Hibuko saw the behemoth through the branches; its strangely proportioned head was turning slowly around, presumably searching for him or the others. He panted once and his wet palms grasped his katana with a cold grip. The scabbard scraped against the metal as he drew the lustrous blade. The charge holding blade began to glow as he converted a bit of his chakra into an electrical current. The current flowed into the blade and his grip once again tightened.
His quadriceps coiled as he crouched into his springing position. He looked at his target. His grip tightened. His courage flared. In an instantaneous motion, he began to leap, but the only thing that moved was his heart, which flew up into his throat. He heard splintering wood. He heard a scream and his vision seemed to shutter and dim. He felt no air in his chest as he realized the scream was his. His katana was still gripped in the rigor mortis-like claw that was his hand. His pupils shifted in panic and in a brief instant he saw the absence of material beneath his feet and a giant dragon-like tail shifting away.
His fingers moved on their own to sheath his katana and formed a series of seals. He felt the swelling of his chest and he recognized the jutsu he had formed unconsciously. To release the pent up thunder in his chest he screamed, "Kyoubou Rakurai no Jutsu!"
Frenzied bolts of electricity poured from his mouth directly at the giant monster. They met it instantly and coursed all over its swampy skin, the monster convulsed for a second. It roared and the debris around the falling Hibuko was cleared away. Along with the tree fragments, Hibuko was thrown back against a thick trunk. He slid down the barky surface, efficiently ripping his cloak and tearing his skin. Hibuko landed at the base with this face contorted in pain and his eyes closed in semi consciousness.
The snakelike red tongue of the behemoth akuma approached the lightning shinobi. The gargantuan oozing tongue snaked around the trunk to constrict around Hibuko. It paused for a second before it squeezed and when it began Hibuko was no longer there.
As the tongue was wrapped fully around the trunk, Hibuko was on top of the saliva coated muscle. He took a rope-attached kunai and plunged it into the massive tongue and then connected with the tree. He poured chakra into this arm to give him extra strength and the kunai was successfully through both the tongue and the tree. Hibuko looped the end of the rope and the kunai into a knot and placed a tag on it so that it could not be broken.
He leapt away from the tangled tongue and tree using hirameki no shintai flashed towards the creature's wide head.
The moment of confusion that ensued was all Hibuko needed to defeat the monster. With both his katanas unsheathed he landed upon the creature's murky forehead. He plunged both of his already charged blades into the eyes of the beast. A roar ensued and the Shakuzetsujin's tongue ripped the giant tree from its roots to coil back into his wide, froglike, mouth. The enormous red tongue retracted in a way that made the tree come to him vertically. The two ends of the tree smashed the blinded monster's lips and the concussive force knocked it backwards.
It landed on its back. Hibuko ran down its neck and onto its soft, creamy belly using his chakra to keep his feet attached to the beast. He summoned a force of chakra and in a supersonic display of hand signs converted the chakra effectively into the perfect jutsu to finish the beast off.
"Kyokan Seitekikago Kansei!" Screamed Hibuko and from his entire body sprung forth veins of condensed electricity which shot at the beast as lightning. They each bent at certain angles once they got close enough and then again they bent and reconnected. The power streamed from the ninja until they formed the cage around the creature.
The energy formed a vibrant web around the blinded, unconscious behemoth and Hibuko hurdled out of the cage. He jumped onto a branch of one of the intact trees in the desolated clearing.
His arms were left at his sides limp as he began to focus a little less than half the sum of his chakra in his palm.
No, Hibuko. Hibuko could hear one of his previous sensei's training in his head. Focus all your chakra into the palm as if your life depended on it. Put your life on the line!
He smiled as he remembered that day, when he had successfully learned that technique in one day. He had completely baffled his sensei.
The chakra began to take form of a sphere in his hand and it took on color as well: a faint glowing blue.
Now use your chakra to burst the balloon. Feel the water and make it spin. His blonde sensei had given him too much information, one hint too many. Hibuko knew exactly how to burst the balloon, his only issue then was limited chakra.
"Hai, Kitsune-sensei!" He recalled his disrespectful name for the sixth he had thought of.
"This is for you, Rokudaime!"
He plummeted from the branch in a high speed dive with the powerful rasengan in his fist.
Control the chakra, then add power, and then maintain it in a sphere.
Hibuko had performed the jutsu on his second try to the utter amazement of his sensei.
"Kitsune-sensei? Kitsune-sensei? Rokudaime-sama? Naruto?!" he had to slap his baffled sensei to awaken him from his shock.
"One day? It took me three weeks to master that technique! And both my predecessors took three years!"
Hibuko could only laugh in remembrance but the flashback only saddened him. He hadn't seen either of his sensei in at least two years.
His falling mass was at the critical moment when he shoved his open palm against the Shakuzetsujin's belly. The spinning force tore open the soft skin. Nausea took over all of Hibuko's senses and he fell off the beast backwards as it roared its way back to consciousness. His feet struggled to hold the body upright as the torso tried to maintain the contents of his stomach. His hands grasped his chest as he heaved and his head fought violently to control his consciousness and work on a plan to destroy the huge enemy.
His vision cleared and his legs won with their battle with gravity and he knew how to finish this. It wouldn't give him much chakra left, but he knew it would destroy the behemoth Shakuzetsujin.