Kimimaro stood with Ganryu and the others as they overlooked the hidden Stone's camp. It had gotten dark now and the moon lit the night sky with a feint silver glimmer.
"We have no choice Kimimaro. I'm afraid this task falls to you now." Ganryu said, getting a nod from the boy.
"I understand what my father asks of me," Kimimaro said, not showing any emotion.
"Good... Then we leave this to you." Ganryu said, crossing his arms over his chest.
Kimimaro turned around looking at his brother after assessing the situation from the vantage point he and the others were standing at.
"Haku, do you think you can get me in from above?" Kimimaro asked, getting a slow nod from Haku.
"Leave it to me." He said, already knowing what he was going to have to do.
"Alright, I'm ready when you are," Kimimaro said, getting a nod from Haku as he placed his hands together, creating the seal for his ice mirror jutsu.
An ice mirror slowly formed in front of Haku and the others while another formed in the air above the camp.
"Good luck," Haku said.
"Thanks." Kimimaro nodded, not wasting any more time before he stepped into the ice mirror, coming out of the other in an instant, falling through the air toward the unsuspecting camp.
"What is he doing? Surely he can't fight them all by himself?" Kujira said, looking to Hattori and then to Haku, not understanding what was happening.
"He is the only one that can do it," Haku said, not even turning around to look at him while he spoke.
"Enough. Just watch." Ganryu said, keeping his armed crossed over his chest while he too watched over the camp that Kimimaro was about to massacre.
Kimimaro dived down through the air, bracing his legs for the hard landing as he hit the ground in a perfect Spiderman pose, alerting some of the men in the area to his presence.
"Who the hell is that?"
"It's an intruder!" Two of them yelled, only to find themselves silenced as Kimimaro extended his arms out, shooting his fingertips bones from each hand, ripping holes through the men's bodies in an instant.
"What the hell is that kid!" Another yelled, watching helplessly as Kimimaro dashed toward him, slicing his throat with a bone blade before he charged towards some of the others, easily ripping through them in an instant as his bones shot out around his body, stabbing anyone he got close to.
"ARGH!" The screams of civilians and soldiers alike sounded through the night as Kimimaro tore through them without mercy, dashing from group to group, keeping them on their toes as no one quite knew what was happening yet.
It didn't take long for the shinobi to sound the alarm, alerting all those in the camp who were able to fight to bare arms and search for the attackers. Following the sounds of the screams.
"Where are they?" One of the Stone shinobi shouted, not seeing an invading force anywhere.
"It's just one!" Another yelled, only to have his throat sliced open by Kimimaro who dashed passed him, surprising the others.
"Who the hell is this kid!" The man yelled, drawing a short ninjato from his back as he sliced down toward the back of Kimimaro's head.
However, the Stone shinobi's sword was repelled hitting something hard, causing the man's eyes to open wide as he saw the bones sticking out from Kimimaros back, responsible for stopping his attack in its tracks.
"What in the hell are you!" He said, only to feel the sharp piercing thrust of one of Kimimaros's bones go through his chest, causing him to choke on his own blood before he dropped to the ground.
More and more men and women ran toward Kimimaro, drawing their weapons and preparing to attack the boy while trying to protect the civilians that were currently in the camp, handling the chaos as best they could.
"Don't let him get away!"
"Surround him!" They shouted, trying to flank and circle Kimimaro.
Kimimaro could see that his surprise attack had only done so much, soon finding that the Stone shinobi had managed to get organised and launch a counter-assault at him.
Kimimaro knew he didn't have time to play around and had to kill them all before anyone tried to flee and send a message to the outside. Thankfully he also knew that Ganryu and the others were patrolling the outskirts in case of any stranglers, meaning he could let rip in the camp as much as he wanted.
"Attack!" The leader of the Stone shinobi yelled from the back, watching Kimimaro carefully from behind the safety of his men.
A barrage of kunai and shuriken was launched into the air toward Kimimaro, aiming to take him out from a distance having seen what he had already done at close range.
"We've got him now!" The leader said, watching as the storm of projectiles were about to rip him to shreds, leaving him nowhere to go.
"Here we go Isobu, let's do this!" Kimimaro yelled, activating the three tails power and feeling its chakra burst from within him, covering him in a thick layer of red chakra that produced three tails at the back of him, changing his features slightly.
The chakra was so thick that all of the projectiles were repelled by it, deflecting them and causing them to bounce off of him before they hit the ground around him.
"W-W-What is that!" One of the men shouted, feeling his legs shake a little at the sight of it.
"He's some kind of monster!" Another yelled, watching as bones started to protrude from all over Kimimaro's body, mixed together with the red chakra cloak making him look like a demon.
"It's an Oni!" Another said, taking a step back because of the sight.
Kimimaro dropped to all fours, feeling the insane increase in his strength and chakra, trying not to let it go to his head.
"He's coming!" One of the Stone ninja yelled, holding a kunai tight in her hand.
Kimimaro pushed off the ground, feeling the rock beneath his feet crack from the force as he propelled himself through the air at great speed.
Kimimaro flew through the air like a bullet before he started twisting around at great speed ripping through the front lines like a meat grinder, tearing them apart like they were nothing.
"Don't let him push through, kill him!" The leader shouted, trying to keep his men from retreating at the sight of the bloodshed while Kimimaro continued to rip them apart.
With the increase in chakra and the added defence that the cloak gave him, Kimimaro could let his bones grow anywhere on his body, being able to pump as much chakra as he wanted into them, even allowing him to rip his own spine out from his back to use as a weapon, cutting anyone within range down with it like a whip.
Still, no matter how many Kimimaro seemed to kill, more continued to pour in, coming from all over the place as they tried to come up with a way to counter him, resorting to earth-style jutsu as four walls rose around him in an attempt to contain him within.
The Stone ninja had also resorted to using kunai with paper bombs attached to them, giving them some added firepower that even Kimimaro's chakra cloak could not repel, pushing him back into the earth trap they had made.
"Hold him back men!" The leader yelled, watching as more troops used earth-style ninjutsu to fully seal Kimimaro in a tomb of bedrock, leaving only a small hole in each of the walls.
"Now!"
"Fire style, baking flame!" A group of Stone ninja who were versed in fire release yelled, unleashing a powerful flame through each hole in the tomb, trying to cook Kimimaro alive while another group used their earth jutsu to trap him in a layer of mud, trying to bake him alive.
"We've got him now, no way he survived that!" The commander yelled, waiting to see what happened.
However, a sudden burst of intense red chakra blasted right through the top of the rock, breaking the earth around it before what looked like a smaller three tails jumped out, revealing that he was indeed still alive, looking even more terrifying than before.
"N-No way!" The commander shouted, looking in horror at Kimimaro's new form, having never seen anything like it.
Kimimaro had been forced to enter the second stage of his tailed beast form, looking more like Isobu now as his entire body was covered in a thick layer of red and black with bones forming around his body like armour.
"If not for your power, Isobu, I would be dead," Kimimaro said to the three tails inside his inner world thanking the large turtle.
Isobu remained quiet as it sat there watching the boy, floating around in the space inside his mind free from any cage that it had been used to.
"You can use my power whenever you wish, Kimimaro." Isobu then said softly, seeing the innocent smile on the boy's face, bringing joy to his heart.
"Ok Isobu, let's give them hell!" Kimimaro then said, taking a more serious approach to this fight now that he had been forced to step it up to this form.
"I'm still going to need your help though Isobu, as I haven't quite mastered this form yet," Kimimaro said, getting a nod from the three tails.
"Leave it to me." It said, taking control of things for him.
"Stop that thing at all costs!" The Stone commander yelled, watching as his men tried to create more earth walls and traps to stop Kimimaro.
But this time, Kimimaro wasn't going to fall for the same thing, jumping into the air before unleashing concentrated blasts of chakra from his mouth, creating explosions all around them as he caused mayhem and destruction.
"Run for it! We can't stop that monster!" Some of the men and women yelled seeing the power that Kimimaro was dishing out.
Kimimaro's form was getting more and more demonic in appearance now, with bones sprouting out from all over his body and limbs in unnatural ways and places, covering him in not only a thick layer of armour but giving him an incredible form of offence too.
Things got worse for the Stone ninja once Kimimaros body started shooting these bones out from all over, making him a spike cannonball, taking out anyone and everyone who was not quick enough to avoid the projectiles, showcasing an incredibly quick reload time as they continued to regrow and fire over and over again as Kimimaro charged all over the camp that had been turned into a bloody battlefield.
Some of the Stone ninja had been more fortunate than others, not receiving a fatal blow from the bones that had been shooting out of Kimimaro. However, their luck soon changed once what looked like a thick form of coral started to grow from the bone, covering their body from the wound up until it covered them completely, sealing them and their screams.
"No... Just one kid was able to do all of this..." The commander said, watching as his soldiers were cut down and massacred one by one with the remains of the camp being unrecognizable.
"Retreat! Everyone retreat" He yelled giving the signal before feeling the heat come from behind him, causing him to freeze on the spot in fear.
He didn't have to turn around to know it was Kimimaro's breath. Feeling the sweat drop from his face before taking his final stand.
"Die you bastard!" He yelled, pulling his vest open to reveal his torso covered in paper bombs, letting them ignite even as Kimimaro used his large claws to rip his head off.
BOOM!!!
The explosion from the paper-bomb vest was huge, taking out a huge chunk of land from the force, even killing anyone that was too close to it, destroying the remaining buildings and tents that made up the camp.
A huge cloud of dust had risen into the air, covering those that had survived vision as they waited to see what had happened.
"Is it dead?" One of the Stone shinobi asked, lifting her head up to try and see what was going on.
However, a huge armoured arm, something that could only be described as a monsters shot out of the dust, crushing the ground beneath it shaking due to its weight.
"No..." Another said, feeling any fight he had left in him fade away at the sight of the beast.
"ROARRR!!!"
The three tails had now fully emerged in its true form, blasting the cloud of dust away from just the strength of its shriek.
Its tails lashed out, destroying the landscape from the shock waves alone, blasting any who didn't have the chakra control to stay stuck to the ground away into the air.
Isobu roared again before fixing its eye on the rest of the survivors, watching as they ran for their lives.
Kimimaro was watching from inside his inner world, still having let Isobu have control of him.
"We can't let any of them survive, Isobu..." Kimimaro said.
Isobu could tell it weighed heavy in his heart, but he would do as Kimimaro asked of him.
Suddenly Isobu jumped into the air tucking all of its limbs into its body before it started to spin rapidly.
"Arghh!!!" The Stone ninja screamed, watching as it started to roll around the entire camp, crushing anyone and everyone like a speeding spiked bowling ball.
Those that had been brave enough to try and fight to the last had simply died in vain, not being able to do anything other than fail in their final moments, only to be crushed by Isobu as he went on a rampage, destroying the rest of the camp within a matter of minutes.
Meanwhile, Ganryu and the others watched from a safe distance at the destruction that Kimimaro was causing, with some of them not believing their eyes.
"He had that thing inside of him this whole time... And he never used it." Hattori said, clenching his fist as he realised that Kimimaro had been holding back against him this entire time.
"That was inside my father too..." Koyuki also said, watching the raw power that the three tails demonstrated, feeling lost for words.
Some of the others also whispered among themselves, watching as Kimimaro made light work of the camp feeling a little uneasy that they had been around him all of this time.
Haku also watched, knowing how hard this must have been for Kimimaro that he had to kill all of those people. But still, if it was for the village and for his father, then he too would close his heart and do what had to be done without question.
"Alright you lot, listen up!" Ganryu shouted as more explosions could be seen and heard from where Kimimaro was fighting.
"Kimimaro may be doing the brunt of the work for us, but that doesn't mean you get to slack off!" He yelled.
"I want you to split up into groups of three and patrol the borders of the camp, making sure that no stragglers slip past. Is that understood!" Ganryu said, getting a nod from the others.
"Good, now move out!" He shouted, giving the order.
Not a second passed by before everyone dashed off, splitting off into their formations as they headed to different parts of the outskirts of the camp, watching from a safe distance as a huge explosion blasted into the air.
"Looks like things are really heating up!" Koyuki yelled, wanting in on the action.
"We can't get too close, otherwise we might get caught up in the mayhem," Haku said, knowing that it was not a good idea to get close to the battle right now.
Kujira, Chika and Rokuro also watched as they headed in the other direction, still surprised that KImimaro had had something like this up his sleeve this whole time.
"I had no idea..." Kujira said, truly feeling outclassed.
"Well, he is the son of lord 5th," Chika said, not seeming all that surprised.
Rokuro watched the explosions as he and the others jumped through the trees, finally arriving at their sector of the outpost to keep watch over, seeing the huge dust cloud that covered the camp.
"What is that?" Rokuro asked, feeling his heart start to race at the sight of it, almost freezing on the spot.
"That is Kimimaro..." Kujira said, watching as he took the full form of the three tails and stepped out of the dust into the moonlight.
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That's the end of this chapter, I hope you enjoyed it. But of a darker chapter.
Any way have a great day, more coming soon!