The moment the last of the others vanished from sight, Sukuna moved. As he was waiting for the confirmation get released out there in the open.
As if the last sanity of his mind was stopping him going on a rampage until others were out of there. Until they were at the safe distance. And finally when they were gone, he was free to do whatever he wanted.
Honestly, the only thing he cared about right now was fighting to his hearts content, to fight someone strong, and kill as much as he wished.
But still, he was able to hold himself back, until others were gone. Barely, but he did it nonetheless.
This wasn't the normal transformation which curse seal on its first stage provided, this was the second stage.
The entire marking stage was all skipped, what he had was on was the fully realised state of curse stated which represented the inner demon a person.
In Sukuna's case, it happened to have four arms and four eyes.
When finally he could sense that others were gone, he finally let out a manical laughter.
A distorted laugh tore from his throat, raw and feral, layered with voices that did not belong to one boy.
Four arms flexed as curse energy and natural energy churned violently through his body, tearing at each other and multiplying the result into something monstrous. His stance was wrong, his posture unrefined—but the power behind it was obscene.
He felt strong, and he had to test it out what he could do now. It almost was like an instinct.
He can feel it, this power coursing through his body was different, a thousand times more violent than what he was used to.
Its didn't just changed his body, it changes the way he was thinking. He doesn't seems to be himself right now.
And when he finally moved, and with that the forest exploded.
Rasing one of his hand, pointed at Orochimaru with so much malice that Orochimaru who was watching until now, part facinated at the rare specimen he gotten his hand onto and half cautious about the dangerous feeling get got from the pink-haired boy who unlocked the second stage of curse seal by himself.
Instincts alone, Orochimaru barely twisted aside as a dismantle screamed past him.
'Missed…?' Sukuna blinked, but then realised that wasn't the case. There is no way Orochimaru can dodge that without a Dojutsu. No…
It was his fault, his aim was off. This power was so raw and unstable that even his aim got affected.
But that didn't put a damper onto him. If anything, he was elated, caus the slash didn't just cut. It erased.
Beyond past Orochimaru, the entire section of forest vanished in an instant—trees, earth, stone—cleaved cleanly as if the world itself had been edited out of existence. The shockwave flattened everything beyond it.
Orochimaru's eyes were widen like saucers when he looked behind him.
'That ? What kind of jutsu was that ?' Orochimaru was in a daze, he recalled earlier he was cut apart before he could even see what happened, it was so fast that he couldn't comphrehend what took place. So it was this boy.'
'Was it wind style ? No… not possible, if it was wind style then I would have seen the attack coming at least felt the air pressure. This isn't wind. Then how did the boy do it ?
A kekkai genkai ?'
"…How crude," Orochimaru hissed, eyes still wide at the destruction in front of him. "And yet—"
Sukuna didn't let him finish.
Another slash came at him, and just like earlier he missed.
Then another.
A barrage of them. Filling the entire forest sky if they were vision.
Then dozens more. He threw more and more slashes irrelevant of the outcome.
They came wild and imprecise, tearing through the landscape at impossible angles. Sukuna wasn't aiming anymore. He didn't need to. The forest became a slaughterhouse of flying debris, collapsing terrain, and shredded air pressure. His efficiency was abysmal—his control laughable—but the sheer output turned every mistake into a catastrophe. He sure had the reserves to pull it off.
All around the forest, the candidates who witness the destruction were scared. The level of destruction done by those slashes were much higher a typical Genin.
'Stay away from there, whatever's going on there, we have nothing to do with it. We'll die if he get caught in that.' They thought.
Back to Sukuna, laughed again, blood spraying from a split lip that healed instantly.
"Run," he snarled, grinning too wide. "Run, snake."
Orochimaru's body burst apart under a rows of dismantle that bisected him from shoulder to hip—only for another body to crawl out of the remains moments later, pale and intact, shedding flesh like a discarded coat.
"There is no way this boy is a genin, as expected of you sensei, putting a monster like this in the exam as genin. Shameless to the boot." Orochimaru taunted, though sweat ran freely now. "He was practically running for his life cause the instant he stopped, he was shreaded."
And there was a limit how many times he can use that body replacement technique of his, every time it wasted a huge chunk of his chakra.
The thought of running away was barely suppressed by the greed to get the boy's body. Just as he was about make a sigh, any sigh, Sukuna was already on him.
Four fists slammed down, one after another, cratering the ground. Orochimaru twisted, stretched, replaced himself again and again, but even he was starting to struggle. Each substitution cost time and more importantly chakra.
He had already lost out in much of his chakra against those Genin's earlier. He can't keep going on this. This way he might really lose.
Either he has to get out of here or he has to beat this boy. Running away right now seems such a dissapointment specially since he couldn't marked Sasuke with the curse seal. Then there was also this anomaly.
If not for his longing for Uchiha clan's Sharingan, then he long would have taken a body as strong as this boy's. But his longing for the Mangekyo after he saw what Itachi was capable of doing was immense.
And then there was that Uchiha girl. Orochimaru didn't quite catch Kiyomi Mangekyo; the girl covered her eyes before that, but the snake sannin was aware that Mangekyo Sharingan can evolve into various kind of abilities and every mangekyo ability is unique in certain ways.
He had a feeling that technique that Uchiha girl, most likely Sasuke's and Itachi's sister, used was an Mangekyo ability. Cause in his entire life he havent seen any ninjutsu which can create a black hole, at least that what Orochimaru thing that was.
So he didn't wished to run. But then he had to deal with this monster.
In his daze, Orochimaru didn't even saw Sukuna closing the gab and giving up on long range attacks. A cleave caught Orochimaru mid-replacement just when he reacted, the speed Sukuna showcase was ridiculous, severing him in half before his technique fully activated.
Before he could even say anything, he was cut off into pieces. This time it wasn't like dismantle. Cleave was more precise, even if it took a lot more CE cause currently his technique was highly inefficient due to the mixture of natural energy into his system.
The snake sannin, cut into pieces, seemed to be more dead, but that when his body seems to wiggle and once again his body started to use its substitution technique to create another body for himself.
However, this time around he wasn't completely unfazed, the more damage his body took the more chakra he needed to recontruct it.
By the time he was up, Orochimaru was breathing hard, there was sweat beating out of his borrows. He looked haggard.
"You…" He looked extremely agitated. That recovery took much of his chakra. Switching body like this wasn't easy.
If not for his technique, he might have died long ago.
Sukuna paused.
A grinned appeared on his face, like Orochimaru coimng back to life gave him joy, that his fun didn't ended yet.
"Good, lets curse each other more. Hehehe." He laughed and launched himself at Orochimaru once again, making the Snake Sannin to finally stop running running away and take him seriously.
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