Manda snapped down on the snake, before it seemed to vanish. It was an elaborate shadow clone disguise technique! The substitution on top of all of this indeed must have cost quite the chakra amount, as the log exploded inside of Manda’s mouth, for he had just welcomed in an explosive.
“Gahhhh!”
Manda seemed to take the flames while he was in this surprised state, dousing his position in flame. A lot of his scales seemed burned or scaleded, but unlike the snake that had succumbed before, he endured the hit. It made him angry, because that tactic actually did some damage. He locked eyes with the target floating down from above. With this in mind, he lunged into the air, he mouth ready to crush the enemy ninja, or what appeared to be him.
Kabuto simply laughed at the chaos, watching as the hyuga anbu agent summoned a fox. He didn’t even think much of them, picking up kimimaro with a bit of struggle and calmly walking down into the cave system, the darkness seeming to envelop him. It’s like he didn’t even treat the anbu as being there!
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“Don’t act so dissapointed. You were chosen after all.” One of the sound ninja told Kiro as they remained motionless. “We are to escort you out when-“
They were greeted by the figure of Kabuto, carrying Kimimaro, emerging from one of the cave corridors. Many ninja rushed over to take the fifth of the sound five from him.
“Master Kabuto! What has happened to him?” One of the medical operatives said.
“He did his job, that all that matters.” Kabuto said coldly, adjusting his glasses. “We may have company soon.”
The rest of the sound ninja took a defensive line, placing traps and other lines of defense inside of the corridor as Kabuto turned to Kiro
“So, your the new one? Have to say you don’t look like much. What separates you from the other Uchiha?”
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Kou was taken aback, and maybe even a bit guilty about what he had said to Tomiko. She may have had parents, and friends, but she lead a rough life, one harder than she was letting on. He gulped, remembering a story zaku told him, that She took so much damage from a Kiro but never gave in. Kou now halfway understood why she was. She wasn’t strong willed because she could be or wanted a flashy title.
She was strong because she had to be.
Kou respected that, and honestly admired that to a degree. He had to get stronger, just like her and Boss. Be brave and strong willed like her and change the world for the better like Boss.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to- ah screw it...” Kou said, not finding the right words to express all of his thoughts. “How....how are you so strong?! Not buff, but you know, in the noggin’ and stuff...”
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“Your starting to sound like billboard head.” Zaku sighed at the inzuaka. “Killing of ninja, the weapons of the leaf arent innocent lady. That are about as innocent as a vulture. They know something is dying but they wait for it to finish dying before they reap the reward. You don’t have any missions to help the needy, nor even help the poor, because what’s the money in that right? You just take and take, without consequence. Well your not taking anything else out of us, or out of him.”
Zaku gestured to Dosu, making his way to him, standing between the majority in the trim and his former comrade. He put his implant at Dosu’s forehead, a highpitched sound emanating from it as it became clear was Zaku was about to do.
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The cloaked Yukimaru has pulverized Kushina, which gave him a vast feeling of pleasure and satisfaction before she started to reform due to the edo tensei. He then frowned before he realized his trajectory, right into the swords that Kushina used to have inside of her! his cloak hit them, most hitting the cloak, but the rest cut through and sliced at different parts of his body. The wrist, stomach, neck, leg.
“Ow, ouch, agh....oof!”
He had been damaged or if his tailed beasts state. Still in his roll, he staggered himself on his feet. He lacked the chakra on his own to continue the fight, but he remained conscious, hiding behind a rashomon shard.
Orochimaru watched as Kushina made her way right to him, his mouth curving up to a grin as a malevolent plan came to mind. He lifted the infant up to face his mother, as he flexed his hand.
“Striking Shadow Snakes!”
As the baby’s naruto whimpered at his mother, dozens of snakes came from Orochiamru’s arms, tearing through the child’s chest and coming to restrict her hand, arms, and wrist. The child wailed all the while as it’s body was being used as a meat shield and a weapon.
Then something began to feel odd. The wind felt chilled as minato was revving up a unseen power, his body began to glow and a superior version of the rasengan was forming. Sage mode! But....how? Hm....
This was a hole in his plan. If he achieved sage mode he would lose all chance of winning. He couldn’t allow that to happen. He began to create a lengthy series of handsigns as he prepared for minato’s expected next strike
