“The last fight”

"Run"

"W-what did you just say, brat?" A distorted expression emerged on Shikuro's face as he heard Karna.

"I asked you to run, did you not understand?" Karna looked at Shikuro with his golden eyes, brimming with disdain and arrogance.

"Fucking brat!" Shikuro blurted out curses one after another, but in his head, he knew that the extent of Karna's power right now was unknown.

What if he shoots another beam and decides to kill him, he'd have no chance to protect himself.

So, he did what a veteran ninja would do in that situation, he looked at his subordinate and signalled something with his eyes.

The anbu understanding the indication dashed towards Karna without any hesitation while Shikuro fled from there.

Shikuro needed to know if Karna could use that power one more time, he wanted to tire him out and when his mysterious power would cease Shikuro would go for the kill.

Karna looked at the fleeing back of Shikuro with disgust and contempt. He moved his eyes at the rushing figure of the other anbu. Karna's face was distorted into a frown and in an apathetic manner he stated,"I'm not interested in you, so just DIE."

Again, his eyes started to glow in a fierce golden light and right after, two destructive beams shot out from both of his eyes.

From the earlier scene, the anbu knew that defending against the beams was nigh impossible, so he hurriedly moved from his course to dodge them.

But sadly, it didn't help him as the two beams started to follow behind him; wherever he went starting from the trees to the ground the beams pursued him and finally, they pierced through his skull and chest.

The limp body of the anbu with two holes, in the middle of his temple and his chest, fell to the ground.

Karna ignored the dead shinobi and started to look for Shikuro who has already hidden a fair distance away from him.

Suddenly, Karna's eyes throbbed with immense pain but he didn't let it show on his face through any unusual behaviour.

From the moment he awakened his dojutsu, his eyes were hurting but he kept his confident appearance while holding in the immense pain.

Earlier, he intimidated and let Shikuro run away because he was skeptical if he could even win against the two anbus together because his dojutsu was rapidly exhausting his chakra, and even with the sudden increase of chakra it was taking a toll on him.

'A little bit more and then I can rest. Now, to find this rat, I'm pretty sure he won't run away, not yet.'

Karna crouched down and touched the ground with both of his palms, he tried to sense Shikuro's presence but after a couple of seconds, he learned that around the area of 1km there was no sign of any life signatures.

'I see, he has hidden quite well. But what's up with my sensing ability? I can now sense up to 1km. Also, using chakra has become far easier and smoother than before. My dojutsu sure is mysterious, let's see what else can the taiyougan do.'Karna mused to himself while he closed his eyes and tried to connect with his dojutsu again.

Before, when his dojutsu was awakened he instinctively knew how to use his newfound power, it was similar to getting fed with information without knowing the process.

Karna's eyes quivered and the creepy smirk from before came back to his face.

'If it's this, then I can find anything in the world. Not even a floating old ghost with a hospital gown and sceptre can hide from me.'

Karna's eyes glowed as the world in front of his eyes changed immediately. He gasped at the magical sight, every living thing was visible down to the fundamental details in front of him. The trees, little flies and bugs he could see and read through everything. Their health, emotion, power and energy, everything. The world became naked in front of his eyes.

400 meters away from above a tree, Shikuro was hiding with the [transparent jutsu] while he was enveloped entirely with his bugs.

'No wonder I didn't find him. Now, let's see if I can do what I think I can do.'

Karna took off from his position with immense speed and for a mere moment, Shikuro, a veteran anbu, lost sight of Karna.

Karna passed by the trees and started climbing the one where Shikuro was standing. His speed, a couple of times faster than before and his eyes glowing with a golden hue rapidly advanced toward the rat from before.

'How the fuck did he find me? It must be that damned dojutsu again.' Shikuro thought as a frown was plastered on his face which was crawling with bugs.

He thought of running away but suddenly, he looked back and focused intensely on Karna.

'Why isn't he using the beams? Ahh~ He must have exhausted that power. Yes! This is my chance. I've suffered too much of a loss today, and if I bring someone like him Danzo sama will certainly be merciful with me.' Shikuro thought as he took out his tanto and got ready to collide with Karna.

Karna's right hand was hidden behind his back and the other hand was holding his sword while he was advancing. Shikuro thought nothing of it since the tricks of a five-year-old meant nothing to him; he was too conceited and delighted about the fact that he could save his life that he ignored the fact that a moment ago, this five-year-old annihilated his entire elite group of anbus.

'Hoho! So, he isn't going to run? Even better for me.'

The sound of Karna's feet clashing with the tree reverberated around the surroundings and the intense tension between him and Shikuro heightened as their distance lessened.

As they were about to collide, a hoard of bugs flew out from Shikuro's body and rushed towards Karna. But, it was for nought as a sword strike with Karna's kenjutsu was enough to render all the bugs ineffective. Shikuro advanced toward him with his tanto and his kunai hidden beneath the wrist of his left hand.

As they were a meter away from each other, Shikuro with his tanto infused in lightning chakra, fiercely slashed at Karna's head. If it was the Karna from before it would've been hard for him to dodge or repel Shikuro's kenjutsu but right now he found it nothing but a child's trick.

He slightly tilted his body to the left and dodged the tanto but Shikuro, as if expecting him to, spun his body and used the hidden kunai with his left hand to pierce Karna's head.

Karna smirked as it was no surprise to him because he had already seen the kunai with his x-ray vision.

He had already toggled through different visions that his dojutsu granted him while rushing towards Shikuro.

So, he hunched down and dodged the rushing kunai while he saw Shikuro losing balance because of the backlash of inertia.

Shikuro tried to regain his posture and attack again but before he could do so, he felt an ominous feeling coming from behind.

He immediately turned around while he used his bugs as a shield in front of him.

The bugs clouded his vision but he could feel an intense amount of chakra building up behind them and before he could try anything else, the shielding bugs were scattered by a blaze and the figure of Karna with a blue ball of chakra in his right hand appeared in front of Shikuro.

"T-That—" his stuttering voice came to a stop as the blue orb of chakra was pounded in his chest by Karna.

[Rasengan]

Immediately, he crashed to the ground with several broken ribs, his eyes were hollowed as if he watched a ghost and the flesh around his chest was twisted in a spiral.

'How?' He couldn't seemingly believe what he just saw. Did this kid just use the 4th hokage's jutsu on him? Except for Jiraiya sama and Minato sama, no one else in the entire world can use this jutsu. Then, how was this kid able to use it; the legendary justu which is even hard for kage level shinobis to master, the hardest A rank jutsu, [Rasengan].

'Wow! I really did it.' Karna exclaimed as he saw his right hand where slight traces of scratches were left from the jutsu. It didn't matter as his hand was rapidly healing thanks to his regeneration ability.

'I knew my chakra control increased thanks to being able to see chakra and their pathways but it still amazes me to think that I mastered [Rasengan] within a day.

'Now, all that is left is to heal mother and look for father but before that—'

Karna jumped from the tree and stood in front of the lying body of Shikuro. He looked down at him as his cold eyes surveyed Shikuro's body looking for any tricks he might have up his sleeve.

"H-How? How d-did you d-do that?" Shikuro spoke from his blood-filled mouth.

"You don't need to know. Didn't you say you'll cut off all my limbs?"

"W-What?"

"Let me show you how to do that," Karna said as his eyes glowed again with golden light and two beams rushed out from his eyes.

They traversed across all of Shikuro's limbs and a scream, that made the still leaves shudder and the insects to cave in of fear, reverberated throughout the surroundings.

"K-kiii meew." Shikuro pleaded with his limbless body as the pain was increasing with each passing moment.

"No" and all he received was an apathetic answer from a child to whom, people like him had no worth whatsoever.

Karna vanished from Shikuro's eyes as he ran toward his mother.

Shikuro looked at the moon which illuminated the world somewhat astonishingly. He remembered how he had ended up like this.

He was born in the aburame clan and that too in the family of the chief. He thought life would be easy for him, and he would be able to one day lead his clan.

But, this dream of his broke apart when his younger brother started to show far more great results than him.

Shibi, his younger brother, excelled in everything, he was more talented, level headed, powerful and likeable.

People started to despise Shikuro and berate him for being the least talented. His father chose Shibi as the successor and Shikuro lost all his worth.

All he ever wanted was to just be loved by everyone. He couldn't accept the treatment he received, so he trained himself with bugs as complicated as rinkaichu and he kept seeking more power.

When nothing seemed to work and all hope seemed lost his lord gave him a new opportunity.

He didn't really concur with Danzo's ideals, he supported and followed him because of power and respect he could achieve through following him. But in the end, it seems that it was no longer possible.

He had heard from his comrades that on the verge of death one's life would flash before them as vision, these visions went beyond what was once known to them in life, they constituted secret truths about their life.

These visions were meant to offer a sense of closure so that they may leave the world in peace, all there was to know about themselves.

And in the last moment of his life, the truth was uncovered to him too, the truth that he always neglected, the truth that he hid away, his son.

The face of a little child who would adorably call him 'tou-san' every time he went to see him appeared in his eyes.

All this struggle was so that he could create a future where they would be loved and respected by everyone but sadly, he couldn't accomplish it. He wished that his son may never come close to the influence of Danzo.

"L-Live well my child." He muttered as he gazed into the moon while the pain was intensifying with each passing moment. He never thought he would ever do this in his life, uttering this name just before he died.

"Danzo, you motherfuck—" he couldn't finish as his head exploded and blood poured out from all the orifices in his head. An unbefitting ending for an ambitious person.