Chapter 76.2- One Thousand Hands

“We wait five minutes and then I want those walls” The Raikage said before sitting down in the lotus position.

“He’s meditating? Here? Right in front of Iwa’s walls?”

“Takes balls of steel” Cee heard the gold and silver brothers whispering to each other and he almost facepalmed. Of course none of them were as sensitive to chakra as he was. If they were, they would be able to feel the Raikage taking in chakra from the very air around them, the ground beneath their feet, the water in the mountain. All of it was flowing into his body, multiplying itself with his own massive reserves, and coming together to form something more potent than either of the individual parts had been— Sage Chakra.

Cee wished he could join the Raikage in his meditation, but he knew his role. He organised the men as they crested the top. Iwa was letting them get this close for a reason. He had n idea what was going to come their way once they began advancing sat the walls but he knew it was not going to be good. If they made no moves to attack now, then there was every chance they either simply weren’t in range of Iwa’s final line of defenses or they were holing off for some reason. Maybe the defenses weren’t ready— a possibility considering how quickly they had made it here, or they were being held in reserve for some reason.

XXXX- JIRACHI OF IWAGAKURE

She twitched as she looked over her shoulder, through the hole in the walls again, and saw them. The Kumo shinobi. They were still there. They were going to come for her village today. And she would have to do her duty to defend it from them. To defend it from men that had walked through every set of traps the Explosion Corps had prepared for this exact occasion.

And she was here, the first line of defence because of how strong the kekkei genkai ran in her. She wished she had never passed that damn test. She just wanted to be home with her parents now. Held in their arms, told everything would be okay, and just allowed to sleep. She wanted to sleep so much now. Never in her twelve years of life had she gone so long without it.

‘Come here, Jirachi. Infuse this with your power, Jirachi’, they had told her over a dozen times. Of course they thought it was easy for her because she could do it. But they never knew how each of those massive pillars pulled at her chakra and stretched her like a rubber band pulled to its limit. Stretched so far that it could never regain its ol shape— that is what Jirachi felt like.

“Come here, Jirachi” She heard those words again and fought off the urge to moan in tiredness.

“Yes Sensei” She said, getting up and trotting after her. She wondered what they wanted her to use her kekkei genkai on now.