Chapter 80: Seven Swordsmen, Diversion and Red Sky

Chapter 80: Seven Swordsmen, Diversion and Red Sky

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The war raged on between all factions in the Shinobi World.

Nations ate at each other's throats with ravenous fury and greed.

The Shinobi World was never peaceful, to them, peace was a strange state of being, one that they couldn't quite understand.

In truth, ever since the Warring States, things had never really gotten better.

The only actual period of peace was when the First Hokage, the God of Shinobi, was still alive to uphold it.

'Only someone on the level of the God of Shinobi can truly uphold peace... Only during their lifetime, however long or short it may be.'

That was the only real conclusion that could be drawn from the First Hokage's exploits.

After all, the First had made a lot of mistakes... Mistakes that included arming several shinobi villages with living nukes called the Tailed Beasts...

He had hoped that they'd serve as some sort of deterrent, that they would make the warring nations a bit more careful before starting a war, a variable to take into account before taking action...

Unfortunately, reality crushed those useless hopes and dreams. The Jinchuriki were nothing if not weapons to be used for mass destruction.

Ken could barely even count the number of places and sceneries ruined by the involvement of the Tailed Beasts.

Instead of being a deterrent, they became a factor that emboldened the nations that housed them.

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'Be it a wayward attack from a shinobi, or a full-on tailed beast blast from a Jinchuriki... Civilian Villages have already been targeted heavily during the Third War... And it's only just begun.'

After all, the quickest way to destroy a nation was by ruining its infrastructure and making lives harder for its civilians.

And the fastest way to do so was by slaughtering said civilians, ruining their homes.

And sometimes, powerful shinobi were also sent on such tasks. Many times they found them demeaning, as killing helpless civilians was somewhat boring to trained murderers.

However, this wasn't the case for the 7 swordsmen of the mist.

They had already gone on a killing spree, getting rid of the dozen or so teams that were defending the area, so now they had free reign to slaughter the villages in said area.

They had plenty of time before the Land of Fire sent reinforcements.

So much time in fact, that Jz Biwa and Jinpachi Munashi had more than enough time to play around.

Jz was dressed in his usual attire, a black tight-fitting sleeveless shirt, black pants and sandals. His headband was also black, sporting the Mist village's symbol proudly.

His face and neck were both covered in bandages, and his sharp teeth glistened under the sun.

He made sure to feed his blade as much blood as he could, piling up villagers and creating a small pool made of corpses.

He left his long sword rest in the pool of blood, all the while he played around with a severed hand.

The madman whistled as his Decapitating Carving Knife soaked in blood, repairing any and all nicks in the large blade.

Jinpachi was a bit less practical in his fun-having.

He wore an extremely loose, long-sleeved pin-striped shirt and black pants and sandals. The top of his head was wrapped in bandages, and he had an eye patch covering his left eye, sprouting from under his Kirigakure forehead protector.

He simply started playing a twisted version of golf with the corpses, exploding them with his blade and seeing how far they flew.

He experimented with corpses of varying weights and ages, and he discovered that the corpses of children flew much further than those of adults.

The lower the height and weight the further they flew essentially.

Aramo Sakoji was also laughing along, his grey hair was pointed upwards towards the sky in an unusual manner, allowing him to stick out from the rest. The large blade on his back also helped...

He was the current wielder of the Hiramekarei, a powerful blade with two hilts that could change its appearance to its user's wishes as long as it was manipulated with enough chakra.

But what would the Rock and Cloud gain from that? Even with us there the Tsuchikage and the Raikage could likely take over the Mist by themselves...

The Mist Village should also be relatively safe from attacks since it is far from the warzone in the middle of the continent, being just an island to the East...'

Politics were never going to not be confusing to Kushimaru. The silent swordsman, much like the rest of his peers, was a lot better at killing than anything else.

It was very likely that nothing shady was going on. And the Mist Swordsmen were just sent for Guerilla Warfare against the Land of Fire to demoralize them...

Regardless, those thoughts kept bouncing around in Kushimaru's head for a while...

There was a lot that could go wrong in such a mission as well, which made him even more anxious.

The swordsmen would probably be able to win against a Sanin, they were strong enough to stand up to Kage, and even if they didn't win, they'd be able to retreat pretty easily...

But if they ran into the White Fang of the Leaf, they'd be demolished... Hunted down like dogs in the night.

The White Fang was, at the end of the day, the man that had single-handedly won the battle against the Sand Village during the Second Shinobi War.

He was not someone that the Mist Swordsmen could win against. Especially not while they were in his territory.

Fortunately for them, they weren't going to run into the White Fang at all!

Unfortunately for them, they weren't going to have a fun time either...

Kushimaru looked at the sky for a second, only for his eyes to widen as he noticed a strange red gleam covering the sky...

'... A barrier...'

The other swordsmen also noticed the change, and they immediately ran towards the middle of the village, where Kushimaru was sitting.

"The hell is happening?!" Jz growled as he arrived there, his large blade slung over his shoulder.

"Well, obviously a barrier... But does that mean this mission was a trap?" Fuguki scowled, showing his sharp teeth as the Samehada on his back seemed to twitch.

"Most likely... Either that or the Uzumaki are here instead of the Leaf Village reinforcements... Both options are a 'worst-case' scenario..." Jinin already had his axe and mallet in each hand, preparing for a fight to break out at any second.

"We can still break out of this... But I won't be getting any natural lightning it seems..." Raiga looked at the red barrier that covered the sky with narrowed eyes.

His blades, the Fangs, showcased their full power when he also had natural lightning aiding him.

"We just have to break the barrier directly." Jimpachi gripped his explosive scroll blade, his eye darting around everywhere as he tried to look for any enemies.

"I guess the solution is pretty obvious... We just do what we know best..." Kushimaru slowly stood up and grabbed his blade, the Sowing Needle/Nuibari.

The Swordsmen seemed to have reached an agreement, they all brandished their weapons and prepared to move together against any enemy that showed themselves.

They weren't about to go off separately and attack the barrier. They were instead going to slowly move towards the edge and try to break out with excessive force, something they all had experience with.

Fuguki was especially confident, as he knew the Barrier was going to be made out of Chakra, and his Samehada was going to be able to consume it no matter how tough it was.

"Well... You guys are lively as I remember..."

But all of their confidence seemed to crash as soon as they laid their eyes on the man that had made his presence known.

"N-no way..." The hairs on Jz's back stood up, the man could feel fear seeping into his bones. He could also feel a slight phantom pain in his neck.

"S-so it really was you..." Kushimaru's hand trembled a bit as he gripped his Nuibaru even harder.

"The Red Dot..." Fuguki gripped the hilts harder as those words left his mouth.

The figure in front of them was still barely visible, but they could still see the mask within the shadow... A pristine, pure white mask, with a blood-red circle in its very centre.

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