So t ... are you not my brother?
How hard it was to tell the truth to this boy, in whose eyes there was a glimpse of hope that I might be his brother.
- Sorry but no
The story of this guy is sad, and I again realized how cruel the world of the shinobi is.
The Tooru family, like himself, was haunted for a long time by misfortune, when he was five years old and his family passed through the border of the Land of Fire, their caravan was attacked by a gang of robbers led by some nukenin, that day all the robbers died, and together and remove the guard of the caravan, including his father Tohru who was a retired shinobi.
Somehow, having survived the grief from the loss of the head, the Toru family, his mother and brother decided to settle in the village of Omura and for a whole year they lived well until his mother fell ill with an unknown disease and every day she became worse and worse, then the elder brother began to earn money himself fishing for medicine and food, and one of the working days his brother disappeared
And the mother was getting worse and Tohru, wanting to earn money for medicines, began to look for work, but who would hire a six-year-old child. As a result, his mother died and the little boy was left all alone, he survived by stealing food from merchants for which he was often beaten by guards.
Hearing his story, I became very sad and thought what would happen after the war, because a huge number of children will become orphans or many parents will lose their children.
For a moment I wanted to prevent the war and thus help all these children, but after thinking a little I realized that this is not possible, but I can help this guy. Yes, I understand that in this way I want to throw off responsibility and do at least some kind of good deed, because in the future I will meet such situations at every step, and even more often I will create such situations, because when you kill a person you do not know is whether he has a child who, after his death, will be left alone. So I decided that this guy would be my atonement for the sins I still commit, I hope you see it Buddha.
Looking at the child to whom the face of the deceased began to return and in his eyes that hope that burned a few minutes ago faded, I said.
- Tooru do you want to live?
- AND..?
- Do you want to live, or survive as it is now?
- I… I don't know, I don't want to feel pain, cold, to be hungry anymore, I want a family like other children… I want my mother to come back….
- I see ... and you know what is needed for this, what is needed in order not to be hungry, not to feel hungry .... ?
- ??? no .... but I want it please ... please give it to me
- To do this, you need to be strong, the strong can eat what he wants and sleep where he wants, they will not take away what belongs to him, because he can protect it, and no, I cannot give you strength, but I can help you with this. Just answer the question what will you do when you receive this power?
- and serve you master!
- Uh
I expected a lot but not this.
- Yes! If you give me this power, I will protect you, and ... and .. and the food that will be mine and others will not take it away from me!
Still, the survival that lasted for several years affected this child.
- Well, follow me and I will help you with your desire.
- Yes
- And now let's go you need to wash and feed.
- No, first you have to eat!
- Don't be afraid they won't steal your food, but you need to wash yourself as quickly as possible.
- Okay
It's amazing how a goal and a desire to achieve it can change a person.
****
I could not take the Torah with me: firstly, it was dangerous for him, and secondly, for me, since I would have to defend him, and according to the charter it is impossible. So after paying for a hotel with meals for two weeks and learning that he can read, he gave him a scroll about chakra and its basics also showed a workout for the body, I think this will be enough for two weeks.
After making a promise to return exactly two weeks later, which Torah begged me to give, we continued on our way.
* * * * *
The distance from Omura Village to Konoha we have to walk in a week with the usual steps and breaks in the village. Our path was calm until the moment we arrived at a village called Ibaraki, in which we had to spend the night before going to the next village, which is on the way to our destination. But a few kilometers before the village, our sensors gave signs with their hands
- Environment. Shinobi. Chuunin. 10. jnonin. 8. The village. Unknown.
Clearly, it means we were surrounded and it is not yet known how many of them there are in the village, because we never met people on this road and wrote it off to wartime, and that's why I felt movement in the surrounding chakra, it means that we were hiding well, so the sensors felt them only when we were surrounded. Apparently this is one of the villages trying to provoke List to the first attack. But this is not what we need to think about now.
* * * * *
Unidentified shinobi
- The captain's mission is completed, all the villagers are killed as well as traces indicating the Mist is installed ..
Before he could finish, another shinobi appeared.
- Captain!
-Report!
- A caravan is moving towards the village, the number of people is twenty.
"So kill them too.
"They are accompanied by shinobi from the Maelstrom.
- And how many are there?
-Eight
- ..ha hahaha great, we will bring trophies to the ancient. So, if possible, do not kill the shinobi, beat the rest on the spot, also do not forget to mainly use water techniques.
After all, our main mission is sabotage.
- Hi!
* * * * *
Moving along the road to the village, we waited for the actions of the enemy, and at the same moment kunai flew at me and other not disguised shinobi, followed by technicians.
-Suyton: Blast Wave
-Suyton: Water Claw
-Suyton: Water Shark Strike
In turn, ours managed to react so they were ready and put up walls of earth that stopped the enemy technology.
- Doton: Wall of the Earth (5x)
Due to the fact that I do not know the technique of the earth, I had to hide behind a clan member, as well as disguised, because the seal of hiding chakra does not allow them to use it as it completely absorbs. But removing this seal is not a problem. Thus, under the guise of allies, the "servant" began to move towards the princess, so that at the moment when she remained "unprotected" to save her from an unsuspecting killer.
- Spread out! We work according to the plan "mouse in a cage"
At that moment, everyone reorganized and began to act as one. Well, I had no choice but not to interfere. But I don't know how ...
- Ryton: Acceleration
I applied my third technique, taking a sword in my right hand and a kunai in my left, I found an opponent, he was a shinobi of presumably chunin rank.
A good target for the first fight.
At high speed I approach him from the back and aim at the neck, swinging to strike, but the shinobi apparently somehow noticed me and managed to dodge so that I left only a shallow cut on my shoulder. The enemy belched away from me at a distance of ten meters.
- Oh, you rat!
Ignoring his words, I threw a kunai at him, saturated with the wind to accelerate, and I myself began to approach him. Kunai hit the right leg, thereby slowing down the enemy.
At a distance of two meters from him on the right, I heard ...
- Suiton: Water Bullets
It was his friend's technique aimed at me and I had to dodge, but I failed completely, one of the bullets hit my vest (yes, he has it, forgive me for forgetting to say) pierces it and leaves a skinless wound the size of a fist that begins to bleed, and during this time my target managed to fold the seals.
- Doton: Stoneskin.
Tts, now his skin can not be pierced, you have to saturate the sword with lightning. Okay, since I have a lot of chakras, we use it.
- Ryton: Raikiri (Chidori + sword)
My tanto was covered with a lot of electric waves, and the sound of lightning filled the space around me.
When I was already in front of him and raised my sword from above to strike, surprise flashed in the eyes of the enemy, but immediately disappeared, and he folded his hands in a cross over his head in order to block my blow.
- Idiot
My blade pierced his defenses and went from hand to shoulder. He died instantly.
Turning around, I saw the battlefield, the opponents decided to leave the weak for later, and attacked two of us ... Stop, if two, then where ...
- Suiton: Water Dragon Strike
And a water dragon, seven meters long, flew at me.
At the last moment, using the Substitution, I left this attack.
- Tts, left after all, you know that it was my younger brother.
The hatred that was directed at me could be touched, so it's not lying. Judging by the blood on his clothes and kunai, he dealt with his opponent, and since so quickly, he is not a weakling. We must somehow get him out of himself.
- Hmm, your brother disappointed me, I thought all shinobi are not afraid of death, but apparently your younger exception, crying and praying for mercy is low even for shinobi like you.
- You ... I will kill you ... I will kill your whole family and have fun with the girl in the carriage.
- Seriously? Are there pedophiles even here?
- Grab the girl, kill the servant.
As I said, he was in charge, and ordered those who attacked from a distance to deal with the bait, and he was in vain.
When the enemies came close, three of them instantly died from kunai in the throat, while the rest, having received only wounds, were able to jump back. Then our chameleons, having removed the seals of absorption, began to fold the seals and attack opponents with different techniques.
And when my opponent was distracted by the increased number of chakra centers, I made my move. Putting all the stamps ...
- Ryton: Storm of the Thunder Dragon.
The dragon, twelve meters in size, moved towards the captain at great speed.
Behind him, he threw explosive seals on both sides. Thus, reducing the radius of its territory
At the last moment before hitting, he managed to create a technique without seals.
- Futon: Great Impulse
Damn, the wind has absorbed significant damage, so he won't die.
- Kha..kh
When he got up, I saw how his clothes were burnt, and there were many small wounds on his body that were bleeding, but the good thing is that he used the technique without seals, which means he spent a large amount of chakra.
- I will kill ... ..
Thanks to the acceleration that I did not shoot, I managed to react to his attack aimed at my solar plexus. "Clearly means his direction of taijutsu," I thought. Having dodged, he struck with a sword which he parried with a kunai and then struck me with a second hand, which I did not notice and did not have time to block.
-Puf
After killing my clone, he began to inspect the battlefield to find me, but he only noticed how his subordinates were losing and out of eighteen there were only seven jounin who were already pressed.
- Group up and use these damn lightning techniques already.
Hearing their captain, the warriors began to fold seals and use their native element, but it did not really help them, since the quantitative superiority was behind us, and we had more chakras, so time was playing on us.
Having learned that my opponent is a taijutsu master, I created six more clones and attached an explosion of the seal to three, sent them in front, while I myself and three others began to shower him with shurikens with lightning to block his escape routes.
The clones were losing to him in close combat, but their mission was not to win ...
Boom !!
He definitely survived, he clearly noticed the seals. After the explosion, I with the remaining clones quickly approached the enemy and attacked him in a veil of dust. It only touched his left arm, which now hangs motionless.
- It's time to try my trump card….
I said quietly and my vision became much better and all the enemy's movements became slower.
- So you ... ugh !!!
Passing under the blow of his healthy hand, he stuck a kunai in his leg, the clones threw their own and hit the body, and when he fell on his knees I blew off his head, blood began to splatter in all directions, giving my clothes a red color.
When the dust settled, I saw that the battle was over and victory was ours.
We lost five killed and three badly wounded and cannot fight, and four including me are not seriously injured and are now at least capable of something. When I remembered about the wounds and the adrenaline was asleep, I felt pain in the chest area, I had to dispel the clones and create a new one and fill it with a large amount of chakra so that it could heal me.
* * * * *
After half an hour of helping and sealing the bodies of the dead, we moved on.
- It's good that at least Hime didn't see it.
One shinobi said. And in truth, the captain managed to knock her out so as not to interfere.
- Yes, it's not the business of little girls to see this.
The second answered, so talking we reached the village, walking along its quiet and blood-drenched streets that were probably noisy and clean yesterday, we stumbled upon its center.
- This is terrible
"Rikudo, how can people do this?
Yes, it really was creepy, in the center there was a well next to which its inhabitants "stood".
- Go ahead, we need to accelerate
The captain said.
* * * * *
from a third person
In the village that was located on the lands of the Land of Fire, one could hear only the noise of foliage and the wind that carries the smell of blood, in the very center of the village you could see its peasants who lived here, but if you look closely, you can understand that they will never speak, bleeding the men were tied with barbed wire to the pillars, of which there were a large number, below, next to them, the women's hands were nailed to the ground by kunai, and they themselves were undressed and their fate was no better than that of the first, and then they were killed, which was confirmed by wounds in the neck area, The most terrible thing was that the heads of children lay next to the feet of the men ...