"I don't have time to dawdle. It would be best if you didn't resist."
Kakuzu said as he rapidly formed hand seals.
"Wind Release: Pressure Damage!"
"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"
"Fire Release: Intelligent Hard Work!"
"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet!"
"Earth Release: Earth Spear Thrust!"
He continuously and rapidly used various Ninjutsu.
Not only fast, but also very powerful.
With the five elemental Ninjutsu interfering with each other, their power was further enhanced.
Yugito's body suddenly erupted with a Chakra Cloak, further enhancing her physical abilities. She leaped into the air, quickly dodging Kakuzu's Ninjutsu.
"Mouse Hairball!"
In mid-air, Yugito quickly formed seals, spitting out rat-shaped blue flames from her mouth.
"Trifling skill."
Kakuzu dismissed it with contempt, also rapidly forming hand seals.
"Combined Ninjutsu: Flame Wind Chaos!"
"Combined Ninjutsu: Magnet Cannon!"
The towering wall of fire rushing towards her obscured Yugito's vision.
But it didn't matter; Mouse Hairball was a Ninjutsu that could split and track.
Under her control, the Mouse Hairball immediately split apart, quickly circling around the wall of fire to attack Kakuzu behind it.
But behind the wall of fire she couldn't see, an iron ball, at tremendous speed, instantly pierced through the flames and appeared before Yugito almost instantly, effortlessly penetrating her body.
"..."
Yugito looked down blankly at the wound pierced through her chest.
She had completely failed to predict the enemy's attack trajectory.
This was also a combined Ninjutsu that Kakuzu had developed through extensive training.
But this move still had slight flaws at present.
For example, the condensation speed was too slow, and the trajectory after launching was too straight, making it easy to preemptively dodge, etc.
So, he deliberately used Flame Wind Chaos to obstruct Yugito's view.
The charged iron ball then pierced the enemy's body at maximum speed.
For an ordinary person, such an injury would be fatal.
But Yugito was not.
Her body suddenly erupted with blue flames.
It was the flame of her Tailed Beast, Matatabi.
The injury on her body healed at an alarming rate.
"Troublesome."
Kakuzu frowned.
He wanted to finish quickly, but the Tailed Beast's rapid healing ability foiled his plan.
If Yugito manifested complete Tailed Beast form, she might even hold out until Kumogakure's forces arrived.
"This is troublesome."
Kakuzu felt a headache coming on.
His Ninjutsu were good in terms of lethality, but he couldn't kill Yugito.
Their goal was to extract the Tailed Beast, not to have it dissipate and reappear somewhere else.
"Truly terrifying enemies."
Yugito also felt a lingering fear.
The enemy's strength completely exceeded her expectations.
She couldn't even react to that last attack; it was just too fast.
If it had hit her head, she would probably be dead now.
But having entered her half Tailed Beast form, her healing ability was greatly enhanced, and she could enter full Tailed Beast form at any time.
However, she wasn't confident she could defeat this man.
His body was just too bizarre, not like a person at all.
Those masks could spew out various Ninjutsu, and could even combine two or more Ninjutsu, forming even more powerful combined Ninjutsu.
He's definitely not an enemy to be underestimated.
"What is your purpose?"
She spoke with a grave expression, thinking of stalling for time.
She knew the commotion here wouldn't go unnoticed for long; after all, they were still within the Land of Lightning. Kumogakure's patrol Shinobi would definitely send people to investigate.
But she didn't know that those patrol Shinobi had already been dealt with by Black Zetsu hiding in the shadows.
For the time being, she could expect no reinforcements.
"Don't waste your energy."
Kakuzu saw she was trying to delay time and gave her no chance. He rapidly formed hand seals while the masks behind him quickly spewed out various powerful Ninjutsu.
The Magnet Cannon was very powerful, but the enemy had already seen it once; hitting her again was unlikely.
Although Yugito wasn't a Kage, she was still an excellent Jonin.
In her half Tailed Beast form, Yugito excelled in close combat.
With the boost of the Tailed Beast's power, her speed and strength were greatly enhanced.
In the blink of an eye, she wove through Kakuzu's multitude of Ninjutsu and reached his side.
Her sharp cat claws swung with immense force, sending Kakuzu flying.
He crashed through several large trees before stopping.
"Cough, cough... formidable power."
Kakuzu's expression was grave, but this injury wasn't enough to render him incapacitated.
Yugito pressed her advantage, but just as she reached Kakuzu and swung her right hand, her arm suddenly went numb.
It was as if she no longer had a right hand.
"This?"
Blood suddenly sprayed from her right wrist.
Although the injury was rapidly healing thanks to the Tailed Beast's power,
Her attack consequently failed, leaving her completely open before Kakuzu.
How could Kakuzu miss such an opportunity?
"Earth Release: Earth Spear!"
Kakuzu's hands turned pitch black and hard, simultaneously possessing extremely strong destructive power.
He punched through Yugito's body with one fist, then withdrew his hand and struck her stomach with the other, sending her flying far away.
"Good job."
Kakuzu looked towards Hidan not far away.
It was Hidan who had used his unique Curse Technique.
He obtained the target's blood, ingested it into his own body, and drew the ritual circle for sacrificing to Jashin on the ground with the enemy's blood.
As long as he stood within the circle, any injury Hidan received would be synchronously reflected onto the person whose blood he had taken.
When Yugito's body had been pierced by the Magnet Cannon, she had left some blood on the ground.
Although it healed quickly, for Hidan, that blood was enough.
Then, after alone drawing the circle, at the crucial moment he cut his wrist, causing Yugito to lose control of her right hand.
"She's recovering?"
Hidan looked at Yugito, who was rapidly healing her injuries with the help of the Tailed Beast's power, and an ecstatic smile appeared on his face.
"Now we can really have some fun!"
Hidan's favorite thing was to thoroughly torture his prey before offering them to Jashin.
Therefore, his killing process was always very lengthy.
Kakuzu knew this well and immediately said, "Finish it quickly. Don't waste time."
"Tch."
Hidan pouted dissatisfiedly.
At this moment, due to the curse technique, his body had turned completely black, but with white lines that seemed like skeletal patterns.
It looked incredibly eerie.