Chapter 57: Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 57
It had been thoroughly planned out from the very beginning, right at the moment Tobirama had decided to take on the offensive.
And those accursed bastards had pulled it off perfectly!
Right in front of his very eyes!
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Tobirama's sudden burst of chakra, deliberately lacking any amounts of killing intent was only meant to intimidate his shinobi into hesitating at the show of power by the man.
Then, he had taken on the advantage by flashing back to his executors with his teleportation trickery to kill of his jounin in a slick movement, even further shocking them at the backfiring of their plan upon themselves.
And just in that moment, Sasuke had pushed their advantage even further by planting a sense of panic with his own out-show of power, and that deliberately put out shout of his jutsu had done it's trick.
Thereby sending his men in a state of panic and having them run circles, all the while letting him prepare for his wide area technique efficiently.
That large Earth Release technique with it's primary target being Ei himself, had distracted him by trying to keep away from those incoming boulders and keeping him busy trying to push back the largest one he had thrown straight at his face.
All the while his panicked, half minded subordinates had completely lost all sense of intelligence upon seeing the destruction he was reeking; and not once realizing that it would just be serving as a distraction and a decoy to daze them, and cut off their senses completely.
Which came to the secondary stages of their plan, and their second executor being Tobirama Senju himself.
That thrice damned Senju had stood aside, while his partner gave him the large window of time to concentrate upon gathering up all the water he needed by transpiring the moisture from all around him.
His sensors, who were too stunned and dazed by their primary attacks, had no idea what he was doing all alone in the back and out of everyone's eye shots.
And then he had let loose of that swirling hell upon them and skewered down his most daze shinobi like headless chickens, and putting them in their resting places for good once and for all.
But what made him infuriated beyond belief was that it wasn't even what they had gone off to do in the first place!
The water sources that were now accumulated all around them now served as primary sources of water, at an easy disposal for Tobirama to use as he pleased which was what they had let out to do in the first place.
All that time, they were merely conditioning their surroundings to suit their needs so as to have all the advantages at their disposal while they fought an enemy that could quite as easily have them overpowered, if they were to go head to head that is.
But now a major problem stood face to face with him, his eyes calculatingly looked around to see many of his ninjas now injured here and there and most of them still recovering from the shock of their furious offensive while those two in question hadn't so much as taken a slap upon their wrists.
Sure they had used huge chunks of their reserves to scale out those humongous techniques, but it had paid off twice as much for them too.
The gamble had paid off.
He was left with a squadron that was nearly cut down to a half from what they were, while the rest lay injured. And top it all of, now they had the surroundings to use as they pleased too.
"A smart shinobi is always mindful of their surroundings, Academy awareness 101…" Sasuke recited sagely, and Ei clenched his teeth so tight, they almost threatened to pierce his brain while the Black Lightning of his armor danced even more wildly around him.
"But-" Tobirama's deadly cold voice made the hair on each of the shinobi's necks bump up behind the chilly calmness it held, even in the face of such adversity as if he were sure to come out as the victor at the end with no problems whatsoever.
"-a legendary shinobi is one who turns the surroundings to suit his needs when the time calls for it." he recited Hashirama's prized quote, as if lecturing a pathetic no name civilian child in front of him.
"Why you bastards? I'll kill you!" Ei roared, vanishing in a black flicker of lightning and headed straight forward to cleave Tobirama's head off with his fist.
Tobirama raised his right arm up in an instant, his blade flickering into life almost instantly to block the Raikage's fist.
BAM!
Tobirama's heels dug deep into the ground while he backed the blade with his left palm to apply all his strength to stop it in it's place.
His biceps strained under pressure while nerves bulged out from them along with his forehead, showing off just how much physical strength the Lightning Shadow must have possessed to push him so much with merely his lone fist.
"Now you're mine!" Ei snarled, raising his free fist and bringing it down to break down that sword and the bastard of a man who had made his life a living hell in the past few minutes... no years at that, once and for all.
But his hands over reached and tore apart the ground instead when Tobirama all but vanished into thin air once more, and appeared back at the tree that had marked his first two kills lying on his feet like thrown out trash.
The Raikage looked up, his eyes turning insanely bloodthirsty when Tobirama purposefully stepped upon a corpse's head, on his headband to be precise and walked over it a couple steps to emphasize his point to the downed man even further.
To show him just how far beneath Cloud was to the Leaf, be it in terms of strength or of respect.
With each step, the Raikage's killing intent increased exponentially.
He was taunting him, mocking him! HIM!
"Lightning Style : Electromagnetic murder!" Tobirama ducked under the concentrated beam of lightning that passed above his head, doing nothing more than raising a few of his hairs through static as damage but what happened next, did indeed surprise him.
"Lightning Style : Sixteen Pillar Bind!" suddenly four pillars made up of pure lightning sprouted out around him in a square formation at each corner, thereby concentrating their beams on their center, the center being him, and rendering him completely paralyzed and open for any sorts of attack.
He winced, feeling the beam skewering through his abdomen and most likely near his kidney while he trembled upon feeling the electricity cackle into his nerves from the wound while his blade slipped past his fingers and fell lifelessly upon the ground.
"Lightning Style- NOW YOU'RE MINE!" Ei charged in, as blind as an angry bull at finally having the chance to enact his vengeance upon the bastard for all the horrors he had put his country through in the last Great Shinobi War.
"LARIAT!" he roared, thrashing his elbow to the vulnerable Senju's neck and cleaving it off clean with his elbow….
SPLASH!
'Tobirama' as Ei most likely cleaved in two, split into two parts of water and sprayed his front completely wet.
"Substitution!" he growled out, hearing another shout from behind him.
"AHHH!" the jounin who hadn't left Ei's side since the beginning screamed in agony while a cackling yellow blade sprouted out from the front of his chest.
A thin streak of blood slipped past the corner of his lips while he glanced back into the deathly cold eyes staring at him unflinchingly without so much as an ounce of remorse held within it's gaze.
SQUELCH!
The stoic Senju kicked the body aside harshly, flicking his blade clean of the blood that dripped from the tip of it's blade and turned to hear another couple of shouts behind him.
The two Cloud ninjas who had attempted to restrain him, and had almost been successful as was evident by the deep gash by the side of his waist when he had substituted with a water clone but still had gotten grazed by the still forming electric barrier that tried it's best to trap him.
But in the end, it was all in vain.
A number of earth spikes were piercing their twitching bodies, that still refused to believe themselves to be dead but were quivering their left life out to mother nature when crimson pooled underneath them and painted the ground a deep scarlet, almost black within it's wake.
They shouldn't have taken their eyes off Sasuke...
Tobirama clenched his waist with a wince, clutching the profusely bleeding wound tightly to slow down the bleeding while glancing to his side to see Sasuke jump down by his side with a cheeky grin plastered upon his face, no doubt from the pride he felt at doing so...
SLASH!
Sasuke's eyes saw the world spin comically, and he felt his body going in a parabolic path before falling down on the ground with a thump. But his eyes widened when he saw a headless body fall down on it's knees while Tobirama retracted back his arm holding the blade to his side.
"Next time you try to Henge into Sasuke, do not grin. Sasuke never does, not during combat."
Were the last words "Sasuke's" head heard before light left his eyes and Tobirama glanced back to see a tattered Sasuke coming by his side with a limp while holding the opposite side of his waist as compared to the stoic Senju.
"And then there was one…" the elder Sarutobi chimed in, only then making the Raikage realize that they had all but cleaved down his jounins with as little effort as they could put out while suffering only little damage in it's wake.
Tobirama did arch an eyebrow seeing several cuts and wounds on Sasuke's torso, especially the deep gash extending from his back and only going deeper down to the side of his waist.
"They had a genjutsu user in their ranks, bastard was a sensor and a kenjutsu user…" he muttered in annoyance, wincing while applying pressure to his wound to slow down the bleeding himself.
Tobirama said nothing, as usual and stared on straight ahead at the Raikage, who much to the two's surprise was standing there calmly and as still as a rock.
A bit too calmly, for one who had all but lost all his men…
Wait, all his men?
There were fifteen jounin level chakra signatures, and three Kage level…
Which meant…
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