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"Huh!" Akashi looked at his mother in surprise; for a moment, he felt like he had misheard, but the cold determination in her face made him realize that she was completely serious.
'So that's what it was,' it finally struck him; at that instant, he seemed to have finally identified the mixed feeling that he sometimes glimpsed from his mother when she looked at him.
there was 'pain, sadness, regret, and guilt,'
'I have to kill, it's what ninja do,'
He realized that even though she had trained him to be an exceptional ninja, she had always subtly tried to make him lean a little more on his status as a prince of the clan even though they were not really welcome by the clan.
'Strange, does she think that I won't have to kill in the clan?'
He put that question aside because his sudden realization seemed to have been the spark he needed to awaken the Uzumaki kekei genkai, the mind eyes of the kaguya.
A new door opened in his mind and he could feel the world anew.
Suddenly the world seemed brighter and more colorful, and at the same time, it felt darker and colder. It was pulsing with energy, cool, soothing, and refined, and at the same time chaotic, savage, and destructive.
Everything seemed to be pulsing with energy.
Unfortunately, he didn't have the time to observe how wonderful this new world felt, with his new heightened perception, he could clearly feel the hostility of the ninjas coming their way.
"Woosh," the five shinobis emerged in front of them.
Their bronze skin, their headbands, and the subtle spark of lightning in their chakra allowed Akashi to identify them as Kumogakure ninjas.
"Two lost Uzumaki, a kid, and a woman, looks like we are in luck guys,"
"If we can capture then the Raikage will be very happy,"
"She is beautiful maybe we will be able to play with her later,"
Akashi felt anger surge as he heard them
"Be careful, do not underestimate them, if she is here alone she must have been judged strong enough,"
"You take care of the kid," the Jonin ordered
While the kumo ninjas were seizing them up Akashi was doing his own observation
'Five opponents, three men, the two kunoichi, from their chakra, the three on the back are genins, two boys and one girl. They are the ones that I must kill!' he remarked looking at them.
Contrary to what he had seen in his strange dream, where genins were mostly kids, the ones in front of him were in their twenties, he could feel their wariness, hostility, and battle readiness.
'They will kill us without hesitation,' he realized as he looked at them.
They were no genius but they had seen blood.
'They are experienced ninjas,' he mused; he could feel it as he looked at them; it was in their movement, and as he looked deeper, he felt something more.
'I feel the 'darkness' inside them, I can feel the 'blood' on their hands, after today I will have it too,'
His gaze turned toward the two leading the group
'Without a doubt, those two are stronger than me,' he realized looking at the woman who had the chakra of chunin and the man who had the vast chakra of a jonin
Akashi had always been chakra sensitive, and with Kana's training, he could identify the level of chakra necessary to become a genin, a chunin, or a jonin quite easily.
'His chakra is vast, calm, and refined… they are dangerous,'
At one glance, he determined that they were stronger than him; he could feel their chakra; it wasn't as massive as his; in fact, their chakra combined still palled in comparison to his, but they had something else, and he realized it instinctively.
Depth, weight, experience, malice, darkness, things that one could only attain after years of training, fighting, and killing.
He felt it and it made him want to retreat.
He urgently turned toward his mother, who was by his side to caution her,
"Mom we need to…"
The moment his gaze fell upon his mother, he froze; his words remained stuck in his throat; he felt as if his blood froze in his veins, his heart beat faster, and for a moment, fear overwhelmed him.
'…W-what, I can't move!' He quickly realized that fear stopped him from moving
He felt like he had fallen into a deep dark hole with no light.
He felt cold as if he was naked in the middle of a snowstorm, and he felt like there was blood beneath his toes, which was slowly rising to drown him.
"Calm down, be careful when using it or it will backfire, focus on your opponents,"
It was obvious to Akashi that she was talking about the mind eyes, she had noticed that he awakened it
He felt a warm hand pressed on his head and ruffle his hairs
Lifting his head, he once saw that the hand belonged to his mother; even though she wasn't looking at him, he could feel her kind and proud smile in her voice, the warmth directed toward him.
The fear that had gripped him disappeared like it never existed, and Akashi felt himself filled with new strength and determination.
Looking ahead he realized that a few seconds had passed while he was in that weird state, Kana had already engaged in a conversation with the jonin
'They didn't notice my previous state,' He realized
'I must have spent only an instant In that state or did mom cover me?' he wondered before his mind turned back toward his previous situation
'What happened exactly? Is it because I used the mind eyes on mom? No, calm down, it isn't the moment for that,'
With that, he refocused his attention on his opponent.
"You should come to Kumogakure with us, we will treat you well,"
"By well you mean to rape me and make me give birth to a whole clan for you, no thanks,"
As if sensing that he was ready Kana walked forward
"How unfortunate,"
"Woosh," in an instant, Kana, alongside the jonin and chunin of Kumogakure, disappeared, leaving Akashi with his opponents.
"Clank, clank, clank…"
The sound of kunai and clashes resounded above Akashi and the three genins
"Looks like your mommy abandoned you, kid!"
"We outnumbered you, surrender and we won't mistreat you,"
"Resist, and this is your mother who will pay the price," One of the men said with an obscene smirk. With his mind eyes, he could feel that they were not joking.
Without a word, he made a hand sign while thinking
'You are making the idea of killing you a lot more tolerable,'
"Multiconage"
"Poof, poof, poof…" In an instant, seven clones appeared beside them.
The only goal of those clones, the reason Akashi created them, is to stall and harass the two ninjas to make sure that they didn't intervene in the fight.
Once the clones appeared, he turned around in one swift motion and threw one of his kunai.
"Clank," the sound of metal clashing resounded as two kunai met each other.
Akashi had deflected the kunai that was coming in his back before propelling himself toward the kunoichi that had attacked him from behind.
"Not a bad genjutsu, but useless against me," Akashi said as he appeared in front of her
He had already determined that the kunoichi was probably the leader of the team; at least she was the strongest, so he decided to focus on her and left his clones the task of restraining the two ninjas.
'They acted immediately after mom left,' Akashi had noticed that immediately after his mother left the girl had snuck away after catching him in a genjutsu.
Unfortunately for her, with his mind eyes activated, nearly everything that they did now fell under Akashi's field of view.
"Clank, clank…"
Akashi used his small size, speed, and advanced perception to avoid her attacks while launching attacks of his own
"How old even are you? Do you really think that you can survive against us kid?"
"Shut up, bitch," Akashi was struggling
"What a foul mouth kid,"
After the initial contact, she realized that she indeed had the upper hand in this fight.
After the first direct clash, Akashi was sent flying away.
And as the clash continued Akashi realized how disadvange his situation was.
Not only was she physically stronger than him, but she was also a little faster, her fighting style was more refined than that of a novice like him, and she had more experience, too.
But with his mind eyes that allowed him to see her moves from every angle and feel her chakra fluctuation, Akashi wasn't really in danger.
His clones, too, found themselves struggling, but due to their numbers, their situation was better plus, they quickly realized that the two ninjas seemed to have complete confidence in their comrades and were perfectly fine taking their time.
'Dammit, what's happening? Why am I losing so badly?'
Akashi was genuinely stunned. During the travel, he had noticed that they were making frequent detours, and so he deduced that his mother was making sure that they didn't encounter opponents too powerful now that she had asked him to kill the three ninjas, he was now sure that she had carefully chosen his opponents.
'Should I just create more clones to overwhelm her? No, I can't become dependent on that technique,'
It was what his training with his mother had taught him.
'But what is the problem?'
"woosh,"
While he was thinking that the kunoichi, in a sudden burst of speed, appeared in front of him while making a fast series of hand signs.
(Futon: Wind breath)
"Dammit,"
Akashi swore when the kunoichi appeared in front of him; when she opened her mouth, a powerful wind gale blasted him.
"Boom,"
Another powerful explosion resounded in the forest.
The ground was destroyed while trees were unearthed and sliced apart.
After a few seconds, the cloud of dust disappears, revealing the damage; not far away, Akashi emerges from the debris, and blood is dripping on his face.
"You should surrender; you manage to escape that attack. I admit that body flicker was, impressive, but you can't win…" The Kunoichi praised her and saw how, before her techniques could be fully unleashed, he had escaped with a body flicker of high level.
Using that high-speed movement technique, he nearly outran the wind; only part of the attack touched him.
While she was talking, Akashi was examining his current state with the mind eyes, not just physically but also,o spiritually. The injuries were superficial, but while he was doing that, he noticed something.
'So that was it, huh… I was afraid!'
While using his mind's eyes, he realized what the problem was; he seemed to be holding back because his body was reacting to her killing intent.
Even though Akashi is a genius, he is also a kid and a sheltered one at that. He never killed anyone, and he was afraid of committing the act, to sully his hands and sully his soul.
Another reason was that even though he often faced Kana in training, he never actually fought a ninja, and certainly not one ready to kill him.
Plus, a few minutes earlier, he had been shocked by his mother's killing intent, so his body was instinctively reacting to killing intent no matter how weak it was.
Warned by the mind eyes, his body instinctively tried to escape.
"I guess this is a consequence of entering a battle with a tool that you haven't mastered yet,"
With that, he deactivated his mind eyes and took a deep breath to calm his mind.
"Let's do it," he said
Using the body flickered, Akashi launched himself toward the kunoichi at such speed that he seemed to disappear.
"Clank," the sound of clashes resounded once again; this time, free of his burden, Akashi found himself with the advantage.
"Slash,"
A few seconds later, the hot blood of the kunoichi fell on the grass.
From that, the balance of the fight was completely reversed
The clash continued.
A few minutes later
"Slash, slash, slash..."
Blood splashes on trees, leaves, and ground everywhere as Akashi's kunai continuously relentlessly assaults the kunoichi of kumo.
The longer the fight continued, the more injuries she accumulated. Akashi was moving all around her at great speed, attacking from left, right, up, and down, and every strike was meant to kill.
The kunoichi had to use all her techniques and experience to stop Akashi from inflicting a mortal wound.
"Damn, dammit, damn monster!" She swears in anger and is covered in blood; she looks at Akashi with a mix of fear and hatred while rejoicing that Akashi has not coated his kunai with poison, but she was loosing too much blood.
Once again, the unfairness of the ninja world was on full display an experience Kunoichi, who had years of experience, was struggling to survive the assault of a four-year-old kid, granted this four-year-old kid was a genius among his peers.
'Am I going to die?' she thought in panic when
"Poof,"
In the middle of another attack, he felt one of his clones dissipate in a puff of smoke.
The two ninjas of Kumo had noticed that their comrade was struggling and quickly formed a plan to help her by disposing of Akashi's clones.
"Ah," Akashi flinched at the sudden influx of information that always happens after a clone is destroyed, that pain throws him of balance for a split second.
'Chance!'
The kunoichi moved at lightning speed, unwilling to let go of what might be her only hope for survival.
In a high-level fight, the slightest mistake might lead to death, and Akahi had made a mistake. He didn't take into account the consequence of losing a clone in battle, which created that situation.
But before the kunai of the kunoichi reached Akashi's neck, she found herself unable to move and incapable of moving; on her neck, a black paralyzing seal appeared.
"What!"
It was all she had the time to say before
"Slash,"
A blood red line appeared on her neck, and hot blood poured from her wound.
"Fu-Fumiko!!"
On the other front, one of the two ninjas, seeing his companions and friend crumple in a pool of blood, lost his mind in anger.
"puff,"
It was all the opening that the clones needed to end his life, and. A kunai embedded itself in the ninja's forehead.
With the two ninjas already dead, Akashi focused all his strength on the last one and made quick work of him.