[Sasuke's-inner-thought: Now, I have taken care of the sage mode problem. I have to face these bastards and take them out silently, all while avoiding Ina-Shika-Cho and the Senju.]
He was still thinking about what he decided.
[Sasuke's-inner-thought: Wait a minute, If I completely let them go then that is not fine. I at least need to be a threat to them. No, No, No. I can't just let them get away. They would think I am a scaredy cat or something. Hmm...I need to be a threat. Okay, let's break some limbs at the very least.]
He could then sense some shinobis coming closer to where he was hiding.
[Sasuke's-inner-thought: MUHAHAHAHAHA, Yeah baby, time to surprise some M***** F*****S.]
Sasuke disappeared after that.
...
[Shinobi 1]: Hey, where did he go?
[Shinobi 2]: Don't know. We just lost him.
A squad of 4 was searching for him in the forest. The forest was mostly dark due to the night. There were spots in the forest that would have little moon's light that have reached after passing the leaves. One could see what is happening, but only if they were close. So, forest was a mixture of complete darkness and some places one could see.
THUNDERCLAP
They see light and hear the sound of a thunderclap in the 2'O clock direction.
[Shinobi 1]: Over there!
They run in that direction. Then they see a shinobi who came out of a different direction joining them.
[New Shinobi]: HE RAN THAT WAY! I SAW HIM TAKE OUT A SQUAD AND THEN HE RAN.
[Shinobi 1]: OK, We are not losing him this time.
The new shinobi took out a sword.
[New Shinobi]: I am killing him for sure this time. He killed my clan mates. He killed my fiancee.
[Shinobi 1]: You are not the only one so get in a line. He is open game, everybody wants to be the first.
[New Shinobi]: You are right. SURPRISE M***** F*****S.
The new shinobi suddenly attacked them. He stabbed the first one in the mouth and then swung his sword twice, first to cut the brain of the first one in half and the next to cut his teammates. The swung swords cut down all the 3 that were behind the first one killing all of them.
[New Shinobi]: Now then, I can sense another squad of 4 closer to here. Let's go take that one out. Also, I need to create a lot of chaos. Heh, Heh, Heh, let's use some birds.
The shinobi disappeared from there.
...
A few minutes after that...
BOOOOMMMMM, BOOOOMMMMM, BOOOOMMMMM, BOOOOMMMMM
multiple explosions happened in different spots in the forest and multiple shinobis were killed. As they were in a forest and it was night, now the birds could come closer and it would be hard for the shinobis to know or attack them first.
[Shinobi 1]: That Fucker.
BOOOOMMMMM, BOOOOMMMMM
[Shinobi 2]: He has started using the birds.
BOOOOMMMMM, BOOOOMMMMM
[Shinobi 1]: We need to find him as soon as we can otherwise we don't know how many will die.
BOOOOMMMMM
An explosions happens not far from this squad and they feel the shockwave and the quake in the ground
[Shinobi 2]: That one was closer.
[Shinobi 1]: I think we should get away....
As soon as the second shinobi spoke, a pigeon sat on the shoulder of one of their squad member.
Pigeon: coo coo
[Shinobi 2]: OH NO! KILL IT!
BOOOOMMMMM
unfortunately, they weren't fast enough to kill it. Same scene was happening in multiple places in the forest.
...
A few minutes later. A group of 45 shinobis were together and listening to a shinobi speak.
[Nara Shinobi]: So, As I have told you, our only option is to burn this forest. So use fire style and start burning it.
[All Shinobis]: YEAHHHHHH...
Then everybody got ready and staring executing their fire style and burn the forest. Sasuke who was hiding a 100 meters away was looking at this.
[Sasuke's-inner-thought: FUCK! That damn Nara. He is spoiling my fun. I was getting ready to target another squad but that damn Nara got a lot of them together and turned them all into arsonists. I wanted to take them down the easy way but looks like I might have to confront them. I need to start getting serious. Fine, I SAY FINE! YOU WANT TO SEE ME GET SERIOUS? THEN YOU WILL SEE ME GET SERIOUS. LET'S SEE HOW YOU WILL HANDLE ME WITH MY LIGHTNING AND FIRE STYLES. MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHA....I CAN SEE YOU GUYS RUNNING WITH TAILES BETWEEN YOUR LEGS AND SOME JUST SHITTING AND PISSING THEIR PANTS. HAHAHAHAHA.....I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU WHY I CHANGED MY NAME TO RAIJIN.]
Sasuke then took out his sword and got ready. For the first time since the start of the battle, he was using his weapon. He unsheathed the sword and took a stance, with his sword in his right hand and his left hand free. He bent his knees and put his weight on his legs. He took a deep breath. At that moment, he received more chakra from one of the clones he sent to gather it. The clone probably created another one with half its chakra and dispelled, so that the original would get his chakra. But because there are multiple Sasukes, each one got a part of clone's chakra.
[Sasuke's-inner-thought: The amount of chakra I got is probably the 1/4 of the clone's chakra, the clone dispelled having 50% chakra so I got 1/4 of that, meaning 12.5%. It is not too much, but it will extend my sage mode and I have also been gathering nature energy whenever I stopped or hid so I am at 100%. The clone that is fighting the snake bastard probably needs more chakra since his expenditure is probably greater. In a few more minutes, another clone will dispel and share his chakra, as I sent 2 clones for this job, 1 for me and another for the clone fighting the snake bastard. So, my clone that is facing the snake bastard will get 12.5% more chakra. In total, he will get 25% chakra. That should be enough for him to continue fighting. Still, Maybe I need to take care of these guys and back up my clone. Hmm...yes, let's do that. Let's take care of this side and go kill that Orochimaru v1.0.]
Having deciding his next course of action, he decided to use lightning style.
[Sage Art: Advent of the Lightning Demon]
Lightning crackles and in just a split second, his body is covered with lighting and snakes of lightning move around him.
He then ran towards his targets with super speed.
...
THUNDER RUMBLE
It happened in a split second, in one moment the shinobis were burning the forest, the next moment, all they saw was a flash of lightning passing between them and spreading zig-zag threads of lightning everywhere. Many died before they could even process what happened, the ones who lived had one or more of their limbs cut. Only the members of Nara, Akimichi, Yamanaka and Senju were spared. Sasuke stopped a few meters away from the last shinobi he cut. After he stopped, only then did people heard the thunder rumbling. The place he passed, he spread lighting in the form of zig-zag threads or snakes and once he stopped, a shockwave spread to every direction, showing he ran quite fast. The shockwave also sent many flying in different directions.
Sasuke: MUAHAHAHAHAHA, HERE YOU GO BASTARDS. WANNA SEE ME GET SERIOUS? WELL YOU GOT IT THEN. WORLD! HERE I COME.
He had an episode of maniacal laughter. At the same time, the second clone dispelled after making another one to take its place.
Sasuke: AND I GOT MORE CHAKRA THAN I SPENT KILLING YOU GUYS. I NEED TO START USING BIG JUTSUS NOW.
Sasuke then disappeared from that place with sealess Shunshin no Jutsu.
...
On another battlefield, a few minutes before, after Sasuke's clone created another clone and dispelled it to inform the original, he got ready for the confrontation that is about to happen.
Sasuke's Clone: Listen, I will support you guys but in between I will try to gather more nature energy so support me as well.
Kaki: Don't worry. We will try so that you can gather nature energy as well after all that snake bastard has been doing just that.
Katsuki: Yeah, that snake bastard has been gathering nature energy since he summoned that snake. He spent quite a lot on summoning it so no wonder this bastard is not easy to kill.
Sasuke's Clone: Ok, then let's make the first move. I want a big smoke screen that covers us completely.
Kaki: You got it.
[Fire-Style: Ash Pile Burning]
Kaki spews a stream of chakra-infused gunpowder from his mouth, which surrounds the region and hides them. As the gunpowder is composed entirely of ash, it stays in the air and can be used like a smokescreen. This jutsu can also be used to kill enemies. After surrounding the enemy with the ash, the user can ignite it with a spark, resulting in a violent explosion, burning the enemy. Kaki was using that jutsu purely to hide them right now.
Ryuga: Get ready they are coming.
He clapped his hands and got ready to release a jutsu.
[Blue Snake]: You better not disappoint me or you will be my snack.
Ryuga: Heh, heh, don't worry. This isn't the first time we are fighting together, as long as we fight like we normally do then everything will be fine.
[Blue Snake]: I don't care about the fight. I want those toads as my food otherwise you are done.
Ryuga: Yeah, yeah. Just fight like you normally do and those toads will be your food.
[Blue Snake]: Hmph.
In front of Ryuga, the toads can't be seen as they are covered by the smoke screen. Suddenly, a tongue comes out really fast and targets them. The snake dodges.
[Blue Snake]: Hmph, they want to entangle by body and stop my movement with that tongue.
Another tongue comes out of the smoke screen targeting the fleeing snake. The snake dodges that as well.
Ryuga: Get captured.
[Blue Snake]: WHAT?
Ryuga: Just trust me and do it.
[Blue Snake]: Your plan better work.
The snake was then caught by a tongue.
Ryuga: You have more strength so drag that toad and separate it from the other one. Then use Fire-Style and I will enhance it using the Wind-Style.
[Blue Snake]: Hmph.
The snake used all of its strength and slithered to its 6'O clock. Kaki got dragged out the smoke.
Ryuga: NOW!
[Blue Snake]: [Fire-Style: Flame Bullet]
Ryuga: [Wind-Style: Great Breakthrough]
Ryuga spewed a lot of wind from his mouth, big enough to enhance the flame bullet released by his snake. The flame bullet which was already big became more bigger and headed towards Kaki.
Sasuke's Clone: USE YOUR JUMP TO DODGE. JUST BECAUSE YOUR TONGUE IS TIED TO THE SNAKE DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T DODGE. YOU GUYS KNOW THE PLAN. I JUST GOT MORE SAGE CHAKRA SO I CAN EXECUTE IT NOW. WE ARE DOING IT RIGHT NOW THAN LATER.
Sasuke's Clone, who was on Katsuki, came out of the smoke screen from another direction. They came out of smoke screen from their 9'O clock, which was the 3'O clock of Ryuga's. They were constantly moving in that direction. Sasuke's clone has a plan but the problem was his chakra so they first decided to drag the fight until the clone gets more chakra but the clone just received his first 12.5% chakra so he decided to execute the plan now. The clone finished making the hand signs.
[Sasuke's Clone-inner-thought: Sage Art: Earth-Style Swamp of the Underworld]
Sasuke's clone atop Katsuki executed his jutsu and a swamp started to form under the snake as the bullet was travelling towards Kaki. Kaki jumped and his tongue was still tying the snake but he was successfully able to dodge with a hop and with another it got closer to the snake. Katsuki as well got closer by hopping.
[Blue Snake]: WHAT?
There was swamp under the snake and it was making it difficult for him to move.
Ryuga: Damn it.
Ryuga quickly made hand signs.
[Sage Art: Lightning-Style Sixteen-Pillar Trap]
Sixteen big pillars shot out from the ground around Katsuki. Lightning started to flow between the pillars, making a fence, and towards both Katsuki and Sasuke's clone on her, paralysing both. It is also doing some damage and stopped her from moving. But Kaki was able to get to the snake in the meantime and tackled its upper body into the swamp. Immobilising it and also himself.
[Blue Snake]: You Bastard.
Ryuga: TAKE CARE OF THE ORANGE ONE HURRY!
[Blue Snake]: [Fire-Style: Fireball Jutsu]
The snake released a stream of fire towards Kaki while most of its body was in the swamp.
Kaki: [Fire-Style: Dragon Flame Jutsu]
Kaki's whole body caught fire and started burning. Due to that, he was saved even though the snake was spewing fire. Then the fire also burned through his tongue as well, and because the tongue was wrapped around the snake and the snake was immobilised due to both the swamp and the tongue, so the result was the snake getting burned around the area the tongue was coiled.
[Blue Snake]: RYUGAAAA! DOOOO SOMETHINGGGGG.
Due to the pain it also stopped spewing fire and screamed. Ryuga in the meantime finished making the hand signs and released his jutsu.
Ryuga: [Sage Art: White Rage Technique]
After forming the necessary hand seals, the user expels a dragon-like entity from their mouth that carries an orb in its left front claw. As the dragon tightly coils itself around the orb, it releases both blinding light and deafening sound by making the air oscillate. This alone greatly hinders those in the vicinity but, due to the intensity of the resulting vibrations, paralysing pain is also induced. Thus, the technique both briefly inhibits the opponent's senses, as well as techniques that require their active concentration. Thus, Ryuga expelled the white dragon from his mouth.
Ryuga: USE ALL OF YOUR STRENGTH AND CAPTURE THE TOAD BEFORE THE WHITE DRAGON STARTS COILING AROUND THE ORB.
[Blue Snake]: COME HERE YOU LITTLE AMBHIBION.
The snake used all of the its strength to move his upper body to coil Kaki.
Kaki: YOU ARE NOT MOVING YOU LEATHER SKIN.
Kaki said that while his tongue was outside his mouth and he put more strength to stop the snake from moving. On the other hand, Sasuke and Katsuki were paralysed and were also getting little damage from electrocution. As the white dragon started to coil around its orb, Ryuga made hand signs to execute another jutsu.
Ryuga: [Sage Art: Earth-Style Barrier Earth Dome Prison]
Earth patches rose from the swamp and started to create a dome around Ryuga and his snake. This Jutsu is mostly used to trap others but It can also be used to protect oneself. Ryuga was using this to protect him and his snake. The white dragon was now coiling around the orb, releasing light and deafening sound by making the air oscillate, resulting vibrations started inducing paralysing pain to those near the coiling white dragon. This is the reason Ryuga used the last jutsu.
Kaki: AAAHHHHH.
Kaki was feeling paralysing pain at this moment.
[?]: NO OTHER CHOICE. EXPLODE! RIGHT NOW.
There were birds in the air that were falling, some were diving towards their target before Ryuga released his white dragon, while others simply couldn't move as they weren't that high in the sky and now due to the white dragon they can't move. Kaki that was near the dome exploded. At the same time, as the birds fell on the dome, they exploded as well.
BBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM, BOOOOOM, BOOOOOM, BOOOOOM, BOOOOOM
Kaki's explosion was the biggest and more explosions happened as more birds fell on the dome. The white dragon continued to coil for 40s-60s and during that time explosions from birds continued to happen but the sound was muffled due to the white dragon. The only give away was the continuous quake in the earth as the birds explode and the resulting shockwaves from them. After the white dragon disappeared, the dome was in tatters. Its different parts fell one by one as they showed how much damage it absorbed. Ryuga could be seen on his knees on a part of the snake's head that wasn't in the swamp.
Ryuga: Pant, Pant, Pant, DAMN IT. I can't believe he exploded his own summon. Pant, Pant, Pant, [Earth-Style: Barrier Earth Dome Prison] can be repaired by supplying more chakra. Its sage art counter part is much stronger but requires more chakra to repair.
Ryuga was breathing heavily as he used quite a lot of chakra.
Ryuga: His orange toad that exploded would have killed me if it weren't for me constantly supplying large amounts of chakra to make the barrier more stronger and to repair it. Pant, Pant, Pant, Also, the continuous explosions that happened after that needed me to continuously supply more chakra. I am almost out of chakra and sage mode. Pant, Pant, Pant, but at the very least I got him trapped in my lightning style and one of his toad died. Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh.
Sasuke's Clone: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU GOT ME TRAPPED AND KILLED MY TOAD?
Ryuga: WHAT?
As Ryuga looked in the direction the voice came from, he saw the smoke screen which was not as thick as before but still lingering in the air. Suddenly, the smoke screen was released by a wind style. He saw another Orange toad, another purple toad and another Sasuke on the toad's head. He then looked towards his 16 pillars lightning style, he saw another Sasuke on a purple toad and both were clearly trapped.
Ryuga: DAMN IT! CLONES.
[Blue Snake]: YOU BASTARD! YOU HAD ME EXPERIENCE SUCH PAIN AND YOU HADN'T EVEN KILLED A SINGLE TOAD? IF IT WEREN'T FOR ME NOT BEING ABLE TO MOVE, I WOULD EAT YOU RIGHT NOW.
Ryuga: Wait...
[Blue Snake]: I AM LEAVING. A PART OF MY BODY IS BURNT DUE TO YOU AND IT WILL TAKE TIME TO HEAL. SO, DON'T SUMMON ME! LASTLY, YOUR TRIBUTE IS INCREASED BY 300 MORE COWS, SO YOU BETTER TRIBUTE 500 COWS OTHERWISE DON'T APPEAR IN FRONT OF ME AGAIN OR ELSE YOU KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES.
The snake said his piece and disappeared in smoke. Ryuga got off the snake before it disappeared and released his tongue to wrap around a tree and flew to it, he did this to avoid the swamp. At the same time, the pillars binding the other Sasuke clone and Katsuki clone stopped releasing lightning and fell apart. Probably because Ryuga needs to constantly supply chakra for the pillars to keep his opponents paralysed and as he is low on it, either he cancelled the jutsu himself or he doesn't have enough chakra to keep supplying to the Jutsu of such level. The clones inside the pillars also disappeared in smoke. The clones would have fallen for quite a while ago but Sasuke's command on the jutsu is enough that he was able to keep his and Katsuki's clone from disappearing.
Sasuke's clone: Phew, Thank God I got another 12.5% chakra from another clone. Also, looks like me making hand signs for both of you and using your chakra to make your clones was a success. We also did a good job by using the special talisman I have so that he couldn't sense your or mine chakra. When all 3 of our chakra disappeared and our clones took our place, he could never guess our strategy. Now then, we need to catch that snake bastard. He is out of sage mode and his own chakra is running low so this opportunity might not come again.
...
Ryuga was running in the forest and away from the battle site. He was out of sage mode and he only had close to 35% chakra remaining, which sounds like it is a lot but based on the scale of Jutsus he just used against his opponent right now, it is not a lot. He could recover if he stopped and started absorbing nature energy but he knows, if he does that then his opponent will catch up to him.
Ryuga: Damn It! that bastard. No wonder in my dreams I saw him killing me. Not only he fooled me but his Sage chakra was definitely less than mine, but somehow he got a lot of chakra really fast. I could sense another one of him fighting the other shinobis but when that smoke screen came up, I could only sense 1 of him and 1 pair of his toads inside that. Why couldn't I sense another pair? I wasn't sensing further than the areas around the castle, maybe I should have. No, it still doesn't explain why I couldn't sense the ones inside that smokescreen. Is that smokescreen a special jutsu?
Sasuke's Clone: [Fire-Style: Toad Flame Bomb]
Katsuki: [Wind-Style: Great Breakthrough]
Kaki spit oil and Sasuke's clone lit it on fire, the resulting fire stream was big and flew in a straight line. Katsuki also executed a wind style and because she was a giant toad, her jutsu had a different scale than Ryuga's. The wind enhanced the stream of fire and made it much hotter and spread it a little. The result was that a portion of the forest in which Ryuga was running immediately caught fire and turned to charcoal in that big flamethrower. The flamethrower was just fire but it was a fire stream with pressure that was burning really hot and it was blowing everything in its path away. It went on for about 15 seconds but the destruction it caused was amazing.
Kaki: Did we get him?
Sasuke's Clone: No, the bastard went underground. Let me bring the mole wanna be out.
Sasuke's clone jumped and got on the ground. He ran into the burning forest. He then ran to a place and jumped in the air.
Sasuke's Clone: [Sage Art: Super Giant Rasengan]
He made a Rasengan that was so big that It could cover his body. He then smashed that Super Giant Rasengan on a place on the ground.
BOOOM
A shockwave passed the ground and dents spread on it as well. The area which was burning experienced destruction and the fire in that area also started to get blown away. The ground was divided into patches showing that the Rasengan was applying pressure. But Sasuke kept on pushing the Rasengan as if he wants to burrow a hole in the ground and Rasengan was working as intended. The Rasengan was slowly burrowing in the ground but the area around it was going through a lot of destruction. The dirt was flying up in the air and patches of the ground were flying away as well. A crater was forming and dents from it were spreading. Due to this, the snake sage came out a few meters away from Sasuke in his 2'O clock direction.
Ryuga: Damn It.
Sasuke cancelled his Rasengan the moment he sensed the snake sage coming out. It was to save chakra and to make sure his Rasengan is not seen by the living. Only when he is sure that he can kill someone would he show them.
Sasuke's Clone: Yo, didn't know I mistook you for a snake but you were a mole.
Ryuga: Hmph, just because you won this bout doesn't mean you are stronger. It was your strategy that made you a victor.
Sasuke's Clone: Strategy is also part of the battle. It doesn't change the fact that I won and now I will take you out.
Ryuga: Hah, I didn't want to use this but I have no choice. Next time I will show many things that I couldn't this time.
Ryuga made hand signs really fast and smashed his hands on the ground.
[Reverse Summoning Jutsu]
Kaki: GET HIM!
Katsuki: DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY.
But it was too late, the snake sage disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Kaki: Why didn't you attack?
Sasuke's Clone: I wouldn't have made it in time. Also, If I was in his place then even I would have used the reverse summoning. I need to create a Jutsu to either block the summoning and reverse summoning or I need to create another powerful genjutsu. Something tells me that [Sage Art: Advent of the Slaughter Demon] won't have much effect on him. Maybe using the [Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Chant], which is the strongest genjutsu used by Fukasaku-sama and Shima-sama is the only way to trap that bastard.
Katsuki: What about the original you?
Sasuke's Clone: Hmm? I think he is about to be done as well.