Chapter 50.2- One Thousand Hands

She watched as the Raikage looked around himself, waiting to see if the Hokage would pop back up before his gaze snapped to hers. She instantly ensnared him in a genjutsu but he broke it in a second and turned his gaze into a glare aimed right at her forehead. In the space between blinks, he was right upon her. She substituted with one of Shori’s newest inventions, and watched as the clone he barreled through exploded the instant it was destroyed. He remained unscathed and she lashed out with a set of ten shuriken from her pouch. She focused her chakra, allowing wind natured chakra to run through the shuriken before she fired them in his direction.

There was a disturbance in the ground next to her, and her ten shuriken instantly became over a hundred.

“Sorry, Uzume-chan. Had to enhance your jutsu a bit with one of mine” The Hokage said, poking a head out of the ground for a second to speak to her before he dove back underneath. Once again, the Raikage moved through the attack rather than around like a sane person would have, and an other of Sensei’s unique clones was waiting for him with blade prepared. In a flash, the clone’s head popped like a balloon. The other managed to use the opportunity to get close enough to swing at the Muscled Kage but the man lifted a single hand and caught the blade. He used it to swing the clone around until the clone let go of the blade and dove at the Raikage with a rasengan building in his hand. The Raikage took Shori’s invented jutsu to the chest and then confronted the clone with a headbutt that ended its short lifespan.

Once more, he came at her but this time the ground around him shifted, spikes rising to block the route. Predictable as ever, he settled for storming through the earthen spikes but as he was about to hit the last one, the Hokage’s upper body shot from the spear right at him, a rasengan with wind natured chakra surrounding it held in his left hand and his spear held in his right. Shori should definitely have charged more for that jutsu, she thought to herself as it hit the Raikage and drove him backwards, almost farther than the eye could see before it exploded in a storm of microscopic wind blades that would atomize everything in its range.

Yet, when the dust settled and the smoke cleared, she was almost unsurprised to see him standing there unscathed. Cloaked in black lightning as ever, he looked like one of Shori’s strongest jutsu hadn’t even managed to land a scratch on him. What an absolute monster.