The Grind
The Grind
And it was a real... Fail. So, he decided to throw two. The process happened smoothly, not missing once, he could say that he had become a real master shuriken thrower.
"Wow! Mister you are so strong!" Kentaro really felt flattered, he couldn't stop smiling.
"Ryu, let me show you one of my coolest skill."
Seeing Kentaro perform hand seals, Ryu was looking forward to see the jutsu.
"Earth style: earth clones" five clones were made out of the ground. But they soon charged on Kentaro, beating him to a pulp.
Ryu began mocking him while he was suffering. Life was cruel.
The daily challenge was completed much faster than yesterday, today it only took three hours. The first step of the grind had been completed, one hundred thousand points in the pocket.
"Ryu, go back inside. I will go find your father and help him." going inside of the house, Ryu was a little disappointed, he wanted to see more jutsus.
As for Kentaro it was time to gain some more points, he went to where Todo normally works.
"Kentaro, is something the matter?" Todo was with other guards.
"I came here to help you. Your family has been very good to me and this is the only way I can thank you."
Todo had not expected to hear that from Kentaro, he was really a good man.
"Good then, we have to take down some bandits here and there everyday, with you it will happen much quicker."
Todo and the others had spotted four bandit camps each stacked with at least twenty bandits. If it was three days ago, Kentaro would have never dared to attack the camps.
Now was different, he was stronger and more confident. Running ninja style to the first camp, they arrived very quickly.
"I will take them down, stay here." they were obviously taken by surprise hearing Kentaro's words. But they did not contest, every one of them was seeing forward to see the power of a Fujimoto.
Approaching the camp, Kentaro did not know how much they were but he didn't give a shit. He needed the points.
"Stop there! Who are you! We're gonna kill you!"
Kentaro immersed himself in the earth and rised out of it again, now being completely covered with earth. Todo and the others didn't know what he was doing.
"Earth style: body of the stone warrior!"
The earth submerged Kentaro, creating a large body of stone that was three meters tall. The left arm of the stone warrior had a large stone shield almost covering its whole body and a large stone sword in his right hand.
Kentaro entered the camp, slaughtering every bandit one by one. Such a powerful earth jutsu, they had never seen.
Ding!"+60 000 points"
Thirty bandits down and it was only the first camp. He had already made one hundred and sixty thousand points today.
The earth giant broke down and all the stone returned to the ground, Kentaro was proud of himself. He had analyzed all the earth jutsus and he found this one pretty cool.
"Todo! Let's go to the next bandit camp!" shouting from far away, his voice showed his excitation. Todo and the guards were amazed, if all the Fujimoto had such skill than it was natural that they were one of the strongest clan in the land of earth.
They soon went to the next camp, the same thing happened. Kentaro killed them all.
Ding!"+40 000 points"
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Ding!"+110 000 points"
He had killed a total of one hundred enemies since the beginning of his new life. In the last camp he killed thirty, receiving sixty thousand points plus the fifty thousand points he would receive for every hundred enemies he kills.
Today was a good day, he had helped Todo and more specifically Hayakama village.
"We have destroyed all the bandit camps in the vicinity of the village, we can return now."
They returned with no worries in the world. The scenery was beautiful, the sun was shining on the never-ending grass fields.
"Leader! We have received a message from the castle town. Lord Kusa orders Kentaro Fujimoto to return immediately!"
Kentaro had only been here for two days and he was already ordered to come back.
"Todo, I will go now then. My stay here has been very pleasant. Here take this, give it to Ryu, also thank your wife for me."
Giving a shuriken to Todo, Kentaro began running in the direction of the castle town before Todo could say anything.
"Farewell, friend." he hoped to see him back and he surely will, as Kentaro serves his clan.
Running for thirty minutes, he arrived at the castle town. The thing was that he had forgotten the clan's uniform at Todo's house.
He now weared the brown samurai style robe that Himari had given him. So when he approached the castle town the guards were pretty hostile.
"Return from where you come, you have nothing to do here!" a guard exclaimed.
"I am Kentaro Fujimoto, a mercenary working for your clan."
One of the guard stared at Kentaro for a couple of seconds "Yes, I remember this straw hat and this scar. He works for us, let him enter."
Hearing the confirmation, they opened the gate and made way for Kentaro. This place had a weird feeling, it was very quiet.
"Kentaro, you have finally come. Go to the lord, he awaits your arrival."
Kentaro was suspicious, why would the lord want to see him so badly. Was he gonna kill him for the death of Sora Kusa?
Entering the lord's manor, Kentaro took the stairs until he was on the third floor. His heart was beating fast, he was nervous, but he knew that he shouldn't.
Approaching his hand to the door with the intention to knock, he was stopped by an old voice, the voice of lord Kusa!
"You need not knock, Kentaro Fujimoto. Enter."
Entering the room, this time with his head held high, the room was a lot larger than what he had thought.
But what instantly took his attention was that the room was filled with shinobi, at the left of the room the Shinobi of Kusa clan were looking at him. They were around thirty
At the right of the room was a group of around fifty Shinobi all dressed with dark red-brown kimonos.
The crest on their back was a circle and in the circle was a stone pillar planted on what seemed to be a stony ground.
Those shinobi were looking at Kentaro with proud looks. Kentaro didn't know what to think about all that, but a voice perturbed his thoughts.
"Unfilial son! Won't you greet I, your father?"
Looking towards the voice, he saw a middle aged man, not older than fifty, sitting next to Lord Kusa at the end of the room.
"Huh?"
What the hell was going on here? Father?