Chapter 73.2- One Thousand Hands
Added 2025-08-17 19:49:13 +0000 UTC“It wouldn’t be borrowed power” She said, but I just tilted my head at her. Ev en she knew that that was a particularly weak rebuttal. Taking her eyes to activate the rinnegan would be borrowed power.
“Fine. But after the Raikage, we look into this .We do it together” She said. Sure, I had to push it back further then.
“Speaking of the Raikage, there’s something I wanted to test” I told her. She looked at me. I walked over, tapped her on the shoulder, and the second we made contact, we were in the Hokage’s private training ground.
“What did you want to test?” She asked.
“Activate your mangekyou ability please?” I asked her.
“Yes, but what are you testing?” She asked as her eyes spun into their final state. I took a deep breath and covered her with flames. The jutsu passed, nothing happening.
“What was the point of that?”
“Just bear with me a bit. Now can you hold this?” I asked, taking out a scroll from a pocket and placing it in her hand. Once again, fire. Once again, no effect. She, her clothes, the scroll she held in her hand, not a bit of damage.
“Okay, you will tell me what’s going on now” Her tone brokered no argument.
“Your stasis field doesn’t just affect you like we thought. It affects your clothes” I said.
“We already knew this” She pointed out
“But did we know what it meant? That scroll in your hand is undamaged. So what if you were holding on to another person? Would your stasis field extend to them as well?” I wondered.
“I— I don’t know”
“That’s what we’re here to find out” I said, forming a clone by twisting my chakra in on itself. Eliminating handseals from all my jutsu was one project that I had been making relatively massive strides in. Wasn’t yet at the point that I never used them at all, but chances were that if the jutsu was basic enough or from one of my two major affinities— earth and water, then I didn’t need it. For wind release, I was not quite there yet and when it came to fire, only the great fireball jutsu had been developed to that point.
