“The Sun”

Before Karna, there lies the tattered body of Kazuya impaled by a tanto around her shoulder. She was in a horrible situation and if not treated immediately she will die of bleeding.

The entire world seemed blurry in Karna's eyes except for the scene before him. His anger was soaring so much that all he wanted to do is to tear the four shinobi before him into two.

But he was too weak to attempt anything like this and soon, he calmed his raging mind down.

"Say, boy, if you come with us obediently I'll let your mother go," Shikuro said as he increased his tone as if he was amused by the situation.

'As if that'll ever happen.'

Karna put his sword beside his waist and glared at Shikuro all while not uttering a single word.

"My lord was right, you're a fine piece worth nurturing. I see that you've decided to give up, I like people that can evaluate the situation properly."

Karna ignored him and took a deep breath, he couldn't let his emotions ruin his strategy. Karna slowly hunched down and took a taijutsu position with his right fist placed before his left fist at his eye level.

And before Shikuro could admonish him, Karna jumped up and performed two devastating roundhouse kicks that seemed to pierce the air itself.

[Yagami style: catastrophe]

A huge tornado made up of flames was created in the aftermath of the kicks and even though he was five meters away from Shikuro the tornado rapidly moved toward him and his company.

Karna didn't stop there; after the technique, he quickly took out a tanto from his pouch and threw it towards Kazuya who was half-unconscious.

'What is he trying to do now?' Shikuro was getting overly anxious by this point. Things have escalated to an unprecedented level, he had never thought that he'll have to lose five elite jonin level shinobi in here and if one more loss happens then he'll definitely receive a severe punishment by Danzo.

'And what's up with this monstrous taijutsu?' Shikuro was quite perplexed about what he should do right now. Should he decide to follow Karna then there's a high chance one of them will die facing the jutsu and if he decides to face the jutsu with his teammates there's a chance that Karna might flee.

In the end, he decided to follow Karna since if he went back without any results he won't have a head to think anymore. As he advanced toward Karna he noticed that the tanto he threw before crossed him and went in the direction of Kazuya and missed her head by a hair's length. Shikuro was confused by what Karna was trying to do but it didn't take him long to understand.

"Shit! You annoying brat."

SHICK! ZHOOM!

Karna vanished from his place and in his stead, a tanto moving at a great speed welcomed Shikuro, who was closing on Karna. He barely dodged the tanto but it still grazed his cheek which was now dyed red. He looked back and there he saw Karna, 30 meters away running for his life with Kazuya in his back.

'How did the jutsu become this powerful?' Karna wondered as he from the corner of his eyes saw a lone anbu who was trying to block his jutsu with a huge wave of water and dying pointlessly in the process.

The flames that Karna produced were the result of the ultimate technique of the Yagami clan. He had practised this technique before but now it was a couple of times more powerful than before and he couldn't understand the reason.

He decided to ignore it for now and focus on the work at hand but fate was as cruel as ever to him.

His instincts flared up and he jumped forward from his path as a tanto just slashed past where he stood a moment ago.

"Enough is enough! My lord just wants your body functional, you're nothing special and if I cut a couple of your limbs and take you I'm pretty sure he'll still be satisfied." Shikuro said with annoyance plastered on his face. Beneath his legs were a group of bugs which presumably helped him to reach Karna quickly.

Karna dropped Kazuya beside him and took out his katana. He had never anticipated that Shikuro's bugs could help him fly and now, the chance to run away was long gone and the only way out of this situation was to duke it out with Shikuro.

Shikuro took his tanto and dashed toward Karna whereas Karna was waiting there thinking of another trick to trample his enemy.

'I have nothing, no trick that can get me out of this situation. I'm almost at my limit, my chakra is completely exhausted with the last jutsu and I don't have enough stamina to go on.' Karna sighed as he created two shadow clones with the last bit of his chakra to battle the three anbu rushing toward him.

As predicted, his clones were quickly overwhelmed by the anbus and the situation kept worsening. Shikuro's tanto collided with Karna's sword and his hands became numb as a result.

Karna had better techniques but with a well-developed physique and a fair amount of chakra, Shikuro quickly overwhelmed Karna, but Karna wasn't going to accept this as he with all his power went for a last attack.

[Shinsoku kenjutsu: Absolute slash]

It was the same technique that he exhibited before his parents, the quick jabs and fiery slashes were aimed toward Shikuro too but when Shikuro sensed how dangerous the technique was he quickly made a wall with his bugs.

But it wasn't enough, even with the wall protecting him his entire body was ravaged with small cuts produced from the after-effects of the move. He was hurt for the first time today and quite badly at that, so he wasn't feeling that generous. For a moment there he outweighed the option of not taking Karna alive.

Karna on the other hand was breathing heavily and his hands were torn asunder because of the move.

"That was the last straw," Shikuro said as he drove the tanto through Karna's shoulder and impaled him into the ground.

Karna was too weak to even prevent the attack and after falling, his eyes were getting blurred. He was about to lose consciousness but from his blurred vision, he saw two other anbus who did quick work of his clones arrive beside Shikuro.

One of them started to heal Shikuro while the other received an order from Shikuro and slowly walked in the direction of his mother while unsheathing his tanto.

'No, no, please not my mother. Why does this always happen to me? Why can I not protect the thing I love? Is this god's way of punishing me? Please, I don't want to die. I want to live this new life with my family. PLEASE!' at his internal wailing unbeknownst to him, something astounding started to take place within his body.

The solar energy that he always passively absorbed and his chakra merged into one and rushed towards his eye sockets. Suddenly, the chakra in the surrounding area started to surge toward him as if he was a vortex.

Shikuro noticed the situation as he jumped back from where Karna was. 'What the fuck is he doing now?' Shikuro wondered while he kept staring at the figure of Karna.

"What the f—"

Shikuros's exclamation was cut short because of what was transpiring in front of him.

Before his incredulous eyes, Karna's body began to float slightly above the ground and his long brown hair was floating upwards; his entire body was giving off a golden hue and golden lightning was manifesting repeatedly around his body and the grass beneath him started to wither away.

His closed eyes were abruptly opened and the shivers that the three anbus felt from that scene would be etched in their mind for the rest of their lives; if they could save their lives in the first place that is.

"T-The sun?" Shikuro subconsciously muttered as he met the eyes of karna.

His iris became unusually golden, and his pupil which was of a darker shade of golden was glowing fiercely. Fourteen black, tiny triangular spikes surrounded his pupil while a black, half-moon appeared within his golden pupil, resembling a moon confined within the sun. His previously black and slit-shaped pupil transformed to become bright yellow and round. A ring appeared surrounding his pupil with three dots in them. Among the three dots, two of them were also surrounded by tiny rings.

Gazing at Karna, the three anbus could see a silhouette of a golden dragon with three pairs of eyes behind him. It was staring at them waiting to devour their soul.

"H-How can a human have eyes like that?" Thick droplets of sweat trickled down from Shikuros' forehead because of the pressure he was feeling from Karna. But unlike his expectations, Karna completely ignored him and looked at the anbu who was near Kazuya.

His already glowing eyes started to glow even more and in an eerily manner. It felt like his eyes would burn themselves but defying understanding, two golden beams of sheer destruction and chaos shot out from his eyes as they headed for the anbu.

The anbu tried to defend himself by putting his tanto before him as a shield but not only his tanto but his entire body was divided into two from the waist's length.

SLICK! THUD!

His upper body fell to the floor and the other two anbus came back to reality. Did they see it right? Did this twerp in front of them just shoot beams of light from his eyes? These kinds of thoughts were running through their mind as they glanced at the figure of Karna.

"Run."

Karna mumbled eerily as he smirked looking at the divided body of the anbu. He moved his sight and glared at the remaining two anbu who took a step back with caution. All while a sinister smirk was plastered on his face.

Yes, this is what he loved. The tables have turned, the powers have shifted and it's time for a new hunt to begin, a hunt where he was the predator.

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[A.N- check auxiliary chapter 2 for details]