Chapter 18 - I was really stupid

"You well defended you, Konoha's ninja." Chiyo said as her puppets approached Haoki, who was lying on the ground with her body covered in purple stain.

Haoki spoke'nt, he closed his eyes waiting for him to die, but suddenly an extremely quick shadow appeared in front of him, blocking Chiyo's puppets.

"Can you get up?" Asked the silhouette

"Is that you, kid? What are you still doing here, withdraw...cough...cough...that's an order!"Says Haoki, opening his eyes and seeing Nori in front of him

But without speaking Nori executed a seal, then a clone of him appeared taking Commander Haoki and putting him on his back before heading north.

During all the action his eyes and Chiyo's eyes did not leave each other for a moment.

"So it's you, the young Konoha's ninja who's been causing problems lately...um...according to the purple marks on your skin you must have been a victim of Isawa's acid poison, he was a good little boy too and one of my old disciples..." she said as she pulled several scrolls out of her clothes.

Nori put himself in a fighting position and then took a deep breath.

"My eyesight is starting to darken, my head is spinning, this must be the effect of the purple spots on my body I'm not sure I can use my skills at more than 60% of my maximum." He thought then with one step, disappeared.

Chiyo unrolled at the same time his scrolls at an unspeakable speed.

"Konoha's ninja! you will pay for Isawa's death! because as a master, it is my duty!!!!!!"

"Secret White Move: Chikamatsu's 10 Puppets!!!!!"

Then ten puppets dressed in white appeared around her, Nori who was heading towards her was suddenly attacked by the red-haired puppet carrying a sword that had almost equalled his speed.

Nori quickly dodged his attack but two other puppets appeared behind him one grey and the other orange, the grey allowed a chain to appear coming out of his right arm and bound with the orange's left hand. As the orange opened its skull to create a chakra helix, then grey maked the orange swirl thanks to its chain and threw it violently towards Nori who had just dodged the attack of the red puppet.

"Gear One: Moonsteps!"

Nori dodged the two puppets by walking quickly through the air.

But the blue puppet pulled out of her mouth a cable with a tip that pierced the void towards Nori.

But a new time again thanks to his remarkable speed, he used Moonsteps and dodged with a few millimeters apart.

"It can't go on like this or I'll probably lose!" Thinked Nori, as he falling down while aiming at Chiyo location.

Blue smoke began to emanate from his legs

"Gear one : Tempest Kick! Tempest Kick! Tempest Kick!"

Then he flexes his legs and hit the void with countless kicks.

About ten winds blade, more than five meters high, reinforced by the wind attribute chakra rushed towards chiyo.

Chiyo moved her fingers slightly and quickly moved three puppets, the puppets with the marks Bouddha ,Dharma and Sangha formed so a triangular formation

"Three Treasure Suction Crush!"

The three puppets created a huge suction, absorbing Nori's attack and destroying it, Nori falling towards Chiyo was also absorbed at high speed.

"Although I don't yet master this technique 100%, I will only use 30% of its power."

Then he poured almost without restraint all the chakra he could exploit into his sword and began to use the nature transformation of chakra.

"I no longer have a choice!" Thought Nori as he tightened his grip on his sword.

And under Chiyo's surprised gaze, Nori, who was sucked in by her technique, raised his sword, which began to grow until it reached five metres in height, covered with a pale blue light and numerous air flows, and then waved it violently.

A blue slash ripping the air, hitting the three puppets that were cut in half and then continued on towards Chiyo.

She quickly grabbed two scrolls and made two puppets appear, one with red hair and one with black hair, man and woman.

"Kiko Junbû! Chakra Shield!"

*Booooom*

The slash hit the two puppets hard, creating a chakra explosion that raised dust to the ground.

Nori fell to the ground

"I won!" Says he as he saw the other white puppets fall to the ground, then spit out a purple sip of blood and whispered

"The poison is starting to affect my body."

"Help Chiyo-Sama! Attack Konoha's Ninja!"

"Attack!"

Further on several Suna's ninjas began to move towards our protagonist

"Wait! Wait! He's my opponent!" Shouted a voice coming out of the cloud of dust created by Nori's slash, even surprising our protagonist.

"Chiyo-Sama you must have been tired let us take care of..." said Suna's ninjas approaching Chiyo but she interrupted them.

"This is my fight!"

"But Chiyo-Sama..." said the ninjas, Chiyo's clothes had holes in them, her body was wounded through and through and a large cut was visible on her stomach.

"This is my fight!"She said by executing various seals under Nori's watchful eye.

"Konoha's Ninja...my name is Chiyo, I trained my arts in 100 battles, you gave me a beautiful fight, in fact I didn't care about Suna or her interests all I want is to spend time with my grandson, your previous technique already hurt me badly, and I don't think I can survive, but I recognize you as a worthy opponent, then this fight will surely be my last one no matter what I do, I will fight with all my abilities."Says she, before stopped the seals execution, and with finger move, moved the red puppet with two swords in front of her, a green chakra covered all her body before entering the red puppet, then with a smile her body fell to the ground.

"Kishô Tensei!"

"Chiyo-Sama!!!!!!!!" Suna's ninjas shouted before rushing towards her but suddenly the red puppet moved on its own.

She slowly rose from the ground, her eyes having a green glow and a murderer aura emanated from her gaze.

His two sword were gradually transformed into a chakra blade.

But she suddenly disappeared from her initial position and reappeared in front of Nori.

"Not good! Gear one: Shave!!!!"

Nori dodged the first slash and then the second, the third.....

Nori was having more and more difficulty dodging and as expected misfortune came, as he dodged one slash his left eye was suddenly cut off by the blade of sword.

The sudden pain of losing his eye prevented his from making the right decision and the two swords of the puppet moved towards his neck.

At this moment of great danger, time seemed to slow down for Nori who was trying to think quickly about a solution.

"I really underestimated my opponent no! since my arrival in this world I have only won, giving me a feeling of facilitating and I unconsciously felt contempt for the inhabitants of this world, considering them as mere NPCs, but they also have feelings, they can surpass themselves in the last moments, it is I who was stupid..."

"Even if I succeed in defeating this puppet, I would have trouble escaping from the pursuit of Suna's ninjas in my state, although I haven't tried this theory yet, now is the time or never!"

The so-called "Gear" technique is the perfect fusion of the chakra wind attribute and its corsp, thus improving all six styles, although there is not enough time to fully train in this method, but he still managed to merge it with "Shave" "Moonsteps" and "Tempest Kick" but he still didn't have enough control to use it all over his body at the same time, he preferred to concentrate his chakra on his legs, giving him more control and even there he had taken two weeks (during his convalescence) to succeed.

So you can understand the difficulty of this technique.

But for that brief moment when the puppets' swords were about to slit his throat, Nori's whole body began to exploit all its potential, his muscles tightened, his right pupil contracted, his thoughts flowed at full speed, all the chakra he could exploit by his tenketsus rushed out of his body, creating a blue smoke around him.

"Gear One : Fulll Body!"

Nori's body had pulled itself out of the same temporality as the others everything seemed to slow down for him, he slowly dodged the two swords of the puppet and even started to slash her several times.

1..2...3...4..5...6...7....10..15..

In a one-quarter of a second to be more precise, Nori cut the puppet 20 times, the friction of his sword against the air created violent air flows that added even more damage.

But the puppet healing herself with a green chakra almost instantly on their own, Nori added even more strength and speed in overtaking his limit again and again.

"Ahgggg" and with a last slash containing all its strength ripped the puppets in thousand piece.

But he didn't even have the strength to stand, his sword fell to the ground followed by his body, Suna's ninjas further terrified by the previous battaitaille began to come to their senses and ran towards Nori.

"Revenge for Chiyo-Sama!!!!!"

"Revenge!!!!!" Did they shout

"Is this the end?" thought Nori, who couldn't feel his body.

"But strangely enough, I don't feel terrified, on the contrary, I feel as if I had done what I wanted, that's all, maybe that's the true freedom, acting as his heart decides, here I am led to philosophize...hahahaha"

"Ninpô : Black Spider Lily!"

"Multi-Size Technique, Human Bullet Tank!"

But as the Suna Ninjas were about to attack him, a giant appeared out of nowhere and blocked them, then two men put him on his shoulder.

"You didn't think we'd leave you here doing nothing." Said Chozā by attacking Suna's ninjas

"Come on, let's get the hell out of here." Says Inoichi and Shikaku with a smile, then they carried Nori on their shoulders before moving towards North.

Nori looking at the faces who was familiar with him with his only valid eye could not help but whisper.

"I was really stupid..." as a few lines of tears flowed from his good eye.

A few second later their silhouette gradually disappeared into the dark of forest pursued by Suna's ninjas.

[End of Volume 1]