What Do You Choose?

Ichinaru performed a tiger hand seal and then placed his right hand on the seal on the scroll.

'Unseal!!!'

As he shouted the command in his mind, a small cloud of white smoke appeared under his right palm and he removed his right hand. As the smoke dispersed a black belt with three ninja pouches attached to it appeared in front of him.

"It's cool that you have a scroll to store your belongings, but do you think that this will be enough to deal with those bandits... Even though physically, we are stronger than them thanks to our trainings, chakra and ninjutsu, they still greatly outnumber us... So, I think that a strong ninjutsu will be more helpful. "

"Sorry, Ichinaru... B-but I think that Tsurugi is right... Also I don't think that those bandits are already on guards, since they have been able to evade the local authority for so long."

Both Tsurugi and Reiji voiced out their anxieties about attacking such a large number of bandits with only their weapons.

" Don't worry about any thing, I have a plan that will make full use of their tunnel-like hideout to our advantage... Also relying solely on strong jutsu is useless for a ninja that wish to be really recognised as a strong one, as ninjutsu can be used to resolve all missions... One can only be a strong ninja after he has mastered all the four basic jutsu; namely genjutsu, ninjutsu, taijutsu and shurikenjutsu...

This has already been taught to you at the academy, so get a hold of yourselves and believe in me. Your role for this mission is simple just guard the entrance of the hideout while I take care of the bandits."

Ichinaru said as he unstrapped his personal ninja pouch from his waist and strapped it to the belt and tied the belt around his waist. He then stood up and dashed out of the bushes where they were hiding. He reached the right side of the entrance of the hideout within 2 seconds and he didn't have to wait for more than a second for his teammates to reach his side.

Ichinaru raised his left hand without looking at his teammates and through military signals using his hands, he gave them his commands. Reiji was to remain on guard at her current location and Tsurugi was to move to the other side of the entrance as soon as he would enter the hideout. Then, he dived inside the tunnel-like hideout without any hesitation and he was welcomed by bandits armed from head to toe.

"Hahahahahaha.... So they send only a brat to fight us.... Hahahahahahaha.... Even though you're ninja, you're light-years away from being enough to capture us.. BOY!!!!!!"

A large muscular man with scars all over his face, wearing a full set of samurai's armour and armed with a kanabou which is a two-handed war club in his right hand.

"I just need to capture you, but for the other that a completely different story, Mr bandit leader... Or should I say Morino Senryuu..."

Ichinaru said with a smirk as he threw eight smoke bombs that previously took out from one of his ninja pouches at different locations in the hideout.

Rapidly the hideout was filled with thick white smoke that could even reduced the visible of normal ninja by eighty percent. So, it didn't came as surprise for Ichinaru that the bandits couldn't see anything.

" Boss!!!! Where are you!!! I can't see anything?"

"Me too! I can't see anything!"

" Calm down! Don't lower your guards in front of the enemy's tactics, guys!!"

"But boss we can't see anything!!!"

The bandits completely lost their markings and they couldn't afford themselves to move as they wanted. Since they feared that they might be hurt or hurt their comrades and even order of their boss couldn't bring them out of their disoriented state.

"Aaaarrrrrggggg!!!!!!"

Suddenly dozens of loud agonising screams could be heard within the thick smokes and the sources of those screams kept on increasing.

*BBBBAAAAMMMM!!!!!!!!*

*Ping... cling... cling... ping."

Very soon the sounds of several large metallic objects falling down on the ground along with the sound of metals colliding together, mixed with the screams. The ground started to become wet and sticky as it changed in colour from brown to dark red.

At that moment, Ichinaru was moving gracefully in mid-air with inhumane agility while threwing four kunai and four shuriken from each hands simultaneously every one second. When his body was about to land on the ground, he threw a kunai connected to a metallic wire to the rocky walls of the tunnel-like hideout and used it to regain his altitude within the hideout. As soon as he was in his desired position, he resumed his attacks at a greater speed and intensity.

'Everything is going as according to how I visualised it in my mind... But still It would have been impossible with any doujutsu other than the byakugan, if we forget about that cheat called the rinnegan(samsara eye)... After all my right eye is very important support weapon in my arsenal during battles for any range... '

Ichinaru thought as he continued to throw his shuriken and kunai at very high speeds, akin to a machine gun firing bullets repeatedly without stopping.

He could also clearly see his victims collapsing one after another and drew in their last breaths in this one-sided slaughter. But he didn't avert his eyes from his victims and watched everything while making sure that this didn't impede his battle. After one minute, the thick smokes completely dissipated and revealed the gruesome view of about one hundred men immobile on the ground. They were lying on the muddy ground that was reddish in colour with weapons alongside them, and their body were pierced with three to six kunai or shuriken.

Most of the kunai and shuriken were neatly stabbed somewhere on the heads of the men. In the middle of all these corpses and bloody muddy ground, the leader of the bandits stood with his bloodshotted eyes wide opened as he observed his dead comrades.

He then lifted his head to look at Ichinaru who just landed on the sticky muddy ground with blooodshotted eyes full of hate.

"My pals, How dare you??!!!... How dare you, brat!!!! I will be brutally and savagely murder you, damn brat!!!!... You can count on me!!!!"

The bandit Leader rushed at Ichinaru who was immobile with his eyes glued to the corpses, while raising his Kanabou above his left shoulder and both his hands on the handle. Senryuu started to the swinging motion of his kanabou aiming to smash Ichinaru's head as soon as he saw that the latter was in his range.

*Bbbaaammm*

A loud sound could be heard after two seconds and bloodshotted eyes of Senryuu were wide opened.

"Yo-you, monster!!!"

This was the only words that Senryuu could come out of his mouth.

In front of Senryuu, Ichinaru was standing with the part of the Kanabou aimed at his head in his left palm, while his hand was coated with chakra and his arm extended. He then crushed the part of the Kanabou that was in his hands and stared at Senryuu. At that moment, Senryuu saw a faint, reddish and circular glow coming from under the left part of Ichinaru's google. The chakra on Ichinaru's hand extended to the Kanabou, and slowly started to turn reddish-orange until it turned into flames.

The flames completely engulfed the Kanabou and Ichinaru's hand, forcing Senryuu to let go of his weapon with fear in his eyes.

'He's really a monster!!!'

Senryuu thought as he started at the burnt palms of his hands.

"What do you choose the hard way or the soft one?... Pick your choice."

Ichinaru said as he let go of a crimson Kanabou that have started to melt, due to the flames and walked towards Senryuu.

"What do you choose?"