The woman leapt back and weaved a few handsigns.
"Water Style:Water Hydra Jutsu". An unknown jutsu to Hayato.
Then a serpent-like monster was formed from the sea with 6 heads and the woman ascended to the center of it.Yet, since it was night, it's detailed appearance could be barely seen.
"S-she doesn't care if her men see her doing jutsu? So it is true that ninjutsu isn't uknown to humans in this era. Just like back when the incident in Satsuma's happened, regular soldiers seemed familiar with Hattori chakra-waves!" Hayato thought.
Immediately, one of the water monster's head tried to hit him from above but he also leapt back and evaded it.Without losing any time, he grabbed a kunai out of his pocket and spun it tremendously fast with his finger. The kunai then was coated with lightning, spinning so fast that it literally heated up from the friction with the air.
"Lorentz Howitzer!"
Hayato then, launched his ninja tool in a peculiar way. Moving his whole body like a slingshot, he tossed the kunai with such velocity, causing a shockwave that even the people on the ship could feel.
Even if the impact force was massive, the kunai didn't manage to penetrate the water beast. Yet, the light from the lightning illuminated more clearly the woman's jutsu. It revealed that the water beast was actually made of muddy water.
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Meanwhile, the pirates on the ship lined up on the ship's deck and prepared to fire their muskets.Though she noticed them and shouted:
"FOOLS DONT FIRE YOUR BOOMSTICKS!"
Hayato noticed the men who were ready to open fire.
"If an attack like a lightning-infused kunai can't work on this jutsu then why did she ordered her men to not fire? Could she be afraid that there is a possibility to hit her? What could those stuff do to against this jutsu ? Hmmm, strange... " Hayato wondered as he found her order suspicious.
Instantly, a whirlpool formed below him and something like jaws made from water appeared around him. Then very quickly, the " jaws" closed and formed a dome around Hayato, trapping him inside it.
"Well, you know what?" Hayato stated irritated and instantly activated his sage mode. Suddenly then, a wave from natural energy was emitted from his body, blasting the water dome into droplets.
Hayato then used his HUD to zoom into the water beast. As he scanned it his eyes in order to find a weakness, he noticed that along with the water chakra that formed the beast, bits of earth chakra could be also seen moving through the beast and acting like shields.
"Could this be the reason why my kunai didn't penetrate this monster or the electricity wasn't conducted through it?Perhaps those earth chakra bits give the monster this muddy look and work like incubators."he thought.
As soon as he broke of the water dome, another head charged at him and then divided into many small heads that were much more versatile. He repelled them using the frog kumite, but the little serpent-like heads were surprisingly very fast and had him on his toes.They consecutively charged at him on and on, but he successfully defended using the same technique.
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Hayato understood that it was pointless to continue to repel the tiny hydra heads that were coming consecutively at him for much longer, so he thought of something.
"Well... It seems that my clone has delivered the message to Aki." he thought as he checked the map in his HUD.
He threw a smoke bomb on the surface of the water, hiding his presence. After the smoke cleared, another of his weird clones appeared in his place with the word "WATER" inscribed on his forehead.
"Wait WHAT? Wha-? D-did you just transform?!" the woman asked confused, as the had little to no resemblance with Hayato. He really seemed like a starved out version of him...
"Hmmmmmm... Perhaps..." the clone coldly answered.
She continued to attack the clone with the tiny hydra heads. Then one of those heads spat a shadow clone of her's and without losing any time, her clone stood up and engaged Hayato's clone in close combat.
Hayato's clone, who was merely using hands and feet couldn't keep up with both the heads. Her shadow clone with genius timing, taking the advantage that the hydra heads created, eventually chopped off his head with a precise slash. Blood spurted from his neck, which made the woman think that he killed the original Hayato.
"THAT'S IT! I GOT HIM!" she naively celebrated.
Yet, the clone's body turned into water and her celebration ended quickly.
Then, the actual Hayato popped from inside the sea, having placed a senbon horizontally between his index and middle finger, at each hand. His fingers emitted a very faint, blue-ish light which seamed like fire but it also had purple lightning branches that looked like a jellyfish's tentacles.
"Lorentz Rifle" Hayato whispered smirking, as he was sure about his jutsu success.
This bizzare energy that was radiated by Hayato's fingers fired the two senbon forward with unprecedented velocity. As soon as they left his hands they instantly penetrated the water beast and stabbed her neck, completely destroying the metallic piece that protected her neck. It was like the senbon teleported at her.There were wires tied to them as well.
The woman's jutsu instantly collapsed after the senbon impacted on her. She fell on the surface of the sea and she tried to stand, but in vain. It was like a hundred wasps stung her neck.
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"Wha-what in the otherworldy fuck happened!?" a terrified pirate on the deck shouted, as he couldn't perceive the high speed battle that occurred.The millions of shockwaves that were generated by Hayato's blows reached him and his comrades as a strong, individual pressure wave, which shattered their armors, ruptured their organs. Some of them, weaker than their comrades, were literally turned into mince by the waves destructive force that decimated the half of the ship, like it was made from cardboard .
Even though he got wounded, he managed to survive the wave's terrifying pressure.The pirate hastily turned his head left and right, only to see a pile of wood and metal, painted red by his comrades blood and guts.
For them, the battle between their mistress and Hayato only lasted for a fraction of a millisecond.
Thankfully the captives were mostly safe by this shockwave, since they were in the ship's keel,which was underwater. However, the unbearably loud sound that was generated almost made them go deaf.
Hayato widened his eyes as he witnessed the remnants of the ship, yet he cooled himself when his sensory abilities indicated that none of the captives had died by the shockwave.
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"Well that was a pretty damn cool jutsu!Definitely one of the strongest water jutsu I've ever seen! " Hayato congratulated her and clapped his hands, deactivating his sage mode.
"So it seems that the earth chakra bits on the water beast can't deflect high-speed, thin and small objects. My kunai though couldn't pass through, probably because they weren't as thin and small as my senbon. Thank goodness I tied those senbon to wires and halted their course, 'cause they would have blown your torso into pieces!" he stated.
" SHOOT HIM! "she yelled as her voice cracked several times.
" SHOOT THIS MOTHERFUCKER! "she shouted again.It appeared that, such was the shock cause by her pain that she didn't care that half of her manpower was wiped out. Neither that her ship, as big as a village, was turned into splinters in a blink of an eye.
Responding to her command, a few pirate musketeers, that barely managed to stand appeared on the ship's remains, aimed their muskets at him and fired. Hayato didn't even try to evade them and most of the musketballs hit him.Or... Did they?
"W-wait that's not him! That's an afterima-" and just as she finished her thoughts, she took a huge blow from her left that sent her flying.
"Look... uhmm ma'am I... Don't want to continue this anymore soooo... please calmly surrender." Hayato advised her, since he didn't want to inflict to her any serious damage that could prevent her from answering questions.He needed her alive.
The woman did not respond.
She mmediately got up, channeled chakra through her sword and used it as a cane to balance herself on the water
" J-just shut the fuck up!You talk to much!"she yelled and pulled out the hot senbon that were into her throat.
" You almost fucking killed me with these shits, cocky bastard!"she said while showing him the senbon.
"Tsch! Like hell I'm going to go easy on someone that kills children and crucifies people. Look, I've done some not-so-great stuff in my life as well, but you ma'am are a different breed!" Hayato answered to her sarcastically.
The woman became even more frustrated and shouted:
" WHO THE FUCK YA THINK YA ARE?!I AM SURE THAT YOU ARE JUST A MERE PEASANT THAT WANTS ATTENTION!NOW SHUT UP AND DIE!"
After she finished those words, a clone of her's covered in paper bombs appeared underneath Hayato,swimming towards him from the depths of the sea.He noticed her clone but it was too late to evade it. The clone instantly exploded creating a huge blast and launched water so high up in the air that it literally bathed the remaining musketeers on the ship.
" That's it! This time I got him undoubtedly!" the woman celebrated once again.
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When the smoke from the blast cleared, there was nothing on the surface of the sea, but a wood log.
She panicked. Where could he have gone? Could he had went underneath the surface?She prepared to defend against an underwater attack. Yet she heard something behind her, very close to her:
"Not so good getting beaten up by a peasant then, no?" Hayato once again sarcastically said from above and quickly landed a falling kick on her back with so much speed and force, that the sea literally opened in half. The woman went straight down to seafloor and impacted on the ground,generating a gigantic crater.
The ripple effect created by Hayato's powerful kick... didn't seem like a ripple at all. It was like a tsunami, that almost flipped over the gigantic ship while literally flooding the beach and a chunk of the forest.
He did again. A mistake that shouldn't be made by shinobis of his caliber. He let his feelings overcome his rational thinking, something that could cost the success of the mission. Hayato was never forgiving against persons like this woman , as words and logic could never reach their soul. What should pave the way for those two to triumph, was violence.
When the seawater streamed again through the place were Hayato landed his hit, the woman slowly ascended to the surface of the sea, as her armor was completely shattered.
She maintained her consciousness for a bit, channeled chakra on her knees and tried to stand up. Hayato was truly surprised that she withstood a blow of such force. But did she really?
"Well, is that what you want?" Hayato asked, profoundly irritated, and weaved a few three handsigns,a handsign combination that wasn't unknown.
DOG
TIGER
MONKEY
Hayato then shook his arm in the air, generating thin, sporadic purple lightning jolts around his palm. Then, he raised his hand near his face and opened his skyward-facing palm.
"This is gonna zap you a bit." Hayato warned her, jokingly.
However, the woman didn't respond to him.She gave Hayato a dead gaze and instantly threw up a splatter of blood, falling unconscious on the surface of the sea
Hayato then widened his eyes surprised, canceling his jutsu . Perhaps she died?He panicked as well for a bit.
Hayato tried to approach her but something strange happened. Two beings, that seemed like silhouettes were formed out of nothing around her. They both kneeled to check on her and then poked her shoulder.
"Holy shit you killed her dude!" said one of the silhouettes said and giggled.
"Ok Hayato, I think you have flexed enough but deep inside, you know that she made you kinda sweat."mocked the other one.
This sighting made Hayato gasp, as it wasn't something unknown to him.
" Oh no! Not again! "he thought as he started to panick again.
" Do not let them overpower you!"he thought to himself.
Hayato opened and closed his eyes consecutively but both of the silhouettes were there.He shaked multiple times his head, but the silhouettes wouldn't dissappear.
" KNOCK IT OFF DAMN IT! "he yelled in frustration.
He understood then that as much as he continued panicking the silhouettes wouldn't dissappear. Hayato tried to calm himself by taking deep breaths, slowly making the silhouettes to fade.
Now, Hayato finally managed to approach her and turned over her body, which was slowly sinking into the sea.Her face spoke tiredness and suffering, kinda matching her vulgar speech. Her brunette short hair were painted red from her blood and there was also a scar on her nose.
She wasn't dead, she had just lost her senses. Good. Now Hayato could ask her a ton of questions after she'd wake up.
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He then grabbed her and placed her firmly on the sand. Without losing any time he rushed at the sea, placed his hand on the water and he once again formed a water clone.
"Go check at 'em." Hayato ordered his clone and he in response nodded affirmatively. In a blink of an eye, the clone dashed, landed on the remains on the ship and headed to the bottom of her in order to check for the captives.
It appeared that none of them had any profound wounds, yet some of them were shocked by the terrifying sounds that were produced during the battle. And so, the water clone left the ship by jumping on the water and pulled it to the shore using his superhuman strength.
Nevertheless, it was truly a pity that a vessel of such magnificent shipbuilding was obliterated.
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Hayato felt exhausted as hell, since those peculiar clones took a lot of chakra to form. He then took a look at her.
"She is definitely ANBU material!" he thought to himself.
Now, Hayato could lie down on the sand and relax a bit. His first day on the current era was surely eventful and he thought that the Otsutsuki probably already knew that he was alive.He was also curious to know if their contact with the human civilization changed them and if it did how did it change them?
Aki seemed a pretty ok and eager person and she appeared to be someone that could be trusted.Her words about defending Satsuma at all cost echoed in Hayato's mind. He wondered how could an Otsutsuki bond with humans so well in order to say such words. Well... that was a silly question to ask to himself. All he had to do to answer that question was to look over his right shoulder...
However, he refused to fully trust Aki yet, since what he knew was that the Otsutsuki work in the most deceitful ways in order to accomplish their goals. Hayato unfortunately learned that in the worst way possible...
... TO BE CONTINUED