Chaoter 36:

Nero planned to join the battle as an ally to to a special ninja who wanted the tilte of Mizukage for themselves.

Ichigo and Ayaka were walking through a thick veil of mist and a tropical terrain. Nero had gone off to intercept the Kumogakure force.

"I don't understand why you didn't just send your own army into the fray." Ayaka voiced her thoughts at Nero, she could never seem to unferstand his motives for half the things he did.

"My main fighting force is preoccupied at the moment, besides this serves as my first real battle test. All my opponents thus far have either been robots or relatively weak missing nin." Nero's voice rang out from her earpiece. and replied to her question, he was still excited about finally meeting and squaring against the future Raikage and killer bee.

The term weak in this instance was an exerggeration. This far he had fought against A-rank missing nin from the nearby ninja villages or those who were cuptured within Soragakure's territory.

"Just focus on the task at hand while I stall the army comming your way." Nero's voice rang out from the communication device again.

"He's right, keep your eyes open kitten. We don't know what to expect.When dealing with an S-rank ninja and an army of 800 fanatics. Things might get ugly real fast." Ichigo spoke in a serious tone showing experience and nerves of steel.

"....I understand." Ayaka replied with a determined tone.

....Nero's location

Seeing the hundreds of ships in the distance, Nero whistled in amazement. His blood boiled and his smile threatened to split his face. He stood on a stolen and battered wodden boat that was only big enough to fit two people.His lower face was covered with a black mask and his gun was clenched tightly in his grasp. For him this was a test, if he couldn't hadndle this much, forget about fighting the otsutsuki or six paths Madara.

He had 20 years to plan and prepare, his aims and views had also shifted over the years.

The ships noticed his presence as they got closer. Atop the deck of the biggest ship, a silhouette appeared. Zooming in a little, Nero recognized the figure as A, the future Raikage. Standing besides him was killer b.

'Well then. Let's see what 20 years of preparation have brought me.'Nero's anticipation peaked.

As the ship's got closer, a force of 20 or so men detached and approached Nero cautiously.

They flanked him on all sides carefully, a tense second passed.

One of the jounin decided to break the silence, he sucked in a breath of air and was about to speak.

-BANG!!-

Poor guy didn't even know what happened, one second he was about to open his mouth and the next he was falling to the ground with a hole in his forehead.

No matter how durable shinobi were, a metal projectile moving at speeds beyond human comprehension would rip a hole through them.

A flurry of attacks hit Nero from all sides, paper bombs, lightning jutsu and fire jutsu.

A small cloud of smoke was created on his position, the seconds ticked by. The shinobi prefering to keep their distance since they were unaware of his skills.

Nero emerged from the smoke cloud unscrached, he zoomed at blinding speeds his guns akimbo, his superhuman constitution showed itself since he was moving too fast for the ninja to keep up with him.

He got within arms length of his first victim and put a bullet through his head a rain of bones, flesh and brain matter splattered everywhere.He then brutally kicked the headless corpse towards the nearest threat before they could respond. He zoomed towards the flustered man.

A knife came from his blind spot, he caught the projectile and jumped in a spining motion, aiming to lodge the knife in the skull of his nearest opponent.

With refined and practiced movements, his opponent evaded the strike. The woman then quickly went through the handsighns,she pulled back her fist and shot it forwardsan,a lightning arrow sped at Nero aiming to electrocute and kill him.

To everyone's shock, they saw a dome of blue energy flash for a spit second and block the jutsu. Before any of them could make heads or tails about the phenomenon.

Nero had already leaped towards the closest pair of ninja, he rapidly shot at them. With some difficulty the evedaded the projectiles.

Feeling a huge surge in Chakra behind him, Nero turned to see a lightning clad behemoth of a man a few meters from him. His posture suggesting he was about to shove Nero at a very high velocity and force.

If the attack connected Nero was confident in not dying, but he'd need to up his power output a few notches to survive.

Nero more than 500 thousand units of mana into the shield and took the attack head on, he was thrown a distance of more than 300 meters and had to take a few seconds to recompose himself. Since he was using mana platforms to stay afloat the entire time, Nero had sunk into the water.

A stood imposingly in his position, his mouth was twisted into an ugly frown as he looked at the assailant. Although outwardly he was composed, internally A was shocked. He felt like he hit a fucking wall during his impact with the assailant.

His shoulder and forearm felt a little numb even now. A felt glad he interfered when he did. This was no ordinary man, he was probbably a powerful fighter since he could take a blow from A who was moving at mach 1, although that was only a fraction of his true speed.

"Quite a sturdy defense you put. But don't worry, I'll break you soon enough." A boisterously proclaimed as he got into a stance.

A platform formed under Nero's feet, it raised him a few millimeters above the water.

"I'm up for the challange, let's see the victor of this battle." Nero's equally energetic voice responded.

He placed his guns back into their straps and got into his own stance. His arms began to get covered in a black metal that had a blue shimmer, a similar metal also covered his boots. He hit his fists together signaling his intention to duke it out using only his hands and feet.

"Hmph, arrogant fool." A snorted and dissapeared from his position. He reappeared in front of Nero with his fist ready to cave in his ribs.

Nero's shield saved him once again, but he fly a few hundred meters back once again. His shield was comoletely broken through this time.

Activating his gravity runes, his body became lighter and he reorianted himself. He blocked an overhead axe kick that was aimed at breaking his skull open.

His body was ragdolled to the waters below, a large pillar of water rose as he crashed into the ocean with a tremendous amount of force.

A landed back on the water again his comrades cheered him on as they witnessed his overwelming display. A didn't let that distract him, he dilegently kept his guard up. He spread bis senses to the extreme and waited for Nero to resurface.

Not a second later, Nero resurfaced right behind him. His fist which was moving under 4 times the gravitational force of the planet hit A's lightning clad form and sent him flying.

Nero followed behind him with a rocket bosted lunge towards A, he front flipped and delivered an axe kick to A's shoulder under 8 times the gravity of the planet.

Before his kick couod land however, a tentacle hit him on the side and sent him flying once again. He opened his eyes to realize that B had also joined the fight.

"Damn, he arrived just in time too." Saying that, Nero looked at A who held his shoulder, his face had a pained scowl as he tried to ignore the immense pain that threw his mind in dissarray. He only knew of one other perso who couod deliver such an intense punch, and that was the Raikage. This man was no regular threat, he'd need B's help to take him down.

"Hey! are you okay~~ya fool, ya fool." Killer B asked his adoptive brother in his own unique style of speaking.

Repressing a grunt of frustration at his brother's antics, A replied."Hmm...I'm fine, we've got to finish this fast B. That man isn't normal."

"I got you brozet!We'll send this fool packing with the lariat!!" Killer B, made wild gestures with his arms as he suggested their next plan of action. He was also deliberating using bis transformation with his tennent.

"Yeah, we'll end this quickly." A agreed,with the next step in mind the brother duo stood up to continue their fight.

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