Konoha: Starting the Game as Yoriichi

"Impossible."

"I don't believe this is real."

"You insolent brat! Watch me tear you to shreds!"

Shukaku didn't believe a word Kusuo said. Feeling deeply insulted, it swatted at him in a fit of rage.

"Is that all?" Kusuo's eyes were calm. With a casual slash, he cut through the void, slicing apart the mountain-like hand that was coming at him.

One strike. Just one strike.

CRASH!

Shukaku's entire hand was completely severed. With a poof, it dissolved into a sky full of yellow sand, which flowed down and formed a small dune on the ground.

"Dammit! A mere ant-like human dares to look down on me like this!"

Enraged, Shukaku thrashed its arms wildly. Every movement of the Tailed Beast was like an earthquake; every step made the very earth tremble. Its destructive power was astonishing. A casual movement held immense might.

This frequent and violent tremor instantly traveled to the interior of Konoha village. The many civilians who had taken refuge in shelters, as well as the ninja responsible for protecting them, looked on with horror. This formation! This commotion! It was exactly like the night of the Nine-Tails attack over a decade ago. That bloody night, the enormous Nine-Tails had also mercilessly destroyed everything in Konoha, taking their homes and property, taking their friends and family.

"Not good! Shukaku has gone berserk! It's no longer safe here! Retreat immediately!" At a distant location, a ninja with a Sand headband who looked like a squad leader was shocked and immediately gave the order.

"But Captain, Lord Kazekage, he..."

"Shut up! When we report back, just say that Shukaku went on a rampage. I believe Lord Kazekage will understand," the captain said decisively with a flick of his sleeve.

With his reminder, everyone else had a sudden realization. That's right! This is a terrifying Tailed Beast, with endless chakra, an unkillable existence. Even if the Kage themselves were here, there would be nothing they could do.

"Retreat!"

In the blink of an eye, these Sand ninja, who were responsible for keeping an eye on Gaara and the One-Tail, all withdrew.

At the center of the battlefield, Shukaku's rampaging body frantically searched for Kusuo. A giant foot suddenly descended from the sky, about to stomp down. The foot, like a giant mountain, completely overshadowed Kusuo's entire body. The vast difference in size made everyone believe that if he didn't dodge this stomp, he would definitely be crushed into meat paste.

However... Sizzle!

A light slash.

In that instant, the needle-like tip of the sword unleashed a heaven-shaking sword aura. Wrapped in terrifying power, the aura expanded continuously after leaving the blade, growing to several dozen meters in an instant. With a scorching gale force wind, it howled and tore apart everything in its path.

Slash!

The seemingly enormous Tailed Beast foot, like a mountain peak, was instantly sliced in two, neatly turning into yellow sand and falling to the ground.

"SCREE~ OW, OW, OW~! Damned guy!" Shukaku hugged its limbs and rolled on the ground. The sand that had made up its hands and feet slowly gathered back onto its body. But even though its limbs were restored and the wounds were healed, the heart-drilling pain still lingered.

Nothing like this had ever happened before. Shukaku was beginning to suspect what kind of person this Kusuo really was. He was simply a monster.

An uncontrolled Tailed Beast, a One-Tail in a state of madness, without anyone to supervise it—no one could know the extent of the destruction it could cause. But now, almost half the forest was already flooded with a large amount of yellow sand, and the ground beneath it continued to tremble.

RUMBLE!

It was a path of utter destruction. All the trees in its path, no matter how long they had been rooted, were snapped in half at the waist.

And in the midst of this violent tremor, Kusuo stood like an unshakable pillar in the sea. Let the wind and rain rage, let the heavens threaten to fall, he himself stood firm and unmoving.

Faced with the rampaging One-Tailed Shukaku, he did not retreat but advanced, proactively slashing with his sword.

SWOOSH!

Where the tip of his sword passed, the very sky seemed to ripple like a distorted space. This was the spatial fluctuation caused by the evaporation from the ultimate fire-nature transformation attached to his sword slash.

No... it shouldn't be called an ultimate fire-nature transformation. It was a solar flame that represented the sun itself. A scorching heat, like that of the sun, could theoretically burn sand into silicon.

One slash into Shukaku's body, and the high temperature once again made it howl in pain.

Withdraw, slash again!

Withdraw again, slash again!

Kusuo's figure was like a phantom. No matter how much Shukaku thrashed about, it couldn't touch a single hair on him. One second, he was stabbing down from above its head; the next, he was cutting off its entire front limb with another slash.

Shukaku's body was constantly being cut down, falling to the ground as yellow sand, only to be constantly re-formed from the earth below. It was a cycle, over and over again. But the heart-drilling pain had begun to make Shukaku hysterical. The look it gave Kusuo was filled with a deep killing intent.

Until today, no one had ever pushed it to such a desperate situation. Especially the soul-trembling sensation caused by the slashes—not even Hashirama Senju had such an ability. It wanted to tear this human to shreds, to chew him up in its mouth until he was nothing but a bloody pulp.

On the other side, the Sand-nin, who had long since retreated to a safer position, were no longer using binoculars. Among them was an elite jonin squad leader who had also mastered the secret art of the Sand Eye. At this moment, the scene transmitted by the Sand Eye had made the air around them much quieter. Although the surroundings were still filled with continuous earthquakes and roars, this squad had fallen into a deathly silence.

"That's... that's fake, right?"

"How can a human possibly face the power of a Tailed Beast head-on?"

"Those sword slashes he's unleashing, don't they require chakra? Why can he slash again and again and again, without showing any sign of weakness himself?"

"I'm starting to suspect he's a Tailed Beast in disguise."

"A monster."

"Gulp..." The sound of swallowing saliva was heard, along with everyone's disbelieving muttering.

At this scene, the elite jonin-level captain was also silent. Those sword slashes... many of them were even tens of meters high, right? By now, how many slashes had that little brat in red unleashed? Slashes comparable to a Kage-level strike were being thrown out as if they cost nothing. This guy... just how much chakra did he have to use?

Chakra. Kusuo didn't have much in his body, even less than some peak jonin. And that was with the result of the system-enhanced breathing method. But the key was that his every slash didn't require chakra. After all, Kusuo relied more on his swordsmanship. As long as his stamina wasn't exhausted and he still had breath in his body, Kusuo could unleash that one slash—a slash comparable to an S-rank ninjutsu, on par with a strike from a Kage-level powerhouse.

...

"Boss Toad, do you think... we should go up and help?"

He was stunned. The scene had left him completely dumbfounded. Naruto and Gamabunta were both frozen there, standing dazedly in the distance, not daring to move.

Gamabunta opened his mouth, wanting to say something, then closed it again with a bitter expression. What could he say? What was there to say? I can't do it! Who would have thought that a human the size of a bean to a Tailed Beast could actually suppress and beat down the One-Tail? From beginning to end, Shukaku was beaten so badly it couldn't even fight back.

Faced with Kusuo's inexhaustible sword aura and slashes, Shukaku was thoroughly enraged. It let out a shriek unique to a tanuki, the sound wave sweeping across the land, sending trees flying. Naruto's eardrums felt like they were about to rupture.

"You die! You die! You must die! I'll kill you!" Shukaku roared, furiously spitting out a machine-gun-like barrage of Drilling Air Bullets from its mouth.

DONG! DONG! DONG! DONG!

BOOM!

One by one, the air bullets were sliced in half by Kusuo's blade, then exploded behind him. Faced with this kind of attack, an endless barrage that could destroy the entire village, Kusuo only needed to swing his sword to defend. After dozens of expressionless slashes, he leaped up and once again raised the sword in his hand.

Shukaku, which had a deep-seated memory of the pain from being stabbed, was startled. It hurriedly gathered all the nearby sand, beginning to pile it up in front of its head, attempting to block this slash. Too painful! It never wanted to endure this kind of inhuman torture again.

However, the Shield of Sand, the ultimate defense personally cast by the great One-Tail, crumbled the instant it was struck by the sword in Kusuo's hand, shattering into sand and flowing back to the earth from the middle.

POW!

The pressure from the sword aura crushing the shield caused the earth to shake and sink downwards. Shukaku's giant body couldn't resist at all. It hurriedly spat out countless more air bullets in a desperate attempt to slow down the resistance of the sword pressure.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

The sound of the air bullets hitting the sword was crisp and pleasant. But to the ears of the One-Tailed Shukaku, it was like the whisper of a demon.

In the end, the Shield of Sand was shattered. The Drilling Air Bullets were useless in stopping it. This sword technique, descending from the heavens, struck it right between the eyes.

BOOM!

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar.

The massive One-Tail was directly melted into a pool of sand that slid to the ground. A short while later, the quicksand surged wildly, once again returning to Shukaku's body.

"Human boy, you really are an annoying fly," the re-formed Shukaku said, its gaze becoming fierce, its voice much deeper.

In an instant, a great wind rose. Countless grains of yellow sand danced wildly. An incomparably vast amount of chakra surged frantically from Shukaku's body, pouring into every grain of sand. The seemingly tiny grains of sand gathered together, as if they now had the power to destroy everything. The ground, which had already been beaten to a state of collapse and fragmentation, the dirt, grass, and wood chips, were all sucked in, forming what could only be described as a giant tornado, howling as it scraped across the land. The yellow sand containing most of Shukaku's chakra was completely formed.

The chakra of an entire Tailed Beast.

Hiss.

That scene... just thinking about it made one's scalp tingle. That was an amount of chakra that even a true Kage-level powerhouse could not compare to. Now, it was all poured into one jutsu. The yellow sand covered the earth, filled the air, and occupied the sky. As far as the eye could see, everywhere was a hazy, grayish-yellow. Almost the entire domain was occupied by Shukaku. It was going to use this move to end Kusuo's life.

"You seem to be very angry," Kusuo said calmly, standing alone before Shukaku, a tiny human figure.

He had observed that every slash he landed on Shukaku made it roar in pain, screaming and wailing. In other words, his sword aura could cause Shukaku extreme pain. Tailed Beasts were clearly made of their respective elemental chakra; they were barely even physical beings. So why could they feel pain?

As if in a trance, Kusuo understood many things. He suddenly thought of the world of Demon Slayer, of the scars on the Demon King Muzan Kibutsuji's body that hadn't faded for hundreds of years, the wounds that had greatly weakened his combat ability.

The Crimson Blade! My Crimson Blade can cause wounds that will never fade! And the ultimate solar flame property attached to it can constantly burn the enemy!

If it was useful against Tailed Beasts, then in the future, against Six Paths-level opponents who could regenerate limbs in the blink of an eye, it might not be impossible to fight them. Thinking of this, Kusuo's eyes lit up.

But... "First, I'll take care of you."

Who cared what kind of super move Shukaku was brewing? He just backhanded a slash that cut across the sky.

SWISH!

A crimson sword aura streaked a thousand meters. It directly cleared the sky that had been shrouded in yellow sand, and the sky before them suddenly opened up. The sword aura howled forward. Even the tide-like swarm of yellow sand couldn't stop it. It just slashed into Shukaku's neck.

"AAGH, IT HURTS, IT HURTS, IT HURTS! IT HURTS SO MUCH!" Shukaku's head was once again lopped off, and it rolled on the ground in pain.

After it reformed, the savagery in its small, black eyes could no longer be hidden. "Ahhh! Human, prepare yourself! Sand Waterfall Imperial Funeral!"

RUMBLE!

A heaven-collapsing, earth-sinking tremor. The sound, which reached from the earth to the sky, was like a startling thunderclap, suddenly exploding. The shockwave of the explosion, like a mountain-toppling, sea-overturning force, rushed towards Kusuo.

But Shukaku wasn't sure if its eyes were deceiving it. That little human brat... not only was there not a trace of fear on his face, but there was even a faint, almost imperceptible smile

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