As their jig was up they released the Transformation Jutsu at the same moment and returned to their true appearances.
The sudden change caused immediate anger among the Kumo shinobi who had believed they were treating their own injured.
The Kumo fighters shouted in rage and recognition. "Konoha, you bastards!!" The cry spread through the area and brought more enemy ninja running from every direction.
Weapons were drawn and hand seals began to form as the Cloud forces realised they had been infiltrated.
As the enemy shinobi moved in to surround them, Kageoni remained active and every Konoha shinobi within thirty metres of Shunsui was already a participant in the Shadow Demon game.
They used the shadows to teleport through the shadows of buildings or houses to dodge the attacks.
One after another the Konoha shinobi vanished and reappeared farther down the road where the first wave of attackers could not reach them at once.
The repeated disappearances left the Kumo ninja confused.
"What the hell…?" a Kumo shinobi who had just arrived following the ruckus muttered as he watched the Konoha group teleport away again and again.
It was not only one person teleporting. All of them disappeared and showed up in new places without any visible body flicker or smoke.
For a second the man thought with real fear that the Yellow Flash of Konoha had arrived on the battlefield, but then he shook his head because if the Yellow Flash was truly here there would be no need for Konoha shinobi to run.
Instead it would be the entire Kumo force that would be fleeing in panic. He could not figure out how the whole team was able to teleport together in such a smooth way.
Before he could think more deeply, he remembered a recent report that had arrived about a young Konoha genin who could move through shadows.
The report was still incomplete and no one in Kumo yet knew exactly how the boy performed the technique or what kind of kekkei genkai he possessed.
Before the thoughtful Kumo ninja could contemplate the problem any further, a kunai pierced upward through his own shadow and struck him cleanly.
The boy responsible for the attack appeared only long enough to speak in a cold and voice. "You looked like quite the intelligent one. Sadly, they are the first ones to die. I cannot let you figure out my abilities and spread them just yet."
Shunsui then continued running with the rest of his team as more and more Kumo shinobi poured into the streets.
They soon found themselves faced with three jonin who blocked their way forward and refused to let the Konoha group pass.
The three men formed hand seals in unison and released powerful lightning jutsus that sent a heavy bombardment of bright lightning bolts racing toward the Leaf shinobi.
Chizo reacted at once by slamming his hands onto the floor and raising a thick earth style wall that took the first wave of the attack.
The lightning smashed against the stone and sent deep cracks through it, yet the barrier held long enough for the team to teleport away once again.
Still more Kumo shinobi continued to appear from every direction and Shunsui knew that he had to clear a path forward. There was no longer enough open space to teleport freely inside his thirty metre range because enemy bodies now filled almost every shadow.
He looked at the three Kumo jonin who formed the greatest threat. Two of them had already locked into close combat with Chizo, Hiori and Shinto.
The third jonin stood directly ahead of Shunsui and prepared another lightning technique with a confident smile.
Normally a young chunin would stand little chance against a full jonin in a fair fight, but Shunsui had never seen any reason to play fair when the lives of his comrades depended on the result.
He activated a second game while Kageoni continued to run.
He kept running forward as the jonin in front of him gave a cruel smile and called out. "Ready to die brat?"
Exactly as Shunsui had expected, the new game required only two participants. The game itself selected the enemy as the second player and the man standing in his path became the chosen opponent.
Shunsui did not fully understand the exact rule that decided who joined, but it made sense when he considered it.
A game could not function if the people inside it refused to play against each other. He began to mutter the three choices under his breath so that the rules would lock into place.
"Rock." He took another step. "Papers." The Kumo jonin still had no idea what the boy was doing or what kind of technique was being prepared.
He simply decided that the child was charging to his death and released his jutsu. "Lightning Release: False Lightning!"
A sharp stream of lightning burst from the Cloud jonin's hands and flew straight toward Shunsui.
"Scissors," Shunsui muttered the final word quietly. Then his own hand curled tightly into the shape of stone.
Even though his opponent had performed no gesture, it was not Shunsui's fault that the man did not know the rules of the game or what actions were required.
A golden fist of condensed chakra formed above Shunsui's hand and began to grow larger with every passing moment.
The giant glowing fist met the incoming lightning and crushed the electricity as if it were nothing more than thin glass.
The fist continued forward without slowing and slammed into the jonin with overwhelming force.
The impact crushed the man completely and left only scattered remains of his dead body on the streets of the city.
The golden fist did not stop after that single kill. It kept moving and destroyed everything that stood in its path. Several lower ranking Cloud shinobi were swept aside like leaves caught in a storm.
The entire battle fell quiet for a short time as both sides stopped and stared at the sudden path of destruction.
The golden fist slowly faded and left a trail of broken stone and fallen enemies. But Shunsui did not pause to admire the result.
He felt the game select a new participant and he knew at once who it was. He turned toward a Kumo chunin who stood frozen in place with pure fear written across his face.
The young Cloud ninja looked as if he wanted to flee but his legs refused to move. Shunsui spoke the name of the game once more so the rules would renew. "Rock paper scissors."
He again formed the shape of rock with his hand. The terrified chunin was so frightened that he raised both hands and pressed them against his own face in a desperate attempt to block whatever attack was coming. The game accepted that motion as the shape of paper.
A massive golden palm appeared in the air above the ruined hallway. The giant hand opened wide and closed around the rock fist that Shunsui had created, crushing it into nothing.
The palm then swept toward the place where Shunsui had been standing only a moment earlier. The young chunin had already used Kageoni to drop his shadow and reappear a distance away.
The golden palm smashed into the floor with tremendous force and created a powerful earthquake that threw both Konoha and Kumo shinobi off their feet. Dust filled the air in a thick cloud.
Shunsui crouched near the house whose shadow he had used to teleport himself
and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of one hand.
He let out two long shaky breaths and spoke, "Phew that was close." He looked down at the deep crater in the street and then at the Kumo Chunin who was looking at his own hand from which the golden palm was formed in suprise.
-------Author Notes--------
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