Why though?

As soon as we arrived at a building that was three miles away from the academy, I heard a pleasant chime and words popped up in front of

me.

{Achievement Unlocked: Home sweet home}

I blinked twice, and the message vanished, I had no idea what the hell that was about, but I had

bigger things to worry about, like why a masked ninja was coming my way, Mebuki and Kizashi stood behind me, with kunais ready.

I heard a scream close to me, "Get the fuck off me!" I turned to look at the girl she was in my class and was known to be an asshole; the girl had somehow gotten surrounded by masked ninjas. Her eyes caught mine with hope, and she yelled to me, "Help me!" There was something indignant about the way she said it like she was offended that I was there just looking at her, the masked ninjas took a glace at me and ignored me.

"What do we do?" Mebuki asked with concern holding her kunai in front of her.

"Nothing, we have to complete the mission and go back to the academy," I said with a cold tone, the test was simple, we had to survive, those were chunin and fighting them was stupid.

Regardless of my reasoning, I hesitated seeing the girl in trouble, and when I did, one of the ninjas lunged toward her, moving surprisingly fast, I couldn't follow the movements at all. The next thing I see is the girl coughing blood on the floor on her knees.

I started running with Mebuki and Kizashi. Not toward her, but away, I was starting to question what I really knew about the test, she was someone I knew, not by name but the girl was definitely on my class, and I just saw her bleeding, were they actually hurting students? Or was this just a Genjutsu.

More words appeared in front of me; as I jumped from building to building, the new words didn't make me feel too good with myself, but I knew I couldn't be a hero not when I was this weak, and besides, I never wanted to be a hero, all I want is to live.

{New Affliction: Cowardice}

I made my way towards the shopping district of Konoha, running at full speed as my two new friends struggled to keep up. There were no ninjas nearby, but I was just a newbie in this, they might be hiding their chakra, entering one of the buildings, I took a few seconds to catch some breath.

'Did she really died, Kronos?' I asked the system

{I don't have access to all the information, but by the info we got, it seems there is a 98% chance she died, and we misunderstood the test}

I saw someone died, this shit is beyond my pay grade, the affliction calling me a coward, I could feel my body and chakra flaring with anger the more I thought about it, I had seen someone fucking

die, and I was supposed to just throw myself into a melee to help someone I didn't even know too well? That wasn't cowardice, that was just common sense.

{Achievement Unlocked: That's still cowardice boy!}

'Kronos not fucking helping!' I shouted in my mind.

{I don't control that! sorry!}

My plan had been to get to the academy as fast as I could and … well, pass this freaking test, but it seems I have to change my approach this was dangerous, my gut was telling me that if I went directly to the academy, I would find some ninjas on the way and meet the same fate the last girl had.

My heartbeat was starting to slow down, fear slowing calming inside of me, Kizashi and Mebuki were trembling, and I couldn't blame them, I was only taking this better because I was more mature.

Once my mind started to calm down, I started to explore the building, so I slipped into one of the rooms inside the building we were in, I saw a guy's feet sticking out from behind a curtain, he wanted me to see him that was obvious, there was no way a trained ninja would make that mistake.

I almost yelped in surprise and fear, jump scares are in my top ten list of shit I don't like, but managed to hold it back. Now, my big fear was that this ninja was going to kill my friends and me at least injury me a lot, I wasn't still sure they would kill kids here, but for now, I have to prepare for the worst, both options of which I considered a real possibility, maybe they would just knock me out, I really hope so in case they capture me.

As I slowly moved back trying to get out of the room and avoid confrontation, the ninja seemed to notice this and lunged at me instincts kicked in and I brought foot down on the ninja's crotch, I poured all the chakra I could into that kick, I can't win if I play fair and I haven't met a man that can take a kick in the balls.

{Critical hit!}

"Urggggggggggggh...." The ninja, as I expected, couldn't take kick powered with chakra on his nuts and started to groan in pain.

As the adult ninja male curled into a ball in the floor I ran to the room I left Mebuki and Kizashi, and with a quick look that told them we need to run we jumped out of the window, I really hope the ninja I kicked doesn't get hell bend on revenge.

{Title unlocked: The Nut Crusher!}

Even in the midst of danger and fear I couldn't help but laugh at that title, Mebuki and Kizashi stared at me for a second, maybe questioning if I was going insane for laughing in this situation, if only they knew.

As I ran laughing my ass off with the title, I crashed with someone.

"Hey look out!" I direct my eyes to the voice, and find Asuma Sarutobi alone, standing in front of me, an eight-year-old academy student, is weird seeing him without his cigar and beard.

"Sorry, hahaha.. my bad.." I was still having problems holding in it together, and who could blame me? If im going to die, I might as well have some fun.