Chapter 42.3- One Thousand Hands

With a single handseal, the ground around me turned into mud that wrapped around my body. The first time, I’d tried this, only UzuSenju healing prevented me from spending the better part of a month in the hospital even with Tsunade’s healing. It started in the core. Lightning release was one of the more interesting elements because using more chakra didn’t have to mean more lightning. When you overpowered a fireball jutsu, you almost always got a bigger fireball and nothing else. Maybe you could make it hotter with more control and experience but that heat was often a factor of control and experience rather than overpowering it with chakra.

Lightning was different. I formed the core of the rasengan with my hand pointed right at Uzume. She said she could take it, right. The core of the rasengan was a single spark of lightning natured chakra. A spark with nearly a quarter of my chakra within it. Around it, I formed the rasengan, spiraling threads of chakra rotating at immense speed around the core formed. That was only the first layer. With a flex of my chakra, I enclosed the rasengan around the core, making it so small it was about the size of a tennis ball. Next to that, I created another spark. Without eyes like mine, this was basically impossible.

This spark was less powerful than the other one, but it was negatively charged were the other was positively charged. Around this spark, another rasengan formed, spiraling in the exact opposite direction. To my eyes, the jutsu looked like one sun within another. I turned to Uzume.

“Get ready, Uzume” I called out before releasing my hold on the jutsu. It fired out, smashing into her while I sank into the mud I’d created, forcing it to take me deeper and deeper.

Through the mud, I could sense when the jutsu exploded. The explosion of light and chakra was so powerful that it was impossible to miss it from even this deep. When it had run its course, I forced my mud to take me to the surface, smashing through the caked over top of the mud lake I’d created.

I whistled at looking at the landscape. It was like Thor had taken his hammer and decided to smite the space Uzume had been standing in. That was the name of the Jutsu, by the way. Thor’s Hammer. I thought of something like Lightning Release: Rasengan, but that failed to capture to scope of what I’d accomplished here.

I walked towards the deep crater, looking within to find her just as she had been before the jutsu was even fired. Her clothes were the same. Her hair was the same. There wasn’t even a scratch on her.

“It’s called Fudō,” she said as she jumped out of the crater.

“Some kind of teleportation jutsu?” Because surely she hadn’t been hit by that jutsu and come out so unscathed. I’d give Thor’s Hammer good odds of cracking even a Sussano open- I’d made it as my answer for impenetrable defenses, after all.

“Nope. My left eye has Yūgō, my right has Fudō. Fudō allows me to be unaffected by anything under the Sun” She said.

“Anything? Literally anything?” I wondered.