Chapter 80.5- One Thousand Hands

The arrow hit, and I felt my breath escape my lips in a sigh as just like everything else, it broke against his armour, not managing to make it through. Irritated, I expanded and exploded the rasengan right between us, teleporting behind him. His arm was there to block my raised kick, but that left his midsection open for Uzume to slam a rasengan into. It ground against his shield to no effect. I inhaled, exhaling a storm of flames that covered him but did little to stop him from coming at me. With Kurama’s chakra burning through me, I could meet him strength for strength. He was faster, but with my byakugan and the advantage of Natural energy sensing, I could tell wha the was going to do even if I couldn’t necessarily visually keep up with his movements.

I leaned out of the way of a kinfe hand that threatened to pluck out one of my eyes before I stabbed a punch into his nose. The armour took it, and he buried a punch of his own into my gut. More chakra from kurama manifested in three tails that shot from my tailbone, wrapping around his fist and holding him still. Another fire release rasengan to the face expanded around the two of us. I used hiraishin to escape from the explosion while he just tanked it, armor none the worse for wear. Two minutes and sixteen seconds now.

That rasengan must have taken a lot out of Uzume, I observed, watching the way she breathed, each breath seeming to struggle out of her lungs. I amended my initial estimate. Even after only four minutes, she’d probably still struggle to keep up with the fight. I had chakra aplenty but no way to pierce his shield. Where the fuck was the hell stab. Was he just waiting to see what he had up our sleeves before bursting out his premier move.

The smoke cleared and he was just standing there.

“This was a good fight, Shorirama Senju. You were a worthy opponent.”

“I don’t think you can call this fight over yet” I scoffed. He didn’t even seem like he had heard me, stretching out his right hand before turning it on its side, aiming the knife hand straight at me. Finally. The Hell Stab.

“I call this the Hell Stab. The more fingers I use, the less powerful the stab. No one has ever survived three fingers” He said.

“Is that like a weird sex thing?” I asked Uzume with a stage whisper.

“It sounds like a weird sex thing. Is he going to use a weird sex thing on us. Please don’t penetrate me with your big scary fingers, Raikage-san” I said with as much fake horror as I could without laughing out loud.