Chapter 77.1- One Thousand Hands

How quickly can a group of shinobi move across a country? The answer was very fucking quickly. We made camp a few miles outside iwa and slept the night away, resting and recovering our chakra for the long march to Iwa. Well, not really long march it was a straight shot, the journey from Kusa to Iwa. So after the night passed, we packed up, cleared our tracks best we could and shot off like bullets.

The army being made of mostly chunin forced me to maintain what was essentially a jogging pace or most of it. Probably for the best since it meant I could maintain my chakra reserves and physical stamina.

‘You won’t be getting tired anytime soon with me inside you’ Kurama growled in my head. I nodded, agreeing with the point. In the time since I’d fought Onoki, I’ gotten even better at using his chakra. While he lacked the elemental leanings of his brothers and sisters, Kurama had an advantage none of them could really compare with— a shit ton of power. More power than I could use. Enough power that if I got the balance right, I could empower the entire army with one tailed forms. Wait, fuck it. Could I do it right now?

‘Kurama?’ I asked.

‘Most likely, but I’m not sharing my chakra with these worms.’

‘Would strengthen my position by a fair bit’ I said. I could just imagine being the Hokage that got the army through a war by sharing his power with the rest of the army and protecting them.

‘Not your power, is it?’

‘If I want to share it with them, I’d have to balance your chakra with mine’ I pointed out.

‘Then share your own chakra and see how far it takes you’ he growled before doing the mental equivalent of slamming the door in my face.

‘Fine. Be that way’, I screamed at the shut door before returning to the present.

“You okay” I heard a voice from behind— Uzume, I recognised. I waved away her concern before increasing my speed a bit. Thinking about it, it had probably been an unfair ask. Kurama had only been willing to share his chakra when he faced the Ten Tails and essentially had the fate of the world flashing before his eyes. Now, I was asking him to use his chakra to help me fight a human war. Of course he wasn’t willing. He’d more than about had his fill of being used as a tool for humans by now. I couldn’t have him thinking the same of me. If I had my way, he would have just spent time sealed in Kushina before I unsealed him and let him go after we were sure the threat of Zetsu was gone. The idea of sealing the tailed beasts wasn’t one that I could put my whole being behind.

‘I’m sorry’ I called at the door.

‘I don’t think you see me as a tool. If there is one thing that makes you better than the rest of your race, it is that fact’ he replied, sounding worlds less pissed.