So she held firm as she put more strength into her lunge, hoping that her spear would destroy the blue ball before it itself succumbed to the twin onslaught.
She was once more let down.
The spear shattered again to the power of the rasengan which left her wide open to their double assault!
Naruto took the chance to push the rasengans to her torso...!
Vretiel expanded her wings and flew outside of his range.
The shinobi gnashed his teeth in frustration. His lack of flying skills was becoming a serious liability in this fight!
The female fallen smirked as she dodged the blond's attacks and flew upward again. As long as he couldn't fly, she should be able to-
She spit out blood as she felt something smash into her back with tremendous force!
She looked behind her as she lost control of her flight and widened her eyes at what she saw.
The clone.
The clone wasn't the distraction...
The blond used himself as a distraction!
Naruto grinned as he saw his clone smash into the back of the fallen. At least that plan worked. He was kinda hoping to smash her into the clone rather than let him do all of the work.
But this worked too!
He simply raised his arms as he saw that the clone smashed Vretiel towards...
"Let's try this again...Rasenrengan!"
Him.
Vretiel let out a soundless scream as she felt the two spheres grind into her stomach again. She felt flesh begin to give way as the attack did it's best to make it's way through her defenses.
Then the explosion happened.
She felt the explosion send her flying towards the ground in a heap as gravity...which was once working so well with her...so suddenly turn against her.
Naruto frowned as he saw the fallen woman sail towards the ground, he didn't take any pleasure in doing this. But the fact was that he couldn't hold back too many punches.
He also knew for a fact that Vretiel wasn't done yet. The rasengans didn't really do any severe damage, so far mostly pretty big wounds but nothing to really put her down.
So time to upgrade. Best do it while she's down too.
So he made another clone and had him form another rasengan.
But this one was...quite a bit bigger. The Ōdama Rasengan.
Naruto was holding the larger sphere in front of him so that it could hit the ground first...or whatever it touches.
Since he was heading straight towards the downed fallen, his target was obvious.
But before the sphere could connect, the fallen spread her wings and used them to push off the ground. The momentum from this action allowed for her to move safely out of the way.
Much to Naruto's annoyance.
When the orb smashed into the ground, it immediately went through the ground, all the way to the blond's shoulders without any effort. Immediately after, the jutsu detonated and completely destroyed the ground around Naruto.
All that was left of the patch of forest was a large crater and a deep hole.
The second he was free from the crater again, he had to dodge a light spear which was aiming to impale him while he was prone.
Vretiel began flying back towards the sky while continually throwing light spears at the human, hoping to buy time as she made her way to her 'territory'.
But Naruto made his familiar handsign again and made two clones as he continued dodging the spears. Those clones immediately spread out and grabbed kunai from their own pouches as the original kept the fallen leader's attention.
Before Vretiel was too far away from the treeline, they threw four kunai with each hand towards the fallen. In response, Vretiel casually dodged all of the metal knives and continued on her ascent.
Before she found it much more difficult to move.
She looked down in surprise to find several small wires wrapped around her person. She growled as she had been tricked once more by the wily human boy on the forest floor.
The clones held firm to the wires they had placed around the woman and since she has been contained, the real Naruto was finally freed from the consistent bombardment. Naruto walked up to the clones and addressed Vretiel.
"Look lady, I ain't looking forward to beating you up to make you stop. So why don't you just quit it while you still aren't knocked unconscious?" Naruto said tiredly, hoping that the woman would stop. The fight was annoying him due to his glaring weakness in air combat, if she continued and managed to get back to the sky...
Then the battle would take quite a bit longer at this rate. He would still win...it would just take longer to dislodge her from the sky again.
Vretiel for her part, just bared her teeth at the request as she internally tried to figure a way out of her predicament.
She didn't understand the young human in front of her at all.
All of the supernatural beings she have met and fought throughout her long life-span were typically categorized among different ways of fighting.
Speed, power, and technique were the standard for all factions among the supernatural.
There were those who fought smart and those who were sneaky during battle. It happened quite a bit during the Great War, where many supernaturals would try to overpower their foes by using their weaknesses against them.
But this boy fit into none of those categories.
The boy used the most unorthodox and strange ways of fighting she has ever seen throughout her entire life! There were no individuals among the supernatural that would throw corporeal copies of themselves as projectiles. There were no supernatural beings that used the same attack to even greater effect multiple times. There were no people among the supernatural that would have small wires in their weapons to capture their enemies without them noticing!
It simply wasn't done!
It was either; use greater power, use greater speed, or have better technique. That was how many would defeat one another.
So what can she do against this...thing?
...
No.
It didn't matter.
The objective here wasn't to win...the objective was to stall for time so that Raynare could complete the ritual inside the abandoned church. Once she was done with it and achieved the girl's sacred gear...
Then her ambitions could be realized.
Not even this...thing could stand a chance against their combined strength.
He would be the first true test of their new might! Of HER new might!
"...gloat all you want downer...for once my daughter completes her ritual and acquires her new power...you won't stand a chance between our new power! I will not fall here! You will be the one who falls in the end!" Vretiel gloated triumphantly.
Naruto didn't look impressed.
"If you're talking about the nun in the abandoned church that was about to be sacrificed for something...then I've already got it covered." Naruto said blandly, not really feeling up to bandying words.
The fallen leader froze.
"...What do you mean?"
The shinobi blinked at the new somber tone that the woman had, but decided to ignore it and answer her question.
"Before our fight even started, there was a friend of the nun that wanted to save her. When I was running away from you guys, I was actually making way for that friend to save his friend without your interference." Naruto shrugged, no point in hiding it much longer. She was all tied up and it could show her that fighting anymore would be pointless.
He hoped that it would deter her from fighting further.
He was wrong.
The fallen leader said nothing for a moment.
Then the light energy within her exploded.
The power of it was enough to catch Naruto flat-footed and push him back along with his clones, which dispersed once they crashed into trees.
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