"The good thing is at least, now that a good amount of time has passed from the time I awakened,my perception has come back to it's original capabilities. I won't have to use that darned eye again." thought Hayato as he gazed upon Omoikane.He was now almost fully calm, ready to combat the Otsutsuki.A state of true relaxation.
The scroll that the Otsutsuki held in his hand exploded, making a tiny poof and letting out a lot of smoke.Now Omoikane held something else in his hand, an artifact that wasn't unknown to Hayato.
" This is... the needle sword Nuibari! One of the legendary 7 swords of Kirigakure!Why is an Otsutsuki wielding it?" thought Hayato surprised.The weapon bore slight changes to it, a distinctive golden look for example.
"I am sure you are familiar with this weapon.Yet I've modified it slightly to match my combat preferences." Omoikane stated while proudly pointed the legendary sword at him.
"Hn! You think you are the only one with cool weapons?" Hayato thought while a smirk formed around his dagger.
He placed his palm on his abdomen and twisted it. A seal stretched through his whole torso and jolts of electricity formed around his palm. Instantly then, a long object engulfed with lightning was fired from his abdomen with so much speed that even the most well-trained Sharingan wouldn't perceive it.
The mysterious object flew towards Omoikane with unimaginable speed and emitted high-voltage lightning that scorched the cherry blossom trees around them. He managed to dodge the object, but barely.
"That was...a spear?It was sealed in his abdomen?" he wondered while preparing his attack.
Omoikane, without wasting any time, threw the Nuibari at Hayato,but he evaded by swiftly making a step back. At the same time, using the Nuibari's string, he reeled himself towards the Nuibari and tried to slash Hayato with a chakra rod, but Hayato blocked it with the dagger that drew from his mouth.
The dagger was wet from Hayato's saliva, making the natural lightning that flowed through it a lot stronger. As Hayato's dagger and Omoikane's chakra rod clashed, sparks were being produced that illuminated Omoikane's eyes behind the mask. The right one was a Byakugan, the usual dojutsu of the Otsutsuki. The other one though was a Sharingan. Hayato had never seen a Sharingan-wielding Otsutsuki before.
"By the way Hayato-san, I know about the scientific ninja tool in your bone marrow, that produces nanomachines that can control natural energy." he said while their weapons were still clashing, producing a screeching sound.
Suddenly then, the timespace around them started warping, making Hayato gasp in fear. He instantly withdrew his dagger and leapt back.
" Spacetime ninjutsu? So he probably tries to send me to a dimension we're the natural energy will be limited so I can't use any jutsu. However his spacetime ninjutsu is slow, giving me an advantage. I'll try to be swift when engage in close combat." thought Hayato. Unexpectedly then, Hayato could hear a very faint, high-pitched frequency.
" The frequency! Heh, it's coming back I guess."he thought enthusiastically.
Suddenly, a lightning bolt appeared from the horizon that pierced through the clouds and headed towards Omoikane.He couldn't apprehended the high-velocity bolt and he was pinned down by it on the ground. As the lightning bolt striked the earth, a huge explosion was created, unleashing a tremendously intense electrical discharge.
When the dust from the blast cleared, the object that hit Omoikane could be clearly seen. It was a spear, the same weapon that was launched from Hayato's abdomen, now it flew back to it's owner.It was like a long, 2 meter tesla coil, while it's blade was bayonet - style. Behind it stood Hayato's lightning clone, which kept the spear pinned on the Otsutsuki.
"This can't be! There is no way I killed him!" Hayato thought as even he couldn't believe the precision of his attack.
"The elemental clone, what a troublesome jutsu." a voice spoke from behind. Weirdly then, Omoikane's body disappeared, fading away like haze.
"G-genjutsu?So that's it. I knew I didn't kill him" Hayato thought as he recognized Omoikane's voice from behind him. And just when he tried to turn around, a sheer pain struck his whole right arm.
When he tilted his head to check, he was shocked from what he witnessed. A golden string,that pierced the back of his shoulder, exited from his bicep and reentered through his forearm,viciously sewed together his whole arm. The string, that finally exited from his palm, was tied on the Nuibari, which was nailed in front of Hayato's feet.
"Pffhahahah! Look at you! Your arm makes you look like a fucking t-rex!" a voice inside his head mocked Hayato, whose pain was making his electronics in his eyes glitch and his heart pump blood like a machinegun.
"WHAT?! WHAT THE HELL?!" he screamed confused and shocked,panting from pain . "WHEN DID HE PIERCE ME WITH THE NUIBARI?"
"He got me into genjutsu when I peered at his Sharingan, the illusion with his body disappearing like haze proves it. How the hell did he pass the Nuibari through me is the problem. Considering the size of it, I wouldn't have a right arm if a sword so big pierced my whole arm."Hayato thought in distress as he tried to analyze the situation.
"The elemental clone, isn't it?" Omoikane said while not even paying attention to Hayato's agonizing moment.
"Your nanomachines are being used to form a clone of yourself, different than a regular shadow clone, using natural energy, your DNA and the molecules of the selected element. This time you used ionized air molecules to make a lightning clone.Each clones has different abilities, depending on the element. I assume that your clone is a house , the nanomachines are the builders, the natural energy is basically the materials of the house and your DNA is the blueprint of it, am I right?"Omoikane perfectly analyzed Hayato's jutsu.
" However, I wonder how much chakra your scientific ninja tool consumes to create such clone. I also doubt that you can make more than one at a time, isn't it?"Omoikane spoke with a sarcastic tone in his voice. Instantly then, the lightning clone jumped at the right side of Hayato, entering a defensive pose with his spear.
Hayato, with his eyes widened in shock, found the courage to speak.
" H-how the fuck do you know all this?" he stuttered in fear.
"I know everything about everyone that walks or walked on this planet." Omoikane answered.
"Heh, I also know about your Sharingan that you despise so much!" he taunted him and the time space around Hayato warped again.
"Damn it! With this string holding my arm like this, I am not able to turn around and face him. " thought Hayato in utter physical agony, while the Nuibari's golden string was crushing his bones inside his arm,even if they were made from pure tungsten.
Instantaneously then, his lightning clone dashed towards the Otsutsuki. His foot that propelled him forwards created so much friction that melted the ground the clones instant acceleration created a sonic boom that shook the whole mountain.
The clone thrusted his spear forward in order to force him to let Hayato free and so he did. Not being able to dodge the clone's attack, Omoikane cocked his hand back and mysteriously pulled the Nuibari out of Hayato's arm,successfully blocking the thrust.
"What?! The Nuibari that was in front of me disappeared! The string as well!" thought Hayato confused. But now, he was able to turn back and face Omoikane as well, though his arm ached terribly. He charged towards Omoikane with so much speed that it was like he teleported.
Hayato tried to slash Omoikane from midair with his dagger, which was channeled with lightning.Until that moment, the Otsutsuki was exchanging slices and cuts with the lightning clone, but he blocked Hayato's attack fairly easily with a chakra rod.
Hayato then, as he was midair, attempted to strike his arm with his elbow but suddenly,another arm popped out from Omoikane's sleeve that had screws and metallic parts on it. This arm grabbed Hayato from his forearm and launched him on the air, like he was nothing.
The lightning clone thrusted forward his spear once again, trying to impale Omoikane's neck but he dodged it by leaning backwards. However, the clone's attack was so fast that the edge of the blade scratched the Otsutsuki's metallic mask. As Omoikane was falling backwards, he put his hands on the ground for balance and kicked the clone with both of his legs, sending him flying as well.
Nevertheless, as the clone was in the air, tiny rays of light could be spotted between him and the Otsutsuki.As the distance between the clone and the enemy increased, several lightning bolts popped out from the clone's pouches. Those bolts were tied to those light rays, proving that they were basically lightning-engulfed kunai tied to strings, which were wrapped around Omoikane's leg.Hayato's clone managed to wrap the strings around his legs while he was attacking with the spear.
The kunai swiftly headed towards him but the attack was futile, since he evaded it by jumping. They hit the ground, making a fairly big blast considering their size. However, Omoikane noticed something peculiar.
"Lightning produced from natural energy seems to work pretty much the same with lightning chakra .Some of his nanomachines are being negatively charged and others are being positively charged, using the friction of the air.
Then, the negatively charged and the positively charged nanomachines collide, creating an electrical discharge.It appears that he can control the intensity of the electrical current by electrifying the natural energy in the atmosphere and shape it as well, since the nanomachines can manipulate natural energy.
The properties of the naturally-produced lightning seem to be pretty much the same as chakra-produced lightning, yet with much more volume and vigor."and after that boring internal monologue, Omoikane pointed his metallic arm at Hayato, who had just landed. The mysterious hand morphed into a weird, fan-like cannon, which spun at a tremendous speed.
Upon witnessing the arm changing it's form, Hayato flinched from shock and came into a conclusion.
"This... This is the Rinnegan's Ashura Path!" thought Hayato and before even he managed to plan his next move, the fan-like cannon spun, unleashing a stream of hot air that burned and swiped everything on it's path.
The rocky soil turned into sand, while the cherry blossom trees were utterly burned.Hayato's dagger that landed a few meters away completely melted. Him, not being able to avoid the hot pandemonium consisted of hot shrapnel and air, repelled the stream with a strong aura of natural energy.
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The civilians of the capital city of Koshiku witnessed in terror the events on the mountain. The city's garrison, not being able to comprehend what the hell was happening on the mountain, decided to evacuate the civilians.Everyone was running into a fuss.
"What the hell is happening up there?!" shouted a civilian bewildered.
"Did anyone feel the shockwave earlier?! It's like it came from the mountain!" another asked.
"SHUT THE HELL UP EVERYONE AND DO WHAT THE SOLDIERS SAY!" a samurai roared, trying to get the civilians into order.
Suddenly then, scorched matter consisted of rocks, trees and ash was launched from the mountain,caused by Omoikane's attack. The helpless population stared in awe at the hot, flying mass that headed towards the suburbs of the city and thus, the houses there were completely burned to the ground. Thank goodness the suburbs had already been evacuated.
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"This - this is undoubtedly boil release! I-I can't withstand the steam any longer!My arm hurts like hell as well!" thought Hayato as the stream continuously blew away everything from it's path. It was able to find "holes" in Hayato's defense made of natural energy and inflicted burns and cuts that ached a lot.Then, as Hayato couldn't hold up his defenses any longer, he canceled his aura and was hit by a scorched rock, blowing him away.
"No, he is not dead.He used substitution jutsu." thought Omoikane after he noticed the puff of smoke that appeared after the rock hit Hayato and awaited for his next attack.
"Hmm. I'm guessing he's going to appear... behind me." Omoikane calmly thought and turned around, only to see Hayato having balanced 5 lightning-engulfed shuriken on each finger, at each hand. These shuriken spun at that much velocity, that they generated a sound that was reminiscent to a turbo engine's sound. Omoikane noticed that he had his sage mode deactivated and had also burns on his organic parts.
"Sage art:Lightning chainsaw jutsu" Hayato unleashed the screeching lightning-cloaked, spinning shuriken, that used the surrounding electromagnetic forces to gain such velocity. However, the Otsutsuki repelled them fairly easily using the Shinra Tensei technique. Without losing any time, Hayato dashed towards Omoikane, who had also detected the spear-wielding lightning clone that was heading towards him as well.
Omoikane got into a defensive pose with the Nuibari,though Hayato didn't attack the way he expected. Instead of casting a jutsu or attacking him physically, Hayato jumped on him and grasped him tightly.
"Wha-what is this idiot doing?!" Omoikane wondered baffled.
Then... POOF!
It appears that the Hayato that jumped on Omoikane wasn't the actual Hayato, but the lightning clone disguising himself with the transformation jutsu. Another poof sounded from behind, revealing that the lightning clone was the actual Hayato, with his sage mode activated.
Omoikane wasn't able to do anything when the lightning clone on him exploded, creating a massive electrical discharge that paralyzed and burned him. Hayato then, taking advantage of the situation, attempted to attack him with his spear, while he was vulnerable.
"Sojutsu:Frog kumite" Hayato thrusted his spear forward, releasing a wave of natural energy that directly hit Omoikane's abdomen with enough force to blow him away and sent him to the other side of the mountain, on the slope that didn't face the city.
Hayato, after engulfing himself with lightning once again, decided to follow him to see if he can land another blow.
Finally, Omoikane landed on a particularly steep slope. Hayato prepared to attack him, though he stopped at the last minute because Omoikane got up.
Blood was flowing from inside his mask, meaning that Hayato managed to damage him heavily.
"Don't you dare think that you have chances of winning just because you made me bleed, you idiot!" Omoikane said in order to shut Hayato's enthusiasm.
"However, I have to congratulate you for managing to trick me with such a simple jutsu." he continued speaking with a sarcastic tone in his voice and applauded afterwards.
"Needless to say I'm amazed that you have honed your sage mode in order to emulate the perceptive advantages of the Sharingan.Your agility and speed are something else as well.Bravo!" he continued clapping and stopped abruptly after a few seconds.
"Though I will do my best to force you activate the despicable dojutsu!" the tone in his voice got more serious.
Hayato, didn't answer immediately and with a dead serious face, he replied.
"You are kinda weak for an Otsutsuki!" Hayato scoffed him.
A small chuckle could be heard from behind his mask, a chuckle which turned into a maniac bark of laughter.
"Why the hell do you got 1st degree burns on your face and chest then?" Omoikane answered intensely.
Suddenly then, a silhouette appeared behind Hayato, which...only him could see.
"Oh-Oh... Obliterated!" the silhouette whispered at his ear and instantly disappeared.
Omoikane then put his hand into his sleeveless coat once again and grabbed another scroll.The object that was sealed in it was a sword, yet quite different than the Nuibari.After the smoke cleared, it was revealed that Omoikane had already stolen a human artifact.
The Kubikiribocho!
The sword, that once Zabuza of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen wielded,bore a peculiar modification. There was a yellow Rinnegan engraved above the sword's hilt, which was golden.
Hayato's gasped in shock and tried to comprehend why this Otsutsuki is using human weapons. Though what scared him was the Rinnegan on the sword.
Omoikane then pulled back his arm and the Nuibari, that was on the other side of the mountain until now, appeared on the sky and landed in front of him.
"Now..." he said as he picked up the needle sword and glanced upon Hayato.
... Let's truly see if are worthy to carry your ancestor's legacy! "
Hayato then, pinned his spear on the ground. He untied the headband from his neck and then slowly tied it around his head.A headband that is more than just a piece of scrap to him.Something that carries his successes, sorrows and ambitions.Something that burdens, yet blesses him with a heavy legacy.Something that reminds him of his ideal, from which he strayed further in the past , yet now the headband gives him the strength to reatach with this ideal, the Ninja Way!
" I may not look at it, Omoikane... "Hayato smirked and pointed at the shattered part of the headbang.
"... But the Will of Fire is still burning inside me! "
... TO BE CONTINUED