Kapitel 214: Ch214. Trying out knick-knacks

Ringo's shoulders sagged as she reluctantly watched one orange tail forming behind the chakra cloak of Yagura. She knew going against a jinchuuriki while fooling around is stupid.

"Since you want to play it that way..." Ringo discontentedly muttered, more for herself than others. Suddenly, the air around her shimmered and her voice reverberated through the plains, "Lightning Susanoo!" Instantly, blue armor similar to what samurai wore made of lightning sprang up around Ringo, covering her lithe form.

The second those words left Ringo's mouth, every Uchiha who ever heard of Mangekyo Sharingan stiffened. It was not only Uchiha's either. Many high-ranking old ninjas who knew about the special ability of the Mangekyo Sharingan had their eyes bulging out after seeing the armor covering Ringo. It might have been only a human-sized armor but it was far too reminiscent of the real Susanoo that sent a shiver through the spines of these people. After all, Ringo Ameyuri was not an Uchiha. Worse yet, she didn't have Sharingan. This moment would cause many doubts and speculations among the higher-ups of the hidden villages.

Yagura didn't wait for the special moment to end. His mind starting to give in to the influence of the bijuu chakra, he instantly lunged at Ringo while she just leisurely summoned a sword through a modified summoning seal on her wrist. Yagura neared Ringo with speed only rarely seen in the Shinobi world, showcasing why he deserved the title of Kage. Ringo simply lowered herself into a basic stance, patiently awaiting her opponent to enter the range of her blade.

No threats or useless banter was exchanged as it was quite pointless at the second Yagura started using bijuu chakra. Now was the time for power to do the talks.

Ringo's sword and Yagura's staff met... but instead of the expected struggle of strength, Yagura's weapon was pushed back by an invisible force upon the clash, throwing his arms a bit off and disrupting his balance.

'Oomph...' Ringo huffed in surprise as the strength she had to put into that single clash was far more than she expected. 'Damn, the kid indeed do pack a punch.' She frowned, unhappy with the performance of the sword she was holding.

Bewilderment momentarily appeared on Yagura's face, only for fury taking its place a second later as he reaffirmed his footing and attacked the patiently waiting and pondering Ringo again.

Violent clashes resounded through the plain, leaving many cracks and small craters on the ground as both combatants had extremely enhanced strength, either due to a bijuu cloak or a full-body elemental chakra armor. Every time the two ninjas clashed, Yagura was pushed back by an invisible force while Ringo's frown was increasing.

Suddenly, after fifty or so exchanges, Ringo's sword cracked when Yagura's staff smashed into it. Yagura's hands were yet again thrown off their intended course, pushing his body backward which gave Ringo the necessary time to do something she did for the first time in their duel. She lifted her left foot and strongly kicked Yagura's gut, sending his body crashing a few hundred meters away while bouncing numerous times off from the ground.

As Yagura was no longer an immediate concern, Ringo set her eyes on the now cracked blade of her experimental sword and wryly sighed. 'It's not really what I expected. I wanted our chunin to have at least a chance against a jinchuuriki with it but the amount of power I have to exert to not be blown away in a clash is not something an average chunin possesses. Not to mention it couldn't really withstand even fifty clashes with Yagura. Nope, this one is clearly a failure.' She let the sword go with disappointment showing on her face just as the blade finally succumbed to the crack and splintered into many pieces.

Ringo, however, was totally oblivious to the fact that a normal non-chakra metal blade withstanding fifty clashes with a jinchuuriki was abnormal or that expecting a chunin to be able to put up a fight against a jinchuuriki was madness in itself, no matter what tools he had. No... Ringo's experimental sword was something extremely useful as a weapon that could imbalance opponent upon each clash was something ground-breaking in the fights between more evenly matched opponents and could give the user an incredible advantage in the form of an opening. After all, the sword managed to make even a jinchuuriki imbalanced.

Alas, in Ringo's eyes it was simply not good enough while leaders of various villages could only drool as they watched the effects of the sword, many making a note to discuss potential sales with Ringo after the fight.

Ringo yet again made use of her summoning seals on her wrists and four daggers appeared in her hands. She leisurely threw one a few feet in front of her and one on either side of her before taking a step back just in time to avoid a punch from enraged Yagura who now sported two tails and hatefully growled at her.

Curiously lifting her eyebrow, Ringo threw the last dagger near her feet and watched the effect as a seal appeared in the place in between the four daggers, the same place where Yagura was currently standing.

Yagura wanted to throw himself back at Ringo and continue his onslaught. He was now completely assured that leaving the woman time to make plans and prepare would be foolish. He had to push her and force her to make mistakes before capitalizing on them! He still held the edge in physical power and from what he saw speed. Although he wouldn't put it past his opponent to downplay her real speed. She was a Lightning User and Yagura was not stupid enough to not figure out she was most likely much faster than him once she actually decided to go all out. No... he had to use her playful approach towards their battle and score a solid hit.

There was a bit of a problem, however. The air around him stiffened and he was unable to move as a massive pressure landed on his shoulders. Yagura instantly noticed the seal under him and then he noticed the four daggers on the ground that clearly anchored the seal.

'What the heck is with this woman!? How many chakra weapons with special effects does she have? Did nobody bothered to tell her that they are supposed to be rare!?' Yagura mentally grumbled while using his chakra cloak to force himself free from the seal.

Ringo critically watched as the restriction seal created by her four experimental daggers slowly but surely gave out as Yagura's body started to regain its mobility. Sighing she took out a pink rubber duck from her wrist seal before casually throwing it at the still mostly immobilized Yagura.

The entire plains suddenly quieted down as the spectators watched in muted bewilderment when the duck impacted Yagura's forehead... and harmlessly bounced off, only causing his head to whip back, creating an awkward situation.

Yagura's eyes stared upward with utter lack of comprehension of what just happened. Shame started to rise inside of him. 'So... she is not satisfied with using her weird weapons. Now she is even throwing toys at me?' Yagura ever-so-slowly lowered his gaze back onto the amused Ringo who watched him with almost a clinical degree of scrutiny. He had had enough. Clearly, two tails of his bijuu cloak simply won't cut it. It was time to go all out.

And then he froze.

'HOW!?' Yagura frantically screamed as he noticed that he was no longer clad in his chakra cloak.

Ringo watched the spectacle in satisfaction, 'Aha! My anti-jinchuuriki Duckie worked! His connection with the bijuu was cut and the chakra cloak dissipated.' She giddily noted.

Ringo's merry mood didn't last long as Yagura's expression set itself in a cold facade. "I've had enough." He stated, his tone betraying the degree of rage he was feeling. And then... red.

Ungodly waves after waves of chakra sprang up from Yagura, pressing on the land around as earthquake shook the plains. Strong winds swept the surroundings with extreme pressure, making Ringo slightly bend her knees in order to withstand it. Orange chakra seeped from Yagura, expanding and slowly starting solidifying, gaining greyish color.

It took barely a second but Ringo now found herself facing a few stories tall form of the Three-Tailed Bijuu who was glaring at her with all the anger Yagura could muster.

"Er... the Duckie only cuts the connection between the host and the bijuu, not seal it. Hence, the jinchuuriki can reconnect to his bijuu almost instantly. A desperate need for improvement is duly noted." Ringo nodded to herself as she stared at the behemoth in front of her.

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Kapitel 215: Ch215. Ringo vs. Yagura 2

While the whole world gaped at Ringo's Duckie's ability to cancel the bijuu cloak, she took out her two chakra metal blades and promptly covered them in her lightning Susanoo cloaking. Now she really looked like some dual-wielding mythical samurai made of lightning.

Sighing in annoyance, Ringo stared at the massive three-tailed beast in front of her, ignoring the strong whiplash of wind Yagura's transformation caused.

"I am really fed up with this. I am an assassin. Why do I have to fight him head-on like a damned fool? What 'Show 'em your hidden powah, Rin-chan!'? What 'Let's make it into a huuuuuge spectacle!?'? When I am done with this, I am going to strangle Mei for giving Rei ideas. I could simply sneak into Yagura's house at night and peacefully separate his head from his body when he slept but noooo..." Ringo heatedly muttered under her nose.

Just then Sanbi roared and Ringo had to quickly side-step a massive circular compressed few stories tall water blade hurled at her at an almost inhuman speed by the beast, leaving a large trench behind.

Ringo wryly smiled, "So, he is finally using ninjutsu, eh?"

The water rose from the shore a kilometer away from the place where they faced each other, towering above the plains as the angry Sanbi focused his gaze on Ringo whose brows furrowed at the five hundred feet tall wave quickly approaching her at brutal speed, washing away everything in its path.

"Of course, the very first thing Sanbi would do is getting even more water on the battlefield. Because why not?" Ringo cursed their current location. In the past, the Sanbi was almost always sealed while he was lazing around or sleeping because fighting him anywhere near the ocean was a plain suicide what with his complete control of water. Without first shackling him with some restrictive seals, there was no way to win against the lazy turtle. Well, not for ordinary shinobi.

Not a second later, the massive tsunami seemingly crashed into Ringo...

High in the clear sky, the lightning-armor-clad figure of Ringo appeared after barely escaping being swept by the ocean of water. She quickly started molding her normal chakra with her lightning chakra under her feet in order to create a platform in the air where she could stand.

Ringo grimaced as she got a nice look at the surrounding lands. It was only a minute and a few seconds ago when Yagura transformed and yet... the Kuronami plains were already covered in a blanket of water while other massive tsunamis could be seen quickly approaching the area from the not-so-distant ocean, covering the lands in even more water.

Ringo watched the huge turtle turn its head, looking for her. Her shoulders sagged, 'What exactly am I supposed to do here?' She thought irritably.

Lightning was for precise and fast strikes that exploited weaknesses and gaps in the armor of the enemy in order to land ONE devastating killing attack. Water, on the other hand, used volume to both attacks and defend and compression for either cutting or burgeoning offense. As for fighting a massive armored turtle half-covered in an ocean of water under its control as a lighting user? Well...

Clicking her tongue, Ringo decided to at least hurl a few attacks at the turtle since finding an exploitable weak spot was quickly becoming a profound challenge. 'Guess, there is really no other way than trying out what does and what doesn't work. It won't be a long time before the Sanbi discovers my position anyway...'

Raising her right blade above her head and gathering her lighting chakra on it, the air around Ringo started quickly cracking and chirping as more and more lightning appeared, concentrating and condensing on the blade which was quickly getting superheated. Ringo waited and gathered, compressed, concentrated more and more lightning chakra on the blade until it was one bright blue beacon visible for kilometers, causing Sanbi to finally notice it.

Unfortunately for the beast, with Ringo's proficiency in Lightning Chakra, the whole process took only two seconds. One blue bright flash of blue with an ear-shattering chirping shriek of lightning deafening the world, and Ringo almost lazily swung her right blade downwards in a wide arc aimed straight at Sanbi.

The world watched as the blue lightning beam crashed in the massive three-tailed beast's carapace in a flash...

Sanbi was hurled back through the water, creating a temporary trench in it as the massive beast's body pushed it away due to the sheer force of the lightning beam which propelled it five hundred meters back before the disoriented Sanbi finally somehow managed to anchor its tails and limbs into the ground while supporting its body with the water behind it in order to resist the pushing force of the slash.

Blue crackling energy battled grey hard carapace, both stubbornly refusing to stop pushing against the other but in the end, five seconds later Ringo's lightning Jutsu lost its juice and slowly dissipated, leaving only the turtle standing on the ground without any water around it for a fifty-meter radius. Only thin water vapor remained as the lightning Jutsu vaporized all the water in the said range. Slowly, the walls of water around the beast where the lightning Jutsu didn't reach started to crash down, again submerging half of the Sanbi under the water surface.

Ringo watched from the sky, scowling. The beast was completely uninjured! Sure, she managed to push it back but the armor stopped her attack from doing literally anything to Sanbi. 'This is such a drag... How am I supposed to injure it? It's not like I can just bypass the... carapace?' Ringo tilted her head while her eyes narrowed as if a light bulb turned on in her head. 'Oh... maybe?'

Before she managed to finish that thought, however, a compressed house-sized ball of water crashed into her at almost the speed of sound, hurling her through the sky.

Stopping herself some hundred or so meters away from her previous location, Ringo cursed. 'Son of a... turtle. Ahem.' She steadied herself before having to jump to the left to avoid yet another house-sized water bullet courtesy of Sanbi. She had only a second to notice how the beast was now sending a water bullet after a water bullet at her covering the entire horizon with them.

Adrenaline coursing through her veins, Ringo started side-stepping, jumping under or above, and evading the water bullets. They may not be able to breach her lightning armor but they still caused her to deplete a bit of her chakra reserve due to the brutal force of impact that came with them. As she was dodging, Ringo also advanced closer and closer towards Sanbi through the air, the closer she got, the more house-sized water bullets she had to deal with and briefly, it made her ponder how much chakra the beast exactly had. Somewhere along her way towards the turtle, Ringo was forced to start cleaving the water bullets with her lightning-clad swords, not having enough space to dodge.

Water bullets speeding at her in numbers as if shot from a machine gun and Ringo furiously slashing them in half with arcs of lightning escaping her swords upon each slash... both Sanbi and Ringo were locked in a standstill, around a hundred meters from each other, relentlessly attacking, one trying to keep other away and shoot her down from the sky into the ocean of water under her while the other tried to get closer without having to approach the water under the control of her opponent too much.

The hail of water bullets suddenly ceased, making even Ringo surprised, causing her to stop for a second before she realized the water under her started to move, as tendrils as thick as Kage Towers started to quickly advance towards her.

"Shit..." Ringo cursed and pushed more of her lightning chakra into her armor, springing herself forward towards the Sanbi in one huge leap now that there was no water blocking her path. The turtle miscalculated and before the water tendrils could reach Ringo, she disappeared via sheer speed and reappeared on the top of the surprised Sanbi.

For all of its crowd control ability, scarily dangerous water control, and almost unreachable defense, the turtle was quite slow and didn't move much during a fight.

Understanding that this was a very rare opportunity, Ringo quickly plunged both of her swords into the carapace of the beast, sinking them halfway through their length. It didn't even breach five percent of the carapace but for Ringo's plan, this was enough. With a zapping sound and bright blue light show, Ringo started feeding the chakra from her armor to her swords.

Sanbi screamed and roared in pain as the nature chakra from the lightning armor mixed with the lightning chakra of Ringo and wave after wave of the stuff entered its carapace, razing its path towards the beast's flesh. Thrashing and bewildered, the beast quickly utilized its tail and smashed it into Ringo, sending her small frame flying while dislodging the two blades from its carapace due to the strong grip Ringo had on her blades. As they were dislodged, the blades shot one last wave of lightning senjutsu chakra into the sky, causing a massive wave of pressurized air to spread through the surroundings, rippling the already raging kilometers of the water surface while Ringo's body crashed a few tens of meter away from Sanbi, plunging deep into the beast-made ocean at breakneck speed, disappearing in it.

For a moment... the battlefield quieted down, leaving only a serene scene of a massive sluggish turtle slowly shaking in pain surrounded by quietly calming water as thin water vapor lazily covered the area while up in the sky, clouds slowly started to form.

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