Chapter 19 - Genjutsu

A Konoha ninja, whose hair was combed to look like Patrick Star's, covered the wound on his abdomen and leaned weakly against a tree, no longer able to fight.

"Damn it, I can't see anything! Am I just going to die… Miss Mebuki, I haven't confessed to you yet!"

He slid down slowly against the tree trunk and sat down weakly on the ground.

At this time, a ninja wearing an assassination mask from Village Hidden in the Mist approached him from the side and rear; his footsteps were so light that he made almost no sound.

"It's over."

The Kirigakure ninja swung his sword towards the neck of the ninja, lying weakly on the ground.

The ninja with Patrick's hairstyle turned around as if he sensed something and saw the blade that was getting bigger and bigger in his eyes.

"No!"

The experiences of his short life flashed through his mind, and it finally stopped at a pretty face.

"Mebuki, I'm sorry…"

Then he felt his carefully groomed hair being grabbed.

Shiratori arrived in time and grabbed his hair, pulled it hard towards himself, allowing him to narrowly avoid the inevitable death!

Bang!

With a dull thud, the ninja's sword hit the tree trunk and sank deeply into it.

"Good opportunity!"

Shiratori threw the still-confused ninja with Patrick's hairstyle far away and grasped the handle of the sword behind him with his backhand.

Brush!

The sword, Shirashio, was unsheathed in an instant, tearing through the air, and with a terrifying sound of breaking through the air, it slashed fiercely towards the face of the Kirigakure ninja!

The Kirigakure ninja decisively dropped his sword, rolled over to avoid the attack, and while moving away, he quickly formed seals with his hands, and an unknown water-style ninjutsu engulfed Shiratori's figure.

The sky was filled with mist.

"What? It turns out to be a fledgling with little combat experience!" He was still in shock as he almost went to see the Sage of Six Paths.

He walked over, pulled out the sword stuck in the tree trunk with force, and made a powerful leap to cut toward Shiratori!

"It's over!" 

The ninja with Patrick's hairstyle closed his eyes reluctantly.

What a pity. I waited so hard for reinforcements, but I didn't expect that it would just be rookie. I died, but I dragged a companion with me, who was just a child. I felt so guilty…

"It's over."

The Kirigakure ninja said this for the second time.

At this moment, a sword wrapped in lightning split the mist, and Shiratori's figure stood there intact. 

The Kirigakure ninja in mid-air met Shiratori's eyes.

There was no panic at all, and what came into his view was a pair of scarlet eyes!

"Not good..."

There was no time to look away, and the ninja in front of Shiratori suddenly felt dizzy.

Genjutsu: Sharingan!

This is the exclusive Genjutsu of the Sharingan, and it is also the basis of all Genjutsu of the Uchiha Clan.

However, due to its damage mechanism that is directly linked to the user's mental strength, as well as its simple and crude method of use, its lower and upper limits are extremely high, and its power is even greater than that of most derivative Genjutsu.

This Genjutsu can be activated simply by eye contact and can maximize the hypnotic ability of the Sharingan.

Shiratori once saw such a sentence in the family's secret scroll: Sharingan is the origin of Genjutsu, and all Genjutsu in the world are poor imitations of Sharingan's Genjutsu!

It's very crazy and contains a lot of bragging, but it seems to make sense.

The Genjutsu of Sharingan rejects all fancy tricks. It is activated as soon as the eyes make eye contact. 

It uses the Sharingan's ability to inject huge mental force into the opponent's mind, disrupting the circulation of Chakra while suppressing the opponent's spirit, to create illusions and deprive the opponent of control over the body.

What's more, if the mental force is strong enough, it can make the other party produce the specific illusion that the caster wants the other party to see or even temporarily weave a false memory!

Of course, Shiratori can't do this. His Sharingan only has two tomoe. When he gets three tomoe… Well, it might not still be possible.

However, it is enough to deal with the Chunin ninja in front of him.

The Kirigakure ninja lost control of his body and felt that everything in the world was spinning. The colors around him became extremely strange: blue trees, orange earth, green sky, and… The pink tip of the knife.

Um?

Pink?

The tip of the knife?!

Puff!

The Kirigakure ninja fell from the sky, and his neck happened to be pierced by the tip of Shiratori's sword.

Everything in his eyes returned to normal, but unfortunately, he… Couldn't see it anymore.

At the last moment of his life, he heard Shiratori whisper in his ear: "In life, there is always a first time! Luckily, you got the chance to be the first human I kill. Are you surprised?"

The world fell into complete darkness.

Shiratori suppressed the discomfort in his heart, stepped on the opponent's chest, pulled out the long sword, shook off the blood, and then looked at the ninja with Patrick Star hairstyle.

At this time, this ninja still didn't open his eyes.

"Hey… "

Shiratori walked over and kicked him.

"Go ahead, I won't surrender to you, Kirigakure bastard!"

Shiratori was speechless and kicked again.

"Damn it! Stop teasing me! Hurry up and do it!"

You say he is a coward, but he would rather die than surrender; you say he is brave, but he didn't even dare to open his eyes when he was waiting to die…

"Open your eyes, Patrick." Shiratori suddenly found this man quite interesting.

"Who among you… Patrick?"

Patrick opened his eyes subconsciously and then saw Shiratori's smiling expression.

"Huh? Is it you? Are you okay?"

"Of course I'm fine… "

Before Shiratori could finish his words, he saw Patrick suddenly show an angry expression.

Patrick: "He didn't kill you… You surrendered?"

Shiratori: "?"

What? What are you talking about?

Are you sick?

Shiratori didn't want to pay attention to him and turned away and our Patrick finally noticed the Kirigakure ninja who was lying on the ground with his eyes open.

"Wait, you won? You took him out?"

"No, I surrender."

Shiratori walked to Kirigakure Ninja and took off his mask. The mask of the Kirigakure assassination force was undoubtedly the best trophy, even though it was only that of a Chunin rank.

"Brother, thank you for saving my life. I'm really sorry for what happened just now." 

Patrick stumbled over, covering his wound, and looked at Shiratori hanging the mask around his waist with a grateful look on his face.

Shiratori waved his hand and threw a roll of bandage over.

Patrick took the bandage and suddenly remembered something. Then he said anxiously: 

"I have two companions. Can you go and save them? Please."

"Don't worry, I will."

With the death of the ninja in front of him, the fog in the forest faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

There are four kinds of Chakra in the Hidden Mist Jutsu here, one large and three small in strength, which should correspond to the Jonin leader and three Chunin subordinates of this assassination team, respectively.

Under Shiratori's observation and command, Shibi Aburame rushed towards the opponent's Jōnin. Shiratori picked out the Chunin with the strongest Chakra reaction among them, while Kurenai and Ibiki teamed up to restrain the weakest Chunin. As Konoha's future Jōnin and special Jōnin, even if they are still young, they should have no problem resisting a Chunin.

As for the remaining one… I'm sorry, we are short-handed here, so the colleague he has targeted can only wish him good luck.