Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-24937485-20161214011750/@comment-24937485-20161221005135

That monstrous chakra signature, it was powerful enough to be picked up all the way in Konoha and within seconds word got delivered to Ikeru Senju who calmly stood up from his desk and untied his long red hair that fell down over his shoulders like long red manes.

“I can no longer sit idle.”.

And with that he was gone, consumed by a bright flame that was customary to his Fire Style body-flicker. The speed of his departure was of such heights that it blew out all of the windows in his office from the shockwave that spread out. There was no time to waste, not with an enemy such as he had felt, those squads, those genin, they were far too young to handle someone like this. –And we can’t afford anymore losses.-. Still he had a bad feeling in his guy about leaving the village outside his presence, and as misfortune may have it Eito and the Doctor returned just minutes after Ikeru had left.

Blazing through the forest at immense velocity, Ikeru left a flaming trail that followed him all the way down south where he picked up on the chakra signatures of the surviving members of team instinct, that of Ranta being no more but a small flickering light. –He hardly has any more time, but how did they even get so far with such minimal losses against an enemy so strong? Sunagakure, part of your debt has been repaid. -. Boosting his speed even further, a large mass of fire took form around him, mid body-flicker, and propelled him forth even fasted by releasing jets of fire from behind his back.

By the time that Eito’s monster had fully formed, and opened its mouth to start charging up that menacing black orb, a flash of flame would come to a swift halt five yards in front of the enemy creature. His posture stoic as he drew that mysterious Katana spoken of in myth and legend, the flames around him came to subside. In a moment of calm he raised his eyes up at the beast and sighed. Being this close he could clearly sense the dozens of different chakra signatures that made up this monstrosity of a mass.

“You are a sin to be purged in flames, perish.”.

In an instant his Katana became enveloped by a source of heat so intense that if the nearby Genin didn’t move more than 15 yards away they’d suffer first degree burns. This wasn’t fire, not it was something that by far surpassed ordinary flame, an Advanced Nature known as scorch release now seen wrapped around the Katana in the form of a brilliant white energy surrounded by a trim of red. The only reason why the sword itself didn’t disintegrate is because it continued to ‘rebirth’ itself by replacing any lost fragments instantly; an ability directly stemming from the Phoenix.

Turning to look over his shoulder, Ikeru would set his eyes on Shinra. “You, get all of them out of here right now. Don’t look back and keep running. GO!”. On that note, he turned back to the spider-like monster that was about to release the tailed beast ball. Ikeru’s eyes turned a bright white… then a huge red aura of chakra, so hot that it turned to flames, wrapped around his form as he released all of his tremendous power in an instant, causing the ground around his feet to turn to ashes while the scorch release chakra around his sword grew to the point where it made up an 8ft long blade.

Raising the weapon above his head, in two hands, the Hokage’s mouth parted in a mix of agony and wrath, the anger of what happened to his brother, his daughter, his village, all releasing in a single a heart numbing roar that drove the winds wild just before the enemy monstrosity released that devastating tailed beast ball that rushed down the short distance required to obliterate Ikeru.

Ikeru waited until the very last moment, watching the black doom etch ever closer, before swinging down with such force that his brimming weapon did not just bring the Tailed beast ball to a halt, but eventually pressed it back. For a moment, it looked like the two had come to a standstill but then the incinerating heat of Ikeru’s sword, continuously fed more and more chakra, began to glow brighter and brighter  until the entire tailed beast ball began turning white from the heat that consumed it. And then…in a single blinding explosion, a wave of scorching hot white chakra shot out in all directions, before growing out into a massive dome-shaped explosion that completely levelled the surrounding area and reduced everything caught within it to mere ashes.

In the aftermath of the explosion, Ikeru was seen unharmed with his sword now held in front of him in the traditional Kendo fighting pose. He had been protected by his Fire Release Chakra armor that had concentrated around him, but the being would not have been so lucky and would’ve most likely be all but burnt to a crisp. But that wasn’t enough… Ikeru rushed forth and tore his sword through the atmosphere that seemed to distort around it from the sheer thermal radiation, first horizontally slicing through the opponent like butter, and then vertically, so that the beast of chakra was divided in four equal halves: the empty spaces between the body-parts filled with the scorch release chakra trailing behind his weapons, taking up the shape of a white crucifix that then spread out to consume all of the four bodyparts suspended in mid-air that were reduced to nothing but mere ashes.