—Boom!
Erupting with a burst of force, Bee located the area where Suguru had flickered next. Caught off-guard, Suguru spun, narrowly diverting the force of a sudden backhand.
Suguru's body cried out as flesh was torn from the spin he forced himself into. But all that force wasn't going to waste.
A small hand had grasped Bee's arm, adhering to it with chakra. Another hand slammed into Bee's waist and a leg shot out at his foot, destabilizing his stance.
—Whish!
The next thing Bee realized was that he had been swung over Suguru's head. His much larger body and heavier frame seemed weightless against the throw.
"Yo!"
—Slam!
At the same time that Suguru slammed down, he suddenly felt weightless.
Bee returned the favor as his body smashed against the stones. Suguru was therefore flung straight into the sky as their forces were redirected yet again. It was a back-and-forth distribution until this equilibrium was created.
One in the ground and the other in the sky.
"He really is quite the unpredictable fighter..." Suguru murmured as he placed his hands together and formed an iconic seal.
'Shadow Clone Jutsu!'
Four versions of Suguru appeared in the air and used each other as a mode of transport. It was a dance as they spread out into position. They each chose a location and fell, with one falling straight down like a bolt of lightning.
Then, they all dashed in, brandishing their fists.
Thus, Bee spun with his legs outstretched in an acrobatic flare. The winds generated from his whirl were enough to deter Suguru's encirclement.
They staggered.
For a moment, their balance was lost.
"!!!"
One of the clones hurriedly flickered, and a blur of movement slammed into the location where he was once standing. Rock and stone flew out from the impact, and Bee once more became an afterimage blur.
The clone, still emerging from his flicker, was met with a heel to the face.
—Crack! Poof!
It was the sound of shattering bone. Luckily, it was only a clone.
"An Enzuigiri!" One of the Suguru clones gasped.
A clear and obvious wrestling move had emerged, and the next clone had been targeted. This one, having learned from the experience of the other clone, opted against a predictable flicker.
'Sharingan!'
His eyes shattered and reformed, giving him visual acuity beyond any normal shinobi. Now that he could keep track of himself, he could finally let loose with the Body Flicker Jutsu.
'Afterimage Clone!'
It was time to fully display Uchiha Shisui's legacy.
Especially since...
'Sharingan!'
'Sharingan!'
'Sharingan!'
The remaining Suguru clones and the real body did the same.
—Fwish!
Dodging the hand that sought to grasp his head by a hair's breadth, Suguru slammed his palm into Bee's stomach. Contact was made, and a large amount of force was transmitted through his palm.
However...
—Grip.
The hand simply rerouted itself, making use of the moment when Suguru was forced into a stationary halt. It fell upon his shoulder, squeezing it tight.
"Ack!"
The next thing this Suguru realized was that a thick skull had slammed into his face.
—Poof!
After the sound of more shattering bones, the clone disappeared into a cloud of smoke.
Bee thus now faced three identical faces, with eyes all gleaming with three-tomoe Sharingan. They had moved awfully close, having exploited the time Bee had spent dispelling the other clone.
From point-blank range, the three Sugurus struck.
One's foot slammed from high in the sky.
The other unleashed a roundhouse kick upon the back of Bee's knee.
Finally, the last one redirected Bee's attempts to defend. A palm met Bee's fist, parrying it with unreasonable proficiency.
Seeing this, Bee let his own momentum pull himself forward. With a twist of his leg, the second Suguru's kick met his solid shin. The first Suguru missed entirely.
While the last Suguru found himself stuck. Right in front of his stomach was a heavy shoulder.
'Oh—'
—Boom!
Bee sprung forward, crossing several meters in an instant, and slammed this Suguru straight into the mountainside. It was like being bulldozed by a freight train.
This clone was no more, disappearing into a cloud of smoke.
"Hmmm,"
However, Bee was not without damage. A small red dot had somehow appeared on his skin. Pouring chakra through that point was suddenly much more difficult than it previously was.
The tenketsu had been blocked.
"Eyo! You're an impressive guy for your age! To hit this great self and even deal damage! Yay!"
After examining the blocked tenketsu on his arm Bee shook off the numbing pain.
"Let's keep going. Let's keep dancing, yo!"
The last remaining Sugurus laughed.
"Thanks, Uncle Bee."
Then, they charged. Flames finally began dancing across their skin. A regal aura bled from their meager forms, creating an invisible pressure that Bee had never experienced before.
"Hoho," Somehow finding this exciting, Bee's focus was further sharpened.
—Shiiiiiing!
Kicking things up a notch, he unsheathed a single sword.
Seeing this, the two Sugurus put up a hand seal.
[Tiger].
'Blaze Battle Body: Fire Dragon's Descent!'
—VWHOOOOOOM!
Flames erupted from their bodies. However, unlike before when the flames were formless, raging masses, now they bore weight.
They had shape and form.
—ROAR!
The roar of two dragons was transmitted by the blazing flames.
Meanwhile...
'Chakra Flow,'
Electricity poured through Bee's sword, cladding it in a crackling blue glow.
As the flame dragons took shape, starting with their heads, necks, bodies, wings, and then tails, Bee charged the electricity in his blade.
When the dragons' maws were upon him, singeing his hair and threatening to burn his skin, Bee swung once.
—Crackle!
And a wave of lightning met the flame dragons' maws.
—Boom!
A huge explosion burst forth, however, neither Bee nor Suguru had been pushed back. The flame dragons continued forward and swung their claws, with each strike aiming for a different part of Bee's body.
Unfortunately for them...
—Shing!
Bee unsheathed another sword and rushed forward.
Lightning and flames collided once more. A mix of the most volatile reds and unpredictable blues created a symphony of destruction.
The dragons rampaged without any sign of technique or skill. They swung their huge, blazing bodies and flapped their wings.
And so, flames spread out in all directions.
Yet Killer Bee still remained unfazed as he danced to the blazing tune.
His Acrobat Kenjutsu was revealed, ever so slightly. Spinning, leaping, and slashing with lightning-infused steel.
Inside the raging dragons, Suguru moved his body as well. Like conducting an opera, he swung his hands and feet, forcing the flames to bend to his will.
The two clones moved.
And the dragons roared.
—Boom!
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