Chapter 44.5- One Thousand Hands

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When I woke up, I was in a grassy field. I could tell that the grass went on for farther than the eye could see. I was naked, but that didn’t seem to matter. Nothing seemed to matter to this place. I spotted a hill, and I just knew that I had to crest it. I took off on a run, and never even noticed when white robes appeared around my body, clothing and protecting me. My feet remained bare but there were no stones in the grass, just lush and soft soil. I ran across, running over the hill and being presented with a beach.

A beach that cradled the clearest ocean I had ever seen. The water reflected the cloudless blue sky, and out by the ocean there was a woman. A familiar woman. This place again, I realised. I’d seen this woman before, and I knew exactly what she was and what she wanted now. I’d been thinking about it for so long that there was no chance I was wrong.

I ran down the hill, almost whooping as I felt the wind run through my hair, through my skin, through my very being. It felt good being here. I ran towards her, and this time she turned to me before I reached her.

“Who am I?” She asked.

“You are me” I responded instantly and the woman, black haired, and white eyed, pale as Otsutsuki, and more beautiful than any Hyuga smiled. It was a beautiful thing, her smile.

“And you have perverted us” She said before a hand reached out to me faster than I could react. She pushed me, and instead of falling into the ground I was standing on, I fell into water.

With a jolt, I forced myself back up, until I was standing atop the water again, and the grassy field was gone. Instead, I was in some sort of ocean cave. I jumped out of the water I was standing in and began to walk forward, moving deeper and deeper into the cave. I couldn’t understand what sort of dream I was having anymore. First that woman, and now this. This place that felt familiar and yet alien at the same time. There was a red glow coming from the end of the cave, I realised, and I turned the last corner. It was massive. No, he was massive, I corrected. The anime had done nothing to sell his scale. He was easily as tall as a mountain and his tails?. Each of those tails seemed long enough to wrap around the world. His body was lean and muscular, and his claws were the size of fully grown men. They weren’t even his most dangerous feature. That honour went to the teeth in his mouth. He let out a snarl on seeing me and I as given a full view of those white death machines in their full glory. There was a line drawn across the ground of the cave that seemed to represent the seal that was dedicated to holding him down.