As his sword floated next to him, Chiba slashed forward at the Jonin and immediately increased the gravity of his kunai making it weigh over a thousand pounds.
The kunai slash was strong enough to slightly pushing the Jonin back as Chiba's sword just barely slashed through a whip made out of water that appeared without notice!
'Holy fuck! That was a c ranked jutsu that this Jonin casted without hand signs!' Besides having much more chakra and strength, Jonin Shinobi were more skilled at Ninjutsu and had ample experience in combat.
While Chiba had become weary of the Jonins signless Jutsu, he knew they wouldn't really be able to use anything stronger than a C rank jutsu. In this underwater base, anything too powerful would cause this place to come crashing down and destroy the base that they spent over a billion Ryo on.
Jumping back, Chiba decided to focus on the mission and created a Shadow clone that immediately ran away from the battle.
Seeing the shadow clone trying to slip past him and into the base, the Kirigakure ninja tried to kill it with a blast of water, only for the clone to easily dodge it after using future sight.
As the Kirigakure ninja was about to chase after it, he immediately jumped back as a floating sword slashed him and created a deep cut on his cheek. Turning around, the Mist ninja saw the sword that was connected by a wire to Chiba's finger.
Chiba was confident on fighting any chunin and below ninja with swordsmanship alone, but he was especially cautious around jonin and decided that using his Devil fruit was a must, thats why he devised this wire trick.
Using his sword to keep the Jonin at a distance, Chiba started throwing senbon needles empowered by his devil fruit as he 'watched' his Shadow clones worm his way way into the base.
Using his Observation Haki, the shadow clone made his way into the head of the bases office and started putting all of the Kirigakure documents into storages seals.
Thanks to his observation Haki, the clone saw past a fake wall and crushed open the safe with his gravity, obtaining a folder that held presumably important information.
With the Intel In hand, the shadow clone started observing Chiba's fight as he waited for his main body. If the shadow clone returned right now, then the squad leader would order an immediate retreat and Chiba would lose the chance to kill this below average jonin.
So the clone stood there and supported his main body from a distance as he was readying to run back with the Intel if his main body started to lose the fight in order to retreat.
Grasping his his sword in his right hand and kunai in his left, Chiba dashed forward as his blade met that of the Jonins. Chiba had to increased his blades weight and decreased his opponents, causing Chiba's sword to slam the mist ninja's blade into his chest as he was sent flying backwards.
'Decreasing his blades gravity might make his attacks faster, but it greatly lowers his momentum and make generating power harder!'
Letting go of his sword, the blade floated mid air as Chiba began using hand signs.
Rushing forward, the Kirigakure ninja tried to stop Chiba but was intercepted by his floating blade that moved fast and hit with the weight of thousands of pounds.
"Fire Release: Dragon Fire!"
Taking a deep breathe, Chiba opened his mouth as a stream of fire flew towards his opponent, taking on the form of a dragon.
The Kirigakure ninja tried to evade, but he suddenly felt the crushing weight of both Chiba and his shadow clone both activating his devil fruit to Increase the ninja's gravity at the same time.
The man felt the muscles in his body snapping as he jumped to the side, allowing the attack to only burn a a hole in his stomach area.
Normally Chiba wouldn't use Jutsu in a fight as he needed chakra to see, but he had the long ranged support of his shadow clone and was confident that using the chakra on a jutsu was worth it.
Chiba saw the Kirigakure ninja collapsed in the floor motionless after his attack, seemingly dead. Pulling out a senbon and throwing it, the 'dead' Shinobi dodged it and got up with a wince as he held his injuries in pain.
Chiba and the Kirigakure ninja were staring at each other in silence, one holding his injuries and the other panting heavily. The rest of the Konoha and Mist Ninja were embroider in life and death fighting, too busy to pay attention to Chiba's fight.
'This gravity devil fruit Is overpowered but the stamina cost isn't something I can afford at my age. I need to end this quickly, i cant win a battle of attrition against a Jonin.'
Chiba was feeling light headed from all of his heavy breathing within the airtight suit, forcing Chiba end the fight before he has to take it off.
Sheathing his blade into the scabbard that he looted from a dead Shinobi, Chiba activated his movement martial art Soru, lightened his weight as he poured the majority of his remaining chakra into his flickering step jutsu.
With a single step, Chiba appeared Infront of the ninja with his blade flashing torwards the Kirigakure ninjas neck. The man tried to jump backwards only for his legs to be floating in the air and unable to dodge his attack.
*Shwing*
With a single slash from shoulder to waist, blood spurted everywhere as the man collapsed to the floor.
[Jonin Ninja killed (3/3), Milestone met] without the wasting a single second, Chiba redeemed the milestone as System messages popped up but he ignored them and focused on the new memories he received.
Chiba immediately felt an incredibly strange feeling as he suddenly realized he could control every part of his body as if it was one big limb.
Looking around, Chiba realized that the Konoha ninja were winning and didn't need his help, so he quickly opened his system to see what had happened.
[Template system:
Host: Uchiha Chiba
The first template: Fujitora
Completion: 48.2%
Template ability:
{Fujitora}:
1. swordmanship [Advanced]
2. Soru [Master]
3. Observation Haki [Master]
4. Zushi Zushi no mi [Devil Fruit]
5. Life return [Beginner]
{Milestone}
Learnt abilities
(Ninjutsu: C rank)
(Swordsmanship: B- rank)
(Fuinjutsu: D+ rank)
Daily mission: 1000 slashes, (1000/1000) ]
Chiba immediately understood what ability he gained as he was confused but incredibly excited.
'While this isn't Armament Haki, it might even be more beneficial! Life return allows me to control every aspect of my body, ranging from speeding up your regeneration by manually controlling your red blood cells to controlling the hair on your body and use them like tentacles to attack!"
Looking at his hand, Chiba used his life return as his nails suddenly grew larger and sharper, becoming much more thicker. Chiba's hand looked more like a claw rather than nails as he felt no change in his chakra reserves from using the technique.
'If I remember correctly, it was never even hinted that Fujitora knew about the Life Return technique as only two other people have shown to have used it. Either Fujitora was hiding this ability in the story...or my system has added these abilities to make me stronger. But why would an emotionless machine want me to become stronger?'
As he wondered those thought, his shadow clone appeared before him and handed him the scrolls before disappearing, returning his chakra to him. The shadow clone had given chiba multiple scrolls that he smartly threw into a plastic trash bag that he tied closed.
"Objective secured! Full Retreat!" Chiba shouted out as the squad leader nodded, officially ordering his squad to retreat.
Running through the now blood stained base, the Konoha Ninja arrived at the exit and jumped into the moon pool as they began swimming up, washing the blood off of their bodies.
After what they did, stealth didn't matter as they swam to the surface and began running on the waters surface and quickly hid into the forest.
The squad all got behind Chiba as they ran full sprint through the forest, Chiba expertly evaded the roaming Mist ninja before they got back to a tiny hidden base they made by carving into the ground.
Finally getting his chance to breath, Chiba ripped off his suit without care and began greedily breathkng the fresh air in.
'I need to brainstorm a better idea for going underwater'
After realizing he could still use chakra while submerged in water, Chiba began heavily practicing the Transformation Jutsu to be able to perfom it signless!
That way if he truly were to be submerged in water, he could just transform into a fish and alteast wouldnt drowned. The only thing he hadnt figure out yet was moving in the water.
After taking a few seconds to breath in the fresh air, Chiba handed over the plastic bag to Genru so he could look through the informations he gathered.
As Chiba did this, he couldn't have possibly known he had just doomed this entire squad.