Oghenevwogaga

Chapter 49.1- One Thousand Hands

Added 2025-04-10 00:11:14 +0000 UTC

I was right. I could feel the power as it flowed from my lips to my mouth, and then down the rest of my body. The tiny bits of nature chakra latched on to my own chakra, expanding it far beyond its natural limits. I didn’t need this enhancement to be permanent. I just needed a feeling, and I got it right then. The feeling of nature energy. The thing Kurama had me spending hundreds of clone hours working on had fallen straight into my lap, and now that I could feel it within my body, I could feel it everywhere.

I turned my focus to my internal reserves, feeling the nature chakra begin to break down some of my cells from their actions as they forcibly expanded my chakra capacity. I took a breath and claimed control of the chakra and began to guide it across my body. It wasn’t just expanding my chakra, it was coursing through my body itself, making me stronger, faster, more alert, and taller? Yes, I was taller. Shino had been tall enough that I reached to about his shoulder. Now, I met him eye to eye.

He took a step back. Good, he was competent enough to realise that something here was different.

“Did you think me a fool like the rest?” I asked, even as I turned my attention to my body. It felt like being in the two tailed stage, except without feeling my body be subsumed by kurama’s chakra and unable to utilize fine control, it was exactly the opposite here. Being in this sage mode made my chakra which so readily responded to my will feel even easier to control— maybe this was why Naruto had needed sage mode to figure out throwing the rasenshuriken in the first place.

The best part? This was just the beginning. I’d get better with time. I just had to put my head down and train.

“Don’t answer that. I could care less. Our bargain is complete. Now thank me for my services so I may be on my way” I said,