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Cursed Axe vs. Monkey Staff
In Kumo
Gaara had just crippled his opponent and looked to see the Raikage finishing up his fight as well.
The Raikage was fighting Matsushita Tomoyasu a swordsman from Iwagakure. While the other kages' used ninjutsu to fight, Matsushita and A were using only Taijutsu and Kenjutsu, but that wasn't to say that they weren't using any sort of ninjutsu A was fighting with his lightning armor activated and Matsushita was fighting with an armor of stone.
Both fighters were bent on winning although to the casual viewer it seemed like the Raikage was at a disadvantage with only one arm while Matsushita had two arms the Raikage was no pushover as he showed his opponent. The two swordsmen fighting had gotten so intense that the ground under them was cracking.
The Raikage was on the offensive; taking his sword and pointing it in the air and bringing it down in a slashing motion. Matsushita however seeing the oncoming attack took his sword in both hands Matsushita began to spin his sword in a circular motion making it spin fast and creating a bubble of air pressure that caused the strike to miss its target namely Matsushita.
"Heh I guess you actually can fight, alright then lets continue" and the two swordsmen continued to fight, suddenly Matsushita made a series of one-handed hand signs and said "Doton: Ishi Kasui" ("Earth Style: Rock Spikes") in the blink of an eye the battle ground erupted in stone spikes coming up from the ground however A was able to dodge it thanks to his lightning armor and reflexes. "Oh so you want to play dirty, two can play that game. He made a simple hand sign and said, "Kai" ("Release") suddenly where before there used to be a stump on his right arm indicating where his arm had been cut off, suddenly disappeared and in its place appeared the Raikage's right arm.
Matsushita was surprise "H-how did you regain your right arm I thought you lost it during the war 3 years ago." said Matsushita surprise, the Raikage simply smiled and said "yeah well I did but we had many causalities in the war and so after doing some research and operations the medical nin were able to take the arm from one of the Kumo nin and transplant it to me." "one of my Kumo nin had been fatally injured he only had one arm left. His other arm and both his legs had been blown off by a stray bomb. In short he was dying and he knew it, but that shinobi beseeched me to take his other arm he said that since he was already dying he wanted me to take his remaining arm he told me that he gave his life in service of his village and he wanted to do the same in death."
"He told me that if I accepted his arm then in some small way he would live on to see his village rises from the ashes of war and he could once again somehow still serve his village." "So I accepted that brave warrior's last request and did as he asked of me. The man's name was Ozai, so with the help of medical ninjutsu the doctors were able to keep him alive long enough to attach his arm onto mine." "Since he was about the same height and weight as me, luckily he was also the same blood type as me. So his arm was able to be transplanted onto me without much complications and although it would never be as strong as my original right arm with training I was able to fix that problem to an extent and that is the story of how I got my arm back now then I think it's time to end this fight."
He then went through a series of hand signs and said "Raiton: Ittoubori Ikazuchi" ("Lightning Style: Knives Of Thunder") in the blink of an eye many knives materialized from thin air however the only difference was that they weren't made of any metal but out of lightning itself, and flew towards Matsushita and hit him square in the chest and crumbling his stone armor to bits, causing him to fall to his knees and cough up blood.
The Raikage then sheathed his sword and took out a weapons scroll from which he took out a huge and heavy hammer after holding it in one hand and making a few hand signs he said "Raiton: Kanadzuchi No Thor (Lightning Style:"Hammer Of Thor").
Suddenly the head of the hammer A was carrying got bigger and the hammer seemed to be covered in lightning. swinging the huge hammer around A began to face his opponent, Matsushita had just began to rise once again when the lightning covered hammer slammed him back to the ground, and although even without his armor of stone Matsushita was still very resistant to damage. The damage done to his body from the Raikage's hammer could not be fixed because not only did the force of the hammer break every bone in his body it also caused his body to go numb in pain but still very much alive, with his battle now finished A patiently waited for Tsunade to finish her fight with her opponent.
Meanwhile: Deep in the Forest Of Death
Shino had just finished defeating his opponent and now the only thing left of him were his skeletal remains, while Shino feasted on the man's chakra his insects feasted on the man's flesh and bones. It wasn't often that his insects got the chance to have a feast. When it was over his insects once again retreated inside of him, and he continued on towards to where Konohamaru was fighting Noitra, as he headed towards him shino thought to himself " even though I defeated my enemy and took all his chakra I still haven't recovered enough to fight my chakra levels are operating at only 1/4 the capacity. When he reached the clearing where Konohamaru and Noitra were fighting he was shocked to see all the surrounding trees and scenery crushed from the force of the attacks of the two genin.
Konohamaru had now taken off his weighted clothing and fighting Noitra without any weights and had just knocked Noitra off his feet with his Monkey Staff but still kept his guard up when Noitra got back up he said "it seems Kami is smiling upon me today because today I finally get to have my revenge and finally get to kill the last Sarutobi." so saying he swung his axe and attacked Konohamaru but was blocked by his staff.
"What the hell are you talking about what's your beef with me I haven't done anything to you so why are you pissed at me?" Noitra just laughed and said "oh how wrong you are, allow me to give you a Little history lesson before I kill you" and so he began his tale.
Flashback
"3 years ago my father was out on a mission my father Zhao was in command of the squad with my brother Sokka. They had just finished their mission and were heading back to their village when they met a group of ninja from Konoha mainly a man Named Asuma Sarutobi and his squad, after finding us within Fire Country's borders he asked my father and brother of their purpose but before they could reply to his question, he attacked them without reason and a fight broke out, in which my brother and father died at the hands of Asuma Sarutobi."
"When news reached our village the council was furious that Earth ninja had been killed by Leaf ninja and wanted retribution however the Tsuchikage refused by saying that it was their fault for being caught by the enemy and as a result he declared them missing Nin and wiped his hands clean of them."
"When I found out at first I was sad but sorrow quickly gave way to anger. Anger at the fact that my whole family had been wiped out by meddling leaf ninja, I wanted retribution and so I vowed to become stronger and defeat the man who killed my Father and brother"
"Sadly however he was killed by Akutsuki and it seemed my chance had been robbed at retribution, but I then came across Lord Yagiro who told me that I could still attain my revenge by killing the scion of the Sarutobi clan: The grandson of the third Hokage the very same Third Hokage who killed his son Bumi in the Third Ninja World War but in order for that to happen I needed to train and who better to train under than Yagiro Hokumara the war hero of the Rock Village." "So I was taken as his pupil and taught many things, and then I waited until the Chunin Exams where I would soon be able to battle you and kill you and thus as a result put my family's soul at rest." Noitra said finishing his tale.
End Flashback
"Now that the history lesson it's time to die," making a few hand signs he said "Ishi Kasui Yajirushi!" ("Earth Element: Stone Spike Arrows!") the earth around Noitra quickly started to gather around him and then changing their shapes to arrows and spears, raced toward Konohamaru at high speeds. Konohamaru simply smiled and threw a couple of exploding kunai towards the oncoming hail of stone arrows creating a large explosion, and blasted most of them out of the air and causing a big explosion although a few arrows still slipped through and hit Konohamaru in the heart which caused him to fall to his knees and cough up blood. Noitra laughed in contentment and said "yes, die for your death will give peace to me and my family." Konohamaru simply smiled at him and disappeared in a poof of smoke, suddenly he was hit by Konohamaru's monkey staff in the groin, which had suddenly appeared from below him, which caused Noitra to double back in pain.
"You seem to be big on strength but short on brains" and as for you little family flashback it failed to impress me in fact it makes me only pity you ninja better than you have been consumed by vengeance and met their deaths, and as for their little mission do you know what it was?" "It was a mission to scout for the possible assassins of the Son of Minato Namikaze and container of the Nine Tailed Fox." They were on a mission to try to assassinate Naruto one of the ninja of the Hidden Leaf Village, so if your family died it's their own fault for trying to kill a member of our village, they were infiltrating the Fire Nation borders when they came upon one of the leaf ninja squads." "When they were overheard talking about possibily killing Naruto when my uncle heard about it he tried to capture them to make them talk but they refused to be captured and were killed that is what the truth is and do you know how I know about it is because my uncle Asuma told me about it." said Konohamaru.
Noitra refused to listen however and said "I don't care what you say the truth is that a Sarutobi killed my family and now I will do anything and everything it takes to get my revenge and kill you."
He then made a few hand signs and said "Doton: Ishi Koppamijin" ("Earth Element: Stone Smash") a great big boulder suddenly came out the earth and sped towards the young leaf genin. Thinking quickly Konohamaru made a hand sign and suddenly a shadow clone appeared with his hands outstretched he quickly made a Rasengan on his clone's hand and threw him towards the oncoming boulder and breaking it into a thousand little pieces. The clone then made a hand sign and took his monkey staff in his hand and said "extend" without warning his staff grew at an exponential rate and speed and hit Noitra square in the chest so hard it caused Noitra's stone armor to crack and crumble.
Konohamaru then made a few hand signs and said "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu" ("Grand Fireball Jutsu") and launched the elemental attack at the rock genin engulfing him in flames and burning him. Using the "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" ("Shadow Clone Technique,") Konohamaru then divided himself in six, as they yelled "SA-RU-TO-BI," the four clones kicked Noitra into the air. Then, while he was floating in mid-air, the final body assaulted him from above with a rotating heel drop while yelling "Konohamaru Rendan!" ("Konohamaru Sarutobi Barrage!")
Meanwhile below the original Konohamaru and the clone began to prepare a Rasengan, the clone finally reached the ground with Noitra head down and right into a waiting Rasengan which Konohamaru smashed into his chest as soon as he crashed, causing a huge explosion, but when the smoke cleared the young leaf genin was surprised to see his opponent starting to once again rise from the ground looking beat up like hell but still standing "damn I will admit this much it wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be but that's all well and good because in the end no matter what you do you will die by my hand" with his part said he popped a pill into his mouth and ate it.
For a few seconds nothing happened then slowly Noitra's complexion changed from a pale white to a more charcoal grey and his chakra level had also risen. Suddenly he disappeared from view and attacked Konohamaru with his axe which Konohamaru was barely able to avoid, but not before getting cut on his forearms. "Damn at this rate I'm going to get my ass kicked" Konohamaru then jumped back and said "aright then if you're going to fight hard then I will do the same." He then removed his coat and t-shirt and threw them on the floor causing a huge crater on the floor, and then disappeared from view.
Shino was about to jump into the fray when he saw what was happening, however he was quickly stopped by a shadow clone coming his way looking beat to hell. "Konohamaru what are you doing sending me a shadow clone don't waste your chakra like that, let me help you defeat him."He told his young charge and was about to go forward.
But the clone stopped him and said "no sensei this battle is one I must win or lose on my own. It is a battle of honor this guy has a bone to pick with me and my clan and I will die before I let him hurt my family, and besides looking at you I can tell that you're running on empty yourself." "It makes no sense for you to fight as well please just rest I have a plan. I have a feeling I'm going to have to pull out all the stops on this one." the young leaf genin told the insect master.
When I give you the signal I need you to become an insect hive and get the hell away from here. I know you're the superior officer but just trust me on this." he said giving Shino a Naruto like grin, Shino looked thoughtful for a minute, but then nodded his understanding. The clone gave him thumbs up and vanished.
Konohamaru was having a hard time dodging and blocking Noitra's attacks resulting in him getting many cuts and bruises on his body. Even with his weighted clothes off and his speed increased he wasn't getting too far mostly because Noitra had used a jutsu to turn the terrain into muddy a river and it was hard to move around. Upon getting the memories from his vanished clone Konohamaru smiled and said "damn man I must say that curse mark really lives up to everything I have heard about it but now it's time for me to start fighting back." Digging into his weapons pack he dropped a smoke bomb on the ground and retreated a ways back.
Cutting his palm with a kunai he went through a series of hand signs and slammed his hands on the floor and said "Kuchiyose No jutsu" ("Ninja Art: Summoning Technique") a poof of smoke appeared where Konohamaru had slammed his hand."Konohamaru, why have you summoned me?! but before Konohamaru could answer him Noitra came charging in "don't think you can escape me so easily you filthy pheasant" he made a few hand signs and said Doton: Ishi Kyoudan! ("Earth Style: Stone Bullets"!)suddenly a barrage of small stone projectiles came speeding towards the duo.
"Shit this guy is fast, getting in front of the king he quickly made a hand sign and threw some shuriken made a few hand signs and said "Ninpou: Happa Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" ("Ninja Art: Exploding Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu!") Suddenly a shower of shurikens appeared in the air and flew towards the barrage of stone missiles. Creating a huge explosion which Konohamaru used to escape and retreat. "What the hell is going on here Konohamaru chan first you summon me in a bloody forest on a fucken branch, and then before I can get my bearings straight I get attacked by some gray kid wielding a big ass axe?"Konohamaru athrew some smoke bombs on the ground and retreated to a safe spot before answering.
"Look just shut up and listen to me here is the short story sensei, it's the same thing that happened with grandpa except this is Kumo and we are being attacked by Iwagakure and instead of Orochimaru, Kabuto is here and is now fighting the boss in a battle down the road if you look just right you can see them, the Kaze, Rai and Hokage are back at the stadium fighting their own battles."
"That gray kid has some form of a curse mark on him and is currently after me cuz uncle Asuma killed his family and at the moment is kicking my ass into next Sunday." "Shino sensei is somewhere here but is running low, now the reason I called you is this:" "I know you told me not to summon you unless I really need to and well I think this situation calls for it, would you not Enma sensei?" The young genin asked his summon breathlessly
Enma looked thoughtful and said: "tell me something Kono-Chan what is the highest level technique you can use at the moment with your staff?" although he was a bit confused he answered his summon and said "Monkey Staff Adamantine Prison." But I can't use it that well mostly cuz it takes as much concentration as the Rasengan and double the chakra and although I work with Koenma on that jutsu a lot but it's still hard to perfect, but the highest level jutsu I can do with my staff perfectly is Shadow Clone Extension Staff, but what does this have to do with anything?" Konohamaru asked the Monkey king.
"I am impressed Kono-Chan you have managed to master some high level techniques in such a short time since receiving it. I am proud of you my boy. The reason I ask is because I think it's time we finally used "That Jutsu" on the Battle field." "You sure about that sensei I practiced that jutsu a couple times with Koenma and it didn't always go through properly and the few times it did I mostly went on a rampage until the boss man kicked my ass back to normal."
"Not to worry my son there are many ways of performing the jutsu and for the meantime I will control and maintain the jutsu all I want from you is chakra ok?" "Fine sensei you're the boss, just tell me what to do and how much you need from me, Enma nodded and explained to the genin about the chakra and hand signs needed. They went through the hand signs and King Enma said Ninpou: Saru-Jin Yuukai! (Ninja Art: "Monkey and Man Fusion!") Attracted by the noise Noitra appeared and was about to attack them when there was a big flash of light and the two entities of summoner and summon became one.
When the light subsided the two were no longer separate but were one, their appearance looked nothing like Noitra had ever seen before because before him was neither a monkey nor a man but something else entirely before him was an 8 foot tall Gorilla like creäture with red fur and a long tail he had the face of Konohamaru but the chest and feet of the monkey king while his arms were covered in fur they still looked like Konohamaru's arms, "w-what is this who the fuck are you? Konohamaru laughed a deep laugh and said "Is that fear I hear in your voicedon't you recognize me I am Konohamaru, the same man you vowed to kill the only difference is that we are now equal now then hall we continue?" He made a single hand sign and his monkey staff appeared in his hands. "Now then no more Jutsu no more games let us fight this out as real men."
Taking his staff in his hand he put on a burst of speed and attacked Noitra who barely managed to block the attack although not before being cut by the speed of the attack, Noitra started taking the fight seriously and fought Konohamaru one on one with his axe.
It was axe against staff neither ninja giving in when Noitra tried to use his Earth Jutsu he was unsuccessful due to the staffs electrical pulses not allowing him to do so. Noitra was becoming desperate as none of his attacks seemed to working he had realized that he was unable to beat his opponent in close range battle so he switched over to long rage battle.
By using the power of the cursed seal he was able to use fire element jutsu and unleashed a barrage of fire jutsu while making the hand signs for tiger, snake and rabbit Noitra unleashed his jutsu "Katon: Gōryūka no Jutsu" ("Fire Element Fire Dragon Jutsu"), and from his mouth erupted a long winding Dragon made of Blue Fire. "Hah let's see you take that you monkey this is the greatest Fire jutsu, my Blue Fire Dragon will burn you and your arrogance to ashes." Noitra said laughing like a mad man.
Konohamaru saw the approaching Dragon and simply laughed "is this the best you can do?" putting on speed Konohamaru ran towards the dragon until he was within the jutsu's range after that he started spinning in place and kept on spinning until the flames started covering his body like a mini tornado only instead of wind it seemed to be made of fire.
Konohamaru then began to spin even faster and then began moving towards Noitra and because he had already used much of his chakra for that jutsu he was unable to block or evade the jutsu and was caught in the jutsu head on. Leaving Noitra severely hurt although his body was damaged his will power and rage seemed to overpower his mortal wounds and he battled on with Taijutsu and soon it was a battle of wills: The Cursed Axe vs. the Monkey Staff.
Finally Konohamaru used his staff to break his opponent's axe causing Noitra to fall from the force of the attack and Konohamaru quickly and efficiently broke his hands making him incapable of using any Jutsu looking down at him he saw Noitra still wore that disdainful expression of contempt on his face "you saw fit to judge me for your clan's misdeeds and stupidity , you wrongly accused me of murder you insulted and attacked my friend Chiruku purposely and viciously in your quest for vengeance you turned to the Dark Arts. So for all these sins and more I sentence you to death! May Kami have mercy on your soul because I surely won't. Taking his staff in both hands he said "Adamantine Staff Piercing Drill."
The end of his staff started to contract and turned into a drill which he then used to pierce Noitra's skull and brains effectively ending his life. He then applied a series of explosive tags to his body and set them to blow in 60 seconds. Before leaving the clearing Konohamaru picked up Noitra 's fallen axe which seemed to have repaired itself after making contact with Its dead master's blood, using a special sealing scroll he got from Tenten as a good luck gift to use in the exams he sealed the weapon within the scroll and put it inside his pouch.
He left the clearing and called out to Shino giving him the all clear, when Shino re-appeared he was surprised at Konohamaru appearance, and used his insects to confirm if it was truly the young genin or someone else in disguise, after confirming his suspicions he said "I assume this is the effect of some sort of Jutsu between you and your summons yes?" The young genin simply nodded and said "look lets save the questions for later this place is set to blow I set up explosive notes all around the area so let's boogie on out of here." Shino sensei gets on my back ill carry you out of the forest."
When Shino opened his mouth to protest but the genin cut him off and said "look don't argue I have more chakra and stamina at the moment and in this form I can get us out of here quicker." Shino finally relented and got on the young genin's back and with Shino on his back Konohamaru cleared the forest area in three short jumps before the explosives went off, after getting to a clearing Konohamaru said "hey sensei I'm going to release the Jutsu now ok so please make sure there are no enemies in the area."
Shino nodded and after making sure he simply nodded Konohamaru made a single hand sign and said release. Suddenly in a poof of smoke they once again separated and Konohamaru lost his balance and fell to the ground feeling a bit dizzy, King Enma also seemed a bit unsteady but quickly regained his senses and said "alright you did well Kono Chan." he said in a gruff but proud voice, he turned to Shino and said you are Shino of the Aburame clan are you not? Tell me something would your father be Shibi Aburame current Head of the Aburame Clan by any chance?
Shino nodded his assent and bowed to him and said "yes sir and it is an honor to make your acquaintance lord Enma I have heard much of your valor and wisdom." The old monkey was surprised but pleased at this bit of courtesy and bowed back and said "nice to meet you as well son." Looking at him closely Enma seemed to be in thought and said to Shino "do me a favor son tell your father I want to meet him sometime to discuss some important matters that might concern and interest him."
Forming a hand sign the old Monkey King made a scroll appear in his hand and handed it to the Jonin and said "here give that to your father if I know him well he will be quite interested in what I have to say after reading this letter it's a letter addressed to the head of the Aburame clan so only he can open it. "He then turned to the Genin and said "you did real well today Kono-Chan anyway listen kono-chan when you get back to the village I want you to tell Tsunade-Chan that I want to have a chat with her, ok?"
Konohamaru simply nodded and said "yes, sensei." He then turned to Shino and said "I have a few friends who might be interested in speaking with the Aburame clan head so make sure you tell Shibi that the next time I pop in I want to speak with him ok?" When Shino replied in the affirmative the Monkey King said his goodbyes and vanished in a poof of smoke.
A/N: the fusion of King Enma and Konohamaru looks basically like an SSJ4 Goku but much more gorilla and bulky like. For those readers who have not had the good fortune of watch the Dragon Ball series. I highly recommend it. If you want to know Konohamaru looks like just search for the term: SSJ4 Goku in Google Pictures and you will understand. Well now it seems things are coming to an end but what is this Monkey king Enma has also requested an Audience with the Hokage as well what is going on here? Find out next time on By Executive Orders.