Chapter 34

Its been a week since everyone had disappeared, last they heard of Sasuke was the fact he was leaving, for Naruto was helping the old man that searched for Tsunade with the promise of using his spy agency to hunt down Nashi, and as for Nashi himself.

[if you are reading this letter something bad might have happened, I don't know since this thing was sealed with a heart monitor so that when ever my heart ever stops beating for longer that 5 seconds, it would send this letter to all of you, don't be alarmed though it could be a false alarm with me using my chakra to fake a death… so don't panic, anyway seconds later it will send another one, its an advanced version of the book personalized with your current style than the basic one I had done for you personally.

P.S try making your own stuff you lazy bums]

The letter ended with a smily drawing that was swiftly covered with tear marks as they know from the situation that Nashi would never be found as the situation of his capture was dire, and this just sent confirmation to those who had hope, and while the letter had a joyous and joking connotation they couldn't help but cry and tremble as their staunches ally had been killed.

A light but noticeable dark and seething anger and depression flowed through konoha that day as the majority of the brightest generation had suddenly lost all motivation, as they not only lost 1 friend but lost another in the conflict that was brought by nothing but konoha's history itself.

Not to mention the sudden news that Hiruzen Sarutobi had left his position as kage due to his failing condition and constant need for medication as the last battle had left him drained. His replacement had also disliked her new station as Tsunade was the only one to take such, as Jiraiya was nowhere to be found as he went to hunt down Orochimaru, hell she was tempted to leave as well as she had nothing holding her in the village, that was until she was given a deal she could not resist.

The deal was konoha's entire wealth since if she didn't accept konoha would be doomed, despite Danzo wanting the position his mindset and emotionally charged decisions would fast track them into the ground with no war to point his choices to, and for Tsunade was that if she lost she would be forced to take the position of hokage, and all they had to play was a game of chance with a coin toss.

Needless to say with Tsunade's reputation it ended rather swiftly it landed on heads destroying Tsunade's dreams of grandeur running around with konoha's wealth in her pockets, granted she still does but this time its tied with many consequences, none the less she agreed which meant doubling her work load as she was head of the medical department.

While she had Sakura to take care of, she just easily pawned her to Shizune for her medical training, and leave the kage paper work towards the ender with the excuse to train Sakura or helping in the medical department.

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"Man konoha is very busy huh," a man with blue hair said as he snacked on some chips.

"It would be worrying if they weren't, due to the many damages from the battle I would they its rather lax," a purple haired man said as he sat kneeling on top of a building as he sipped on some tea.

"I'd say, I mean you got your ass inside without them knowing," the blue haired man barked in laughter as one night the man just appeared following a shinobi with arms in his sleeves and walking without making a single sound.

"Could you not do that Cu, your slobbered chips nearly entered my tea," the purple haired man said as he covered himself with the long sleeves of his haori as he drunk his tea.

"Don't be such a stick in the mud Kojiro, its not like it'd kill you," Kojiro said as he pulled a bottle from under his armpit before uncapping it and taking a drink.

"Speaking about killing, you think Orochimaru actually killed the original," Kojiro said as he finished his tea and started packing up, before standing up and jumping down.

Cu followed him into the dark alley, "I hope not as his death would really fuck us over, since without him we are kind of fucked," Cu said as they exited the alley with different appearances, Cu a brown spiked up ball of hair akin to Choji's, and Kojiro looking like a black haired male Ino Yamanaka.

"How so? We practically don't need him as we are self sufficient and wouldn't need him for the long run," Kojiro said as they headed towards the exit.

"Have you seen an ant colony without a queen before?" Cu asked.

"No,"

"There's your answer, we are like ants currently without a queen and without that leader figure we will collapse like a building without pillars to support us,"

"How come,"

"That's simple, as despite us being life like we are still clones, as despite our seeming autonomy we still have the soldier mentality, I bet you didn't even stop to wonder if you should come back or not as you just followed what you saw as orders,"

"I see, so you are saying we do not have autonomy and are fragile,"

"Yes, shadow clones weren't meant for long lives, examples I can give are the mr. Meeseeks from rick and morty, difference between us is that our minds are less likely to crumble and more to cling onto something,"

"I see, that's why we embody characters the original enjoyed to watch and read about,"

"That's right, me and you cause he liked Kojiro in the ubw, and me cause I carried him with evasion and battle continuation, cause Cu was literally the last man standing on every battle,"

"It seems like you two enjoy your time together," a girl's voice sounded out as they left the gates.

"My if we didn't talk i'm sure you would have missed us all together," another girl's voice sounded out.

"As if,"

"Why do you think we went to this exit than the closer one?"

"I see,"

"Buzz kill,"

"Anyway ladies lets go, boss might actually be dead if we don't move now,"

"Alright, but can we ask about the new addition to the village?"

"Think of it as a gift or a reminded of today, plus I think their having a hard time removing it,"

And as they moved leaving the gate they showed that in the middle of the village stood an ivory tree that rose from the earth and reach heights that reached over the villages wall's, and if viewed from an angle it would look like a tree that holds the hokage mountain's heads as its leaves, an ironic gesture as it was handed to us by an enemy rather than a comrade, and for reasons why it isn't being taken down are, one its difficult to remove as chopping it down proves to be difficult as even lightning or wind style users has a rough time cutting a single branch, two is that the villagers have taken a liking to its addition, specially the part where it's a tree that holds the hokage up high, and finally third is a matter of location as it was perfectly in the middle of konoha where it was once a rather swiftly built park that had multiple complaints from villagers saying their child got harmed by it.

Though one may ask why a military based city needs the peoples opinions, well that's simple, it's the fact that they need them as normal working class people are quite literally the back bone if their country, since if they tried to force the matter they would be seen similar to hidden mist, and would need to regain the faith of the people who hire them which would be a messy situation as there are multiple villages that would take advantage of such a prime situation.

Not to mention the village's current situation, while the hokage is alive the damage done to his body has made his condition rather fragile, so fragile that he had to leave the seat of kage and a point and instantly put his successor in place which was an unwilling Tsunade, which I don't know if she is a good leader or someone is pushing her to the right path but the village hasn't crumbled down yet.

Aside from that most the clans had started a man hunt on the extra hands that helped them in the middle of battle as from everyone there was never a record of a reserve unit of konoha that wasn't used, and not to mention it was confirmed by Tsunade which means our plan to leave konoha has become expedited as not only security but the vigilance of konoha shinobi has grown two fold making sneaking in and sneaking out harder which meant Gale's group couldn't follow in as they have to enter through a secret tunnel we planned for emergency situations, it was meant for escape but this works to.

And so with a smaller group of four, and our skills of hiding our presence thanks to pranking everyone, specially ninja's our presence concealment is good enough to not be spotted, even the crystal ball that was used to spy around the village from above cant find us unless we travel in a huge pack which is likely not to happen much.

Anyways leaving was the easy part, doing the experiment was the hard part for the clones.

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Now i'm sure everyone is wondering why the notes were sent out, that would require us to revert time for a few minutes.

Nashi was in the middle of being tortured, something he has gotten used to and has used to devote resistances to as hiding inside my inner world just as it just makes the body act instinctually and use chakra, so I had to endure it.

One of the experiments was to see if I had built up any resistance from external electricity, and it ended poorly.

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"Good evening Nashi," Orochimaru walked out the door as she held a tray of food telling me that it was already night.

"Well color me surprised, I finally get to see you, you look less intimidating than I had expected, but I guess no one is a one to one if you imagine them," I said as she didn't look like who I expected, as up close her pupils are more cat like instead of the straight lines Orochimaru in the original wad, not to mention her eyes are less sickly light brown and looks more like shimmering gold, though it could be because she isn't dying from being bed ridden.

"My, your more talkative from what I've been informed of," she said as she placed the tray on the stroller to the right of me.

"I cant help it now cant I," I raised my brow, "since you know i've killed you, you tried to kill us, so over all i'd say our relation ship is at least on the being honest side," I then tried to lean forward emphasizing the clinking of chains in the tense situation.

"True, though you are more like my prisoner than my friend," she summoned a chair, she sat on it crossing her legs by letting out her silvery pale thigh out of her kimono, and due to her hight we were now eye level, she placed the plate on her lap and began to pick up a spoonful.

"True, but i's say you want something I have that you couldn't replicate," I said as I gobbled up the food she had fed me.

"Very astute, and yes I do," she said with a smile.

"Your interested in my kekkei genkai aren't you," I said and with her smile it just answered my question.

"Can you blame me? It's the first time i've seen chakra move like its alive aside from cloning," she said as she continued to feed me.

"I see i'm not the only one interested in that little fact," I said as I flinched as sparks crawled around my body as she jammed a chakra enhanced knife deep enough to pierce skin into my stomach.

"Can you blame me? And in additional to that is the fact that it seems like its not only your chakra but your body to," she sad as in that moment my body had gone limp, its something i'm used to so I wasn't surprise, but what did was her words, "We have some inquiries we like you to prove, so for now we will be moving you," she then unlatched my locks and picked me up.

I wont get into details as I couldn't lift my head up to look where we came from, and I couldn't look left or right as she had picked me up and placed me over her shoulder blinding me.

And before I know it we were inside a room and I was being strapped to a different machine, and before I could speak Kabuto pulled down a lever sending electricity through me, while I had adapted to being electrocuted it was mostly chakra based, and this one was different, as it was generated through physics and science, and it meant one thing the properties of chakra wasn't ingrained in every inch of its existence.

The lightning coursed through me, I could feel it entering from my bound limbs and looking for a way out, it was reaching further and further into me as I felt my chakra loosing ground in side my body, the lightning having no where else to exit went for my heart in the hopes of distributing the electricity to every corner of my body, it started traveling through my veins and before it did my heart stopped, I slumped, but unlike before this time it looked like I had died.

Though that was the outwards appearance as I was charred black due to the shock, but what really happened was that my body found a way to stop me from dying as it funneled most of my chakra to protect my heart, and at the same time stop the flow to prevent it from letting it flow further.

Luckily enough they had something to monitor my pulse, and was even surprised at the sudden drop of activity of my body.

I was sent to medical care instantly, which just mean bringing medical ninja's in my cell healing me as I dangled in chains and a metal diaper.

[inner world]

"So that just happened," I said as we basically witnessed everything that happened when my body forcibly shut me out into my inner world.

"From the looks of it your chakra seems alive boss," Toshinori said.

"No shit Sherlock, it was established already when he unlocked chakra," white said.

"Oh don't be like that white, if the kekkei genkai didn't activate we wouldn't have been here at all," Jarvis said.

"Oh please, if the kekkei genkai didn't activate we would have a stronger body," logan said while eating some popcorn.

"I don't mind, the forced evolution gave us a good side effect," Haise said as he formed chakra tendrils from each of his fingers.

While they talked I was just heavily confused about what they were talking about, specially the thing about forced evolution of my kekkei genkai.

"Can you guys inform me about this forced evolution shit?" I asked confused.

"What?" All of them asked with a raised brow.

"This makes me feel stupid," I said with all their stares.

"Wait your telling us you don't know about the forced evolution," Haise said alarmed.

"What forced evolution?" I replied more confused.

"Bruh, so you don't know about the fact non shinobi clan children gain chakra around 7 or 8 years," Toshi said.

"You gained yours at 5 if I remember correctly," Logan said.

"You had a civilian body which meant you were going to die from chakra instability cause unlike normal people yours was fully opened instead of incrementally opening," Jarvis continued.

"Which means something had to happen for you to survive," white added.

"And so your kekkei genkai evolved to save you, a mere adaption turned into chakra manipulation," Haise finished as he used the chakra tendrils on his hand to grab a soda can two feet away.

"Which means in future generations you will be the only one to have such a unique ability our of all your blood," they said with a smile.

"Wait," my brain stopped, "what?" I had to think, "The fuck," my brain stopped again.

"Easy there boss, don't get a mental breakdown on us now," Toshi said as he lifted me by the arm.

"Yeah, your still recovering so go easy," Logan said.

"W-what do you mean, what was the original kekkei genkai?" I asked as they plopped me down the couch, have me a drinking hat, placed popcorn on my lap, and played a movie.

"Oh nothing much, it was basically your wish for Garou's adaptability, at your child body slowly degrading it needed to do something as you were willfully unaware of your cancer like state, and so like any subconscious it tried to save you, and in under a year it managed to transform and evolve into what we have today," Jarvis said.

And I just took it, I mean it was cool and all but after having the stress if being physically tortured by Orochimaru, mentally preparing and exhausting myself with thoughts of escape, add near death and finally this on my plate and it would have been surprising if I didn't have a mental breakdown, and so for 48 hours I just passively sucked in a tube of cola and stuffed my face with popcorn as we watched some movies and my body was being tube fed.

[out the real world]

"Quite fascinating isn't he," Kabuto said as he looked through some files.

"Aside from his sudden halt of cognitive functions he still alive," Orochimaru said as she looked through a separate set of files.

"Yes but whats fascinating is that despite his capture and lack of activities he seam to not have fallen to the norms of expectations," Kabuto said as he compared his current notes and the notes he had before taking Nashi in.

"Oh, now that's interesting," Orochimaru left her station and walked behind him to lean in and look at the papers. The papers held his medical record and he was right, despite his current state and the lack of excess work to keep his body stimulated his body hasn't atrophied in the slightest, while he grew slightly like a few millimeters or so, but that's normal since he is a child.

"Lets continue to study him,"

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"One foot at a time please," a Ryu clone said as he watched the ladies stumble and fall.

"Ahhh!! We get it so stop repeating it already!!!" Aqua angrily yelled at Ryu who smugly crawled around the floor.

"You shouldn't be so smug you know, someone like you shouldn't judge," Gale said as she shakily got on her knee's.

"I know i'm in the same boat as you two but at least I can walk," he said while continuing to circle around Aqua and taunting her, making her angrily get on her feet and try to fall on him.

"Ugh, I doubt it, I bet you cant walk, lier lier kaka eater," Aqua said as she was exhausted from trying to catch Ryu.

"Oh yeah, watch this," Ryu said as he struggled.

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"The new body is remarkable," Kojiro said as he was seated just feeling his hand close and open, that was until he was shocked by a seal on his neck forcing him to breathe.

"I know its cool and all, but please don't forget to breathe," the voice of Rengoku sounded out behind him as he handed Kojiro a water bottle.

"You have my thanks," Kojiro said as he took it.

"Boss was right, your way of speaking is very unique," Rengoku said as he took in water.

"I assume it was on the lines of, fucking pompous," Kojiro said as he twisted the cap off and began to drink.

"Yeah, but i'm not here to down the mood, but i'm here to ask why aren't you training like the others," Rengoku asked as he presented the hilarious situation of Aqua trying to bite at Ryu's ankle, while Gale slowly worked her way to walking on her feet, and Cu trying and failing to do a squat to fast track his way to walking.

"I'm just resting,"

"Ah so i'm guessing you just finished with the changes huh," Rengoku said as he took a sip.

"Precisely, though I have to ask, Does the procedure have to be that traumatic?" Kojiro asked as he still felt chills running down his spine as he felt his organs, skin, and everything liquifying.

"I don't know, but if your asking me I think it was a side effect since it was originally done with normal clones with no failures, but were guessing the blood doesn't get taken along," Rengoku even smiled, "Man you should have been there when Cu liquified, we were so worried that we just killed someone that we panicked for hours until he woke up," Rengoku laughed at the memory.

"Stop laughing, it was horrifying seeing and feeling one's body suddenly melt," Kojiro complained.

"Sorry, it was just hilarious to see all of you panic just to jump out of bed unable to run or walk," Rengoku chuckled as Kojiro's hand just moved to the left.

"Hahahaha, you tried to slap me on the back of the head didn't you, hahahaha," Rengoku's laughter echoed out as Kojiro angrily tried to lunge at him just to fall face first, which Rengoku just laughed and walked away.

Currently the procedure leads to a strange side effect once the clone is transferred, as their motor skills revert to that of an infant, though we don't know the reason it is highly suspected that the reason is the situation of make, at first we thought it was the fact we were made of pure chakra given a physical body that can take impacts shown when Rengoku received a punch from Ryu.

The previous statement was debunked as shown by Cu and everyone else, they were working fine before the procedure but once it was finished they had the same side effect. At first we thought it would be easier for them to integrate seeing as they already had experience piloting the body.

Side note – we used a timed sealing scroll to monitor their breathing that is set on 1 breath per minute, of course this can be negated if under water or the entire body is submerged to prevent untimely shocks and obstructions of possible future missions relating to underwater travel.

"Next should be… Hans……… that's me," Hans realized, "fuck,"

[one week]

Its been a week and search for our group had faded, also the group's progress had gone great as now they could run and jump like before, hand eye coordination had strangely been unbothered, though flexibility was touched, I knew this would happen since we made each body specific for their chosen style.

Ryu, a tougher and denser bone structure for his fighting style.

Rengoku, was a well balanced body, fast, strong, and durable, making him an all rounded fighter for his swordsman ship.

Cu, a flexible and fast body, due to his style as a spearman we needed fast twitch muscle that could reach max speed with ease and deliver force with alarming speeds.

Kojiro, we focused on his arms, to be precise we focused on his hands as his dexterity was needed for his style of fighting.

Aqua, her body was her choice as we didn't know anything about her, she has a stronger lower body allowing her to deliver stronger kicks.

Gale, she wanted a body like Rengoku, basically a well balanced body but smaller and less denser as she wanted most of the blood to be on her hair.

All their body are basically similar with different focuses, I mean they can still manipulate the blood to modify themselves but we still needed to give them a bace to work with as we didn't want any mishaps, like a body that is hyper flexible without any physical power, or someone with high physical power but with little flexibility, none wanted to be a specialist in the group as general skill tends to stump someone focused on one stat.

"Alright everyone test run," Rengoku said as he clapped to catch everyone's attention.

All of then lined up and even a wobbly Hans got on line, next one would be Stein but he said he had something to do, we don't know what he had in plan but were guessing its his personal equipment as most of us personalized it.

"Go!!" Rengoku said as he used sound jutsu to increase the sound of his finger snapping, everyone ran as fast as they could in the 100m dash, not long after Ryu got there first.

[List of contestants]

1st Ryu.

2nd Aqua.

3rd Cu.

4th Kojiro.

5th Gale.

6th Hans.

All of them ran, well except Hans who began to crawl half way as unlike everyone else Hans had little time to get used to his current state as he had to attend to various works, so unlike everyone else his arms have a higher capability. We had given him a wheel chair so he could travel around giving him more focused exercise on the arms for the first few days than a well balanced one.

"Dam you suck Hans," Cu said as he walked around him.

"Shut up you mountain bandit, and unlike you ingrates I have a job to do," Hans said as he laid down on the floor covered in his sweat.

"You know, its always surprising that we can sweat now," Kojiro said as he placed a water bottle next to Hans who was panting on the floor.

"Yeah, not to mention we can still manipulate our body," Cu said as he focused most of his blood to his right arm enlarging it and making veins bulge form that arm.

"It kind of remind me of Suigetsu's water body thing," Aqua said as she swing her feet in the air while she rested on top of a Boulder.

"You have a point, as with enough mastery one can simply do this," Kojiro said as he opened up his torso, he parted it like the red sea before closing it.

"Dam, how did you get that kind of mastery," Ryu said as he walked near him while doing a handstand.

"I acquired such skill on my pursue to achieve the closes consistency to fat which he had lacked before, and with my pursuit I acquired this skill along the way," Kojiro said as he showed a surprising mastery by contorting his hand into various things.

"Hmm, Hans you got that," Rengoku said as he saw Hans writing on his notepad.

"I got it,"

"With this done and over with, I presume we will once again be sent to our previous assignment?" Gale asked as she wiped herself with a towel.

"Yes," Stein said as he walked towards them from the ladder.

"Oh good morning Stein, you finished with the modification of your body?" Rengoku said.

"It's the best I can achieve so its better than nothing," Stein said as he handed everyone their corresponding scrolls.

Fiery red with orange high lights on the end with a white body for Rengoku. Brownish red with a rugged white body for Ryu. Purple with golden edges that has a metallic body for Kojiro. Marine blue with a wave pattern and a ocean blue for Aqua. Golden wheat yellow with a light yellow body for Gale. Deep blue with crimson red thorn like streaks with a pinkish skin like body for Cu.

These are the main scrolls for them, its mostly color coded for personal touches nothing to serious, its mostly a way to communicate towards each other, it's a form of automatic mail system as its all attached to the same subspace, it just has specific seal circles for each character.

"So you gonna tell us how many you've found so we don't go looking around your sloppy seconds?" Cu asked as he stored it horizontally behind him.

"Fine by us," Rengoku said, Stein, Ryu, and Rengoku looked at Hans who basically is directing the large vicinity manhunt for Nashi.

"Ok,"

Afterwards they were all informed that Hans has already explored half of fire country within the three weeks they were there, while spring to konoha was already cleared since Aqua's team had came from their and she had informed them they took detours to look inside hidden bases they have encountered, most of them were bandits, abandoned bases, and hidden bases that looked like ruins.

From konoha to fire country is still on the radar, but half way from every country was safe, currently they were on the move to wave as if memory serves them well Sasuke was there once to retrieve Zabuza's blade the Kubikiribochi or the Executioners sword, so it's a safe bet to look around their.

Next would be lightning country as if I remember correctly Sasuke managed to save Jugo from a prison close by from their, it could also be a bonus as if we can get his ass on our side we can research nature chakra as we still don't know how it feels or looks like, and besides our years of meditation and absorbing chakra hasn't lead to much, so unless we find a summoning beast and get that we cant achieve it, while yes we can just reverse summon ourselves, that's to much of a gamble and I don't want to be in the snake den as if i'm not compatible I could and will actually die from their method, as if you survive the poison injection without going sage they will just eat you.

Anyway, next would be stone country, as despite its large surroundings we don't know Jack shit about it aside from small history and landmarks we found in book and maps, next would be sand for the same reason.

With the information said and done we split up, well mostly Kojiro, Aqua, and Gale did as Cu, Rengoku, Ryu, Hans, and Stein still has some business in konoha, Cu's is literal business as he still has 2 more months of contracted pay on the Fujimura company for basically taking him in when he was still freshly made and was for experimental reasons at best.

Rengoku and Ryu are about ready, as all they need is to amass a clone army and rations before they leave, also they need to watch over Stein and Hans's rehabilitation before they go, so give or take one month before they leave.

"Think fast," Ryu said as he pulled his hand out of some water and threw the ball of water on the ground, but unlike the usual splat a water ball would do once striking the floor, what happened was it bounced and unlike any other ball it didn't slow down as it speed up with each bounce.

"Fucking hell Ryu," Rengoku said as he got on a stance, his body stood straight, his legs spread wide to balance his body, one arm holding the sword's sheath, and another holding the handle, he stood there as the ball continued to pick up speed, until it became fast enough that it was nothing but a blur, and in a split second Rengoku pulled out his blade with a deep exhale, the sword cleanly split the water ball, it continued its trajectory and splattered into a massive explosion of water.

"Nice," Ryu said with a thumbs up.

"Could you not do that please? It really messes with my concentration," Rengoku said as he sheathed his blade.

"What were you even doing," Ryu asked as he found a dry stone to sit on.

"Don't know really, just figured that i'd make up the other fire moves," Rengoku also looked for a dry stone to sit his ass on.

"Aren't they already there? I mean it said on the page here," Ryu said as he summoned the notebook from the seal he had on his gi.

"Not really, the other forms from 6 to 8 are not solid forms, their more place holders as the originator wanted the wielder to be like fire and be ever changing," Rengoku sat down and sighed.

"Well that's stupid, but makes sense in some sort of way. Sooo i'm guessing the first 5 are like thunder's first and second form where it's a base?" Ryu said as he closed the notebook.

"Yup, and unlike your martial arts I got to actually make it fluid when transitioning to different forms," Rengoku laid down to look at the underground's artificial sky.

"I mean you have a point, but isn't the reason 6 to 8 are free slots for creativity? Plus if you look at it this way we can do what ever we want with it," Ryu said.

Rengoku breathed in deeply "You have a point… flame breathing,"

"Wait hold on," Ryu panicked.

"6th form flame burst," Rengoku then pushed himself towards Ryu, he came in feet first, Ryu ducked, "7th form: penetration of death," Rengoku stopped himself behind Ryu, he held the sheath of his sword and religiously thrusted his swords handle into Ryu's anus.

"Fuck no," Ryu punched the ground while coating his fist with wind to pushed himself upwards.

"8th form: soaring phenix," Rengoku got on a very familiar stance, head lowered, body leaned forward, one hand on the sheath, and the other on the blade.

Ryu saw this and knew what was up, he charged wind chakra on his hand and arms prepared for combat, or to at least prevent Rengoku from killing him as wind is bad for fighting fire.

Rengoku's sword began to steam from the sheath, flames began to lick at the tsuba, and in an instant it happened, Rengoku opened his eyes, locked on Ryu, and managed to pull or to be more accurate ripped his sword out of the sheath so fast that not only did the fire not spill, but for a second a sheath made of pure fire was formed as the force from his pull had shattered the wooden sheath for the blade, and an arc of fire was formed.

The fire stood still, as for a second it looked like time had paused to marvel at the display of such a basic skill elevated with simple chakra control, and as if given life a phenix had pushed it's way out of the line of fire like some sort of creature crawling out of a tight space. (imagine the first time we saw a menos grande pushing out of a garganta)

The phenix came rocketing at Ryu, but Ryu was prepared, as he had prepared himself an attack of his own, he had stretched out both clenched fist outwards, he had funneled the wind chakra between his arms which made it look like two energy colliding to develop a stronger, and better being.

As the phenix came towards him, Ryu hoped and prayed this doesn't turn into a fire tornado or some shit, "Rokuogan!!!!" And a blast of wind came rocketing through.

Both attacks clashed and meet, at first they thought that physics would come in to play and the wind would just blast through the fire and would produce the same phenomena when blowing out a candle, but what happened was they clashed anime style, Ryu landed, Rengoku looked at Ryu, both them nodded and ran as far as they could from the clash.

"I think the 8th form is good, but you might want to tweak the others," Ryu suggested as he jumped into a small pond.

"I'll think about it later," Rengoku jumped into a small pit.

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Chapter end.