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Chapter 190 - CH 190

Naruto brought his blade down and cleaved the arm of Kakuzu off, freeing himself, only to find that Kakuzu's arm quickly reattached itself due to a thick bulk of black threads that reconnected the two segments of his arm.

Yugito was gasping for breath over by herself behind the cover of rock, with protection from two of Naruto's Kage Bunshin, "*cough cough* I think he was right about the whole 'boogeymen of the ninja world' thing. Kami what a monster." She held her neck gingerly, feeling the bruise that simply being in Kakuzu's grip left.

"So that's the Jiongu (Earth Grudge Fear)." Naruto said as he set himself back in a ready stance to face off with Kakuzu, "At least now I know what to call those thread things of yours after our first encounter."

Kakuzu shook his head, "Listen kid. We've wasted enough time getting the Nibi. We're already late so how about this; you simply let us take her and we'll let you go for now. We can't seal your biju until last anyway so we can just pretend we never encountered you. You don't even need to fight." Naruto kept his eyes locked on Kakuzu, "I could do that, some would say that I should do that, but I'm not going to. You either take me and Yugi-chan, or you don't get either one of us. And either way you're in for one hell of a fight. I won't just let you have her."

"Fair enough." Kakuzu said before his skin turned dark and he launched a punch at Naruto extended with his threads.

Naruto dodged the punch and ran in at Kakuzu who blocked his follow-up slash with his bare hands. Naruto growled as his sword was caught in Kakuzu's grasp, "That same damn move again."

"Why mess with what works brat?" Kakuzu said, obviously amused, "That's lesson number one for punks like you that want to survive to be older than thirty."

Naruto tugged in vain to free his sword from Kakuzu's grip, "Surviving older than thirty? That doesn't sound very fun." Naruto channeled lightning chakra to his hand and attempted to place it on Kakuzu's arm to help him free the Sen'nenki no Ken. However when Kakuzu heard the crackling of electricity he let go of Naruto and got away from him, landing next to Hidan who was still trapped. Naruto moved over towards the rock formation where Yugito was with his clones, still recovering, "Surviving until I'm as old as you without anyone knowing who I am with mere name association defeats the purpose of my goal, and as long as I achieve it I could care less how old I am when I die. Besides, it's better to burn out than to fade away like you Kakuzu. When I kill you, only a handful of people will even get the reference."

Kakuzu narrowed his eyes at Naruto and sent his black thread into the ground around Hidan's head, loosening the rock around him, "Ow! You stabbed me damn it! That fucking hurt you bastard! I don't stab you to free you do I?" Hidan bellowed. Kakuzu pulled him out abruptly, "Shut up Hidan. First of all I never get captured in the first place, second of all if you stabbed me I would tear you apart and sew you back together backwards, and lastly of all, I'm sick of playing around with these brats, we take them down, now."

Hidan licked his lips anxiously, "Now you're talking my language rag-doll. Get over here brat!" The silver-haired nuke-nin rushed at Naruto, drawing his three-bladed scythe from his back and swinging it once he found Naruto within the long weapon's range.

Naruto started parrying the strokes of the scythe with his sword only to realize that the scythe was obscenely dangerous. It didn't take much for that thing to cut him, but it wasn't as deadly as it could be… like killing him wasn't really the point of using the weapon. After a ducked swing of his weapon, Hidan lifted it to block an incoming set of shuriken from Yugito who threw from behind cover. Naruto took advantage of this and stabbed his sword into Hidan's foot, pinning him in place before pulling out a kunai and driving it down into his other foot to immobilize him. Hidan swatted Naruto back with the pole end of his scythe but was unable to do anything else to follow up as simply that movement caused him to lose his balance.

Naruto growled and grabbed onto the arm holding Hidan's scythe, keeping his other hand free to pound the daylights out of the Akatsuki member. Naruto was stopped from pulverizing Hidan when Kakuzu kicked him in the side, sending him flying off of his partner.

Kakuzu pulled both weapons from Hidan's feet and tossed them aside, "And once again I step in to save you from certain doom. Start thinking before you put your attacks together."

Hidan spit blood from his mouth and worked his jaw with his hand, "Shut the hell up Kakuzu. All that did was piss me off. That punk can't kill me and you know it, he's just wasting his own time."

Naruto bounced off of the side of a rock and landed next to Yugito and his clones. He groaned and shook off the cobwebs as he looked over at Yugito, "Do you feel any better Yugi-chan?"

Yugito pulled him up into a seated position, "My ribs are sore, but I'm okay. What about you?"

Naruto rubbed his side, "Why the fuck does Kakuzu hit so hard? It's like getting nailed by a hammer."

One of Naruto's clones peered over the rock and paled, "Um boss? You might want to move right now." It then dispelled so that he could relay what he saw without saying anything and Naruto got the message instantly.

The blonde male jinchuuriki picked up his older female counterpart and beat a hasty retreat from the formation just in time to see it pulverized by a small fireball that erupted into a torrent right where they were just sitting.

Naruto cringed at the feeling of getting burned alive by the ninjutsu that had engulfed his clones. Naruto set Yugito down and looked over at Kakuzu who had called out one of his thread creatures with the mask on its face, however it looked very different from the one he had fought in the desert, but that was not the point, the point was that it was now effectively three-on-two and one of the two was hurt.

"Can you generate any of the Nibi's chakra safely? We need some more kick to our attacks." Naruto asked.

Yugito nodded, "Yeah, but when using all of the Nibi's chakra I can't use any jutsu."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Then don't use all of the Nibi's chakra. Just pull out enough to make these guys sweat at your speed and power. You do get faster when you use the Nibi's chakra don't you?" Yugito hit him on the arm, "Duh Naruto-kun."

"Well then turn up the heat already! We need an edge here!" Naruto yelled as he dug deep and pulled out a tail of Kyuubi's chakra, "I start overloading stuff at two tails and at three tails there's only one normal jutsu I can really use."

A blue aura wrapped around Yugito's body, however instead of looking like a tail the way Naruto's did it took the appearance of a still-burning flame, "I only have two tails to work with in the first place." She looked over at Naruto, "So do you have anything in your repertoire to let them know this is serious?"

Naruto grinned at her, "Do you?"

Both jinchuuriki grinned evilly and began generating massive amounts of their respective chakra while making hand-seals.

"Katon: Karyuudan (Fire Release: Fire Dragon Missile)!" "Fuuton: Kamikaze Hashira (Wind Release: God Wind Pillars)!"

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