Chapter 82.1- One Thousand Hands

Changing plans to seal him meant we had to weaken him as much as possible. Part of me wished I hadn’t agreed to Grandmother’s terms of not bringing the Uzumaki to war. If we had fie or six sealing masters on hand, this would be much easier. Of course, there was a chance that I’d manage to het all six of them killed and in that case, I’d have lost six people who could have otherwise been able to save thousands of lives in the long term with their seals and inventions. Uzume moved to the side, I kept a careful watch on her chakra levels as she shot two arrows from her sussano at the Raikage’s burly form. He clapped his hands, the force of the clap, dispersing the arrows. He was fighting harder than he had previously. Something had rattled him. I just wished I could know what.

I shot across the ground, my tails pushing me faster than ever. I slapped at his face with one of said tails. He caught a hold of it, and then I smarten kicked him in the chest. Again he blocked with his other hand. Good thing I had more limbs. I slapped along his body with my remaining tails. His armour took the blow, but he was forced back again as Uzume’s sussano’o hand came down and was about to grab a hold of him.

He pointed his arms forward. I teleported to the side, black lightning covering the space I had just stood.

Uzume shot another pair of arrows. They hit naught but air as he shot at me. I was barely able to track him and avoid the punch he sent by the skin of my teeth. I aimed a kidney shot at him. His armour took it, and then my head was ringing as his knee rose. I rolled across the ground, only able to stop myself by stabbing my tails into the ground. I stared at the sky while Kurama’s chakra fixed whatever brain damage he had just caused with that hit.

I felt the ground shake beneath me, and sighed, shooting to my feet. The Raikage was punching his way through Uzume’s sussano’o. There were cracks along the body of the purple specter. I could see Uzume’s chakra rising as she prepared to transition from the upper body into a full body sussano’o. No, I signaled with my chakra before I dove at the Raikage.

I speared him off of her, and into the distance. Our momentum carried us miles away, leaving the wasteland we had created in the middle of Iwa as another building came crashing down around us. His feet stabbed into the ground like nails through wood as he brought us to an abrupt stop. I felt him punch my back. Once, twice. I ignored both even as I felt bones break. I picked him up with the grip I had around him and suplexed him into the ground behind me. I twisted my body, half backflipping so I was straddling him on the ground. I reached for his neck, needing both my hands to encircle to girth as I began to choke him out.