Chapter 79.1- One Thousand Hands

XXXXXX- CEE

Only the fact that he could still sense the Raikage’s stalwart chakra kept him from bemoaning their situation. The fact that he could sense the chakra of Shorirama Senju as well was some cause for concern. Not as much as the Raikage’s when sheer quantity was considered. But somehow, he had him beat when it came to quality. Cee struggled to put it to words. But he knew that if their chakra was placed on a scale, drop fro drop, then one drop of the Senju’s would be worth two of the Raikage’s. Still, the Raikage would win. No one could and him, and Shorirama Senju would be no different.

The only problem was that Cee had a feeling it wouldn’t happen in time. His breath came in sharp stabs as he jumped away from another building that exploded beneath his feet. That one hadn’t even been the Konoha shinobi. He’d carelessly triggered one of the explosives Iwa had set in their defiance. This was quite literally the worst thing that could have happened. Konoha was attacking Kumo, and now that Konoha was here, Iwa was coming out of the woodwork to stab at them as well. Okay, it was the second worst thing. It would have been the worst thing if Konoha and Iwa had the good sense to lave their animosities aside. Instead, they killed each other whenever they came into contact.

That was then only thing preventing the Kumo force from being overrun. The Kumo force that should have been bolstered by their Special War Powers— their monsters, but Konoha had come with monsters of their own. The Hyuga girl had gone straight for Sora, and while the magnet release user was likely to come out victorious considering what he could sense from that battle, it would not be one that he would leave unscathed. She’d already blocked more than a few of his chakra points.

Kinkaku and Ginkaku, brutes that they were, could not even make themselves useful. Four Konoha shinobi had fallen on them, and they were struggling to adapt. The brutes would have won if it was a fight of raw power— they had that in spades. But the Konoha shinobi never allowed them to bring they power to bear. Two of them wielded insidious genjutsu that they layered over the so-called Gold and Silver brothers so throughly that even Cee struggled to break them out remotely. And then there were the other two. One with insects, and the other with shadows that lashed out like needles.

If that was all, then Cee would have been more confident of their odds. But he couldn’t be. Killua was struggling to pin down the Hokage’s students. That troublesome trio would be the death of him. It was only a matter of time. And then Cee felt it as it happened. A flash of sharpened intent. A whisper of wind, and Yui’s head fell to the ground. The Uchiha girl stood victoriously over her for a second, and then she was gone.