Chapter 53.3- One Thousand Hands

“Show me” I found myself demanding instantly. It said something about the situation that her cane wa not headed straight at my head for the tone I’d taken. I’d even cringed, expecting the hit from her but she reacted like nothing had happened and fished out the seal she was working on. It was complex in the middling sort of way.

Like it was more complicated than a sealing tag or something, but less so than the hiriashin. It didn’t involve dimensional travel. Not truly at least. Just travel at extreme speed. The only thing was that if something travelled at the speed she required here— close to light but not quite then it would rip through everything between it and its target. That was the part she was yet to figure out, and it was just our luck that I had the perfect thing in mind.

“You see why it doesn’t work?” She asked.

“I do”

“And you see how you can fix it?” She asked, but this was not really a question. No one knew me as well as Mito did, and she could probably tell from a single look at my face the I had an answer already.

“Frequency. Get the object vibrating at a different enough frequency and it should just slip through everything on the way between here and Tsunade” I said.

“And you can do that?” Kaito looked doubtful.

“With her help, yes” I said, pointing straight at Himari. The seal mistress nodded in my direction. Being by far the best of us when it came to working with physical forces and concepts, she was practically born for this.

Between the both of us, it took about three minutes to ship a working fix to Mito’s seal. It was not efficient, and it would guzzle chakra like nothing else, but those were secondary concerns.

“So we send the marker and I head off” I said, standing up from my position on the floor and grabbing what parts of my gear I could.

“Not alone” Mito said. “I’ll come with you”

“Fat chance” I scoffed. If she thought I’d be taking her anywhere near an active war zone then she must have lost more than a few screws since I’d last been home.

“She’s injured. The readings show the she’s probably poisoned. Need I remind you of your track record for dealing with poisons?”

“Low blow” I said, voice turning into a growl at the reminder of Choni’s death.

“I’ll go with him” Renjiro cut into our argument as it began to brew.

“You said you’d never use that jutsu again” Himari cut in.

“Well. It’s Tsu-chan in trouble, innit? I’ll do what is necessary for family. Now can we get a move on it.” He said, turning his head to the side, silently asking us to drop the subject. We did.