Chapter 29.4- One Thousand Hands

I spotted a salvo of shurinken from Kubo’s position even as I maintained pursuit. I did not react, only flexing my chakra in preparation. They caught on my wind armor for a few seconds before returning back where they’d come from at double the speed. Of course, that was not enough to catch the S-ranker lacking and he made short work of blocking them before retreating even deeper.. I pursued, almost heedless of the possible dangers. At least, that was what I was trying to sell to them. With my byakugan, I noted that the Yonbi girl was also skirting the very boundary of the trap.

I followed him deeper into the forest and then he suddenly stood his ground. I could see it. So many explosive tags. This entire section was going to go sky high if my math was correct. They were also chained not to activate at the same time. There were multiple sets of tags set to detonate at some fixed interval. Probably a measure to deal with the defence posed by the revolving heaven. I had to applaud whoever had set this trap and done it in so little time. It was impressive for sure, and also really good for my ego. It meant they were coming up with countermethoosI couldn’t find more because reading seals through earth and stone with my byakugan wasn’t exactly something I’d trained for and since the seals themselves were drawn with chakra ink, I had to deal with the effect that had on my vision. Still, it meant my plan still had space to work.

I met him in the middle of the clearing he’d stopped at. He kicked out first and I jumped over the foot and rolled along the ground for a second before backflipping again to avoid a kunia he’d sent sailing at where my head had been. I enjoyed the look of surprise on his face when our eyes met and I pushed off the air again to change the angle once I was slightly less than halfway through the flip, turning my body into a missile aimed right at him. He twirled around my flying form, and my outstretched knife hand widened to a full palm that I used to slow myself down by pushing against the ground with wind release. I landed on that same hand and then was back on my feet in a second.

We clashed in the next second. His kunai did nothing as I pushed his arm upwards and tagged two of his tenketsu with my fingers. He dropped the kunai and came in from the left with a second one that had been hidden in his sleeves. I caught his kunai mid air and used it to block the kunai that had been about to stab into my neck. The next second, I felt the Yonbi girl’s chakra reach out for him.

As he felt her chakra lock in, he flashed his and I saw the explosive tags light up. In that same second, my barrier slammed into place and I formed the snake seal, hoping the jutsu would activate in time.