Thirteen.
One left.
Once he finished his maneuver, he stood up and stared down the remaining member of the group. Intent on making her talk.
She didn't look intimidated or upset at how he just defeated her comrades.
Instead, she just created a magic circle and shot magic bullets at him.
He didn't even bother to dodge, allowing for the attack to hit him as he strengthened his body with chakra. The attack doing practically nothing to his body as he stalked forward towards his only conscious enemy left.
She once more, didn't appeared afraid at all.
Although it could just be that her cloak shadowed her eyes, preventing him from being sure.
As he kept moving forward, she created a larger and more powerful version of the same magic circle as before. Trying to stop him.
But before she could even try it, he threw a punch towards her face.
The punch never landed.
It stopped right before it could connect, but the force behind it was strong enough to smash the tree behind her and throw off the hood that was covering her face.
It was a warning.
But that wasn't what Naruto was concentrating on at the moment.
He stared...he stared at the woman's face, seeing something inherently wrong with it.
At a casual glance, she seemed to be quite the attractive young woman. Someone any straight male would be proud to be with.
That wasn't the issue though.
...Her eyes.
What was wrong with her eyes...?
The shinobi swallowed the lump in his throat as he stared at her thoroughly and completely dead eyes.
There was nothing in them.
No hope.
No peace.
No life.
Just...emptiness.
"...What happened to you...?" Naruto asked quietly, trying to stop the growing dread in his stomach. Trying to stop himself from thinking too deeply about what this woman went through to get eyes like that.
The woman was silent.
Then she smiled.
"Master's punishments are well-deserved."
Something in Naruto wept at the woman's words.
"...Please tell me where this guy is. You don't have to listen to him anymore. I promise." Naruto stated quietly, trying to suppress the anger that was building inside of him.
The woman smiled again.
"...There is never any escape. Master loves me. Even in death. So I will do my duty, as I was born to do." she said quietly, before pulling out something from her cloak and putting it into her mouth.
The blond's eyes widened, he moved to stop her, heart in his throat as he saw the woman's eyes dilate and then roll to the back of her head.
Then she fell over.
Dead.
Just like that.
Naruto's eyes were wide as he stared at the corpse in front of him.
She just...committed suicide.
He looked around at the bodies of the cloaked warriors that he has defeated, were they like this woman...?
His eyes widened in alarm.
His friends were in grave danger!
Not only that, but he had no idea where this masked guy was!
He only had one choice left...
"Tajū Kage bunshin no jutsu!"
Several explosions of smoke erupted around the shinobi, clones erupted from the smoke and spread out towards the forest around them.
All with one order.
"I don't care what you have to do...just find everyone and make sure they're safe!"
There was too much at stake to fail!
Issei gasped as he felt immense pain all over his body.
The explosion was small, but he power behind it was massive to the brown-haired boy, he couldn't move at all...!
"Issei-san!" Asia cried out, she moved forward and began healing his wounds with her Twilight Healing.
The perverted boy sighed as he felt the pain beginning to dull, he was never so happy that Asia was there.
He looked around, trying to figure out where they were.
They were still at the initial training area...
That meant that...!
"...My my. What a useful Sacred Gear you have. That will be useful in the future. But I think you are looking at that boy a little too passionately..." the masked man observed, before he began walking towards the two.
Issei snarled and tried to get up, determined to not let this guy anywhere near Asia. The healing was doing the trick, healing him up and allowing him to fight again.
The brown-haired boy then raised his left hand, calling on his own Sacred Gear...!
A red light engulfed his hand, a small red gauntlet appeared over his hand...Twice Critical.
"Alright asshole! You asked for it!" Issei called out, he hoped his training was enough for this...!
Now!
Boost!
Issei felt his strength multiply. The power coursing through his veins...! He could do this! He could actually-!
A fist smashed him across the face, sending him flying to an adjacent tree. Causing him to crash and make a large dent into it.
Blood came seeping out of his mouth as he felt the his cheek bones give way to the attack.
...What was that? Was that the masked guy? He couldn't tell...everything felt fuzzy...
...
Was someone screaming his name? So hard to hear...
These thoughts were all going through the head of the wielder of Twice Critical. But unfortunately, he didn't have time to think.
Mere moments after the attack, the masked man appeared in front of him again, tilting his head as he regarded the nearly motionless form on the floor.
"...Is that it? Is that all you had? Well then...it's a good idea I didn't use any magic. Wouldn't want the other human to locate my position...but I'm almost disappointed in how easy this was. Maybe I should inspire you a little more...?"
Issei barely understood him, he was just that far gone.
But he heard his next words.
"...Do you know why I am torturing you? Why I want to give you such pain?"
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