Kapitel 107: Ch107. Mei vs Army 3
As the cloud finished spreading and killing the useless and weak, Mei quickly made her nineteen shadow clones create steam clones because shadow clones wouldn't be able to survive in the cloud. She enwrapped herself in a protective layer of suiton chakra, creating a soft, almost invisible blue aura around her body, and with the newly created nineteen steam clones, she rushed into the white searing steam cloud of death while her shadow clones popped out of existence, much to her relief returning her quite a bit of chakra. Mei used a whole lot to create the first attack and despite having what Rei proudly dubbed as reserves of an almost jinchuuriki, thanks to his brutal training, Mei was quite exhausted. Getting the chakra from the clones gave her much needed second wind.
She was aware she had every advantage over her enemies. They were scared, demoralized, trapped in a cloud where visibility was as good as nill. The cloud also made them use their chakra, forcing them to effectively albeit a bit slowly burn through their reserves if they wanted to stay un-melted. On the other hand, she was still alone and there were hundreds of them. She had to be careful.
Mei could have waited until the enemies wasted more of their chakra but she didn't want the Iwa ninjas to find out a weakness in her Jutsu, especially since these were Iwa ninjas and the cloud was already starting to very slowly disperse. She decided to charge into it and made her clones also engage in combat with the remaining enemies.
She couldn't go and face four hundred men head-on. That would be suicide. Thankfully, there was a thick smoke-screen... It was time to act like a true Kiri ninja and use the silent killing technique she was forced to learn in the academy and later by Rei and Konan who brutally beat its mastery into her. Not that she complained. That single skill was something for which she would be eternally grateful to Rei and Konan.
Rushing through the white cloud with her eyes closed, Mei could hear the sound of starting battles as her steam clones started engaging their targets. She didn't need her eyes to fight nor could she even use them in such a thick cloud. Instead, Mei relied on her own albeit a bit limited, but still incredibly useful chakra sensing ability to sense her own chakra. The cloud was, after all, saturated with the stuff, and with just a bit of focus, Mei had an overview of the positions of every enemy of hers in the thick cloud. Well, figures. If it has a humanoid shape and is not full of her chakra, it was obviously an enemy. Locking on at the closest one, Mei charged at the ninja.
Mei felt herself being barely two meters away from her first target, happy he didn't notice her yet thanks to how silent she moved. The poor sap was confusedly looking around, not knowing what to do so Mei decided to make a quick work of him. Pulling out a kunai, she swiftly leaped at the man and buried it up to the handle into his neck, severing the spine while also supporting the dying body in order to prevent it from loudly falling to the ground. 'Damn, no sensing capabilities nor any honed instincts? This must have been one of the better genins made from the slaves.' Mei disappointedly thought as she slowly and carefully laid the body on the ground, making sure she did it as silently as possible before dashing onwards to her next target.
Mei found a gathering of five ninjas who had the sense to group up in the mist. She started molding her chakra and with just one one-handed seal, she spitted out a blob of lava while thinking, 'Lava Release: Lava Bullet.'
Contrary to her expectations, the five ninjas noticed her attack and jumped away, making the Lava Bullet impact only an empty ground. This also made the ninjas aware of Mei's position and she suddenly found herself evading two taijutsu practitioners who cracked the ground every time they impacted it.
'Thank God for Rei's agility exercises and Konan's Territory evasion course.' Mei idly thought as she sidestepped yet another haymaker of one Iwa shinobi and ducked under a right hook aimed at her chin from the other. 'These two must be chunin.' She noted before her senses flared and Mei quickly smashed her palm into the ground.
"Earth Release: Earth Wall!" Mei whispered... a testament of how surprised she was since Konan made sure to instill into her doing Jutsu silently and not say the names like some mentally-challenged idiot.
A wall of the earth with a semi-circular shape quickly appeared in between Mei and the two taijutsu-using Iwa ninjas, continuing all the way to cover her right side just a second before the wall there was impacted by Two Earth Bullets and one Fireball Justus. The three remaining ninjas from the group of five clearly could pinpoint her location by using sound. 'Tsch, just my luck, running into an experienced group.' Mei clicked her tongue.
Fortunately for Mei, the impact cracked her Earth Wall which sent some debris in the direction of the two taijutsu chunins due to the circular shape of the Earth Wall. Mei used this slight distraction and the fact they couldn't see her to her advantage and performed yet another Jutsu.
'Water Release: Cutting Blast of Finger-Doom.' She thought, again embarrassed at the naming sense of her younger self while gathering a small blob of water on her index finger. She shot the small blob of heavily condensed water straight through her Earth Wall, running it through the heart of one of the chunins, killing him instantly. The second one didn't even have time to notice his comrade's untimely demise when he found himself having the same fate.
Relaxing, Mei released a relieved sigh when her senses noted the three remaining ninjas of the group were just ambushed by one of her steam clones who just materialized in their midsts. Two were already dead due to the clone touching them which increased the concentration of the steam cloud, momentarily getting through their chakra cloaking. This made them shriek in pain and interrupted their defenses against the cloud in the surroundings, hence, melting them entirely. The last from the group was desperately trying to avoid the clone but suffered from numerous burns on his body since his control was far better than his comrades and he was able to keep his chakra cloaking... Mei didn't care enough to go and personally finish him off. The clone would have to suffice. The man was almost out of chakra anyway.
"That said, I am very low on my chakra too..." Mei dejectedly said as she kneeled on one knee to take a slight breather. 'Worse yet, while my own suiton cloaking is very cheap, due to my depleted reserves I can't really use much ninjutsu as I need the chakra. Hah~, ninjutsu specialist unable to cast ninjutsu... Is this Rei's way of telling me to not slack off in taijutsu training?' Mei dryly thought as she tracked another target with her senses, assessing the situation. '320 enemy ninjas remaining... My clones already killed more than seventy of them, huh? Well, no wonder since they can just materialize and dematerialize while killing people by just disrupting their chakra cloaking.' Mei hummed in satisfaction. Steam Clones in the middle of a searing steam cloud... so far, this was her best ninjutsu combination. She totally didn't try to emulate Rei's Kirigakure no Jutsu and Earth Clones. Nope... not at all.
After five minutes of resting, Mei stood up with a quiet groan, gleefully noting that during her rest, her clones reduced the enemy numbers to 290. She would have rested more if only Konan and Rei weren't watching her. She had no doubt they knew exactly what was going on in the steam cloud as not once during the practice did this Jutsu even slow them down. Preparing her weaponry, Mei started hunting solo prey in the thick cloud, aiming to reduce the numbers for now.
Leaping, she slit the throat of an unsuspecting boy, no older than fifteen.
'280 remaining.'
Throwing shurikens at a duo of Iwa ninjas, Mei luckily hit the throat of one while the second managed to deflect the projectiles only to be run through with a tanto Mei picked up from one corpse before she sheathed it and threw it away as the man's body fell onto the ground.
'250 remaining.'
Mei was pleased with the efficiency of her clones as she attacked yet another slave genin by using Rei's trick of latching a barely visible chakra string onto the victim's foot and tripping him. Needless to say, the thirty-year-old woman had no time to react before her spinal cord was severed, Mei already sprinting away, leaving the immobile woman to die from the steam.
'220 remaining.'
Her chakra started to be slowly replenished but Mei still didn't use any ninjutsu as she knew those who fell were the weakest sort and she would most likely need her chakra later for the stronger opponents. Especially the sole S-ranker, Kitsuha. She avoided him like a plague in the cloud and always kept her senses on him. Luckily, the man was completely disoriented and ran circles as his vision was impaired.
'Thankfully he has no chakra sensing capabilities... how disappointing.' Mei thought with an amused chuckle as yet another slave genin of Iwa fell to her kunai. '200 remaini-'
Mei was suddenly forcefully pulled back, making her eyes widen as a chill went through her spine when she saw a sword cleave the place where her head was just a second ago. From the corner of her eye, Mei noticed a barely visible thread connected to her back and sighed in sincere relief, inwardly thanking Rei for watching out for her. She didn't sense the attack at all!
'I got too cocky.' Mei scolded herself, completely aware this would give Konan enough ammunition to tease her for weeks... worse yet, this meant her training will be most likely painfully increased. 'Fuck...' She thought in resignation as she for the first time since she entered the mist, opened her eyes and melded back into the steam, using Silent Killing footsteps to move around in order to prevent being jumped again.
Chakra sensing was not giving her any feedback so Mei had to rely on her other senses in this fight. Using a small trick taught to her by Rei, Mei channeled chakra into her eyes, ears, and nose, improving her senses ten-fold. It was only then her nose scrunched as she caught a peculiar aroma with it.
"So it is the second-in-command of Kitsuha. Guess you are not just a prostitute then..." Mei quipped, making sure to make the steam around distort her voice so it was impossible to tell where it came from.
"Any you are that small brat. Who would have thought Downpour is raising yet another little army-killing monster." A sarcastic feminine voice resounded from the surroundings, also distorted. "I am going to kill you, brat."
"I wonder about that, slut. You should have stayed with what you know best. Being fucked by your superior." Mei lightly said and slightly smiled to herself when she felt the incredibly small angry fluctuation of chakra a few meters away to the left. Unfortunately, it was so short Mei didn't manage to react in time before it entirely disappeared from her senses, no doubt her opponent already gone from that spot.
"When the son of your Kage tells you to bend over and raise your ass up so he can get better access, you listen or you die." The woman's apathetic voice resounded from the surroundings, trying to sound as indifferent as possible but Mei caught the slight venomous undertone in it.
'A bit more, then...' Mei thought deviously. "Oh, if Rei told me that, I would be the happiest woman in the world. I wouldn't mind being used like that by my Master! Wagging your butt for a worthy man must be really fun!" Mei cheerfully exclaimed, making sure to bleed all of her sincere feelings into that statement while making it obvious she mocked the woman and the way she was treated by Kitsuha.
"Good try..." A quiet rageful whisper entered Mei's ears from the steam cloud, sounding almost sorrowful. "Your words won't force me to reveal my position, young assassin of Kiri. You are good. I admit that. Even I, one of the best Iwa assassins, can't locate you in this thick cloud of steam. I guess it's time to call the big guns." The resigned voice of the woman resounded with a sigh and Mei's eyes widened as she suddenly felt a big fluctuation of chakra from her right. Mei quickly snapped her wrist in that direction, throwing a kunai there but her answer was only a loud 'clang' before her lips stretched into a smile as a loud 'boom' resounded.
'Explosive tags, bitch.' Mei smirked as she felt a slight recoil in the now visible chakra, signifying the woman was injured. Her lips however set into a frown as the chakra of the woman yet again disappeared from her senses before she could pounce on the woman. "... Fuck this shit. She got away again." Mei muttered in irritation before her senses caught one important detail.
'Oh... so the slut fluctuated her chakra to alert Kitsuha.' Mei wanted to scream in agitation to the heavens. The man she avoided like plague was now hurling towards her position at break-neck speed. 'Guess this is unavoidable now. And the bitch is still hidden somewhere around... jeez, this will be a major pain in the ass, won't it?' She sighed as she checked how much chakra has been regenerated and mentally recalled the five closest of her steam clones to her position.
Mei could only chuckle bitterly at the unfairness of it all. "Time for the boss fight, then..."
Kapitel 108: Ch108. Mei vs Kitsuha
Kitsuha landed on the spot where his second in command previously flared her chakra and instantly pulsed his own chakra outwardly, momentarily dispersing the steam in a small radius around him. This made Mei silently curse as she was caught off-guard and Kitsuha spotted her.
"It's the pipsqueak!" Kitsuha exclaimed as he pointed at Mei with a puzzled expression only for his eyes to show an understanding light a moment later as his expression scrunched to one of utter resentment and anger. "You! You are responsible for this! My glory! You ruined everything, bitch!" He shrieked in rage, not even noticing wisps of his chakra violently whipping around in reaction to his emotions.
Kitsuha was really enraged. This mission should have been his one-way ticket to being one of the most reputable ninjas of Iwagakure. It should have been easy as heck! And yet, his army was decimated by one little girl? He could not accept that lying down!
He didn't exclaim any death threats, however. Mei found herself facing his fist that was quickly approaching her face and only barely managed to use the flexibility beaten to her by Konan to arch her back into the bridge position, causing Kitsuha's fist to sail an inch above her belly. She knew there was no way to get away from Kitsuha by any physical means, so, with a quick Kawarimi, Kitsuha's second punch hit a half-melted corpse of Iwa ninja, burning him slightly as Mei appeared panting from exertion a few feet away.
Despite the rush she felt, Mei quickly joined her hands into a single hand seal. 'Water Release: Wet Beam.' She thought with a mild amount of embarrassment as the steam around her started to be absorbed to two spots on her right and left side, creating two growing balls of water that quickly enlarged into the size of a football ball and out of nowhere released two crushing torrents of water at Kitsuha.
Kitsuha didn't have even two seconds to react after Mei started her Jutsu. He only managed to raise an Earth Wall in front of him by slamming his palm into the ground, blocking the water's offense. Despite being blocked, the water flowed to the ground where it evenly redistributed and created a thin water surface on the ground.
Mei smirked at that. For the next Jutsu, she didn't need any hand sign. 'Water Release: Spiky Boo'. The small amount of water on the ground quickly gathered into small, sharp, and thin water spikes, aiming to impale Kitsuha who suddenly felt his feet to be pierced by something as pain flooded his brain and fear crept up his spine. It was only his reflexes as S-rank shinobi that enabled him to instinctively use Earth Release: Rock Skin to harden his skin. The water spikes started at first impaling his feet, only for bigger and longer water spikes to form and try to continuously impale the higher spots on the target's body. The Rock Skin Jutsu however prevented them from penetrating Kitsuha's skin so the only damage Mei's jutsu did was to injure Kitsuha's feet. It was only his pain tolerance that made Kitsuha able to stand but his ability to move was completely ruined.
Mei couldn't do a follow-up attack on Kitsuha who was suddenly a sitting duck. She had to jump forward as her senses suddenly alarmed her of an approaching sword. The feeling suddenly appeared and Mei wasn't about to question it which saved her from being pierced from the back as Kitsuha's second in command abruptly appeared behind Mei and went for a decisive blow.
Mei evaded and cursed as she saw the woman again meld into the steam and disappear from her senses. She was distracted and paid the price for it when she suddenly felt a searing heat closing in on her back. Mei only barely managed to pump as much of the mix of her suiton and doton chakra there to stop the damage as Kitsuha's spit of blob of lava impacted her back. Mei also jumped to the right, evading yet another slash from Kitsuha's second in command who thought she would be distracted enough by the lava.
"Graaah!" Kitsuha couldn't take it anymore and let out an enraged roar, attracting the attention of the two females, only for their eyes to bulge out as they felt his chakra build-up for a massive Jutsu.
"Fuck!" Kitsuha's second in command cursed in fright and disappeared again.
Mei frowned and decided to play it safe. She recognized the chakra mixture he was building up. It was yet another lava Jutsu. Fortunately for her, the buffoon didn't realize this was completely her expertise.
Kitsuha jumped up and spat out wave after wave of lava, covering hundreds of meters of the battlefield and killing a lot of his own unsuspecting ninjas while doing so. The waves of lava hit the ground, making it sizzle, sending white smoke to cover the area Kitsuha previously dissipated with pulsing his chakra. The surroundings were yet again full of thick white smoke, shooting the visibility to hell.
Mei just jumped a bit and used her lava-walking exercise to prevent herself from being covered by the waves of lava as she surfed on it until it slowed down enough to stand steadily. Mei smiled to herself. This gave her quite the much-needed advantage in this fight since Kitsuha clearly couldn't sense a shit in the mist and she didn't have that much of a problem facing his lava Jutsus.
'Damn...' Mei thought tiredly as she looked at her chakra levels. 'I'll have to end this quite fast since lava-walking takes a lot out of me and I have to continuously use suiton aura to prevent my own steam from burning me.'
The only consolation to Mei was feeling Kitsuha's chakra levels. The man had still more than her but it was dropping at a fast rate by protecting his body from the steam and using lava-walking. Not to mention...
Kitsuha went berserk. The massive failure of what he deemed to be an easy-going mission and the pain in his feet. It all stacked up until he couldn't help but blackout from sheer rage, instincts taking over. He started to shoot Lava Jutsu after Lava Jutsu all around. Large Fists made of Lava flew in every direction. Lava Bullets ripped through the mist. Animals made of Lava rose up and traversed the surroundings looking for the girl who messed his plans up. His chakra was depleting but he didn't care.
Mei didn't go to engage him. Instead, she decided to increase the distance between them, tracking his whereabouts with her senses every second. As she finally reached the four hundred meters mark away from Kitsuha, she smirked feeling another large fist of lava impact the ground a hundred meters in front of her. The heat was high and the steam was sent away by the shockwave only for white mist again to fill the air due to the searing heat released as the lava quickly cooled and hardened.
"Well, finally..." Mei mumbled as she felt every Iwa nin disappear from her senses sans Kitsuha. "Who would have thought he would kill his own men in the end. What a berserker." Mei quipped, making sure to stay steady as every time Kitsuha's attacks landed, the ground shook. Mei knew she would not win an honest one versus one against him. She knew it the second he started spitting an ocean of lava and seeing how little it drained him. She wasted too much chakra to create the steam to beat Kitsuha in one versus one... without cheating, that is. "At least my steam clones are finally finished."
Since she could not win honestly, it was time to go for a boom. When Kitsuha first jumped towards her, Mei mentally commanded five of her closest steam clones to her position and made them wait for an opportunity to strike. That plan went downhill the second Kitsuha's second in command showed she is capable of ending Mei with her sneak attacks. And when Kitsuha started using Lava, Mei changed her plan completely.
All nineteen of her steam clones gathered in the area around rampaging Kitsuha and started pulling the steam from the entirety of the clearing towards themselves, making it thicker and thicker... The white covering in the air rapidly receded from the edges of the clearing, the white mist engulfing the clearing slowly disappeared as it was dragged towards one particular area.
Mei watched as a hundred meters around Kitsuha became a thick white cloud ball while the clearing cleared of her steam since it all concentrated at her opponent who surprisingly enough, didn't react at all.
"I see... he is far too gone." Mei frowned, watching the occasional Lava Bullet or Fist to shoot out of the white cloud ball, making it ripple.
While Kitsuha's chakra expenditure increased exponentially due to how concentrated the steam was, this was not the end-game for Mei. The nineteen steam clones were made of her chakra. That meant she could manipulate them. Which meant she could change the properties of the steam too since her chakra was dispersed in it. She only needed a medium such as her clones to act as a proverbial 'middle man'. The clones started pulsing the chakra inside of them which made them quickly disperse into the steam. This chakra seeped into it and the ball of pure white slowly started changing to grey.
Mei smiled. The grey ball of steam was now perfectly flammable. She didn't even need to do anything as the second the change in the steam reached Kitsuha and his lava...
A loud booming explosion suddenly rattled the entire clearing, sending an earth-shattering earthquake through it as the surrounding mountains cracked, large rocks chipped off of them and fell to the ground while massive shockwaves spread through the land. Even Konan and Rei had to brace themselves and bend their knees, pushing their bodies against the large mass of wind that impacted them, hard, while their clothes were flapping in the strong winds, making their feet slid back on the grass. Mei didn't fare any better as she didn't even dare to think the resulting explosion would be so powerful and was sent rolling on the ground. Only Rei's string made it possible for him to keep Mei in the air until she managed to regain her bearing and twisted her body to land onto the ground with her feet and also brace herself for the strong shockwaves, groaning due to feeling all the bruises her quick but brutal roll on the ground gave her. Mei thanked whatever deity that watched over her that nothing was broken and knew well that only the chakra-strengthening prevented her organs from rupturing due to being so close when the shockwaves hit.
When the clearing finally stopped being ravaged by the aftereffects of the explosion, Mei let out a relieved sigh. The Kitsuha's chakra... disappeared. She wobbled towards a slightly battered Rei who grinned at her with a thumbs-up and Konan who growled and glared at her, most likely due to the last attack. Mei confidently stuck her chest out and stood in front of her teachers waiting for their final evaluation despite feeling like flinching and running for her life as she heard the silent growl of Konan.
"Good job. I will admit I never expected you to succeed and we were prepared to jump in whenever necessary but you proved me wrong. Color me surprised." Rei praised Mei, patting her head which made her deflate and giddily hug him around his waist.
Konan didn't feel generous, however. Her hair was all tangled mess and her clothes were ripped in various places due to the shockwaves but when Mei's expectant eyes looked at her, even she couldn't bring herself to scold the girl. "Yes, you did fine. Now..." Konan smiled menacingly and gestured at her torn attire. "you earned yourself some more of my personally supervised torture." She ominously said as her eye twitched, telling just how furious she was.
"You mean training, Konan-nee?" Mei squeaked, trying to appear small.
"Oh, no... nope. I mean what I said." Konan innocently replied, making Mei jump behind Rei for protection from the demon who wanted to torture her.
"Stop it, girls." Rei chuckled at their antics. "Let's go, we are leaving. We gotta have a serious talk with Tsu before finishing the second part of our mission."
Konan's demeanor instantly changed from glaring at Mei to a completely serious one, causing Mei to sigh in relief as she clutched the back of Rei's shirt in her small hands.
"Are you sure?" Konan asked while narrowing her eyes and for a second, flickered them over a certain area in the clearing. Rei however just uncaringly shrugged and nodded.
"Let it go. It's better this way anyway. I can't wait how much headache this would cause to Mizukage if it really goes as I think it would." He said reassuringly and before long, the trio was yet again on their way to Konoha.
It was only half an hour after they left the clearing, the spot on the ground to which Konan previously glanced rippled as Kitsuha's second in command slowly emerged from the earth. She had some mild burns all over her and was drenched in sweat but she was alive. Her heart pounded despite the fight being long over as she helplessly fell on her face, her chakra completely drained. She barely had enough to stay alive as it was.
It didn't take long for the sole survivor of the previous battle to faint.
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