Chapter 92.6- One Thousand Hands

And then came the shape manipulation. I formed three pillars first— each at different sides of a mental triangle, reaching straight to the sky. Perhaps one hundred and fifty feet straight upwards. And then I began to spread the mud, forming the curved exterior of the tower. I could hear Uzume’s gasp behind me but I didn’t have the time to focus on that.

The mud followed my will so quickly that any second of misattention could lead to it forming strange features. Like the picture of Uzume’s face that appeared on one of the sides. I cleared my mind of all other thoughts, clearing the engraving with a flex of my will and hoping that she hadn’t seen that. When the sides had joined from the outside, forming a circular cylinder that reached high into the sky. I focused on the interior.

I formed another pillar that went straight through the middle of the circle, not attached to any of the other pillars. It reached close to the top, and when I got there, I stopped, and then I smoothed out the top, forming a flat surface that joined the pillar with edges of the tower about twelve feet before the top of the tower.

That would be my floor, I decided. Then with another flex of my will, the pillar began o alter itself as I carved stairs into its side. It was going to be the way to get from floor to floor. There were eight floors on the original tower, so I formed the seven below fine, cutting up the tower every twenty feet or so to ensure the tower kept the high ceilings that had been one of its core features.

And then next were the windows. This one I had to be more careful with. Finding glass for the windows and getting someone to install it was probably going to take a while. But then trapping everyone in a hot clay box was one way to ensure that no one liked me ever again. So I formed the windows, making sure to keep them as thin slits rather than the huge floor to ceiling windows that certain offices and rooms had enjoyed. That was all I managed to do at first. Furniture would have to be figured out by someone else. And while I knew the rough layout of the tower, I didn’t know enough to begin constructing offices for cubicles. Everyone would have to be satisfied with open plan living for the time being.

I took a deep inhale and exhale as I stared at the complete work. The golden chakra armour around my body had faded as I constructed the tower. I didn’t have the chakra to maintain something so inefficient. I pushed myself to my feet then and almost went face first to the ground as I felt dizzy. Uzume was there though. Never letting me fall.

“That’s so impressive” She said, and maybe it was the tiredness. Maybe it was the lack of chakra flowing to my brain that made me do it. Maybe it was none of them. I leaned in and kissed her. Sadly, I would never find out if she kissed me back. I lost consciousness the second our lips touched.

A/N: Am I a tease? Yes