The air in the Diamond Ocean hung heavy with the smell of scorched sand and the metallic tang of cooling indigo flames, fade leaving behind no scars or damage on anyone they healed. It seemed that not everything would go to plan, if you could even call this a plan. Sekuro had started off by attacking the onlookers without gathering a shred of information, and the situation turned hostile instantly. Three had been killed by Kureji almost immediately, and six more were knocked out by Sekuro’s initial barrage. This was already turning into a disaster of risk assessment. It was exactly why Yuuto had urged Shin to give them a handler, but he wouldn't cry over spilled milk.
Instead, he decided to take a gamble. He had hoped for Sekuro and Kureji to simply incapacitate the primary targets while he healed the small fries to gather intel, but after watching Kureji murder them, he realized a shift was needed. It would be better to catch these men on their way back to base while they were busy licking their wounds. It was even better if they believed he was the medic who had saved them.
However, that ruse wouldn't come to pass. One of the leaders in the back had seen through the display and ordered a full retreat. This was a hurdle, but not a high one. Yuuto focused his chakra, using his senses to assess the field and confirm what he already suspected: these men were far weaker than his makeshift team. The only real problem now was whether they had reinforcements waiting in the straits to cover their exit. Regardless chaos would ensure and he would add his own brand onto it.
Yuuto, still fused with Tenno in their towering primate form, felt the sharp crack of Reika’s clay slap against his cheek. It wasn't an attack meant to kill, but a stinging rebuke that shattered the momentum of his theatrical retreat. As she flipped away, calling his performance too loud, Yuuto didn't immediately roar or give chase. Instead, he allowed the impact to stagger his massive form, hitting the dunes with a resonant thud that sent sand erupting around his heavy limbs. To the fleeing bandits and the retreating Sekuro, it looked like the giant beast had simply been dazed by the woman's rebellion.
Beneath the surface of the sand, however, Yuuto was far from finished. He lay still for several heartbeats, his fingers digging deep into the grit while he pooled his chakra into a dense, volatile knot. He wasn't recovering; he was building. He focused on the raw pressure of his energy, executing a sequence of high-level manipulation that blurred the lines of traditional Ninjutsu to create a window of absolute chaos.
With a sudden, violent surge of energy, Yuuto triggered Stunt Double and Elemental Clone in a singular, seamless motion. The giant primate form didn't just vanish but multiplied into three massive, hairy replicas of the fusion beast that erupted from the sand with roars that shook the air. At the same time, the real Yuuto and Tenno forcibly defused and slipped into the cover of the dunes, managing to hide from their enemies, except the perceptive Saito. Their presence was a tactical erasure that left the battlefield to the clones while Yuuto focused on the next phase of his gambit.
From the Shadows...
Yuuto’s hands moved in a blur of practiced seals. He bit his thumb, the sharp sting bringing a bead of blood that he smeared across his palm. With a heavy strike against the desert floor, he called out the technique.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
A massive plume of white smoke rolled across the dunes, thick and obscuring. As it began to dissipate, the silhouette of a sleek, bipedal figure emerged. Jiraiya, the S-Rank Frog Ninja, crouched in the center of the haze. His blue-toned skin and the long, tongue-like scarf wrapped around his neck gave him the look of a predator.
Jiraiya stood slowly, his eyes narrowing as they landed on Yuuto. He took a long, raspy breath, the silence between them heavy with a weight Yuuto couldn't quite place.
"Your chakra.." Jiraiya murmured, his voice like grinding stones. "It feels different, Yuuto, thicker.... I am glad to see you still draw breath."
Yuuto offered a small, genuine smile, his eyes softening as he looked at his old comrade. "I've missed the company, Jiraiya. And look... I even brought your favorite thing." Yuuto gestured toward the chaos of the scattering bandits. "Work."
Jiraiya’s gaze flicked to the side, landing on the snarling, hairy version of Yuuto that was Tenno. The frog’s brow furrowed in genuine confusion. ".... You know there's two identical you right?"
"I'll explain later." Yuuto replied.
"As always..." the frog muttered. With a flick of his webbed hands, Jiraiya performed his own summoning. The Steel Dragon, hidden by dunes, a nightmare of darkened water and tempered metal, coiled out of the earth before diving back under the sand to hunt in silence.
Exiting the Shadows
Yuuto reached out, his fingers locking into a final, complex seal as he channeled his chakra into the heavens rather than the earth. He was no longer looking to contain them with a wall; he wanted to anchor them with the weight of the void.
"Gate of Enma!"
High above the desert, the sky didn't just part; it fractured. A jagged, crystalline crack tore through the blue, revealing a glimpse of the absolute nothingness that lay beyond the celestial veil. From that void, the Gate of Enma descended, shimmering with a terrifying, divine radiance. But as the light touched the sand, the sensation was all wrong. It was a chilling, unnatural cold that seemed to suck the life out of the air. This was no true healing or holy light; it was divinity wrapped in curses, a perverted mimicry of grace that felt like it should not exist in the natural world.
Everyone on the battlefield could feel the wrongness of it, a shivering dread that crawled beneath the skin. As the monolith hovered over the dunes, the ground groaned and the sand flattened as if a physical mountain were pressing down on them. Even with Kureji's strange illusion arena warping the reality around Ito, the gate crushed through the madness. It pinned the targets to the spot with a crushing gravity that felt less like judgment and more like an icy, celestial haunting.
Jiraiya moved with surgical precision, his movements fluid as he initiated the Heavenly Rain Drive. Instead of a simple burst, he unleashed a relentless downpour of chakra-infused strikes that fell like a torrential storm. The heavy, pressurized technique caught both Ito and Saito, the sheer volume of the assault turning the sand around them into a chaotic, churned-up mess that weighed them down and broke their footing. Close behind, the Steel Dragon breached the surface. It executed Pinpoint, its fluid metal body splitting into two razor-sharp streams. One stream lashed out and slammed into the side of Saito’s helmet with a sickening jolt, spraining his neck and jaw.
Tenno, still in his Human-Beast Clone form, watched the display with a visible sneer. To anyone looking, it was a feral, hairy version of Yuuto himself glaring in jealousy at the frog.
"Gross... slime... lizard." Tenno grumbled, his broken speech dripping with spite. "Yuuto pick... wet toad? No! Yuuto thing... better?! Me... better!"
Desperate to outdo the summon, the Yuuto-lookalike erupted from the sand beneath the staggering Saito.
"FREEZE!" Tenno-Yuuto bellowed.
He unleashed a Glacial Shot, a blast of freezing chakra that hit the oil Jiraiya had splashed onto Saito’s legs. The liquid flash-froze into a jagged tomb of ice, pinning the commander to the desert floor while the hairy version of Yuuto puffed out his chest.
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Instead, he decided to take a gamble. He had hoped for Sekuro and Kureji to simply incapacitate the primary targets while he healed the small fries to gather intel, but after watching Kureji murder them, he realized a shift was needed. It would be better to catch these men on their way back to base while they were busy licking their wounds. It was even better if they believed he was the medic who had saved them.
However, that ruse wouldn't come to pass. One of the leaders in the back had seen through the display and ordered a full retreat. This was a hurdle, but not a high one. Yuuto focused his chakra, using his senses to assess the field and confirm what he already suspected: these men were far weaker than his makeshift team. The only real problem now was whether they had reinforcements waiting in the straits to cover their exit. Regardless chaos would ensure and he would add his own brand onto it.
Yuuto, still fused with Tenno in their towering primate form, felt the sharp crack of Reika’s clay slap against his cheek. It wasn't an attack meant to kill, but a stinging rebuke that shattered the momentum of his theatrical retreat. As she flipped away, calling his performance too loud, Yuuto didn't immediately roar or give chase. Instead, he allowed the impact to stagger his massive form, hitting the dunes with a resonant thud that sent sand erupting around his heavy limbs. To the fleeing bandits and the retreating Sekuro, it looked like the giant beast had simply been dazed by the woman's rebellion.
Beneath the surface of the sand, however, Yuuto was far from finished. He lay still for several heartbeats, his fingers digging deep into the grit while he pooled his chakra into a dense, volatile knot. He wasn't recovering; he was building. He focused on the raw pressure of his energy, executing a sequence of high-level manipulation that blurred the lines of traditional Ninjutsu to create a window of absolute chaos.
With a sudden, violent surge of energy, Yuuto triggered Stunt Double and Elemental Clone in a singular, seamless motion. The giant primate form didn't just vanish but multiplied into three massive, hairy replicas of the fusion beast that erupted from the sand with roars that shook the air. At the same time, the real Yuuto and Tenno forcibly defused and slipped into the cover of the dunes, managing to hide from their enemies, except the perceptive Saito. Their presence was a tactical erasure that left the battlefield to the clones while Yuuto focused on the next phase of his gambit.
From the Shadows...
Yuuto’s hands moved in a blur of practiced seals. He bit his thumb, the sharp sting bringing a bead of blood that he smeared across his palm. With a heavy strike against the desert floor, he called out the technique.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"
A massive plume of white smoke rolled across the dunes, thick and obscuring. As it began to dissipate, the silhouette of a sleek, bipedal figure emerged. Jiraiya, the S-Rank Frog Ninja, crouched in the center of the haze. His blue-toned skin and the long, tongue-like scarf wrapped around his neck gave him the look of a predator.
Jiraiya stood slowly, his eyes narrowing as they landed on Yuuto. He took a long, raspy breath, the silence between them heavy with a weight Yuuto couldn't quite place.
"Your chakra.." Jiraiya murmured, his voice like grinding stones. "It feels different, Yuuto, thicker.... I am glad to see you still draw breath."
Yuuto offered a small, genuine smile, his eyes softening as he looked at his old comrade. "I've missed the company, Jiraiya. And look... I even brought your favorite thing." Yuuto gestured toward the chaos of the scattering bandits. "Work."
Jiraiya’s gaze flicked to the side, landing on the snarling, hairy version of Yuuto that was Tenno. The frog’s brow furrowed in genuine confusion. ".... You know there's two identical you right?"
"I'll explain later." Yuuto replied.
"As always..." the frog muttered. With a flick of his webbed hands, Jiraiya performed his own summoning. The Steel Dragon, hidden by dunes, a nightmare of darkened water and tempered metal, coiled out of the earth before diving back under the sand to hunt in silence.
Exiting the Shadows
Yuuto reached out, his fingers locking into a final, complex seal as he channeled his chakra into the heavens rather than the earth. He was no longer looking to contain them with a wall; he wanted to anchor them with the weight of the void.
"Gate of Enma!"
High above the desert, the sky didn't just part; it fractured. A jagged, crystalline crack tore through the blue, revealing a glimpse of the absolute nothingness that lay beyond the celestial veil. From that void, the Gate of Enma descended, shimmering with a terrifying, divine radiance. But as the light touched the sand, the sensation was all wrong. It was a chilling, unnatural cold that seemed to suck the life out of the air. This was no true healing or holy light; it was divinity wrapped in curses, a perverted mimicry of grace that felt like it should not exist in the natural world.
Everyone on the battlefield could feel the wrongness of it, a shivering dread that crawled beneath the skin. As the monolith hovered over the dunes, the ground groaned and the sand flattened as if a physical mountain were pressing down on them. Even with Kureji's strange illusion arena warping the reality around Ito, the gate crushed through the madness. It pinned the targets to the spot with a crushing gravity that felt less like judgment and more like an icy, celestial haunting.
Jiraiya moved with surgical precision, his movements fluid as he initiated the Heavenly Rain Drive. Instead of a simple burst, he unleashed a relentless downpour of chakra-infused strikes that fell like a torrential storm. The heavy, pressurized technique caught both Ito and Saito, the sheer volume of the assault turning the sand around them into a chaotic, churned-up mess that weighed them down and broke their footing. Close behind, the Steel Dragon breached the surface. It executed Pinpoint, its fluid metal body splitting into two razor-sharp streams. One stream lashed out and slammed into the side of Saito’s helmet with a sickening jolt, spraining his neck and jaw.
Tenno, still in his Human-Beast Clone form, watched the display with a visible sneer. To anyone looking, it was a feral, hairy version of Yuuto himself glaring in jealousy at the frog.
"Gross... slime... lizard." Tenno grumbled, his broken speech dripping with spite. "Yuuto pick... wet toad? No! Yuuto thing... better?! Me... better!"
Desperate to outdo the summon, the Yuuto-lookalike erupted from the sand beneath the staggering Saito.
"FREEZE!" Tenno-Yuuto bellowed.
He unleashed a Glacial Shot, a blast of freezing chakra that hit the oil Jiraiya had splashed onto Saito’s legs. The liquid flash-froze into a jagged tomb of ice, pinning the commander to the desert floor while the hairy version of Yuuto puffed out his chest.
OOC Actions
Yuuto: Maintains Crystal Eye
Yuuto: Uses Stunt Double + Elemental Clone to create 3 Elemental Clones (No Element) of the Giant Monkey (Twin headed Wolf). Yuuto drops Giant Monkey Form simultaneously as the clones are created.
[+] Kureji, Reika and Saito knows that none of these clones are actually Yuuto. Eeveryone else is fooled. However Yuuto successfully stealths against everyone
Yuuto: Summons (Contract Summon S-Rank) Jiraiya via Kuchiyose no Jutsu.
[+] S-Rank Contract is Summoned in Stealth, E-Rank Contract disappears
Yuuto: Gate of Enma w/Debilitate (Sneak Attack) targeting Ito and Saito
[+] Gate of Enma/w Scared Conversion and Negative Energy -5264 Dmg to Both
Jiraiya: Summons Steel Dragon and uses Heaveny Rain Drive (Sneak Attack) on Ito and Saito
[+] Heavenly Rain Drive - 4125 Damage to both
Steel Dragon: Uses Pinpoint (Sneak Attack) on Saito (Sprained Head/Neck status).
[+] -1825 on Saito
Tenno: Maintains Human-Beast Clone (Yuuto appearance)
Tenno: Enters Stealth and uses Glacial Shot (Sneak Attack) to freeze Saito’s legs and uses bonus AP to bind him.
[+] -4125 Damage on Saito and Saito is bound
9749 to Ito
15,699 to Saito
Giant Monkey Clones: Following grunts 1-6; prepared to use Taijutsu to capture if necessary.
All of Yuuto's attacks are Ranged
All of Tenno's attacks are Ranged via Projectile Power Pole
All of Jiraiya's attacks are Ranged
All of Steel Dragon's attacks are Ranged
Yuuto: Maintains Crystal Eye
Yuuto: Uses Stunt Double + Elemental Clone to create 3 Elemental Clones (No Element) of the Giant Monkey (Twin headed Wolf). Yuuto drops Giant Monkey Form simultaneously as the clones are created.
[+] Kureji, Reika and Saito knows that none of these clones are actually Yuuto. Eeveryone else is fooled. However Yuuto successfully stealths against everyone
Yuuto: Summons (Contract Summon S-Rank) Jiraiya via Kuchiyose no Jutsu.
[+] S-Rank Contract is Summoned in Stealth, E-Rank Contract disappears
Yuuto: Gate of Enma w/Debilitate (Sneak Attack) targeting Ito and Saito
[+] Gate of Enma/w Scared Conversion and Negative Energy -5264 Dmg to Both
Jiraiya: Summons Steel Dragon and uses Heaveny Rain Drive (Sneak Attack) on Ito and Saito
[+] Heavenly Rain Drive - 4125 Damage to both
Steel Dragon: Uses Pinpoint (Sneak Attack) on Saito (Sprained Head/Neck status).
[+] -1825 on Saito
Tenno: Maintains Human-Beast Clone (Yuuto appearance)
Tenno: Enters Stealth and uses Glacial Shot (Sneak Attack) to freeze Saito’s legs and uses bonus AP to bind him.
[+] -4125 Damage on Saito and Saito is bound
9749 to Ito
15,699 to Saito
Giant Monkey Clones: Following grunts 1-6; prepared to use Taijutsu to capture if necessary.
All of Yuuto's attacks are Ranged
All of Tenno's attacks are Ranged via Projectile Power Pole
All of Jiraiya's attacks are Ranged
All of Steel Dragon's attacks are Ranged
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