Chapter 54.4- One Thousand Hands

At the last second, I bent with unnatural flexibility to allow it miss. We were close once more and I spartan kicked him straight in the sternum even with half my body nearly horizontal, parallel to the ground. The attack landed, but I was surprised little when my foot hit naught but water. He pushed on with the attack, the scythe coming around again as I began to straighten up. I leaned into it, grabbing the blade with my bare hand.

I revelled in the shock that showed on his face as I snapped the chakra metal into pieces with my bare hands, leaving him with only the shaft, bladed end gone. He danced backwards, feet ghosting over the ground as I stomped the earth with my foot, creating a mini earthquake aimed art destabilizing him. I might as well have done nothing as his feet moved surely over the unstable and shifting surface. It was like he couldn’t even feel the earthquake itself.

He spun and as he turned, there was a lance of water screaming through the air as it came in my direction. I crossed my arms in front of me and tanked the attack. With sage mode, it wasn’t even enough to scratch my skin. Nice. If his attack’s failure meant anything to him, then Hanzo was too experienced to show it. Instead, the temperature around him fell. He stretched a hand in my direction. Only my byakugan allowed me see the shards of ice he created right in front of his hand. They spun, moving so quickly that it was difficult to imagine that he could control objects that small moving that fast with any degree of precision, but that was the only conclusion that made sense considering what happened next.

The ice shards hit each other at an angle too acute to be accidental, creating a spark. The spark was all the warning I had to cross my hands in front of my face. Next thing I knew, all my world was lightning. I had lost unconsciousness for a brief second, I was sure. Because when I came to, my vision was tinged in red.

“Kurama?” I asked out loud.

“You fool. Did you genuinely think your paltry mastery of nature chakra would allow you to survive an attack like that one. You fucking idiot. Who did I fucking offend? Why have I been cursed with an idiot for a host? You’ll get us killed, you fucking…” I tuned him out in favour of checking my wounds.