Chapter 51.6- One Thousand Hands

XXXXX- UZUME UCHIHA

The fight against the Raikage had developed to the point that the very landscape that surrounded them had begun to shift. It was a factor of the Hokage’s prodigious earth release when combined with Sensei’s world cutting slashes with his chakra saber. They rewrote land across the land of Frost, while the Raikage, cloaked in his black lightning as always tore through every obstacle. Now, the three of them stood opposite the man, she felt her chest constrict, as passing air through her lungs got harder and harder.

She had about a fourth of her full capacity left, and she could tell that neither of the men by her sides were in a better state. In contrast, the Raikage looked hale and hearty, vigorous as ever, he stood before them.

“Already on your last legs?” The man asked with a barked laugh before shooting towards them again. She weaved seals at the same time as the Hokage, and asn;t surprised when even though her technique had fewer seals, he finished first. The ground transformed into mud that shoved the Raikage backwards. Or at least it tried to. Her fireball jutsu the size of a large house crashed into him— it was more like he crashed into her jutsu, if she was being honest. The fireball exploded and from the flames came the Raikage like a specter cloaked in black. Sensei’s blade was there to meet him, and this time the Raikage, rather than letting the jutsu break against him, met Sensei’s chakra saber with his outstretched hand, two fingers in front of him. The fingers hit the sword and in exactly the opposite of what one would had expected to happen, the sword lost.

Sensei’s famed chakra saber that he’d inherited from his father shattered, and the Raikage continued towards him, crashing through his body. She breathed a sigh of relief that Sensei had managed to substitute with a clone at the very last second, but that was not the end of her worries. The Raikage was still coming. She breathed out, formed two seals and called forth a storm of hurricane force winds.

By her side, the hokage didn’t even need seals to breathe out flames hot enough to make her skin sting. It hit her winds and exploded in a massive conflagration so powerful she had to use the tree walking technique to keep herself grounded.

XXXXX- SAKUMO HATAKE

It is the fate of every good teacher to be surpassed by their students, was what the Hokage had told him when he’d marveled at his students’ growth all those years ago. This was probably that day, he thought to himself as he watched Uzume stand shoulder to shoulder with her Kage in combat against another. Hiruzen weaved seals and the earth heaved, forming the golem that he had become infamous for tearing apart training grounds with.

By his side, Uzume stretched out a hand to her side. The Rasengan, Shorirama’s invention formed almost instantly. And then it began to morph and shift. Lengthening before beginning to glow a red that deepened into a blue so dark it was almost black. She wielded the shifted jutsu like a spear in her hands, as she stood atop the Hokage’s golem, hair blowing in the wind. She looked like a spirit of vengeance. With a sigh, he dug himself from the ground and body flickered to her side. If his student was still fighting, then so would he. Sword or no sword.