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Jet swung his swords towards Naruto only for the Uzumaki to move both himself and his massive weapon out of the way before unleashing a blast of fire from the hollow pauldron of the Zanpakuto.
Jet tossed away the flames with a crossed slash from his swords and swung towards Naruto form two directions, one from the left and one from the right and both aiming to slash his neck open of remove his shoulders with a flick of their wielder's wrist.
Naruto grinned as he blocked Jet's hook swords with the massive form of Raika Goen Kaku.
"Is that the best you've got?" Naruto asked with a grin only for Jet to swipe up with one sword, the spearhead end releasing a razor sharp crescent of Chakra that Naruto easily knocked aside with his Zanpakuto before unleashing a burst of flames that Jet vanished from sight to avoid and this put the Uzumaki on edge.
Jet suddenly appeared in the air behind him and Naruto grinned as he pointed the pauldron part of his Zanpakuto up towards Jet who's eyes widened as he saw the flames building up in the hollow pauldron.
'Crap, got to think of something now.' Jet thought in a panic as a plan rapidly formed in his mind.
He quickly linked his hook swords together before sending the spearhead end of one down to the ground and pulled himself out of the blast of fire with it only for Naruto to swing the hook end of the sword towards him.
A crescent made of fireballs launched towards Jet who countered with two crescent of Chakra that tore through them and Naruto quickly shielded himself behind his massive weapon.
Jet appeared above him suddenly and Naruto quickly grabbed the handle in the hollow pauldron and dragged the weapon down at an angle to block Jet's descending slashes.
With a roar the Uzumaki pushed the blade up and tossed Jet into the air where he tucked himself into a ball before landing on a tree before Naruto ripped the Zanpakuto up out of the ground before pointing the hook end towards Jet and unleashing fireball after fireball fired from the tip of it.
Jet grinned as he cut them all to shreds with countless razor sharp crescents of Chakra and landed on the ground in front of Naruto with his blades swinging upwards to cut Naruto in half vertically.
A burst of flames forced Jet to leap into the air to avoid it or be roasted and once there Jet grinned before letting loose a pulse of Chakra out to rush across his blades.
His Chakra roared across the blades in his hands as he shot down even as Naruto fired burst of fire up after him time after time only to miss as Jet either knocked them away with his Chakra infused swords or a single cut down the middle blew away the flames.
'This isn't working.' Naruto thought with a curse as he leapt to the side to avoid Jet as he crashed into the ground.' I have the raw power but not the speed to match him.'
Jet swung both blades blade and crescents of Chakra shot towards Naruto who stabbed the hook end of his Zanpakuto into the ground and crouched down behind it to endure the bombardment before sending a surge of Chakra to the weapon.
"Raiendan!" Naruto roared as a massive fireballs hot out of the pauldron at the end of the weapon and once high in the air it broke apart into a dozen more than rained down towards Jet who avoided them only to see them track him.
A slash of both swords together unleashed a massive wave of Chakra that threw away the fireballs only for Naruto to appear behind him, flames filling the pauldron as he swung it down to face Jet.
'Crap.'
"Let's try this again, Raiendan!" Naruto roared as he fired a single massive fireball into Jet that hit him with force.
Naruto wasn't finished yet through as he fired several more fireballs that arched around to attack from all angles before spinning the blade above his head, flames engulfing both it and him before he slammed the hook portion into the ground with enough force to cause cracks to spread out from the point of impact.
"Goen Ryuga!" Naruto roared as the clearing was engulfed in spears of fire moments later.
Jet through leapt out of them, having used his Chakra infused swords to cut away the spears aimed for him.
Naruto grinned as he moved the pauldron towards the airborne jet.
"Goen Ryuga!" Naruto called out again and this time the spears launched from the hollow portion, aiming to skewer Jet on hundreds of them.
Jet grinned as he formed a single very familiar hand sign.
"Kage Bunshin!" Jet called out and three shadow clones burst to life in front of him before each swung their Chakra enhanced sword several times before dissipating.
The many waves of Chakra all formed into one and it made a solid wall that crashed into the spears of fire and would have slammed into Naruto if he hadn't leapt away only to have jet appear at his back.
Jet slashed down with one sword while moving up with the other, making a scissor motion aimed to cut Naruto's spine out from his body only for the Uzumaki to use a blast of fire to shoot himself into the air before spinning the massive weapon above his head.
He unleashed a massive blast of flame down towards Jet from the air only for the mercenary to already be gone and resting in a tree.
Naruto landed with some caution before he was forced to dodge out of the way of a hail of explosive kunai that detonated in midair.
Jet appeared to Naruto's side with his two swords pressed together with both hands and aimed to bisect Naruto at the waist with the Chakra enhanced blades.
Naruto used another jet of flames to blast to the side at an angle and rolled as he hit the ground, Raika Goen Kaku embedding in the ground next to him.
He fired several fireballs up towards the falling Jet only for Jet to cleave through them by pressing his two hook swords together and slashing them down as one, unleashing a massive crescent of Chakra to cut through the flames.
Naruto cursed before he charged up to meet him with a burst of flames from Raika Goen Kaku.
He and Jet clashed in the air in a blur before Naruto crashed into the ground as Jet landed sideways on a tree.
Naruto stabbed the hook end of his Zanpakuto into the ground to drag himself to his feet and he was obviously feeling the effects of whatever Jet did during their brief clash.
He was panting as he slowly stood up, the dozens of small cuts the miniscule blades of Chakra Jet's rapid swings released healing but not at the speed he would have liked especially when fighting someone like Jet.
'I'm rusty, I haven't had a good fight in a long time if Jet can beat me like this.' Naruto thought as he resealed his Zanpakuto.' And that too damn big blade isn't helping against a speed fighter like Jet.'
Naruto very well remembered the beatings Jet nearly regularly handed out to him during their first few encounters as well as his moves.
'He attacks me from behind or at the side, always in blind spot and uses Chakra to extend the reach of his blade.'
He remembered him dodging Jet's blow once and the Chakra coating his blades giving the blade nearly triple its length and nearly taking his arm in the surprise.
'He doesn't do well in tight quarters or when I box him in.'
It was hard to forget the one time he had managed to trap Jet using Senbonzakura and the swordsman had turned berserk in his escape from the sphere of petal surrounding him, nearly killing him in the resulting carnage as a result of it.
'He also likes to prolong fights, if he can at least.'
Once Jet had been on the verge of killing him but he had slowed his strike at the last second, giving Naruto just enough time to draw Zabimaru back to himself, rather clumsily he would admit later on, and throw him aside with the extendable blade.
'All in all, he's a pain in the ass to fight.'
Naruto sighed as he let loose a surge of Chakra as he drew his blade once again.
"Kick About, Los Lobos."
Naruto was consumed in a pillar of Chakra and it quickly faded to show his clothes changed to that of his Los Lobos form.
"I see you've changed your weapon again and I don't know this one at all, nice." Jet spoke as he landed on the ground in front of Naruto." You're just a walking arsenal, aren't you kid?"
"You can say so." Naruto answered, his one visible blue eye looking at Jet lazily." I can't really say I like using this form, it's pretty powerful."
"We'll see about that kid." Jet answered before he charged forward.
Naruto leapt back into the air before his Chakra fired from the two guns in his hands as bullets.
Jet dodged them as he rushed up a tree behind Naruto before launching off it and the Uzumaki quickly shot at him only for Jet to deflect the bullets of Chakra with one sword and the other was charged with Chakra to the extreme.
"Crap." Naruto muttered as Jet grinned as he slashed the hook sword up at Naruto.
A massive crescent of Chakra slammed into him and powered him into the ground before exploding, releasing a dome shaped blast that leveled the area around the two.
Naruto sighed from within the crater before kicking up to his feet in time to avoid the spearhead end of both swords from skewering through his head and he raised one gun before whispering one word.
"Cero." Naruto whispered as a massive blue beam of energy shot out of the barrel and slammed into Jet.
Jet was thrown back into the trees and grinned as he shot forward only for Naruto leap high above him before pointing both guns down at him.
"Cero Metralleta!" Naruto shouted as he fired dozens of blast at once down on Jet who used his Chakra enhanced blades to deflect them with some difficulty.
Naruto fired a stronger Cero down at Jet that served two purposes. One was to try and kill him and the other was ti give him enough momentum to reach a treetop nearby.
Jet glanced at the massive Cero barreling towards him and with a surge of Chakra to both blades he cut the Cero in half as his Chakra formed a massive cleaver blade not unlike what the dead Zabuza Momoichi once used and Naruto grinned as he saw his attack tossed aside so easily.
"This guy really is a master swordsman, he can even deflect my Cero Metralleta without much effort. I wish I could get this guy as a teacher." Naruto commented as he ceased his attack for now and holstered his two guns.
"Nice job kid, think you can keep fighting like that?" Jet asked as he stood on a treetop to lock eyes with Naruto with a grin." I'm starting to really think you can handle my full power at this rate."
"Colmillo." Naruto whispered as two blades of blue energy appeared in his hands, the blue energy forming them coming from his bandoleers.
"Do you think you can keep up old man?" Naruto asked and jet only grinned.
"Let's find out then kid." Jet spoke before both shot forward, both grinning as they charged towards the other.
Amegakure…
Deep inside the tower of Pein a scream resounded.
It was on of sheer agony and lesser man would have fled by now.
Not the five cloaked figures standing outside the room through.
They seemed unperturbed by it, even ignoring it.
"You hold information I doubt you may even speak but we will try it, give me the information you have on Naruto Uzumaki."
"You can burn in hell!"
Another scream followed that shout.
"He's pretty good at this, isn't he Itachi?" a blue skinned shark like man asked their partner, a large bandaged sword across their back.
"He will break like they all always do, it is only a matter of time Kisame." the black haired and eyed man answered, one of their prominent features being the tear tracks on their face." Pein will break him, it will just take time."
The screaming stopped suddenly.
The door opened and Pein stepped out of the door.
"Has he talked?" Kisame asked and Pein simply shook his head.
"Uzumaki has picked well, the boy refuses to talk at all." Pein answered and Itachi rose an eyebrow at that.
'Such devotion to endure all of that just in the less than five years of contact they've had with the boy?' Itachi thought in no minor amount of shock.
"May I speak with him Pein?" Itachi asked after a moment.
Pein looked at him for a moment before waving his hand towards the door as he turned away.
"Do as you wish, you may also attempt to get information as well if you wish." Pen answered as he walked down the hall." The rest of us shall head into a meeting.
Itachi wordlessly stepped into the room to find being blue haired and auburn eyed partner keeping him wrapped in paper and suspended in the air with the paper seemingly soaked in blood, turning it a dark red.
"You may leave Konan, I can deal with him myself." Itachi spoke and the bluenette merely rose a fine eyebrow at that.
"I will remain here Itachi." Konan answered as the bound Taka floated forward." That paper is keeping him where he is right now, don't let his defeat fool you into thinking you stand a chance against him. He is still very strong, enough to worry even Bando."
"I doubt I have much to worry about, but you may remain I suppose." Itachi spoke after a moment as he walked up to Taka and before he could ask the paper on his face peeled away yet only enough to reveal his eyes.
"I need to see his entire face Konan." Itachi spoke after a moment.
"Pein has ordered his identity remain hidden, his reasons are his own." Konan answered as well as stopping Itachi's future questions.
The former Konoha-nin simply sighed as he simply closed his eyes for a moment before the three tomoe red eyed Dojutsu known as the Sharingan filled both eyes.
Taka's eyes widened at the sight and his struggled could barely be seen before he let loose a muffled scream as the paper seemed to turn into blades and shoot into his body.
Itachi stepped back from the spray of blood as the paper now soaked in blood folded itself and flew to the floor.
Itachi glanced behind Konan to see a collection of red origami and couldn't help but wince as Taka collapsed to the floor, a mask of paper still covering the lower half of his face.
A variety of seals were actually burned into Taka's skin along his arms, across his chest, and down his back, forming a seal matrix that kept him from doing much.
Itachi himself identified several tracking seals, Chakra suppressing seals, and even a blood replenishing seal.
But Itachi was no seal master so he didn't know that much and they were dozens of seals on Taka, each intricately linked to the others in a both beautiful and deadly display of skill.
"Who did this?" Itachi asked as Taka was limp on the ground and Itachi noticed a paralyze seal placed as well.
"Pein did it." Konan answered as she walked up to Taka and dragged him up by his hair which Itachi noticed was streaked both black and white.
"How dangerous is he?" Itachi asked and Konan simply gestured to his seal covered body.
"He is as harmless as a puppy right now." Konan answered and Itachi nodded before dragging the captured prisoner up by his long hair and forcing him to look into his Sharingan.
When he attempted to close them a seal came to life, located on his left shoulder and Taka's body shook in agony as he managed to hold in the scream.
His eyes through were forced open and Itachi began his Genjutsu assault, starting off with one of his lesser ones.
Taka found himself in a red tinted world where he stood bound to a cross, his body unmoving and unresponsive to his will.
He suddenly felt large nails driven into his torso and nearly bit off his tongue holding in his scream even as Itachi walked up from behind him.
"What do you know of Naruto Uzumaki?" Itachi asked." Simply tell me all you know and I will end this."
Taka remained silent and the Uchiha sighed.
"Then I'm afraid you will suffer considerably." Itachi spoke before waving his hands and Taka felt something tightly wrap around his neck before he felt something pierce it.
A glance down showed Itachi had wrapped barbed wire around his throat and with a twitch of his fingers it coiled itself around his throat and slowly cut its way inside.
Taka felt every moment of it, the Genjusu refusing to give him a reprieve from the pain and he couldn't even scream now as his voice box was destroyed.
"You will experience this until you tell me what I wish to know." Itachi told Taka as blood poured down his body from his neck and he was soon covered in it as the barbed wire seemed to extend, slowly covering his entire body in constant agony.
'His mental shields are stronger than I thought they could be, he could even hold back Inoichi Yamanaka for almost a day with his skills.' Itachi thought in some shock.' Everything is shielded, I suppose this will remain a two-front assault on my part.'
AN: Well Naruto is fighting Jet while Taka is being tortured in Ame for information, both of them are in pretty bad spots in my opinion.
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Peace.