Kapitel 309: Ch309. Ambush 1
As the group walked through the path surrounded by trees, Anko suddenly looked upward, inwardly cursing while her hands whirled into weaving seals.
"Kuchiyose!" She exclaimed as smoke started filling the surroundings. Not a second later, a serpentine shadow rapidly slithered towards the bridge builder Tazuna, coiling around the man who was about to piss himself, not comprehending the situation.
Anko's summon barely managed to cover the man as an explosive lightning bolt fell from the clear sky, diving right into the smoke directly onto where the client was supposed to be.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Hinata jumped around in fright when the booming sounds started resounding through the area while more bolts started raining down, all aiming to end their client. Their brains were trying to desperately process what just happened, never before experiencing a sneak attack aimed not at them, but at their client. Frankly, neither of the genins thought such a thing would happen so this proved to be a very good life lesson for them.
Kakashi released a relieved sigh, his tensed muscles relaxing while the crackling electricity around his right hand started to diminish. The only reason why he didn't jump forward in an attempt to redirect the lightning bolt the second he felt the surge of chakra above them was that Anko reacted first. He was a bit thankful for that when he saw more and more lightning bolts being conjured. He could take on one or two no problem but more than that would be difficult even for his Chidori.
"Thank you, Kamine." Anko said in relief after the lightning stopped raining. She had to admit, this sudden attack almost succeeded. Whoever was responsible clearly had enough brains to realize that killing the civilian was the best option.
Fortunately, Kamine was a snake summon resistant to lightning. No matter how many bolts fell from the sky onto her body, she wouldn't even feel it. The second Anko felt the surge of lightning chakra, she knew exactly what summon to use.
Kamine, who was towering over the group of ninjas while coiling around the civilian, moved her head to give Anko an acknowledging nod, "Isss' fineee, Anko-chan." A quiet masculine hiss replied to Anko's thanks.
"Please cover for the client while we deal with the annoyances." Anko requested while standing up from her crouch. She half-expected the attacker to retreat and try again later... at least, that's what she would have done, but she was clearly mistaken if the five figures that jumped in front of them from the treetops were any indication.
Kamine nodded in agreement, warily observing the five ninjas that blocked the path.
"Raiga Kurosuki, Aoi Rokusho, and three Rain genin." Kakashi boredly spoke, "How un-youthful," Kakashi tried to be funny but his eye-smile became a bit forced as he said those words, "of you to try and ambush us."
Aoi ignored Kakashi's remark and turned towards Raiga, "Are you sure you can deal with the Copycat?"
He survived so far only because of his caution and fighting one of the most infamous ninjas of Konoha head-on wasn't very clever in his books. That said, Raiga was also equally infamous and as a former member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, Aoi decided to trust him to take Kakashi on. Not that he wouldn't bolt away the second he finds Raiga struggling.
"Who do you think you are talking to, twerp? I will prepare a good funeral for him!" Raiga stonily glanced at Aoi, causing him to shiver and reluctantly avert his eyes.
"In that case, I will take the Snake Bitch and the genins can fight it out among themselves." He said in a completely dismissive way that had his students nervously shuffle behind him.
At that moment, Anko's lips stretched into a grin when she heard how much he was underestimating her, 'I guess it is only natural. The last time any information about me got out was years ago when I was still a chunin.' She inwardly snickered, preparing to give Aoi a proper beatdown.
Kakashi threw his genins a worried glance but when they saw them either excited or determined he only silently sighed and jumped to the side, trying to distance his fight with Raiga from the genins. Anko did the same, just in a different manner. She leisurely walked a bit further from the road into the forest, making sure that Aoi unhurriedly followed her while the kiddies were left alone to play with each other.
...
"So... you are the bastard who stole the Raijin no Ken that belonged to the Senju clan, huh?" Anko offhandedly asked with a skip in her step, looking around the area and subtly checking for traps while she also observed Aoi like a hawk with the corner of her eyes.
"Yes, I acquired the Raijin no Ken before defecting Konoha." He said it with obvious smugness as if it was an incredible accomplishment.
"And Konoha basically stole it from the Senju clan after Tsunade decided to leave the village." Anko nodded before flashing Aoi an innocent grin, "Stealing is bad, you know?"
Aoi blinked in disbelief, furrowing his brows as if trying to reassure himself he heard right. "We are ninjas, you know?" He dryly replied.
"I guess that would make it all better." Anko chuckled. "Don't worry, I will steal the sword from you after I beat you to death."
Aoi just rolled his eyes and let his chakra course through the handle of Raijin no Ken, creating a lightning edge. "Chunins shouldn't be so overconfident. I am actually surprised you are still loyal to Konoha with how they treated you. Why not defect to Rain?" He tried.
Anko sighed and shook her head before pulling out a kunai and coursing her chakra through it, shocking Aoi as the kunai gained a lightning coating. This was a jonin level skill and suddenly, Aoi wasn't as confident as before.
"Tell you what..." Anko started, "Since you are gonna be dead in a moment anyway, there is no harm in being honest." She shrugged, "I am not loyal to Konoha." These words would definitely earn Anko a punishment if she said it out loud in the hearing range of a Konoha ninja. Even Aoi was flabbergasted that Anko actually had the balls to admit it so openly. "I am loyal to the Senju Clan and you, my dear soon-to-be-miserable idiot, did something that pissed Lady Tsunade off."
Anko now understood why Tsunade told her to be cautious and send a message if anything out of ordinary happened. Seeing a guy who stole the Raijin no Ken in front of her... Anko got the message loud and clear.
"Enough talking. I will show you the might of the Second Hokage wielded by me!" Aoi shouted and dashed at Anko while she watched him approach with a deadpan expression, wondering if the guy was really so arrogant as to think he was on par with Tobirama just because he stole his shiny sword. The same sword Tobirama seldom used...
Wordlessly swinging her kunai upward while bracing herself for the impact, Anko parried Aoi's blow and locked her kunai with his sword, lightning crackling against lightning as her bored eyes met Aoi's shocked gaze. The Raijin no Ken was supposed to be able to cut through anything!
"I have unlimited access to the Senju Library. Did you really think I wouldn't know how to block the Second's sword? Especially since the sword itself is not really a weapon but a training tool for lightning shape manipulation?" Anko asked in an amused drawl.
Honestly, morons these days... using training tools as if they were weapons.
Kapitel 310: Ch310. Ambush 2
Raijin no Ken became famous during the First Ninja War when Tobirama used his incredible Water ninjutsu to soak an entire battalion of ninjas before he discharged electricity from the Raijin no Ken, frying them alive. Tobirama took a shine to the device and used it a lot before his death, making it famous.
Frankly, Tobirama, while good at kenjutsu, didn't use swords much. He was mostly a ninjutsu expert. Raijin no Ken had indeed the reputation of being able to cut through anything but that was mostly because Tobirama was good at lightning shape manipulation and the seals that made up the internal structure of the device so the lighting edge he created through the 'training tool' that later became known as Raijin no Ken was simply strong enough to rival the strength of Raikage's Lightning Armor.
In the hands of Second Hokage, this training tool became an unstoppable slaughter machine. In Aoi's hand though...
Anko inwardly sighed as she parried with her kunai yet another strike from Aoi who was wildly swinging the Raijin no Ken at her. It was all about vibration frequency when it came to the Lightning Chakra and she simply made the lightning coating on her kunai vibrate in frequencies that repelled the pre-set frequency of the Raijin no Ken.
She didn't get the upper hand because she was a better lightning nature user. On the contrary, Anko's main affinity was the fire. She didn't train lightning much, only learning some useful tidbits about the element like the lightning coating. But she didn't need to be a good lightning user when she simply knew how to perfectly counter the sword through its biggest weakness.
Aoi was growing more reckless by the second. The more his strikes were parried, blocked, or redirected, the more his stomach sunk into despair that was slowly gnawing at him. He was one of those people who chose their battles well and didn't engage if they thought they would lose. That was the whole reason why he made Jonin despite there being many chunin stronger than him.
Even his defection was a well-calculated plan. The benefits and prestige he received as a Jonin in Rain Village, a smaller village with fewer jonins, were much better than what he received in Konoha where jonins, while rare, were not all that hard to find. Aoi did his research well before defecting and was proud of his ability to snatch the Raijin no Ken.
With the sword in hand, he cut through most of his enemies or those pricks who opposed him in the Rain village. Before the might of this mythical sword, nobody stood a chance. Then...
'Why?' Aoi tried a downward slash, only for Anko to catch it with the edge of her kunai and gently lead it to the side, redirecting the strike away from her body.
'Why!' Aoi desperately swung the sword in an arc from right to the left, aiming at Anko's hip but the woman just swiftly and fiercely swung her kunai at his sword. The weapons met for a second before they were pushed away and Aoi barely managed to refrain from screaming as his arm was almost yanked from his shoulder due to the sheer force of that parry.
Unknown to Aoi, even Anko felt her shoulder aching from that one. The Raijin no Ken was still a danger to her if she let it land a hit on her body and a kunai was not exactly the best weapon for blocking a sword. She mostly used the repulsive vibrating of their respective lightning element and that, unfortunately, meant that if she hit the two weapons on each other at just the right angle, it would fling them back with a force comparable to Gai's fully serious punch with three gates opened.
It was definitely NOT a pleasant feeling.
Why!?' Aoi mentally cried again as his shoulder screamed in pain. He didn't let himself stop attacking Anko though. He swung and swung and swung... He knew he finally met his match and there was no running away from this one.
He tried to strike at her left hip, only to redirect the trajectory of his sword into a stab mid-flight, trying to use the fact his opponent was using a smaller weapon. Anko had to admit that this tactic would have worked against most chunins too. Sadly for Aoi, Anko was definitely far above chunin-level. She used her considerable reflexes to spot the feint in time and then her arm blurred. The next thing Aoi knew was that his sword stopped. Only then his brain registered that the tip of the Raijin no Ken was trying to futilely push through the side of the kunai Anko leisurely held in her hand. Seeing that, Aoi's expression turned ugly.
"Why isn't Raijin no Ken cutting through your kunai!?" Unable to hold it in, Aoi shouted at Anko with bloodshot eyes, trying to put more power behind his thrust but he felt as if there was an impassable wall between the kunai and the tip of his sword no matter how much strength he exerted.
Anko's brown eyes brightened with amusement. The lightning chakra on the side of her kunai vibrated at a frequency that created a strong repulsive field. Instead of one massively strong push, it was more of a constant effect not strong enough to fling the Raijin no Ken back but there was no way the lightning edge was going through it. The two blades didn't even really touch. The reclusive forces behind them were simply far too much for either Aoi or Anko to surpass them with their physical strength.
'Who would have known I would use science during my fights.' Anko mentally chuckled. She remembered how vehemently she resisted learning about these things when she was under Orochimaru, always saying she didn't need to learn this useless crap. Orochimaru let her be as long as she got better with her poisons, Jutsu, and kept up her physical training to a degree she could still be called a prodigy. Tsunade though...
Anko shuddered. There was no negotiating with that woman and Anko had to relent and learn all this scientific mumbo-jumbo.
'And what a difference did it make...' Her perpetual grin turned a bit sheepish as Aoi jumped back, finally giving up on penetrating the kunai.
"Is that all? My genins put up more of a fight than you." Anko taunted, inwardly feeling pity for the man because she didn't even need to lie in order to get a good taunt. She was basically toying with Aoi, using even less effort than what Sasuke, Naruto, and Hinata made her exert. It was just... sad.
"Shut up!" Aoi he bellowed, his free hand reaching for the umbrella on his back before he threw it into the air. "Senbon Rain!"
Anko stared at the literal rain of Senbon that was approaching her and tiredly sighed. There was no chakra in the senbons, no augmentation, no extraordinary power behind them... "Just normal senbons? Are you kidding me?" Anko wryly muttered, lifting her right foot a bit and letting chakra course through it.
Aoi watched in growing hope as his attack was about to reach the Konoha kunoichi while she stood rooted in her place. He finally got her!
His hopes were dashed a second later when Anko stomped her right foot onto the ground, sending a booming sound through the clearing alongside a shockwave that repelled all the senbons and flung Aoi back, straight into a tree with a resounding crack, snapping his spine and making him scream bloody murder from the pain coursing through his body.
Anko observed her handiwork with a dull gaze, her cheek twitching in dissatisfaction. "Is this why Tsunade focused on healing? This was... anticlimactic." She mumbled, a bit frustrated that the fight ended so easily. One chakra-enhanced stomp? That was it? The guy was supposed to be a freaking Jonin! She expected him to dodge!
Releasing a long sigh, Anko walked close to the screaming Aoi, noticing that not only was his spine broken, he also had a few new holes in his body. The strength of her shockwave was enough to make the senbons that hit him go right through him. The man was just lucky none hit anything vital.
Crouching down, Anko leisurely gathered the Raijin no Ken that lied next to him before pushing her lightning chakra into it. The sword pulsed before a strong current of lightning was generated, making an edge far better than what Aoi was capable of. If Rei saw it, he would be reminded of a miniature chainsaw made of lightning condensed into a lean blade.
Anko's eyes met Aoi's frightened gaze, making him silent in fright as he realized what would follow. After a tense moment, Anko decided she gave the guy enough time to make a peace with his demise and swung the Raijin no Ken, causing Aoi's head to separate from his body.
Looking in apathy at the blood gushing from the neck, dirtying the ground, Anko couldn't help but lament her choice of opponent. "I hope the kiddies and Kakashi had more fun than me..."
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