A sadistic grin makes its way onto both of our faces, all thought and logic is gone for both of us. The promise of bloodshed has clouded both of our minds.
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"You want me to use the Jiongu?" I rip off my shirt, turning it into rags. I couldn't care less about it, right now I need to kill someone. "Fine! I'll use the Jiongu!" I push out my wind, fire, water and earth hearts and make them into my loyal minions.
"Yes! Come at me my child! Prove that you are worthy of such an honor! Prove that you have the ambition to not let anyone limit you, that you will not let anyone demand things from you! Prove to me that you are strong like you so eagerly claim to be! Prove that you are mine!" Orochimaru opens his mouth wide and pulls out his Kusanagi Sword. Then he moves.
My left arm falls to the ground. Black threads reach out of it and me and pull it back where it belongs. Jutsu of four elements are flying around the room, the Jiongu isn't holding anything back. It is viciously attacking Orochimaru with everything it can. He's dodging all of it.
"Is this all the great Hearth Thief can manage?" Orochimaru taunts as he nimbly weaves around every and all of my numerous attacks. "Come on! Do more! Do better! I know you have the resources! You have the means! Or was giving you the Jiongu a mistake? Perhaps I should take it back."
I spark up my elemental defense sphere, a rotating ball of lightning whips forms protectively around me. I don't stop there, I send out normal strings to attach to debris around the room and start spinning that around me too. I have a physical and an elemental shield around me.
"I will never part with the Jiongu! The Jiongu is mine!" I call out in a crazed voice.
~And the host is mine!~
Orochimaru isn't phased by my defense, he weaves through it and lops off my right arm this time. It reattaches in moments just like my left. He didn't get away cleanly, one of the projectiles clipped his shoulder. There is no damage to him, but there is a noticeable black smudge on his robe.
"I WILL NOT SHARE WHAT IS MINE!" I roar out to Orochimaru.
I will all of my hearts back into me, I'm going to try something new. Something so destructive and overwhelming that even a Sannin won't be able to get away unscathed. Like when I fought against Gaara I let the masks extend out of my back but I don't let them separate from my body. They form a black X behind me with each stark white mask on the end of the new limbs. Each mask and I in unison channels an overwhelming amount of chakra, but each one of us is channeling a different element. Once I can't muster up any more chakra, I insanely stare down the patiently waiting creature before me.
"Yes!" Orochimaru swings his arms out wide in a welcoming gesture. "Come Alvarcus Mar, attack me with everything you have! Attack me at your strongest! At your best! I want to see it! I want to see if you truly are worthy of being my child!"
"ELEMENTAL MONSTROSITY!" We launch our attacks in unison and they all merge into one large beam of destruction.
Orochimaru slams his hand down on the ground and yells, "Summoning Jutsu: Double Rashomon!" Two very large hell gates rise from the ground in the path of my attack.
My beam of elemental fury slams into Orochimaru's resolute defense. "The power! The intensity! The pure destruction! Everything it touches is destroyed! I've never seen a fusion of all the elements before! Alvarcus Mar, there is no doubt in me now!"
With a deafening BOOM, my attack plows into the first gate. A loud noise of tearing metal drowns out all other sound. My fury fueled attack is going straight through the hell gate.
"Marvelous! You actually have an attack that is capable of breaching one of Hashirama's fabled defensive summon!" Orochimaru is laughing insanely. He's giddy with happiness, he's elated to see my attack overcome one of his defensive walls. "I knew you would be great! I knew it! But to achieve this so soon? No, even I didn't dare to dream of this! I should have known! Truly, in this moment you have proven yourself to be worthy of being my child!"
Orochimaru's defense isn't anything to dismiss. Even though my attack managed to plow through the first hell gate it is weakened so much that it only manages to dent the second and tilt it backwards slightly before it peters out into nothing.
"Alvarcus, enough!" Orochimaru's voice echos in the suddenly quiet room. No, it isn't enough yet. He's still breathing, once he stops doing that only then will it be enough. "I've made a mistake."
I'm jolted out of my bloodlust. Orochimaru admitted to making a mistake, that is enough to stop anyone in their tracks. "Explain. I was having fun." I'm not even lying, it is very therapeutic to attack the person who viciously hurts me nearly every day.
"I misunderstood you." I tilt my head in confusion. How do you misunderstand a giant beam of all the elements aimed at your heart? Pretty sure that is universal for I want you to die. "When you told me no, I thought it was out of concern for your former comrade." Oh, that part. The spark that ignited our quick battle. "Now I know it is because you don't want others to have the Jiongu. It is what makes you unique after all, you want to keep it to yourself. I can understand that."
I don't get out of my battle stance yet. "So... are we going to stop attacking each other now?"
"Yes." Orochimaru swallows his sword again. "I didn't plan for us to spar at this level for a long time. I admit, I let it get out of hand. I could have stopped it at any moment, but I've never seen you so passionate in battle before! I just had to keep pushing you! And what a show you put on! I might have to step up your training."
I withdraw my monsters fully into me. "Yay. More torture. Can't wait." I swear he's going to turn me into a masochist at this rate. I'm not even phased by being gutted or my limbs getting cut off anymore.
"That will be for another time." Orochimaru assures me. "Now, I believe we were going to test out a theory of mine. That was the purpose of this meeting. Not the destruction of one of my storage rooms."
A cold hand grips my hearts. "I'm not giving the Jiongu to anyone else." I don't care if Orochimaru wants me to. It is staying with me. Let him assume that I want it for myself, I don't want anyone else to go through the pain I did. Especially someone I know.
Orochimaru and I make our way back into his lab. "We've established that. I'll adjust for you, instead of leaving a piece behind just spear him. Send the Jiongu into the test subject and cause as much damage as you can." We're standing around the still comatose gennin again. That is for the best, he shouldn't have to feel what will happen next. "Kill him using just the Jiongu and physical contact." My heart turns to lead.
I liked it better when Orochimaru and I were trying to kill each other. I don't want to hurt this child, that's what he is at this moment. He's not a shinobi of Konoha, he's just a kid that is in the wrong place. I don't want to kill him. He's still innocent, he isn't like the others down here. He shouldn't have to die.
But he is going to. I can't afford to show compassion for him. I can't display a hint of regret or mercy. I'm going to kill him and a piece of myself. The least I can do is make it quick.
I form my right hand into a fist and lightly punch the gennin directly above his heart. I push the Jiongu out of my knuckles and it digs into his flesh and worms its way through his ribs and wraps around his heart. I squeeze. A faint wet pop rings through the air. He's dead. I killed him. I killed a Konoha shinobi. I killed a child.
"Excellent display of your control of the Jiongu, but I want to see damage. We already know you can take hearts, I want you to shred his organs, I want brutal." I hate this man. I want him to die. I want to be there when it happens, I want to see it.
It isn't enough that Orochimaru made me kill him, he is having me desecrate his corpse.
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