Too much to handle
"Get behind us. These people have caused us more than enough problems now. I think its time for me to take care of them." Ji said as the monster stepped forward staring at the bloodline clan leaders.
The 4 clan leaders along with Mei and Elder Wu immediately took a fighting stance when they saw the terrifying monster walk in their direction. They looked to the side and saw the leaf Jonins along with Yami standing beside them.
"Asuma...I think you all have done more than enough for our village. You guys should now go back to safety as this may be too much to handle even for the lots of us." Yoshiro said.
Asuma took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it leisurely and said "If we all aren't able to push back the monster here then what hope would all the civilians and shinobis who have retreated would have? I am sure that even enough I have told all the leaf shinobis to start their return journey toward the land of fire, not one of them would have climbed onto that boat. So enough with the gratitude and let's kick some monster ass."
Riko chuckled as he heard that and said "You said that right. This monster has terrified people enough. It's time to show him whose boss here." Riko then proceeded to touch both of his fists to the ground which made the earth below him creep up on his hands forming a gauntlet kind of thing enforcing his fists.
Seeing that Riko along with the other clan leaders and the leaf shinobis were ready to fight him, Ji clenched his fists. He wanted them to feel fear and helplessness after seeing the monster against them but looks like the clan leaders were ready to fight it to the death.
The monster jumped toward the group, especially toward Riko who was staring at it for the past few seconds. Everyone else jumped to the side but Riko decided to face the monster's head on so he jumped back a little to dodge the monster's attack and then rushed at it and hit him on the nose with his fist.
Since the nose is one of the sensitive parts of the body, Riko and the others expected the monster to go back up a little after taking the attack but the monster didn't move one bit but kept staring at Riko.
The monster then opened his mouth to chomp up Riko but an attack came from the side.
Water Style : Water fang bullet.
This attack hit the monster's lower jaw which made it stumble and miss the attack that it had planned for Riko. Taking advantage of the situation, Riko jumped to the side and reunited with the others.
"The monster was able to take my fist head-on and not even move an inch but a fang bullet from Asami made it stumble." Riko said.
Before he and the rest could make a plan to attack the monster, the monster had turned toward them and launched an attack.
This time he swiped his big sharp claws at them. The attack was so fast that Asami and Mei weren't able to dodge the attack completely.
The others managed to swerve to the side but the 2 women were caught in it. Asami used her fans to throw mist at the claws which wouldn't hurt the monster but would definitely lessen the impact of his attack.
The trick did work but the impact was still too much for them as they were blasted away with a loud boom. Riko and Kakashi quickly bolted in their direction to intercept them before they suffer more damage. Luckily they were able to get there in time and stop the two women from incurring more wounds.
Kurenai quickly rushed to them and saw Riko supporting Asami while Kakashi had Mei in his arms.
"Are they alright?" Kurenai asked as she reached them.
"The bones in her left shoulder are broken. The wounds on her body can be healed using the medicine we brought but I don't think she can fight with us here." Kakashi said as he explained Mei's situation.
"U-ughh...I-I can fight...I can't stay back when the monster is wrecking havoc like this." Mei said as she tried to get up but even moving a little was painful for her.
Things weren't much different for Asami as Riko said "She has broken bones and a few broken ribs as well. Any more pressure on it and it could penetrate her lungs. We can't let these two fight or else they might die from internal bleeding easily."
"I-I don't think that monster has any plans to let any of us go anywhere. If we try to split now then he will hunt us one by one. Miss Kurenai, can you provide us enough healing for us to be able to move around a little?" Asami asked.
Kurenai nodded and said "Yes..I have medicine given by Lady Tsunade and I know a little of medical jutsu myself so I can take care of things that prove an immediate threat to you but if you overexert yourself, then the injuries could flare up and make things worse." Kurenai warned.
Seeing that Riko and the others were busy tending to the 2 injured women the monster tried to run toward them and take advantage of the situation but luckily the others weren't going to let his plans go their way.
Water Style : Water Prison
Water Style : Hydro Claw
The old man made a prison made of water to trap the monster which ended up only slowing them but this was under the old man's calculation so Yoshiro used the Hydro claw but created claws made of water to pounce at the monster.
SLASHHH
The attack landed on the monster's side and it also pushed the monster back.
RARRRRWWW
The monster snarled in pain as the claw had done damage to it. "Don't even think about going near my daughter you ugly monster." Yoshiro said as he looked at the monster.
As the monster balanced himself after the attack, everyone saw his side. There were clear signs of claw marks on the side of his stomach and some of his blood was also visible but everyone realized that this wound was nothing for him. The monster looked at a few mist shinobi corpses lying around him and quickly bit down into it. He threw one in the air and open his mouth under it making the bloody corpse fall right into his mouth.
RARRRRR
The monster chewed the corpse for a few seconds with some human blood dripping from the side of his mouth.
"Ughh...why is he eating those mist shinobis?" Kurenai asked and very soon her question was answered.
"T-The claw marks....they are healing." Riko shouted as he pointed at the monster. The others also noticed that the injury due to the old man's hydro claw was healing at an unimaginable speed.
"The entire battlefield is littered with corpses. I don't think he will ever be tired enough for eating them. How are we going to kill him?" Asami asked taking support from Riko's shoulder.
Yami's eyes were set on the tail of the monster. He remembered what the Hyuga shinobi said about the monster stabbing the stinger of his tail into people trying to search for something. If Yami didn't want to be recognized by the monster and ultimately the one who sent it, then he will have to cut off the tail. But now what if the monster heals it back? The only option left was to kill the monster.
Yami rushed close to Kakashi and the others and said "Kakashi, we need to kill that monster together or else it will be a big problem for us."
Kakashi looked at Yami for a second and thought 'What's gotten into him? Yami has never reacted so desperately before then why is he hell-bent on killing the monster all of a sudden?'
"What happened Yami? I know that the monster is dangerous and not many are capable of taking care of it but didn't you just see that he healed himself after just eating a few shinobis?" Kakashi asked.
Yami nodded and said "Yes but we can't hide from it nor can we run. The only option we have for survival is to fight it together and kill it. Seeing Ji's current state I don't think he will be able to do much so we only have one opponent."
Kakashi was still calculating how to take down the monster when Mei stood up and said "Yami is right. I don't know how long our forces will be able to hold out in front of the mist shinobis that have gone. We can't stay down at such a time. Let's go."
After Kurenai's healing jutsu, Mei and Asami weren't at their peak strength but at least they weren't burdened. The group ran and regrouped with Yoshiro and the old man.
"How are you Mei?" Yoshiro asked to which Mei comforted her father.
"So what's the plan now? We need to find out the monster's weakness." Riko said. He had used a lot of his strength in that punch and nothing happened so he didn't know what to do now.
"Chakra" Yami said to which everyone looked at him.
"Chakra is his weakness and his strength. He heals with the chakra present in the body of those shinobi corpses and he is affected only when our attack contains chakra." Yami stated as he looked at the monster and Ji...It was loud enough for Ji to hear because the smile on his face lessened when he heard that and that was enough proof for everyone to believe what Yami had just said.
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