Determination

"How many enemies Hoshi?" In the clearing, Asahi was looking around for any signs.

"Four, two hiding behind that tree, one to the right and one near that bush."

"Just that? Are you sure?" when obtaining confirmation "I will take care of this, go ahead after this clearing is the Country of Rivers the Tanigakure ninjas should not be far away" approaching Hoshi's ear he said "and be careful with them"

Opening his eyes for a moment, Hoshi nodded "be careful Asahi, let's go" when they were about to leave the clearing the hidden ninjas again attacked from a distance.

But this time, Asahi responded with his own shuriken, the collision produced many flashes.

By identifying the places where the attacks came from, he agreed with what Hoshi said.

Throwing some kunai to those places, the four ninjas revealed themselves, wearing an outfit without affiliation and had half of their faces covered with cloth.

"Just a kid, this will be easy" said one of them mockingly.

Pulling the sword out of his sheath, Asahi watched them calmly, but inside he was very nervous and a little scared, it was the first time that he had engaged in a real battle.

The unknown ninjas pulled out kunais and ran towards Asahi.

Strengthening his grip on his sword, Asahi recalled Nōka and Sakumo's teachings.

When the first ninja was close to him, he attacked with the kunai, soon the others caught up with him and started attacking him, Asahi just backed off and deflected the attack when he couldn't.

After a few rounds, Asahi was surprised by one thing, 'these ninjas are very slow!' he thought he.

Compared to the speed of his masters, even if he added up the speed of the four's attacks, they were still slower.

Another thing that had to be said, was Asahi did not carry the weights, he was not as fast and not as stupid as Rock Lee, to carry weights at all times, and less on a mission outside the village.

That day while he was practicing Soru with the weights on, when he realized it, he cursed for a full hour, but he hadn't had time to practice again, shortly after Nōka arrived and they left for this mission.

As he kept dodging, the other ninjas were just as surprised that he 'this kid is fast' they all thought.

Walking away, they decided to use ninjutsu.

"Fire Style: Combined Flame."

The four of them released a stream of fire that came together.

Seeing the flames approaching Asahi frowned.

"Water Style: Water Wall Formation."

This was the B-rank version of the jutsu that he first learned.

A rotating vortex made of water formed around Asahi protecting him from the fire and generating a wave of steam.

When the flames stopped Asahi canceled the jutsu.

Quickly retreating from where he was standing, he saw several kunai fall into place.

He decided it was best to hide before the steam completely dissipated.

When the battlefield became visible, only the unknown ninjas and a patch of burned grass remained.

"Where did the boy go I" before he could continue speaking he felt a strong blow to his neck and fell to the ground.

Asahi had snuck in behind the furthest ninja and kicked him hard on the back of the neck.

When they heard the sound and saw his partner fall, the other three ran towards Asahi.

Deflecting the first sword attack from him, he kicked his abdomen, with enough force to send him to the ground.

The other received the treatment of the first, Asahi hit him on the neck and passed out.

Soon there was only one left, Asahi could recognize him as the one who had said he would be easy to deal with.

Backing away, the unknown ninja created space between the two.

Asahi ran towards him and they began a melee battle, although this ninja was not much stronger than the other three, he seemed to have much more experience.

When Asahi believed that he had it, he managed to escape, furthermore Asahi may not have realized it, but the reason for this was that he never attacked with the intention of killing.

Noticing that the other party, he seemed to start to get used to his attacks, Asahi backed away.

"Is that all boy? You may be faster and stronger, but you're still very green."

Hearing the taunts of the enemy, Asahi remained calm, he knew he lacked experience, keeping the sword he made several hand seals.

The enemy seeing that he kept the sword mocked more "Have you already given up, are you going to run away? Konoha is graduated to anyone these days"

Seeing Asahi perform hand seals, he stopped taunting and prepared to retreat or counterattack.

Taking the sword again, Asahi spat a stream of wind onto the blade.

Seeing this, the ninja relaxed a bit, he thought that Asahi would launch a powerful ninjutsu, the truth is that he was surprised that the boy had blocked the combined attack of the four, what he did not know, was that Asahi had spent a third of his chakra in defending himself against his jutsu.

Pouncing with his maximum speed on the enemy, with the sword covered in chakra, Asahi cut, and this is where the unknown ninja went wrong, being surprised by the speed of the attack, he did not dodge, and decided to raise the kunai to block.

Like a hot knife slicing through butter, the kunai split in two, the sword making its way into the ninja's body.

With a splatter of blood, the sword made a vertical cut through the ninja's torso, and they both stopped.

The ninja had a brief moment of shock, before dying, Asahi on the other hand was frozen in place, seeing the sword embedded in the now corpse of the ninja and the blood coming out of him felt dizzy.

He did not know what to do, his thoughts stopped, a serious error in the battle, in his daze he did not notice, that the ninja who had kicked in the stomach recovered, seeing the distracted Asahi, he immediately recognized that it was the first time killing'

Sneaking up he pulled out a kunai, when he came up behind Asahi. he stabbed her in the back.

At that moment Asahi felt a chill running down his spine, following his instincts he jumped aside, but it was too late.

"Arrgg" with yelled, the kunai embedded itself in the side of his body, enduring the pain Asahi turned and saw the ninja take out another kunai, before he could think, his body moved on its own and the sword was embedded in his throat of man.

Looking in disbelief, the light faded from the ninja's eyes and he fell.

Enduring the discomfort and pain, Asahi withdrew the kunai, sitting against a tree, keeping the other two in his line of sight.

Asahi sent a large amount of chakra to the injured area, soon the familiar warmth arrived, and the wound began to heal.

Feeling the burning pain and looking at the bloody kunai in his hand Asahi suppressed his discomfort 'I thought he had made up his mind to survive, but this is too much, how can little children in this world kill at six and be normal people, Will I also do something normal to kill? '

He suddenly felt a hand on his head, his body tensing when he was ready to attack, until he heard a familiar voice next to him.

"You are well?" Nōka and Fugaku had arrived, seeing the lost eyes of Asahi and the two bodies, Nōka understood what was happening to him.

"I'm fine Nōka-sensei, it's just a superficial wound" At this time the internal damage had almost recovered, leaving only the external wound.

"That feeling Asahi, do not forget it, but you must not lose yourself in it, in this world we must do what is necessary to survive, we have to kill to protect what we care about, what we love, you may not understand it yet, but one day you will do it". After saying that, Nōka saw the two who were still alive.

"Fugaku, take care of you" Saying that, Nōka picked up Asahi and inspected her wound.

Under Asahi's stunned gaze, Fugaku's eyes turned blood red and he woke up the defeated ninjas and forced them to look into his eyes, it seems that in the time, that Nōka was out, Fugaku awakened the Sharingan.

After he spilled everything they knew, Fugaku stabbed a kunai in the neck of the first, when he was about to finish off the second, Asahi stopped him.

"Wait Fugaku" as Fugaku watched him, he came to the side of him "What's wrong Asahi?"

"Release him from genjutsu" Fugaku did not refuse, he only looked at Nōka, seeing him nod he released his control of the ninja.

Gathering all the courage of two different lives, Asahi raised the sword.

Before the ninja begged him for mercy, he stabbed him through the heart.

As he watched life escape his eyes, he didn't look away, he kept looking at him until he saw no more light in his gaze.

'I have two ninja wars ahead of me, and one even more dangerous than the previous ones, unknown enemies that come from the sky, I can't stop here, I will continue to the end, spread my wings and cover the entire ninja world with them, I Asahi swear .

Asahi finally understood that the determination he had had was very weak, with a burning fire in his heart, the old determination burned, but from the ashes, a stronger one emerged.

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author's note:

In the last chapter, I put the kanji for valley, when describing the Tanigakure ninjas, and webnovel blocked the vote for the story. (Apparently it is forbidden to use Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters)

so i won't post new chapters, until i solve that problem.

I know, I'm a fool