Chapter 190: CH 190
Naruto brought his blade down and cleaved the arm of Kakuzu off, freeing himself, only to find that Kakuzu’s arm quickly reattached itself due to a thick bulk of black threads that reconnected the two segments of his arm.
Yugito was gasping for breath over by herself behind the cover of rock, with protection from two of Naruto’s Kage Bunshin, "*cough cough* I think he was right about the whole ’boogeymen of the ninja world’ thing. Kami what a monster." She held her neck gingerly, feeling the bruise that simply being in Kakuzu’s grip left.
"So that’s the Jiongu (Earth Grudge Fear)." Naruto said as he set himself back in a ready stance to face off with Kakuzu, "At least now I know what to call those thread things of yours after our first encounter."
Kakuzu shook his head, "Listen kid. We’ve wasted enough time getting the Nibi. We’re already late so how about this; you simply let us take her and we’ll let you go for now. We can’t seal your biju until last anyway so we can just pretend we never encountered you. You don’t even need to fight." Naruto kept his eyes locked on Kakuzu, "I could do that, some would say that I should do that, but I’m not going to. You either take me and Yugi-chan, or you don’t get either one of us. And either way you’re in for one hell of a fight. I won’t just let you have her."
"Fair enough." Kakuzu said before his skin turned dark and he launched a punch at Naruto extended with his threads.
Naruto dodged the punch and ran in at Kakuzu who blocked his follow-up slash with his bare hands. Naruto growled as his sword was caught in Kakuzu’s grasp, "That same damn move again."
"Why mess with what works brat?" Kakuzu said, obviously amused, "That’s lesson number one for punks like you that want to survive to be older than thirty."
Naruto tugged in vain to free his sword from Kakuzu’s grip, "Surviving older than thirty? That doesn’t sound very fun." Naruto channeled lightning chakra to his hand and attempted to place it on Kakuzu’s arm to help him free the Sen’nenki no Ken. However when Kakuzu heard the crackling of electricity he let go of Naruto and got away from him, landing next to Hidan who was still trapped. Naruto moved over towards the rock formation where Yugito was with his clones, still recovering, "Surviving until I’m as old as you without anyone knowing who I am with mere name association defeats the purpose of my goal, and as long as I achieve it I could care less how old I am when I die. Besides, it’s better to burn out than to fade away like you Kakuzu. When I kill you, only a handful of people will even get the reference."
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes at Naruto and sent his black thread into the ground around Hidan’s head, loosening the rock around him, "Ow! You stabbed me damn it! That fucking hurt you bastard! I don’t stab you to free you do I?" Hidan bellowed. Kakuzu pulled him out abruptly, "Shut up Hidan. First of all I never get captured in the first place, second of all if you stabbed me I would tear you apart and sew you back together backwards, and lastly of all, I’m sick of playing around with these brats, we take them down, now."