The Child Of The Star

Chapter 45

Yoriichi crossed his arms blocking the sand whip, backflipping in the air he landed on his feet. With a grin on his face, he began spriting dodging the fuuton jutsu that Shukaku was launching at him. 

Yoriichi: Oi raccon!

Shukaku barely raised a sand wall as an exploding clone caught him off guard, the blast engulfed him. The explosion was strong enough to take out five squads of Jonin-type shinobi. 

The one-tailed roared as he sprinted out of the smoke unharmed, after all, he was a bijuu. Raiton-type chakra surged through Yoriichi, his heart and brain acting as control points for it. His body was engulfed in bright yellow lighting, his already incredible speed skyrocketed turning him into a bullet making its way to the bijuu. He pulled his fist back and let loose a punch just as he was close enough to his opponent. 

Shukaku roared, his massive claw swinging to intercept. The clash sent a shockwave through the mindscape the water was pushed back from the force of the clash, but Yoriichi grinned harder and the bijuu realized it too late. Everything turned in slow motion for the one-tail as Yoriichi's body glowed bright yellow and the lighting of the same colour exploded from Yoriichi. Another blast engulfed Shukaku, strong enough to blow him back. 

He quickly regained his composure quickly, he dug all of his paws stopping himself. Feeling the heat, Shukaku instinctively raised a large sand dome over him. The sand dome lit up turning bright yellow and orange. He narrowed his eyes and pushed the molten sand upwards towards the heat source. 

Yoriichi quickly changed the Raiton chakra rushing through his body into its opposite, nature. The shield of pure wind kept the liquefied hot sand away from him, unfortunately, the sand quickly turned into glass encasing him. He clicked his tongue as he fell being pulled down by mind gravity.

Yoriichi: 'Seriously why the fuck is there gravity in here?!'

Suddenly there was a flash of light, and Yoriichi's instincts flared up. He raised his arms up and coated them in armament haki. Another flash of light and he felt something heavy clash with his haki-coated arms, which was strong enough to push him back with such force that it shattered the glass encasing him. 

Regaining his balance in mid-air, he landed on his feet. Only to quickly sidestep as a large blade cut into the water-covered floor. Looking up, Yoriichi saw multiple clever-like blades.

Yoriichi: 'Since when- wait a second!'

Shukaku wasn't controlling normal sand it was iron sand! In fact, Ichibi's iron sand was even more refined than in the manga or in the show that he remembered. With a wide grin, Yoriichi began sprinting towards the towering bijuu. With a roar, Shukaku attacked again throwing his iron sand cleavers at him. These attacks were faster than any Jutsu the bijuu had used till now.

Focusing his mind, Yoriichi's observation haki came to life like lighting. Pushing his body and with a mixture of acrobatic flexibility only seen in professional gymnasts, he dodged through the cleaver attacks using even the smallest opening he found and slammed against it. Not letting any opening be unused by him. 

... Even as successful as he was Yoriichi still suffered from small cuts from the flying iron sand particles that Shukaku was smart enough to use against him, the cuts bled as the poison from the iron sand tried to slow him down

... Keyword tired.

Closing the distance between them, Yoriichi raised his hands, pushing his palms forward flames erupted from his skin covering his arms like gauntlets, letting his hands off like a barrage from a machine gun. With a palm slap, the bijuu's neck snapped upwards a backhand punch followed his jaw causing it to bust into a pile of sand.