Chapter 51.4- One Thousand Hands

I tracked each one in the air, noting that I was surrounded from all angles before I spun on my heel into the kaiten. The defensive hyuga jutsu shielded me from the simultaneous explosions and the second I ended the jutsu, I found the one with bladed arms upon me again. I twisted backwards and gathered my chakra into the bow before pulling the string to the end. The bolt of lightning natured chakra tore through the puppet with an explosion, making it next to useless.

The ringing sound came again, but this time I was more than ready. I pulled at my internal chakra before shoving myself beneath the mud that formed around me. Once I was too deep for the sound to penetrate, I turned my chakra against my own body. There was a jutsu used in Surgery that could essentially disconnect body parts from the brain and stop them from sending signals back there. More useful than most anasthethics since there were less risks involved. When I swam back to the surface, my sense of hearing was gone.

I emerged on the other side of the clearing and the puppets came at me immediately. I formed a half Snake seal and the mud rose from the ground to block their approach for a second before the mud itself exploded in all direction. I drew my bow and fired it straight through one of the snakes, causing it to explode. The one with the explosives sent even more canisters in my direction, but this time, I took a deep breath in and blew them back whence they came. They exploded , but before they did Chiyo managed to bring her puppets back behind her shield. I fired an arrow into it and the arrow of lightning natured chakra didn’t even manage to scuff it.

I channeled more chakra, creating an even bigger arrow that hit the shield, exploded and did nothing more than the first did. How did it work, I wondered. Was it just made of a material too durable for me to harm? Some kind of chakra negation field? Or was it something else? The seals behind the painted over puppet wall were near impossible for me to figure out. If I didn’t know better, I would have taken them for drawings or hieroglyphs or something else.

“Going to hide behind that thing forever?” I projected my voice over to her.

“If you want me, come get me, pretty boy” She replied in a sing song voice. I unsealed a single arrow from my sleeve, and deactivated the lightning seals on my bow. I drew the arrow, aimed over the shield and fired. It flew through the air and I noted that a senbon flew from behind the shield to hit the arrow head and send it flying about. It mattered little. I teleported over to the arrow, appearing in the air behind them. Chiyo turned, looking at me with a scowl on her face while I drew a set of kunai and sent them straight at her and her puppets.