The Great Shinobi Empires of Jihopan (Naruto Quest, AU Canon)

You thrusted your hand forward and sent a wave of sand at Shigetaka, who flipped backwards to avoid the attack! You grinned and formed a wall of sand behind him in order to trap him, but Shigetaka rapidly made hand seals and a thin pillar of earth raised from the ground underneath him. Your sand crashed into the pillar and broke it, but Shigetaka had produced some kunai from...somewhere, and threw them at you! Your sand rapidly intercepted the kunai but in the time you blocked them, Shigetaka had vanished.

"Nou, behind you!" Sozen cried out. Spinning around you saw Shigetaka running at you, his fists coated in earth like a rocky glove! He threw a punch which your sand once again blocked, but suddenly the attack went through! You gasped in shocked and backed away, the rocky fists now were covered in a black coating with vicious looking spikes on the knuckles!

"How the hell?" you growled, creating a large wave of sand to engulf Shigetaka in. His 'gloves' suddenly shattered as he made more hand seals, creating a thick wall made of the same material in front of him, which easily withstood the sand! He jumped on top of the wall and glared at you before speaking, "I shall not explain my abilities."

Then with a single hand seal, his skin was now covered in a black looking armor with spikes emerging from his shoulders and fists. He jumped off the wall, right towards you! You threw another wave of sand, but he raised his arm in the air and chopped at the sand, cleanly splitting the entire wave in the middle! You sent multiple spikes of sand at Shigetaka, but as they crashed against his black armor and scattered into particles. Shigetaka then made hand seals and thrusted his fists forward, the spikes coming from his fist flying off them and right towards you!

What will you do?

[] Counter attack while your natural defense does its job!

[] Blow it away with a wind jutsu!

[] Take to the air to dodge!

[] Actively defend against the attack!

[] Write In.

Seeing how these attacks suddenly pierced your defense, you didn't want to risk merely blocking. Making a hand seal, you jumped backwards and landed on a platform of sand and flew into the air. Shigetaka looked upwards as the spikes flew into the distance, then made another hand seal. The armor covering Shigetaka suddenly converged onto one hand and rapidly fired off his fist! You threw wave after wave of sand at it to stop the attack, but it easily blew through your defenses!

Swearing, you flew downwards to avoid it, but then you heard the sound of metal tearing and scraping! Looking up, the orb had exploded into shrapnel! Thankfully you naturally defense managed to intercept the shards but now it was very clear as to what Shigetaka could do! Looking down on him you said, "you can manipulate metal? That would explain your defenses...though not how you could cut through my sand so easily!"

"Are you going to stay hiding in the air?" Shigetaka asked, staring at you.

"I don't have much reason to go down there," you snidely replied.

Shigetaka rapidly made hand seals and them slammed both hands on the ground, "Steel Release: Industrialization."

Suddenly, the ground underneath Shigetaka was covered in the black steel and it rapidly expanded! The expanding steel didn't just cover the ground, it also covered many of the trees, turning them into lifeless looking, bare spikes. Sozen had to jump to avoid being covered by the steel, as did Suguru, and you could only hope Sasori didn't get caught by the jutsu! Eventually the steel stopped expanding, but from your vision on high, you saw it had expanded for miles!

You tried to send a wave of sand at Shigetaka, trying to attack him from behind, but you felt nothing! You grimaced and tried again, and nothing happened once more. You manipulated some of sand from your platform, and you were still flying, so you knew he didn't negate your powers! But then it hit you, his jutsu must have turned all the dirt and soil into steel...so you couldn't create more sand! Focusing you chakra, you controlled deeper under the steel landscape and thankfully felt earth! You tried to make it spike up under Shigetaka, but the sand you created merely crashed against the steel, unable to get through it!

"You manage to create your jutsu by manipulating your unique chakra, crushing dirt and minerals into sand. As long as there is a proper amount of land, you can fight anywhere. A versatile ability," Shigetaka explained. "So I covered the land with my steel. My steel is much stronger than what mere weaponry is created out of, it shall not break easily."

"And what if I just fly to a place where there is earth for me to use!" you shouted back.

"You can, but it will make no difference," Shigetaka impassively replied.

"Bastard...!" you growled.

What will you do!

[] Do as you said, fly until you find some earth, turn it into sand, and come back reloaded!

[] Assault Shigetaka with your wind jutsu! You aren't a one trick pony!

[] Use the sand you have to use Dance of the Drilling Sand and penetrate the steel!

[] Stay in the air and focus on dodging! You still have the aerial advantage, you can wait him out!

[] Write In!

You were going to test just how powerful that steel of his was! Making hand seals, you formed compressed drills of sand and earth underneath the steel covered ground! Shigetaka was about make hand seals for his own attack, but you shouted out, "Dance of the Drilling Sand!"

You raised your hand, the diamond hard drills spinning underneath the steel. Shigetaka looked down as the drills suddenly pierced the steel! Before he could react further, you clapped your hands and had the drills converge on him, four of them easily piercing through his torso! Shigetaka then morphed into a weird, black statue of himself that fell to the ground, clanging like steel against...steel.

"Nou, to the left!" Sozen shouted, directing your attention to the side. You saw Shigetaka emerging from the steel ground, as if he was fused with it! He clapped his hands and suddenly dozens of thin, steel spires erupted from the ground! You flew out of the way, but the spires suddenly bent, changing directions to chase you! You cursed and quickly made some sand now available from the holes you drilled out.

"Let's see how you deal with this! Dance of the Cutting Sand!" you smugly declared, forming super compressed swords that surrounded you. You moved out of the way, dodging the spire once again, but you countered by slashing your swords at the spires! There was some resistance, but after a moment you cut clean through them!

"Ha! Your steel is durable, but my sand can cut through it!" you jeered at Shigetaka. He didn't respond, but he did make a single hand seal and swiped his arm to the right. You gasped as you felt your tool pouch powerfully move to the right, throwing you off your sand platform! He was controlling your shinobi tools! Before you could rip off the tool pouch, your heard the shattering of metal and agony spread over the right side of your body. He exploded your weaponry, shredding your pouch and sending dozens of shrapnel into your body! If it wasn't for your Armor of Sand blunting the damage, it could have killed you...!

Then suddenly your forehead protector slid down over your eyes, taking away your sight! He could even manipulate that bit of metal?! The cold claw of fear gripped your chest. Distantly, you could hear Sozen shouting that Shigetaka was about to finish you off! You had to do something...but what?!

Critical Moment!

[] Use a wind jutsu to blow yourself away from whatever will happen! But you don't know where you'll go...

[] Cover yourself in as much sand as possible to cushion the attack! But what if it goes through...

[] Use your Dance of the Unbreakable Sand to defend yourself! But could you get it off in time?

[] "You're in trouble, I don't wanna lose a fine piece of ass like you as a vessel...c'mon, let me go wild!"

[] Write In

"I don't want to do this...but...I can't lose! If I lose here...then I will have to leave the Sand! I can't! Shukaku...do what you must..." you bitterly thought. You shrieked as a sphere of sand surrounded you and you felt the left half of your body accumulate sand. You lost control of your body, but you were still aware what was happening. Something powerfully struck the sphere of sand and sent you rocketing to the ground, but a powerful burst of sand cushioned you from the fall. Without your doing, you opened your mouth and began cackling madly, ripping off your forehead protector with a monstrous claw made out of sand.

"HAHAHAHAAH! Finally, I get to play for a bit!" Shukaku bellowed out. Your left half was now covered by sand that looked like a miniature version of the One Tailed Tanuki. "Sorry to interfere, but you were gonna hurt this nice vessel of mine! Out of the three vessels I'm in, I admit, this one is my favorite! Nice tits, sweet ass...if only she wasn't a fuckin' prude!"

"Nou!" Sozen shouted, gaining Shukaku's attention.

"Ah yeah, the family man! What do you say, big boy, wanna be my daddy?" Shukaku luridly said to Sozen, making the Uchiha cringe with disgust.

"I am your opponent," Shigetaka impassively said as he suddenly appeared in front of Shukaku. However, Shukaku lifted his monstrous arm to block Shigetaka's steel enhanced punch and push him away. Then the sand consumed the right half of your body, allowing Shukaku absolute control over your body.

"Aw man, this feels so damn good! Finally that bitch lets me top for a bit! Anyway, you emotionless fuckhead, I wanna play with you until you fuckin' break!" Shukaku threatningly said, looking at Shigetaka. "Then after that, I dunno, maybe I'll go fuck until I'm no longer backed up!"

"Filthy beast," Shigetaka muttered, making hand seals to form spires of steel once again, but Shukaku hardened his sandy skin to block the spires! With an insane laugh, he formed a massive sand drill in the sky, using all the sand he could currently muster!

"This metal is ruining my mood, how about I slip into something more comfortable!" Shukaku said as he made the massive drill pierce the metal floor Shigetaka had created. Everyone jumped backwards and defended themselves against the sandy debris as the sound of metal screeching and tearing rang throughout the sky. Once the sand settled, there was a large crater in front of Shukaku now, no metal within the immediate area to get in the way! "Let's go!"

What will Shukaku do?

[] Get under the earth and make a desert to play with!

[] Capture and crush Shigetaka!

[] Use some wind jutsu to inflict some pain!

[] "No...! I must...regain...control!"

[] Write In.

Nou's Battle Theme (Shukaku Full Control)

Shukaku jumped into the crater, his demonic chakra easily spreading through the earth and turning it into sand. The ground underneath the steel was soon sand and then Shukaku slammed his monstrous claws on the ground, sending a powerful ripple through the sand that bent and tore the steel ground!

"Steel Release: Shrapnel," Shigetaka emotionlessly said, exploding the steel around Shukaku into large chunks of steel. Shukaku madly laughed and easily pushed away all the metal with the large amount of sand he had created.

"Fuckin' prick! Take thiiiiiiis!" Shukaku bellowed before inhaling so much air that his stomach expanded. Then he slammed his arm on his stomach, belching out a powerful orb of compacted air! Shigetaka managed to raise a wall of steel before the attack hit, but this was merely a distract for Shukaku to send a massive wave of sand crashing on top of the Shimokage! After a moment, Shigetaka burst from the sand, covered in steel armor that was cracked and had bits falling off, revealing bloodied skin.

"Degenerate beast..." Shigetaka muttered as he made hand seals, but suddenly a geyser of sand sent him into the air! With a movement of his claw, Shukaku made a large sphere of sand that trapped Shigetaka! Before Shukaku could crush the Shimokage, a large steel trident pierced the sphere and Shigetaka, covered in black armor once more, escaped the sphere! He pointed the trident at Shukaku and launched it at the demon!

"Hey, maybe it's your turn to be penetrated!" Shukaku roared as he formed a large spear made of sand, compressing it as he threw it at the trident Shigetaka threw! Shukaku's eyes widened as Shigetaka's trident easily pierced the sand spear and was flying right at him! Shukaku raised a massive wall of sand that the trident still pierced through, and in order to avoid getting impaled, Shukaku merged with the sand at his feet and reemerged a few yards away. "I'm all for gettin' impaled on a rod, but how the fuck did your tiny spear go through my fuckin' sand?!"

"Steel Release: Trident of Perfection," Shigetaka said, forming the large, ornate trident, the three prongs were tipped with drills that spun rapidly! "This is a jutsu I invented, one that maximizes shape manipulation and chakra control to its highest point. I have not found anything that could defend against this weapon, truly perfection."

"The fuck is with that weapon, you compensating for your tiny cock?" Shukaku growled, getting ready to attack.

"To distract you," Shigetaka calmly replied. Suddenly, Shukaku felt cold steel touch his sandy body. Turning his head around, Shukaku saw a clone of Shigetaka that said, "Steel Release: Petrification."

Shukaku swung at the clone which exploded into a mass of metal that covered the demon! Shukaku madly screamed as he tried to rip off the steel, but it kept growing over his skin! Soon it was wrapped around his torso and covering his legs! It was rapidly spreading to Shukaku's chest as Shigetaka hefted the trident above his head.

"I'd rather not kill you but I cannot see a way of ending this without lethal force. The Uchiha will be a proper prize for the Frost anyway," Shigetaka said, throwing the trident directly at Shukaku!

"YOU FUCKER!" Shukaku howled.

What will Shukaku do?!

Critical Moment!

[] Merge into the sand underneath to escape!

[] Harden the sand on his skin as much as possible to defend!

[] Counter with a tidal wave of sand!

[] Blow that damn trident away with some wind!

[] Write In.