Chapter 48: Beast mode
Yugito transformed into Matatabi and ran towards Kakuzu with a growl, her sharp teeth were showing her anger.
"You worm!"
*Boom*
Matatabi's cat paw hit Kakuzu, who blocked the attack with his hands.
*Thump*
The immense strength behind Yugito's attack sent Kakuzu flying, but Kakuzu skidded to a stop without any injuries.
Only the skin on his hand was torn apart, weirdly there were black ropes moving inside the wound, they looked a lot like worms.
"You have brute strength and nothing more."
Kakuzu commented without emotions, but Yugito didn't care, she got into predator cat's attack position.
"What I have is enough to kill you, you old worm."
Yugito's large eyes narrowed as she watched Kakuzu's skin stitch itself back together, it looked like he was never hurt at all, which made her cautious.
She realised that something was off, her cat nose couldn't smell any blood from his wounds either, this wasn't right.
'This must be why Sato told me to stop, this guy isn't normal, Sato should have felt something off about him before we did.'
Finally Yugito managed to calm down and didn't let rage take over, when Sato told her to stop a second ago, her anger had actually died down.
She still felt incredibly angry when she smelled Sato's blood, but she no longer let her anger take charge.
"Are you alright Sato?!"
Yugito asked in her tailed beast form, she wanted to confirm if Sato was okay before she decides to fight this guy.
Sato saw Yugito calm down and breathed a sigh of relief, he somehow stopped Yugito from making the same mistake that killed her in the orginal!
"I am fine sister, please pay attention, I noticed something off about Kakuzu, the moment I attacked him he didn't have the instinct to dodge!"
"Psychologically speaking, this is only possible with two kinds of people, either someone who is very good at defence or.."
Looking at the absolutely fine Kakuzu standing before Yugito, Sato narrowed his eyes.
"Or it's also possible if the person has some sort of way to avoid death and injury."
"Looking at his stiched up body which shows old wounds, and you wounding him but him healing immediately.."
"I assume he dosen't have increased defence but has some way to avoid fatal damage and heal his body."
Sato slowly stood back up and wiped the blood off his chest.
He stared at Kakuzu's green eyes and smirked.
"The most important thing is, this guy has been alive since the great Villages were founded."
"I believe he not only has a way to heal, but he has a way to avoid death, or old age would have killed him long ago."
Kakuzu stared at Sato with incredible eyes, he just healed a little scratch and this guy figured out so much information about him?
He had lived for so long, but only one man had managed to figure out his abilities this easily.
"I understand why your bounty is so high now, you are one of those rare geniuses.."
Kakuzu's eyes slowly turned dangerous, murderous intent had started leaking out of him.
"But people like you who think of themselves as smart always die hapless deaths."
"That guy Tobirama died like that, and so will you."
*Crack*
Kakuzu's back cracked and five large monsters crawled out of his body.
Each monster was made out of black ropes and had a unique mask on their face.
'So this is Earth grudge fear, the justu which made Kakuzu immortal.'
Sato breathed hard, both due to Kakuzu's justu and because of his bleeding wounds.
But he had to remain standing or everyone would die.
"Neji, you know a little bit about gentle fist right? Your father trained you for a year."
Sato whispered to Neji who tremblingly nodded, both he and Hinata were scared, Kakuzu's murderous aura was scaring the two kids pretty badly.
But Sato couldn't care about that now, he needed their help.
"Neji, I want you to seal the blood vessels around my wound, just like you seal chakra points."
"Try it with your Byakugan, I trust you okay, our lives depend on you."
Sato gently said this and Neji trembled even more.
'How can I do this? I can't do it.. we will all die!'
'No.. I couldn't save father before, if I can't even save our master now, what use do I have?!'
Neji's hate for his father's death slowly reduced his fear, he quickly made the handsign for Byakugan and watched Sato's wounds.
"I.. I can see it!"
Neji said excitedly, he started to poke Sato's blood vessels and began sealing them.
This quickly reduced Sato's bleeding, but Kakuzu figured out Sato's plan.
"I won't let you heal!"
The monster with a fire style mask rushed towards Sato.
Sato ignored his pain and quickly started to run.
"You bastard!"
Yugito swiftly jumped on Kakuzu and started tearing him apart, limb from limb.
But she was taking a lot of damage in this fight, Kakuzu was immortal and had five monsters to support him.
One of them was attacking C, one was attacking Sato, and Yugito had to deal with three of them and Kakuzu at the same time.
These monsters were individually S class threats, their constant regeneration was a huge problem.
"Aaah!"
So Yugito started to lose, she was an S class ninja too, but she was dealing with 4 S class ninjas at once.
She was terribly outmatched.
*Squelch*
Suddenly Yugito's left eye was stabbed by Kakuzu's wind style monster.
*Growl!*
She roared in pain and started to shake her body, she tried to get away from Kakuzu.
Sadly, her blind eye didn't let her see the second monster sneaking up from under her.
*Riiiip*
"Aaaagh!!"
Yugito's eyes widened in pain, an earth style spear had stabbed through her belly, and Kakuzu had gotten inside her wounds.
He was tearing her apart from the inside out.
"Sister!"
Sato's eyes shrunk, he realised Yugito was dying, but the worse the situation became the calmer he got.
"Neji, Hinata, you have to protect yourself for while, keep each other safe."
Sato said in a still voice and put them down on the ground.
His voice was scarily calm and his multicolored eyes were shining, as if he was boiling with chakra.
"Sato sama, what are you going to do?"
Hinata suddenly realised the truly dangerous situation they were in, and just like Sato, her soft mind managed to gather courage out of nowhere.
This was Hinata, a girl who seemed cowardly until someone she cared about was in danger, it's only then that her soft soul gathers incredible courage.
Courage which nobody else can match.
This was why in the orginal story, she was the only Konoha ninja who got up again and again to fight pain, when nobody else had to guts to move.
No matter how much she was beaten down by pain, she kept getting up until Naruto was safe.
'Sister.. Master..'
Neji looked at everything from the side, he was watching Hinata and Sato with wide eyes.
He could tell that both of them were ready to fight against this impossible enemy.
Meanwhile he was standing here, cowering in fear.
'Master and Sister, these two are really similar to each other..'
Neji thought with envy.
"Hinata.. can you use Byakugan?"
Sato asked softly, he had stopped running and was calmly watching the fire style monster fly towards them.
"I will try."
"Byakugan!"
*Whoom*
Hinata's veins popped and for the first time in her life, she managed to activate her Byakugan.
"Excellent, hold my hand."
*Puff*
Sato cancelled the transformation justu and changed back into his four year old self.
Hinata didn't question and held Sato's hand.
Sato smiled at her and confidently watched the monster coming towards them.
"We aren't as weak as you think we are Kakuzu."
"I have faught against the Inuzuka before, do you know what their best justu is?"
Sato smiled widely and made a handsign with Hinata, their two hands combined created the handsign of this justu.
"Combination transformation - Two Tailed Beast!"
*Puff*
A large amount of smoke covered Sato and Hinata.
*Rush*
Without waiting for the smoke to clear, a beast ran out from inside.
It was a beast which looked exactly like the two tails, just much smaller in size and with one more important difference.
Instead of two cat eyes this beast had an activated Byakugan.
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