Chapter 42.6- One Thousand Hands

“What are you working on?” Uzume asked as she strolled in. I wondered if it was a result of having Izuku in her but Uzume sought out my presence more often these days than she ever had prior to this.

“My granduncle’s jutsu. The flying thunder god” She hummed and walked forward,, ignoring my clones who were bent over their notes not even registering her presence to come to the desk I sat crouched atop.

“The one that he could teleport with?” She asked.

“That one.”

“So what’s the issue? You never take this long to figure things out?” She asked. I wondered how I must have looked for her to so easily come to the conclusion that I must have been struggling with the jutsu.

“It’s the seal. It’s supposed to do so many things at the same time and some of them just don’t make sense together, and then I have to come up with my own seal language for it” I said with a sigh.

“Your own language?”

“The Uzumaki script can’t express the concepts that this seal does. That’s why no one can figure out the Hiriashin. It’s my grandfather’s own sealing language linked with his chakra and blood. It only works for him and I have to do the same if I want to get the jutsu to work as well” I said.

“But never mind all that. What brings you here?”

“If you say so. When I fought Piandao for the second time, do you remember the technique I hit him with?”

“The genjutsu that made him start screaming like a mad man? That would be a bit difficult to forget”

“It’s Izuku’s left eye’s technique- Hakkyō. It;s basically a genjutsu that drives those its used for insane.”

“I see. What about it?”

“I was able to use it on Piandao even when I didn’t have his eyes in my head. That means that I could have copied over his mangekyou ability with fusion. I know the eternal mangekyou only makes me able to use the abilities I already have but what if I can rely on Izuku’s as well” She said. It was a good idea.

“So how are you going to test it?” I asked. And then she gave me a look. A look which I knew meant trouble.

“Absolutely no way” I said.

“You can just let me use it on one of your clones”

“And then what happens when it dispels and I get all its memories?” I asked.

“Well, I need some way to test it” She said.

“I’ll speak to Shika about sending out a few more patrols. Uraume and Shiba won’t mind helping you hunt down some Suna nin to practice on and I think being out of the base would be good for them,” I said. I could understand their pain even if I couldn’t fully relate. Izuku was dead, but he lived on in Uzume so my grief was assuaged by that fact. They had no such consolation. Inukuro was gone. And even if no one would never say it to his face, it was because Shiba could not say no to the man he love.

“Alright then. That works. I’ll be off now, but for your problem, you should consider trying to get every bit of it to work individually before putting it all together. Like that Rasengen of yours” She said as she walked away. Why the hell hadn’t I thought about it?