A Different Perspective
Ah, I just can't get enough of the sun here. It really makes the fluids on my body feel more alive! The perfect mix of sunny weather and humidity. I couldn't have possibly asked for a better paradise to fight in. If only this damn war wasn't taking time away from my vacation.
I can't believe I have to perform joint operations with those Kaguya psychos because of one guy. It's practically unbelievable, I certainly didn't believe it at first when our intel reported that there was only the one puppeteer at the Suna camp.
He's personally ruined so many missions, killed so many people, that the less jaded have started to buy into the propaganda about him. I mean, I get that he killed a potential heir to the Seven Swordsmen, but that doesn't make him some kind of unkillable monster.
Hm, 'Puppet Fucker'? 'Doll Fetishist'? Not quite sure what I'll spread around. Has to be something suitably insulting, but not too scary since I don't want to help his rumors, so no 'Cannibal of the Sands' or anything like that. I heard that Suna bribed Takumi village to spread around 'Thousand Eyes', but that stopped getting pushed when he started focusing more on active combat missions.
…
There!
Step. Left, back hop, front right, behind! *boom*
He is here.
*whistle!*
Come one, converge. Converge on my position.
Shit, the Kaguya's squads are fighting on their own.
Have to get off the ground, I read he picked up Iwa tactics from when he was fighting them. Into the trees, that's not so easy for him to grab people.
Fuck! What kind of idiot lights the whole fucking forest on fire?
Oh my god, are those Kaguya pricks laughing? They are. God damned morons.
Why? Why can't I have decent help?
… Run … run … run …there! A river
No. Shit! How did he get his puppets set up ahead of me?
He knew. He knew I was going to go to water. That fucker forced me here by using the fires.
Have to regroup with the Kaguya.
So long… is this bedrock?
No. NO! You can't just block off river beds like that. How else am I supposed to escape?
Fuck. I hate fighting, but you've left me no choice.
Are those Lightning release puppets? No way. There is no way he knows our weakness. *gulp* Who did he break? Did he get it from Akira? How would
he have even known, that's a clan secret!
Time to make my daring escape.
Even if I can't go down through the water I can still go over the surface to someplace I can.
… run … run … run. Did he kawarimi in front of me? How?
Nonononono. No more of this bullshit! Water Dragon No Jutsu!
You can dodge that, but can you dodge the Water Bullets shoot at you while in midair?!
…Apparently you can. What was that, chakra threads? Fucking hell.
Fine! You want to play like that, huh? Great Water Arm. Ugh, feels gross.
*Clang!* How much chakra did he use to reinforce these things?
*chichichi* "Ahhhh!"
"Don't go dying on my just yet Hozuki, I have plans for you yet."
"You think I'm afraid of you? Heh, there's no torture you can pull out that will make a difference on me. I'm a fucking Hozuki, we're awesome like that."
"Oh, I know. That's what makes this so interesting."
*chichichichi*
Date: Seven months twenty one days after awakening
Subject: After action report, Kaguya fight
The Kaguya members had really high yang chakra, makes sense as they're basically the corollary of the Senju. I tried drugs, they just shrugged them off, I tried direct attacks, which did nothing against their bone armor. I figured that they might be like Alexandria and tried the Skitter thing, but apparently they were pretty bullshit because they had no problem fighting with their eyes closed and crushing my bugs with their mouths rather than allow them down their throats.
Talk about a tiresome fight. No real elemental weaknesses, genjutsu did work but was pointless since I couldn't damage them anyway.
They protected their lungs with chakra when I tried fire, their bones apparently block chakra scalpels from penetrating deeply. They were strong enough to break their way out of the dirt when I tried pulling them under.
Seriously hax.
How on earth did the Mizukage kill these guys off?
Date: Seven months twenty three days after awakening
Subject: Hydration technique
I've been looking into the Hydration technique as used by Hozuki Hogetsu, my captive. It's really disappointing. As in, I'll probably never be able to do anything at all similar, and might not even be able to do stuff like the Hiding in Surface technique.
Due to the way that I've locked my soul into puppet bodies and forced them to be semi-recognized as 'real' bodies, I can't really dissolve the bodies and merge them with the elements, and even if I could I would likely end up unable to recreate a stable body when I wanted to come back.
The issue is that there's far too much confusion going on, there's my last life's body, which is what my soul recognizes as legitimate, there's this life's original body, and then there's the puppet bodies that I've forced my chakra to match. In order to rebuild things I would need to have as instinctive an understanding of the puppets as most people here do their own bodies.
If I tried to rebuild a body without that I would probably end up with some horrid abomination, back in my crippled body, or worse yet, back in my Original body and being weaker than the lowliest of civilians due to the total lack of adaption to chakra.
This pisses me off.
I had to create a special approach to get a yin seal to stick on this guy. Running a small continuous stream of lightning through the water is enough to force him into solidity. That's the only way genjutsu will even work on him, otherwise he can just turn fluid and have the influencing chakra get disrupted.
I guess it's not quite so bad, I finally got Water release stuff, one of the skills I wanted most.
Once his mind broke he turned to a blob. The things I could have done with a fluidic puppet...
I'm storing the blob until I can see if I can restore it to a useful form later.
The jutsu I managed to get off him, that I can actually use given that I can't dissolve into water safely, are the Water Bullet and Water Dragon jutsu I saw him use before, as well as the Hiding in Mist and Water Prison, which are fairly common to high ranked Kiri shinobi in general.
I wonder if I can get the 'Copy Nin' epithet before Kakashi is born? Nah, he got it for acting like a smart-ass and aping people's moves
during combat. I'm not that reckless.
Date: Seven months twenty seven days after awakening
Subject: Large mobilization
Chukichi thinks that since the Kaguya faced me without receiving a scratch that they're my perfect counter. Yeah, keep on thinking that.
There's a massive mobilization planned. Kiri wants to throw down, Konoha wants to oblige them, Kaga's thinking that it's not a terrible idea. I know how I'm going to counter the Kaguya.
Of course, the other major players might be a problem, but not
my problem.
If I can get that main branch Hyuuga then I could probably pull off some cool shit. Maybe put his eyes into a Kaguya body and see if they evolve.
Date: Eight Months two days after awakening
Subject: Hoshigakure
It took a really long time to move my puppets along the border of Earth country without being notices. I probably could have gone faster, but I suppose it doesn't matter that much.
This meteor is interesting. I haven't sent people in just yet, but just from the show it contradicts the story of Kaguya and the Sage. Chakra from outer space.
Also probably radioactive, but that's less important.
Unless the moon people made a random meteor chock full of radioactive chakra and sent it down to the Elemental Nations as a trap then it doesn't really fit with the whole "the Sage gave everyone chakra first" explanation. And if the Otsutsuki clan
did cause the meteorite then they
suck at aiming, since Bear country is practically unpopulated.
I wish the history made more sense, then I wouldn't have to be stressing so much over whether or not Kaguya is real and who the real powers in this world are. It's kind of really unlikely that the canon explanation is real in this world, since so much of that was just unplanned rampant escalation, shounen bullshit and character wank. Historical inconsistency is hard to rationalize, either because there's data missing or it's inherently irrational.
AN:
Not that our protagonist isn't wtf overpowered anyway
Not really. Not compared to most the badasses seen in the show, and he's living in an era where there are more OP guys running around than almost any other period.
Still waiting for a larger plot to come into play, but the story has the advantage that it's progressing through time fairly quickly. If nothing else it'll catch up with canon events in short order.
Well, if by canon events you mean the fighting in Ame, the rise of Konoha's White Fang and the Legendary Sannin, then yeah. But too many butterflies will abound for much of the later cannon to occur in any sort of recognizable way.