chap. 10 - Another Day of Struggle

I wake up and realize that it is still night. I am lying on the grass, which is quite cozy and relaxing, if it weren't for the fact that my body is extremely weak.

"I look to the side and see Kira, holding a glass and a bottle.

"I'm feeling like I got my ass kicked by Grandma after hiding your gambling money." I reply to him, who nods as if he understands.

Which in fact he does, I accurately compare my body pain, I once hid Grandma's gambling money, and got beaten so badly I was in bed for two days. And of course, Kira watched from the sidelines.

From this I learned that you should never hide your money from Grandma when she is stressed.

"Drink this, the fruits that make up this juice, are grown in Racoon village." he says holding out a glass and filling it with juice. "When you finish drinking it, start meditating, and in a short time, you will regain some chakra."

I turn the glass of juice around at once, slowly sit down, and begin to meditate.

Two hours later, Hayama sensei returns from his round, and sees me sitting meditating. He lights a fire, puts a pot on the fire, some herbs and some meat and water, and lets it cook.

He sits there nearby, trying his best not to make any noise to maximize my chakra recovery as much as possible.

I stop meditating. "Hayama sensei, I'm sorry for completely losing my mind. I did something that could and still can harm our mission." I tell him, knowing my mistakes.

"Kid, this mission would be at most a rank C mission, which being your first, is already out of common sense. But seeing the scene we saw, if you remained indifferent to it, I would feel awkward working with you afterwards." he tells me in all honesty.

"I understand sensei, but still, the mission...." he doesn't let me finish.

"Boy, what you saw there was the worst kind of human being that could ever exist. "No, I take those words back, that was the worst kind of demons.

"Understand Nox, you are a human being, driven by dreams and feelings, like a shinobi, you always have to keep a cool head, calculate your steps, stay strong. But sometimes you will see things that throw all that away, no matter how experienced you are, anyone will do what you did." he drinks some more of his water.

"No, what you did only the First Hokage could do, others like me would torture and kill in other ways.

"When sensei goes to deliver the report, can you take out the mokuton part and put that I killed with the sword? I don't want to get my hopes up that I can do it being that for every jutsu I did, I squeezed every drop of chakra I had in my body. I don't know if I can do it again," I ask him. If he keeps in the report, the most that will happen is that I will be asked to watch, I will do it and pass out.

"It's obvious kid, I would never do my report without talking to you. It's important for the village to know how strong you are, but sometimes not letting them know prevents the enemy from knowing as well."

The food is ready, Kira joins us to eat and offers another juice, which we thank her for and drink. We rest for a while, then continue the mission.

The sun was just beginning to rise when we arrived at said cave. We see the watchman dozing at the entrance. I quickly search for any ninja sensors in the area. As I don't find any, our attack begins.

I quickly get to the watchman, and my sword pierces his throat, making it impossible for him to make any sound.

We continue to enter the cave, where we find a group of girls between 13 and 25 years old tied up, unfortunately, all of them lifeless.

I try to keep my calm as much as possible, until we reach the last door, which when we open, we see some more girls on the floor, and 6 men lying sleeping peacefully.

Sensei and I start killing, until one of the girls wakes up and screams in fright. The last 3 remaining ninjas wake up and see us. They quickly grab their weapons that were next to the beds and attack us.

Both sensei and I look at each other and run for the exit. They chase us very closely. As soon as we reach the entrance one of them does a ground jutsu, a group of spears come out of the walls and almost hit us.

By dodging the attacks, we slowed down, which made the other two catch up with us.

"Which one of you is Iwana?" I ask looking at the one in front of me.

"Me, the mighty Iwana of Kiri." he replies striking a pose.

"Trade with me sensei. I want to kill you." I tell Hayama as we switch places.

Sensei throws a cutting wind jutsu at the guy who was coming out of the cave, and at the same time started attacking with his kenjutsu.

I hold my sword with a slightly looser grip, and begin my attack. Studying the enemy, he is average like me in speed, is defending himself with kunais, and is no better than me in physics.

I start to press a little harder, sometimes leaving a lighter grip on the weapon in order to have more speed, and other times a heavier grip in order to have more striking blows.

The fight between us had already lasted a minute, and he was still stuck in my test, so I started to make small wounds in his body, small but painful, small but bleeding well. I want to kill this kid while he is in pain.

Sensei had already killed the two dogs that were with the shit that gets beaten up by me.

Another minute later, I see a dying being, tired, sore, and desperate.

"So, do you surrender?" I ask him.

"Yes" he drops his weapons to the ground.

Sensei slowly moves forward, picks up the weapons, ties the man up, and enters the cave again.

A short time later he comes out with the girls that were inside, there are a total of 4 girls, who as soon as they see him tied up, run to him and beat him to death.

The four girls then kneel on the ground, take the kunais, and kill themselves.

We go back into the cave, put the bodies of the ninjas away, pick up all the girls' bodies, and I do an earth jutsu to cover them, and then collapse the cave on my way out. I take a stone and write "Here rest the Warriors of Kisaragi."

We return to Konoha.