Chapter 39.4- One Thousand Hands

He landed on the floor and found himself immediately facing the wrath of an aggressive Inuzuka. Inukuro’s body moved in a flash as he sent multiple furious swipes aimed at carving through his opponent while Piandao weathered the storm with a patience that Izuku had to admit was impressive. He calmly gave ground while making sure that he never found himself vulnerable to being touched Kuro’s claws. Under the influence as he was, Kuro’s already impressive claws were like knives in the way they protruded from his fingers.

Uzume’s own fingers flashed forth, dipping into her pouch and returning with a shuriken held between each set of fingers. A total of eight in all. She tossed them with full force, and they flew around both Kuro and Piandao, moving in a wide arc. Only his sharingan allowed him to so easily see the extremely thin pieces of ninja wire connecting her fingers to each shuriken. The wire flashed with chakra and she pulled back on it, allowing the shuriken to come sailing back in Uzume’s direction again, heading towards Piandao’s unprotected back. It was a masterful trap, Izuku thought with a whistle.

He couldn’t disengage from Kuro without sustaining an injury, and he couldn’t wait to do it safely thanks to the shuriken already heading for his back. They had him, Izuku thought for a second. Piandao didn’t even react to the approaching shuriken. Was he going to take them straight up as opposed to an iinjury from Kuro? That wasn’t a bad plan at all, Izuku thought and then tried to layer another set of genjutsu on the man but they just slipped away again.

The shuriken approached without hindrance, and then at what had to be the last possible second, Piandao acted. He stepped into Kuro’s guard, shocking their friend who had overextended himself in his frustration at not being able to tag his foe. The Weasel over so quickly, Izuku was certain that Kuro had no idea what happened to him. With his sharingan though, Izuku could see it all in slow motion. Piandao dropped his sword, stabbing straight through Kuro’s right foot and making him scream out. Then, he dropped straight to the floor. The shuriken missed him and sank straight into Kuro’s body.

Piandao rose from the ground immediately after, dodging around a furious reflexive swipe and then cutting straight through Kuro’s arm in one swing. Izuku would never forget the scream that Kuro let out as his right arm dropped to the floor. Izuku body flickered over, seeing Uzume do the same from her end, but they were too slow. It was almost like a dance the way Piandao twirled his blade again and ran it across Kuro’s neck. So sharp it was that Kuro’s head took a second to fall from his body.

Izuku arrived in time to catch the body, only to drop it in shock when the head came off and Kuro’s blood spurted all over him. Uzume, on the other hand, had gone straight for Piandao.

A/N: Can someone say consequences of war? Yes, I teased Inukuro’s death since the very beginning.