The Snake leaves his lair (Open/up to 4)

[Deleted post first time, time for second shittier post cri. Also assuming it's fine to skip Arashi because he's watching]

Takeo was a fan of overkill. That much was evidenced during his flashy destruction of Tengakure. Ha flashy, get it? Explosion, flash....anyway back on topic. A bit of flair never hurt anyone. Unless of course the person was weak enough that the flair did kill them. In which case overkill had been achieved. So, here he stood. With a basic move out of the way. Literally only inches after it had been thrown. Takeo still stood there with his hands up praising the lord for this moment. Then, he spotted something sinister. Denkiteki, that snakey bastard himself, was moving. The Byakugan granted him this vision, that of Denkiteki clearly moving to try and form handseals of all things! Clearly Denkiteki was mistaking this for a fight of some sort? A battle perhaps. A clash between the leader and solider. A clash of former Tenkage, the third and the usurper that became the fourth? Takeo would have laughed if he had the time. Denkiteki obviously had misunderstood. This wasn't a battle.

It was an execution.

Lightning chakra ignited inside of him, flowing through his body. His reflexes were bolstered as well as his chakra reserves, a black diamond forming itself underneath his right eye. The effects were instantaneous, a result of years of practice with the technique. Once it required eating lightning, now it required mere will for the activation of one of his favourite techniques. With the halberd half way to what would be it's final destination, Takeo performed several actions in quick succession. Several chakra like constructs would form into existence around him in a semi-circle. They were about the size of his arm individually. Around two foot in length, with a diameter of around half a foot at the base, moving into a sharp point at the other end. Ten of them formed themselves into existence. Five of them were fired forth, rocketing forward in tow with the lightning halberd.

Using it as a way to mask their presence, they would arrive at the wooden barrier at the same instance. Being of stronger nature to the halberd, the would remain unaffected by the resulting explosion when it hit the wooden wall. In fact it would work to their advantage. The five would remain hidden to basic chakra sensory, and chakra vision naturally. Using the halberds exploding effect in a way that would be similar to that of a smoke screen would be used against those with normal vision. With the makeshift screen, they would clash with the wooden trees.

They would burst out the other side immediately, finding less resistance than a hot knife cutting through butter. Yes that easily. With that done, they would burst out the trees in a surprising fashion. Aiming to travel the remaining fourteen and a half meters to Denkiteki. Why fourteen (and a half!) meters you ask? Quite simple really. The lightning halberd was exactly like it's appearance in the application. But wait what's an application? Takeo didn't know, but he was sure its very mention broke the fourth wall. Holy shit was Takeo Deadpool? Or was it Den, since he could regenerate. Regardless. So yes fourteen and a half meters because -

If this was the case Den would also start jogging backwards

- it turned out to not be the case? Hohohohoho.

Like stealth missiles, or stealth kunai being thrown really fast, the thorns flew forward towards Den. One of them, named Tim...not really, aimed to pierce through the man's head. Hitting around the mid-facial area if it struck true. Another would aim to go through his chest, striking through the heart. The third little thorny would be made to rip through the lower stomach, intestines would be cut. The fourth and fifth would be spread a meter or to either side, aiming to do the same as the second if Denkiteki tried to dodge to the right or left.

Now of course Takeo would be caught by the trees behind him, and would lose the fight immediately after. Right? Riiiiiight? Wrong! As soon as the thorns were formed, another chakra construct sprung to life. The One Way Road formed itself, the roots and all that being repelled away harder than a completely heterosexual and in no way insecure homophobe. And in the most casual manner, Takeo would step out through the hole made by the thorns, unless it closed in which case he'd just like hop through a gap or over the trees or some shit. At some point he'd toss a kunai with a primed explosive tag into the air at a high arc.

Takeo would move to stand like ten or so meters off to the left of the wooden trees. Unless something stopped him or something like that.

659 AP

As the thorns emerged from the explosion caused by the halberd, which they'd do almost immediately after breaking through the wall because they were moving twice as fast as the explosion was, Den realized he should probably move and activated Sage Mode, releasing the hand seal he had been holding as well. His eyes gained serpentine features on top of their sharingan tomoe as the thorns became no longer blurs but in fact seemed rather slow to the Sage now.

Using an advanced tactic he learned during his days in Kirigakure, Den began to move as quickly as he could to the right when he saw the thorns, doing so at 105 speed. He'd travel half a meter and then stop, the thorns having traveled a distance of slightly less than a meter in the time it took Den to make this movement. Den would keep his head turned towards the explosion as he made the movement, to keep an eye on the thorns that had emerged from it and also to see where Takeo would emerge from. As he stopped he'd keep his body facing the direction he'd moved, that allowed him to remain safe in his current position as the thorns neared and then passed by him, none touching the Hogokage as the thorns that had been shot to the sides had a gap of a meter between them and the one shot at Den's heart. After they passed he'd turn so that his body would be facing the direction Takeo's chakra signature was coming from.

Den would use his chakra sensory abilities to keep track of Takeo, whose chakra potency had increased immensely. He'd definitely become powerful, Den couldn't deny that. Den would watch Takeo as he emerged from the explosion, his chakra vision noting he large field of chakra around him. As his former squadmate casually moved to the right Den considered attacking him again but decided against it. That strange chakra field and the thorns seemed quite dangerous, it would probably be best if Den didn't try to go for a direct assault. If he played it safe he could force Takeo to burn through a good portion of his chakra to sustain his abilities.

Den would throw a shuriken from his pouch at the thrown kunai, thanks to Sage Mode his weapon would easily knock the kunai off course and both weapons would fly off, neither going anywhere near the former Tenkages.

"You've gotten strong Tak, but you've already used way to much chakra. If you quit now we can pretend this didn't happen." Den spoke as Takeo reached his destination, unless of course he started doing another attack. Den doubted Tak would head his words but he hoped he'd at least feel the need to make some sort of remark.

Nori:
The contract snake would look off in the distance towards where Den had walked off to, wishing he was there to give him guidance on who within the village could be trusted with signing the scroll. Looking back to Dusk the snake would simply nod, the boy seemed cheerful enough that Shou's great grand kids might enjoy his company.

-1 AP for sharingan
+10 from sage transformation
Net 9 AP gained
32 AP expended thus far

2/20 towards Nexus of Energy
1 Nature Energy gained from Nexus of Energy
2 Stacks stored in Kokou

Sage Mode Stats
100 Health
135 Chakra
210 Speed
155 Strength

[Skipping to get this done with real quick.]

Well, Den literally did nothing of note. Except for maybe now he looked more like a snake? Takeo wasn't sure, he didn't really care. The man seemed faster now by any means, which made things quite difficult. This was boring, Denkiteki was supposed to be dead already. For an atrocious combatant he was proving to be a pain in the ass. Takeo listened, eyes shining with amusement, as Denkiteki spoke to him. He wasn't wrong, Takeo wasn't exactly being conservative about this. Likely his chakra reserves would give out quite quickly at this rate. But did that matter? Takeo had thought he was smarter than this. Had a petty grudge clouded his judgement? That was more than likely the case.

The chakra shield around him faded. From the way things were going he doubted he needed it. The five remaining thorns floated over him in a semi-circle. They were waiting for a command, they wanted blood. Or maybe it was just Takeo who wanted that. "Your stalling tactic is boring me Den." Takeo commented, sweeping his hair back out of his eyes. One of these days he'd get a haircut. At some point during his comment, his right hand had drawn out another kunai. Spinning it around between his fingers he examined the situation. "I wonder, did Xyxer cut off your balls during your battle?" Takeo was slowly regaining some sense. Bloodlust had blinded him earlier on. But in order to come out of this with a satisfying conclusion he needed to keep his wits about him.

"Unfortunately, I have no plans on walking away from this. Not unless you lie dead." Takeo paused, that sounded awful cliche and unlike him. "I guess maybe I'll leave if I find myself wounded enough. Grudges are great and all, but it isn't worth dying over." Takeo had stopped talking to Den at some point, having begun to try and convince himself that this was the case. "Anyway, you get the point right? This ain't ending in a draw." The thorns twitched forward ever so slightly. Takeo hadn't noticed of course, how could he? His bloodlust was taking over again. How should he deal with this pest? He wasn't exactly sure. Obviously the way to go was more overkill. He wanted this to be glorious after all.

There was puff of smoke, Takeo noted it out of the corner of his eye. He glanced to the left. A slug, looked familiar. A letter was dropped into his free hand. With a frown, he opened it one-handed and began to read through it. The slug disappeared at some point during this, Takeo didn't really care much about that. A frown appeared on his face as he read through the letter. Takeo crushed the letter in his hand. "Idiot." He muttered. He glanced back towards Denkiteki. Of course he'd have kept his eye on him via Byakugan just in case he tried something shady. Takeo had a choice. It had to be made now, there was probably no going back from either. "Ah, fuck it." He grabbed the kunai in a firm grip, time to get this over with.

He stabbed himself in the side. Pulling the kunai away and dropping it, he placed his right hand on the self-inflicted wound. "Oh dear, I find myself wounded. Seems you win." Takeo called over. "I suppose I'll have to flee and go recover now." With that, Takeo spun on his heels and darted off away from the village. Revenge would have to come at a later date, if at all. That woman truly was a massive pain in the ass.

[Exit?]

3115

4000/4000 Water Element Learned

672 going towards Great Exploding Colliding Wave

31 AP if possible?

Oh yeah since we're technically outside, using this to just skip straight to the borders.

Edit: Memorising Den's chakra also

(Sorry for not posting on Dusk, will edit at a later time)

So the whole while that Dusk had been staring at the scroll, he noted the names in blood and was also given permission my the Snake, Nori, to sign the scroll itself. Due to that he pulled out a small kunai and pressed it against his thumb in which he signed the scroll before putting his hand print into his. A smile now on his face, he bandaged his wound and hugged the snake before turning to wherever Den had went.

approving Tak so he can get voided traveling

Takeo called out Den's stalling tactic, yet still it seemed to work. As expected Takeo reverted back to verbally assaulting Den rather than actually assaulting him, making a comment about the incident in which Xyxer had cut Den in half.

As he continued Den realized Takeo was speaking to himself at this point, and watched as the unpredictable mind of Takeo examined the situation, at first claiming he wasn't going to stop until Den was dead. The only thing that really surprised Den was when one of Aki's slugs appeared next to his former subordinate, but the Sage simply continued to watch the display before him.

"It was good seeing you too Tak." Was all Den would say as the white haired boy forfeited the battle and went on his way, the doctor hoping that Takeo would at least get the self inflicted wound treated before he traveled to far.  

Looking towards the small mess they created Den decided he should probably clean things up. Luckily the road made a turn not long after the gate so Takeo  and Den hadn't been fighting on the road itself but a crater with two walls of trees on either side of it would appear odd to any travelers. Using his enhanced strength Den would uproot the walls of trees he made and threw them over a hill, out of sight from the road, making sure they didn't land on any people or animals as they landed. He then used his earth release jutsu to deal with the hole, activating the Moving Earth Core technique a number of times.  

He'd also desummon Nori while he was working, realizing he'd left the poor snake stranded in the village.

After he finished Den decided against walking back into the village and continuing his walk, he'd had enough excitement for one day. After he finished raising the ground to get rid of the hole there Den would teleport back to Sanctuary. He had things he wanted to check up on there.

Exit
3918 towards Sage Art: True Power of the White Dragon (25% training reduction)

(guess exit and claiming snake summons???)