"Ah! Damn it! Where did all these sharks come from?!" Gamabunta let out a miserable scream as hundreds upon thousands of sharks bit into him.
"Bunta!" Jiraiya watched the scene, his heart filled with anxiety.
The formula in his hands for converting senjutsu chakra wavered as well, and the steady flow of natural energy began to fluctuate.
But before he could decide whether to interrupt the senjutsu chakra conversion, a black shadow burst from the water!
Kisame, who had mingled among the sharks and swum to the nearest point, shot out of the water. Samehada in his hand carved an arc through the air and, accompanied by a shrieking gust, swung fiercely at Jiraiya standing atop Gamabunta's head!
"Found you." A cruel smile appeared on Kisame's shark-like face, his shark eyes locked firmly onto Jiraiya.
"Damn it!" Jiraiya kicked off hard with his wooden sandal and flew backward from atop Gamabunta's head.
Yet just as he thought he had evaded Kisame's strike, he saw the hilt of that strange Ninja Blade with its gaping maw extend more than ten meters. Its rigid blade transformed into a curved, flexible chain, and the blade, as though alive, suddenly lunged at him.
Boom!
Samehada slammed violently into Jiraiya's abdomen, sending him flying backward. He crashed heavily into a nearby mountaintop, blasting out a pit several meters deep.
Broken stones flew everywhere, and dust filled the air.
Sand and gravel poured down from the mouth of the crater, obscuring the scene within.
"Jiraiya!" Gamabunta saw this and let out an enraged roar.
The large short sword in his hand swung continuously, cutting down countless surrounding sharks, but still more swarmed forward as if they were endless.
The waters in the area were soon dyed red with blood—both Gamabunta and Gamaken's, as well as the