No Room For Regret

( Land of fire, team 10)

Daiki was currently standing at the top of a tree looking down at his students who had surrounded a building covering all three of the entrances.

' I wonder what exactly are they going to do?' asked himself as he kept watching to see the plan they had come up with.

( Team 10)

The three moved in unison opening the door at the three entrances and throwing what looked to be a smoke bomb into the building before closing the door and jumping to higher ground.

BOOM!!*3

Three small explosions occurred as smoke started filling the building at an astonishing pace completely blocking all of the windows, it wasn't long after that the doors burst open and the bandits rushed out coughing and trying to catch their breath.

"Cough!!!,who attacked us, come out now!!!" One of the bandits shouted looking around drawing the other's attention as they stood up shakily and looked around.

But it's a pity, they couldn't find the three genin standing in the tree above that had them surrounded.

Three children surrounding twenty men could only make sense in a world like this, ordinary people were nothing compared to shinobi even if it was just a genin.

The three looked at the gathered bandits below pulled out eight kunai four in each hand threw them in sync.

Whoosh!!!!*24

The sound of the kunai cutting through the air caught the bandit's attention and they looked up, to see and rain of kunai falling on them.

Sqwelp!!!

BAM!!!!

Bodies dropped one after the other as the kunai went through eyes, heads, necks, and even the occasional heart, the green forest floor was quickly dyed red with blood.

"Ahhhh!!!" Screams echoed of the unlucky ones who survived the initial attack but were still seriously injured and could only wait for death.

Out of the twenty bandits, four were still alive and screaming, they lay on the ground in a mix of their fallen comrade's blood and their own, putting pressure on their wounds trying to hang on to the last bit of life they had left, as they continued to scream.

' Not bad for their first time.' Daiki thinks to himself as he watches the reactions of his team.

Shikamaru, Choji, and Ino all looked horrified and their hands were shaking, Daiki knew they didn't have it in them to kill the last four, but that was no problem.

He jumped down to them.

" Good job you three let's go down and clean up." He says as they follow him.

Slash!!!!

As they dropped down they stood in blood as the smell of blood entered strongly into their nose and the weakening screams echoed in their ears, Daiki of course unaffected as he had seen and done far worse, but the others looked worse but none of them was vomiting or crying and Daiki personal counted that as a win.

" You three step back." Daiki says forming seals as his mouth swells and he spits out a fireball.

" Fire style: fireball jutsu."

If the place smelt bad before the smell of burning flesh didn't help as the genin covered their noses.

" Don't, take it in the sooner you get accustomed to this the better it will be, this will become a regular sight as ninjas of the hidden leaf." Says Daiki.

The three listened but couldn't hold on for long as they all vomited up whatever was in their stomachs.

They stayed until the fire was done and all the bodies and the building were no more, only then did they start to head back to the village.

As they walked Daiki could see they weren't themselves, but he also knew they needed to get over it.

" Do you think that was bad?" Daiki asked.

They looked at him and nodded.

" You haven't seen anything yet, your generation is lucky, heck even mine is, we have never experienced war or a time when genin was forced to go to the battlefield, but those times did exist, they are countless lives that have been lost to bring this peace, what you did today was nothing compared to those times." Says Daiki.

" The ninja world isn't peaceful, a war could happen at any time, you need to be able to protect yourself, and those important to you, and everyone else causing harm to the village or having any such thoughts need to be dealt with."

" Otherwise if you want to feel sorry for them and show mercy I promise you they won't do the same to you, and it will cost you everything."

Listening to Daiki they clenched their fist, and the expression on their face went through many changes.

" Does it get easier?" Ino asked.

" Easier? Well, truthfully I don't know 'cause it wasn't that hard for me to begin with." Says Daiki.

" I know that's not the answer you want to hear, so I'll explain, I would only feel bad if I regret killing them and haven't regretted killing anyone so far because they all deserved it, they were either a danger to the village or a danger to me, if you want to make it as easy as possible just make sure you never kill someone and regret it, that's when things get bad." Says Daiki.

" So knowing those bandits were causing losses to your home and if given the chance they would have surely killed you, do any of you regret what you have done today?" Daiki asked.

"...."

But they didn't answer.

" Think it through and come to your own answer, your own ninja way." Daiki says as they continue walking returning to the village and going their separate ways.

( Hokage Office)

" How did it go?" Hiruzen asks.

" Mhm, could have been better, I just told them the truth."

" You think that will be enough?" The third asks.

" It will have to be if they can't even come to terms then they aren't shinobi, even though this generation is weak and very much protected because of this surface-level peace they need to be strong and have the willingness to kill and protect the village otherwise they have no use as shinobi, that's just the world we live in." Says Daiki.

" Don't you want to change that? Change this world filled with war and death?" Hiruzen asks.

" Of course, but I can't do it alone, those three have potential if they can achieve it they will be of great help to me in achieving my goals but they still need to experience the world and come into their own first." Says Daiki.

" Now I'm just giving them my opinion, I want them to form their own after they have experienced the life of a shinobi, so old man make sure you have more missions ready for us until the chunin exams."