41 - Rematch

Karou was facing Katherine. Katherine had her swords in hand, she executed some simple hand seals and a huge puddle of water appeared. She then stuck her pair of swords in the water. There was so much electricity that you could see the rays flowing through the water.

Karou already knew about this attack, he quickly jumped out of the water. Creating dozens of clones, he mixed with each other. Katherine began to attack everyone, while she herself received attacks from all directions.

- Let's go first. Stop hiding, are you a coward?

- Cowards are the ones who come out alive! - Answered one of Karou's hundreds. Katherine smiled as she attacked what she had said, but it burst into smoke. - A clone! Damn it...

- You

- Found

- Same

- That I would fall for that?

Several of the clones said this one after another with cynical smiles on their faces. Katherine was enraged, she watched and attacked each clone looking for a displaced person or any clue as to what the real Karou was.

Katherine took out her swords, activating the lightning element that crackled on her blades, she rotated among the clones completely destroying them. She was like a hurricane of lightning, her blows were fast and accurate.

Karou found himself in a critical situation, so his clones could not hide his presence. He then went from defensive to offensive.

"Attack!" - Karou shouted. The clones then went on the attack. All clones armed with swords began to attack. Their blows were powerful, but because they were clones of the shadows they were not very resistant. With the conductivity of the swords, they were soon destroyed only with a blow or two.

The clones fought a style of Taijutsu perfected by Karou himself, it was a mixture of his own techniques and techniques of powerful Naruto ninjas. Some clones had characteristic and quick Rock Lee kicks and punches.

Others fought more strategically in the middle distance like Sasuke and others went head on with the best of themselves like Naruto himself. All were too fast and too random moves, Katherine was being pushed too hard. The attacks were unpredictable, the clones had a high physique. In a moment Katherine was cornered.

- Fire style! Multiple fireballs! - shouted the clones and Karou. Karou himself, along with 9 clones, jumped at a considerable height, surrounding Katherine from all sides. Performing the fireball jutsu of various positions, a flame that reached to turns the stone floor, red as lava appeared.

Katherine in her last effort performed a water style jutsu and threw herself into it to avoid the flames. The fire crashed, the Karou clones went up in smoke from the heat, only the original remained.

After the flames and steam came out, Katherine appeared, she had some strong burns, she was breathing heavily and she leaned only on her swords.

- I give up ... you are too strong ... - Katherine admitted defeat and threw herself tired. - This time I didn't even touch you, you no longer use those strange eyes, or that jutsu that increases your physical power, I was completely overcome! Now I accept you completely as my leader.

Karou smiled, approached Katherine and held out his hand.

- It's already the tenth defeat, wasn't it time? - Karou said smiling a little mockingly.

- I wanted to be sure.

- Come to the infirmary, as I offered you before, beside me you will become stronger.

- Yes Yes. I already understood that, now let's go. Everything is hurting.

A long time had passed since Karou's speech. In total, half a year had passed since Karou arrived in this world, in another three months the clan battle would take place and Karou wanted to be ready for everything.

In the meantime, the number of Clan members has almost tripled. After the meeting, Karou discovered that several patriarchs had contacted their soldiers to recruit them, especially those who did the small show.

Some were asked to join the clan, others were just asked to review the piece. For the patriarchs, these men were the ultimate strength of the Karou Clan. It was a good force, but nothing compared to the largest clans. So the middle clans and some of the big ones didn't care much about the strength of the Otsutsuki Clan.

In addition to the number growth, financial growth only expanded. Karou had a monopoly on Niobium, which was currently the best-selling metal in the city, was even being imported into other cities in unofficial ways.

The talents of the favelas also appeared in the clan, most of whom were still young and isolated. The two most talented young men he encountered grew up fast in the clan. To Karou's happiness, they both had a talent for the lightning element.

The two young men were orphans, the one who had distributed bread to everyone in the city had the legacy of the ninja Darui at a level of more than 60% he had no name, so Karou named him Darui. The other young man was called Baru. He had the highest legacy at just 40%. His legacy was from the third Raikage A. His mother had recently died, so he is a little isolated.

For some reason the two young people got along and took care of each other. Karou was satisfied with the Clan's growth. His soldiers reached the 100 mark, which was an acceptable number.

Everyone had already mastered at least one jutsu, they served their functions well. Karou at this time had trained mainly with Katherine, his physique was that of a Great fighter, his real power was unknown even to himself.

Karou could already destroy a rock with a simple punch of pure physical strength. His points in the system had also reached a good number. He was not yet able to summon a tailed beast, but he was going the right way.

Karou practically fought Katherine every day. In the beginning there were still draws, defeats and victories. After a while the victories started to increase until an enormous rate. Karou then decided to stop using his Sharingan. After that he also stopped opening any gate.

Karou had completely overcome Katherine in one-on-one combat. Karou also invited some members of the Clan, mainly women, to learn medical Ninjutsu techniques. Karou discovered that in the Kingdom there was only one person with medical jutsu knowledge. Doctors were one of the rarest specialties in the world.

Karou had already trained 4 doctors, which was a surreal number. Even into the territory of empire lords. Karou quietly carried Katherine to the medical wing. After a quick treatment, she was ready to talk.

- So ... Hokage, how do you hope to make everyone in the Guild as strong as you say?

- The first step ... I think I will take you to meet a friend.

- A friend? What a Friend?

- Hebi! You will like him. - Karou gave a happy smile.