Chapter 35
Battle of the sea part 2
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Naruto's blue eyes glared balefully at Amachi's solid red orbs. "Haku, Fu, take down Isaribi as fast as you can. I'll stall Amachi for as long as I can. Mei, support me." Naruto ordered.
Haku and Fu paused for the barest of moments. The fact that Naruto said he'd stall Amachi with Mei was not lost to any of them. Naruto was one of their strongest fighters, his clones, sword skills and his sharingan helped him win 70% of their all-out 2v1 spars. Numbers meant nothing to the one-man army.
Not to mention he had Mei who, despite being almost completely exhausted from maintaining the lava monster Jutsu long enough to get them out, was no pushover either.
Haku nodded and focused his chakra. "Ice style: ice grenade" he muttered as his chakra condensed into a ball roughly the size of his hand "be careful Naruto. Something tells me that he isn't the type who just has a transformation and expects to win every battle with it" he said as the threw the ball.
Naruto closed his eyes "then let's release the seals" he whispered just before the ice grenade hit the sand between Isaribi and Amachi and erupted into spikes as the two jumped away.
Naruto and Mei vs Amachi
As soon as Haku had started making his ice grenade Mei took out a chakra pill and swallowed it. Ignoring the disgusting flavour, Mei focused on the chakra that was rushing back. It was only temporary but it'll have to do. She tracked the trajectory of the ice grenade and focused on the way Amachi's body leaned and how much his legs tensed. The lava user then focused her chakra and formed a small glob of her element and aimed at the apex of Amachi's jump. It wasn't a very taxing move, more of a chakra control exercise than anything, but it was still effective if aimed right.
Unfortunately for her, Amachi noticed the small blob of flying lava and brought his hand up to block it.
Mei frowned and focused on Amachi's webbed hand and saw a layer of chakra coating it "chakra scalpel" she realized "Naruto! He's a combat medical nin. Don't let him hit you! He can sever your muscles with just a touch!" she shouted in alarm.
Said medical nin looked at her in mild surprise "impressive. Discovering my technique just by seeing me block a bullet of lava. However..." Amachi landed and shot out scales from his back, hitting Naruto, who was just about to impale him with a sword, point blank. Naruto smirked as he swung his sword down, slicing a thin line down Amachi's back "boom" he whispered.
The shock of his scaled hide being penetrated so easily prevented him from jumping away from the suicide bombing clone and was consequently flung back from the explosion. Of course being a jonin level medical nin meant that this was easily as recoverable as simply righting his trajectory and landing back on his feet. Again he held up a chakra coated hand, this time to deflect a jab from Naruto's sword. "not bad kid" he smirked as he deflected another stab "not that good either" he shouted and in a burst of speed knocked Naruto's sword out his hand and kicked him in his stomach… or tried to. Amachi's eyes widened when he saw that somehow Naruto had managed to react in time and caught his foot. It was then that Naruto lifted his head and for the first time in the fight, Amachi noticed the blue sharingan with two tomoe in each of Naruto's eyes.
Haku and vs Isaribi
Unlike Amachi, Isaribi was not trained ninja and therefore not suited for direct confrontations with them, so she did the sensible thing and jumped into the sea to avoid the ice grenade. Inside the sea, her speed was boosted and any weapon thrown would be slowed down by the liquid. The sea also had the additional advantage of allowing her to remain hidden while her exposed opponents searched for her. What she didn't expect was for Haku to stop by the edge of the water and call her.
"Isaribi! You know that Amachi is using you" Haku called. "look at him! He used you as a test subject to complete the transformation. He had no intention of turning you back!"
"Shut up!" Isaribi screamed as her head came out the sea and shot a cannon of water at Haku, which was promptly stopped by a block of ice.
"Why do you still side with him?" Haku asked as he allowed the ice block to collapse.
"Because… even if there is only a slight chance…. It's the only chance I've got at turning back" Isaribi looked down "you have no idea what it is like to be a monster-"
"-shunned by the villagers"
"-hated for something out of your control"
"right?" Haku and Fu asked at the same time.
"We've been there too Isaribi. I, myself am more of a monster than you'll ever be" Fu said, unconsciously placing her hand under her right collarbone "but we got past that. You can too"
"aww, what a touching story… makes me want to throw up" a scathing voice said behind them and sent Haku flying with a kick.
"Haku!" Fu and unexpectedly Isaribi shouted at the same time.
"tch. Stupid brat would've killed me if I hadn't coated myself with chakra at the last second" Yoroi sneered and turned to Isaribi "and you, useless traitor. You were thinking about joining them weren't you? I knew Amachi should've killed you when he was done with you, 3 months ago"
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Naruto and Mei vs Amachi
"sharingan" Amachi muttered in realization before he was thrown by his foot. He landed a fair distance away on the water and stood up laughing "no wonder Orochimaru let you go! An Uzumaki, Hozuki and Uchiha! With that blood, there is a nearly sure chance you'll survive on your own! Leaving you in his little lab would be a waste. If he wanted to master all the jutsu, why not let his little experiment run wild and gather all the jutsu he could before he was powerful enough to be the perfect body! Why waste perfectly good experiments on someone that would benefit minutely when they could just send him out and do grow stronger himself?" Amachi rambled on "Orochimaru may be a sick bastard, but he certainly is a snake! Manipulating people without them knowing it so perfectly…" the mad scientist looked at Naruto "and it probably would have worked too… if you didn't meet me"
Amachi brought his hand up and sliced it on one of his sharp teeth "come out, Sea Boss! Summoning jutsu" he shouted, slamming his hand onto the sea surface. The two Mist Rebel shinobi watched warily as some sort of liquid started traveling from where Amachi slammed his hand down. It was transparent and easy to miss, but it was also unmistakably denser and …. Milkier than the normal sea water. It travelled a small distance away and started to rise up to form a… giant blob of water that looked humanoid only because of the slight indents on its surface.
"Naruto!" Mei shouted in warning just a second too late. Naruto only had time to look back before Amachi's clone kicked him into the sea. Mei could only watch helplessly on the sideline as Naruto ducked and weaved between the giant moving blob's arms. The lava user gritted her teeth before pausing and smacked herself. "I am an experienced Rebel ninja. I should not be standing here like an idiot. I should not have FORGOTTEN that I am not useless. I SHOULD NOT have forgotten that there is still an enemy who happens to be the summoner" met berated herself and prepared lowered her stance to jump to where Amachi was standing on the water.
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Fu vs Yoroi
"3 months?" Isaribi repeated in shock. "I've been used for 3 months"
*flashback*
"you don't really think I would just use you, do you Isaribi?" asked Amachi
*flashback end*
"yes you would" Isaribi whispered to herself.
"now I'm going to correct that mistake of letting you live…" said Yoroi, taking a step forward before leaning back and dodging a thrown kunai "but first it seems I'll have to take care of someone else first" he continued before turning his body and shooting himself at Fu.
Fu ducked and weaved between Yoroi's arms and went over what she knew "he's average height, average grappler weight, mainly focuses on sucking opponent's chakra through contact. He may be exhausted from fighting Haku earlier but its likely he had taken a soldier pill to negate that." Fu thought to herself. Any attempt she would make to try get distance was useless as he would close in before she could make any hand seals. A quick test proved that shadow clones were useless as he could just forcefully take some of its chakra and make it dispel from being unstable. "Stop chasing me you paedophile!" Fu shouted in frustration before getting a risky idea. The next time she landed, instead of jumping backwards again, she jumped straight into Yoroi and delivered a crushing uppercut to his chin knocking his shades off and jumped back before he could capture her. "step one complete" she thought. "Step two" Fu kicked up the sand straight into Yoroi's now unprotected eyes and blinded him for a few seconds. It was a few seconds more than she needed "Hidden jutsu: hiding in scale powder jutsu" she said and blew out a cloud of sparkling dust that encompassed Yoroi. As soon as he got the sand out his eyes, he opened his eyes wide to show his bloodshot eyes and proceeded to get blinded by the sunlight reflected off the special powdered dust. "Aargg" he screamed.
"this is the end of you" Fu muttered and ignited the powder with a pulse of chakra.
Yoroi was engulfed in a huge explosion which was so bright it made Isaribi dive under water to protect herself.
"ha" Fu panted "that'll keep you down". She had put a little more power in that jutsu that normal and increased the amount of explosive dust. Fu took a deep breath "now…"
"Naruto!" Fu heard Mei shout and turned around to see Naruto being kicked out to sea where a large… blob of water was waiting. The jinchuriki was about to run off to help when she felt a hand grab her foot and chakra being sucked out of her. She turned around to where the cloud of sand cleared to reveal… burnt sand. Fu's eyes widened as she was dragged down until only her head was above the sand. She looked up to see Yoroi's smirking face as his hand reached down for her head "I win"
AN: good news! And more good news!
Good news: I'm finally done with exams!
More good news: my computer has been fixed! And no data was lost! Woopee!
In celebration, I have an entire chapter of fights! Now, I am not very good at them so if there are any suggestions I'll be willing to listen.
In this chapter we see that Naruto can activate his sharingan (and it only has 2 tomoe because he hasn't been practicing with it that much). Amachi has summoned the Sea Boss, Fu is out of chakra, Haku is KO, Isaribi is conflicted and Mei is… forgetting that she can still fight. This arc will be wrapped up next chapter and after that there will be a small training filler (maybe a chapter or two) followed by the Raiga arc.
The votes:
Should Mei still end up with Naruto- 9 yes, 0 no
Continue snow/spring arc? – 5 yes, 0 no
What arc should be next ( I think I got misinterpreted here, Raiga arc will be next, I just meant after the Raiga arc. Also blood prison will be shuppiden (and that I am still seeing if I can make it flow into the story))
Snow/spring 2
Star: 2
Shion: 2
blood prison (still under debation for later stage) 3
That's basically everything…. Still need a beta
Reviews:
Guest 1,2,3 and Guest Twirl: maybe it's just coincidence that the three of you voted for the same thing on the same day… none the less your votes have been recorded.
Winter Arctica: I suppose. And your vote has been recorded
Zeus501: votes recorded… except the last one. That wouldn't work because Raiga is next and I'm only planning to defeat Yagura around a year before shuppiden…. So 3 years difference. The fillers were meant to fill in the 3 years timeskip.
BlackDragonShinigami: vote recorded, and no I'm not doing Ryuzetsu… I already have my hands full with characters that aren't very developed and are almost never seen…
AndiDuel: Mei flirts with everyone… except for Ao…I think. Votes recorded, thanks for reading
Noahendless: oops, I must've missed it when I double checked for red lines… I blame the programme's lack of anime knowledge and having a bunch of red lines from just names alone. I've fixed it now.
Jacklvmage12: yeah! Kick his ass!... actually I could write that, being the author and all… as for Shion loving him… I'm pretty sure that asking to have his babies was a good enough hint she did?
(lol is there even any more OP we could get?)
Well I got some internet….
Effectivesage: thanks :D and your votes have been recorded