The Sanbi had just growled out without words, seeming as if it couldn't speak, just being a monstrous beast without a mentality as it quickly swipes one of it's tremendously large sized tails directly at Genburori. Genburori's eyes remain openly shocked as he realized he had no where to run as he holds up the sword of bones, releasing another from his opposite shoulder, and then another from his palm as he molds the calcium in to each sword, reshaping it in to an ultimately destructive lance-like object of bone as he wields it forward in defense, but within about two seconds of struggle, Genburori gets totally overpowered, and the lance of bones breaks in many shards around him as he's flattened terribly by the tail of the Sanbi Bijuu! The Sanbi lets out an intimidating moan as it screeches in aggression, swiping the other two tails side-to-side as the wind caused from it started tearing down pieces of the walls and ceiling. The Sanbi lifts the tail he had squashed Genburori with, waving it behind along with the others, increasing the force of wind, but rather than Genburori's body, a block of concrete was laid in position as it was apparently a Kawarimi No Jutsu. The Sanbi yells out in a horrific moan as he has enough sense to know that he had been fooled, but where was Genburori? Suddenly, a quick figure appeared at the Sanbi, being no one other than Genburori as he runs along the gigantic back of the beast, dicing at it's hard green flesh with a stream of sharp chakra in the form of a knife that emanated from out of his hands, but no damage was really being done as the shell of the beast was just too strong to pierce! Genburori flips down off the back of the Sanbi and lands on his feet. He then performs a hand seal. "Yamitsuki Shouchuu No Jutsu!(To be absorbed in by the hand technique)" yelled out Genburori as nothing seemed to happen. The Sanbi let's out a growl that pierced winds and sent Genburori flying back against the wall, but as it stopped, Genburori quickly ran up the wall, kicking himself off as he landed on top of the skull of the three-tailed Sanbi. Genburori places his hands on the Sanbi's head, but the monstrous Bijuu had been repeatedly shaking it's body back and forth, trying to throw Genburori off of him. Genburori apparently had something planned as he tried desperately to keep his hand upon the Sanbi's head. Genburori's eyes tightened in disbelief of the power and struggle as he tries holding on as a slow engulfing essence of green chakra leaks out of the Bijuu's body as it seemed Genburori had been trying to weaken the beast by releasing it's chakra in to his own body, but quickly, the Bijuu stands upwards a bit, not being able to clear the ceiling as it slams down. Genburori's face smacks against the hard skull of the Sanbi as he falls off the towering beast, landing on his back as he spits up blood on impact. "Shit! This isn't enough! I still need some more chakra! I don't know how much longer I can battle such a beast!" thought Genburori.

Symone: A Naruto Side-Story - "The Heart Of Rain"
Chapter Twenty-Five: Sanbi VS Genburori

Genburori stands up, quickly charging towards the Sanbi as he flips up in the air, but without hesitation, the Sanbi had smacked Genburori with one of it's insanely large tails in mid-air, smacking Genburori so hard in to the wall again that his body seemed for a glimpse of a moment to be rubber as he ricocheted off of it, slamming himself on the bottom of the Sanbi's front leg, holding it. Genburori is seen with his eyes closed as he shakes it off, but the Sanbi had quickly planted his foot on Genburori's body and started pressing down with all of it's tremendous weight. Genburori still clutches on as begins screaming in pure agony as the crushing of bones was heard as more blood pierces from out of his nose and mouth. The Sanbi growls out again as it waves it's giant tails behind. Quickly, the Sanbi takes one of the tails and whips it at the face of Genburori as it fractures his jaw bone as a piece of it protrudes from the right side of his cheek. The Sanbi then repeatedly started slamming it's giant foot on Genburori's body as it yelled out some more, placing itself back a bit from Genburori's body as he had released him from the torture. Genburori then seems to be almost dead as he struggles to look around with his blood covered eyes, not being able to move too much as he thinks to himself, "Thanks to that beating... I almost... have enough of it's chakra to perform... that jutsu". Genburori reaches his shattered right arm over to his face, wiping the blood from out of his eyes as he stares at the slightly distant Sanbi in question. Th Sanbi then screams out, planting one of it's gigantic feet forward with the other behind a bit as it opens it's mouth, firing a huge pump of glowing chakra embedded water at the brutalized body of Genburori as the water is so thick and powerful, Genburori can't be seen as it crashes down even harder upon his broken bones. Only the crashing of the sparkling blue water and a scream was heard that was putridly distressed as the Sanbi stops it's attack. This insanely powerful Bijuu had broken and battered the legendary evil of Genburori without shedding any of it's own blood as one of the ninja's seen looking in by the door had been screaming out, "GENBURORI-SAMA! THIS CAN'T BE IT! YOU CAN'T BE DEAD! GET UP! GET UP!".

Within the woodlands, Symone, Mikomi and Renji are seen dashing with great speed towards the sound of the explosion. As they continue darting forward, Renji(who was up front) stops in his tracks for a moment as he looks to the side. Mikomi and Symone follow Renji's head as they notice some dead ninja laying on the ground. "Six dead ninja? Looks like from the way they've been cut, they died easily by whoever it was" stated Mikomi as Symone states in question, "Do you think, that maybe... it was Nova?". Renji replied, "My bet is on Nova being the one who did this for sure. I've seen his skill first hand. He's good". "Alright then, we should head around the other way. I think I see the temple from here... and if Nova walked straight this way, he was definitely seen, so I'm guessing he killed these men because they somehow found out his secret motives, and then continued to the temple without question, so we'll take the longer route around and observe the situation first before attacking..." stated Mikomi as his eyes drifted towards Renji as he was seen darting forward, not even caring for the words of Mikomi. "You do what you want, but I can't sit around playing hide & seek! I'm going on without you guy's then!" yelled Renji as Mikomi's eyes widen brightly. "SHIT! YOU IDIOT!" yelled Mikomi as he tells Symone, "Let's go!". Symone nods in agreeance as she darts forward behind Mikomi as they follow Renji. "This isn't very smart on your part, Renji! We should wait!" yelled Mikomi as Renji smirks, ignoring him. Quickly Renji appears in the area of grass around the Kumogun Temple as he's quickly noticed by a distant ninja as the ninja had yelled, "Renji!". The other ninja turn their heads as they notice him standing there with his arms crossed, smirking as he stated, "You guy's gonna just stand there, or am I gonna come have to come to you?". A slight pause of silence took the scene as Renji then said, "Fine then, I'll come for you!" as he dashed forward, discarding a kunai from his side as a few ninja charge towards him. Renji then quickly slices at the throats of a few ninja, side-kicking a few to the side as he discards shuriken, hurling one at a distant ninja as it pierced his head, flying out of the other side of the ninja's skull as it lands in the head of a ninja behind him as they drop. Mikomi and Symone arrive on the scene as they watch on. Mikomi places his hand over his face as he shakes it side-to-side as he states to himself, "There could have been an easier way to do this... ugh...!" as he runs forward to help Renji. Quickly, Mikomi had released four kunai with explosive tags placed on them as he threw them in a circle around a group of ninja. The tags go off in unison as they blow about twenty ninja to bloody pieces. Suddenly, a ninja is seen rushing towards Symone. Symone smirks, running forward as she punches the ninja so hard, he spins, brushing his body across the grass so hard that the dirt beneath it was flying everywhere. Mikomi looks to Symone, yelling, "Symone! Remember! Sometimes you just have to save the baby birds! Don't hesitate! Without you, other lives will be in danger!". Symone narrows her eyes, looking down to the ground as she thinks, "Having to kill... it just doesn't seem like it has to be the answer... but I know it is in situations such as this, but why can't I bring myself to do it then? Am I just a weak ninja? All I ever did so far that I can remember is getting in the way, like when Shouten came. I feel like a nuisance to Mikomi-Sensei, but I know I'm not. If... If I want to protect... and my heart is in the right place... is killing so wrong? I can't let them do all the work. I have to keep my humanity though... but I'm so confused! I think... no... I know... I can do it if it feels right. It's like the ninja war. If Konohagakure didn't fight against the Iwagakure, and didn't kill, then most likely Iwagakure would of spread and owned most of the countries and power. I... I can't... I won't let that happen!". Symone runs forward at the ninja that she had punched as he begins standing. Symone delivers a series of knee's in to his abdomen, and then sending him back with a whirlwind kick, shockingly cracking the jaw of the ninja as he stumbles back. Symone then reveals a shuriken as she hesitates for a moment as the ninja stands, darting towards her as Symone then clenches her teeth, hurling the shuriken at the ninja as it pierced his throat. The ninja fell to the ground as blood spurted out from his throat, struggling for air. Not wanting to see the suffering, Symone jumped on top of the ninja, grabbing him by the head as she looked in to his light, innocent looking blue eyes... but Symone put that stare aside and twisted his neck, breaking it as he had died. Suddenly, without notice, a hand was seen placed on Symone's shoulder. She quickly turns, ready for attack before she realized it was Mikomi. Mikomi looks to her and nods as they both look around, seeing nearly every ninja dead as Renji finishes off the last one as he's seen just repeatedly punching him back and forth in the face without stopping. Mikomi and Symone stare at him blank-faced as Renji just continues. "Uhh... Renji? I'm sure he's dead... you can probably stop" states Mikomi as Renji continues punching the now dead body of a ninja. "Yeah, I guess you're right. We got bigger fish to fry anyway" stated Renji as he stands up. Suddenly, a piercing, beastly growl was heard and was quite unknown to the threesome outside of the Kumogun Temple. "Wh-what the hell... was that?" asked Renji as he walks up the stairs to the entrance of the temple. Mikomi and Symone rush forward, following as they all stop in their tracks. "Wh-w-w-w-What is that?" asked Symone with hesitation, scared as she looks to the sight of the Sanbi Bijuu inside. "It's... It's a Bijuu! I remember hearing of them... from Tsuchi-Sensei. He said he fought one with eight tails one time, and it was the scariest opponent he had ever faced" stated Mikomi. "...but where's Nova then?... and Genburori?" asked Renji as they continue looking inside. Renji goes to walk forward, but Mikomi grabs him from the back and pulls him away. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, MIKOMI!?" yelled Renji as Mikomi states, "Do you not see it? This entire place is barricaded by a very strong seal. It wouldn't be safe trying to get through it". "Err..." grunts Renji as he just stands outside, looking in with the others.

Inside the temple, The Bijuu had stopped it's attack and was seen just standing, trying to move, but there was not enough room to do such a thing. The Sanbi looks down at the floor, noticing a brutally dead Genburori. The Sanbi let's out a piercing scream as it tries to turn around towards the door, aimlessly not even knowing what to do. Genburori was then seen... but it seemed he wasn't dead after all as his body seemed to be twitching and petruding in an odd manner. His jaw was seen being absorbed back in to his face as the crackling of bones was heard snapping about. Genburori seemed to be in taking the broken calcium of the bones and fusing them back in to his original skeletal system, creating new splices of bone to hold the broken ones together. Genburori stands up, holding his chest as he snaps a bone back in to place. The blood was still pouring all down his face and body as he noticed minor internal bleeding of the esophagi. He forms a green whirling chakra in his right hand and begins performing medical ninjutsu on himself as he wipes his glowing hand across his injuries, healing with ease. Genburori then cracks his neck to one side, and then the other as he looks up, calling out to the Sanbi, "I'll admit it! You are incredibly powerful afterall!" as the Sanbi turns it's head, noticing Genburori still alive as it growls in omnipotent ferocity. The Sanbi lets out another retched scream as it charged a bit towards Genburori as it didn't need to move it's huge body too far anyway. Genburori quickly jumps up in the air, but the Sanbi raised it's front leg and swiped at Genburori, but to Genburori's surprise, he was able to evade the giant leg, and use it to push himself higher, making it easier to land on the head of the Bijuu. As he landed, the Sanbi began swaying again to try to rid of him, but Genburori used his chakra to hold on as he placed his palms down on the Sanbi's giant skull. "Almost enough! I could use this, but I need more!" yelled Genburori as the San bi had been swiping it's tails with much speed, almost knocking Genburori off balance with the vibration of the wind that had impacted him. The Sanbi then lets out a collosal yell as it shows minor signs of weakening in it's face and slower body movement. Genburori then decides it was enough as he stood on top of the Sanbi's head, performing another handseal. "Kagami Utsushidasu!(A Mirror To Reflect!)" yelled out Genburori as he built up all the stolen green chakra from the Sanbi and formed it into a square window-like object that hovered in front of him. He then claps his hands together, punching the odd chakra that had formed as he yells, "Kuchiyose!(Summoning!)... Kai!(Release!)". Quickly, a whirling essence of chakra fires from out of the window-like chakra as it surrounds the body of the Sanbi. The Sanbi growls, trying to hit it, but due to fatigue from lack of chakra, it gives up, just aggressively swaying it away with it's head. Genburori let's out a scream as he seemed to have clutched his fist tighter, compacting the chakra circling around the Sanbi as he crushes the Sanbi with it, holding it tight as it screams out in pain. Genburori is seen struggling to keep the attack going as he performs a hand seal with his one free hand. "Gekiha Tatsumaki!(Crushing Tornado!)" yelled Genburori as he throws his other hand in to the odd window-like chakra, closing his palm in to a tightened fist as the chakra that was tying the Sanbi implodes as the Sanbi is heard making a crying scream that shook the building. Genburori gets blown back as the effects of the blast tear down the walls of the temple, revealing the outside as smoke and debree flew everywhere. Mikomi, Renji and Symone all run back, away from the structure. "Oh my, God!" yelled Mikomi in shock as Symone let's out a scream as the impacting vibrations throws her back a bit. Renji covers his eyes as he tries to look forward at the broken and shattered building that was once known as the Kumogun temple. Within the debree, it's slightly seen that Nova had appeared on the ground, but the Sanbi seemed to be getting sucked in to that window-like chakra as it gets fully devoured. Genburori releases the jutsu as the Sanbi had been defeated. Genburori looks to Nova. His clothes torn to shreds as slices and gashes were seen all over his near naked body, unfortunately only being covered by a a torn belt and pants that were mostly gone and ripped apart. Genburori looks to the body of Nova as he smiles. A sharp metallic noise was heard rolling towards Renji as he noticed an odd circular object hit his foot. He bends over to pick up the object and notices... it was a wedding ring. "A wedding ring?..." Renji asks in question as he reads the text inside the ring, 'A Super Nova Will Always Shine Light On You. I Love you Katrice'. "Nova's?..." asked Renji to himself as he looks forward, seeing the brutalized body of Nova. Renji places the ring in his pocket as a serious expression was placed on his face. "I got a feeling... This woman is the reason you did this..." thought Renji as he notices Genburori standing over Nova. "So... you lost your Bijuu powers, and you're practically dead. You're no fun to me anymore" stated Genburori as he kicked Nova's body about seventy yards as his body scraped and twisted on the grass and concrete stepping stones as he stopped in the middle of Renji, Mikomi and Symone. Nova struggles to open his eyes as he also struggles lifting his hand up as he grabs Symone down to him. Symone's scared eyes look to Nova in question as Nova states, "You're... the only... one left... to stop... his terror..." as he coughs up a large amount of blood. "Shh!... Relax! Save your energy so we can get you help!" states Symone, but Nova declines, nodding his head side-to-side. "My wife... I thought I... I... could avenge... I failed... please... kill for her... for us. i don't wanna... die in vane like her. let us... live in you..." hesitantly and painfully spoke Nova as tears fall from Symone's eyes as Renji and Nova watch on silently with sadness in theirs. Nova then struggles hard to check his pockets as his breathing skips a little. Renji walks over and gets on his knee's, looking at Nova as he asks, "Is this what you're looking for?" as he pulls out the ring he had found. Renji hands it to him, but he can't grab on to it from all the shaking, so he states in agony, "Put it on..please", so Renji places it on for him. Nova smiles as he takes out his own wedding ring from his side pocket; the one Katrice gave him. He then opens up Symone's palm and then places the ring in it. Symone said, "No... No!... Take it with you!"... but Nova had replied angerly, "Take... IT!... please... keep it safe... for me...". Symone then lets out more tears as she actully starts to cry, weeping in sadness as she holds on to Nova's hand. "I'm gonna sleep now... Katrice... Please hold my hand until... I fall asleep... I love... you" stated Nova as he rested his head to the side, closing his eyes slowly as he smiles... quickly dying. Symone realizes he is now gone and begins weeping harder as she takes out a chain and places the ring on it, clipping it around her neck and keeping it as a necklace. Symone then stands as suddenly she is thrown by a devastating punch to the face as she bangs in to a tree. "SYMONE!" yells Mikomi as Renji yells, "FUCK!" As he noticed Genburori standing in front of them with anger in his eyes.

With the Sanbi defeated with no trace of it's existence, and Nova now dead, how will the situation be treated? Can these three warriors do what Nova could not? Genburori truly is one of the more terrifying ninja of the shinobi world, but where does that leave the trio defending Tsunzaku and Nova's honor? Next chapter will unleash more fury!