Chapter 49.3- One Thousand Hands

“So something like his Granduncle’s technique then. All that on top of all the other information about him.” She said speculatively.

“A troublesome shinobi by all means” He said.

“And what will we do about him?” She asked, already seeing where his mind was going.

“I wish I could say Kitsuchi was ready for a fight like this one, but after that showing against the Yonbi, and spending months in care, I wouldn’t dare. No, there is only one person in our village with the power to put down the threat he represents for good”

“So you will finally take to the battlefield then”

“I must. The Hokage and Raikage are busy taking their pounds of flesh from each other in Frost. Our offensive in Rain is gone. Sand is out of the game as a threat for the time being, and now we’ve been pushed out of Taki without finding the village, and without drawing troops away from her Konoha front to weaken them for our allies of convenience. No. There is only one thing that could be done. I will take charge of our offense in Grass. We will annihilate whatever remains of that hidden village, and when Shorirama Senju is sent to stop me, I will leave nothing but dust.” He said, meaning every word. He would never forget the insult that Konoha had paid both he and his sensei. Madara Uchiha might be dead, but the village he had helped build still stood, and as long as it did, his pride would never be sated.

XXXXXX- UZUME UCHIHA

“Surpirsed?” She asked with a smirk, turning to the girl she had just saved.

“I had her” Uraume said with little heat. An obvious lie. She merely lifted an eyebrow. Izuku had had the ability to say paragraphs with naught but his facial expressions, and she had inherited that..

“Fine. She had me. But why help me?”

“We’re comrades” She said like that explained everything. She was not going to tell her that if she didn’t help then Uraume would have died and then Shorirama would have become a boring mess while mourning her death.

She spotted the approaching situation from he corner of her eye. Uraume had already deactivated her byakugan— either despair or exhaustion. She picked up the girl and jumped out of the way as her sensei landed on the ground where they had stood. He rolled with the fall and flipped to his feet right in time to dodge out of the way of a piercing stab from the Raikage’s fingers. For the first time, they were in close proximity, and her first thought was— ‘he’s massive’. The Raikage was taller than Sensei who was already one of the tallest in all of Konoha, and almost twice as bride. His muscles had muscles. The raikage moved again for the next attack, as she struggled to keep track of him with her eyes.

Sharingan or not, both Sensei and the Hokage managed to react before she could. Sensei formed a single seal and the ground rose in a wall that stopped the Raikage for not even half a second, but that was enough time for the Hokage’s staff to extend so quickly that it released a sonic clap. It slammed into the Raikage mid-lunge, and somehow the man had still been quick enough to turn in time to block with his arms raised.