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'Bijuu/Summons/Thoughts/Techniques'
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Author's Note: Someone recently ranted about how dumb my villains act and about how Yoru always fights people stronger than him and only wins because I make his opponents idiots...I get the feeling that they won't like this chapter. Let me know if that's what you guys feel cause this is the first time someone's said something like that about my antagonists lol.
Also, as to not disrupt the flow of my chapters, I'll just do Author's notes and questions at the end of them and if you care, you can check them out.
Chapter 15
"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!"
And with that declaration, a ball of fire flew towards Minato who handily dodged the attack. Unfortunately, I was sitting on a tree 20 meters behind with a book in hand so the attack came rushing towards me.
"Ahh! Yoru watch out!" Obito yelled though it was unnecessary.
With a raised hand, I spread my chakra out and gathered water molecules from the atmosphere before forming a thick wall of water to my side. The fireball impacted the aqueous barrier causing steam to emit from the evaporating liquid.
I channeled my chakra through my lungs and converted the energy into its wind nature before blowing the air out of my lips. The wind generated was much more intense than it should have been from my simple action and it caused the steam to disperse.
Minato landed on the ground and looked to me with a smile before turning back towards Obito who was standing on a tree besides Rin. "In the field, you have to be mindful of the impact your attacks have on your allies. Always make sure to keep an eye out in order to prevent friendly fire."
"Yes, Sensei!" Obito stated sharply, but no sooner did Rin make a quick swiping motion with a kunai in hand. The effect of that movement was soon noticeable as a large net was made visible under Minato's feet, threatening to ensnare him.
Unfortunately for the two, the blonde ninja had unnatural reaction abilities and was able to quickly jump up into the air.
"Darn, so close." Obito stated, however, Rin merely smiled.
"Not yet!" She said eagerly and set off another trap which caused a log to fly towards Minato's form at breakneck speeds.
The man reacted quickly and threw one of his tri-pronged kunai at a tree beside him and no sooner did he teleport to that location, dodging the attack.
Rin sighed though there was still a smile on her face. "I thought we might have had you for a moment sensei."
Minato chuckled, "Not bad you two, I like to see that you're working together and building off each other. This is exactly what you're going to need t-"
Minato immediately jumped out of the way as a barrage of kunai struck the ground where he had previously been. Immediately, Kakashi appeared from the bushes and dashed towards Minato with two Kunai in hand.
He quickly threw them consecutively at his teacher, however, Minato easily avoided them by tilting his head left then right. The kunai flew past him on either side of his face before being lodged into the tree behind the blonde shinobi.
Kakashi didn't let up, however, and quickly flipped through two handseals before the sound of birds chirping could be heard. The electricity generated on his hands actually made a sharp beeline towards Minato in the same trajectory that he had thrown his kunai.
"Ohh? Ninja wire on the kunai…" I thought as I watched Kakashi cross his arms together causing the electrified strings to begin to come together, like the blades of scissors.
Minato, in order to prevent getting beheaded by his student, immediately ducked, his chest nearly touching the ground.
Kakashi took this moment to flip through handseals once more before slamming his Palm on the ground, causing a ripple to expand towards Minato.
The unsteady earth caused Minato to falter for a fraction of a second which was all the opportunity Kakashi needed to dash towards him and reach out his hand towards the bells on Minato's side.
I sensed Minato's appreciation before he twisted his body and, using one hand for support, slapped Kakashi's hand away before flipping back.
Kakashi took this moment to retreat back into the bushes before Minato could regain his bearings.
"Tch. Show off." Obito stated as he sat down on the tree branch with his arms crossed.
Rin gave him a smile, "We did well Obito, let's just see what Kakashi has planned." Saying so, I noticed Rin inch slightly closer to Obito and I felt her mood fluctuate positively.
"Ohh? Not bad Obito…"
Though, with his crush so close to him and with his blushing cheeks, Obito relented with a nod.
The forest was silent for but a moment before the trees rustled. Immediately, threw Kakashi's came out from the bushes towards Minato in 3 directions. The blond took a single step back before flipping a Kakashi over his shoulder causing it to impact another one. They both dispelled causing a momentary smokescreen before the third Kakashi Clone seemingly disappeared.
Minato raised his brow at the sight and no sooner did a pair of small hands grab his feet from underground.
I watched the display before my ears twitched. With my enhanced hearing, I could hear the sound of a Kakashi's bird sounding lightning technique chirping in the distance.
It was at that moment that Minato's chakra signature disappeared from in front of me and appeared next to Kakashi's chakra signature.
"He used the Flying Thunder God Technique, but when did he…" I paused and reviewed the battle for a moment before recalling the moment that Minato had slapped Kakashi's hand away. "He must have implanted the formula onto Kakashi's sleeve then…"
As my musings ended, Minato appeared back in the clearing with a slightly downtrodden Kakashi in toe.
Seeing his student's appearance, Minato patted his head, "You did good Kakashi. Your skills, strength, and tactics are one befitting of a Jonin, so don't take your loss to heart."
Kakashi nodded before Obito and Rin dropped down next to them.
"You were close Kakashi." Rin stated with a smile. "Next time, you'll definitely get him." She finished in assurance.
"Hmph." Obito stated with his hands on his head. "Once I get my Sharingan, I'll do 10x better than him."
Rin gave him a bright smile, "I believe in you."
Obito's cheeks reddened a substantial amount before he quickly turned his gaze away.
I watched them for a moment before a gargantuan chakra signature appeared on the edge of my detection range and arrived in front of Minato and his team in but a few moments. If it wasn't for the fact that I felt this same signature pretty much every single day and was familiar with who had it, I would have just run in the opposite direction.
"Everyone food is here!" Kushina yelled with a smile as she appeared in the clearing with an adorable red-haired girl in her hands.
She placed Mito down and began channeling chakra to a specific point on her body before in a puff, the ground became covered with neatly decorated and assorted foodstuffs.
"Ahh!" Rin stated, stars in her eyes as she looked at the food and grabbed one of the baskets. "Your cooking is always the best Mrs. Uzumaki! I love it!"
Kushina's eyes widened before she grabbed Rin in a hug and began rubbing her cheek against hers. "Ohh! You're just the most adorable creature~!"
"Ahhh~!"
She eventually let the flustered Rin go before looking at the 3 other guys in front of her with a smile, "I prepared this for all of us so please enjoy!"
Minato smiled in response while Kakashi nodded his head slightly, but Obito…
"Who needs to eat?!" He began before looking at Kakashi angrily, "I won't take a single bite until I beat him. Sensei! One more time please!"
"Hah?!" Kushina stated as a tick mark grew on her forehead while she looked at Obito. Her hair began to sway wildly in 9 directions as she began pulling on Obito's cheeks and replied. "Listen here you ungrateful brat! The food I so graciously prepared for you is going to end up in your stomach even if I have to force it down there! Understand?!"
"Yessh Ish undershtanddd!" Obito stated as he tried to pull away from her hands that were pinching his face but to no avail.
"Good." She replied before letting go of Obito's face and looking my way in the distance. "Yoru, you too!"
"…Yes ma'am." I said and appeared next to them
"Now!" Kushina stated with a smile. "Let's eat!"
"Thank you for the meal!"
"…Thanks for the food."
"Even though I was forced to eat this, thank you."
Rin, Kakashi, And Obito stated respectively.
Kushina rolled her eyes at Obito's comment before smiling. "Of course! You all need to be on your best for tomorrow."
"Kushina's right." Minato began as he looked towards his team, "After this, go rest up and don't do anything strenuous tonight. We're going to have a long day tomorrow."
Obito blinked, "Our mission to Kannabi bridge?"
"That's right." Minato began before looking at Kakashi, "And for that mission, Kakashi will be your team captain since he just got promoted to Jonin."
"Good for you Kakashi!" Rin stated with a smile.
"I could do much better…eventually." Obito stated with his arms crossed as he looked away.
Minato simply smiled.
Kakashi was the first to leave after putting his stuff away followed by Rin and Obito.
"Thank you for the meal." I said as I finished my food and placed it down on the picnic cloth.
"Of course Yoru." Kushina said brightly.
I nodded and stood up, prompting Kushina to ask. "You're all set?"
I nodded my head. "I'll be here for a while longer so you don't have to wait for me."
Kushina nodded before looking at Minato, "I'm sure you're going to have a long day ahead of you tomorrow, you should go home and rest."
"Yeah, you're right." Minato replied while picking up Mito. He then looked towards me with a smile, "Stay safe Yoru."
I nodded in reply, "Likewise."
And with that, the couple began their trek back to their home.
I watched them leave, thinking about the mission that Minato was to undertake tomorrow.
"Kannabi bridge…" I thought with an odd sense of unease. For some reason I felt some form of trepidation when thinking about that mission of his and could not for the life of me understand why. Regardless, as there was nothing I could really do, I simply sighed.
"I want this war to end…" I couldn't help but think. Day after day, week after week, month after month, I had been doing missions, most of which could be classified as suicidal. There was absolutely nothing enjoyable about this way of life and over the years while I had enjoyed growing stronger, I really hadn't had any time to relax without worrying about anything.
I picked up the book I was reading and hopped up to a nearby tree before sitting on the tree branch. Orochimaru's question a while back had got me thinking that having more knowledge about biology wouldn't be too bad. I only had enough knowledge of human anatomy and physiology to kill more effectively, but I had no deep knowledge about the body's more in-depth biomolecular processes.
So here I was with an interesting biology book in hand written by none other than Orochimaru himself. While the information in the book was quite graphic (since he tended to explain how he got said information), I couldn't deny that it was very informative and interesting.
I sat on the tree reading, taking my time to delve into the book. I could easily finish it in a matter of minutes, but then there would be no enjoyment. Eventually, I became lost in the information in the book, slowly reading and enjoying the new material I was learning.
Suddenly, I felt a soft sensation on the back of my head causing me to blink. "Teacher…?"
"Here." She said before handing me a scroll and hugging me closer.
"…What's wrong?" I asked, sensing a subtle turbulence in her emotions.
She didn't reply, but I knew that something was bothering her so I looked to the scroll in trepidation. I put my book down and opened the scroll before reading it.
My body froze.
I read through the mission statement twice more before tightly gripping the scroll causing it to crumple. Gamer's Mind was able to keep my mental state in check, but my body couldn't help but release some cold sweat from the information presented to me.
Quest Alert!
Jinchuuriki Slaying!
The Four-Tails Jinchuuriki, Rōshi of Iwa, is on the move towards Kannabi bridge in order to reinforce its defenses. Due to most of Konoha's forces being concentrated on destroying it, you and a squad of many other Anbu will be tasked with killing Rōshi before he makes it to the bridge. If possible, you are to create a trail towards Kumo in order to frame them for the murder.
Reward: 2,500,000 EXP, 100 Stat Points
Failure: Death
I generated fire from my hands before burning the scroll to ashes. "When are we to leave?"
"Tonight." Kotoe replied. "Iwa has become desperate to protect their supply chain so we will need to stop him before he makes it to Kannabi bridge, We'll rendezvous with many other groups at our eastern exit point."
I watched as the ashes of the mission scroll flew in the wind before gripping my fists. "Alright, I'll be there soon."
Kotoe stayed as she hugged me tighter once more before I felt the loss of her warmth.
I closed my eyes in thought while looking up and relaxing my head against the tree. If Rōshi was anywhere as powerful as Kushina or even somewhat relative to Minato's strength, I would be in ea lot of trouble. There was 1 technique in my entire arsenal that I believed would be able to kill him, but it would cause massive collateral damage and wasn't something I could use in a team effort. Not to mention, a skilled shinobi would be able to dodge it since it took a few milliseconds to charge up.
"Let me see my base stats."
Ping!
Name: Yorudan
Race: Human?
Age: 9 years old
Level: Lvl 79 Next Level: 304,000/321,400
HP: 190696/190696 Regen: (4576.72 per min)
CP: 269249/269249 Regen: (9154.47 per min)
CC: 100%
STR: 368 + (258%) = 949
VIT: 374 + (258%) = 965
DEX: 372 + (258%) = 960
INT: 246 + (298%) = 733
WIS: 242 + (298%) = 721
ENGY: 249 + (455%) = 1135
Points: 115
Ryo: 1,355,348
Ever since my main stats had reached 100 in value, I had not obtained another perk from them even though they had reached the 150 and 200 checkpoints. However, I had received perks for STR, VIT, DEX once they had reached the 250 base stat checkpoint.
Dense muscle II (Passive) Lvl Max
Dense muscle is a skill given to those with overwhelming Strength. The denseness of your muscled increases greatly, allowing you to suffer less damage form physical attacks.
Increase Durability equal to your STR x 2 value.
Thick Skin (Passive) Lvl MAX
Thick Skin is your body's natural outer defenses that depends upon your maximum HP value. It increases your final durability equal to 1% of your HP value.
DUR increased by 1% HP
Hawkeyes II (Passive) Lvl Max
Hawkeyes II is a skill granted to those with incredible natural vision. With this ability, every point the user has in Dexterity x 2 is a meter long increase to their natural vision range. It also allows the user to see in the dark. (I.e. a DEX stat of 200 [including bonuses] would increase your maximum vision range by 400 meters.)
Thick Skin was an interesting perk as it sort of deviated from what I had expected, however, there was nothing else of note. I hadn't invested my points as I had been saving them, but at this point I didn't really have much of a choice. With that line of thinking, I put a single point into ENGY to give it that nice round number of 250.
Ping!
For reaching 250 in ENGY, the perk [Energy Conductor] has been upgraded to [Energy Conductor II]
Energy Conductor II (Passive) Lvl [Max]
50% increase to your energy regeneration
50% increase to your energy capacity
25% damage increase to energy based attacks
My brows raised slightly before I shook my head. Even this wouldn't be enough, so I put enough points into my WIS and INT stats to get them up to 250.
Ping!
For reaching 250 in WIS, the perk [Perception] has been upgraded to [Perception II]
For reaching 250 in INT, the perk [Accelerated Analysis] has been upgraded to [Accelerated Analysis II]
With this, I only had 102 stat points remaining which I equally distributed to my STR, VIT, DEX and ENGY stats leaving me with no more stat points. If my strongest attack was to be effective, I needed as much chakra as I could get. Additionally, I would need my strength, health, and speed to survive. I looked through my stats once more before closing the screen. I carefully put the biology book in my inventory and stood up before taking out my work clothes from the inventory and changing. After slipping on my Anbu mask, I looked to the east before vanishing from my spot.
The sound of a cane slamming the ground was heard reverberating throughout the room. Inside this hidden bunker were 30 well trained Anbu members, each of them high level Jonins to S-rank in strength with the captains at higher levels of S-rank.
Danzo looked at each of us with his lone eye before saying. "Tonight, you all will risk your lives to give our Village a chance to win this war. Some of you won't make it back in once piece and some won't make it back at all, but know that your sacrifice will allow the village to continue in prosperity for generations to come."
"I'd honestly rather not though…"
Too bad I'd get in a lot of trouble if I tried to ditch this madness. Besides, my teacher was going on it as well and I at the very least had to make sure she got out of it alright.
As those thoughts passed through my mind, Danzo slammed his cane on the ground once more, causing all of us to stand to attention. "Now go, and complete your mission with your pride as a leaf shinobi."
With the last word said, we all vanished from our spots and made it outside the village borders before beginning our journey.
"Roshi, the four-tailed Jinchuuriki…" I thought as I continued to travel through the forest. The mission intelligence had told us that Rōshi was at a specific spot in between the borders of Iwa and Kusagakure. I had heard that he had been doing small things in the war here and there for Iwa, but nothing substantial.
So why now?
From all the information I had in him, I found that Roshi apparently had left Iwa over a decade ago and he had been on his own ever since. The Tsuchikage must have given him some sort of incentive to return to duty.
I didn't know how powerful the average Jinchuuriki was, but Roshi had been alive around 3 times longer than I had, so there's was no way he was a weak Jinchuuriki.
"Keep your eyes forward and don't lose focus." Kotoe said from beside me.
I nodded my head and continued onwards at the breakneck speeds we were traveling at. In little time, we stopped in front of the entrance to a large forest with stony soil.
"We're near Iwa's border…" I thought.
"Everyone stop!" One of the Anbu captains said from in front. "We are still some ways to our destination but we need to begin making escape routes from here."
It was at this point that Boar, one of the Leading Anbu captains for this mission, spoke up to all the Anbu. "The plan we have is simple: we'll set up multiple traps along here all the way to Kumo's borders. The worst case scenario is that we all die and they end up killing some Iwa ninja long the way. The best case scenario is that we are able to complete our mission while also successfully drawing Iwagakure's attention to Kumogakure."
At this point, one of the other leading Anbu captains for this mission spoke up. "The enemy should have no idea that we have information on them since it was gathered by Jiraiya of the Sannin's intelligence network. The goal it to make it seem as if Kumo is behind the attack so make sure to primarily use lightning release. Everything else I would have to say has already been explained in the mission detail so move out!"
All the Anbu replied in affirmation and spread out to begin laying traps and formations. We were working in teams in order to insure that we didn't screw each other over and accidentally set off our own traps.
It wasn't until a couple hours into the night that we re-grouped together and began to plan our attack and escape routes.
"Dove." Boar stated while looking at my teacher. "Can you sense anything?"
My teacher paused for a moment before shaking her head in the negative. "No. Nothing is on my radar."
Boar nodded before looking at the other team captain of this group of 30, a man with a lion-like Anbu mask. "Should we continue?"
Lion nodded before looking ahead towards the rest of the Anbu platoon. "We'll be heading into enemy territory very soon and our sensor will alert us when we get close to our target. Regardless, stay on alert."
We all nodded silently before the three team captains moved on ahead, the rest of us following them right after. Kotoe moved on ahead as she had the greatest detection range and I followed right behind her just in case she missed something.
In but a few moments, however, Kotoe perked up and gave us a hand signal. "20 kilometers away, 1.5 minutes, remain silent."
There was no need for us to respond as we moved in unison towards our destination, however, as we reached approximately 5 kilometers from our target, I sensed a gigantic chakra signature. It was bright and scalding, dwarfing the small number of chakra signatures around it by a large margin.
It was by no means greater than Kushina's chakra signature, but it was frightening nonetheless. I looked towards my teacher whose gaze was focused ahead before she gave out hand signals as we approached our destination. "5, 4, 3, 2…"
A clearing came into view, around which there were multiple earth style huts set up. With my Energy Resonance, my gaze quickly focused upon a large tent that was in the center of the camp and in that moment, Kotoe gave out her final signal.
"1."
I immediately stopped, my movements and breathing suppressed to their absolute minimum. I looked down below while standing in the trees located around the edge of the clearing. My attention was astute as I awaited orders from the team leaders who were carefully watching the camp proceeding. Around the campsite there were multiple enemy guards keeping watch of the surroundings on each end of the clearing.
Lion looked towards Kotoe before signaling her, "How many?"
Kotoe paused for a moment before signaling back "101."
We all waited here, watching and memorizing the patrol routes, timing, and activities of the guards in order to locate the most optimal form of attack. He gave a few hand signals causing a couple of our Anbu to silently make their way forward just as two of the shinobi on standby had turned their heads for just a moment.
It happened in an instant.
Our Anbu covered their mouths and slit their throats causing them to gurgle on their blood before eventually dropping dead. They immediately moved into the tent nearby, so I began focusing on my chakra detection in order to properly sense them.
It was only a couple seconds later that I sensed the life energy of the enemy ninja in the tent being snuffed out before the two Anbu exited the tent.
Lion nodded and quickly passed down a couple of signals. "Boar, Panther, take a ⅓ of the platoon and split up. Dispatch the guards. Pay attention to the center tent. Move out."
I followed Boar as he quickly lead my teacher and the rest of our group to the other side of the tent. We stopped once we arrived at our position and waited till the guards began to change their pattern. Boar gave us a couple signals: "Squirrel. Dove. Attack when an opening arrives. Dove, I'll need your sensing abilities up ahead."
I slightly nodded, watching as Boar, Wolf and the rest of our usual crew moved on. I then returned my gaze to the processes in front of me while noting Kotoe doing the same. I carefully watched the movements of the guards and slowed down the rhythm of my breathing, waiting till the moment was just right…
Then I struck.
In the instant that the guards were distracted, I burst forward towards them with my kunai in hand. I landed on the shoulders of one of the shinobi, my knife in a reverse grip, and immediately clamped his mouth shut. The air whistled at the speed in which I brought down my chakra enhanced weapon, it's blade aimed at his jugular. The weapon easily connected, quickly sinking into the enemy's neck as if it were dough, causing blood to spray everywhere.
My movements had been so quick and decisive that the enemy had not a moment to respond and could only widen his eyes as he struggled and gurgled on his own blood. It was no surprise when his mortality eventually won out and his body slumped and fell to the ground.
I quietly hopped off him and carefully placed his body down before looking to my left, noting my teacher was wiping the blood off her blade, the severed head of the other Iwa ninja on the ground. I quickly manipulated the earth, sending my chakra through the soil and sinking the bodies of the enemies deep within. With a little water manipulation, I cleaned up the blood in the area and looked towards my teacher who looked back at me with a nod before tilting her head towards the tent.
I nodded and concentrated on the chakra signals inside, noting that the chakras of the individuals inside the tent were mild and undisturbed, indicating that they were in a relaxed position. I nodded to Kotoe and quietly made my way inside, my Stealth greatly aiding the masking of the sounds from my movements. I stood over the body of one of the sleeping Iwa ninja before swiping my kunai across his neck quickly, killing him.
I looked to my left to see that Teacher had already completed with her end of the job and nodded towards her before moving to step out of the tent.
Immediately I paused, Kotoe stopping as well.
"Their routes finally changed…" I thought as I sensed a couple of enemy signatures making their way towards this direction. I stayed quiet as the chakra signatures of the other enemy guards made their way over to this area and began to converse with each other.
"Hey, It's been pretty quiet as of late don't you think?"
"…You know what, you're right. I suppose a lot of people decided to crash early, after all, with the four tails here there's very little to worry about."
"Still though…"
"Mah, stop worrying so much, you'll get to see your pretty little wife soon enough."
"W-What? She's not-"
"Who are you kidding? You two have been practically inseparable for years. I'm actually surprised you two haven't actually sealed the deal yet."
"…I was planning on proposing after this last mission, after all, I had promised her I would make it back."
"Haha, isn't that romantic! Took you long en-"
The rest of the words rang silent through my ears as I sighed and quickly shook my head from any distracting thoughts. Gamer's Mind calmed me down and allowed me to focus on the approaching chakra signatures before I pinpointed exactly where their bodies were in relation to me. I quickly charged and concentrated a large amount chakra to the tips of my index fingers.
As they began to glow up and charge with plasma, I concurrently condensed the energy to be as thick as my finger before aiming and firing.
Storm Style: Laser Finger
Two thin beams of concentrated plasma escaped my fingertips and tore holes through the earthen made tent before I heard the squelching sounds of my attack piercing flesh. Sensing their chakra signatures disappear, I sighed once more.
Kotoe came up from behind me and caressed my head gently before motioning me to move out of the tent. There in front of us, I saw the two corpses of the Iwa ninja each with a hole through their head, the heat from my Storm Release having cauterized the finger-thick wound instantaneously as they died.
With that, I focused my Energy Resonance and sensed the chakra signatures of my group further up ahead near the center of the camp.
"35 left." I looked up towards Teacher who stared at me in return and rubbed my head once more before moving ahead.
I followed behind her as we advanced carefully towards the center tent while making sure to avoid enemy detection. I could sense that the other Anbu were less frequently engaging the enemy as we did still need some alive in order to lead them towards Kumo.
"Though any moment now they'll figure something is wrong…"
"ENEMY ATTACK!"
"That wasn't me. I definitely did not jinx that." Thinking along those lines, I looked to Teacher who immediately jumped up to the roof of the nearest earth tent, so I followed her. I looked around, noting the frantic movements of the enemy shinobi while also sensing the chakra of the other Anbu gathering around the center tent.
And then I froze.
A scalding feeling of immense dread washed over my being like the scorching flames of the sun.
My head whipped towards the source, sweat dripping from my brow as I felt a large buildup of chakra from the center tent.
"Something's coming…!"
And then I saw it.
A torrent of lava billowed out from the center tent, it's height eclipsing the highest trees. The molten flames rained down upon the Anbu surrounding the small structure, it's goal of annihilation made exquisitely clear.
I watched as the Anbu quickly gave it a wide berth and watched on in silence and the pillar of lava began to subside.
Suddenly, I tilted my head and caught the kunai that had been aimed at my skull before charging the metal projectile with lightning.
I threw it back towards the owner at hypersonic speeds with a flick of my wrist-
"ARGH!"
-and turned back towards Kotoe who spared my motions a glance before commenting. "The target has appeared."
"It appears so…" I said as the magma pillar died down, giving view to the man within.
Name: Roshi
Race: Human
Level: Lvl 135
HP: 675000/675000
CP: 670000/675000
STR: 2000
VIT: 2500
DEX: 1750
INT: 1500
WIS: 1500
ENGY: 2500
My lord...
"You don't have to come with me over there." She began. "Once we put up the Four Violet Flames Formation around him, the battle will have already been ours. In the meantime, you can stay out here and assist with cleaning up the rest of them."
I shook my head. "I'll be able to take care of myself in there with you."
And I don't want you to die.
My teacher looked at me in the eye before shaking her head. "I would argue with you, but we are short of time. Just promise me you'll keep your distance from him."
"...I'll try."
While I could sense she wasn't comforted by that, she decided to quickly move towards the focal point of the battlefield. I made sure not to lag behind as I followed her while also making a quick mental note of the current situation. Some of the remaining enemy shinobi were being picked off by our forces as we didn't want the enemy to distract us while we were fighting the 4-tails, besides, we only needed to lead a few enemies towards Kumo and any remaining Stone ninja would call up reinforcements.
"Though, that all depends on if we can make it out of here alive…"
I landed next to Kotoe as we joined the encirclement. Each member of the unit surrounding Roshi stood poised to strike, their body slightly crouched as their weapons lay in grasp. I could hear the rapid beating of their hearts, sense their unease, smell the perspiration from their skin as Roshi stood tall with his arms crossed, his gaze shifting through the surrounding units. He closed his eyes for a brief moment…
And opened them.
"Move!"
I heard Lion shout before Roshi spewed countless molten rocks from his mouth. I quickly separated from Kotoe as I moved to dodge and wadded through the scorching projectiles. The mere heat emanating from the attack caused my skin to swelter, but I focused on the matter at hand.
In a coordinated fashion, 4 Anbu spread out from the encirclement and stood in a square formation before erecting a purple barrier of flames and with that complete, we didn't hold back.
8 Anbu spewed water from their mouths following which 8 more discharged lightning techniques into the torrential water wave. The lightning techniques augmented the collaborative chakra based water wave as it hurled towards Roshi, its destructive capacity made evident as the ground tore in its path.
Roshi sharpened his gaze before flipping through handseals, raising his leg, and trampling the ground. A four-cornered barrier of lava appeared around him to shield against the incoming attack before an explosion rocketed our Four Violet Flames Formation as the techniques made contact.
The dust and debris obscuring our vision quickly subsided as Roshi punched the ground, his arm glowing red with sweltering heat, causing pillars of lava to spew out from the earth near him. The geysers of lava then began to rapidly propagate and quickly spread outwards towards us.
I stepped forward along with 9 others and placed my hands on the ground, causing a ripple to spread out and manipulating the earth underneath us. We shifted the direction of the lava beneath us and maneuvered the direction of its flow away from us causing the magma to violently erupt from outside the Four Violet Flames Formation.
In a fluid motion, Lightning and water techniques flew over our heads and headed towards Roshi. They were perfectly timed just at the moment Roshi had finished executing his jutsu, leaving him little time to recover himself. He gritted his teeth and took the attacks with his body causing him to be pushed back towards the barrier.
He sunk his feet to the ground using lava and slowed his body's motions before grinding himself to a stop.
There was a moment of pause as Roshi narrowed his eyes.
My heart seemed to still as a terrible premonition made its way through me.
Before I felt it.
An immense wave of heat washed over the battlefield as Roshi's chakra spiked immensely. A single tail appeared behind him before his body was enveloped by a chakra cloak of lava. The ground beneath him began to melt from his energy emission and the vegetation in the surroundings began to smoulder in his presence.
Name: Roshi
Race: Human
Level: Lvl 150
HP: 627680/675000
CP: 660000/675000
STR: 2000 (50%) = 3000
VIT: 2500
DEX: 1750 (50%) = 2625
INT: 1500
WIS: 1500
ENGY: 2500
With that he lifted his head,
And vanished.
A scream echoed through the barrier.
My eyes widened as I turned to my right, seeing in my vision Roshi's glowing fist rammed through the chest of one of the Anbu members. The heat emanating from Roshi burned through the now dead Anbu's body before he unceremoniously dislodged his hand causing the body to fall and crumble as it came in contact with they ground.
Immediately, I and every Anbu in Roshi's immediate vicinity leaped back in order to create distance and in the same moment, we attacked.
Handseals formed.
Chakra molded.
Torrents of water and lightning techniques flew towards Roshi who narrowed his eyes and did his best to move through the techniques. His area of motion was limited by the barrier we had set up so he was forced to take a portion of the attack head-on. Steam obscured the visions of everyone on the battlefield, yet the sounds of clashing and destruction continued to sound out around us.
I sharpened my eyes.
"Deconstructive Analysis."
WIth my sensing capabilities, I could sense Roshi's movements and position within the fog. Small red spots appeared on his body in my vision, each one denoting his weak points. I waited for an opening, calmly watching as he fought against out units and began to compile damage throughout. We were losing men, however, Roshi was also losing steam, so all I needed to do was wait till he was most vulner-
"Shit!" I thought, eyes widening as I felt Roshi dash towards where my Teacher and two other shinobi were located in the barrier.
The first individual barely lasted a few attacks before he was smashed away.
Wind Release-
As I concentrated a large amount of energy in my lungs, the second individual along with my teacher worked in tandem to retreat and chip away at his stamina. Both my teacher and the other shinobi spewed torrents of water at Roshi and immediately dashed to opposite sides of him and contained him within a pincer attack. Roshi cocked his arm back and punched out, the shockwave and heat from his attack dispersing the combined techniques, however, he was soon wrapped by chakra wire on both sides as he had left an opening when dispersing the attacks.
Both my teacher and the other shinobi followed through by generating a powerful electrical current that traveled through the wires and into Roshi. He grunted in pain before he released more chakra from his core, the heat from his lava armor melting the highly durable wire and traveling back towards their owners. They both faltered in pain for a brief moment which Roshi capitalized on and jumped up, his chest bulging before he sprayed out torrents of lava at them both, intent on melting them to ash.
The battle between Roshi and my teacher with the other shinobi had barely lasted a couple milliseconds from the moment the water techniques had been released to the moment Roshi had shot out his lava.
-Great Breakthrough!
Just before the lava fell on my Teacher, I released the stored up energy in a hurricane of wind that blew not only the lava away, but also Roshi. The wind tore through the earth as it passed by and hurled the jinchuuriki across the battlefield as he bounced across the dirt. At the same instant, the residual steam in the area completely dissipated with my attack, allowing our visibility to return in full.
I noticed my teacher look my way, however, I didn't lose focus and immediately gathered energy between my hands before a large ball of plasma formed. My eyes picked up the weak points in his defenses which is where I aimed as I released the gathered energy.
Storm Style: Laser Circus!
Beams of plasma shot out from the sphere of energy in my hands and blasted Roshi in all the vulnerable areas I had found. In conjunction with my attack, the other members had not been idle as they too attacked with their techniques as well causing lightning and water to dance across the battlefield before impacting Roshi's body.
The area trembled.
Dust and debris obscured our sight from the collisions of energy.
-9785
-11580
-11821
-10580
-11900
-9765
-9335
-10580
-12321
-8680
-10900
-9765
-9812
-9…
[Roshi]
HP: 306668/675000
"Did we get him?" one of our Anbu asked out loud.
I had the sudden urge to smack whoever said that.
As I could see his damage bar, I was not surprised when Roshi emerged from the assault with ragged breaths. His chakra was in disarray, clothes and armor were torn apart, and blood was flowing through the wounds that seemed to be concentrated around his weak points. With a grimace on his visage, he looked at the small holes in his clothes and wounds on his skin caused by everyone's attack before his gaze locked with mine.
"…!"
An immense sense of deadly crisis overwhelmed me as Roshi's gaze seemed to literally burn through my body. It was only at the instant that Roshi was already upon me that Accelerated Analysis slowed my perception of time to a near crawl. I could see his slowly inching fist of lava and feel the scorching heat emanating from his body.
There seemed to be nothing I could do.
I couldn't fully dodge.
I wasn't fast enough.
Numerous possibilities appeared and disappeared in my mind.
And then, an insane plan formed.
Roshi's fist rammed through my chest like a hot knife through butter. I gripped unto his lava coated arms, the immense heat emanating from them easily burning through my skin.
-153703
[Yoru]
HP: 49732/203435
"Stage 1 of my incredibly suicidal plan: Get stabbed through the fucking chest. Ow, this fucking hurts so damn much. How did I convince myself that this was a good idea…"
Roshi sent his lava coursing through my body intent on completely destroying me. I could see red crack-like lines spreading from my chest and moving across my body.
However, I gripped onto his arm even tighter ignoring the sizzling of my burning skin.
My HP rapidly dropped and it was only thanks to Mystical Healing that I was barely able to keep myself alive.
Seeing as I had secured Roshi in place, the rest of the Anbu quickly moved in to attack.
At this moment I could sense the myriad of emotions coming from my teacher.
Shock.
Confusion.
Pain.
She definitely wouldn't be happy with me later…
"ID Create: Empty"
Thinking along those lines, a bubble of reality encompassed Roshi and I as the bright white full moon turned red and sound seemingly disappeared. Roshi, immediately noticing the discrepancies, halted in the burning of my internal organs as he quickly looked around. "The hell did you bring me?"
With fury evident in his visage, his arm (still painfully lodged in my chest) emitted a more fearful heat that threatened to completely destroy me within.
I could only heal myself so fast with Mystical Healing and in time his abilities would overwhelm my healing factor, so I moved onto stage 3 of my incredibly suicidal plan.
Rows of inscriptions began to appear on Roshi's arm where my hands were connected. The man's eyes widened as they spread throughout his body before each inch of his body and clothes we're packed with my inscriptions.
"What…?!" He said as he struggled to move.
"Kinetic Absorption seal." I thought, however, Roshi had considerably more chakra that I did and would be able to overload my seal with his energy, so it would only take a couple seconds before he broke out.
But that was more than enough.
"And for the 4th and final stage of my incredibly suicidal plan…"
I clapped my hands together.
"We die."
I sent every scrap of chakra into the palms of my hands as I separated them causing a ball of lightning to form before it rapidly became bigger
and bigger
and bigger.
In a few thousandths of a second, a dense ball of electricity, 25 meters in diameter, formed above me, containing every scrap of chakra that I could possibly muster. Then, I immediately condensed the energy into as smalle of a ball as I could and brought the now head-sized sphere of energy between Roshi and me.
Roshi's eyes widened and for the first time I could sense a feeling of trepidation coming from him. He struggled to move quickly, no doubt to dodge or run away,
but it was too late.
"Lightning Release: Lightning Bomb"
I relinquished control over the immense amount of energy contained within the ball.
And with that, my vision was overcome with white.
-325000
[Roshi]
HP: 0/637500
-262500
[Yoru]
HP: 0/203435
You Died!
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Activated [Second Wind]!
+10% HP
[Yoru]
HP: 20343/203435
My eyes snapped open.
Which I instantly regretted as sand got in them.
"Fuck me…" I thought before closing my eyes and trying to stand. It was only then that I realized that a good chunk of my body was still missing.
Like my left arm,
And a couple of my legs…
I had only recovered 10% of my max HP after all, and my chakra was nonexistent so I waited for a single minute before I activated Mystical Healing. In about a minute or so later, I was able to feel my limbs again.
My body still felt like shit as I stood up and sand cascaded down my body. I spit some out of my mouth before I blinked.
"Good thing I brought him into the ID…"
The area over a kilometer around me was a wasteland. Trees were destroyed, rocks were pulverized, and I was inside a giant crater. I looked around me and quickly found Roshi's mutilated body and while he wasn't as bad in shape as I had been, that wasn't really saying much.
The most frightening part of this entire thing was that even though my attack had taken every single bit of chakra I could have mustered in addition to my passive bonuses to lightning based and energy based attacks, I still would not have been able to kill him in one hit if he was at full capacity. It was only thanks to the fact that he had been injured and therefore slightly weakened that his attack didn't kill me instabtaneously and I managed to trap and bring him here with me.
My Lightning Bomb technique should have had a raw damage value of over 500,000 HP with the passive bonuses, however, Roshi's Durability was immense enough to shave off a great deal of that damage. Additionally, based on his stats and level, he was a Tier 7A which reduced the damage from my attack by a factor of 1.26. The only reason I took the small amount of damage that I did was because it was my chakra in the technique in the first place so it naturally caused much less damage to me.
I still died though.
Thankfully, I had remembered that perk I had gotten all those years ago after I had absorbed the Giant Komodo Dragon's chakra core. If not, I would never have considered this suicidal plan.
I sighed and focused on the matter in front of me. Since I needed proof of capture I pulled out a kunai and lopped off his head before storing it in a scroll.
I looked around once more before looking down at my chest which was fully healed as no scars remained. "Gamer's Body…I figured that was how it worked but still."
Any normal individual would have died instantaneously if they had a lava coated arm rammed straight through their chest, but it seemed like really did have the body of a game character. Damage was only calculated by how much energy was contained in the attack and not where the attack hit me.
I shook my head and prepared to leave before I paused in thought. I was at the bottom of a crater inside an ID so considering that I appeared in the same place outside the ID that I was inside one, would I appear underground? I decided not to risk finding myself buried over a 1000 feet under and scaled the height of the crater in a single leap and at the plateau of my jump when I was above the crater…
"ID: Escape"
Kotoe POV
"No…"
I looked around to see if it was just me and if I was in some kind of enemy genjutsu or if everyone else had seen what I saw. However, seeing the genuine confusion in the rest of the squad's actions, I figured that it wasn't just me.
"But that can't be…"
He couldn't be dead…
He had to be fine…
My brain knew it was impossible for him to survive, but I couldn't accept that he had just left me…
Just like that.
I took deep breaths to calm myself down, however, my body wouldn't stop trembling.
My eyes were getting blurry
"What exactly happened? Does anyone know where our target is?" I heard Lion voice his confusion. It was a fair question, however there was only confusion among the rest of our shinobi as they simply looked around somewhat lost as to what to do.
"Fine then." Lion said before signaling to the 4 shinobi maintaining the Four Violet Flames Formation causing them to dispel it. "I can't even say if we have completed our objective or not without proof of completion, but we have overstayed our welcome. Any moment enemy reinforcements will arrive so we might as well move now."
I hurriedly looked around for any sign of Yoru. "Where exactly did you go?"
He had simply vanished with the target meaning that he must have done something and that he may be alright.
I could only comfort myself with these thoughts.
"Dove!" A voice said behinds me.
I turned around to face Wolf who looked at me searchingly before looking around the battlefield. "What's wrong? Where's the kid?"
I shuddered "…I don't know."
She paused and took off her mask before hugging me. "I don't know what is going on, but you need to relax. You're shaking."
"Boar." Lion shouted before continuing. "We need to hurry and move before Iwa returns with more than we can handle."
Boar looked his way, "Lion, what exactly happened?"
"I'll explain along the way, but we really need to mov-"
Immediately before he could complete that sentence, a small figure suddenly appeared in front of him before landing on the ground.
Lion had been already half-way through attacking at what he no doubt assumed was an enemy before he paused. "The hell? Squirrel?"
Squirrel blinked before turning around "Yes Captain?"
The man narrowed his eyes before looking at Dove who had been frozen in place.
She suddenly moved and in a blink of an eye, Squirrel was in her embrace.
Convinced that he wasn't dealing with an imposter, Lion placed his weapon down. "I would love to know what the hell just happened, but we need to move immediately!"
Boar nodded and looked at me and the rest of the crew before motioning with his head to follow.
With everything settled, we quickly vanished from the area while making sure to leave deliberate, but believable, chakra trails for our enemies to follow.
I looked towards Yoru and noticed his current state. His mask had been destroyed earlier and his shirt/flak jacket was currently nonexistent which wasn't a surprise seeing as he had been stabbed through the chest with lava.
By all means, he should not have been alive, but I knew his chakra signature like the back of my hand. There was no way I could think of that this was an imposter.
I wanted to saw a lot I wanted to say and do to him, however, this was neither the time nor place for me to do so and that wasn't even mentioning the fact that I was emotionally drained and didn't have the energy to do anything to him right now.
I always had this feeling that there were still a lot of things about him that I still didn't know. "but…" I thought to myself before focusing ahead. "As long as he's alright, it doesn't matter."
Author's Note:
If you guys are curious about the perk, it showed up briefly in chapter 5. It was after Yoru absorbed the chakra core.
DaBurntWaffle: For starters, there's nothing to really farm in IDs so doing so would be pointless and I kind of made that evident when Yoru was complaining about how he doesn't really get drops from them (it is astronomically rare.) Next, how is his healing an inconsistency? If you mean to say it's broken then I guess I understand, but he's not invincible if that's what you think. Finally, the Tier stuff had been something I planned on implementing form the beginning and has nothing to do with dampening his skills nor do I see how it does so.
The-Funeral-Pyre: That was kind of what I was getting at when I said the Second Hokage was "stronger". The volume of water he would be able to directly gather from the atmosphere is much more than what Yoru would be able to and would be a more viable attack method for him. Of course, Yoru could improve with training and I never said he wouldn't, I was just saying that at that moment, he couldnt compare to Tobirama nor would it have been the most viable method of attack for him. I will admit though that I did get them mixed up a bit.
Anyway, I hope this was fun for you all. Till next time.