26 Kurama (1)
Ashiba spent another week, going over some important matters that needed his personal attention, involving the future development of the Hanma clan. The most important of which was the slave trader kanzi Ashiba met during the banquet.
Ashiba went over the matter of entering and taking over the slave trade market near their region with Renju before handing the matter entirely to him.
Renju also took this matter seriously, as slave trading was the first industry that Hanma clan was about to intervene in. It directly affected the future development of the clan, especially on the financial side.
Renju was also relieved that because of the trade between Hyuga and Hanma clan, he had enough subordinates to take over this matter. On top of that, most of them were shinobi, that made them really efficient. Enough to handle most of the troubles they may encounter.
After that Renju came up with a detailed development plan regarding the matter, and presented it to Ashiba. Ashiba felt that it was passable, giving Renju the permission to start implementing the plan.
After which he left, heading towards the Hyuga clan territory.
The Hanma clan was located south of the Land of Fire. That also housed gigantic clans like the Hyuga and Uchiha clan. Of course, this fact only made the region more chaotic rather than being safe for ordinary shinobi.
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In a vibrant forest full of gigantic trees, Ashiba, wearing his black trousers and a black vest. He was traveling from one tree to another. Leaving behind uprooted and destroyed trees as he didn't bother to control his strength. Not giving any care that someone may easily track him down.
The reason for him traveling this was because he wanted to try out the method shinobi in this world used.
He understood why they jumped from tree to tree because of their feeble physiques. But for him, running on earth was much faster than this.
While traveling, Ashiba couldn't help but anticipate how strong Madara might be at this point. He wasn't sure if Madara could surpass Hashirama in terms of battle power alone. But at least Madara would stay and fight with him as long as he liked, rather than retreating like Hashirama.
Of course, he knew that both Madara and Hashirama were in their growth stage, they still needed some time before they could reach their peak.
Not to speak of Madara's power at the height of the Fourth Shinobi World War, even now both of them still lacked their essential abilities.
According to the information he received from those white eyed bastards, Madara still didn't possess the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. So his use of Mangekyo Sharingan was rare, against most opponents at the very least.
From what he remembered, it was only after Madara's younger brother, Izuna Uchiha, was on his deathbed that madara managed to promote this ability with the help of his brother's eyes.
In his opinion, Izuna Uchiha is already useless against the likes of him, the only helpful thing he can do is contribute his eyes to Madara.
'Maybe I should do Madara a favor and gouge his brother's eyes for him, so he can at least give him some thrill.' Ashiba gave this thought some consideration before denying it. It's not his way to help someone get stronger just for the sake of a good battle.
If he has a chance to kill Madara, he will without any hesitation. After all, killing a strong enemy gives him more thrill than a battle.
On the other hand, Hashirama still hasn't learned sage mode. Making his current battle powers still far from his prime.
Throwing the useless thoughts away, Ashiba sped up.
"Ah!," Ashiba stopped, raising his eyebrows in surprise as he looked in a certain direction. Where he could feel enormous chakra so huge that it eclipsed even that of Hashirama.
"Is it that beast?" Ashiba mused as he confirmed his guess when felt the huge hatred that was contained in the chakra.
In the shinobi world only one creature had such intense hatred in its chakra, the Nine tailed beast, Kurama.
If he remembers correctly, at this point in history. Kurama should still be living in an ancient temple. It was only after Konohagakure was formed that Madara used his Sharingan to control it.
He quickly sped towards direction, leaving behind a huge pit. It didn't take long before he could see a blurry shadow of a temple.
The temple was dyed with a dark red color, and was unusually large compared to other temples.
Before Ashiba could step inside, a chakra filled with nothing but malice descended on Ashiba. Seemingly trying to suppress him.
If it was any ordinary person or even a shinobi they might have already gone mad, unable to handle the huge amount of negative emotions contained in the chakra.
Ashiba grinned as slaughter energy rapidly spread around him forcing the chakra back, destroying most of the temple in the process.
The collapsed temple finally revealed the beast it was cantaining to Ashiba, making his grin wider.
An enormous fox, its magnitude surpassing the hills and the mountains on this planet.
Roar!
Ashiba raised his foot, stomping down the earth. Causing the earth to crack, taking his figure as the center.
Boom!
Seemingly enraged by Ashiba's provocation, It roared as its crimson eyes glared at Ashiba with pure anger and hatred burning in them.
Boom!
Shockwaves swept through the area as clouds dispersed.
The sky was divided into two energies, fighting for supremacy, both of them not willing to back down. one of them seemed to contain all the negative energy in the world, while the other reeked with primordial savagery.
Slowly, but steadily slaughter energy slowly took over the chakra, even causing the Kurama's chakra to stagnate for a moment because of the suppression attribute of slaughter energy on foreign energies.
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Character: Ashiba Hanma
Strength, speed, durability and flexibility, these aspects of his body had strengthened to the point where he could fight with Patriarch level shin-obi just with his body strength alone.
Power level: Stronger than a Patriarch level (Kage)
Bloodline: sequence 1
Abilities: [Slaughter energy: Energy born from slaughter, gets stronger as absorbed from the dead. Has a suppression affect foreign energies]
[Genbu: Avatar materialized using physical strength as the base and slaughter energy as the core.]
