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Snake vs. Toad Part 2
Naruto and Kabuto had both ascended into their greatest forms to battle each other because they both knew anything else would mean defeat and death and neither wanted to die today, so great was their power that the mere force of their attacks caused the heavens to split with lightning and the earth to shake with thunder, however the warriors saw nothing but each other.
Naruto upon Gamabunta's head lunged an attack at Kabuto with his Bisento blades, only to be blocked by Kabuto's bone blades and so the two warriors attacked each other in a frenzy, testing each other's reflexes and reactions each trying to gain information on the other with each strike however while their summoners were fighting the toad and snake weren't sitting idly they also recommenced their battle and so again the battle continued like thus. Neither was able to overcome the other despite many attempts from each other.
Naruto and Kabuto finally disengaged from each other and once again stood upon their respective summons, each panting hard, Naruto sheathing his Bisento blades was the first to speak: "it seems we are a match at the battle of blades Kabuto, for neither of us is able to cut each other with only our blades, so how about we stop all this dancing and prancing around like dancers and really get this battle on the road."
Kabuto smiled at Naruto's Words and said: "oh but I was so enjoying our little game Naruto-kun, but very well no more playing around, I shall grant your wish and give you battle, come let us fight for this much is certain to the victor go the spoils and after the battle I will enjoy continuing my experiments on your beloved Hinata Hyuuga." "I think the Byakugan will be a great experiment to work on and who knows while she is not busy being mu experiment maybe she can be my whore."
Naruto's Killer intent was so high it caused even Kabuto's smile to falter for a second but like the passing breeze it soon vanished Naruto only response was "I'm not worried about Hinata chan Kabuto but I must say it was a good attempt at making me lose my cool for a minute there, but I've risen above petty insults and rises." "You forget Naruto is not in charge at the moment I Kurama is in charge and your words have no effect on me."
"Do not forget this is a battlefield not a Debate hall where we trade insults and arguments. No this is battlefield and here weapons and jutsu will ask questions and blood and wounds shall answer the questions, nothing more nothing less." With a series of hand signs said "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Style: Water Dragon Jutsu)" suddenly a large dragon of water appeared from the nearby lake and rushed towards Kabuto, however Kabuto was able to counter with his own jutsu, while Naruto was making hand signs Kabuto started his own jutsu with the final hand sign completed Kabuto said Raiton: Rairyūūdan no Jutsu (Lightning style: Thunder Dragon Jutsu") suddenly a large dragon composed of thunder appeared over Kabuto and flew towards Naruto's own water dragon and with a mighty snap of its jaws, the Thunder Dragon overcame its Water Dragon counterpart causing the jutsu to fall apart. And the large amount of water the jutsu used fell on the long forsaken, barren and dry land around Kabuto and Manda. The ground quickly absorbed the water and changed to mud.
Despite destroying Naruto's own water dragon was destroyed the thunder dragon head did not disappear, but kept advancing towards Gamabunta. Naruto however unsheathed his Bisento blades and with a single hand sign and a swing of his blade he released a torrent of wind from his blade that surrounded the dragon head and ended Kabuto's Jutsu.
However seeing an opening as quick a viper one of Manda's three heads lunged at to Gamabunta and managed to barely scratch and break the surface of the Boss Toad's skin but even that one moment was enough to sink his fangs into the toad.
Albeit only a very small amount of venom but potent and highly poisonous nonetheless, managed to enter Gamabunta's system before the toad was able to break free of the fangs. By first making a horizontal cut, and then a vertical cut with his tanto Gamabunta separated Manda's head from his body and then the vertical cut causing the head to split the severed head in two lengthwise. However just as before this caused two heads to sprout from its severed stump.
While Gamabunta was injured Kabuto managed to take advantage of the situation and with a few hand signs managed to remove his spinal cord and by reshaping it into a long spear with his chakra with great speed sent it flying towards him. However thanks to Naruto being in his current ascended state he was able to detect the incoming missile and was able to dodge it however barely but in his haste neither did he nor the two sages upon his shoulders notice a second spear in the shadow of the first until it was too late.
The spear managed to bypass his defences and injure him, since was he not be able to dodge completely he moved slightly so that instead of piercing his heart it pierced him just above his heart which caused him to shout from the pain, however he soon got over it and with one smooth motion gripped the bone spear lodged in his shoulder and took it out and with his strength threw it towards the advancing Kabuto who barely managed to dodge his own spear.
Naruto then created a small rasenshuriken and threw it towards the enemy close behind it was an explosive kunai which when exploded into caused the wind filled rasenshuriken to disperse and the released wind chakra to fuel the fire created by the explosion and created an even bigger explosion and the resulting smoke temporarily shielding Naruto and Gamabunta from view which allowed them to retreat to a safe distance away.
After The Explosion:
Kabuto was cursing his stupidity he had just managed to escape the explosion by creating a bone clone of himself. Manda also barely managed to escape by shedding his skin and burrowing underground, but even then they had not escaped unscathed for Manda had gotten injured with the wind jutsu managing to cut off his tail and thus messing with the snake's balance. Kabuto himself was also heavily injured by razor-sharp wind blades with the force of the explosion causing massive internal bleeding which Kabuto was not able to heal completely. Although he was able to still stand and fight, creating a bone clone in his already weakened state had cost him almost half of his chakra, however by drawing on the cursed seal's power he was able to recover a bit from his chakra loss, however one thing was eminent to him if he intended to leave this battle alive he would have to unleash the true power of the curse seal, turning towards Manda He said "Manda its time you killed the toad for good." Manda simply nodded his heads in agreement for he had taken an oath of silence. He would only speak after the battle was over and Gamabunta dead.
After the explosion Naruto had also retreated to a safe spot from the battlefield and was nursing his own wounds, Kurama who was in charge of Naruto's body then spoke and said to Gamabunta "Great Toad are you alright, how is your wound?" Gamabunta simply grunted and said "your concern is Noted Kurama."
"Yes, I am fine my body will be able to develop the antibodies to fight the venom as the amount of venom is small however, my body's reflexes have become much slower as a result of the neurotoxin venom I'm afraid I can last only ten more minutes before I run out of chakra and will have to return."
"What about your wounds Kurama?" Gamabunta asked indicating the wound that the spear had caused Kurama nodded and said "its deep and I won't be able to fully heal it but it will hold for the rest of the battle." Turning towards the two sages upon his shoulder he said "what about you two geezers I know you can't continue to balance my chakra for more than another 15 minutes can you, Toad mother?" Your right Kurama chan that means you have another 15 minutes to finish this battle before time runs out"
"Ma toad is right Kurama" Naruto said from within "we have to end this battle quickly I know it's taxing even your abilities to share your chakra with all of us and keeping the barrier up as well I know your reaching your limits as well." "Heh, Your right Naruto this battle is taxing even my abilities." they all fell silent for a moment trying to find a way to end the battle when Naruto suddenly said "hey Kurama let me out for minute I need to speak to Boss Gama now, I know how we can defeat Manda."
With Naruto back in control of his body he quickly sat down and explained his plan to Gamabunta and the others "hey boss you remember the last time you guys had a battle how it went, with Manda getting stuck in the mud?"
The boss Toad nodded remembering the event "well what if we could do the same thing?" With Gamabunta listening and nodding Naruto quickly told him his plan and how to defeat Manda and Kabuto.
When he had finished Pa toad who was always the cautious one was the first to speak said "it could work Naruto chan but the timing would have to be perfect." I know Gramps but I am confident it will work there is no other way." Pa toad nodded and said "very well then we shall do as you say Naruto, but in order for your plan to work it will be best if I decide the timing for you and only on my signal not before will you execute your plan, agreed?" Everyone nodded and Kurama came back in control and together they proceeded back to the battlefield.
Kabuto and Manda also arrived on the battlefield at the same time and without a word the battle recommenced. Naruto jumped off of Gamabunta and started attacking Kabuto directly again with his blades causing Kabuto to defend himself in kind, Naruto then created a few shadow clones and started attacking Kabuto head on causing Kabuto to use more chakra to combat the shadow clones Kabuto created a Bone clone to battle the shadow clones and although his bone clone seemed to be doing a good job dispatching his clones it was soon overwhelmed by Naruto's Shadow clones until finally an Odama Rasengan used by one of the clones ended the life of Kabuto's clone.
Meanwhile Manda and Gamabunta were once again battling each other however besides Kenjutsu and taijutsu Gamabunta was also using ninjutsu using his agility he was able to cut the snake multiple times before retreating out of the snake's range. Standing far away from the snake Gamabunta used his water element jutsu to keep Manda away and tire him.
Taking a deep breath Gamabunta spit out torrents of water from his mouth in the form of water bullets, the continuous barrage of water bullets caused Manda to resort to dodging the water bullets instead of actually attacking Gamabunta, which benefitted Gamabunta greatly because the venom was starting to take effect and his reflexes were slowing down, but Gamabunta was glad to see that their plan was taking shape quite quickly. The once barren ground that lay beneath them had become saturated with water and had formed a very slick and thick mud creating the perfect conditions for a swamp.
Meanwhile Naruto was preparing his jutsu as well keeping up his brutal and close combat with Kabuto he was able to keep Kabuto from using his bone based jutsu and thereby allowing Naruto enough time to execute his plan. Kabuto was furious, this battle was not going as he expected nor was he able to get an opening large enough to attack with his greatest bone attack, suddenly Naruto seemed to slip, which then gave Kabuto an opening he needed and so quickly gathering his chakra he turned his two hands into two lethal bone drills that were aimed at Naruto. In his haste to attack he failed to notice a shadow clone closing in on him from his blind spot holding the key to his defeat.
Nor did he realise that Naruto had shifter his body so that when Kabuto aimed toward him instead of hitting Naruto he tripped and fell and because of the weight of the two drill shaped hands outweighing his body he was unable to regain his balance until it was too late before he could move or regain his balance he was attacked from behind with Naruto's ultimate Rasengan jutsu: Wakusei Rasengan (Planetary Rasengan.)
This Rasengan was the most lethal one Naruto had devised because as per its name he had an Odama Rasengan (Big Ball Rasengan) act as a planet for not nine but ten regular sized rasengan in a similar manner to moons around a planet. With Kabuto unable to defend himself the planetary rasengan slammed into his spine causing him insufferable pain. With Kabuto already in pain from the direct hit of Naruto's first planetary rasengan a second one slammed directly into his chest.
Kabuto was in so much pain he could not even scream but simply looked at Naruto with an expression of pure hatred and confusion. Naruto looked at Kabuto and said "I'm not done yet Kabuto, now watch what I do to Manda." With a signal from Pa toad a shadow clone Naruto made the hand signs for the Boar → Tiger, and said "Doton: Yomi Numa" ("Earth Style: "Swamp of the underworld!") Suddenly the arena within 15 feet of the Giant snake turned into a giant swamp of quick sand which the great snake slowly seemed to be sinking into and the more he struggled the more he sank into the swamp.
Enraged the multiple heads their oath forgotten said at once "what trickery is this don't think a little mud will stop me. I'll kill you with my fangs and squeeze the life out of you, do you hear me Gamabunta?" "Now Naruto" Gamabunta shouted to his summoner Naruto nodded and jumped upon Gamabunta's head and with a quick series of hand signs, Naruto created a new jutsu, by combining his and Gamabunta's chakra he made not only shadow clones of himself but of Gamabunta as well and so their numbers multiplied until 12 Gamabunta and Naruto shadow clones surrounding all the while Manda kept on making threats and insults towards them. While the twelve Naruto shadow clones created a Fūton: Chōōdama Rasenshuriken (Wind Style: Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Shuriken.) The original Gamabunta simply looked at the snake in disgust and said "Time to die Manda."
On Naruto's signal all 12 Gamabunta started spitting oil showering Manda in Toad oil and filling the swamp with the oil as well making it all the more dangerous. The 12 clones surrounding Manda as one all threw their rasenshuriken at Manda with all of them hitting him at the same time and all during this time all the Gamabunta clones still spat oil from their Mouth, then one by one the clones made the hand signs for the Snake → Ram → Monkey → Boar → Horse → Tiger and said "Katon: Endan!" ("Fire Style: Flame Bullet Jutsu!")
The stream of oil ignited and further fuelled by the wind in the rasenshuriken jutsu which was still active and the oil in the swamp the fire covered Manda's whole body, and his many heads were covered in flames and because of the oil present in the swamp it also caught fire, so hot was the fire that it burned not only Manda but the very earth itself.
While Manda was burning Naruto decided to end Kabuto's confusion by telling him what had happened and by temporarily switching with Kurama Naruto narrated his tale "I can see your obvious confusion Kabuto, not to worry I will help end your confusion. You see I realized early in the battle when Gamabunta chopped off Manda's head and it still didn't kill him I would not be able to defeat you and Manda together."
"I looked to fist eliminate Manda first. I realized that to defeat him Manda would have to be stationary long enough and I saw that cutting off his head and other body parts, was not helping," "however I soon realised that he was vulnerable to heat because once during the battle when chief toads Tanto had gotten heated by one of my fire jutsu by mistake I saw that when he then cut Manda's head off with his tanto the heat of the blade partially cauterised the wound and as a result the second head that erupted took a few seconds longer to regrow itself because of the cauterisation."
"I then realised that if I cut and burn him at the same time I could kill him, but we were not quick enough for that so then I realised that if we could immobilise him long enough we could kill him so I created the conditions for a swamp. I then used my chakra to augment It." unlike my Pervy Master I could not create a swamp from scratch so I needed a base. Now as for the planetary rasengan when I realised that you had copied Kimimaro's ability I knew the only way to stop you would be to crush and ground your bones into a powder so fine that they could not be regrown at all"
"In order to do that I first hit you with a planetary rasengan with the planet spinning in a clockwise direction and its moons spinning in a counter-clockwise direction and the second planetary rasengan that hit your chest was spinning in an anticlockwise direction i.e. the Planet rasengan was spinning in a counter-clockwise direction with its moons spinning in a clockwise direction." When the respective Rasengan interacted with each other they formed a massive and turbulent wave-like vortex destroying everything in its path."
"Although I'm sure you have no doubt partly healed yourself so that you can still battle, the medical ability and chakra needed to heal the damage I did... well I doubt even Tsunade Baa-chan and Shizune nee chan with all their medical ability could even begin to heal such a wound."
Naruto was right, Kabuto realised. It seemed he had taken inspiration from the time Gaara had crushed Lees bones into splinters but this time was different his bones were not splinters they were powder and they could not be put back together without a significant amount of chakra and medical skill.
Slowly the swamp and the snake trapped within it stopped burning with its fuel run out. Kurama having switched back with Naruto could see that the only thing left of Manda were ashes and bones walking over to the field where Gamabunta Had cut off one of Manda's heads. He picked up the skull and which still had its skin on it he gave it a glance and then threw towards the chief toad. Who caught it with the point of his tanto.
"There you go Great toad his head will make a fine snake-skin wallet for you I am sure and if not the head will make for a great sake bottle holder and his teeth would make for a great cork and bottle opener." Gamabunta looked at him and said "I never knew you had a sense of humour Kurama" he said with a grin. "There are many things you don't know about me Great Toad your job here is done you may leave for your domain Naruto and I thank you for your help." Kurama said nodding his head slightly.
Gamabunta nodded his head and after a long moment of silence spoke, Hey Naruto give the boys a message for me will you? "Tell the boys that for the remainder of this battle; they are released from their oath." Naruto looked at the Chief Toad with a raised eyebrow in scepticism but did not question the toad's decision and simply nodded his head. The Chief Toad grunted his appreciation and said "Good luck kid, don't die on me." And disappeared in a poof of smoke.
A/N: Manda is dead, Kabuto is no longer able to use his bone ability, what oath is Gamabunta talking about? And the most curious thing of all Kurama has a sense of humor who knew? What will happen to Kabuto now? Who will win who will lose, and what about Chiruku and Killer Bee? Everyone is in battle; find out the answers to all of these and more next time on By Executive Orders.