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The first thing they noticed was the smell. Before sight, before sound...sulfur and char, thick enough to choke, rolled through the steam.
When the Raikage and Killer Bee appeared on the cliffs above the Second Base, the world beneath them looked less like a battlefield and more like the corpse of a mountain. Lava spread like rivers, orange glowing veins across blackened rock. Steam billowed in clouds so dense they blurred the horizon. The ground hissed, cracked, and shifted under its own heat.
And scattered across it all, like broken dolls abandoned by an innocent child, lay the remains of three thousand Kumo shinobi.
Bodies half-sunk into cooled magma, limbs blackened to bone. Others slumped against rocks, faces frozen in screams that never found air. Armor had fused to skin. Weapons bent into grotesque shapes by the heat.
The Raikage's chest rose and fell once. He said nothing. His cloak of lightning was absent, as though he wanted to feel the scene with nothing between him and the truth. His silence was calm.
Beside him, Bee ground his teeth until his jaw creaked. He had killed more than his share, cut down thousands, sometimes whole konoha platoons. He could live with enemies falling under his blades. But here... his people, his brothers-in-arms... slaughtered and melted to ash? His stomach twisted bitter. His rap-song heart fell silent.
They descended without a word.
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The Iwa shinobi spotted them first as shadows in the steam. Their reaction was immediate. Shouts. Panic. A ripple of fear ran through the ranks as they realized who had appeared.
"The Raikage—!""Kumo's jinchūriki!"
Messengers scattered back through the fog. Within moments, two figures emerged from the haze: Roshi, steam hissing from his pores like a living furnace, and Han, towering in crimson armor, the very air vibrating around him from sheer physical power.
Han's voice was clipped and sharp. "Form up. Eagle Battle formation!"
The Iwa soldiers scrambled, exhaustion making their limbs sluggish but discipline forcing them into lines.
The Raikage did not activate his lightning cloak. He stepped forward bare, unarmored by chakra, his eyes set on Roshi.
Roshi lunged first, fist wreathed in molten heat. It smashed into the Raikage's jaw with enough force to split stone. The Raikage's body skidded across the ruined ground, tearing through hardened lava before rolling to a halt.
Han was already there, driving his knee into the Raikage's chest. Another thunderous blow sent the raikage flying backward again.
They were relentless. For thirty minutes straight, the two jinchūriki hammered at him, fists and kicks colliding with his body like meteors. The Raikage fell, rose, fell again. To the watching Iwa shinobi, it looked as if the strongest man alive was nothing but a toy tossed between giants.
But every time they knocked him down, he stood again. His frame unshaken. His breath unbroken.
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At last, as Roshi swung another molten fist, the Raikage caught his wrist and slammed his forehead into the man's face.
Blood spattered. Roshi staggered, crashing through a line of trees.
The Raikage's voice was low but clear. "WeRe YoU tHe OnEs WhO dId ThIs?" He jerked his chin toward the field of corpses. Roshi's lips curled. Han shifted, answering with his body instead of words. He charged, armored fist smashing into the Raikage's chest.
The Raikage flew back again, landing on both feet this time, his body braced. Lightning flickered faintly across his shoulders.
Han grimaced. If they allowed him to fully unleash, their advantage would vanish. He gave a signal, and Roshi rose from the wreckage, his body enveloped now in the bubbling cloak of the Four-Tails.
A sphere of compressed heat and chakra swelled in Roshi's throat... Beginnings the Tailed Beast Bomb.
The Raikage's cloak roared to life in full. Lightning snapped like thunder, his body vanishing in a blur. The sphere detonated into the ground where he had stood, the explosion carving out a fresh crater of molten stone.
Han was already there, intercepting. The Raikage's fist collided with his chestplate, denting the steel inward, but Han countered with a blow to the ribs that would have killed a lesser man. The clash of titans cracked the air.
Roshi leapt back into the fray, his body leaking lava and steam, spraying molten stone in every direction. The ground itself melted, but the Raikage's cloak kept his skin untouched. Still, every movement forced raikage into a tighter corner with the land underneath melting, every strike dragging the fight toward attrition.
And he would not kill. His blows landed, but never with lethal intent.
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On the other side of the battlefield, Killer Bee moved.
His body glowed mud brown, chakra flowing across his skin like fresh mud. This was Gyūki Chakra Mode—GCM—a new form he had forged after kaien's idea. Instead of sprouting octopus tails to smash and crush, his power condensed into control. His speed sharpened. His strength refined. His movements, once wild and unpredictable, now became a dance.
Eight blades spun around him in arcs too fast for the eye to track. Every swing cut not just flesh but formation. Iwa shinobi lunged with spears, jutsu, shuriken... but Bee slipped between them, his glowing body weaving through gaps like a death god.
A kick sent three soldiers crashing into one another. A blade reversed mid-swing and slashed behind him without looking. Wherever shinobi clustered, his hands formed seals, chakra swelling. But the effort of maintaining GCM weighed on him. He tried once... compressing the swirling maelstrom of a Tailed Beast Bomb... but the cloak faltered. The form snapped away, leaving him bare.
"Bee." Gyūki's voice rumbled in his mind. "In this new GCM form... bijudama will get destabilized. Too fine, too tight. Switch back to tails."
Bee's grin flickered, but he didn't argue. His body burst again, this time into the monstrous partial transformation. Eight massive tails erupted, thrashing. They curved inward, wrapping around one another like giant hands cupping the sphere at his mouth. The stabilizing cage glowed as chakra condensed.
With a roar, the Tailed Beast Bomb fired.
The explosion tore across the plain, vaporizing few hundreds in an instant. The shockwave threw dozens more into the air.
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The battle stretched. Hours blurred. The sun crawled across the sky and shadows lengthened, but the clash did not cease.
Bee's breathing grew ragged. Sweat slicked his face beneath Gyūki's cloak. His eight blades were blood-stained, but he still spun them. He had killed more than he could count, his rhymes long since drowned in fatigue. Still a thousand Iwa shinobi clung to life, scattered now, fighting in desperate pockets.
The Raikage, in contrast, was tireless. Twelve hours of being battered by Han and Roshi, of dodging Tailed Beast Bombs and wading through rivers of lava, and still his breathing was steady. Still his cloak roared bright. His fists still struck with the same weight as the first blow but he never delivered a final blow. [A/N: 2 reasons... if jinchuriki is killed, tailed beast die to reform somewhere, which is not what raikage wants... This is a punishment for Han and roshi, keeping them alive to show what true terror is.]
But Han's movements had slowed. His once-blistering charges carried drag now, his breath audible even through his mask. Roshi's lava sputtered, his cloak flickering, his strikes more wild than sharp.
They had cornered the Raikage for half a day, but never broken him. And now, their own stamina cracked before him. The ground was scarred beyond recognition. Rivers of lava hardened and cracked. Craters littered the earth. Corpses lay everywhere...Kumo, Iwa, nameless soldiers swallowed by a war too large for them.
And through it all, two battles raged: one man against two monsters, and one jinchūriki against an army.
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A/N: GCM is similar to KCM naruto but GCM can't sense negative emotions like KCM. GCM form will have other skills Bee has to yet master.
GCM 1st form -> Killer Bee's strength, durability, endurance, reflexes, reaction speed are enhanced. But cannot perform Bijudama.
Tails -> Stabilizes bijudama but other stats back to normal.
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