Chapter 81.3- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXX- CEE

His Kage was not winning, he thought to himself as he practically flew across the village. He had just been barely able to hide when Shorirama Senju had intervened in the fight with Kinkaku and Ginkaku. He had felt it keenly when the two of them had been ripped apart. He thought the Raikage in rage would be the scariest chakra he ever had the displeasure of sensing. The beast inside the Senju had him beaten and quite handily at that. Whatever part of the nineties had remained in the brute brothers before their demise was a drop in the proverbial ocean.

So much hatred, so much anger. And to his shame, he had been paralyzed to sense the power coming from Shorirama Senju. So frozen he had been that he had been unable to make it to Killua. It was all for the best, in the end. Uzume Uchiha had intervened in that battle and while he had confidence in his abilities, there was nothing he could do against a woman who just stood there and let Killua hit her over and over again with all his most powerful jutsu. So focused on her, his attempts to pin the trio of S-ranks down had failed.

The memory of Orochimaru’s Kusanagi blade carving straight into Killua’s neck while Tsunade Senju’s monstrous strength turned everything below his chest to pulp was one that he would treasure for the rest of his life. If only that period wasn’t getting shorter and shorter. Somehow, the damn snake had caught on to him and instead of continuing their massacre of Kumo’s and Iwa’s shinobi, they were chasing him down.

No, they weren’t so careless as to just make a mad dash for him. He was sure they didn’t even have his exact location on lock, but they did know enough that they kept turning up in his general area. They were searching for him and that meant what he could do to help his Kage was limited. He stopped for a few seconds, weaved seals and tried to snake another genjutsu into Shorirama Senju’s chakra coils. Once again, the genjutsu failed to take hold.

Fuck, he cursed internally as he started running again. He just needed a place to focus and concentrate for a few minutes. No one was immune to genjutsu. No one! He just needed the time to focus and get it right. The Uchiha was at least susceptible, but she broke out of them instantaneously. He would need even more time to craft something insidious enough to fool her. If only he could get close enough to try an auditory genjutsu. The only issue was that the three of them had decided to turn the center of Iwa into a wasteland with their fighting. Cee had already felt multiple chakra signatures snuffed out as they fought.

When the elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers, he remembered a saying his father had been fond of. And nowhere was it truer than in that battle.