Rarely has Squad-0 been pushed to its limit. Taiju was laughing like the maniac he is, aiming to butcher Samui. His trikes became more violent, swift, and brutal, no mercy, as Samui had to parry each strike, nearly getting critically hit.
"You fight like a mad dog." Samui gritted, avoiding a vertical slash aimed at her chest, his sword cut threw her shirt, exposing her sports bra.
"Isn't that interesting ~" Taiju mused.
Samui had no reaction to his leering, channeling her chakra to coat herself in lightning armor, Samui's eyes shone with voltage.
Taiju, seeing this, decided to take her seriously. Chakra surged around him, violent and uncontrolled. His skin darkened, veins bulged across his skin, fangs sharpened, and he activated his first form.
"I stole this from a certain taijutsu freak." He admitted.
Studying the Eight Gates, Taiju realised he could increase his strength by opening his gates to better his abilities. To gain power, he must be willing to risk it all. Burning blood cells and potentially his chakra network, he unlocked his own potential.
Samui was shocked at the sudden burst of energy, focusing her attention back to him. She charged, sword aimed, held high, and attacked.
Zzzzp
Slash
Lightning met chakra in a vibrant clash of power, consuming its surface area in destruction. The two engaged, slash after slash, movement didn't halt once; one mistake could lead to the other's death.
Samui aimed for his heart, Taiju targeted her head, two lethal blows waiting to land, death waiting for either person.
Splurt–splat.
Samui's blade pierced his chest, lightning surging into his body, burning him from the inside out. Taiju grunted as his blade kissed her shoulder, embedding inside her shoulder blade, not lethal but painful.
"Arghh–" Samui spat out blood, pain searing across her nervous system, and she pushed through it to push her sword fully to his heart, but to her shock, her blade was stuck, just an inch from the organ, her weapon refused to finish its job. Looking at her enemy, blood flowed from his mouth, steam escaping from his pores. He spoke."You almost got me blondie. " He praised. Grabbing her blade with his bare hand, blood flowing from grasping the weapon, he gripped it and.
Cling
Her beloved blade broke in half under his grip, utilising her shock, Taiju punched her face with the same hand, flowing with blood,
Craaack.
Bone rumbled under the hit, Samui felt her head snapping back before her body was sent crashing into a boulder.
Bang
Her body hammered to Earth, every nerve in despair as she lost consciousness.
"Samui!" Karui yelled. Whipping her head to her down teammate.
Tayuya true to nature, used her lack of focus to attack, "Focus on me." She barked. Taking her own first form, violent chakra surging her forward, she landed a punch to Karui's face, nearly forcing her neck to 360 degrees.
"Ughh–" She lost her breath. Tayuya continued with a combo of strikes, aimed at Karui's points of movement, no mercy given as she dissected her opponent like her Hyuga teammate.
"Thanks for the moves Hina." Tayuya cheered, landing a palm strike to Karui's chest. Karui felt her soul leave her body, no feeling in her body as she kissed Earth. Black was blurring her vision.
Darui pushed back Kin to his best ability until she sent another barrage of senbon. Darui deflected like before, but at the corner of her eye, one of the senbon was consumed by smoke, turning into Kin. He gasped before directing lightning at her but that was nearly a diversion, a senbon aimed at his knee, also transformed into Kin, the second Kin, struck a point at his thigh, leg instantly gave out, he grunted as he was brought to one knee, capitalising on the advantage the former Kin, kicked his jaw, snapping his head up, lollipop flying out as his eyes rolled back. Not relenting, her second self, kicked his back, the Kumo nin fell face first before they stumped his back harshly, oxygen forced out his lungs as he left the living world to the dream one.
"That was amazing Kin." Anko cheered, proud of the brutal strategic strike.
Yugito looked in horror at her comrades, reduced to battered bodies; she truly underestimated how ruthless these Leaf shinobi are.
"What type of monsters are you?" Yugito snapped, claws showing as her anger intensified.
Taiju looked at her after picking up Samui's limp form," We're Squad-0 of Konoha. The suicide unit of Anbu~" He announced, grinning like a maniac. He tilted his head."Now, let's go meet your Raikage."
[End of chapter ]