Chapter 83.4- One Thousand Hands

“Chiyo of Sunagakure. If you know what’s good for you, you will step back, surrender yourself into custody, and maybe you will live to see the end of this day” Uraume threatened, stepping fully in front of me. I glanced around, feeling the urge to activate my byakugan, but holding off on damaging my coils any further. What I could see told me that there were several Konoha shinobi dead. That meant Chiyo’s life was forfeit no matter what Uraume promised.

“Bring me her head” I coughed out, words addressed to Uzume. She turned to me, and nodded, barely perceptibly. She shot forward, not as quickly as she could when fully rested but faster than Chiyo could ever hope to react to. Or at least that was what I thought. Her fingers moved, and the ground itself erupted. One of the puppets wielded blades all over its form. It went straight for Uzume who was forced to spend her time blocking and dodging. She was trying to conserve chakra— probably didn’t have much left.

Another of the puppets turned its attention to me, pointing two canons for arms right at me.

“You die here today, Shorirama Senju” She cackled from behind her puppets. I didn’t have to say anything as Uzume began spinning the second the canons fired. The spinning ball of chakra that was the kaiten kept us unscathed even as what had to be two powerful attacks smashed into it at the same time. The moving nature of the kaiten meant it didn’t need to block the attacks head on. It just had to deflect them. Uraume came to a stop when the attacks had run their course. I looked off to the side, noting the lines carved into the trench from what had to be the deflected chakra canon.

“Attack” I ordered Uraume. She turned to me, clearly worried even if she didn’t say it.

“I am far from defenseless even in this reduced state. Now go bring me that silly woman’s head” I ordered, tone leaving no room for disobedience. She nodded, even as she looked unsure. Of course, all that uncertainty disappeared once she turned her gaze on our enemy. Uraume pushed off the ground, heading straight for Chiyo like a bullet.

The Iwa girl with Deidara’s jutsu had jumped in her way. “Lightning release” I shouted after her, while two snakes made of clay aimed to wrap themselves around her. Uraume stopped on a dime, twisting out of the first snake’s lunge before jumping straight up to avoid the other. As she jumped, she weaved several one handed seals before tapping her shoulder. She sent several senbon charged with lightning release into the snakes as they lunged at her again. They fell to the ground inert, and then she did something I’d never actually seen anyone do. She kicked off against the air itself, heading straight for Chiyo. Two puppets appeared in her way but Uzume was there, now wreathed in spectral armour. She barged straight into both of them, nocking them to the side.