Chapter 41

Deimos focused his Immortal energy and caused a powerful shockwave to push away Ino along with her attack.

Like an impossible wave that could wash away a city, Ino's psychic barrier collided with the energy shockwave.

Before Ino could react, her barrier was hit by dark constructs in the shape of terrifying creatures while her surroundings were completely drenched in darkness.

Deimos controlled his fury that came from his pride, as he couldn't believe that someone like Ino would actually hurt him or even pose a challenge to him. She had managed to stop his conceptual ability from breaking her mind.

His Fear aura took effect before a battle and it was enough to cause insanity or death. It could have lasting effects for people that didn't have mental abilities.

However, the moment he fought back it weakened and now Deimos had to actually fight with his skills to work with his natural fear aura.

The darkness was an effect of his fear and insanity inducement technique as it worked with his fear aura, enhancing it.

Fear Empowerment was another skill that Deimos utilized to gain more power from the fear around him.

Fear Domain was the darkness covering the arena taking the shape of terrifying creatures and the horrifying wails.

Phobia Inducement followed the fear domain and Deimos targeted Ino's mind so that he could increase the existing phobia and create a new one to destroy her mind.

Ino didn't really have any phobia except one, the fear of being alone (Autophobia/monophobia). Deimos caused targeted it and introduced the fear of darkness into it.

With all these fear attribute abilities working together, Ino was completely put into the defensive. She couldn't spare a single breath to fight back and her abilities lacked the finesse that Deimos had because Ino was still not used to her techniques on the current level of power.

She tried Mental Drain, but the foes defence was too strong for her to break and none of her straight attacks were good enough either.

'I can't win this battle like this.' Ino accepted this fact and decided to use her last option.

Mental Image: Uzumaki Naruto

Ino had been helping Naruto for a month and knew everything he had been training, though she didn't have full understanding of it. Nonetheless, she had all the memories inside her library. Just like she had memories of others and with those memories, she could create a perfect replica of the individual. Normally, it would be impossible to replicate Naruto completely but now she had the chance.

With the technique activated, Ino took the back-seat while the Naruto clone took her place in the fight. The change in fighters was very obvious as Ino started to move in a different manner and she was actually controlling the chakra cloak now.

Even Hinata thought that Ino might have just switched places with Naruto to win the fight, but Naruto looked surprised at the sight.

Rasenshuriken was used as the starter move and the destructive move flew towards Deimos at an insane pace while chakra claws sprouted from the ground the hold him in place.

The air pressure increased to hold him down and the earth changed into a swamp to drown him. Deimos was curious about the change in pace and took flight while blocking the attack with his barrier.

He studied the foe once again to see what she held as the fear factor seemed to have decreased considerably.

Before the storm of wind needles could end, Ino's body followed it up with another powerful move.

Sage art: Laser Circus

Thousands of lasers targeted Deimos blinding him while Ino charged him directly.

Starburst Hunter

She accelerated to speeds that exceed the subluminal and reached the superluminal level while bands of light covered her arms and flowed behind her and everything that came in contact with any of the bands of light were erased.

The bands coiled around her hand and took the shape of a lance that Ino targeted at the foes abdomen. Deimos was unable to react and was pierced clean by the lance of light that trapped into the walls of the arena.

His body was even erased in place and being continuously healed by his natural ability.

Nonetheless, the stadium was put into a silent spell because of what they had just witnessed. Just moments they had been shouting in excitement for Deimos, and now he had just been dominated.

However, the victory seemed to have come at a price.

Ino's body fell to the ground as it was about to trap Deimos using chains. Her body had completely run out of chakra to support Naruto's mindset and abilities.

Naruto's mental clone had almost killed her by almost draining all energy from her body, and Ino survived by cancelling the move at the last second.

'I need to fix that problem before it kills me next time.' Ino was caught by Hinata and she smiled as she thought of ways to improve her skill. Regardless of her close death, Ino was extremely happy as she was finally able to hold up her head and declare that she had accomplished something great.

"You did wonderful, Ino. Honestly, I can't believe what I just witnessed." Hinata smiled happily for her friend. She didn't feel any jealousy or envy towards Ino, only positive thoughts about everyone.

Her respectful and joyful gaze also made Ino feel proud and happy. It was further enhanced by seeing the look on Naruto's face and the cheers of the crowd.

"Miss Hinata, the battle seems to be starting soon. Deimos seems to have personified fear before battle as it could be seen by the change when he started fighting, so the brother should be the fear during battle. The fact that he didn't step in should mean that he is confident in his abilities. So, we should move with caution." Orochi warned as he watched the lion head warrior walk towards his brother and break the light lance.

"You have changed my mind young warriors, and I shall honor you with a battle. Do not put me on the same level as my younger brother, or this battle will end very fast." Phobos heard them clearly and healed up his brother while empowering him with fear.

It seemed that the battle was going to be a two on two as Ino had used up all her chakra, leaving a silver of it. However, Hinata transferred some of her chakra into Ino and put her on support while they fought directly.

"We never look down on our foes, so I will attack with all I got." Hinata was already in her Tensaigan form and without hesitation she created a black and blue bow while charging an arrow that was formed from the heat energy of the world.

Omega Burst

Without a word, she unleashed the truth seeking ball arrow with extreme heat concentrated around it.

Sage Arts: A Withering Affection Is not love

It was a technique that Hinata had formed from her studies of the Sage's book. She focused on the aspect of archery and affection. Hinata believed that her love for Naruto and everyone could make a change, so this fighting style clicked.

Other than the heat and power erasure, the arrow was filled with the concept of love that its mere presence pushed away the darkness and created a domain of affection.

The moment it collided with Phobos dark barrier, the arrow exploded it a giant flower shaped magical diagram while releasing destruction upon her foes.

Her choice to unleash her strongest move took them by shock since it felt like they were supposed to be checking each other out. It was a spar, not a real battle.

Regardless, it happened and Deimos was eliminated from the battle as he was heavily damaged by the heat that reached the temperature of the core of the sun and to make things was the existence erasure from TSB. To make things ever worse was the love, it was the direct nemesis of the brothers and it completely weakened them.

Deimos was drowned in love and Phobos had to eliminate him before he fell for the enemy permanently. He was aware of such abilities because of Aphrodite, and it sparked every ones interest, especially Aphrodite and Artemis.

"I will support you from behind, so please end it soon." Hinata realized that she had the advantage, so decided to focus on her love concept to weaken Phobos.

The man felt that his time to shine was down the drain as Hinata's love domain covered the arena to fight against his fear domain.

Even though Hinata was new to the field, love was a powerful force and the people around the arena mostly held love instead of fear. Phobos would have the advantage in the outside universe, but in the Immortal world his concept didn't have enough support.

Phobos could only counter and defend the attacks from Hinata and Ino while Orochi teleported behind him before unleashed multiple pillars of light from the ground underneath the foe.

The attack was accompanied with the increase in gravity that pulled Phobos to the ground while the earth tried to capture him with giant hands.

The attacks hurt his flow, and Phobos was hit by an arrow from Hinata that greatly damaged him. Orochi followed it up with dark discs of nothingness that erased anything that they touched while Ino unleashed the avalanche of memories multiplied by two this time.

Phobos tried to unleash a dark world into the arena to drown his enemies into insanity but Hinata's love continued to crush his powers.

He was forced to drop his conceptual powers and utilize pure energy attacks, unleashing charged energy beams at his foes. Following the attack, he charged Hinata with his giant blade to cut her down with a powerful slash.

Hinata blocked the attack with TSB barrier that covered her whole before trying to impale Phobos with dark spikes. The enemy continued his slash while Ino unleashed a psychic beam and Orochi used the Light of Nothingness targeting Phobos.

The blade cut through the TSB shield but Hinata was already on the other side by using a portal and unleashed another arrow while Phobos was held back by the duo's attack.

No Beast is Beyond My Arrow's Reach

It was another powerful skill that that negated all defensive skills and buffs from a target that Hinata recognized as a beast. It was build upon the concept of the TSB and amplified the negating abilities.

It hit Phobos directly cancelling his defences allowing Hinata's clone to finish the battle with a love arrow.