Her husband had decreed that she had to stop the flames themselves from hurting the occupants...but that she wasn't to intervene with Naruto-sama's fight unless his life was in danger.
From what she has seen so far, it hasn't come to that yet.
"Once these flames are dispersed Sona-sama...I will intervene in the fight with Naruto-sama and that creature. The safety of the guests are my top priority." Grayfia responded to the Sitri heiress.
Sona glanced at the two red-heads, noting their grave expressions.
They couldn't do anything, they would only get in the way of Grayfia and her work.
The flames would incinerate them the moment they left.
Naruto...was on his own.
Naruto was soaring higher and higher into the sky, trying to lead the beast away from the castle.
Man...this was probably the perfect place to truly give his experimental ability a test.
The one he kept using against Riser, to his advantage.
The problem was...he would have to use it several times without pause, to make sure that he didn't get himself killed while so high in the air.
Even he knew that using an experimental jutsu several times without even completing it...was pretty damn stupid.
It didn't change the fact that he needed it now, he could only hope that he didn't blow his legs off.
As the blond started slowing down from his ascent, the creature below him let loose a massive fireball, easily dwarfing the ones that Riser was so fond of throwing out.
Knowing that he didn't want to be on the receiving end of that, the blond focused on his legs...
Allowing his wind chakra to flow onto the soles of his feet...
Sharpening and condensing the molecules of air that was being pooled onto them...
Then...
After condensing the wind chakra enough, using his chakra to stick to the condensed wind chakra, as if it was water.
From there, he launched himself from the little air pad he made so that he could soar towards the screeching bird.
He also angled himself so that he could barely dodge the fireball that was aimed at him before, singing his right arm a bit in the process.
Naruto grit his teeth, he had to end this...with his trump card or not!
The second he passed by the fireball, he made his familiar hand sign, ignoring the wind that was making it hard to see.
"Tajū Kage Bunshin no jutsu!"
All around him, hundreds of clones appeared from smoke clouds, knowing what the plan was.
All of them made to grab one of their brethren, preparing to launch them at the fiery menace so that it couldn't try to intercept them mid-attack like last time.
"Now!" the real Naruto ordered.
"""""Right!"""""
With that, several projectile shinobi were being launched towards their enemy, making grabbing motions on their left hands to create blue orbs.
But there was another reason that Naruto took this fight in the air...
They were so high up...that he doubted that anyone could see their jutsus from up here!
With that in mind, the poured more chakra into their hands!
Now!
"""Ōdama Rasengan!"""
Seeing the bombardment that was flying straight towards it, the flaming bird made to get away, frantically swinging it's wings to fly over the falling blonds.
It worked.
The many shinobi couldn't shift their trajectory in time, leaving the flaming bird free to move pass them and sail towards the hapless clones that launched them in the first place.
Too bad that Naruto made a contingency plan!
"Now! Pincer it!" Naruto roared, forming wind chakra onto his legs again and restarting the process of creating air pads, with his clones following suit.
Once that was completed, they stopped falling towards the ground and screamed back towards the flying bird.
Before the fiery creature could do anything however, the clones that were left behind also went through their process of creating air pads, launching them towards the much closer bird with large blue orbs on their hands that they just created.
Both groups made sure to launch themselves roughly around the same time as their brethren, forming a wall of spiraling orbs to prevent them from getting destroyed by their enemy's fire.
The small armies quickly began converging towards the fiery creature, and there was nothing it could do to stop it.
"Now! As one! Ōdama Rasengan!" Naruto shouted, as similar war cries reverberated across all of his clones.
The creature screeched, as large holes began appearing all across it's flaming form due to the efforts of the small army. Practically ripping apart one of it's wings and blowing off the other from it's body.
More importantly, making several holes across it's torso.
Fire was spewing out like blood, causing it all to fall from the beast and spiral to the earth like small meteorites falling from orbit.
The real Naruto, who was a part of the group that has taken a chunk out of the beast's wings, got the memories of the clones soon afterwards, reinforcing his belief of how hot the flames of the creature actually was.
Even he had some trouble grinding through, the heat was pretty unbearable. No doubt his many clones would pop if they were inside that flaming bird for too long.
Then the shinobi got another piece of information from one of the recently deceased clones, causing him to widen his eyes in surprise.
There was someone alive in there...?
"...Riser-san!" Naruto's shouted out in wonder, surprised that the devil was actually in that thing.
Not only that, but thanks to the clone's sensing abilities at close quarters...he was able to sense that the young Phenex was actually getting his demonic energy sucked away by the creature...
So that meant that the creature's power actually could be growing by siphoning the Phenex's power!
Naruto's eyes narrowed when he realized something else, what if...
He turned to watch the fire bird closely, wondering if-
Shit, he was right, why did he have to be right?
The large holes that were dotting the creature from before...they were closing up.
As if the bird was regenerating, the flames from across it's body was spreading to the gaping holes across it's body, restoring the creature to what it was before his assault.
So...this thing was beginning to sound like the very bird that the Phenex clan was said to be based off of.
A phoenix, he was fighting a fucking phoenix.
Beautiful, just...beautiful.
Naruto mentally switched gears, complaining about the situation wouldn't solve it.
Thinking about it, Riser's entrance into the battle made things more complicated. But it could also work to his advantage here, maybe if he could cut off the demonic energy powering that thing...
He didn't have time to ponder, the flaming bird came soaring towards him, flying a little low as if attempting to catch him.
Why would it...?
Oh.
He was free falling.
Right...can't fly.
Once more, he concentrated wind chakra onto the soles of his feet again, making another air pad...
Then he jumped.
Naruto bit back a scream, as it felt like thousands of mini knives ripped apart his feet.
Damn...that wasn't good. He knew he shouldn't have used this new jutsu so liberally...!
But hopefully it would be the last time, as instead of jumping away from the phoenix moving towards him, he jumped towards the giant bird.
Since the flaming bird was below him and he had his clones' memories...he should have a clear shot to...!
The shinobi raised both of his arms and made grabbing motions over his left hand, creating a rasengan.
He didn't have enough time to make anything better...so this'll have to do!
He crashed against the top of phoenix, grinding his way through the inferno that comprised the beast.
He grit his teeth as he continued to push through the flames, ignoring the pain as he reached his destination.
There it was...!
"Wakey wakey asshole!" the shinobi shouted, allowing for the blue orb in his hand to explode between himself and the unconscious Phenex.
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