Chapter 60: Beneath the veil

Everyone rose from their seats at the sight of Toru, who stood up from the floor.

His eyes shone brightly, at the same time his hair covered his face, while the daggers seemed to raise Shakuton's temperature. At the same time, a smile showed on his face, Toru was somehow unaffected by the damage he received from Gaara's blows, still a few drops of blood fell to the ground from his head.

Gaara reacted to this with an annoyed expression on his face, he thought he was done with Toru, that all he had to do was to kill him, but apparently the Asahi clan boy was someone who did not give up easily.

"¡¿?!"

Appearing in front of Gaara with a smile, Toru's eyes flashed, at the same time the sand rose from the ground to protect his master, but it was in vain.

Crystallizing, the sand could not withstand the temperature of the daggers and ended up shattering into crystal form, leaving thousands of fragments. This took Gaara by surprise, who covered his face with his hands and then....

*Boom!*

Gaara shot out against the concrete wall, leaving a large crater in it and making the whole stadium tremble due to the force of the blow.

"You bastard..."

The arena began to quickly rebuild the armor, as the blow from Shakuton's daggers was strong enough to crystallize the arena and destroy it at the same time, as well as sending Gaara flying with such force.

The whole audience was surprised, but the battle was already over, the winner had already been decided and that is something that cannot be changed, but still everyone wanted to see what is about to happen.

The same thing was happening with the Hokage and the Kazekage, who watched this with attention until the Jounin stop the fight.

(Looks like the Asahi are crazy after all...)

Shaking his head and with slight smile on his face, Hiruzen remembered some things from the past.

Many years ago, before the threat of the nine-tailed fox, the Third Ninja World War was going on. The enemies were powerful, they possessed important information and there was death everywhere you looked.

Among the Konoha ninja of this war, two prodigy ninja rose up, a shinobi and a kunoichi. Hiruzen recalled this with a straight face, as the kunoichi was known among the enemies as 'The Bloody Thorn', who when it came to killing, was an expert, as she made clean cuts on the enemy's bodies using two daggers shaped like thorns. There was no one who was not afraid of this woman, after all she loved to kill and sometimes you could see a smile on her face.

However, this caused Hiruzen a headache, for, 'The Bloody Thorn' was Toru's mother, and it seemed to be that this child inherited some of his mother's qualities.

At the same time at the top of the stadium, Hanabi, Hinata and Ino didn't know how to react to this, they had never seen Toru act that way, they had never seen him smile in such a bloodthirsty way, so being confused or scared was the right reaction.

"Die..."

With a smile, Toru's eyes flashed, right now, he had appeared in front of Gaara holding the daggers in his hands, aiming them right at his enemy's throat.

Seeing that he was about to be beheaded, Gaara tried his best to escape from this. So, covering his entire body in sand, he tried to think of something, but Toru didn't give him time, as the sand quickly turned to glass, shattering into pieces and relieving Gaara.

The latter tried to cover himself again with sand, but Toru, again and again, stabbed with the dagger as much as he could.

The sand would eventually run out, so Gaara would have nothing to protect himself with, he only had one option left, and he was willing to use this option to kill the bastard in front of him, but something strange happened.

Roots came out of the ground and wrapped themselves around Toru's torso. Almost instantly, Yamato appeared on the battlefield, staring at his student.

With his hands in his pockets, a sigh came out of Yamato's mouth at the sight of Toru, it was as if he had lost the ability to think clearly. Though a second later, he frowned as he saw the roots around Toru begin to break. It was amazing, he even had the strength to break Mokuton's roots, so Yamato decided to let go of the roots to find out what Toru wanted to do.

Falling to the ground, Toru stood up and clenched his fists. Then, he looked up at the sky, looked at the large plasma sphere towering in the sky and sighed with a smile on his mouth. Although at this moment Toru was unconscious, something made him stand up and fight against his enemy.

Then, looking at Yamato, Toru fell to the ground, hitting his face on the ground.

Because of this, everyone in the stadium felt confused, suddenly this boy who had been beaten up got up with blood on his face, his eyes glowed blue like the sky, with a strange X in the pupil. He threw himself on top of Gaara with murderous intentions, and all this with a smile on his face.

And right now, that boy was lying on the ground, unconscious.

No one knows what Toru thinks, no one knows him and no one would like to know him. Someone who had a past life where he was one of the most successful people in exchange for suffering too much during his childhood and adolescence, someone who was able to destroy his own race for a small mistake. He was a villain, the villain of the history of the people around him, and all that triggered a wave of events that left his own world in the shit.

The world loved him, he was the world's favorite, the world was going to do everything it could to make this man succeed in his life. Alek was the hero of the world, after all he was the helper of mankind.

But... the hero betrayed the world. After all the world did to make his hero happy, after all the world did to eliminate the suffering of his son. The hero, Alek destroyed the world, and that deserves a punishment....

-Minutes later, infirmary-

Slowly opening his eyes, Toru looked around. He didn't remember anything that happened after Gaara hit him, but he remembered clearly everything he saw in that dream.

Reaching out his hand and clenching his fist, a slight smile formed on his mouth.

(I'm Asahi Toru... but also Alek Goosev, eh...)

Closing his eyes, Toru felt no different after remembering his past life. It all seemed unreal, as if it never happened, just memories that came into his mind, overloading his brain and knocking him out in the process.

"All these memories... all this information... all my achievements and my mistakes have been erased... I have been reincarnated in a new body, a new life. But blowing up a planet... it wasn't even my fault, but that bitch's."

Shaking his head, Toru remembered things that bothered him. It was true that he was in charge of the maintenance of 'The light of humanity' but he was not the one who changed the contents of the containers, even so... he was the one who replaced the containers without checking them first, so he was to blame, although this man in the body of a child did not seem to want to accept it.

However, there were also memories that made Toru feel depressed. He murdered his own mother, not only that, he killed many people to keep 'The Light of Humanity' alive, all of this was a whim, an obsession that stuck in the neurons of Alek Gusev, or as he is now, Asahi Toru.

Although his great intellect was helping humanity a lot. Since, with the energy produced by this artificial sun, he was able to feed the electric energy of all Europe, besides that, using this to create different types of renewable energy, the planet earth seemed to improve, after all the excessive pollution was killing the world slowly and Alek helped to stop this from happening.

(Ha~ the technology of this world prevents me from doing many things. Just creating the 'triggers' cost me a lot of time and effort, I can't imagine creating another 'Light of humanity').

With a long sigh, Toru felt disappointed. Now that he had recovered his memories, hundreds of ideas came to his mind to combine his technology with chakra, but here was the problem, the technology of this world is too primitive, hopefully he could create something like an antimatter rifle, but in a world where ninja techniques dominate, it would be impossible, after all there were giant wolves capable of resisting Shakuton's daggers and ninjas capable of destroying Konoha with one attack.

"One problem after another, I must think hard about what I should do. In this world... I don't have a reason to live or to die, so I must find my own inspiration, something to drive me on... Oh... I had forgotten."

Touching his head, Toru had so far realized that his feelings were different from his past life, he realized that his heart belonged to someone.

"Nii-san..."

"Toru-kun...

Hearing these two voices, Toru closed his eyes and sighed, somehow he felt happy to hear them.

"Hm... uh... hello..."

Sitting on the stretcher, Toru looked at the two girls who entered the room. Toru's eyes widened a little, admittedly he had noticed them before, but these two girls were beautiful, their white eyes and pale skin, were something that very few girls had.

"Nii-san!"

Rushing to where Toru was, Hanabi threw herself on top of him and hugged him with all her might.

"I told you if you died I was going to kill you, did you forget?"

Pouting, Hanabi increased the strength in her arms, making Toru feel a little overwhelmed by this girl's strength.

"I'm alive, so you can't kill me yet..."

Stroking Hanabi's hair, Toru looked into her eyes. In response to this, Hanabi looked back at him with a flushed face, after all Toru hadn't done this in a long time.

On the other hand, Hinata watched this without being able to say anything, she didn't want to interrupt, but Toru was quick and noticed her teammate's look.

"Feeling better already, Hinata?"

"Ah? Yes... I think in a few weeks I'll be able to use ninjutsu already..."

"I'm glad to hear that..."

Hinata felt something tighten inside her chest. Toru was different than normal, although she saw him with the same expressionless face, his way of speaking was now more fluent, she felt it was easier to talk to him.

"Why is Ino hiding behind the door?"

Sensing a presence hiding behind the door, Toru looked at the entrance of the room, the place where Ino was hiding.

She was embarrassed, she didn't know why she had done that. When she saw Toru about to be killed by Gaara, she didn't think twice and tried to throw herself into the battlefield to prevent this, but she was stopped by Genma.

After that, Toru attacked Gaara, although he was interrupted by Yamato.

"I... I wasn't hiding."

Entering the room, Ino's face was flushed. Toru watched this with curiosity. To him, who never approached a woman in his past life or in this life, women are a much bigger mystery than men.

"Looks like you woke up already..."

Looking at Toru through the window, Yamato entered the room, which seemed strange to everyone, as there was a door right next to the stretcher, so entering through the window was very random.

"Yeah... I think I hit my head too hard."

Realizing that he had bandages on his head, Toru shook his head before seeing that Ino had some bandages on her body.

"Ino... you lost, didn't you?"

Closing his eyes, Toru asked his question, which elicited an unexpected reaction from Ino.

"You think a kunoichi who uses something like genjutsu was going to be able to against someone who has the strength of a bear and the speed of a tiger?"

Taking a seat, Ino seemed to have admitted defeat, after all her fight against Enko was the one that followed after Toru's fight against Gaara.

"Hm... I think they've all done very well so far, I'm proud. They've become strong and changed their views on the world, that's a sign that they're growing into good Konoha ninja."

Leaning his back against the wall and crossing his arms, it seemed Yamato had a slight smile on his mouth. He believed that his students had a great future ahead of them as the Konoha ninja that they are.

"We are... strong?" Hinata asked.

"Of course you are, both in mind and body. Besides, Toru, it seems you've already figured out what you're missing between heaven and earth."

Hearing this, Toru's eyes widened as he remembered that day with the ANBU ninja before the preliminary exams.

(I know, I'm missing the two...).

A slight smile that made everyone in the room feel confused, this is a new Asahi Toru, someone who lived a life before this one, the human being who destroyed a solar system with his creation.

-Minutes later-

Walking through the corridors of the waiting room, team 11 and Hanabi were heading to the stands to witness the last fight of the chunin exams, Sasuke vs. Gaara.

It didn't take long for them to arrive. So the team took their seats while Yamato returned to watch.

Then, the blades began to dance around the battlefield and instantly, two ninjas appeared, it was Sasuke and Kakashi.

At the same time, the Kazekage smirked under the veil, for a moment his eyes changed, looking very much like the eyes of a snake.

His plan was about to begin.

-Battlefield-

Face to face. Gaara looked at Sasuke, and Sasuke returned his gaze with a smile full of confidence.

By this time, Gaara's anger was about to explode due to his fight against Toru, but there was also a smile on his face.

(It's time to see how strong you've become, Sasuke...)