A/N: Hello, everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I wish you all a happy and healthy new year full of prosperity and success in your endeavors.
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"Clank, clank, clank.." The sound of weapons clashing resounded amidst a series of explosions in the dimly lit laboratory as the fight raged.
"Bang," Hiruko was effortlessly sent crashing into one of the walls.
Akashi was standing in the middle of the room and looked at him with an infuriating smirk, his bright red hair seemed to absorb the light making them more eye-catching.
Three adamantine chains were lazily undulating behind him as he looked at Hiruko, who was heavily panting as he got up and was still looking at him defiantly.
"Oh my! So much pride in your eyes, but you should understand by now... pride isn't going to save you here! This battle has just begun and you're already out of breath. I guess you spent so much time experimenting that you didn't have the time to train."
"Silent you damn fucking kid!" Hiruko screamed in anger
"Clank, bang,"
Using two kunai wrapped in chakra Hiruko managed to deflect the chains threatening to empale him before flickering away,
'It's not sustainable,' Hiruki thought as the kunai he used to protect himself fell apart in front of him.
"Wind style: wind slashes,"
"Wind style: wind barrage,"
He shouted using his palm to send wave after wave of wind attacks.
"Woosh, woosh, bang, bang..."
The consecutive wind attacks swallowed slashed and destroyed everything on their way toward Akashi.
"Swoosh,"
Using his speed Akashi flickered in the laboratory avoiding the wind attacks while his chains carefully arranged in front of him deflected all those that managed to reach him.
'A little more!' Hiruko thought he didn't stay idle.
"Swoosh," in an instant he flickered at great speed in the room to confuse Akashi be he reappeared behind Akashi.
"Earth style: earth cannon," opening his mouth he spits a huge rock that speeds toward Akashi while growing in size.
"Boom," A boulder of two meters crashed on Akashi creating a big explosion.
Dust and debris flew everywhere destroying the furnitures.
"As I expected... Your strength is at the elite chunin level! You are a special jonin, after all, one specialized in research and development, fighting isn't your forté!"
The voice of Akashi sounded from the cloud of dust, calm, collected, and analytic as usual.
Soon the dust dissipated revealing an unarmed Akashi, the glowing chains were softly spinning around him creating a gentle breeze.
"And as I expected, you are a twisted and perverted kid!" Hiruko's retorked between pants.
"Ho!" Akashi frowned earing what his opponent thought of him.
"That haughty and smug way you look at people that condescending tone, it's not just for show as I initially thought it's who you are, it's in your bones, you like to play with your opponents, and you enjoy having them and everything under your control,"
"Huh!" Akashi pondered a little about what Hiruko said and couldn't help but admit that there was some truth in his words.
'It's true that I sometimes play too much in my fight, but it isn't like I can use my full abilities without revealing that I am a Uchiha, and it's something that I would rather keep a trump card.'
He tried to justify to himself but the truth is that he knew that Hiruko wasn't completely wrong.
He looked at Hiruko in a new light.
"You remind me once again that it's your intellect that is to be feared. So, did you manage to find a way out of this situation with the few seconds of rest you bought for yourself?"
At the question of Akashi Hiruko smiled proudly.
"I did?" The answer came from behind him, Akashi turned his head to see a kunai flying straight towards him and used one of his chains to block what was coming.
"Clank,"
The moment the chain met the kunai, the moment they met the transformation was undone revealing a vial that shattered as a warm blue liquid flew toward Akashi.
"Swoosh,"
Akashi effortlessly avoided that blue liquid.
'he used a transformation technique to change the appearance of this vial to make me think it was a kunai. Well done! I wonder what was in it,'
"Good attempt, it would have been more successful if you had just attacked without saying it word." hearing that Hiruko smiled in amusement.
"Maybe! But I think that I made the right choice, I wanted you to see that clone, and I wanted you to see that what he was throwing at you was a simple and armless kunai, your arrogance made you destroy it with your chains."
"I see! And now what? Is it some kind of special decoction, it didn't even matter because that liquid failed to touch me!"
Akashi replied nonchalantly, but even though it appeared unperturbed his gaze lingered a little on the blue liquid on the ground to see if there was something special with it.
"But it did touch you, it touched your chain," Hiruko replied and he could hear the jubilation in his voice as he pointed toward the chain that Akashi are you to destroy the vial.
'It's blue!' he noted seeing that part of the chain had turned blue, it was obvious that those blue marks had been created by the liquid that was splashed on it.
Akashi was surprised after all one of the properties of the chains is that nothing can stick to them for long.
"You must be curious about what that is right?"
"I'm sure you will enlighten me!" Akashi replied with a smile.
"This is one of the byproducts of my work. I called it the 'sent of death' it is made of the blood of all the creatures that I used for my experiments mixed with chakra and ink. You see the creatures of this place are all extremely smart and very protective of their own, and I think that I used... I would say about ninety percent of them in my experiments. So you can imagine what they are going to do to you, there is no longer any place in that Forest where you will be safe, even the inside of the village may not be safe for you, they will smell you from anywhere."
At the end of his sentence, I thought she could see that he was barely holding back his laughter.
Akashi's smile faltered a little when he heard Hiruko's words.
'if what you said is true then the situation may be a little dangerous!' he thought the adamantine chain or after all part of his body and the moment he retracted then in his body he wasn't sure if the sent would spread on his whole body.
While he was thinking of a solution iruko quickly made another series of hand seals.
"Chimera technique: Awakening"
After placing his hand on the ground strange symbol appears on the ground.
'Are those symbols of invocation?! But they are different.' He thought looking at the glowing seals, at one glance Akashi realized that those symbols were different from the usual invocations.
"Bang, bang, bang"
"Roar, roar..."
"Ahh, I see. Awakening!"
Akashi immediately realized what was happening when he heard those roars coming from another part of the laboratory.
"You have awakened those imperfect creatures,"
Without reacting he made other hands signs
"Explosion," Hiruko screamed and soon everything around them was exploding in a series of explosions.
"BOOM..." In an instinct, the roof of the laboratory collapses engulfing everything present under the ground.
A new wide and deep hole appeared in the center of the forest death, dust, and debris filling it.
Not long after the massive creatures and diverse creatures inhabiting the forest started to make their way toward it due to curiosity.
"Bang, woosh,"
From the craters Hiruko bleeding heavily jumped out of the hole, in his hands was the first chimera that he considered a success, he had managed to take it in the middle of the fight.
"Bang," another explosion sounded from the hole attracting his attention
"I knew that it couldn't kill you,"
Akashi didn't respond and just slowly started patting the dust off his expensive clothes while using his chains to move the rock's massive boulders out of the way.
"Cough," he coughed out a little bit of blood in his hands.
'I really want to kill him right now! I don't like to be injured, Haa.' instead of acting on his impulse Akashi just sighed.
"Bang, bang, bang," slowly the rubbles were pushed away, and many deformed and injured creatures who could only be described as monsters started to walk toward Akashi.
"Because of you I will have to leave Konoha a little sooner, but it doesn't matter, my work has already bore its first fruit l, and soon more will follow," he said caressing the little Shimera in his hands.
"Anyway, I hope that you like my farewell gift, Your Highness. Next time we meet things will be different, I will be a different man!" With another hand seal flames started to seep from the ground, even the rubbles couldn't stop them as they started to spread.
With that Hiruko disappeared leaving Konoha his village, the place where he grew up, and fought without any seconds of hesitation and without looking back.
"ROAR,"
The moment Hiruko disappeared as if on cue all the creatures present from the Shimera to the beasts of the forest pounced on Akashi in a frenzy ready to tear him to pieces ignoring the flames that started to burn even brighter.
"Well played Hiruko!" Akashi said looking everywhere as he stabbed one of the beasts pouncing toward him using one chain, and punched away another sending flying.
The fire was a precaution in case his laboratory was discovered, it was designed to destroy the evidence of his crimes.
"Unfortunately you are already in my hands Akashi said activating his sharingan and in one glance all the creatures around were put under a powerful genjutsu, unable to move.
"Let me help you clean your traces," Akashi said taking a deep breath.
"Fire style: sea of flame"
Without mercy, Akashi like a firehose started to spew incredible fire on everything around him.
"ROAR!" The poor creatures around screamed in pain as they were scorched alive before dying the fire then spread to the surroundings combining itself with the fire made by Hiruko to burn brighter and hotter.
At that moment Akashi looked at the blue Mark on his chains with a cold curiousity.
"How are you able to stick even to my chains!?"
He made a few hand signs before grabbing part of the adamantine chain.
"Severing!" he said his hands were filled with chakra and he slowly bent it, the part between his hands started to lose its luster before a loud 'Bang!' resonated.
"Argh, dammit, it's awfully painful!" He growled holding himself back from screaming as he breathed heavily.
"It feels like ripping out one of my own organs!"
After regaining his composure he took out a scroll and placed the tainted chains inside.
"Work hard for me Hiruko I wonder if you can surprise me. Until we meet again!" Akashi murmured to himself before disappearing from the forest of death as Hiruko did before him.
The fire in the laboratory continued to burn like that for hours destroying all evidence of the atrocities and forbidden experiments conducted there until it was finally discovered by one of the ninjas responsible for monitoring the forest of death.