"What about the reinforcements you brought along?" Minato raised a brow. "How do you -" Isshin asked but was cut off by Yoruichi. "You sensed us when we got near.." She spoke.
"I sensed you when all of you passed through my energy barrier.." He admitted.
"Fortunately or unfortunately, we won't be needing any reinforcement because we're capable of handling you!" Yoruichi vanished the moment she spoke, and in the space of a heartbeat, she was right in front of Minato, her right arm outstretched like the paw of a feline, claws ripping into his eyeball.
The moniker, the Flash Goddess wasn't just for show. She had moved faster than a heartbeat and even faster than Isshin could unsheath his blade. A split second. That was all she needed. But..
She wasn't facing any ordinary soul. The Yellow Flash of the Leaf was tested and proven against the best of the Shinobi world. The two weren't ordinary opponents and they both felt that in the very first clash.
Minato sidestepped, Yoruichi's fingers brushing with the bangs on the left side of his face. Isshin had yet to blink. Minato didn't even think twice.
The blade in his hand cut through the air, ripping towards Yoruichi's torso. There was barely a window of opportunity to relax or breathe.
She twisted in an unnatural manner, her agility nearly feline in nature. Her arms stretched out, stopping Minato's blade by the hilt. She had intercepted him. His eyes grew even colder. He twisted on feet, the blade in his grasp spun and before Yoruichi could even counter, it was already stabbing towards the side of her head.
She was several meters away before the blade could land. Yoruichi landed gracefully from her backflip, and then took a deep breath. Her lips revealed traces of a smile when she stared at him. "You really are fast, Minato. Tell me, what were you in your last life. You couldn't have been an ordinary soul, and how come you died so young?".. Yoruichi slowly took off her Captain's robe as she spoke, revealing her sleeveless customized shikahusho, all while keeping her eyes on him.
Minato was calm. The enemy in front of him was just like him. The word fast would be an understatement to what she was. Her battle speed, reactions and reflexes were all top notch. Beside himself and probably the Raikage, he couldn't think of anyone in the Shinobi world who wouldn't get blitzed by her in the first clash.
"You don't have to do this.." Minato looked her right in the eye. Yoruichi laughed. "You hurt my Soi Fon. It's only right that I seek you out. Besides, I think you're full of shit.." The ground underneath her feet exploded and she zoomed off, blurring into motion in the blink of an eye. Reiatsu exploded from Minato's figure and he met her fearlessly.
Shunshin no Jutsu. He turned into a flash of yellow and met her fiercely in mid air. Palm met sword, resulting in an explosion that shook the land. Minato backflipped onto a tree and then corkscrewed into a slash that nearly took Yoruichi's ear off.
"That's not Shunpo.." Isshin's eyebrows furrowed as the fight progressed even further.
She sidestepped at the last moment however and then punched, blasting into his side. Minato's blade blocked the punch, but he groaned, eyes widening when he felt the unnatural force behind it. He was sent skidding, his foot dragging into the ground. "So heavy.." He stabilized himself, wiping the blood at the corner of his lips.
Before oxygen could fill his lungs, Yoruichi was upon him, their faces less than an inch from each other, but, her assault was relentless. Her right hand balled and tightened into a fist and then she sent it blasting into Minato's chest. "Ikkotsu!"
BANG!!
A single punch was all she needed to bring this fight to and end.. The resultant force from her blow erupted as a fierce wind and shockwave that ripped even trees apart, blasting a large hole into the forest before her.
She smirked, as the dust cleared, but she took a step forward only to see that instead of Minato's torn apart body, the only thing in her wake of destruction apart from the destroyed landscape was a wooden log that was ripped apart. It was then that she heard it..
A sharp metallic cry of lightning Reiatsu covering a blade. Minato blurred into a slashing motion at her side. His blade was wrapped in a thick layer of blue lightning as it tore into Yoruichi's delicate figure. At the last moment, she could only twist, to avoid a slash to her vitals.
SLASH!
The wakizashi tore into her shoulder, as blood spurted out, but to Minato's surprise, she didn't even flinch, instead she smiled. "Gotcha!" Her index stretched towards his forehead.
"Hado #4: Byakurai!"
A convergent stream of lightning ripped into his figure, tearing through everything around him with an explosive blast. Yoruichi wiped the blood off her lips, walking out of that explosion with a small victorious smile, until she saw him. Minato was crouched low, hanging off the side of a tree, looking straight at her.
"Tsk. How troublesome. Was that an illusion? I had you with that Hado spell. And that movement technique from before. What is it?" She asked several questions at once, her golden eyes staring straight at Minato.
'With her speed it's going to be a lot difficult taking her down. I can't use Sage Mode either. I need to incapacitate her, take down that man and finish off the reinforcements..' Minato's brows furrowed. Sorasen was right. The Captains were far too troublesome for him to handle at this stage. She was already giving him so much trouble without using her zanpankutou.
"I hope you've enjoyed this as much as I have, because this ends now!!" Yoruichi laughed and then zoomed off to meet him. Minato was about to move when his instincts screamed at him. Yoruichi raised a brow and then smirked.
"Bakudo #61: Rikujokoro!" Before Minato could move a step forward, he felt it. An encasing, as if his body had been bound by chains. He looked down and his heart shuddered. Six blue rods of light restricted him, holding him in place. "A Fuinjutsu?" He screamed inwardly and then his eyes widened, Yoruichi was in front of him in a split second. Her grin widened and then her hands stretched out.
"Hado #33: Sokatsui!" A pale blue explosion of flames wreaked havoc on the surroundings, swallowing everything in a massive explosion. But, Yoruichi's brows furrowed. She suddenly side stepped a slash from a kunai from out of nowhere and then she smiled, as Minato came out of the shadows.
"Let's end this..." She laughed. And then blurred into motion, taking a few steps back. Incredible Reiatsu exploded from her core, as streaks of golden lightning enveloped her figure, the devastating Reiatsu decimating the environment. Her arm stretched out, waving in front of her in a circular motion as she manifested circles of crackling lightning energy before her, a rather stunning feat, representing the iconic drum ring of the Lightning God himself.
"She's even using that attack? He must really be troublesome.." Isshin's hand was ok his chin, in deep thought.
"Shunko! Raijin Senkei!!" With a loud cry, streaks of lightning exploded from her figure, and then Minato's heart shook. He had sensed the devastating build up of Reiatsu. She was really going all out. The attack was almost instantaneous. A column of golden lighting swallowed his figure from above, the devastating power within the attack, decimating the environment.
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Yoruichi walked through the smoke, into the crater the defeated Minato lay, her hand on her hips and a small smirk painting her lips. "Tsk. Wasn't that hard after all.." She stretched lazily. However, in a split second, her pupils dilated. She sensed something and then turned to the battered Minato within the crater.
Right before her eyes, he exploded into a puff of smoke and then his battered self was replaced by a large scroll. The last thing Yoruichi saw was a massive ink tiger coming to life from within the scroll. She could barely understand. The Raijin Senkei was supposed to be a finisher. How in the world..She hadn't even gathered her thoughts not to talk of mustering her Reiatsu to use Shunpo when she was pulled into the scroll by the tiger.
"Captain Yoruichi!!" Isshin grit his teeth in fury when he felt her Reiatsu suddenly disappear in that instant. But right before his eyes, yellow light flashed and Minato blurred into motion before him.
Isshin's eyes widened in shock. 'He withstood that move? How?!" Apart from a bleeding nose, the blood stains in his attire, and a few scratches and bruises here and there, Minato was perfectly fine.
His right hand held his wakizashi and his left hand held onto the oversized scroll which squirmed from time to time. Under Isshin's intense gaze, Minato dropped to his knees, coughing out blood. 'What a monster she is. The damage done to the clone is so great I couldnt shrug off the effects..' He lifted himself off his knees, supporting himself with his blade.
"Let's get this over with. I doubt my sealing technique will be able to hold her for too long.." Minato let out a small smile. Stretching his blade towards a stunned Isshin.
A/N: Enjoy.