Chapter 215: Shikamaru vs. Sarutobi Hiruzen

- Sensei, I met Tsunade, you really have an excellent student! Shikamaru smiled, trying to defuse the situation.

- Ha, that's how it is! - Hiruzen somehow narrowed his eyes suspiciously: - Can you tell me more? Although, wait ... - suddenly remembering something, he said thoughtfully:

"You said something about Mikoto ... What did you mean?"

- Oh, you about this ... - remembering her condition Shikamaru sighed: - You went deeper into the Root? There were people in those cells, Mikoto is one of them. At least I believe that this is it.

- Do you think? - Hiruzen frowned sharply: - You ... Have you seen her before? And where is she now?

Shikamaru shrugged.

- I have a great memory if you haven't forgotten. For me, the Uchiha Massacre happened like yesterday.

- That's how ...

“Well, as for Mikoto, I have it in my scroll, I temporarily sealed it. First, let's solve our case.

- She's all right? The old man asked worriedly, to which Shikamaru only sighed.

- What do you think?

Almost everyone she knew is dead, and her last years were like hell for her. No wonder she didn't want to wake up.

Hiruzen smiled bitterly just as Shikamaru rushed down the river.

- Let's start!

Concentrating, the Third sharply stretched out his arms forward, and folded a row of seals. The experienced shinobi quickly took control of his emotions and responded in all seriousness. The battle has begun!

- Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Projectile!

A moving wave of flame immediately rushed towards Shikamaru. The three fire heads split and turned into real dragon skulls, surrounding Shikamaru from three directions. The dragons have begun their rampage!

The guy stopped abruptly and abruptly folded a couple of hand seals:

- Water Release: Water Dragon Projectile! - at the same moment a water column burst out of the water under his feet, quickly turning into three water dragon heads. They deftly carried directly to the fiery brothers, colliding with them in the air.

Hiruzen nodded with praise and his face changed abruptly as his fiery jutsu was quickly suppressed and without stopping, the water dragons rushed towards him.

"Crap! This is power ... "- mentally swearing, the old man jumped back and spat out a puddle of mud, folding seals - instantly a huge mud wall formed in front of him, protecting him with its strong shell. In the next moment, the trinity of dragons crashed into her and immediately destroyed her, turning her into a mountain of stones. Only then did Jutsu Shikamaru finally lose its power, and the wall of the Hokage's land collapsed completely.

Landing on the rubble, Hiruzen's lips parted in a grin.

- I remember your element of water was so bad that you didn't even want to use it, but look what now ...

Shikamaru still stood in the same place and calmly replied:

- I trained a lot.

- Well, of course, - Hiruzen grinned: - Then how will you cope with this!

Folding his hand seals, Hiruzen bit his finger and hit the ground with his palm. At the same moment, a large monkey with a white mane jumped out of the cloud of dust. Enma appeared and stood beside the old man, fixing his gaze on Shikamaru.

- What is ... Who is he Hiruzen?

- My last student is Shikamaru Nara! - the old man answered with noticeable pride, observing the student. Shikamaru folded the seals too, jumped back and hit the ground with his palm. The Fuying scattered to the sides, and then something terrible appeared in a silvery flash on the territory of the Land of Fire! Even Hiruzen swallowed with growing fear, Enma just took a couple of steps back and exclaimed:

- Spider!

- Sha-ha-ha ... finally decided to call me? - Khatu hissed menacingly. He was still squinting, even though the sun had disappeared, but even so he quickly made out all the people and animals in the area.

It is worth mentioning that the size of the Hut were, to say the least, not small. It looked like a small spider mountain, one of its sharp legs was as long as two adult men. He has even grown up since the last time! Therefore, he easily towered over everyone here and from his height coldly examined everyone, with black resin eyes. Even Enma, being also a recruiting beast, was no match for its size with this giant monster!

The sight of Khatu was frightening, very few people in the world could see the recruiting spiders, and even such creepy ones. Khatu could rightfully be considered one of the most terrible of his relatives. Black, fanged and overly poisonous! He almost lacked the skills to achieve the abilities of the strongest in the clan and finally gain the ability to transform into a lesser, like a human form. Once he acquires this skill, all his strength will undergo colossal changes. From a hulking giant, he will be reborn into an incredibly fast humanoid monster.

Once Shikamaru wanted to tackle this issue, but certainly not today.

Looking at his spider, the guy asked with a grin:

- You have an opponent, can you handle it?

- Hsha ... Do you ask more? Where to go and who to kill? This old man? - waving its paw at Hiruzen, the spider grinned: - He's too skinny, although his macaque will do, I'm just hungry!

- Watch your language, this is my teacher.

- Eh? This shaggy beast ?!

Shikamaru rolled his eyes, realizing that this spider was starting to play a fool.

- Stop showing off and show your respect, Hatu!

- Shopping mall! Okay, - the spider snorted and slightly bent its legs:

- I'm Hatu! The fourth great general of my tribe ...

“Hiruzen Sarutobi,” the Hokage greeted, and Enma just chuckled, “The Monkey King!

“Yes, yes,” Khatu waved his paw and finally fell silent.

Shikamaru shook his head and looked at the teacher.

- He's very poisonous, so be careful.

Hiruzen just laughed and stretched out his hand, Enma understood everything and quickly turned into a diamond staff, landing in the hand of his partner.

- Wow! - Hatu was noticeably surprised. He may have laughed at Hiruzen, but in fact, only he was now afraid of him. This staff was not remarkable, but here is its owner ... If this person was indeed the teacher of his summoner, this could be too dangerous!

- What? Are you going to be surprised or attacked? - Displeased asked Shikamaru, about to kick this lazy person, he even began to cover his eyes, as usual, decided to sleep.

- Shh-x, - Hiruzen jumped from his place, Khatu got up and took into a fighting stance, preparing to jump. Once there was a chance to fight a man, he was only glad!

Shikamaru walked away, not trying to interfere with his spider. Hatu has never fought on his side before, so this is also a kind of test. If Shikamaru wanted to crush the Third dramatically, he would have used his most powerful arsenal long ago. Previously, he could not be vaguely confident of victory, but now Shikamaru already had a calculated battle plan, and not the only one. The main advantage in this situation is knowledge and chakra. Memories of Hiruzen's techniques and skills still made themselves felt. Plus, he was already quite old, he just was not in a position to give all his best as in the anticipated battle with Orochimaru.