"Unfortunate," Suguru muttered as he watched Oyashiro En enter his predetermined range.
[Bird].
Forming a seal, Suguru poured chakra into his bleeding eyes.
'Vampiric Gaze!'
Bound by his gaze, En was frozen still. A clone that Suguru had created beforehand, pulled back his bow. With the arrow gently notched, he then let go.
—Whiiiiiiing!
The whistling arrow left a trail of distorted air within its wake. The spiraling wind created by its feathers was invisible to the naked eye.
As Suguru listened to its cry, he analyzed the battle he had fought. The advantages he exploited and the apparent weakness of his enemy. From the eventual emotional outburst, Suguru had seen it all coming.
Despite En's predicted strength, Suguru had created a situation where the Chinoike survivor could not even step up to the table to play his cards.
To fight a sniper with just an iron sword...
The results of such a matchup were as clear as day.
"Dying like this..." Suguru smacked his lip as he watched an arrow pierce through En's heart. "It's... unbecoming."
A future character of the story. Someone who would have appeared only in the distant future.
Dead.
"At least you'll die protecting your daughter," Suguru muttered as he canceled his jutsu.
With his Kaisugan, he watched as En fell to the ground, no longer conscious.
—Crack.
As if to mock his situation, the world even decided to break his neck as he fell head-first. Suguru couldn't help but grimace.
"Wow... That's cruel,"
He then shook his head and flickered off to the location of his prey.
***
Given their proximity, it took Suguru only a minute to arrive at the scene of the crime. Oyashiro En had shortened the distance between them considerably. Any closer and Suguru would have had to reposition.
Unfortunately, it did not seem like such a man had a powerful mind.
A single cast of Vampiric Gaze was all it had taken to incapacitate the man.
Despite the threat of death, En could not pry himself out of Suguru's gaze. Perhaps if Suguru had targeted Chino, En would have reacted.
Unfortunately, En lacked the sheer strength of will to survive on his own.
'I did not expect his will to be so weak,' Suguru thought as he stood over En's corpse.
Bending down, Suguru turned the body over, so that the moon could illuminate En's face. Then, with a surgical blade, Suguru carved out the man's eyes and held them in his hand.
Gazing at the eyeballs, Suguru then poured chakra into his eyes.
'Kaisugan!'
Just like with Ranmaru, En's eyes dissolved under Suguru's unique gaze. After becoming some kind of viscous, bloodied honey, the substance flowed into Suguru's shattered eyes.
Then, the chakra seemed to mend his shattered irises, morphing them into a pair of violet eyes, bubbling with hidden power.
"Hmm," A hum.
Taking a moment to process the feeling of these new eyes, Suguru felt a sense of contentment. Although the Ketsuryugan did not feel as versatile as the Shinrakugan, it was a good pair of eyes.
Suguru poured chakra into his newfound pair of eyes.
'Ketsuryugan!'
Suddenly, his irises and even the whites of his eyes were dyed in a deep, blood red. Unlike Ranmaru's eyes which only seemed to glow, the Ketsuryugan plunged even the whites of his eyes in a deep crimson.
Suguru felt that such eyes were more ominous to look at.
Thus, a chuckle escaped his lips.
With the Ketsuryugan's blood-related abilities, he had just grown a lot more threatening in close combat. Even a tiny cut would allow him to manipulate his targets — and even blow them up like bombs.
All it would take would be a tiny wound.
After that, victory would be guaranteed.
"Heh,"
Suguru's smile was pleasant as he weaved a few hand signs.
'Fireball Jutsu,'
"Goodbye, Oyashiro En."
Suguru would thus vanish from this place. Satisfied with the completion of his errand. Soon, he would have all of the eyes he wanted.
'Now, to deal with these screaming instincts of mine...'
He rushed back to the Land of Fire.
***
'Summoning Jutsu,'
With a large cloud of smoke, Jiraiya brought onto the table a toad that matched the Kyuubi in size. Wielding a sword, the giant summon seemed like an undeniable mountain.
"Bunta! I'll leave the melee to you!" Jiraiya hurriedly gave the command.
—Boom!
Gamabunta met the blade of Danzo's Susanoo with his own. A shockwave that shook the cavernous walls burst forth, creating wind currents that ruffled Jiraiya's hair.
"Oil!" Jiraiya weaved several hand seals, molding the chakra within him.
"On it!" Gamabunta boomed and his stomach began to swell.
Then, the summon and the summoner breathed in sync.
'Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet!'
In reply, Danzo and his Susanoo weaved hand seals as well. The Hokage's chakra flared, and his Susanoo seemed to mimic a human taking a breath.
'Wind Release: Vacuum Blade,'
—Hooooo.
A large breath was exhaled upon the Susanoo's already terrifying blade. A vacuum saber would thus bloom with all of its lethality.
"Oi, Jiraiya, that blade means business." Gamabunta cursed as he leaped backward.
Danzo's Vacuum Blade-enhanced Susanoo saber was a force to be reckoned with. It sliced through the Toad Oil Flame Bullet and carved a path right through the sea of flames.
Luckily, Gamabunta had leaped backward with Jiraiya on his back. A moment was bought in exchange for a disadvantageous position.
Danzo's pursuit continued, abusing the time that Gamabunta was in the air. His Vacuum Blade shifted its trajectory, flying true once more.
Atop Gamabunta's head, chakra began to swirl despite Danzo's advance. Both normal chakra and natural energy were poured into this technique.
Suddenly, a spiraling ball of chakra bloomed. Despite the magnificent aura, no hand signs were weaved. All there was, was pure chakra manipulation.
'Gallant Rasengan!'
Jiraiya leaped, slamming the giant chakra sphere into the Susanoo blade. The spinning mass of chakra tore apart the Vacuum Blade and proceeded to clash with the Susanoo.
Looking at the maelstrom of swirling chakra, Danzo clicked his tongue. Even with the Susanoo, getting hit by such a monstrous technique would bring him injuries.
However—
—Cling.
Something clicked, and Danzo could barely even react.
The Gallant Rasengan suddenly doubled in size, dwarfing even Gamabunta behind it. This amount of power could level even mountains.
Thus, all there would be was:
A flash of light.
Silence.
And a breath before destruction.
Suddenly.
—BOOM!
Matching the Kyuubi's Tailed Beast Bomb, Jiraiya unleashed a similar feat. However, despite all his efforts, he was a second too late. A second too slow, despite moving faster than the blink of an eye.
Before the Gallant Rasengan could destroy Danzo and his Susanoo...
Danzo's Mangekyou Sharingan flashed.
'Bishamonten: Heaven and Earth Reconstruction!'
The battlefield was instantly reset. All efforts were rendered null and void.
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