Heaven's Feeling – 05

"Knight?" Naruto asked himself as he remembered some of the tales told by his bed warmers.

Naruto quickly blocked a side slash from one of the incoming longswords held by one of the Knights.

With his stronger than average strength, the blond pushed the weapon away and channelled charka through his weapon and slashed diagonally across his opponent.

The blade went through the man's armour unhindered from shoulder to waist before crashing into the ground at the end.

Naruto pulled the blade back, out of the ground, and kicked his opponent away.

The Knight's body spitted in half when he fell backward toward the ground, his comrades immediately took notice.

"What was that?" one of the knights said, pushing up his visor to see clearly.

Naruto held his great blade in his hand and glanced at his opponents.

There was half a dozen of them around him, yet he wasn't afraid.

He had fought against worst odd before, and still emerged victorious with some minor wounds.

"Let us get this over with," Naruto said with a smile as the knights closed their visors again.

One of them dashed forward and parried with the Sage.

Naruto blocked his thrust and slapped the offending blade to the side with his great sword's flat side via his shoulder before trying to spear the man through the head.

The knight tilted his head to dodge it before slashed Naruto's arm with a small knife he took out from his waist.

Naruto gritted his teeth as he jumped back, looking at the wound.

It would heal soon.

"Damn it, he's skilled not like my men," Naruto muttered under his breath before entering his stance again.

He looked at the other opponents in sight, but they remained standing with their sword stabbed on the ground, and their hands were on the hilt.

They were watching a duel and didn't want to interrupt.

Naruto turned back toward his opponent was dashing toward him with sword in a thrusting position.

Naruto position his hands, and great sword, up for a downward slash.

As soon as the Knight came close enough, Naruto let the hammer fall.

The Knight saw that, and jumped to the side, and then toward him again in a zigzag pattern as Naruto quickly spun around to evade the blade's thrust.

In the spinning motion, Naruto tried to attack the Knight again, aiming for Knight's head, but missed narrowly.

Both fighters moved back a bit and entered their combat stance again.

With a few heavy breathings, they re-engaged.

'Shit!' Naruto grumbled as the heavily armoured opponent dodged his strike with perfection before almost delivering a fatal blow on Naruto's body.

More of the Knight's companions nearby gathered around Naruto and his opponent.

They wanted to watch the duel, forgetting about the battle that was going on in the background.

'Shit, now I can't escape… they want a good fight? I will give them a good fight!' Naruto grumbled before roaring a battle cry.

The Knight wasn't shock at that, but at the speed Naruto now exhibited.

The sage channelled charka through his limbs muscles to improve his speed and strength as he dashed toward his opponent.

Naruto slashed the sword horizontally across the Knight's head with two hands.

Naruto's opponent ducked down, dodging that, but Naruto let one hand go off the blade.

He twisted his wrist and slammed the heavy blade vertically downward in mid swing with the other.

All the spectator's eyes widen at the feat.

Their comrade was gutted.

Blood and insides spilled on the dirty ground as Naruto pulled up his great sword from the carcass.

Naruto exhaled one deep breath before pointing the bloody blade at all of them, challenging them.

The spectators looked at each other, trying to see who should go next.

Before long, another one step forward and their swords clashed.

Naruto swung to the side as the man tried to parry with the blade.

Naruto smirked as he channelled charka into his weapon and it went through the man's steel sword, and half of his body in a single go.

Crimson liquids sprayed across the spectators' armour, but they remained still. Some were shocked before several of them nodded, and another combatant stood forward.

This one was more skilful than the last, but Naruto was getting the hang of their battle technique, and he understood how they fought.

It seemed like they all were trained together in some sort of barrack, thus most of their skills and techniques were similar.

Before long, the Knight's helmet flew off his head from being impacted by a hilt of the great sword.

He fell on his back as his opponent moved forward, and about to strike with the intention of ending his life.

"I YIELD!" he called out with one hand up as the great blade stopped only a few centimetres from his forehead.

Several sweat drops slid down his face, showing that he was exhausted from the duel.

He wasn't expecting to be spare during the duel as he did it on reflex.

"What does that mean?" Naruto asked as the man blinked.