Chapter – 84: Onoki vs Five-Tails - Part 2

Hi guys... sorry about yesterday. I really thought I had released it but it seems that I was wrong...

Anyway, here's yesterday's chapter, and today's one will be out in its regular time in a couple of hours.

- Silver

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After ordering someone to fetch the sealing corps, he cooly looks towards Han or rather Five-Tails now and mutters, "Let's take this outside, shall we?" and slams both his hands together forming a seal.

It isn't any top-secret jutsu he just used, in fact, it is just a normal Earth Release jutsu, however, in this scenario, it yields an outstanding result.

As soon as his seal is complete, a pillar-like column made of stones emerges from beneath the Five-Tails. Next, the pillar suddenly accelerates upwards before coming to a sudden stop resulting in a spring-like motion that throws the Five-Tails into the air like a rocket! Although it takes a bit to explain, it all happens in a jiffy causing the Five-Tails to not be able to react...

The Five-Tails travels through the air in a parabolic curve before crashing into a small hill outside of the village. Although uninjured, it gets angry and growls towards the sky again looking at the floating Tsuchikage.

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Far away, I have also just finished analyzing the Dust Release Jutsu that I just saw. 'Absolute Defense? In some ways I guess...' I think. From my analysis, because it works by disintegrating substances, it doesn't affect chakra or in other words, Ninjutsu; as chakra is just energy and there is nothing for it to turn into particles. So, this jutsu only provides defense against physical attacks like Taijutsu and Bukijutsu but it does provide absolute defense against them as any physical matter that collides with the shield made of Dust Release disintegrates into dust.

'But, this is jutsu is too taxing on one's chakra... mmm.... let's see what else he's got... oh no he's switching location already...'

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Back to Onoki and Five-Tails.

After getting Five-Tails out of the village so that the village doesn't need to suffer more damage, Onoki thinks, 'I need to to keep it here for five more minutes... this will be tough...' If it was just escaping, he would have had a lot more confidence in himself, but engaging a Tailed Beast solo and not letting it go near the village...

'I hope they come early...'

The Five-Tails also knows that it cannot play with Onoki as it did with other Iwa shinobi so it starts attacking with full force too. Steam starts to emanate from Five-Tails' body and it shoots towards the floating Tsuchikage. Normal means cannot be used to reach a floating target, so it's using blasts of steam to run or air! It's similar to water walking but way more difficult to do it with just chakra... but with Five-Tails' boil release, it is still somewhat possible...

Before Onoki can react, he's sent flying with a massive hit from Five-Tails' claw, but luckily he is able to create a makeshift defense with earth release in time.

*BOOOOM*

'Ahhh... my back...' he stands up from the debris holding his back; short old man holding his back in pain, kind of funny actually, 'have to get serious or these old bones will be buried here...' thinking so, he starts to make seals quickly and shouts...

[Earth Release: Earth Golem Technique - Titan]

A huge pile of rocks starts floating and joins together to form the figure of a titanic golem. With a rocky club in hand, the golem starts running towards the Five-Tails as if to smash it to pulp and each step it takes creates a loud rumbling. Looking at it, the Five-Tails is not about to be outdone, although a tail has not yet formed making it not able to take its full form, it's not like there's nothing it can do. Huge amounts of boiling mist start to come out of Five-Tails' body and once a sufficient amount is gathered, it starts controlling it to form a humongous avatar of itself! A Five-Tails formed from boiling mist!

Strangely, when these two monstrosities collide, there is no explosion because the golem that Onoki created starts to melt soundlessly!

Seeing his golem end up on the losing side, he floats up next to and places both of his hands on the golem's back and uses another technique.

[Earth Release: Added-Weight Rock Technique]

This is not to add more power to the golem, but instead, it makes the golem way denser like turning stone to metal by increasing its density. This way, it will be a bit safer when coming into contact with Five-Tails' Boil Release.

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'Why isn't he using Dust Release?' I ponder looking at the battle that has gone for more than a couple of minutes. Although Onoki did use it a couple of times, it was only to protect himself from rocks that came flying towards him and he never directly used it against the Five-Tails...

'Is he... is it because of Han?' I am sure my guess is right, 'So, he's not using it because there is a possibility that Han might die and because of it, Iwa would lose a Jinchuriki...'

But one thing is for certain... the anime didn't do them justice... these Kages are way more powerful than what I remember seeing in the anime... The first time I got to know about the difference was when I got Tsunade's memories. At that time, although I had accepted it, only now do I truly know the gap. If these people are already this powerful, then how strong were Madara and Hashirama... and how strong will Madara be after he becomes Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki...

'I need to re-evaluate these shinobi and... myself... and oh, the sealing corps are here...'