Chapter 58 - 58 (2/2)
He avoided over 10 of his enemy's attacks, but he knew that should not work for ever. When all is said and done, his enemy is a Jinchuriki. How long could Ryo last by just running and hiding?
The situation became really stagnant, and that doesn't help Ryo. He is sure to run out on Chakra before his foe.
He didn't want to sit back and wait. He kept on trying to attack while looking for Bunpuku's weaknesses.
Hard work pays off, and Ryo found what he was looking for: Bunpuku was standing still every time that released a Jutsu. The reason for that is that he was slow when it came to forming seals, as he wasn't trained by ninjas. It took him about two seconds to release a Jutsu. If interrupted, that would make for a guaranteed 3 seconds where he does nothing at all.
”Hiro, I found his weakness. I'll attack him and when I tell you, use [Water Release: Gunshot] to attack him.”
Ryo said that really loud. There wasn't only Gamahiro that heard that clearly, there was also his opponent, Bunpuku!
The latter didn't believe any of Ryo's words. After all, no ninja would announce his tactics so loudly. He was very confident in Shukaku's absolute defense. Even to tailed coat is non damageable by ordinary Ninjas.
That's exactly what Ryo was relying on. No Ninja would shout out his combat plan. He knew well that while Bunpuku wouldn't be shaken by his words, Gamahiro would still prepare himself to attack on his command.
The next time Bunpuku attacked, Ryo shouted out loud: ”Hiro, attack!”
Hiro's Water Gunshot had exactly the impact that Ryo had imagined. His foe was completely focused on forming his seals. By the time he noticed Hiro's attack coming, he had no time to avoid it.
”Freeze!” Ryo froze the great masse of water, and a huge water ball fell from the air.
The Ichibi is a tailed monster claimed to give his owner an absolute defense. When hit by that huge Ice ball, only the coat had serious damage done to it, while Bunpuku had a minor injury.
Bunpuku wiped the blood from his mouth and had a glimmer of madness show up in his eyes as Shukaku started to take over his mind.
The relationship between the two of them wasn't that bad. At the very least, Shukaku didn't interfere with Bunpuku's fighting when in war.
But the thing was, Shukaku's Chakra thrived when its Jinchuriki had more negative emotions, and those erupted inside of Bunpuku when he was injured.
His body started slowly changing just like Gaara's in the Manga, and he went into partial transformation. However, Ryo was actually getting him there on purpose.
The Ice ball's wreckage was right behind Bunpuku, and Ryo used it to teleport behind him. He then used a Kunai to hit him from his blind spot with a [Thousand Years of Death]!
Obviously, Ryo remembered that Naruto was able to use this technique in the manga to break Gaara's partial transformation
Now, using the same principle, Ryo was also able to do the same thing to Bunpuku as well.
”I didn't expect you to see through the blind point of Shukaku's partial transformation. Just like Rasa said, you have a special teleportation technique, you are great kid!” Bunpuku was showing his sincere admiration for Ryo.
”Do you want to continue?” Ryo's Chakra had already bottomed out and he had to take a food pill before asking that question.
”Oh, I promised Chiyo that will definitely kill you. Yet, it seems that I can't do it. So, let's bring out Shukaku!” As he finished his words, Bunpuku closed his eyes.