Chapter 78.5- One Thousand Hands

I teleported to one of them, and he reacted almost instantly, contorting his body in the air to deliver a savage axe kick. That one would have hurt for sure…if it hit. I teleported off to the side and then above him.

“Cho Odama Rasengan” I screamed it to the heavens as I smashed the giant jutsu down on him. I felt the grinding edges of the chakra treads that made up the rasengan wear against the Raikage’s impenetrable armour, until the jutsu exploded, pushing us apart.

He was half buried in the ground, but he pushed himself out of it none the worse for wear. How convenient. I had the way to take him down. Redirect his own attacks upon him, but he hadn’t brought out the hell stab yet. Part of me was offended that it was because he did not consider me worthy of it. The rest of me agreed it was probably best for him not to yet. If he dully committed, then this fight would end in a matter of minutes, and in that case whoever won would win the war. It was just that simple. If he beat me here, then he was going to run roughshod over y army with almost no hindrance.

Uzume could delay him for a while with her stasis, but that would end up being a battle of endurance, and Uzume would lose that a thousand times. Because the Raikage was a monster. A fucking monster, and I had no idea how he had figured out what he was doing, but when I killed him, his body would have so many secrets for me. For one, there was the fact that there was something strange about his chakra.

His reserves were massive already. They dwarfed mine as a matter of fact. And then worse than that, he was taking in nature energy constantly. With every movement. Moving sage mode. But not really. He wasn’t creating Sage chakra. He was allowing natural energy refill his reserves almost directly. There was only one clan that was supposed to have that ability. And they’d been wiped out bar one by the time canon rolled around. Could the Raikage be a member of Jugo’s clan? Their progenitor?

I ducked underneath a straight jab as he got bored of us staring at each other. I slammed my hand into the ground as I got close enough and turned the entire thing to mud. Let’s see how fast he could be with no surface to push off of. The mud surrounded him, empowered by my sage mode and dragged him straight down to the depths. As it did so, I piled more and more mud atop his position. It should have been impossible to escape. There was literally nothing to physically push off of. Using chakra adhesion with my mud was impossible unless I specifiacally allowed it. It would reject every chakra signature that was not mine automatically.