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"I'm going to have to warn you to stop spewing that killing intent, chunin san. There's no benefit for us to kill each other." Karna said in an unfazed voice under the torrent of pressure being pressed on him. However, his words were sent to Coventry as the chunin rushed at him with his Kunai.
The chunin rotated the kunai in the palm and upon reaching him slashed it targeting his throat, but when the tip of the kunai was a few centimetres away from touching his neck, he slightly tilted his head backwards, evading the threatening blow. The chunin kept striking at his vital points and Karna narrowly dodged each of them. Suddenly, the chunin kicked hard at his abdomen but Karna blocked it by crossing his hands. Still, the force of the kick was enough to send him flying in the air.
Karna floating through the air somersaulted twice and landed on his feet. He looked at the chunin with an unwavering cold gaze, "Allow me to make myself clear. I'm saying this for the last time; if you come at me again with the intent to kill you will be left without a head."
"What did you just say?" the chunin was enraged as he quickly formed hand signs and a small dome of water formed in the air.
[Water style: Water bullets]
Small pebbles of water came out from the dome and blasted Karna. Hundreds of pebbles the size of a small ball blasted the area around where Karna was standing.
"Don't worry, Kenji kun. I'll take you to the medic after I finish off this traitor." The chunin muttered as he came beside Kenji.
Kenji lying in his pool of blood looked at the chunin with bloodshot eyes.
'What the fuck is Shinji doing here? He's interrupting my fight again,' Kenji thought inwardly.
Shinji was a special jounin who moved around with Kenji all the time. He told him before that he was trying to protect him, but Shinji was only doing it to get his hands on an A-rank jutsu from the Mizukage. He did his absolute best to try to impress the Mizukage in any possible way but as a chunin, he had very less opportunities. Finally, today when he saw this opportunity to execute a potential spy he wasn't going to let it go.
"He's bound to die or be heavily injured; even his unnatural speed can't save him anymore."Shinji smiled and looked with anticipation at the area that his jutsu had absolutely demolished.
When the onslaught of the water bullets stopped, the view was clear to Sinji's eyes, but unlike what he had thought, Karna was nowhere to be seen.
"You just don't listen, do you?" A voice reached his ears, and as he tracked it down, he found Karna standing far away from the demolished area.
"How did he?... body replacement jutsu, that must be it!" Shinji looked at Karna with clear hatred in his eyes.
"If that doesn't work..." Shinji suddenly started pacing toward Karna with his hands bought together to form a new set of seals.
But, all of a sudden, Karna disappeared from his field of vision. The sudden disappearance startled him as his hands halted making seals.
(A.N- listen to Goated by Armani White while reading the next paragraph)
"Huh!?" a second later a small hand grabbed his face. It was so small that it couldn't cover his entire face but when it intensified its grip the strength in it was enough to pierce through his skull.
BOOM!
Karna slammed Shinji's head into the ground, cracking it open from behind. It created a small crater and debris and dust rose everywhere around them.
"They just don't fucking listen! I show a little mercy and they take it as weakness!" Karna didn't give Shinji any time to retaliate as he flung Shinji in the air by his head.
The world slowed down as Karna jumped in the air. He rotated in the air with his leg outstretched, a whistling sound of the air being split apart trailed behind from wherever his leg traversed through. His leg— with the force of splitting open large trees—crashed into Shinji's ribs, shattering them like biscuits.
Whoosh! Boom!
Shinji traversed through the air as if a launched cannonball and landed in the far corner of the training ground.
"Cough, cough..." Blood and bits of inside came out of his mouth as he coughed hard.
He barely lifted his upper body and looked at Karna with hatred and bloodshot eyes. He was in no position to fight anymore, blood flowed down from the back of his head and most of his ribs were shattered or crooked.
"Why..."Shinji began to speak, but Karna cut him off as he suddenly appeared before him and performed a flicking gesture before his forehead.
"When you reach whatever afterlife that awaits you ask whatever god you serve why he let me kill you," Karna said as a small ball of green, rotating chakra surrounded by a ring materialised on his index finger. It was as tiny as a small pebble.
[wind release: compressed Rasengan]
Next, he gently flicked at Shinji's forehead and when the ball of chakra touched Shinji's head, his head exploded like a watermelon, scattering blood and remains of his head all around the place.
"Hieeeek!" Kenji who spectated all of this gasped looking at the brutal scene.
"Now, what should I do about you?" Karna said as he slowly approached Kenji.
Kenji completely ignored Karna and kept staring at the lifeless body of Shinji dropping to the ground with a small 'thud'. His eyes widened in fear and disbelief while his entire body shivered uncontrollably.
"H-How? H-How... c-could y-you kill someone like dat? H-How could you kill someone in broad daylight? D-Do you not fear the law?" Kenji asked stuttering from his broken jaw as he tried to crawl away from the approaching figure of Karna.
But, Karna didn't give him a chance as he suddenly appeared before him at a blistering speed and crouched down to meet his eyes.
"Always remember this Kenji, this world is a jungle and it is ruled by the law of the jungle. Here, the stronger ones are the predators and the weaker ones are the prey. Here, the law is what the predators say and according to my law, a prey lives by the will of a predator; However, when a prey bares its fangs against a predator, it deserves to be consumed. So, what will you choose Kenji? Will you be consumed by me or will you submit your will to me?" Karna asked as his eyes glowed slightly and the world behind him darkened as the sun was nearing its rest.
At that moment, that little body of a seven-year-old looked like a humongous beast in Kenji's eyes. From the corner of his eyes, he took a peak at the lifeless body of Shinji. It seemed to steel his decision as he weakly nodded before Karna with his eyes kept low.
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