Chapter 77.5- One Thousand Hands

Five shinobi still surrounded him, but just as he had made little headway in dealing with them, they were yet to manage to land a clear hit. Not like Cee thought much would happen if they did. The Raikage’s durability was unquestioned. The Monk, his golden aura around him, struck next. He attempted a straight punch at the Raikage that he blocked with his forearm. The ground around them shattered from the force of the blocked hit. The Raikage did not even flinch, striking out with a knife hand. The Monk shuffled backwards as the Iwa shinobi formed a single hand seal.

The ground rose in a wall to block the Raikage’s attack. He tore through it, never having seen a problem that he could not defeat by bashing his head into it, and stumbled into an encirclement of explosive tags. The anbu were quick. Cee would get to the bottom of what Suna anbu were doing defending Iwa’s walls of all things, but that was besides the point as the ground shook from the force of the explosion. The Raikage dove out, still continuing his pursuit.

“Drop, five clicks East” He called out. Killua, in a matter of seconds, shot through the clay explosive that south to land around the Raikage. If. The goal was for the bird to provide aerial support then they would be sorely disappointed. Cee stretched his senses to the rest of the fighting and nodded with satisfaction.

The brutes, Kinkaku and Ginkaku, were conducting themselves admirably. There was nothing they enjoyed more than slaughter after all. Yui kept a defensive radius around them that say them undisturbed even as she struck any that stumbled too close to their position. Sora, in classic Sora fashion, was surrounded by giant shuriken flowing with lightning release that allowed him cut apart any who got close enough while still picking out some fighters at a distance. They were going to win this. The rest of the army just needed to last long enough for the Raikage to breach those walls. Once they breached those walls, it would be over for Iwa.

Either they would surrender or they would bear the indignity of being the first village to suffer a sacking. The lack of aerial support for the five on the ground meant it was only a matter of time. They didn’t make any mistakes, acquitting themselves near perfectly in the way they conspired to lead the Raikage by the nose. The Monk came with his devastating strength whenever he felt the Raikage was distracted. The Iwa shinobi used his earth release to defend any who he felt were in danger of the Raikage’s fury, and the anbu made nuisances of themselves in the way only skilled shinobi could. And yet, none of it mattered in the face of overwhelming power