Chapter 91.6- One Thousand Hands

One of them had an aura around his body. A form of chakra armour that gave him strength and speed on a level that approached the Raikage. That made him the first to reach me by some margin. Unfortunately for him, approaching the Raikage was still short of me. I watched the punch he sent as it approached. I stepped inside his guard, gliding past his attempt to cause me pain and then increasing my mass by an order of magnitude right before I struck. My hand punched straight through his chest, destroying his heart and making the body slip against mine. I used it as a barrier between me and the next man.

Red hair, bright red eyes, and fire gathering around his fingers made it clear it was the desert blaze I was facing. His fire burned through the other man’s body and rushed at me next. I slammed my foot into the ground, lifting up a wall that blocked the attack. I had two options— wait behind the wall or go around it. I took option three. With a single punch, I shot the wall off the ground and straight towards my target. Three of the puppets surrounded me in a triangle. With my byakugan, I could see a seal around their throats begin to glow.

That couldn’t be good news. I aimed a kunai straight at Chiyo, lightened its weight to little more than a feather and let it fly— rather, with my strength it was better to say I shot it like a supersonic bullet. The last of the human puppets managed to get in its way, deflecting it with a short sword. And then I was there. He managed to lunge at me with the blade, but in a single motion, I’d ripped head from shoulders and stepped past him, now face to face with my target.

The girl with the explosion release tried to step into the fight. I lightened myself by several orders of magnitude, pushing off in one motion and moving so quickly that only the fact that I had decided my actions well ahead of time allowed me to grab a hold of her neck, and then Chiyo’s, before I returned my body to normal. Everything had happened in less than a few seconds.

“H-how??” I heard the woman manage to gasp out under my grip.

“Foolish woman. Every day I grow stronger. You waited too long. By the time tomorrow comes, I will be even stronger still. And stronger the day after, and so on. If you wanted me dead, your best bet was to have done it maybe as far back as a decade ago. I outgrew you so long ago that I struggle to remember when”

“Wait-wai” I heard her begin to beg, but this woman had killed my cousin. What right did she have to have her last words heard. And so I began to squeeze.

“If you kill me, you’ll--" Was only as much through as she got to say through the girl’s mouth before her head popped straight off her shoulders. I dropped the body to the floor, and then I heard it. Rather, it was better to say I felt it before I heard it.

I turned around, struggling to comprehend what my byakugan had been telling me was behind me. Konoha was in flames.

“Shori” I heard Uzume’s voice, but I was already off.

A/N: Chiyo tried her best. She really did. But with his pace of growth, giving Shori so much time to prepare for her tricks and whatnot meant she stood no chance. Of course, she managed to get her licks in.