A Fierce Battle with the Raikage
Chi Yu summoned two Rashōmon gates to shield himself.
Summoning even a single Rashōmon requires a massive amount of chakra, a feat typically associated with Orochimaru. Like Orochimaru, Chi Yu could summon up to three gates, but he had to conserve chakra for what was to come.
The first gate was shattered almost instantly under the brute force of the Third Raikage, but it slowed him. When he broke through the second gate, his movement clearly faltered—if only for a moment.
Chi Yu seized that opening.
He shifted into a battle stance, veins bulging as lightning crackled violently around his body.
> "Thunder Breathing, Seventh Form: Honoikazuchi no Kami!"
Chi Yu surged forward at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. Lightning flared around him, forming the shape of a dragon, and he swung his chakra-forged blade in a horizontal arc aimed straight at the Raikage.
For the first time, the Third Raikage didn't tank the attack head-on. His pupils narrowed, and he raised his arms to guard.
Chi Yu's blade struck.
It broke through.
The sword embedded itself into the Raikage's forearm—but that was the limit. The blade didn't penetrate further.
Both warriors disengaged simultaneously, creating distance.
The Raikage glanced down at the bleeding wound on his arm with no discernible emotion, but Chi Yu could sense it—a shift in his chakra. He had taken that blow seriously.
The Raikage stared at Chi Yu.
> "What's your name, kid?"
Chi Yu blinked. Hadn't Kitsuchi already announced him earlier?
Still, he answered solemnly.
> "Chi Yu."
The Raikage nodded slightly.
> "So it's you—the Blood-Eyed Shura. The one who wounded A and Killer B. If you've managed to hurt me… I acknowledge your strength."
Chi Yu scoffed, though a smirk played on his lips.
> "Hurting you is just the beginning. I plan to take your head."
The Raikage's lips curved into a feral grin.
> "Then come and try."
> "Lightning Release: Chakra Mode, Maximum Output!"
The Raikage's body surged with lightning. His hair stood on end, the air crackling around him with raw voltage. This was his famed Lightning Release Armor—pushed to its apex.
Chi Yu's expression hardened. Until now, the Raikage had only been buying time. But now, he was going all out.
Chi Yu struck first.
> "Fire Release: Hiding in Ash and Dust Technique!"
From his mouth, he expelled a dense cloud of superheated ash laced with micro-explosions, incinerating anything it touched. The technique blanketed the battlefield in searing smoke and glowing embers. Screams echoed—several Iwagakure shinobi had been caught in the blast, their lungs scorched from inhalation.
The Raikage leapt back, warily scanning his surroundings.
Chi Yu had vanished.
Then, from the edge of the cloud, Chi Yu emerged—merging with the Stone ninja to avoid detection.
But the Raikage saw through it.
In a flash of blinding speed, faster than even Chi Yu's Mangekyō Sharingan could track, the Raikage charged.
Stone ninja in his path were flattened, killed instantly.
He seized Chi Yu mid-motion.
> "Got you, kid."
> "Lightning Release: Lariat!"
Chi Yu's body was lifted and slammed with crushing force, creating a crater. The ground cracked under the impact, and his form twisted grotesquely.
The Raikage didn't stop—his lightning exploded, blasting Chi Yu point-blank.
> "Too arrogant," he muttered. "A shame you're not from Kumogakure."
He turned to deal with the Iwa forces, only to feel something grip both ankles.
Chi Yu.
From underground.
The Raikage looked down in disbelief. In the crater was a transformed Stone shinobi—a Genjutsu decoy.
> "Sharingan… Genjutsu…"
Before he could react, Chi Yu yanked him downward, dragging him into the earth with sheer force.
At that moment, the Stone ninjas unleashed a wide-range jutsu—aimed to collapse the terrain and crush both combatants.
Chi Yu was pinned under the rubble with the Raikage. He couldn't move.
> "Mangekyō Sharingan: Myriad Rejection!"
Blood leaked from Chi Yu's eye.
The rocks halted—time seemed to freeze within the zone affected by the technique.
Chi Yu clicked his tongue.
He had intended to trap the Raikage and follow up with a chain of techniques. But now, the Stone ninjas had interrupted everything.
He formed hand seals quickly and slipped through the ground using a Doton technique.
As he emerged—
A fist was already coming.
> "As expected."
> "Substitution Technique!"
The wooden log took the full force of the Raikage's punch, splintering into dust.
Kitsuchi watched from the rear, cold sweat dripping down his spine.
He had assumed that, like Minato Namikaze, Chi Yu was simply another speed-type ninja.
The Stone shinobi had fought Minato before. He was fast—too fast—but lacked overwhelming destructive power. They would retreat when they encountered him.
But Chi Yu… was different.
Where Minato was a scalpel, Chi Yu was a thunderstorm.
His combat ability, his physical power, and his ferocity—far surpassed Minato in direct confrontation.
Chi Yu and the Raikage clashed again and again, each encounter causing more casualties among the Stone ninjas who couldn't keep up with their speed.
The battlefield had become their arena. Everyone else was just background.
Now, the Raikage stood surrounded by countless Chi Yu duplicates—an illusion cast by Genjutsu.
As a non-Genjutsu user, the Raikage had no means to dispel it alone.
> "Tch…"
He roared and charged into the crowd.
It didn't matter which one was real—if he struck them all, he'd eventually hit the true Chi Yu.
As the Raikage slaughtered illusion after illusion, Chi Yu crouched low in the distance.
> "Thunder Breathing, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash—Godspeed!"
Chi Yu vanished in a streak of blue lightning, rocketing toward the Raikage.
Just as he was about to make contact—
> Myriad Rejection activated again.
The Raikage's Lightning Armor collapsed in an instant, forcibly undone by the Genjutsu's final trigger.
Sensing mortal danger, the Raikage instinctively tilted his head.
Too late.
Chi Yu's blade pierced the junction between his neck and shoulder—one of the few places not reinforced like armor.
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