Chapter 92.1- One Thousand Hands

The Tower had collapsed in the explosion. That was problem number one, because that tower had Kushina in it, and there was no one more important in that village. Other than perhaps Mito. I teleported to the marker I had on her, not too shocked to find myself underground after good g on. Underground might have been the wrong way to put it. The best was to say that she was buried under a non-trivial amount of rubble. I reached out to the rubble with my earth release, lifting it all with a wave of my hand while holding on to Kushina with the other.

Gyuki’s chakra had already surrounded her in a version one cloak with a single tail so her wounds were healing faster than any of the med nin we had on hand could manage so I kept her held against my chest as I shot off next, lightening the both of us before flying straight to my next target.

With Kushina sorted, the next matter to my attention was the fires. Fires were dangerous because of how difficult they could be to manage. Water was the wrong idea. At least the wrong idea for the most part. Any powerful water release jutsu came with the downside of causing enough blunt damage to basically ruin whatever I was trying to save.

There was fighting fire with fire, but I didn’t have a strong enough fire release Affinity to take control of so many fires outside my body. The entire merchant district, along with a good portion of the civilian residential district was aflame. Too much fire for me to control from a distance.

That left one element. Wind. My tertiary affinity. And true enough, there was a subset of jutsus that seemed perfectly made for this.

With Kushina slumped over my shoulder shoulder and supported by my right hand, I had only a free hand. It would suffice.

I formed three one handed seals— bird, snake, and ram. And then I began to mould my chakra. The vacuum ball jutsu was a good base. It had the right shape release for what I was planning. I formed multiple of them, creating the vacuums to work in a certain way that tossed physics out of the window, but chakra didn’t care about silly things like obeying the laws of physics.

I spun in the air, firing multiple vacuum balls into the area. The balls flew through the air, absorbing the flames from the buildings caught on fire as they did so.

I formed another one handed seal, this one a ram seal. I dropped out of sage mode, pulling as much of Kurama’s chakra into myself as I could on such short notice.

“Tajuu Kage Bunshin no jutsu” And then were there had just been one of me in the air, we were suddenly blocking off the sun itself with our numbers, casting a shadow over the village.

This time, not a single one of them decided to be a smart arse. They just got to work