The Third Raikage dodged kunais coming his way. The lightning cloak that had made him untouchable was gone.
He felt strange. Empty. His body still moved with the same power, but the familiar hum of chakra was missing. For the first time in years, he had to dodge someone's punches.
A fireball screamed toward him from an Iwa jōnin.
The Raikage twisted his body. The flames missed by inches. Heat brushed his face. He did not remember the last time he had to move to avoid a simple fire jutsu. Normally he tanked them with his cloak and kept walking.
He did not panic.
'What is it... My chakra completely disappeared. It does not look like a seal or fuinjutsu. That means it must be the Suna kekkei genkai. The one Dodoi informed me about.'
He had read the reports months ago. A child in Suna could stop a person from using chakra with a single look. Spies had confirmed it. The ability was real. And it only worked if the boy could see the target clearly.
'So the boy is somewhere around and has his eyes on me.' He thought
He fought five Iwa jōnin at the same time. Their chakra-enhanced fists and blades came fast. He met every blow with his own. His muscles were still steel even without chakra. His speed was still terrifying. He dominated them even without chakra and met their chakra enhanced blows with his muscled enhanced blows.
'But to think that Suna would ally with Iwa to get rid of me after all their wars. Iwa must be giving them something extraordinary for Suna to make this move against Kumo. After I am done here, we will have to find what that is and stop it. We can't have Suna and Iwa allying.'
He slammed one jōnin into the ground. The man's ribs cracked.
'Since the ability works with eyesight, I need to get away from the boy's sight. For that, I need to know where he is really looking from.'
He spun and kicked another jōnin away.
'I will have to get away from his range of sight first. For that, I need to know in which direction he is. Then I will deal with him before I fight anyone else or try to escape. His ability can ruin my escape plan if something goes wrong. And without my chakra, I am not a match for Ōnoki.'
He dodged another particle release from the sky. The beam turned stone to dust where he had stood a second earlier.
The Raikage ran sideways to avoid the next beam. He was a second too late.
The particle release caught his left arm.
The arm simply disappeared.
No blood at first. Just gone.
Then the shock hit him. Blood poured from the clean stump.
The Raikage grimaced and clamped his right hand over the wound. Pain shot through his body, but he did not cry out. He had felt worse.
Ōnoki smirked from the sky and prepared another beam.
The Raikage jumped between Iwa shinobi.
'With them around him, Ōnoki would not dare fire again. The old man cared too much about his own men.' He thought with a grimace.
Blood pooled at the Raikage's feet.
With one arm gone, he could not keep up with the Iwa jōnin as easily. They pressed harder.
An Iwa shinobi saw the opening. He rushed in with a kunai aimed at the Raikage's stomach.
"Die, Raikage!"
The kunai struck hard.
It pierced through Raikage's skin but stopped against the Raikage's muscles like hitting a wall.
The Raikage's good arm moved like lightning. He grabbed the man's wrist, twisted, and broke it.
Then he kicked.
The shinobi flew twenty metres and crashed into the dirt.
In that moment, the Raikage finally figured it out. He noticed the pattern and managed to find out the general direction in which the boy with the kekkei genkai was.
Iwa shinobi were careful not to stand in his east. They shifted their positions. They avoided blocking the line of sight from that direction. They did not use jutsus from that side even though he was completely open.
The boy was watching from the east.
'That is where the Suna child is. He needs a clear view to use his eyes so that's why they are not attacking or using jutsus from that direction.'
The Raikage smirked. He now had the answer and now it was time to complete his plan.
He dodged a blow from another jōnin and ran sideways with full speed toward his target, an Iwa chunin that was dressed as a trapper and Ambusher.
An Iwa jōnin tried to block him.
The Raikage's remaining arm moved in a perfect lariat. The blow struck the man's neck and broke it. The jōnin's head snapped back. He died instantly.
The Raikage reached the young Iwa chūnin stood there. The boy's eyes widened in terror.
He tried to run. The Raikage grabbed him by the neck. With a quick twist, the chūnin's neck broke.
The Raikage reached into the dead man's pouch and pulled out a small smoke bomb.
Ōnoki's voice thundered from the sky as he finally figured out what was going on.
"STOP HIM!"
The Raikage looked up at the floating old man and grinned.
"It's too late, Ōnoki."
He threw the smoke bomb down on the ground.
Thick black smoke exploded outward. It swallowed the Raikage completely.
---------Author Notes--------
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