With a grunt caused by its large scale movements, the Guardian started moving, its 'eyes' set on its prey. Its large arms reached out, delivering a punch with frightening speed for its size to the head of the 5 Tails. The horse thing was sent to the ground with impact as the 4 tails' charge caused it to be grabbed mid air. The monkey using its innate strength and flexibility wrapped around the arm of the titan using its whole body, intending to destroy it. But instead, aided by the wind chakra around its gauntlet, the Guardian slammed it into the ground.
Still held down, it formed a Bijuu bomb in its mouth as fast as it could, trying to blow off the head of the Guardian, and the person on its head controlling it. But Katsuro manipulated his puppet to dodge. It was scary how the Guardian could move for its size, a testament to its inner workings. Luckily for the red haired ape named Son Goku, the 5 Tails had got back up and charged headfirst into the chest of the large wooden giant forcing it back and almost falling.
While it was pushed back and space was created, Onoki in that time while flying had formed his Particle Style Jutsu, and launched it into the chest of Katsuro's Jutsu. He knew how useless it would be to target Katsuro with it, so he hoped at the very least to target it to help the tailed beasts as it was too slow to be able to dodge. True to the Particle's Style nature, it made simple work of the outer wooden armour and inner earth tearing a clean hole through the Guardian. Seeing this brought back some hope, but it was quickly scattered when they rapidly closed and earth refilled the whole and wood covered it back up.
This was another difference in comparison to the Nature's Attendant Jutsu, the Guardian was a behemoth built for combat, and with Katsuro on top of it providing chakra, it could essentially heal. Even the cracks formed in its right arm by the muscular and powerful 4 Tails had healed completely.
The 5 Tails, Kokuo, with its dolphin-like face attempted to charge again, almost like a bull. But this time it was caught by the built dense arms. A battle ensued between both sides pushing against each other, with the 5 Tails' boil release empowering its chakra to create immense speed and strength, similar to its Jinchuuriki, Han. But the sheer size, weight and strength of the Guardian was holding on. And that was all it needed to do, as the very arms pushing Kokuo's head soon grew numerous branches out of them as they tried to wrap around the horse-dolphin hybrid.
Son Goku, seeing this, used the Lava Style: Scorching Rocks Jutsu which created much bigger balls of molten rock from its mouth than Roshi did. 3 huge balls of fire struck the Guardian, but its wood style exterior greatly helped against it. Clearly damage was done, and they created decently sized craters and cracks on the Guardian's armour, but it did little to help Kokuo. Onoki, adapting, tried to fire an Atomic Dismantling Jutsu that would completely sever the Guardian's arm like a beam, and it worked.
As Kokuo was struggling against the wood restraints that made it feel weaker and continued to bind it, one of the Guardian's arms was sliced off by a beam of white light which meant all the wood connected to it stopped growing and got easier to get out of.
Onoki assumed cutting off a limb like he had would make regenerating a whole new one much harder and more chakra intensive, and he was right. Katsuro made no attempt to address his sudden one arm situation, and kept his one hand in front of his palm inward like he was praying with one hand. The wood from the left arm that hadn't been targeted continued to bind the 5 Tails' whole body. But with one side now being ineffective, the bind was unravelling.
Katsuro then formed the hand signs for another Hashirama signature but with his own twist, "Eleventh on Enlightenment." The Guardian pulled away slightly to form the Kanji for 'sit' in its remaining palm, before it rethrust it onto the 5 Tails' head. The technique used the Wood Style to forcibly suppress the tailed beasts' chakra, which made it much easier for the thick branches to grow and imprison it completely. It worked much quicker, because unlike the original 'Hokage Style Elder Jutsu: Tenth Edict On Enlightenment' Katsuro had also incorporated his expertise in Fuinjutsu, as it was also used Kanji.
As the 5 Tails was wrapped up and fell helplessly completely drained, Katsuro had a satisfied smile, thankful he had not neglected the wood style even if he didn't use it. Even early on, Granny Mito had helped his progress with her husbands' notes and techniques secretly where revealing such a thing would have Katsuro make enemies of the Hokage faction much too early. It was also for this reason, that he frankly couldn't act as he may have wanted and why it took so long for Danzo to finally kiss the dirt. If they knew, they would know the power he would reach and would've tried to root the problem by snipping the bud early with their full force.
Even more recently, his trips to the Shikkotsu forest had also been about the wood style. In such a perfect environment, he could truly go crazy, trying and improving techniques using Lady Katsuyu's memory of Hashirama.
Granny Mito… I hope you're watching this…
With a smile on his face Katsuro manipulated the Guardian. Onoki could only stare on as the despair returned, he was helpless with his chakra reaching critical levels. He intended to make the last Atomic Dismantling Jutsu he could afford worthwhile, and he thought it had been. But when he saw the Guardian simply bend down and pick up its detached as it rumbled under the strain, he got a bad feeling.
It was confirmed when it simply placed its own arm where it had been cut off, and the earth and wood grew to attach it once again. But, interestingly the damage caused by the 4 tails hadn't been fully healed, as clear marks were still there. And even where the arm had been reattached clearly contained cracks. It was a sign that an endless lake of chakra was finally running out. But those hopes were dashed instantaneously, when in that same hand, a Jutsu that had become familiar started to form.
The hand was held down and out stretched as if holding something not quite there, when a blue orb formed. It was small at first, but then it grew, bigger and bigger till it was bigger than the hand 'holding' it. The wind created by its swirling alone was almost visible, and caused the trees, leaves and branches to sway wildly. It was like a mini hurricane, and even Katsuro's hair wasn't spared. Flowing behind him wildly, but enviously it only served to make him look better.
It was a Rasengan, but scaled to a giant making it even bigger than the Bijuu bombs the 4 and 5 tails formed. The bright blue shone ominously screaming danger, and looking past the reflection of it in the 4 tails' eyes. One could only see fear.
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