161 -=Battle of Uzushio - Part 3 Onoki's wrath=-

"DON'T YOU DARE MOCK ME!" Onoki screamed in anger

"Nya?" Touka tilted her head in confusion

'When did I mock him?'

But Onoki didn't see it as confusion, but only as another way to mock him

"BRAT!" He got even more enraged

Onoki flew up, his anger giving space to a battle focus state of mind

one would think he is just an easily enraged old man, but Onoki has been a kage for years, no, decades even

albeit he was not good at controlling his fear, which he showed at the very mention of Madara's name, he was quite good at controlling his rage

years of practice dealing with stupid people got him the experience he needed

'Dust release' (Sometimes called particle style)

(Fun fact, did you know Onoki had lava release in the novel? at least, that's what the wiki says)

'Detachment of the Primitive World Technique'

Onoki quickly created a cube with a sphere inside of it atop his hand

his famous kekkei tota, dust release

'That doesn't look good' Touka noticed

But before Touka could do anything about it, she felt her feet get stuck to the ground

"What the-?"

Looking down, she saw rocks coming out of the ground and biding her feet

'Huh? but that old man is not touching the ground! And I saw that he left no other clone behind...'

But Onoki didn't care about Touka's confusion, he extended his arm out, making the cube expand proportionally

He didn't even say a word

no bragging like he would have normally done, not a treat, not even a warning

he just waved his hand and launched his jutsu on Touka

"Hehe, I'm in danger-nya!"

Touka still found time to joke, even with the imminent threat coming right toward her

Onoki stared at Touka, wishing to see her demise with his own eyes

he saw her slowly disappearing, yet until he saw the last visible trace of her disappear, he didn't avert his gaze, nor blink

"Huff..." Onoki let out a breath he didn't know he was holding

He had to admit that, he didn't expect that

he looked at his lost arm and frowned

"I've become old..." He muttered

truly, in his prime, he could have easily dodged Touka's attack, but now, it cost him an arm to do it...

But he killed her for it, so it didn't matter

"Roshi" He called

Quickly after, a man wearing a magenta kimono and matching pants, with brow armor on top, and a crown-looking headpiece, appeared in front of Onoki

from his red hair, and by what Onoki has called him, it was easy to see who he was

"Yes Tsuchikage-sama"Roshi answered

normally he wouldn't be so polite to Onoki, but the situation was abnormal

He didn't show it outwardly, but he felt a bit guilty inside

'Had I acted earlier, Onoki wouldn't have lost his arm...' Were his thoughts about it

"I want you to_"

"I see, so that's how it is" Onoki was interrupted mid-sentence by Touka, making a vein pop in his forehead

"DON'T INTERRUPT ME YOU BRA-" Onoki turned screaming in Touka's direction, but when he saw her standing there, without a single scratch...

he fell silent... no, it was more accurate to say, he lost his train of thought

'How?' The question echoed in his mind time and time again

He saw her die, no, scratch that, He felt his attack disintegrating her bit by bit, slowly as he wanted

'Then why?

why?

WHY IS SHE STILL ALIVE?'

Touka, differently from Onoki, was calm

she was looking at Roshi with an understanding gaze

"You're the one who stuck my feet to the ground!" She pointed at Roshi as if she had made some great discovery

Roshi was looking at Touka confused

but different from Onoki, he was not shocked, just curious about how she escaped

sadly he wouldn't get to know that Touka used most of her skills at the same time

[Duplicate] to make a clone

[Dissapear] to make the clone invisible

[Darkness] To turn into darkness with her clone, and change positions, while using [Dissapear] at the same time to become invisible, and make the clone visible at the same time

All of that in a fraction of a second

normally, she wouldn't have been able to do it, but this time it was different

No, it was not the 'close to death' experience giving her insane levels of focus, it was Rimuru

he made her mind go faster with [Ceres], so she could pull this stunt

What? no one ever said he wouldn't cheat, and since he felt the jinchurikkis from the start, he knew the kages didn't plan on a one-on-one fight as well

But one thing Rimuru didn't do, was Touka's skills getting used instantly

INSTANTLY!

Normally they take a little bit of time, and that would have made Onoki notice them, so... what caused this if Rimuru didn't do it?

The answer is simple, Touka's skill [Will of D.]

It could boost her skills, as long as they start with the letter D

Sometimes I wonder why she got a skill named like that, but who really knows...

"I have had ENOUGH with this damn girl!

HAN! ROSHI! KILL HER!" Onoki screamed

truthfully he wasn't THAT mad, more annoyed than anything, but his wound was still hurting

A LOT

While he did use rocks to stop the bleeding, he couldn't use rocks to heal, that's not how it works

So he decided to have someone else deal with Touka, but he now knew better than to underestimate her

if HE couldn't kill her, only one jinchurikki would also not be enough, he thought

that's how he quickly formed the plan to hide and have someone else fight for him, if his side started to win, he could jump in and push to victory, claiming it as his own merit

if his side started to lose, he could help out from afar, tilting the scale back into his favor

and if both sides got stuck in an impasse, he could easily break the balance

As expected of Onoki the fence sitter! A master of taking advantage of other people's fights!

"Han-Nya? who's that?" Touka asked confused

but she quickly got her answer in the form of a man wearing red armor underneath a black gi, with torn-off sleeves, black gloves, a red hat and shoes, and what seemed like a... furnace? on his back, body flickered right in front of her

"Hello" He said

"Hi-Nya" Touka answered

"Sorry, but I'll have to kill you" Han said, and while he said that, Roshi also walked behind Touka, who was looking at Han

"..." Touka didn't know how to answer that

in one hand, Han said everything quite politely, on the other hand, he just said he would kill her

'What to do? what to do?...'

But before she could come up with an answer, Roshi, who was eager to punch something, rushed at her

*CRASH*

His punch opened a crater on the ground

Touka, who had jumped in the air to dodge, looked at Roshi as she was falling, noticing the red chakra cloak enveloping him

<Uhm? you dare use my chakra again?> A deep voice rumbled in Roshi's mind

'Quit complaining old monkey!'

<DON'T CALL ME LIKE THAT YOU FOOL!>

Son Goku hated being called an 'old monkey' or 'four tails' but since Roshi didn't know his name, or at least, Son believed he forgot it, he really was being unreasonable... what was he supposed to call him by?

Alas, Roshi was too prideful to call Son by his name

[Duplicate]

Touka quickly turned into two, one rushing at Roshi and one at Han, charged with electricity from [Discharge], which was one of [Defibrillator]'s sub-skills

Han took a battle position and was also quickly covered by a red chakra cloak

while he didn't think he and Roshi couldn't take care of Touka without it, he also didn't want to underestimate the girl, Onoki had done it and it cost him an arm

Roshi made hand seals quickly, shooting out of his mouth a lot of lava, by the seals he made, it could be seen that this was a lava variant of the fireball jutsu

Han made a seal with one hand and put it in front of his mouth as well, spitting steam from it

Both Toukas didn't stop though

[Darkness]

Extending their hands, they absorbed the attacks inside the darkness

while they did absorb the attack, they now had highly corrosive steam and a lot of lava inside their dimension... a problem for future Touka to deal with

Han and Roshi widened their eyes slightly for a second

while a normal shinobi would have been shocked, they had a lot more knowledge than a normal shinobi

' 'Dark release!?' ' They both assumed

(For those who forgot, The kekkei genkai Hiruko absorbed with his quimera jutsu, it can absorb jutsus)

While Roshi was surprised, but not worried, since he was still quite a good taijutsu fighter, Han was assured that he did indeed need to use the chakra cloak, since he was very reliant on jutsus, and now he could at least fight Touka

"Aaagh-" Onoki suddenly screamed in pain

albeit he managed to muffle most of his scream by blocking his mouth with his hand, and the sound of battle managed to make it almost imperceptible

almost

He stopped fighting, which made his adrenaline go down, making the pain he didn't feel before, come back

... maybe his plan wasn't that good after all...