some of the strange black tendrils still attached, and fired a bolt of Raiton chakra at him. The Sennin had never heard of a patchwork man that released autonomous masked bakemono to fight for him, the additional control over the elements was alarming too. He'd studied S rank nukenin in case any of them worked for Akatsuki, but Kakuzu was a bit of a mystery, it was unknown how old he was exactly and it was forgotten how long ago he'd defected from Takigakure.
However his body did not give away such an advanced age, by all rights the man should be as old as Sandaime given the lack of information, but he seemed younger than Jiraiya, barely older than Kakashi. At first the Sannin had assumed the man had simply aged well, but he was starting to understand whatever jutsu was being used likely had to do with his supposed immortality, so he might be from the era of the Nidaime or Shodai for all the Sennin knew.
As far as his information went Kakuzu was an old and powerful shinobi, specifics on his abilities were not well known, but as Jiraiya dodged the bolt of Raiton chakra he decided that the man would likely be considered a rival for Shinobi no Kami had the rest of the shinobi world known just how powerful his ninjutsu was. The masks were a confusing factor still, and Jiraiya realized the man would likely make contact with the three chunin he'd left with his prisoner, which then clicked that they probably had Fu as well.
Jiraiya decided he would have to risk it and left a kage bunshin as he chased after Kakuzu, concealing his presence as his bunshin fought defensively to maintain the distraction.
Neji's eyes widened in alarm, "Take the prisoner and run." he ordered bluntly as he took out a hyorogan and ate it quickly.
"What?" Fu asked, worried about the situation. Tenten did not argue, she grabbed the prisoner Jiraiya left them with, tossed the girl over her right shoulder, grabbed Fu by the arm and started to retreat, "What!?" Fu asked again.
Neji took a deep breath to steady his hands as he watched the S rank nukenin approach his position, then he struck himself with a Juken strike from his own right thumb. His chakra became an aura of power as he struck the first of his Hachimon, his Juken forcing it open painfully. He saw the monstrous man notice his position and leaped to intercept with two palm thrusts directly to the chest, his speed surpassing his opponents defenses but his reactions not quick enough to effectively defend against the counter front kick that sent him through a tree.
"Ow." Neji coughed before he started to stand up, he could see some of his ribs had broken from the impact with his Byakugan, but that he had disabled two of the hearts of an S rank nukenin, leaving two left. Those numbers seemed slightly wrong, but he figured he'd accomplished something at least.
"Alright brat, not bad, didn't think a Hyuga your age would display so much power, but you did more damage to yourself than my kick just did doing that, huh?" Kakuzu realized his final statement while he was praising the chunin and raised an eyebrow, "Is that Hachimon? I've heard a little about that, never seen it in person though." he commented, "Your heart and the heart of the one throwing shit at me, I'll take those as recompense." he decided, clasping his hands together in the snake sign before his body darkened and Neji saw the chakra flow of his opponent change.
The young Hyuga readied himself in a defensive stance, he wasn't sure how long he needed to survive but he knew he had powerful allies nearby to back him up soon.
Hidan was not having a good time, Lee was making him seem like an amateur. The young bowl cut chunin was practically dancing around him, using hit and run moves with his high speed taijutsu to deliver devastating kicks that knocked Hidan off balance and away from the original symbol he'd drawn on the ground. Kakashi decided he should probably get rid of that and began to kick it into dirt as Hidan was axe kicked into the dirt before Lee backflipped to stand between Kakashi and the downed nukenin.
The chunin panted, "I do not think I can keep this up." he muttered breathlessly.
"Try cutting off his head if you can." Kakashi dared the student of his self proclaimed rival, knowing enough to know that wording it like that would egg the young taijutsu specialist on, "I get the feeling even that might not kill him, so seriously don't hold back against this guy." he added, not sure if the bowl cut youth still had reservations against killing dangerous enemies. None of his students seemed to have it anymore.
Lee frowned but nodded, "I will endeavor to surpass my limits then!" he announced as Hidan got back up, the man smacked himself in the side of the head to dislodge dirt from the ear on the opposite side of his head as he glared at Lee with bloodshot eyes. The chunin charged the nukenin and ducked under a swing of the scythe to crouch into a left leg sweep that hooked behind Hidan's right knee and followed through to take the man off his feet entirely as Lee pulled his left arm back.
Lee hopped and spun back into an uppercut as he went over his opponent, Hidan barely saw what happened but did see his body hit the ground a moment after his head hit the ground. Lee landed in a cat stance as if ready for the decapitated body of his opponent to fight back.
"Wow, he's way better at fighting than you, Hidan-san." Kakashi noted dryly in a mocking tone, sure he'd technically lost to the man, but his gathered information had allowed Lee to win so he was feeling a little smug. The fact Lee had indeed managed to overpower the immortal man was still a feat though, Kakashi figured as much though, he'd seen back during the fight against Gaara in the preliminaries what the boy was capable of with the weights off and the gates opened.
Lee was effectively an A rank taijutsu specialist who used limiters to fight at C rank most of the time, and that was when the boy had been genin for a year and trying for chunin his first attempt. To Kakashi it was a foregone conclusion that the revved up star pupil of Gai would defeat an opponent who was A rank despite immortality. Although with a strange jutsu like the man had, he could see how the man would be considered S rank despite the rest of his kit being barely above B rank.
"You conceited heathen freaks will suffer for this!" Hidan yelled angrily, startling Lee into hopping back and stumbling slightly as the boy started to pant breathlessly again, his chakra leveled out to a normal level before Kakashi's Sharingan and the jonin could tell the chunin was done for the day.
"Relax, Lee-kun, looks like this guy still needs his brain connected to his body to control it." Kakashi assured as he disarmed the body of the nukenin to take the scythe just in case, only to pause at the length of cable that connected it to the body under the cloak, "Thankfully he can't remotely control himself when you decapitate him." he said, having been worried that might happen.
Lee relaxed slightly and to his surprise found his left claw grew, he wasn't sure what to make of it but it seemed bulkier. Kakashi was surprised since the claw was giving off chakra that confused his Sharingan and gave off slight afterimages of movement while perfectly still. The jonin closed his Sharingan and noted that the afterimages stopped when he was looking at it with his normal eye, he wasn't sure what that meant.
Kakashi realized that Slaanesh had given the shinobi who could not perform ninjutsu or genjutsu a weapon that was imbued with some kind of strange ninjutsu, or maybe a kajojutsu as Maemi called them. This meant the Kami paid enough attention to know such a thing would be useful, which just made some boons seem a bit more confusing since for the most part they seemed almost random at times, like Sakura's tail or the fact her left arm couldn't be used for hand signs, or Shino's stranger boons.
Kakuzu dropped to a crouch and thrust his palms to the earth, a dragon of mud lifted up and started a barrage of flying stones at Neji who was pretty sure a Kaiten in his current condition would expend more chakra than he could afford to lose. The Hyuga chunin braced himself and turned his best offense into a defense, he jabbed repeatedly at the flying rocks to avoid direct hits but given the volume of projectiles he took many glancing blows.
Kakuzu wasn't too surprised the Hyuga survived, but his method of surviving was not exactly expected and he took a moment to decide how to follow up. That moment was what gave Jiraiya opportunity to round kick him in the back of the skull, Neji took the new opening and leaped forward to thrust his palms towards where he could see the hearts of his opponent but was surprised to realize his chakra could not penetrate the chakra infused flesh of the nukenin.
"Took me by surprise, earlier the brat and now the old man." Kakuzu noted in an irritated tone, a mask burst from his back and launched a high power Suidan from its mouth at Jiraiya. The Sennin leaned back to avoid taking the blow head on as he landed and hopped into a defensive stance.
"That mask is one of his hearts, the other is on its way, so he has three left!" Neji informed quickly, having only realized the last bit himself in that moment. The mask turned and unleashed a Suiryudan at the shinobi who destroyed the ninjutsu with a Juken strike with massive amounts of chakra behind it. A side effect he hadn't considered was the burning feeling of combining Hachimon with Juken, Neji was releasing so much chakra his tenketsu hurt.
Neji was not fully trained to deal with opening his Hachimon, he didn't have the same fortitude as Lee, he'd taken a shortcut by forcing the gate open with a vicious self damaging strike that had been more impressive psychologically than physically. So he was confused to see Kakuzu retreating as another masked monster of black tendrils came to shoot a Raiton no Jutsu at Jiraiya, Neji was pretty sure Tenten and Fu had retreated in the other direction.
It took the young Hyuga a moment to recall that the direction Kakuzu was retreating was the same place Lee had gone to help Kakashi, a fight Neji had lost sight of by that point, "The nukenin is retreating towards Lee and Kakashi-sensei's last known location, likely to regroup!" he informed the Sennin quickly as he was sure the only other present actual S rank shinobi would be capable of handling the situation.
Jiraiya frowned at the assessment as he dodged another two bolts of Raiton chakra, he had to admit the young Hyuga had a damned good head for battle and was easily a respectable chunin, if he had control over that Hachimon of his the Sannin would be taking a promotion recomendation to Tsunade. As it was he needed to focus on dealing with the two masks first, since the Hyuga clearly wouldn't last much longer which meant rushing off to save Lee and Kakashi would likely result in Neji's death shortly before the masks moved to pincer him against Kakuzu as the Raiton blasting mask had clearly intended to do.
Haku, Tayuya, Kin, and Karin were all a little confused, Maemi's words were confusing enough but Naruto didn't look that much different to before he'd passed out besides the strange pink marks on his body and face. As far as Karin could tell they were different to the symptoms suffered by the people of Hoshigakure no Sato, far more defined designs, but his chakra was another matter to the sensor kunoichi. To Karin the blonde who had apparently achieved Apotheosis felt like an endless well of power, he'd felt strong before but now she couldn't even get a sense for how much chakra he had.
Naruto cocked his head to the side, he had a vague instinctual understanding of his new abilities and deep down he understood he'd become immortal. For a moment he stared off into space as it registered that he was likely one of the most powerful living creatures in the nations, for real and not just his usual bluster, and it took him that moment to realize he'd actually accomplished the goal Slaanesh had set out for him, by becoming a Daemon Prince he had in essense been elevated.
The blonde frowned as he considered the current situation, plenty of things weren't resolved still, he needed to clean up his world, remove Orochimaru, cow the other nations, and become Rokudaime Hokage. He realized he should figure out what order those things should happen in, but for right now he figured he should deal with the remaining S rank enemies, "Be right back." he told his lovers before his chakra flared and he used shunshin without hand signs.
Maemi stared after him, "Shit, I can't keep up with him still." she grumbled as her stance became far less haughty and far more bored, "Want to bond and I'll lead you girls to him?" she offered Karin, Haku decided not to correct the slip since the majority of his oinin were indeed kunoichi. Karin shrugged but nodded, she decided it was worth it and a second later was startled by the now larger Muse sticking her tongue down her throat.