Chapter 4 : You already know the answer

"Hurry up, Zura!" Gintoki shouted outside the school surrounded by Shouyou, Takasugi and Haruto as Katsura rushed towards them.

"It's not Zura, it's Katsura!"

"We don't care because of you there might not be any ramen left when we arrive." Said Takasugi.

The fives then began to walk on the road leading to the village further on.

Time passed over and over again, the leaves flerified and reborn three years had passed since Haruto had joined the school of Shouyou, he was thirteen years old this year.

His short red hair had become long, tied by a ponytail, his face had become even more beautiful to the point where he was forced to lower his head and cover his head when he walked outside with his three stupid classmates.

Dressed in a blue Yukata he was walking with Shouyou, Takasugi and Katsura when he stopped for a moment before following in their footsteps.

"What is it, Haruto?" Takasugi asked, seeing Haruto's face with a pensive look on his face.

Haruto looked at Shouyou and said

"Did you notice it?"

"Yes, but ignore that." Shouyou replied with a smile.

"If you don't stop talking unnecessarily, there won't be any more noodles for sale at this time of day." Says Gintoki lazily.

Haruto took one last look at the silhouette in the distance, which disappeared little to little on the horizon with a bad look.

"Why would a killer be interested in us?"

Then he looked at Shouyou who smiling, before kicking Katsura.

"Ouch, why did you do that?!"

"Because I want to relax." Haruto replied.

"You bastard, I'll cut you!!!!"

Katsura shouts while drawn his katana, but before he could make a move the two of them were suddenly hit by Shouyou.

*Bang* *Bang*

"No fighting before lunch."

"Yes Shouyou..."×2

"Sorry Shouyou!"×2

The two removed their heads from the ground and followed all the other three, looking at each other with a bad look.

As they walked Takasugi looked at Haruto with a puzzled look.

"Is this my imagination or Haruto did this to comfort Shouyou, I felt that he was depressed a few moments ago."

Takasugi thought for a moment before shaking his head.

The three of them had lunch before return to school Shouyou gave them a lessons in Kendo so the day quickly ended, the three continue to train individually until the nightfall.

Gintoki, Takasugi and Katsura exhausted, looked Haruto who continued to swing his Bokken with cold sweat on their front.

"Do you think Haruto's an Amanto?"

"That could explain a lot of things like his strength and endurance."

"It hurts me to admit it, but he's also overly beautiful to be human."

"No, he's a cyborg!"

"Or a ghost!"

*Pak* *Pak* *Pak*

Hearing the murmurs of his three comrades, Haruto quickly gave them a few blows throwing them violently out of the dojo.

Then he continued training with his sword.

He raises the blade slowly and then lowers it at full speed without the slightest deviation in the upward or downward trajectory.

He repeated the same exercise over and over again until his arms began to turn purple and then stopped.

"I got used to the short sword in my previous life, although it helped me a lot in Kendo, but it also caused me unnecessary tics and reflexes, but I finally got used to correcting them in the last few years."

Then he stood still and went on the offensive position without moving, in his mind he replayed his training session over and over again like a video on a loop while a whitish aura escaped from his body slightly changing the air flow of the whole dojo.

He stayed that way for a few hours before stops, he then slowly went out of the dojo and walked to the school.

A beautiful moonlight bathed the world with its glow, the sing of cicadas resonated on that hot summer night, but as he walked Haruto suddenly stopped.

"Shave!"

Haruto's silhouette disappeared and reappeared three metres from his original position narrowly avoiding a dozen needles that then hit the ground.

He leaned to his right dodging a kick from an adult man wearing a traditional black and white monk's outfit with a large straw hat and a scepter in his hand.

But the man attacked again and threw two purple needles releasing a faint smell of poison toward Haruto.

Haruto who had his Bokken in his hand blocked the needles of a movement of the wrist before rushing towards the man.

"Shave"

Appearing instantly in front of the man he elbowed him in the ribs, making him vomit blood and then followed by hitting his neck with the sleeve of his bokken knocking him unconscious.

*Bang*

But before he relaxed, flames burst out of the dojo and class.

"What's going on?" Think Haruto before you start running to the dorm.

But before he even took a second step, seven men dressed exactly as the previous man, surrounded him.

A white aura then erupted violently from Haruto's body causing the sevens to move backwards.

"Since you wish to die, I won't stop you."

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"Shouyou!!! "Shouted Gintoki as he was tied up and immobilized by the scepters of the men in black and white,

Takasugi, Katsura and the other children lying on the ground showing almost no signs of life.

"If I go with you, you leave the children free and do them?"" Asked Shouyou stopping in front of a young man with long scar on his face, light-gray hair and grey eyes and dark circles around his eyes.

"If you follow us without struggle, no harm will come to them." says the young man.

Shuyu then stretched his hands which were quickly tied and began to follow the young man and the men in black and white.

"Shouyou!" ×2

Shouted Gintoki and Haruto who had just arrived.

Shouyou then stopped and turned his head looking at Gintoki and Haruto with a slight smile.

Looking into his eyes a shiver ran through Haruto.

It was a look he recognized, he had this look one times in the past, this look brought out a rare feeling of anger from him that he had rarely felt in his three lives.

"Shouyou I forbid you to have that look!!!!!" He shouted as a white aura was brutally projected out of his body, an aura so wild that it created a powerful air flow pushing everyone backwards.

"What power!" exclaimed the young man as the air flow carried away his straw hat.

"Shouyou to the two of us, no, to you alone it would be easy to kill them! Then why!"

"Why give up!!!"

"Haruto, Gintoki take care of comrades in my absence."Says Shouyou before turning around and walk.

"Oboro, let's go and don't forget your promise."

Haruto's aura was slowly faded, he lowered his head so that no one could see his face and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Why?"

"You already know the answer..." murmured Shouyou as the young man he named Oboro rather, walked beside him, looking one last time at Haruto and Gintoki before continuing on his way, following by the others men in black and white.

Gintoki and Haruto remained silent for a long time as the flames gradually engulfed the buildings as if they were trying to erase the good memories of this previous years.