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Army of One
Ryuu crashed down on top of the creature just before it could slash Fu across the back, flattening it into the ground. Fu spun, eyes widening before she smiled.
"Thank you," Fu smiled.
"How much longer until your Seven-tails chakra is usable?" Ryuu asked.
"Not too much longer," Fu said.
"Stay back until it is," Ryuu said. "I'll take over."
Fu nodded and leapt back as Ryuu stood, cracking his neck and turning toward the sea of creatures flooding toward the Allied Forces, who were all watching them with fear and apprehension, except for the original Team 7, who landed beside Ryuu.
"You three worry about the Seven-tails," Ryuu said. "Allow me to handle these things."
"You sure?" Naruto asked.
"How hard could it be?" Ryuu grinned.
"You'd be surprised," Naruto said. "They stood up to Sakura's Chakra Enhanced Strength."
Ryuu looked over at the massive collateral damage one of Sakura's punches had done.
"Before that," Sasuke said. "She's gotten stronger."
"Duly noted," Ryuu nodded. "Still. These things are mine."
Ryuu sprouted wood spikes on his shoulder and broke two off, grinning.
"I've got them handled," Ryuu stated. "As a heads up from Madara, the Ten-tails supposedly has the power to nullify jutsu, including the Reanimation Jutsu. I doubt it, but I'm not letting Fu take the chance.
Naruto nodded and Ryuu began forward, hurling the two spikes into two of the creatures, more spikes sprouting from them. After a moment, they broke the spikes and continued.
"Alright then," Ryuu growled, retracting the spikes.
"Told you," Naruto said.
"I got this," Ryuu smirked. "I have more than one technique, Mr. Shadow Clones and Rasengan."
Naruto opened his mouth to counter the accusation but stopped. Ryuu was right. Naruto had a relatively small arsenal, just a wide variety of techniques with a couple of jutsus.
Ryuu grinned, forming his Susanoo's left arm, forming and hurling a Yasaka Magatama. It tore through the front line of creatures then exploded. The moment it did, Ryuu formed his Susanoo, moving to the front of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
"I'll handle this," Ryuu called out. "All of you stay back."
The shinobi looked at one another before backing away as Ryuu let his Susanoo fade, slowly floating to the ground.
"What to try first," Ryuu mused thoughtfully as the army of creatures grew closer. "Yes, I think that one should be first."
He began to make hand seals and knelt, placing his hands on the ground.
"Wood Style, Deep Forest Emergence!" Ryuu shouted, roots and trees breaking free and shooting across the ground, grabbing and crushing creatures as they went.
When it stopped, creatures began to flood over the roots and Ryuu grinned.
"Fire Style, Majestic Destroyer Flame!" Ryuu shouted, igniting the wood.
Within seconds, the roots were all burning and the creatures had caught fire as well, dropping and burning away after a few seconds, on account of being made of wood.
"This will be easy," Ryuu grinned.
Then, the wood exploded as a much larger creature with hammers for hands and blades on its forearms charged at him, roaring.
"A challenger," Ryuu grinned, sprinting forward.
It swiped at him, blasting the ground and he flipped over it, drawing his trench knife and streaming his Wind Nature chakra along it, extending the chakra and slashing the creature, removing its arm. It spun, slashing at him from the other side and Ryuu blocked it, using his wings to hold himself in place. Then, he flipped over the creature and split it in half. Then, he landed on the ground and leapt back to the shinobi.
"Too easy," Ryuu grinned. "What's next?"
The rest of the creatures began to flood over the roots as a gigantic snake and toad appeared behind Ryuu, along with Katsuyu.
"All you," Ryuu grinned turning back to the creatures. "I'll finish up here."
He sprinted forward, opening his Fifth Inner Gate as he ran, blasting into the creatures and sending them flying. The creatures swarmed toward him and he flipped, spinning upside down and kicking them away. Then, he landed on his feet, punching another and blasting it into a group behind it. He spun, catching a blade and snapped it off, driving it into another one before jumping and kicking the blade's owner away. As he landed, he slammed his hands into the ground.
"Wood Style, Great Tree Spear!" Ryuu shouted, roots exploding out of the ground, impaling the creatures around him.
Then, Ryuu spun, punching a creature and sending it rocketing backward into more. As he landed, a creature slashed at his back. Before the blade could reach him, he swelled up like a balloon before exploding. Ryuu burst out of the ground, firing a Majestic Destroyer Flame into the creatures, toward the main body. Just as he landed, the toad leapt into the air. Several massive creatures closer to the Ten-tails hurled spears at the toad and it slashed them out of the air with its gigantic tanto. Then, a massive Rasenshuriken formed over it. A moment later, a massive blue snake with a black underbelly slithered past Ryuu with Sasuke on its head, holding an Amaterasu arrow with his Susanoo, ready to fire. Both ninja launched their attacks, the Amaterasu hitting the Rasengan and mixing with it just in time to hit the Ten-tails, causing a massive black explosion, covering a good portion of the Ten-tails in Amaterasu.
"Good shot," Ryuu grinned. "Now, for the rest of these guys."
As Ryuu began to fight again, the Konoha 11 arrived, beginning to help, along with Fu, who had her Version One cloak active. Ryuu grinned, grabbing a creature and hurling it through the rest of the creatures before the creatures all. began to back away.
"Maybe not," Ryuu grinned.
Just then, the Ten-tails began to stretch the portion of its body that was burning away, separating it.
"Damn," Ryuu growled as the creatures began to close in again. "No choice them.
He formed his base Susanoo, picking everyone up and leaping back to the rest of the alliance and setting them down. Then, he turned back toward the creatures.
"What are you doing?" Choji asked. "We can fight!"
"Leave this to me," Ryuu said. "I'll wipe them out with my next two attacks."
Everyone stared at him as he set his hands against the remains of one of his roots from earlier.
"Wood Style, Wood Dragon Jutsu!"
The Wood Dragon grew out of it, spiraling into the sky before stopping, looking down at the creatures.
"Even if it doesn't kill them, it'll slow them down," Ryuu muttered. "Wood Style, Cutting Sprigs Jutsu!"
The dragon opened its mouth, wooden spikes beginning to spray out of it, the dragon sweeping the stream of lethal spikes through the army. As it sprayed spikes, the dragon began to deconstruct into the spikes, starting at the tail. Then, finally, the entire head exploded, spikes raining down throughout the creatures. The massive volume of spike had, in fact, killed a lot of the creatures, nearly a third. But it had only caught another couple dozen beyond them.
"I was hoping for more," Ryuu growled. "But I can work with this."
He formed his Susanoo's legs and leapt into the air, the Susanoo's chest opening and beginning to launch chakra needles, shredding the creatures as the needles rained down. The creatures roared in pain as they were shredded. Then, finally, Ryuu's Susanoo faded and he landed in front of the others, dropping to a knee and breathing hard. There were several dozen left, but that was barely anything compared to before.
"That took a lot more than I thought," Ryuu growled. "Damnit."
"It's alright," Fu said stepping forward. "We'll handle this."
"Be careful," Ryuu said.
"I will," Fu smiled. "Be right back."
Then, she turned, charging at the last handful of creatures with the Konoha 11, minus Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura.
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