Good gains

"Do you like to dance?".

The man in front of Izuna stepped back in fear and almost fell over.

"T-the S-Sharingan, w-what how did, w-who are you" he finally managed to say while stuttering "Y-Your part of the Uchiha clan, then why did you steal our supplies?".

'Hmm so he is a leaf shinobi, well whatever he's still going to die" Izuna thought, with his katana in his hand he began spinning it around indicating that he wasn't going to talk.

"Traitor, you have abandoned the Uchiha clan so you have abandoned Konoha too, which means that you have to die" regaining his confidence as he remembered that Izuna was just a kid and probably wasn't good at fighting but only running.

He also unsheathed his new katana which he had custom-made. It had a black blade which was pleasing to look at as it was made out of expensive and rare material. It was around sixty cm long which meant that it was lighter and more maneuverable.

"Hey that's a nice sword, I'll be sure to take care of it," Izuna said which left the man furious as he had saved up a lot of money to buy this and he even had to borrow money to purchase it before the war started because he wanted to show it off.

Izuna said nothing and began to slowly walk towards the man speeding up until he was in a full run. "Clang" they engaged in combat as Izuna activated his three tomoe Sharingan, he didn't use any Jutsu as he wanted to increase his sportsmanship, as he was very talented at this and he found great enjoyment in clashing swords with strong opponents.

He was a genius in swordplay but didn't have too many opportunities to practice because Konan was the only one he traveled with and she didn't use swords, and they wouldn't run into many people in the forest because it was so big.

During their clashes, Izuna was studying his opponent trying to learn any new sword skills or style, and he wasn't too disappointed because his opponent knew a bit about swordsmanship. Izuna was trying to pressure him to make him reveal more and rinse him dry.

The man was getting worried as he was having a hard time trying to defend and he had to reveal more of his skills that he wanted to save to land a surprise blow. What worried him the most was that Izuna was constantly improving and it was like he was learning the weaknesses of his skills and he was sharpening them mid-battle.

This was clear as the man was starting to get pushed back. It wasn't that he was weaker it was because Izuna was constantly throwing attacks at him at a fast pace.

'Amazing he's not using any Jutsu and is still winning' Konan thought to herself. She had already finished off her opponent as he was lying lifelessly on the floor, she had focused on his injury and constantly aimed for his weak side until he couldn't hold on anymore.

This wasn't her first time killing so she wasn't hesitant to take the man's life, her first time killing made her not eat for a few days as she had lost her appetite, it was only until she was forced to accept it that there would be more deaths in the future that she grew cold to killing.

"Huff if you can't excite me anymore you'd better give up your life," Izuna said with a cold tone. He had had his fun with the man and had learned all he could now it was time to Finnish up, he looked over to Konan who was already finished and was waiting for him.

The man had sweat running down his face and his breathing was haggard he knew that there was no point in asking for forgiveness because Izuna wasn't the type to let his enemy live. When he saw Izuna distracted he decided that he would make a run for it. He picked himself up and began to run full sprint into the trees.

Izuna saw this and smirked, he watched him run.

Konan saw this "aren't you going to get him, if he tells other leaf shinobi they will come for us".

Izuna looked at her with a smile "watch this" as he said that he got two kunai and threw one up in the air towards the direction the man was running.

Konan was confused and tilted her head a little then Izuna threw the second one at a frightening speed and it clashed with the first one midair and rebounded straight towards the escaping man's head.

All they could hear was a crash and a bunch of crows flew away from where it landed. Konan looked with glistening eyes and ran to see if what she thought happened was true. Reaching the place there was a dead man that had crashed into the tree with a kunai stuck in the back of his head.

"Wow, your soo cool, the way you made the kunai hit in midair was too cool" she had a look of admiration in her eyes.

"Just a cool trick, but I haven't tested it doing it that far which is cool," he said casually while picking up the black Katana and putting the cover on it, then strapped it to where his old Katana used to be "perfect, it's a great size I think the last one was too big and heavy, now I can swing even faster not to mention how sharp it is".

Over the year Izuna had been sharpening his skill as well as copying other Jutsu, he was excellent all-around, and thanks to his Mongekyou Sharingan's right eye he could master other people's Jutsu to another level.

He discovered another ability and it was his inhuman healing ability as he had further improved his self-healing ability after copying the Jutsu from some medical ninja he made a breakthrough. Although it wasn't enough to regrow limbs, he was working towards that because then he wouldn't have much to fear as his bigger fear was losing his arms and being unable to hold a sword and fight. He loved the thrill of battle I guess it just runs in the family.

Since he had an inhuman healing ability he discovered more secrets from the Sharingan. He found out that the more he used the Mongekyou abilities his vision would slowly become worse until he is blinded.

He found this out after a full day of pushing his Mongekyou Sharingan to the limit, he had to rest for two weeks until his eyes healed thanks to his cells but this still caused Konan quite the scare. So thanks to his healing he was able to perfect his control over the Sharingan which helped him use less chakra whilst improving the power of his abilities.

While in his Susanoo armored form that he could summon, he could match a high-level Jonin because in the armored form he could summon a Katana that could warp space and drain the enemy's strength, mental strength, and also their chakra the closer the target was to the blade making him a truly frightening shinobi. He was currently working on a shield that could reflect any Jutsu but he was at a bottleneck with this as he needed to learn more Jutsu to comprehend how it would be possible.

This was still unheard of before as Izuna was only eight making it impossible to believe that he could take on a high jonin. Most kids his age were just starting their days in the academy and learning the 'will of fire' things he had never been interested in, while Izuna and Konan had been surviving throughout the war from the age of 6 they simply weren't the norm because if Izuna was placed in the academy he would have been qualified to graduate at the age of 5 and Konan at the age of 7.

He had also made a breakthrough in his elemental coating Jutsu as he tried applying this to his body, using his chakra healing ability whilst also pouring chakra into every cell in his body and infusing an element into it.

Right now he could only use the 'lightning coat' technique, he hadn't thought of a cool name yet. This ability allowed his cells to gain immense speed which meant he was quick as a bullet and had inhuman reflexes, but this did come at a cost as his cells would explode from an overload after a while and if he used this too much even with his inhuman healing he would be on the bed for a few days being nursed by Konan.

He found this out the hard way, and was hospitalized for a week, relieving himself in front of Konan was not something he wanted to get used to, as he saw her trying to take peeks from time to time when she had to hold him up to do his business.

Konan looked at him and started to pray for his enemies because he was a monster when it came to fighting. now that she thought about their travels she was glad that she helped him because every day was eventful either for better or for worse, but they had grown closer to each other because they truly understood how each of them felt.

They had made many unforgettable memory over the past years like the first time she saw him without clothes swimming in a lake, which shocked her quite a bit, or the time when they both pretended to be lost injured children on the verge of death, to steal food and supplies.

They had messed with all of the villages that partook in the war as they had not felt any belonging to any village because they had grown up by themselves with nobody else and they had gone through many life or death experiences together.

"What's up, what are you thinking about?" Konan was brought back to reality by Izunas's question.

"Oh not much, just the past" she replied with a warm smile.

"Ok well we better move before night comes, we already wasted enough time".

"Yeah let's move".