Chapter 13.4- One Thousand Hands

He rose out of the ground, and I regarded him with an unimpressed look. A look that he returned with a scowl on his face. He clearly didn’t enjoy being pushed around by a child. “Your taijutsu is good, Hyuga. Just like they said about your clan, your resistance to genjutsu is high as well. But unfortunately for you, neither of those are my specialty. I am Iwabe, master of ninjutsu. I will have your name so I can tag your skull with it when I add it to my collection.”

I considered correcting his misconceptions about me being a Hyuga, for even giving my name, but I remembered the orders that Tobirama had given before allowing me go on my very first mission. ‘Under no circumstances are you to reveal your name or clan affiliation. You are not yet ready to deal with the attention that our name commands outside this village’, he had said. They were orders I had no problem obeying.

“What use is information to a dead man like you” My smile was wide. He allowed my words roll off his back and began weaving seals. I did the same.

“Fire Style: Great fireball Jutsu”

“Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu” I executed mine a second after his. Both fireballs flew across the space that separated us before exploding in a massive conflagration. A conflagration that I dove right into. I commanded my chakra to cloak me from the fire as I body flickered into the space. I met him weaving more seals and had to dodge out of the way of the stone he spat at me at hypersonic speeds with a body flicker. Again. Again. Whenever I stayed still for more than a second, he fired at me with that jutsu. I allowed him aim a fourth time, but this time, I flipped through two seals of my own.

“Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder” I intoned, while allowing the versatile jutsu to release itself from my fingers and spread in the air.

The stone bullets he sent shattered to pieces as they flew at me.

I formed another seal and took a deep breath. “Wind Release: Great Breakthrough” Hurricane force winds came from my mouth and tore across the space.

He weaved a few seals of his own and slapped his hands on the ground. He formed an earth wall that my jutsu washed across. Another seal, and I shattered the wall with lightning release, but he was nowhere to be found when the jutsu ran its course.

A/N; Not feeling completely sure about this, but here you go. I’ll sleep on it and see if I’ll be keeping this and adding to it or scrapping it for something else.