Naruto: Orochimaru's Disciple

Chapter 56 - 57

Chapter 56: Science!

Boom!

A deafening crack of thunder rolled across the sky. Kenichi felt the hair on his head flutter and lift, and his expression tightened at once.

Thunderclouds carried an intense electric field. When that field strengthened, tiny charges on the surface of the body interacted with it, making hair and even fine body hair stand on end.

In other words, if this happened, it usually meant there was a dangerous electric field directly overhead. A thunderstorm was imminent, and the next strike could come without warning.

"What is that?!" A shinobi from Kirigakure stared upward in horror. He had sensed something wrong an instant ago, but only now did he understand why.

Even through the thick fog, a massive shape was pushing its way out of the clouds. It was not a normal bolt of lightning. It was a head.

A monster sized head.

"Is this a natural disaster?"

Far off on the shore, civilians of the Land of Waves looked toward the sea with terror on their faces. Dark clouds churned above the water, and from those clouds a gigantic head emerged.

It had horns. It had tentacle like whiskers. Scales ran along its body like armor, and its outline resembled a monstrous fish. Its entire form was a dark, blood red color, radiating a despairing pressure that made people freeze in place.

If a shinobi from a major village were here, they might have been able to guess what it was. But to ordinary people, it was an unknown horror, something that should not exist.

Kenichi looked grim.

"Amen... no. I believe in science. It should be science." He gritted his teeth. "I messed up."

He had not expected the experiment to succeed.

The moment he entered Sage Mode, he had mobilized Sage Chakra and combined it with his Sharingan, forcing out a Sage Lightning Release technique.

This was something he created after thinking about Sasuke's Lightning Release, Kirin, and trying to modify it through Sage Mode.

The good news was that it worked.

The bad news was that it worked too well.

Lightning was natural energy in its most violent form, difficult to tame even in ideal conditions. And to test the upper limit of the technique, Kenichi had poured in a massive amount of Sage Chakra.

The result was a monster. A terrifying monster.

The thunder dragon above the sea had only revealed its head and a small portion of its body, yet Kenichi already felt it slipping beyond his control. It continued drawing in his Sage Chakra greedily, as if it had a will of its own.

If he let it fall here, it would be disastrous.

"No. If it strikes now, I will be in the blast zone too." Kenichi frowned, shaking his head.

With fog this dense, even if he was not in the direct center of the attack, the aftermath would still tear everything apart.

"I have to throw it far away."

Straining, Kenichi forced control back into his hands. He adjusted the dragon's trajectory, aimed it at a distant point, and then hurled it outward.

The thunder dragon vanished from his sight in an instant. Even with the three tomoe Sharingan, he only caught a blurred streak before it disappeared beyond his vision.