Chapter 84.3- One Thousand Hands

She moved, quick as a whisper, as Orochimaru jockeyed for position with the swordsman, moving to punch through him. Before she could do so, though, several clay spiders (?) fell upon them. Sensing chakra from within them, she jumped backwards, allowing the explosions that formed to push her backwards. Her chakra was already healing the burns on her skin. She stretched out her senses, finding both Orochimaru and Jiraiya by her sides. Wounded, but alive. Good. Wounded, she could fix. Dead? Well, not yet.

She stabbed her thumb against the weeping burn on her right arm and weaved seals fast as she could with her wounds before slamming her hand against the ground. ‘Kuchiyose’, She summoned enough of Katsuyu to cover her head, having her divide into three. She attached one to her neck, and feeling her teammates’ positions, she hurled the other two at them even through the smoke from the explosions.

She felt Orochi’s chakra seep into the smoke, thickening it as he attached Katsuyu to him. Jiraiya did the same, and through the bond Katsuyu kept with herself, she began to heal them.

“Hahaha. I know that wasn’t enough to kill you, Senju bitch” She heard a voice cackle from above. And then a gust of wind blew the smoke away, robbing them of their cover. Their opponent was in the air, atop a giant clay bird? Some type of summon? No. It was a construct of some sort. Same as the spiders that had exploded. Sop their opponent was riding a bomb of some sort. That didn’t bode well for her sanity.

Insane opponents were the worse. And for better or worse, they were far less common in this world of theirs than most would expect. It meant you didn’t just see crazy people all the time, but it made each of them even more dangerous because all your instincts had been built around fighting people with some sanity.

“And who the hell are you?” She asked, as she realised that if the fight began now, Jiraiya and Orochimaru would still be far from fully fit. She could heal them while they were in motion, but that was not a skill she had shown off yet, and the chances of something going wrong were much higher when they were moving.

“Ask your Cousin. He and I have a score to settle, you see. And while I could take him now weak as he is, I think I’ll take you first and then make you be the one to take him. That would hurt him even more” She cackled. Yeah, that did nothing to explain anything.

“Chiyo of Sunagakure. Puppeteer, and poison mistress” Jiraiya said, and she nodded. She hadn’t paid as much attention to the recent bingo books as she probably should have. She just figured that she’d hear about anyone who could be a threat to her either way… few as those were.

“And the other girl on the bird?” She asked.

“No idea. Iwa headband, though. She’s probably the pilot of the clay thing.”

“Source of the explosions as well” Orochumaru added and she knew that tone. That was the tone that said he found something interesting. Tsunade was already beginning to pity the girl.