Land Of Hate
It has been three weeks since I informed my currently small crew of my status as a go- I mean Gamer, and training has been going relatively well. I had leveled up Life Drain four times(bringing it to level 5) and it had now caused targets to become sluggish and lethargic under its effects if sustained for more than 20 seconds; useful only in it's future potential do to my fighting style. Kaen was now capable firing violet flames cored with a minuscule amount of black and his fire form now had thin black lines spider webbing out from the core. Sawbones had learned to sharpen the tips of his fingers and ribs and could now fire his fingers with moderate accuracy(he regenerates them instead of retrieving them). I myself had learned to shoot small Ki blasts in vaguely the right direction and could minorly empower objects with my mana; neither of these were as efficient or effective as just using chakra but Giles insists that training this stuff is worth it and I'm not one to shirk extra training or leave new skills to languish in weakness. The only reason we had not advanced further was that even using ID: Create we were still on a small dinghy and I refused to expanded it for fear of capsizing the damn thing due to my absolute absence of knowledge related to making ships.
"Alright you two, time to begin meditating to unlock your chakra!" I had convinced Kaen that learning to use chakra could improve his fire and swordsmanship(the two things the stoic sack a bricks gives a shit about); Sawbones was much easier to convince(in fact he took no convincing at all). "Hopefully you can unlock it soon; then we can begin working on actually using it!" I took inspiration for my cheery tone from that fool Naruto and the ruse of my too- apprentice. While my students set about meditating I looked to the horizon for any signs of land; hopefully I could find an actually inhabited village this time. Seeing nothing I turned back to watch the younglings progress.
_FOUR_HOURS_LATER_
Nothing. They had made no progress whatsoever. I was unsurprised; unlocking chakra becomes harder harder as you get older and isn't exactly easy to start with. Glancing once more into the distance I saw faint light on the horizon; given the sun had just set, I could reasonably assume this lights meant either a bustling city… or the burning remains of one.
"That's enough for now. I see lights in the distance; which either means there's people or smoldering husks of them, either way there's supplies over their." Whether I had to buy/steal supplies or loot them from the remains didn't really matter to me.
"It is not flames." Ooooookkkkkkkaaaayyy… how does he know that? Asking him just that I was disgruntled to realize he had neglected to inform me of several of his abilities; such as the ability to sense fire within ten miles in every directions and to teleport through flames at half that range. Potentially useful but the fact that he didn't inform me of this is annoying.
Arriving at the as of yet unnamed island we pulled up next to a larger ship(Giles (and Observe) helpfully informed me was a fluyt) and climbed over the edge. Firing a Black Needle into a guard's neck as Kaen sword pierced the others; we were not here to make friends after all. "Alright, Doc you find the med bay. Kaen: go below deck, kill everyone you see, and mark anything of interest and do not set the ship on fire. I'm gonna clear the deck, kill the captain, and loot everything. Once everyone's dead we'll decide if this should be our temporary ship. Don't break the ship and don't make too much noise, we don't want to fight the whole island yet. Got it?" I may have set up a jutsu to stop noise from leaving the ship but I didn't know if anyone in the village could counter it and a ship bursting into flames is gonna call attention to us anyways; can't stop the fire from spreading even if I could stop people from seeing it.
"Affirmative./Got'cha, boyo." Nodding, I teleported up to the crow's nest and impaled the man from behind, piercing his heart with a chakra rod. Gently setting his body on the ground and proceeding to loot him of anything that Observe told me was valuable. Finishing that I Kamui-ed back to the deck with the body before heading Into the captain's cabin. Walking silently to the side of the sleeping man's bed I slit his throat and left(after obeying the call of looting). Heading below deck I encountered little resistance as Kaen and Sawbones diverging paths could clearly be seen. Deciding to following the scorched slashes and mildly charred corpses(Looting everyone of them) in the hopes they would lead to treasure(as I knew where Sawbones was heading).
Looking into an unopened door(and grumbling about being through goddamn it and kids today…) I was met with a dirk heading towards my throat. Easily redirecting the blow into the door frame, I slashed out with a jagged piece of metal(I had just begun practice with metal release). (AN: In this story the rinnegan gives mastery over main elements and the rinne sharingan gives access to sub-elements; ergo, Madara still needs to train them.) Seeing my opponent dodge(though the tear in their cloths tells me they nearly failed) a small smile forced its way onto my face for but and ephemeral instant; Perhaps she could dance?
Shooting a blast of lightning infused water at the girl my smile returned as she once more dodged. Lighting my 'blade' with Amaterasu I flung it at her left side. She didn't expect the icicle I shot to her right though. "{Sigh} of course she couldn't truly dance; it seems no one can." Moving on after looting the room, I effortlessly cut down the minimal resistance I encountered even restricting myself to Metal Release only. How is it possible that a stealth mission where a whole island could turn on us whilst we murdered and looted an entire moderately large ship be so fucking boring?
I take it alllllll back, that mountainous pile of gold makes of for all my boring, pathetic fights. I immediately regretted trying to swim in the pile of gold. Note to self: gold maybe a soft metal but it is not soft enough to swim in. Watching the little counter representing my current wealth rapidly rise with near orgasmic pleasure as it settle on 20 million units of wealth… "Giles why does my counter not tell me what kind of currency I have?"
"Because you can summon anything from the beli of this world to the ryo of yours to even solid gold bricks. Have fun with that ya greedy bastard…" Oh, I planned to.
Catching up to Kaen, I watched as he ruthlessly cut down the screaming sailors. Brings a tear to my eye to see such dedication in a subordinate. Deciding to be a cockblocking troll bag… I mean a helpful captain and fired an icicle through the last one's chest. Kaen turned to stare blankly at me; I grinned cheekily back at him… I think I might, just might be going insane. Maybe just a little.
"You are definitely absolutely completely batshit crazy. "
"And how would you know that?"
"Well for one; you're talking to a voice in your head."
"Yeah but my voices are real." Ha, undefeatable logic.
"Voices? I'm the only real voice in your head and even that's debatable."
"...No one asked you."
"So how's it goin' Kaen? Mission going well? Because I noticed that there's some scorch marks on the walls and that glowing blade of yours looks pretty hot to me. Now didn't I say something about, oh I don't know, NOT BURNING THE FUCKING SHIP! Ehem." I knew he could control the fires to not actually start; I just wanted to rile him up.
"I would not fail you captain. I am fully capable of killing the flames should the start." Staring at him for a few more moments, trying to see if I could visibly unnerve him; I could not.
"Alright ya stoic bastard, let's finish looting this place and go find the doctor." Walking down the hall I leaned back as a blade whipped over my head. Rolling to the left and jabbing a sharp metal spike into a dagger wielding man's chest while Kaens super-heated nodachi slices clean through the swordsman's blade… and body. Eyes quickly darting around I spotted another sadly unpunctured throat; I swiftly rectified this error with a spinning circular saw fired at high speed, taking her head clean off.
Dashing forth with a makeshift blade in each hand, I decapitated two other sailors in one swing before spinning left around a third; plunging both blades into his back and leaving them there. rotating rapidly to block a strike, I impaled yet another sailor on a metal spike through the heart. "These people are like wheat to the harvest!" Ducking under Kaen's blade in its path to another foes waist; I deflected a blade aimed at my neck and disemboweled the man before using his guts to strangle another mariner.
After hacking a man diagonally in two from the hip I searched the area only to find nothing. "It would appear all hostiles have been eliminated, sir."
"I can see that. Alright time to go find the good doctor." Seeing Kaen nod his head we set out to find Dr. Sawbones.
Finding only the mangled and oft mutated remains of what may have been humans at one point as we followed the doctor's twisted trail. "You know, the doctors a more twisted son-of-a-bitch then I though… where did he even get some of these poisons? And how did he even do that?" That was body whose arms and legs hand been swapped around and who's face and spun around his head. No, his head wasn't backwards; his face was on the back of his head.
"I have no idea, sir." Helpful as always, eh Kaen.
We found the doctor figuratively salivating over the equipment in the med bay and injecting some poor sucker full of a glowing purple liquid… even Observe has no idea what that is; I'll have to level that up.
"How's it goin' doc? Find anything of use?"
"Oh you won't believe the things I found here… you ever heard of the Blackwing virus?"