Chapter 81.4- One Thousand Hands

And nowhere was it truer than in that battle. He felt most sorry for the Iwa shinobi that had been hiding in the building before the Uchiha’s fire release jutsu turned it and a quarter mile of space around it to ash. Their fates were almost as bad as that of the civilians trapped in the building the Raikage had wrestled Shorirama Senju through. They didn’t even notice how much death and destruction they were causing in their battle, and from what Cee’s senses could tell the only one who was wounded among them was the Raikage, and the wound felt like nothing serious.

If only he had managed to perfect his remote healing before this. There were lots of ifs on his mind. If only he had been able to forsee Konoha making a mad dash to bugger them in the ass right as they were buggering Iwa. If only he was stronger. If only—

“Kukuku” He froze. What? Where had that come from? A white snake erupted from the ground, and from the snake came a man. If he could even be called that. His skin, pale as the snow that dotted Kumo’s peaks, and eyes yellow as piss.

“How the fuck—“

“What a fascinating sensing ability” His voice was practically a hiss.

“Can you be less creepy, Maru?” Another voice from the side, his head snapped there instinctively. Jiraiya. Next to him Tsunade Senju, watching everything with cold eyes.

“H-how?”

“Simple enough. Shadow clones to trick your sensing that we were farther away, my white snake here has interesting abilities of his own, and the oaf has a trick or two up his sleeves. Now what I want you to tell me is how your sensing works. How far is your range? I guessed the whole village but Tsunade doesn’t believe it can extend that far. That would make you the most powerful sensor ever recorded, wouldn’t it?” Cee was careful to keep his face blank. His senses extended well beyond the village if he focused. But somehow they had managed to fool it.

Now that they were in front of him though, there was no fooling him. He reached for their coils, playing them like instruments under his spell. They attacked as one, moving for where he had been as he fooled them with a mirage.

He jumped to the side and was about to escape into the shadows again when a kunai flew past his head. All three of them had frozen, and as he moved to dodge the second kunai, so did he.

His body just refused to move no matter what he did. He could see that the shadows of his assailants were connected to each other and then a straight line into the distance, and guessed the source of his predicament. A Nara. The three snapped from his genjutsu.

“That was good. Better than even Sensei” Tsunade Senju said, more to herself than the others

“Let’s just get this over with”

“Indeed. I want to see the Raikage’s jutsu for myself” Orochimaru said, and then they began to walk towards him.