Chapter 76.6- One Thousand Hands

There were four men around the Raikage. Dead men, he disregarded them as almost immediately. Above them was the true threat. There was some sort of chakra construct. It was explosive, and its movements indicated that it was controlling its flight. Some sort of bird made of the same explosive clay as the thing that had landed in their midst earlier? He chanced a glance upwards and to the left, confirming it.

Another clay construct, this one shaped like an elephant that got bigger and bigger until it nearly blotted out a third of their army with its shadow before it landed. They managed o avoid being crushed under its feet as it landed, but that was not the true threat. From the things trunk came a spray of even more clay. It attached itself to a pair of chunin and Cee watched as they died.

Another pair of chunin went in with their blades aimed for its legs. They cut through halfway, and then the thing began to bubble.

“Scatter” he shouted for the second time. For the second time, it was too late. He crossed his arms in front of his face as the shockwave from the explosion nearly tore him from his feet. They were being slaughtered. Someone was in his guard then. He ducked underneath the kunai by instinct.

His opposition thrust his palm in his face, and Cee felt his chakra prime itself for an explosion. He dodged to the side, allowing the explosion hit nothing but air. Another clay construct was landing in their midst.

“Killua, shoot that thing down” He shouted next before he swung a fist at his opponent. He felt Killua’s chakra bristle at being ordered, but the man moved to comply either way, aiming a jutsu towards where Cee could sense the bird and the two people atop its back.

His fist was slapped to the side, and he felt his skin sizzle as his opponent triggered a slam explosion with that slap. He returned his hand, wounded but not crippled, to his side. Taijutsu against this one would be a mistake.

The man sensed Cee’s hesitation and stepped in, pressing the attack. Cee wove his chakra into the man’s network even as he stepped back and ran for his next opponent. Behind him, he sensed the man place his hands against his own head. “Boom” Cee heard behind him a second later.

He stretched his senses towards his Kage, and to his shock, all four that faced him still lived. It was the monk, he realised. He was able to use he stalwart defence of that gold armour of his to force the Raikage’s attention on him, even as the two anbu and the Iwa shinobi tried to break through the lightning armour with their own attacks.

He sensed Killua’s storm release miss the floating bird above by a hair’s breadth. “Try again” He screamed, running towards the man.

“It’s not easy getting it to stretch so far. Takes a lot more chakra and concentration” He said, even as Yui’s cloth wrapped around shinobi here and there, using them as bludgeons against each other.

A/N: Iwa makes a deal with the devil that sees them brought back from the brink and given a chance to survive this. Suna loses its most dangerous shinobi to betrayal, and the rest of her S-ranks are out adrift. Now all we need to make this explosive mix even more so, by tossing Konoha and our favourite psychopath into the running.