Some time had passed since that night, and Ryuko was now in his home, having some fun with some of his girls in his bedroom. However, as he was lying on a sofa having this cock sucked, the boy saw Tsunami quickly rushing inside the room with a paper in her hand.
"Master Ryuko! They kidnapped Inari!" The official maid of the house and mother of his first kid exclaimed with distress in her voice.
Ryuko raised an eyebrow, confused as the three girls stopped licking him, got up, and quickly surrounded Tsunami to see what was happening. "Who?" the boy asked, really not getting what she was talking about.
"My first son . . ." Tsunami muttered with a preoccupied tone.
The redhead needed a few extra seconds to finally remember him. ". . . oh right!" he yelled. It was the boy crying because he fucked his mom in their house so loudly that he couldn't sleep.
"They said that they want you to go alone to Takumi Village . . . I know that is much to ask, but if you are nearby, could you . . . rescue him? I will understand if you don't want to go . . ." the mother muttered, not as worried as one would think. Just the fact that she could live without her first child said a lot about how much damage Ryuko had done to her mind.
"This is obviously a trap! I am sure they have a team to hunt you down if you go there," Ido, taking over Yakumo for a second, exclaimed as her new white eyes were constantly draining her already massive amounts of chakra to stay working. It was a miracle that she was able to withstand so much consumption of energy.
Sai, who was already showing signs of advanced pregnancy, cleaned the semen from her mouth with one hand before talking. "Indeed, I should perform this mission," the kunoichi muttered while trying to hide her frustration. This interruption had robbed her of feeling Ryuko's thick cock in her backdoor.
"Just let me go; I will get that brat in a minute," Ido said as her body was growing a pair of horns and her skin was turning black. Even if she had already given birth to one of her kids and her belly was starting to show signs of another one coming soon, she was ready for this fight.
Nemu let out a small sigh. "Don't get cocky from those new eyes you have; this mission can still be dangerous," the girl added since this was obviously a trap to catch Ryuko.
"I don't need advice from a girl who thought that beating Ryuko with taijutsu was a good idea," Ido answered with a bratty tone.
"Didn't you do the same?" Nemu barked again, getting near the woman.
"I used that and Genjutsu. It is different," Ido answered as she also made a step forward, their massive tits clashing together.
"Using Genjutsu against a Hyuga? Maybe you should change those eyes again because you cannot see that the situation was the same," Nemu spewed with vitriol, as was her duty to be the prodigy of the house; another one like her was getting on her nerves.
Ido licked her lips and raised an eyebrow. "You wanna go? I need some extra training," the demonic-looking girl asked as her whole body started to irradiate senjutsu chakra.
"Whenever you are ready," the Hyuga said as her fist began to ignite with a blue flame.
Sai quickly decided to defuse the situation. "I suggest you two to stop this. This is a dangerous matter that could put Ryuko's life at risk. Who knows the amount of assassins and mercenaries that are waiting for him in this place? This kind of risk merits that we . . . where did he go?" She asked confused, not realizing the second that a possibility of a deadly ambush was on the table, Ryuko had already jumped out the window and ran to get his gear.
He didn't care about the boy, but an excuse to get out of the village and face assassins was too much for the bored boy to resist the temptation.
Apart from the standard stuff that boy used to carry, like poison and all kinds of liquids in big scrolls, he was basically carrying three human-sized scrolls in his back. A mouth-sealed soldier pill, as always, was a good choice. In terms of weapons, he was carrying his sealed pipe, shurikens, and kunais sealed on his wrist to have easy access. Then he had several rags around his body with bubbles, poison, and musk sealed to get easy access to them and a briefcase full of cash just if that was needed. Of course, he was also wearing his weights and five elemental seals in his stomach to nerf his power a little if the situation was too boring.
As Ryuko was running at full speed to that village after asking Katsuyu where it was, the boy couldn't stop smiling. "Inari, I love you so much! You are the best stepson!" He yelled with a wide grin on his face as he jumped in the air and made a small spin of pure happiness.
"Are you really using a child as an excuse to leave the village?" Katsuyu asked with a curious tone.
"Well, that is a good point. I was thinking of him more as bait for assassins, but that also helps. I should buy him some ice cream when we are done," Ryuko answered, as this was the best possible outcome. First, Inari would be the perfect target for kidnapping, luring more assassins to his hands, and second, the Hokage would not say anything to him. After all, for the public, this was just a desperate attempt from a jinchuriki to save one of his family members.
Saiken was deep in thought, trying to remember something but being unable to do it. That was strange because the slug had a good memory to the point of remembering perfectly stuff that happened centuries ago. So, that must be a really old detail. "That place name . . . sounds familiar, but I can't remember why . . ." she muttered inside Ryuko.
"It is probably something related to your dad. This place we are heading to was a blacksmith village since the times of the sage," Katsuyu said to her sister.
"Oh right! It must be the place where Dad bought his cooking pot!" Saiken answered, completely forgetting a crucial detail about this mission.
It just took him a few hours for Ryuko to arrive at the village that was near the border with the land of wind. There was still a lot of sun in the sky, as it must be just a few hours after lunch.
The village in question was a decent-sized normal place with at least one hundred houses in the core and a few farms around it. With a massive river running in the middle of it and a puff of black smoke coming from the forges in the center of this place, it was clear this land was the famous blacksmith village.
"So, what should we do first?" Saiken asked in her small doll-size independent summoning, standing on one shoulder of Ryuko.
Katsuyu, who had summoned another of herself outside Ryuko in his other shoulder, nodded. "What did the letters say?" the slug added.
Ryuko rubbed a finger under his chin as he walked a dirt road toward a big red wooden bridge that connected the two parts of the town. "Hmmmmmmmm, I don't know, I went out before reading it," the boy confessed as his activated byakugan was working at full power, expecting some nice surprises as he walked into the village. As predicted, he could see a pair of girls approaching him.
Both were almost the same size of the ninja, just a head taller than Ryuko, standing in his way. The first one had long black hair that reached her knees with a serious and stern face. With gi and a pair of black hot pants, she wasn't really loaded on the hips, but her breasts were magnificent. The other one was more interesting; her face was more bratty. Short black hair with a long strand of red crimson near her forehead with an ass that was mind-melting. All of that was covered by just a red top and a pair of blue hot pants that almost disappeared in that posterior. Sadly, the second girl was completely flat on her chest. Both girls with piercing blue eyes blocked the slug team and stopped their advance.
"Hey! Who are you, and what do you want in our village?!" The bratty one yelled with an annoyed tone while crossing her arms.
The other made a step ahead of the first girl and put a hand on her chest, as a gesture for her to stop barking. "Calm down, sister . . . it is a ninja from Konoha; they must have figured out about our problem. . ." the girl said with a calm and collected tone, but the sheer sternness of her gaze made it clear that she had the same kind of feelings as her sister.
"I have been given some info on the situation, but I would like to know more details," Ryuko lied as naturally as he breathed.
The bratty one raised an eyebrow. "The four guardians killed the elders! Took over the sacred weapons, and now they are ruling the village! How you didn't know that?!" She yelled with an annoyed tone as she crossed her arms.
"And why do they send only one ninja? This situation is serious," the other girl asked as one could see her gritting her teeth and looking down at Ryuko, underestimating his power.
Ryuko nodded, getting an idea about what was going to happen. "Where are they now?" He asked as he tried to hide his bloodlust.
"They left the village a few hours ago; we don't know why . . ." the bratty ninja said without being able to understand why they went so far at this moment.
"We suspect they went to the tomb of the village founder for some reason," the serious one muttered as they had heard those murderers talking about the topic.
"Are they waiting for you there?" Saiken added, thinking that was where the ambush was supposed to be.
Ryuko let out a deep sigh, like a boy who missed his own birthday party. "Oh, this is awkward. . ." he muttered, a little bit ashamed of this mismatch.
"What are those?" The bratty asked while pointing at Ryuko's two slug friends.
"Hi, I am Saiken," the girl said while weaving one of her tiny arms to the duo.
"I am Katsuyu; nice to meet you, artisans," the old slug added with a calm tone.
The more serious girl raised an eyebrow. "How do you know that?" She asked with curiosity.
"The calluses in your hands—those are from hard work and the heat of the forge," Katsuyu said, giving that profession the respect it deserves.
The bratty one smiled. "You are one smart little slug, aren't you?" She said, not knowing that she was talking to such an elderly sage.
Katsuyu chuckled. "Indeed, I am," the slug muttered, playing along with the mistake.
"Ok, I know what to do," Ryuko exclaimed, ready to have a nice party in this town. Getting Inari was a thing that he needed to do but not a priority.
The redhead began to stretch a little, catching people's attention with his well-toned ass. "Where is the tomb?" He asked with a serious tone.
"North of here," the girl with long hair said.
Ryuko made a quick hand gesture with a hand and summoned one shadow clone."You, go tell them we are waiting for them in the town," he ordered his clone, and it went rushing in that direction.
"You two evacuate everybody and anything; there will be collateral damage," he then said to the girl, as this was going to get nasty.
The bratty one looked at him as if he was crazy. "That is a pain in the ass! We cannot move all the people to the outside of the village in such a short time!" she yelled, refusing to do such a crazy thing.
Ryuko let out a small chuckle. "Oh no no no no. You don't get it . . ." he purred with a cute and innocent tone.
Then the two girls felt an immense pressure in the air as pure chakra began to exude from the boy's body. This wasn't genjutsu; it was a peek at the boy's true strength that put him on the same level as a kage-level ninja. "Get anything that you don't want to be destroyed at least eight kilometers from the village," he muttered with a tone drenched in pure malice. There was no way that he could hold back after so many months of having his bloodlust jailed.
With the river nearby, they would unleash true hell, and if the village survived it, it was not a coincidence at this point; it was a miracle.
The sisters froze in place as if they had seen a demon with two adorable slugs over his shoulders. "We . . .will do!" The stern one yelled, as this was not a place to argue.
****
Ryuko's preparation started as soon as he could. He pulled his pipe out and began to summon water clones to help with the evacuation. The boy could comfortably summon 30 of them mixed with different bubble jutsu to give them special properties. As they helped the people to evacuate, he created a total of 10 giant bubble clones, like the one that he used against Nemu: 5 explosive ones with huge blast radii, 5 void ones with a small explosion radius but a stronger destructive potential, and finally 10 that could steal one sense of their targets if they managed to land a hand on them. The last batch was in charge of keeping the mist going once the combat started. Of course, each of them was made out of extremely toxic water, making it lethal the second they were to be popped or the jutsu stored in them. After their use was done, they just henge all over the village as normal objects, creating the perfect mine field for the boy to ambush his enemies.
This was just part of his plan, as now was the turn of Katsuyu to play around. He summoned 50 small Katsuyu for her to be buried in multiple parts of the village, now adding acid landmines to the already dangerous place. Mixed with clones, the boy had a good layer of traps set up. Now he needed a proper ring to fight.
On the main building of the town, what was once the elder mansion, Ryuko decided to make it his battle arena. For that, he focused on hiding a good chunk of Katsuyu in this building and placed 3 shadow clones on each corner of the village to create a proper barrier around it to imprison his targets.
In terms of information about his enemies, Ryuko couldn't get much. These holy weapons in question had not been used in centuries, so their powers were surrounded by mystery. He only knew that there was one armor that could absorb chakra, a set of twin wind swords, a fire blade, and a three-head water hydra one. Well, he would enjoy discovering what they could do.
So now, as he was waiting, sitting on top of the main building of the village. It was time for his clone to send the invitation.
****
In the middle of a forest, three ninjas were digging a massive hole in the ground. They had removed the seals and the big stone blocking their way to the giant metallic black box they were trying to remove from the dry ground.
Those four were the supposed guardians of the village, the four celestial symbol men. A small and effeminate boy known as Kujaku, a young teenager called Ryugan, a tall man with the name of Suiko, and their leader Hoki.
Kujaku looked from afar like a woman. A small boy with short green hair, amber eyes, a red gi, and a light brown coat over it. At his waist, one could see a set of short swords with golden handles with a green jewel in the models of each of them. From afar, one could see that this boy had a nice ass but not on the same level as a Konoha Kunoichi or Ryuko.
Ryuga could be seen as a normal genin, a boy with short and spiky blue hair and green eyes. The ninja wearing a purple shirt and a pair of baggy gray pants didn't seem muscular, but he had a nice lean build. The most interesting detail about him was the strange weapon on his back; it seemed like a blue sword with three blades that ran parallel to each other and connected to the handle from the same point.
Suiko was a proper man, the taller and most muscular of the bunch. The huge ninja with long brown hair and a finely trimmed beard accentuate those firm hazelnut eyes. However, his face had details easy to miss since all the attention was drawn to the armor he was wearing. A thick ivory armor that looked like one used by samurai with a big blue jewel in the middle. With golden and black details, this old piece of protection shone under the sun, not showing a single sliver of rust or scratch, even if it was ancient.
Hoki looked like a normal ninja. A tall and slender man with a sharp chin and short brown hair. The ninja's expression was calm and serene, with his brown eyes looking to the trees as he waited for Ryuko. He was dressed in a purple jacket and a pair of long brown pants. On one hand, he had a big dark gray blade that seemed to not have an edge and was made of a material similar to stone rather than steel. On the other, there was Inari, Tsunami's son, a small boy with black short hair tied with ropes, with a cloth on his eyes and mouth to prevent him from making any noise.
Their peace was broken when a clone of Ryuko finally arrived, found them, and appeared in the middle of the excavation site with a smug smile on his lips.
"Don't make a move or the kid dies!" Suiko yelled with an aggressive tone, going immediately into a martial stance.
Ryuga quickly pulled out his strange blade and pointed it toward the clone. "Look, we don't want more troubles that are needed," the boy said as his face was clearly nervous.
"You look cuter in person," Kujaku purred and blew a kiss toward the clone that quickly dodged it out of the way. He wasn't into guys.
"Ryuko, right? Could you be so gentle as to give a little bit of your beast chakra to revive our leader? Do that, and I will give you back your stepson," Hoki finally said as he pointed to the box.
The clone was taken aback by that phrase and that box they wanted to open. He knew a lot about seals, and that didn't seem like a tomb. Judging by the inscriptions on the black iron, the broken seals around it, and the stone they had removed, it looked more like a prison than a sarcophagus.
"What stepson?" Ryuko asked with a cute and innocent tone, with Inari now on his hands. In a blink of an eye, the boy had blitzed the ninjas and recovered the hostage not because he was worried about him but because he got in the way.
Hoki yelled as he was unable to do anything in order to avoid getting taken advantage of in that way. "Dammit! He is too fast!" He cursed and raised his sword, but before he could act, Ryuko, like the psychopath he was, pulled a kunai and pressed it against Inari's throat.
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh, no sudden moves, or your precious bait dies," Ryuko exclaimed, testing the steel of his enemies. He needed to know if they were up to killing an innocent child if it was a bluff.
"What is wrong with you?! He is a child!" Ryuga yelled as the rest of the team was visibly nervous from the sudden change of the encounter. They didn't expect that the hero of the waves would behave like this.
A sadistic chuckle escaped the boy's lips as he licked his kunai. "Oh, don't worry, I am just taking the hostages out of the way. I will not run away since I have been craving a good fight for a long time," Ryuko muttered with the face of a true sadist.
"Why don't you take that little box back to the village so we can talk?" the boy finally asked while looking at that strange black box.
Ryuko kept the serious expression going for a second before bursting into laughter and dropping the kunai. "Who am I kidding? We are going to fight! I am ready for you, and don't worry about the people in the village! I evacuated each citizen so we can go all out!" He yelled before the clone rushed out of the way, carrying Inari to a safe location.
"You crazy bastard!" Suiko yelled, the big man was taken aback by that behavior.
"No no no, let's get him! We can revive our leader!" The fellow femboy added as they began to run toward the village.
"Come on, boys! Don't make me wait!" Ryuko said from a distance, ready to ambush the group.
"There you go; you are safe now, Inari," the clone said as he took the boy with the rest of the town people that were waiting at a safe distance from the battle.
The boy looked around as Ryuko took down his gag. "Wha-what?! You won't kill me?" Inari said as he was still shaking like a leaf.
With a wide smile, the boy patted his head. "Oh no no no, that was just a trick for them! I would never hurt my favorite ba-step son!" Ryuko said, almost messing things up.
Meanwhile, the group of warriors finally arrives at the village, carrying the massive black box with them and placing it outside the town. They landed on the west side of the village, ready to capture the ninja hiding in his town.
"There is nobody here!" Suiko exclaimed, as indeed the village was now completely empty.
"Where he is?" Ryuga yelled, failing to see Ryuko.
The redhead, waiting for them sitting on top of the big mansion that was the elders' previous home, got up and waved a hand. "Hi!" He exclaimed with a mocking tone as he stood there in the middle of that blue tile meadow.
"Watch out! This place could be filled with traps!" The leader finally added as he was looking around for explosive seals and other types of traps as he was jumping from rooftop to rooftop.
As the group traveled, they were ambushed by two Katsuyu who jumped out of the ground and spat a massive gush of acid over them. The small slugs had enough liquid on them to completely melt a normal ninja.
"Explosives!" The girly boy yelled and pulled out his two twins' swords. With a swift hand movement, massive wind waves like a tornado struck the acid rain and managed to repel them. Ryuko recognized that jutsu was like Naruko's wind barrier but used without any type of seal.
The second that the group saw the slugs and the acid was gone, the leader jumped forward with his sword. "It is acid!" He exclaimed, and that slab of stone burst into flames, igniting as it struck the two slugs, turning them into ash in a second.
("Ouch!") Katsuyu cursed inside Ryuko; it was the same type of pain as getting clawed by a tiny cat, but that made something clear: that sword could hurt the slug.
"Wait!" The big man grabbed the leader by the neck and threw him back, just an instant before a massive implosion happened in the house. It was as if the whole building had collapsed in itself, an implosion so strong that only left a compressed ball of rubble in the ground.
"Let me open the way!" The younger ninja with the trident blade yelled. He swung his sword in the air, and from nothing he conjured a massive protective tunnel of water that covered his team and managed to guard them from exterior damage until they reached the elder mansion, leaving a small river of water behind.
The leader kept advancing toward Ryuko. "An implosion! Don't get caught by the traps!" He yelled while looking around for more traps and not getting near the ground for any reason.
Ryuko knew that he needed to push the last one out of the range of his hiding clones into his trap. So the boy quickly triggered off the slugs on the outside of the building to shoot a massive blast of acid against the rear of the ninja team.
Ryuga quickly lifted his sword and created a huge wall of water that managed to block the rain of corrosive acid. However, that act inadvertently pushed him inside the deadly ring that the redhead demon had prepared for them. It was time to have some fun.
It took him a few seconds for the clones to create a triangular barrier around the whole zone. Each other shadow clone made hand seals and put their hands on the floor, creating three dark translucent walls of energy that boxed the ninjas. The technique was followed by three water clones unleashing the "hiding in the mist jutsu", creating a thick layer of water steam in this already cramped gray box.
"Come on, my friends, didn't you want me to meet me and take my chakra? Well, here I am!" Ryuko exclaimed, standing on top of the rooftop with a big pipe in his hands.
"Ryuga! Neutralize the slugs! Kujaku! Take care of the mist! Suiko! Covered me with your armor!" The leader yelled as he was the one charging in front with the huge man on his side as the mist was quickly enclosing them, giving them a second before Ryuko melted on the steam.
The huge ninja went to punch Ryuko with his hand and weave a seal with his other one to quickly create a massive earth fist around it. The big strike impacted the boy and instantly turned into water, reducing all the damage that he would take to zero. On that second Ryuko decided to test the strength of that armor and gave the man a quick kick on the stomach, but something interesting happened: a thick barrier of blue chakra exploded out, not only nullifying the damage of the hit but also absorbing the burst of chakra used for it to restore the energy of the man.
"Interesting armor!" Ryuko exclaimed with a wide smile before disappearing in the mist, only getting graced by the leader's fire sword. The small slash that just touched the skin on his shoulder left a small burn; it was the first time that he had one since he became a creature of pure liquids.
The feminine guy with the wind blades tried to create a massive twister to dispel the mist, and it would've worked if it wasn't for a small detail. They were trapped inside a triangular box; the barrier not only helped to keep them inside but also prevented the mist from getting dissipated.
In those brief seconds, one of Ryuko's water clones hiding sprung to life and went to punch the boy. He managed to strike it with one vertical sword swing; however, the ninja was not fast enough to avoid getting touched by it. The bubbles that made the copy blow up successfully stole his sense of hearing as the mist around him stole his sense of vision. An easy prey for the demon sneaking into this white hell.
While all of this was happening, Ryuga was ambushed by two huge slugs that jumped out of the green grass that was the mansion garden. Those thick creatures pulsating with acid spewed their content all over the boy, but he quickly blocked them with his own blade, using one-hand seals to create a water prison that ate those gushes of acid.
Now the acid was neutralized, and even with this low visibility, the boy unleashed something that wasn't water from his blade, a thick and gooey substance that he quickly molded into two dense blocks that encircled the slug, putting it out of combat. They tried to melt the sap, but the pale yellow and rubbery substance seemed extremely resistant to acid.
On that second, Ryuko managed to sneak up on the girly boy, as he couldn't see him or hear him. While holding the pipe with one hand, the redhead weaved a hand seal with his other hand, creating a long water tentacle around his fingers surrounded by a sharp chakra that shot toward the neck of his victim, slashing the barrier of the sound with the sheer speed of the strike. The mixture of explosive steam and tenketsu points behind the movements of that arm mixed with the structure of the tentacle whip was enough to create a rumbling that made the whole place shake.
The instant that the tip of the tentacle cut Kujaku's carotid artery, a mixture of chakra from the style he learned from Tsunade and a burst of steam exploded on the already deadly wound. The result? Ryuko just blew up the ninja's whole neck, creating a massive hole where the head was only connected to the body by the now exposed spine. Lucky for his victim, the strength of the impact was enough to smash his brain toward the top of the skull, knocking him out in an instant before collapsing dead on the floor.
Hoki stood there, surrounded by the mist, as three massive slugs jumped out of the earth and spitted acid over the man. Thanks to the mist, he could only react to block the vile liquid with his arms and the armor created the same chakra barrier as before but it only partially absorbed the attack. The acid filtered around the plates, corroding clothes and skin and exposing the vermillion flesh of the man into the air.
He let out a muffled groan of pain before weaving as series of hand seals and two earth clones came out of the ground under the slugs and grabbed the slugs. As they were quickly dividing to escape the grip, the man made another jutsu. The clones exploded into a domes of rock, with one small hole on the side and another on the top.
"Hoki, now!" The man yelled, and on that second, the leader of the team shoved his sword into the hole that this furnace had.
A massive explosion of fire erupted from the blade and escaped from the top of the dome, vaporizing those slugs in the act. They had quickly managed to kill at least another two slugs with that combo, making it clear to Ryuko that the fire sword was a problem.
"Firebomb now!" The leader yelled as the three ninjas got together, each other looking the other back.
"Where is Kujaku?!" The boy asked as he quickly changed the type of liquid of his sword, the third and final one.
The big one began to weave hand seals and began to create an earth dome around them. "We cannot wait! Do it now!" He exclaimed, and then they started their combination.
First, the boy made a stick, and an oily substance rained over the whole place; it took Ryuko a few seconds to understand that it was oil. He had half a second before a fireball from the stone sword escaped from the tip of the rock dome that quickly sealed itself; it was a massive fire explosion that engulfed the whole barrier.
In the last second, Ryuko, after activating his first and second gates to gain more speed, managed to pull the last water clone that he was hiding inside the barrier to use an Ichor prison around himself. The big and dense sphere of mucus surrounded his body as the massive explosion struck the whole place. For a few seconds, this building became a furnace filled with just pure fire and smoke burning everything.
After a few seconds, the flames calmed down, and there were just a few isolated pillars of wood burning remaining. The whole mansion was destroyed, but there was no sight of Ryuko.
"It is over?!" The young boy exclaimed as the big man lowered the earth's protection. The stench of ash mixed with the chemical aroma of burned oil invaded their nostrils. However, since the last clone keeping the mist was killed, the steam was gone.
As the leader was moving his lips to ask for the missing team member, he heard a loud pitch sound, and then his head flew off his shoulders. Ryuko had fully landed a Lariat in his neck, and the impact of his arms powered up by his electric chakra, easily killed that distracted man as he only had minor burns.
The boy took a few seconds to just inhale the iron-like stench of blood mixed with the black clouds of smoke. "I don't think so!" Ryuko exclaimed with a sadistic smile on his lips while his arm was drenched in the blood of the leader. The last attack was impressive, but now that they had run out half of their members, it seemed he had the win in the bag.
The last two standing ninjas looked at the situation with pure dismay. Ryuko had easily taken two of them without problems, and he only had some minor wounds on his body. They didn't know this was a huge success for someone of their caliber, but victory was just a far dream now.
"Well, what are you waiting for?! Come on!" Ryuko exclaimed as he removed the chakra barrier around him. The boy was running out of chakra, basically because those three shadow clones had his main pool divided into four parts. Also, since only two remained, they could not run away as it was his previous preoccupation. So, as the barrier around them was banished, the boy could feel his energies returning almost to full.
The younger one remaining doubted for a second how to act; that monster had killed two of his friends in a minute. "He killed-" he mumbled as the other man placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Attack! Don't let him recover!" Suiko ordered with his booming voice; he knew that the only way to get alive was to defeat Ryuko. There was no way they could run, so it was victory or death, nothing else.
Hearing those words really provided the boy with what he needed to get back into the fight. He move his blade in the air, and with one hand he made multiple hand seals and shot a massive goop dragon toward Ryuko.
The giant snake-like creature was a jutsu that he could recognize, the bullet dragon technique, but made out of slime that the blade could store. It wouldn't hurt him, but the sticky nature of it could be a little bit dangerous.
Ryuko managed to dodge the massive dragon that left a trail of thick syrup on its way as it destroyed the house behind him. The strike was fast and big enough to land on his legs, reducing a little his mobility as he landed on the now-burning garden around him. On that second, the other man made his move.
The redhead looked around with his eyes wide open as a massive dome of stone surrounded him. A dense barrier of earth that quickly snuffled the light around him and managed to contain him for a few seconds. It would be a nice strategy to block his vision for a normal ninja, but his byakuga easily showed what they were doing outside of this cage.
With a smirk on his face and a pipe on his lips, Ryuko weaved one-hand seal jutsu and decided to mix his deadly void bubbles with his heavenly weeping. The result? A series of sharp spikes of water came out of the tip of the weapon. Dozens of bullets that easily penetrated and, most importantly, landed on the boy who couldn't see what he was doing.
Those long needles of void bubbles struck Ryuga's torso as he tried to dodge out of the way. He wasn't fast enough to dodge such a precise attack that he didn't see coming. The second that the water bullets touched his skin, they imploded inside his body. From the exterior, it looked like the boy only had a few small holes in his torso, but the interior of that ninja was just a bloody smoothie. He didn't even have the privilege of throwing up blood before falling into the ground, as each muscle that would allow that movement was now liquid as the implosions pulled and tore each fleshy tissue.
"Only one left; do you think that you have any chance of winning? Ryuko muttered as he came out of the dome, walking slowly. In those few seconds, his opponent managed to grab their leader's sword and now was wielding that and the troublesome armor.
The man clenched the sword in his hands as the pain of the acid burns on them was nothing compared to his sheer determination to survive. "I don't need to think; I just need to do it!" He yelled, willing to risk everything on the next interchange.
"That is what I like to hear! Let's go!" Ryuko exclaimed as he began to get pumped up for this last clash. Both ninjas charged against each other as the huge pipe clashed against the stone sword, creating a small explosion as the fire oozed from the weapon.
On that second, the man went to land a kick on him, but Ryuko managed to dodge the attack by jumping over him. Suiko began to turn himself around to strike him, however it was too slow for the ninja that put a hand on his back before he could act. At that instant, a big slug mask covered in red liquid wires came out of his palm and weaved a lightning jutsu directly on the man. It was this spider web of pure electricity that attacked each centimeter of his body directly as it quickly covered it. Ryuko took the risk and changed the composition of his flesh to mercury in order to not get affected by the next strategy.
As the man was trying to endure the pain, something impossible happened. Ryuko used a second jutsu at the same time. "What?!" He yelled as the boy's red hair had twisted around his legs, and the lion mane had successfully bit his target. Ryuko grabbed the man and just threw him across the air far into a set of houses across a small canal that crossed the town.
While flying, the man was ambushed by a clone of Ryuko that tried to touch him to steal one of his senses, but he managed to turn around and kill it with his blade. However, what he did not calculate was the fact that Ryuko threw him right into another clone hiding inside the house. A massive explosion of extremely compressed water mixed with the strength of the throwing made Suiko let out a muffled groan as his ribs were pulverized.
"Ahhhh . . . how?! Two elements at the same time?" The man exclaimed while trying to breathe with his lungs in a horrible condition.
Ryuko was nowhere done with this dude, as he needed to ask a few of his clones and four Katsuyus to leave the area as he was about to destroy the whole zone where the ninja had landed. He respected him enough to give him a proper ending.
The boy pulled one of the big scrolls that he had and then unsealed it, creating a massive torrent of acidic water over the canal under him. This was just the material for him to mix two jutsu together. As the hellish pit of acid milked from the best slugs in the world was oozing its toxic fumes, Ryuko blew his pipe.
He concentrated his chakra and created a small bubble that slowly floated to the spring of doom under him. Ryuko just wanted to see how much damage he could do so he mixed the useful bubble bombs and the Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
The attack was absurd, something that only a kage-level ninja could do. The pit of acid became a bubbling and colossal wave ten meters tall of pure annihilation. This greenish water advanced across the house as only a natural disaster could do. However, that was not the worst part by far since it began to explode. It was a mixture of the chaotic force of the wave, and what was left behind was fulminated by dozens of huge explosions. Acid rain fell across the whole town as the building struck by the attack just turned into nothing.
Houses, where people had lived for decades, were completely turned into liquid; even the earth itself was consumed by this colossal attack that managed to erase all this part of the town until reaching the main river. Once that happened, the explosion continued, spreading the toxic liquid all over that stream of water and killing any fish that was unlucky enough to be living there. It only took a few seconds for the whole river to become an acid pit that could easily kill any person who was or dared to drink from it.
Suiko didn't have any chance to react as his body was turned into a skeleton the second that the jutsu struck him. As the acid impacted him, he knew that his armor could not reduce all of this damage, and he couldn't dodge it out of the way. The only thing left of him was his bones floating over the river with the sword and his armor next to him.
Now this horrible chemical stench flooded the town; it smelled acidic and artificial. So strong that one could even taste the terrible concoction on the back of one's throat. This was followed by the fizzy sound of the earth still bubbling from the chemical reaction of Ryuko's jutsu.
Ryuko made a small smirk as he saw the result of his attack. "That was a nice fight, but this jutsu really took a toll on me," Ryuko muttered as that attack had eaten a good chunk of his chakra. Now the boy was only with half of his tank of energy, but taking into consideration the chakra pill in his mouth, he didn't have a lot to worry about.
The boy took a deep breath as he asked one of his huge water clones to take the big black box that the ninjas had unburied and place it in the middle of the town. After all, he needed a little more action, and his curiosity was killing him.
"Ryuko . . . are you sure you want to do this? I don't think that is a good idea . . ." Saiken muttered inside Ryuko, a little bit worried about unsealing something that her dad had put away.
Ryuko let out a relaxed chuckle as he put the massive box in the middle of the ruins of the town's main mansion. "Don't worry! I have more than enough traps already and a soldier pill. I am sure I can deal with whatever is on the box," he said with a wide smile. The boy only needed a small burst of Saiken chakra to null the seals on it, and that thing would be free, and in the best-case scenario, it would be ready to fight him.
Katsuyu looked around and made sure that nobody would interrupt this ritual. "Your curiosity is so charming, my dear," she finally said as her slimy body was shivering with excitement to meet something older than her.
Before Ryuko unleashed hell in the town, he decided to seal all the sacred treasure and send it to Katsuyu, far away from the zone. The boy was about to do something stupid and risky, but there was a limit to that. After all, he knew this was a creature sealed by the Sage of Six Paths, and the boy wasn't completely suicidal. If things got boring, he could just summon those weapons back and give them to the founder anyway.
So, with one hand over the box, Ryuko gave the seal a drop of Saiken chakra, just enough to verify that he was related to the Sage of Six Paths. The second that he did it, the box began to shine in a bright red light, a blinding radiance that irradiated a sicking, powerful chakra before the black metal of the box turned into ashes.
With a strong breeze of wind that made Ryuko take a step back, he grabbed his pipe as his eyes revealed something unusual. The boy's byakugan showed that the creature was before his vision could. He was an entity of pure chakra as Saiken, with no internal organs or parts. However, that did not surprise Ryuko, but the nature of this thing chakra was like nothing that he had seen before; it was completely different from a normal chakra in a human but similar to Saiken. It was as if normal chakra was on one end of the spectrum, Saiken in the middle, and this on the opposite side. It was a lot more noisy, chaotic, and uncontrollable than normal energies.
A tall creature stood in front of Ryuko. A three-meter man with crimson skin as the boy's hair and two massive white wings with seals on them still burning away under the sun. The most interesting detail on that creature was his long and pointy nose, identical to a mythical tengu. Dressed in ceremonial red, black, and golden robes, the demon had two katana on his waist and a massive staff on his hand that ended with a pointy tip like a spear. With this long and gray beard and hair flowing in the wind full of ash, he set his crimson eyes on Ryuko.
The tengu let out a deep breath, filling his body with fresh air for the first time in centuries, and then slowly moved his eyes around, seeing what his village had become. "Are you responsible for this?" he asked with a booming voice that made even the small pools of acid shake under the pressure.
"Yes, also the one that freed you," Ryuko answered with a nervous expression on his face. He wanted to fight this right now; it was the same kind of anticipation when one of his girls was trying to seduce him, flaunting their assets.
"What is your name?" The demon asked, his tone calm and collected even if his chakra alone was so chaotic that it was messing with the climate of the zone itself. He took a second to reflect on himself, and the tengu realized how weak he had become; after all, that ninja was not forced into kneeling in front of him.
The boy let out a cute squeal. "Ryuko Kuroi!" He exclaimed with words drenched in pure bloodlust.
The tengu let out a deep sigh. "You have my gratitude for freeing me, Ryuko Kuroi. However!" He exclaimed, showing some appreciation for the boy's actions.
"I, Seimei, as the owner of this village, need to punish you for this misdeed. Since you free me, I will let this offense pass. I would let you go, but I just can't let those that had part of the chakra of my enemy leave this place," the demon finally said, pointing at Ryuko with his staff. At least he had planned to make his demise quick.
Ryuko raised a curious eyebrow. "You mean Saiken?" He asked with a relieved tone. The boy didn't need to find an excuse to defeat this monster.
"I don't know or care what you call that fragment of the Sage chakra, but today it ceases to exist," Seimei finally said, ready to announce his return to the world with the blood of his old enemy.
"Magnificent! Show me what you got!" Ryuko exclaimed as his weights dropped to the ground, creating some small craters. It took him a second to not only unseal his full potential by removing the limiter in his stomach but also summoning the chakra of Saiken. With that and the tails open, the boy faced the demon while his body was coated by this thick layer of cyan energy covering him, and two big tails came out of his hips.
Seimei would not wait with his arms crossed; the tengu just charged against Ryuko with an overwhelming speed and stabbed him in the chest with his spear. The demon thought this was a deadly strike and it would be for most of the ninjas, but Seimei didn't know that ninjutsu had advanced a lot in those years that he was imprisoned.
With surprise, the demon realized that he could not move his spear to take it out as Ryuko firmly held it in place with two hands as he turned into water. Before he could act, two giant copies of Ryuko jumped at him, forcing the tengu to leave his staff behind and pull out his two katana. Flying across the air as a true beast of legend, the demon slayed the giants with precise movements that cleanly cut their heads, leaving only massive pools of water behind. However, the barrage of clones was just starting.
Another two clones charged with genjutsu tried to ambush him to steal his senses, but the tengu was just too fast for them. His speed in the air was just absurd as he slayed those water copies apart without problems; however, in his speed, he forgot to take into account the third one hidden on the henge as a simple scroll. Almost touching him, the void bubble clone exploded.
Seimei didn't even flinch as he used his two blades to block the implosion, only being dragged a few meters in that direction, but those weapons took a beating. Exactly what Ryuko was expecting as he appeared behind him and gave him a powerful kick on the head that was blocked at the last second by the man's swords but forced him to land on the ground as four Katsuyu were waiting for him.
The tengu landed on the ashed ground surrounded by acid, the liquid almost doing no damage to him as now the summoning unleashed a fresh barrage of acid over him. With the powerful mixture of the slug acid and the two previous attacks, those legendary and old weapons were destroyed; the crack expanded as the acid penetrated them, and they finally collapsed into two piles of scrap.
"Do you need your staff?" Ryuko asked with a smug expression on his face; his plan of disarming him was more effective than he expected.
"Young Kuroi! Where are you?" The tengu exclaimed as he was almost trying to teach him a lesson.
"Hmmmmm, Takumi, the village of blacksmiths," the boy said with a confused tone, not really getting why he was asking that; maybe he had become senile.
"Then why do you ever think that its founder would run out of weapons?!" Seimei yelled with a prideful tone and then clapped his hands and summoned two clones of him. However, to Ryuko's surprise, those copies were made out of pure steel, shining metal living statues of the tengu that flew next to him. In an instant, those clones turned into two big sake bottles that the man held in each hand by the neck. With his byakugan, he could see that those copies were starting to use ninjutsu from that place on that form. So he wasn't as surprised as one might be to see a blade of pure electricity emerge from one and one of pure fire emerge from the other.
"Ooooooooooooooh! So you can use steel release for that?!" The boy exclaimed clearly surprised for that way of using clones to master two different natures at the same time.
Those blades swung across the air as a pair of rivers, extending and twisting in unnatural angles more proper to a whip than a katana. The coiling streams of elemental fury caught the slugs and quickly turned them into ash, and without wasting a second, they went after the boy.
Ryuko made an excited smile as he summoned his acid slide, getting into a high-speed chance with the tengu over the sky of the town. Raining acid as the torrent of the green liquid was summoned under his feets, the boy created this snake of pure corrosive doom just to increase his already impressive speed and match the legendary demon.
The battle had become extremely tricky now since the fire sword was constantly protecting him while the electric one was chasing Ryuko. Just in case the boy changed the properties of his body to mercury since he was graced a few times, oil and water were extremely weak against those attacks.
It was time for Ryuko to use one of these aces in the hole and put all his trust in his speed. As they were flying over the now-acid river of the town, he charged toward the tengu. Fire and electricity crackled over him as he managed to partially dodge the sword slashes, only getting a burn on his shoulder and one on his legs. He was close to the tengu, enough to land an attack, but the demon quickly swung his arms toward Ryuko, trying to hit him with the two swords at the same time; however, when he did, they were banished.
Two big adamantine chains came out of Ryuko's back, grabbing his arms, draining not only the chakra out of his jutsu, canceling them but also forcing him to stay still in one place. With one quick hand seal, Ryuko, with the extra speed of the slide, had the perfect setup to land a Lariat. Using all his might, all his technique, and all the explosive nature of his chakra, he made a horizontal hit with his arm on the stomach of the demon.
A sound that only could be defined as a storm roaring with all its fury made the whole town shake as the tengu was cut in half. His two pieces flew in the air as Ryuko quickly retracted his chains, thinking that the battle was over. However, his byakugan showed him that the demonic chakra of the tengu was decreased but not extinguished.
The two parts quickly began to ooze that thick and chaotic energy that only demons could have as they transformed in an instant. What was once a single tengu now were two. They were smaller than the original, only two meters tall, and they looked younger with one wing white and the other pitch black. Even if the demon was just cut in half, it seemed that this fight was far from over.
"You have my honest apology for underestimating you," one of them said with a regal but calm tone, his voice sounding less aggressive.
"And I must admit that I overestimated my rusted skills," the other added with a frustrated tone, clenching his fists.
Both began to fly around Ryuko in circles. "But this fight is not close to being done!" they yelled at the same time as the boy was still in the air with his acid slide.
Ryuko began to get ready for the next stage of the fight. It seemed that the chakra of the creature just got lower the more damage he did, and there was no point in aiming for vital parts. Now he could see why the twin lion fist would be a nice technique to learn in order to deal with demons.
It took a second for the two tengu to create a new set of weapons to fight the boy as he began to launch his chains again. They were smaller, so one chain for each of them was more than enough to completely trap them. However, one of them already had a countermeasure; he created a pair of big fans on each hand. With each movement, the tengu was able to create a massive burst of wings that pushed the chains out of their way. Ryuko bukijutsu was just not good enough to deal with these counterjutsu.
The other one created an interesting weapon. Two steel clones fused together to create a man catcher; as a pair of snakes, those copies became long ropes of metal that intertwined with each other, creating a staff. This weapon had two tips similar to a bident but a lot wider. It not only gave the tengu extra range but also ignited with lighting and fire and, at the same time, became the perfect weapon to damage Ryuko.
Both with blinding speed charged against Ryuko, one always covering the other as this shield and spear seemed unbreakable and unstoppable. His chains and water jutsu were nullified by the strong currents of wind while his taijutsu was busy trying to deflect the strikes of the double weapon.
"That weapon . . . where do you get it?!" The tengu with the fans yelled.
"Did you steal it from the village?!" The other one asked.
Ryuko chuckled as his hands were busy trying to parry the constant barrage of attacks. "Oh! No no no! It was made by my personal blacksmith in the village of the leaf!" The boy added as he was trying to lure the enemy near him to deal with both at the same time.
One of the demons looked around for a second, realizing that his village didn't have any weapons proudly displayed for the world to see. Mostly for the evacuation, but he didn't know that. "Tsk . . . my land has really fallen. I will make sure to punish them accordingly once I am done with you," both said at the same time.
At that instant, Ryuko decided to make a risky but effective move. His chakra reserves were not in the best condition, but with the soldier pill in his mouth, he could take this risk.
The boy blew his pipe over the now acid river of the village, mixing two water jutsu together: Bubble Void, and Water Mosquito. A massive swarm of bugs made out of water exploded out of the pipe, blocking the sun as they created a dome around the fighters that quickly began to close. Those creatures looked like normal mosquitoes by flying with such speed that they could easily tear flesh; just one grazing a feather of the tengu was enough to blow it up. The demon didn't need to be a genius to imagine what a million of them could do.
With the walls closing around them, Seimei charged against Ryuko, one copy flying on top of the other. This was his perfect chance to attack, as the boy was channeling this jutsu. The second that chains flew to strike him, the one with the fan parried them, leaving the other to land an attack on the boy. He had two choices: get impaled by the staff or cancel the jutsu and waste a huge amount of chakra in an ineffective attack. Ryuko chose the third option.
As the elder demon was about to impale Ryuko, he saw a small creature popping out of his chest; it looked like some kind of mask with slug motives. Before he could even react, Ryuko unleashed razor-sharp chakra strings from each tenketsu point of his body, using wind chakra to get a level of power that a blade could have, and with those two clones in his range and unable to see them, it was over.
The razor wire on the outside, mixed with the millions of water mosquitoes on the outside, collapsed on the tengu. This ancient demon was sundered into chucks, first the wings, then the limbs, then the torso and the head, leaving nothing more than meat scraps that flew across the air. Such a level of butchery that no human could have survived it.
With the crimson strings around his body disappearing and a smug smile on his face. The boy looked at the remains of the creature floating over the acid river. "Come on, I know this is not over; get back up for round three," he exclaimed as the chakra of the creature was weakened again, but there was a lot more to deal with.
Ryuko began to call the slugs buried around the town to have them on his side. He needed as much as he wanted, but the boy didn't want to take out all his traps. So, Ryuko ended up surrounding the corpse of the demon with three massive Katsuyu the size of houses and three smaller ones the size of elephants. All of them as him standing in the toxic arena of liquid acid as the monster was reborn once again.
The demon chunks got together and formed a new body. Seimei had returned to have a single body, but this time he didn't have any wings on him. He had become a giant 4-meter man with chiseled abs and his torso completely exposed, shining under the sun setting on the horizon. He was wearing big baggy black pants and, of course, that red tengu face with short white hair.
He stood over the water with his naked feet, looking directly at Ryuko. One could see the pressure in the town increasing as this looked by far the more dangerous form of the man.
"So . . . no wings now?" Ryuko asked with a curious tone, surrounded by the massive slugs that were looming on the demon.
("Hmm, Honey, be careful with this form; I don't think that my acid can penetrate those defenses,") Katsuyu muttered inside Ryuko's head. Even if for the naked eye the tengu looked unarmored, the elder creature had a hunch of what he would do to counter her attacks.
The demon clenched his fist. "Do not get cocky; now comes the real test for your speed . . ." the tengu muttered before rushing toward Ryuko, just running over the water and accelerating to higher peaks than before.
Ryuko decided to use a simple but effective plan; he would just part the river in two and eat him in his prison of acid. With Katsuyu swimming on it like a bunch of sharks, his speed would not be a problem. He was already on ¼ of his chakra, so this jutsu would put him a little on the red, but he still had the pill.
The boy summoned another big waterfall, jutsu, a massive flood of water that managed to break the river in two as the wave swung to drown the enemy. However, as the acid water was getting out of the way, the tengu countered by summoning a massive steel block under him. It was a colossal metal arena that came out of the earth itself, allowing him not only to stand high enough about the ground to avoid the acid water but to have perfect footing.
Seeing this, the giant slugs followed by Ryuko chains pounced toward him. The Katsuyu created the perfect window for the boy to strike again. But the demon already had a counter in place for this occasion.
Seimei's fists sparked with pure electricity after a single hand seal as he struck each of the slugs that began to spit acid at him. Moving with an incredible speed not proper for his big frame, he was not only able to dodge the acid spits but land lethal attacks on the summoning that forced them to banish. However, this gave the window to Ryuko to throw his chains toward him, and he was about to catch him again until shurikens exploded out of the man's skin. Those disks of metal parried the chains, making them miss as the man kept destroying the slugs.
Before Ryuko could not react to this new speed, he had a man in front of him, ready to impale him with his fist. The demon let out a massive lightning chop that sounded like retribution for Ryuko's Lariat. A punch so powerful that it reminds Ryuko of that bug that almost killed him in the forest where he met Fuu.
The redhead didn't only need to change his body to oil but also use his pipe to block the attack if he wanted any chance of surviving. With a pressure so monumental that it cracked the big slab of steel in half, the demon landed a devastating hit on Ryuko that cut him in two. For the first time in months, the boy let out a moan of pain.
Ryuko stood over the steel block drenched in acid for a second, looking at the ancient demon with a smile on his lips. "Thank you," he muttered with genuine gratitude.
"Why? Was that pipe cursed?" The tengu asked as he was about to give another blow, but something made him retread. It was a strange feeling that he hadn't paid attention to hundreds of years ago, and for that, he ended up in that box; it was fear.
Ryuko began to unleash the seal on his forehead. "Nothing like that. I finally have a chance to see how high I can fly. I may have lost the speed test, but now is my time to test your endurance," the boy muttered as his whole body was overflowing with chakra.
The boy summoned his two adamantine chains around his fist to work as a pair massive gauntlets infused with pure lightning chakra. It was not the intended way of using Whip Dance of Fools, but after this small trick, Ryuko would test if his adamantine was stronger than the demon steel.
"Bring it on! Kuroi!" The tengu exclaimed and both classed over that broken metal chunk, and the strength difference was clear from the first interchange. Each step that Ryuko took was a deadly blow for a normal ninja.
Turned into mercury, the boy could just tank the electric punches of the tengu with his body alone. His face didn't even flinch when the man struck him with his huge fist bigger than his head. However, Ryuko jabbed Seimei's face, and the tengu gained the power to fly again as his body went spiraling into the air. Such a stupidly strong hit that the massive body of the demon looked like a big training dummy made of straw as it flew across the air landing on the east part of the town.
Those eardrum-bursting clashes made the whole town shake; the ones born from Ryuko hitting his Lariat and the demon doing his own technique quickly became a normal occurrence as the adamantine clashed with steel. The sound alone was enough to burst the few glass windows intact on the town.
The demon tried to use a pillar of pure steel that emerged from the floor not only to gain extra mobility but also to try to hit Ryuko from strange angles, but the boy was having none of that. Each column of metal was broken as if it were a twig under the stupid potency of his fist. If he could do that on steel, what Ryuko was doing on that demon body was equally disgusting.
A strike in the chest that sank the monster's ribs so much that one could see the bulge of Ryuko's fist on his back, another punch in the face that distorted the spherical shape of a skull into an oval. Each punch was reshaping Seimei's body as if he was just a chunk of hot metal and the redhead a hammer.
As they reached the east border of the town, the man changed his trajectory, trying to take the fight to the north part of the town as he was constantly using pillars of steel to keep his footing. However, the barrage of attacks followed by the electric discharges was impossible to stop. The tengu could land hits that would easily kill a normal ninja, but the durability of that boy was absurd. His hand and feet bent and broke instead of the ones of his opponent when he connected his strikes, only to be countered by such a punch to the head that caved in his face into his skull.
The fight continued for a few minutes until the demon was pummeled into submission on the west side of the town. A road of broken houses and metal pillars followed the duo as they fought all over the place. Well, more like a unilateral beating, as the demon was now lying on the floor with his face gone, his skin burned into charcoal from the constant electric current, his stomach and chest punched into a thin paper-like layer, and not even his legs and arms had survived the beating.
"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I knew that granny seal was powerful, but this is a little bit overkill," Ryuko muttered with a smile on his lips as he felt just invincible at this point.
"Ah, I think I am running out of chakra. Sorry to cut this fight short," Ryuko muttered and then placed the same seal he had to train his chakra onto what was left of the demon. The boy seals were strong enough that even if the tengu had chakra left to continue fighting, he was unable to form a proper body. However, it was just a question of time before he broke out these seals, so Ryuko needed to find a more permanent solution.
"You should seal him like you did with Saiken," Katsuyu added, as that was the best solution. After all, the legendary Uzumaki seal that could contain a tailed beast would not have a problem with a simple demon.
Ryuko would love to get access to steel release, but this was too much for him. "But I am already full . . ." he added, as it was impossible to seal two entities inside the same person.
"Well, he is chakra, so I could eat him, but . . . that really upsets my stomach," Saiken said with a meek and nervous tone.
Katsuyu let out a deep sigh at the boy's idea. "Yes, eating demons is not a nice idea. Remember what happened to your sister?" the ancient slug asked.
Saiken shivered as this was true; her sister was not the same since she ate that demon all those centuries ago. "Shukaku was never the same after she did it . . ." the girl mentioned with a sad tone. That raccoon had become stronger thanks to that but also incredibly bloodthirsty, and Saiken feared that.
"What if I seal it inside you, Katsuyu?" Ryuko suggested. The woman was not only able to do that but also he could extract the demon if necessary from the slug. After all, with all the vital energy that her true body had, doing such a thing would be easy.
"Oh! That is an interesting idea; I could just be torturing him inside me," Katsuyu muttered with a sadistic tone; she wanted revenge for all the bodies that the tengu had killed.
Ryuko made a decision; he would give the demon to Katsuyu for now and then decide what to do with him later. After all, everything was done in the village, and he had some time to rest. It had the little problem that since Ryuko's clothes were made out of the slug, he now was completely naked.
He performed a quick ritual to seal the demon inside the slug, as he did with Saiken. He just needed a small fraction of the elder sage, so the process went without problems. However, as the boy had problems when he got Saiken inside him, the slug needed time to digest the demon so she would be out of combat for at least a few hours.
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Exhausted and running out the seal on his forehead, Ryuko made a small run to one of the restaurants that were still standing from all the fighting and stole a soda can from it. Lucky for him, they had the grape flavor that he liked so much but not from his favorite brand. Not that it would stop him from sitting in a chair and enjoying his well-deserved rest. However, this was interrupted.
A massive fly was quickly moving across the sky in his direction. The giant ninja animal had thick chitin samurai armor on it with two assassins on top of it. They didn't seem friendly, especially since both had a long gash on their ninja bands.
The small boy with pale skin, short, messy white hair, a red dot on his forehead, and a Kumogakure band on his forehead jumped out the fly. The assassin's eyes focused on Ryuko as he rushed forward, creating a thick armor of bone around his body that emerged from his skin. The ninja looked like a samurai, and he even had a long katana on his hand made out of his own spine that he pulled out his back. Ryuko had never seen something like that before.
"Keep your eyes on him no matter what!" He yelled, making sure that the girl could hear his voice across the buzzing of the fly wings.
The second girl over the fly looked really cute. Short black hair and a china dress that showed her small breasts and exposed her colossal ass with a black fishnet shirt under it. She was wearing an Iwa headband and a stern expression on her face. However, what caught Ryuko's attention was how her eyes transformed, gaining a red sclera and purple slits like the ones of a goat.
"I know! I know! I am not an idiot!" The girl barked back with an annoyed tone.
Ryuko smirked, finished his soda, and got up from his chair as he swallowed the soldier pill sealed in his mouth. ("Get ready, Saiken! . . . Saiken?!") the boy exclaimed, trying to get into his tailed beast mode but being unable to do it. It took him a few seconds to realize, but they had put Saiken into a genjutsu. He tried to quickly remove it, but it was impossible; the chakra oozing from those eyes was creating the perfect technique. Ryuko knew that he needed to break eye contact with them; however, his Byakugan got in the way. They were using the massive range of constant vision that the dojutsu gave against him.
"You are a smart bunch!" Ryuko exclaimed as he cracked his fist, ready to keep fighting even in this weakened state. There was no way to be reversed summoned by Katsuyu, and no more soldiers pills, so this would be hard fight.
Ryuko turned off his byakugan first, getting Saiken back to him as his first target was the woman flying away from him. It was logical to deal with the debuffer first, so he would just send some water clones to keep the frontliner busy while they took down that annoying fly.
("Sorry! I fell asleep!") Saiken apologized, as now Ryuko tailed beast mode was on. With that and the gates open, the redhead speed was on top of his game.
("Don't worry! It was just a genjutsu!") Ryuko answered, as he was a little bit annoyed by not being able to use his byakugan. Just not being able to see behind his back during a fight put him in an uncomfortable situation.
Three of the closer water giants came out of their henge to deal with the bone user. The massive copies of Ryuko were durable but not able to fully damage the man, as his skill with that sword was perfect and his endurance was just on another level. However, it was enough to give him some time for him to deal with the true threat.
The tactic was successful, and Ryuko rushed toward the fly, using his tenketsu points to make a massive jump in the air. He was entering the range to use his chain on the summoning as it was trying to fly away. With the girl out of the way, his victory would be easy.
As Ryuko was near his objective, the boy realized something. That fly had unsealed a strange kunai, one with a seal on it. He first thought that it was an explosive scroll, however, he remembered where he had seen that seal before: during this fight with Omoi on Kumo. It was planned that he would charge against the girl.
Before he could change the trajectory and was unable to see the ninja behind him, Ryuko tried to dodge the attack, but with his vision blocked, he felt it before hearing it. A searing pain spread around his right arm and reached his torso as, at the last second, Ryuko was able to partially dodge the vertical slash of the ninja as he flew across him. That bastard had charged his bone blade with electricity, and even if Ryuko was made out of pure mercury, the strike made him let out a scream of pain.
The redhead rolled on the grassy ground of the exterior of the village, his arm slowly patching the wound as the armored warrior was charging against him. It was the first time that he had taken some serious damage in a long time, so he could only smile. "Oh?! You know V? Let's see who the best student is!" Ryuko exclaimed as he had already sent one of his water clones to fix his pipe.
"I will admit, for someone that puts hits on himself, you are all that I was expecting and more. Show me what you learned from V!" The bone samurai answered as the girl stood flying around him, ready to cancel Saiken the second that Ryuko activated his byakugan.
"Mitsuki! Stop talking and kill him!" The girl flying out of Ryuko's range explained with an annoyed tone. It was clear that she was not as eager for this fight as her companion was.
Ryuko let out a chuckle as this would be an interesting fight; he was ready to deal with those two targets no matter what. Actually, fighting with people who took so much care in order to kill him really made him feel appreciated. So, how would Ryuko win? With cheats, of course!
The boy decided to separate in two as he clashed with Mizuki in the middle of the fields of the village. The sword struck the boy's kunai and almost cut it in half; however, that was just a distraction. Having more sealings storing items under his headband was a lot better than the other option. On the second that the two clashed, Ryuko shot something from his back toward that annoying fly.
"What is that thing?! How can it fly?!" The kunoichi exclaimed as the string clone that looked like a flying slug with a crude mask on its face flew across the air against her. It was extremely fast for the simple fact that it was charging a full-body Lariat against the summoning.
The fly tried to use wind just to send multiple wind blades toward the enemy, but the creature was a lot more durable than a normal clone. So, it was bloating with pure energy, and the surprise attack cut the fly in two, making the kunoichi fall to the ground. Lucky for her, she had pulled a bag of blood from one scroll and created a crimson cushion that stopped her fall. However, she needed to deal now with the strange creature that was flying toward her.
Seeing part of his plan falling off, the bone user went to aid his companion. However, the second that he did it, he felt an adamantine chain on his leg. He tried to cut it, but the piece of metal didn't even flinch.
"You are not going anywhere!" Ryuko exclaimed, trying to throw him into the river as he would have the advantage there.
So, now that Mitsuki knew that he couldn't escape by normal means from that strange chain, he did the only logical thing. Getting the same level of madness as Ryuko, he cut his own leg to free himself and fly across the air, landing on the rice fields around the village. He only needed a few seconds before a skeletal leg grew in its place—not as good as the old one, but it would work for now.
Ryuko, however, went to the river now that the ninja was in range of his water bullets. So, as he ordered the water clones that were waiting in the river to travel under him, he began to shoot a rain of boiling drops of oil toward his enemy. After all, at this range, he would have more than enough to react to a fire jutsu, especially since the girl was busy with his string clone; his byakugan was now on.
Mizuki answered with the same coin, pointing his fingers toward him and letting out a rain of bone bullets toward Ryuko. The finger phalanges were enchanted with electricity, and the drops of boiling oil flew across the whole field as mosquitoes in a swamp. However, everything came to an end the second Ryuko mixed an explosive scroll on the interchange, creating a massive fire explosion with all the oil lying on the ground of the fields.
A blazing impact that hit Mizuki hard if it wasn't for the fact that he quickly made multiple hand seals and did a massive wind jutsu not only to put out most of the flames but also reduced the impact of the attack. Even if he had lost a leg, both ninjas seemed evenly matched.
The second that the girl landed on the ground, he decided to get rid of this monster before returning to deal with Ryuko. She needed to be fast, so the girl used the blood she used to land in order to set up her next act. It became crimson strings that flew across the air, trying to trap Ryuko's heart. A multi-directional attack that she made while running behind one of the farming houses that was near. This broke her vision with the target but was necessary for her strategy.
Ryuko was not only in full control of his string golem but also he could use it as a point of view to check the field. Luckily, the Kunoichi didn't know that. So, as the jail of blood came in his direction, the masked used dozens of small wind-infused chakra strings to cut that attack into ribbons as the slug flew over the house and tried to catch the now-fleeing target.
The string slug landed on the farmhouse that the girl was using to hide, destroy the place, and find something interesting. His enemy had left multiple drops of blood that were floating in the air that exploded the second the slug went into their range. As the fragmentation grenade of vermillion blood ignited, the slug did another jutsu; a web of electricity manifested under it, blowing up the floor and creating a rain of debris to counter the damage of the trap.
She let out a tired sigh as the house collapsed; the girl wasn't made for this. The jutsu, even if it was a genjutsu, keeping the tailed beast sleeping took a huge amount of chakra, and her reserves were not the best after so many big blood techniques. "It should be dead . . ." she muttered, looking at the cloud of smoke with her eyes fully activated. If that thing was a summon creature, she had never seen something like that, and Ryuko had done the ritual to bring it up without hand seals; that was impossible. However, as her mind was filled with questions, this fight was far from over.
"Are you kidding me?! This wasn't in the report!" She managed to scream with sheer frustration as a long string tentacle charged with pure electricity wrapped around her body.
Meanwhile one of Ryuko's hearts was neutralizing that woman, the boy was having fun with the other ninja. Since he lacked any lightning and wind elements now, the redhead needed to get back to basics. An old syrup-style field under the enemy's legs and then charging forward with his water clones behind him to use as support. Mizuki didn't know those were actually explosive ones created with his bubble jutsu.
A chain of explosions destroyed the farms outside the town as the four clones exploded, chasing the bone warrior across the town. The boy had never thought of someone using bone stilts to avoid his sticky swamp, but seeing that enemy run across the fields was funny, to say the least. However, Ryuko noticed something strange: why was he running into the town instead of out of it? The enemy must have known that he had traps all over the place.
The second that Ryuko came into the middle of the place where he was drinking the grape soda, he realized something. That was his enemy's plan all along, taking him far from the river no matter what, and this assassin preferred fighting him in a place filled with traps than near the water. All of this was clear the second that Mizuki prepared the last battle arena of the day.
Fast as a member of Kumo should be, Mizuki made his biggest bone jutsu, ready to face Ryuko with it. Hundreds of bone spines came out of the floor; it was not as big or dangerous as one would expect, as Ryuko just stood on one of those 1-meter columns. A normal ninja could be impaled by it, but not him.
"Awwwwwwwwwww, you didn't need to do something so special for me," the naked boy purred with a bratty tone.
The boy nodded, and a small smile came out of his lips as the pain in his legs spread around his whole body. "Well, you are not the only one with hiding tricks," he muttered as Ryuko could see the bone spear he was standing on getting filled with chakra. Not so fast that he couldn't dodge whatever the ninja was planing, but it was interesting nonetheless.
Mizuki almost teleported where Ryuko was. The boy was using the bone spikes as the anchor points for his Body Flicker technique; mixing his durability, speed, and power alone, the ninja was on another level. Something that made Ryuko really enjoy going all out.
So, with his byakugan completely activated, the boy tried to catch bone user with his chains, jumping from bone spear to bone spear, dodging his slashes preemptively. This advantage allowed Ryuko to catch the enemy, but he had learned a technique to counter his chains. The same thing that the tengu had done, Mizuki just shot a small spike of bone out his body to tangle the chain and then cut it from his body, nullifying the attack and giving Ryuko something to think about.
Now was the time to get more direct then. Ryuko covered his fist with his chains, and getting his body turned into boiling oil, he pounced toward. The multidirectional attacks only evened the field against the boy's eyes thanks to the further improvement that his tail mode gave him.
It was a clash between the adamantine fist covered in boiling oil and the bone plates irradiating pure electricity. Both of the ninjas had stupid durability and cheats that gave them incredible regeneration and ways to hurt each other. The second that one tried to get out of the range of the other, his enemy pounced forward, not giving them a single second to do something else than pure kenjutsu or taijutsu.
Ryuko could have called his heart to do a lot of different tactics or calling his clones to help; however, he was having too much fun with this brutal interchange. One could say that this was a mistake, and it was; it was one of the redhead's big weaknesses: his lust for combat.
The sound of cracking bones and slashing of liquid filled the place; buildings were torn to sunder as these two ninjas kept fighting, unable to give a step back. Ryuko got his hand sliced, Mizuki got his chest caved in, Ryuko lost a leg, Mizuki got his jaw pulverized, a constant interchange to see how the two built to endure this massacre.
So, without any of the two realizing it, a few hours had passed.
"Ah . . . ah . . . ah . . . I am getting a little bit tired," Ryuko muttered as his own chakra was running; he had been having a lot of fun for so long. His body was hurting as the fight was about to be over. He hated the idea of finishing this fight, but it was time to end it.
Mizuki let out a deep sigh and nodded. "I am not," he answered as the helmet in his mouth was slowly growing back to cover his face again. On that second, he removed the seal from his tongue and swallowed a soldier pill.
"Soldier pill? Smart," Ryuko muttered as his byakugan not only showed him that but also showed him something that was flying just above them in the night sky. She had finally woken up and took some time to get there.
A winged monster descended from the sky with a disturbing speed, shrouded in metal and with the size of a horse. A nightmare creature of steel and acid that looked like a short snake with hundreds of spikes around it. With the same speed as a kunai, the bomb of doom struck the ninja.
The sudden attack took Mizuki by surprise as he tried to summon a massive bone wall to block the attack, but hundreds of metal spears coated in pure acid penetrated the defense, impaling the boy in multiple places. Not only vital organs but also the legs, arms, and head, making sure that he couldn't regenerate from this. It was almost an instant death.
As the familiar stench of acid filled his nostrils, Ryuko smiled. "You took your time!" Ryuko exclaimed, seeing the armored slug completely destroy his enemy.
"Less talk and more taking his heart, honey, it is still beating," Katsuyu muttered as one of her metal hands scooped out the still-beating heart of the ninja and gave it to Ryuko.
It was a shame to let out the heart that had served him so well, but Ryuko didn't have any option. He needed to act fast, and he needed to act now. Losing the chance to get that powerful bloodline would be a massive waste. So the boy cut the chakra connection he had with his other heart, turning the string clone into just a pile of strings, a now dead heart, and a mask. Then he assimilated the beating heart of Mizuki, not only recovering the two elements he had lost but feeling the effects of the bone bloodline.
[Ryuko gains:
Shikotsumyaku: An extremely powerful bloodline that allows you to not only manipulate your bones but also form them at will. This is really useful because the user can do all kinds of techniques that would be jutsus without hand seals like summoning bone blades or shooting bone bullets. If that wasn't enough, this bloodline also gives the user incredible regeneration and most importantly, superhuman strength and durability. It gives + 2 Strength and access to "bone-jutsus", can break limits.
400 exp from fighting + 100 from Fighting Junkie.]
The second that Ryuko got the new heart beating on his chest, he decided to change his body a little to test it. With this, he could change his stature to become a little taller, reaching 1,8 m of height, just slightly beyond average. He could still pass as a girl, and now there was more of that perfect ass for his girls to ogle at them. However, there was a person who would not tolerate this change.
Katsuyu took a humanoid form once this ritual was done, bigger than usual, standing at three meters tall to keep the size difference going. Nobody defeated her in a size competition.
Ryuko licked his lips as Katsuyu grabbed him in her arms and carried the boy around like a baby. "Oh, so now I can use this . . ." he muttered as the big slug girl moved him around toward his next prey.
The girl with her eyes squinting let out a mass chuckle. "This was a magnificent harvest, honey. I love having this new trick with me and that little demon inside me. He is so fun to bully," she said with a cheerful tone as the screams on her head were just sweet music for her.
The boy rubbed his face on those big blue breasts for a second as he was recovering from the fight. "Don't get too comfy with it yet; I may end up giving it up to another of my girls that needed it more," he said with a calm tone.
"You want to take one of my toys away; why are you so cruel to this old lady?" Katsuyu muttered with a small smile on his lips and one hand caressing Ryuko's head.
"Don't make me feel bad. What if once I am done with her I give you a new toy to play around with? Something more . . . fleshy," the boy added, willing to give the missing nin to her after he was done. After all, she would be executed in the case of stepping into the village, as it was the rule. So it was better to hide the red-eyed girl in the slug forest.
Katsuyu licked her lips and opened her eyes a little. Having a demon inside her was nice, but having a human to play alone was a lot more fun. Nobody appreciated their lives more than someone who had a finite amount of them. "Shikkotsu Forest could use new residents . . . Also, it would hide her from the Hokage. However, you would need to make her sign a summoning contract with me," the woman warned Ryuko. The ancient slug could let anybody use his teleportation network.
Getting the indirect that he needed to fuck that woman so much that she would be forced to sign the contract, the boy nodded. "It can be arranged," he muttered, ready to take a well-deserved rest.
After this, Ryuko sealed all the remaining corpses and a strange black book he found on Mizuki. It contained some notes and personal information research about how to perfect a few bones-jutsus, that would help him in the future. One about a giant drill and the other about the bone forest he used against the redhead.
"Corpses looted, area secured . . . now let's get to the fun," Ryuko muttered, now dressed in his slug outfit, having the unconscious assassin on his chains near a farmhouse outside the blazing inferno that had become the village. With the fires he had made and the pollution in the river from his acid, this place was no longer habitable.
"Should you start with the sisters that is waiting in the encampment? Or take our sleeping beauty first," the now small slug inside him asked with a curious tone. They even have a barn nearby to fuck the assassin as the animal she was.