Nenshō thrust his spear through the top of a bandit's head piercing his skull and sending him back as gravity took his body down slamming into gathered foes at the bottom trying to climb up and escape the wrath of Kumo's puppet.
The lifeless puppet continued to move through the crowd of bodies cutting them down like trees. Blood covered the Zabuza puppet in a thick coating from head to toe as the sword split it's foes in half. Broken spears and sword tips protruded from the wooden doll relics from fruitless attempts to defeat the lifeless automaton thinking it was a living person that could be stabbed in the heart. Several men tried running away from the rampage only to be cut down by Kumo's hidden unseen razor threads. Nenshō speared anyone that tried climbing up to the roof covering Ino as she looked after Supūru trying to unblock her chakra and repair any internal damage done by the Gentile Fist. A shinobi speed across the surrounding rooftops and hopped onto the tile roof bee lining for Ino. Nenshō extended the metal spear and swung it at the assailant as he rushed in to intercept, forcing him to duck the swing and letting him close the distance abandoning the weapon and charging his hand with fire and thrusting his palm into the man's sternum turning the layers of flesh and bone into ash. Nenshō grabbed his spine and tossed his burning corpse off the roof down to the fray below his body trailing ash and glowing embers. Ino helped Supūru to her feet handing her a kunai for good measure.
"It'll be a while before you can use your Jutsu again." She told her holding her shoulders to help her stand. "Not that it matters." Nenshō added. "It looks like Kumo has this handled for the most part." They watched as the puppet cleaved through the forest of bandits soaking the ground with warm blood and fresh gore. More foes came in from the surrounding alleys to aid their comrades adding to the ranks of bodies.
"I don't know." Said Ino. "He's been low on chakra; I don't know how much longer he can keep it up. And if he's using his Byakugan which I'm sure he is then he's running out fast." She explained pulling a new kunai.
"Shit." Nenshō muttered shifting the spear in his hand into a long cleaver like blade. "Say here and watch over her." He ordered Ino leaping down off the roof into the fray swinging the sword and carving a path of his own towards the puppet to cover its six. He ducked the cleaving sword and cut down a bandit avoiding the chakra threads as he moved through the clearing his boots splashing up puddles of blood as he rushed down the alleyway cutting down those that moved in to intercept him. More moved to follow him down the alley but the Zabuza puppet covered his rear cleaving anyone that got within range of Kubikiribōchō. Nenshō hurried along following the trail of chakra threads to Kumo following them up a wall and through a window were Kumo crouched down his hands controlling the chakra threads.
"There you are." He said greeting his friend. Kumo brought his puppet up through the window before releasing the chakra threads and deactivating his Byakugan. "They'll be here any minute." He explained trying to stand Nenshō moved and pulled him off the floor giving him a shoulder to lean on dropping his improvised cleaver. "You shouldn't be using your Byakugan, it's already drained most of your chakra already." He lectured taking Zabuza's sword out of the puppets hand and leading Kumo to the stairs the sounds of the house being surrounded outside made him clutch his masters blade tighter. The front door came down broken off its hinges as three men burst in. Nenshō let go of Kumo leaving him to lean against the wall as he rushed the intruders cleaving all three with a single swing of his massive blade. More bandits blocked the doorway trying to shuffle in through the narrow opening. Nenshō spun around building momentum swinging the Kubikiribōchō through the wall and door frame cutting down anyone close to the door clearing the way for him. He lunged through the threshold swinging any anything that got too close to him.
"How many bodies will it take!?" he spat looking at the already substantial number of bodies strewn on the dusty ground. "You can't kill us all." One of the bandits stammered not sounding completely sure of the statement. Nenshō couldn't disagree with the man's observation, he was already starting to run low on chakra and they outnumbered him more than forty to one. But he wasn't about to let them know that.
"Can't I?" he asked the bandit slashing Zabuza's blade at the air spraying the scared man in blood. Deciding to spend some of his remaining chakra he shifted his metal armor off his body and let it fall to the ground with an audible thud.
"I've already killed more than half of you with one arm." He hissed through his bloody teeth. "Who's to say I can take it the full mile."
He rushed in charging his muscles with chakra and swinging the blade one armed through the crowd cleaving their raised weapons before letting the blade eat through flesh. The crowd of men parted clearing the space around him and the reach of the mighty great-sword and those that didn't retreat were split in two. The bandits closed in forming a circle around him keeping their wide berth around him moving away as he lashed out against the crowd. A stabbing pain caught him in his side as a spear was thrust into him past his limp arm and into his side piercing him. He snapped the spears shaft with the blade and cut the man down. More tried moving in to assail him but he kept the mass of them at bay. Another spear cut into him clipping his calf. Nenshō's vision began to blur, the loss of blood and chakra was already starting to pull him down. Nenshō ignored the pain and worked past the exhaustion swinging at anything he could get within range of. As he sundered another bandit in two the crowd once again began to withdraw from him completely turning tail and running away from him. Nenshō looked down to see waves upon waves of scorpions scurried across the ground chasing after the bandits. Nenshō looked over to see Kumo crouched down his hand to the ground in a summoning Jutsu bringing forth thousands of red scorpions from the ground. The small arachnids quickly caught up with the fleeing bandits and over ran them clinging onto them with their claws and stabbing their tails into them again and again poisoning them all.
Nenshō watched them flee from the deadly scorpions fruitlessly knowing it would be only a matter of time before they succumbed to the poison. Before Nenshō knew what was happening his legs gave out from under him and he was forced to the ground clutching his bleeding side and trying to keep more blood from seeping out. The sword fell to the ground with a thud kicking up dust. A warm healing feeling washed over him and he opened his eyes to see Ino crouched over him working her healing Jutsu trying to close the wound. Nenshō closed his eyes again and let unconsciousness wash over him.
The buzzing florescent lights slowly pulled Nenshō awake. He looked up to the plain white ceiling and pulled himself out of the bed. He looked around the brick room with the large mirror. Obviously a two way window for people to observe him through. The door to his cell opened and in walked the tall imposing figure of Ibiki Morino.
"Good to see you again Nenshō." He said approaching the bed.
"Where am I?" he asked feeling his stomach sink a little fearing the answer he knew would come.
"Welcome home." He greeted solemnly handing him a thick manila envelope.
"What's this?" he asked taking the envelope and undoing the string at the seal.
"You have an interrogation in two days" Ibiki stated walking back towards the door, "and a trial in four, read that and memorize it. Then burn it and scatter the ashes if you want to avoid your execution.
Nenshō reached into the envelope as Ibiki exited out the door pulling out a red pack of his favorite brand of cigarettes. Nenshō smiled to himself.
"At least Ibiki's still my friend."
Sorry for how long it took to get this short chapter out things with the Holidays have been hectic and it's been hard to find time for my fics I'm hoping to get back into making time for this fic and its few fans. I hope you've been enjoying the story and I promise to have more for you before too long I hope this can at least tide you over a bit.