Chapter 62.5- One Thousand Hands

She ran right at him and he moved backwards as the one with explosion release was in her way again.. he was the one with the most short range skill, middling as his taijutsu was. She leaned backwards to avoid a stretched punch. Just as expected, he released an explosion in her face. Fudō meant that she felt none of it, her mangekyou ability even protecting her eyes from the sudden influx of light. So instead of reeling like he Ould have expected, she came further in. His eyes were wide and shocked, as he caught him in her genjutsu almost instantly. He’d been doing a good job of avoiding eye contact but the surprise at seeing her emerge unscathed from his attack must have overwhelmed him— if briefly. Brief was all she needed though.

With his body frozen, she stabbed her gunbai straight into his neck, still filled with lightning release. His head fell to the ground, the smell of roasting flesh spreading all over the place she went around his dead body right for the big one. She watched his eyes widen at the death of his ally, but he was not sloppy enough to meet her eyes. Instead, he slammed his hands into the ground, forming an earth wall between her and him. She scoffed and sliced through the wall with her gunbai and just as expected, he was waiting with a trap, kunai aimed right at her neck.

She allowed him make contact and just like his friend, he was too shocked by his attack not even managing to penetrate her skin that she didn’t need to do much to deal with him then. She swept his feet down from under him. He fell to the ground, and began to roll away but before he could make it far enough, she formed her sussanoo around her— just the ribcage and one hand was enough. The hand caught him as he tried to escape.

The lava release man sent a stream of the hot stuff at her, but it failed to do anything to her sussanoo. Instead, she turned her attention to the one in her grip and with one breath, her sussanoo’s hand crushed him in its grip, blood splattering all over. The lava release user had the good sense to tell he was clearly outmatched. The only issue being that he had taken too long to notice it as he began to run backwards, fleeing the battle.

Her sussanoo formed a bow in the hand already formed and a second arm formed from the other side. Shori probably had no idea just how much practice she had with archery thanks to his obsession with the stuff. It hadn’t surprised her that her sussanoo had manifested a bow as its long range weapon. She aimed carefully, not for where he was, but for where he would be in two seconds. Then she exhaled and fired. The arrow went straight through his chest, pinning him to the ground just as planned, As she inhaled, she released the grip she had on her spectral avatar, dismissing it.