Re: Akimichi

"Heahahahahaha! Mother wants your blood!"

I saw his eyes redden, his smile turned crazier, and his laugh became more hysterical.

This guy...

His head must be beaten really hard, did I caused it?

The arena grounds were all slowly turned into sand, they were all raised and condensed into one giant monstrous arm with four claws that reached into me trying to grab me with it.

"[Suna no Kaiwan]"

I jumped away to dodge the claws and leaped high to stay away from the sand on the ground. Another monstrous arm reached to me, they're not fast but their sheer size made them a bit hard to dodge. I didn't turn into a giant as well because it'll make me an easy target for him to reach, with this limited space turned into a giant without sufficing firepower was not a wise thing to do.

"Die! Then the mother will be happy!

The attack intensifies, with me occasionally launched a few attacks of my own that still wasn't able to penetrate his defense. I tried a fire technique, an earth technique, and Taijutsu but none bore fruit yet.

Do I have to use it?

Really?

Well, it's not like it was my trump card or anything,

But...

"Die! Die! Die! DIE! DIE!"

Gaara continued to turn the arena into a sand field and constructed more of those monstrous arms, his whole body also now covered with a weird-shaped sand construct. It was shaped like... a raccoon?

Was that a kind of armor?

"DIE FOR MOTHER! BE A SACRIFICE FOR HER!"

Anyway, seeing the situation getting worse I can't be dilly-dallying anymore.

It seems that my plan to take it easy wasn't the best route to take, so I took a deep breath and I circulated my chakra internally and flowed it into my brain's left hemisphere, to remove my mental inhibitions.

"[Kaimon], Open!"

*Fwoosh*

My head felt clearer, I feel that as if the surrounding moved in a slower motion. What surprised me was different from before, I saw a reddish-brown chakra converged in a spiral manner with Gaara as the center.

Well, that's a new one...

{That's a Bijuu chakra}

Huh? This voice...

'Murasaki?'

{Spot on, kid!}

I was surprised, but still, my body keeps moving to dodge all of Gaara's attack. I was wondered, how could Murasaki do that? And as if he was reading my mind, his voice answered.

{I'm able to talk to you because you removed the mental barrier in your brain, and a massive amount of chakra was presented here for me to stay awake.}

Okay...

'So, he is a Jinchuriki?'

{Yes}

'And from the look of it, he's in a berserk state?'

{You're smart}

Oh, goddess Fortuna, the goddess of fortune... Why do you hate me?

{Don't panic, kid! If you're able to lock him in place and touch him, I can help you to knock the Bijuu inside him again.}

I was dumbstruck, a speck of light was seen at the end of the tunnel! There's hope!

'So all I have to do is lock him in place and touch him?'

{Yes, for a few seconds or minutes}

Without further ado, I took another deep breath and tried to move the few amounts of natural energy inside me and circulated it in the first two of eight gates path. Yes, that's my current limit with natural energy, I still lack control.

"[Kyūmon], Open!"

My body rejuvenated, the scratch on my skins were all mended. In this state my physical strength increased, with the added effect of re-energizing the body, thus enabling me to rapidly recover from exhaustion.

Not only that, in this state, I also was able to do a thing that I always thought nearly impossible for me to do.

"[Katon: Kaen-tai]"

I was able to internalize my nature transformation, with a few techniques like the earth spear technique and the others as a reference, I was able to create this technique. Originally, this technique should burn my body from the inside out, but with the natural energy circulated rapidly while I was in this state, the harmful effect was out of the picture as long as I didn't force it past my limit.

Sparks of fire lit in my eyes, and a bluish-red flame rose from the tip of all of my twenty fingers and toes. My outer clothes and shoes were all burned and turned into ashes, leaving only my inner armor as my top and a specially made leather pants as my bottom.

The sand that nearing me were all turned into vitrified sand, sand that has been heated to a high enough temperature as to partly or fully melts the silicon dioxide or quartz that is the main ingredient of common sand. And each step I made on the ground now was leaving a burning imprint on it.

With this flame body state on, I bent my knees and zoomed-in in front of the Raccoon Gaara. His response was just a swung of his arm to repel me which I easily evaded.

'Slow...'

All of his minute movement did not escape my observation, he was so slow in my eyes, he might as well cook me a c.h.e.s.tnut with his sand. [1] My fist was blasting through his layers of sand-armor, easily destroying them with sufficient effort. Another fist followed with enough speed to hit the unprotected area before the sand armor mended itself to normal.

*Creak*

A sound of fractured ribs was heard.

Tsk, like music in my ears.

Anyway, he's a Jinchuriki. And a wound of this caliber won't stop him, heck, he'll recover in no time. With that thought, I spun my waist and gave him an upper kick that blasted him into the air. I immediately leaped high following him, in the air, I gave him another kick that once again blasted him downwards. Even before he touched the ground, flames already condensed in my fist with a precise swing, I hit him with another attack.

"[Katon: Hi Ken]!"

A pillar of flames descended in the middle of the arena, the flame pillar mightily stood for a moment as it showed its glory and might to all of the spectators, which they still agape and lost in the moment.

Although it took a lot of words to describe, all of that happened in less than a minute since Murasaki talked to me. After that, I reached the downed Gaara with disbelief clearly seen on his face. I grabbed his face and looked him straight in his eyes.

"Nothing personal, but it will be bad for both of us if you go berserk here..."

Thus with the help of Murasaki, a colossal amount of malevolent chakra absorbed into me rejuvenating me with more than my already lost chakra. I closed my eyes as I savor it, it tastes a bit spicy, juicy, and kind of tastes like Tacos sudados, but the chakra tastes were a bit sandy for my taste.

Wait, I can taste chakra now?

After Murasaki confirmed that the Bijuu already lost its control, I glanced at Gaara, his eyes open as he looked like he was lost in...

"Hyaahhshh~"

F*ck!

Disgusting!

His face reddened with eyes upturned, his mouth opened, and his tongue out coupled with drools out of his mouth.

An ahegao! [2]

By instant, my leg kicked him hard and he was blasted and embedded in the sidewall of the arena. Yes, with that ahegao face still on.

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[1] Referring to hot sand frying, a common cooking technique for street-side food vendors in China and India to cook c.h.e.s.tnuts and peanuts.

[2] Do I need to explain?