Chapter 127: Five Tailed Jinchuriki
"No. The leader of the incoming attack force is the Five Tails jinchuriki Han."
She then went on to explain some information, they had on the man in terms of his strength.
"Years ago, the Four Tails jinchuriki had a disagreement with the higher management of Iwagakure and silently deserted the village some time after. Right now, despite not being a perfect jinchuriki, he has some degree of control over his tailed beast making him possibly the strongest shinobi alongside Ohnoki in Iwagakure."
There was a short silence as the people presence held themselves in deep thought.
Suddenly, Mei's eyes lit up.
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On a nearby rainforest on the island.
Fujimura, a relative of the Tsuchikage and influential individual with a great deal of combat experience was the brains behind the current movement by the rock.
While Han, the Five Tails jinchuriki was the leader in name, he was the real general leading the army.
However, he encountered one, if not the most frightening scene, in the forty years he had lived on this earth.
Countless shinobi, wearing Cloud, Leaf and Mist forehead protectors were rushing towards their force with a bloodthirsty aura.
They victims on the receiving end were ready to set down their weapons and run at the sight.
An ambush of some sort?!
I could understand one or two villages teaming up with a temporary alliance, but three?!
Fujimura slammed his hand onto his face.
Damn it, I didn't sign up for this!
He looked around and paid close attention to the humid and hot environment with trees spouting out of the ground everywhere.
As if this situation couldn't get any worse...
Despite, the silent groaning, he raised a hand and gave a fearless roar.
"All forces, try to use Earth style to block the first barrage of attacks! Don't be afraid, they are not as united and steady as a rock!"
The rock troops swiftly obeyed the commands and made use of Earth style in whatever way, they could.
However, the sturdy rock walls they built crumpled under the face of the heated barrage, from the opposing villages.
Lightning style did its job and naturally restrained the earth efficiently. (I will never understand how the hell that works.)
One such example, was Kakashi and his Raikiri. The battle was barely in its opening stages and his shinobi uniform was already dyed red from blood.
The blood wasn't just the rock's but the blood of some Mist as well.
The chaotic events in the day caused him to have quite the fluctuating mood.
"Two big battles in one day? I feel like I'm an Anbu again."
A senbon dashed towards him from the right. One which he easily dodged by hopping onto the side of a tree and returning fire with a kunai.
A fair distance away, on top of higher ground. Mei grappled onto Hachiro's arm and slyly asked in a charming and gentle voice. "Ha~chi~ro~, could you please help capture the Five Tails?"
Her eyes were beaming, with a bright dazzle.
For any country in the Shinobi world, one of the greatest deterrence's were Tailed Beasts.
Right now, Kirigakure had entered a state of exhaustion after the tiring events in the last ten years and the lose of the Three Tailed beast.
Even if it didn't really matter anymore with Kumogakure possessing an overpowering combat might, she personally would like to believe that Kirigakure shouldn't need to depend on their allies for everything.
She wanted to be a good Mizukage for what it was worth.
Besides, she had been taking shamelessness lessons recently and had entered a whole new world!
Despite, trying her best to hide the growing feeling of cunning that was spreading across her face. She rubbed her head onto his arm and said.
"This can be a betrothal gift. I mean, c'mon. You want to marry the Mizukage for free? This can be payment!"
Hachiro spat out the word, "What?!" before reeling in shock.
Marry you?
I mean, I was going to propose but aren't we still in the dating stage... Maybe not.
She gazed directly at him with a smirk on her beautiful face.
"I thought, I told you I would marry you after becoming Mizukage~"
Her eyes sneakily shifted over his face ignoring the gasps coming from the few others accompanying them.
A few seconds later, she noticed he was still absent minded and got a little angry.
"What, don't tell me you won't marry me as well?"
Hachiro snapped back to reality and started giving her head pats to pacify her.
He was resisting the urge to hide again.
The worst part of having a polygamous relationship was that it was next to impossible to satisfy everyone. He already knew that someone back home would probably attempt to drain him dry in an act of vengeance.
After sorting out his thoughts again, he removed his hand from the new Mizukage's head causing her to stop purring like a cat and told everyone to step back.
"This is better. The battle seems to be in its middle stages, I'll end this quickly by taking out Han. That should be a rather demoralising blow."
Rather leisurely, he snapped his fingers and like a magician, a small orb of lightning shot out of his hand.
It zoomed towards the far side of the battlefield and gradually grew into a thunderous dragon as a rumble for its roar sounded out through the area.
Han, in his Samurai attire, was currently struggling against Gaara, who had the assistance of Yugito as minimal as it was.
The mind of the Five Tailed Jinchuriki could hardly react nevermind his body, forcing him to take the attack head on.
Boom!
Hachiro shaped his hands around his eyes like binoculars and gazed into the distance.
With a series of curses and complaints, he mumbled to himself.
"Fun? No fun. Battle was over before I even really got to do anything..."
That should be sufficient to knock him unconscious.
Suddenly, when everyone was under the impression that Han was either evaporated or stuck under ground.
A mighty beastly roar reverberated throughout the rain forest making it's presence known.
"Roar!!!!"
A massive pure white slug looking behemoth with horse antlers released cries from what seemed to be pain.
It continued to cry before glaring cautiously in the direction the earlier lightning attack came from.
Gaara, was silently freaking out and sweating bullets in face of the monstrosity.
Despite, becoming one in the past, he had never really saw what he looked like from the perspective of the enemy.
It was indeed a terrifying sight, one enough to scare the most battle hardened of ninja.
However–
It's display of dominance was cut short when Hachiro once again made an awkward gesture causing dark clouds in the sky to gather and condense together extremely quickly.
"Whoosh!"
Rumble!
Gradually, the turbulent weather grew even stormier.