12 Kekkei Genkai!?

While Ashiba was checking out his new newly obtained energy which he decided to call slaughter energy. He felt his body being restrained, unable to move most parts of his body. He turned to look back with slight difficulty to see his shadow being attached to a long tendril of shadow which is connected to a shadow of Nara shinobi in the distance, who from the chakra signature looks like a captain level shinobi.

"Damn you diabolical Shimura clan!" said another Captain level shinobi who stood near the first one, continuing to shouting in a spiteful tone: "Sneaking in a Captain level shinobi in this part of the battlefield"

It has always been an unwritten rule for shinobi with age above 9 to not interfere with those below and of course in this chaotic era rarely is there a war where everyone abides by this rule. Needless to say Ashiba wasn't over 9 years old but it didn't really matter if he could kill a soldier level shinobi effortlessly.

[Shadow Stitching Jutsu]

*Swish!*

The second Nara shinobi attacked Ashiba taking advantage of the situation. A bundle of spike like shadow lines emerged from his shadow which sped towards Ashiba at a swift speed.

Ashiba opened his jaw wide with a fiendish grin as he controlled the slaughter energy which wasn't affected by [Shadow Possession Jutsu] smashing furiously at the shadow lines connecting to his shadow, breaking them apart.

Soon as he felt his body under his control again. He dashed towards the Nara shinobi who was apparently injured momentarily because his Shadow Possession Jutsu was forcibly broken.

The spike like shadow lines also caught up and pounced on Ashiba who ignored it, they pierced his body but quickly stopped as they couldn't go any further because of his strong body though blood still oozed out from those holes drenching his body in blood and a sickly odour rose up from it.

Ashiba ignored the pain as it only managed to make his fiendish grin wider. He came in front of the shinobi who still hadn't recovered from Jutsu early broken.

His knee whipped up, leg swinging out and striking it on his chest, as the shinobi flew back, Ashiba whipped his other leg up with blood red slaughter energy glowing around his leg and brought it down the opponent's face while in mid air.

A body with half of his face missing fell down as Ashiba withdrew his bloodied leg, with some slight trace of remains of an eye still remaining on his feet.

Ashiba harvested the slaughter energy from the dead while all shinobi nearby were shocked, not because they hadn't seen such cruel scene's before but because of the methods of Ashiba with which had performed such actions and his age.

"How is he so powerful at such a young age!?"

"Young age!? knowing these poisonous Shimura clans, an elder probably sneaked in with Transformation Jutsu." 

"I knew something was wrong with this monster."

"Watch your words! He is on our side."

"How is his body so strong!?"

Before any of these questions could be answered, the battlefield descended into chaos!

More and more Captain level shinobi started to come in this side of the battlefield from both sides seeing the disarray here and more Captain level fights started to happen accidentally or intentionally killing some of the kids in the process.

Ashiba heard a movement behind, from the chakra signature a Soldier level shinobi. He didn't turn around, lashed out blindly, felt his fist connect with muscled flesh, and heard a soft "Oomph." He absorbed the slaughter energy which can grow and get stronger the more he kills, from the unknown dead shinobi.

Ashiba looked around the chaotic battlefield, started looking for more opponents to fight and in the process made his slaughter energy stronger.

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Ashiba fought for quite some time and harvested slaughter energy along the way before his group was called back...of which only one more person except Ashiba was still alive. Well he had already expected them to not make it out today so one person surviving was a surprise to him.

A shinobi was already waiting outside his temporary residence. The same one that had informed him of Tozu's summon before. Ashiba already guessed why he would be called again, but he wasn't worried as he already had a grasp of Shimura clan's attitude.

"Tozu sama has called for you again." the shinobi said with the same kind smile as the last smile.

Same as before Ashiba just followed him without any questions. Before long they arrived at the tent where Tozu usually resides.

This time Ashiba went straight to the position where Tozu usually does his work. Ashiba walked in as Tozu was doing some paperwork same as last time.

"Ashiba, do you know what happened today at the battlefront?" questioned Tozu, still looking down at the paper.

"Yes....my fellow clan brothers died because of my kekkei Genkai awakening during the battle" Asbiba said with a sad expression and obvious guilt in his voice. Showing off his improved acting skills. After all he should at least act a little sad and show his guilty conscience, as today a lot of young shinobi died because of the chaos he started, so as to make Tozu less guarded about him in the future.

"Kekkei Genkai!?" Tozu exclaimed with shock on his face. Also showing off his acting skills. 

"Yes, the clan I hailed from was destroyed after a few months of my birth. My grandfather and I were the only survivors. It is also my grandfather who took care of me and told me that I possess a rare Kekkei Genkai that only appears once in 100 years in my clan." said Ashiba with a sad expression as if remembering something painful from his memories.

'So that's how it is. My guess was correct after all' thoughts Tozu while continuing questioning with a comforting tone: "So what happened to your grandfather?"

"He died." 

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A/N: "You only lose what you cling to."