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Chapter 26: Snow vengeful
Autumn and his inevitable procession of red and golden leaves littering the ground, had entered the country from lightning. The streets were windswept, while cold breezes crossing the country with the speed of a furious cavalcade, announced an early winter.
In a small town situated in a sub-district administered a young man surreptitiously stole a loaf. The overweight merchant had left some bread aside, leaving sight long enough for a hand to cross a cold wall to grab a baker's products.
The mysterious thief appeared in his dingy room, materializing from a grimy mirror hanging in a room on the first floor of an almost unhealthy hotel, yet he held since a few days.
No one had seen her theft. No one would suspect it to be a ninja. No witnesses had discovered its flights and was able to trace his trail. It was so quiet that few people actually paid attention to him while he was carrying a lot of things stolen from under her wide kimono.
Once again, it would take a frugal meal at little cost, time to bail out his pockets.
- You're discreet, then whispered a cold voice behind him.
The young man with long black hair turned in an instant, his sembons in hand, while the temperature fell around him.
A strange man had suddenly appeared in her room, settling outrageously on the futon, a terribly impolite. sufficiency of bloated, the man with the confident attitude was dressed in a dark cloak adorned with scarlet clouds, while his facies was hidden behind a mask orange spiral.
- Who are you ? asked the teenager to silver kimono, covered with a blue and sparkling frost, using a threatening tone that meant he felt confident for a possible fight.
- Call me Tobi for the moment, the man replied. I do not say to you my real name. As I would not trust you, I do not would reveal. If did, I would kill you to keep my secret.
- What do you want from me ? then asked the young shinobi.
The masked man laughed lightly.
- I did not come all this way for nothing and I have not walked into your room by mistake. I want you with me, Haku.
The young shinobi frowned. This man knew his name, although he has taken every precaution since the death of Zabuza-sama to be discreet and to the greatest possible distance with Kirigakure no Sato.
Many people had wanted him. Since the massacre of clans organized in the country of the water by the Sandaime Mizukage, the orphan had survived and was hardened. Its thin body and her androgynous appearance had earned him many vicious glances and he remembered those times. He had promised since Zabuza had taken him under his wing, that no one would use it as if it was a toy. It might be a tool and a vulgar weapon, not a toy.
- What do you want exactly ? Haku asked again. I'm tired of playing mind games, so be clear.
- What do you think of this world? This reality? asked Tobi called forward.
The look of this young shinobi, as he clenched his fists.
- I want revenge, he whispered. I do not give a fuck the rest, all I want is to kill my enemies.
The shinobi frowned behind his mask.
It is on the right track, thought the mysterious nukenin. The loss fueled his hatred, but it is not yet broken by life. Still some loss or some disappointments and it would be perfect to serve. Of course, there would be nothing more than a pawn on the chessboard, the time the plan to succeed.
- Can I offer you the means to get your revenge, murmured the mysterious perniciously called Tobi. I would give you the means to accomplish it in exchange for something. I want you to kill Sasuke Uchiha.
- How will you make me stronger? asked Haku with a well audible interests in his calm voice.
For only answer, the only visible eye of man gave way to a black triskel, same as Hatake Kakashi, the man who had once killed Zabuza.
Haku's eyes widened, while the power of the Sharingan altered his mind. The powerful dôjutsu many ideas implanted in the brain of Haku, reinforcing its power before intensifying his desire for revenge, always placing it a little more under the influence of the Hidden Uchiha.
- I'll serve you Sasuke on a plateau that you execute our common enemy. Then to you to isolate and kill the Uchiha.
The nice pawn obeyed the instructions of the mysterious Uchiha, heading south.
Several days later, he found the seven team going through a rocky valley, escorting an important client in the direction of a fortress.
The passage was wide enough, but the steep dirt road winding between cliffs and impressive sinkholes. Rare rubble indicated that the road, or more honestly the track was dangerous and had to be careful when it is borrowed.
Their path was quiet, nothing was visible on the horizon, even Kakashi and Sasuke. However, on the rocks, the latent threat took shape. Tobi appeared in a whirlwind, with his killer.
- Here they are, he whispered to the address Haku. You know what to do.
The masked child nodded, making cool the air before creating two gel walls bolted the way. The road suddenly found himself transformed into a prison, the two access being sealed by these ice walls. The shinobi of Konoha prepared to fight to protect their client, before seeing a young masked man jumping toward them, floating on an ice sheet.
- Protect customer, Kakashi whispered by some signs toward the man with a shaved head who cowered behind the back of Jonin.
- I did not come to him, curtly cut the unknown. I came to get my revenge against you, Uchiha Sasuke. Move away from it all and you will live!
- Because you think I'm going to abandon my friend? Sakura instantly cried cracking his fists. I know what your problem is, but we will demolish you!
Naruto said something of the same ilk, while Sasuke snorted contempt, before launching his incendiary favorite jutsu.
Tobi calmly watched things. Haku fought extremely well, insulating its victims before shooting them with his technique demonic mirrors. This attack was perfect, even against a user of the Sharingan. Sasuke's eyes could not be everywhere to dodge sembons of his enemy, who rained death from all directions, even from above.
Haku was very fast, twirling in the mirrors of ice dome and striking in the blind spot of the holder of the Sharingan. This pupil allowed to see the near future, but this gift was useless, if we had not the reflexes necessary to react.
Sasuke could see the future, but he was unable to change it. The frustration of being overwhelmed, despite his exhausting workouts, eating away the inside. Wrathful avenger tried to melt the mirrors and stay constantly in motion, but he quickly made a mistake. Suddenly, a thin knitting needle through her throat.
The last Uchiha collapsed to the floor in disbelief. It could not end like that. He refused to die alone, without accomplishing his dreams. The unpleasant taste of blood seeped into his throat, tinting his lips, while Haku approached with a Kunai, ready for the final blow that would kill him paralyzed Genin.
- You will pay for the death of Zabuza-sama, told the boy in silver kimono.
Unfortunately for the masked avenger, Sasuke was not alone. Before he could hit, his ice mirrors exploded. Naruto had just defeated the clone Haku, reducing it to small ice, and had appealed to the Nine-Tails chakra cloak to smash the ice wall.
- Do not touch, you bastard! yelled the blonde, who prepared a purple sphere in hand. Top Fuel this! if he cried and rushed on Haku. Kyûbi No. Gyoku!
The orb filled with demonic chakra Haku struck in the chest at close range. Under the impact of the whirling sphere, the body of the last member of the clan Yuki was distorted by the powerful chakra concentrate. The dark glow shattered any defense, breaking ribs which sank inside the body, puncturing the lungs and heart. The shock was so violent that the flames clung to the clothes of the masked boy. The orb exploded a few tenths of a second after impact, the blast nukenin projecting into the ravine.
The body of Haku took off in a beautiful arc, before falling into the abyss. Normally, he could catch up by creating an ice slide, but her internal injuries were so severe that he died before crashing to the bottom.
With the death of shinobi, his chakra dispersed and ice mirrors vanished quickly. Kakashi rushed to his student and attended to meticulously remove the needles having transformed his student hedgehog. Using her some basic medical knowledge, he nursed Sasuke's injuries, making sure the brown has no sequelae.
The last Uchiha Konoha moaned, letting the alcohol swab to disinfect his wounds while he was massaging his throat still sore.
- I'm fine, Sasuke spat coldly, suddenly pushing his sensei.
Sasuke coughed again, rising and noting the worried looks of his teammates.
- I tell you I'm fine, 'he repeated calmly.
Physically, perhaps because his injuries were fairly thin. Mentally, it was absolutely not the case, proof was the fact that his scarlet sharingan gained an additional point.
The increase in its eye power coincided with the realization that he had not been strong enough. His reflexes were not developed enough and brown fists clenched as he became aware. It was defeated, he was weak and Naruto, he died at this hour.
This was unacceptable, he thought. He needed more power, ever. He had become stronger than his comrades and even more than his brother.
The boy with the dark aura clenched his fists, to make whiten knuckles.
Above him, squatting on a rock, no one can discern, Tobi smiled like a madman.
Soon, the thirst for power and the desire for revenge Sasuke finally succeed to take over his loyalty to Konoha.
Soon, Sasuke would desert and he would throw himself into the clutches of his accomplices.
Tobi disappeared into a vortex, fading completely that reality.
Everything was going as planned.