Author's note:
Here it is chapter 4. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter 4: Eyes of Blood
Before Pein and Gyokudan could begin Konan appeared next to Pein ready to aid him in his fight.
"You too huh? Well fine with me, the more the merrier." Gyokudan said.
"No Konan, help the rest I will fight him alone." Pein said.
Konan was unhappy with his decision but didn't argue with him. "As you wish Pein." And Konan disappeared to help the rest of the Akatsuki.
"Tch, that wasn't smart. You should take all the help you can get in this fight."
"I am the only one needed to fight you."
"I hope you're right, I haven't had a good fight in years." Gyokudan then grabbed his scythe and instead of charging at Pein slit his left wrist with the blade. However instead of dripping down his arm the blood floated into the air as dozens of droplets and spread out before Gyokudan.
"I have to thank Jashin for this at least I suppose. Blood…… bullets!"
A dozen of the droplets shot out at great speeds at Pein who slid to the side to avoid the attack. Missing their target the blood drilled into the wall behind Pein creating small but deep holes.
"An interesting ability, and not something I can learn with these eyes."
"It's because it's the user's soul that controls the blood. The Rinnegan is not infallible."
"Nothing is."
"Heh……. That was my most simple attack; I have killed nine-hundred and thirty eight people with it. Have you killed that many in your entire life?"
Pein didn't respond so Gyokudan continued. "My body is really incredible, I mean you don't normally see someone who can survive this-" Gyokudan slit his throat with his scythe, and gallons of blood seemed to flow from the wound. "And then still be able to talk without giving it a second notice."
"All that blood, It's much more than the human body holds."
"I can control my blood and cause it to multiply, it's rather similar to creating water from nothing for a jutsu. And now…." Gyokudan raised his hands and the blood floated into the air forming spikes. "You gonna slide out of the way of this? Spikes!"
Gyokudan flexed his hands and the spikes shot forward to Pein at an alarming speed. There were much more spikes than bullets and they were bigger in size as well, however Pein could see all of their trajectories clearly and was able to twist and bend out of the way, and at the end of the barrage take a step backwards to avoid the spikes from above. Pein then jumped onto the roof of the castle with Gyokudan quickly following him.
"So you even saw the spikes coming at you from above? Thanks to your Rinnegan obviously, not as wide a range as the Byakugan but it gets the job done." Gyokudan drew his hands into fists and the spikes that became lodged in walls or lost in the air came back to him, he then opened his arms in a wide circle and the spikes spread out forming a wide semi-sphere around Pein. With spikes all around he could not dodge.
"Attacking with all these spikes at once takes out any opportunity at avoiding them all, goodbye Rinnegan." Gyokudan closed his hand into a fist and the spikes instantly shot towards Pein who instead of trying to dodge, kicked through the roof and jumped inside the castle as the spikes penetrated into the building
"You bastard." Gyokudan said as he jumped off the roof to a lower level where he was parallel to the room Pein jumped into. "Don't think I'm stupid enough to jump right in there, come out of your hiding spot and face me!"
Then the wall exploded and six figures tumbled out of the smoke onto the ledge where Gyokudan stood.
"Now."
"Its time."
"For you to witness."
The smoke cleared and Gyokudn could only smirk at what he saw.
The Six Path's of Pain."
At the rest of the Akatsuki's battlefield Itachi was starting to see pattern.
The enemy isn't using any sort of strategy, the Jashinist's attack wildly while the zombie's just throw themselves at us, if it wasn't for their numbers this fight would have been over in 5 minutes. However, the Jashinists are regrouping and the zombie's are still coming if we keep fighting like this there is a good chance that some of us will die, we may even lose.
"Kakuzu Deidara." Itachi said.
"What!" Kakuzu yelled and Deidara asked.
"If we keep fighting like this we may all die, we need to destroy them with a single powerful attack and then take care of whatever remains afterwards."
"So what do you want us to do about it!?" Kakuzu asked anger evident in his voice.
"Combine your wind and fire masks for a single powerful blast, Deidara use your C2 to create as many bombs you can and disorient them. After Deidara attacks, you Kakuzu, will then destroy the rest. If any survive that the rest of us will finish them."
"Heh, as long as they see my art before they die then I'm all for it." Deidara started creating his bombs. "After all my art cannot be beaten."
"Whatever." Kakuzu said irritated at being ordered but wanting to end the fight. "Now…. Gwoooouaaahhhhh!" Kakuzu yelled out as the two masks separated from his body and the recombined to form his most powerful attack.
"Art is a bang yeah!" Deidara said as he released his explosions on the crowd of enemies.
"Now Kakuzu." Itachi ordered.
'I know!" Kakuzu formed the seal and attacked with the fusion of wind and fire sending out a gigantic blast of fire incinerating most of the zombies and some of the Jashinists caught in the blast. "Burn."
"Now this is interesting. Just what exactly are you?" Gyokudan asked still unable to get rid of his smirk.
"We are Pein, we are God." The six said as they launched themselves at Gyokudan.
"Fine!" Gyokudan said as he pointed his scythe at the Yahiko Pein. "Show me what pain is!"
The bald body steadied itself and fired its left arm like a rocket towards Gyokudan who narrowly dodged it. He then was forced to bring his scythe around and cut off the head of an attack dog summon but was unable to avoid the kick to his back from the long-haired Pein which sent him careening into the castle wall.
He's using his bodies in perfect synchronization. Shit.
Gyokudan had time to avoid the drill-beaked bird summon sent at him but knew he wouldn't avoid the rocket fist going right for his face.
"Wall!" Blood flowed out of Gyokudan's neck and formed a wall in front of him to block the fist which it did, however to Gyokudans surprise the fist exploded sending Gyokudan flying outside of the castle onto the grounds opposite the ones the rest of the Akatsuki was fighting on.
"That was good, he's definitely mastered the Rinnegan……. Rikudo you would be proud."
Gyokudan had little time to regain himself as the Six Path's jumped down to confront him.
"This really is one of my more difficult fights, I can tell already that it's going to take longer than I wish for."
"That's your problem not mine."
"Alright then." Gyokudan pulled his scythe off the holster on his back and readied it for battle. "I will have to get serious then."
"Your plan didn't quite work Itachi." Kisame said to his partner in a mocking fashion.
The attackers had been disorientated by Deidara's bombs, many had been stopped by Kakuzu's attack, but there were still more and more coming at them. And now Kakuzu was a heart short, Deidara had a broken arm, and Kisame had a severe gash down his left leg.
"We must stop them for Leader." Konan said to the group. "He is facing the strongest opponent and he will undoubtedly win so we must succeed as well." At that Konan sent out a flurry of paper shuriken maiming a good dozen zombie's and charged back into the battlefield.
"You heard her." Kisame said and went to back her up.
Hidan however had something else on his mind.
Konan, Leader is strong but even he might not be able to stop Gyokudan.
The End For Now
The end of chapter 4 next chapter the battle between Pein and Gyokudan ends, and the rest of the Akatsuki are pushed to their limits.
Will hopefully be out in less than a week.