Pain.
Hot coursing pain was the only thing he felt as he writhed on the ground like a pathetic warm.
squelch*
A sword went through his neck, and the person above him had a cold look on his face, with a twist of the wrist, the sword severed the left side of his neck, coming out on the left side.
Behind Shinju, a woman had just killed a shinobi and turned around to see a sword entering the throat of the man on the ground.
With a sudden explosion, golden light washed over as 4 huge golden chains extended out from her back.
Darkness enveloped his vision, and he appeared in that same place again, he stood there, frozen in shock as his mind tried to come to terms with the pain he just experienced.
"Shi-"
He seemed to hear a voice, but he was not sure as he could have just gone mad from the pain.
"Shinju!"
The protagonist, now named Shinju was brought back to reality, he opened his eyes wide as his body went weak, and his knees buckled under him as he fell onto the cold ground.
Pain shot up from his knees as he fell on the wet and cold ground, without a second later, Shinju felt his throat tighten as bile from his stomach came up.
"URGHHHH!!"
Shinju felt his stomach tighten as he vomited all the contents inside his stomach, his eyes turned bloodshot, and his nose became runny with his snot.
Sweat started being excreted from his skin, his body shaking as he remembered the sword going through his neck, the sword slicing down on his back with ferocity.
"Shinju! Please answer me!"
A worried Woman was next to Shinju, she was patting his back trying to calm him down, her eyes were full of worry as she looked at him, the rain hitting them harshly.
Shinju coughed up the last of his vomit, his mind coming back to its senses as it realised that his body was no longer wounded, and only the phantom pain in his mind remained.
Besides Shinju, a woman with red hair, something that should not have been possible was comforting him, she had purple eyes, with a birthmark under her left eye.
Shinju shakily stood up, his pants covered in mud as he felt his knees become cold due to the water on the ground.
The rain fell upon him, making his clothes wet and sticky as they stuck to his skin like a second layer of skin, his body shuddered, before looking at the girl next to him.
"N-Natsumi?... You are alive?"
Nasumi looked at Shinju with worried eyes, Taking his hand in her palms Shinju was pulled under the shade of the huge tree, the leaves and branches blocking the rain slightly.
"Of course I am alive you big dummy! Now tell me what's wrong?"
Natsumi smiled as she looked at Shinju, her voice not overly girly, instead it was a calming melody, and it caused Shinju to shudder slightly as he remembered the pain.
The pain... it was terrible.
"N-Nothing... now we should hurry and go back to the village"
Shinju shook his head slightly, causing his wet black hair to shake slightly, it was not long, but rather a short style extending just past his ears.
Natsumi looked at Shinju in confusion, she and Shinju usually come to this part when they are coming back from a mission to take a half an hour long rest.
"Okay, but Shinju, if you need to tell me something, I am here, you know that~"
Natsumi leaned forward with a smile, her red hair shiny from the rain, Shinju felt his heart tighten as he looked at her, his eyes dark as he remembered how he almost ran away.
"It's alright Natsumi, now let's go before the rain gets worse"
Shinju turned around, his fist clenching as he thought about how he came to this cursed world.
One moment he was blinking, and the next thing he knew was that he was in the spot he was currently, with a girl called Natsumi dragging him towards a village she called their home.
At first, he was confused, but he wanted to find out what was going on, so he pretended to know her until they were suddenly ambushed by a group of 4 men.
Those 4 wasted no time in attacking them, and Shinju not ever fighting in his life, was quickly dispatched from the fight, being killed by seemingly the weakest in the group.
He swallowed as the scene came back like a truck in his mind, he closed his eyes with force, before opening them with a ferocious look in his eyes.
He does not know what happened to Natsumi after he was killed, but it is probably not good since she is only a rank above him.
'I need to save her!... but how?'
Shinju stepped out from under the tree, he did not know how he was still alive, but just when he was wondering about how he was back here, he suddenly heard a click.
The next moment, a screen with the bare essentials, like his name, age, level and skills appeared in front of him, showing his skills and his level in those skills.
[Name: Shinju Ichida]
[Age: 23]
[Chakra control (1)]
[Running (10)]
[Chakra enhanced jump (2)]
Shinju felt knowledge suddenly enter his mind, he could feel the world around him better, and he could feel his legs suddenly start to run better under him.
A burst of energy was felt in his body as he felt the energy in his body, it was chakra, a fusion of physical and mental energy that creates a single energy called Chakra.
Shinju was not surprised as he already saw a Konoha forehead protector wrapped around his arm like a sleeve.
'Where are those 4?... I was not looking at my surroundings, so I did not see where they ambushed us'
Shinju looked around with his eyes, his face so focused that it looked like he was scratching his eyebrows together in frustration.
Natsumi who was running slightly behind Shinju suddenly felt her eyes open slightly as the presence of 4 other people hiding behind the trees up front entered her mind.
"Shinju, stay behind me"
Natsumi said with a smile on her face, It is currently the 3rd Shinobi war, Konoha was being attacked from all sides by the 4 other Shinobi villages, and Konoha ninjas like them die every day in the tens.
Shinju was startled at Natsumi's command, he did not hear her last time since he was too shocked to speak with her, basically ignoring her all the time.
The only time he talked to her was when he wanted to find out some information about where he was.
Shinju stood on guard as he did what Natsumi told him to do, they soon reached a couple of trees large enough to hide a person behind them, and Shinju noticed this.
Just to make sure, Shinju concentrated the chakra in his legs, and he felt like he could jump higher with the boost of Chakra.
"Ugh!"
Shinju groaned as he felt his muscle spasm slightly, but he took control back in time, just before he fell onto the floor, Natsumi noticed this and she slightly slowed down.
"Shinju, are you okay?"
Shinju looked at Natsumi, and he bit his lip in frustration, he nodded as they continued running, and a few seconds later, they already run a kilometre from the tree they hid under.
Boom!
The ground suddenly exploded as Shinju stepped on an explosion tag hidden under the wet ground.
"Argh!!!"
Shinju opened his mouth, and all that came out was a shriek as his leg was instantly blown up into smithereens, with his body being sent flying like a ragdoll.
Boom!
His body slammed into the ground and bounced back into the air slightly as his bones broke like a twig, finally coming to a step from the initial explosion.
Huff...
Huff...
Huff...
Shinju breathed in a few times, his lung pierced by his ribs, and even his heart had a bone going right through it, the shockwave destroying his internal organs.
"shinju!"
Natsumi who was blown away by the shockwave shouted with pain and fury in her voice, she flashed next to him and bent down as she put her forearm into his mouth.
"Bite!"
Shinju put force into his teeth, but he then stopped as his vision went black, his heart was pierced by his ribs after all, there was no surviving something like that.
Shinju opened his eyes, and he fell on his knees again, his eyes open in a daze as he felt the phantom pain in his leg, Natsumi said the same as last time.
Shinju just became more silent, doing the same thing he did last time, Shinju tried not to cower out of it since it seemed like he would come back in time the moment he died.
"Natsumi, let's go before the rain starts falling even harder"
Shinju said as he jumped forward, his leg strength carrying him with the momentum of a truck as he leapt a couple of meters forward, like a fucking superhuman.
"Think!... So I need to dodge the paper bomb first, then I will enhance my legs to jump into the air, and then..."
Fuck!
Shinju cursed in his mind as he started running in the cold rain, Natsumi beside him felt her worry increase as she watched how focused he was.
She has never seen him like that before...
Soon, Batsumi and Shinju reached the place where the paper bombs and the shinobi waiting in the ambush were.
Shinju stepped down, and the Shinobi seeing this swooped down, just as Shinju was about to step down on the paper bomb.
Shinju felt like time stopped as he watched the 4 Shinobi jump down, with Shurikens in their hands.
'They are far enough that the explosion won't affect them, but if I remember correctly, the paper bomb only works if Chakra touches it, and if it's activated with a seal.'
Swooping down, Shinju felt his hand go wrist-deep into the ground as his superhuman strength came into play.
"Stop him! Activate the bomb!"
Seemingly the leader of the squad shouted with fear in his eyes, he was only a chunin with 3 genins under him, it was wartime, and the village did not have the luxury of having Jonin lead genins.
But it was too late, Natsumi looked at Shinju in shock =, as well as looking at the 4 shinobi, She was suddenly pulled back as her confusion vanished.
Shinju jumped at her, his legs twitching in pain as his muscles snapped from his poor chakra control, but it was worth it as the extra power allowed him and Natsumi to be like 10 meters away from the bomb.
This all happened in a single second and a half, Shinju picked up the bomb, and threw it at the shinobi still in the air, jumping down from the trees.
His chakra lit the paper on fire, and in half a second it was almost burned, The shinobi looked at the burning paper in front of them, and their eyes widened in fear as they let out a bloodcurdling scream.
"SHIIIII!!-"
Their screams were drowned out by a huge explosion that created a crater 5 meters wide and 2 meters deep, the shockwave pushed the rain falling from the sky back up.
Shinju and Ntsumi hugged each other as they braced for the impact, the shockwave reached the 2, and in a single second, they were rag-dolled on the ground.
Shinju felt his left hand snap like a twig as he hit it at the wrong angle he fell on the floor once the shockwave lost its energy.
A few seconds later, the ringing in his ears faded a bit, and it allowed him to open his eyes, to see Natsumi hugging him in her lap with worry in her eyes.
She had slight blood on the corner of her lips, and it must be the only damage as Chunin are much stronger than genins in Physical strength, as well as Chakra control, basically everything.
Suddenly a drop of red fell onto his cheek, and the rain that was pushed back started to fall again, along with the blood of those 4 Shinobi, their blood mixing in the rain.
"I... I survived"
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