Another burst of steam erupted from the bridge, sending more of the Leaf's forces flying back from the force of the stranger's attacks, unable to withstand the heat and force that the steam was letting off.
"Who the hell is this guy!" Tsume Inuzuka yelled, jumping away from the steam with her Ninja hound, Kuromaru before they both skidded along the bridge, glaring at him with intent to kill.
"I'm not sure, but whoever he is, he's strong." Choza Akimichi said, having also been pushed back due to the heat of the steam.
The Stone shinobi cheered at the sight of Han, gathering around their end of the bridge as they tried to regroup under their commander.
"Is that Han?" The Stone commander asked, being able to make him out in the distance.
"It's about time he showed up." One of the others said.
"You know how he is, he doesn't like to be bothered." The captain said, thankful that he had finally decided to get involved in the battle.
"Regardless, now that he is here, this battle is ours... Men regroup!" The commander yelled, taking advantage of the situation.
Meanwhile, Shikaku Nara was watching from the rear of the battle, standing above the trench with a member of the Hyuga clan, who was watching over the battlefield with his Byakugan, zoning in on Han so he could get a better look at the situation.
"Captain, he appears to be wearing some sort of armour that is allowing him to release steam." The Hyuga member said, surveying the situation.
"Come on men, it's only one guy we can take him!" A Leaf shinobi at the front of bridge yelled, leading a charge with a group of others following his lead.
"What the hell are they doing!" Shikaku yelled, watching as the men charged in without waiting for his orders.
"No stop!" Choza Akimichi also shouted, not having any luck though as the Leaf ninja charged in with a powerful battle cry.
As the Leaf ninja drew near, Han observed them without looking the least bit alarmed. subsequently, a blast of steam propelled him forward at an absurd velocity, allowing him to use a bizarre taijutsu combo on each Leaf ninja one at a time.
"What the hell is this guy!" One of the Leaf ninja yelled, watching as his comrades were dispatched one by one, not even being able to keep track of Han, other than the steam that was coming off of his body.
Han was using the Boil release to boost his taijutsu power and speed, and given his unnatural height and strength, to begin with, you had one hell of a powerhouse on your hands.
Han totally overpowered his opponents with his strength with only one punch, destroying them. With his right palm, Han struck a Leaf ninja in the face, causing the helpless man's face to cave in from the force before he fell to the ground with a catastrophic crunch.
Han then moved on to his next victim with a rush of steam from the backs of his legs and upper rear. He slammed a kick into the Leaf ninja's ribs, breaking them on impact from the force, sending him flying back into the ranks of other ninjas who were still pushing forward.
"Wait a second. That steam... That hat... It's Han of the Stone." Shikaku said, having all of the cogs in his brain working overtime to figure it out, remembering him from the bingo book and the last great shinobi war.
"Normal shinobi don't stand a chance against him, we need to pull back and attack with everything we have at once!" Shikaku yelled with a serious tone.
"I'm on it." Inoichi Yamanaka suddenly said, appearing next to Shikaku as he made some hand signs, allowing him to speak telepathically to all of the other shinobi around.
"This is Inoichi Yamanaka of the Leaf village. This is not an opponent that we can defeat by rushing in blind. This is Han, a Jinchūriki of the Stone Village." Inoichi Yamanaka said, relaying the information and new plan that Shikaku had come up with to all of them in an instant.
As a torrent of fire and wind jutsu was lanched from the Leaf's side of the bridge toward Han, who had already dispatched all of the Leaf shinobi who had charged at him, watching as the Jutsu crackled toward him, not seeming bothered by it at all.
However, the Stone shinobi had been able to get their second wind thanks to Han's help, putting up earth walls and stopping the long-range jutsu to help as best they could.
"We can't let Han do all of the work men! Charge!" The Stone captain yelled, getting a battle cry from his remaining men.
Shikaku had expected this from them, infact he had bet on it, with them baiting the Stone to use their earth walls so they could use them as a distraction to block the enemy's view of the Leaf's forces. Allowing Shikaku to play his next card without giving the Stone the chance to react to it.
"Now!" Shikaku yelled, giving the signal to his men, starting the second phase of his plan.
"Let's do this!" Tsume Inuzuka yelled, appearing from around the sides of the earth walls with the other Inuzuka clan members and their ninja hounds.
"Giant fang over fang!" She yelled as she jumped into the air with her ninken, turning at such speed that she looked like a bullet travelling towards Han, with her ninken coming in from the other side, about to smash him with a pincer attack.
All of the other Inuzuka members did the same thing, with all of them using fang over fang at the same time, all aiming for Han who was standing in the centre of the bridge from a different angle, giving him nowhere to go.
Han put his hands together and didn't appear troubled again until a massive volume of boiling vapour suddenly erupted all around him. Tsume Inuzuka and the other members of the Inuzuka had no option but to redirect their assaults since they knew that if they didn't, the steam would boil them alive.
However, Shikaku had also planned for this too, trying to keep several moves ahead of the battle at all times thanks to his high IQ.
"Expansion jutsu!" Members of the Akimichi clan yelled, causing their hands to grow very large and use them to create a powerful gust of wind that blew all of the steam away, presenting them with a chance to counter attack.
"Take this!" Chōza Akimichi yelled as he jumped through the middle of the others, letting both of his fists expand before he linked his fingers together and slammed them both down at Han, creating a powerful shock wave that caused the whole bridge to rattle.
Chōza had a stern expression on his face but it softened to one of disbelief as his fists were gradually torn open to reveal Han beneath them, unhurt and unphased by his tremendous blow.
"No way..." Chōza said, unable to overpower Han as he forced his hands open wide before he kicked Chōza in the chest, sending him flying back from the force of it.
"Why you!" Tsume yelled as she rushed in to attack along with her ninja hound, followed by three other members of the Inazuka clan.
Tsume swiped her sharp fingers toward Han, forcing him to dodge her attacks before he blocked a spinning heel kick.
Kuromaru, Tsume's ninken rushed forward too, attacking in perfect sync with his master before he sank his sharp fangs into Han's shoulder, cracking his armour from the force of his poweful jaw.
Han didn't even flinch and instead grabbed the ninken's neck, ripping the large wolf off of him before tossing the animal through the air, causing it to collide with another member of the Inazuka clan, knocking both of them to the ground in a heap.
"You bastard!" Tsume roared, trying to attack with another barrage of animalistic attacks.
However, Han blocked her first attack and then ducked under the second before slamming a powerful steam-boosted punch into her abdomen, sending her flying back like a rag doll before she rolled along the ground and flipped back, landing on all fours like a dog, taking the hit surprising well.
"ARGHH!" Two large members of the Akimichi clan yelled, having managed to get the drop on him thanks to Tsume, allowing both of their fists to expand before punching Han at the same time with everything they had.
Han was forced to cross both of his arms over his body to block their powerful attacks, feeling his body shift from the ground due to the force.
Han was knocked off his feet and through the air by the combined force of both punches before he flipped back and let steam shoot from his feet and back, using it to propel him back towards the Akimichi clan members unleashing a double drop kick that impacted them both at once on the chest with one foot each, knocking them both flying from the force.
The remaining Stone shinobi had also launched a counterattack now, not standing by idle while Han did all the work.
The Stone shinobi rushed the bridge, hoping to be able to take the bridge and their trench back from the Leaf, now that Han had arrived to help them, their morale had been raised along with their fighting spirit as they let loose a powerful battle cry before slamming into the responding Leaf forces, clashing with their blades and with powerful jutsu in an all-out battle for control of the bridge.
"This isn't looking good. Han is stronger than I first thought..." Shikaku Nara said, trying to think of a way he could take him down and push back the Stone's men at the same time.
Chōza Akimichi slowly got back up from the kick he had received from Han, feeling the pain in his chest. "I'm not finished yet..." He said as he stood up, seeing that the Stone forces were charging from behind Han, clashing with Leaf shinobi who had run to meet them in combat.
Han was in the middle of the battle, completely overwhelming all of the Leaf ninja who tried to take him on, proving he was a master at Taijutsu.
"Shikaku! Inoichi! It's time for the Ino–Shika–Chō!" Chōza yelled, getting both of their attention and giving Shikaku an idea of how to finish it.
"Alright, let's go with formation E!" Shikaku yelled, getting a nod from the others.
"Hold the line, don't let them push us back!" One of the Leaf captains shouted, using his gentle fist technique and 64 palms attacks, combined with his Byakugan to overwhelm many of the Stone shinobi, helping to keep the Leaf shinobi in the fight.
However, Han stormed forward with a steam-powered attack, forcing the Hyuga member to burst into a rotation in order to repel his attack, forcing Han back before he flipped into the air, landing on his feet in a crouching position using his steam to burst him back into the air before slamming down with both feet, using his steam to push his body down giving his attack even more power overwhelming the Hyuga member and breaking his rotation.
"No way!" The Hyuga member yelled, having his rotation broken by Han who slammed into the ground, breaking the wood on the bridge.
The Hyuga member jumped clear of Han's slam attack, taking advantage of the distance he had created, seeing Han was within range of his sixty-four palms attack.
"Take this!" The Hyuga shouted, stepping inside of Han's zone before he smashed two fingers laced with chakra into Han's body, aiming for the chakra points that only he could see thanks to his Byakugan.
Han took the attack before the Hyuga slammed another attack and another and another, hitting Han a total of 64 times, closing down all of his chakra points with amazingly aimed strikes.
However, Han's body suddenly burst into steam, revealing it was a clone before the real Han appeared from behind the Hyuga, attacking him from the smallest blind spot that the Hyuga had in their 360 vision.
"Rotation!" The Hyuga yelled, repelling Han at the last second before Tsume slammed into Han with a strong fang over fang attack, taking him from behind before she knocked him flying thanks to her sucker punch.
"How you like that one, you bastard!" She yelled, finally being able to land an attack on him.
"Everyone, clear the bridge at once!" Inoichi Yamanaka yelled telepathically to all of the Leaf ninja, getting them to all retreat before they launched their Ino–Shika–Chō attack.
"Superhuman boulder!" Chōza shouted, jumping into the air before he transformed into a large spinning ball.
"Here we go!" Inoichi also said, using his mind link jutsu to locate all enemies in the area before relaying the information to Shikaku, who connected his shadow tag jutsu with Chōza, slinging him forward like a giant yo-yo toward the bridge.
"Human Bullet Yo-Yo!" All three of them yelled as Chōza smashed through the Stone shinobi along the bridge, crushing everyone that was in his way like a steamroller.
Han recovered from Tsume's attack and turned to watch as the giant Chōza came hurling toward him and the others, knowing he wouldn't be able to push him back in his human form, leaving him with only one option.
Han pushed forward with a burst of steam, charging head-on alone to face Chōza while the other Stone ninja watched from behind him.
"Lend me your strength, Kokuō!" Han yelled before he burst into a huge cloud of steam, revealing his full-tailed beast transformation into the five tails that resembled a large white horse, but with a dolphin's head. It has two pointed long horns and three shorter horns in front along its head, with five great tails that whipped around with great force.
"What the heck is that!?" The Leaf ninja shouted in terror, watching as the five tails smashed its head into Chōza, leading them to engage in a titanic struggle before the five tails overwhelmed him and sent Chōza flying into the air with a strong head thrust.
"No... Chōza!" Shikaku yelled while he watched what had happened in horror.
"We can't compete with something like that!" He said out loud, knowing they didn't have the power to defeat a full-powered Jinchūriki like this.
Chōza flew back toward the forest at the back of the Leaf forces, hitting the ground hard still in his super expansion form, causing a huge amount of dust to be kicked up from his body crashing into the ground.
Han who was now fully transformed into the five tails let out a mighty roar, letting everyone know that they stood no chance against his power.
"Oh my... Things have really gotten out of control now." Mangetsu said as he watched from the sidelines with the other Mist shinobi.
"I didn't expect that guy to show up so soon." He said while scratching the back of his head, trying to remember what Fuyōna had told him to do if this happened.
"No matter, I think it's time we help out these Leaf bastards and show them what us Mist are made of!" Mangetsu yelled, rallying his forces, even though they seemed more afraid of Han than he did.
"Come on me, it's time to take this fucker down!"
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