Chapter 90.4- One Thousand Hands

“What would you have us do?” Uraume asked.

“Prepare for his arrival, of course. It would be rude to do anything else, would it not?” I asked, smile building. If he was coming, then there was a good chance he’d agreed to my deal and was making the delivery himself. And if he hadn’t agreed to my deal and this was some sort of bargaining attempt, then he was going to find himself in a very sticky situation.

“How long do you estimate we have until his arrival, Shark?” I asked the anbu agent who still remained knew at my feet.

He looked startled to be addressed, but composed himself quickly, all credit to him.

“Three or perhaps four hours, Hokage-sama”

“Splendid. Have a canopy constructed a few miles outside the village walls” I said.

“You would meet him outside?”

“Letting him into our village proper would be stupid, would it not? We are under no obligations to play along with whatever tomfoolery he’s got going on, so yes, we shall be meeting outside. Speaking of, please remind me that I should look into building a new Chunin exam arena— this time on the outside of the village” I said. That stunt Orochimaru and Suna had been able to pull in canon would never happen again. Not even if I abdicated and dropped the ball on someone else’s lap.

“Yes, that is exactly the kind of thing I will be able to keep in mind considering what we have coming.”

“Careful cousin. Any more sarcasm and I’d start mistaking you for Shikahime” I said, silently giving the warning. Not in front of the troops.

“Apologies, Hokage-sama.” She said, I nodded.

“Dismissed” I said, turning to the Anbu.

“I’ll get going as well. Need to make sure this doesn’t go terribly” I nodded, and watched as she moved to gather the Tsuchikage’s body before moving off.

“Hey, Kurama” I said, speaking out loud since I was more or less alone.

“What now?”

“Nothing stressful. Think you can loan me some chakra and do some brain healing for me in like three hours?” I asked.

“Sure. Now leave me alone” He said, grunting and returning to his latest hobby. Ninshu had given him all my memories, but all at once. So you could get the gist, but nit the nitty gritty. Now, it seemed he was going to be passing the hours by watching movies I’d seen in my previous life. Which, somewhat embarrassingly, was a whole lot of movies.

“Okay. Thank you honey” I said back before pulling at his chakra and bringing it bear.

Then I placed my fingers in the iconic cross seal— I hadn’t needed to use that thing in over a decade now, but still. Every drop of chakra would mater for this.

“Tajuu: Kage Bunshin no jutsu” I shouted for the world— just me and my anbu tail really— to hear. And then the Hokage training ground was filled with…well, me.