Chapter 52.2- One Thousand Hands
Added 2025-05-01 23:56:29 +0000 UTCEven Sakumo had difficulties figuring out just when she substituted with the clones she used— she was tat smooth with it.
“We go all out and kill the Raikage before his reinforcements arrive. He’s done a good job of making his the kind of front we would struggle to retreat from, and while the factors that made it so had worked to our advantage at first, it will work to theirs now.” The Professor, and that was surely who he spoke to now deduced.
“Then let’s do it”, Sakumo said, taking a deep breath and pulling at his chakra, bringing all that the had to bear. He hadn’t had cause to go all out in a long time but this was as good a moment as anything. Next, he felt for thosen nodes in his brain that he had made himself very familiar with in his younger years. “Gate of Opening: Open” he mumble first, blasting open the left gate, and then doing the same to the right as he whispered— “Gate of healing: Open”
Sarutobi looked over to him, clearly having understood what he had just done, before the older man nodded. Sakumo returned the nod, and bent at his knees before closing his eyes and saying a silent prayer for the fallen, and those would should surely fall today.
He shot forward like a jutsu from the Professor’s own mouth while the man himself shot with his staff behind him. Sakumo arrived first, and he channeled all the momentum of his run into the roundhouse kick he sent right into the Raikage’s face. The man stepped back, allowing the kick miss him by the barest margins before Hiruzen’s staff announced its arrival in their engagement.
