Fire Release: Puppet Flame Cloak

Hotaru flows a layer of chakra through his chakra threads, to form a layer of chakra on his puppets. He then sends Fire type chakra through the threads, setting his puppets ablaze. Covered by a shield of fire, taijutsu attacks or attacks weak to fire are immediately rendered useless. However Hotaru can only maintain this technique very briefly or he'll risk losing excessive chakra.