Shota's binding cloth lengthened as Gaku Tetsu again rushed at him in anger. The long white cloth shot forward like a living rope and aimed to wrap around the young Explosion Release user.
The other Iwa shinobi arrived with a sword coated with chakra and cut down the cloth rushing at him. The sharp blade sliced cleanly through the fabric before it could restrain anyone.
He shouted, "Snap out of it Gaku, he is trying to rile you up." The older jonin spoke loudly and firmly to break through Gaku's anger. He knew that fighting while emotional would only lead to mistakes against a clever opponent like Shota.
Gaku snarled but backed away. He still looked furious, yet he obeyed the order and stepped back a few paces. His breathing stayed heavy and his eyes never left Shota.
But Shota got enough time to create a shadow clone and handed him Fū. This freed his hands to engage in another of the jonins that had tried to attack him from behind. Now that his hands were free, Shota turned and met that attack head on.
He engaged him in a close quarters fight. The two of them exchanged quick punches and kicks at short range. Shota used every bit of his training to stay on equal footing against the bigger and muscular opponent.
His eyes moved rapidly from one Iwa shinobi to the next. Each time the Erasure activated, the target lost the ability to use chakra for a very short moment.
The limit of only two seconds meant Shota had to keep switching targets constantly or the enemies would regain their power. He knew that he needed to take one of the six jonins attacking him fast or he would get overwhelmed. The numbers were against him and every second counted.
Shota focused first on the man right in front of him. His hand to hand skills were average compared to true specialists, yet the long cloth around his neck became a useful weapon. He swung it, blocked with it, and forced the enemy to stay careful.
At the same time the other parts of the moving cloth kept the other jonin from getting too close. Though the jonins were easily able to cut through his binding cloth and Shota almost cried tears as he saw all the money lost.
As he parried a blow from the jonin, he decided it was time to finish him. Shota blocked a heavy punch with his forearm and saw an opening. He tried to form a Rasengan but the Rasengan fizzled out.
The spinning ball of chakra appeared for only a second before it fell apart completely. Shota grimaced. 'I do not have the required chakra control to form a Rasengan? Damn it.'
The new nine tails energy inside him still made fine control very difficult. But he did not give up with his attack. His hand which was in the air looking to strike the man with the Rasengan curled into a fist as he reinforced it with his chakra.
Instead of the failed Rasengan, Shota poured raw power into a simple punch. The Iwa jonin who could not reinforce himself without chakra and thus the fist slammed into his ribs, cracking his chest and sending him flying.
The jonin flew backward through the air and crashed hard into the ground, clearly out of the fight.
"Dodge real me!" At the same time his clone shouted. The shadow clone that was holding Fū yelled a clear warning.
Shota immediately jumped in the air without thinking with his back turned. He trusted the clone completely and leaped upward the moment he heard the shout.
*BOOOMMM*
A powerful explosion erupted right where he had been standing. He could feel his back searing with heat as the explosion managed to hit him.
Even though he jumped, the edge of the blast still reached his back and burned the skin painfully. As he landed he saw the Iwa jonin that he had sent flying being blasted into bits by an explosion blast released from Gaku's palm which was still smoking.
He already was in motion as he turned aiming at four of the Iwa jonin which were huddled together.
Shota formed the seals for the Great Fireball Technique as fast as he could. He did not know where the last Iwa Shinobi went but he soon realized that the man was hiding behind the trees and used an earth dome jutsu to protect his chakra less companions.
Shota blew flames out of his mouth and without his chakra control as good as it was, he ended up using lots of chakra into the jutsu. The lack of fine control made him pour far more energy than needed into the technique.
He blew up large amounts of flames and with his progress with adding principles to fire, the fire was hot, very hot as it had shades of blue and white in it.
The earth dome though was also created by someone who was a jonin, and had learned principles of earth release and added to jutsu. The dome was a lot thicker and sturdier.
As the fire hit it, the dome crumbled but the Iwa jonin inside the dome reinforced it with their own earth release jutsus.
Once the jutsu ended and the dome crumbled, only three Iwa shinobi came out of it instead of four.
Before Shota could think where the last shinobi was, from within the earth, from below the ground, a kunai came and jabbed at him from the ground through his sandal to the feet.
Shota grunted in pain. The sudden wound made him cry out. He also felt stuck but used his entire strength with chakra amplification to manage to jump away before his other foot could be struck with a kunai.
He poured chakra into his legs and forced himself into a high jump just in time to avoid a second blade. As he landed back on the ground he grunted in pain as the kunai went deeper into his feet.
He immediately removed it as blood leaked from his wound profusely.
Despite the pain, Shota could see the wounds slowly healing and closing. The cut on his foot began to close on its own at a visible speed. 'What do you know? Becoming a jinchuriki does not only come with drawbacks.' He thought with a wry smile.
--------Author Notes---------
Y'all can now read the next 20 chapters of the fanfic on my pat*reon.
Pat*reon.com/Charizard6
[No star]
Thankyou for your support!