78 Ray vs Madara Uchiha II (1/2)
We both knew what was coming when we threw our attacks at each other from such a close proximity, so we both used our defensive stances after releasing our attacks. Madara used his gunbai to block while I became intangible. The difference was that Madara was still physical so he was thrown inside the smoke cloud on the ground from before while I landed in there gently.
Because I had a rip off version of observation haki, I was able to tell where he was and I knew he was looking for me with his sharingan. The smoke wasn't really a disadvantage for us as we both once again went on the attack.
”Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation.”
As soon as I heard those words, I covered my body with lightning and released it outside when his attack reached me. The discharge of lightning around me was enough to cover me and thankfully I used lightning instead of my intangibility because instead of red or orange, his fire was heavily black. I knew what that meant, most of his attack was covered with that black spot and I now knew how much of those I should be expecting.
His jutsu continued for a while and I was about to lose my lightning coat so I hastily started to move out of the attack's range. When I was able to do so, Madara was already onto me as he swung his gunbai towards my head in a slashing angle. I quickly took out my unused sword, which has been lying inside of Dream Reality for a long time now.
After retrieving my sword, I blocked his gunbai and redirected it towards the sky before sending in a slash of my own to his throat which he dodged by tilting backwards and I narrowly missed him. Once he got back to balance we started to trade blows using our weapon of choice as the sound of clashing resounded in the now fire covered forest clearing. The area near us was blown away due to the earlier two explosions but beyond that was a sea of fire.
As we traded blows, Madara jumped back a bit and waved his gunbai as a fan and created powerful gusts of wind that was strong enough to blow several strong people. As I was in front of him, I was hit with those winds head on as I went flying backwards.
”Fire Release: Dragon Flame Release Song Technique.”
As I maneuvered myself midair I saw fire balls in the shape of dragon heads heading towards me, so I waved my sword sending a stream of lightning that cut the fireballs, causing it to explode though on a smaller scale than before.
I didn't stop there as lightning covered my sword again and stabbed forwards as Madara revealed himself. He though only used his gunbai to block and then I remembered something that made me want to curse. Just as I realized what was about to happen, the attack I had just used on him returned back to me as he converted it into wind transformation to reflect it back on to me.
I didn't have a chance to evade but I managed to tilt my body backwards and that was enough to save me from a lot of damage. Although I was still wounded, it wasn't to the level of effecting the battle. The front of my t-shirt was gone and there were small slash marks here and there but that was it, I used intangibility to save my head so that was ok. And it was also fortunate that those black spots didn't cover the whole attack and my head was safe from them. though my torso was attacked by those black spots.