Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us

The Bigger They Are

Kouta and Meiko continued to observe Mana's leaking and overflowing bursts of dark blue chakra flares in shock and awe. To them, it was tough to understand or even to believe that their friend had after such a long time regained the ability to use chakra, augment her abilities and use ninja techniques. While, normally, the two would've felt relief about such an event and that Mana's troubles of identity would've been solved now they were far too stumped to feel such a thing. Maybe it was because of the excessive amount of events transpiring and piling up on one another: Shimo's death, Francho's colossal expansion and weight increase and others.

"Okay, now I'm totally lost..." Kusagoro flipped his hands up before smacking his forehead.

"Mana, your chakra is back! The shock must've forced your body to remove the mental restraints!" Kouta yelled out triumphantly. It took a brief moment for the young man to finally catch up with what had just happened. To understand all of the implications of this revelation but he was happy, the girl he loved was finally whole again and he'd get to know the side of her he had never seen before.

"Your chakra is leaking outside your own body – its size must be massive! Just how powerful were you before losing your control?" Meiko laughed out in surprise. The blacksmith must've seen this revelation as something to pull the team out of a tough spot, something to save them and the joy of finally regaining hope was getting the better of her.

"It must be all the training I've been doing without my chakra. I've strengthened myself so much that my physical chakra increased at least ten times in the Sun Disc arena, I can still feel my spiritual chakra growing right now to meet the physical chakra size and balance it out..." Mana expressed her own surprise after looking at her body which was expelling rays of darker sapphire blue flames, it was a much darker color than the typical light blue chakra color, which was another mystery of its own.

"It doesn't matter, Francho might just be ten times the size of the Earth and just his hands possess mass larger than the human mind can comprehend. He's as good as invulnerable..." Kusagoro grunted making the hope inside Kouta's and Meiko's eyes slowly dim before dying out completely.

"Oh no..." Mana shook her head angrily, her entire body began to tremble overflowing with the newly regained chakra, her whole essence was pretty much soaked with the augmentations that the new chakra could provide her. Yes, Mana knew it was immeasurably inconsequential compared to the force Kusagoro hit Francho with which appeared to be inefficient at best at much lesser mass of the Akimichi's body but Mana was a different kind of ninja.

"He killed Shimo. He doesn't get to hide behind his invulnerability. I'll beat him down, and just this time... I'll kill him!" Mana shouted out letting all of her built up chakra out before her hands went through a combination of hand seals, one that she had only used once and then lost the hope to master. The magician was seeking use of the elusive technique that she was attempting to control and use properly during the most of her ninja career but lacked control as well as chakra pool size.

"Sweet Lullaby Jutsu!" Mana exclaimed after setting her hands in the position of the final hand seal and then emitting a soft and sweet melody from her lips in the shape of a whistle. The gentle whistling tune filled the air and then Meiko, Kouta and Kusagoro fell to the ground grabbing at their abdomens and blushing. It appeared like their bodily temperature had risen almost like they had a fever but their eyes were wide open because their whole bodies were paralyzed with pleasure.

Finally, after regaining her control and drastically multiplying her chakra pool dozens of times Mana managed to pull the Sweet Lullaby off. Now that her body and mind were both as one after Shimo's death, now that both her conscious and unconscious parts wished nothing else but vengeance and justice for her friend's passing, stopping this maniacal Pirate Lord before he destroyed the whole world in his desperation.