45 Endurance

Land of Hot Water.

With a painful face Mitsuaki stood at least fifty meters away from Naoki, his left hand clutching the top of his right shoulder from where blood rinsed down.

"Teleportation? Flying Raijin?"

But the focus of Mitsuaki wasn't on the pain, the scene earlier rewinding in his mind again and again, with horror in his eyes muttering.

"No! It's slightly different!"

But quickly Mitsuaki rejected his guess, he has seen second hokage utilize flying raijin during first ninja world war, the weapon marked with flying raijin won't disappear like the shuriken earlier.

It was more like Naoki had switched places with it, a lot different from flying raijin though equally dangerous.

Cough...

Mitsuaki who was analysing the situation suddenly coughed, the blue chakra hovering around him getting thinner.

"The chakra consumption is too much and on top of it, the poison is making it even harder to use chakra!"

"I have to end this fight quickly!"

Said Mitsuaki, the more this fight got dragged on, the more difficult it would get for him.

Continuously maintaining chakra around his body to protect himself from the strange jutsu of Naoki wasn't an easy task, the chakra consumption was too much.

And the poison from the smoke was making things even more difficult, he won't last two more minutes if he stays likes this.

"I see...so it's not that easy to guard against my power"

Naoki's breathing was heavy and his face was paler then before, maintaining the room was consuming his stamina every second at high speed.

And the smoke he inhaled was tiring him as well.

But on his face was a little smile, seeing Mitsuaki's condition he was able to understand that it was difficult to maintain chakra coat as it depleted chakra very quickly.

His weakness in a way has become others weakness as well, unless a shinobi has massive chakra reserves, no one would be able to maintain a chakra coat around for long.

"First I have to limit his vision so he can't teleport to me easily!"

Kirigakure no Jutsu (Hidden Mist Technique)

Not wasting any more time thinking, Mitsuaki got into action as his hands turned into afterimages completing a series of hand signs, everything in an area of hundreds of meters instantly covered in a thick mist.

Kiri Shikaku no Jutsu (Mist Vision Technique)

And Mitsuaki didn't stop after releasing the first jutsu, quickly getting on to the second, a thin film of chakra covering his eyelids as everything becoming clear as a day to him, despite mist everywhere.

Hidden Mist Technique and Mist Vision Technique are both jutsu's that were developed by the second Mizukage and compliment each other.

Without each other they are both incomplete as even the user is not able to see through the mist created without the second jutsu.

"As expected of an elite jonin, but it's the perfect environment to try that!"

Seeing everything around him covered with mist, Naoki who couldn't locate Mitsuaki although praised his strength, but didn't show any sign of panic.

Holding the sword in his right hand, Naoki went statue where he stood as he closed his eyes, the chakra in his body that was hardly used in the fight began to course towards his brain through the chakra pathways.

But just midway his chakra suddenly wobbled and coursed back to where it started.

"Tch! As expected, it's not easy!"

Clicked Naoki his tongue in annoyance as he commented, but nevertheless he didn't stop and kept his eyes closed.

"Zhur!!"

But at this moment, the air rustled as behind Naoki from the dense mist Mitsuaki whizzed out, a water spear in his left hand slashed towards Naoki.

"Puff!!"

The ears of Naoki trembled a little, his eyes still closed as just when the tip of the spear was about to drill through his back, he turned around to dodge but the spear still managing to graze his left arm as blood splashed.

Swish!

A little look of discomfort appeared on Naoki's face due to pain still he didn't open his eyes, just jumping back to change his position.

Die!!!

Mitsuaki after injuring Naoki disappeared in the mist again but not staying hidden for long, once again jumping out from front, the tip of the spear straight towards his throat.

Puff!!

But just like last time, at the last moment he jumped back to dodge but the tip going through his right shoulder a little, blood splashing again.

"Tch! He has amazing battle instincts!"

After the attack, Mitsuaki disappeared again as hidden in the mist he expressed his annoyance and admiration for Naoki, he was making it really difficult for him.

"Let's see who goes down first, me and you!"

Feeling the chakra in his body just a quarter of the total left, a crazy look in appeared in Mitsuaki's eyes, deciding to gamble everything on endurance.

Puff!! Puff!

In the mist, blood kept splashing around as Mitsuaki continued with his sudden attacks, more and more wounds appearing on Naoki's body.

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