Chapter. 96.1- One Thousand Hands
Added 2025-11-02 21:30:11 +0000 UTCThe chains snapped, sending the kunai racing at me at mach speeds. I took a breath and then reached out for one, catching it by its handle, and then contorting my body to avoid the most of them before deflecting the rest of them with the kunai I held. I felt the seal on the kunai as it began to activate. I looked down, noting that it was an explosive seal. Not one I’d seen before, but the core elements were there for sure. I wondered for a second whose work it was even as I deactivated the one in my hand with a flex of my chakra before I spun into the kaiten to allow all the other explosions detonate harmlessly against the Hyuga ultimate defence.
I stepped out of the rotation, finding all three of them assembled before me again. I twisted my chakra, snapping the genjutsu and the one she tried to layer on top of it instantly. Kushina was the only one in front of me. She moved, fingers twisting into the bird seal.
I allowed her wind bullets hit nothing but just that— wind as I danced through them, closing the distance between us. She tried to backpedal and avoid my fist punch. The punch came just shy of hitting her, stopping a few inches away. And then I opened my palm before blasting her off into the trees with a half powered force palm. Well that was that for her. I felt several links of wire begin to surround my position. I formed a single tiger seal, several arcs of cutting wind spreading out from my body in all directions.
The ninja wire stood no chance as Mikoto’s trap fell apart, and just like predicted, they engaged straight away next, hoping to take advantage of some of the shock a regular opponent would feel at having come so close to being trapped. It was smart.
