I looked at Sawamura and he nodded at me. I stood and moved towards him. Looking at me moving towards a man with a buckled belt, everyone was surprised and whispered to each other. Not caring about their opinions of me, I walked to him and stopped his hand from reaching her by squeezing it strongly.
The entire hall fell silent. I looked at everyone and everyone was shocked. Some even opened their mouths wide enough to fill a whole chicken egg.
An angry and impatient voice asked, "What are you doing?". I looked at the man with the buckled belt; his face turned red with anger and if a person's gaze can kill then I would be dead by now.
I looked at him and said with a smile, "You took it too far. So, let's stop it here."
Just then I felt danger. I released his hand and held the owner's daughter and jumped back to the place where her father fainted. I put her next to her father. Other clones in disguise, came to me and took a battle stance.
I looked at Hinata, and Asuga, "take them to a safe place, and don't forget to keep Mr. Sawamura safe at all costs" and then looked towards Aoki, "provide emergency medical treatment."
Even though they were my clones, I still need to maintain the action for a more realistic scene so I do not get into trouble in the future. They left with the owner and his daughter. Then I looked at the crowd and said, "You can leave if you want to live and avoid trouble."
After I told the crowd to fuck off politely, I looked at two people with a hand in their hands standing ten feet away from me. After everyone left, the guy with the sword asked me, "Who are you? Do you even know who you are messing with?"
I looked at them calmly and said, "I do. The one with the Kusarigama is Tsutomu Miyazaki and the one with the chain sword is Kiyoshi Okubo, right? You were famous during the warring states period and famous as "Twin Reapers". The bounty on your head is around 60 million Ryo."
They looked at each other and then turned towards me and laughed. I am nervous since my first opponents were mercenary ninjas during the warring states period. I am up against two dangerous and ruthless opponents.
After observing them for a while now, I have a basic understanding of their characters. Tsutomu Miyazaki, a master of the Kusarigama, a weapon that combined a sickle with a chain. Introvert and calm as water; a man of few words. While Kiyoshi Okubo wielded a chain sword, a weapon that consisted of a sword with a long chain attached to the hilt. He is short-tempered and a psycho; he runs his mouth and wants to show off his arrogance. Another trait of his is that he is a rapist.
"You have no chance against us," Miyazaki said, his voice laced with arrogance.
I gritted my teeth because I knew "Twin Reapers" were known for their expertise in close combat.
I could see their weapons flashing in the dim light of the bar and they were giving me an ire feeling. I knew that I had to act fast and with precision before the village head even had a chance to interfere.
I drew my sword, assumed a defensive stance, and said, "We'll see about that."
Okubo laughed loudly and said, "You seem confident, but we are not to be taken lightly."
Twin Reapers looked at me like a hunter watching his prey. Without warning, Miyazaki swung his Kusarigama's sickle at me. In a moment, the sickle approached my neck. I ducked and dodged, narrowly avoiding the deadly sickle cutting my neck.
Okubo swung his chain sword towards my legs at the same time as I ducked. I swiftly leap over the chained sword and hold it with both hands as I swing it with a swift slice. I am aiming for the exposed back of the neck. But my attack is blocked by Miyazaki's kusarigama hammer attack. The impact deflected my sword away, leaving me defenseless.
Okubo charged towards me while retracting the chained sword into sword form. I pulled a kunai lightning-fast and hurled it toward Okubo. Okubo deflected the kunai with his chain sword, giving me a moment to escape successfully.
But I was still thrown back by the impact of Kusarigama's hammer force and used that momentum to gain more space between us. After deflecting the kunai, Okubo lunged forward, attacking with a flurry of slashes. However, he deftly parried each strike with precise movements of his sword due to specialized Anbu training.
The fight continued for what felt like hours, our movements so fast that they blurred together. I used every trick I learned from the book, dodging, blocking, and parrying their attacks. As I am fighting with Okubo, a kusarigama's hammer is hurled at me, aiming for my head.
I blocked Kusarigama's hammer with my sword. This time the attack felt different from the first time. Previously, when I defended against hammer attacks with my sword, it felt as if I was carrying a small mountain. But now it is as fluid but with the tearing force of water. My hands were numb and I lost control of my hands. I jumped back to gain some space between us to assess the condition of my body.
I felt numb and lost grip on both hands following the attack. I used medical ninjutsu that I learned to ease the numbness in both hands. I know I can't drag this battle any longer and I can't take any more damage. So, I won't end this battle immediately.
I looked at them and said, "You guys are going to regret picking a fight with me."
Then I vanished from my position and appeared before them. Both Miyazaki and Okubo were shocked to see me behind them. Before they could react, I swung my sword with all my might. But Okubo parried my attack with his chain sword, and Miyazaki joined the fight.
Both Miyazaki and Okubo moved with incredible speed, their weapons moving in unison as they tried to land a blow on me. I was quick, but they were skilled. I dodged their strikes and used my sword to keep them at bay. It continued with Miyazaki trying to bind me with kusarigama and Okubo swinging with all his strength to slice me. Just when their weapon is about to capture me, I will vanish and appear in another place.
As the fight carried on, I began to feel a sense of focus and determination take over. I could see their every move before they even made it, anticipating their strikes and countering them with my attacks. Both stopped attacking and looked at me with surprised looks and asked me,
"Who the hell are you? You can teleport so fluidly. There is no way you are just a mercenary. So, who the HELL RE YOU?"
Due to the training I received, I am still able to maintain a poker face despite their misunderstandings. That is not teleportation but "Body flicker jutsu"; I learned it as a part of Anbu training. This is a high-speed movement technique. A ninja can move short to long distances at almost imperceptible speed. To an observer, it appears as if the user has teleported. Normally, a trail of dust is left behind when the user uses this jutsu.
But if you master it, then it is the same as short-distance teleportation.
If you master "Body flicker jutsu" as Shisui did, then it will turn into a deadly mass massacre technique, and I have mastered it as Shisui did.
Both kusarigama and chain-sword are a type of weapon that sacrifices defense for increasing offense; this creates a window for an opponent to exploit the weakness of the user.
I smirked at them and said, "You're going to have to do better than that."
First Miyazaki launched an attack, swinging Kusarigama's sickle toward me. I dodged the sickle and launched a counter-attack, drawing a kunai and hurling it toward his opponent. When Miyazaki deflected the kunai with the Kusarigama chain in mid-air, the kunai spiraled away and embedded itself into the walls of the bar.
Okubo seized the opportunity to strike, charging forward at me with his chain sword swinging. I leaped into the air to avoid the chain sword's deadly reach and landed behind Okubo. With lightning-fast reflexes, I clenched my fist and delivered a powerful blow to the back of Okubo's head. Okubo was stunned and fell flat on the ground without any movement.
As Miyazaki continued to launch a flurry of attacks, suddenly the sound of a sickle whistle next to me caught me by surprise. But I was able to respond in time; with swift and fluid movements, I dodged and deflected each attack with ease. Then Miyazaki suddenly shifted his tactics, tossing the sickle towards my feet and then yanking it back, attempting to trip me up.
I leaped into the air, flipping over the sickle and landing on the chain, which he used to launch himself toward his opponent. With a powerful thrust of my punch, I knocked Miyazaki off balance and sent him sprawling to the ground. That's when Okubo, still recovering from my earlier blow, stood forcefully while catching his breath.
I closed the distance between us to deliver a finishing blow. Okubo struggled to defend himself but was unable to do so. As I was swinging my sword in front of him, Okubo closed his eyes, and a smile appeared on his pale face as he accepted his death. With a swift strike, I delivered the finishing blow. Okubo fell to the ground in a pool of blood.
I turned to face Miyazaki, who was panting heavily. His face turned red and his legs were shaking. I walked towards him, my sword at the ready. He knew he was no match for me. So, he tried to run, but I was too fast and appeared in front of him. With a single blow, I sliced his neck, and in a moment the sounds of his body and head hitting the ground echoed through the bar. But no one was there to hear or witness the final moment.
I searched through the bodies to find their belongings. Then I sealed both bodies and cleaned the area to prevent any leakage of information. Cleaning the battle site and masking the tracks were the basics of an Anbu. Except for damaged chairs, tables, and floors, I erased everything.
Kusarigama and chain-sword were added to my arsenal; with these, another two weapons were added to my weapon list.
After cross-checking everything, I used "Body flicker jutsu" to disappear from the bar instead of walking out of the front door. Since I am sure that many people were waiting for me and if not for the battle results being still unknown, they would have rushed inside. Just before leaving, I left some money as compensation for damages to the bar and that's the money I collected from "Twin reapers" bodies.
After leaving that place, I changed my body using "Transformation Jutsu". I mixed into the crowd to remove any tails that followed me. After half an hour of roaming around the village, I reached the meeting point to meet my clones.
Just a few meters away from the meeting point, I noticed a cat behaving suspiciously. After watching it for a minute, I am convinced that it is indeed suspicious. This is because its behavior is not characteristic of a normal cat, but rather that of a Ninja cat. So, I disguised myself as a small dragonfly and followed it.
After an hour of tailing, it entered a building and I also entered through a window when the window curtain moved due to air. A crystal light illuminated the center of the room. The crystal light isn't bright enough to fully light the room. A person is panting heavily on the ground facing crystal light. In addition, two black people are standing from top to bottom, facing away from the sitting person as if they were guarding the person. The crystal light falls on the sitting person's sweaty face, reflecting his facial features.
His appearance is that of a man in his forties or fifties, but his constant exhaustion of chakra sapped his life force. Anybody with a little bit of knowledge of medical ninjutsu can tell.