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"Zircon!" normal speech
"Oh no..." thought/mind speak
"Zircon!" demon speak
Chapter 26: Zircon vs. Konoha – Round 1
*Space*
In the void of space, a large figure with light orange skin and large, unruly white hair was standing on a small meteor as the near-empty void surrounded the woman. She was wearing a red tank top and brown leggings that hugged her muscular figure. What really made her stand apart was the orange gem that acted as her nose.
"I'll make those traitors pay," Jasper said as she glared towards the direction of her desired location, "especially that brat with Amber's power…Naruto."
Jasper growled as she remembered how she was beaten by that little brat…
Flashback
*Beach City; Crystal Temple*
Jasper was standing before the Crystal Gems, after digging herself out of the destroyed ship, with Naruto holding a protective arm in front of Lapis Lazuli.
"You…seriously…*gasp*…" the orange Gem said as she was trying to catch her breath, "You seriously thought I would go down…engh…that easily? You only got the advantage over me because of the fusion and those other two…but it won't matter because I'm still stronger than you!"
"That's where you're wrong!" Naruto said as he summoned his claws, "You've never faced the likes of me…Naruto Gemm, son of Garnet Gemm, and bearer of the Amber Gems!"
Jasper raised an eyebrow as the claws changed with the pointed gauntlets vanished along with the shoulder plates and most of the spikes save for some on his forearms that were in a curved pattern. The spikes then began to move and spin in a fast pace, causing the air around the blond to move and curve around him.
"Jet Mode!" Naruto said as the spikes picked up more speed while a sphere of energy formed in his exposed hand.
The blond then rushed towards Jasper quicker than the blink of an eye as Naruto had already shoved the sphere of energy right into the surprised Gem's gut.
"Rasengan!" Naruto called out as the attack had enough power and force to launch the large Gem out into space with a loud, booming echo.
"Damn you, Naruto!" Jasper roared out as she soon vanished out of the sky, with the last look she could get was that annoying blond's little smirk of victory.
Flashback End
*Space*
Jasper instinctively placed a hand over her gut as that attack felt like multiple small blades and claws ripping out her flesh in a furious matter.
"Once I get back to that backwater planet," Jasper said with determination in her eyes, "I will destroy both Rose Quartz and Naruto Gemm!"
The large Gem was about to jump towards a nearby meteor when a wave of power rushed by her. The power had sent a chill down Jasper's spine as she then had a maniacal smile on her face.
"Well," Jasper said coolly as she wanted to see just where that power was coming from, "what do we have here?"
The large Gem picked up her pace as she jumped from one meteor to another, wanting to make sure that she could get a chance to fight whatever was behind that kind of power.
I'm coming for you Rose Quartz and Naruto Gemm!
*Konohagakure; Stadium*
The Konoha ninja watched as Amethyst and Zircon stare each other down, although Zircon had a more arrogant look than an intimidating.
"Ready to get your ass handed to you again, Purple Puppy?" Zircon asked with a smirk.
"I've told you before…" Amethyst as she shapeshifted into her wrestler persona, "…it's Purple Puma!"
(Play Indestructible by Disturbed)
The purple Gem rushed towards Zircon with a fist ready to be slammed, but the fusion quickly jumped over her and grabbed the elastic straps of her leotard before spinning the Gem around. The fusion then had both straps in one hand and began to use them to make Amethyst fly towards him and bounce off his fist multiple times.
"This is actually pretty fun!" Zircon said with a smile before it quickly turned into a bored expression, "Okay, I'm bored."
"I'm not finished with you yet!" Amethyst said as she then shapeshifted into a cat and began to furiously scratch Zircon's face.
Despite having a cat right in his face scratching him with razor-sharp claws, Zircon just roughly grabbed Amethyst and pulled her off his face with the transformed Gem trying her best to get loose from the fusion's grip.
"Seriously?" Zircon asked as Amethyst sheepishly smiled, "Time to see if cats fly!"
The fusion then began to spin Amethyst around really fast before throwing her straight towards Lee, who carefully caught her in his arms before the Gem could crash into him.
"Thanks for the save, Lee." Amethyst said as she shook the cobwebs out of her skull.
"It was not a problem!" Lee said as he looked to see Kiba and Akamaru charge towards the fusion, "So this is Zircon?"
"Yeah," Amethyst said as she jumped out of Lee's arms and changed back into her normal form, "he's really quite the character isn't he?"
The taijutsu expert nodded and watched as Kiba went to slash at Zircon, but missed as the Gem side stepped while Akamaru leapt towards the fusion, but the canine also missed when the fusion countered with a judo throw.
"I think your mutt missed a tree that's calling out his name." Zircon said as he pointed to the exit with his thumb.
"Hey!" Kiba roared out in anger, "Akamaru is not a mutt!"
"I WAS talking to Akamaru, Mutt Face!" Zircon said with a slight scowl.
"HEY!" Kiba roared out once more at the insult towards him. The Inuzuka and his canine partner then quickly charged towards Zircon with a jutsu, but the fusion just rushed towards them and beat them out of their jutsu, causing Kiba to crash into the ground with Akamaru crashing on top of him in an awkward position.
"Kiba-kun! Akamaru!" Hinata cried out as she saw Zircon fall to his knees laughing like mad.
"Oh man! Hahahahaha! The…The way those two crashed! Hahahahahahaha!" Zircon said through his laughter as he pounded his fist on the ground, "Priceless! Hahaha!"
"Um…ex…excuse me…" Hinata asked as she carefully approached the fusion, who was still laughing and holding his stomach, "but could you…um…defuse…please?"
Zircon stopped laughing and stood up on his feet before looking down at Hinata as he said, "Could you repeat that? Couldn't hear that all the way in the balcony! Hahaha!"
Hinata stood her ground as she said, "P-Please give N-Naruto-kun and Steven-k-kun back!"
"I-I-I'm s-sorry…" Zircon said, mocking the Hyuga heiress by mimicking her speech, "but I r-r-really d-don't want t-to."
A surprising sucker punch from the fusion knocked Hinata roughly to the ground as Zircon then said, "No wonder my weaker half couldn't get the hint about ya! He could hardly hear you with that mouse-like voice of yours! Too bad you lost him to Pearl-Doll."
Zircon kicked Hinata in the gut, sending her rolling to the side, before Neji rushed up to him.
"Hinata-sama!" Neji roared out as he jumped in to attack the fusion, "8 Trigrams!"
Everyone watched in anticipation as the Hyuga Branch Member called out, "2 Palms! 4 Palms! 8 Palms! 16 Palms! 32 Palms! 64 Palms! 128 Palms!"
After dealing the last strike, Neji slid back with a smirk on his face as he had struck almost all of the fusion's chakra points. The ninja's smirk quickly vanished in shock as Zircon easily moved his hand and scratched his stomach above his gem.
"That was it?" the fusion asked unimpressively, "I thought a bunch of mosquitoes were trying to eat me. Now for my attack!"
Zircon leaned his head back as he said, "Single Trigram!"
*KLONG!*
"One Skull!" the fusion said after he slammed his forehead against Neji's skull, causing the jonin to fall back and grab his ringing and throbbing head before getting kicked to the side by Zircon.
"Neji!" Tenten cried out as said Hyuga crashed through one of the trees and the concrete wall before focusing her attention on Zircon, "Alright, time to show you just who you're dealing with, buster!"
Seeing the kunoichi unseal a kusari-gama from a scroll, Zircon chuckled as he said, "If it's weapons, then it's weapons you'll get, Panda Girl!"
Zircon's three gems glowed as Steven's shield was formed while the fusion grabbed it with Naruto's clawed gauntlets. A crack soon formed on the shield as Zircon began to tear it in half before both shield and claws were enveloped in a light. The light then faded to reveal that the weapons had merged to form a slender, double-bladed ax with serrated blades in the form of a guitar. This weapon looked just as menacing as Zircon did with curved spikes acting as the tuning pegs for the strings.
"Hope you don't hurt yourself with that thing." Tenten taunted as she charged the fusion while spinning the weighted end of the chain before tossing it towards her opponent.
Zircon smirked as he flipped the guitar/ax until he was holding it like a weapon before leaping towards the kunoichi with a mighty bound. The fusion caught the weight and wrapped the chain around his forearm before giving it a powerful yank, causing Tenten to fly towards him.
"This is gonna hurt you far more than me!" Zircon said as he smacked the kunoichi with the flat side of the ax blades.
Luckily, Tenten quickly brought her arms together to block some of the hit, but the force was still enough to knock her back a good distance. The kunoichi bounced off the ground a couple of times before rolling onto her feet and pulled out two scrolls from her pockets which was quickly followed by a series of hand seals.
"Rising Twin Dragons!" Tenten called out as the scrolls exploded into dragon-shaped plumes of smoke that were circling each other, with the kunoichi flying in between them. The smoke cleared to reveal the two scrolls unraveling before multiple plumes of smoke erupted from the seals to reveal a multitude of different weapons.
"More weapons against my ax?" Zircon asked with an unimpressive tone in his voice, "Talk about a one-trick pony."
The fusion soon saw the many weapons rain towards him and tossed his ax lightly in the air before catching it, holding it like the guitar it was seen as.
"Not so fast!" Asuma said as he took in a deep breath, "Fire Style: Burning Ash Jutsu!" The jonin let his breath out as a stream of ash and gunpowder formed a cloud around the fusion.
"Thanks, Asuma-sensei!" Tenten said as she continued throwing multiple weapons at Zircon at a faster rate. Everyone watched in anticipation of what Zircon would do next as many weapons ranging from kunai knives to even large spiked balls were thrown towards the cloud of ash.
*brrrrr-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ommmmmmm!*
A climbing, echoing sound from the ash cloud erupted forcefully as everyone covered their ears at the horrible sounds as outside the stadium, multiple windows were broken and screams were heard.
"What is that awful sound!?"
"My ears!"
"This sounds worse than cats screeching!"
Tsunade held her ears shut tightly while using her medical jutsu in case they did begin to bleed.
The cloud cleared to reveal Zircon having his fingers move at a fast rate as he strummed the guitar strings.
"YYYYYYYEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA!" Zircon cried out as he continued to play the guitar, with the sound waves actually being powerful enough to cause the many weapons that were thrown at him bounce off.
No way! Kakashi thought as he tried to block the horrendous sound while covering his ears like everyone else, The sound his ax produces is strong enough to deflect metal like a Wind jutsu!
"Now for the finisher!" Zircon said as he was about to slam down on the strings when a kunai knife suddenly jammed itself into the strings, cutting them as the guitar let out a broken twang.
"Dynamic Entry!" said Gai as he kicked Zircon in the chest, causing the fusion to slide back a few meters from the force of the kick while the taijutsu master performed a backflip and landed on the ground, "That's enough of that unyouthful music!"
Looking at his guitar/ax and seeing the broken strings, Zircon looked at Gai, slammed the guitar/ax into the ground, and angrily said, "Okay, #1 rule when handling musicians is to NEVER break any of their stuff, especially their instruments! I was also on a good roll there too!"
The taijutsu master quickly ducked to avoid a punch from Zircon, but ended up taking a knee to the face before the fusion grabbed Gai's arm and breaking it. The jonin couldn't scream as Zircon had gave him an uppercut that launched Gai into the air before the fusion then grabbed his ankle and slammed the ninja harshly onto the ground.
"For someone who constantly screams out the idea of youth," Zircon said as he hovered over the injured Gai, who held his uninjured arm against his back, "you sure break your back easily…Old Gai."
Hearing the sound of dirt getting kicked up, Zircon looked to see a ball of purple charging right towards him. The fusion easily kicked the ball as Amethyst was sent flying towards the wall before Kiba and Akamaru leapt in and caught her.
"You alright?" Kiba asked as he saw a couple of ANBU jump in and got Gai out while two more went up against Zircon.
"Yeah…" Amethyst said as she messaged her shoulder while carefully stealing a glance at her gem to find that it was still alright, "…I'll be alright. Not sure about those guys…"
Kiba stole a glance to see that a few ANBU had been violently tossed to the side like ragdolls and the Inuzuka couldn't help but gulp as he took in the sight before him. He felt himself shiver as Zircon then had a couple of ANBU in his hands and twirled them around before tossing them into a few more ANBU that jumped in.
What the hell kind of can of worms did we just open!? Kiba asked himself as he saw the remaining ANBU deciding to wait in the back in hopes of either getting a good plan formulated or the perfect opportunity to jump in.
"Human Boulder!" Choji roared out as he used his expansion jutsu and charged towards the fusion, but missed as Zircon jumped into the air with a twist and landed on the ground with a smirk on his face.
"What's wrong, Fatty?" Zircon taunted as he held his smirk, "Can't hit anything with ALL of that fat?"
Choji then turned around and gained even more speed as he then became three times his own size while Zircon just stood in a stance, unfazed of what was coming at him.
"We might have a chance at this…" Shikamaru said as he had his hands in his thinking seal, "…with the amount of speed Choji is using along with that increased size, he could flatten an entire forest with a few runs."
"Don't count on it." Amethyst said as she gritted her teeth.
Everyone watched as Zircon used one hand and slammed it against the rolling Akimichi to somehow slow Choji's momentum down to a complete stop.
"Consider your fat ass SPANKED!" Zircon said as he used his free hand to slap Choji, launching the ninja out of his jutsu and into a wall.
"Choji!" Shikamaru cried out as said ninja was on the ground unconscious.
Deciding to enact a plan he had, Shikamaru looked at Sakura and said, "Go for it."
Nodding, Sakura pulled out multiple kunai knives with small pouches on them and tossed them towards the fusion. Zircon quickly summoned a new guitar/ax while the other one had vanished before blocking all the knives tossed at him, causing them to break apart with small paper tags floating around him.
"Is this really the best you can do?" Zircon asked before he saw one of the tags to find a seal on them, "Huh?"
Sorry for doing this to you guys, Sakura thought to herself as she threw a kunai with a lit explosive tag that landed at Zircon's feet.
"Sakura Blizzard Jutsu!" the rosette said as all of the tags had gone off in a massive combination of explosions, completely covering where the fusion was in smoke.
"Did you get him?" Kiba asked Sakura as he carefully approached her before getting a sharp punch in the face that launched him into a wall…courtesy of Zircon.
"You really think a bunch of cherry bombs could stop me?" Zircon said as he dusted some of the soot off his shoulders, "All you really did was singed my hair and clothes a little bit."
Sakura quivered in place at how tall Zircon compared to her as the fusion then pulled back a fist.
"Time for a little payback…" Zircon until a purple vine grabbed his arm, causing the fusion to look back to find Amethyst using her whip to try and hold him back.
"That's enough, Zircon!" the purple Gem called out as she tightened her grip, "You know you shouldn't be using your powers like this."
"Don't think you could lecture me like Pearl-Doll," Zircon said as he turned to face Amethyst and ripped the vine off his arm, "you've always were lousy with her impressions."
Before the conversation could continue, Shino jumped in between the two as a gigantic swarm of beetles surrounded the fusion.
"Time to finish this, once and for all." Shino said as Zircon was soon completely covered in beetles.
"Endgame." Shikamaru said as the others watched in anticipation at would might happen next.
*uuuurrrrp*
"Ew…" Ino said with a disgusted look on her face, "That's disgusting!"
Before any other comment was made, all of the beetles suddenly fell onto the ground as Shino looked in horror at the sight before him.
"Im…Impossible!" the Aburame said with slight shock and horror in his voice, "He…killed them!"
"I was always told my breath could knockout a dinosaur," Zircon said as he wiped some of the saliva off the corner of his mouth, "but I never knew it made good bug repellant. Now where did I leave that giant fly swatter?"
"Just what is he?" Shino asked as he carefully backed away from the fusion, "I have never thought of such an opponent like Zircon to exist!"
"Here we go!" Zircon said as he summoned another guitar/ax before he threw it towards everyone, "Catch!"
Everyone panicked as they didn't have time to duck until they saw Amethyst leap in front of them with her back towards Zircon.
(End Song)
*churk!*
"Engh!" the purple Gem grunted and fell onto one knee as the weapon was lodged deep into her back.
"Amethyst!" Lee cried out as he held said Gem in his arms, "Don't worry, I'm sure Hokage-sama will be able to help you!"
"Too late…for that now…" Amethyst said as she knew the injury was pretty serious, "Listen…I need…a favor from you!"
"Anything…" Lee said with tears forming in his eyes and fear forming in his heart, "…I promise…"
"I'm…" Amethyst began before letting out a grunt of pain, "I'm going to retreat into the gem you see…engh…on my chest. I'll be…I'll be okay as long as my gem's safe…but I…I need you to hold Zircon off long enough for Pearl…for Pearl to get here…She and Connie are the only ones who can stop him…and…and with Connie not…not being here, it's up to Pearl to-"
*poof!*
The cloud burst cleared to reveal an amethyst stone laying on the ground before Lee as said ninja delicately picked it up in his hands. Tenten cringed a bit as she saw the saddened and fearful look on her teammate's face and regretted about having Lee distract Amethyst.
"Don't be so dramatic about her," Zircon callously said, getting a few shocked look from the remaining Konoha ninja, "she'll bounce back as this wasn't the first time she was forced into her gem."
Lee stood up as he placed the gem in one of his vest pockets before going into a taijutsu stance with a fiery look of determination in his eyes.
"Lee…" Sakura said before said ninja stopped her by holding his arm in front of her.
"Now wait a minute…" Kurenai said as she didn't want the chunin to do anything reckless, "Don't act hasty because of this."
"I must do this!" Lee said vigorously, "I am not doing this just for Konoha…I am doing this because I promised Amethyst that I will hold off Zircon until Pearl arrives to stop him. I had only confessed about this plan to her because not only was it wrong to force Naruto and Steven into this, but I was being dishonest with someone that I considered precious to me. I know that Zircon has taken down some of our best ninja, and I also know that I am no match for him either…but I will not break my promise to Amethyst as I see the beautiful angel that she is!"
"Gate of Opening…" Lee said as he tightened his focus on Zircon and felt a small twinge in his brain, "Release!"
The taijutsu expert dashed towards the fusion with quickened speed and gave Zircon a sharp punch to the side of his face, actually causing the fusion to slightly flinch from the impact, before jumping back as to avoid a haymaker from Zircon.
"Not bad," Zircon said as he messaged his jaw, "no one had actually gone head-on and do that to me…this just got more interesting."
Lee quickly hit the fusion with a kick to the side of his head, again making Zircon flinch again from the impact while the taijutsu expert went in with a following punch, but this time it was blocked as Zircon caught Lee's fist.
"Seeing how hard you're fighting," the fusion said before catching Lee's other fist, "I can tell you have a thing for her. I never would have pictured you having a thing for fruits, considering you're trading cherry blossoms for plums. Too bad your fashion sense makes you a chick repellant."
Zircon then gave Lee a mighty toss to the side while Ino suddenly appeared in the corner of his vision.
"Mind Transfer Jutsu!" Ino said as she fell before Shikamaru caught her.
Zircon stood still for a moment before he shook his head and chuckled as he said, "I heard about getting into people's head, but you're ridiculous."
"What do you mean?" Zircon then said with an attitude similar to Ino's.
"One: I'm far more stronger than you as I can easily rip control over my body from ya." Zircon said with his normal tone as he tightened a fist, "And two…"
*pow!*
Everyone was shocked as the fusion had punched himself in the face, causing a bruise to slowly form on both his own face and Ino's.
"You think I wouldn't know about that little drawback of that jutsu of yours?" Zircon added as he punched himself a few times on the face, causing a few more bruises to form on Ino's face, "My body can easily heal itself thanks to not only being a Gem, but also having a demon whose chakra can repair my body. Yours however…"
That bastard! Shikamaru thought in surprise as Zircon sharply punched himself in the gut and lightly doubled over. The fusion held his mouth as bile filled his mouth before he swallowed it, much to everyone's disgust while bile just freely oozed out of Ino's mouth.
"Just think about it…" Zircon said as he summoned his ax, "I can split your skull without actually having to do it to you!"
Zircon's body then froze as Shikamaru quickly used his jutsu to capture the fusion before more damage could be done as the Nara said, "I don't think that the others will appreciate that."
"So you finally acted on your own, huh Lazy Bones?" Zircon taunted as the Nara made him toss his ax to the side, "Just too troublesome when I can counter everything with pure brute power."
Ino's body suddenly began to move, signaling that Ino had left Zircon's mind, as the girl wiped the bile of her mouth while holding herself steady from the concussions dealt on her body.
"Keep him still!" Kakashi roared out as he had his hand covered in lightning.
"Well if it isn't the porn addict teacher…" Zircon said as Kakashi charged towards him, "…finally ready for your just deserts."
Within a split second, a shining bubble formed around the fusion as it had stopped the jonin's attack with the bubble popping from the impact while Zircon easily jumped towards Shikamaru and grabbed him before tossing the Nara to the side.
He must have used the bubble to not only block Kakashi's attack, Asuma thought as his student got to his feet while Kakashi was fighting the fusion, but the light must have created a barrier to prevent Shikamaru's Shadow Possession from working on him.
Kakashi quickly ducked to avoid a punch before he said, "Let my student go, Zircon."
"Really…" Zircon said as he blocked a kick from the jonin, "…am I really supposed to listen to a favorite-playing porn addict like you? You ditched my weaker half on a guy that probably would have only taught him water walking before leaving him, saying that the exercise contained a secret in defeating Neji. I really wonder what you really did during that whole month, go to a book club that focuses on that piece of garbage because you yourself can't get lucky with the ladies? Or do I have to bring up how much of a hypocrite you really are…Sensei…"
Kakashi kept himself calm as he knew that the fusion was trying to get him to lose his cool. But the former ANBU did have to admit that he wasn't the best of teachers as he did focus on one student after preaching about teamwork. He couldn't even think about defending himself about his love for Jiraiya's works as Kakashi had pulled all-nighters to just finish the book. And now here he is, fighting something that even Konoha's famous knucklehead wouldn't dare face after forcing said person to form that something.
"Kakashi!" Kurenai called out, snapping said person out of their thoughts, "Focus! You can't let him get to you!"
"Well," Zircon said with a chuckle, "if it isn't Miss Illusions. What are you going to do? Pull a rabbit from your dress?"
The genjutsu mistress didn't respond as she soon vanished with leaves surrounding the fusion.
"Zircon!" said a familiar voice as said fusion looked to see Garnet with her gauntlets ready to fight him.
Garnet quickly jumped towards Zircon and gave the fusion a powerful haymaker in the face. Oddly, Zircon didn't even try to move away as he took the attack square in the face.
"Don't think that some cheap illusion will stop me." Zircon said as he summoned his ax and slammed himself with the flat side hard enough to break his nose into an awkward look.
Kurenai stood her ground as she couldn't believe that someone would purposely break their own nose just to dispel a genjutsu.
Everyone then watched as Zircon grabbed his broken nose and with sickening snaps, the fusion fixed his nose in its proper place as he said, "If you guys are wondering why I'm not as badly bruised as I should be after punching myself and even slamming the broadside of my ax into my face, then I'll let you in a little secret: Gems can heal themselves and since half of me can heal others with loogies while the other half has accelerated healing thanks to Niney, good luck with doing any REAL damage to me!"
Before the fusion could react, a red-skinned Lee suddenly kicked Zircon straight into the air with the ax landing on the ground.
"If what you say about your healing is true…" Lee said as he tightened his fists, "…then the time for holding back is over!"
In a quick blur of speed, the taijutsu expert was suddenly smacking Zircon in many different directions in midair before giving the fusion a punch to his stomach that sent him hurtling towards the ground below. Lee had then somehow beat the falling fusion to the ground and gave him a powerful punch to the jaw that sent Zircon out of the arena.
"I…I think Lee might have overdone it…" Asuma said as there was no sign of the fusion in the sky, "That attack probably launched Zircon all the way Kumogakure."
Tsunade and the remaining Konoha shinobi gathered around Lee as his skin color returned to its natural look, but before a word could be spoken.
*BOOM!*
Everyone covered their eyes from the dust and once it settled, they all looked to see Zircon standing before them with bruises from Lee's attack slowly vanishing. The fusion looked at the group menacingly until…
*crick!*
…a small crack formed on one of the lenses on Zircon's sunglasses before…
*shatter!*
…the glasses had completely shattered and fell of his face, revealing Zircon's unnatural blood-red eyes that shone with ominous danger.
"You broke my favorite glasses…" the fusion said before he suddenly appeared before Lee and kicked him straight into the air.
Zircon leapt into the air and gave the taijutsu expert a few sharp punches to the face and gut before placing Lee on his shoulders upside down while holding onto the taijutsu expert's ankles in an awkward split. The two began to fall as the fusion smirked in victory with the other's below quickly jumping away as who knows what he was planning. Zircon landed on the ground with an earth moving slam in a kneeled position as the ground shattered underneath.
"…so I break you." Zircon said as he let go of Lee with a wicked smile that showed his dagger-like canines.
Time moved slowly as everyone saw Lee fall to the ground with blood coming out of his mouth. The ninja landed on the ground as he let out a pained groan and slowly rolled onto his stomach.
"You know I actually felt those attacks when you smacked me around like a pinball." Zircon said as he stood up on both feet and stole a glance towards the downed Lee, "No one had ever actually did that much damage to me, not even Alexandrite."
The fusion turned towards the fallen ninja, kneeled and grabbed Lee by his hair as he said, "I'm actually going to regret stomping you into the ground as you were the only one to ever break my glasses."
"Put him down!" said a familiar voice as everyone looked to see Jiraiya with his hands pressed against each other.
"Okay." Zircon complied as he slammed Lee's face into the ground, causing a few ninjas to flinch.
"So you must be Zircon." the Toad Sage said as he examined the fusion, "I never would have imagine that someone as arrogant as you could take down some of Konoha's strongest."
"I try my best, Pervy Sage." Zircon countered with a smirk, "Too bad only one of them could have given me a real fight; I'd hardly call fighting them a warm-up."
He wasn't even putting in any effort! Tsunade thought as she didn't want to know just how things could have gone if the fusion was adding effort to his fights.
"I know, I was watching." Jiraiya admitted while keeping his tone, "I was kinda thinking that Naruto and the others were overreacting about you, but seeing the damage you can do…I guess I should use that form."
The sage then separated his hands and formed some seals before slamming his hands onto his shoulders.
"Summoning Jutsu!" Jiraiya said as small plumes of smoke erupted from his shoulders before revealing two small toads, one with blue fluffy hair and the other one having greyish white hair.
"Why have you summoned us here, Jiraiya-Boy," asked the blue-haired toad with a voice of an elderly woman, "and who is this lad?"
"Believe it or not, Ma, but that is Naruto," Jiraiya answered, getting a confused look from both Toads, "or at least a part of him is."
"Yeah, I do sense that Naruto-Boy that Bunta and his sons talk about in the lad," said the other Toad with an elderly man's voice, "but his power is far beyond that of the gaki's."
"He's a Gem Fusion by the name of Zircon, Pa, and from what I saw," Jiraiya said as he kept his eyes on said fusion, "I'm going to have to use it."
"But I thought you hated using Sage Mode because it makes you look unappealing with the ladies?" Pa asked.
"I know, but I really can't pull any punches right now." the Toad Sage said as he closed his eyes.
Zircon raised an eyebrow as Jiraiya's body began to change by adding a few warts to his now enlarged nose. The sage then opened his eyes to reveal that they were now golden with pupils similar to a toad's as Tsunade looked at her old teammate in surprise.
"Hope you're ready for that real fight, Zircon," Jiraiya said as his got into a fighting stance, "because I'm bringing it!"
The fusion remained silent before a few suppressed chuckles and sorts escaped from his trembling mouth.
"PFFFFFFFFAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Zircon laughed as he held his stomach with tears of laughter falling from his eyes, "I...HAHAHA…I can…hehe…I can't believe that…hahaha…that someone had HAHAHA-actually found the ugly stick! HAHAHAHAHA!"
"Laugh all you want," Jiraiya said as he tightened his focus on the laughing fusion, "but my power has drastically increased thanks to the creation of Nature Chakra in my body. It takes rigorous training and understanding of this type of chakra to even get a small sliver of power."
Zircon slowly stood up as his laughter was dying and said, "So…hehe..you turn yourself into…hehe…some freakish fool in…hehe…in order to become stronger and while…hehe…while holding hands with a couple of Toads?"
Seeing the serious look on Jiraiya's face, the fusion smirked and cracked his knuckles as he sensed a real fight coming up.
"Okay then…" Zircon said as he picked up his ax and gave a light toss in the air before catching it.
"…let's dance!"
Will Jiraiya stand up to the test of defeating Zircon? Or is he doomed to a fate of getting beaten by this Demon Gem? If some of you are wondering how Lee was able to make Zircon flinch and deal some damage on him, we cannot use the full strength of our muscles due to some of the restraints our brain place on us (i.e. pain receptors). But since the Gate of Opening allows those who know how to use the Eight Gate access to the whole 100% or our strength as those restraints are removed. as for Zircon's guitar/ax, think of a slimmer version of Marceline's ax with serrated edges on the blades. Don't forget to rate and review!
Ja ne.
