Chapter 9

It's been two days since we set off. We'll reach the bandit camp by tomorrow morning. We just finished setting up our sleeping bags. I'm taking first watch.

As I stare in the night, thoughts fill my head. I pull out a kunai to look at my reflection. I activated my Mangekyo sharingan. My mangekyo was in the shape of a red six edged star with a black circle in the center.

I already know the power of my left eye. I held out my palm and spoke in a whisper.

"Amaterasu"

In the center of my palm a black flame appeared. It forms a fireball about the size of my fists. Unlike future Sasuke who has one eyes to produce the flames while the other eye allows him to control it, my left eye does both of those things.

It's one of the side effects of the bloodline pill. I've given it a lot of thought but I still can't figure out my right eyes ability.

As I think my mind goes through the ability of the Mangekyo that I know, from Obito, all the way down to Sasuke.

As I was thinking about it, Obito's kamui came to mind. The ability to open a literal wormhole and travel through it.

My eyes widened as much as I possibly could. Obito's kamui is just like the hiraishin. What it does is tear a hole in space which instantly nullifies the distance between two points no matter how far apart they are.

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After half an hour, Izuna could be holding a kunai. He threw the kunai in front of him and waited until,

'Hiraishin!'

In a black flash, he disappeared from his original point, appearing beside the kunai, with said kunai in hand.

'Finally. All that work has finally paid off. I'm a little dizzy. Although I've learnt it, it's still a long way from mastered. I won't be able to use it in battle just yet."

And so, he use the night to get accustomed to using the hiraishin.

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We're a few minutes away from the bandit camp. We can already see it in the distance. We stop to formulate a plan.

Kaito: "How are we doing this?"

He looks around to ask for a possible course of action. I already had a plan but it might be too brutal for these two.

My plan was simple, burn them all. Then check who survives and kill them.

Yamato:"We'll wait until night fall before attacking. We'll work our way from the guards to the main tent where their leader is. Kaito, you and Himari will be tasked with killing the normal bandits surrounding the main tent while Izuna makes his way to eliminate the leader."

I see Kaito and Himari flinch a little when they heard 'kill'. I haven't killed anyone before but I know that it's necessary to survive. The best I cand do is get it over with and not shy away from blood.

As night fell, two guards can be seen at the entrance of the bandit camp. Twin kunai flew to their throats, stopping them from making a sound.

Just before they hit the ground two figure appear beside them and catch them before they land.

They first figure was Izuna who had thrown the kunai and the second was Yamato. Hirami and Kaito pale a little seeing the dead bandit in front of them.

They look so pale until they tried to calm themselves before getting out a kunai with shaky hands.

I left them and went on my mission. Right then a screen appeared in front of me.

{Mission- Bandit takeout

Your first C-rank mission. Eliminate them before move escape.

Requirements: Eliminate all the bandits

Bonus requirement: Kill the bandit leader without taking damage.

Reward:2000SP, Chakra Absorption Technique, body refinement pill}

I silently made my way through the camp undetected, kill unsuspecting bandits that were unfortunate enough to catch my eye.

I finally got to the tent. The entrance was slightly open. I could see someone who looked like he would be the leader. He was by the table with his back facing me.

Behind him was another bandit, which I can only assume is his assistant or some random goon. The leader doesn't notice me yet. The one behind him turned to leave the tent, causing him to looking in my direction.

I quickly turned on my sharingan and put him under genjutsu before he could alert the leader. I was able to plant powerful suggestions in his mind, which felt more like compulsion that suggestions.

As I finish he turns towards the bandit leader, brandishing a pocketknife knife before literally stabbing him in the back.

The leader grunts as he reflexively brings out his own knife, slashing his comrades throat. He grunts in pain before trying to remove the knife stuck in his back.

While he does that, I quickly make my move. Dashing forward before he could react, I slice through his neck with a kunai enhanced with wind chakra.

His head slides off his shoulders before landing on the floor, after which his body followed.

I let out a breath. I thought I would feel bad about killing him...but I don't. I can't explain it. I can't feel any disgust towards my actions. I sigh and mentally add this to the list of things that I don't understand.

As I step out from the tent, all I see is the dead bodies of the bandits. In the middle of then are Yamato, Himari and Kaito. The two genin are puking out their guts as Yamato walks up to him.

Yamato:"Is it done?"

I nod my head and lead him to the tent where he sees the headless body. As we leave the tent Yamato looks at me in concer and asks.

Yamato:"Are you okay? You don't need to puke or anything?"

It's like he's expecting me to puke. Not that I'm surprised, I expected that I'd be puking out my stomach content but I feel nothing as I look at these dead bodies.

I look at him before giving him my answer.

Izuna:"No, I don't feel the urge to puke. This is what we signed up for when we became shinobi.'

He stays silent. After getting the others to stop puking we made our way back to Konoha.