Chapter 47.4- One Thousand Hands

He fell backwards for a second before returning and trying to bash his head into mine. One of my tails swept up and slapped him in the face, sending him flying further into the forest. I followed at an almost leisurely pace.

“I’ve missed this” Kurama roared in my head, delighting showing his sibling who the better was.

When Han came out, this time he had transitioned into the Version Two cloak. Four tails were behind him, and there was a bony structure on each tail. His body was impossible to make out from the deep red chakra that surrounded him. Steam wafted from his form like he was boiling himself alive. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was. The surroundings were probably much hotter than they used to be, but I felt nothing safely esconsced in Kurama’s chakra.

“Version two?” Kurama suggested, but I shrugged and refused. That shit looked painful.

“Coward” The tailed beast in my head snorted at my refusal. I shrugged again.

“Let me do a full transformation and we’ll see” I replied.

“Watch out!” He yelled, but he didn’t need to. I’d been expecting him. I grabbed at Han’s wrist and used his momentum to flip him over my body. He landed and several trees were blown away from the force. He pushed up from the ground and shot his tails right at me. My own tails slapped them aside. Next thing, he breathed out a hurricane of boiling steam. I focused for a second and appeared elsewhere.

“That was harder than it should have been” I said, referring to the strain from the teleportation. Against my will, I collapsed to one knee, vomiting blood. I’d left an organ or two behind. Fuck.

“You can’t use your ninjutsu in this state, fool” He said.

“What? Naruto could use ninjutsu all the time”

“The Rasengan? You can do that with my chakra, but not something as sophisticated as this”

“Minato could teleport even with the cloak.”

“You don’t have access to that state. We’d need to merge our chakras for that to work, and that would make it impossible for you to release me without dying in turn” He said. I nodded, and pushed myself up to my feet right in time for Han to catch me in a devastating lariat. His arm hit my neck and the force was enough to create a shockwave that popped my eardrums.

He continued the motion, sending me straight into the ground. He did not stop there, grabbing me up from the floor and throwing me into the distance. I had no idea how far I travelled. I felt myself crash through a few trees and even skip along a stream at some point before I landed on the ground, smashed halfway into a boulder the size of the Uzumaki clan building.

He was there seconds after I landed. He grabbed on to my inner shirt and used that to pull me up to his height.

“Foolish child” His deep voice echoed as he punched me straight in the face. Once. Twice. Thrice. My head moved to the side with each punch and then on the fourth one, I braced my face against his punch and refused to give.

“Kurama” I called.

“Gladly” We exploded in power.