Chapter 80.4- One Thousand Hands

This motherfucker had taken a tailed beast bomb to the face and said, bet.

He stretched his hand out. I saw it with my byakugan clearly this time. The path that was created for his jutsu- positive and negative charges blooming for a second before the world became black lightning. It happened so quickly, I was still barely able to teleport myself out of the way of the storm of lightning. Uzume took the hit head on, taking the fight to him. I checked my internal clock. It had been a minute and thirteen or so odd seconds since Uzume stepped in. Stasis was a broken ability, but it was chakra intensive as fuck. If she had ever used it with just a regular mangekyou, it might have put her in a coma for using it this long.

With the EMS being a more stable doujutsu, there were undoubtedly efficiency games, and her chakra had swelled even since the fusion with Izuku. Still, the last time we had checked, five minutes was her hard limit. She would have to stop at four if she still wanted to be able to fight afterwards. That meant I could only rely on her as a complete shield and tank for less than three more minutes. I teleported next to her again. She aimed a kick at his neck, and I lashed out with my fingers aimed at his chest.

“Plan B” I called out, uncaring that he heard me just as surely as she did, or that Uzume did not reply at all. I had the fullest trust in her ability to execute. I just needed to make her an opening.

Just like before, my gentle fist broke against his lightning armour. No matter how long I made the lances, it seemed the armor just could not be penetrated reliably. Uzume ventured another kick that the Raikage blocked with his left arm. I moved to the side, and stomped down on the back of his knee with all my strength. He only moved a smidge. But that was movement. She twisted, tossing five shuriken filled with wind release at his form at the same time I was moving a wind release rasengan straight at his back. It was up to him to decide which one was the bigger threat, and like anyone with common sense would have, he turned his back on Uzume and caught my jutsu with my wrist. A mistake.

I channeled enough of Kurama’s chakra that I knew my eyes would have turned a bloody red. I smiled at him, a sharp bloody thing while I strained against him. He wouldn’t budge. But he didn’t need to. He just needed to stay fucking still and was achieving that. Through him, I could see Uzume unseal my bow from her armour. Next came an arrow. This was another of my failsafes for dealing with the Raikage. She took a breath and set loose, looking like a perfect mirror of me as she did so. The arrow whistled through the air. I was practically holding my breath as we wrestled for dominance. It was taking all my strength and then some just to maintain this equilibrium. But if it worked, then it meant we had something we could use.