Chapter 80.6- One Thousand Hands

If I succeeded in getting under his skin with that one, it was difficult to tell rom his face. But then I did notice the number of outstretched fingers drop from four to three, and then I was leaning backwards, barely avoiding losing my head with that one. Uzume was on the counter almost instantly. Several fireballs peppered his form and he turned instead, aiming for her next. She stood her ground. He hadn’t figured out stasis yet, clearly. There was nothing to be gained from fighting Uzume head on when she had it active. You could blow up the entire planet rounder and she would not feel a thing. He shot after her and she prepared herself to counter, only for him to switch tacks.

Instead of trying to run her through, his hand opened fully as he spun around her, grabbing her waist as he did so. In a flicker of space and time, she was buried into the ground head first, That had been a textbook suplex, I thought. Guess he had managed to figure something out. But the fact that he had remained frozen in the suplex position gave me a perfect opening. I marched forwards and I stomped him in the nuts. At least I tried to. The armour was in the way.

Said armour brightened once more. The shadow that stretched from his position off into one of the buildings retreated and while I silently thanked her fort the interference, I made sure to note to warn her about interfering in fights she had no business partaking in. The Raikage would tear her apart in a matter of seconds if he managed to get in close enough range. He lifted his body from the ground, and I met him face to face.

He lashed out, hell stab coming straight for me. I had been waiting for it though. For the opportunity. I twisted, using every ounce of speed and foresight I had to avoid the attack, and just as the attack missed, I grabbed his wrist and maintained his momentum, turning his hand around and trying to stab it into his chest.

He managed to change the angle at the last moment, turning a strike at his heart to one that buried itself in his chest but missed everything vital. With sage mode, I was still a few inches shorter than he was, so he was looking down at me as his blood hit the floor for the first time in this battle. For the first time all through the war I was sure.

“So that was your plan” He said, voice grinding out.

“More or less” I said. I was smug. Why wouldn’t I be smug? That wasn’t a heart blow. Not an immediately fatal one as I could tell I’d missed everything vital, but that was still blood. And if he was bleeding, then that meant I just had to let him keep bleeding until it was over.

“All that for a drop of blood” He scoffed, stepping back. He ripped his hand from his chest, and I felt my hopes dash as said hand began to glow green.