Game of Shadows by Adrian King1

Chapter 122

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Cover Art: Kissuli.

Chapter 122

"I have to say," Nagato's main puppet started, standing next to Konan. Eiji stared at them, even if he was more focused on the other five bodies. Although, saying that was a bit of an exaggeration. After all, the boy was more focused on one of them in particular. "I don't know what that is, or why it feels like a chakra beast, but it doesn't matter," the Akatsuki leader continued speaking. "Even still, you've-"

"Now," Kage told him and a second later, Eiji felt it. In the blink of an eye, more specifically his eyes, the balance of the energies inside him was reached. His eyes then turned an even, beady black not unlike those of his summons, in most cases.

He didn't waste any time, activating all of his active skills instantly and blurring, for himself and for his enemies. In the span of a single instant, one of his fists went straight towards the Naraka Path's head and the other through its chest. As he pulled back, the thing exploded from the majorly overpowered tags he'd added in the latter strike for good measure.

'No bringing back the dead puppets, Nagato, sorry,' Eiji thought to himself, flickering towards another path. The Animal Path, to be precise. He didn't manage to get to it, of course, as the Deva Path used its ability to push things to get Eiji away from the animal summoning puppet. That was fine, because-

The Preta Path was pierced right through from the very ground as Nuibari came up. He wasn't quite sure that would kill the guy, so he controlled the weapon and wire to tie/sew the puppet up. From what he knew and memorized, that particular path could absorb chakra. And while going the Naruto route and flooding it with Natural Chakra was an option, that'd taken too long and he just didn't have time. Naruto needed him, Eiji needed to be done with this mess really quick, either by making the "pair" run away or just killing them.

The latter was a bit of wishful thinking, considering that he'd have to look for Nagato's actual body if he really wanted to deal with him permanently. Unfortunately for him, he just didn't have the time to do that. He'd have to put it off for later.

As it was, Nuibari's wire should be strong enough to hold the guy down even if the chakra was absorbed. 'Now for the other four paths,' Eiji thought to himself. Right before his thoughts were interrupted by the Deva path.

This time, the main puppet used its power to attract instead of push, pulling Eiji's body towards it. Except, in the middle gathered a small storm of paper made by Konan. 'Oh, no, fuck that,' Eiji thought, activating Conflagration. He wasn't very sure how effective the fire would be against the jutsu paper, but if nothing else, it'd made it difficult for the pair to see him.

If the paper was as dangerous as he thought it was, World Ender would have to take care of the damage. 'God, I miss times when I could actually dodge stuff instead of tanking,' Eiji complained, as he continued his aerial trip, his body being cut everywhere as the razor sharp paper tried to tear his body apart. 'Death by a thousand cuts... That's not gonna stop me and you know that,' He added, preparing to engage in close combat if it came to that.

Sure enough, he did, although not with who he expected. The Senjutsu of the Spiders was, as he'd figured out quite a while ago, much better at sensing than he could be with Web Sense. He couldn't quite see the future or anything, but he could sense how someone's muscles moved and guess what they'd do due to that.

Which is why he saw the Human Path coming when the puppet body dashed towards him and tried to get a hold of him.

Twisting his body away from the extended hand, Eiji kicked the guy away. He'd have followed that up, but the Asura Path soon followed. The punch to his chest that Eiji couldn't quite dodge hit like he imagined a sledgehammer would if he were a normal person. Smacking him against the ground, which cracked under the pressure.