Chapter 29.1- One Thousand Hands

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Water continually poured onto the battlefield from above them. There was no pause in thew flow and I reached out with my chakra, feeling at the water and taking note of the flow in my mind. Some of it had gotten absorbed in the ground immediately, but th water was flowing too quickly for that to happen. It was beginning to pile up now, even as it flowed through the floor and across it and on it. Sinking an island was far from an easy feat, and that was what it seemed like Jinpei was about to do.

I watched Kubo Yatsuki jump into the treeline to avoid standing in the water and both the Iwa and Kumo contingents followed suit immediately. I could see him weaving seals at a rapid pace. It would be a powerful lightning release jutsu, I knew. I could see it in the way his chakra coiled in on itself. I grimaced and activated my wind armour again. A constant drain from all my tenketsu at the same time was a risk with my reserves as they presently stood but it was one worth taking. The wind armour would grant me protection against lightning release.

“Let’s see who the better fighter is, Jinpei” I said with a smile and jumped right at the S-rank Kumo Jounin. If I had expected my jump to draw his attention and make me the chosen target, then I would have been disappointed when he ignored me almost entirely and sent a powerful blast of lightning that took on the shape of a dragon right at Jinpei. Of course if he expected the jutsu to have any effect on the massive whale then he was even more disappointed than I would have been when the jutsu struck and did nothing. The lightning struck Jinpei and just washed along his skin. He had a thick layer of Blubber right beneath his skin that seemed to take the electricity and negate it.

Whatever Kubo was going to do next came too late and I was upon him. His kunai flashed into his grip so fast that it was like a blur and I was forced to shove myself to the side with a blast of wind as that same Kunai almost nailed me right in the forehead. The water falling onto the battlefield began to take on a life of its own. Every drop ran with Jinpei’s chakra as the water was his in the end. Massive tendrils began slapping shinobi around almost casually. A mini tsunami rose from the ground and snuffed out a plume of blue flames before it could do anything beyond light up the clearing. I landed on the tree next to Kubo’s and pushed off it to jump at him again.

This time, I got my arm up in time and deflected the kunai he sent with a snap of his fist. He leaned backwards, walking up the tree with his face to me. I landed below him on the vertical surface, but stuck to the tree as we were, it might have been the ground itself we were standing atop. He moved first, punch lashing out for my head. I slapped the fist away with an almost contemptuous wave and reached out with grasping fingers to feel at his tenketsu.

A/N; Progress, yah?