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Round Two
Naruto teleported to the kunai he had managed to drop and sighed, ribbing his neck where the Forbidden's fingers had squeezed a bit tighter than necessary. He used Medical Ninjutsu to heal any damage he didn't notice, given he couldn't die here and wouldn't notice any subtly fatal damage, then looked up at the Forbidden. The inside of the Shinigami was, as always, filled with a thick fog and dark, leaving everything a dull off black with the Forbidden's glowing red eyes surrounded by circles of red light where they illuminated the fog. Naruto could see about ten feet before the lack of light gave the illusion of him being in a dome of empty air with the fog swirling around him. Thankfully this was nothing new to him. He drew his Double-Edged Swords and swung, clearing the fog around him, allowing the area to briefly lighten and reveal that he was standing on a floating chunk of ground surrounded by dozens upon dozens more forming a ring floating around and slowly circling the Forbidden.
"Upset stomach huh Shinigami?" Naruto grinned.
"Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki," the Forbidden's volcanic-eruption-esque voice thundered inside Naruto's head, addressing him by the name it had given him when Naruto had told him the names of both his parents. "You have become quite a nuisance."
"I try," Naruto smiled.
"It was bad enough when you were blocking my attempt to create portals out, but now you are taking it upon yourself to block my hordes from using them," the Forbidden snarled. "I've had enough. This time, I will tear your body into shreds, leaving only your eyes, so that you may watch as I drag your friends one by one through a portal and convert them to my legions, then unleash them on the world!"
He began to laugh but stopped when Naruto fired Air Bullets into his eye, making his blood spray out. The Forbidden roared in rage and held a hand over his eye, then moved it away, his eye fully restored. Then, his hand swiped out of the fog at Naruto. Naruto leapt sideways, his sensory abilities allowing him to more or less see through the fog. He landed on another chunk of stone as the one he had been on was smashed and grinned.
"Come now Freak," Naruto laughed. "Don't tell me you forgot who you were up against already."
"You bastard," the Forbidden snarled. "I did not forget. Observe."
The ground below Naruto suddenly lit up red as a seal spread under him. Suddenly he was unable to move his body and the Forbidden began to laugh.
"That seal is very useful, isn't it?" the Forbidden laughed. "Now you die!"
He raised his hand but stopped as Naruto began to tremble, struggling to bring his hands together. He watched as Naruto formed the Tiger seal, then Rat, then Ram before gripping his right wrist with his left hand and held his right palm downward.
"What are you doing?" the Forbidden demanded.
"Ob...serve," Naruto grunted, struggling to move. "Kai!"
Pure chakra blasted out of his hand, reducing the chunk of rubble he was standing on to dust and breaking the seal. He grinned, remembering his trip to the alternate dimension where Menma had used that same ability, as well as the ability to fly, as Naruto now was.
"What!?" the Forbidden shouted. "When did you learn that!?"
"Oh I'm not done yet," Naruto grinned. "Are they ready Kurama?"
"I never thought we'd actually get to test our version but yes, they're ready," Kurama confirmed and Naruto grinned.
Thank you Menma, Naruto thought forming the Tiger seal as Kurama did the same inside Naruto. "Nine Masked Beasts. Golden Snake, Black Tortoise, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, Souther Sage, Grim Reaper, Northern Sage, Celestial Maiden!"
The same seal as Menma had created formed over Naruto and the nine puppets all shot out of it, forming a line around Naruto. He grinned as he surveyed them. Kurama had made the puppets out of his own chakra, the result was that everyone of the puppets was comparable to Nagato's Asura Path.
"Why don't you bring out your new troops so we can get this over with, hm?" Naruto questioned.
The Forbidden roared and the fog cleared, revealing that all of the chunks of stone had moved around Naruto now and were covered with both the Forbidden's bug creatures and the missing shinobi, all of which had become zombies.
"Shame I wasn't here sooner," Naruto sighed. "Alright then, shall we begin?"
The puppets all shot in different directions, attacking the zombies and insects, tearing into them as Naruto extended his chakra chains, the chains swinging around and bashing the zombies and creatures, not killing them but crippling them to the point of them no longer being a threat. After a couple of minutes, Naruto's puppets retreated to his sides, forming a group around him in the air and watching the remaining creatures which were growing out of the chunks of stone, standing on every side. Naruto sighed, retracting his chakra chains and looked to the Forbidden.
"This fight is getting us nowhere," Naruto pointed out. "Get rid of the creatures and you and me can fight each other."
"Perhaps that would speed up the process, but that also means that you and I would have to fight each other, and would leave me unable to focus on getting out of here," the Forbidden stated. "No, I like it this way."
Naruto sighed and floated a little higher as his puppets all floated lower, giving him enough room.
"Uzumaki Secret Technique, Blade Rain!"
He began creating and firing spectral swords as fast as he could, each blade streaking through the air and then tearing through an insect creature before they could react, a thousand blades being released in two seconds, leaving absolutely nothing left of the creatures or the chunks of stone they had been on. A fine dust filled the area now and Naruto drew his Double-Edged Swords and swung them, clearing it and putting his swords away again. The Forbidden growled in frustration before Naruto held his right arm out to his side, wind gathering around his hand before extending outward and forming a green-tinted blade with a small, barely visible cyclone swirling around it.
"Wind Rapier," Naruto growled pointing the blade at the Forbidden. "I meant to try this out last time."
The blade shot forward, extending in a blur until it hit the Forbidden, and smashed through his skin, his blood spilling out of him and falling into the void below them as Naruto's blade shattered. The Forbidden healed itself then opened its mouth.
"You want to fight me directly?" the Forbidden growled. "Fine. Come at me! Torrent of Blades!"
A swarm of massive spinning blades made out of Dark-Chakra-laced wind shot out of its mouth at Naruto and he flew into the air, the blades shooting past below him before Naruto flipped and flew forward, forming a spectral sword in his right hand as he extended his chakra chains and bound the Forbidden.
"Foolish human!" the Forbidden roared.
It raised its hands, breaking out of Naruto's chains instantly but Naruto still reached its eye and slashed it, carving it open before holding his hand out to it.
"Kai!" Naruto shouted sending a blast of chakra into it and obliterating a good portion of the inside of the Forbidden's head.
The Forbidden leaned back, holding a hand over its eye and screaming as its other eye squeezed closed and it slashed at Naruto. Naruto drew his big sword and streamed his chakra along it, blocking the Forbidden's claws and stopping them as his Grim Reaper puppet flew over him, slashing at the Forbidden's exposed gums. the scythe tore a long gash into its gums, its thick black blood sprayed out, missing the puppet by an inch and falling into the void as the Forbidden roared again.
"Not doing so well this time huh?" Naruto grinned. "And the more chakra I expend here the stronger I still get."
The Forbidden roared, the sound deafening as it turned on the puppets, exhaling a dozen blades which shredded the puppets. Naruto growled in annoyance as the Forbidden turned back on Naruto.
"DIE! ! !" the Forbidden seethed.
It opened its mouth, a pitch black Pressure Damage forming as the dimension around them began to shake and blur.
"Fuck!" Naruto shouted holding out both hands and tapping into Kurama's chakra. "Stop that!"
He and Kurama together formed a Tailed Beast Ball with exactly five hundred percent of their chakra in it and fired it at the Forbidden's open mouth. Their Tailed Beast Ball connected with the Forbidden's Pressure Damage and forced it backward into the Forbidden's throat, making the Forbidden instinctively close its mouth, resulting in both jutsus exploding inside the Forbidden. Its snout was blasted into goo along with a large portion of its face, the front of its throat, and burned its entire torso's front.
"YOU MOTHER FUCKER!" the Forbidden roared inside Narutos mind as it began to regenerate. "HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO ME! ! !"
"You were going to kill the Shinigami," Naruto stated. "I had to stop you."
The Forbidden's snout began to regenerate last but just as it did, eleven wind blades shot out of its mouth, disassembling Naruto at his wrists, ankles, knees, elbows, hips, waist, and throat. As Naruto fell, he screamed in pain, screaming the entire way down until he crashed down on a ground he didn't even know existed. The stone hurt and left his head as little more than mush with just enough left for one eye to be partially intact, leaving him his sight. One hand was also undamaged so Naruto sighed and opened his mouth, allowing Kurama to extend chakra threads to the hand, turning it into a puppet.
This is so gross, Naruto thought as his hand began crawling around on its finger tips like a spider, healing his individual body parts before beginning to try to get them into place to reattach them. I'm so going to have to tell Kankuro about this. i'm a better puppet master than him.
Finally Kurama managed to get Naruto relatively back into one piece and Naruto stood, moving around and checking his work. Everything was perfect with the exception of Naruto's hand still being on the ground, skittering around Naruto's feet. Naruto picked it up, Kurama releasing control and allowing Naruto to reattach it himself.
"Much better," Naruto sighed. "We'd better get back there."
Naruto flew into the air, rocketing upward and stopping when he was level with the Forbidden's head again.
"You just won't stay dead will you?" the Forbidden snarled. "I've grown tired of this. Do what you will. Any damage you do I can heal."
The Forbidden turned away from Naruto, holding out both hands, claws extended and fading into nothingness on the ends. Naruto rolled his eyes, waiting until the Forbidden had stretched the rift wide open before flying through it and spinning, forming a Rasenshuriken and hurling it through the rift, blasting the Forbidden in the eye and making it shriek in pain, the rift snapping closed again. Naruto sighed and looked around, sensing that he was about a mile from Sunagakure. He headed that way and prayed that the Forbidden would continue trying to send creatures through first but doubted he would be so inactive after Naruto had escaped twice.
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