Chapter 95.6- One Thousand Hands

To Kushina’s credit, her chains were already moving to wrap around me the second I’d tossed Minato away, but that was still far too little, and far too late. I reached for one of said chains, grabbed a hold of it and felt it try to suppress my chakra. You’re a decade too young to stand a chance, girl, I said mentally before I used it as a flail and dragged, pulling her off the ground. I spun— once, twice, and then launched her off into the distance.

Mikoto was on me like white on rice. I hardened my skin with earth release chakra and slapped the shuriken she tried to obscure her approach with. She aimed a kick straight at my head. I blocked it with a raised palm. She pushed off against it, jumping backwards. As she did so, she flipped through three seals, and then she sent a fireball bigger than I was at me. I smiled in pride to see how far she had come even with my attentions having been so divided, but still I spat a water bullet that dwarfed the fireball without forming any hand seals.

It tore through the fireball, barely losing any mass or momentum before landing where Mikoto had been. She’d taken the chance of my vision being blurred and made her escape. Smart. She was probably going after her teammates, trying to get them back, so I formed a throne from the ground beneath me with a flex of my chakra and I sat to wait.

I could use my byakugan to search them out, but that was too much effort for too little reward when those competitive little munchkins with chips on their shoulders would come to get their licks in.

The ground beneath me exploded a second later. I watched the shock on Minato’s face as his rasengan hit naught but air and I grabbed a hold of his wrist.

“Using subterranean voyage against a master of the earth release is so stupid, I’d expect it from Kushina, not you”

“Heyyyy” I heard from within the treeline. So that was where she was.

Instead of being insulted though Minato smirked at me before he muttered a single word. ‘Boom’. And then the clone exploded, almost tossing me arse over teakettle backwards. Thankfully, I’d been able to harden my skin with earth release in the split second he’d given as a warning. My ears were still ringing though. I’d have to get him back for that one.

Right after I taught him that you triggered the trap before warning your opponent about it. It wasn’t like the explosion would have won him the match if he hadn’t warned me, but it would have achieved slightly more.

Several chains shot out of the ground around me, each one clutching a kunai at its end, and I took my stance, keen to see what they had cooked up now.