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Naruto finally made it to the most secure prison cell, and his destination. The thick steel door didn't have chakra sealing bars like the other cells did, in fact it was impossible to fully seal off a person's body from natural energy alone since it was such an unknown and mysterious energy. The closest thing Orochimaru had ever come to developing something of that nature were his cursed seals that temporarily restricted movements, making any chakra or natural energy useless. The door had no access to the outside world, or at least no way to see out of the cell, with a single handle, and four separate locks, after which it was chained off in a X-like fashion.
'...Someone really didn't want this guy to ever see the light of day again.' Naruto thought as he looked at what he assumed to be overkill on the security of his prison cell. This guy had stayed behind in this hideout willingly, and yet they locked him up as if he was a threat to the people around him...Or perhaps he really was that insane.
Naruto stood there silently as he heard a voice talking to itself behind the door.
"Kill...Kill...A man...The Next one I kill will be a man after all...No a woman...If the next one who comes through that door is a woman, I'll kill her...No, a man would put up more of a fight...Alright! It's decided. If the next one who comes through that door is a man, I'll kill him." A deep voice whispered obsessively to itself.
Hearing that whispering satisfied most of Naruto's curiosity. The obviously male voice was heavily laced with insanity and bloodlust. Whatever came out after he opened this door would be a real pain in the ass to deal with. Just once he would like to not be paired up against the insane and creepy ones ones. First it was Doto, then Kabuto, then Nawaki, followed by Gaara, and now this guy.
He really did have the worst luck.
Seeing as how he didn't have the necessary keys in his possession, Naruto placed his right hand on the door and produced an excess amount of heat from the palm of his hand, melting the thick steel in a single moment. The steel liquified and flowed down to the floor just as quick, only leaving a few strands behind, and revealing Naruto's face to whoever resided within the confines of the cell.
"Jackpot! I'll kill you!" The voice roared as soon as he caught a glimpse of Naruto's appearance.
Before Naruto could even adjust his eyes to the darkness of the prison cell, he was forced to cross his arms in front of his body to lessen the impact of the monstrous fist that was heading straight towards him. There was no time to avoid the strike, nor was their any time to coat his arms with Haki, it was all up to physical strength and durability at the moment.
Naruto felt the bones in his forearms scream in agony as a cracking-like feeling erupted throughout the entirety of both his arms before being launched into the wall directly behind him, creating a small crater with many spiderweb cracks now marring its complexion.
'...Just what the hell was that...?' Naruto questioned himself rhetorically as he pulled himself out of the wall and felt his blue flame's regenerative properties repairing the extensive damage done to his arms by a single strike.
What he saw emerge from the room was a tall, muscular young man with spiky orange hair and red-orange eyes, or what normally would have been a pair. His left eye was currently a vibrant yellow color with a black sclera and the entire left side of his body was a pale gray color while his left arm took on the form of an enlarged fist with various spikes jutting out from all sides and moving upwards towards his bicep. Unsurprisingly, his eyes had a crazed and murderous look within them.
'...And this must be the what the second stage of the cursed seal looks like...Or rather, for him, his natural transformation.'
Naruto spit out a bit of blood after turning his head to the side. Against a user of natural energy like the people from this clan of monsters, his intangibility would easily be negated by their every strike. Naruto had greatly underestimated the pure physical strength of his opponent once again, add to that the fact that he is at a disadvantage because he couldn't use any of his larger and more powerful techniques due to their position in the confined hallway, it was clear things weren't looking up for Naruto.
Then there was the fact that he still had to search the laboratory and bring back a DNA sample of this man. That meant Naruto couldn't just destroy this entire floor, he was already walking a fine line as it was with the flames he had already produced. His options really were quite limited at the moment.
While he had not neglected his taijutsu training completely, he would be the first to admit that not fighting a foe who could actually touch him for such a long time caused him to slack off on the intensity of his physical training more recently. He now questioned how he could possibly come to such a conclusion.
"And who might you be?" Naruto asked as the marks on the man's body spread even further across his body until it was covering him completely.
"It doesn't matter, because you're gonna die right here!" Jūgo yelled maniacally, not that Naruto was aware of what his real name was.
Naruto jumped into the air and used Jūgo's shoulder as a stepping stone before jumping even higher in the air to the side of the man while he coated his arms with Busoshoku Haki, as Jūgo sent a punch towards the wall he had been previously standing in front of, shattering it completely and causing some debris from the ceiling to collapse.
Naruto was forced to land while dodging the falling debris as Jūgo didn't seem to care in the slightest about the danger he had just put them in and raced after Naruto once more. He outstretched his left arm to his side and forced a large axe blade to form on the side of his forearm by utilizing the unique abilities that his passive natural energy granted him.
Naruto drew his chokuto from his back and coated it with Haki as well. Any normal weapon would have broken from the natural energy surrounding that axe, but Haki should even the odds in a straight duel.
Naruto's blade met Jūgo's in the middle and caused shockwaves to ripple throughout the room and shatter some of the smaller pieces of rubble that were now scattered across the floor. Naruto was the first to pull back, causing Jūgo to recoil in the process, as he switched his sword into a reverse-grip and swiped the blade across the orange-haired man's abdomen. However Jūgo had managed to lean back in time so that only a shallow slash wound made its way onto his stomach, but the sight of his own blood made him even more excited as he hadn't found anyone who was capable of wounding him since Kimimaro.
In response to the flesh would he received, Jūgo brought his fist down hard, on Naruto's head slamming him into the ground before the raven-haired teen had a chance to react. While the wound had only been a flesh wound for Jūgo, he only thought that way because of the regenerative properties that his body granted him. In reality, the slash that he was just dealt was only an inch or two away from severing his spinal chord and rendering him incapable of movement. It would only be natural for Naruto to expect the match to be over after his opponent had received a fatal wound such as that, however, Jūgo was able to regenerate within the span of a single moment.
The ground split into spiderweb-like cracks as the full force of Naruto's body combined with the extra push from Jūgo impacted the ground. Naruto clenched his teeth to prevent himself from coughing up too much blood, but a small amount still made its way onto the ground as it spilled out of back of his mouth.
'...Damn...this guy outclasses me physically in every possible way...I won't be able to stay conscious if I take to many more hits like that one.'