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Tengen's body surged with chakra, a stark contrast to moments before, erupting with such intensity that the air around him warped.
His veins throbbed, muscles and bones creaking under the strain of opening five gates at once.
The sheer force was almost too much for his body to bear.
Armament Haki!
Tengen murmured, the power now vastly amplified. With his taijutsu bolstered by the Eight Gates, his Haki reached new heights.
Coating!
Hardening!
"Killer Bee, let's do this." Tengen stomping the ground. The earth cracked beneath him, and he shot toward Bee like a bolt of lightning.
"Good, good, you're a beast, yo!" Bee exclaimed, exhilarated.
His Lariat technique unleashed, seven blades weaving through his erratic taijutsu, targeting every angle of Tengen's body. An ordinary jounin would be shredded by such an assault.
But Tengen, dual kunai in hand, empowered by Armament Haki and the Fifth Gate, matched Bee's unpredictable strikes.
Clang! Clang!
Their clash wove a tapestry of sparks across the clearing, their forms blurring into phantoms under the Kumo-nins' stunned gazes.
Rocks near their path shattered, obliterated by the shockwaves of their duel.
This was no fight for ordinary ninjas to meddle in.
"This Konoha kid's insane, holdin' his own against Bee-sama." A Kumo-nin muttered, awestruck.
"That's the Eight Gates, right? He's strong, but his body won't last long."Â
Indeed, Tengen couldn't sustain the Fifth Gate for long.
Worse, Bee hadn't tapped into his Eight-Tails power yet, just his own skill and ninjutsu.
"You fool, yo!" Bee's onslaught grew fiercer.
"This can't go on." Tengen thought, parrying Bee's relentless attacks. In the Fifth Gate, he could only stalemate, not defeat Bee, let alone complete the mission.
His body was screaming warnings. If he pushed further, opening higher gates might become impossible.
To beat Bee, he'd need the later gates.
"Alright." Tengen's eyes blazed with resolve.
Armament Haki: External Strike!
An invisible force blasted Bee's attack aside, forcing him back a few steps.
"Konoha kid, givin' up? Your body's got a bit more juice." Bee noting Tengen's strained expression.
Bee recognized the Eight Gates. Even if Tengen quit, he wouldn't let a Konoha prodigy walk away.
"You're strong, Killer Bee." Tengen's taking a deep breath. "But I'm ending this quick."
"Gate of View, open!"
A colossal surge of chakra erupted, dwarfing the previous gates. His bones groaned, frail under the strain.
The sheer chakra shifted Bee's expression to shock.
"Konoha kid, you're suicidal!" Bee shouted.
Tengen's fragile frame, even with his talent, should've maxed out at the Fifth Gate.
Yet he'd opened the Sixth Gate, pure madness.
Even if he survived, his ninja career would be over. The Eight Gates' toll was brutal, a forbidden technique avoided by many due to its damage and training demands.
Might Dai, for instance, took over twenty years to master it, earning the Eternal Genin moniker.
Might Guy's later prowess stemmed from rare taijutsu talent and Eight Gates mastery.
"If I don't, you won't let me go, right?" Tengen grinning through the pain.
"Konoha kid, bold choice. You won't see tomorrow." Bee said, his smile cold.
"Is that so?" Tengen's face twitched, his body teetering on collapse. "Then taste my taijutsu."
Immense chakra gathered in his fist, a tidal wave of momentum building.
The air fell silent.
"Trouble." Bee sensed, Eight-Tails chakra surging as danger loomed.
"Morning Peacock!" Tengen's fists hammered forward, rapid punches igniting the air with friction, forming fiery shockwaves coated in faint flames.
A barrage of flaming blasts engulfed Bee, inescapable.
Boom!
The fiery shockwaves pulverized rocks and trees, the Morning Peacock's terrifying taijutsu leaving only devastation.
The Kumo-nins scattered, grateful the attack wasn't aimed their way.
A direct hit would've left few survivors.
"Bee-sama!" They cried, staring at the ravaged landscape, a once-dense forest now a massive crater, the ground scoured deep.
"Huff, huff." A strange breathing sound echoed from the pit.
A dark figure slowly emerged.
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