I had but a few moments to look up at the three massive demons before me, the one in the center rose its club high into the air, shooting to the right the impact of the club into the ground caused a shockwave that sent me tumbling along the ground. Springing back up to my feet I lept high into the air to jump over the ogers club as it drug said club along the ground, only to be struck out of air by the second ogers massive fist sending me straight into a tree. Sliding into a sitting position on the ground I was quick to regain my senses as the second oger stepped forward throwing a downward punch to crush me, jumping up off the ground I landed on the back of the ogers hand as it struck the ground allowing me to run up its arm. Halfway up the second ogers arm the first reached forward with its free hand trying to snatch me off its friend, with a quick lunge backwards and a jump to the right I was now on the first ogers left shoulder and with one smooth motion my sword cut clean through its entire neck. Before the first oger poofed away i lept forward sinking my sword into the forehead of the second oger and sliding down, my sword sliced the ogers head open causing it to poof away into a cloud of smoke leaving me roughly twelve feet in the air. Upon landing on the ground i had little to no time to catch my breath as a large shadow quickly fell upon me, shooting to the right i spun around to see the right foot of the final oger slammed into the ground only to be raised back up into the air to prepare another stomp attack. For several moments I shot back and forth left and right simply to avoid being turned into a bloody stain on the ground. With each evasive maneuver I performed I inched closer and closer to the ogers left foot, with one final dive to the left I quickly sprung up from the ground and performed a full spin to allow my sword to slice clean through the ogers left ankle. Spinning around from the ogers left ankle as it staggered from the severing of its left foot i swung my sword out to cut its right foot off at near the exact same place its left foot was, this toppled the massive oger causing it to fall face first into the ground which upon impact poofed away into a cloud of smoke. Fully standing up i was winded and slightly fatigued after dealing with the three ogers leaving me wide open for the blurry mass to quickly close in and strike me in the chest knocking me back onto my back, looking up sakon now stood in front of me with a smile on his face. Scrambling for my sword which had fallen a few inches away, another pale hand grabbed the handle just as mine did, sending a shiver down my spine as I heard ukon whisper into my ear. "Hey there friend, you look like you could use a hand." turning my head to the right I saw the upper half of ukon protruding from my right side. His left arm reached around my back so he could grab my sword. "Don't worry you won't be needing this piece of junk anymore trust me." ukon spoke while grabbing my sword with his other hand as a wave of pain washed over my body causing me to release my sword entirely, taking a few breaths i would fully stand up to face the rest of the sound four who stood in front of me. "Cocky attitude, one arm, newly developed dojutsu. Your the one alright, lord orochimaru told us about. He said and I quote, if we ran into you we were to skin you alive. Should be easy enough you got some good kenjutsu skills going for you but in the end that's it, you'll need a lot more than some fancy sword skills to best us. Maybe you shouldn't have been so quick to send your friends away. In the end you're not even a shinobi, you're just some nobody." Sakon spoke in a mocking tone as he insulted me, making insult of my lack of a headband while wave after wave of pain washed over me simply waiting for the moment my body gave out due to ukons jutsu. "Hay ukon you want our help or do you got this?" sakon asked his brother wanting to end this as quickly as possible. "Ha. i can handle this shinobi wannabe he's no match for my jutsu, ill pick apart the cells in his body until he dies." listening to ukon as another wave of pain washed over me i looked at the man as a large purple time bubble appeared around the both of us allowing me to think. The time bubble appeared in response to the intense situation as well as my own command, thankfully I was beginning to get the hang of how the chakra flew through my eyes allowing me to hold the time bubble. For what felt like minutes i stood thinking, fortunately the time slowing effect was less effective on me as it was on others, thanks to my extensive training under senshi. Drawing kubikiriboco i spoke. "You know what, you guys are right. I'm not a shinobi." I spoke through the time bubble before releasing my jutsu, twirling my massive blade to take a slash at myself. The slash i took was more than enough to cause a reaction from ukon, as the slash was aimed to cleave us both in half. Just as he attempted to split away, I reactivated my time bubble. Catching ukon just as he split away from me, with ukon now split away from me and time slowed, i could easily redirect my attack and one semi swift motion was all i needed. As the time bubble faded, my slash went through cleaving ukon's head from his shoulders, letting both parts fall to the ground. "I'm a swordsman!" I shouted, returning my attention to the sound four as they had entered their cursed mark forms out of rage. Charging forward, Kidomaru unleashed several bursts of webbing from his mouth as the others jumped into the air unleashing a barrage of kuni. "Secret sword style ten thousand slashes!" I shouted as I swung kubikiriboco around myself while twirling the handle between my fingers to create a massive spinning fan blade that swirled around me, protecting me from all angles at once. These slashes sliced through the webs and knocked the kuni away with the echoing clash of steel. I rushed straight for kidomaru as i continued to twirl my massive blade, jumping up at the end of my technique this allowing for a powerful downwards slash that was blocked by kidomarus armor plated arm shattering kubikiriboco not too far above the hilt.. With Kidomaru now wide open i would stab him with the broken blade, this strike was hardly enough to crack the armor plating on the man's chest drawing a single drop of blood. "Tough luck, looks like that massive blade of yours just coulden't cut it." Kidomaru said this with a laugh as he bit down on my shoulder with his razor sharp teeth. It was only a drop yet it was all that was needed to allow it to grow through kidomaru, in pain and anger I twisted kubikiriboco right then left carving a hole in kidomarus chest as the blade grew through him which killed him in an extreme and brutal manner. Allowing kidomarus body to slide off of my blade and onto the ground i looked around at the the remain sound four blood staining the upper right portion of my jacket, only to see jirobo standing several meters away from me. "Earth style earth prison jutsu." jirobo shouted while performing several hand signs before a dome of earth quickly rose up around me, this was when i thought back once more to my training with senshi. "It should be really simple in practice, the point of hand signs is to help us channel and shape our chakra. Technically we don't need them at all. We are going to start off small and that is teaching you to flow chakra through your feet and not your hands." Senshi explained this to me as we stood out in the forest, myself standing with a confused look on my face. "I'm going to be honest with you, that doesn't make any sense. Only some of the best shinobi can perform one handed jutsu, and you want me to one up them by doing earth style with my feet?" I said this in an unamused and deadpan tone as I shook my head at senshi. "Only the most basic of earth style, i'm not expecting you to perform some grand mountain shifting jutsu, honestly i'm not expecting anything. I just want to experiment with a theory I came up with. We perform earth style by infusing the ground with our chakra and then reshaping it, a lot of earth style can actually be performed by simply placing your hand on the ground and going from there. No hand signs required, if you're skilled enough. Thus in theory with earth style being your natural chakra nature, you should be able to infuse the ground with your chakra, using your feet as contact points rather than your hand. Allowing you to perform these minor earth style jutsu." Senshi explained this to me with a bright and enthusiastic smile on his face, yet as usual at the time I hardly understood him. Once back in the present moment, this thought has lasted only a second. A smile moved across my face as I sank kibikiriboco into the ground i took a very grounded martial arts stance. [alright senshi time to put your training to the test, lets see if this guy is the only one who can use earth style jutsu's.] Slamming my right foot into the ground, the earth dome around me crumbled into a massive cloud of dust, I would allow this dust to settle until I could see jirobo clearly through the smoke. Not wanting to allow jirobo to advance on me, I took a step forward with my right then left foot, then a step to the left and right, finally one backwards. Each step I took I slammed my foot into the ground causing a pillar of earth to shoot up from the ground from either the front, back, or one on jirobos sides slamming into the large man with incredible force. This went on for several moments each pillar staggering jirobo in one direction only be be knocked back into the other, once that i felt jirobo was weakened enough i slammed my right foot into the ground one more time causing a spiked pillar to shoot up from the ground behind jirobo. This spiked pillar impaled Jirobo through the back of the head killing the man instantly and leaving me standing alone winded in the clearing looking around for the final two members of the sound four who had taken to hiding. I took a few seconds to catch my breath as well as to survey the surrounding area for sakon and tayuya, despite the two doing their absolute best to hide their chakra i was still able to sense both of their chakra in a specific set of leaves high in the tree in front of me. I had always been extremely sensitive to sensing chakra, they wanted me to be a sensory nin but my lack of jutsu put an end to that. Without a word I gripped the hilt of kubikiribocho and pulled it up out of the ground, then with one swift powerful motion I threw kubikiribocho with enough speed and force to sink the blade halfway into the tree itself. This caused both sakon and tayuya to leap from the branch they hid on in opposite directions to land on separate branches, tayuya wasted no time playing a new melody, one that caused the world to meld and melt into a blur of colors before i was dropped to the ground by a wave of pain. [a genjutsu, shit this is bad i still can't properly release them especially not one this powerful.] As this thought ran through my head another wave of pain washed over me as I forced myself up onto my knees. Unable to release the genjutsu i only had one choice to grab my prosthetic arm and strap it onto my right nub which took a moment due to the two straps that needed fastened, i watched as the canisters quickly filled with chakra allowing me to control the prosthetic as if it were my own arm. As a third wave of pain washed over me the blade of my prosthetic gained an outline of blue chakra as my own chakra was imbued into it allowing for a powerful and precise upwards slash in the direction I had seen tayuya standing on the branch. This slash in itself did nothing however the vertical arc of chakra it shot forward did significant damage, as the genjutsu faded and along with the pain I watched both halves of tayuyas body fall to the ground with the branch she stood on, leaving a deep and violent upwards slash in the tree behind her. I didn't even have time to catch my breath as I was forced to spin around and raise my prosthetic up to block an incoming stab from sakon who had attempted to stab me in the back with a kuni, one well placed kick to his gut sent sakon sliding back. Following this was a quick engagement between myself and sakon, he took several slashes and stabs at me only for each only to be paired away with a slash of equal power from my prosthetic, however sakon proved to be too fast for me to land a solid counter blow. Sakon was quick to retreat back up into the trees however i was just as quick to follow, at this point i had sakon on the back foot and i intend to press my advantage to its fullest capabilities. My superior kenjutsu skills allowed me to force sakon from branch to branch eventually ending in a blade clash on a large branch a ways away from the original battlefield. With my chakra running low, sakon began to overpower me as my prosthetic arm began to lose chakra, its container becoming more and more empty. Gripping the wrist joint sakon cleaved clean through the forearm of the prosthetic, due to the sheer force the man was putting behind his kuni. Yet with a side step and a duck sakon's kuni flew over my head I was able to use my now severed blade hand to impale Sakon in the chest, for a few moments i felt triumphant only for sakon to drive his kuni into my side with his final breath. Sakon fell from the tree dead as I slumped against the tree slowly bleeding out, desperately trying to stop the bleeding with my hand. [slain by a dead man, that's ironic.] I thought this as I attempted to slow the bleeding with a short laugh, usually I didn't bleed much due to a rare medical condition I had, but I had been struck in quite the vital area. Three people landed in front of me as the sun began to rise these three benign garra, tamari, and konkro. Assuming they had come to finish the job since our last encounter with the sand was the chunin exams, I removed the kuni from my side and weakly pointed it at them. "Well don't just stand there who wants to die first you fangirl, or you puppet guy, how about you sand boy." This was an obviously empty threat as if they had come here to kill me all they would have had to do was wait for me to bleed out, however if i was going to die here in this tree top i was going to do it fighting to my last breath. Garra began to move forward and once i thought he was in range i threw my kuni, as expected sand shot up in front of garra catching and swallowing the kuni seconds before garras hand shot out of the sand itself.