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“So what did you do wrong?”
“Choose to have you as a sensei” She said immediately without even a second’s thought. Enma, from his position sat atop Jiriaya’s struggling form, burst into laughter. All three of them were tired beyond belief. Sensei’s golem had basically brought the fight to an end. Whatever ninjutsu they tried failed to do more than essentially scratch the giant stone creature. It became comical when even Orochimaru’s powerful lightning rele...
2024-09-02 07:42:08 +0000 UTC
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She reached down with a diagnostic jutsu and breathed a sigh of relief at the fact that Sensei had seen it fit to only knock him out with blunt force trauma to the temple. Nothing was broken. Broken bones took longer to heal than most other injuries, and time was a luxury she doubted her sensei would allow them to have for long. The jutsu already felt like it was reaching its final stages as she watched sections of the ground begin to lift up and take form into something that she felt like sh...
2024-09-01 18:05:47 +0000 UTC
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Eastwards, I noted. We continued East. The Journey to Ba Sing Se was going to be a long one and every possible second would count. Especially when I was certain that the defences of the city would be prepared to resist us if we tarried. I was not going to assume that the city was as unprepared ats it has ended up being in the cartoon show. There was nothing here that gave the impression and considering that the Earth Kingdom military still hosted in this world, then they had to have some sort...
2024-09-01 17:30:00 +0000 UTC
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It was a masterpiece. Complete and total. I forced myself to think about it instead of the pain I felt as my clone removed my eye and began the delicate surgery to replace it. That scene where Madara just took Kakashi’s eye and plugged it in with no hesitation was complete bul;lshit. Sure, this world didn’t have things like organ rejection for doujutsu as they seemed to be compatible with every eye or eye socket regardless of things like shape and size that should have been limiting facto...
2024-09-01 07:17:56 +0000 UTC
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We returned to the camp as conquerors. Weighed down by something as ridiculously plebeian as spoils of war, we took a much longer time to get back to the army than it had taken to get to our target in the first place, but there were few complaints. At the back of our procession, we had a caravan that contained the urns I’d filled with the ashes of all the men that had died in our attack on Fong’s base. Thinking of it now, I was forced to accept that it was not just the desire for treasure...
2024-08-31 18:37:31 +0000 UTC
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“Enough about him, I’m the Senju you’re facing here”
“And what a scary thought it is” Her Sensei’s sarcasm was not appreciated, and she gathered her chakra beneath her body before jumping through the mud river and right at him.
Before she’d even gotten close, he’d dodged out of the way, but that did not matter. She slammed her punch into the ground and brought her chakra to bear at precisely the perfect instant like she’d practiced for years, and the ground a...
2024-08-31 17:58:28 +0000 UTC
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“Yup”
“Yup?” I echoed with a feeling of trepidation building in my chest.
“Indeed. At the speed of thought, I have experienced every memory you have within you- from both lives- more times than I can even count. At first, it was to hurt you. As insane as I was, I somehow thought viewing your memories would give me some kind of o way to hurt you. I raged against them. Screamed, howled, cried, whatever I did- none of it worked. Slowly, I began to feel myself becoming mor...
2024-08-31 16:46:20 +0000 UTC
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Ichibi no Shukaku. The one tailed demon racoon. A creature made of sand and spotted with curse marks along its frame. Angry, spiteful, mad, pained, haunted, and for some reason right now, still. I’d removed the genjutsu placed on him, expecting him to lash out and come at me. Expecting to have to pacify him in one way or another. Instead, he just stared down at me. For some reason, that made me even more wary.
“Ichibi?” I asked hesitantly. I knew the tailed beasts were sentient a...
2024-08-30 16:10:33 +0000 UTC
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Victory. But at what cost, I wondered. Of the crew of 45 men and women, brilliant firebenders one and all, I had lost 17. Four had died in the jump down the mountain. In retrospect, that was probably more risky than it should have been, and I really should have explored less risky means of achieving the same objective. The remaining 13 had found their deaths in the fighting. It was a lower number than should have been expected because I’d done such a good job of drawing all the attention an...
2024-08-30 10:39:30 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXX- THE SLUG PRINCESS
She crossed her arms in front of her, unable to dodge the attack in time and grunted as the transformed Monkey King slammed into her guard and pushed her backwards until she found her back slamming into the mountainside. Thankfully, her sensei was forced to abandon the attack as Orochimaru fired off a series of wind bullets that he had to swing his staff around to block.
“Tsunade” Jiriaya cried out, and she was moving before he even called her name. ...
2024-08-28 18:14:33 +0000 UTC
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“Well, what we have to do is simple. We go back to the village and try to figure out what’s going on?”
“The same village that the Mayor basically banished us from?”
“Yes, the very same. Do you have a problem with that?”
“Just making sure that we have the same things in mind”
“Well, while we were walking through, I and Uzume noticed a few things” Shika continued.
“Like what? The general poverty of the people? I think we all noticed that...
2024-08-28 16:50:57 +0000 UTC
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“How are we going to approach this?” She asked as we walked into the Mountain Pass that marked the beginning of what was ostensibly Fong controlled Territory. It was called Fong-controlled because he was something of a rogue element within the Earth Kingdom’s military apparatus. He acted as he willed and did not necessarily answer to the broader earth kingdom hierarchy. Part of it had to do with how remote he as and how it was just too difficult to control his actions, but the other par...
2024-08-28 15:50:19 +0000 UTC
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Of course, the second that their boss died, every hand that surrounded me moved to take me out. I would have been more cautious and maybe leveraged the man’s life to escape the situation, but I could see something they didn’t. Bunched together as they were, over half their number disappeared in a spontaneous explosion they hadn’t seen coming. As for the remainder, they would be wishing they’d died soon enough. I pushed off the corpse of General Fong and backflipped over a piece of sto...
2024-08-28 15:43:19 +0000 UTC
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Uzume was the first to reach him. She was always one to act first, and think later. He dodged away from a swipe of her warden that dug into the tree trunk he’d been leaning against. With a flick of her wrist, she forced the weapon to continue the movement and cut the tree at that spot beefier diving after the fleeing shinobi. He danced through the foliage as the very shadows that called the forest home came to life and began to reach out to grab him. I watched the way his eyes flickered fro...
2024-08-28 14:55:06 +0000 UTC
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When they returned, it was with a visible bunco in their steps. They’d found something. Something big if they way toshiroc held his shoulders was any indication. It was clear then that there was something he’d found that he was sure would be better than whatever the two of us had found.
When they crossed into the clearing, they found Uzume and I seated on branches at opposite corners of the empty space. “Debrief” Shika said, almost sounding absentminded if not for the sharpness...
2024-08-27 15:58:13 +0000 UTC
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He crumpled to the ground, and the other two tried to squash me between the walls as they forced the two sides to slam together. Bending my knees, I shot right at them with jets from my feet. Reaching the first, I transitioned my charge into a roundhouse kick that cut through his shield, and decapitated him in one fell swoop. Enhancing the cutting power of my flames had thus far proven to be more useful against these brunt than it had been against Bumi. The next covered himself in a dome of s...
2024-08-26 16:05:11 +0000 UTC
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We snuck into the village this time. Shinobi could make ourselves unseen by regular civilians with nary a thought, and with the Meisagakure jutsu well under our belts, Uzume and I didn’t even have to spend our time darting between shadows at speed to avoid notice. We simply wrapped our feet with chakra to prevent any sound or footprints from marking our movements and giving it away. Even a civilian would be able to notice footprints appearing out of thin air with some amount of ease.
2024-08-26 04:40:26 +0000 UTC
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“Her condition is deteriorating rapidly, Kazekage-sama” The man that I grabbed by his coat to ask what the hell was going on said to me as he ran around to place a drip into her hand and begin refilling whatever the medication was. I stepped closer to her rasping form and noticed the way her eyes came into focus as she felt my chakra wrap itself around her.
“I told you no” She said, her voice stronger than it had been in months.
“You did” I agreed with her.
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2024-08-25 17:44:12 +0000 UTC
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“To the father, I pray for leniency for my misdeeds. To the Warrior, I pray that my sword arm be swift and my shield arm firm. To the Crone, I pray for wisdom to not be outsmarted by my opponents. To the maiden, I pray that I live long enough to find love. To the Smith, I pray my sword remain sharp and my shield strong. To the mother, I pray for mercy for my enemies for I shall give them none. To the Stranger, I pray for a swift welcome home if it is to be my time” I mumbled the prayer to...
2024-08-23 19:31:04 +0000 UTC
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If there was one thing to be said about Earthbenders though, it was their fantastic stubbornness. I’d liked ten already, and even more kept coming at me as I cut a swath through their bodoies and made my way inside. I had to find Fong and end this. I doubted killing him would make tis lot surrender. They seemed to be the types to fight things out until the very last hope, but it would serve other purposes. For one, I’d noticed that they’d become much more organised after a single man, a...
2024-08-23 04:27:52 +0000 UTC
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“Well, what we have to do is simple. We go back to the village and try to figure out what’s going on?”
“The same village that the Mayor basically banished us from?”
“Yes, the very same. Do you have a problem with that?”
“Just making sure that we have the same things in mind”
“Well, while we were walking through, I and Uzume noticed a few things” Shika continued.
“Like what? The general poverty of the people? I think we all noticed that...
2024-08-23 04:06:54 +0000 UTC
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I shrugged my shoulders around my brand new chunin vest, trying to get used to the weight. I hadn’t expected to receive the promotion after what I’d done at the Chunin exams. It was something I tried to remove my mind from as much as possible. Except it turned out that my Granduncle did not seem to care much. He tossed me the vest as I left his office and left it at that. Toshiro had received his a few days later. It would have been something to be proud of had I been anyone else. But I w...
2024-08-23 04:04:30 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXX- THREE YEARS LATER
It was a masterpiece, I decided. A bloody masterpiece. The final perfected seal. I knew it was perfect because on completing it, I received a notice from the system that Fuinjutsu had finally reached level 100. Staring at it with the eyes of a fuinjutsu god told me there was nothing to be improved in it. It would work and do everything I intended. Precisely and perfectly. I looked out of the window, enjoying the view of a new and improved Suna. Once fuinjutsu g...
2024-08-22 15:15:48 +0000 UTC
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I soared in the air, using my sand as a platform as Mebuki and Dragon remained behind me as silent sentinels. We’d had a very cute moment that was very shonen-esque with the whole village showing up to see me off as I journeyed to the Land of Iron for a summit with the potential to determine all their fates and that of their descendants- or even if they’d ever get to have any. Even the ‘Daimyo’ had come all the way to the village to see me off. He’d also made the decision to enter i...
2024-08-22 15:14:00 +0000 UTC
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“10% Might as well ask me to blow you while you’re at it” Kuriootsuchi muttered and I struggled to swallow my laughter at the comment.
“I can see how that might seem extreme, but I promise a minimum of a 50% profit increase in every village if you follow the measures I offer” He said next.
“Bold words”
“Yes, but I can back them up, I promise. Think about it this way. Right now you have to charge a price high enough to ensure you make profits, but low enoug...
2024-08-22 14:23:44 +0000 UTC
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They ended up taking seats along a long table, a seat reserved for Kabuto at the table’s head, something that caused no small amount of grumbling.. The fact that the man had been the one to call them in but still wasn’t present made it clear that he wanted to arrive last as some sort of powerplay. How pitiful. Gaara noted his seat, with the Mizukage on his right, and the Raikage next to her. He was as far away from Kabuto as the tables allowed, and he smiled at the fact. Clearly the man w...
2024-08-22 09:41:14 +0000 UTC
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A few seconds down and I activated my flame jets, blasting left wards at an angle, and spreading my arms out to give me as much drag as possible. As I ‘flew’, I came to the realisation that one of those Airbender suits from the Legend of Korra show would be perfect for missions like this. It was too late to worry about that though, so I put even more power into my jets, shooting off and leaving my men behind. They followed as best they could, but I’d land with some time ahead of them. P...
2024-08-22 04:58:10 +0000 UTC
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We ended up entering into the town with no fanfare. Uzume was still fuming, Shika was still exasperated, and Toshiro was just as amused as I was. We did a good job of just pretending to be regular civilian kids, but I could still spot the suspicion on a few faces as we walked deeper into the town, towards the mayor’s office. Of course they were suspicious. Looking around the faces of the children in this town told me that we’d had no chance in hell of blending in with the truly perceptive...
2024-08-22 04:55:40 +0000 UTC
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When the last person had crested the summit, we stood at the top, and gazed down towards the mountain top that held Fong’s base. His own mountain being a fair bit lower than this one.
“So what’s the plan?” Maki asked again.
“Use your flame jets and fly over there” I said, pointing over to another mountain that was still lower than this one, but higher than our target’s base.
“When you get there, blow up that tower” I continued. It was obvious which tow...
2024-08-21 18:47:40 +0000 UTC
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“Kazekage-dono” The Mizukage was the first to say anything to even acknowledge my presence. The rest were content to stand and watch us as we began to speak.
“Mizukage-dono. How have you been? I apologise for that mess all those years ago, a complete misunderstanding, I’m sure. And by the way, please call me Gaara.” I plastered a false smile on my face and allowed my charisma to kick into full gear as I approached her with arms spread to show I wasn’t a threat.
She m...
2024-08-21 18:25:48 +0000 UTC
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