Chapter 9: Aleph, the Power of the First Bullet

Tears ran down Itachi's eyes, a deep pain pierced his heart, a few minutes ago he had just killed, who he would consider his younger brother and also a good friend.

"I'm sorry… Little… Yuki" Itachi said as he looked up at the sky and tears ran down his face.

He knew… He knew he would be hated by the people, by Sasuke.

He would be treated as a criminal, a deserter, but he had made his decision.

"I wanted you to live, little Yuki…"

He didn't want to meet Yuki, he didn't want to kill him, that's why he let the masked man take care of that part of the clan.

But reality is cruel, in the end he had to kill him.

"I hope I made the right decision" he couldn't leave anyone apart from Sasuke alive, anyone else would be used by Danzo.

Taking a painful sigh, Itachi wiped his tears, his body blinked disappearing into the darkness of the night.

After sending his clone with Sasuke, Yuki sent another one to the masked man.

After seeing his clone go through the masked man, killing his clone, he shot twice, but just like his clone his attacks only went through the masked man.

"My bullets don't seem to work either" Yuki frowned at this.

(Physical and chakra attacks don't work?)

The bullets used in his spark gun and his muskets use Chakra.

Being also immune to ninjutsu.

(But he must have a weakness) everything has its advantages and disadvantages, for example his angel Zafkiel, is very powerful but the price for using it is very high, right now he has almost no chakra.

"My chakra is running out quickly" Yuki clenched his teeth hard.

"Damn bastard! Why don't you die?!"

"If you want to kill me, you'll have to do something better than this" the masked man said showing interest, he really wanted to know what had happened a moment ago.

"Well, is that all? Little mouse"

(Is he trying to provoke me?.. Well the more you underestimate me, the more it will be your downfall) smiling internally, Yuki decided to play along with the masked man.

"I'll kill you bastard! "

(Damn it! I've almost run out of chakra…)

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Yuki tries to put on a desperate face in front of the masked man.

(Well, I'll have to use that…even if I can't kill him, at least I'll cut off one of his arms!)

Raising one of his arms to the sky, a shadow came out of his body and continued to expand until it reached a diameter of 200 meters.

[Toki Hami no Shiro] Yuki activated the 'Time Devouring City'.

Looking with the sharingan, the masked man could see a gigantic shadow coming out of his body and mixing with his surroundings

Although he could dodge, he didn't because he was curious about what he was doing, he also thought that a child whose chakra was almost empty, was not a threat.

(I see, that I didn't judge you wrong) Yuki thought when he saw that the masked man didn't avoid his 'Time Devouring City'.

Yuki knew very well the people of his type, they are those who trust too much in their power, those people tend to underestimate their opponents, turning that into their downfall.

Unmoved the masked man kept looking at the child, with a calm look, but that didn't last long, as he noticed that the child's chakra point grew and kept growing

"Interesting" although it seemed like a kind of chakra absorption ninjutsu or seal like the legendary Sannin, although it was rare because a child used it, it was not so impressive

(But… Why does my body feel different? )

Noticing something strange in his body the masked man raised his guard

(Is this?!.. )

Opening his eyes in shock the masked man once again.

"He's stealing my chakra! "

"It seems you discovered it, well it wasn't that hard after all"

A cruel smile formed on the child's face.

"Now get ready to die bastard! … Come to me Zafkiel! "

(I have to find his weakness quickly!)

Although he was smiling, Yuki knew it was a facade.

A huge old golden clock appeared behind Yuki.

"What is that?" the masked man said with a surprised voice, this was something he had never seen before, this fact, made him more interested in the child, his strange clothing by which with his sharingan he could see chakra lines on them, his strange weapons, whose speed is superior to the kunai, now a huge clock.

"It seems to have something to do with that eye of yours" quickly, noticing the similarities between them, the masked man came to a quick conclusion.

"Interesting… Interesting!.. Come on kid, show me you have the strength to kill me!" the masked man said, with his blood boiling with excitement.

Not everyone is afraid of the unknown, there are many who have emotion and intrigue to discover new things. It's like a child with a new toy, this man was one of them.

"Let's finish this… Aleph" pointing the gun at the number 1 on the clock, a crimson black mist came out and was absorbed by his spark gun.

*Tick tock

Pointing at his head, Yuki pulled the trigger, then the masked man saw it, the child's body faded.

"Eh?"

*Bang

But before he could react, he felt an incredible impact on his head, half of his mask broke and blood ran.

"I told you, it's time to end this" Yuki said looking coldly at the corpse at his feet.

"Hm?" as Yuki wondered if it was too easy to eliminate his target, he noticed that the body at his feet was fading.

*Clang

Feeling an intense bloodlust, Yuki quickly blocked a kunai straight to his body.

Sparks came out of the collision between his spark gun and the kunai.

"I must say that… you almost killed me kid!" The masked man said with a deep voice, half of his mask was gone, Yuki quickly noticed, the scarlet eyes of the Sharingan, he was a little surprised to see it, but one of his eyes quickly closed.

(What's going on?!.. Genjutsu?! No… It's not possible, it was a perfect headshot, there's no doubt)

As his hands trembled from the strength of the masked man, his opponent was also in shock, by how quickly he lost an eye.

(A speed higher than the Fourth Hokage!)

The masked man couldn't react to that speed, his speed was so high that, in an instant the child had already attacked him.

The masked man, couldn't see when the child was by his side, he couldn't even activate his Dojutsu when the child attacked him.

That's how terrifying his speed was.

If it weren't for the fact that he took precaution and placed the Izanagi in his left eye, maybe he would have died already.

"I've decided!.. I'll take you with me kid" with those words the masked man activated his Dojutsu.

(This is bad)

A huge attraction attacked Yuki's body, he felt as if his whole body was being absorbed.

Yuki had a bad feeling, that if he was absorbed by the man's ability, it was his end, but having his hands blocking the kunai he couldn't activate his angel, but that doesn't mean his clones couldn't.

Six long white hands with red strokes, came out of Yuki's shadow piercing the masked man's body.

Quickly dodging, the masked man canceled his Dojutsu, but an arm pierced his abdomen.

Quickly putting distance from his enemy, Yuki wiped the cold sweat that fell from his face.

(That was close…)

Gasping a little Yuki felt he was very close to death.

(So he becomes tangible when attacking) Yuki's sharingan quickly analyzed the masked man's weakness.

The masked man felt very frustrated.

Twice... Twice he was injured by a child. He could see that the child had many tricks up his sleeve. Just moments ago, he felt that those six white hands would take his life if he didn't dodge in time.

(I underestimated him.)

Indeed, he had underestimated the child. The threat posed by the child was greater than even Kage-level shinobis.

(Damn!... Zafkiel is already starting to drain my life force.)

Feeling the change in his body, Yuki furrowed his brow. The chakra speed he absorbed from the Time-Devouring City was less than his consumption.

(I have to finish this!)

Clamping his teeth tightly, Yuki was losing his vitality with every passing second.

It's time for the second round.