The Rikudo Sennin's power: Shinra Bansho Part 1
Yahiko: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Today I will explain to you how Shinra Tensei and Bansho Ten'in work.
Hinata: Ano, what are they?
Yahiko: The Rikudo Sennin possessed a transcendent bloodline, all those years ago. As I, too, possess that bloodline, I also possess the multitude of abilities it grants. One is access to the sixth element of chakra, the Void.
Hanabi: Nani?
Yahiko: The Void encompasses what the other five elements cannot. Gravity, time, space, all these are within the limits of the Void. Shinra Tensei manipulates the chakra fields in the air, thus causing a massive blast of repulsing energy that possesses approximately two thousand tonnes of force at maximum power. As you can probably guess, it is more then enough to send anyone or anything flying.
Hinata: And Bansho Ten'in?
Yahiko: Works in reverse. The chakra fields are manipulated to attract anyone or thing towards me. Again, this possesses approximately two thousand tonnes of force at full power, so there isn't much that won't be moved. (Looks into the distance) Excuse me, I must save Uzumaki Naruto… oh dear, that's…
Chapter 7,
Three Tragic Battles, the Shikotsumyaku Breaks!
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It was a standstill. There was nothing more to it then that. Orochimaru stood on one side of the rooftop, Hiruzen and the Tsuchikage on the other.
"This is not going to end well, is it, Hiruzen?" The Tsuchikage muttered, his eyes never once leaving Orochimaru. Hiruzen couldn't help but agree with that statement, his hands clenched at his sides.
"It's time I did what I should have done years ago." Hiruzen stated. "This time, I won't let you leave, Orochimaru."
"Let me leave?" Orochimaru retorted, pacing slowly along the rooftop. "You cannot defeat me now, old man! Soon I will be more powerful then even the Yondaime!"
"You mean you will obtain Uchiha Sasuke's Sharingan." Hiruzen predicted. "I'm afraid that, in order to do that, Orochimaru, you need to best me." Grinning sadistically, Orochimaru formed a quick hand sign before reaching out with his outstretched right arm.
"Sen'enjaishu!" With a cry, a swarm of snakes shot from his arm, flying at the two Kage's, neither budging an inch. The Tsuchikage's face broke into a wry grin as he formed the dragon with his hands, almost snickering.
"Doton, Iwa no O-Tate, Kakomu!" He cried, a sphere of earth smashing through the rooftop and enveloping them. The snakes bounced harmlessly of the earthen barrier, making it impossible to harm the pair.
"You have much to learn, my wayward student." Hiruzen noted, back-to-back with Orochimaru. "Ambition and greed, pride and envy, the will to cause pain and destruction, all these things lead only to pain and suffering. By the Will of Fire, I will destroy you here, and set your victims free!" Forming a hand sign, Sarutobai began to channel an inordinate amount of chakra through his limbs. "Katon, Karyu no Rin!" Taking in a deep breath, Hiruzen shot a blast of fire from his mouth, the inferno weaving around his body and burning everything in its path. Orochimaru let out a cry of pain as he burned, before suddenly vanishing in a puff of smoke.
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Leaping over another barrage of sand shuriken, Sasuke let out a short curse as he searched the arena for Naruto. There was no sign of either him or the white haired man. Whether that was a good thing or not, Sasuke was yet to decide. On one hand, that meant he had no back up to speak of whatsoever. On the other, however, it was one less enemy Sasuke had to fight. Turning his attention back to Gaara, Sasuke whipped his last fuuma shuriken out from under his shirt. Time to work out a new trick.
"Oyo, catch!" Sasuke cried, hurling the shuriken as hard as he could. Gaara didn't even pay attention to it, lunging forward past it as the sand formed a large claw, reaching out to claim Sasuke's life. Sasuke didn't give a damn, though.
He was going to prove the Hokage right in promoting him, even if it killed him to do so!
"Boom." Sasuke muttered, watching the explosive tag riddled fuuma shuriken explode. There was the hole in the sand he was looking for. Darting forward, Sasuke smashed his fist straight into Gaara's face, breaking his nose. It felt good, very good.
Gaara let out a snarl as he wheeled back, the sand whirling around Sasuke. Snapping his nose back into place with one hand, Gaara snapped the other hand closed.
"Suna Kasui Jigoku!" He cried in anger. Sasuke's eyes bugged out in his head as the sand around him grew spikes, all attempting to impale him in a method much like the Karamatsu no Mai.
"Typical." Sasuke groaned, spinning to dodge the spikes. "You see a good trick and you copy it, but no one pulls that off as well as Naruto." Forming hand signs as fast as he dared, Sasuke felt a grin dance its way onto his face. Once again, he thanked Kakashi for letting him copy this one.
"Katon, Karyu Endan!" Sasuke roared, unleashing the fire blast straight into the wall of sand as several spikes shot at him.
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Gaara smile sadistically as he unleashed the last few spikes on his victim. It was over now. In moments, he would hear the sound of cracking bones that would signify the death of his enemy.
Then he heard the sound of glass shattering, watching almost in disbelief as the side of his sand sphere turned to glass, Sasuke smashing his way straight through it. It took several seconds for Gaara's brain to catch up with what had just happened.
"So, was that it?" Sasuke asked, seemingly not caring that a piece of glass sat upon his head, his body covered in scratches from the glass. He suddenly cocked his head to the side, letting the glass fall. "Or can we actually fight, now. Where's the Gaara that kicked my ass?" Inwardly, Sasuke winced. Maybe that was understating what had happened, but he wanted to fight Gaara at full strength. His wounds were, for the most part, healed, if only a little stiff. Still, he'd be paying for it tomorrow. He could feel his chakra protesting against him. Gaara snarled at him, forming hand signs almost faster then Sasuke could see them, a wave of sand forming behind him like a tidal wave.
'I just had to tempt him, didn't I?' Sasuke thought to himself in irritation, readying a Kiwirimi.
"Ryusa Bakuryu!" Gaara cried, the sand wave charging. Sasuke puffed out of existence, leaving a log behind to face the onslaught.
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Bone sword clashed with bone sword, bone spike with bone spike. Naruto couldn't believe how blindingly fast his opponent was. If Kimmimaro was hindered by the same disease he was, then he certainly didn't show it, easily and elegantly dancing around Naruto's clumsy in comparison strikes. Finally, the pair clashed together hard, a pair of bone swords locked with another pair of bone swords. Naruto thought he heard something crack, to his horror. He was using weapons made of bone, for crying out loud. If his enemy could crack his weapons, then he didn't want to know what he could do to him.
"Impressive, Shikotsumyaku no Uzumaki Naruto." Kimmimaro noted, violently forcing Naruto away. Naruto let the bone weapons crumble, skidding along the ground as he pointed his fingertips at Kimmimaro.
"Teshi Sendan!" He cried, only for Kimmimaro to flicker out of the way, the bone bullets all missing by more then he'd like to admit. Kimmimaro was fast. Far faster then Naruto.
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"Hinata, get back!" Kiba roared, leaping into the fray as several Oto-nin arrived on the scene of the hospital. It was a terrible scene, Genin, Chunin, Jounin, civilian, they all were present, some alive and fighting, others on the ground, dead or dying. Not for the last time, Hinata was thankful the Hanabi was inside the hospital. Leaping backwards, she narrowly avoided being in the way of a pair of Gatsuuga's, as Kiba and his sister came tearing through the battlefield with their canine companions.
"Ano, Kurenai-sensei, we can't hold out." Hinata cried out to her teacher, launching a Jyuuken assault on a ninja attempting to sneak up on her. Kurenai shook her head.
"There's nowhere to fall back to, Hinata. If the hospital falls, then we fall with it!" She replied. Hinata flinched as two Suna-nin suddenly lunged forward, covered in explosive tags. Suicide bombers.
"Perhaps I can help." Hinata's breath caught in her throat as a hand patted her shoulder, a man in the red cloud rimmed robes of Akatsuki walking right by her.
"Yahiko-san." She whispered. Yahiko winked at her, a small smile on his face.
"You're good with names, Hyuuga Hinata. That is comforting. Now, to defeat these warmongers." Yahiko formed the ram seal, and Hinata could feel the insane amount of chakra just beneath his skin, even without looking at him. It was far beyond that of the five Kage's, possibly beyond all five combined.
"Hinata, get back!" Kurenai cried, about to lunge to the defence of her student, but froze in utters shock at what happened next.
"Ninjutsu Ougi, Ame no Katsu Moya!" He called out to the world. The skies darkened and clouded over, as the pitter-patter of rain began to ring out, droplets of liquid falling from the sky. The whole battlefield was still, staring at the one ninja who caused the phenomena in shock. Yahiko formed several more signs in the space of a few microseconds, ending on the bird.
"Ninjutsu Ougi, Katsu Ameryu Tatsu!" He cried. The rain droplets began to form together around him, creating a large dragon made of rain. Letting out a roar, the dragon lunged forward, smashing through several enemy ninja even as seven more began to form. The eight dragons took to the battlefield with tooth and claw, decimating the enemy in seconds. Throughout it all, Hinata, Kiba and Kurenai just gazed at Yahiko in shock.
He was truly deserving of the title Rikudo Sennin.
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Gaara was a very powerful ninja. That much Sasuke was sure of. However, he did have one weakness. He wasn't fast.
Time to use that to Sasuke's advantage. With two buildings between him and the still searching Gaara, he was sure he could charge up the Chidori and strike him before Gaara noticed. Quickly flying through the hand signs, Sasuke let out a deep breath, feeling the lightning form in his hand. Precious seconds passed, but Gaara was yet to notice him.
It was ready.
Sasuke shot off like a bullet, speeding down the street and straight at Gaara, who only now had noticed the bright ball of lightning streaking across the street at him. It was too late for the sand armour to completely protect him, barely forming two inches in front of him.
The Chidori struck home and hard, slicing into Gaara's chest like a hot knife through butter. Gaara was lucky that it had only managed to penetrate an inch before the sand had caught Sasuke. Hurling the Konoha-nin aside, he held a hand up to his chest, blood pooling under his body.
"Mother?" He asked, as the whispering in his head stopped. With nothing left to give, he passed out from blood loss. Sasuke let out a relieved sigh, sitting down against a blasted out wall.
He didn't notice the sand pooling around Gaara until it was too late.
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"Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Hiruzen cried, as one shuriken became thousands. Orochimaru was unconcerned, replacing himself with a tile on the next roof over to avoid the swarm. Dodging a sudden swipe of the Tsuchikage's staff, Orochimaru thrust his hand into the aged Kage's sternum, a smirk on his face.
"Sen'enjaishu!" He cried, the swarm of snakes blasting the Tsuchikage away, biting at his body as he crashed into the roof behind Hiruzen. "This is pointless, sensei. How about we make this more interesting." Hiruzen frowned at the implications of those words.
"Don't test your luck, Orochimaru." He growled, his hands snapping into hand signs. Orochimaru launched into his own sequence, both finishing as one.
"Katon, Karyu Endan!"
"Suiton, Moutsudan!" A blast of fire and water launched from each mans mouth, colliding in midair and unleashing a torrent of steam.
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"FINALLY, I'M FREE!" Sasuke froze at the maniacal voice, almost not wanting to look. He did, though, however unwillingly.
Gaara's body had gathered sand around it, morphing several of his features into that of a giant racoon. His right arm was a large claw of sand, the right side of his face morphed and distinctly of a tanuki. His left leg was a gnarled limb, and a large, bushy tail of sand swished angrily behind him
"What the hell are you?" Sasuke growled, crouching low to avoid a blast of sand. Gaara grinned maniacally.
"I'M SHUKAKU, THE ICHIBI! AND YOU, MY PET, ARE DEAD MEAT!" He laughed, lunging forward with a speed he simply shouldn't have had. Sasuke barely had time to jump to avoid the swing of Gaara's claw.
'Damn it. I don't have much chakra left.' Sasuke thought, desperately looking for a quick win. 'I'm dead, now.'
"FUUTON, RENKUDAN!" Gaara screamed, smashing his left hand into his stomach and sending a blast of air at Sasuke. Closing his eyes, Sasuke silently waited, readying his chakra. If he was going to die, then he was going to go out in a blaze of glory, literally.
"Katon, Goenka no Jutsu!" Sasuke's eyes snapped open at the familiar voice, just in time to catch the straw hat spinning in his direction, watching the blazing inferno between the two battling Jutsu with a curious sort of horror. Standing in front of him was the one man Sasuke hated beyond any and all other.
"What's wrong, Otouto?" Itachi asked curiously, as the combined Jutsu exploded before them. "This battle isn't over yet." Sasuke's Sharingan spun back into existence as he stared at his older brother, the man that ruined his life. Blinking in disbelief, the third and final tomoe slid into its place in his eyes.
"Itachi..." Sasuke whispered. Itachi smiled back at him, Sharingan eyes locking with each other. A silent message passed between them.
Gaara first. Their business could wait till after.
Getting back to his feet, Sasuke calmed his chakra down forcefully, catching the soldier pill Itachi tossed his way and popping it into his mouth. He was really going to pay for this for the next week.
"SWEET! MORE FOR ME TO KILL!" Gaara cackled gleefully. Itachi glanced at his little brother, the pair sporting identical grins.
"He talks too much, doesn't he?" Sasuke stated. Itachi shrugged.
"I would say his ego needs to be cut down to size." He replied. Gaara snorted, sending a buffet of sand at the pair. Neither was there when it struck, having already leapt away.
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Yahiko frowned as he found the pyramid of darkness that Orochimaru had no doubt engaged the Kage's within. Taking in a deep breath, he began forming hand signs, preparing to completely unravel the Jutsu on its casters.
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"Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei!" Orochimaru cried, as three coffins rose from the ground, bearing one, two and four upon their bodies. Hiruzen's heart almost broke, as all four Hokage were suddenly in the same place, at the same time.
"Hey, old man, relax." Minato stated wryly, his hands in the famous white coat of his, red flames around his shins. His blond hair swayed in the wind, as a sad smile graced his face. Orochimaru hurriedly threw three kunai at the resurrected Hokage's.
Then the dark pyramid shattered into nothing.
"Shinra Tensei!" Yahiko roared, repelling the kunai intended for Minato as the other two struck. The Tsuchikage nearly died of a heart attack as he caught sight of Yahiko's eyes, his body wounded and bloody.
"You know, I think its time we all got serious, eh, Hiruzen?" The Tsuchikage growled. "I'll take the Nidaime."
"I'll defeat the Shodaime." Hiruzen spoke up. "My style counters his best. Minato-kun, can you please fix my mistake."
"I will." Minato replied. "How's Naruto?"
"You wouldn't recognise him now, Namikaze Minato." Yahiko spoke up. "He's all grown up." The Rikudo Sennin and the Yondaime shared a short glance, before charging at Orochimaru, the Yondaime forming a bright blue orb in his hand.
"Rasengan!"
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Sasuke didn't flinch as a storm of sand shuriken flew down the street; leaping from building to building as he hurled whatever shinobi weaponry he had left back at Shukaku. Kunai, shuriken, it didn't matter to him. So long as it was sharp and dangerous, it would do.
"Aniki, I hope you have a plan." Sasuke called out, narrowly dodging a 'Fuuton: Renkudon' that flew past his body, bringing down a shopping stand behind him in a hailstorm of splinters. Itachi snorted, coming to a halt on a building three stories higher then Sasuke's.
"Katon: Goenka no Jutsu!" He cried, spitting out a giant fireball at Shukaku. "Gaara's the key. If we can wake him up, the demon will return to its sleep."
"Fine plan." Sasuke retorted. "Except you forgot to mention the literal hell between us and Gaara." The brothers glanced at each other, before splitting into identical grins.
"This should be fun." Itachi replied, leaping into the air to dodge Shukaku's claws. Sasuke didn't reply, leaping onto the claw and bracing his arm, lightning crackling in his palm.
"You know what they say. The bigger they are, the harder they fall." Sasuke muttered, charging forward in a streak of light. "Chidori!" Shukaku barely managed to raise the sand wall around Gaara in time to block the charging Chunin, a scowl etching itself on Sasuke's face.
"Fly!" Itachi cried. Sasuke spared no time in separating himself from the sand beast, his body flying straight past the Uchiha traitor. Itachi closed his left eye, as the right spun in its little kaleidoscope circle.
"No time like the present, Aniki!" Sasuke cried, hurling the few shuriken he had left at the sand beast. Itachi didn't respond to his brother, his mouth forming a single word.
"Amaterasu." He whispered. Shukaku's eyes shot wide, as it hastily hid Gaara from view.
A moment later, the Shukaku's left arm fell to the ground, useless, as black flames exploded from the beasts shoulder, devouring the sand and destroying it. Shukaku let out a scream of anger, devouring as much air as possible.
"NOW YOU DIE! FUUTON: RENKUDON!" He screamed, his right arm smashing into his stomach, a blast of compressed air spewing from his mouth. Itachi chuckled to himself as it approached, not budging an inch.
"Chidori!" Sasuke cried, flying past Itachi and puncturing straight through the air bullet, blowing it up in midair. Itachi smiled to himself as he flickered out of existence, appearing before Sasuke and grabbing his right hand.
"Go." He whispered, before spinning and hurling Sasuke at Gaara. Shukaku saw him coming, raising the sand wall around his host.
'If the Chidori can't get you…' Sasuke thought, reaching into his mind a grasping at the small piece of him that held the curse mark. 'Then I'll use the new one.'
Tomorrow simply couldn't come fast enough.
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"Teshi Sendan!" Naruto and Kimmimaro cried as one, the pair dancing around each other, flipping between falling debris and building walls as they battled their way up the Hokage tower, narrowly avoiding the veritable bone storm that the other was attempting to kill them with. Slowly, but surely, they were making their way to the top.
'There!' Naruto thought to himself, flipping over the top of the tower and landing on the rooftop, collapsing to one knee. 'Damn it, only fifty seconds left.' Glancing to the edge of the roof, his heart sank as Kimmimaro flipped over the top, barely out of breath.
"Impressive, Shikotsumyaku no Uzumaki Naruto, but our feud ends here." Kimmimaro stated, slowly and deliberately making his way to Naruto, the teen coughing up blood from his lungs.
'Shit. Time to go wild.' He thought, spinning around and unleashing a blast of bullets. Kimmimaro ignored them, flickering away.
"However, I will have pity on you, and show you one of our most powerful techniques before you die." Kimmimaro stated from behind Naruto, drawing twin bone swords as he charged. "Genji no Mai!" With a cry, he slashed straight through Naruto, slamming the bone swords into the ground right before bones sprouted from his body, turning him into a living-spinning top as he spun, slicing into Naruto's body like a knife through butter. Banishing the bones and crumbling them to dust, Kimmimaro grabbed Naruto's foot as he spun one more time, hurling him into the air as he fired off round after round of bone bullets, until he was finally satisfied Naruto was almost certainly dead. Then, just to be sure, he leapt above Naruto motionless body and blasted several spears of bone out of his back, sending the injured Chunin straight down to ground level. Landing absently on the Hokage's tower, Kimmimaro sighed.
"He is certainly dead now." He muttered to himself.
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"Chidori LAMENT!" Sasuke screamed as grey lightning flew from his hand, enveloping him and Shukaku's entire head in its field of destruction as the sound of a thousand flapping birds rung out for everyone to hear. Sasuke let out a scream of agony as lightning ripped through him, opening angry burns and bleeding wounds. His only consolation was Gaara's own screams of agony, as the lightning not only woke him up, but also dealt unspeakable agony upon him. Finally, the field began to thin and condense…
Itachi could only watch in an interested form of horror as the lightning field exploded, sending both Gaara and Sasuke flying through the air. Without a thought, he flickered away, catching his brother in midair.
"Oh Amaterasu…" He whispered softly, staring at Sasuke's burned body. He didn't waste another thought, flickering away towards the hospital.
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"Namikaze Minato, duck." Yahiko cried, raising a hand as a fuuma shuriken flew over the Yondaime's head. "Shinra Tensei!" Thus, the shuriken reversed its direction, flying at Orochimaru. The hebi-sennin frowned, as he flickered out of existence, Kusanagi no Tsurugi in hand.
"Die!" He snarled, stabbing at Yahiko's unprotected back. Yahiko simply dissolved into water on contact, reappearing directly behind the Sennin with a black chakra blade in hand.
"No, you die." He retorted, stabbing the snake. Orochimaru poofed out of existence, only for his body to be hurled over Yahiko's head by Minato. Minato glanced at Yahiko and his fellow Kage's, before sighing softly to himself.
"This isn't going well, is it?" He muttered, as a decapitated Shodaime and armless Nidaime regenerated their arms and head. "Only one way to win."
"Minato…" The Sandaime spoke up, but Minato shook his head.
"Naruto-kun still needs you, Hiruzen." Minato replied to the unasked question. "Just cover me." The Yondaime then started up the one hundred and ninety six seal sequence that could end in only one way. The Shiki Fuin.
Jutsu Glossary
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Doton, Iwa no O-Tate, Kakomu (Earth Style, Great Shield of Earth, Encompass… I think)
A-rank Ninjutsu, 0-5 metres
The user surrounds himself and his allies in a 5-metre radius sphere of Earth. This Earth is almost impenetrable, being made from the strongest minerals in the ground at the time.
Basis: Suna no Tate.
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Katon, Karyu no Rin (Fire Style, Ring of the Fire Dragon)
S-rank Ninjutsu, 0-10 metres
The user breathes out a fire dragon that coils around the user, before blasting forth in a shockwave. The fires of this dragon are white hot, and burn through most materials.
Basis: This is an upgrade to Katon, Karyu Endan. The Sandaime isn't called the professor for nothing.
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Suna Kasui Jigoku (Sand Spike Hell)
Unknown, 0-5 metres
An addition to the Suna no Tate, the Suna Kasui Jigoku causes the Suna no Tate to develop spikes of sand that impale any close enough to be struck by it.
Basis: As Sasuke said, Gaara copied this from Naruto's Karamatsu no Mai.
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Ninjutsu Ougi, Ame no Katsu Moya (Ninja Art Secret, Split Haze of Rain)
Unknown, 0-1,000 Km
This Jutsu causes the sky to haze over and rain dark and poisonous waters. Any who ingest the water when it is infused with the users chakra, suffer horrific burns from the rains acidic qualities.
Basis: Nagato's rain technique, obviously. This one is the mass combat version.
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Ninjutsu Ougi, Katsu Ameryu Tatsu (Ninja Art Secret, Split Rain Dragon Sever… roughly)
Unknown
The actual qualities of the Ninjutsu are unknown. It appears to summon rain dragons to destroy the users enemies. However, the name of this Jutsu would suggest something else…
Basis: Suiryudan, anyone?
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Katon, Goenka no Jutsu
A-rank Ninjutsu, 5-35 metres
Created by Uchiha Itachi, the user inhales a breath of air before blasting a large fireball at a target. This fireball explodes on contact with anything, and is hazardous to the user at close range.
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Genji no Mai (Dance of the Genji)
Kekkai Genkai, 0-5 metres
A masterful blend of the Karamatsu no Mai, Tsubaki no Mai, Teshi Sendan and Sawarabi no Mai, almost certainly ending in the targets death.
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Sorry for the long wait. I've been bogged down in schoolwork for the last four months. I think it shows in this chapter, too, as its a little shorter then normal. Next chapter, the story starts in earnest, as I get to finally say get lost to the majority of the storyline. Seriously, what was Kishimoto thinking when he came up with the Jyuubi?
I found the latest chapter of the manga highly amusing. It's probably worth stating that I'm somewhat a NaruHina diehard, but everyone's entitled to his or her opinions. Read, review, and then… do whatever you people do between my updates.
P.S. Shouldn't take too long for the next chapter. Again, I'm really sorry for the huge wait. It's just been exam after exam after assignment over here. I've actually read ahead on my maths to get the time to finish this, and it cost me quite a bit of sleep. I promise the next chapter will be soon.