"Almost seeming to act as a second layer of skin."
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Suzumebachi's POV (Western River Plains of Irminsul - Terra)
However unlike her the golems seemed unimpressed and the remaining seven all began to charge up beams at once. "Just what we were waiting for!" Leifazu cried out in glee.
Suzumebachi flinched as she realized Mishiro had moved, she was even faster than Leifazu! The woman landed above the group facing the golems as they charged their attacks. Leifazu weaved hand signs in sync with Mishiro's one handed ones. The two finished and spoke in sync.
"Uzumaki Style: Kanji of the Raging Sea!"
"Uzumaki Style: Kanji of the Raging Sea!"
Leifazu clasped his hands together as in praying, a massive sprout of water floated up to Mishiro who faced it with concentration and her Katana facing it. She began to slash with incredible speed. Suzumebachi could only watch in grim awe as she watched the two move. Each slash slowly shaped the massive orb of water, eventually creating the kanji for raging sea.
"Leifazu do not let me down, strike true!" Mishiro called as she used her blade to shove the glowing kanji to Leifazu. Leifazu prepared a heavy slash for both hatchets glowing with chakra and kanji filled the air with energy.
"Time to show these heathens a true attack!" Leifazu cried in ecstasy as she swung her hatchets dozens of mini kanji of raging storm flew through the air. As each impacted a massive explosion of water let loose. The golems, the ground beneath them, and anything else was obliterated.
The first two were utterly reduced to smithereens as their bodies were torn asunder, the ones behind them were torn in two by the burst of water. Leaving the final two to break apart into chunks. Suzumebachi could only watch in awe as their attack was not done, having blown past the golems the kanji exploded into the canyon itself. The walls were blown out sending countless debris flying into the air and raining on the ground surrounding the Chakra Anchor. The water in the canyon seemed to double and burst into the air causing a misting all throughout the Western River Plains.
Mishiro unaffected marched them both pausing to offer her orders. "I will personally examine the Chakra Anchor, you two can deal with what's left of the golems…"
"But they're dead already?" Leifazu asked with a raised brow.
"Foolish humans! The golems can repair themselves from nearly any kind of wound." The wasps snarled at them furiously. "We must continue until they cannot!"
The group of them watched as the golem fragments formed themselves again. Though their numbers were reduced to five now.
"Thank kami! Those things know how to get down! I'll take two, you two try not to die to the other three!" Leifazu cried with glee racing off toward the four.
Suzumebachi nodded and looked at her boss. "Can I count on your aid in this battle Mam?"
"Don't be a foolish human. The woman who has enslaved me ensured I must do such, and even if she had not survival is more important than my grievance. Though make no mistake, if ever I found myself free, the first thing I will do is slay you, and feed you to my countless children…"
Suzumebachi was thankful their conversation was interrupted as a golem appeared before the two and attempted to crush them.
"YOU DARE!" The Queen cried ferocious striking out against the golem and deflecting and stumbling back with ease. Without hesitation the Queen slammed bodily into the golem the two tumbling away. Suzumebachi had attempted to race to aid her Queen but narrowly ducked a kick by another golem.
The stone golem was unphased by its miss and charged up its head to blow her apart at close range. Suzumebachi backflipped repeatedly to avoid the blast as it chased after her, she twirled around on the fifth one and launched two kunai with explosive tags, they exploded and sent the being crumbling to the ground but she cursed as she watched it start to reform. But once again narrowly slid under a surprise attack the second golem. The being had learned from the previous one and unleashed a barrage of shockingly quick blows.
Suzumebachi leaned out of one, ducked another and fully dropped to dodge a third, however the fourth grazed her, tearing some of the skin in her arm and sending her skidding away.
She heard the hum of chakra as it prepared to blast her, but she flinched as she heard another hum behind her. Suzumebachi's eyes widely searched for help, Leifazu was battering a golem with the arm of another, the Queen was relentlessly smashing her opponent to dust as it attempted to reform all the while. Gritting her teeth she jumped as both golem unleashed their blast, the two beams chased her up she only barely managed to avoid them at her apex by doing a perfect mid air split. However Suzumebachi noticed they did not stop firing until their heads were hit… almost like it was their weak point. As the two golems exploded beside her she screamed to be heard.
"Aim for their heads, if you destroy that they'll stay dead!" Suzumebachi called to the Queen and Leifazu.
The Queen howled in excitement as she stung the head of the half formed golem before her, the creation spasmed from the sting its head dispersed into the air as its body crumbled.
"Just as well, a fight's no fun if the opponent doesn't feel or stay dead. I should know my opponents always complain about it." Leifazu said with a nod, as she casually stepped out of the way of a wild swing from the now one armed golem, unbalanced due to such it tumbling by. Leifazu smirked as the second charged a beam; she waited for it to fully charge before throwing the limb of the first golem at the second's head. The beam exploded against the limb mere inches from its own head. The explosion destroyed it's entire half and unlike before it did not attempt to come back. "Well shit it worked, suppose the Kamizuru aren't useless. Suppose funs over then… Hellish Skull Split!" Crouching low, Leifazu seemed to disappear as a blur caused a boom through the air, within a fraction of an instant Leifazu appeared before the one armed golem. Seeming bored she slashed both her hatchets into its head splitting the chakra in four. She landed on its collapsing body riding it to the floor.
The Queen and Suzumebachi both stared warily at the powerful soldier of Mishiro's. "I see why you were powerless against her… just who have you gotten me involved with?" The Queen nervously hissed at Suzumebachi.
just who have you gotten me involved with?" The Queen nervously hissed at Suzumebachi.
Suzumebachi sighed as the three walked to the Anchor Mishiro was examining from all angles. "The wrong crowd…" She whispered back just as nervous.
The three arrived at the now exposed Chakra Anchor; the attack of Mishiro and Leifazu earlier had turned the canyon into a plateau. Leaving the Anchor now exposed and surrounded by a mix of stone and large puddles of water. Mishiro was raised into the air by several chains, kanji covered her entire body and glew and angry red. They glew the brightest on Mishiro's left hand, the hand in question was placed against the anchor. It was clear such was unsafe by the hissing of the kanji around her skin and the mist raced from her palm.
"Is that hurting you? You have a seal placed on yourself?" Suzumebachi asked, confused.
"The chakra from the Chakra Anchor is so powerful and dense the intensity from physical contact alone should slowly vaporize one's skin. Not to mention it's only partially tangible. For her not only to manage to touch it but maintain contact is insane… What is this human?" The Queen remarked, shocked.
"An Uzumaki, we are abominations of life. A particular pact of humans that have access to an absurd level of the most accursed shinobi art. Using Fuijutsu and our massive chakra reserves there is little we can't achieve…" Leifazu explained, despite what he said he had no warmth in his voice speaking of his own clan.
"Leifazu, Suzumebachi, Madam." Mishiro said with a strained voice. "I believe using a mix of Fuijutsu and my sealing chains I can gain control of the Chakra Anchor as was our main objective. Once we do so we can take our leave…"
"You never intended to uphold your end of the deal…" Suzumebachi whispered in shock.
"We do not need to when dealing with a clan as low as yours. All the same we did need the extra hands as useless as they were and you had something we wanted…" Mishiro explained smugly even as she struggled against the Anchor.
"My Domineering Sting!" Suzumebachi realized.
"Yeeeep. When the boss man heard of that he knew we needed to make a move. We were going to this place anyway and knew it would serve as perfect bait. Forget the Kamizuru or the Stone, you belong to Ikam now." Leifazu explained with a shrug.
"Well said Leifazu, that means you as well Madam Queen. So listen to what I say, it will take me roughly two days to gain control of this anchor and another to recover from such an endeavor. The three of you and whatever allies Madam's children can dig up will be responsible for defending me." Mishiro explained.
"So we're stuck babysitting," Leifazu complained.
"Couldn't you help her and speed up the process? Besides, surely even she can't keep that up for days." Suzumebachi asked with a raised brow. She had known they hadn't intended to let her go easily so she felt no panic. For now she had no choice but to follow their demands and attempt to escape when the opportunity provided itself.
"One don't underestimate the stamina of an Uzumaki. Even our children and elderly tend to be physically comparable to Genin. A woman like that bitch? It's more than doable." Leifazu answered snidely. "Besides I'm useless when it comes to Fuijutsu, touching the barrier to inject my chakra into it like Mishiro would just lead to me losing a limb."
"You're practically immortal, meaning you are Kami knows how old. You mean to tell me in all that time you never bothered to learn the craft of your people?" Suzumebachi asked angrily. She took great pride in her Kamizuru Clan, even more so in wielding their infamous jutsu. The idea of not only hating and hunting one's own clan, but also disrespecting its ideals from ignorance was blasphemy to her.
"I've lived a couple hundred years due to my unique jutsu. Those years have honed my hatred of the Uzumaki into what you see now. I lived my life killing my family, drinking booze and napping, and screwing any man or woman worth my time. Learning the "art" of Fuijutsu from my hated clan was far from something I intended to do in my long life." Leifazu explained.
"Three days, the Leaf Shinobi will surely run into this place before then. They may already be on their way!" Suzumebachi said with worry.
"Even if they are, we'll just kill them. Between you, the Queen, and myself some mere Genin or Chunin are no real concern. Hell most Jounin aren't a true threat to me." Leifazu said casually. "Besides, don't forget her barrier, they won't even have a way in."