Cap 201: Your Pain Just Begins
Cap 201: Your Pain Just Begins
"No time to talk! Go to Yugito!" - exclaimed Samui. She had lost her composure after what had happened and now she could not hide the concern she felt.
"Ok, I will leave a clone to help you treat Omoi and Atsui" - said Kurama as he created a clone and began to run in the direction where the sister Jinchuriki was fighting.
"Good luck..." - Mabui muttered as she concentrated on the clone that was treating her fellow travelers - "How are they?"
"Wounded, more than four broken ribs and their Tenketsu suffered severe punishment for the overuse of chakra" - answered clone Kurama while he frowned - "Nothing that Tsunade-chan can't cure, although this will take a while"
"At least they are out of danger" - sighed Samui as she shook her head to return to her normal personality - "Thank you"
"You don't have to thank me," replied the ginger clone as he shook his head. "Anyway, now that they're out of danger, it's your turn"
"Don't worry about us, we're just exhausted" - answered Mabui while looking at her friends - "They were the ones who received all the attacks for us"
"By the way, Karui is fine" - said Kurama as she looked at the girls, only to see their expressions change to one of betrayal because they only now remembered their fallen friend.
"I feel like the worst friend in the world for just thinking about her now," Samui muttered as she sighed ruefully.
"Don't tell me," sighed Mabui as the two women lamented the lack of attention to their friend.
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". . ."- Yugito looked at his opponents coldly as he felt the blue fire begin to cover his body more and more.
"I see you decided to stop moving..." - said Kakuzu neutrally - "You're not going to try to escape anymore, are you?"
"And she says I'm the idiot" - answered Hidan with disdain - "It's obvious that she's making time for her companions to escape, a noble act that makes her soul more valuable to Jashin-sama... a pity I won't be able to take her because she will die with the extraction jutsu"
"Anything else to say?" - Kakuzu asked as he ignored the words of his teammate.
" Just that you should get married at once, or at least stop acting like a married couple" - answered Yugito with sarcasm as she infuriated her opponents - "Although now I wonder... who is active, and who is the passive in your relationship?"
"Okay, I had planned to leave your body intact but now I'm going to enjoy ripping off your limbs" - said Hidan coolly.
"I guess you are the passive one" - replied the Jinchuriki.
"Hold on a little longer, Yugi-Nya!" - exclaimed Matatabi from her seal - "Kura-Nya is near!"
"Good! That's the first good news I've received!" - exclaimed the blonde girl as the flames around her began to vibrate with excitement - "How much longer?"
"Give it a little more than a minute" - said Matatabi with emotion as she watched the Immortal Duo with disdain.
"Ok, I'll give it my all then" - answered Yugito seriously as her eyes changed color with slit pupils - "Are you ready, Matatabi?"
"Of course, Yugi-nya!" - exclaimed the Bijuu - "Let's show them that we're not the mice but the cat!"
"Haaaaaaaaaaa!" - Yugi-nya began to release her Chakra as the flames became more and more concentrated in her body.
"I think it's not a bad idea to cut off the extremities of this prey" - said Kakuzu with a scowl - "Now that I think about it... will the limbs of a Jinchuriki fetch a good price on the black market?"
"Save that for later," said Hidan with a scowl as he pointed his scythe at the Jinchuriki. "She is making her last effort and the Kyubi is near"
"I know," replied the Immortal mercenary.
"Synchronize with me further, Yugi-nya!" - shouted the Bakeneko - "Let the flames burn, Yugi-Nya!"
"I will!" - Yugito roared as the blue flames were making the area seem distorted by the rising heat - "Roar!"
The blue flames slowly began to spread, forming a huge cocoon around the girl that broke almost immediately, showing the appearance of a huge cat made of blue flames with black markings, eyes of a different color, one being blue and the other yellow, and two prominent tails behind it - "ROAR!"
"Why did we let her transform?" - Hidan asked as he looked at his companion.
"And who do I ask that to?" - replied Kakuzu as he frowned because it was strange that they didn't stop the girl earlier.
"Anyway, we already have the target in front of us, we just have to..." - said Hidan, only to be interrupted by a huge blue claw that sent him flying.
"Okay, she's fast" - muttered the immortal mercenary as he calculated that it only took her 0.2 seconds to cover 100 meters with her base speed.
"ROAR!" - Yugito responded with a roar as the blue flames surrounded the battle zone as if to say only one side would come out of this place alive.
"I'm going to sacrifice you, bitch!" - exclaimed the mad priest as he walked back to where the Bakeneko was. He had his whole body shattered and his flesh burned from the attack, though he slowly began to regenerate that didn't take the disgust out of the scene - "I'm going to enjoy dismembering you, bitch!"
"She's a cat..." - responded Kakuzu with sarcasm.
"I know what she is!" - Hidan exclaimed angrily - "Let's get this over with quickly. I feel the chill on my back growing stronger, that means only one thing, that Uzumaki Kurama is close by"
"Right..." - Kakuzu muttered as he took a breath of air. When one lived for so long, one developed a sixth sense for moments when death was near - "Jiongu..."
A large number of black threads began to come out under Kakuzu's clothes, destroying them completely as they began to take the form of four different entities surrounding their master.
"Roar!" - Yugito roared again as she coolly watched the four entities. They were all strange but at the same time they had the same peculiarity, they all had a mask with different shapes and colors.
"Come..." - Kakuzu murmured as the four beasts returned to his body, taking the form of a large mane although the Bakaneko could feel how the 'eyes' of the masks seemed to be watching her closely.
"Are you just going to stare?" - asked the immortal mercenary as he looked at his companion.
"You know very well that thanks to Jashin-sama's blessing, I lost all my elemental affinities," Hidan replied with a scowl.
"True," Kakuzu nodded, "I suppose I am going to use you as a human shield"
"Hey!" - Hidan said in annoyance just to feel the temperature rise - "Tch!"
"Suiton: Suiryudan no Jutsu" - exclaimed Kakuzu as a water dragon emerged from the celestial mask, only to continue with its hand seals - "Doton: Doryudan no Jutsu"
"Roar!" - Yugito quickly jumped aside to dodge the water dragon, only to disappear from the scene when she saw the second dragon coming towards her.
"Ok. She's more elusive now" - said the immortal mercenary as he frowned - "Katon: Zukokku (Fire Release: Intelligent Hard Work)"
The tiger mask of Kakuzu quickly threw a fireball that Yugito tried to absorb with his flames, only to feel it explode and send it flying.
"Imbecile" - said Kakuzu with disdain - "That Jutsu is practically a large amount of concentrated explosive..."
". . ." - Yugito looked at him silently as the flames gathered again to leave her body as if nothing had happened, although the two Nukenin could feel how the flames that formed the huge cat were increasingly extinguished, showing that the girl was barely resisting the fight that, despite being short, had caused her to spend chakras without control.
"How much longer can you last?" - Hidan asked as he ran at the Bakeneko coldly.
"Long enough to enjoy seeing your faces full of despair," the girl answered with a voice that seemed to be a mixture of Yugito's and Matatabi's. She quickly retreated as she made Kage Bunshin distract her attacker - "Just a few seconds and it will all be over"
"You are right about one thing, this will soon be over" - replied Kakuzu as he threw a new explosive fire jutsu at the girl.
"I have learned that those flames cannot be absorbed," Yugito said disdainfully as she used the Shunshin to appear behind Kakuzu, only to retreat at great speed as the masks looked at her coolly.
"Smart move..." - said Kakuzu as he turned around - "One more second and I would have bombarded you with all my jutsus..."
". . ." - Yugito was silent as she felt her body growing weaker from exhaustion.
"I have to admit that you are the most troublesome Jinchuriki we have ever hunted" - said Kakuzu seriously.
Yugito only responded with a smile as her body shrank, showing her normal appearance as she fell to the ground in exhaustion.
"Are you finally giving up?" - Hidan asked disdainfully, only to lose the feeling in his right arm - " Eh? AAAAAAAAAARGH!"
"I see I arrived on time..." - Kurama's cold voice echoed in the vicinity - "But don't worry... now that I'm here, I'll give you my full attention... rejoice because your pain is just beginning"