Neji stood in a defensive position trying to figure out the enigma that called itself Suigetsu. The shinobi was skilled yet still foolish in engaging him, a hyuuga, in close combat. So far, he somehow hadn't paid the price.
Neji deftly dodged and avoided the practiced katana strikes while landing multiple hits to his apparently fluid tenketsu. Any other shinobi would have 2 disabled arms, a disabled leg, and a failing liver by now but this one was still being a smart mouth.
"Prepare yourself oouu, close combat with a hyuuga, how foolish oouu," Suigetsu mocked, leaving a tinge of red on the slightly embarrassed hyuuga's face. Neji refused to respond, instead he landed a clean kick on his opponent's head which exploded in a shower of water before reforming.
"Argh, the head's just annoying, let's try to keep it below the waist," Suigestu said with a grin showing off his sharp teeth. Neji jumped back to analyze his opponent and form a plan of attack.
"Well that was fun but I'm going to kill you now then go help kimimaru kill that other guy so I can take that gir's sword. This was fun tho." Suigestu spoke casually before rushing Neji with his Katana raised. Neji sidestepped the obvious but quick downward slash before landing a jyuken strike directly to the side of suigetsu's chest.
This time, instead of the usual splash and reform. Suigetsu's body completely became water and engulfed Neji, moving to his head and wrapping his upper body in water. Neji tried to grip and rip off the body of water threatening to drown him to no avail but he wouldn't panic.
He could see the water still holding the sword turn it towards Neji to Impale him. Neji knew he was in trouble so he released chakra from all his tenketsu and began to spin. "Rotation" he screamed and Suigetsu was thrown away in a spray of water.
Neji took a deep breath as he came to a stop while scanning for his opponent's reformation. He noticed it took longer the farther Suigetsu was spread and even noticed the wince and slight whimper of pain from Suigetsu when he finally reformed behind the treeline.
Neji smirked, he finally had something. "Wipe that shit off your face damnit," Suigetsu growled, picking up his sword where it fell as he stepped back in the clearing. "Let's see how you deal with this, water style hidden mist jutsu."
The otto nin faded away into the mist and for a while Neji could still see and track him but eventually the mist became so thick he lost him. While he could see through the mist, he could only see the areas he focused on and his very immediate surroundings.
It was like looking through a million thin layers of chakra. He could do it, but not easily.
Once again he wouldn't panic, but instead he calmed his breathing and became as silent as possible while using all his senses, not just his byakugan.
He wasn't arrogant enough to believe the doutjutsu was the end all be all. They were the most valuable tool in the world, and his birthright. Despite all his senses when he heard, "suiton watergun jutsu," travel along the mist, he wasn't able to completely avoid it. A condensed bullet of water shot straight through neji's thigh.
Luckily it didn't get much of the muscle or the bone but it compromised his movements. The next few shots weren't much better for Neji but by the 5th and 6th, he'd caught on to the faint sound they made flying through the air. Neji smirked as the bullets started missing but he'd still taken too many. A couple shots in his arm, one through his side and leg.
"Oh you're actually pretty good huh. Shame, won't be enough. Do me a favor and keel over for me okay." Suigetsu laughed as his voice faded away. The hair on Neji's head stood up and he knew something else was coming. He detected movement from his left and sent a palm strike to intercept suigetsu but was cut across his back.
He gritted his teeth but didn't make a sound. He saw something behind and turned just to be cut on the side. They were decoys he berated himself, he had to stay focused and poised. Next time there were three more decoys before he was cut.
The attacks were disorienting and left neji confused. He wondered if he was under a genjutsu, but that couldn't be possible. He'd be able to see it. "I thought the byakugan was all seeing or something?" Suigetsu teased.
"I see your defeat. Do not think you've won!" Neji responded furiously. The cuts were painful and had already tarnished his clothing, something unfit of a new hyuga. Neji could now truly see the downfalls of his clan's fighting style.
What could he or his clan do to an opponent like this with their traditional style.
They weren't versatile enough in a shinobi world where everyone knew the stories about their technique and dojutsu. But times were changing and Neji would usher the new Hyuga into new heights.
There was no main house to restrict their development and pursuit of more diverse ways of combat which is exactly why he had something else under his sleeve. If Neji could just get close enough again, he knew he could really do damage.
He had more than the traditional style after all. The next time next he detected movement he didn't react but waited for the subsequent cut. He correctly timed the next one and struck suigetsu but when he morphed into water, he fell to the ground in an uneventful splash. "Water clones," neji thought.
That's why there were too many to track and why he could barely see them in the mist. Unfortunately even if he knew, it was hard to counter. After a few more cuts he decided to take on one of his sensei's approaches. One of the main reasons the man trained so much,. to overpower his opponent.
Neji wasn't completed with this jutsu but he learned best when it was necessary and began to spin and release chakra for his rotation or heavenly spin, depending on who you asked. This time though, when he reached top speed, instead of maintaining and forming his chakra, Neji released bakuton chakra, explosion release, from all of his tenketsu in a compressed burst that destabilized his rotation in a volatile outward discharge.
It resulted in a spiraling explosion that radiated outwards with a large "bang." The rotational force of the jutsu contains the explosion in a large radius. Suigetsu had been waiting to finish Neji, standing right outside of the range he thought the rotation jutsu was limited to but was taken completely off guard when it exploded.
Neji came out of his spin slightly charred and shaken from his own jutsu but quickly focused his byakugan. The mist had cleared almost completely and he was in the middle of a very large spiraling crater. About three times the size of his normal rotation.
He spotted Suigetsu forming at the edge of the crater and he was boiling. Steam was freely flowing off his body and he looked to be struggling to reform. Neji didn't expect the final product of his jutsu to be so impressive.
Neji lost balance and almost fell, just now noticing how much blood he'd lost and the chakra cost of his last jutsu was heavy to say the least. He had to finish things before he passed out. The hyuga genius quickly took out an exploding tag wrapped around a kunai and threw it into Suigetsu's puddle.
As he activated the explosion he saw the water travel deep into the ground avoiding the brunt of it but he highly doubted Suigetsu was in any shape to return. Neji guessed it was just fate that the shinobi was stupid enough to be in range of his jutsu.
He fell to his knees breathing hard. He needed to wrap his wounds and stop the bleeding so he took out his pouch and began to use the limited emergency medical supplies he had. Before the fall of the main house, emergency medical kits were only given to main house members. Neji smirked, as he began wrapping his leg.
Kiba, akamaru, and choji were getting a first hand lesson at just how strong bones and blades made from them could be. Even with the numbers advantage they'd been played with so far. Kiba and akamaru had attempted a twin gatsuga, fang over fang and did little more than push the self-named kimimaro kaguya back a few feet.
It did even less than that when Kimimaro made bones eject from his skin for defense in the front and back of his body. Choji's meager attempt at taijutsu only proved to be painful through their encounter.
"Useless, weak, trash," Kimimaro chided as he dodged, parried, and redirected the fang over fang. He looked up to see a giant hand coming down and threatening to smash him so he just pointed his long bone sword upwards and stabbed the incoming hand.
Predictably the hand promptly retracted along with a loud protest from choji. "Fat trash," Kimimaro said with a sigh. Kiba and Akamaru tried to catch him in a pincer attack with their fang over fang but the bone shinobi grew bones on each wrist that stretched past his hands as he caught both spiraling kiba clones.
Akamaru's transformation into kiba dispelled and they both jumped back littered in cuts, breathing heavily. Kimimaro turned his back and starting walking towards the direction Naruto and Sasuke had left and said loud and clear, "I'm done wasting my time with trash. Wait your turn and the other's will take care of you."
Kiba and Choji looked at each other in disbelief and for a moment they considered just letting him go. Akamaru barked at Kiba and he nodded in agreement. "We can't just let him go, if Naruto's trying to bring those kid's back then we need to stop this guy right?" Kiba said to choji.
"I guess there's no other choice." The robust genin replied. Choji took out a pill box with three large pills, a green, a yellow, and a red one. They were special chakra pills used by his clan for their clan technique. He removed the green one.
While theoretically he could do things that would take the pill with his bloodline alone, Choji wasn't skilled or strong enough yet for something like that so he had to do what he had to do. His new kekkei genkai took a lot of chakra. Choji tossed the pill up in the air and caught it in his mouth. It tasted sour, surprisingly.
Akamaru stood in front of Kiba and kiba crouched down placing a hand on his back with his other hand in a modified half ram seal. Kiba channeled his beast blood bloodline and the two inzuka members began to take on a feral appearance. Much more feral than their man beast imitation jutsu.
Kiba and Akamaru grew at least a few feet and their muscle mass multiplied. Akamaru maintained the form of a dog but was wilder and more vicious looking. Kiba was now a hulking size and physique with fangs and large claws. He'd grown extra hair across his body and was hunched over, able to run on two or four limbs.
Choji took a sealing scroll from his back and unsealed a high quality metal staff along with a special ninja tool pouch. He was ready to show his way of making the best of his new bloodline and could see that Kiba and Akamaru were ready too.
Choji and Kiba shared determined looks as choji out grabbed a single shuriken from his special pouch. It was made of a special chakra conductive metal and he infused it with as much chakra as it'd hold. Then, he threw it towards kimimaro's back and ran through hand seals as fast as he could.
Kimimaro heard the whistle of a projectile and swiftly spun with his bone sword to intercept it but when it was a few meters away. The shuriken expanded and grew in almost an instant until it was wide enough to cut cleanly through a building.
Kimimaro never would've expected a technique from such trash and reinforced the bones on his body. He half expected it to be genjutsu but felt the force of a shuriken weighing hundreds of pounds flying and spinning at the full speed of a normal shuriken throw.
The shuriken struck him head on and took him for a ride, spinning and sawing away at his midsection, smashing the kaguya through trees until he was able to make a bone jut from the ground and propel the giant shuriken above and over his head.
To his disbelief he'd very nearly been disemboweled but the final layer of bone he'd created to cover his organs had held. All of a sudden he felt like he had time for the trash before him.
Interrupting his thoughts, he felt a massive hit across his face and painful cuts, most likely from a claw before another in his side which sent him flying awkwardly. While his skin had been ripped to shreds he still had his bone as he righted himself in the air and activated his curse mark.
"Twin Beast Gatsuga," Kiba screamed as he and Akamaru tried their signature with his bloodline. Kiba and Akamaru's strength, speed, reactions, and senses were heightened to unseen lengths of a genin and their partner from his clan.
This time it wasn't a jutsu to imitate the transformation of their bodies. This time it was real with the real bloodline to make it happen. The two had never felt as ferocious as in their bloodline transformation. They attacked in tandem, spinning with the attitude of an unyielding force.
Kimimaro found it hard to maneuver and dodge the attack from them both and his outer bones for defense were beginning to crack by the pounding from Kibas now relentless attack. He could do nothing but weather the onslaught, enforcing his bones with his own bloodline until he had an opening.
Kiba and Akamaru stopped attacking to see the condition of their prey. Kimimaro used the moment to grab the top of his spine and pull it out creating his best sword. Then, out of the corner of his eye he saw a giant metal staff thicker than Jirobu and long enough to reach from 30 meters away sweeping across the clearing horizontally, to crush him.
Kimimaro jumped over the staff and it shrunk back to its size after ever extending and destroying a row of trees. He dodged kiba and Akamaru's gatsuga barrage and barely had time to notice the giant staff was coming at him once again from the other side.
Because of another timely attack by Kiba, he didn't have time to jump. He took on the brunt of the attack before slipping under it as it rolled over him. Kimimaro even had a bone break while the rest still creaked from the impact. His head was reeling, how could he allow trash to do such a thing. He berated himself.
Kimimaro coughed heavily into his hands and felt a warm liquid pass from his mouth into his hand. Blood. His disease was progressing. He'd underestimated trash and paid the price. Activating the final stage of his cursed mark, Kimimaro's seal spread completely and his skin turned dark. He grew horns and a strange bony tail.
Kiba and choji watched in horror. After all the damage they'd just inflicted after getting their asses handed to them, he gets right back up and stronger to boot. They couldn't imagine what his bones were made of. Hardening their resolve, choji and kiba one again gave each other a nod and prepared the same attack.
They didn't have much else with limited time working together. Choji ate the yellow pill and threw two shuriken, one above the other and slightly staggered. He performed his new clan jutsu, atom release material growth jutsu."
The Shuriken grew to impossible size as they sliced through the air toward the waiting kimimaro. "It won't work twice," The kaguya said. Kimimaro jumped horizontally in between the two massive shuriken before landing and swinging his spine sword towards the incoming spinning Akamaru.
The sword stretched and wrapped around akamaru, helped by its rotation and entangling the feral pup further. Kimimaro yanked his sword backwards and tossed him towards kiba. Akamaru flew past the barreling kiba who couldn't stop in time.
When Kiba stopped and rebounded to get Akamaru, he found a weird sword wrapping around him. Kimimaro pulled back on his spine sword, unwinding it from kiba and shrinking it back to its normal size. It sliced kiba up in the process.
He moved in to finish the job when the massive black staff came swinging again. Kimimaro jumped over this one again before making a bee line to choji. The chubby genin attempted to force him backwards with a forward expanding strike of his staff but his opponent jumped onto the staff and used it as a runway.
Choji lifted him up in the sky before shrinking his staff and assumed a defensive position. 'Bone release, dance of the camellia," Kimimaro said as he landed next to Choji and executed his attack using bones erupting from around his body and his spine sword to stab at and cut choji to death.
The onslaught was quick and relentless, Choji was in the most pain he'd ever felt in his life and knew that if he did nothing he'd die so he tried to make a hand seal to expand but his arms were cut.
Just as the world was going dark he heard, "dynamic entry!" and Kimimaro was ejected from his presence by a violent kick. Choji fell to the ground and took a deep breath and the world cleared up, "Huh, is that?" "Yes, it is I, Rock Lee, here to save the day. Shukaku-sama asked me to give aid in this retrieval. I will do it with the utmost Youth!" Lee said with a good guy pose though never taking his eyes off of his new opponent.
With Shikamaru…..Shikamaru was cursing Shino for sticking him with such a ridiculously troublesome opponent as he slipped into the shadow's before traveling a distance away and reappearing just to repeat the same process as the cloaked figure slammed into his previous position.
Shikamaru had originally snuck behind and trapped the cloaked figure with his shadow possession jutsu but it was obvious the shinobi wasn't normal when he began to leak a foul chakra. After a chorus of laughs that left it obvious his sanity was unstable, the cloaked figure broke free from his shadow possession before lunging at shikamaru.
Shikamaru had slipped into the shadows to avoid the attack. A demension which connected all shadows that he could access with his knew bloodline. Since then Shikamaru's kept his distance while observing his opponent. At some point the hood on the dark cloak fell off and a shinobi with wild orange hair, crazed eyes and a demonic smile was revealed.
The shinobi lunged from place to place destroying where he wanted shikamaru to be with large grotesque arms. Which made the situation more troublesome was, the shinobi just continued to get angrier forcing shikamaru to phase into the shadows to make a quick escape again, and again.
One thing shikamaru was sure of though, he couldn't allow this guy to join the fight with his friends. The shinobi, was way too destructive and everyone sent on the mission wasn't as evasive as he was. Not only that, ever since he'd been one of the members from his clan given the shadow release bloodline, he was uniquely suited to run away from this berserker.
He definitely didn't think any of his friends would win in a physical fight with this guy. As troublesome as it was, his brain was needed to take this opponent out of the fight. Even if it meant leading him very far away by running away.
The forests around konoha were surprisingly dense, vast, and you could easily get lost after traveling some kilometers in any direction without knowing where you were. By the looks of the shinobi who'd just crushed a tree stump with his forehead, he wasn't paying much attention to his location.
A few more minutes and even the best sensors in their village wouldn't be able to find his comrades unless they knew where they were and where to go like he did. Nara children are shown the geography and layout of the forrests surrounding konoha first hand for years as a child so it was easy for him.
After another extremely close call when the shinobi, who calls himself jugo in the third person, smashed into shikamaru's shadow location with so much chakra, he was almost booted out of the shadow dimension.
He wasn't completely positive it was a dimension but when all the shadow's and dark areas of the world were connected through a weird dimensional space, he figured it was safe to call it a shadow dimension.
He was just now learning that enough chakra disruption in the shadow area he was residing in could boot him out which meant he had to switch tactics against Jugo. Jugo only seemed to get stronger and faster as Shikamaru avoided him so Shikamaru started making a better plan.
His next shadow retreat he went much further, far enough to weave a set of hand seals before he was smashed like a Nara ant. "Shadow release, Shade clones," Shikamaru thought. His whole clan had put all this pressure on him ever since he got a bloodline, especially his parents. In the end it was a drag but, something had come out of it at least.
He wasn't allowed to be lazy anymore and with the upcoming war camevconstant training. He found that his intellect could be applied in many ways, especially with a new bloodline so he created a jutsu similar to the shadow clone, the shade clone.
While the shade clone retained memories and transferred them back to the user like shadow clones, Shade clones were made from his bloodline, shadows. This cut the chakra cost massively and they were even more versatile. He could dispel his shade clones and make them nothing but illusions like normal clones that would stick around as long as he needed them to.. He wouldn't get any more information from them once they became illusions but he could use that.
Their only drawback was the proximity they had to be with the user. They had to be relatively close. By the time jugo smashed through the tree shikamaru had been standing on, the orange haired berserker was surrounded by 20 shikamaru's running away from him in the same direction.
Jugo screamed and destroyed the tree he was standing by. He growled angrily before his face took on a darkened complexion like his arms, he grew horns from his forehead, and his eyes were black and yellow. Jugo was tired of his prey running. He hadn't even touched the slipper guy.
His next lunge was much faster and Jugo slammed a large reinforced fist into a shikamaru's back, slamming him into a tree. Jugo felt the contact and saw shikamaru's mangled body laying in the crevice of the splintered tree. With a triumphant scream, Jugo began to pummel the spot where shikamaru was wedged into the tree.
Over and over until the whole tree crumbled. When the dust settled, Jugo looked up to see multiple shikamaru's in the trees simply looking at him quizically. They threw kunai at teh beserker which were swatted away and definitely pissed Jugo off more.
Jugo lunged after shikamaru once again, this time with multiple targets to chase. Shikamaru appreciated the extra time his shade clones had given him. He had time to create a shadow clone and send them ahead to prepare while he led Jugo further and further away from his team.
While he'd been unharmed so far. Jugo's attack grew more furrocious. He was quicker and relentless in his efforts to smash the real Shikamaru. Shikamaru was even begining to think, he'd completely run out of energy and chakra before he even attemeted to escape.
A few minutes had passed and Shikamaru was nearing exhaustion. The shadow hopping was taxing enough, even if he didn't stay in the shadows for long and his clones were eating the rest of his chakra. Not to mention he'd been running for his life for almost 5 kilometers now.
He watched as Jugo destroyed three of his shade clones while trying to destroy 5 of the dispelled clones that were nothing but images, shades of the original clone. Jugo tossed a broken tree that happened to sail toards the real Shikamru forcing the Nara to narrowly evade the giant projectile.
The pineapple haired Nara couldn't believe the stamina and pure fury jugo was keeping up. He hadn't landed a true hit on Shikamaru, yet wasn't fazed in the slightest. Still pummeling away until he got his target. Purely troublesome. It was time for shikamaru to fight back though, and if that didn't work. It was time for him to hightail it to the village and get stronger shinobi to come back for this troublesome guy.
Honestly either way the whole thing was troublesome. In a moment of distraction, lost in thought, Shikamaru failed to notice all of his physical shade clones were dispelled and Jugo had begun ignoring the ones that didn't respond to his fists. He felt a chill down his neck and knew he was going to die from something and he slipped into the shadows.
Unfortunaly, Jugo was quick and slammed two chakra enhanced fists into the ground where the slippery Nara had disappeared. Shikamaru was ejected from the shadow dimension which was a painful trip to say the least.
He appeared near Jugo and instantly substituted with a log that was smashed to splinters. The slippery Nara jumped into the trees to begin running away again but Jugo wouldn't have it and created chakra valves on his back to propel himself fast enough to destroy the tree shikamaru was on, flinging the genin to the side.
Jugo rebounded off the next tree and sped towards the falling shikamaru. Shikamaru threw an explosive tag at Jugo and it detonated on impact. Jugo flew through the explosion covering himself with his arms and slammed right into shikamaru before swatting him away. Shikamaru lost consciousness on impact but woke up when he slammed into another tree, splintering it and nearly going through.
Even with his body feeling as if it were in shambles his senses were screaming he was going to die for the 100th time that fight. He was successfully able to slip into the shadows once again but with such low chakra and concentration, he didn't get far before resurfacing.
The shadow dimension wasn't a place for a shinobi who didn't have the focus or chakra to stay tethered. Shikamaru immediately jumped through the trees running away, knowing Jugo was on his trail. As the tree he'd just leapt out of exploded, he wondered if he'd even survive. How troublesome.
The konoha genin made it two more leaps before he felt his broken rib send a sharp wave of pain through his body and he fell. He managed to catch himself with ninja wire and a kunai was now a sitting duck for Jugo. He saw him coming and let go, letting himself fall to the forest floor as Jugo destroyed the top of the tree.
Shikamaru tried slipping intot the shadows again but was violently ejected again when Jugo impacted the place he'd just been with both fists. Shikamaru popped out and Jugo grabbed his leg before flinging the Nara at a tree.
Right before the impact, shikamaru slipped into the shadows of the tree and made one final hop, hoping he wouldn't lose track of the surface. If he did, he could be lost forever. Luckily, He popped out of the shadows in a dark clearing surrounded by mountainous trees whose canopy was so thick the grass barely grew due to lack of sunlight.
Shikamaru was tired and Jugo was already upon him, again. Jugo saw the Nara boy kneeling in a clearing, finally ready to be smashed. Jugo cackled as his tongue hung out of his mouth in glee while he fell towards the slippery nara, ready to crush him, finally.
Once again the slippery Nara was gone as Jugo destroyed another log. His anger was reaching a boiling point as his legs had begun to take on a grotesque transformation too. Shikamaru saw Jugo transforming more and felt an influx of that nasty chakra and knew it was now or never.
His clone had set up this trap and it was all or nothing. With him and his shadow clone stationed at opposite ends of the clearing, they ran through the same hand seals before muttering "shadow release, dark invitation." Just then, as they activated the jutsu, a circle shaped area in between them became pitch black.
Then, Hundreds of tendrils made of shadow erupted from the pitch black circle with Jugo in the center. The tendrils grabbed and pulled at Jugo. Every part of him from his head to his toes as the berserker fought his capture.
The jutsu was meant to drag the enemy forcibly into the shadow dimension where they'd eventually die after being lost and unable to traverse the shadows. It could also be used to capture and place in a prisoner scroll, but only if the target was completely subdued.
It didn't seem like he'd be taking Jugo alive, maybe at all by the fight he was putting up. Shikamaru and his clone used every ounce of concentration and chakra they had at their disposal for the jutsu and Jugo still seemed to be breaking his way free.
Every Time he was dragged to his knees or an arm or his head was pulled down, he'd use a burst of strength to break free, just to be grabbed again. The fight was taking a toll on shikamaru and he was about to release the jutsu and run for his life when Jugo began to slow down.
Jugo had power, stamina, and energy for days but he'd exhaust so much of it in such a short period of time that his body was simply tired. His abilities had a toll just like everything else and it was beginning to show. Jugo was getting sleepy the more and harder he fought.
Shikamaru saw jugo get slower and slower until there wasn't much fight left. Just when he was sure he could drag the orange haired maniac into the shadow dimension, his clones dispelled and he was out of chakra. The jutsu dispelled and in the center was the orange haired shinobi back to his normal form and perhaps a bit shorter than before.
Shikamaru didn't make a single move. Instead, he prepared the last ounce of chakra he could for a last shadow jump. Preferably as far away as possible since his ankle was fractured from Jugo's grip. He wouldn't be running fast at all until a medic nin sees him.
"I suggest you leave before I have the energy to lose my mind again. There's nothing I can do about it and you really pissed me off. Unless you think you're able to finish me off now." Jugo spoke with surprising warmth after the maniacal laughter and grin from before.
The orange haired shinobi looked up and placed his hand out as a small bird landed on it and greeted him with a "tweet." The inherent laziness of the Nara kicked in as the spikey haired nara shrugged his shoulders, his job was accomplished and continuing was too risky.
Shikamaru sighed wondering if it was too soon to pick up his sensei's and his father's habit of smoking. Being a shinobi was troublesome. When he thought about it, if he did start smoking, his mom would nag him like she did his father, more troublesome. When he thought about it more, he now had to run over 5 kilometers with multiple broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, and fractured ankle. All while ensuring he wasn't being followed. Troublesome.
With Naruto, Naruto was quickly gaining on the fleeing group when he sensed the multi-armed shinobi stop while sasuke continued with the kids. Naruto figured his job would be to stall himself long enough for Sasuke to escape but didn't care.
Sasuke wouldn't get away. Naruto could very literally see the trail of rancid chakra he left. Naruto dodged a spear-like projectile that was shot from almost half a kilometer away through a dense immediately connected the dots and knew what attack ended Haku. He could see how one would get caught by a barrage of those while fighting a group of opponents.
Naruto pushed his jolt step to its limit, blurring through the trees cutting and dodging his way through the growing mass of projectiles heading his direction. To his advantage he was too fast and could see them from a mile away due to the mass of chakra infused in each projectile.
His sensory abilities were nothing before compared to what he could sense now. His seigan had surpassed itself. But at a cost, a cost that tore him apart inside. A minute later, Naruto was closing in on the shinobi fleeing among the trees. The shinobi had jutsu reminiscent of a spider, probably a rare bloodline if the spider webs had any indication.
Sticky as they were, furaijin cut through them like butter. Naruto tracked the shinobi to a clearing before using a ram seal to create a handful of leaves and then instantly placed seals on all of them. Naruto threw the leaves around the clearing, ensuring to infuse chakra to make them fly past his target.
Kidomaru couldn't find a way to slow the guy down so he was going to set up a trap. He just needed to get his opponent to stop in the clearing while he disappeared into the trees. Then He'd be a sitting duck.
Kidomaru reached the edge of the clearing when he saw leaves fly past him. They looked sharp but the aim was terrible so he continued with his plan, preparing knot of webs so thick it'd take at least a few seconds to cut through. More than enough time he thought.
Naruto saw the buildup of chakra from the shinobi and activated the activated the seals he'd placed on the leaves. They exploded right in front of Kidomaru, sending the shinobi, flying backwards towards the waiting Naruto.
Kidomaru deftly turned in the air while spitting a giant knot of webs towards Naruto. Prepared, Naruto blurred through hand seals, faster than he'd ever done before and he only needed a few for, Katon, fireball jutsu.
The flame was intense and concentrated so the webs burnt to nothing while the fireball went on to engulf Kidomaru. The shinobi's scream was muffled by the roar of the flames. Naruto's chains snatched the shinobi from the fireball before it had time to fully run its course.
He held Kidomaru in the air above him. Anger, sorrow, and hate, clogging his throat, Naruto just used his chains to restrain each limb including his torso and neck and began to tighten.
Kidomaru let loose a painfilled scream. Naruto's eyes churned as if they were ready to burn the world. The rolling ball of chakra in his eyes began to seem more like a raging ball of blue flames. "You took one of the only people who've ever loved me away." is the only thing Naruto said before he cut off each of kidomaru' s hands.
Kidomaru screamed but Naruto didn't care. He cut off his feet, then a few inches off of each arm, then a few more, then a few off of his legs in clean quick swipes. Pausing in between each cut for the near delirious shinobi to feel it. The raiton chakra coursing through his sword cauterizing the shinobi's wounds as they cut.
When the shinobi's 6 arms and legs were nothing but nubs and the shinobi had passed out naruto used ration chakra to wake him back up where he began screaming again. The now redhead saw a buildup of chakra in kidomaru's stomach and used a chain to cover his mouth as he tried to spit a glob of webs at Naruto.
The webs caught in kidomaru's throat and Naruto watched as he suffocated, tears coming down his face. He felt a pulse of chakra from furaijin and without a single word he knew what it wanted. So he shoved furaijin into the shinobi's chest.
Furaijin took all kidomaru's chakra and more, Naruto could see the very soul being ripped from the body and taken into his sword. A large discharge of lightning chakra later and the shinobi was a charred husk on the ground and Naruto was speeding towards Sasuke. Tears were dripping down his face because it changed nothing. It didn't even make him feel better.