Chapter 84.6- One Thousand Hands

She dove to the side. And then acid. She clapped her hands together with all her strength, creating a shockwave that scattered the acid everywhere.

She formed a tiger seal, and spun, breathing fire into her surroundings. Her natural affinity should have driven off the wooden puppets, but they dove closer instead.

“You think fire will avail you here?” She heard the woman’s voice from all over the city.

Argh, she thought, rage pouring through her. And then there were a series of clay creatures around her. She jumped to the side, avoiding the explosion. Only for a seal to begin glowing. She stared at it for a second, trying to decode it, before giving up and crossing her hands in front of her.

Small pieces of metal shot from the seal faster than she had ever seen anything move, shooting through her body, and tasking her healing almost instantly.

“Strength of a hundred seal: release” She whispered, feeling disappointment course through her. The seal hadn’t finished refilling itself. Not truly. But she had enough chakra to force the metal from her body and begin healing. At the same time, she flooded Katsuyu with chakra, beginning to stabilize Orochimaru’s dwindling life force and giving Jiraiya even more power to work with.

The puppets came again. Four of them, surrounding her from all directions. Four?

The spider erupted from beneath her feet, stingers aimed at her. She dodged the first one, thanking her instincts. Only for the other two to slam into her shoulders, injecting her with so much poison, even her healing began to struggle. She took the opening, grabbing the two legs stabbed into her, and then beginning to pull, ripping the spider apart with sheer strength.

Only for that to prove to be her undoing as the spider exploded once destroyed, covering her in webbing. She snarled from within, moving to rip it apart despite the lack of leverage. So great her strength was. But then the one made of blades landed upon her. Several blades stabbing through her. She felt one in each of the eight: larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, kidneys, heart. And it was not just the blades. Through them enough poison to kill a small army pumped its way into her bloodstream.

But still she fought. She ripped out one arm from the webbing, and grabbed the puppet. Her other arm joined it, crushing the thing’s midsection with all her strength. She began to rip the webbing from her body when she was suddenly doused with acid. It felt like being placed in a stream of it. Her skin burned all over, and then her flesh, the muscle beneath. But still she fought, She ripped her way out, not caring what she would have looked like and began to swim her way out of the pool of acid that had formed around her.

One hand on the ground, she opened her single still functioning eye— the other was still healing and beheld the old woman there with a blade in her hand. She snarled, moving to attack.

“You Senju are monsters” The woman said and then Tsunade punched through her, only for the body to turn to clay and explode, sending her back into the acid.

She felt her link to Katsuyu dispel. The summons had finally had enough. She could keep going. She just had to swim out of this. She just had to— keep going. She did not feel it when her flesh and muscle burned to the point that her hands were little more than bone. She did not feel it when her body healed near as fast as it burned, over and over again.

She scrawled out of the pool one more time, twisting her body. Her eyes healed with a pop, and she looked out at the sky. It was so beautiful.

“May the winds guide your soul and give you rest” She heard, and never even managed to react before the blade separated her head from body.A/N: And that’s the chapter. I’m sorry.