4 Chapter 4 : Lightning Speed

"What should I do now?"

Mihara said in a low voice as she watched the boy's back disappear behind the trees.

In spite of the situation, he clamored quickly and thoughtfully.

First of all he wanted to flee the battlefield, but according to the memory of his predecessor, fleeing from the battlefield was a crime of desertion, it is one of the worst crimes in this world because it is considered an extremely serious dishonor on top of that you will be hunted down by the Konoha ninjas tirelessly.

But in addition to that the memory of his predecessor gave him a certain appreciation for Konoha, he had even inherited a kind of patriotism that also prevented him from deserting.

"What should I do then?"

He sighed trying not to let his emotions cloud his judgment, for in this strange and inexplicable situation he was alone.

He sat on the snow and looked vigilantly around him, he was on the outskirts of the battlefield where the least amount of fighting was taking place, he could even see clouds of snow rising in the sky under the power of the fighting that was raging in the center making him even more cautious.

He looked at the sword in his hand and then back to the fight against the kid from earlier and the moment he sliced the enemy ninja in half with Oza.

"In retrospect everything seemed to be very slow to me, although his body has impeccable physical condition, chakra and superhuman strength for a child the fight against the genin from earlier was too easy, I controlled him from start to finish his movements seemed extremely slow to me."

He got up from the ground with a thoughtful look and decided to retreat further back from the periphery of the battlefield.

He was running in one direction while holding his sword in his cold hands, the falling snow was blurring his vision, he could only see a few meters ahead.

He breathed steadily and ignored the shouts he heard from time to time further away, but suddenly he stopped and heard fast footsteps coming towards him, he jumped to his right and hid behind a tree.

At the same time, just three seconds later, a dozen people dressed as ninja and wearing the Iwa forhead protector.

He stopped his breathing and crouched even more behind the tree trying to stay as inconspicuous as possible, the ninjas quickly passed him one by one.

Seeing the last ninja of Iwa disappear in the distance in the fog of snow, he got up slowly always vigilant but as soon as he took a step forward time seemed to slow down in his eyes blood gushed violently from his nose and the whites of his eyes became blood red.

His skin turned scarlet as if he was under tremendous pressure and in front of him a kunai thrown with prodigious speed came towards his forehead very slowly.

He saw the world moving in slow motion, the snow falling, the wind, everything in slow motion.

Without hesitation he grabbed the kunai in mid-air slowly as if his body was stuck in quicksand and jumped back.

All these actions took time to be described but in reality only half a second passed.

The Iwa ninja in charge of protecting the back of the dozens of ninja who had just passed by and who had just thrown his kunai to Mihara who was not aware of his presence only saw Mihara catching his kunai at a prodigious speed and jumping back with a powerful leap.

Surprised, he pulled himself together and jumped from the tree on which he was towards Mihara who was moving backwards at an extreme speed.

The ninja made a sign with his fingers and disappeared for a brief second and reappeared at full speed a few meters away from Mihara, who seeing him in front of him threw the kunai towards the ninja who narrowly dodged it, the kunai reuniting cut his cheek.

"This kid how can he be so fast?"

The ninja became more cautious, he quickly made several seals with his fingers and puffed his chest.

[Wind Style: Great Breakthrough]

He spat a powerful stream of compressed air towards Mihara who saw this and stopped breathing for a moment.

"If I get hit I'm dead!"

Seeing the powerful stream of air rushing towards him slowly his heart was beating at full speed his blood was flowing at an extremely fast rate again from his nose but also from his eyes.

The time slowed down even more his body felt an unprecedented pressure, i had the impression that his skull was about to explode, a lightning slightly crossed in instant his dark pupils.

He moved extremely fast, jumping to his right and thanks to his extremely fast speed, he freed himself from the constraints of gravity.

Dodging the attack of the Iwa ninja and without touching him he kicked the tree next to him and threw himself towards his attacker whose movements were extremely slow in his eyes and using the kinetic energy of his leap forward spun around and sliced the ninja before falling to the ground rolling on the snow before hitting himself against a tree.

The disbelieving man who saw Mihara disappear before suddenly feeling deep pain looked down at his severed torso gushing blood and fell to the ground.

Mihara saw his opponent fall to the ground and felt a strong pain running through his body, he felt several of his bones break and spit blood as his nostrils and eyes bled, the pain was so strong that tears mixed with the blood that oozed from his eyes slid down his cheeks.

It was the greatest pain he felt in his life, he slowly lost consciousness before whispering.

"I don't want to die....."