FSDYT Note's:
Here is a second super quick update... oh yeah I'm quite aware everyone loves the whole double update thing lol!
CONTINUED. . .
'Have more of my chakra Haruo' finally retorted Shimugen as he moved his own chakra to his wielder who instantly felt less weak 'It is all we got left but it should help you at least a small bit'
"I am fine" replied Haruo as he rolled his shoulders and stepped forward in to the man's personal space "How are you?"
Realizing his stupid mistake the man stepped back and answered nervously "I-I am f-f-fine too sir!"
Haruo glared as his hand erupted in grey chakra and he punched the man in his chest "No, you can't possibly be fine you treasonous bastard. You have a whole in your chest. Matter of fact I think you are dead eh?"
The impaled ninja didn't answer as he couldn't. The sheer impact force of the fist that burst through his rib-cage and sent his heart flying out of his back had killed him in less than a heart beat. . . more or less.
Removing the dead carcass from his arm the red-haired man looked around at the frightened silent but now incredibly submissive people.
"Take that flag down, get back to defending this village and someone get me a medic. . . four of them" commanded the Reaper
TWO HOURS PAST| HOT WATER COUNTRY| THIRTY-TWO MILES EAST|
"Finally!" yelled Arata as he hit landfall and was now even closer to rescuing his comrades.
From behind the ecstatic teen Shuji too was happy at their arrival but kept it inside as he concentrated on keeping airborne. 'Hopefully that obnoxious brat Haruo was able to hold on'
Looking over his shoulder Arata asked "Sensei what strategy will we use when we get there?"
Surprised the Uzumaki man's mouth went agape "You don't have a strategy!?"
Scratching his head sheepishly the teen replied "I thought you would have some sort of idea. . . I mean you did organize them at a moments notice" he said looking at the running throngs of Uzu ninja.
Going silent for just a moment Shuji mentally ran through scenarios and devised many outcomes on the battles results depending on the path he decided. It took him only a few moments later to come up with a sound battle plan.
Breathing in a breath of air the man then exhaled "Haruo with the retreat to Yu village will be on the defensive at first but no doubt by the time he had arrived the village could of already been under assault by Kumo forces. He could probably be able to sneak in to the village past such a chaotic battle that enraptured it but his weakened division won't be able to so, he would probably have them hide to recover"
Shaking his head at the information the General asked "If he was outnumbered before and lost, won't it happen again from this final ambush?"
"Quite simply" trailed the man grimly "Even with fortifying and digging in to the village in defense. Along with the new added boost to the forces to combat and defend against the Kumo threat. Yes Haruo is still in trouble, that army Lightning country as a whole built is powerful and large but it has a key flaw which even if they take all of our comrades life and wins it will still lose. . . I believe Haruo must of seen this"
"What do you mean?" the teen asked intrigued as he slowed his pace slightly to better listen.
Now flying side by side with his student the man answered "The bigger they are the harder they fall. Arata I know this might be hard for you to hear but Haruo will probably not survive this. . . nor will probably any of our comrades"
"Stop! Talking like that!" yelled Arata getting angry "We are on our way! They will all be fine!"
"Look Arata the facts are very grim. But they are facts nonetheless; they are vastly outnumbered and completely weakened. Our eventual rescue won't have much effect if any. Yes we could repel or by a small chance defeat the Kumo force but they have already done us much damage."
Grinding his teeth in furious anger Arata spat "Before!. . . you said 'the bigger they are the harder they fall' What did you mean exactly if you didn't expect us to win?"
Shrugging at having to be the barer of bad news and the realistic adviser to the teen Shuji informed scholarly "In this battle Kumogakure even if they win will have to pull out of this war after"
Eyes widened Arata looked back at his sensei and cried "What?! Explain!"
YU VILLAGE
"BRACE FOR IMPACT!" roared Haruo
Crackling through the clouds that swirled in a grand spiral blotting the cerulean sky a streaking line of blue lightning swirled then abruptly came down near the edge of the burning village.
The lightning strike in its wake of the white flash it caused as it hit landfall. Left a deafening thud and then a quake of the earth that resounded the sheer destruction of what was once an outer west edge of the village destroyed leaving nothing but smouldering earth and cracked ground as a reminder.
Rising back up from his braced position on the ground the Uzumaki gave a glance to the completely destroyed section of the village then jumped back upon an earth made wall to look ahead at the enemy in the distance.
"What the hell is that?!" cried a kunoichi aiming her question at the calm Uzumaki.
From his position on top of the earth wall that had been hastily built in defense for the village, the commander looked down at the woman and the many ninja that with her stood behind the rocky barricade.
"They call it the Lightning Hammer but it in fact is just a gigantic collaboration jutsu where a large squad of ninja utilize lightning chakra by creating a depression of thunder clouds then focus a lightning strike to where they want via aggravating the clouds and powering them up. It is a very severe and long-range attack as you see but is mostly inaccurate in its strike."
Stunned the woman asked "How can it be inaccurate?! They took out half the village!"
Staring blankly at the woman Haruo answered "They were not aiming for that they were aiming for us"
Seeing the woman go silent he then addressed every ninja present "It takes time for them to power up that jutsu but we won't allow them to. Their strategy is to try an destroy us remotely by keeping us on defense and attacking from afar. We can't allow that, prepare for a charge! Earth and Wind users at the front!"
Scared but obedient the ninja went in to formation as all eyes went to the on the wall commander and they awaited the final order.
Far away but still visible Haruo looked over the many dots that he knew to be thousands of samurai and ninja. Among them he saw the many ninja in crude half circles that had glowing cackling lightning passing among them that sporadically shot upwards to the clearing clouds overhead.
'They are trying to power up again. . . Hope their front-line isn't as tough as it looks!' prayed Haruo mentally
Eyes back on the hundreds of ninja that quietly waited he spoke emotionless "This will be a single charge. Our only second wave will most likely attack when we make an opening so LET'S MAKE A OPENING! CHARGE!"
Taking to the lead, Haruo was at the forefront of the legion of ninja that ran over the makeshift wall then past the outer destroyed one.
Uncaring Haruo took resolve in knowing he was leading a charge that was not usually used by ninja. Head-strong frontal battle never was the ninja's way. But against such odds and so outnumbered, sneaking around would get him and his subordinates no where.
The Uzumaki met the battlefield with a resigned indifference, racing past the littering dead bodies of the previous offenders and defenders. He ignored the lost of human life and continued in his valiant charge towards the Cloud army.
TEN MILES EAST| YU VILLAGE
"They can't keep this up anymore" shrugged Shuji "Cloud along with Lightning country have gone in to one last desperate campaign to combat us and fight in this war. Something they couldn't do alone which is why they hired mercenaries and samurai. This action alone shows their despair"
Confused Arata looked at his teacher "They have created an army larger than what their previous at full power village boasted! That does not seem like they are about to call it quits to me!"
"Because you aren't thinking to the future" deadpanned the older man "To pay the amount of mercenaries they have hired Lightning country and Cloud have probably taxed their resources to the limit. An will probably seek to recoup through taking Hot Water country while at the same time forcing our army off the mainland."
"That will only give them the opportunity to further their conquest! Which is why we should keep running faster!" Arata shouted trying to run even quicker but soon realized he was at top speed.
Shuji sighed at his zealous student's antics but disagreed "They may force us off the mainland and even conquer Hot Water country hypothetically, but any decent strategist knows between the two other main powers; Leaf and Rock. Cloud can't compete with them with a bought army. Financially or just running out of ninja. . . Cloud an Lightning country will be at a stalemate"
Slowly nodding his head in recognition Arata spoke "Tch this is why you are so great sensei!I don't know how you figured this out!?. . . So if we beat them today?"
Shaking his head a yes Shuji answered "All we truly have to do without having too many causalities on our side is stress them past their limits. That way they will go the path of Suna and will be forced to either stay in their own country or even better defend from us in the future."
"Yes" agreed the teen "Our war with Cloud is going to come to an end today! I swear it!"
"DIE!" roared the Kumo jounin running forward at a high speed then jumping upwards while swinging both his swords in to a crossed X to bisect his enemy.
Seeing the running man coming closer to him Haruo acted quickly "YOU FIRST!" he screamed back as his sword's glowing grey blade came up in defense to meet the two gleaming swords, and upon contact with the weapons disintegrated cleanly through the steel swords then the falling from momentum ninja.
Retrieving his sword that disintegrated away the ninja's body in grey smoke. Haruo lifted the sword over his head to block another sword attack that was a blunder on the attacker's part as their sword too was destroyed.
Surging forward at his failed ambushers: Haruo lashed out at the ninja who'd attacked him but was met with a flurry of shuriken from the grey haired man who flung them out of a hidden holster in his sleeve.
Dodging the attack by running left Haruo quickly went back on the offensive again by pointing his sword point forward an racing at the man to impale him but was stopped when he saw the man cough up a scroll from his mouth that unraveled downward.
Impatient and trying to watch all sides of himself on this battlefield. As the many other battles carried on around him. Haruo was unaware of what the man could be planning nor did he truly have time to wait and figure out a strategy to safely defeat him.
The rampaging charge he was leading; crucially relied on speed and breakneck fighting that would take advantage upon the close quartered battling that was now plaguing the two colliding armies.
A thing such as taking his time and being strategic would offset the momentum gotten from the fast an furious strategy behind the attack. Quickly attacking furiously left no room for such opportunity.
Haruo understood like everyone else he could only press forward with tunnel vision and hope that the light at the end of the tunnel was victory.
Taking a new stance with his sword gripped by both hands sternly at his hip Haruo completely disregarded the power of the scroll and what it may have contained as he raced forward just barely glimpsing the design of the seal on the scroll.
Using his expertise on seals he saw it had something to do with containment but ignored the notion to strike out with a wide horizontal slash of his sword.
The Uzumaki's vision was completely blocked a second later as a plume of white smoke erupted from the hanging from the man's mouth scroll.
Jumping back in defense mode and none too happy about it Haruo waited to find out what he would have to defend against.
The Cloud ninja a second later as the smokescreen cleared wielded four giant shuriken; two each in one hand that were held by their inner circles. Abruptly they went alight in blue chakra before they were thrown at the Uzu-nin.
Haruo had an inkling of nostalgia of who this ninja was before him due to the giant shuriken he knew most notably were only used by unparalleled weapon masters but was forced to forget the oncoming memory as he slashed with his sword through the projectiles that threatened to bi-sect him.
Seeing his flying weapons dispatched the Cloud-nin cleverly in a quick hand movement revealed a stack of shuriken from his sleeves.
"Fuck!" spat Haruo with an edge of self-loathing from his evaporating blissful ignorance of the man"I know who you are! Toroi! Of the Magnet Release!"
"Yes" answered the man with cold indifference before throwing his stack of shurikens that scythed like the razor-sharp blades they were through the air at a heavy in thought red-headed commander.
'Damn why him a freaking magnet release user! Kumo is pulling out all of the stops here!' thought the teen as he slashed through every shuriken which like a magnet was attracted directly towards his body.
"Ah just like your fame says about you. You magnetize your weapons then make them hit your opponent who then in turn becomes magnetized. Which makes your job so much easier" Haruto summed calmly praying the man was a talker so he could devise a strategy to beat him in time.
Mind on the battle in front of him: Toroi, had no inclinations to want to have a conversation with the man he knew was the legendary Reaper.
Reaching in to his sleeves Toroi pulled out of them dozens of four pointed extremely sharp shurikens looped through high-grade steel wire. Before suddenly turning his body in a shallow back and forth twist than momentously flinging the projectiles and rope at the Reaper.
Knowing that even if he did move he would be chased by the magnetism of the projectiles from the applied magnetic beacon that was given to his sword when he had at first touched the magnetic shurikens. Haruo simply stayed still but channeled chakra around his body giving himself a grey haze that went alight around him.
The volley of fast-moving shuriken connected by entangling steel wire spiraled through the air leaving a trail of distorted wind from their cutting power.
Striking one after another upon Haruo then wrapping around his body the shurikens and wire disintegrated a second later in to grey wisps before they were ever able to pierce the hazy grey chakra encompassing the Uzumaki's body.
Sighing as if a weight had been lifted Haruo asked "You didn't actually think those parlor tricks would work? I mean I must admit at first I thought you would be as deadly as rumor had it but then I forgot. . . you've been dealing with the norm Toroi-san. I'm the abnormal"
Tensing Toroi summoned another scroll from his mouth that he threw at the Uzumaki "I'm well aware you are abnormal Reaper-san but you will still die"
Haruo shook his head a no as he rushed forward past the outstretched scroll and slashed at Toroi who went up in a flash of blinding white lightning when he was cut in two.
Turning his back with blinded eyes closed the Uzumaki was able to defend against the many shuriken that exploded out of the scroll and attracted to him but with every throwing star he deflected he could feel his sword was gaining more magnetism by the second from contracting it through touching the projectiles.
A moment later the Uzumaki was recovering from his blindness and rubbed his eyes wearily before easily finding Toroi after swinging his body around to face the Kumo-nin. He then leveled the man with a glare filled of killing intent mixed hate.
"I have a strategy" assured Toroi glaring right back showing he was unafraid of the malevolent feeling that washed off the Reaper.
Reaching his sword arm out to fight the growing magnetic pull he felt the sword strangely enough was beginning to have towards him Haruo astutely figured out what the Cloud ninja's 'strategy' was.
Fighting the magnetic pull while still trying to concentrate on the Cloud-nin. Haruo spoke trying desperately to buy more time "Impaling me on my own sword. . . that might just work"
Hands stringing through a set of seals as he watched the Reaper fight against his own sword that steadily grew in attraction to him. Toroi finished his seal sequence then clapped his hands together resoundingly.
Haruo was first to feel what type of effect the Cloud-nin had let loose as his sword doubled in its effort to impale him, became too much for him to fight off before it rattled and shook in his grip. Slowly making any hold he had on the weapon disappear by the second.
An instant later the grey bladed sword repelled from Haruo's grip leaving his fingers outstretched and friction burned from the sudden forceful pulling away only to then attract point first in to his chest.
With a sudden viciously expelled cough Haruo fell to his knees then collapsed face down.