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Twins attack!
Naruko could see the different fights that were going on around her. She looked down at Tsunade, who stayed rather silent. The blood that was still on her, caused her to stay in a single place, so Naruko bent down towards her.
"Hey, you should really wipe that off."
Tsunade's eyes went towards Naruko.
When she didn't respond, Naruko uses her sleeve to clean Tsunade's face.
"...You wont be able to fight these opponents, you know?"
Tsunade spoke up, but Naruko scoffs.
"Yeah right, you've got to watch. Everyone's fighting so hard, and so will I! I've been tasked with protecting you, so while I'm around, you're not going to be hurt!"
When she said it, a laughing could be heard.
She turned to see an approaching Kabuto.
However, his movements were sluggish, because of Tsunade scrambling his bodies signals.
"Kabuto...I heard about it from the others, you really turned on Konoha!"
"I wasn't with Konoha to begin with. Besides, Naruko, why are you even here? You can't fight on the level of everyone else. You're a failure, a nothing. You will die on this battlefield. Enjoy living for as long as possible, as you wont be alive for much longer when facing me down."
Naruko tightened her hand, Tsunade's eyes went towards the ground.
Remembering what she had said to Naruko beforehand, how she didn't believe in the hyperactive girl, and now Kabuto's words, it made her feel sick.
"I don't care what you say Kabuto, I wont let you anywhere near her!"
Kabuto laughed, rising his hand, and gathered chakra around said hand.
"You think you're going to win against me? That's such a laugh, you'll never be as good as Satsuki is, you'll fall behind because you are a talentless loser. Look at everyone here, they all can fight. Even your classmate is fighting for his life right now, and can stand on this battleground, you cannot. So give up Naruko, go home and live another day."
His words caused Naruko's eyes to sharpen.
She felt anger from his words.
More than that, she was truly angered.
"Kabuto...I'll stop you!"
Kabuto scoffed, and saw Naruko lunge for him.
He avoids the attack, his hand becoming like a scalpel thanks to his chakra, and slams his hand into the back of her leg.
Naruko winces but doesn't give up, turning and creating a few clones, throwing them one at the other towards Kabuto, who takes out a kunai, and though his movements were sluggish, he begins cutting them down one after the other.
However, one clone gets through, and smashes her fist deep into Kabuto's face, who winces as he is forced down into the ground.
"Have that Kabuto!"
Naruko stands on her legs, albeit with her leg affected by Kabuto's attack, shaking from the attack.
Tsunade looked on, seeing that Naruko was ready to do battle against Kabuto, in order to protect her...
As that was going on, Shizune was clashing with the Sound Four. Each of them circled her, so she had to weigh up the best possible way to fight against them.
She saw Tayuya, Kidomaru, Sakon and Jirobo, each held a blood thirsty look within their eyes.
She had managed to repel them for a few minutes, but they were dwindling her down. If it was one on one, she felt like she could take them out, but with all four together, it was a truly difficult fight.
When she would gain a chance, she thought she'd be able to win.
But, then another Ninja would come and help out their comrade.
"Come on, lets see if you can beat us!"
Sakon yelled, and rushed close towards her. Shizune pulls back, and fires off several senbon needles to try and take down Sakon, but his speed allowed him to avoid the attacks, as Kidomaru produces some spider like webbing from his body, firing it off towards Shizune.
She didn't want to be caught up in it, so she avoids it with a single moment to spare, only for Jirobo to appear to her right, his fist sending itself her way, which she gasps, and receives a blow to her upper body.
She winces, seeing she bled from the moment of impact, but also managed to stab Jirobo in his right arm, causing him to be stopped from truly damaging her body, but still did manage to cause some damage for her.
"What the hell fatso!? Why did you let her go?!"
Tayuya yelled out, with Jirobo scowling as a result.
"Don't call me that!"
"I'll call you what I want! With Orochimaru-sama's deranged mental state, we have to pick up the slack!"
"Seriously, shut up both of you." Sakon spoke up, with Kidomaru nodding in agreement. "We have four of us, we have to end this woman before she could become a problem. Lets prepare to go into our Level One stage of the Curse Mark, Orochimaru-sama needs us, we can prove to be better off without Kimimaro."
Shizune didn't know who this was, but she didn't care.
So she weaved through some hand signs, and exhaled.
When she did, a poison fog came out, and began going towards them all.
Jirobo saw it coming, so he weaved through some hand signs, and placed his hand on the ground. From that, they were all contained with the earth as a cocoon formed around them, protecting them all from the poison.
"Kidomaru, she'll not know what we're doing, so use your golden web, and fire it at her. She wont have much chance to dodge out of the way."
Kidomaru scowled at Sakon's order, but did it anyway.
Producing the golden metallic like webbing from his mouth, he formed it into the shape of an arrow, and with the guidance of Jirobo, he took aim.
Firing it off, the arrow split through the hardened rock, and shot for Shizune.
"No!"
She had less than a second to dodge when seeing it, so the arrow slashes the side of her body. Thankfully, she managed to avoid the worst case scenario, but because of the fast moving attack, it did cause a good deal of damage to her.
When she hesitated, Sakon came out of the ground cocoon, charging right for Shizune with several kunai's at the ready.
Shizune went to defend…
"Back off!"
When Ryouta appeared, smashing his foot deep into Sakon's face, and sent him flying away.
Ripping up the ground from the impact, Sakon let out a cry of pain, as Ryouta got beside Shizune.
Seeing that, Shizune was relieved.
Orochimaru and Jiraiya clashed with one another. They fought for over three minutes, and neither gained an advantage over the other. Because of their respective weaknesses at the moment, neither was able to gain the upperhand, but neither stopped attacking one another either, and showed the powers that they had to each other, even if it is was on a limited basis.
The snake like human sent his elongating neck towards the toad sage's body, Jiraiya avoids out of the way, and then places his hands together.
"Needle Jizo!"
As the snake like human Orochimaru's neck went to bind around Jiraiya, but his hair became sharp, and spiked out, feeling like metal spikes, Orochimaru's neck became pierced in different areas, but didn't sink in that far.
"Jiraiya, have you been slowed down perhaps?"
Jiraiya pushed him back, and sent his foot out towards Orochimaru.
"Orochimaru, I wont hold back, no matter how weak I feel!"
The snake human avoids it, and slams his foot towards Jiraiya, who in turn dodges out of the way, and tosses several shurikens towards him.
"Haha, is that so? Jiraiya, you couldn't beat me back then, and you wont succeed now, will you? If you want to keep living, surrender the Uchiha, and I will go. I will even let Tsunade go. Now make a good decision. You don't know the Uchiha that well, Tsunade is an old comrade...so make the right decision! Give me the boy!"
Jiraiya could see in his eyes, that his mind was cracking more and more. With each passing day, it was clear that he was dealing with a lot of problems, he wasn't able to keep himself together, and he found it rather difficult to even speak without yelling.
"You're crazy. I wont give up the Uchiha no matter what."
"Thanks to Sarutobi-sensei, and Yukine, I am crazy! You wont give him up? You would rather die than sacrifice the Uchiha?" Jiraiya gave a strong nod of his head. "If that is the case...die you bastard!"
Orochimaru whips his tongue out, grabbing a few kunai himself, and threw them out, blocking the attacks of Jiraiya all together, coming to a stalemate the more they attacked one another.
"Orochimaru, your interest in the Uchiha's has to end now!"
"So does your life!"
Jiraiya sharpened his gaze.
"I have to stop you, do you understand?"
"Do you understand that I hate you and everyone in this world?!" Yukine glances at him, shaking her head, making his eyes whirl around. "You don't get it Jiraiya, you have that blonde brat, even if she's the Jinchuriki of the Nine Tails, what do you hope she's going to achieve!? Nothing, she will die, and I shall reign supreme!"
"You have become more insane than the last time we've met. I have to stop-"
"Kabuto!" Orochimaru yelled, Kabuto who was engaged in a fight with Naruko stopped, and saw Orochimaru beckon him over. "Come here, lets summon some snakes. Jiraiya is going to be devoured into nothingness! Hahahaha! You shall die Jiraiya!"
Kabuto shoots over to Orochimaru, and pulls his bandages off of his arms enough to reveal snake tattoos, summoning ones at that. Kabuto used his power to help summon them using the tattoos as a conduit.
What he summoned were two huge snakes, and the pair rode on one each.
"Jiraiya, having trouble controlling your chakra right now, aren't you? So die!"
Jiraiya and Naruko both watch as Orochimaru goes for Jiraiya and Kabuto goes for Tsunade respectably.
Jiraiya scowls at the sight, while Naruko prepares to fight once more...
Back with Ryouta and Shizune, the latter looked towards the young man, seeing that he had the twin blades of lightning of Ameyuri's on his back. He also kept his Kusanagi held tightly within his hand, and it looked as if he was ready to fight.
"Ryouta-kun...you're here...so, Ameyuri..."
Ryouta lowered his eyes for a few moments, thinking about Ameyuri, looking at the lightning swords on his back, and then thought about what happened with her, before shaking his head a single time.
"She's...been dealt with." Ryouta replied, his eyes going towards the three exiting the dome. "Shizune-san, are you alright?"
"Yes...this wound can be healed within a few moments."
"Then you do it, I'll keep them at bay. Then, what do you say we split up this dream team?"
Shizune nods, thankful for his arrival, and turned towards her wounds, while Ryouta saw Sakon join his friends.
Each member looked at the Uchiha, and Sakon points at him.
"So you're Orochimaru's new vessel, is that right?"
"At least that's what he wants, but not what he's going to get."
Ryouta replied, showing a fierce look on his face, as Sakon scowled.
"I'm one of Orochimaru-sama's top henchmen, I've decided that I'm going to kill you. I hate you, for making Orochimaru-sama suffer. If it wasn't for you, then we could have taken Konoha, and what's more, I'll show Orochimaru-sama, that I'm stronger than a brat like you."
"We look like we're similar of age, so you can't even consider calling me a brat."
Ryouta countered, Tayuya laughed to the annoyance of Sakon.
"Aah, I hate it, he's got such a sweet face, are we really going to be taking the Uchiha down?"
"Tch, you would say that red head."
Jirobo scoffed out, Tayuya glared at Jirobo.
"If I want your opinion fatso, then I'll ask for it!"
Jirobo clenched his teeth, and turned his dangerous eyes towards Tayuya, but she ignored him with a scowl on her lips.
Kidomaru folded his arms.
"Guys, we can't be stupid here, we have to use our powers against him all at once. Remember, this guy has hurt Orochimaru-sama before, we have to take him down. But remember not to kill him."
"I'm the leader here." Sakon snaps, his eyes going towards Ryouta who stood his ground. "I don't know what's special about you, but I'll kill you if you try and do anything to us, got it boy? I'll show you my power...haha, actually, I've got a better idea. Tayuya, why don't you show him your power? Lets wrap this up quickly."
Ryouta raised a brow as she brought out a flute.
"A flute...it could be Sound Genjutsu..."
Understanding that sound would be used, he went to cover his ears when she began playing on her flute.
"Enjoy this melody, it will be the last one you'll ever hear. Demonic Flute, Phantom Sound Chains."
As the sound escaped and Ryouta heard it, he was transported to a different world.
Ryouta was taken to a world of Tayuya's design.
His limbs were bound by a thin wire, the sky had turned a blood red colour. Skulls and bones laid on the ground around him. Some even buried within the earth, and poking out as if to add to the horror that was going on around him.
His arms were stretched out to either side of him, with the wires cutting into his skin.
Immediately recognizing this was Genjutsu, his eyes began to shine when he saw something surprising.
His arm began to melt from the bone.
He could feel the pain.
Seeing and feeling his skin being destroyed by Tayuya's Genjutsu.
He could even see his bone under his melting flesh, he thought that she was pretty strong with Genjutsu.
"An interesting Genjutsu indeed, quite powerful to even stop me from breaking it immediately. She stopped me getting out of this world and is confining me quite well, I could see this being able to trap people with the Sharingan for a good while if she trained even more. Yeah, she has a good talent for Genjutsu alright. Sorry though Tayuya-san, time for me to break out of this."
His thoughts came to an end when he knew it was time to disable the Genjutsu.
His Sharingan eyes shined brightly within that world.
In the real world itself, Ryouta remained motionless, while Tayuya snickered.
"So much for the Sharingan." She took one of her teammates kunai's since she herself didn't carry a weapon, and moved closer to him. "Now, lets take care of this Uchiha problem. Sorry cutie, but I'm going to have to cut our ties here!"
Tayuya raised her kunai, and went to stab towards Ryouta's chest to do his best to take him out.
Shizune yelled "No!" and tried to intercept, but she was blocked by the other Sound Ninja, and was unable to help the motionless Ryouta.
However, the moment that she went to stab him, Ryouta's hand caught her own, shocking her as she received a blow to her abdomen, forcing her to hunch over, his eyes meeting with her own.
"Sorry sweetie, I'll have to keep our ties together a little while longer."
Tayuya's face drained of colour.
Seeing someone being able to break her Genjutsu.
More than that, his hand clenching her wrist, stopping her in place, was something that did frighten her.
"Y-You broke my Genjutsu...your eyes, your damn Sharingan! I didn't think you'd be able to break my Genjutsu! Even with the Sharingan! Damn you!"
Ryouta stared as she tried to get out of his grasp, but to no avail, and put pressure on her wrist, forcing her to drop the kunai, and kicked it towards the incoming Sakon, adding his chakra so it caught on fire with a little bit of flames from his breath, so he couldn't even catch it, and had to jump out of the way.
"Not a bad Genjutsu, if you keep at it, you'd be able to be truly dangerous with that. Even I had to take a few moments to break it with my Sharingan." Praising her, his eyes and hers met one another's, and he began activating his own Genjutsu. "I'll show you some Sharingan Genjutsu, it's time for you to enter my world."
Tayuya felt her body quivering.
An Uchiha's Genjutsu, she had heard that it was very dangerous.
She didn't want to have to deal with that, and tried to escape.
But his strength was stronger than she was capable of mustering up, so she couldn't overpower him.
"No! Don't do this! Get lost boy!"
"I thought you wanted to be close to me Tayuya-san? Having second thoughts?"
"No!"
Tayuya in her worry, activated her Curse Mark.
Ryouta saw the spreading of the black marks across her skin, but it wasn't going to fully activate before he had taken her over.
Tayuya didn't have time to look away, and he trapped her within a world that she couldn't escape from.
Being a Genjutsu master in her own right, she tried to break the Genjutsu through conventional methods.
Ryouta could see that she truly was a Genjutsu specialist as she was hanging on a good deal longer than most he has used Genjutsu against before.
But in the end, she fell victim to his Genjutsu, and she ended up becoming unconscious, falling down to the ground with the other three looking on, shocked to see one of their own being bested in a Genjutsu battle.
Shizune looked relieved to see Ryouta being well, and was able to disable Tayuya at her own game.
"H-He stopped her Genjutsu..."
Jirobo backed up, Sakon tightened his hand angrily.
"It wont last, I'll finish this boy off right now! Kidomaru, lets take him out, and don't make eye contact either! Jirobo, you take down the Medical Ninja! She's been weakened by all four of us, we can win this fight!"
Kidomaru nods, and fires off webbing towards Ryouta.
He saw that it wasn't any ordinary kind of webbing, so he avoids them, and calls to Shizune at the same time.
"I'll take these two, can you deal with the big guy?"
Shizune nods, and watches Ryouta go off with the enemies Sakon and Kidomaru at the same time.
Getting a far enough distance, Sakon shows a dark smile.
"There's two of us, Orochimaru-sama praises our skills, and has deemed up strong enough to be apart of his elite guard."
"Elite guard huh, lets see if you live up to such a title."
Ryouta looks between the two of them, nodding a single time to himself and prepares to fight.
Back with Naruko and the others, Orochimaru and Kabuto on their snakes, charged forward towards their respective enemies.
Jiraiya sees Orochimaru, riding on the snake, approaching him rather quickly, and bites his thumb, before flying through some hand signs, and announces "Summoning!" but when he slammed his hand down, he summoned Gamakichi.
"W-What the hell are you doing here!?"
Jiraiya yells, genuinely shocked that he wasn't able to summon Gamabunta.
Gamakichi looked just as confused as he looked up towards Jiraiya.
"You summoned me, what's going on?"
Jiraiya's face paled, knowing that the small toad wasn't going to be able to do anything.
"Damn, that poison affected me a good deal. Since Shizune didn't have much time, to have this level of control over my chakra is the best thing that I could have...alright, I guess I'll have to concentrate harder and harder, but I don't have time to summon Gamabunta now...damn it..."
Jiraiya mentally cursed, knowing that if he did have full access to his powers, then he would win against this fight now.
But as he was, he wasn't going to back down now.
Naruko also saw this, seeing Jiraiya still wasn't at his best, so she bit into her thumb. Drawing some blood, she prepared to summon the toad in Jiraiya's place.
"Don't worry Pervy Sage, I've got this!" Going through the hand signs, she slams her hand down. "Summoning!"
Orochimaru's ears perked when Naruko did that.
His mild interest however went down when he saw that like Jiraiya, she also summoned a small toad that had a yellowish tint to his flesh, another toad called Gamatatsu.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeh! W-Who are you?!"
Naruko yells out, while Jiraiya breathes out a sigh.
"I'm Gamatatsu, hiiiii…."
"Little brother, why did you not have Dad come with you!"
The elder of the two frogs scolded, with the smaller one giving a goofy confused expression.
"Eeeh, big brother..."
"Geez, lets get out of the way!"
Gamakichi took his little brother out of the way, while the two snakes kept going towards them.
Jiraiya grit his teeth, seeing the snake was going to be right on top of them, so he weaved through some hand signs.
He felt it difficult using his chakra.
But he didn't stop and did his best, focusing as much as possible.
"Earth Release, Swamp of the Underworld!"
Slamming his hand down, he hoped that it would work.
Thankfully, the ground did become like a dark swamp, with the snake sinking into mud. Because of the stickiness of the mud, the mud was ensnaring the snake enough so it couldn't do anything, even its head was stuck to the mud.
"You bastard, you had enough in you to use such a Jutsu!"
Orochimaru scowled while Jiraiya once more attacked.
Naruko however watched the giant snake coming for her, and didn't care to relive the experience that she suffered back in the Forest of Death with the snake there trying to devour her.
When Kabuto's snake comes in close, it lunges for Naruko, who narrowly avoids it, and gets high into the air.
Kabuto jumps off, and goes towards Tsunade, Naruko yells "No!" but the snake comes for her, and opens its mouth to devour her.
Not caring to repeat that process, Naruko creates a few Shadow Clones, and throws them towards the snake, delivering several punches towards its body, slowing it down enough for Naruko to land on top of its head.
"Haaaaaaaaaah!"
Naruko jumps up, then slams her foot down onto the snakes head.
The force of the attack did cause some blood to come out of the snakes head, but it mostly shrugged it off, and sent Naruko off of its head, and up into the air, where it opened its mouth, and pointed it towards the falling Naruko.
Naruko grimaced, seeing the snake coming down.
Tsunade tries to move, but Kabuto waves his hand before her, showing some blood on his hand.
That caused her to freeze, while Naruko gritted her teeth.
"As if you bastard!"
Naruko creates a few clones in the air, and uses them as a makeshift balance beam in the air, giving her enough of a foothold to push off and avoid being devoured by the snake, landing on the ground where she panted.
Fully on the ground, Naruko stared up at the snake turning towards her.
"I get it, lets see if you can beat me!"
Naruko creates a clone, which grabs her, and shoots her off into the sky. The speed of her body was more than enough for the snake to be surprised, Naruko delivered a sharp uppercut to the snakes jaw, firing it up into the air enough that the snakes long body was forced backwards, giving Naruko the time to create many clones in the air.
Each clone took out shurikens, and then launch them towards the snake.
No place was uncovered, the shurikens stab and slash into the snakes body, causing it to bleed from the multiple impacts that she was receiving.
Naruko smiles at that, but the snake wasn't so happy, whirling its body around, smashes the clones out of the air, and Naruko in turn as well, blasting her down into the ground, where she bled from her head.
Kabuto, watching on, mocks Tsunade and Naruko.
"Your fear has stopped you from helping her, and her ineptness has stopped her from truly achieving what others could have with the fox inside of her." Tsunade looks up towards Kabuto, her hand tightening. "The girl doesn't have a hope of stopping me, and neither do you! Now watch as the girl dies!"
"No!"
Though the fear of blood resounded in her mind, Kabuto had pissed her off to the point that she mustered up the strength that she could, punching him hard in the side, cracking some more of his ribs, and sent him flying down into the ground, while Naruko looks on.
"Gwaaah...d-damn it..."
"Do not...insult that girl...in front of me…!"
Tsunade's hand was shaking.
But her determination was slowly returning.
Naruko on the other hand saw the snake coming for her once more, so she had to be prepared this time.
She created a good number of clones, and had each of them hold a paper bomb. She then ordered them forward, with the giant snake opening its mouth to devour them, only for the clones to willingly dive through the snakes mouth.
A good dozen entered the snakes mouth, before setting off massive explosions inside, ripping through the snake as the rest of the clones bombarded the snake with explosive tags attached to kunai's, stabbing and exploding all over the snakes body, to take it down, but most of the clones vanished from the violent thrashing of the snake as it died from the huge explosive force.
On the other hand, Kabuto placed his hand towards the area he was hit.
He still felt the damage that he received from Tsunade's attack, but thanks to his Jutsu, he was able to survive not being destroyed by Tsunade's fist.
Kabuto recovered from the fist of Tsunade's, and showed he had been sending chakra to the area that he received the attack before it could even make an impact, managing to mitigate the damage as much as humanly possible, saving him from a potentially fatal blow.
"You...didn't suffer much from that..."
Kabuto didn't tell her, but he had used a healing technique that he had created to help him in battles like this.
"Tricky woman...but, this time, I wont let you get that far. You'll be coming with us!"
He rushed towards her as fast as he could do.
Kabuto's fist went towards Tsunade.
She tried to move, but Kabuto threw some blood her way, causing her to be stopped briefly by her phobia of blood.
"Time to end this."
Kabuto used this chance to attack with his fist to stop her fully.
However, in that moment, Naruko appears before her, taking Kabuto's fist right to her forehead protector, looking menacing towards Kabuto, who in turn looked down with surprise etched onto his face.
"Back off...Kabuto!"
Kabuto could hear that Naruko wasn't messing around.
With his injuries, he felt himself slightly trembling at the sight before him. With his body still not at its normal because of Tsunade's attack to the back of his neck, he did feel some danger from Naruko right now.
Back with Ryouta and Sakon and Kidomaru, the former of the two enemies began smirking. His hand went out towards the young Uchiha, and gained a more and more sadistic sneer on his face, his hand tightening.
"Orochimaru-sama is wasting his time with you, when he has people like us. You're simply a nuisance to Orochimaru-sama, and has caused him great pain, now it's time for us to put a stop to you!"
Ryouta understood now.
Though he also sensed arrogance coming from Sakon.
As if he had won the fight already, it seemed that's the type of person Sakon truly was.
"You hate the fact that Orochimaru has eyes on me, and not you, is that it? You want Orochimaru's attention. Trust me, I don't want anything to do with him."
Sakon's eyes began to burn with his rage.
"You should be honoured that he is focusing on you!" Sakon turned to Kidomaru. "You attack from a distance, and try to trap the bastard. I'll go up close and finish this guy off. He wont know what's hit him by the time that I'm done with him."
Kidomaru smirks, and nods.
"Don't worry Sakon, I've got ideas on how to stop this boy. I've heard of the Sharingan and what it can do from Orochimaru-sama, I've got some techniques for this boy, he wont even see them coming. Lets go into our Level Ones, it should make us able to deal more damage to this guy."
"Right, then I've got him!"
Ryouta watches as the pair activate their Curse Marks.
The markings spread all over their bodies, Ryouta felt a jump in their chakras.
"So, that's the Curse Marks huh. But they said Level One...does that mean it has multiple levels? Anko-sensei never said...then again, maybe she didn't even know. Maybe it was developed after she got hers...so, they could have a trump card where they gain another boost to their power...alright fine, lets go."
As Ryouta thought it, Sakon smirks.
"I'm going to enjoy playing with you! You've become my new favourite thing to kill!"
Sakon then rushes forward, and Ryouta had to admit that he was pretty fast.
But he saw his movements easily with his Sharingan, and raises his fist to defend against the fist of Sakon's.
However, when it came close, Ryouta saw something astonishing.
He saw another hand coming out of Sakon's flesh, and sent both fists towards Ryouta.
"Two hands coming out of him...that's a new technique I've not seen before. I also see something else that's odd, like another similar but slightly different chakra from this guy...he's called Sakon, right? It isn't a clone, could be a Kekkei Genkai...whatever it is, it could be dangerous, better to stop him now."
As Ryouta thought it, Sakon gave a dark laugh.
"Feeling something deep inside? That's called fear, I'll show you why you're right to fear me!"
Sakon smirked, believing that this would end Ryouta.
"I'm not afraid of you, nor your Curse Mark either."
But Ryouta astonishes Sakon as he uses his fast speed to look as if he's appeared in two places at once, blocking both fists.
"What the...have this!"
He tried once more, attacking with rapid flying fists.
However, like before, Ryouta was able to move quick enough to blow away both pairs of fists, and then whirled around, sending his foot right for Sakon's face.
In the moment Ryouta was going to deliver a kick, he saw that a hand came out, clutching a kunai to stab into Ryouta's foot.
So the boy avoided attacking, then got in super close to Sakon's body.
Before Sakon registered what was going on, Ryouta delivered a harsh kick towards the boys torso after landing a blow on his face, sending him skidding back.
Embedding his body into the ground, Sakon growled, and gritted his teeth at the same time.
He felt some blood trickling down his face.
"What an interesting technique. But, I understand what you're doing."
"You know nothing of me!"
Sakon growled, as Kidomaru leapt up, and fired off sticky webs towards Ryouta.
His eyes could see the make up of the webs, and knew they weren't ordinary webs, so he raised his Kusanagi, and breathes fire onto it, before swinging it out, slicing right through the web, and causing it to burn up completely, leaving nothing behind.
Sakon murmurs "No way..." before growling, and rushes towards Ryouta once more. This time, he went with his foot, and Ryouta saw the same thing, that two feet was coming out of Sakon's leg, and gave triple the strength as opposed to double beforehand.
Ryouta avoids the kicks, as it pulverizes the ground below where Ryouta was.
He went to slice towards Sakon to cut him down, when Kidomaru fired off several webs towards Ryouta.
The boy slashes them out of the air, as Sakon jumps up, and attacks with both sets of arms with two extra fists coming out of one arm each, so four fists came for his body in rapid movements.
"You can try and dodge this, but I'll make sure that you're dead!"
While Sakon was doing that, Ryouta saw that Kidomaru was creating his webbing in the form of large strings all around him. As if a giant spider had created them, it was clear to block Ryouta's movements as Kidomaru continuously fired off webs towards the boy that would bind him if he got caught up in them.
Because he had to slash out the webbing otherwise being caught by it, Ryouta channelled chakra through his legs, using the Body Flicker, he was able to block all four rapid moving fists, then he manages to smash his foot deep into Sakon's face.
Rather, he tried, but two fists came out to block the attack, but the force behind Ryouta's kick sent the man flying into the ground, causing it to rupture from the attack alone, Sakon let out a cry as he spat out some blood as a response.
Ryouta landed on the ground.
His eyes go over Sakon and see that his injuries were being healed, rapidly at that.
"So, is it your family member perhaps that's merged with you? That's your Kekkei Genkai, isn't it?"
Sakon nearly gasps.
Ryouta was figuring out his technique.
"...You have no idea."
Sakon felt rage, while Ryouta kept calm and analysed this further.
"I can see with my Sharingan, that there's another chakra signature within you. It feels identical to your own, but with some differences. So, twin perhaps? You're able to merge, and you've got an accelerated healing factor, either by being combined like that, or switching places so your body can heal, while he fights."
Sakon pulled away, while Kidomaru pulls back, and begins to think.
"This boy is fast, and is reading our techniques so quickly. He's probably already worked out Sakon's attacks, and I'm sure he'll know of my technique as well. We have to be even smarter than we are now, we have to deal with this boy before he can fully activate his powers, or we're dead. We have to enter our Level Two stage..."
As he thought it, another head came out of Sakon's own, and looked at Ryouta.
"Sakon, we have to kill this guy, he's too dangerous. Lets go all out, I'll do that ability."
"Heh...yeah, Ukon, I wanted to toy around, but I don't have the luxury of that now."
As they said it, Ryouta saw something about them change. Their skin became red, they gained a horn growing from their heads, and their chins become longer. They gave off the appearance of Demon's, with Ryouta understanding what this was.
He also glanced towards Kidomaru, seeing that he had also become something of a Demon look himself. Showing that he had went into his second stage as well. He also seemingly produced a bow made out of a golden substance, with a thread to act as the string of the bow.
"Level Two, of the Curse Mark." Ryouta began as Sakon and Ukon glare on. "Alright boys, lets kick this up a notch." Running chakra through his body, Ryouta allowed his body to move at a high speed, showing his usage of the Body Flicker increasing. "Here we go."
He vanishes from sight.
The speed was so fast that even Kidomaru couldn't track him.
But then he sees him before the twins, who see Ryouta raising his blade to slash.
Using their increased powers, the twins avoid the attack, then did a three layered fist attack, which Ryouta parried, only for more to come for him. The force of the attack was clear, Ryouta could tell the difference in power.
But he was faster now as well, avoiding the attacks even if three layered, only to catch something moving out of the corner of his eye.
A golden arrow.
It moved very fast, Ryouta could see the metallic look to it, and the speed it moved, how it came close towards Ryouta's upper body to pierce through him, he went to dodge when the twins did a triple layered punch and kick towards him to pin him down.
Using his fast speed, Ryouta manages to block each attack of the twins, and used Kusanagi to divert the golden arrow enough that it didn't stab through him, but did cut his right arm slightly, drawing some blood from him.
The arrow smashed into the ground, causing some of it to be destroyed.
"...I see."
Ryouta noticed that a thread was attached to the golden arrow, he had been able to divert it back towards a path for Ryouta, even though he managed to divert it completely, he could see that Kidomaru was pretty smart.
Kiodmaru was surprised to see Ryouta was able to dodge that, while Sakon was becoming angrier and angrier.
"You can't be this strong! You're handling both of us at the same time?! Even in our Level Two's?!"
Sakon raged at him, Kidomaru sharpened his gaze upon the enemy before him.
Ryouta placed his hand to his bleeding wound, and healed it up within a few moments.
Seeing him healing himself, caused Sakon to start growling, Ukon looked on with some worry.
"You two have indeed grown stronger, but I can't afford to waste time, so I have to end this now."
Ryouta's eyes glanced at the pair of them, then towards the spider like human.
The young Uchiha whipped out the lightning swords, placing Kusanagi on his hip securely fastened, then turned the blades towards Kidomaru, as lightning danced all around the blades.
Ryouta briefly thinking "Thanks for these Ameyuri-san, I'll do you proud." and using his eyes when fighting her each time, he copied all of the Jutsu's that she had used, which now he'd use.
"Lightning Release, Depth Charge!"
Shooting the bolt of electricity through the ground, Ryouta then weaved through some hand signs, and announces "Water Release, Water Dragon Jutsu!", mixing the water and lightning together, the incredible strength of the Jutsu shot right for Kidomaru.
He himself fired off some of his golden arrows to take down the Dragon of water and lightning, but the arrows did little, only ripping some pieces of the attack out, and then the energies smashed into Kidomaru's body.
"You dodgy bastard, die!"
As it did, Ryouta saw the twins come at him in their combined form, sending three feet and hands at him at the same time, so he bent backwards, and used Kusanagi attached to his hip, the extending ability to come up, and due to moving backwards, the blade that was angled upwards swung up as well, slicing through the right hand side of the twins, with the pair separating from one another.
Blood gushed everywhere, the pairs bodies land on the ground.
Ryouta wasn't convinced they were dead, as he saw something with his eyes.
"Even being cut in half doesn't stop you guys. Right, then I'll completely destroy your bodies."
What he saw was the twins bodies growing back the appendages that they lost. They looked metallic in design, allowing them to stand up.
However, as they did, Ukon's body began disassembling, until it vanished from Ryouta's eyes.
"What the..."
Thanks to his Sharingan, he registered where the chakra went, and he tried to avoid, but suddenly, Ukon's head erupted out of his shoulder, giving off a menacing look towards the young man.
"No escaping now, Uchiha. Your body shall disintegrate into nothingness!"
Ryouta looked on, wondering what his next move was going to be now that he had Ukon attached to him like a parasite.
Back with Naruko and the others, having managed to stop the attack of Kabuto's, she pushes the man right back with her head, Kabuto with hard eyes pulled away, and launches a shuriken for the girl.
She avoids, and tosses her own, which he catches between his fingers.
"Naruko, give it up, you can't defeat me."
"We'll see about that!"
Kabuto shakes his head.
"I've already seen it, you don't have the skills to defeat me. Your dreams about becoming Hokage, are impossible. Talentless losers, cannot hope to achieve this kind of victory, you will only end up dying a pointless death."
When Kabuto said it, Tsunade's mind cast back to when she spoke to her.
About being Hokage, and how it was a death wish.
How she had belittled the dream Naruko had.
Naruko however doesn't back down, and steps forward.
"Is that all you got Kabuto?!"
Naruko rushes forward, and she charges with a kunai.
Kabuto whips one out himself, even with his slowed movements, he was able to block Naruko's attack, who in turn slides to his right hand side, and sends a direct punch towards Kabuto's upper body to stop him.
Kabuto's reaction time slowed because of his damaged ribs, barely able to duck under the blow, and sent his foot for Naruko's chest.
"No!"
To his surprise, Naruko avoids it, and then jumps high into the air, coming down with her own foot to try and take him out.
Kabuto stares on with annoyance, and blocks with his arm.
But the strength of Naruko's kick did surprise him a good bit, and he felt his arm shake from the impact.
"Tch, it seems you've improved a bit. But don't forget that-"
"Shut up will ya!? I've had enough of your nonsense Kabuto!"
Kabuto shook slightly with her words, as she flipped back, landing on the ground, then tossed a few shurikens towards her as smoke had surrounded her hands to using the Shadow Clone Jutsu, that also rushed towards Kabuto.
Seeing the different attacks, Kabuto scoffed, and activated his Chakra Scalpel, rushing through the different clones that made it first, piercing their bodies, cutting through their insides with the Jutsu, and dispelling them.
Then he took his kunai and batted away each of the kunai's, save for the last one that suddenly transformed into a paper bomb, surprising Kabuto, who was caught up in the blast, sending him skidding backwards.
Having avoided major damage, his hand was bleeding, he couldn't avoid the attack completely.
"Haaaaaaaaaah!"
Naruko used that as a distraction, and managed to get up close towards him.
Her foot went out towards him, only for Kabuto at the last second to block.
"Nice little trick, you aren't as stupid as I thought. But, this is the end."
Tsunade saw Kabuto punch Naruko's face, firing her back towards Tsunade.
Landing on the ground before the Sannin, she looked towards Naruko.
"Stop it Naruko, you can't win this fight. Get out of here while you can!"
Naruko grits her teeth, standing up, and looking towards Tsunade with strong eyes.
"Hey, I still have my bet with you to uphold, don't I? I get your necklace if I master the Rasengan in a week."
As she said it, Kabuto wished to finish her off quickly.
So he took a kunai and rushed towards her.
"Naruko, don't think about that now! Go while you can!"
Naruko began to laugh.
"Are you worried, that I'll win?"
Tsunade was surprised.
She saw Naruko's strength right now on full display.
As Kabuto nears, Naruko creates a Shadow Clone, so Kabuto goes for that first.
But what surprised him was that Naruko got in the way, grabbing his wrist before he could stab her hand, and held him in place.
"W-What are you doing?!"
"I'm gonna become Hokage someday, and I'll even go through you!" Her eyes turned to Tsunade as Naruko held out her other hand, with the clone moving her hands towards it, and to Tsunade's shock, a Rasengan was forming. "Until I've become Hokage, there's no way I'm gonna die!"
Tsunade's eyes widen, seeing the sphere fully formed.
She had done it, she had created a Rasengan.
She remembered what Ryouta had said, about being able to create a Rasengan in her own unique way.
Kabuto tries to pull away, but Naruko was surprisingly strong.
"Not enough time to stop her…!"
Kabuto thought as Naruko moved her Rasengan holding hand towards Kabuto's abdomen.
The sphere swirling digs into the body of Kabuto, grinding against him more and more.
Kabuto felt the deep impact to his body, but at the last moment before she fired him off, he was able to strike at her chest.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!"
Kabuto's form blasted into a rock, shattering everything around his body, with fresh blood leaking out of Kabuto's attack.
However, to their shock, Kabuto stays on his feet.
"I...win Naruko..."
As he said it, Naruko feels something within her...stop.
Her heart.
"My..."
She couldn't even speak, before she fell down to the ground.
Tsunade's eyes widen as Kabuto smirks.
"She's dead...I struck her heart..."
Though initially he was confident, he thought his self healing technique would work.
He soon realized his technique didn't work as well as he imagined, and he fell face first into the dirt.
Tsunade on the other hand looked at Naruko, and felt ill.
Seeing Naruko's condition...she had to do something, to save her.
As that was going on, Ryouta stared at the head growing out of his shoulder. Ukon's eyes showcased a dangerous look, while Sakon grinned ear to ear. What's more, Ryouta saw that Kidomaru had managed to survive the attack.
Having secreted some golden armour for himself made of similar materials that his arrow had been made from. However, it also caused a good deal of damage to Kidomaru before he could fully secrete his armour, who in turn laid on the ground, bleeding rather rapidly.
"Now that we're attached, I'll be ending your life."
Ukon began, Ryouta glanced at him, seeing that Ukon was rather confident.
"So what's this ability do huh? You're going to disintegrate me?"
"Oh yes, this kind of attack is going to be destroying your body from the inside. Everything inside of you, is going to be corroded, your organs, everything you need to live, is going to die. You can't escape this technique. I wont let you go now, until you're gone!"
Ryouta stares at the twin attached to him, then looks to Sakon.
Right now, he thought that Sakon would take advantage of this to attack him.
To end his life.
But to his surprise, it seemed that Sakon isn't attacking him at all.
"He wont attack me, yet he's at the advantage. With Ukon's body inside of my own, he would be able to grapple me, he'd be able to stop me from attacking. So I have to conclude that if he does, he'd risk hurting or even killing his brother. We are one and the same right now, whatever damage is done to me, will reflect onto him. So stabbing myself, he'd let me go before he would die. However, if I did that, then it could end with me not being able to continue fighting. I can only see Ukon releasing me if he believes he's about to die."
As Ryouta thought about it, Sakon begins to laugh.
"Not so tough now, are you? My brothers going to end your life, then Orochimaru-sama will have to find something else."
"If you kill me, wouldn't your crazy Master hate you in return? Because he wants to use my body for my eyes, killing me gets rid of one of his chances for the Sharingan. He wouldn't do that. And he'd probably end you for doing it as well."
Sakon paused in place.
For a brief moment, he thought that Ryouta could be playing a psychological war game with him.
Where he would slip, and give Ryouta the chance to get out of his binds.
But Sakon wouldn't be fooled so easily.
"You might try and delay the inevitable, but it wont work. Orochimaru-sama has other options, the Uchiha girl for one can also be a vessel. She'll probably think of you as she's taken over. Ukon is killing you, you shall die by his hand. I'll say I didn't have a choice. So good luck, maybe you'll be reunited with your brother in death. Haha, yeah, we know all about it. He died a miserable death, pathetic Uchiha."
Ryouta's eyes gave a harsh glare.
Saying that, wasn't something anyone wanted to do around Ryouta.
Talking trash about Shisui, and also threatening Satsuki, was something Ryouta felt deeply about, and wished to share some of his feelings with the twins.
"Sakon...trying to piss me off, are you? To get under my skin?"
"So, what if I am?"
Sakon mocked.
Ryouta gave a strong gaze.
"You made the wrong move. Mock my brother, you perish. Threaten Satsuki-chan, and you perish. You did both, so lets see what happens now."
As he said it, his eyes turned to Ukon and locked Sharingan eyes with him.
When he did, Ukon saw Ryouta raise his blade to his abdomen, and thrust it towards his stomach.
"W-Wait, what are you doing?!"
"I'll end myself, to end you. That's what a Ninja would do when they've got no options left. So die."
Piercing through his own stomach, Ukon felt it deeply.
The blade penetrating both of their bodies.
The cold steel filling him with dread.
The blood leaking out of his mouth.
The pain of it was the most scary thing of all, he felt like he was going to die.
Each second that passed, the pain increased more and more.
"N-No...you would kill yourself, to kill me?"
"I'd rather die on my own terms, than yours Ukon. Are you scared? We will die together, your brother can watch you perish."
Ukon saw Ryouta ready his blade once more, and aimed for his chest.
"No! You can't do this to me!"
"Goodbye, see you in the afterlife."
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Ukon immediately leapt out of Ryouta's body, freeing himself as the blade came for them both.
Landing on the ground, he heard "What are you doing Ukon?!" which caused Ukon to gasp.
The next thing he knew, was that the world around him was different...no, what was different, was Ryouta's condition.
He didn't have any stab wounds on him.
Even the pain he felt, was gone.
He looked down and saw that there was no blood on him.
"W-What, but I felt it..."
"You did, that's the power of a Genjutsu."
Ukon's eyes widened in horror as Ryouta pierced him through his abdomen. His blood dripped all over Ryouta's blade.
"Gwaaah!"
Ukon's face fell as Ryouta slammed his foot into the man's body and shot him across the ground.
"Ukon!"
Sakon rushed to his brothers side, and absorbed him into his body, so he could heal from such a wound.
Ryouta smiled, and placed his hand out.
"Now it's time to end this."
As he said it, Ryouta gathered a dark purple sphere of chakra, surrounded by a series of white rings of chakra, Sakon with Ukon watch as Ryouta concentrates more and more, the power increasing of the Jutsu, the dark purple sphere increased in size.
"W-What in the hell is that?!"
"My Jutsu, Sakon."
Sakon and Ukon both look as Ryouta runs for them. Using his incredible speed, the boy comes in fast.
The pair didn't want to die, so Ukon produced hands from Sakon's body, and together, they bit into their thumbs, and then slammed their hands down, announcing "Summoning, Rashomon!" something Ryouta registered with his Sharingan, and what formed was a large gate with a face on it.
"You can't get through this, Orochimaru-sama taught this ultimate defence to us!"
Ryouta remembered it, when he fought Orochimaru, at the time he only had his eyes to get through such a strong defence.
But now, he had his new Jutsu.
"Ultimate defence huh, we'll see about that."
As he said it, Ryouta slammed the sphere against the metal door.
The twins were stunned to see Ryouta's sphere breaking through the metal wall more and more. Parts of it were being destroyed from the attack, and being ripped off. The centre where Ryouta hit, was decimated within a few moments.
Then the twins saw the gate being destroyed completely, Ryouta came through with an albeit smaller sphere than before, due to using power to destroy the gate, but he still had enough to end this.
"Sakon, Ukon, this ends now!"
"N-No!"
"We can't die!"
The twins panicked, and tried to escape.
But Ryouta was faster, and appeared before them.
"Disappear."
The twins watched on, helplessly as Ryouta's sphere smashed into the combined twins upper body.
The sphere twisted and contorted, releasing the energy outwards, and a bright light shined between them.
Kidomaru watched on, the light blinding him a good deal.
But when the light died down, Kidomaru saw that the twins had been killed with a huge hole in the centre of their combined bodies.
Their lifeless heads fell to the ground, Ryouta looked on with his eyes to check, and confirmed that they were indeed dead.
Kidomaru's eyes went towards Ryouta, who let out a breath.
"He killed Sakon and Ukon...they went into Level Two, and they still were beaten. He even stopped Ukon's destructive technique with Genjutsu. It must have been so convincing that Ukon believed his life was in danger. I see it now Orochimaru-sama, this is why you wanted this boys power. And that Jutsu even broke through Rashomon as well, simply outstanding..."
Kidomaru was in equal parts in awe, and fear as he stared at the Uchiha.
Ryouta himself released a breath, feeling the hit to his chakra, but was glad he had more than enough to use his eyes if necessary, saving them for special moments when he would need them or he wouldn't have a choice.
Ryouta glances towards Kidomaru, who flinches under his gaze.
"You're next, spider guy."
Kidomaru felt panic grow within him.
Now with Sakon and Ukon gone, he understood more and more, about the power that Orochimaru was speaking about.
"G-Get away from me..."
Kidomaru begins with a fearful touch to his tone, only for Ryouta to sharpen his eyes.
Without words, Ryouta expressed his desire to fight, something that shook Kidomaru to the core.
"N-No, it can't end here...!"
Kidomaru grit his teeth, and pulled out an arrow to fire.
Ryouta also got ready to fight against Kidomaru.
However, before either could move, Ryouta heard the sound of something smashing.
He glanced, and saw Kabuto on the ground with his body damaged.
However, he also saw Naruko on the ground, with Tsunade hunched over her.
Her heart seemed to not be beating or something akin to that.
"Naruko-chan..."
Worry came over him, seeing Naruko's life being in danger.
End chapter!
So this chapter focused on a few things, with Ryouta dealing with some of the Sound Four, Orochimaru and Kabuto still doing their best to fight, with Naruko finally managing to get her Rasengan working and delivered a blow to Kabuto, who did one right back. Ryouta also took down Sakon along with Ukon after he tried to use a technique to kill Ryouta from the inside, but he escaped that, and now his sights were on Kidomaru, before seeing Naruko's condition.
Well, until next time, thanks for reading!
Ryouta; Satsuki, Sakura, Naruko, Hinata, Gaara (fem), Ino, Haku (fem), Kurotsuchi, Karin, Konan, Mei, Anko, Samui, Hanabi, Mabui, Temari, Pakura,