Cannibalism: Clash of the Insect Kings

Something terrible was about to happen, it wasn't exactly clear, but an omen was about to occur. Within the Land of Fire, stood The Freak, the famous Jinchuriki of Konohagakure. He was simply fluttering his unique wings while reading a book named "The Crows and the Insects". He licked his lips, reading the horror book in satisfaction. "Intriguing. I wonder if I can ever experience the feeling of being eaten alive by a mutated freak that use to be my family." He said as his right eyebrow raised in curiosity at the content of the mature novel.

Bobu had his eye on this bounty for quite some time. Reading that he was an Aburame, he deigned to strike at the opportune moment. Activating his Area Draining Seal at Medium Range, he moved in for the strike.

The reflexes of this Aburame would no doubt be swift, and his responses would aim to use his advantage of insects. Therefore Bobu created many Shadow Clones and several academy clones. Bobu and the shadow clones would arrange themselves in groups of 3 and use a Fire Release Stream, Wind Release: Great Breakthrough and use Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique. As Bobu was located 500 meters away from Shinko, he knew that Shinko would dodge. His aim in this instance was to constrain Shinko's options.

"So... someone is try to kill me? How fun." Shinko promptly tucked his book away into his robe, descended, performed the necessary seals, and created a very large durable wall of earth to block the incoming attacks. If this failed, Shinko could easily move out of it's trajectory with his flight speed and agility.

Bobu would likely break the Earth Wall due to his technique being a combination technique, and if it did the fire and flames and wind would charge through with the shuriken, in an aim to burn and slice the opponent to bits. Bobu would then bury underground and charge towards his location with shadow clones, while other clones would charge with Academy clones to the location where Shinko would escape to - above - to fight Shinko in melee. The academy clones would join with the shadow clones to give illusions of each shadow clones' next move. A fraction of the clones would hang back to engage in ranged attack after.

If the combination attack failed to break through, Bobu would charge with his clones towards Shinko's location. Since the wall formed was a circular one, as Bobu struck from all sides, Bobu and his clones would use the Body Flicker Technique to get on the wall to use Water Release: Water Severing Wave and Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall against Shinko. The earth wall made by Shinko would slowly disintegrate as the Area Draining Seal took effect.

As the wall was erected from pre-existing earth, it naturally had some water content in it infused with his chakra. This would be help counter the wind-enhanced fire, although the wall would be weakened and quite burned. The shuriken would also be stuck in the wall, causing some cracks within it. As Bobu and his clones landed on the circular earth wall, and presumably used their own earth wall to trap Shinko from behind, and the clones fired the severing waves at him from the front. Shinko would quickly sink into the ground and rush at his own circular earth wall from below and smash through it by manifesting a part of Chomei's horns on his forehead. Hitting the wall with enough force to decimate it and send Bobu and his clones flying.

Bobu and his clones certainly flew when it was felt that there was a massive shockwave dealt from below coming from Chomei's horns. In fact, Bobu noticed something was awry when his Area Draining Seal was suddenly absorbing a massive amount of chakra coming from close to him. The academy clones, however, were unfazed.

Bobu then had shadow clones charge in, while he rapidly charged up chakra. The chakra from Bobu was about to become something - what it was would be unknown by Shinko. Concealed by the Area Draining Seal (masking Bobu from chakra sensors), his own clones would unleash an Earth Release: Moving Core which would move different sections of earth upwards in a disjoint manner. Cracks in the plates would form as the earth was forced apart, the pressures of the very earth itself aiming to split asunder Shinko's very body with Chomei, as chakra was still being drained by Bobu.

The rest of the shadow clones would use Lightning Release: Four Pillar Bind, causing four massive stone slabs to emerge from the ground and shock the contents of the earth. The electricity crackled through the entire construct, not only shattering it (as in Naruto it is weak to lightning) but also electrifying its contents.

Bobu's shadow clones would wait around, using Bobu's Area Draining Seal to check for confirmation as to whether to continue the assault or not. As they did so, the chakra was rapidly molded via the Jutsu Seals, ready to fire.

After Shinko's ramming attack was successful, he retracted Chomei's horn, so the ADS wouldn't have enough time to absorb massive amounts of chakra. As Shinko wasn't using that much to manifest it anyway. As the earth moved upwards, Shinko utilized an application of his chakra to reduce the earth around him into nothing more than soft sand, so he would be unaffected.As the lightning closed in on him, Shinko would clasp his palms together releasing a large wave of wind to blow away the lightning as he jumped into the sky. As soon as he went aerial, he spat out several sticky spider webs at Bobu and his clones in order to immobilize them all.

Bobu's clones were forming an Earth Release Earth Style Wall, but it was too late as Shinko used his spider webs, causing some clones which were too slow to react to poof away, leaving behind the molded earth chakra.

The lightning release four pillar bind also never stopped. This means that Shinko was to some extent being zapped Through the spider webs.

Then, a massive surge of chakra was felt, as Bobu unleashed a Lightning Release: Sixteen Pillar Bind, extremely quickly covering an area much larger than the 4 pillar bind, with the earth rapidly growing from the spider webs now. They grew quickly, aiming to crush Shinko inside as it grew, using the paralysis to increase the likelihood of Shinko being crushed, or atleast electrocuted to an extent.

The rest of the clones, who were further away from the webs, managed to escape via the Body Flicker Technique, while Bobu's 16 pillar bind prevented him from being struck by the webs.

Bobu, the shadow clones, and the academy clones would begin preparing chakra, seemingly preparing more techniques as they knew Shinko wouldn't go down to easily.

"This man... I cannot sense his chakra... and I swore I felt a small portion of my elemental chakra being absorbed...what technique is he using? It cannot possibly be the Chakra Suppression Technique as he is clearly using his chakra constantly. Hmmm..." Shinko thought as the battle ensued. As the lightning returned to attack Shinko, Shinko activated his unique mode using it's power to generate wind around himself to negate and blow the lightning away. The wind generated would continually keep the lightning at bay, and as the earth below began to grow. Shinko smashed through the top of the lightning release pillar using his raw strength, that was already very high, that was now enhanced by his chakra mode. Afterwards, Shinko would dash directly at Bobu and his clones, and utilize his Spider Sticky Gold technique to create powerful boomerang-like weapons, flow his wind release chakra into them and then throw them at Bobu and his clones with great force. He quickly followed up by generating strong gust of wind behind them to propel the weapons even further at Bobu and his clones, moving at incredible speeds. Shinko followed shortly behind his weapons, flying directly at Bobu whilst preparing his next attack.

Shinko broke the top only to be covered with Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall by shadow clones, which would form massive mountains atop Shinko alongside the mud walls from below. The lightning would continue zapping Shinko as well.

The techniques he unleashed would fly out from where he was trapped, and it would blow back what Bobu did, which was use Kikaichu shadow clone jutsu charging at Shinko. The massive horde of kikaichu was blown back partly as more clones of kikaichu charged at Shinko's location, avoiding the attacks while some were hit by the wind techniques.

Shinko would notice that the earth technique was deliberately designed to overwhelm him as much as possible, even though he could break it. It would also give Bobu more time to prepare more techniques as he began to power up for aburame based combat outside where Shinko was now trapped (and being both shocked and buried).

Shinko's mode would continuously protect him from the lightning, as wind is superior to lightning, and it generated gust of wind to keep the lightning at bay. Shinko would then amplify his mode's power and focus it into Chomei's horn, as he rammed through the earth walls above. He didn't destroy all of it, only the part he needed to in order to get out by piercing through it. Once he escaped the traps and emerged into the sky he would notice Bobu using kikaichu, which quickly made him realize he was facing an Aburame. "I've never seen an Aburame like you before...however...allow me to show you the true power of the Aburame."

Immediately, tens of thousands of kikaichu emerged from Shinko's body and swarmed around him. "I hope you're ready to experience true terror." He said mockingly, as his insects flew at Bobu and his insects and spat webs at them in order to latch onto them and hurl them around simultaneously as they bombarded Bobu's insects with wind-enhanced poisonous stingers.

Kikaichu vs. Kikaichu
The earth wall was spit on Shinko, therefore much more effort was required to break through as the walls grew directly on Shinko's body. Shinko would be shocked through said Earth as he made his escape with Bobu draining more chakra.

With a single hand seal, Bobu channeled chakra through all the kikaichu, accelerating their speed. The insects devoured the chakra techniques used extremely rapidly, showing Shinko that they specialized in eating mass quantities of chakra. Using the advantage of clones, The kikaichu dispelled when they were struck, creating smoke which hindered the sight of the enemy bugs and allow Bobu's smaller bugs to overwhelm them. The actual kikaichu got stronger as every clone was destroyed, as chakra returned to them.

Likewise, some bugs were coated in spider webs and dispelled, while the rest ate the chakra constructs.

Upon making contact with the mud, Shinko utilized the wind generated from his mode to create numerous wind blades around him to slice the mud to pieces and blow it away. If that failed, his kikaichu would simply rip the mud and anymore earth walls apart and absorb the chakra within it to causing them too crumble. Once the mud was destroyed, he would fly into the sky away from the rest of the mud and any incoming earth walls.

As the Bobu's insects attempted to overwhelm Shinko's, Bobu would quickly realize that Shinko's insects were not to be underestimated. As they began rapidly devouring the chakra of the opposing kikaichu as well as actually eating them. His insects were all born pseduo-jinchuriki, and naturally, they possessed greatly heightened physical prowess and chakra absorption capability compared to that of the normal kikaichu.

As the battle ensued, Shinko would weave the hand seals required to exhale a sparkly fine powder substance that would shine brightly both blinding Bobu and his insects as Shinko's own insects devoured them. After he exhaled the substance, it would initiate a powerful genjutsu over Bobu. Causing him to become petrified and terrified as he felt the sensation of kikaichu eggs hatching inside of his body and emerging though holes in his skin, even his extremities. The genjutsu threatened to make Bobu lose consciousness and render him immobile.

Bobu's bugs were specially designed to overwhelm all opposition in terms of chakra absorption capacity, thus Shinko's kikaichu population would definitely be dampened, especially with shadow clones of kikaichu both attacking and distracting Shinko's bugs. This allowed much chakra to be absorbed by Bobu's bugs too, evening the odds. It didn't help that Exploding Insect was used by Bobu's bugs as well, dealing lethal damage to Shinko's bugs.

Bobu would then use the Insect Clone Technique, having them charge into the fray to unleash concentrated bursts of Fire Release Stream into the enemy ranks, as well as Wind Release: Great Breakthrough where the enemy's kikaichu were surrounding Bobu's own. Using this tactic, Bobu aimed to thin the opposition rapidly.

As Bobu's bugs were a massive swarm of black, especially with the shadow clones, Bobu's sight was likely saved, especially since he wore sunglasses. Bobu also used his Area Draining Seal to nullify the effects of the genjutsu, absorbing the chakra within his own chakra system the instant he felt himself being eaten by Kikaichu eggs (though he himself was used to it).

"Genjutsu, eh? How did he ever deduce my location?" Bobu wondered. At this point, Bobu decided to use the cover of his swarm to escape to the distance with shadow clones, while a few remained to oversee the process of Kikaichu attacking. While doing so Bobu would continue increasing the power of his seal.

As the earth walls grew on Shinko and his insects, Shinko would once again fly rapidly and manifest Chomei's horn to smash all of the earth off him. His insects, being Chomei's "children" would also manifest tiny horns to smash through the earth walls on them and ram into enemy Kikaichu with great force.

Shinko's kikaichu were also indeed damaged by Bobu's insects attacks, but they still managed to hold their own and attack his insects. As the enemy insects began forming into insect clones, so did Shinko's, and as they fired their wind-enhanced fire streams. The insects would then utilize the powerful Water Release: Water Formation Pillar technique that would almost instantaneously create a massive circular torrent of water to both dispel and overpower the fire attack and blow all of the enemy kikaichu away with tremendous force, flooding the entire area with water. If the first attack was successful, Shinko would then release more kikaichu that would drop off undetectable nanosized rinkaichu into the water to poison it and then invade the bodies of Bobu's insects to devour all of their cells from the inside out.

If Shinko's insects managed to invade their bodies, Shinko would spew sticky water into the current water to prevent escape for both his rinkaichu and the enemy kikaichu, as the water would become incredibly sticky and durable, restricting movement.

Shinko's attack was highly effective, rapidly dispersing the bugs and causing a large horde of 'poofs' to occur - the sound of Bobu's kikaichu shadow clones dispersing rapidly. The water's massive force flooded and crushed a large portion of Bobu's bugs in the area, but if one were to look closely, they were mostly shadow clones. As the chakra returned to the kikaichu, their speed multiplied from the power coursing through their bodies, giving the kikaichu at a distance a greater opportunity and capacity to escape. This was made much better with the water flooding the area, preventing Shinko's senses of sight from detecting Bobu's bugs.

Bobu's insect clones stood back, continually unleashing the previous technique as Shinko attempted to destroy the bugs within the water (which at this point, were mostly shadow cloned kikaichu which avoided the brunt of the initial impact). Whilst Shinko unleashed his previous technique making the water sticky, it soon became apparent that his technique was a mistake. While it successfully destroyed Bobu's offense, it left room for Bobu's shadow clones to execute a simple maneuver.

Going in front of the pool of water, Bobu's shadow clone used Lightning Release Stream, electrocuting all of Shinko's bugs as Bobu's kikaichu in the water, which were mostly clones, disappeared.

"This guy is strong." Bobu mused. He understood that the measure of an Aburame's power was the size of their hives, and Shinko's were most notably massive. Recalling the giant horn seen earlier, he projected that there was a massive source of chakra within Shinko, though what it was he didn't know. However, remembering that he himself did not have a chakra beast within him, yet had large reserves of kikaichu too, he was inclined to leave that conclusion for later.

What impressed Bobu even more was the massive amount of bugs Shinko had, such that he was able to overwhelm a shadow cloned kikaichu assault from himself. Despite the bugs mostly being shadow clones on his side, he understood that Shinko's prowess with the bugs was something he had to look out for.

Concluding this, the main Bobu and his clones at a distance prepared a range of jutsu, with Bobu heading upwards at a massive speed with continuous use of the Body Flicker Technique and Chakra Suspension Technique. He would leave the ground assault to his other shadow clones, which would aim to serve as a distraction against Shinko.

Shinko watched as the many kikaichu proofed, realizing that most of them were shadow clones. "Kikaichu combined with the shadow clone technique? Very impressive, but not impressive enough." He said as he generated winds from his mode to push some of the water and lightning away, allowing some of his insects to escape. Before flying high into the sky alongside his insects. Shinko used his unique highly advanced compound eyes to notice the incoming Bobu and his clones. He would then encase himself in a rapidly revolving sphere of insects to protect himself while aerial. Some more of his insects would then fly at Bobu and his clones from above and use the Secret Technique: Insect Tornado technique to rapidly rip apart and devour Bobu and his clones by devouring both their chakra and their flesh. As the insects swarmed them, they would dropoff the nanosized rinkaichu and kidaichu that most likely be undetectable. Upon entering the opponent's body, the rinkaichu would poison them and devour their cells, while the kidaichu would begin growing rapidly in size attempting to devour all of the opponent's chakra and flesh from the inside out.

Many mistakes have been made in this battle for both sides, and this was another one of them. Bobu travelled upward for his clones to remain on the ground for a reason, and soon Shinko would realize that he charged head on into a trap. There was a reason why Bobu went aerial, and at this point, Shinko would realize that he was caught in a trap.

The clones which were on the ground used Lightning Release: Four Pillar Bind once more while the rest had used Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation combined with Wind Release: Vacuum Blade, firing large amounts of shuriken into the midst. The inferno tore through the landscape, heading upwards, using the massive fire technique to mask the growth of the 4 lightning pillars, as the insect counter was rendered null and void. It headed upwards at a speed which would normally dictate death for a shinobi even if they saw it coming.

As all this happened, Bobu was still heading upwards, reaching a height that was several kilometres above the ground, and practically invisible.

Upon realizing the trap he had fell in, Shinko would once again utilize the most powerful water release technique in his arsenal, the Water Release: Water Formation Pillar, and combine it with the Wind Release: Godly Wind from the Mountains technique to counter the incoming fire and shuriken. The force and speed of the water was greatly enhanced by the wind, allowing it to overpower the fire and shuriken, sending large amounts of high-speed water at the incoming Bobu as well, and creating large amounts of steam that would be beneficial for both sides. Although Shinko would be unaware of the incoming lightning pillars, his wind release chakra mode would grant him the ability to counter and negate the lightning. It should also be noted that this mode would allow Shinko to sense vibrations in the air, allowing him to avoid the pillars much better too. Shinko would then command some of his shokaichu, which had been in the ground since before the match even started, to emerge from beneath Bobu and fire sticky silk webs at him to hold him in place as the water rammed into him with great force.

Bobu, upon seeing Shinko's reply, simply smirked as he unleashed an Earth Release: Great Shark Bullet Technique. This technique devoured both Bobu and Shinko's techniques, growing in size and power to levels never seen before.

At the same time, Bobu vastly increased the power of the lightning pillars in an attempt to overwhelm Shinko. This would at the bare minimum destroy all the bugs surrounding Shinko (which Shinko used earlier) and the bugs trying to attack Bobu.

Then, with final burst, Bobu reached the apex of his jump, and began to charge up a massive amount of chakra for his favorite technique. Preparing his move, he had his clones begin charging towards Shinko with shadow clones, kikaichu and insect clones. As they charged towards Shinko, it would leave a trail of destruction in their wake as they rapidly accelerated towards Shinko using Body Flicker: Instant Projectile.

Realizing that he was in trouble, Shinko would exert more of his chakra to amp up his Wind Release Chakra Mode to even higher levels. Generating tremendous gust of wind around himself and by using his mode's ability to change the direction of the winds and having vastly decreased air resistance, he would combine it's speed with the most basic technique, the Body Flicker Technique to avoid both the lightning and massive earth shark intent on devouring him. He would soar high into the sky at incredible speed aiming to go above and beyond the clouds. As he soared into the sky, he would also release a small trail of kikaichu from his body.

As Shinko was preoccupied with the clones chasing him from below, he would suddenly feel a searing heat charging towards him from above. A massive inferno, dwarfing all jutsu previously sent by Bobu, charged down towards Shinko's location as Bobu unleashed a Fire Release: Severing Earth Flame towards Shinko, blocking escape upwards as the rest of the clones channelled more chakra to make the shark construct ever larger. If Shinko manages to dodge these 2 techniques, the great shark would then turn into a lava/steam variant of itself, once again homing towards Shinko's location.

At this point, Bobu was beginning to feel stressed. While he had much more reserves to spare, he had yet to drag out enough firepower to stop Shinko's magical anti-fire abilities. Thus, Bobu then began to plan as he eyed Shinko's location from the safety of his greater altitude.

"This guy is truly persistent... no matter what counters I've devised... he still pursues... he's beginning to eat away at my patience. Perhaps we should just devour him? What do you think Chomei? No... I must use smarter tactics." Shinko devised as his small trail of kikaichu flew away to bury themselves into the ground for future use, which had been imbued with a larger amount of chakra than usual. As Shinko was able to change the direction of the winds, he changed it's direction to push against the fire, and for the third time, used his strongest water release technique, the Water Release Formation wall to counter the flames and blow them back with the water, sending them both back right at the direction they were coming from, which would be Bobu. Shinko flew directly in the direction they were coming from as he expelled his jutsu, assuming it's source to be none other than Bobu, and assuming the shark would follow him all the way back to Bobu as well.

As the fiery attack made its way downward, Shinko watched on in horror as his water technique was rapidly evaporated, especially since the fire technique was further enhanced. The greak shark bullet was no slouch as well, as it let loose an unholy roar which would deafen Shinko's senses as it continued chasing Shinko.

The shark bullet, upon making contact with the fire, absorbed it into itself, becoming a massive lava shark which was still charging towards Shinko.

"Truly this guy has used too much of the same counters. Time to kick this up a notch." Bobu spoke ominously as a gigantic horde of Kikaichu emerged from his body, which got bigger as its numbers multiplied via the shadow clone technique, soon encompassing the very sky itself. Charging behind the great shark bullet, it left a trail of devastation in its wake, alongside the group of clones which were heading towards Shinko himself.

Shinko's water release technique would not be rapidly evaporated, as he had continuously maintained it as he pushed through Bobu's attack while following it to it's source. The wind used earlier would halt the progression of the flames, as it was done by manipulating the wind in the air to do so, not by firing a blast of wind chakra at the technique to counter it. Shinko would continue to manipulate the winds surrounding the fire to weaken it and use his water to push through it all the way back to Bobu as the massive dragon chased him. The shark couldn't have possibly been on fire as it was behind Shinko, and the flames would have to go past or through him to hit the shark. As Shinko pursued, he would sprout four more arms, his skin would turn purple, and he would begin kneading webs using his additional arms. Unless Bobu had done something else to amplify the fire, the water technique would overpower it and ram into Bobu with tremendous force, both him and his kikaichu, and Shinko would make sure he was close to Bobu so if the shark swallowed him, it would swallow Bobu too due to it's massive size.

Shinko's naivety was off the charts. He believed so desperately that Bobu remained in the sky, when Bobu had actually used the distraction of the large attack to place himself strategically in another position, leaving another clone to sustain the technique. From the side; Bobu used Lightning Release Stream to shock the entire water technique and by virtue Shinko as well, aiming to forcefully paralyse him long enough for both techniques to hit.

To make matters worse, Bobu's shadow clones on the ground had already begun maneuvering themselves into more strategic positions to deal with Shinko as Shinko was currently preoccupied.

Upon feeling the foreign chakra making contact with his own, Shinko would cancel his technique, however, he wasn't fast enough and was subsequently shocked by the lightning which would enter through his mouth directly into his body, not having the protection of his wind release chakra mode internally. Shinko would then expel wind release chakra from his body through the environment to find the real Bobu. Upon doing this, the shark would also be right on top of him by now. Not having any other option, Shinko would quickly enter his Initial Jinchuriki Form, and use it's combined speed and power in conjunction with his amped up Wind Release Chakra Mode and the Body Flicker Technique to quickly dash toward's Bobu's location like a charging bull and fire a massive web at Bobu to restrain him and then manifest Chomei's horn once again, focus his chakra into it, and ram it directly into Bobu's torso with killing intent. Do to how fast Shinko did all of this, it would leave Bobu little time to react.