Chapter 26.3- One Thousand Hands

“Shori, what happened to you?” Tobirama asked as I finally finished crossing the distance between us.

“The Raikage put in much more of a fight than we saw coming but Kagami-san and I handled it” I turned to the older Uchiha who gave me a wink with his single open eye.

He nodded but kept his eyes on my knee.

“I assume that the reason you haven’t healed it is because the injury is one that resists quick resolution” he said, and I nodded at his words.

“Saru and his team have the Six-tails handled. That fight should conclude itself in the next few minutes. We’ll go support Danzo against the Mizukage and three tails” He said simply. I nodded at his words.

“Are you still good to fight?”

“My mobility is shot, but I do still have a wide ninjutsu arsenal I’m just saying to crack out” I said in reply.

“Good.” He said and then flicked his fingers. A soldier pill shot out from them and flew straight towards my mouth. I wasted no time in catching it and swallowing. I felt it loosen my body’s natural restrictions and amplify my chakra production to the point that my chakra swelled to about half of its full capacity.

“Kagami and I will head on over land to pincer the Mizukage. Take the coastal route and confront the Three-tails with that. Your Uzumaki blood means the defences will ignore you, and you should have an easier time moving over water than land” He said. When I nodded, he said no more words and just body flickered Northwards. Kagami flashed me a smile before doing the same. I hobbled over towards the beach where the sand met the sea and then formed a tiger seal to take hold of the water and use it to carry me into the water.

Granduncle was right. I’d have a much easier time moving through the water than I would moving over land. And even better, I got to freeze and icy cast around my knee to keep it from moving and getting even worse. I allowed the water carry me around the island, moving to where I could sense the Three tails’ noxious chakra. When I surfaced, I could just make out the three tails with my byakugan. Around it were a group of Jounin. They were having an easy enough time keeping it distracted and containing its agression between all seven of them but they hadn’t managed to damage it at all. That was what I was here for. I flared my chakra to give them a warning, and I felt no small amount of satisfaction when Danzo looked over to the sea, saw me, and signaled for his people to hightail it out of the way.

I had many things going for me as a shinobi. My taijutsu was immaculate. I couldn’t be affected by genjutsu. I had one of the most powerful doujutsu known to man. I had enough chakra to put most jounin to shame. All those were true, but the main thing that set me aside from the rest of shinobikind was what I could do with ninjutsu when I cut loose.

The three tails had become little more than a feral beast as time went one. It was in what the fandom called the Version 2 cloak, the thick red one that made it difficult to see the person underneath. Even worse, it had begun to spawn bones around its form. Three tails languidly swung themselves through the air behind it.

“Suiton; Daibakufu no jutsu” I intoned. The water around me. Metric tonnes of the liquid rose up from the ocean and I smiled as I felt myself riding the immense wave. Whatever Mizu shinobi still remained in the three tails vicinity wasted no time in moving out of the way even as the beast turned to roar at the wave coming towards it.

A/N; Just think of Shori’s body list at the end of this.