Chapter 61.5- One Thousand Hands

“Are you going to come die or not” Onoki asked from his position, hands crossed. I smiled and shrugged before I began to stretch.

“So you see there were no traps around. I’m not really that much of a fan of overkill, you know. Maximum efficiency and whatnot. So when I hatched this plan up, there was only the need for a single trap. Can you guess when you walked into that one? I’ll give you the answer— it was when you did not turn around and head home the second you knew I was here” I said with a smirk and I lifted my hands up. I’d been preparing the jutsu internally for close to ten minutes at this point so it was just waiting for me to unleash it.

I pulled at Kurama’s chakra, pretty much using it entirely for this jutsu— sure I needed Kokuo’s for he main spark that would light the match and even that small amount when it came to this jutsu was about a third of the tail’s worth of chakra that I had left. Control was not the goal here. It was big, wasteful, and that was the point. Fire and Water release came together in my body before erupting out of my lifted hand in steam. Steam that spun in on itself as it was contained in a shell of Kurama’s chakra.

“Don’t let him fire that jutsu” Onoki screamed and I smirked at the panic he tried to hide from his voice as his shinobi raced at me. A mistake. I disappeared in a flash and then I was right in the middle of them. My hiriashin seal on the floor had gone without notice, just as I knew it would. It gave off no chakra, and I’d carved it on the bottom of a stone so nothing like a buried seal tag or kunai caught their attention. Just as I appeared in their midst, I left a second later. Only that this time, I left the jutsu behind.

The steam release rasengan bubbled and swelled without me to keep it stable, and those next to it scrambled backwards but it was too little and too late as it erupted a second later into a massive explosion of steam.

“Ahhhhhhhhh” A single voice echoed through the forest until it was gone, and then replaced by another.

“My god” Kizuru whispered by my side and I wondered what he felt with his chakra senses, because the steam was yet to clear enough for us to see. Even with my byakugan, I could scarcely see into the Iwa column. I could hear the screams though. The screams I could definitely hear.