Acid And Alkaline

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"Okay, let's keep going."

Maido and Shuichi both surged with chakra and began the dance, stepping with their right leg forwards as a swarm of chalk and metal kicked up and shot towards both of them from each other, which they stepped out of the way of, then each brought their right arm back and then shot it forwards, causing their chalk and metal construct to shift and break apart and split into two different worms.

"Let me teach you about the Wurmcoil Engine."

"It is a terrible, horrible thing made of Metal, Chalk, and Acid. It is meant to burrow through any defense, eventually, and, when destroyed, split into smaller components that are meant to accomplish the same task. It is an incredibly powerful technique that can only be accomplished by one that has the power of Metal, Acid, and Chalk combined. Only one with all three of those may accomplish this technique."

She began forming hand seals, explaining which hand seals helped with what elemental aspects and properties of the jutsu, and just how the formula worked together as exact math to create a worm dragon serpent of pure carnage and destruction.

As it were, it was actually a defensive ninjutsu.

The wurm sprouted outwards from Maido's body protectively and hissed at Shuichi, it began to encase her body with Chalk, Acid, and Metal protectively. It spat out a cloud of Chalk, Acid, and Metal Dust in a cone that hit the ground and kicked up high into the sky. It did this for quite a while, obscuring Shuichi's vision before spraying him with a more fine spray of liquid and shrapnel Chalk, Acid, and Metal.

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"The Wurmcoil Engine is one of the most formidable lines of techniques that you can ever hope to master, Shuichi."

Shuichi began producing a clone and turned himself into a suit of armor, sliding away from the spray of the Wurmcoil Engine and equipping himself to the clone, then producing a large shield of Kouton and Chalk that formed out of the armor in his left arm. It formed out from an additional arm of metal and chalk that jolted out from his body very suddenly as he equipped himself to the clone, which began to run around on all fours like a Lion as it transformed into one, made of Metal and Chalk wires. Its very form began to dissolve the ground, leaving it soapy as it ran about.

Shuichi and the clone began to leave behind trails of wires and entangle the Wurmcoil Engine and Maido as they chased them around the forest, leaping from tree to tree and creating a large cage around them over time.

With a terrifying roar, Shuichi created three Lions of Metal and Chalk and sent them towards Maido and the Wurmcoil Engine while he crawled around the top of the cage staring down at them from a good thirty something meters away in the darkness, also hidden by the trees.

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Maido danced through the slurry of liquid metal and chalk and begin to solidify it beneath her feet into a board that carved a path for her forwards as she skated around the training grounds and out into the forest, sending the wurmcoil engine out behind her to spray a cone of metal, acid, and chalk breath. It spat it out quite far for several dozens of meters, afflicting and swarming everything in its path with its nullifying sting. It was a potent combination, designed to break through the toughest of defenses as quickly as possible when applied correctly. After a moment, the wurmcoil engine breathed again, spraying the metal, acid, and chalk mixture again behind Maido onto the same spots, causing the trees to begin falling apart and the ground to soften tremendously and no longer be reliable footing.

It was a deathly horrible technique that destroyed without care. It ruined everything in its path and wrecked through it no problem. The metal, acid, and chalk together was an incredibly potent combination that toyed through everything the wurmcoil engine breathed at. Shuichi and the clone both surged with chakra, producing layers of wire that reached out to snag Maido and attempt to wrangle her into the cage that continued to expand through the trees with every passing moment. Running about in its Lion form, the shuichi body roared as it stomped on the wurmcoil engines head and wrapped kouton chalk wires around it, slicing through it.

He thought he had found great success in this but as he affixed to the cage and turned to look he saw that the wurmcoil engine had split into two and were now both maliciously and very offensively seeking him. One was somewhat purple while the other was somewhat golden, but both were metallic and very much active wurmcoil engines that were now charging towards him through the air and spewing metal, acid, and chalk.

"Shit, shit shit!" He exclaimed whilst tumbling to the side and affixing to a different wire in the grande cage he was creating. He continued expanding the theatre, pressing more metal wires out from his body out into the trees and began surging with a great amount of kouton, he began to create the great metal and chalk yggdramasil, a feat he had never attempted before.

Sure, he had made one out of metal, but he'd never tried to make one out of metal and chalk before and it was a feat for him that was to be remembered.

His body surged and he planned the hand seals carefully, casting them out from his metal chalk body that armored the lion clone. The great tree began erupting from the ground beneath Maido, its great mouth opening up in the top and swallowing her up, and shutting her into one of the great rooms inside of itself before it began to shrink and collapse, slowly.

If Maido did not escape, she would be crushed to dust.

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He would need forbearance to take on Maido, even in a training exercise. Having died many times, she was a crafty cretin of sorts that was quite difficult to nail down and truly kill forever. She had made herself very horribly immortal in a perverted and terrible way. She had scattered her cores everywhere, she had backups for her backups backups and those had backups for their backups. She would respawn at anywhere, at any time.

He had no time for platitudes, this was a sentiment he'd dwelled on before. Sure, she was a silly and wily little fox, but surely she could be captured, contained?

No, she would blow herself up before she could be captured. That was her assignment.

Maido could not be killed, she could only be captured.

Except, as a Kirigakure shinobi, her directive was that she could not be captured, she must be destroyed.

Maido had destroyed herself many times to avoid being captured and she had always respawned somewhere else immediately and then taken a few months to gather back to full strength. It was an endless cycle, one that had had transpired for centuries and simply could not be stopped. Maido was simply too far ahead in the calculations, her cores ran too deep into the grains and histories of the earth.

She would never truly perish, it would take someone hunting down every single one of her cores and wiping them off the face of the earth, and their were just too many.

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Erecting an obelisk of metal and chalk before him, he dropped it on Maido from above whilst him and the Lion clone danced about the metal cage they had created in the trees. The wurmcoil engine acted as iconoclast and smashed the obelisk to bits, then sprayed a cone of acid, metal, and chalk towards Shuichi and the clone from below.

Moving about the cage they were quite phlegmatic as they stalked Maido from above. The clone surged with chakra and began exhuding out a cloud of chalk and metal dust that would begin to smoke the whole area very quickly, continuously billowing out from himself and beginning to permeate into the other jutsu that Maido was using against him.

Shuichi monitored Maido and the two wurmcoil engines for a moment to see what they would do. After a moment, he sent out a wire in an attempt to trip Maido, having it crawl along the ground and start slowly wrapping around her legs, very slowly creeping about and quietly slithering into position. It would do nothing, until she tried to walk.

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It was quite the quandary, Maido simply turned into shards of metal and floated through the wires, visibly smiling up at him from below through the smokescreen of chalk and metal dust. Silently Shuichi contemplated, discussing strategy with the metal lion clone and trying to figure out just how best to approach dealing with her.

Once they came to congruity they began their attack. First, they produced another metal tree to swallow up Maido, she had easily broken out of the first one. This one was more fortified, and made out of chalk too, and it had limbs, roots, and vines of metal and chalk that shot out and tried to grab Maido's limbs and keep her from escaping. She surged with chakra and her body broke apart into pieces of metal shards that flew out of the great metal tree and back out into the forest, piercing through the great metal cage shuichi and the metal lion clone had been creating.

The wurmcoil engines followed her, except now she redirected them upwards and they launched themselves towards Shuichi and the metal lion clone and caused them to have to reposition elsewhere in the metal wiring throughout the trees. He felt like a spider.

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In reverie Metal Maido summoned forth four more wurmcoil engines of greater size than the last ones and sent them upwards into the trees and the cage to eat at Shuichi and the metal lion clone. They spewed hot breath of acid, metal, and chalk in their wake, it began eating through the trees and the cage and the wires quickly. The whole area began to be wrought to ruin in their great battle.

A turgid boil of metal, chalk, and acid suddenly popped next to Shuichi and the metal lion clone that they hadn't even seen forming for its silence and they scurried out of the way but were showered in the gross fillings none the less. Covered in the sticky special sauce, Shuichi slimed slimily south, cursing.

"Ugh gods fucking gross." He tried not to vomit, then decided to vomit anyway and puked metal, acid, and chalk directly onto Maido from above her while laughing about it. The clone also laughed.

"What?" Maido heard laughing and retching and looked up just in time for the acid and alkaline to enter her mouth.

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"Oh my gods Maido that's so fucking gross what the fuck is wrong with you ahhhh!??!!!" Exclaimed Shuichi very loudly as he continued to vomit acid, chalk, and metal onto her very much on purpose in retaliation to the very gross jutsu she had just popped all over him.

"Don't forget to drink your bilk." Shuichi had said after he saw the metal, chalk, and acid vomit go into Maido's open mouth, nose, and eyes. It was great inure, really, for both of them. He continued doing it on purpose, channeling chakra into his body to produce a continuous stream of nasty, sickly, sticky, hot, wet metal, chalk, and acid dust that would spew forth out of his face hole continuously endlessly forever.

He spewed it everywhere, dousing it all over Maido as best he could as well as the wurmcoil engines and causing them to hiss and screech and writhe and worm around on the ground as the mixture melted through them. The whole ordeal was incredibly gross and disgusting, but quite effective.

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In abberation, Shuichi shot out crying, then Maido wept. Again he sent out, a curse of metal poison, it crashed down harshly. Swooping down greatly, it crashed upon the girl, it brought great havock. Stolid Shuichi silently soaked and seeped and listened to the sounds of the Metal Maido below that he had disgraced and taunted by throwing up on her horrendously. He had shamed her and spat acid and foul fluids of nasty funk and gunk towards her.

He had affectively given her the finger, except without really doing so. He may as well have slapped her in the face, except that this was much much worse.

Metal Maido surged with metal chakra and began to grow in size, growing great wings and a tail and falling onto all fours as she turned into a wolf. At the tip of the tail was a wolves head, and on her chest was another mouth and a pair of eyes. It all opened up in metal and screeched, roaring and sending out clouds of metal, chalk, and acid dust as a smokescreen of her own to permeate the entire forest over time.

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Maido began bringing forth a plenitude of metal cables, causing them to shoot out towards Shuichi and his metal lion clone from below, ceiling around their legs and attempting to grab them. Quickly, the wily Shuichi and his metal lion clone shifted about, jumping from one series of wires to the next in the tree tops to avoid her cables entirely. The blood witch was persistent however and found herself sending more and more cables out towards Shuichi and the clone from down below.

Tediously she sent cables after them and tediously they moved about and repositioned, continuing to string wire about in the treetop and create new platforms and trip hazards about the forest. Shuichi began surging with chakra again, preparing to send a dose of metal, acid, and chalk down towards Maido.

He released his breath and roared a vicious cone of mixed elements towards the woman, acid, chalk, and metal desolation the forest below. The concoction began melting everything away indiscriminately.

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"You undesireable." Shuichi spat at Maido, a phrase that he knew would sting her to her soul. It was effectively a curse word in Kirigakure. To be called an undesireable was to be called the absolute lowest of street trash. To call a noble as such was equivalent to slapping them in the face, and, as a Muramasa, Maido did not take such an insult lightly.

"Excuse me? What the fuck did you just say to me?" Maido surged with chakra and sent out eighteen tendrils of kouton to grab Shuichi by his legs and rip him off of the lion clone, pulling his suit of armor form cleanly off of it and smacking him into the forest floor harshly in one swift fluid motion.

He was immediately winded, the very wind knocked out of him as he was slammed into the ground so forcefully. Wheezing, he lay their motionless for a moment while he gathered his senses and rearranged his cores, checking his damage.

"Oh go hunt yourself." He said. Maido was so mercurial but this was vindicated, he had really intentionally insulted her.

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As he watched from the forest floor Shuichi began to panic a little as he was having trouble moving his body, he watched as Metal Maido surged with chakra once more and brought forth two large metal cables that shot out and lifted him high up into the air before slamming him sideways into a tree, then into another tree, then another, then another.

This went on for quite a while unfortunately, Maido bashing Shuichi's suit of armor form into the trees and ground repeatedly for a good few minutes. After that, Maido reached the tendrils into the suit of armor and began ripping it apart from the inside out, grabbing at chunks of wire and yanking them out forcefully and tossing them aside chunks at a time as she filled his body with noxious acidic metal chalk gas.

"Ah fuck!" He screamed when he ripped out one of his cores.

"Oh, did that sting? Do you covet those?"

She ripped two out at the same time and he writhed in agony, then she ripped out all of the rest of them except for one, she gathered them together in a pile and tangled them together into a large mass of wires, then began physically beating him with it. Shuichi looked back on his life. Why had he ever struck a deal with Maido for immortality? Was he really even immortal if Maido could just kill him so easily? It would take weeks to recover from this damage.

Eventually, she hit his last remaining core and he immediately passed out.

Maido left him there, walking back out into the forest and to her house in Iwagakure.

It was six weeks before anyone found him, alive, but unconscious, his mangled cores and armored face laying there in the snow.