36 Susanoo and Fear

As my Susanoo appeared, I felt a huge wave of pain but did not falter. I saw that the faces of Iwa's ninjas were now filled with fear. I slashed my sword down, destroyed the wall in front of me and in the process killed plenty of ninjas. I did another slashed across the wall, not destroyig it but killing all people on it. I then deactivated my Susanoo and as soon as the army caught up to me, I rushed with them inside the stronghold.

Once inside, a wave of jutsu came our way, so we replied by making hand signs and I made my own. I threw several majestic flames. All the jutsu canceled each other, and the battle began. I took out my sword and started dancing amongst the ennemies with my body and sword coated in wind. After five minutes of killings, I finally saw the ennemy S rank. He was fighting against my father and had the upper hand.

I rushed to him and sent him flying. I quickly said to my father that I will take the fight from now on. The ennemy S rank came back toward me and looked at me before stopping. He looked at my sword and said" So the famous Red Sword is only a kid ?" I did not answered him and just rushed at him. After a few exchanges, I finnaly assessed his strenght. Essentially, he was the same as the fusion but stronger and faster.

As I knew he would quickly kill me if I do not go all out, I activated one of my mangekyou powers and time slowed down. I now was faster than him. I rushed at him again. He was very strong as he was able to addapt instantly to the abrupt change in speed and parried my attack. We continued the same thing for five minutes. We now were exhausted, and I was seeing less and less. I did not activated Susanoo as there were too many allies around me.

I then decided that it was time to make use of my other power. I deliberatedly left an opening and the ennemy did not let it pass. He pierced me in the abdomen with his sword. But now, with his sword in my abdomen, I slashed at him and cut his arm off. He was surpised at the sudden pain and hurriedly retreated. He looked at me with hatred and said" Even if you cut my arm, you are still going to die, you idiot !"

I laughed at this, and used my other power. I looked at my big cut in the abdomen, coated my body with earth, and saw my injury close itself. Once it was closed, I raised my head and looked at him. He was shocked beyound mesures. I smirked and deactivated my two powers and activated Susanoo again. I raised my sword and slashed at the ennemy. He hurriedly tried to flee but the sword just like teleported and instantly was inside him.

I raised my sword high and showed everyone around the corpse of the ennemy commander. Because of the importance of the combat, and of the huge size of my Susanoo, everyone already had their attention on us. So they all saw the corpse. This made the spirit of the ennemy troops to go down at the minimum. A lot of them began to escape. Around half stayed back. It only took us one hour to kill and capture the remaining ennemies. When the last ennemies surrendered, our army suddenly shooted my name"Red Sword !"

They continued shooting it again and again. I saw in the mass of people my father, along with Minato, Kushina and Mikoto. They also were shooting my name. I smiled at this. I jumped toward the highest point I could stand on so that all could see me. I raised my hand and everyone quieted down.

I started speaing with a chakra enhanced voice"Today was a victory ! We captured the ennemy stronghold ! All of you can be proud for having been part of this offensive. You all showed the might of Konoha to the world ! And I believe this day will be marked down in history. We now only have to wait for the reinforcement to come and this stronghold is ours."

I was not very talented in making speechs but just the importance of the victory made up for it. We then waited only ten minutes before a large part of the soldiers on the second battlefield lead by the Hokage to come. I reunited with my team and we went to see Sarutobi. He quickly made another speech and we went off to the main camp.

On the way I saw a branch blur a little and I stepped next to it making me fall on the ground. They all stopped and looked at me surprised. I blinked my eyes multiple times as I saw things blurry around me. Father asked me"You're okay ?" I answered"My eyes. I see less and less. It won't be long before I go blind if I continue overusing it like that. But it is okay, I can at least use it like this for two years before becoming completely blind."

Father looked at me worriedly but I just shook my head and we departed. Once arrived at the main camp Sarutobi told us to just go rest and that the speech would be the next day. As I heard that I just went to my tent and fell asleep as soon as I touched my bed. I woke up the next day as good as fresh, except for my eyes. I would only see things blurry if I did not focus so it was still okay.

I made my way toward where the speech would take place. I waited there for Sarutobi and just standed next to him during his speech. It now was not giving me as much emotions as before even if Sarutobi's speeches were still as good as always. After he finished it, I went alone with Sarutobi and he talked to me about my bonus. He told me that it would arrive at the same time as the one from killing the Bloody brothers. He also warned me that now Iwa would hate me to the bone, but also fear me as much.