Chapter 55.4- Gamer of the Desert

He wasn’t joking. I could tell from his face that he was actually serious about the question, and that was the fact that made me laugh out loud. A fact that did not please him at all. Lips pressed into a thin grimace, he raised one hand right at me. He didn’t utter the words, but I felt like my entire body had just been swatted like a fly by a fly swatter as I was thrown backwards by the gravitational force of the Rinnegan’s deva path. I flew through building after building as much of my surroundings were similarly battered. Nothing managed to penetrate my skin thanks to sage enhanced durability, but it was one hell of a trip.

When I finally came to stop, I found him looking at me from above. He was just floating in the air there. I’d actually forgotten that the bastard could fly. The thought of standing up did not cross my mind before he pointed his hand at me again. This time, the force was much more effective, pushing me deeper and deeper into the ground. Basically forming a crater out of my body with me at the very epicentre. How annoying. After the attack had finally run its course, I wasted no time in getting the hell out of dodge and jumping out od the crater. I remembered the detail from the anime.

5,4,3… I tried to count in my head but I suddenly felt a force pulling me right at him. The fuck? I still had two seconds. I twisted in position. At least his gravity powers allowed me to do that much and brought Dark Sister to bear. The blade flashed out once I reached him but he leaned out of the way, allowing me to pass him by and activated another almighty push, sending me to the ground once more. Fuck. Fuck everything. At least, this time I could tell the attack was much weaker. I rolled ut of the way of a follow up and sent two shuriken from my inventory towards his eyes. A single hand seal turned two shuriken into dozens. He flipped his hand out again and sent the shurinkwn flying back where they’d come.

That was what I was waiting for. I jumped through the hail, trusting sage mode to prevent me from getting hurt and got close enough to him that I was able to see his eyes widen in shock. It mattered little however, because he raised a hand. Surely, Almighty Push, couldn’t be spammed like that. I was right, in the end. But I’d failed to consider that he had half a dozen other powers to choose from. His arm became a fucking missile launcher. Fuck me.

Sand poured from my inventory, covering me entirely and shielding me from the explosions. I sent the same sand reaching for him, careful to avoid his grasping hands but he just almighty pushed everything away with his Deva Path power. That was the most annoying ability he had. It hadn’t given me a second to think. A second to even panic about how the fuck he was somehow fully healed and how I’d caused that to happen.

I’d decided to blame Danzo in the end. Everything was Danzo’s fault, one way or another. I pulled more sand out my inventory. I made a platform to stand on since I couldn’t transform in sage mode for some reason and I sent more and more sand at Nagato. Whatever he did, more sand came. He summoned a Crane since his powers only allowed him float but not fly and manoevre. He dodged out of the way of the sand and when it got too close, he pushed everything away. The only problem was that it only took me a few seconds to get the sand back. And even worse for him, his pushes were getting weaker. It couldn’t be a chakra thing, I knew. So it had to be some sort of hard cap on the power. I could tell when he finally crossed the threshold between irritated and pissed.

He stopped using his gravity powers and instead focused on the crane, trying to get it to outfly my grasping tendrils. Foolish. I had sand aplenty. And thanks to some things I’d learned about magnet release and how it related to my own powers, I could drop the density of my sand as I wished to make it move even faster. I even had Ohnoki’s super heavyweight boulder technique to help. I kept a hand on my platform, and make sure that I had contact with the sand chasing him. It all flowed from my inventory into the platform and then separated in two large masses connected to my platform by separate tendrils that chased him through the sky. Sensing himself getting bogged down, he turned his missile launcher arm towards the approaching sand again. I created pockets within the sand, allowing the sand swallow and choke down the individual missile heads without sending everything else into disorganised mess. He transformed his other hand, sending multiple salvos of missiles at me.

Kakashi’s sharingan easily tracked each one as they flew through the air and moved my sand in accordance. He stood still for a second as his arm transformed again, and I took the chance. Kamui” I aimed to remove his head from his body, but the second the jutsu began, he snapped his eyes right to me and reached towards the origin point of the spaced time distortion with one of his hands. I felt the jutsu vanish with a huge chunk of chakra. Gakido. He’d absorbed it somehow. Fuck.

I kept my sand chasing him, and finally struck gold. A tendril that I’d split off from one of the two large masses latched on to his crane’s leg, arresting his momentum. The rest of my sand wasted no time converging on his position. He jumped off the crane and began to fly under his own power. He’d turned his legs into jets that allowed him fly under his own power.

He turned to me and lifted both hands. Every sense I had immediately went haywire.

A/N; Did you know that a lot of the Naruto fan community calls the attack that destroyed the leaf a “Chaotic Shinra Tensei”? It’s one of the funniest bits of fan-naming I’ve seen. Same as how the fandom came up with Version 1, and Version 2 names for the Raikage’s chakra cloak. I folded that in here like it was canon.