Garou's POV/
Tai Lung: Leopard Style: Nerve Attack
Her eyes rolled back, and immediately, as if her strings had been cut, she fell and hit the ground... paralyzed.
"Now what to do?" I moosed as I looked at the paralyzed Tsunade, who had a white fume coming out of her mouth and her body twitching from time to time.
I exhaled, and I felt that little exhaustion slowly catch up to me. "Sighhh, I am so fucking hungry!" I grumbled while holding my empty stomach.
"Hmm, I think you should find a solution for your stamina!" Katsuyu suddenly said with a thoughtful look on top of my head, while naked.
Inhale
Exhale.
"Your reason?" I asked, not so curiously, as I breathed to calm my mind and get rid of the adrenaline completely.
"While fighting, I analysed that your body consumes nutrients at a fast rate and distributes that energy gained throughout your body, but mostly to your brain and muscles. Also, you need to know that your regeneration takes too much of your energy used to accelerate your body cells to divide rapidly, and this calls for more energy," she said, and I frowned a little.
"I can fight for some hours continuously," I said.
"In the best case scenario? Yes, of course, but... as I said before, your body uses too much energy, and..." She paused and took a look at the paralyzed Tsunade on the ground. "What will you do if you were severely injured? A limb or two got cut off, or an internal organ completely destroyed?" she asked rhetorically.
"..."
"Your body's regeneration is quite strong but not strong enough to regenerate a cut-off limb or a completely damaged organ instantly like the Sage of Six Paths. And you don't have chakra or Nature Energy to help you out with the regeneration like him, only your bodily fluids," she explained calmly, to which I nodded in understanding.
As she said, my regeneration was strong enough that a cut on a part of my body could heal after some time, but that came with a cost: my stamina, which, even though immense, was still not enough to make me completely confident about fighting for days if wanted.
"But what about you sending Nature Energy inside my body to replenish my lost stamina like you mentioned before?" I asked.
"It's crude and not efficient enough to be useful in the long term, like having Sage Mode. It will boost your stamina only temporarily," she replied, and I rubbed my chin to think of a solution.
Right now, I could fight for six hours straight without straining my body and using less self-harming techniques like this Soryu Style, which fucked up my lungs and brain.
Even though I had adapted to many things, my stamina was one thing I didn't focus on that much because I thought it would build up too beside the other trainings I did, which it did.
But somehow, now I needed to now do jump-squats around my training ground with tons of weight on me from now on. Even though I didn't need it that much, you never knew what the future held, and maybe in some situation, I indeed needed to fight for days.
'Is it possible to get a One Piece physique?' I thought.
There were some ideas in my mind on how to get a stronger physique and break the SEAL on my body but nothing concrete yet.
I needed to do some experiments.
"Some of your moves are quite peculiar and make you able to interact with the Nature Energy through weird movements of your body, especially that one before in my forest where you used to create an illusory river with wisps of Nature Energy emitting from the tip of your fingers. So I suggest you find a way so you can manipulate it like the sages and become my sage yourself!" she said calmly while frowning at the end.
"I think I will find a way, then," I replied to her, and she nodded. "But is there anything else you need to tell me about this matter to help out with this?" I asked.
"Hmm, well, there's none at the moment, but I think you should look more into that ability of yours. What do you call it? Hado?" she said, not so surely, and cutely tilted her head.
"It's Hado for now, but why though?" I asked as I slowly prepared myself to pick up Tsunade and go back home.
"Well, I am not sure, but it has this sinister feeling to it, and I feel that there's more to it. But I hope you contain this spiritual aura you possess concealed, as any mid-Kage and above powerhouse will freak out if they looked at you, and I fear they will instantly try to kill you because of how unfriendly it looks!" she said with some worry visible in her tone.
*Step, step, step.*
I approached the laying Tsunade and picked her paralyzed figure up close to my chest in a princess carry. "It's not like Kage powerhouses are everywhere, so I don't care," I said with a shrug.
"But I care for you." I heard Katsuyu mutter under her breath, though I had extremely sensitive ears and heard, but I just ignored it.
I then looked around the now-dark forest and then at the sky, which was filled with a good amount of sparkly stars lit up like tiny fairy lights.
The moon, shaped like a bright banana, added its soft glow to the scene. Every now and then, a shooting star would dash across the sky, leaving behind a quick, glowing trail.
*Step step step.*
I started to walk back home through the now gloomy dark forest.
Moments later, in the forest...
*Rustle, rustle.*
My ear twitched.
I paused as I heard some people coming my way really fast a kilometre away from here. "Five?" I muttered with an annoyed face as I turned to look at the place where some people would inevitably appear.
Then...
*Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.*
Five ninjas, one jonin and four chunin, appeared in a circle around me and Tsunade, who was sleeping in my arms without a care in the world.
"Halt!" the jonin cried.
"What do you want, ninja?" I asked with annoyance visible on my shadowy face in this dark place.
"We heard some commotion around here, and you two are the only ones who are near that area, so I need you to explain yourself right now!" he cried again.
"You are too late. The show is already over, and we are going home," I replied back to him nonchalantly.
"Fuck! Don't play with me here. I said explain yourself NOW–"
*BOOOOOMMM!*
"AGHHHHHHHHH!" ×4
The jonin couldn't finish what he was about to say before he felt as if the sky threw a mountain on his shoulders and the world instantly becoming pitch black red.
A black reddish circular wave of power rippled through the ninjas and the forest. Their faces instantly contorted and paled as if struck by an unseen hand, expressions stunned still.
Except the jonin, who kneeled on the ground without moving an inch; all the others dropped with faces eating dirt, and losing the ability to feel their bodies.
"Fuck off!" I said in a contorted voice as my face turned hideous while sending another ripple of Hado in waves at the jonin especially, which made him twitch and fume come out of his mouth as his head slowly touched the ground like the others.
I stared in displeasure at him and the others for a few moments before retracting my Hado and turning to walk away until I couldn't sense the ninjas anymore.
"Pathetic scrubs, they couldn't even withstand half my aura. Is the years of peace degrading these fuckers?" I muttered and spat at the ground while caressing Tsunade gently from time to time so she won't wake up.
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The Jonin's POV/
'Huff, huff, huff... m...m...m MONSTER!!' I thought in immense fear as I thought about the moment I saw that terrifying colossal four-armed figure chop my head off in an instant many times over without moving an inch, and I couldn't do anything except be frozen in fear while my head rolled to the ground again and again!
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I looked back to see my companions in much worse situations, with three of them already unconscious and one of them completely depleted, probably due to the shock.
'I...I need to tell the Hokage about this ASAP!' I thought again as I groggily went to help my companions and tiredly made my way toward the Hokage tower afterwards.
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Garou's POV
"Wouldn't you get in trouble if the Hokage knew about your true capabilities?" Katsuyu asked in concern.
"I just wanted to test my Hado. Seems it is good for getting rid of trash. And besides, politically speaking, then Hiruzen is tight in my grasp and he can't do anything about it at the moment," I replied with a smirk.
"My influence in the land of fire is slowly reaching the level of the Damiyo himself. After I take over the agricultural market and the food industry as whole, then even the Shogun wouldn't do anything reckless."
"I have a nuclear bomb for a grandmother-in-law, a Kage-level father, the granddaughter of Hashirama himself as my fiance, golden rank GMA businessman, and the full support of Ino-shika-cho. Who would even dare make a move against a formation like that? Even Messi has to bow down."
"What's a nuclear bomb and Messi?" Katsuyu cutely asked with a tilt of her head.
I ignored her question as I went on being a narcissist, "And let's not forget my own fame in these lands. The richest man. The pioneer and the creator of this new era of literature and philosophy. My books are selling like hot cakes among every intellectual and Samurai, which are changing the fundamentals rules and understanding of morality in this world little by little as more and more authors are promoting my version of morality as universal rules everyone must follow to advance. And even some Samurais want to pledge their loyalty to me and become their lord."
"..." Katsuyu just lovingly looked at Garou going on and on about his greatness and sighed, because she really wanted to expand herself at the moment until she was 4 meters at least and bury Garou in a big hug.
Garou was oblivious to the lover girl's train of thoughts and just continued, "Also, I am planning to build as many orphanages as possible throughout the land of fire directly under my name, becoming a philanthropist and establishing a persona where I not only write good shit, but I also follow what I write with example."
'What if I just kidna–ahem, invite him to my dimension simply? He can't do anything about it and we can have all eternity to ourselves hehe~' Katsuyu thought with a small smile while contemplating about summoning her main body here and just abduct her mate.
But, she was sure Garou will hat her for it and will never yield sadly.
'But maybe a little bit of resistance will make it more fun!'
I immediately felt a chill down my spine and quickly stopped my rant.
"Are you listening to me?! Fuck, you are creeping me out Katsuyu, I don't appreciate you looking at me like that!" I snapped at her with annoyance.
'Sighhhhh, let's continue with plan A.' Katsuyu thought with a dejected sigh, "Well, I hope you know what you are doing," she said and went quiet afterwards when Tsunade slowly woke up in my arms.
'So an hour is that long for the paralyzing effect to wear down,' I thought with a nod. Maybe some more hours for other ordinary people since Tsunade with her senju bloodline to resist things like this better can't be used an exact measurement.
Then, after some time, as I walked through the nightly streets of Konoha with Tsunade in my arms, who was mute for some reason I refused to think about, we heard a very disturbing voice that pissed me off.
"Hello there."
"Get away before I shape shift your face with my fist... Dan," I immediately replied disgustingly.
The End.