The second that the invasion started, ten Chunin ninjas from the leaf were killed in less than a second.
This group was just rushing to help whatever was happening in the arena, being guards located on the outside wall just in case, but as they tried to move toward it, their bodies just dropped to the floor. Just a single small sphere of radiant orange light touching their skin was enough to suck each single drop of water out of their bodies, turning them into dried husks.
Pakura came from the ground just between the pile of corpses, her sneaky attack being just a warm-up for the kunoichi.
The woman was tall, with piercing yellow eyes, green hair tied into a knot, and two long bangs where her hair turned into a shade of orange. Wearing a simple black kunoichi outfit, she didn't look dangerous. Or that would be for her except for the three massive orbs materializing behind her, miniature suns that just sucked the moisture in the air, creating big plumes of steam.
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"Tsk . . . we need to hurry up," she grunted to herself, looking at the lack of targets around her. There was a place where the woman could be more useful, and she knew it, but she was sent to just take care of reinforcements; Rasa wanted to get all the glory for himself.
Pakura's eyes widened, and the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. It was nothing related to her normal senses, but more something that she had honed during decades on the battlefield. A gut instinct that told her that danger was coming.
Instinctively, the kunoichi dodged to the left, trying to avoid whatever was in her direction. On the dirty street, a few houses were giving her some cover. For a ninja of this level, wood, concrete, and stone were nothing against high-grade ninjutsu, but the sound of them breaking would give her a fundamental moment to react.
Dozens of stone bullets were shot in her direction, fast, but nothing that she could not dodge out of the way. At that instant, she saw Kurenai from a few meters away using her jutsu.
"Kai!" She yelled, snapping out of the genjutsu and dispelling the illusion before it could take hold. Pakura knew full well that Kurenai was a genjutsu expert, and this kind of trick was normal for her. However, the moment she did, only half of the bullets disappeared, forcing her to do a backflip to dodge out of the way.
Then the world twisted, the street became liquid, and the houses around them began to stretch far beyond her comprehension. Things began to fold into themselves, one time, two times, three times; just understanding what was happening around her was making her brain burn.
Multiplied layered genjutsu to overpower the brain senses with information, a branch of offensive genjutsu that she had trained to withstand. Normal ninjas would already be having a stroke, but she snapped out of it at the end of the second when the technique was cast on her.
Just enough time for Anko to sneak and launch dozens of snakes that attacked from under the ground, from the top, and from the sides; it was an omnidirectional attack that could not be dodged. The blue snakes carrying a mixture of acid and poison in their mouths were not just suicidal but also unblockable. A single one exploding or turned into dust would create a rain of toxic fluids that would still affect the kunoichi. Even the particles of them, in case of insertion, could burn her lungs if inhaled.
Pakura would have died in that moment if it weren't for her automatic defenses. One of her orbs of chakra immediately bent and twisted, creating a shield around her made out of pure scorch element, destroying each single snake the second that they went near her. Just as she was realizing what would happen, a second orb inside his fire sphere boiled all the moisture she had accumulated from the air to create a counter explosion of steam. Giving her just a small window while the nasty particles were getting blown out of the way for her to move.
She didn't even land on the floor, as her mind was still burning from Kurenai's attack, and long strings of blood came out of her ears, nose, and eyes, making everything a strange blur. However, the kunoichi remembered how dangerous Orochimaru was, and so was her student.
The second that Pakura exploded out of Anko's trap, Kurenai felt the recoil of that jutsu. It was a jagged, white-hot pain stabbing her mind; after all, the mental load of doing that technique was huge. Her brain needed to focus on creating that mental image, and even after all these months of training, she was barely able to withstand it.
Her knees gave up, a metallic flavor filled her mouth, and her vision blurred. The slug inside her immediately went into healing mode to fix the damage inside her brain, but still, these were seconds she was out of commission, and those seconds were too precious in a fight of this level.
Anko's voice reached her before Pakura's attack. "Kurenai! Move!" the kunoichi yelled, still looking normal for her as she reserved her curse mark mode for later.
The third orb of Scorch release was already heading in her direction. A blazing sun that, even if it was just five meters away, she could feel her sweat boiling. The ironic thing was that not even dodging would save her; that orb of scorch release was made to deal with tricky ninjas, able to follow her to the corner of the village if it was necessary to kill her.
Kurenai was dead; there was no way to avoid that attack.
That would be if it wasn't for a three-meter-tall slug that jumped just in front of her to tank the attack, turning into ashes in an instant. The Katsuyu inside the woman had already triggered the other slugs nearby to get into the fight and save the kunoichi from certain death. However, that took out a lot of them just to extinguish a single sun from their enemy, an orb that was already conjured back in her back.
"That slug!" Pakura yelled as she landed on the rooftop. She knew them. Too big, too wet, and the most annoying counter for her jutsu.
"You let your guard down!" Anko snarled, slamming her palms onto the cracked rooftop tiles. A massive summoning seal exploded from the connection point, and from that, a huge explosion of smoke.
The ground trembled as she fully summoned her secret weapon and new companion. Katsuyu and Manda's offspring burst out of the seal. Uwabami emerged in all her pale blue glory; the giant multi-headed snakes had grown a lot from the last time that her mother had seen her. The colossal fusion between the two monsters had the head of a snake but the body of a slug that elongated like a reptile.
Pakura threw a rain of miniature balls of pure scorch towards the monster, trying to kill it in the act, but the second it came closer to her, hundreds of tiny snakes came out of the contact point of the attack, sacrificing themselves to block the jutsu.
"What is that abomination?!" She cursed as now there was another of those annoyed slugs that messed with her jutsus.
"Something that not even Orochi could get her hands on!" Anko yelled, and the monstrosity convulsed, her body splitting down the middle with a loud, wet tearing sound.
Then, she kept splitting; one became two, two became four, and four became eight, each new hybrid vomiting not only a duplicate but also massive squirts of poison and acid toward the kunoichi.
The kunoichi's eyes moved all over the place, trying to find an opening, but for the first time in this fight, she was not sure how to counter this attack. Burning the constant deluge of toxic waste that the snake was producing only created more dangerous particles in the air that could kill her. Killing her was more trouble than it was worth, and her brain was still recoiling from the damage of Kurenai's jutsu.
"Katsuyu, are you done?!"Kurenai yelled, already feeling her brain getting into a state where she could at least support Anko from afar.
"Try not to overdo it; the damage can become permanent!" The slug answered, trying her best to keep up in all this chaos.
Pakura nodded as she landed in the middle of a desert street. "Fine! Let's do this!" The kunoichi yelled as she pushed into showing Anko why Rasa feared her so much. She began to quickly weave hand seals, and then . . . the natural yellow light of the sun was overtaken by a sickly white radiance.
A looming figure emerged as her presence alone was just turning everything around her into ashes. There was not even fire, just so much heat that even the wood and stone were getting vaporized.
Pakura's most powerful jutsu, reincarnation of the white dawn, was basically a massive scorching elemental clone with her at its core. However, it was far from that. She had turned into a 10-meter incandescent humanoid that was so blindly bright that even looking at it was like looking at the sun. For those brief moments when one could lay their eyes on it, they could see some black marks on that human figure that resembled the ones on Shukaku. They were not inspired by the tailed beast, but it had the same roots as them.
Anko went into cursed mode instantaneously, quickly turning her body into a half-snake hybrid with dark skin and a massive tail. The main goal of this was not only getting the senjutsu in but also gaining the translucent ocular scales that snakes have, allowing her to easily counter Pakura's radiance.
Her pet snake didn't wait for her to respond; she was already charging against the woman trying to poison or bite her, overpowering her with the sheer strength of numbers alone, but the second she went closer, the snake slug disintegrated. It was not like she burned or turned into dust; the heat was so much that 1 meter before even touching that body, the gooey, toxic scales disintegrated into dust and then less than dust.
Pakura answered by charging against Anko; there was no jutsu, only a simple flying kick thrown by a ten-meter-tall living sun. Something that even getting closer to it would just kill her as the woman turned each building in her path into dust.
There was only one way to defend against it. She summoned a single Rashomon gate to block the kick. The red wall of wood and metal burst from the floor, the size of a tower, blocking the attack and just partially melting from the heat. Something that was supposed to be the ultimate defensive jutsu was needed to block a simple taijutsu kick.
The whole block was annihilated with the impact and the sudden summoning of the barrier. Anko only had a second before Pakura would just run around it, and she needed to act fast.
Kurenai saw the opening. It was hard to look at her; her eyes were bleeding from just focusing on her, but the kunoichi refused to close her eyelids, even if her corneas were getting blasted by the light. She needed to land the next genjutsu.
Pakura's gaze was fixed on killing the snake; she could feel the victory close as her chakra reserves were halfway in, and there was nothing the two could do against her. She was saving it to clean whatever Raza could not deal with, but now it didn't matter. The kunoichi needed to take care of the two women.
With a quick stride, she got closer to Anko and then saw her genjutsu. The woman was more than ready to be affected by that illusion; she was actually hoping that Anko would try to trick her. She saw ten copies of the snake trying to run in different directions; the kunoichi even made sure to make the illusion take into account the point of light that was the giant sun.
"Kai!" Pakura yelled, knowing full well that if they were proper clones, her heat aura would have been affected, and it was true; it was just a basic genjutsu that created copies of Anko. The real one was just 20 meters from her. It was her time to strike, and then . . . everything went black.
For an instant, she went blind. It was impossible; nobody should be able to lay eyes on her with this form. Landing a genjutsu was only something Anko could do, and even if they could . . . it should be broken immediately by the constant radiance shining from her body.
From the building rooftop, Kurenai's eyes were burning, with Katsuyu constantly healing them to avoid permanent damage, just to buy Anko a few seconds in this double-layered illusion. It was up to the snake to exploit this opening.
Taijutsu and ninjutsu were out of the question; there was no way her snakes or her fist would land on the kunoichi. So, Anko needed to use another source of damage since even her poison was destroyed before touching Pakura.
Lightning release was the first thing that she would try if she knew how to use that element, but the woman needed to improvise. There was only one thing that she had that could touch her enemy, and that was genjutsu. So, Anko did her best to copy one of her students and mix both his genjutsu and senjutsu.
Not something that could kill her, that was far from her skills, but just something that would pop her clone. A poison drop of chakra that made Pakura immediately feel it running through her chakra pathways; it felt like having a drop of acid beating inside her bloodstream.
Then Pakura realized something: it didn't feel like a drop of acid or poison; it was a drop of poison that managed to pass her defenses. Anko's genjutsu had manipulated her own chakra network to use the senjutsu on that technique to create poison release directly inside her body. If it weren't for the fact that senjutsu didn't need seals, this would be impossible.
Pakura gasped for air, her whole body frozen, as the shock was enough to break her concentration and destroy her avatar. However, this was far from over; she could still fight. The woman just needed to purge the poison out of her body.
That was all they needed; being able to touch her was enough for Anko.
The snake blitzed through the rubble and ashes, moving like a blur, and almost managed to hit Pakura, who rolled out of the way, but it was already too late. From that punch, hundreds of tiny snakes burst and bit the kunoichi in the arms, the legs, and the belly, draining more poison into her than she could get out.
With the poison from Anko completely nullifying Pakura, and a few seals then were placed on her body to prevent her from returning to the battle, the girl released her artificial sage mode. The strain being exerted on her body and the fight were already too much for her, but it was done.
The duo of Konoha's top sluts had defeated the pride of Sunagakure, and these lionesses had caught a nice prize for their lion.
"Are you fine?!" Anko yelled, rushing to Kurenai, who was on the floor with a bandage soaked in blood over her eyes, fully drained from the overuse of her genjutsu.
Katsuyu was doing her best to heal the kunoichi, but there was nothing that the slug could do. "She needs to rest; she barely avoided a stroke," said a tiny slug coming out from the corner of the kunoichi's mouth.
"Ah . . . ah . . . I am out," the old veteran said and gave her a thumbs up before collapsing.
Anko took a deep breath and nodded. "Nice work, girl. I will be taking it from here," she said, grabbing Pakura and Kurenai to then rush to the ex-Uchiha compound where they would be safe.
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The genin and chunin in the east district of Konoha were getting butchered; they were just not ready for what Orochi had unleashed on that area. Dozens of Orochimaru's experiments burst from the ground. Missing-nin, kids that she had kidnapped, or even volunteers that went to her for power. Each of them became a lab rat to develop the Curse Mark that would allow her to cheat sage mode. However, the results were bad, to say the least.
Losing their minds and becoming rampaging beasts was the norm. Their bodies twisted and changed from the cursed mark spreading all over their bodies, gaining animal parts, but more the flesh growing out of them had more in common with smooth brown stone than meat. Horns, fangs, spikes, bizarre shells, claws, extra limbs. Some of them were stable enough that one could see the animal they were supposed to be, like a beetle or a bat, but others were such failures that they looked like straight-up demons.
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Even if they were trash ninjas, the sheer power of the cursed mark progressed to that extent and put them on another level.
"Quick, we mu-" A chunin said in the middle of the street, turning around to check on his teammates just to see a bunch of gore as the cursed beast tore his companions to shreds.
There was a second of tension in the air as the swarm of dozens of monsters approached him, and a loud crunching sound reverberated through the village. It was a massacre.
The whole district shook as Nemu landed in the middle of it, right over one of the cursed ninjas that was eating the chunin; her feet covered by the blue lioness flames crushed its skull in a second, dragging the attention of the rest of the mutants.
"All of you will pay for this!" Nemu yelled, the chakra mantle covering her from head to toe as a pair of lion maws had manifested around her fists. Her byakugan had already counted and localized each of them.
"Yes! Ryuko and the others are busy!" Hinata said from the other side of the village, communicating with Nemu through a long-range sound genjutsu that she was able to share with her extremely long-range byakugan.
"Wait! Nemu! You cannot take their chakra!" Her cousin warned Nemu, as she could also see the energy and was wary of it. However, she was fucked into being less of an asshole to Hinata, and she didn't correct her.
"Tsk! I see! They have natural energy just like Ryuko's cursed mark!" The kunoichi barked as she lowered her stance while slowly getting surrounded by the dozen monsters that could put one of the few jonin in the village in huge trouble.
("And I am not fully recovered from Lee's fight! I hate doing this!") Nemu gritted her teeth and rubbed the roof of her mouth with her tongue so hard that it broke the seal she had on it. With a loud crunch, she ate a soldier pill that the girl had stored in there just in case of an emergency. She stole the idea from Ryuko.
This was the perfect chance to start the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms. As the horde of ravenous cursed mark users jumped at her with reckless abandon, she started to spin in place, using her legs and hands to create a dome of pure taijutsu and her Lion Fist to wreck them.
Snapping bones, tearing flesh, and breaking their bodies, all while Hinata helped her.
From far away, the kunoichi was focusing her senses and skills to shoot dozens of sense-altering genjutsu. Subtle modifications that one person would not normally notice, like Nemu being three meters away from where she was or hearing other ninjas coming to help. Something that took only five, maybe six seconds to realize was a lie, but those slivers of time were fundamental to avoid the huge group of ninjas overpowering Nemu with numbers alone.
She could deal with her rotation with 10 to 20 at the same time, but there were at least 80 pouncing, trying to kill her. No matter how strong the dam was, the full strength of this river could break it. The fact they were getting up and constantly regenerating thanks to the constant influx of nature energy was not helping either.
("Wait a second . . . what if . . .") Nemu thought, for a second, her mind flashing toward the fight between her uncle and Ryuko as well as his spars with the bratty redhead. The Twin Lion Fists could not only steal chakra but also grab and hold it.
She stole a chunk of senjutsu chakra from the demons, her hands feeling numb just by touching it, but then, when another went to bite her neck while she was in the middle of her rotation, Nemu struck him. Not only did her hand sink into the beetle mutant as she opened the first and second gates, but also the chakra she had stolen from them.
Senjutsu seemed to be a lot more unstable than she thought, as the second that uncontrolled burst of chakra entered the cursed mark user, it turned the flesh surrounding the wound into stone, stopping any regeneration and killing him in an instant.
The sound of flesh tearing was quickly replaced by the sound of stone breaking five minutes later. All the cursed users were dead. The few that tried to retreat as the lioness killed what was left were quickly put back on track by Hinata twisting their senses with her genjutsu, shoving them back into the living shredding machine that was Nemu.
Nemu filled her lungs with air as she stopped spinning once the last cursed mark user had fallen to the floor. "Gonna . . . gonna try with Ryuko . . . someday . . ." she mumbled with a small smile.
"Please no!" Hinata begged, reading Nemu's lips.
"Oh, come on, he surely gets a boner from it . . ." her cousin barked back at her.
Hinata shook her head. "Well . . . good point. Ryuko really likes getting freaky while sparring," she commented and let out a sigh.
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Meanwhile, before the invasion started in Katsuyu's royal palace . . .
One of Katsuyu's prisoners was not up to the task. The girl with the Ketsuryūgan broke like a dry branch under the slug queen's tutelage, reduced to nothing more than a toy for Ryuko's pleasure. However, the other one . . . the last one to come and have lesbian sex with her nonstop had demonstrated a lot of promise.
The ancient slug was actually impressed by Karin's endurance and devotion to Ryuko; it must be something about the Uzumakis. When they start to love someone, they would go through hell for them, and so did the girl.
"Ah . . . the Uzumakis are really something else . . ." the slug muttered as the redhead girl was completely naked inside one of many chambers of her main body, sitting there. It looked straight up like the innards of a stomach, but instead of the normal lewd activities that the slug and her copies would do, Karin was left . . . "alone"; the only slugs for that girl were the ones inside her helping the redhead to train.
She had not only made a contract with Katsuyu but also mastered a few important techniques that pushed the kunoichi to her limits.
"Is it time?" Karin asked, slowly opening her eyes.
"Indeed, we need you for the team," Katsuyu answered.
"Let's make my master will be done, then," Karin finally said, and a new set of clothes materialized out of "nowhere." You would need a special set of eyes to see the millions of microscopic slugs coming out of her skin pores and forming around her, coating her body with a living armor.
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Ryuko's bitches' team was composed of Ido, the taijutsu monster girl that could make her genjutsu reality; Sai, the kunoichi who had improved her ink jutsu with her tattoos a lot since Ryuko popped a cherry; Tenten, by far one of Ryuko's best works, from a nobody to a pseudo-jinchuriki armed with three legendary swords; Kin, the slut from the Sound Village that bet everything for power and gained a ragdoll body from the forbidden jutsu; and finally, Karin, the Uzumaki girl that had reached new levels of power after being slugged and becoming one of the boy's most loyal and devoted servants.
Their goal during this event was to intercept and deal with Guren's team sent by Orochimaru with the goal of killing the elders of Konoha that weren't Danzo, since another team was sent to deal with him. However, Ryuko had decided that it was great to stop them before that because he really, really wanted Guren and her Crystal Release, and there was no way that he would let some Anbu steal his precious war booty.
Orochimaru's special team was composed of six individuals.
Gozu, a taijutsu beast that could easily lift a tailed beast with his strength alone, thanks to a mixture of innate talent and Orochi modifications that not only gave him more power in his muscles but also, Orochi gave him a copy of the Akimichi clan's Partial Multi-Size Technique. An imitation that the sannin had invented after investigating a lot into their clan and corpses; she managed to get her hands on.
If that wasn't enough, he was extremely proficient in Earth Release with a particular affinity for Mud-Style jutsu to complement his lack of ranged attacks and improve his already amazing taijutsu.
Kigiri was a special type of fire ninjutsu user, as he not only had a lot of destructive jutsus but also was a maestro of Smoke Style. Similar to how water users use mist, the Smoke-Style jutsu were not as cheap in terms of chakra to maintain but offered extra offensive prowess by their innate toxic nature.
Kiho was similar to Kigiri in his specialization, both in fire and smoke jutsu; however, this ninja decided to use a lot more shurikenjutsu and other gadgets to add to his offensive arsenal than pure fire jutsus. It was also noticed that the ninja was a lot more adept in seal techniques, but mostly to store and transport objects, basically becoming the mule of the team.
Nurari was one of the ninjas that went through the most amount of body modifications, similar to what Orochimaru had done on herself. So, he gained the power to bend and stretch in an unnatural manner, both offensively by extending the range of his attacks and defensively by avoiding internal organ damage. His body was covered in a slime suit that Orochi tried to copy from one of the many techniques she had witnessed from Katsuyu during the Third Shinobi War, giving him slime-based attacks and protections against fire, and even the power to grow new limbs out of it or make shields or projectiles using it as a base for his Water Release instead of normal water.
Rinji was the scout of the group; not only did he have an animal contract with bats, but he also had a variant of the snake jutsus that Orochi and Anko could use but was based around these creatures. This, plus body modifications based on techniques from the Sound Village, gave him echolocation and the ability to add sound to his taijutsu, efficiently disrupting the opponent's mind and equilibrium.
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Finally, it was the leader of the team, Guren. A kunoichi so powerful that she could easily be a jonin if she belonged to any village. Master of taijutsu, so dexterous in ninjutsu that she could easily do one-hand seals and even have a secret technique taught by Orochi herself that allowed the woman to turn part of her vital force into chakra, basically ensuring that she would not run out of energy during the whole fight. However, that was not the most important power she had; Guren was currently the only known ninja with Crystal Release.
She could crystallize anything in her range, even the moisture in the air. Not only was it as durable as Steel Release, but it also had a secret property that made it a lot deadlier depending on who you ask. With a touch she could crystallize her opponents at the molecular level, nullifying defense as their bodies would become frail as glass. It was offensive, defensive, and even a one-kill move, so why do people say it was not superior in all aspects to Steel Release? Well, one of those people was Orochimaru herself.
Crystal Release had a glaring weakness: it was extremely weak to high-frequency sounds. But was there a chance that someone apart from her that had experimented with it for years knew this? Sadly for Guren, not zero.
"The targets are on that building! Separate and deal with-" Guren said while jumping from building to building toward the Kage tower, where the elders were being secured by Anbu. The blue-haired girl dressed in a green kimono with thick red lips was sure they could deal with anything that Konoha could throw at them. All the jonin were busy in the stadium after all.
A blinding flash of white light struck the six of them, and then a massive explosion made the whole team jump out of the way to dodge the attack. However, as the team tried to regroup to deal with the attackers, things began to behave strangely . . . or at least from the outside, as each of them quickly ran toward the opposite direction they wanted. They spread instead of getting together.
"What . . . this is . . . genjutsu?!" Gozu yelled as the big man was disoriented for a moment before Yakumo punched him through a wall and into a nearby apartment building.
Of course, Hinata was supporting them by keeping them apart. The girl's skill in genjutsu was enough to disorient the enemy team enough so each girl could deal with them individually.
"I will be your opponent!" Yakumo yelled, having fully taken over the body with her demonic form, the nature chakra oozing from her body with such magnitude that one could see with their bare eyes the creaking small purple smoke plumes around her.
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The giant man with long brown hair raised his fist and quickly punched the girl, his hand becoming as big as a building and with enough power to turn a normal chunin into a fine red mist. "I don't have time for this; I need to return to Guren," he said with a calm tone, not really taking Yakumo seriously.
Yakumo dodged out of the way, her Byakugan flaring up to the limit as she knew that even with all her strength and regeneration, getting hit by this was a bad idea. However, as the building they were in was reduced to rubble, that was the chance she had to use her brain.
The whole apartment tower collapsed on top of them, but both ninjas jumped outside, leaving the building destroyed behind them. As the dust storm from the attack was settling down, the ninjas noticed something.
"Why is there so much . . ." Gozu muttered as the dust from the debris seemed to be too much and linger for too long. It was too late when the man realized that he was again in a genjutsu.
Yakumo's claws tore a chunk out of his side before he could dodge out of the way; the sharp claws, powered up by her inhuman strength, surprised Gozu by their destructive power. "How . . ." the ninja yelled, wounded but now out of the battle as he quickly kicked the girl out of the way, increasing the side of his leg in such a way that there was no room for her to dodge.
A crippling pain made him stop mid-attack.
"You . . ." Gozu cursed and then felt it, the second stage of Yakumo's genjutsu was infecting him like a disease from the wound she had opened. It was not only a nasty gash on the tall man's guts, but the girl shoved enough senjutsu infused genjutsu directly into his chakra points. A simple illusion that now fed like a virus on the man's chakra spread around his body, creating this cancerous growth of horns in his guts.
"Kai!" the man yelled, using his chakra control to remove the genjutsu, but . . . it was not working.
"That is not going to work!" Yakumo snarled and then kicked Gozu right in the head, sending him flying into another building.
Even if Gozu was faster and stronger than Yakumo, her unique genjutsu style, powered up to a new height by her Byakugan, was enough to close the gap between them.
("Fuck . . . I am not used to maintaining this . . . that bug girl was lucky that Ryuko told me not to use this on her!") Yakumo cursed, as she needed to focus all the time with her genjutsu empowered by senjutsu with her Byakugan toward the chakra points of the man to keep "fueling the flame."
"Earth Relea-" Gozu could not even weave a hand seal to go under the earth and retreat; Yakumo was over him.
A burst of senjutsu went right into his fingers, making the man do the wrong seals as he saw horns were growing out of his joints. At that moment, the living demon ended the fight by tearing his throat with a single attack.
Sai's target was extremely important since he was the only ninja in Guren's team that would allow them to regroup. The second that Rinji was separated from his team, Sai attacked from the shadows, unleashing her final jutsu at the start of the fight.
Rinji was currently on the rooftop of a diner trying to get back to the street where he was a few seconds ago, and then he sensed it. A massive attack was coming in his direction. Sai only had to lift an arm, and the snake dragon tattoo on her arm took on a life of its own, rushing toward the ninja, flying across the sky more like an arrow than a mythical animal, tearing the roof tiles of the building under it from the sheer speed.
"What?!" the man yelled, seeing the giant black ink dragon open its maw, trying to bite the rogue ninja in two. He tried to jump out of the way, but the ink creature quickly turned around and followed him, destroying the building in its wake as the man understood that he couldn't dodge. Rinji needed to block it.
At the last moment, he was able to summon a swarm of bats to block the attack. A legion of tiny flying rats came out of his hands, becoming a furry wall that was turned to shreds but, at the end of the day, was able to block Sai's ultimate attack.
It took all his focus, but the mythical beast was stopped-
Sai was behind him, tanto in hand, as she performed a perfect sneak attack that put an end to Rinji's neck, since he didn't sense the woman sneaking.
The kenjutsu user didn't have problems landing a single vertical slash that made a geyser of blood erupt from the corpse.
"Mission complete," she muttered with a neutral tone even if her pale skin was covered in blood.
Kiho and Kigiri were separated from the group and landed on a small block of houses near the exterior wall of Konoha.
"Genjutsu? From this distance?" Kiho asked Kigiri as they began to run back toward their previous position.
"Must be . . . Kurenai . . ." Kigiri muttered deep in thought, as it didn't make too much sense that none of them had sensed any ninja before they could cast their genjutsu. Using this tactic to dismantle groups was normal, but it was Rinji's job as the scout to warn them before the enemy could mess them up. Even for a jonin, doing this from so far that not even the scout could sense her was strange.
Their advance was stopped as a carefully set explosive on the houses detonated, creating an explosion ring that almost caught the two men in the blast. From the explosion, Karin emerged with her body covered from head to toe with thousands of tiny slugs feeding on her blood, giving her a crimson suit that looked as if her naked body were painted with layer upon layer of blood and dozens of purple seals on it.
Vermillion Slug Coat, a lesser version of the Slug Mantle, required the slugs to begin on the outside of the user's skin, becoming clearly visible, and it constantly consumed chakra to keep the millions of tiny slugs alive. However, since Karin had Uzumaki-level chakra reserves and her blood was particularly useful for transmitting the energy, she could maintain this form for five minutes.
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"None of you are going anywhere!" Karin yelled, already pouncing toward Kiho before he could use any jutsu.
Kigiri didn't waste a second and began to weave hand seals to create a massive plume of smoke that covered the whole battlefield. From his mask, the massive cloud of black ash covered the whole zone, leaving no room to breathe or to see anything.
At that moment, Kiho had already located Karin, who was standing over a home, and pulled multiple metal tubes from under his coat and shot a barrage of mortar shells at the kunoichi. Not only did he blew up the whole building, but he was sure that the confused shinobi could not see the incoming missiles.
And he landed a few hits on the girl. Karin dodged the first and second projectiles, but the rest landed squarely on her. She was just not that fast and agile; difference between her and the girl that got tortured in the forest a few weeks ago. However, that was the key; she was different.
("This is nothing!") she yelled internally as her slug armor took most of the impact without problems and her Uzumaki blood cared of the rest.
Using her sensory ninja six sense and the chaos of the explosion, she rushed toward Kiho and caught the man by surprise. The crimson chakra scalpel covering her hand managed to land on the shinobi that had underestimated her, but speed and overall grade of experience were too much. She only managed to make a small gash on his left shoulder that was skin deep.
"Sensory kunoichi!" Kiho yelled and gritted his teeth, the pain of the cut only making him stop for a moment.
The man jumped back and was about to shoot another barrage of missiles against Karin, but she quickly changed targets, aiming for Kigiri. A second of doubt, thinking about what she was trying to do, was followed by mind-breaking pain as the tiny slugs that jumped from the armor to the wound she made traveled down the ninja's circulatory system toward his internal organs.
Spreading acid along the way.
Kiho thought it was poison and tried to use a chakra detoxification technique to expel the slugs inside his body but they were powered by Karin's massive chakra reserves. Katsuyu could summon more and more of herself inside him, overpowering the technique with brute force alone.
The gash on his arm quickly became bigger and bigger; more blood came out of that hole until the ninja's whole arm fell off and his innards were so melted that he couldn't even scream in pain. His lungs were too full with slugs, acid, and blood.
("One down!") Karin yelled at Katsuyu.
("You are lucky they don't know about our contract; once the slug is out of the bag . . . any type of chakra anti-poison technique is really effective to expel me from their bodies,") the old slug warned her. That was the bad part of using "poisons"; once they knew you could use them, they would become less and less effective as the ninjas would prepare for the occasion.
She didn't even manage to take two steps towards Kigiri, as the man had already prepared another jutsu. He quickly wove hand seals and made a basic but extremely effective jutsu; a huge fireball came out of his gas mask as the ninja took a deep breath and summoned a massive explosion that turned what was left of the block into rubble.
The fireball jutsu landed right in Karin's face, making the girl recoil in pain, and even her armor had trouble withstanding the impact. Fire jutsu were extremely effective not only against Katsuyu but also against her own regeneration, as her body struggled to recover from the burns spreading all over her body.
Then two smoke clones appeared at her sides before she even fell to the ground from the initial attack.
Karin tried to react, but it was too late; both smoke clones were already done with their jutsus and unleashed two thick black strands that quickly bound Karin in place. Two smoke prison jutsus that completely stopped her movements; now, the redhead didn't have the strength to break the prison.
"I don't have time for this," Kigiri said, ready to put an end to this fight, but he forgot to seal Karin's mouth.
The massive slug inside the redhead's stomach traveled all the way to her lips, creating a notorious bulge in her throat as Katsuyu peeked out between her teeth. Before Kigiri could do something, a squirt of super potent acid landed right in the man's face.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" the ninja yelled from the feeling of having his eyeballs melted.
Katsuyu then spat at the clones trapping Karin, destroying them in the act, and less than a second later, the redhead was over Kigiri, stabbing him over and over in the chest with her chakra scalpel.
("A little bit of a sloppy performance . . . you should get more tools in your arsenal,") the slug queen chastised Karin as the kunoichi disemboweled her enemy.
("I . . . profusely apologize . . .") Karin answered as her skin was still growing back from the explosion.
Nurai was ambushed by Kin on an open pond in the middle of Konoha, both ninjas standing on the turbulent water as they looked at each other with some amusement.
"Ohhhhhhhhh, is that Kin? Did you decide to betray Orochimaru?" The effeminate man with the skin-tight suit muttered with a mocking tone. Of course they knew each other.
Kin smiled, dressed like she was in the exam but without a headband now. "I follow a better master now," she answered, pulling out her senbon and getting ready to fight.
A few weeks ago, this would have been impossible. She had no chances of winning against Nurai, as in terms of taijutsu and ninjutsu, the man was far superior to her. However, now things have changed.
"One that doesn't treat you like a tool?" He teased her with a mocking smile.
"No, he absolutely treats me like a tool . . . like a pet at best," Kin confessed and threw ten senbon toward the ninja, who quickly dodged them out of the way without a problem and pounced on the kunoichi with incredible speed.
Nurai shook his head, his fist penetrating the woman's stomach with a single swift movement as it stretched like tendrils out of his body. "Ugh, you really became a freak," he muttered with clear disgust in his voice; however, the cascade of blood he was waiting for didn't come.
Kin smiled, the stitches around her mouth finally appearing as a long string began to bloom around her stomach wound like a nest of vipers, trapping the man inside her. "You have no idea," she purred.
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"This is . . . Kakuzu's technique! How?!" Nurai yelled, his eyes wide open as the ring of the hundred bells hidden inside Kin struck his brain all at the same time.
She smiled as the ninja tools hidden inside her body made easy work of the ninja that was quickly disoriented, and even if he managed to pull out thanks to the freaky nature of her slime suit, the effects were noticeable.
Nurai looked around, his sense of balance fucked up as the genjutsu of the girl messed with his senses. For a moment, he lost track of where up and down were as the ringing inside his head was maddening.
In that second, two senbon went directly for his eyes, popping them like a pair of water balloons.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh! My eyes, you fucking bitch!" he yelled, not being able to hear or see as the ringing of the hundred bells was blasting his eardrums.
"Goooooooooooooood, scream more and more . . . " the girl moaned with a sadistic tone, just before returning to old habits before remembering what Ryuko had told her. Fun would have to wait after the fight, so she put a quick end to the ninja by slowly increasing the frequency of her jutsu until Nurai's brain was completely scrambled.
Guren was the only member of the team left, but she didn't even know that; the woman just kept rushing ahead and almost reached the Hokage Tower when Tenten landed right in front of her. The genin was ready to face the jonin alone.
The kunoichi almost cracked the floor as she created a massive plume of dust with her landing. She was armed in full-body red samurai armor that had both the Uzumaki and Kuroi clan symbols embedded on it. It reminded Guren of the armor that the first Hokage used; however, those long black wings on her back didn't match her disguise.
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With a big scroll in her hands, the girl stood firm before the invader, stopping her movements and getting ready to fight her.
"You will not take a step forward! I am Tenten, retainer of the Kuroi clan! And I will be your opponent!" She proclaimed, puffing her chest and standing in Guren's way.
("Are you scared?") The demon teased the kunoichi inside her head.
("Absolutely.") Tenten answered without wasting a second.
Guren chuckled; that was just pathetic, a genin cosplaying as the first Hokage and with some . . . henge wings? Well, at least they gave her some mobility. "Are they really sending a genin alone to deal with me? One without even a half-decent clan? I am feeling . . . personally insulted," the woman muttered, her red lips turning into a sadistic smile.
"I will show what a genin of Konoha can do!" Tenten answered and not only unleash the weapons inside her scroll but also summoned two steel clones to aid her in battle.
The main body was armed with the twin legendary swords that gave her access to wind ninjutsu, while the other was carrying the giant stone blade that gave the clone fire release, and the last one had the crystal three-blade sword that allowed it to summon a huge water chakra dragon.
"Steel release? Those weapons? This is . . . peculiar. Now I have three mediocre at best chunin ninjas to take care of," the blue-haired kunoichi answered, and with a flip of her wrist, she summoned two crystal scythes on her forearms, saving her chakra for the ANBU inside the building behind Tenten.
The clones and the girl didn't waste a second before attacking. The left clone swung the giant stone sword and shot a fireball toward Guren; the right one summoned a massive water dragon that pounced toward the woman, and finally, Tenten slashed the air with wind blades at the same time, creating a tornado that joined the elemental barrage.
Guren just let out a sigh and lifted a finger; a colossal wall of pink crystal emerged in front of her, blocking the attacks without problem as she quickly moved out of the way.
A crystal dragon threw Guren into the air; however, before she could even react, the kunoichi and her clones were flying to catch her.
Four strikes at the same time.
The stone blade aimed for her right arm, the water aimed at her left arm, and then the twin swords went for Guren's neck and heart.
All of the attacks were blocked by the woman's scythes; her speed easily overpowering Tenten and not only that. She had the time to slash the two clones in half and then kick Tenten in the head, making the girl crash into the ground so hard that she cracked the earth.
Even if they were steel clones, even if she had her steel armor, the gap in power was too much.
She quickly rolled back; two ninja wires shot from her wrists, grabbing the pair of legendary weapons and assimilating back into the girl's body. Then she did the same with her sword, becoming completely unarmed.
"I am not done yet!" Tenten yelled; however, before she could even attack Guren, the girl was captured inside a massive prison of pink crystal that stopped her right in her tracks.
Guren landed in front of her and shook her head. "Well, that was pathetic. How many resources were invested in you? And at least Orochimaru had a good eye to see potential . . . you?" She said, there was only emotion on her face . . . secondhand embarrassment.
"You are mediocre at best," the blue-haired girl added and took out a kunai from her pouch, not even giving her the luxury of killing her with her bloodline.
Tenten took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "I know . . . but that . . . is not an excuse," she admitted.
("Now!") Tenten yelled at Seimei as their plan went smoothly. A plan that could happen only because she was so easy to underestimate.
A chakra pulse was sent directly into the interior of her armor, which was covered with seals that unleashed two types of explosive tags. A low-yield explosive one to mask the second one, which had a high-frequency explosion stored on it. Something that a master of seals like her could craft without problems; the hard part was not killing herself in the act.
Guren jumped back as the prison exploded, thinking that it was some kind of suicide attack since that was the only thing that could break her jutsu. "Blowing yourself up?! That is-" The woman was interrupted mid-sentence by Tenten jumping out of the smoke, her body covered in burns and cuts.
The first gate is open.
The second gate is open.
"What?!" Guren yelled quickly, raising another barrier of crystal, but it shattered like glass. Then she realized Tenten was wearing two big metal gauntlets with multiple holes in them.
"What if I don't have any talent?!" Tenten yelled at her, thin lines of blood covering her face as she wound up a punch.
Guren quickly summoned a big shield of crystal on her left arm, trying to block the blow, but then the gauntlet ignited.
"Those are Dozu gauntlets!" she managed to bark before getting hit by the Resonating Echo Flame Fist, which blew one of her arms right off.
Guren gritted her teeth, not even having the time to feel pain as she raised her other hand to summon a blade of crystal to kill the girl before she did it to her. "You brat!" the kunoichi cursed.
"I don't need to have talent if the people around me have it!" Tenten yelled, and her other gauntlet became covered with a whistling tornado of wind that quickly turned into a buzzing saw.
The Resonating Echo Wind Blade from Tenten sliced Guren's right arm clean off before she could even land a hit.
Guren widened her eyes, both her arms gone, as Tenten wound up for the last attack. Her two fists came together, and whirlpools of water coiled around them, turning into a pair of twin dragons that were shot toward her enemy.
The enemy kunoichi was cornered against a house wall as she didn't have time to do anything but use her bloodline in a last-ditch effort to block the strike.
"I just need to ask for help and work hard!" The kunoichi finally yelled, Resonating Twin Cascade Dragon Maw clashing against Guren's last crystal shield and breaking it like wet paper.
A gush of blood came out of Guren's mouth the second that the combination of taijutsu and ninjutsu powered up not only the gates and those gauntlets but also the demonic chakra of the beast inside Tenten, almost drilling a hole in her stomach. The house around her collapsed, almost burying her alive as she quickly faded away.
"Ah . . . ah . . . ah . . ." Tenten grunted, her head going dizzy from using so much chakra in one go.
("Did you kill her?") The demon asked.
("I hope not . . . Ryuko will not chew my ass if I did.") She answered, her orders were to get Guren alive if possible.
The Iburi clan was a group cursed by their bloodline. They could turn into smoke while still being able to interact with the world around them, similar to the hydrification technique but as a genetic factor. It was something so powerful that they would have been hunted to an extent, as their mere presence could destabilize the ninja world if it weren't for a simple detail.
Sometimes their bloodline would activate on its own, turning them into smoke, and then a gust of wind would disperse them, killing the clan member in the act. They couldn't even live outside, as their mortal enemy was something so basic as simple air.
So, their clan was confined to a small cave network in the Land of Fire, living more like animals than people.
However, two other nefarious events affect the clan after their original curse.
The first was Orochimaru finding them and managing to get a solution to their bloodline. The cursed mark allowed them to remove the weakness of it and even gave them a new level of power. But this deal with a demon had a huge cost.
Of the 50 ninjas that the clan had, only 12 members were able to survive the process to get the mark. Taking into account civilians, the whole clan was reduced to nothing more than 65 individuals.
They went through hell, but those 12 ninjas were now in Konoha, heading directly to kill all the members of the Hyuga clan, as they were immune to their gentle fist techniques.
The second nefarious event that struck the clan was flying over them at this exact moment as they were jumping from building to building.
A single girl hovered above them, her purple skin visible, her four arms stretched outward, and her large moth-like wings already raining toxic dust down on them. "I apologize for your fate and your current situation, but if you dare to take a single step from point on, the Iburi clan will no longer exist," Shizune warned them, feeling a little bit of sorrow for their fate and willing to go as nonlethal as possible without risking the security of her village.
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"You will not stop us! It is our duty to repay the generosity of Lord Orochimaru!" one of the ninjas said and charged toward Shizune, the cursed mark turning him into a monstrous eagle-like creature with arms and legs made of smoke.
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"Wait! Don't change-" the leader yelled, a tall girl with massive tits and an amazing ass, all covered with a thick layer of freckles on her pale skin. She had long, messy brown hair and dressed in a gray gi like most of Orochimaru's pets. Her blue eyes looked in horror as the man froze in the air the second he turned into smoke and was forced back into a solid shape.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the man yelled and then went limp from the poison spread by the moth girl.
"You bastard! I, Yukimi from the Iburi clan, will stop you! The rest of the squad, proceed to the Hyuga compound; do not change shape!" she ordered, and then the other ten ninjas made the stupid decision to face the new and improved Hyuga clan without their trump card.
Shizune let out a sigh and shook her head. "It is a special poison made to affect your clan while you turn into smoke. As you can see, your bloodline has been nullified, and you don't have any chance of winning," she warned Yukimi and gave a last chance.
Back in the Hyuga clan compound, their members were getting ready to act as they had deployed the new medic ninjas. They had been trained to assist Konoha forces while the rest were standing on the rooftops of the buildings. They could clearly see the group heading their way before the invaders got a glimpse of their home.
"Hyuga clan! Ready and . . . fire!" Hanabi yelled, and the specialized unit of long-range jutsu users began to quickly weave hand seals to each create a wind bow on their hands. Demonic Tempest Arrow, a long-range wind jutsu that didn't have a lot in terms of damage, but its precision and range were really useful for the assassination of civilian targets or, in this case, to aim for the target's tenketsu points from waaaaaaaaaaay far.
Yukimi and Shizune clashed mid-air; the girl's cursed mark had taken over her whole body and turned her skin ash-grey as a massive set of bat wings came out of her back, and her fangs stretched like a vampire's; however, the horns coming from her head made her look more like a demon than anything else.
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Shizune dodged her attacks without problems, even if they were on the same level, as both had what was basically an extremely crude way to use sage mode. Shizune was trained as a kid by a sannin and then reinforced her techniques with the help of Ryuko and her clan. Yukimi? She literally lived under a rock for most of her life before Orochimaru gave her the time of day.
"You have doomed your clan; live with those consequences," Shizune said, blocking a kick with her forearms as the girl had all her chakra control focused on dispelling the toxins constantly flooding her body from the moon wings.
"Shut up! You are the one getting your village destroyed," the girl yelled before getting her head grabbed by one of Shizune's extra arms and forced to look at the state of her unit from this height.
Yukimi looked down and saw her whole team completely annihilated. The first volley of wind arrows had paralyzed the ninja in place by landing on their tenketsu points, and then the second mid-range team's barrage struck. A mixture of both the "Earth Crusher Mortar" and "Soaring Sky Vermillion Bird" fire release and bombarded the place, killing every single one of them. The only reason their corpses were intact was the cursed seal, nothing else. If only they could have turned their bodies into smoke and dodged out of the way.
"Can you see your clan from here?" Shizune asked as the girl froze.
"Oh no . . . AH," she was interrupted mid-horror by a barrage of poison senbon getting jammed right into her back. Each of them had a different specialized toxin to neutralize not only her muscles but also destabilize her cursed mark.
"Don't worry, my master will make sure to help you repopulate it," Shizune finally said, without even having to use any of her hidden seals to take down that girl. All her prep work with her poisons was more than enough.
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The Fuma clan could be a decent threat for Konoha after all; the Curse Mandala technique and the general strength of its members made them a decent threat. Enough to require at least three jonin to cull them if they attacked the village. However, they had the bad luck of being ambushed by someone that naturally countered their clan jutsus and had surprised the rank of Jonin a few years ago.
The team composed of at least 50 ninjas was on their way to reinforce the invaders in the arena before they got stopped by something crashing from the sky. Some landed with such strength that they cracked the street where they were and collapsed all the buildings around them.
"Ok, you bastards, none of you are touching a single brick of this village!" Tsunade yelled, missing the irony while cracking her fingers.
"That is . . . Lady Tsunade! One of the three legendary Sannin!" The ninjas yelled, taken aback since she was supposed to be . . . indisposed from all the intel they managed to get.
"Quickly restrain her!" Arashi, the current leader of the clan, ordered. The petite man with light blue hair was taken aback by her presence but not intimidated.
Three ninjas surrounded Tsunade and used the legendary Curse Mandala clan jutsu on Tsunade, a sealed technique that created a translucent pyramid around Tsunade and then shrank, trying to crush the kunoichi inside it. Normally only one ninja needed to do it, but they went the extra mile just for the Sannin as they were ordered to use this technique on Guy.
Tsunade punched the barrier of chakra, but it didn't even budge. "This is . . ." she muttered, and then lines of black ink began to spread from her forehead around her body.
A quake was heard around the village as the supposed unbreakable barrier was broken with a single fist.
The carnage that followed was too unilateral; it was like seeing a bunch of kids trying to fight a gorilla. Limbs and gore flew all over the village as Tsunade just tore through the whole clan; each of her punches and kicks was followed by a member of the Fuma clan turned into a fine red mist. It would be a miracle if only one or two of them could survive after getting blown up by the rampaging kunoichi. However, during the destruction, the leader managed to land a sneaky jutsu on Tsunade.
A chakra thread suddenly connected the Sannin with Arashi.
"It is . . . over . . . the chakra threads connect our hearts now . . . we share the damage done to each other," he explained, ready to die in order to take down that monster caked on his allies.
Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "Hmmmm? You really didn't do your homework, did you?" The kunoichi asked and tried to remove the string, but not even she was able to cut the semi-translucent energy string.
"Not even your strength can break the thread!" The leader yelled and then felt Tsunade punching a hole through his stomach.
"You're right," she complimented him as now a huge hole of gore exploded in her torso. Tsunade aimed right above her womb to avoid having problems later on.
"And?" Tsunade said, and then Arashi realized that his jutsu only copied the damage, not the healing she was getting. So as the man was dying, Tsunade's stomach was already completely patched up.
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Outside the arena, the Ino-Shika-Cho team, led by Asuma, were facing a single kunoichi as they tried to aid Kakashi and Guy. She had barely any clothes on; her white kimono almost didn't covered her voluptuous body, with bandages keeping those big pairs of tits from bouncing all over the place, and the lack of underwear only accentuated the eroticism of those huge hips. With long white hair, two red dots on her forehead, and green eyes, she looked extremely calm and exotic for someone who had just almost killed the three genin.
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They were not mortally wounded, but . . . they were lying on the floor, unable to move from a mixture of blood loss, having their tendons cut, and missing limbs.
That monster had easily mutilated them with her bone whip sword that she took straight out of her spine.
"Asuma-sensei!" Shika yelled, seeing their teacher get stabbed in the heart by the woman who had easily defeated the whole team. She hadn't killed the three girls but left them on the brink of death more out of luck than mercy.
"Useless," Kimimaro muttered. Asuma at least made her use the first level of her curse seal, which made geometrical black lines cover her whole body.
Then everything stopped as someone tapped Kimimaro's on the shoulder. A simple and gentle tap that could be used to land a deadly attack on her as this person had sneaked behind her with perfect stealth. However, he would never forgive himself for taking such a boring approach.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! I don't appreciate you damaging my property . . ." Ryuko muttered with a smug smile, his cursed seal flaring up as the dark marks covered part of his face.
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Ryuko had two big problems when it came to fighting Kimimaro: it was not winning; that was easy since there was nothing that the girl could do to damage him. He wanted her to stay alive for nefarious purposes, and he needed to be done quickly.
There were a lot of things to do during the invasion, and something told them that there would be even more to do after it was over, so he couldn't spend too many resources on her. However, for someone that just defeated a kage and was about to fight another kage-level enemy, this line of thinking was crazy to not say another world.
The redhead didn't come this far by being logical or having common sense.
("How are the girls doing?") Ryuko asked Katsuyu a second before landing behind Kimimaro.
("Each girl succeeded with flying colors, apart from exhaustion; Kurenai and Tenten are the only ones that need medical assistance,") she answered, her attention divided all over the village.
("I am so proud of them! They even got me some goodies; I need to reward them when this is over . . .") He nodded, and then the fight with Orochimaru's second-hand started.
Kimimaro quickly snapped her whip toward Ryuko; the horizontal swing had so much strength and speed that the boy almost was unable to dodge it, more out of reflex than proper conscious decision. However, the sharp bone tip at the end of it managed to graze his neck, but it only disturbed the surface of his skin enough to show that it was made out of water, so her attacks were useless.
"That is not going to work and you know it," Ryuko teased as three water clones took the wounded girls to get proper medical attention from Tsunade; she was already done with her part.
"And if you are here, you must know that my goal is not to kill you," Kimimaro muttered, her tone calm and matter-of-fact as she measured the boy with her gaze.
"Ooooooooooooooh, did big mama Orochi give you special orders?" He teased her.
("That is something that I would do,") said the personality of Orochi stuck inside his head.
She arched her back, the kunoichi's cursed mark spreading as she became something more similar to a velociraptor than a woman, with her skin covered in that dark crimson color and a massive tail coming from her hips while multiple spikes came out her back. "Yes," Kimimaro said and charged toward Ryuko.
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Ryuko wove a quick set of hand seals to use Water Scorpion, giving his left arm a one-meter-long purple water blade sharp as his chakra scalpel but full of his more potent poison. The sting was aimed directly at the girl's neck, trying to inject her with as many toxins as possible.
The two ninjas quickly struck each other; the sword whip coiled around Ryuko's left arm before easily ripping it, but the only thing that came out of it was water that quickly merged into an intact limb. He didn't even have time to land the strike as the girl had already nullified his jutsu.
He could try to increase his speed; there was still the fact that he opened his two gates and never used two tail modes.
"Fine, let's get faster . . . ," Ryuko muttered with a nervous smile and activated his pseudo-foresight, focusing his attention to watch each single muscle and nerve of the girl and predict her actions.
The first and second gates opened, giving the boy even more of an edge over the girl as they exchanged attacks. A quick kick from Ryuko took down the whip sword on Kimimaro's hand, but he quickly answered by summoning a bone blade from his wrist and slashing his shoulder. He didn't even recoil as landed a massive punch to her abdomen that the bone user flew into a house, her stomach and spine bursting apart on impact.
The explosive fist style was messy as ever.
The second that Kimimaro rushed from the rubble again toward Ryuko, she was surrounded by a massive swarm of pink water mosquitos. He had more than enough time to weave the jutsu, and even if she was fast, the bugs were too many; however, she quickly covered herself with a thick armor of pure bone that blocked the bites without a problem, then shot dozens of small bone spikes from her body, completely neutralizing the jutsu.
She didn't have the luxury of putting defense before speed, as the armor made her slower than Ryuko.
"Hmmmmmmmm, why is it not working? Even the residual effects of my poison water jutsu should be affecting you," Ryuko pondered for a second.
"That is nothing compared with Lady Orochimaru!" The armored bone tank exclaimed, pointed her fingers toward the redhead, and then shot dozens of bone phalanges bullets in a few seconds.
("Right, with her disease she is already high as a kite to fight like this; her regeneration is not helping,") he thought as the bullets passed through him as if he were not there.
Ryuko needed to change approaches. ("Hmmmmmmm I guess she can cover her mouth with that armor to block my mist, and my poison senbon doesn't have enough piercing power . . .") he added as it was time to stop playing around.
"Tsk . . . I am sorry, but this is boring. We will have a proper fight later, but now I am busy," Ryuko exclaimed, and one of his three adamantine chains pounced toward the kunoichi, coming straight from his back. The projectile was too fast for Kimimaro in her armor to dodge.
It quickly began to wrap around her leg. "Do you think I will let you go-" she began to say and created a giant bone drill in her hand that snapped the second it touched the chain.
"Adamantine chains?!" Kimimaro exclaimed, her eyes widening, as that was only one of the few things that Orochimaru had warned her that not even with her curse seal she could break.
So, the kunoichi quickly amputated her legs as the chain was almost reaching her waist.
For a second Kimimaro felt free; the pain and the cascade of blood oozing from her wound quickly went away as her leg was already growing back, but then a second chain snapped around her legs. It was part of the first one that Ryuko was saving just in case, thanks to the twin property he infused on it.
"I was hoping to save that to deal with Naruko, but I can spare a chain for you." Ryuko winked at her, but before he could finish, Kimimaro tried to escape one last time.
She created a bone pillar under her, a technique that Ryuko thought his own heart had been trying to learn.The technique worked by shooting a bone into the floor and then using it to create an underground network of bones that the user could use to dodge attacks or move around.
Ryuko quickly snapped the bone pillar with a kick and continued sucking chakra from her. However, he decided to reinforce his binding. "Oh? Trying to escape? Take a nap, would you?" He purred and unsealed some liquid from a scroll and then made a pink water prison around Kimimaro.
He was supposed to use that super-concentrated musk to deal with a whole clan if necessary, but Kimimaro was worthy.
The white-haired kunoichi gritted her teeth, trying to hold her breath, but the constant drain not only of chakra but also of her will to fight was making that hard. Worse, the poison was starting to affect her and making her feel . . . horny for someone who wasn't Lady Orochimaru.
"I wonder how long you can keep breathing. Let me . . ." Ryuko muttered and then with his free hand stabbed both of Kimimaro's lungs, making any air that she could save inside them get replaced by the extremely poisonous liquid of the water prison.
She gasped, her wounds quickly closing, but it was too late; the girl was only able to last a minute before she drowned as her chakra was getting sucked by the chains around her. With a final muffled groan, Kimimaro passed out.
"Done! No matter how much regeneration you have! You can't create air in your lungs!" the boy explained, releasing the water prison and carrying his new chakra battery on his back, surrounding her with a single chain in a cocoon that kept her firmly secure with him.
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Shukaku and Chomei had managed to punch Naruko's four-tailed berserker outside Konoha and now were fighting her in the forest near the village.
Both the fully summoned seven-tailed massive beetle form and the one-tailed badger turned into a mountain of sand with Gaara on top were trying to calm her, but it was . . . not going well. Especially since they needed to keep attacking: the girl covered in a crimson layer of chakra and with four tails on her back was trying to launch a Bijudama at them, something that would destroy the village if it impacted.
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So, each time that one was fighting Naruko and she began to charge the attack, the other needed to rush in and slap her in the face.
"Naruko! You need to snap out of it!" Fuu yelled, not understanding the situation and helping Chomei by flying to her and summoning her own shadow clones to keep the rampaging fox busy.
Naruko . . . no . . . Kurama raised a hand, and her arm stretched like a river, hundreds of meters, and whipped Fuu's clones out of the air like mosquitoes.
"It is . . . no use . . ." Gaara muttered, fused with Shukaku, half of her face covered in sand as she rested over the badger's head.
"Come on, fucking fox! Let's do this!" The other side yelled as it slammed her massive fist over the fox girl. It was a mountain crashing against a regular-sized human, but a blast that could only be described as fire release cut the sand arm in two without any problem. The one-tail recoiled as the amputated limb fell to the floor, turning into sand again; the impact site had turned into glass from the heat, making regeneration of that part take more time than needed.
Kurama began to charge another Bijudama, blue and red chakra slowly accumulating in front of her maw, and then from over the clouds, Chomei crashed on her with the strength of a meteorite.
The loud impact made even the village quake, blasting a crater in place and stopping the enraged tailed beast from finishing her jutsu, but . . .
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Let it go! Let it go!" The giant bug yelled as she felt something grabbing her horn.
The nine-tails showed her sister how much she appreciated the headbutt by enlarging her hands so much that Kurama could now grab Chomei's giant head without problems, and then another massive explosion rumbled through the whole area as the fox girl Batista-bombed the seven-tails onto the forest floor, creating another massive crater.