Writing this particular chapter showed me why numerous people choose to avoid writing fox where bijuu fight. TBH this chapter was really boring writing so pardon me if it's not as good as expected.
And with that I'm wishing you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Enjoy
Suddenly taking a huge leap off his current position, the form of the feral man oozed out a lot more of the black smoke which completely covered him creating a huge smoke cloud.
Roarrrrr
Immediately Black clawed hands covered in fur like that of an animal shot out of the dust, then came the rest of the beast form which strangely resembled that of a fox with hands like humans.
Staring at the new comer, most of the tailed beasts were surprised to see another of their brother. But Shukaku on the other hand could obviously tell that something was very wrong, out of all the tailed beasts he was the only one who had recently encountered the nine tails, even if it was through it's vessel. Honestly speaking this aura he was feeling was something totally new.
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"Kurama..." Son Goku muttered in confusion while scanning the new changes in his brothers appearance. 'Why does he have black fur' Son Goku thought in confusion unaware that everyone else was thinking the same thing
"What is going on here" Matatabi questioned looking at her brother for an explanation, but rather than answer, the fox scanned each of them, it was kind of like he was assessing them all for some strange reason .
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'God damn it! I just came out now' Shukaku thought in anger while discretely moving into a stance preparing him for what was going to happen.
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The other bijuu's took note of this and were about to question Shukaku but he acted quickly.
" Fuuton Renku Dan (wind element continuous air wave cannon)" Shukaku shouted before slapping his palm on his belly making numerous balls of wind shoot out.
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Dodging the attacks Kurama stuck some of its tails into the floor, ripping off a huge portion of the earth, it immediately tossed the crumbling mass of stone at Shukaku.
"Damn you!" Shouted Shukaku at the attack as he was forced to create a defensive wall
"What are you doing" Isobu yelled in anger
"Baka can't you tell that thing's not Kurama" Shukaku shouted loudly making the others freeze up. However the fox took that opportunity to close the distance between himself and the sand bijuu.
Seeing the crumbling wall, Shukaku attempted to surprise the fox with an unexpected swipe from his clawed hands.
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Immediately the wall crumbled, Kurama as if expecting the attack instantly swatted the hand of Shukaku away from him, while thrusting his right hand through the chest of the one tailed beast.
Shukaku stared in confusion as he felt the fox roughly grip on something within its chest then forcefully pulling it out.
The eyes of all the tailed beast widened in surprise while staring at the orb emitting a large amount of energy. It was obvious this orb was something that had to be very important to the one tail as it's structure crumbled into a mass of sand.
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"Kurama!!" son Goku shouted in anger as he watched his brothers form crumble.
Ignoring them the fox slowly turned to stare at the others, giving them chills along their spine. Their brother or whatever this thing is was obviously serious and from the looks of it he wasn't going to end until all of them experienced the same fate as their now deceased brethren.
Launching a magma ball at the fox, Son Goku wasted no time to see the fruits of his attack as he dashed in quickly, the others seeing this followed along as they all teamed up on the fox
Saiken on the other hand puked out numerous bubbles which slowly floated towards the enemy. Considering that most of his combat knowledge were ranged,he knew that going in would place him at a disadvantage so he stayed back, still that gave him the perfect opportunity to analyze everything.
The fighting style of Kurama was one that focused on agility, quick attacks and constant movement, even if the possibility of the fox not being Kurama stood, their attacks were a lot similar and so he intended to restrict its movement by obscuring the battlefield with its bubbles
Isobu, Matatabi and Seiken immediately began spamming numerous attacks at the fox who was hard pressed with avoiding them all, the others seeing this charged in attacking with melee attacks
'I really pissed them this time' Kurama thought while dodging a flaming fist from Son Goku only to see Kokuo approaching with a head-butt.
Jumping out of the attack, Kurama instantly ducked just as a tailed beast bomb sailed above his head. Sweating lightly he took a deep breath before puking out a large volume of fire while rotating 360, keeping himself within the fire circle.
'Now is my chance ' Chomei thought once noticing what the fox did and the fact that now the fire left little space for it to effectively maneuver away from its attacks.
Chomei acted quickly Puking out numerous glitters at the fox, seeing this the eyes of Kurama widened just as the glitters increased brightly making it go blind.
"Furawāfurūtsumaunten (Flower-Fruit Mountain)" Son Goku said loudly making the floor below Kurama heat up until it melted into magma. Jumping high above the floor once it felt the heat, the blinded fox turned to the located it heard the voice as it concentrated on forming a beast bomb.
Seeing that the fox was still having problems coping with its current status, Son Goku dashed in quickly causing the bomb to miss its target.
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Grabbing the fox by it's tails, Son Goku did a good 180 turn before tossing the fox towards the approaching five tails
'Shit' Kurama thought as its eyes slowly became less cloudy only for it to see what was beyond its path
"Hōnhitto ( Horn hit )" Kokuo said as its horns came in contact with Kurama
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Tossing the nine tails away Kokuo couldn't help but feel happy seeing that it had done a good job in really injuring the fox,. Matatabi seeing this opening Spat our a huge blue flame ball the crumbled into numerous smaller ones heading towards the injured fox that just so happened to be taking more damages from some of Saiken's bubbles.
Boom
Boom
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"Did we get it" Isobu questioned breaking the silence as everyone stared patiently into the cloud of smoke.
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"I'm not going to die from something like that" Kurama said weakly while getting up on his shaking limbs.
Seeing that the fox was in fact still very much alive, Chomei acted quickly diving down from the sky as it began heading towards Kurama , the fox couldn't help but smirk at its stupidity, it honestly believed his bad acting.
Swerving on its legs, Kurama caught the flying beast by its wings. Grinning in excitement, he then pushed back before slamming the beast hard on the floor, diving with its head in, he bit hard into the armor of Chomei causing her to struggle more as she wailed in pain.
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"Chomei!!" Kokuo Shouted in anger once seeing his sibling hurt as he began charging towards the fox who had now leaned in closer and was busy chewing through the seven tails armor as if it was nothing.
Sensing the approaching threat, suddenly out of the fox upper spine split out another fox head which immediately turned from the struggling insect to stare at the approaching five tails in excitement as chakra quickly gathered in its mouth.
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"Noooo" Shouted matatabi watching as everything happened in slow motion
Seeing the awkward turn of event, Kokuo attempted to halt his sprint but it was too late as the mass of chakra which formed from the mouth of the New head of Kurama within seconds was quickly released.
Widening his eyes in surprise the beast watched as the attack tore through its whole right side causing it to loose balance as it crashed roughly on the floor.
Moving his focus back on Chomei, the fox then placed its other limbs on the beast while its tails arose as if there were snakes, wasting no time the tails were launched straight into the form of the beast shredding it roughly causing Chomei to wail in agony.
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"Kurama?...what have you done?" Isobu said watching as the new head of the fox pulled off the original body with more of its limbs materializing quickly creating two separate nine tails.
'The fuck' the remaining tailed beasts thought staring at the abomination before them
"What is necessary to survive" the fox said in a serious voice as it lifted itself from the crumbling form of Chomei. The other Kurama slowly walked towards the panicking form of Kokuo
Staring at the bleeding form of Kokuo silently, the fox reached in, lifting the bijuu by its throat as it calmly stared at the choking beast
'I feel you're pain brother...you're anger...you're sadness. The disappointment you must feel knowing you're end would be by the hands of one you called family is...immense. Fear not for it will be over quickly' Kurama thought
Moving its other hand through the exposed insides of Kokuo, the fingers of Kurama slid through with ease searching for their target, and just like that within seconds he pulled out a similar orb to that which he took from shukaku causing the form of Kokuo to melt away
Meanwhile with OrochimaruAlthough he had been traveling for a short while, he felt that he had at least put up a good distance out of harms way, no way in hell did he expect this sort of outcome.
Frowning slightly, the fingers of Orochimaru tightened as he stared at the man who was heading towards his direction at at rather slow pace.
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'I thought he was in the barrier ' Orochimaru mentally panicked while staring at the form of the elderly man who stood calmly obscuring his path.
Backtrack for reader
Somewhere in Chapter 16...
'I do wonder how leader sama would react once he gets these memories '
"The stage has been set, now lets dance to the rhythm of one Uzumaki Naruto" the elderly man said loudly spreading his arms open as if talking to a huge crowd.
Chuckling loudly the elderly man then proceeded to make a shadow clone which took off in the opposite direction heading to an unknown location.
(FURTHER EXPLANATION : if you still don't get it, the elderly man that killed kabuto and Pein are different, simply know that one is a clone and the other isn't . Now thats cleared, understand that the elderly man in the barrier is the original and the one currently with Orochimaru is a clone.)
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"Nice trick there but you see I'm kind of In a hurry, mind finding someone else to play with?" Orochimaru said doing his best to hide his distress. Seeing what the teammates of Naruto were capable of it was obvious this man wasn't someone to take lightly, but his pride wouldn't let him backdown from anyone.
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"Hmmm..." the elderly man hummed giving a thoughtful look for a while
"On a normal circumstance I would probably let you frolic for a while, but considering you're the reason Kushina sama is here, well...we can't leave such action unpunished " the elderly man said straightening his posture as his hunched back snapped firmly into an upright position.
'Shit' Orochimaru thought as his mind scanned around looking for a way to buy him more time to escape.
Within seconds the old man had Orochimaru raised off the floor from the face before slamming his head firmly onto the stony floor causing a huge dent in it.
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Hmmmm
On instincts the elderly man swerved on the hand planted on the floor as he skillfully maneuvered through the numerous mud projectiles which passed by him.
Landing gracefully the elderly man finally relaxed in time to see the numerous copies of Orochimaru spawned around him. Calmly dusting his clothes the elderly man was acting as if nothing had just happened
'He really is a slimy one' thought the man as he calmly glanced at the original Orochimaru who looked to be breathing a lot more haggard now.
"You say that despite knowing who I am, you obviously have a death wish" Orochimaru stated ending his statement with a nice tongue lick ignoring the trail of blood from his mouth .
As if that was the signal, the clones immediately dashed in sprinting towards the enemy very fast, waiting so they reached close to him, the elderly man began deflecting the quick punches of two which chose to attack him from both sides
Hands moving fast as the three figures burred through quick punches as kicks with ease displaying remarkable Taijutsu skills.
Not getting a chance to regain himself, the old man felt a quick object moving towards him, tilting his form a leg of one of the clones sailed across his head.
Staring In slow motion into the eyes of the clone, the elderly man moved his closest arm, catching the clone by its leg he swung it around before tossing him into more of the other clones having some avoid their comrade while the others catching the clone
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Some minutes later
Something became very clear to the elderly man. The clones of Orochimaru were either incapable of using chakra or they were really low on it.
'This could either be a trick to fool me into thinking he is out of chakra or he really is' the elderly man thought moving from his position as another clone crashed into his position
'Still though, this has end quickly' theelderly man thought spiking his chakra creating a wave coursing through the clones structure causing them all to disrupt.
It was a known fact that having a jutsu flooded or under fed with chakra would cause it to fail, so then if a jutsu made with the necessary chakra from a person called A suddenly got more chakra added into it from a foreign person called B what exactly happens.
Due to the incompatibility of both chakra the jutsu would result in it's cancellation. This is also why Medical ninjas don't use their regular chakra for healing, it is converted into pure yin chakra.
Honestly this skill Cancellation Skill is a somewhat known fact in the shinobi world but still it isn't commonly used at all for numerous reason with one being mainly because doing this would not remove the option where the enemy lunches a new attack or overuse of the Jutsu Cancellation Skill would severely deplete the users chakra, since it's basically releasing chakra outwards.
Orochimaru who had stayed briefly to see his clones battle couldn't help but frown, his current body was so weak that creating those clones had left him completely drained. Now that his clones were gone, the enemy was doubt heading for him
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"Well Well well we meet again Orochimaru of the Sannin" the elderly man said loudly causing orochimaru to halt his movement
'How could he have reached me already ' Orochimaru thought gulping slowly.
"You t-" Orochimaru paused as the elderly man disappeared leaving a cloud of dust quickly only to appear within seconds with his arm stretched out, his fingers around the neck of Orochimaru as he slowly began choking the Sannin while tattoos crawled onto the form of orochimaru.