"Are you insane?!" Enma's heart jumped in his throat when he sensed her activate her Mangekyo Sharingan, but thankfully, she did not use Kazenokami on him.
He had never felt as threatened in his life as he did right now.
"I will kill you, Pervert!"
"Izumi, I was messing with you!"
"I don't care. You are dead."
"I swear! It was an accident! I did not mean to look..."
"You looked. Now die!"
"Come on!"
"If you are so innocent, why are you running?!" She screamed, and he sighed and stopped by the side of the lake.
Izumi narrowed her eyes, waiting for him to play some trick, but furrowed her brows and stopped with her hand an inch away from his face.
"I promise I did not mean to look." He gently said.
"How many?" She coldly asked.
"What?"
"How many times did you peek at me?" Her voice turned even colder.
"I swear it happened by accident every time. I activate my Mind's Eye every morning..."
"How many?" She asked again, one final time.
"72..."
He felt chills run up his spine as soon as he said the number.
"Any last wish?" She asked, and somehow, he knew that he could not escape.
"Umm... Izumi. We have some witnesses." he brightly smiled, and the Uchiha glared in Utakata's direction, who was shielding his golden-haired lover.
"Are you going to save him?" She coldly asked, and the Jinchuriki of the Six-Tails gulped in fear and shook his head as he looked into her Mangekyo Sharingan. "Good." She coldly smiled at Enma again. "Don't even think about it."
He stopped as he was about to substitute himself away.
"I promise, Izumi... It was always an accident."
"Shut up."
Enma sighed and lowered his head.
Izumi hand trembled in anger, but seeing him obediently stand there, she finally retracted it.
"Don't you dare bring it up again. And it's not what you think. That's how we ladies clean ourselves. Understood?"
"Yes."
Enma was pretty sure that she was fascinated by her own boobs a little too much since he had not seen any other girl clean herself so thoroughly, but he kept his thoughts to himself and nodded his head.
"Don't do it again."
"For God's sake, Izumi. I do not intentionally do it." He furrowed his brows in slight annoyance.
"Hmph! I don't believe you anymore."
"Wow... that hurt."
"As it should." She nodded and then looked towards the pair who were quietly walking away. "Where are you going?" She asked, and both Utakata and the girl stopped.
Enma then took out a scroll and threw it towards the Jinchuriki of Rokubi.
"For you."
As apprehensive as he was, Utakata carefully caught the scroll and opened it, and soon his brows furrowed as he read through it.
"The Fifth Mizukage has revoked your status as a Missing-Nin and requests you to return home and help her bring the necessary changes to the village," said Enma, and his Uchiha companion looked at him in surprise.
She did not know that he had received two scrolls from the Fifth Mizukage.
"I am not going back." Utakata shook his head.
"You don't wish to make your home a better place and protect the new generation?" The Uzumaki slightly tilted his head.
"I don't care about it anymore." He lightly said and threw the scroll back at him.
"You read what it says about your Master, right?"
"A lie from them to have their Jinchuriki back."
"No. It is not a lie, but you told a lie just now." Enma shook his head. "You do care about your home."
"Is that so?"
"Yes," He nodded his head, and Utakata frowned.
"You are Konoha Shinobi..."
"Kiri, Suna, and Konoha are now Allies. The Fifth Mizukage requested us to help her find you, deliver her message to you, and in case you refuse..." he smield.
"What?" The Jinchuriki's eyes turned cold.
"I have been ordered to capture you. Alive and well..." at his words, Utakata chuckled, and Enma's smile brightened. "but you are a Jinchuriki. I am sure even if I break every bone in your body, you will recover and be fine again. So, all I have to be careful about is severing your limbs and destroying your organs."
"That's not how you have a dialogue, Enma." Izumi sighed as she watched Utakata activate the chakra of the Rokubi.
"It was never a dialogue. This man is stupid and doesn't care about the life of the girl by his side. He would rather stay a Missing-Nin and a target of several Nations and groups than to go back home with her and keep her safe there."
His words pissed off the man even more, and the Uzumaki smiled.
"Protect the girl. I will teach him a lesson. Also, the Iwa Shinobi are on the way here, so, stay alert."
He said as he charged at the Jinchuriki, who blurred from his place at a speed that was not visible to normal eyes.
However, no matter how fast he was, he could not escape the Chakra Lock that the Uzumaki had on him.
Utakata circled him on the lake, and Enma smashed his foot on water, crating a water veil around him, hiding him from his opponent's eyes.
When the veil fell, three of him revealed themselves, weaving hand seals for different water style Jutsus, but before any of them could react, the enemy was right in front of them and smashed them with his three Chakra Tails.
A smile crossed Izumi's lips when she saw it happen, and sure enough, instantly, the three clones dematerialised into lightning that pierced into the Chakra Cloak of Rokubi.
Utakata was not paralysed, but the electric shocks did make him briefly freeze, and that was all the time that Enma needed.
Before he could get away, Utakata found himself caged inside a Water Prison, which was soon a Lightning Prison as the Uzumaki emerged from the water and poured his lightning into it.
The golden-haired girl had tears in her eyes when she saw her lover in pain, and she rushed onto the lake.
"Let's my Master go!!" She screamed, but was intercepted by Izumi, who gently patted her head.
"He will be fine. Please, stay calm." She gently said, and even though the girl did not entirely believe her, she did behave herself. "What's your name?"
"Hotaru..." she absently answered as she looked at her Master.
"Izumi, run!"
The Uchiha froze are Enma's words, glanced in his direction, picked up the girl and ran away as fast as she could.
Hotaru's eyes widened in shock as she watched her Master transform into the Monster again. His entire body was now covered in dark red chakra, and he now had all six tails behind him, which had broken him out of that Water and Lightning Prison.
Izumi deadpanned when she heard a bang and she saw Enma, who had been punched, fly past her. The next second, Utakata rushed past her, throwing them away witn a gust of wind that was left in wake of his speed.
She watched Enma skid over the sand as he tried to stabilise himself, but was hit again. However, this time, it turned out to be a Shadow Clone, and Utakata was punched by Enma who suddenly emerged from under the sand.
The Jinchuriki in his Six-Tails Chakra Form was sent flying into the air, and fhe Uzumaki immediately started performing a series of long handseals.
To Izumi's dismay, Utakata started preparing a Bijudama midair, but Enma managed to finish his handseals first.
"Water Style: Multi Water Dragon Jutsu!"
From the sea behind him, thirty-six Water Dragons rose, and in only a few seconds, they started to strike the opponent one by one, leaving him completely helpless.
However, Enma then did something that surprised the Uchiha once again.
The Water Dragons, at some point, started turning into Storm Dragons, mixing in with Lightning, and their speed sharply grew.
Their offensive powered was so strong that when Utakata fell on the ground, his body was shredded in placing, and his Tailed Beast was doing its best to heal him.
"Sealing Art: The Hexagonal Prism!"
Enma smashed his hands on the sand, and instantly, his opponent was caged inside a barrier.
It was only then that the Uzumaki wiped the blood that was leaking out the corner of his mouth and he took a few deep breath.
"Master..." Hotaru was uncontrollably shedding tears, but then froze when she saw her Master stand up again.
They could not hear the roar he let out, but she watched him tranform again, and this time, it was something hideous and truly terrifying.
Rokubi, now in its true form, grew larger and larger, and shot out a corrosive gas that started disintegrating the barrier.
Enma stared at the gigantic mass of Chakra, sensing both the Beast's excitement and anxiety, and grinned.
"Hello, Saiken." He called him by his name, catching the Rokubi off-guard. "Let's have some fun."
He was sure he heard the Beast cackle before he exhaled a thick corrosive gas around him, and Enma immediately weaved signs for a Wind Style Jutsu as he inhaled the air close to him.
"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!"
Exhaling a powerful hurricane, he controlled its trajectory and moved the corrosive gas away, and up in the air.
Enma then created a Shadow Clone, who picked a scroll from his vest and opened it.
Whilst the original him rushed at Rokubi, who was slightly stunned at the power of his Wind Release, the Shadow Clone covered the Corrosive Gas into a giant but compact sphere, caged inside a second Wind Sphere, which he then sealed inside the scroll for later use.
On the other side, Enma was jumping over the bubbles that Saiken was creating, all of which were exploding at the contact, but he was surviving as his body was covered in a Red Lightning Cloak, which kept the corrosive liquid and gasses away from his body.
Importantly, he was fast, extremely fast.
Izumi, however, soon focused somewhere else as she sensed someone powerful approaching the scene.
She guessed that it was the Team from Iwa, and she quietly hid together with Hotaru, who was their target.
There were seven people in the Iwa Team, and all Seven had come there attracted by the sounds of the terrifying battle that was taking place at the beach.
The timing could not have been any worse as the Uzumaki was no longer fighting against a Jinchuriki, but against the Rokubi itself.