Chapter 58: TicTac - Toru vs Gaara (3)

No one understood what was going on, suddenly Toru stepped away and the daggers in his hands began to glow flaming yellow, but the different reactions from the audience were accurate, for after all Toru had just combined his family's secret jutsu with his kekkei genkai, which goes by the name of 'Shakuton' or in other words, the element 'burn'.

"Toru... not only his eyes, but also the knives..."

Squinting her eyes, Ino didn't know what to think, right now Toru was like a monster just like Gaara.

"I've never seen that kind of eyes in my life. I don't know anything like Sasuke's Sharingan. Also, are the daggers wrapped in fire?"

Trying to see everything clearly, Sakura started looking for explanations to what was happening. Toru's eyes weren't normal, they didn't look like Sharingan or Byakugan, plus, from one moment to the next, the daggers began to glow, wrapped in a kind of layer of fire.

This was the quintessential ability of the Asahi clan, though very few could use it, to say the least.

The jutsu 'Imbuing' consists of being able to change the element that constitutes living and non-living objects. An example is Toru's daggers, which are now covered by the kekkei genkai 'Shakuton'.

Unlike chakra flow, which gives special properties to weapons designed to be able to resist this flow, the 'Imbuing' jutsu literally imbues the object with the desired element, be it fire, water, wind or lightning, but it doesn't end there, as this jutsu can be combined with kekkei genkai.

This is where 'Shakuton' comes in, the kekkei genkai that Toru himself created, using as a base two elements, Katon and Fūton [fire element and wind element] which when combined formed flames capable of burning everything at an incredible speed.

At the cellular level, the wind rotates in the form of blades that shred the tissues or whatever conforms the enemy's body, while the flames do their job and burn everything, reducing to ashes the tissues, no, even worse, disintegrating anything with which Shakuton comes in contact.

With this in mind, Toru was now serious, as Gaara also seemed to be ready to fight with all his power.

(Calm down... I still need blood...)

Touching his head with one hand, Gaara smiled with a strangely grim look on his face. He felt that with every passing second, his inner power would explode, giving way to the true demon of the arena.

"I'll kill you... I need your blood..."

Staring at Toru, the sand finished rebuilding Gaara's armor, leaving him once again with an expressionless face.

Toru watched this with a neutral expression, the sand was a problem, but with Shakuton, the problem would disappear.

(Here I go...)

Adopting his combat stance, Toru disappeared leaving a residual image on the spot. At the same time, two large trails of flaming light moved across the battlefield at a great speed.

Seeing this, Gaara already knew what he had to do, so raising his hand, the sand moved, rising from the ground in the form of dust. When all the sand finally came up, Gaara clenched his fist, and the sand fell hard towards the ground.

It was assumed that Toru would have no escape from an attack of this magnitude, but....

*Crash!

The sound of glass shattering echoed in the place, followed by a large cloud of dust that rose due to the debris from the sand.

What was seen next left the entire audience silent.

Holding the daggers in his hands, it was as if a small sun was floating around Toru, spinning on its own axis as if it were a star orbiting a higher existence.

-At the highest part of the stadium-

Taking a seat with satisfaction on his face, the Kazekage sighed. It was as if he had just had a fit of ecstasy, which caused his breathing to become heavy and his body to begin to perspire.

(He's perfect... he's the best... he must be mine, Asahi Toru must be mine).

Smiling under the veil, the Kazekage was in ecstasy. The strength, agility, chakra control to use ninjutsu were perfect, but most importantly, Toru's eyes, eyes that were able to see death in the form of golden lines, although the Kazekage did not know about this.

(For someone who has the blood of the Uchiha running through his veins, this is not bad at all. Now I wonder, what will you do about it, Uchiha Sasuke, your childhood friend has surpassed you by far).

Remembering the last survivor of the Uchiha, Hiruzen sighed. Since the fall of those two clans in the crimson night, Konoha has been defenseless, after all the two clans contributed various things to the village.

(I'll have to see this with my own eyes...)

-Battlefield-

Frowning, Gaara couldn't take this anymore. Each of his attacks was blocked, and now somehow or other, Toru had managed to turn the sand into crystal, but this had a simple explanation.

Due to the high temperatures generated by Shakuton's flames, Toru was able to crystallize the sand in a second, this also applied to the small sphere that was floating around his head, which served as a weapon at a far distance.

"When sand reaches a certain degree of temperature, it changes the molecules in its structure, hardening and turning into crystal. do you understand?"

Looking Gaara in the eyes, Toru gave a small explanation of what had happened, this, obviously, Gaara already knew, but his anger increased when he realized that Toru's flames were strong enough to disintegrate a human body.

"You're just talking nonsense... you better be ready to die..."

Responding to Toru's explanation, sand began to surround Gaara's body, enclosing him in a sphere of sand.

This made Kankuro and Temari feel nervous, as they knew what Gaara was going to do, so they quickly resigned themselves, there was no more salvation for Toru.

(I don't understand... he's inside the sphere, but... his chakra is increasing too much).

Using Shigan, Toru could see the lines of death in the sand sphere, but this surprised him, as it was the first time he saw the golden lines start to move.

This was due to chakra drain, as the more chakra is lost, the more Shigan's effectiveness decreases, so using it for a prolonged period of time can cause problems.

Understanding this, Toru closed his eyes and sighed. Right now he has to end this fight.

(Shakuton and Shigan are starting to consume large amounts of chakra, I guess it's because I'm using them at the same time, plus using 'Imbue' on the daggers).

Shaking his head, Toru's eyes glowed, at the same time the small floating sun began to spin, preparing for the next attack.

"Shakuton: Naginata [Element 'burn': Halberd]"

Shining brightly, the sun aimed at one of the sphere's kill lines, a second later, a strange spear shot out of the sun, impacting the sphere and crystallizing much of the surface.

Without wasting any time, Toru launched himself into the attack, and using the daggers pierced the sphere.

(What is this...?)

Looking at that there was a hole in the sphere, Gaara felt a strange chill in his chest, followed by that, a liquid fell into his hand.

It was warm and somehow pleasant. There was also the strange feeling in his chest, which was now no longer a shiver.

(This liquid... it's hot... and it... hurts...)

Lowering his gaze, Gaara looked down at his hand and saw....

The crimson eye color...

Gaara's eyes widened before a piercing scream echoed throughout the stadium.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!! Blood!!! My blood!!!"

Touching his chest, Gaara tried to make the blood return to his body, however, it would not obey him and continued to stain his clothes red and beautiful crimson.

-Stadium tribune-

The entire audience watched this with wide eyes. At the same time, Temari and Kankuro trembled, as this was a bad sign.

(Gaara had never bled before, I never saw him bleed even once...).

Clenching his fists, Kankuro looked at the ground and closed his eyes, after all what was about to happen would ruin all the plans they had so far.

"Ahhh! Ahhhh!"

Gaara was screaming over and over again, this made Hinata and Hanabi shiver. Naruto and Sakura on the other hand, looked at everything without saying a word, not that they could say anything useful at that moment either.

(I can't let go...)

Trying to pull his hand out, Toru was trapped in the sand sphere. But he immediately thought of something and, causing the small sphere of fire to approach the sand, the sand began to crystallize, so now, using the dagger, Toru cut the death line of the crystal, causing it to shatter into a thousand pieces.

But when the crystal shattered, a large wave of sand was thrown against it.

Toru tried to move fast so that the sand would not crush him, but something held his hand, it was Gaara, whose eyes had changed completely, now the sclera was black and the pupil had changed to a light brown color. It looked as if Gaara's face was splitting, as his face had several deep cracks around his eyes, it also looked as if a part of his face took on the color of sand.

(I can't let go...)

Looking into Gaara's eyes, Toru could see the smile on his mouth, his fangs were now a bit sharp, it was as if he was turning into a demon, but....

"Shakuton: Boom!"

Remembering that he had his little spherical friend whose temperature exceeded a thousand degrees Celsius, Toru made the wind blades inside the sphereq begin to rotate violently, increasing the temperature and reaching the point where the little sphere couldn't resist anymore, exploding in the process.

-Tribune, middle part-

-I didn't understand anything that happened...

-That kind of ninjutsu...

-His eyes remind me of the Uchiha's Sharingan...

-I think this fight is about to end...

Again, after the silence that took over the place after the explosion, the murmurs of people started to be heard. At the same time, Hinata tried to activate her Byakugan in order to search for Toru, as the cloud of dust that caused the explosion prevented her from doing so.

"Agh..."

Falling to her knees on the ground, a small drop of blood spilled out. Hinata still wasn't recovering from her fight against Neji, so making a hasty move could hurt her.

"Onee-san, you shouldn't use your eyes until you recover. You could have asked me."

"I'm sorry, I..."

"Fufu, don't worry. Besides, if you're looking for Toru, he's currently standing in front of the sand boy."

Looking at her sister with concern, Hanabi knew that Hinata was hurt and didn't want her to get hurt again. Because of this, she worries a lot about her older sister, after all Hanabi wants to look like Hinata, she wants to be like her.

-Battlefield-

The dust flared up again, showing Gaara who had an expression full of Anger, he was clenching his fists as the sand came closer to him again.

Seeing this, Toru sighed, the excessive expenditure of chakra was already affecting him, even if only a little more than six minutes had passed.

"Die!!!"

Letting out a sudden shout, Gaara lunged at Toru, at the same time, sand crawled on the ground until it surrounded Toru, after that, hundreds of hands came out of the ground.

Now, Toru's eyes glowed and, disappearing as if his body turned into air, he appeared again in front of Gaara while holding his daggers, but this was not going to be easy, as the sand crawled up Gaara's body until it reached his back, from which four arms were formed and joined together with intentions of crushing Toru.

Reacting quickly, Toru used the daggers with Shakuton to crystallize the hands and break them, but that was not enough, as more hands came out of the ground, surrounding the place.

*Boom! Bam!

One after another, the hands crystallized and broke into a thousand pieces due to the flames of Shakuton enveloping the daggers and the Shigan in Toru's eyes that glowed as he looked at his target.

Gaara was apparently enjoying watching Toru struggle to stop the sand hands, but his attempts were futile, as for every hand that was destroyed, two more appeared.

(I must attack the source of the problem)

Looking at Gaara, Toru's body flashed and immediately appeared in front of the boy, but....

(Ahg!)

Touching his head in pain, Toru fell to the ground as hands began to wrap around him.

-Stadium tribune-

"What's going on?"

Squeezing the metal bars tightly, Ino watched as Toru fell to the ground while holding his head. It all seemed strange.

"Nii-san..."

"Toru-kun?'

Naruto and Sakura saw the reactions of these three girls to what had happened and thought of something, but if they said it out loud, surely Ino would have jumped in to hit them.

-Battlefield-

The moment she approached Gaara, Toru had a strange vision.

He saw himself in that place full of blood, with chains that were tied to his arms and legs. Right there, he saw the shadow that pierced his eyes that day, hugging him and whispering in his ear.

(I thought it would never happen again...)

Touching his head, Toru remembered the last time he had those strange visions. It had been quite a while since the last one, so he thought that these strange mental blows were over, but he was wrong.

He looked up and seeing Gaara, Toru sighed tiredly, but....

*cough*

A drop of blood fell, dissolving on the ground.

*Drip, drip

More blood fell, now it was no longer just a drop, but at that moment, his eyes, nose, ears and mouth began to drip an abnormal amount of blood.

Then, only then a shiver ran down his spine, reaching his head and...

(Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!)

Holding his head tightly, thousands of images, sounds, sensations, emotions filled Toru's brain, overloading it and making the blood begin to rush out.

-Tribuna, middle part-

-What's happening to him?

-I think this is bad.

-Maybe he took a hit

The audience was confused, they didn't know what was going on with the Asahi clan boy.

"Nii-san! What's going on?"

Looking at her sister and Ino, Hanabi understood that she wasn't the only one who was worried, as just by looking at their faces she understood that they at this moment... were afraid of what was approaching Toru.

-Battlefield-

Walking slowly towards Toru, Gaara smirked, as he had found a good opportunity to get blood.

*Boom!

Forming a large hand of sand, Gaara threw it at Toru, who shot out against the wall delimiting the battlefield.

Hinata, Hanabi and Ino's eyes widened as blood splattered on the wall, painting the place crimson red.

After that, Toru fell face first to the ground, but Gaara wasn't going to stop.

For at this moment, a smile of happiness had been drawn on his face, at the same time, the sand took Toru's unconscious body and brought him closer to his master.

Gaara reached out his hand and thought of a way to kill Toru.

But...

"Stop!"

"Don't kill Nii-san!"

"Toru-kun..."

About to rush into the battlefield to protect Toru, Genma's voice was heard.

"Don't come!"

The instant Genma spoke, a giant wooden wall rose from the ground, cutting off the distance between Toru and Gaara.

At the end of it all, Yamato stood at the top of the stadium with his hands clasped together, after all the one responsible for stopping this assassination attempt was him.

-In a strange place-

*Tic... tac... tac...*

The sound of a clock was heard...

* Tick...tick...tick...*

A distorted explosion echoed in the place...

*Tic... tac... tac... *

Opening his eyes, Toru looked at his surroundings.

*Tic...tac...tac...*

And beside him stood a man, that man was the man... with the glasses and lab coat.

"Toru... Do you want to hear a story?

*Tic...tac...tac...*

The sound of a clock that started with an explosion...

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Author's note: As promised, here is the chapter. I hope you enjoy it