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Chapter 39.1- One Thousand Hands

Added 2025-01-29 21:15:37 +0000 UTC

He moved, and from his fingers flew a scroll that sailed in the air as it unfurled itself for a few seconds. Shika looked at the script in the scroll, and it was only her memories of that very first class with Shori that allowed her guess what the scroll was about to do. “Close your eyes” She called out to her teammates while clenching her eyes closed. The flashing went off, and she could see the bright light even through her eyelids, and would probably be blinking spots out of her vision when she opened said lids, That wasn’t the main problem though, the problem was the bang part of th flashbang, She couldn’t hear a single thing other than a sharp ringing in her ears. She reached one of her fingers up, and it came away with blood on it.

Fuck. A busted eardrum at the very least. Hearing was the second most valuable sense to a shinobi when in a fight, and this man had just robber her of hers in one move. Looking at both Choni and Inoken told her that they were in similar states. She set her lips into a frown almost by reflex and drew her blade from the scabbard on her back. The man hadn’t stopped moving after tossing the scroll, but instead of using at them, he’d dug through an inner pocket for an.other scroll while moving to a different position, standing against the flames from her earlier fire jutsu in such a way that his shadow was shrunk as much as possible.

“You’ve destroyed a few of my favourites, but those were trinket compared to this one. Meet my masterpiece, Hiruko.” He said, and then unsealed the puppet by his side. It had a human-ish face on its head, and could have been mistaken for a man crouched or with a hunchback if it had been wearing a cloak to cover its obviously inhuman bits.

A/N: I’m doing a lot of artistic interpretation here, but there has to be something poetic about Sasori inhabiting a puppet that was originally designed by his father has his prime disguise. At least, that’s how I see it. If it doesn’t work for you, then I’m pulling rank as author.