The Curse of Hatred!

{Somewhere in the Land of Rain}

Hikaru looked over the notification of level-ups once again. Even before he fought the Sand Jonin, he knew that he would gain a lot from this fight which was why he even used his Mangekyo powers for this fight. 

'If I hadn't used 'Tokotachi' the fight would have lasted longer and I would have lost much more pupil power than this. I'm not confident I confident that I could beat him without the Mangekyo...' Hikaru thought as he looked around, the loss wasn't much right now but he didn't want to tempt fate.

'The difference between the Mangekyo Sharingan and the Eternal Mangekyo is that every Sharingan has the capabilities to evolve into the Mangekyo Sharingan. But to evolve into the Eternal you need a matching pair of Mangekyo Sharingan that are compatible with each other.' Hikaru thought as he looked at his status screen.

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[Name: Hikaru Uchiha]

[Age: 8]

[Lvl: 32 (71,550/150,000)]

[Chakra: 4042]

[Pupil Power: 99.998%]

[STR: 72.98][+]

[END: 85.57][+]

[DEX: 99.55][+]

[INT: 76.12][+]

[CP: 80.85]

[Points: 46]

[Current Strength - High-Jonin/Low-Kage]

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Hikaru looked at his level for a moment and then he looked at the exp needed for the next level up. The amount of Exp needed was getting a bit ridiculous but it still wasn't the worst, he looked down at Ryuu's face, his kunai that was still buried through his temple, and gulped.

Now that the adrenaline levels were coming down and he knew that there was no threat nearby he was able to see a lot more. The twisted expression of pain on Ryuu's face which was forever imprinted in his brain was a little hard to ignore so he took out a scroll and sealed Ryuu's body within it.

Hikaru flickered away from the place they fought and went back in the direction of base camp. After traveling for around 1km, he found a small section of trees that he could rest in but it screamed too much of a trap to him.

'Should I go back and rest for a bit...' Hikaru debated as he looked at the base camp for a moment and then decided against it. Tsunade would not allow him to go out again and he needed the Exp...

Hikaru froze as he stopped himself and changed his line of thought, even though it had almost been 2 and a half years since he woke up in this world, at the back of his mind he still most of the time regarded the world as Kishimoto's creation.

It wasn't until today when he killed the Sand Jonin that the world suddenly became too real, there was no plot armor, he could die at any point and he could kill anyone or even destroy the world.

His thoughts went through a dark phase for a bit before Hikaru slowly came out of the slump he was in. The effect of the Sharingan on one's thought was a bit obvious to him now. He wasn't someone with suicidal or even psychopathic tendencies but even still he could think about the world so callously was a bit beyond him.

The Sharingan allowed him to see through almost anything, he could remember Ryuu's pointless struggles in the face of death. The huge disparity in perception was what allowed him to disregard the world for a bit.

'Is this how Madara was manipulated by the Zetsu, why would a genius shinobi who mourned the death of his brothers and made friends with Hashirama change so much? How did he become a twisted individual who wanted to reduce the whole world into nothing with a massive genjutsu?' Hikaru thought as he looked at his shaking hands.

Ever since he had pushed his kunai past Ryuu's temples, the sensations and the power in his body overwhelmed his senses as his hand started trembling. Hikaru stared at it for a moment and slowly but surely the trembling stopped...

'I don't feel too different...' Hikaru thought, after the trembling and the dark thoughts went away he was back to normal.

'Am I too callous?' Hikaru questioned as he stood up, he looked back at base camp but decided against reporting as he went back towards the Land of Rain.

The questions and thoughts kept on popping into Hikaru's mind and he tried to ignore them. The Village Hidden in the Rain was around 200 km away from their location, but Hikaru didn't have to go all the way there for his mission. There was an outpost of rain shinobi just 50 km from the border.

'Let's hurry up and get this over with, I just need to fire a long-range ninjutsu or throw kunai with chakra explosive tags from a distance and then run away...'

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{Around 1 hour later}

Hikaru sat on a tree with his eyes closed as he sensed around for how many people were in which buildings. His task was to test the basic response of Amegakure so he didn't have to attack the building with too many people in. 

The outpost was a selection of houses in a small village, if it weren't for his sensing he would have to walk closer to confirm.

'What are they doing here, so close to our borders already and attacking Amegakure, it doesn't make sense...' Hikaru thought as he stared at Sunagakure shinobi who was hiding behind a building as well.

'Were our plans exposed?'

The Suna shinobi communicated among themselves with hand seals before they slinked into the ground and started applying explosive tags on different parts of the buildings.

'What are they trying, why are they targeting civilians,' Hikaru thought. He didn't do anything just saw that in the next few minutes, several buildings with civilians still in them were destroyed with explosive tags.

~Booom~ ~Booom~ ~Booom~ 

As Hikaru stared in shock at the things Suna shinobi were doing they then rushed at the Ame shinobi that were flooding in from their outpost. A short battle ensued in which neither of the sides took any casualties and after a bit, the Suna shinobi escaped through the ground.

...

Ame shinobi started expanding their search so Hikaru had to evacuate the area, on the way back he was still a bit confused as to how and why whatever he saw happened.

'Why were all of the Suna shinobi proficient in the earth escape technique, could they be from Iwa trying to muddle the waters, but then how would they even know the various wind techniques that they did...'

The situation was confusing and his previous gloomy thoughts vanished, right now he had to hurry back and report what he had just seen.

'What in the world is going on...'

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