59 The Fierce Battle Inside of The Land of Rivers (3)
I will start uploading chapters 4 days a week here now, so start voting power stones once again, please. And sorry for the long delay, I was working on a new story, all this time, it will probably be started tomorrow, and be uploaded every single day after.
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It's my own story, not fanfiction this time, about an MC transmigrating into a villain-type character, with a strong background, in a fantasy world and going against different "Sons of Luck". It is a Western-middle age sword and magic world setting. But it is similar to those Chinese "Villain-type" novels plot-vise if you know what I'm talking about.
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But the mechanics of writing will be better, as I advanced my writing skills, and as I will have way more stuff to write about there, and it isn't a constrained and limited world of fanfiction, there wouldn't be a need for so many info dumps, to fill in the pages, like here. Stay tuned!
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"Lee, Lady Chiyo, support me from behind! I'll deal with this!", Guy suddenly said to the two while promptly entering his Seventh Gate form. Lee and Chiyo looked at his blue aura in amazement. Lee decided to attack with his fiery punches from the distance, while Chiyo would try and pinpoint a weak spot in Sasori's puppetry. He shouted, once he finally entered his form, and decisively rushed toward Sasori, 'So fast!', Sasori was caught by surprise after watching Guy's speed in that new aura.
Therefore, he swiftly coated himself with the Iron Sand, of his Kazekage's puppet, and together with it, through its unique magnetic powers, leaped into the air to dodge fiery, rushing Guy and perform a counterattack on his own, "Iron Sand World Method!", This technique uses Iron Sand to create a gigantic sphere of branching spikes. The user first creates two masses of Iron Sand of opposing magnetic fields and then merges them together. This causes the magnetic forces to instantly increase and the repellent force created by the two opposing magnetic fields scatters the Iron Sand across a vast area.
The Iron Sand spreads in spikes that branch off irregularly, making it almost impossible to get a clear overview of what is happening. This also makes evading the spikes nearly impossible. Even if the opponent has managed to evade getting hit, the Iron Sand spikes will have filled the entire surroundings, cutting off any escape routes. With the opponent trapped, the user is free to attack in person. Because Sasori coats his Iron Sand in his lethal poison, the technique is even deadlier; if one of the spikes so much as scratches the target, it will introduce enough poison into the target's body to kill them.
However, Sasori was stupefied because Guy's body passed straight through his iron spikes, breaking them like they were wooden toothpicks, ignoring the poison, and then jumping straight toward him, 'His weird bodily blue aura is evaporating all of my poisons before they even enter his body! This body art is really interesting... One of the weirdest things I've ever seen...', Sasori mulled over, 'He could easily break through this Iron Sand that encases my body, then what about going even further in the air, how far is your jump?', Sasori contemplated and then he created a new technique.
"Iron Sand: Black Iron Wings!", The user of this Iron Sand technique creates wings out of Iron Sand that can be used for flight. Using these wings, the user can also generate feathers in the form of homing missiles, as well as can combine the wings to form a giant spear. The Third Kazekage's puppet presently created those wings on Sasori's body now and then guided them both higher into the air while still connected to Sasori by a thread. Sasori also started firing his quickest and sharpest projectiles from his new wings toward Guy.
The Third Kazekage's chest area glowed even brighter from more chakra and kekkei genkai usage. His kinjutsu Human Puppet technique was obviously based on the Yang Release. Giving life to already dead human bodies, from their flash nucleus, combined with mechanical shells. Therefore, they had their own chakra-like reserves, and if they run out of them, they could be supplemented with his own as well to continue manifesting their own techniques. Hence, it meant that they had even more chakra to use now than when they were alive.
"You're strong, Might Guy!", Sasori and Guy descended onto the ground again, Sasori creating more and more Iron Sand around him now as if preparing for a new technique, "You even forced me to use this kinjutsu technique, good job! Granny Chiyo, you should now also witness the limits of my true power. The people who had seen this technique are mostly dead now, only Deidara knows about it...", The three people across him looked astounded as Sasori started performing the required chemical procedure to create his personal, unique pseudo kekkei genkai element he named the Mercury Release. The really weird and odorous kind of smell quickly filled their nostrils.
Sasori grinned as he released all of that Iron Sand to fall in front of him in a form of a free torrent, then one of his hands started ejecting fire out of it in order to smelt that iron, while the other hand of his started ejecting a poisonous mist, with a special and unique chemical composition, into the mass of iron in front of him, mixing it all together. That chemical makeup was mostly made by changing his chakra into that substance. It required a great deal of intricate chemical knowledge and this mercury he created was even more poisonous than all the other direct poisons that he used to create in the past. It could cause mutations in the DNA chains of people by just being close to it in a form of free radicals. The more exposure to it, the worse effects on the DNA performance. That kind of damage was possible just from indirect contact, not to mention if it gets to you directly.
The silver metallic, with a tinge of purple, material was soon created in a few seconds and Sasori already molded it into an appearance of twin silver, melting kind of dragons and sent them toward his three stunned enemies, "Not good, Lee, pick Lady Chiyo and run away from here!", Might Guy suddenly shouted out. He realized that this fight was maybe becoming the hardest one in his life so far. And, he couldn't open his Eight Gate in order to deal with this enemy without the Hokage's approval. Chiyo looked in her grandson's direction in shock while blaming herself again, while Lee gritted his teeth and picked her up while yelling toward Might Guy, "Sensei, show him your youth!", All of them needed to cover their noses up at present or else they would've collapsed from such an abnormally rotten smell. Guy just moved his thump up toward Lee, before they moved away quickly.
"Surprisingly, your form is so advanced that you probably managed to even unconsciously eject my toxic particles from the atmosphere. It was a good decision to send your student and granny Chiyo away. It seems that you really have some instincts like a beast. That kind of toxicity is useless to me who isn't a human being anymore. I have a puppet body and my core is well-sealed inside. But, you humans, are helpless against it!", Sasori shouted while Guy started dodging his mercury dragons' attacks while silently edging closer toward Sasori's position with his every step, "You're the fastest shinobi I've ever fought with!", Sasori started creating even more mercury with his distinct method,
"However, likely, none of us could really completely kill each other at this time!", Sasori continued to speak with a confident smirk, and then suddenly a large wave of his mercury soared high into the air, before fragmenting into raindrop-sized snippets and then effectively creating forest-sized toxic, metallic rain from the sky, "Lee!", Guy exclaimed in concern however he suddenly noticed a torrent of horizontally, vortex shaped mercury going straight after him as well. He didn't have any other option, therefore, but to quickly create and use his Hirudora to deal with it a bang-like sound and then expeditiously rush toward Lee and Chiyo, with all of his strength, and take them out of the range of this silver and purple like rain. He wasn't sure if Lee's Sixth Gate could eject those materials outward as his Seventh Gate could, and he didn't want to let him try. Sasori watched it with a smile.
'Yes, how could these ordinary humans be able to match my amazing art... My favorite puppet...', Sasori thought as warmly looked at the cloaked puppet of the Third Kazekage levitating beside him, 'Pity, I couldn't add that damned Kakashi Hatake into my art collection...', Sasori thought in a few moments after Guy disappeared before noticing a flare signal coming from Deidara somewhere in the forest. He previously watched while Deidara cast his giant clone, balloon-like technique, 'It is time to go...', Sasori thought lastly and then quickly went toward Deidara so they could withdraw together from there. He was somehow proud of himself today after finally battling it out partially successfully against such a strong enemy. As for granny Chiyo, he realized that he didn't care about her anymore, 'That old hag will probably kill herself now to revive that brat Kazekage...', He mused while leaving the large crater he was standing in previously created from the large collision of those two attacks. And outside its radius of it, there were kilometers of vaporized trees and other flora and fauna from his mercury being pushed outward by that giant tiger-like attack of his opponent.
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A while later, on a wide grassland, everyone gathered again, and the atmosphere was quite solemn, while it was also quite windy around there, wind touching their faces, making the atmosphere even stranger, "I didn't expect that we didn't manage to get even one of them earlier...", Kakashi spoke indignantly and clenched his fists a bit, this failure reminded him of that time his eye gout gouged out by another Akatsuki member. He was reminded once again how many powerhouses there were secretly in this world. Sakura also made a distressed face at this time, knowing that Akatsuki would one day come after Naruto as well. Whereas, Naruto himself just looked at Gaara's lifeless body with concern and sadness. Guy and Lee were also there however they were lying on the ground in order to rest from the fight. Their usage of the Eight Gates already tired their bodies to the utmost.
"Don't worry Naruto, I promised that I will deal with this now!", Chiyo resolutely spoke at this time and crouched down near Gaara's body, while touching it gently, with a blue kind of strange chakra escaping her body too. Her hands pressed onto Gaara's torso and her face looked tired. Guy and Kakashi suddenly opened their eyes wide while Sakura and Naruto still didn't understand that she wanted to sacrifice herself. Chiyo eventually started reminiscing about Gaara and his life until then.
Because of heavy cuts to Sunagakure's budget by the Wind Daimyo, the Fourth Kazekage wanted to make one of his children the jinchuriki of the One-Tailed Shukaku to serve as a weapon for the village. His first two children, Temari and then Kankuro, had not been compatible with Shukaku.
Rasa's third child, however, who would become Gaara, was compatible with Shukaku. And for that reason, Shukaku was sealed inside of Gaara by Chiyo before he was even born, when Gaara was still a fetus inside of his mother, Karura's womb. Gaara ended up being born prematurely and from the ordeals of childbirth, his mother, Karura, died. Before dying, Karura looked lovingly at Gaara's small form and vowed to always protect him, which she did thanks to that amazing power she gave him.
Gaara was consistently warm to others during his early life. Although most of Suna's villagers feared and despised him, he was able to persevere due to the love that he felt from his uncle Yashamaru and his mother on her deathbed. His father, Rasa, however, believed these niceties were impeding Gaara's development as a jinchuriki and as such had both taken from him: he ordered Yashamaru to try and kill Gaara and if he were to fail, to tell Gaara that neither he nor Gaara's mother had ever loved him. Rasa's plan succeeded, as following Yashamaru's death Gaara stopped trying to connect with people. Rather, Gaara focused on himself, driven solely by his own desires and his own survival.
Gaara's background was very similar to that of Naruto Uzumaki: both have been jinchuriki since the day they were born, both were hated and scorned by almost everyone in their village, and both were raised without a parent's love. But whereas Gaara eventually gave up on other people, Naruto continued trying to win the acknowledgment of his peers and village, pursuits he eventually succeeds at. Whereas Gaara seeks strength only in protecting himself, Naruto seeks strength in protecting the friends he makes. It was also the biggest reason for their current deep connection after Naruto managed to change Gaara's cruel and sociopathic outlook on life back during the failed Konoha Crush. Afterward, Gaara reconnected with his villagers and became the Kazekage as he was the strongest person inside the village and who also hailed from their ruling Kazekage clan.
This was the same reason why Chiyo presently decided to bet her own life on Gaara. He was a true middle Kage-level powerhouse, the strongest one in their village, even without Shukaku due to his father's distinguished Magnet Release and his mother's spiritual powers that always protected him in a form of his fastest sand. He was stronger and more valuable than both herself and her brother.
Magnet Release was an advanced nature transformation, kekkei genkai, that combines wind and earth chakra to simulate the different properties and usages of magnetic forces. Unlike most other nature transformations, Magnet Release typically cannot be used to generate physical objects or destructive energies with which to directly attack an opponent, but rather is used to telekinetically move natural materials that do not usually fall under the domain of nature transformation ninjutsu.
Sand Style Magnet Release was possessed and made famous by the Kazekages of Sunagakure. The Third Kazekage controlled his own Iron Sand. Rasa, the Fourth Kazekage used Gold Sand, while Gaara, the Fifth Kazekage, used just ordinary sand mixed with various metallic particles that he could control. He used that kind of sand for massive and long-range kind of attacks while he had another unearthly kind of sand, that he used for close-range combat and defense, from his mother.
The Shield of Sand, a gift from his mother on her deathbed, reacts to any attack against Gaara, even those that Gaara himself is not aware of. When he's about to be physically harmed in any way, the Shield of Sand moves between him and the threat in order to block it. Though most often used in shielding Gaara from enemies. The Shield of Sand is automatic, requiring nothing from Gaara to use and thus meaning it can operate indefinitely. Because the shield is formed from sand that's been seeped into Gaara's chakra, it has a very fast response time, too fast for most enemies to overcome.
His mother managed to embed her own soul chakra into Gaara, and the sand near him, which he now carried inside of his sandy gourd, to manifest that kind of power out of her great love for him. Therefore, Gaara doesn't need Shukaku to control sand or be strong, he was a powerhouse on his own. It was why Chiyo currently wanted to give her own life in order to revive him from the dead.
And soon, Chiyo finally closed her old eyes for eternity while listening to the gusts of wind inside of this vast grassland. Naruto, however, didn't manage to catch onto that, as he noticed Gaara now waking up in wonder. Naruto even started crying a little from joy and informed him of everything. After a while, Kakashi interrupted them with a sigh, informing them of Chiyo's death, and suggested that they go back into the Sunagakure. Their mission failed, however, at least Gaara's life was saved.
