Chapter 51.2- One Thousand Hands

I decided to test the shield and brought my chakra to bear, forming a wind release: rasenshuriken in the time that it used to take me to form a rasengan. I took a breath before I threw the powerful attack straight at her shield. She didn’t even move, trusting the shield, the jutsu hit and expanded just like it was supposed to, into millions of microscopic needles that tore apart targets at a microscopic level. Usually, the explosion died down to reveal targets that had been close to atomised. In this case, that was far from the truth.

The shield, to my immense shock remained right there. A veneer of paint had been scraped off it to reveal wood that looked older than the rest of the puppet, but beyond that no damage had been done.

“How?” I found myself asking, but this wasn’t dragon ball and instead of explaining how the shield worked to me, her puppets shot into motion. The spider covered the ground quicker than the others, spitting senbon in my direction. I blocked them with kunai while I backpedaled. The explosive one was waiting to the left, canisters at the ready, so I bolted right. From the ground came a giant puppet. I formed a rasengaan half the size of my torso and met the puppet in mid air, grinding it into the ground and into smithereens. I enjoyed the shocked look on Chiyo’s face,. She had been hoping to catch me by surprise with the puppet she held in reserve and as long as I expected to be surprised, I couldn’t be surprised.

At least that was what I thought until her features arranged themselves into a victorious smirk. I looked down and was confronted with a set of seals on the puppets insides. I felt my body seize up, unable to abandon the motion of the rasengan as two more puppets rose from the ground, aimed at skewering me from the left and the side. I blinked and teleported to a marker a few feet away.

Out of the seal’s range, I felt control of my boy return to me.

“I have studied every mention of your fighting style. Everything you can do has been accounted for. I am the foe that shall bring an end to you, Shorirama Senju.”

“Really?” I found myself asking with a smirk.

“I bet you spent your time questioning the cowards who managed too survive my assault on your son’s camp. They must have told you about my mud release and my taijutsu. You probably watched me fight the Iwa shinobi so you know about flying raijin and the nine tails chakra from there. Am I right?” She just pursed her lips, fingers moving rapidly. I jumped backwards to avoid the puppet that tried to swallow me whole. The explosive one came in my direction again, and I teleported to a marker behind it before I unsealed my bow from a storage seal on my sleeve.

“But what you don’t realise is that none of those are my preferred fighting style. Let me show you how I like to fight, Chiyo”