Naruto : Uchiha : Chapter 56

The Raikage was on guard seeing the display of power and strength the Nidaime Hokage was showing right in front of his eyes.

That was what it seemed to everyone on the outside, however on inside the it was a different matter altogether.

He was seething.

Angry, furious, livid.

Words weren't enough to describe the amount of contempt he felt within the confines of his heart at that very moment. .

His plan had been perfect, he had broken the iron strong will of 'The Tobirama Senju', and all that had remained was to finish him off while he was off guard.

On his knees for Kami's sake!

But these idiots he called his precious elite jounins apparently didn't even know how to execute a simple assassination fluidly for that matter.

And they were the best he had to offer, it would have been a laughing riot had someone recited these events in front of any one of the other villages.

His teeth grinded themselves, his eyes furiously staring at the man he loathed with his very being at the present moment of time.

Tobirama Senju.

How he hated that name. Just the sound of it made his blood boil to epic proportions. His eyelids slowly fell to make a small blink, but he hadn't expected what happened a moment later.

Just as those eyelids flickered open in the fraction of a second, there stood only Sasuke within his field of vision.

Where the hell…?

"Grr…." his sharp ears picked up on the sounds of some wet gurgling, only to peer behind Sasuke and see Tobirama standing behind the jounins, the ones who had dared to stab him in the back while he let the kunai lodged in the back of their skulls free from his grip.

Both pairs of the victim's eyes rolled back into their sockets while they started falling face first on the ground as if the strings holding these puppets had been severed with that lethal blow.

A couple of soft thumps accompanied the corpses that now lay lifeless on the grass, while crimson elixir poured down on the ground in a small pool.

A moment of silence ran across the clearing, none of them realizing what had just occurred in the matter of seconds, a minute at the most.

One minute. It was all that was needed to extinguish two of Cloud's finest to their afterlife by the experienced and non-hesitant, absolutely stone cold hands of the current Senju clan head in the midst of a crowd of enemy jounins, and the Raikage himself.

Finally, realization started seeping into the Raikage's eyes while his eyes widened comically. In pure and completely unclouded fury, a nerve bulged upon his temple when he finally barked out his first order.

"Take him down!" he roared loudly, and those three words were all that were needed for all hell to break loose.

Tobirama flashed back to the marker he had placed on Sasuke and stood by his side, almost instantly. His companion had been the only one who had noticed him placing his Hiraishin seal on the tree when they were entering the clearings.

He was out of his senses, not his reflexes..

After years upon years of staying on guard in numerous life and death situations, it had almost become a natural habit of his to place markers whenever he entered a territory that was completely unknown to him.

This was the first time he had placed it in an almost trance like state however. And quite probably the last if he had anything to say about it.

Losing sight of an enemy's intention while he was surrounded by it, It was unsightly for a shinobi to be like that after the amount of experience he had amassed in the deadly field of combat alone.

"How many?" Sasuke's voice was quick, both readying themselves seeing the leaves around the foliage within their surroundings flickering every now and then to indicate how pinned they actually were.

"Thirteen and him." Tobirama's curt response made Sasuke nod, both watching the Raikage himself charging up his chakra while covering himself in an armor of black lightning, the most revered technique within his arsenal. .

"Leave the outsiders to me, you take down the Raikage and that lone jounin with him." Sasuke went to flick out a kunai but stopped when Tobirama glanced sharply at him for a moment. His seasoned eyes narrowed in on the Senju's hand blurring through simple hand seals and he understood the coded message quite clearly.

Rumble the ground.

Sasuke's hands came up to his chest in a blur, and went through a chain of hand seals that were too fast for anyone other than a dojutsu wielder to follow. But the last seal was out for everyone to see while his hair flailed around with his sheen of chakra concentrating to epic proportions in preparation for his opening technique.

His hands were clasped tightly in a snake seal.

"Earth Style-!" he roared, slamming his palms on the ground, much to the shock of everyone.

A seasoned and veteran shinobi like him, announcing his jutsu out loud in a shout was unbecoming of their legendary statuses.

Each of the jounin's stopped their flickering in the shadows of the trees. They were doing so to not come within their eyesight and in order to prepare for whatever Sasuke had in mind for them.

"Terra-forming!" he roared, and much like what Tobirama had told him.

The ground did rumble.

The whole ground started falling apart, a huge chunk of bedrock coming up from the tectonic shakes his technique was letting out while causing a mini earthquake within it's wake.

The large chunk of bedrock thrusted above made the Raikage and his jounin jump back to dodge the insanely large piece of ground he had intentionally targeted towards them.

Sasuke knew Ei could easily tear that boulder apart into tiny pieces with a mighty punch of his revered Black Lightning Armor.

But there was a catch to it, if he did go that route… he'd have to risk targeting his own shinobi, standing right behind Sasuke and given his reputation, he wasn't about to be taken down by a few little stones sent flying his way.

By breaking his own jutsu no less!

So all Ei could do was dodge for now.

But Sasuke's intentions were far more than what he was letting on, and it was proven right when he roared suddenly.

His chakra output pumped up, shaking the ground violently with his massive Earth Release while the tremors increased ten-folds.

And the effects were instant.

The whole firmness of the ground they were standing upon a moment ago, all but shattered in mere moments.

Webs of cracks started appearing throughout a large radius of five hundred meters and within just a matter of seconds, the shrubbery around them was destroyed.

The grassy fields made way for the bedrock chunks that threatened to overturn them in a second or so. The trees all around…including the ones that the Cloud ninjas resided within were uprooted like toothpicks being picked out from a moist pie.

Sasuke let the jutsu down after thirty seconds and for the life of him, he couldn't help the wolfish whistle that escaped his lips upon seeing the aftermath of his actions.

Heh, he still had his edge...

The whole clearing was now a pile of rubble and uprooted shrubbery and trees, craters varying in depth here and there covered the land as if a chain of land mines had just been triggered within this area.

The Raikage had finally had enough, and pushed away the large boulder he had held back with his arms and looked around the area for any signs of damages. His eyes glanced around sharply, seeing his shinobi coming out all around the destroyed fields like cockroaches, and just as unharmed as their metaphorically referenced counterparts.

"All that and not even a single clean hit?" The Raikage all but snarled in contempt and pure disgust, but most of all…disappointment.

To think, a shinobi of his caliber would go to such lengths just to show….

"Whoever said it was for offense?" Sasuke asked, feigning innocence that would have made a baby shy away from his gentle voice.

Ei blinked in confusion upon his response when a small voice reached his ears…

A voice of swirling water…

He snapped his neck the other way, only to see Tobirama standing there with his legs spread apart while his hands were clapped together tightly. His eyes were shut to focus all his concentration onto his task, and just as expected a huge torrent of water was swirling around him in a violently grounded, yet controlled typhoon.

His onyx eyes snapped open a second later, the typhoon of water slowing down before crushing it's waves against each other in a loud booming voice.

The water rushed outwards to all sides around him, splitting into several snake like tendrils and slithering away from each one of their obstacles quickly, with an intent to all but skewer their enemies' lives into oblivion.

The Raikage and his companion were quite aware of his attack and were swift to dodge those tendrils of water while they passed by them harmlessly.

But three of his other jounins who were still quite dazed, or one other with a severe case of ringing ears from Sasuke's technique in his case, weren't lucky enough to escape.

The water tendrils pierced their fatal organs and skewered out the other side with a complete change of color.

Shouts upon shouts of unharmed Cloud shinobi rang in the clearing upon seeing their comrades being killed off, shouts of the deceased men's names or instructions to get out of the way the only thing their stunned minds could comprehend at the moment.

The rest who were lucky enough to dodge, watched all those tendrils work around the clearing like snakes once more, before each of them splashed down into a large enough crater, thereby creating a newly made artificial source of water as if it were a natural phenomenon.

Ei glared murderously at his two opponents, now understanding their opening multi-step collaboration technique quite clearly.

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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