Their gazes met for less than a second as they passed each other.
Then, the next moment...
"This brat...?" A strange light flashed in the Raikage A's eyes. He suddenly stopped his body, coming to an abrupt halt as if he had slammed on the brakes. His tall body then spun around. He stared at Kusuo's gradually departing back, his fists clenched.
It's like him. Too much like him.
"Brat, you stop right there."
Red clothes, a single ponytail, a mark on his forehead. That familiar attire. And that otherworldly temperament, and the indifference and calm in his eyes. Most importantly, he had a sword at his waist.
It can't be wrong. It absolutely can't be wrong.
It was that person, the monster of Konoha. The man who had cut down the One-Tailed Shukaku, annihilated the Hidden Sand, and even crippled the Hidden Stone.
Hatake Kusuo.
Faced with the Raikage A's question, Kusuo couldn't be bothered with this guy, not having the slightest intention of stopping. He had, of course, seen that this group was eighty percent likely the Raikage of the Cloud Village and his two assistants, Samui and Mabui. But so what?
Fourth Raikage, who do you think you are? You tell me to stop, and I stop? Wouldn't that make me lose a lot of face?
Kusuo was only thinking about going back, locking up Kurotsuchi, and then dealing with the subsequent matters. Therefore, he continued on his way without looking back.
"Dammit! How dare you ignore my words!"
"Liger Bomb!"
Seeing this, the Raikage A was enraged. His entire person went berserk like a wild bull, his body turning sharply downwards, smashing towards Kusuo like a comet. A powerful strike from the roaring thunder.
SIZZLE!
The thunder exploded. With an incomparable aura and astonishing speed, it tore through the air, fiercely hammering towards Kusuo's back.
Fast. Too fast. If this hit, even a Kage-level expert would not come out well.
"What's going on? Why did Lord Raikage suddenly go berserk?"
"And he used a super high-level taijutsu like the Liger Bomb right from the start?"
Seeing the Raikage A go berserk, Mabui, whose body radiated a healthy wheat-colored glow, opened her small mouth in surprise. She stared with wide eyes. Until now, she hadn't even understood what had just happened. Everything was too sudden.
The Liger Bomb was the Raikage's signature taijutsu; he wouldn't use it easily unless he met a great enemy or a foe with deep-seated hatred. Basically, he would only rely on ordinary taijutsu to deal with opponents. In her impression, she had only seen it when he was training with Lord Killer B in the village. That was because Lord Killer B had the Eight-Tails sealed in his body and was a perfect Jinchuriki, so he could perfectly withstand all of Lord Raikage's attacks.
And now, Lord Raikage had actually used the Liger Bomb the moment he met this boy. Didn't this mean that in Lord Raikage's heart, this boy was as strong as the perfect Jinchuriki, Lord Killer B?
Samui was the same as Mabui, yet different. The same was that she also had her mouth wide open, her hand clutching her chest. That one moment had happened too fast. So fast that she had thought it was just an ordinary boy and girl passing by. She never thought Lord Raikage would react so quickly, immediately seeing through the enemy's true face.
She immediately reacted, recognizing the red-clothed boy's identity faster than Mabui.
Hatake Kusuo!
Only this person was worthy of Lord Raikage A making such a big move. And it was precisely because of him that the three of them had traveled a thousand li, consuming a large amount of chakra, to rush to the Land of Earth this time.
Thunder. Rampaging.
Countless electric arcs struck the rocks on the ground, shattering them to pieces. The violent power had blasted a giant crater where Kusuo had been standing. The crater was so deep it was bottomless, completely like a small pond that had been drained of its water, lying on the great earth of the Land of Earth.
The Fourth Raikage... with just the strength of his physical body, with the power of one elbow, he had artificially created a small pond?! It just didn't have water.
In terms of taijutsu, A was definitely a standout. Every move he made had immense destructive power.
"Is he dead? Is he dead?" Mabui poked her head out, her charming eyes filled with a myriad of emotions. At this moment, she was trying hard to see if there were any bloodstains or severed limbs left in that giant crater.
The result... she couldn't see anything. There was only a sky full of dust kicked up by the smashing of a large amount of rock and mud, scattering everywhere, making it impossible to see clearly.
"What on earth happened there?" Samui ran a few steps, trembling slightly. She too was eager to know the answer.
On the other side, the Raikage A's heart held a little surprise. As the person involved, he naturally knew very well that his strike just now hadn't hit a solid entity. Instead, it had smashed into empty air. This feeling of a punch hitting nothing... made him, as the Raikage, suddenly very annoyed.
Just at this moment, SWISH!
A sharp, ice-cold to the extreme sword aura, wrapped in a surging gale force wind, came howling over.
A slash. A terrifying slash flew over, with the speed of a violent storm, with the momentum of a lightning bolt. One strike from his sword was a thunderous move.
Kusuo had settled Kurotsuchi and immediately countered the Raikage, not hiding his strength at all.
One slash. Since someone had come knocking on his door, how could Kusuo not return the favor? The moment he struck, it was a full-power blow, without any mercy.
The slash flew out, cleaving the sky, a full dozens of meters long, presenting a grayish-green, misty haze. At the same time, one could clearly see with the naked eye that fine wind blades were coiled around the body of the sword aura. Just from the fluctuations in the air and the sound of the wind, one could tell that these tiny wind blades were also extremely sharp, their lethality absolute.
The Raikage was over two meters tall. However, under this sword aura, which was dozens of meters in size, he was like a little dwarf, incomparably small. Imagine... a human standing under a skyscraper-level sword aura, how could they possibly block it? Just the crescent-shaped wind blades were even comparable in size to the Raikage's own body.
"What an exaggerated sword aura. This range is too big, isn't it? It's comparable to an S-rank ninjutsu."
"I'm afraid my eyes are playing tricks on me, right?" Mabui hurriedly rubbed her eyes, then opened her clear black and white eyes wide to look hard. After confirming she wasn't mistaken, she immediately ran backward. Such an exaggerated sword... she didn't think Lord Raikage would take it head-on.
Samui's small mouth was tightly closed, but her beautiful eyes held an indescribable shock. Lord Raikage's surprise attack... was actually dodged by someone? How was that possible? After Lord Raikage used his taijutsu, he was the fastest in the current ninja world. No one could surpass him in speed. Even if there was, it could only be the Fourth Hokage from over a decade ago, Minato Namikaze. The man known as the Yellow Flash.
And now, this boy even had a girl of about his own age on his back, yet he could still react while having his back to Lord Raikage, and even successfully escape. What level of keen perception and speed was this? Could it be... that this boy was even faster than the former Yellow Flash?
The more Samui looked, the more surprised she became in her heart. This was no longer just a battle for Lord Raikage alone. If this boy really possessed such divine speed, there were only two possibilities to explain it.
One: He had mastered the same space-time ninjutsu as the Yellow Flash, the Flying Thunder God.
Two: His physical fitness was abnormally strong, enough to be on par with Lord Raikage A.
These two points... no matter which one, they were worthy of their utmost attention.
"And this sword aura... it really is as terrifying as the rumors say."
Because the intelligence had long since described it, Kusuo could casually swing out a sword aura of dozens, even hundreds of meters, and every slash had Kage-level strength. This time, Samui's heart was not so surprised. Or rather, she had already been surprised before. With mental preparation, she wasn't so shocked.
Only Mabui, that vase who had never seen the world, would be so flustered when encountering such a thing. She really didn't know how she had become Lord Raikage's secretary in the first place.
One slash. It carried a magnificent and vast aura. It was already rushing straight for the Raikage A.
Fast. The epitome of speed. In his eyes, there was only time to see the sword aura before it was about to slash into his body.
SIZZLE!
The sparks of lightning crackled loudly. Seeing this, the gravity in A's eyes flashed past. Faced with Kusuo's slashing sword aura, he did not get careless.
Then, his entire body was covered in lightning. He went all out, directly activating his Lightning Release ninjutsu:
Lightning Release Chakra Mode. Open!
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