Emotional Empowerment

At first, he had difficulty in battling the shadow clones while being handicapped. With them using shuriken and kunai throwing techniques, he initially had trouble dodging and retaliating. He eventually adjusted to it, such that it didn't harm him, but still the trick throws from the clones managed to keep him under their control and slowly corner him.

Frustration from being tied down, by these weapon throws that didn't pose him any danger, provoked Rayzen into losing his calm. And seeing the taunting faces of the people who hurt Asami, he slowly lost himself in his rage.

The clones possessing the same thought process as his knew how to provoke Rayzen the best and was successful in their efforts.

A drastic change appeared in Rayzen's fighting style! Instead of dodging anymore, he just took out his kunai and striked down all the projectiles targeting him. Influenced by his strong emotions, particularly rage, his Sharingan seemed to have a bit of increase in its prowess. Just enough so that he could follow the trajectories of all, if not most of the projectiles.

He striked down most of the projectiles and tanked their recoil, while few of the rest he managed to strike it back at the clones usually in trick shots. What remained of the projectiles escaped his control and managed to strike him. But by swerving his body to reduce impact force and due to the toughness of his body achieved by cultivation, the shurikens and kunais didn't succeed in drawing blood. At most they managed to make him feel pain.

In this way, he acquired an opportunity to approach a clone and corner it by throwing the kunai in his hand. A single well timed punch of his utilised the chance provided by the thrown kunai to make the clone explode. Only three shadow clones were left! Two having same face, while one different.

Five minutes into a battle where the first four minutes were spent by him and the clones making an effort to land a punch and the rest on a battle of thrown weapons, Rayzen managed to get a slight edge over the clones.

The longer a battle, the more exhaustive it was, to both the body and mind. Although he was not even close to being exhausted, being only able to take out only a single clone and that too taking this much time, made him all the more lose control of himself.

He started analysing everything with his Sharingan. Under the eyes that slowly became more and more red, there was nothing that existed other than the battlefield and the people he needed to kill! A singular thought occupied his mind, to eliminate the people who betrayed and hurt Asami.

As Rayzen was in the midst of analysing, the shadow clones too changed their tactics. They had the same level of thought process as his. Hence, when they saw Rayzen tanking their attacks that lacked power to stop or injure him, they too analysed the changes in their opponent and arrived at a battle plan.

All this took only a breath of time, as both parties ran towards each other with the intention of battling at close range. The clones had an advantage in that one stayed back while two went ahead to fight Rayzen.

Just as the first clone was about to punch Rayzen and he accordingly prepared to dodge and counterattack, it vanished from infront of him and the palm strike of the second clone reached him instead. Rayzen's eyes managed to barely capture the first clone arriving rapidly at his side and punching out at the same time as the approaching palm strike of the second clone.

For someone with a normal pair of eye, it appeared as if, the first clone teleported to Rayzen's side along with the fist it punched out at the same angle, but now aimed at his side. And it was such that both the strikes of clone arrived at the same time.

' Body Flicker Jutsu! '

The strikes of the clone managed to restrict Rayzen's escape path to one, as the both of them prepared to lauch a kick at him.

Seeing no other way Rayzen jumped up, only to feel a sense of danger. Under the vision of his Sharingan, he was able to see an approaching fireball from the third clone.

Under such a crisis, finding no way to dodge in mid-air, his Sharingan focused on the fireball first and then at the legs approaching from below him. And just as gravity pulled him down, he made his move.

Diving down towards the kicks, he was able to see the accumulating chakra reach the soles of the feet of the clones from the Micro-Burst jutsu. Just as he was about to be kicked , he striked at feet of both the clones using his hands while not using any chakra or technique.

This was done to exploit a flaw of the Micro-Burst jutsu that Rayzen discovered. If the accumulated chakra is not let out and the path of intended strike got blocked or deviated by a large margin, it will implode the area where chakra was accumulated upto when the attack got blocked or deviated.

The two shadow clones exploded into smoke and Rayzen used Micro-Burst jutsu to propel him to the ground, by increasing the speed of his descent due to the chakra and physical outburst from his feet.

He managed to barely evade the fireball jutsu as a part of his legs got singed from the flames. In all the rage and adrenaline, it was as if he didn't feel any pain, as he rolled just as he reached the ground and ran at the third and last clone.

By the time he reached the third clone, it was about to blow a fireball at him for the second time. Just as it was about to spew the fireball, Rayzen approached it while looking straight into the clone's eye.

It was as if the clone lost its soul, as it remained paralysed facing Rayzen. It's eyes losing its lustre.

' Genjutsu: Sharingan ! '

Rayzen managed to put his clone that had the same Sharingan as him under an illusion!

The test was successful as Rayzen himself experienced the emotional empowerment of Sharingan.

He took out his kunai from his holster and slowly penetrated it into the middle of the eyebrows of the clone. It too exploded into smoke!

A person descended from a nearby tree and approached him. It was another clone of his. It dispersed under his command and Rayzen now was able to understand what really was happening behind this state of emotional empowerment. This was so since Rayzen had this clone activate the Byakugan and closely observe his body throughout the battle.

Rayzen laughed out excitedly at the discovery he made and was about to be engorged in it when he felt the pain from his legs due to getting singed. It was a light wound that would heal with time, but he didn't want to get infected and neither did he want Asami to see him treating his wounds at home, in order to not make her worry. He couldn't heal it there itself, since his medical gears were at home.

The healing jutsu he learnt couldn't be used yet as he had not graduated from healing small animals. Hence he didn't want to use this opportunity to practice on his body.

The pain was not that much, but still smaller the wound, higher the pain. He walked straight to Chizuru's home to get treated. The wound was not even capable of making a normal person limb, so he was fine with walking. At Chizuru's home he got treated, but had to return home feeling pain all over his body.

If it was getting beaten like normal it would have been fine due to his thick skin. But the woman had no scruples, as she activated her Byakugan and started beating him with a wooden stick that she somehow managed to acquire. He was thankfully saved by Mashiro.

Rayzen walked back home with a strong resolve oozing from his presence.

' I need to learn all kinds of medical techniques fast! Or the next time the demoness might torture me for days! '