Chapter 62.6- One Thousand Hands

The steam cleared because of some wind release jutsu from within the Iwa group, and it was so bad that I almost wished I hadn’t used that jutsu.

Steam was uniquely gruesome in the damage it could cause. I could have used a wind release rasenshuriken or a lightning release: spear of heaven to achieve similar results with nature chakra at my disposal but I knew that neither of those would cause as much chaos and damage as my steam bad. Because the bodies were still there. Just boiled to death from both outside and within at the same time.

Their clothes were untouched. Perhaps the worst were those who only had limbs or certain body parts get caught in the steam. Those were the ones whose scream echoed through this clearing, The spotted trees that had been around them had withered into husks of themselves. Brittle little things with dead leaves that provided no shade from the sun. Their numbers— the Iwa nin— had at least halved, hundreds dead from a single jutsu.

I could see Onoki’s face as it began to redden. His hands came together, and I knew the dust release was coming before he even completed the jutsu. Three kunai flew from my hands, one in each direction- one straight left, another straight right, and the last straight upwards. Like expected, the dust release took so long to shape that the Kunai had almost gone out of range when he finally fired the jutsu. When he did, it was only sage mode enhanced reflexes that allowed me to cast the formal variation of the flying raijin that forced the dust release into a pocket of space that formed at my command.

The jutsu disappeared and if I had a camera on me, I would have taken a picture of Onoki’s shellshocked expression.

“Remember the plan” I said, and I moulded my chakra into two clean halves. Seamlessly forming a shadow clone by my side. As I did I took the fact that I was standing still for a few more seconds to shove as much nature chakra into my body as I could before I shot at my opponent. The Tsuchikage’s fist met mine, and shockingly enough, I was the one that got sent flying backwards. I flying raijined to a marked tree just as a barrage of stone bullets flew through the air I’d just occupied.

On the ground, my clone weaved seals and Jinpei found himself in the human world for the first time since he’d lost to Ibuse, and this time he was spoiling to avenge that loss and clear his name. Water flooded the battlefield in a matter of seconds while I jumped at Onoki again. Another dust release jutsu came my way. I tossed a kunai to the side and teleported to it, dodging the prismatic lane of chakra that disintegrated everything it ame Tinto contact with. I fired two more kunai, once to either side before sending one at Onoki. He’d figured out the flying raijin at this point, so instead of aiming his next death ray in my direction, he aims for the kunai. That was fine as in that time, I had four more kunai in the air, securing even more escape spots for myself as the Tsuchikage denied flying at me himself was probably the best way to end this.

On the ground, my clone atop Jinpei began to mould the water our summon helpfully provided into the ground for our own version of the Sad man parade, even as my genin team stood around his stationary form and Kizuru began to play his flute from behind him.