Despite her immense strength and having learned to fight like Shisui, taijutsu was not really Sakura's strongest point, though by this point she probably ranked amongst the ten greatest kenjutsu practitioners in the world, thanks to the techniques she had copied with her Sharingan and her sheer physical strength.
Ninjutsu and genjutsu were still the best weapons in her arsenal, and since she was facing three men with far more experience fighting at close quarters than she had, she would rather not face them on their own turf, but at the same time, they were so fast that bombarding them with ninjutsu from range simply wasn't an option… not that she could put much distance between them even if she tried, given the A and B Combo's sheer stickiness.
Sakura and her two clones clapped their hands.
Amongst Sakura's three opponents, there was only one who was vulnerable to genjutsu… the Fourth Raikage, who, unlike the other two, did not have a buddy inside him to snap him out of his trance or have the ability to make his chakra riot. She had got the better of A as a young girl, and there was no doubt in her mind that she could do it again!
"Manyū Assassination Genjutsu: Breast Illusion!"
"No good, big bro! Look away!" Killer B called out, goggling at the three girls' jiggling breasts. "She'll show you heaven, but the only thing you'll get is hell, oh yeah!"
With a grunt, A drove a knifehand strike wreathed in electricity through the lightning armour covering his chest, piercing one of his bulging pectorals. The only thing that could penetrate the ultimate shield was the ultimate spear... and hopefully, the throbbing pain would be enough to prevent him from falling into an illusion.
"I won't be of much help if they won't use ninjutsu," Sakura's Preta Path clone said, taking advantage of the Raikage's daze to hop backwards. "I'll hang back and use Mind's Eye of the Kagura to help you two track the enemy."
The problem with facing speedy taijutsu practitioners was that they would leave one no time to weave hand signs for ninjutsu by keeping up the pressure, forcing one to respond in kind with one's fists and feet simply to survive. With her signing speed, Sakura suspected that jutsu requiring two, or at most three, hand seals would be her limit here.
"Universal Pull!"
Sakura extended her hand towards A, but by the time the attraction force manifested, Killer B had already flickered into his bro and knocked him away. B then started hopping on one foot as he equipped his eight swords in every nook and cranny of his body, pinching them in his armpits, elbows and between his shoulder and neck, and even balancing them on his quadriceps…
"Lightning Oppression Horizontal!"
The Preta Path clone's warning came just in time.
Weaving hand signs as she moved, Sakura whirled around on the spot, meeting the Fourth Raikage's hand chop with a spinning high kick that sent him hurtling into a tree.
"Wind Style: Breakthrough!"
Sakura breathed out a narrow blast of shearing wind, but even though wind chakra naturally suppressed lightning, that little gust did little to penetrate the Raikage's armour… and to make matters worse, Killer B was upon her like a whirling tornado of steel and death within instants, forcing her to cut her attack short.
In order to penetrate the Lightning Style Chakra Mode's defences effectively, she'd need to blast A with wind style ninjutsu on par with Naruto's trademark Wind Style: Rasenshuriken… or a Wind Style: Cherry Blossom Tempest, which was the name she had just given to the Chakra Enhanced Strength application she had once used to shatter a natural lightning bolt when fighting Kurosuki Raiga… at the expense of breaking every bone in her arm.
"Sha! Waltz of the Camellia: First Step!" Sakura shouted as she pirouetted, exchanging a flurry of blows with B. "I name this move after Tsubaki, to honour her pitiful death at Orochimaru's hands!"
The Shikotsumyaku truly was the ultimate in nintaijutsu if it could allow Sakura to match a Sword Saint like Killer B in close combat with nothing but her bare hands and bones, without even knowing the proper moves. The highly durable bones she had sprouted all over her body clashed with B's eight swords, taking minimal damage in return… except, why in the world was B always aiming for the same spots?
"You!" Sakura shouted furiously over the sound of metal clashing with bone. "You're aiming for my bra straps, aren't you!"
"Ehehe, ya got me~" Killer B said embarrassedly, sticking out his tongue in a bashful manner. "I jus' wanted t'have a look-see!"
The sexual harassment via rap was bad enough, but if it escalated to outrage upon personal dignity and her breasts flopped out of her bra as a result, then Sakura would have no choice but to fight the rest of the war from inside her Susano'o to avoid being immobilised. With the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, it wasn't as though overusing her pupil abilities would leave her blind, but forcing them out would still put a considerable strain on both her body and chakra.
"SHA!" Sakura roared, stomping the ground hard.
Large fissures spiderwebbed outwards as the earth beneath her foot ruptured, sending motes of crumbling dirt flying into the air. Not expecting Sakura to react to his sneak attack without so much as a warning from her clone, the Fourth Raikage failed to stop in time as he aimed to take her head off from behind. His foot snagged on one of the cracks spreading through the earth, throwing him off balance.
"Gravity in my left hand, wind in my right hand," Sakura murmured to herself as she levelled both arms out to her sides, one palm aimed at Killer B, the other at A. "If the vectors aren't perfectly aligned, I'll go spinning into a tree…"
A's and Killer B's silhouettes flickered at the edges of her vision, but she could still see them…
"Lightning Style: Double Lariat—"
…and they instantly reappeared at Sakura's sides, arms raised to scissor her head off with their combined strikes!
"Almighty Push, and… Wind Style: Cherry Blossom Tempest!"
BOOM!
The two men went flying like shooting stars as Sakura's techniques simultaneously struck them square in the chest. She had hit Killer B with a regular Almighty Push, but the WindChakra Enhanced Strength palm strike she had unleashed on the Raikage... even she couldn't begin to guess the damage it would inflict.
"Shannarooo!" Sakura screamed triumphantly. "How d'ya like my Cherry Blossom Tempest, huh? Or CBT for short!"
As Sakura had discovered the first time she had tried it out (and the next few times after that), infusing a Chakra Enhanced Strength punch with nature transformation resulted in a nintaijutsu with a nasty kickback (except the lightning version), courtesy of Newton's Third Law.
Chakra certainly had some strange interactions with the laws of physics, but she had found that the moment it was transmuted into one of the five basic natures, it suddenly began behaving much as one would expect ordinary matter to.
So, to avoid shooting backwards like a rocket every time she fired a pinpoint blast of wind chakra, Sakura had devised a solution... apply the Almighty Push in the opposite direction to cancel out the knockback! Of course, this also meant the burden on her body was that much greater, but with the Shikotsumyaku reinforcing her skeleton, she no longer had to worry about breaking her bones under the force of her own techniques!