Tajima dashed forward his saber, glowing crimson, cutting through the air with a hiss.
Butsuma parried, stepping sideways, using thunder chakra blade to redirect the strike and slashed toward Tajima's shoulder. Tajima did not dodge and continued to attack Butsuma, His shoulder was injured but it healed instantly.
Each slash was deadly and aimed at opponent's vital part. Tajima who has Extremis did not care about getting injured. Butsuma showed marvelous skills dodging Tajima's strike. With each clash Butsuma was pushed back and it seemed like the battle would be over soon.
Senju, Uzumaki and Uchiha ninjas who were watching from the distance, had their heart racing up and down whenever their clan leader dodged.
Blade to blade continued. But this time Butsuma's weapons cracked, he jumped back while injecting chakra in the broken blade and threw it towards Tajima's abdomen.
Tajima did not dodge, as he knew he would heal. The broken blade pierced his abdomen. He was just about to mock Butsuma but a strange thing happened, Butsuma vanished......
In the space between Tajima's heartbeat, Butsuma re-appeared directly beside him. His two fingers dug deep into Tajima's eye socket.
He reappeared again at a spot away from Tajima.
Butsuma: "Flying Thunder God, do you think only your son is smart? This was developed by my son with the help of Uzumaki clan to counter Leo's teleportation Jutsu."
Tajima did feel pain in his left eye, but it was healing and new eye was regenerating.
Tajima: "My serum will fix it! You've gained nothing!"
Butsuma: "Oh, yes. I'm sure your serum will rebuild the tissue and regenerate the nerves. But did you know...?"
Tajima: "What.....?"
Butsuma: "Hahahahahah!! Do you remember one member of your extremis unit went missing. We trapped him and studied him. We wounded him, watched him heal. That's when we found that, eyes do regenerate but the person needs to go through emotional trauma or a powerful stimulus to reawaken the Sharingan in the regenerated eye."
Tajima whose eye had regenerated found that his left eye could not activate sharingan, one eye was Mangekyo Sharingan but other was normal eye.
Tajima: "No need to be happy so early, I can defeat you with one eye"
Butsuma again rushed towards Tajima and threw many kunai each with Uzumaki seals on it.
Tajima's movements became faster not reckless like before, but explosive.
Tajima:"Fire Release: Flame Destruction Torrent!" Tajima lit the battlefield like a dying sun, columns of fire swallowing trees and sealing tags.
Butsuma: "Water Release: Water Severing Cannon!" His counter-attack sliced the fire in half, not with brute force, but velocity and pressure.
Tajima: "Fire Release: Flame Ring Genesis!" A ring of fire spiraled outwards, consuming the entire combat zone in a blazing seal of heat.
Butsuma:"Water release: Grand Waterfall Technique!" A tsunami dropped from the air itself, summoned by chakra. Moisture pulled from the sky.
When fire and water collided, they exploded into steam, hiding the field in white haze. Tajima moved within it like a demon. Butsuma waited like a predator.
The battlefield cracked under pressure. The river overflowed. The forest ignited. Trees and steam warred over sunlight.
The sun began to fall, they both began to fade.
Even titans have limits.