Chapter 148 - Round 2

After checking his body for a couple of seconds, Ryujin then decides to finally act, with a static noise he disappears and reappears in front of the huge magenta-colored toad Ken, who was expecting something like this uses his Sasumata to attack Ryujin, but his weapon pass right through him, just like when Suigetsu uses his Suika no Jutsu (Hydrification Technique).

Then Ryujin lazily raises his hand pointing at Ken and fires off a Cero from it, and Ken has just the time to raise his shield to defend himself, but the shield is easily broken by the powerful Cero, and Ken is heavily wounded and sent flying by the explosion of the concentrated Chakra beam, Ken wants to remain to buy more time for his summoner, but then he notices that he completed his goal, so he let go and unsummon himself back to Mount Myōboku to recover.

Ryujin then calmly walks toward Jiraiya, who still has his eyes closed but then his instincts warn him and he quickly uses Sonido to retreat and looks at Jiraiya with a wary gaze.

Jiraiya's appearance starts changing, red pigmentation appears around his eyes, and all his body seems younger and stronger than before, and when he opens them his eyes changed to yellow, toad-like irides, and even more surprisingly, no other physical alterations appeared, showing that he finally reached a perfect balance of chakra and natural energy.

Even if all his instincts are telling him to run, Ryujin still decides to attack and make the first move, he once again uses Sonido to appear behind Jiraiya, he raises his right arm and concentrates a huge amount of Chakra in it, then he quickly swings his arm down releasing all the Chakra yelling "Sokushi(Instant Death)!", at the same time Jiraiya sidestep to evade the enemy attack, that releases a thin Chakra blast that smoothly cuts anything in its path.

Jiraiya then quickly punches Ryujin, who sure of the fact that a physical attack can't hurt him, doesn't even try to dodge and charges another Sokushi, but when Jiraiya's fist reaches him he felt another force surrounding his fist and hit him sending him slamming against the wall, stunned by what happened Ryujin doesn't react when Jiraiya uses the Doton: Yomi Numa (Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld) that creates a swamp by changing the ground beneath him into mud, which he sinks into.

Even worse, the mud is infused with chakra to make it sticky, making it difficult for him to move, but Ryujin quickly reacts by sending a low-powered Cero at his feet that destroys the ground beneath him, then he uses Sonido to escape the swamp, and once again attacks with a Sokushi, that Jiraiya once again is barely able to dodge, and that left behind a clean cut in its path.

Seeing that his attack is once again dodged Ryujin yells "Shit! Stop moving around so much and let me cut you, I promise it doesn't hurt as much as it seems!" and Jiraiya replies "Like hell I will trust you on that!" then he uses the Gamayudan (Toad Oil Bullet) and spits out a huge mass of extremely sticky oil but he aims at the ceiling, and seeing this Ryujin attacks once again this time with a barrage of Ceros and taunts "Where are you aiming? Is old age finally catching up with you!?", but he didn't notice the fact that the oil, was now falling from the ceiling covering both him and the surroundings.

Jiraiya dodges Ryujin's attack and replies "Well I admit I'm not getting younger but I'm not senile, and since you are so fast, I just have to be a little smarter..." then he quickly releases a fast flame bullet using the Katon: Endan (Fire Release: Flame Bullet), aiming at the oil that was falling from the ceiling, that quickly lit up creating a terrifying rain of flames that burned everything Ryujin included that starts screaming in pain.

But as he was in pain, Ryujin slightly opens his scales and eject from them a massive amount of water, that douses the flames and wash away the oil, while at the same time flooding the chamber, then he looks at Jiraiya standing on top of the water and yells "Bastard! That hurt!! Now I'll really get serious!" and soon after he merges into the water disappearing completely.

But in Jiraiya's senses, he didn't disappear instead he became one with all the water under him, meaning that as long as there was water, he would be attacked, so Jiraiya quickly reacts and jumps high sticking to the ceiling, just in time to dodge a sharp tail coming out of the water aiming to skewer him, but Riujin's attack doesn't stop here, as the tail lengthens and chase after him, while from another point in the distance, the torso of Ryujin comes out and start firing off one Cero after another.

Seeing the situation Jiraiya, as he barely dodges one attack after the other, resulting in many smaller wounds appearing all around his body, quickly decides to go all out and end this, taking some blood from his wounds, he quickly does his hand seals and once again uses the Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique), this time summoning two smaller older toads.

One is a male with green skin, white hair styled in somewhat of a mohawk, very thick eyebrows and a small goatee, Fukasaku, the other female has a green underside with purple marking around her mouth and the back of her body, Shima, who quickly jumps on top of Jiraiya's shoulder, helping him recharge his Senjutsu Chakra, as Shima asks "Jiraiya-boy, what is the situation?" and Jiraiya "As you can see I'm under the assault of this monster who merged with all this water, and while Senjutsu Chakra can hurt him, I need something large scale to wipe him out!".

Fukasaku then says "Got it, we are ready just give us the signal!" then Jiraiya uses a Rasengan to destroy the tail that was still harassing him, then he once again dodges another Cero shot by Ryujin who yells "Come on! Give up you can't escape, as long as water exists you have nowhere to hide!".

Then Jiraiya takes advantage of the temporary stop of Ryujin's assault as says "Now! Senpō: Goemon (Sage Art: Goemon)!" then Jiraiya creates a large volume of oil, followed by Fukasaku performing a large Wind Release technique to propel the oil, and Shima performing a large Fire Release technique to ignite it.

Within an instant, the area is filled with oil burning at temperatures of thousands of degrees that creates a huge burning wave that quickly began evaporating all the water it came in contact with under the screams of Ryujin who feeling the end coming yells for one last time "Orochimaru-sama will avenge me!" before finally dying leaving nothing behind.

Then Jiraiya, after stopping his Jutsu, falls to the ground from the ceiling and checks his surroundings, noticing that everything is destroyed, cut, or burned to a cinder, lucky the tree with Hashirama's clone and Yamato in the distance is still undamaged, then he notices that something is missing, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, sometime during the fight disappeared, then he quickly rescues Yamato and after making sure that he was still alive while thinking 'From that monster words it seems that Orochimaru once again survived and he is the one behind the Hollows joining forces with Madara... This is bad! I have to warn Tsunade and the others quickly!!'.

So he quickly summons his messenger frog and gives him the new intel to give to Tsunade, then he runs toward the rendevous point with Yamato on his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.