Chapter 173 Kakashi's New Fighting Style
Might Guy looked up, facing hundreds upon hundreds of water sharks, showing no fear, and roared:
"Morning Peacock!"
Guy's punch broke the sound barrier, and the resulting fiery meteors fell like rain of fire. White mist rose from the lake surface, and a thousand water sharks howled and vanished in the rain of fire. But Kisame's figure had already disappeared, and the entire lake began to rotate clockwise, forming a giant whirlpool with a diameter of a thousand meters.
"Water Prison Shark Dance Technique!"
Might Guy suddenly found his feet entangled in viscous water, transparent water walls rising around him, and Samehada, the sword in Kisame's hand, exploded into countless tiny fragments that attacked from all directions. Each strike carried a terrifying sharpness. Although Might Guy immediately shattered the water binding his feet and dodged, Samehada's attacks were too dense. Before long, some marks were left on Might Guy's body, and
blood seeped from the tears in his green bodysuit. These wounds were nothing to someone like Might Guy who had trained his body for years, but Might Guy keenly sensed that every time he was hit by these strange black blades, half of his chakra was taken away.
"A chakra absorption ability?" Might Guy's thick eyebrows furrowed slightly. At this moment, he also felt the troublesome nature of his opponent.
However, Kisame wasn't faring well either. Although Might Guy had already stepped into his trap, Samehada exhibited some anomalies when it absorbed the opponent's chakra and returned to his hand. Kisame had never seen such violent chakra before. The chakra Samehada absorbed couldn't even be used to nourish itself; even the greatsword Samehada began to tremble under its violent chakra.
"This person... the chakra flowing through his body is so violent?" Kisame's face showed shock. "The Leaf Village's rare beast truly lives up to its name." Kisame
took a deep breath. Judging from Might Guy's current abilities, close combat didn't seem like a good choice. However, the opponent didn't seem to be skilled in ninjutsu, so Kisame changed his strategy. Having been recognized as the master of Samehada, the so-called tailless tailed beast, his chakra reserves far exceeded those of ordinary people. He figured suppressing the opponent from a distance with ninjutsu shouldn't be a problem.
Kisame swiftly formed hand seals, water droplets clinging to his fingertips blurring as they fell. Once the seals were complete, Kisame roared, "Water Release: Five Sharks!"
The calm water surface suddenly surged, a thirty-meter-high wall of water obscuring the sky. Guy retreated rapidly, stepping on the water's surface. At that moment, five shark-shaped water bullets, under the cover of darkness, relentlessly pursued him. The next instant, sharp dorsal fins cleaved the water, and giant sharks leaped out, opening their ferocious jaws towards Might Guy.
Facing this fierce attack, Guy let out a low growl, veins bulging on his forehead, and a peculiar crimson glow appeared around him. The next moment, a deafening explosion rang out.
In the instant the steam exploded, Kisame didn't even see Might Guy's movement clearly. The five water sharks were pulverized into rain by the force of his punch. Guy sped forward, leaving a long trail of vacuum behind him, charging towards Kisame in mid-air.
A deafening explosion of air erupted beneath Might Guy's feet as his spinning kick slammed into Kisame's temple. Kisame whirled around, only to find Might Guy's attack already upon him.
Kisame's body exploded into a puddle of mist in mid-air.
"A water clone?" Might Guy frowned, having regained his
footing in mid-air. At that moment, Kisame
, hidden beneath the surface, also broke out in a cold sweat. The memories transmitted by his water clone told him that he hadn't had a single chance to dodge Might Guy's kick. "Pressure, masu ne," Kisame thought to himself, but his hands didn't stop moving.
After his true form underwater formed a series of hand seals, the puddle suddenly swelled, a towering curtain of water engulfing Might Guy from all directions, submerging him in moments.
Might Guy, submerged, held his breath, carefully scanning his surroundings, but soon, a swarm of dark blue sharks swam towards him.
...
While Might Guy and Kisame were locked in fierce combat, Kakashi, who had already seen two Tailed Beasts exchanging Tailed Beast Balls and rushing towards the battlefield, suddenly saw a cold glint flash behind him.
Kakashi dodged the downward slash, and a mechanism-equipped bracer on his wrist clicked, spitting out a steel ball no more than two centimeters in diameter. The ball appeared in Kakashi's palm, and a flash of electricity crackled within it as he flung it towards the attacker.
The instant the ball left his hand, the scattered electricity in Kakashi's hand rapidly created a small magnetic field.
Propelled by electromagnetic force, the steel ball shot through the air with a deafening roar, hurtling towards the attacker's head.
The ball was so fast that the attacker only had time to raise his weapon to block it.
A loud clang of metal clashing rang out, and the attacker was thrown back several steps by the impact. Kakashi then turned to look at his opponent. He didn't recognize the attacker, but the weapon in his hand was easily recognizable. "The Executioner's Blade?" Zabuza,
having finally regained his footing, stared in horror at the horrifying cracks on the Executioner's Blade.
A single steel ball could damage the Executioner's Blade like this? Zabuza stared at Kakashi in disbelief. Moreover, he hadn't sensed any particularly strong chakra fluctuations just now.
"Kakashi with the Sharingan?" Zabuza took a deep breath, his eyes narrowing slightly. He recognized Kakashi's identity. Despite not being from the Uchiha clan, he was a ninja who had made a name for himself in the ninja world with the Sharingan. But the intelligence reports stated that Kakashi only had one Sharingan. Yet now, there were two red marks in the opponent's eye sockets, and the Sharingan pattern wasn't the usual tomoe.
Zabuza had no time to think. Kakashi's gaze exerted immense pressure on him. He retreated while rapidly forming hand seals.
"Hidden Mist Technique!"
Zabuza unleashed the Hidden Mist Village's signature assassination technique. The fog on the battlefield, already shrouded in blood mist, thickened even further in a few breaths.
Kakashi looked up; in the dense fog, he couldn't even see his own hand. However, a cold smile appeared on Kakashi's face, and he said loudly, "Do you think such a method will work against my eyes?"
The answer was a slash coming down from behind.
However, after a flash of lightning, Zabuza's powerful slash passed through Kakashi's body in a bizarre way.
The Executioner's Blade slammed heavily to the ground, and Zabuza was stunned.
But the next instant, he noticed that the three steel balls beside Kakashi began to spin rapidly, surrounded by lightning.
With a whooshing sound, Zabuza coughed up a cloud of blood from his right chest. Three steel balls had pierced straight through his chest, and Zabuza collapsed helplessly, blood gushing from the three triangular holes in his back. As the fog dissipated
, Kakashi, having exited his intangible state, glanced back at the lifeless Zabuza. If it weren't for the secret message from Uchiha Touko instructing him to leave as many high-ranking rebels alive as possible, those three steel balls would have been aimed at his head.
However, Kakashi turned to look at the Executioner's Blade in the opponent's hand. A red light flashed in his eyes, and the void around the Executioner's Blade began to distort. Soon, this treasured ninja sword of the Hidden Mist Village disappeared into the void.
"Consider it collecting some interest. After all, we're already here." Kakashi took out two chakra-restoring pills from his ninja tool pouch and swallowed them, chuckling as he spoke. Then, he looked up at the increasingly fierce battle of the Tailed Beasts. "Obito, do you see that? Let's help Rin get justice together."
The bloodlust in Kakashi's eyes intensified, and the Mangekyou Sharingan tomoe in the form of Fuma Shuriken slowly rotated. The way he had defeated Zabuza was a new fighting style he had devised after trying out the abilities of these two Mangekyou Sharingan.
Because he lacked the Uchiha bloodline, his single Sharingan constantly drained his chakra. Therefore, even with two Mangekyou Sharingan, he couldn't dance amidst lightning while using his eye techniques like Uchiha Touko. Instead, he channeled all his chakra into these two Mangekyou Sharingan. As for
methods of killing enemies, after thoroughly mastering electromagnetic induction, Kakashi finally learned the Railgun ninjutsu he obtained from Uchiha Touko using Chidori.
He then crafted a batch of steel balls made of high-quality steel and a bracer capable of storing twenty such balls.
This attack method, whose power almost entirely stemmed from physics, somewhat compensated for the weakness of Kamui's intangibility.
After all, he only needed to create a magnetic field with lightning before intangibility, leaving the steel balls within it. Even after entering intangibility, the constructed magnetic field would accelerate the steel balls and launch them at his enemy.
Zabuza unfortunately became the first unlucky victim to experience Kakashi's new fighting style.
"How can there be such a treacherous fighting method?"
This was Zabuza's last thought before collapsing to the ground and losing consciousness.
...
In the center of the battlefield where the two tailed beasts clashed, a series of tailed beast balls exploded, leaving a crater tens of meters deep in the heart of Kirigakure. However, the Three-Tails, Isobu, was already showing signs of weakness. Its massive body had been burned in many places by the high-temperature steam and the acid sprayed by the Six-Tails, Saiken, and it continued to roar furiously.
"It seems we can't calm him down," Mei Terumi said, panting heavily as she stood on Saiken's back. Participating in the tailed beast battle was definitely not an easy task for her, but fortunately, they also had a tailed beast on their side. Furthermore, according to Utakata, the Three-Tails' condition was very strange, completely failing to display its full strength. "Is the Three-Tails still not responding?"
"No," Saiken said. "I've been calling to it constantly since the beginning of the battle, but its mind seems to have been completely corrupted."
"Then, what should we do?" Utakata asked at this moment.
"Let's just kill it." After a moment of silence, the Six-Tails finally made up its mind.
"Just kill it?" Mei Terumi said in disbelief. They only had two tailed beasts in Kirigakure. If the Three-Tails died, it would be a huge loss for Kirigakure.
"Just kill it. We tailed beasts don't really die after we're killed. Our chakra will roam the world until we are resurrected one day," the Six-Tails said. "Rather than letting Isobu live in such a daze, it's better to let it be free."
"I see?" Mei Terumi said. "It seems that's the only way now. Although it will be troublesome to find it later, we can't let it continue to destroy the village."
"My attack methods are not enough to break its shell, so I need you to help me break through its defenses," the Six-Tails said.
"Okay." Mei Terumi took a deep breath and began to form hand seals.
"Lava Release: Lava Monster Technique!" Mei Terumi extracted all the remaining chakra in her body, compressed it, gathered it in her mouth, and then spat out a stream of orange, viscous acid.
Already injured, the Three-Tails couldn't dodge in time, and its shell was quickly covered in the acid.
A
hissing sound echoed as the acid corroded the rock, and plumes of black smoke rose from the areas where it touched the surface.
"A good opportunity!" the Six-Tails and Utakata exclaimed simultaneously, then began to condense a Tailed Beast Ball, shooting it towards the Three-Tails, which was groaning in agony from the acid.
"Sorry, Isobu," the Six-Tails said with some reluctance after launching the Tailed Beast Ball.
However, just as the Tailed Beast Ball was about to strike the Three-Tails, the space in front of it suddenly began to distort, and in the next instant, the Tailed Beast Ball vanished into thin air before the incredulous eyes of Mei Terumi and the Six-Tails.
A moment later, a violent explosion resounded hundreds of meters away at the Mizukage Building.
The Mizukage Building and the surrounding buildings were reduced to ruins in the explosion of the Tailed Beast Ball.
"Wow, he really knows how to pick a spot! This guy really hates Kirigakure." Uchiha Touko surrendered to a squad of Konoha ninja while glancing at the Mizukage building, now a pile of rubble, in the distance, and thought to himself with schadenfreude.
...
"What's going on?" Terumi Mei stared in disbelief at the site of the explosion.
Just then, the void around the Three-Tails began to distort again, and Kakashi stepped out from the void.
"Konoha technician? Hatake Kakashi?" Terumi Mei, on the back of the Saiken, stared in disbelief at Kakashi's sudden appearance.
As an optics expert, Terumi Mei naturally recognized Kakashi, Uchiha Touko's staunchest supporter, but she never expected him to appear before them in such a bizarre way.
"So you're the leaders of the Kirigakure rebels? Surrender now, and we might spare your lives," Kakashi said coldly.
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