"You don't need to be here, old man." The tone in Marik Uzumaki's voice made it clear he didn't consider those ninjas of the black market a threat
"At least let that old man move those old bones a little," Old Kuroko complained
Everyone, including Akashi, didn't consider the ninjas in front of them; even though the black market had grown in strength and size, it still lacked the quality of a great nation.
But most importantly, even if that number was enough to threaten one S-ranked Shinobi, they were against two.
Whoosh
In an instant, everyone moves simultaneously.
Clank clank
The sound of weapons clashing filled the forest as another battle started.
Suddenly, every sensor felt a spike in the chakra of the ninjas around them.
"Careful, a big move is coming up..." Someone shouted
As that warning sounded, the ninjas of the underworld shouted nearly simultaneously.
"Fire style: fireball jutsu,"
"Massive blazing flame,"
"Fire lance,"
"Wind style: great breakthrough,"
"Wind tornado,"
"..."
From all sides, powerful complementary jutsu rained down toward the encircled Uzumaki.
Boom
A massive explosion created by the combined attack of ten jonins and fifty chinning resounded in the forest, and smoke and dust spread everywhere.
"They are dead, even a kage would die without leaving a corpse if touched by that."
One of the jonin said, looking at the devastation caused by their combined attack.
The outlines of a massive crater could be seen through that thick smoke covering everything.
Joy spread through the ranks of the ninjas as they saw the devastation brought by their attack
"Hahaha... they are dead!"
"It was easy, no way they survived that!"
"It wasn't pretty easy, fifty million here we come,"
"I wonder if we will find their corpse in that,"
While a few ninjas were already rejoicing of the easy victory the more experienced were still on edge.
On the edge of the formation, still hiding behind smoke and dust.
Splurt splurt
Blood splurged as hidden blades took the lives of the relaxed ninjas under the cover of the smoke's screams
"Unfortunately, they were reduced to ashes; the women were really beautiful. I wonder how those red hairs taste."
One of the ninjas, with a smirk on his face, said to his partner beside him
"Humph, you and your ideas..."
Puff
At the sound of flesh being pierced, the second ninja turned his head to his companion only to see him suspended in the air, his four limbs pierced by four adamantine chains while being slowly choked by a fifth chain extending from Akashi's fingers.
His eyes, looking at his comrades was filled with fear and hope.
"Taste that,"
The calm voice of Akashi sounded, and a sharp crack resounded as the chains snapped the neck of the bound shinobi.
The casual cruelty that Akashi displayed as he impaled his comrades triggered fear in the rogue ninja.
'That gaze,' he remembered it,
It was the way one looked at someone they considered inferior; it was the way he looked at normal people without chakra before killing them.
'I need to run!!' was what he thought before Akashi's eyes changed into a three-tomoe sharingan.
Adamantine spears
Illusion took him, under the glow of the red of a sun-like Sharingan, multiple adamantine spears impaled him, lifting him in the air.
In the real world, his death mirrored the one he suffered in the illusion.
'I shouldn't overrely on the sharingan, that is just a tool," Akashi tought deactivating his sharingan.
He didn't bother hiding his kill as the smoke had already been blown away by a wind jutsu of the ninjas of the underworld market revealing the Uzushio ninjas safely hidden behind a transparent barrier.
"They reacted quickly!"
"Can't believe that you really thought it would be so easy." Akashi mocked, tossing the corpse away with his chains.
"You fucking monsters .."
The ninjas of the underworld shouted in rage as they saw the bloody scene in front of them, and the dust was blown off.
The headless or impaled bodies of their partners made even the hardcore ninjas.
The barrier dissolved, and from it
"Fire style, wind style, water style, thunder style, crystal release,"
A series of elemental attacks shot toward the trees and the ninjas surrounding them.
Boom boom boom
The explosions and screams that followed were proof of the power unleashed.
"You have no chance of winning," Akashi said, clashing with two jonins at the same time,
Clank clank clank
As the chains met, the Jonins were pushed away
"What kind of strength is that?!" They exclaimed, standing shoulder to shoulder, facing Akashi
"My hands get numb after each exchange. He is just a kid, how can he be so strong?"
They complained to each other about Akashi's abnormal power, his strength and speed more than capable of pushing away two jonins.
"Wait, are you a Kagaya?" One of them couldn't help but ask as they saw Akashi's current form.
From his body chains emerged, looking eerily like bones.
It was natural then that they confused him with the crazy battle maniac of the Kaguya.
Akashi didn't let them the time to recover as he pressed his advantage with a perfect application of the body flicker.
He reappeared in front of them, spinning and slashing at the same time with all the chains extending from his body.
Everymove, everystrike, everygesture drove the jonins to retreat as they risked being impaled
'Should I say sting like a butterfly,' he thought about the Killer Bee catch phrase as he moved.
That technique had also been inspired by him after all.
"How do you fight that?" they asked themselves. Akashi was already deadly as he was, but in that new form, it was impossible to fight him in close quarters. As they tried to take some distance, Akashi used his speed to stay close
'Not bad,' Akashi said, 'It's not as refined as the dance of the chamelia of Kimimaro yet, but it has potential.' It was obvious to anyone knowing his abilities that Akashi was using those two jonins as a training dummy.
It would be a crazy concept for ordinary ninjas, but it only showed how much of a monster Akashi was.
It also showed him how much ninjas underutilize their abilities.
He blurred at extreme speed as he spun, attacking two at the same time, leaving them no respite.
Blood flew as injuries slowly appeared on the bodies of the two. Using his strength, speed, and technique, he drove the two jonins on the back foot, but jonins were nothing if not resourceful.
Joining force one of them at the price of receiving a deep injury managed to stall
Akashi while the other retaliated using combination techniques and their ninjutsu to gain some time to breathe.
Boom
A powerful explosion resounded between the two fighters
Whoosh
The rogue ninja crashed violently on the ground, heavily injured
"Hahaha... Take that, you fucking brat, did you think that you could play with me? Now you are dead,"
The crazed laughter of the seconds jonin resounded as he rejoiced about having eliminated Akashi, even if he had to betray his partner in the process.
"Now all I need to do is run away with the corpse of that kid, and I will receive at least part of the reward." He knew that the fight was already lost, the field was littered with bodies of ninjas of the underworld, and that if he remained, he would be next to
Unfortunately
"I should have expected that from a ninja of the underworld market,"
The cold voice of Akashi resounded behind him, his blood red tomoe blazing with a trace of anger in them, fear filled his mind as he realized that Akashi, the one that he had sacrificed his comrade to eliminate, was standing behind him.
Whoosh
He flickered away before looking at the spot where he had been standing.
"Where are you looking at? I am here!"
The voice of Akashi resounded once again from behind him
'He is playing with me,' He thought, flickering away. Unfortunately, Akashi, with his Sharingan activated, could predict his oponnent move before he made it.
'He is toying with me,' The rouge thought, realizing that he never stood a chance against Akashi. Despair crept in, and it was quickly crushed and replaced by anger.
"I won't let you humiliate me further," he shoute his fury
"Great explosion," at those words, his body started to glow, a sign of imminent explosion
"Nuh, huh, not so fast," Akashi said, his sharingan spunprojecting chakra on his opponent.
The moment it happened, the chakra in the body of the rogue ninja stopped moving as binding seals appeared on his body.
"Hidden chains hands," he said, as thick chains shouted out, tearing the poor underworld ninja apart and ending that long overdue battle.
As soon as the enemy fell, old man Kuroko reappeared beside Akashi,
"Seeing you fight always amazes that old man, it was the dance of the camelia of the kagaya,"
"Inspired by it, I never saw a Kagaya fight after all, it's also inspired by someone else,"
He explained, omitting the fact that the killer bee probably didn't invent that technique yet.
"I can see that it is different, your chains act more like whips rather than blades, it will be more and more deadly once you complete it,"
"Thank you,"
Kuroko's eyes fell on the mangled corpse beside them as he asked, "Were you angry that he betrayed his partner?" After all, Akashi had spent some energy just to taunt him
"A little, even though I realized they probably just team up for the only purpose of killing us,"
"Well, this is how the ninjas of the underworld market operate, they only care about money, which is a good thing, for us, easier to control.
As they spoke, a big explosion resounded not far away
"Cristal release: cristal wall,"
After the shout of Ria, a massive red crystal appeared on the battlefield, and a few chunin too slow ended up crushed in the crystal, while others were impaled.
"That girl would make a good partner, huh?" the old man said, looking at the merciless way Ria was butchering her opponent.
'So those are the beauty standards for a partner in the ninja world,' he thought looking at the woman cutting down another man.