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Chapter 107: Raiken VS Raikage
Ten minutes had passed since Danzō left. Hiruzen could still picture the last glimpse of his retreating figure, disappearing into the dense jungle and leaving him stranded on the ground.
"Dan… Danzō…" Hiruzen whispered in disbelief.
He tried to move after him, but a sharp surge of pain tore through his left shoulder, forcing him to stop. The injury was severe, his arm barely responded anymore. Earlier, with Danzō's support, they had managed to escape nearly ten kilometers from the battlefield using instantanous move. Now, alone and wounded, even standing felt like a struggle.
His situation was dangerous, very dangerous.
The Raikage might hunt him down after they massacred all the people on the frontline. Enemy patrols could pass through at any moment. Even a single enemy shinobi would be enough to end him in his current condition.
As he is in critical condition, something he had forgotten playing on his mind.
'Regret or maybe sadness?'
Danzō's last words echoed painfully in his head, the memory of their youth, when Tobirama-sensei had tested them, when he himself had been willing to sacrifice himself so the others could escape.
Back then, it had been him who stepped forward.
Back then, he had been the brave one.
"Have I really changed?" Hiruzen muttered softly. His voice sounded weak, even to himself. "Have I become a coward…?"
The soil, leaf and the forest gave no answer.
Maybe when someone in danger he will remind himself on something that he regretted onr longed for, Hiruzen condition are critical, blood loss, chakra exhaustion and pain finally caught up to him. His eyelids grew unbearably heavy and despite his attempts to stay alert, his consciousness began to slip.
'Is this is my end…' he thought faintly.
Hiruzen slumped against a tree, his breathing shallow. Then darkness took him, he remained unconscious for three long days.
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Raiken barely avoided the Third Raikage Hell Stab. The lightning-wreathed finger tore through the space where his chest had been a fraction of a second earlier. The shockwave alone ripped apart the ground behind him, leaving a deep scar in the earth.
Although the Raikage was very fast, Raiken who had been empowered by Sage Mode was even faster and combine with teleportation jutsu, he could dodge it even if raikage finger are 1 inch infront of him.
"You Rat," the Raikage spat, his voice vibrating with fury.
"Say whatever you want," Raiken replied coldly, eyes glowing faintly with natural energy. "I still remember what you did to my people. I remember Uzushiogakure burning and today....."
His killing intent surged.
".... I'll return everything you gave us."
"What you did earlier was my oversight," the Raikage said, straightening his posture as lightning flared violently around his body. "Now that you stand before me, your attacks are meaningless."
Raiken smiled.
"Then let's test that." In the next instant, his body blurred and thanks to his hair the blur looked like crimson flash.
"Teleportation Jutsu, Level Three, Massacre," raiken activated his most powerful teleportation jutsu.
The battle between two of them turned into chaos.
Raiken vanished and reappeared faster than the eye could follow. Each flash of red marked death. Every time he passed through the people, another Kumogakure shinobi collapsed, either their throats being cut, hearts pierced or something gruesome happen to them.
One by one, elite shinobi fell and Raikage couldn't do anything to stop him.
"Damn it!" the Raikage growled, launching himself forward in pursuit.
He was fast and no one was faster than him until today. Lightning propelled him like a thunderbolt, tearing through the ground. For a brief moment, it looked like he might catch Raiken.
But Raiken disappeared again when he almost hurt him.
He reappeared at a safe distance, already moving far from Raikage.
"That jutsu…" the Raikage muttered. "Teleportation?"
Raiken didn't bother answering.
Instead, he continued slaughtering the remaining Kumogakure shinobi.
Third Raikage tried again, this time widening his focus. His eyes tracked the surroundings carefully, calculating where Raiken might reappear and then it happen again.
The location where Raiken just appear after disappeared from third Raikage attack is on the Northeast. He reacted instantly, charging with everything he had.
Yet somehow, Raiken still moved first.
"YOUUUU!" the Raikage roared, veins bulging.
"As I said before," Raiken mocked calmly, "your speed may be faster but my reaction speed surpasses yours and I can teleport anywhere I want that makes your speed useless."
Forced into a corner, third Raikage made a sharp gesture. "Fall back! All units, retreat!"
The surviving Kumogakure shinobi attempted to withdraw, but Raiken had already prepared for this. Teleportation seals flared across the perimeter he had set earlier.
He moved like a weapon itself, before the retreat could be completed, more than forty percent of the remaining elite shinobi which most of them are jōnin, were dead by his hand.
Under normal circumstances, Raiken would have vomited because he wasn't a killer and he had never killed so many people before.
But the Assassin Mind and Will item he had purchased from the shop system activated with his command. His thoughts became cold, precise and detached. Chakra flowed smoothly, emotions regulated perfectly. There was no panic, no hesitation and no trauma forming in his mind.
Only efficiency, how to defeat them as fast as possible but then Raiken stopped attack when Kumogakure reached the limit of his teleportation.
"Now I understand," the Raikage said slowly, watching from a distance. "Your power… it has a limited range."
Raiken expression didn't change and he didn't deny it.
That was confirmation enough.
"Say whatever you want," Raiken replied, forming a swirling sphere of chakra in his palm. "I'm done playing."
The Rasengan expanded rapidly, chakra density increasing to a frightening level. Wind chakra fused perfectly, blades forming along its surface. This is the perfect RasenShuriken that developed by Naruto
"Come," Raiken said calmly. "I'm ready."
The Raikage can felt it, the compressed chakra on the Raiken hand and even without Raiken introducing it, he knows that this thing is very destructive. He wasn't foolish enough to let it hit him directly. Lightning surged violently as he pushed his chakra cloak to its absolute maximum.
"Don't think I'm stupid," the Raikage snarled, launching himself forward.
Raiken vanished and he reappeared, Raikage twist his body to attack him then Raiken vanished again, appearing just behind the Raikage mid-motion.
BOOM!
The RasenShuriken detonated.
Dust and debris exploded outward, swallowing the battlefield.
Raiken stared into the cloud, heart pounding. He had expected the Raikage to survive, in the manga he had survived the attack.
Before he could move, his senses screamed.
Raiken twisted aside just in time as Hell Stab tore past his face.
He landed hard and looked up.
The Raikage stood there and his body are unscathed. Not a single scratch marked his body.
Raiken eyes widened. "How…" he muttered. "How is your body that strong?"
The Raikage grinned, lightning crackling.
"This," he said, "is the result of being a warrior."
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Chapter 133: Muay Thai
Chapter 134: Aftermath
Chapter 135: Justice
Chapter 136: War Reparation
Chapter 137: Permanent Interest
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