Reaction of the Divine Cube

Staring at the lifeless eyes of the dead nin, Rayzen was stunned by the realisation that he took a life. Although he felt the urge to vomit, he still stamped it down.

Such a reaction was not due to the gore, but due to the fact that he had killed a human life that was fundamentally no different from his! The reason why he stamped it down was so that he won't disrespect the life he took by not acknowledging what he did. He knew this was the first of many such things that he would have to deal with in the future, if ever he was not selfish enough to care only about him.

He removed his fist from the chest of the dead young man and closed his eyes. And then gently laid him down on the ground.

He was feeling his legs turning into jelly, not from any fear. But from the feeling of having lost in such an ironical manner. He had the power to easily kill these two nin within seconds. But he lacked enough power to do what he wanted, to save them!

While he sat down so that he could breath calmly and gather his thoughts, he was doing the exact opposite as he was constantly evaluating what transpired, just as human nature would.

He was woken up from his fantasies of life about this world by the reaction he got from the Divine Cube. He felt his connection to the cube was strengthening slowly. As he used his soul force to detect what was happening, he felt something ethereal was being pulled out from the dead body of the nin into the cube whose tattoos became visible near Rayzen's chest.

Everything was over in a few seconds and the tattoo on his chest disappeared too. At the same time, Rayzen recieved some information from the Divine Cube.

Done with going through the information he received in a few seconds, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, while inside he felt he was being tortured. His hollow laugh was due to amusing nature of his current situation; wherein he was ' rewarded ' for doing something ' wrong '.

Although the right or wrong aspect of it is debatable, Rayzen was not concerned by it. According to him, he was forced to do something that he was extremely against, solely due to the lack of his power, his abilities...

Rayzen never felt Danzo was in the wrong here. If anything he should be grateful to him, for showing what kind of word he was truly in. For showing how someone with his capabilities was living in a dream instead of making good use of what he has.

Nonetheless, he was never going to forget the lives lost for learning his lesson. Yes, lives! Not life!

Rayzen had already detected, from the use of his soul force, that the boar masked nin had gained consciousness and was pretending to be knocked out.

It was not that he just activated his soul force and found this coincidentally. But he had never withdrawn his soul force ever since he released it after knocking out the boar masked nin.

Rayzen slowly got up and instead of going to the boar masked nin, fixed the cat mask back on to the dead man's face. He then walked towards the boar masked nin without any hurry.

He knew the boar masked nin was waiting for the best moment to make his final attempt to take Rayzen down. Just as he was a few metres near him, Rayzen spoke in a low tired voice that was enough for the nin to hear :

" Stop pretending! "

Knowing that this was not enough, he threw a shuriken aimed at his head too, which the guy blocked with his hidden kunai.

Rayzen had a cold expression on his face as he walked towards the, now conscious, nin as he said: " Didn't you want me to show my 'answer' ?! "

The boar masked nin was crawling away from Rayzen as his legs had been broken by him. The boar masked nin was staring at Rayzen in fear.

Sensing the fear oozing out of the boar masked nin, Rayzen was surprised. Nonetheless, he didn't stop as he activated his Byakugan from under the headband that covered both of his eyes.

Using Byakugan, he saw that the guy had too many explosion seals on him like the other nin he killed. But it seemed as if this guy was not even considering taking Rayzen down with him as an option.

The boar masked nin was scared for his life and by the kid who seemed unstoppable. Especially the eerie scene of the kid approaching him while covering both his eyes, made him feel as if the reaper was coming for him. No matter how he moved, he couldn't escape his fate!

Rayzen didn't want to give the boar masked nin an opportunity to resist once he approached him. He swiftly stabbed the nin's chest using his kunai.

It was so fast that the boar masked nin barely lifted his kunai just after getting stabbed. The kunai was lodged in his heart and hence he lost his consciousness before he could finish his words:

" I... don't want to... "

The boar masked nin died a few moments later as Rayzen once again felt that something ethereal was pulled from the corpse into the tattoo in his chest.

Although the place they were at seemed to be abandoned, Rayzen didn't want to take any risk as he collected himself for the moment and left after clearing the scene.

Rayzen ran back to his home. He needed some time off as he felt mentally drained by his actions that conflicted with his pre-established values.

About ten minutes after he left, another group of Root nins came and checked out the area where they battled. Even though they saw signs of battle and blood, there were no bodies. It seemed as if someone took the corpses. They disappeared into the night, after eliminating all signs of battle and even the scent of blood in the area.

They had to report to Lord Danzo that the kid had passed his test with flying colours!