Chapter 116 Gap

Chidori!!

Thwack!!

The left hand surrounded with lightning cut through the white sphere like butter and red blood flew around,

Jiraiya!!

Yelled Tsunade anxiously, Orochimaru no less worried at what he just witnessed.

Swish!! Swish!!

Without any second thought both of them turned into an afterimage and rushed towards Jiraiya who sat on his knees before Kazuki, a deep cut on his right shoulder.

"Hiss! Are we really sparring!!?" Asked Jiraiya while enduring the pain, one hand on his wound and his eyes with doubt focused on Kazuki.

"I'm pretty sure none of you expected me to walk out unfazed of that last attack; so not really any right to complain Jiraiya san" Reminded Kazuki about the deadly attack earlier as any other shinobi being at the center of a flame tornado would have suffered from some serious burns, they didn't really go easy on him and so he did the same.

Swish!

BOOM!!!

His words left Jiraiya speechless though Kazuki not caring about that just jumped back and appeared on top of a huge boulder at distance as the heavy kick of Tsunade landed where he just stood, destroying the ground and toppling Jiraiya close to it.

Hurriedly Tsunade helped Jiraiya up and immediately began to tend to his wound, Orochimaru appearing next to them also as eyes of sannin focusing on Kazuki at some distance.

Chuckle!

Feeling the serious gazes on him Kazuki couldn't help but chuckle and resting the Kusanagi held in his right hand on his shoulder, speaking up.

"I expected bit more of a challenge to be honest; at this rate let alone breaking all of my bones you would fail to even touch me once"

"The legendary sannin, do they have only this much to offer?" Saying that Kazuki gave the three at distance an intimidating look.

"Ho!"

"He sure learned to talk in these three years" Seeing Kazuki mocking their strength, Tsunade who was busy healing Jiraiya taking a deep breath tried to calm herself and spoke up in a slightly dangerous tone.

"Don't hold back and give everything you got; the last thing I'll tolerate is being considered weak"

Orochimaru who mostly stayed calm seemed to be affected by his words as well, stepping forward to talk.

Jiraiya's wound seemed to have been healed enough as next moment standing next to each other they all bit their thumb and banged their hand on the ground.

Summoning Jutsu!!

POOF!!

On the battlefield white smoke covered a large area and within the smoke three huge fuzzy figures even visible to kushina, minato and nawaki watching the battle from afar.

"It's… the infamous three-way deadlock!"

After the smoke cleared away the trio saw three towering beasts in the distance; a red toad with a smoke pipe in its mouth and a massive sword fixed on its waist, a purple serpent that towered over the other two with black rings running all over its massive body, green chilly eyes and four horn-like protrusions on its head.

The last was a huge white slug with green lines on its body, tentacles on its head.

On top of the red toad stood Jiraiya with hands across his chest, on the serpent's head Orochimaru and on the slug Tsunade.

"Once again summoning me when these two nuisances are around; you have started to take me too lightly Orochimaru"

Manda, the huge purple snake took a look around and after spotting the toad and slug next to him was immediately pissed, speaking to orochimaru on top of his head in a dangerous tone.

"The enemy is strong and the only little chance to win will be created if you work with others Manda, after the battle I'll arrange enough sacrifices as a compensation"

"Hmph! Don't you dare go back on your words!" The promise of sacrifices was enough for manda to put down his hate and work together.

"No way! whenever I'm with this damn lizard I end up getting thrashed… let me go back Jiraiya!"

Gamabunta, the red toad after spotting Manda was obviously not happy as well, the last time he fought along with manda, he ended up getting thrashed around by Hanzo and was nearly killed. He didn't want to experience that again.

"Don't worry! It's not that serious this time… at least no danger of death… though can't guarantee the loss of a limb or two"

Thanks for your encouraging words Said Gamabunta inwardly with a speechless face, Jiraiya's words only seemed to have scared him more for the upcoming battle.

Swish!

On the battlefield the eyes of the three beasts were focused on the man who stood on top of a boulder at distance, who slowly removed the red hat from his head and gazed back at the three monsters before fearlessly, the wind rustling his silver hair.

BOOM!!!

And then the silence on the battlefield was broken, the red toad squatting and jumping towards Kazuki, both the toad and Jiraiya making hand signs simultaneously in the air.

Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet!

From the mouth of gamabunta, oil sprouted and was met with fire that shot out from jiraiya's mouth as a sea of flames that palpated the air rushed towards Kazuki.

Water Style! Swirling Water Barriers!!

Fizz!!

Kazuki stayed cool despite the approaching flames and just made a single hand sign as the moisture in the atmosphere gathered and around Kazuki appeared massive swirling barriers of water and the flames hitting it and evaporating, not able to go through it.

BOOM!!!!

HISS!!!

Steam covered everything due to the evaporation though in the steam Kazuki's senses didn't seem affected at all as sensing something underground he jumped back as next moment the ground under him burst open and manda with its mouth wide open gushed out, failing in an attempt to devour him.

Kazuki having dodged the sudden attack had appeared at some distance from the snake and without any fear of it just raised his head to gaze at the sky as right above the battlefield dark clouds slowly appearing, his lips curving at this and words leaving his mouth.

"Guess I have some more time to play around"

Thud!

Saying that Kazuki flashed quick hand signs and banged his hand on the ground.

Earth Style! Great Earth Dome!!

The ground around Kazuki trembled and layer after layer of dirt rose and solidified to form a thick dome that enclosed kazuki completely from all sides.

Fizz!!

The moment the dome enclosed Kazuki a green liquid that was shot from the mouth of the slug at distance fell on the dome and began to melt it actually, being extremely corrosive.

Zzzz!!

The dome didn't last long more than few seconds before the acid and melted completely though Kazuki still unharmed rushed out with lightning arcing around him, rushing straight towards the white slug.

But Kazuki's movement halted as Orochimaru appeared in his path holding a sword that resembled the Kusanagi he held.

Wind Style! Wind Blade!

Lightning Style! Lightning Blade!

Holding a Kusanagi blade each, both orochimaru and kazuki came face to face as wind chakra coated the blade of the former and lightning of the latter.

KENG!!

The blade's collided and despite the wind having cutting advantage over lightning orochimaru unable cut through kazuki's blade, the difference of chakra being supplied making a difference.

KENG!! KENG!!!

The first attack was negated by each other though it seemed just the start of a sword duel, orochimaru's hand turning into an afterimage and slashing at kazuki quickly whose hand holding the sword moved gracefully and parried every attack effortlessly, at the same time his eyes moving around to keep a check on the surroundings.

"It can't be!! The gap can't be this big!!"

Seeing Kazuki effortlessly blocking his every attack and keeping an eye on the situation at the same time, Orochimaru couldn't help but lose his cool, cursing and wildly swinging his sword at him again.

In a fit of rage, Orochimaru's sword slashed through the air, inadvertently creating an opening for Kazuki.

Seizing the moment, Kazuki swiftly positioned the flat side of his blade against the oncoming attack. Upon impact, Orochimaru's sword slid along Kazuki's blade, its trajectory altered to pass harmlessly over Kazuki's head.

The blade flew over his head and the inertia even propelled orochimaru forward a little though Kazuki already capitalizing on the opportunity, lowering a little and slashing the sword horizontally towards his waist.

"Bad!!!"

Orochimaru's danger senses shooting through the roof and he cursed with an ugly face, not able to do anything else.

Thwack!

BOOM!!!

The sword drilled into the waist from the side and was no doubt on course to slice orochimaru into two though kazuki halted his movement intentionally and jumped back, Manda's tail hitting the ground where he just stood.

"Damn! I was dead there!"

Orochimaru's face was red from pain and with one hand covering the slash wound on his waist he sat on his knees and cursed, frustration easy to spot in his eyes.

Just now at the last moment Kazuki withdrew his blade and showed mercy as this was just a spar and not a life death battle, otherwise he would be dead now.

Kazuki didn't care about what orochimaru who was fatally wounded and couldn't do much in the upcoming fight was going through as finally he was getting jumped.

Katsuyu, Gamabunta and Manda all rushed towards him and even Tsunade and Jiraiya appeared and five vs one battle was going to start.

"Mutli-Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Poof!

But it was not like Kazuki didn't have a way to solve this as calmly making hand signs and smoke bursting next to him, around twenty clones appearing.

Tsunade and Jiraiya seeing the number of clones couldn't help but halt their movement, shock and disbelief on their face.

"He seems to possess chakra even more than you, Tsunade"

"Way more cause twenty doesn't seem to be his limit"

Making twenty shadow clones truly shocked both Jiraiya and Tsunade, the latter admitting kazuki possessed chakra far more than she did, a senju and the granddaughter of first hokage.

Ten shadow clones rushed towards Tsunade and Jiraiya and with the rest Kazuki lunged towards the summons, on the battlefield mostly the display of fire style seen despite kazuki being a water style prodigy.

Water Style! Water Cannon Technique!!

Thwack!!

Curse You!!

Aghh!!

The clones of Kazuki bringing the hand close to mouth shot numerous hot beams of boiling water towards the summons as despite dodging still getting hitting by a few, Manda cursing in anger and gamabunta groaning in pain.

Katsuyu breaking into numerous small clones of her managed to avoid the attack, at a distance Tsunade and Jiraiya engaged in a Taijutsu battle with the clones of kazuki and clearly struggling cut wounds easy to spot.

RUMBLE!!!

At this moment from the dark clouds gathered above lightning crackled and illuminated the burning battlefield for a moment, the real kazuki who was witnessing his clones do all the work smiling at the appearance of thunder.

Swish!

Next moment he flashed a hand sign and banged his hand on the surface as the ground under him rose and carried him up along with it.

Poof!

Standing on top of the wall, Kazuki overlooked the whole battlefield down below as his clones all vanished at the same time, surprising Tsunade, Jiraiya and the summons and they all turned to gaze towards the man standing on top of the wall.

Next what they witnessed sent a chill through their bodies, statue on the spot with wry smiles on their faces.

Chidori!!!

Chirp!!!!!

The sound of thousand birds chirping spread on the silent battlefield again, blue lightning coating the right hand of kazuki who with a smile on his face raised it.

ROAR!!!

There was a silence in the skies for a moment but was broken by a soul shaking roar from the dark clouds, blue light flickering among the dark clouds and next moment a huge monster shaped from lightning roared out of the clouds.

Minato and co who watched the battle from afar seemed to have forgotten to breathe, staring at the blue lightning monster behind kazuki blankly.

And then it happened as kazuki eyeing Tsunade and others down below let out a smile and waved his hand down, a word escaping his mouth.

"KIRIN!!"

ZAP!!!

Eyes were blinded as thunder crashed down and a large area obliterated at the moment of impact, wind howling and rubble flying, dust covering everything.

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(I'm preparing to fly to Japan this week so I took some breaks from writing, buying things and other stuff, still will try to upload more this week)