8 8. Unusual Ability
Thud!!
Under the dark skies of New York city a shadow was moving swiftly through a secluded alley. Several people could be seen scattered on the ground either screaming or unconscious.
But no matter how hard they tried, not a squeak could be heard outside. The shadow grabbed the last man standing and broke off his legs. It was horrifying to see a man's leg twist to his back.
Ahhhhhhhhh!!
A deep howl escaped from his throat. The shadow ignored his wails and kicked his head, effectively knocking him out.
That's the thirteenth one. There no end to these scums, hard to imagine there are this many rats in this city.
Adam mused as he looked around. It's been three weeks since he started to hunt for these scums. Three weeks and there was still a whole lot of them left for him to clean up.
Doesn't matter. I can stack points for cleaning and get rid of these unstable elements around here. So, it a win - win situation.
Adam finished his work and left. What he didn't understand was that these thugs were here for a reason. They were here for him!
Him killing off the entire Devil Gang had brought him their attention. They wanted to know who was messing with their business. As they couldn't recklessly mobilize their influence, the search for Adam had to be done discreetly.
Who better to do this kind of work than street thugs?
Adam couldn't care less about who was looking for him. They can search all they want and come up with nothing but a shadow.
Currently his focus was on something else.
Poof!
Smoke emerged next to him, and from within a shadow clone jumped out. Adam and the clone looked at each other and was lost in thought.
Adam thought back to what happened three weeks ago. He just learned shadow clone jutsu and made it practice the hand signs. That way he could cut down the time needed to perfectly master them.
He wanted to reach a point where he could do them flawlessly. After the Shadow clone wore off Adam rested for some time and resumed his training.
When he was about to summon a clone again, a thought or rather a feeling emerged from the depths of his heart. He didn't think much and did what he felt.
Poof!
Adam was stunned to find a shadow clone appear next to him. He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't dreaming.
"Holy smokes!!!"
It's underrated to say that Adam was shocked. He stared at the clone, his jaws almost hitting the floor.
One had to know, the only known people who could perform jutsus without hand signs were Hagoromo and his brother Hamura. Maybe Madara after he achieved the Sage's level.
How is this possible!? I didn't get any special thoughts when I did the jutsu before. Then how?
He analysed the situation and came to a shocking conclusion.
But that's...
Adam didn't waste any time, he looked at the clock and it was just past midnight. He changed his clothes and wore the black fox mask and jumped out the window.
He landed on the ground and went towards an abandoned factory next to their neighborhood. Adam made sure noone was inside and made preparations.
Hope it's what I thought.
Adam went through the hand signs for an E rank Jutsu, Fire Stream. This was a basic jutsu, useful to get the hang of fire jutsus.
He spat out a stream of fire, the temperature wasn't high and the lethality was minimal. The fire lit up the surrounding space and dispersed a second later it died down.
Even though it was an E rank jutsu it still took more than half of his miniscule amount of chakra to perform it. Adam patiently sat down and recovered his chakra.
After twenty minutes he got up and was prepared to do the hand signs when that same feeling rose from his heart. This time Adam was prepared and felt the changes inside him.
He went along that feeling and found his chakra moulding itself without any need for hand signs. That feeling was marvelous, he opened his mouth and spat out another mouthful of fire.
The power wasn't the least bit inferior to what he did before.
How?...
Hand signs were essential for jutsus, each hand sign moulds the chakra into a specific pattern. A single mistake would result in failure to invoke the jutsu.
The more hand signs a jutsu required, the harder it got. And here was Adam who can recreate a jutsu as long as he has done it once. This could only be considered as a miracle.
Adam shook his head and cancelled the shadow clone. What happened three weeks ago still confused him, after all it wasn't logical for him to do such a thing.
He stuffed these thoughts to the corner of his mind and quickly reached his home. He cleaned himself, stuffed his clothes and mask in a corner and went to bed.
...
"Useless Shits!"
A bald man roared at his subordinates. All of them hung their head, not daring to utter a word.
The bald man's anger had reached new heights. His product was missing, his bases were attacked, his men were beaten black and blue, and when he send people to investigate they came back with a broken body.
What's infuriating was that almost everyone who went out investigating was out of job for life. The kind of injury they had couldn't be healed in a single day, even if it was healed they wouldn't be as strong as before.
The bald man was the boss of this region, he handled the business around here and was a subordinate to the Stoinic Family.
Even though he was a boss level figure only he knew what kind of fate awaited him should he fail in his work. That's also the reason he was so pissed.
The mistakes by these morons would also implicate him, maybe even cost his life!!
Why the fuck would he give away his life for these bunch of trash. A man next to him spoke faintly.
"Let's leave that block for now. That guy operates near that place, as long as we don't get involved in any business there I believe we will be safe."
The bald man thought for a bit and nodded. He gritted his teeth and swore
"Whoever you are, when I find you I am gonna skin you alive."
