07 - The Red Eyes

Of the four ninjas, two were still at half health, although my clones were easily defeated, at least they had left the job half done for me, so with the clock ticking and time running out, I had to move forward.

I used my fast movement technique to surprise them, and as I approached, I made the Jin seal with my hands, creating two clones.

*Puff

*Puff

Both clones were basic replicas, not shadow clones, so they were at most a distraction, but to my advantage, as I approached the ninjas with the clones, we zigzagged to confuse the ninjas.

As I approach the four ninjas in a defensive formation, one of my fake clones makes a defensive attack on one of them, but because it's not a physical clone, it goes right through the enemy, confusing him.

I appear right behind him, taking advantage of the distraction, and spear him in the chest at a blind spot in his defensive formation.

*Tchlank

"AHH"

The ninja on the left tries to hit me diagonally with his katana, but using the momentum my thrust had caused in the impaled ninja, I pull my katana back and place it horizontally in front of my body, deflecting the ninja's blow.

*Tchank

The swords clash, the metallic sound echoing through the rain.

Taking advantage of our power struggle, I use my other katana to slash at the ninja's stomach from underneath.

*Tchlakkk

"Ahhhhhhhh"

His life bar is completely drained, drawing the attention of the ninja to my right, who lunges at me with his kunai. Unable to adjust the movements of my hands to defend against the kunai, I use my knee to strike the ninja's wrist with the kunai, sending the kunai high into the air while using the momentum of the strike to somersault backwards, slicing the enemy in the middle with my katana.

*Tchlak

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[Critical Hit]

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The enemy falls, leaving only 1 standing.

Tic tac tic tac

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[00:28 seconds to next horde]

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Taking advantage of my moment in the air to gain distance from the remaining ninja, I place an explosive seal on the dagger of my katana, activating it beforehand to cook the explosion time.

After waiting less than half a second and concentrating on the explosive seal in my hands, I throw it at the ninja so that he has no time to react.

*BOOOMMMM

I can see the explosion in the distance.

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[00:08 seconds to the next horde]

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Taking advantage of the time I have left, I grab one of the katanas that flew across the battlefield after the explosion and wait for the next horde to arrive.

I look down at my arm.

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[10:00]

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I had already survived 10 minutes, I was a little nervous about what the next enemies would be.

*Puff

A suspiciously small puff of smoke formed on the other side of the arena, catching my eye and causing me to go into a defensive position.

As I lowered the level of the smoke, I noticed a boy of about 14 years old, wearing a simple navy-blue short-sleeved shirt with a high collar and the Uchiha symbol on the back, as well as simple black shorts.

The boy looks at me for a moment and says.

"Sharingan!"

*Tsimmm

His eye awakens the sharingan with only 1 tome, it doesn't seem like much, but a sharingan for a gennin/chunnin level ninja is quite a lot, especially since the boy seemed to be a chunnin and not a gennin anymore.

Putting this to the test, I planned a move to finish him off in one fell swoop.

Throwing three shurikens in an arc to the enemy's right, I calmly prepared my Lightning Bolt Jutsu.

Making the Ushi hand sign, the lightning formed in my hand as I held my katana, the katana almost boiling hot.

The boy, without taking his eyes off me, used a kusanagi he was wielding at that moment to deflect the shurikens and made the same ushi hand sign as me, but with only one hand.

After making the sign, I was surprised to see that his hand was also imbued with the Lightning Bolt jutsu.

"What?" I thought in surprise.

With no time to be surprised, I started running towards the boy with my katana imbued.

Arriving near the middle of the path, I threw my katana, not releasing it, but using the momentum generated by the firing of the jutsu to increase my striking speed, while the boy continued to watch me coldly without losing sight of me for a second.

Before I could get completely close to him, I threw a smoke bomb in front of him to disrupt the use of his doujutsu.

Normally, smoke or any kind of mist couldn't limit a Sharingan user's vision, but the moment the smoke bomb exploded, it could create a blind spot even for a Sharingan user, but it was merely a brief distraction, this was my last chance before getting into a tricky situation.

*Poof

The smoke rises and I make my move.

*Tchim

He manages to use his imbued sword to defend himself, and as the smoke clears, I see those red eyes with their single tomoe swirling around the pupil as soon as he sees me through the smoke.

For a brief moment, with an expression of fear... I smile.

"Huh?" The boy mutters.

*Tchlak Tchlak

"Ahh"

He groans out of breath from the shock of being speared in the back by two of my clones.

Before I had planned to attack him with my lightning Bolt jutsu, I knew that he could easily copy the jutsu and use it both to defend himself and to attack me, using those shurikens was in fact not a distraction but a preparation for a blow, 2 of those 3 shurikens were transformed clones that would use the boy's low guard to deliver their deadly blow.

This was all due to the fact that the enemy's Sharingan was only one tomoe, so not very well developed, and also the fact that he was not a very formidable enemy, this was a weak Sharingan user, next time I will not be able to count on the same luck.

The boy falls to the ground, writhing in pain, his life bar slowly dropping due to the bleeding.

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[Tip: Use the opportunity to rest when you kill a horde early, usually hordes appear every 5 minutes, so use the opportunity to rest].

[12:14 minutes].

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While waiting the about 2 minutes and 46 seconds of rest, I sat on the ground and looked at the inside of my forearm until I touched it with my other hand and the number on it changed from [12:48] to [12,510].

"Ahh, that must be the score... how many Super Coins will I get with these points?" I wondered.

After another 1.5 minutes of rest, I read the following message.

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[Next horde on the way].

[14:40]

...Tic-tac-tic-tac

[15:00]

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*Puff

Once again, a small puff of smoke appears on the other side of the arena, but this time, when the level of the smoke is lowered, a white mask appears.

"I don't believe it... Anbu ?" I complained to myself.

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Author note 

If we hit 100 power stones by Saturday, I'll post 1 extra chapter

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