Ultimate Smash Adventure
Kimimaro vs. Link! Actually, I don't have anything more to say than that. So without further ado…
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story except for the story itself.
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Skeleton of a lonely soul
Orochimaru was still patiently waiting. "Kimimaro's gone to retrieve Sasuke, this should speed up the delivery." Kabuto said as he walked back in.
"Kimimaro? I don't know what you said to him to get him out of his sick bed. But… I suppose he could serve one last use to me." Orochimaru said.
"He is incredibly loyal to you master Orochimaru." Kabuto said.
"Kimimaro was once strong, but what would I want with a sick body? He is nothing more than a broken tool to me now." Orochimaru said.
Meanwhile…
Link had his sword and shield drawn while Kimimaro still had his two bone-swords. "I'll kill you and present your head to Master Orochimaru." Kimimaro said.
"Why would you owe loyalty to him even though you're dying." Link said.
"You know I'm sick?" Kimimaro asked.
"You said it yourself when you were talking to that Tayuya girl." Link said. "So why give your life for that creep." Link asked.
"Silence!" Kimimaro said with a lot of anger in his tone. "I am the most favored of Master Orochimaru's servants. You are in no place to insult him!" Kimimaro shouted as he charged forward at Link.
Kimimaro did his sword dance while Link had to react quickly with his sword and shield to block the attack. Link rolled around Kimimaro to slash him across the back. But Kimimaro blocked the attack by using both his swords to block the parry. Kimimaro then proceeded to rapidly and gracefully swing his swords while Link did used more aggressive strikes to block the attack. This series of slashes went on for several minutes before the two locked swords. "Trust me! I know dark villains like Orochimaru all too well." Link said. Link broke the lock and managed to knock one sword out of Kimimaro's hand. "They don't think anything of their servants, all the servants are to them are rungs to take them higher on the ladder of power!" Link shouted as he continued to slash at Kimimaro.
"You do not know master Orochimaru!" Kimimaro yelled back at him. Kimimaro spun around while holding his sword behind his back. Link got cut across the chest, but Link managed to roll under the spin attack and retaliating with a jump attack.
"Hiya!" Link swung the sword at Kimimaro's head. The sword knocked Kimimaro forward in to a tree. "What the… that attack should have sliced through your head." Link said.
"Have you forgotten that I can adjust the hardness of my bones. All I had to do was harden my skull." Kimimaro said. He completely removed his upper body robes and went in the buff. The cursed mark was visible on his chest. Kimimaro made bone spikes appear from his forearms. Kimimaro charged at Link at high speeds and began thrusting his arms forward rapidly to stab Link.
Link was blocking the attacks with his shield until the attack eventually pierced the shield and left a deep cut in his arm. "Augh!" Link ducked under the next thrust and attempted to thrust his sword in to Kimimaro's stomach, but bones from Kimimaro's rib cage ejected from his body and nearly impaled Link's head. Link thankfully backed off and only suffered minor cuts. Link waited for Kimimaro to charge again, and when he did, Link did a low spin attack that Kimimaro jumped over. Link then brought his foot up and kicked Kimimaro in the chest while he was in mid air, sending Kimimario even higher in to the air. Link then leaped up and kicked Kimimaro back down to the ground, and dropped a bomb down to the ground. The resulting explosion engulfed Kimimaro. "Whew… that could have been worse." Link said as he turned around. "Augh!" Link nearly fell over from a sharp pain in his shoulder. he reached behind him and pulled out three darts that looked like human finger bones. He then noticed two others that were stuck in the ground nearby. He turned around with surprise in his face.
"You will pay for insulting master Orochimaru." Kimimaro walked out of the hole. The cursed mark had now spread all over his body. He had sharp bones sticking out of his palms, bone edges sticking out of his elbows, his ribs formed bone spikes on his back and front, and he also had spikes sticking out of his knees. Kimimaro then coughed and blood came out of his mouth.
"Orochimaru can't possibly have any more use for you! You're just a broken tool to him!" Link shouted. "Why serve him?" Link asked.
"Silence! Do you know where I spent most of my life? I lived it being locked up and being forced to fight for others. But Master Orochimaru saw me for my true potential, and he gave me a purpose! You will never understand master Orochimaru!" Kimimaro shouted as he charged forward faster than last time. Kimimaro did a series of dancing and spinning like attacks by slashing and stabbing with his palms, elbow, and knees in a very rapid and graceful style.
At first Link was blocking the furious attacks, but Kimimaro managed to slash Link's sword arm with his palm, and then proceed to slash and stab him with the rest of his bone weapons while spinning and dancing. When he finished, Link had deep bleeding cuts all over his body. "Time to end it." Kimimaro got ready to stab at Link's throat.
"No… one… ever… draws… this much… blood… and lives!" Link shouted. Link held his sword more firmly than before and charged at Kimimaro.
"He seems to have gone berserk." Kimimaro said with some surprise. He quickly took a defensive stance and was blocking Link's fast and furious attacks with his bones. Kimimaro coughed up more blood. "I… must… not… fail… him." Kimimaro said.
"I thought I felt sorry for you!" Link shouted. "But no longer!" Link shouted, having obviously gone completely berserk. He did an upward slash that caught Kimimaro off guard, Link then immediately follwed this attack up with a spin slash that slashed at Kimimaro's chest multiple times. "Hiiiiiiiyaaaaa!" Link then did a bat-like swing with his sword that sent Kimimaro flying in to nearby trees. Link then wasted no time dashing past all of the trees around Kimimaro. The second Link sheathed his sword; all the trees around Kimimaro fell down on top of him. Link finally calmed down and collapsed. "I am sorry about your past," Link began "and I'm sorry it had to end like this. But it's better than working for that evil man isn't it?" Link finished.
"You… do… not know… Master Orochimaru!" Came Kimimaro's voice.
"What the…?" Link looked in horror as the trees that had collapsed on Kimimaro were diced in to pieces. Link saw Kimimaro standing there; at least he thought it was Kimimaro. Kimimaro's skin had turned brown, humongous bone spikes were now sticking out from his back, and he had a dinosaur like tail. Kimimaro then reached behind his back and pulled out his spine, only the spine was elongated and whip like, and more jagged at its sides. "Huh? But… you can't support yourself without your spine… and yet… he ripped it right out." Link said in horror.
"The spine is the hardest bone in your body, and I have increased it to maximum hardness, and made it longer to better serve my purposes." Kimimaro said. "YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE KINDNESS OF MASTER OROCHIMARU!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. He ran forward faster than before. Link barely managed to roll out of the way of him, but he got slashed across the back by Kimimaro's spine whip.
"Auuugghh!" Kimimaro didn't stop there. He continued to whip at Link with the spine whip and slash at Link. "That's enough!" Link shouted. The whip wrapped around the Master Sword and the two of them began to have a tug-o-war of sorts. Kimimaro was slowly pulling Link towards him. As he did, the bones on his left arm came out and began to encircle themselves around the arm. It eventually formed a humongous bone drill that was about as big as Kimimaro. Link panicked when he saw this.
"No… I won't die here!" Link found the strength to pull the spine whip out of Kimimaro's grip. Kimimaro ran forward and thrust his bone drill forward as it began to spin. Link put his hand against the broadside of his sword and blocked the drill the other side of his sword. Kimimaro was beginning to over power Link. "Stop… this madness…" Link said. "You don't… understand… your master…" Link said as he began to push the bone drill back.
"No! It is you who does not understand Master Orochimaru!" Kimimaro shouted as he started to over power Link once again. Kimimaro then coughed up more blood. "No… not now." Kimimaro then tried to drill at Link harder, but the bone drill finally shattered. In to pieces. Link took advantage of this and batted Kimimaro against a rock. Link then threw a bomb at the rock and Kimimaro was buried beneath stone.
"I'm sorry." Link said. He turned around once again. He thought he heard movement behind him. He turned around and Kimimaro leaped out of the rubble with a bone sticking out from his palm.
"You will never insult Master Orochimaru again!" Kimimaro shouted out of anger. Link could only stand there horror struck as the bone spike came closer and closer to his neck. Kimimaro then stopped short, and coughed up more blood, before slowly collapsing on to the ground. Link put two fingers to Kimimaro's neck to check his pulse.
"He's dead… it seems that disease is what killed him though." Link said. He looked up at the sky and thought to himself. "Does he truly believe Orochimaru favored him? Or is it that no one can escape loneliness, even if it means putting your faith in to someone of such cruelty? I hope he finds peace." Link could now feel his wounds. "Augh!"
"Hey it's Link!" Came Nana's voice. Link turned to see the Ice Climbers, Roy, Wario, and DK hopping toward him.
"What happened to you?" Popo asked. "In fact, what happened here? And who's that guy?" Popo continued to ask.
"Oh stop asking these annoying questions!" Wario demanded.
"You can tell us later." Roy said while handing Link an elixir. "I was saving it, but it looks like you need it more."
"Thanks." Link said. He drank it and his wounds all healed. "Let's go." Link said. The five of them hopped off.
Meanwhile…
Naruto, Sheik, and Fox came to a valley of sorts, there were two statues facing each other with a river between them. "What is this place?" Fox asked.
"The Valley of the End." Naruto said. "It's the border of Fire Country, the Sound Village should be just a short ways away." Naruto said.
"Hey look!" Sheik said while pointing at the statue on the other side of the river. On top of the head of the statue, Sasuke was sitting on it cross-legged.
"Hey Sasuke! We've come to get you! So quit fooling around and let's go back to the Leaf Village!" Naruto shouted.
"…" Sasuke remained quiet.
"Come on!" Naruto shouted getting angrier.
"Go away! I'm not coming back!" Sasuke shouted back at Naruto with anger.
"What?" Fox gasped.
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Well, what do you guys think. I personally think this chapter is one of the better fight scenes. Next chapter will be the second to last chapter of this arc.