Chapter 199: The Sannin Skirmish (13)

Chapter 199: The Sannin Skirmish (13)

'Earth Grudge Fear,' Tsunade rolls her eyes, 'At least name it something simpler so I can try and understand what your Jutsu does!' But who would care for Tsunade's cries of annoyed anguish?!

Now, she just wants to return home, plop her wide ass on her favorite couch, uncork the gourd of Somarasa, and down it neat! Then when she is drunk, she'll happily make some bad decisions and gamble which loses her clan 2-3% of their magnificent wealth which will be written off as business expenses!

Dodging two of the black constructs with sky-blue and dark-blue masks, Tsunade's eyes widen momentarily when she sees Kakuzu from the corner of her eyes forming a seal and both these chakra constructs open their mouths without any prior build-up and shoot a sharp jet of water and a blinding arc of thick lightning!

*Boom*

*Poof*

As lightning-jutsu is the quicker one to reach her, it threatens to char her body. Obviously, molding some lightning nature chakra around her hands can help her block the attack but it would have left her open to the water jutsu so she chose one of the most convenient options again.

As her body is torn open by the jet of water, it explodes into a plume of smoke and reveals a burned and shredded length of log that tumbles down on the ground.

Seeing this, Kakuzu narrows his eyes.

Substitution Jutsu is not easy to pull off whenever when one considers the expense of inscribing a seal on one's body that stores the said length of the log.

Revealing herself to be standing far away on a tree where smoke isn't all too condensed, Tsunade narrows her eyes, too.

'Only a short series of seals was needed for him to use both the style of Jutsus at once?' This is a remarkably threatening manner of attack. She casts a glance at the other two constructs with a green and a red mask.

'Those must be wind and fire release puppets then. What about the earth release puppet?' She looks at Kakuzu, 'He is no puppet. He can use Earth Style but he also showed water and lightning style. Does he still have them after these 'masks' are taken out of his body?'

Not having enough knowledge of the enemy and being observant is always a curse. It leads the Shinobi to make passive decisions in hope of finding more about the opponent but... she isn't like that.

'If I could use Chakra Scalpel in battles... it would be way more amazing but forcing the issue wouldn't help,' Tsunade sighs internally and pushes chakra through the soles of her feet against the branch of the tree and blisters past at a furious speed. Lightning Chakra seeps into her Tanto and crackles into arcs of blue electricity as she cuts the construct of chakra the fire one, in half!

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Instead, she waves her blade to slice Kakuzu's neck when she observes the ghost of a smile on his creepy, stitched face and senses chakra building and molding above her!

Still slicing away Kakuzu's neck alongside the black threads that tried to stop her blade, she leaps forward with tremendous speed and feels another massive jet of water bursting and tearing a hole into the ground.

Tsunade did want to seal Kakuzu's head right away but it seems her objective was clear even to her enemy as the wind puppet open its mouth and let loose a burst of wind similar to [Wind Release: Great Breakthrough] that tears off the trees from the surrounding and even blows away the smoke altogether alongside Tsunade!

In the meantime, greyish, meaty threads wiggle out of Kakuzu's neck and reattach themselves to the base of his head.

'So... that was simply a misleading act!' Tsunade's glare sharpens as she recalls the puppets using Jutsus without any need for hand seals from Kakuzu's side. This means that his earlier action of forming the hand seals was to mislead her and project a sense of false safety. This action also made him the easiest and most convenient target as killing Kakuzu would solve everything but as demonstrated just now...

Kakuzu planned it all.

But even then, Tsunade's experience, sensory skills, and dexterity saved her from getting a hole punctured through her entire torso!

"I hoped for that to work," Kakuzu glances at Tsunade while twisting his neck slightly as if getting used to his body once again, "It would have been the least painful way to go, after all."

'One thing is clear,' Tsunade observes something peculiar, 'The jutsus of the four puppets are more similar to full-blown elemental chakra blasts than anything else. And there is most definitely a connection between Kakuzu and these puppets. But I don't sense chakra threads. This means that this connection is based on some fuinjutsu seals that should connect his mind with the puppet.'

'But cutting his neck didn't work... do those threads have a mind of their own... or do they work based on already etched memory like a program?' Tsunade holds her tanto close once again.

Her gaze glimmers for a second.

'He lied once before, too... he said that his entire body is comprised of threads. And I believed that because the threads do replace muscles and nerves but his chakra coils are still there... so are his organs...'

Licking her dry lips in a predatory manner as a loose but reasonable conjecture forms in her mind, Tsunade jets forward in Kakuzu's direction once again.

Yes, Kakuzu could control his puppets well but now that Tsunade has a rough handle on the situation, she disposed of the remaining three puppets as they wobbled down and turned into puddles of black, rotten water.

And finally, with an expression darker than the four puddles of dark water, Kakuzu finds himself facing more than energetic Tsunade whose creamy skin can be seen from the pierced spots in her trouser already healed.

"You can still come in quietly," Tsunade muses and offers once more, "But of course, this time, the payment for your contribution won't be more than 1,000,000 ryos i.e. the amount I have on me right now."

The corner of Kakuzu's eyes twitch in response and she can practically feel his anger ascending to a whole different level!

"I. Will. Never. Submit. To. You.!" He punctuates each word with suppressed anger and hatred. The cuts around his body slowly open up as hundreds and thousands of thick grey threads start to emerge from his body and wave around menacingly.

'For every puppet I destroyed, I got more room to think and observe. By the last one, I am practically sure that Kinjutsu relies on the existence of Organs. I still don't understand how the puppets were powered up but catching him alive should prove useful,' Tsunade narrows her eyes. Just because this technique looked disgusting to her did not mean it is entirely useless.

After all, humans under their flesh are objectively disgusting! But here she is, a medic!

"Well, this was thrilling," Tsunade exhales heavily as the circular green mark on her forehead begins to invert and form a loop instead with another wave of her stored chakra rejuvenating her.

'I never thought Kushina's 'awesome' strategy will be my second last resort,' Tsunade smirks as she utilizes her Seal of Adamantine Sage to merely recover regular chakra and not delve into Sage Mode itself.

Forming a rather simple 'plus' seal, she chirps, "Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu~!"

*Poof*

*Poof*

*Poof*

*Poof*

Smoke once again fills the empty region surrounded by a ring of flames that continues to consume the forest as Kakuzu's eyes widen in sheer shock!

After that summoning jutsu, she should not have this much chakra!

She simply shouldn't!

"Just leave him breathing, girls," Tsunade rolls back her shoulders in exhaustion but secretly keeps an eye out remembering someone spying on her when she captured A's son.

Nevertheless... Kakuzu stood no chance.

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Alternate Title: False Superiority; Caught the Grudge Fear; A Forced Employment!; Simple Weaknesses Sophisticated Shinobi!; Tsunade Just Wants to Make Bad Decisions! *Kai* Hehe boi!; A Wide Ass for a Wide Co... uch...; Thick and Juicy Somarasa for Thicker and Juicier Tsunade!

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A/N: I enjoyed adding some misleading tactics from Kakuzu's side which doesn't seem too out of the place. Like, he has shown that his puppets use Jutsu with and without hand seals so, that was it. The next chapter will end the chain of battles between Orochimaru and Jiraiya. Plus Ultra, go beyon wait, wrong fanfic!

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