Chapter LX: Survival

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As the two remaining elemental attacks came at them from behind, Shiozaki desperately raised a dome to protect them, barely blocking it in time. Kakazu analyzed their reactions and repositioned his masks.

Shiozaki asked, "Is everyone ok?"

Before an answer could come, Orochimaru's huge snake charged straight toward them and dug its head into the ground to fling multiple boulders toward them. "Acid Man!"

Mina covered herself in a large glob of acid that incinerated the blocks on contact and Ojiro ran toward Kakazu himself, 'There's seriously no time to breathe with these guys! They're relentless!'

The fire mask turned and shot multiple fireballs at him, but he weaved past them and engaged in close combat with Kakazu. He dodged a punch and aimed for a nerve in his arm, shutting it down and making it go limp before swinging his tail at Kakazu's head.

Kakazu grunted, but the strings inside his body twirled endlessly until he could reuse his arm and choke out Ojiro, extending his arm and slamming him into the ground before his lightning heart aimed a blast at Ojiro.

Ojiro went wide-eyed at the incoming lightning and couldn't break out, but Kirishima ran in out of nowhere and tanked the lightning blast. "Kirishima!"

Mina smiled while weaving the purple snake's attacks. "There you are!"

Kakazu glared, "You..."

Kirishima exclaimed, "I got you, Ojiro!" Kakazu extended his other arm to try and wrap around Kirishima again.

Thoughts of Kirishima's training passed through his mind, 'Just being a shield in war isn't enough; I'm the spear, too now!' He hardened into his unbreakable form, although his forearms continued to harden more and more. The hardened plates built up and extended over his hands until they became a jagged blade that sliced through the tentacles in Kakazu's arms. "You're not killing anyone else, ever again!"

He sliced through the other arm, holding Ojiro, and charged for Kakazu. Kakazu tried to jump back, but Kirishima was persistent. He tried to knee Kirishima, but he headbutted his knee hard enough to crack it, and then he stabbed him through the stomach with his arm.

Kakazu hunched over and Kirishima tried to follow up, but the wind mask blew him back toward the other students while Kakazu stitched up his own wounds. Kirishima stared at the closing wound with wide eyes, "That did... nothing?"

At the same time, Mina dodged past the large snakes and Orochimaru's attacks while landing acid on him, only for the snake to shed those pieces of skin away. She turned to Kodai, Shiozaki, and Yanagi who seemed frozen in place watching the fight. Mina yelled, "Don't just stand there! This isn't just training anymore! They could kill us!"

They snapped to their senses just as the fire and wind heart blasted at Shiozaki. Shiozaki put up her vines again, but the wind and fire went through them with ease. Yanagi and Kodai yelled, "Shiozaki!"

The two sprung to action, combining their quirks and expanding a piece of metal like a wall to block the fire, but the wind cut right through it and sliced through part of Shiozaki's stomach.

There was no scream, but she collapsed and the two girls ran to her side to cover her wound, "Shiozaki!!!"

Kirishima looked back at her with a dropped mouth while they tried to wrap up the blood pouring from her side. Shiozaki tried to hold back tears with a weak voice, "I... I'll live..."

He gritted his teeth. He ran at Kakazu with more fervor, "DAMN YOU, BASTARD!"

Strings burst from Kakazu's mouth and wrapped around Kirishima, but he cut them up piece by piece and tried to stab through Kakazu again, only for it to barely pierce Kakazu's skin that darkened. Kirishima tried to push it in further, but Kakazu grabbed his arm and punched him hard enough to make plates peel off his face, "Did you think getting angry would let you win? All it did was make you tunnel-visioned.”

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