Kaguya Clan, Mysterious Peacock Method

Land of Water.

A black-clad man wearing a Fox Mask walked through the night, eventually stopping before a small village.

Minamoto Takuya looked at the village before him. If the map was correct, this was the Kaguya Clan's territory in the Land of Water.

What surprised him slightly was that, despite being such a tiny village, they actually had night guards.

"Who are you?!"

The leading Kaguya Clan man glared furiously, dark circles beneath his eyes and a bizarre hairstyle tied atop his head. He looked like he had some kind of mental problem.

And that was indeed the case. The Kaguya Clan could also be called the Taketori Clan, and they really did have mental issues.

They could be considered the most deranged and bloodthirsty clan in the Hokage world.

Every member of the Kaguya Clan had an extremely strange personality. The one thing they almost all shared was a love for fighting and killing, as if slaughter were the only pursuit in life. It seemed they could only find meaning in battle.

This mentality had even led them to launch a nighttime assault on the Mist Shinobi, a force backed by a great nation, using the strength of their entire clan—all just to let Kirigakure know how terrifying the Kaguya Clan was.

Their eventual extermination was nothing more than what they deserved.

"I'm a ninja who enjoys collecting all sorts of unusual things. I heard there's someone here who can control bones. Could you hand him over to me?" Minamoto Takuya asked in that androgynous voice.

"No!" The Kaguya clansman glared at Minamoto Takuya, his voice booming like thunder. "That little monster belongs to us!"

As he spoke, he seemed unable to hold himself back any longer and threw a punch at Minamoto Takuya. Having said so much to him already was the limit of his patience.

At that moment, he seemed to see Minamoto Takuya being torn to pieces beneath his fist, and a cruel smile appeared on his face.

Minamoto Takuya paused as well, having never expected the other man to attack outright. Truly worthy of the most insane clan.

Since the other side had already made a move, he did not hold back either. He threw out a punch of his own, Chakra he had carefully controlled condensed within it.

Boom!

Before the Kaguya clansman's smile had even faded, he was blasted away like a cannonball. He smashed through countless houses before finally coming to a stop.

By then, he was no longer recognizable as human—dead beyond any doubt.

This was Monster Strength!

Minamoto Takuya did not know whether his Monster Strength differed from Tsunade's, but the principle was the same: concentrate Chakra in one part of the body to unleash power far beyond the body's natural strength.

Of course, after several months of training, his physical strength was no longer bad. Unfortunately, his talent for taijutsu truly seemed mediocre. The training had yielded results, but pure taijutsu like the Front Lotus felt somewhat awkward for him to use.

Such pure taijutsu was far less natural for him than Nintaijutsu.

At that moment, the other Kaguya clansmen who saw their companion get punched to death showed no fear whatsoever, nor any regret over his death. Their faces still wore those strange smiles.

They were happy—happy that they could fight again!

Watching this scene, as well as the Kaguya clansmen continuously emerging from the houses, Minamoto Takuya helplessly shrugged.

"What a shame. I was originally a peace-loving ninja. I don't like fighting and killing."

No one answered him. Wearing those chillingly strange smiles, they charged at Minamoto Takuya.

"Then let's give it a try. I happen to have some ninjutsu I want to test." Minamoto Takuya formed hand seals, and a massive surge of purple Chakra suddenly erupted from behind him.

Mysterious Peacock Method: Tiger Evil!

The enormous mass of materialized purple Chakra immediately began to change, forming a gigantic tiger king crouched above Minamoto Takuya. It let out a tiger's roar that struck like a sonic attack.

The roar made the Kaguya clansmen charging toward him pause involuntarily. Expressions of pain finally appeared on their faces. This was the first time Minamoto Takuya had seen any expression other than those strange smiles on their faces.

That was... quite rare.

After roaring once, Tiger Evil charged at the Kaguya clansmen. Like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, slaughter and bloodshed erupted.

Throughout it all, Minamoto Takuya did not move. He had yet to figure out how to maintain the Mysterious Peacock Method while moving, much less use other ninjutsu to attack at the same time.

He had not overcome this flaw yet, though it was still fine to use the Mysterious Peacock Method occasionally.

The feeling the Mysterious Peacock Method gave him was one of heaviness. Chakra had weight, especially after it was condensed into a material form.

The Original Work had repeatedly marveled at how Naruto Uzumaki could still move after going berserk and growing four tails, despite possessing such immense quantities of materialized Chakra.

Even Orochimaru, when facing the Tailed Beast Bomb of four-tailed Naruto Uzumaki, had never expected Chakra of that density to be fired out, and was struck head-on...

Something similar was the incomplete Wind Release: Rasenshuriken. It too was a massive condensed mass of Chakra, so heavy it was absurd.

When Naruto Uzumaki threw it in the Original Work, even the Toad Sage had marveled that he could hurl such high-density, rapidly spinning Chakra. That was an extremely difficult feat.

At present, Minamoto Takuya found it somewhat strenuous just to hold what he had condensed, let alone throw it.

One could imagine that even if he threw it, its speed would be extremely slow. At that speed, there was no chance of hitting anyone.

So he understood. To throw it while it was still incomplete, he needed the physical body of Sage Mode. (The manga stated that Naruto gained a powerful body, thereby overcoming the flaw of being unable to throw it.)

Minamoto Takuya only hoped that once he perfected Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, he could reduce its other requirements for throwing.

At that moment, he was still using Tiger Evil to relentlessly attack the Kaguya clansmen. They were utterly helpless before it—one strike tore open their stomachs, two strikes split them apart.

Yet they were completely fearless of death. They felt not the slightest fear at their companions' deaths. They even shouted, "Let him see the terror of the Kaguya Clan!" before rushing at Tiger Evil without hesitation.

All that could be said was that they were indeed the Kaguya Clan.

Minamoto Takuya clicked his tongue. It was a miracle that the Kaguya Clan had survived for so long.

Gradually, blood covered the ground. Several Kaguya clansmen's corpses lay strewn across it, most of them incomplete.

At this point, they seemed to notice that Minamoto Takuya, behind Tiger Evil, had not moved. They charged toward him.

Minamoto Takuya sighed. If even the deranged Kaguya Clan could spot this weakness, then he truly could not use the Mysterious Peacock Method carelessly before developing a way to move and attack with it.