Naruto: The Samurai Menace

Chapter 77: 77



A solitary figure walks carefree along the untraveled paths of the land of rivers. Tall, with dark skin, and strange red eyes with green pupils, they stand out against his gray bataklabba, black robes, and forehead protector, clearly identifying him as a ninja. His posture is upright and demonstrates great confidence and pride, but his erratic speed and direction, coupled with his constant observation of his surroundings, reveal that he is waiting for something.

The terrain is wooded, and the sounds of birds, insects, and tree leaves drown out any disturbances that might be easily heard, but the ninja suddenly stops, his gaze immediately directed toward a particular tree, on whose highest branch, a female figure stands. The woman, clad in full, albeit lightweight, black body armor and a banshee mask that only reveals her eyes, stares at the ninja, unperturbed and completely calm.

"I've been feeling like someone's following me for a while now. I guess your intentions aren't the best; I can feel it in the air," the ninja says, seriously, yet with extreme confidence.

Less than 30 meters away from the ninja, the woman doesn't respond and simply stares at him, as if waiting for something. He too remains silent, though his eyes dart from side to side and his hands prepare to pull something out from under his clothes.

Suddenly, a faint fog begins to spread throughout the place, not enough to obscure vision, but it completely changes the atmosphere, which ends up becoming gloomy.

Suddenly, a loud bang is heard nearby, causing the ninja to shift his gaze to the side. Then the woman lunges at him at full speed, brandishing a sword that suddenly appears in one of her hands. The ninja looks back at the woman, but is surprised to find himself staring into new eyes, completely red with snowflake-shaped pupils, which cast a powerful ocular power upon him.

The ninja attempts to respond to the woman's imminent attack, but his movements are extremely slow, resulting in the woman landing three direct slashes on his body: one diagonally from his right shoulder, one horizontally at his waist, and the last severing his head.

What happens next, however, is that the ninja's body doesn't crumble from the surprise attack, but is held together by black metal wires, which also begin to expand in all directions from the wounds. Before being hit by these wires, the woman raises her palm and unleashes a huge whirlwind of air, which pushes the ninja dozens of meters away.

Once on the ground, the ninja quickly stands up, his body still separated and held only by the enormous amount of wires, as thin as hair, before dropping a misshapen black mass, composed of part of said wires and a white mask with blue markings, almost completely destroyed, onto the ground.

"What's an Uchiha doing here? Why are you...?" the ninja tries to say, but is interrupted by another individual who appears from some trees behind him, a woman dressed in the same way as the first, albeit with a blue mask and a sword emanating electricity.

The ninja immediately begins dodging the attacks, while at the same time expelling three masses of wire similar to the previous one from his back: one mask with red markings, another with yellow markings, and the last with light blue markings. Three monsters with wire bodies quickly form, bipedal entities that help the ninja defend himself from the attacks of both women.

The exchanges are swift, and the ninja uses his flexibility to dodge the constant attacks, while the beasts counterattack with powerful elemental jutsus, electric jutsus from the mask with yellow markings, but which are easily redirected by the woman with the electric sword. The beast with the mask with red markings tries to force the Uchiha woman with a wall of fire, but she defends herself by launching her own wall of water, simply by raising one of her palms. And just as the beast with the mask with light blue markings is preparing to use what appears to be a powerful water jutsu, a third woman appears, this time dressed in black samurai armor and a completely flat mask with no eye holes, who attacks the beast, blocking the jutsu with her body, which seems to be protected by a force field.

The Uchiha woman reacts immediately to the arrival of her latest ally and uses her ocular power again, this time on the fire beast, which is completely trapped in a block of black ice in a matter of second. At this, the ninja seems to panic and begins to retreat, keeping his gaze away from the Uchiha's eyes, who begins to carry out constant and precise ranged attacks with her sword, invisible attacks that little by little cut a significant part of the ninja's wires, who does not seem to be able to respond to the frenzy of the combat.

"This doesn't make sense! Who are you?!" the ninja yells in panic, dodging the attacks of an enemy who is slowly gaining ground and getting closer and closer to him.

The ninja tries to counterattack with his throwing weapons, but every time a projectile is about to hit the woman, it is stopped by a kind of force field. No matter what he tries to attack his enemy, everything is stopped, even losing part of his wires when they become too overextended.

But everything changes the moment the Uchiha woman approaches within 5 meters of the ninja, because out of nowhere, a new individual appears next to the woman, dressed in heavy, full-body black samurai armor and wearing a red demon mask. The new fighter immediately rushes at the ninja, completely unaware of the danger and enveloped in a yellow aura. In the distance, the woman with the electric sword manages to eliminate the electric beast by accurately piercing its mask.

Surrounded and about to face a third opponent, the ninja stops and stamps his foot on the ground, causing a tremor and fissures to form around him, causing his enemies to retreat a few meters. However, the Uchiha woman takes advantage of the moment the ninja stops and uses her eyes to freeze both of his legs. What follows is an extremely fast action, in which the woman with the electric sword cuts the ninja at the waist and the samurai in the demon mask grabs his upper body, then disappears without a trace.

The two women don't seem surprised, moving immediately to aid their ally, who has been keeping the water beast occupied. It takes the three of them no more than a few moments to overwhelm the beast, and this time it's the Uchiha woman who delivers the final blow to the beast's mask, ending a fight that has left widespread destruction throughout the forest.

In the dead world, in a place where desolation dominates the landscape, Touki's armored figure can be seen standing next to the upper half of a human, who has slowly begun to transform into a pile of hair-like black wires, while the man's eyes begin to show extreme annoyance.

Once the human remains have completely transformed into wires, in a clear burst of rage, Touki raises one of his hands and produces a massive pulse of energy (airless fire), which ends up melting the wires into a mass of incandescent iron. The man then instantly disappears.

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