Chapter 44.1- Gamer of the Desert

I smiled right at it, a savage, bloodthirsty smile as I prepared to do what few had done before me. Defeat a whole fucking tailed beast right in its element. The longer the fight went on, the more of Iwagakure’s landmass was consumed by the lava that the Fourtails spawned with eery step of his. He lava spread around us in a circle, melting and consuming everything in its path with little resistance. 
“That looks like a bijudama” The Yonbi said, shocking me with its astute analysis. As well as with the fact that it could talk without screaming my head off. I nodded and shot forwards, diving right at it. The tails lashed out, attempting to swat me out of the air like a troublesome bug. I spun in the air, barely having the first tail miss me by a hair’s breadth. The second one was mistimes so it was easy to dodge it. For the last two, it was all I could do to dodge the third, and for the fourth I made the right choice of substituting with a clone I’d formed at the last sec and before it was about to hit me. With my new position, right above the beast, I reared my hand backwards for a second before I tossed it right at him. The spinning disk of chakra and wind weaved through the air, dodging around all the balls of lava he tried sending at it to detonate it as I controlled it using the same chakra principles Kankuro and Chiyo used to control their puppets. When it finally hit, it was with an amazing explosive sound, slamming into the beast’s jaw right as it was about to try forming a tailed beast bomb to head it off once it saw nothing was working. 

Microscopic blades of wind tore through the side of the tailed beast’s face, leaving bloody tissue in their wake, but beyond that I could tell that the attack had not penetrated deep enough to cause mwaningful damage. What little effect it had began healing right before my eyes. And it was angry. Fucking pissed. I’d have called it quits right then and there if a voice did not ring out suddenly towards the Fourth Tails. 

“Roshi what are you doing” Han asked, clad in two tails of his own tailed beast’s chakra that allowed him to walk right on top of the lava with seemingly no ill effects. The rest of the village around the three of us was being evacuated. 

“It’s Son Goku, boy” The Monkey safe replied to the Five Tails Jinchuriki who merely snarled in reply. 

“If so, I command you to return to Roshi now and cease this madness.”

“You command me? You? Me? I am Son Goku, the Monkey Sage. No one commands me” He screamed, tossing me backwards with the force of the scream while Han maintained his position by bracing against it and upping his tailed beast chakra output up to three tails. With so much chakra, it was difficult to have my senses active or concentrate on them. In the span of seconds, Han was off. The five tails jinchuriki moved with speed I’d never seen any human capable of, and took the Yonbi right in the face with a punch that caused a shockwave but failed to move the larger creature. Its tails lashed out, smashing Han right back into the ground and leaving him there. 

“It is only for Kokuo that I do not kill you where you lay, upstart” Son Goku said, clearly not taking the host of his older sister seriously. When he turned back to me, it was with murder in his eyes. I guess he didn’t like Shukaku as much. He walked forwards, the ground shaking around him as the lava sloshed from right to left under his command. When he felt he was close enough, he lashed out, testing at my reflexes. It was all I could do to spin backwards from the slap that would have turned me into paste. The next attack, a tail swipe was blocked as a shield of sand formed around me with sand from my inventory. Just having the Yonbi’s tail touch it was enough for the sand to lose consistency as a good portion of it was instantly turned into glass.  The longer the fight went on, the more I could see it. Tailed Beasts. Natural Disasters. I could see the reason behind the looks the villagers had tossed at me with no justification. A tailed beast was a natural disaster given flesh and Jinchuriki had the power to toss out those disasters whenever they wanted to. 

I felt a beep on my vambrace and nodded to myself. That was the seventh squad announcing mission completion. As it stood, my people would be done with Iwa in a few minutes, and by then the Yonbi would be down. I just had to figure out how to do it without having to resort to the n nuclear option. I crossed my fingers in a handsign familiar to every Naruto fan and increased my numbers threefold. 
“Plan Alpha” I said to my clones as we all took to the sky. Three of them used the Tsuchikage’s weight reduction technique along with wind release to glide in the sky while I surfed on my sand platform. The goal was to confuse the Yonbi while preparing our jutsu. All of his attempts to swat us out of the air were dodged with ease as each of us moved much faster than a creature as large as the giant four tails could ever hope to react to. 

In my left hand formed the jutsu, a sphere of pure chakra surrounded by blades of wind before it began to flatten with a telltale whine into the familiar Rasenshurinken. All around me, I could hear the same thing happening. The clone above me was the first to move in as he flew right at the Yonbi. He had an easy time dodging hands and tails and weaving right through, until it was met with the Yonbi’s smiling visage. The tailed beast opened its mouth and roared, sending us all flying back and popping two of my clones as they lost control of the jutsu. Keeping three different jutsu active at the same time while trying to control them all was no mean feat. It was only me and my last clone remaining, so we flew at the same time, me from the left, and him from the right. Another powerful roar made my clone lose concentration before his body was smashed to smoke by a lashing tail. When the Yonbi turned to me, I didn’t wait for him to use its roar as I just tossed the rasenshuriken right at it. 

It seemed to have learned its lesson this time though. The roar, teeming with red tailed beast chakra sent me flying backwards and unravelled the rasenshurinken, forcing to explode harmlessly without ever reaching its target. The Yonbi suddenly screamed in annoyance and I looked over to see Han smashing a fist into its knee before jumping off to avoid the retaliation and landing right on the back of the Yonbi’s hand. I just remained where I was. Laying down on my sand platform watching the fight. My head was pounding. It felt like every thought I had was a drum banging against my head. I just wanted to rest. Surely I could. I could just close my eyes for a few seconds. 

A/N: First part of next chapter. More updates tomorrowwwww