CHAPTER 241 HELMET

CHAPTER 241 HELMET

“This place is huge,” Hinata whispered as we started to jog down the hall.

“Impossibly so,” I admitted as we moved. I didn’t understand how these supervillains had such resources, but that wasn’t important for now. I scanned everywhere that I could. Kicking in doors we found more than a few failed experiments rotting away in rooms.

“What happened to you?” Hinata whispered as we kicked in another door.

“Hmm?”

“You’re so much...stronger now,” she admitted. I turned to see that the veins around her eyes were bulging. She was using her Byakugan on me. Able to see chakra she most likely could tell that I had more. Much more than the last time she saw me when I fought Pain. My chakra had almost doubled after my quest for fighting Pain, and it had been over 2 years since I had been there last.

“I...am,” I said. I felt a pulse of chakra off behind me. I turned and ran toward it to see a robed figure run past. Speeding up Hinata followed as I let my anger start up again. Strength moving into my limbs I was ready to kill this guy to help relieve some of my rage. That was when my quest finished and a new one began.

Naruto Quest 11

Save the girls. (3/4)

Time Limit: N/A

Rewards:

Weakness Eliminator

Bonus Slot Upgrade

Naruto Quest 12

Kill or Defeat Kabuto

Rewards:

Bonus Challenger Slot

I stopped in my tracks. “A Challenger Slot?” I mumbled. That was rare. Courtney had mentioned that rewards got better the further we went. I wondered if defeating Kabuto was that hard of a task that they deemed it worthy of a slot.

“What?” Hinata whispered.

“Nothing,” I said, putting the thought away. I used my items quickly.

Please choose which (1) weakness to eliminate.

Empathic Psychic Link (3)

Bodily Impurities

“Then why the fuck did you take my maids?!” I roared. “What the fuck was the point? That game with seeing me in 3 days?! What was all this?”

“Your jutsu,” Kabuto admitted. “Orochimaru had looked into the Watanabe family. We thought maybe you had divined your knowledge about the attack. Orochimaru was obsessed with all jutsus. Knowing the future sounded appealing to him. Turns out your family did have a secret jutsu, but not one we expected.”

I eyed Hinata behind me. Turns out no matter how much I hated the talking before fights, I was stuck in my own. I decided to let the chips fall where they may. I hadn’t had the heart to tell Hinata the truth. This would save me the hassle.

“Lust Element,” Kabuto hissed. “I had never heard of such a thing. Whether she wanted to be or not, Tayuya was someone I had kept an eye on. She led me right to you.” I internally cursed. I knew it. The timing was too good to not have been her. At least it sounded like she didn’t do it on purpose. “Quite the interesting skill. That maid of yours, she was a treasure trove of information.”

“Did you do anything damaging to her?” I asked.

“Damaging? No, nothing permanent. I had planned to, but you got here much more quickly than I imagined. You wouldn’t happen to want to tell me how you did, would you?” He asked. I shook my head. “Too bad. No, I simply awoke her, what did they call it...Chikyugi?”

“You awoke it in her?” I asked, I hadn’t noticed.

“Oh yes, quite simple to do,” he said. “A little chakra there, some stimulant here. I had to test on someone. Too bad it is useless for me.”

“Orochimaru make you dickless?” I asked.

Kabuto laughed. “No, but I have no interest in such things.” His snake eyes focused on me. Turns out I was going to have to fight a Voldemort whether I picked Harry Potter or not. “But you do interest me.” His arms extended revealing snake heads for hands as they extended out. “I still need to know how you knew of the attack on Konoha. Then I can move on to the next phase of my plan.”

I nodded. Letting my anger boil up to the service I reminded myself to limit the chakra I used. “Stay back, Hinata,” I ordered as I walked forward. Kabuto crouched as I moved closer, his snake arms extending out 10 feet I began to speed up. When I was within striking distance the snake head attacked. Whipping forward impossibly fast I punched it with a Nen powered hit. The face caved in as I did the same to the other head.

Kabuto hardly reacted as the snake bodies turned black. Dropping away his real hands appeared forming seals as poison gas filled the area. I held my breath and pushed through. Feeling the tremors coming I powered up my punch with all I had. Where Kabuto had been I sent forth a huge quake. The ground broke away and the man screamed inside the purple cloud.

I pushed through, finding him coughing up blood from the blow. Kicking him in the side he was thrown hard into the wall. The concrete dipped in, forming a crater where I hit him into the wall. I sent another Tremor at him. Yelling out as I punched with all I had I hit him right in the gut.

Blood coughed out of him as the quake hit him directly. I felt bones bend under the hit, then break. He hissed out and snakes poured out of him like intestines. I jumped back, catching sight of his real body near the clone he had just left in his wake.

Sending out a pulse of Conqueror’s Haki the shadow chakra faltered around him. I sent another quake his way, causing him to stumble as I formed ice bullets. I threw my arm back and as I punched it forward all 12 bullets hit in his general direction. 4 met their target, piercing through his body then into the concrete past him. He cried out.

“How are you doing this? I’ve never seen-” He tried to say. I wasn’t listening. The talking part was over. I hit him in the back with all I had. Nen, Chakra, and my devil fruit meeting in one strong blow as his body was crushed under the weight of it. He yelled out as his side exploded from him.

“You fucking took my girls!” I roared as the anger strengthened me. I threw another hit, this one at his shoulder. His arm was blown off with the force of it and he cried out again. “You-don’t-touch-anyone-anymore!” I roared between each hit. My rage only built as each blow started to make the area around us vibrate. I hit him again and again. Limbs were blown off, and his body became a pulp of a bloody mess.

I breathed in and out heavily as I stood over him. “You spent your life as a lackey. Now you’ll die having changed nothing,” I said to the breathing corpse below me. I began to power up another hit. The air around me vibrated as Nen, Chakra, and Haki covered my hand. Skin turning black, I was giving it my all. My ultimate punch ever closer as I mentally juggled the powers.

I roared again, ready to end him when the black goop shot out from the wall and latched onto the body. I acted on instinct, jumping back as the Venom-like foe attached to Kabuto’s body.

Unsure what was happening I watched, struggling to hold the power in my fist. The black goop writhed around Kabuto, then it began to stand. I could only see darkness as I stared at it. Arms appearing it sat up and turned to me in a crouch.

Half of Kabuto’s face looked back at me. His eye shut, he was knocked out. The other half of his face and the rest of his body was pitch black. A yellow circular eye stared back at me. With sharp teeth baring themselves at me I recognized it as one half of the yin yang Akatsuki member, Zetsu.

“You have interfered in plans I have set in motion,” the voice said from Kabuto’s throat.

“It’s you! You work for the Rabbit goddess,” I yelled as I jumped forward. My punch went for him but the body moved unnaturally fast. Backing away to the corner of the room it hissed further.

“I have no time to deal with you,” it said, then was absorbed into the wall. The chakra disappearing I let out a long sigh. I had forgotten the Black Zetsu was the real bad guy. Manipulating Madara, Obito, even Kabuto, for one final goal to bring the Rabbit goddess back.

“Fuck!” I yelled out. My voice echoing in the large room, I grew upset. I hadn’t killed him like I wanted, and now Akatsuki had access to lots of dead bodies. Things were going to get annoying again.