Chapter 79.5- One Thousand Hands

“Kinkaku” I heard the scream come from the other one. Oops. So that wasn’t Ginkaku. Tough. He left whatever he was trying to do with Uzume to jump right at me. I lifted a hand, silently telling Uzume not to intervene as I caught his flying form by the neck and slammed him straight into the ground. The tails rose and tried to stab into my skin. I twisted, allowing them sail through naught but air and then I tightened my grip before lifting Ginkaku? Well, if the other one was Kinkauku, then this was most definitely Ginkaku.

I stared into his eyes. What an interesting person. I gathered my chakra in my hand, forming a wind release: rasengan in my grip and ten began to slam it into his chest. I ground through the protective chakra layer of the version two tailed beast cloak, and then through skin, and then through flesh, and bone, and then down to the organ within. The wind release rasengan worked differently from the regular rasengan in one key way. Instead of just grinding through its target like the regular rasengan— though it did that as well— it destroyed what it ground apart at a molecular level as well. When I reached his heart, I ground through it just as surely. Then I teleported to a flying raijin marker I’d left at the base of the mountain. I let go of the rasengan, commanding it to expand. And then I returned to the plains outside Iwa where I’d left the Raikage. Of course he wasn’t still there.

‘You owe me big time for that’ I growled at Kurama when I spotted the Raikage’s distinct chakra network tearing though my troops. I reached for my nearest marker. The one I had on Kizuru. And good thing I did because as I appeared next to him, was when the Raikage chose him as his next target. Instead of avoiding him like I’d been doing earlier, I stepped forward to meet the physical challenge. I slammed my fist against his. The ground around us shattered as I felt my knees near buckle from the force that flowed through them.

Ay narrowed his eyes straight at me as we clashed.

“You’ve grown stronger” He said.

“Indeed. Now ready to pick on someone your own size?”

“You went to kill my subordinates, and I decided to make it even by killing some of yours" He said, gesturing about with his other hand, even as our dominant hands strained against each other for dominance. I was already sweeping the area with my byakugan. It probably said something about me that I breathed a sigh of relief when I failed to recognise any of the bodies. Sometimes, I wished I could love them just because they wore the Konoha headband, but that was not the kind of person I was. Sure, I valued them as shinobi and I would protect them with all I had if I could. But I would not mourn their deaths.