Chapter 42.2- One Thousand Hands

Reaching out with my medical chakra and activating my byakugan, I could tell that the eyes behind the bangs had healed fully.

“Okay, we can take these things off now” I said.

“Now?. And they were only just beginning to stop itching, you know?"

“Sure, I can leave them on if you want me to”

“Shorirama Senju”

“Fine, fine. I’m as curious to see what these things can do as you are” I said, unwrapping the bandages and cutting them as I proceeded. In a matter of seconds, Uzume’s eyes were bared to the world. She still had them shut. And then she snapped them open, revealing gleaming red eyes.

Her triangular pattern was now matched with a circle that connected all the points of the triangle, fully enclosing it from without.

“So do you know what your abilities are?” I asked.

“I have a fair idea” She said.

“One of them was Fusion which Izuku and I used. Although, I can tell that since Izuku and I used the ability of each other and fused into this, I’ve lost access to it. The other one? Well, it’s best if I show you” She said. I nodded.

We made our way out of the base, and then travelled several kilometers away to make sure that we didn’t inadvertently reveal our camp. With our eyes, we’d know if we were being watched by most, but no one ever died from being too careful.

“I need you to attack me. Whatever you’ve got, use it” She said.

“You sure?” I asked.

“Yeah, yeah. Get it over with”

“What level of attack are we talking about here” I asked.

“The biggest, baddest thing you’ve got. It’s just grasslands and a drying stream here. You can go all out” She said.

I stared at her, wondering if she was insane, but part of me was undoubtedly excited to see something cool.

I should probably have held back and used something else, but I never got to use my favourite jutsu all that often, and if she said she could take it, then she could take it.

I had three natural affinities: wind, earth, and water. It was perhaps a bit disgraceful that my favorite jutsu used exactly none of those elements. Well, in my defence, who didn’t want to shoot lightning from their fingertips like Chancellor Palpatine? I hadn’t quite figured out a way to reliably aim ‘lightning fingies’ as I was coming to call them, but I did have the next best thing.

Like all my best techniques, it started with the rasengan as its base. Kakashi created the chidori by failing to add lightning nature to the Rasengan. I always wondered what a successful attempt of that would look it. It ended up being something like this. Lightning natured chakra did not take easily to being forced to rotate around a fixed point. Even with perfect chakra control and the ability to see what I was doing, physics was physics. So I took a different approach. A very volatile approach.