Chapter 25.4- One Thousand Hands

I flew backwards and crashed through a few rocks before I managed to bring my movement to a stop by dragging tymhands along the ground. I stared up at the raikage. His armour had intensified its presence and now he shone like the sun to my eyes. I blinked for a second and rushed at him again. This time, I saw the attack coming and managed to dodge out of the way of the first punch but the second moved too quickly and managed to clip me on my side. Once again, I was sent flying from the force. This time, he chased me along the ground with his speed. I closed my eyes for a second, and when I opened them again, he’d been forced to abort as Kagami sent multiple wind bullets into the space he’d been standing on. I crashed to the ground again and was up on my feet a second later. I took a breath and breathed out a storm of hurricane class winds that tore through the ground and quite a few kumo shinobi but not their kage.

Only my buyakugan allowed me to duck underneath the roundhouse kick that came from right behind my head. I remained squatted to allow Kagami’s kunai free rein to find their target, but he was already gone by the time they were close to hitting. His next target was obvious, and even if he was much faster than I was, all I had to do was take a different route and set us up for a collision. He was only a few metres away from Kagami when I dove right into him with all the force and weight I had in me. He spotted me coming and managed to jump over my sailing form, allowing me crash into the foliage behind him. Still, I rolled to my feet a second later.

Kagami was already heavily back-pedalling even as his red eyes spun without ceasing, placing genjutsu after genjutsu upon his target even as the man snapped them just as quickly as they were placed on him. I joined the fight, ducking underneath his instinctive backhand in my direction and stepping further into his guard. His body moved to the side and avoided my palm thrust into his armpit. His armour erupted in power and stopped Kagami’s kunai thrust dead in its tracks. For a second, at least. Until the kunai suddenly glowed with green chakra and passed through the lightning armour like it wasn’t even there.

Quick on his feet as ever, the Raikage was already moving. His arms lashed out and pushed off against both Kagami and I to send him flying in the other direction. Regardless, there was still blood in the air from Kagami’s kunai and it seemed to fall in slow motion as the Raikage rolled along the ground before snapping to his feet in an instant. Across his chest was a single red line that showed where the kunai had been able to pierce.

“You both fight well. Sadly, it will not be enough today” He said