The Path Of A Ninja : Eyes Of Death & Body Of Life

The two blades are drawn and the boy adopts a casual stance; one sword vertical towards the ground in his left and one resting on his shoulder. He still had a smile on his face but it was different than before. If the previous one was like a spring flower, this one was a lone winter lily in a wide expanse of white.

'He feels different now. I should get bit serious too.'

Minato scattered his FTG kunais across the field and threw one at the boy, which he deflected easily.

Ting* At that moment Minato appeared right beside him and made a slash.

Minato flashed again, appearing at his side with a kick. The boy blocked it with his two swords in time but the force send him flying across the ground.

'That was unexpectedly powerful. Let's try a cool new trick.'

Once again Minato appeared right in front of him with a slash but he dodged it relatively easily even with Minato's speed and rapidly made multiple strikes with his two swords. Minato dodges most of them except the last one.

Cut* Poof*

But in Manato's place appears a wooden log, while the real one appears right behind him with his kunai again the boy's neck.

"It seems I've won."

Though it seemed that way, the boy still had his winter smile.

"Think again." Schatter*

In his place hundreds and thousands of petals burst forth and quickly surrounds the whole area making it a breathtaking sight for the trio under the tree. But for Minato it was the beginning of trouble.

"Senbonzakura Kageyoshi [Vibrant Scape of a Thousand Cherry Blossoms]"

'This is a truly beautiful and equally terrifying technique. This makes my FTG technique almost useless unless I have one of my kunais outside this domain.'

Thousands of petals accelerated at Minato from every angle but he barely managed to flash to a different spot every time. But he still acc.u.mulated many cuts everywhere causing him to bleed from many places, if it were anybody else they might have already become a mush by now. But after a while Minato was able to locate the boy's position and quickly threw multiple kunais at his general direction. Most of the kunais were blocked by the petal but 2 made it though, which meant the boy still had a lot to improve. Flash*

[Flying Thunder God Slash]

This too was blocked by the boy using his two swords but the speed and force cause a mild shock wave, dispersing the petals as the jutsu was interrupted.

"That must have cost you a lot of chakra."

"That is correct, but it was the one of the only counter against your speed. It looks pretty too."

Once again Minato bagan to overpower the boy with his speed causing him have a few cuts and bruises. Having enough beating, the boy pushed Minato back and took a casual stance.

'One becomes Nothing, thus Invincible.'

After he entered this state he began to dodge all all of Minato's attacks and began to push him back.

'This is completely different from before. Interesting.'

Even though it looked as if the boy was easily handling Minato, it wasn't the case. This state of [Nothingness] was extremely hard to be in. He can only to it for a few minutes which usually would be enough to deal with Jounin or even Anbu level but against Minato it was too short. That fact that he even comprehended the concept of it was only possible because of [The Book Five Rings] along with the combo of [Thought Acceleration] and [Parallel Thinking]. Simply speaking, he was a cheat.

'It seems I can't maintain it any longer. Must settle this now.'

After exchanging many strikes, blows and cuts both of them felt it was time to end the fight with a final move.

The boy readied his swords. Closed his eyes for a moment and when opened his blue/pink eyes had a faint glow.

Minato prepared a condensed ball of chakra.

"Shall we?"(Minato) flash*

"With p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e."

Both of them decided to have a final direct confrontation.

Using [Flying Thunder God] to increase his speed to the limit he thrust forth his hand.

It appeared to the trio as a line of yellow and blue.

"[Flash Rasengan]!"

On the other hand, he boy used [Mana Burst: Speed] to do the same as he charged his swords with chakra as he unleashed his move. His swords felt as if they represented the Yin and Yang; the intertwining Black and White. Yet, it felt more than just that. Both of their power as one. Two swords as one.

"[Niten Ichi-ryu : Two Heavens as One]"

Fing*

There was no explosion nor any loud sound which would indicate that a clash two powerful techniques had happened. The 3 audience and Minato were shocked to see...The rasengan cut in half and then disappearing, just like that. Then suddenly a cut appeared form Minato's sleeve till his shoulder, once again displaying the level of control the boy had with his swords.

After they woke up from their shock they finally looked at the boy.

He look quite tired with cuts and bruises all over his body. He had already sheathe his swords while taking support from a mage-like staff. The technique probably taking a toll on his young body.

"That was fun, I suppose. Now then shall we have lunch since the battle made me kinda hungry." The boy said, with his spring smile.

"uh, sure. Let have a talk while we eat." Minato sweatdropped.As the boy did not realise the magnitude of the actions he just did. While the trio silently bagan to prepare for the lunch, still shocked about the recent show of skill and receiving a bow to their confidence as well.

'He really is a 'my pace' type of person. No matter the situation, they will do what feel like, The world may be ending, but he'll have his lunch as if he feels like it. He really is different from a standard ninja. Like a spring breeze in this cold world of ninjas.'

With these thoughts going in his mind Minato too goes to help with the preparations.