Book One: The Rise of the Blue-Haired Devil.

      You know, my sensory abilities were similar to detecting heat. Now I’ll explain... at first you don’t feel anything, however, if the owner of the chakra appears within the range of your abilities, then at first you faintly feel a warm spot. As you get closer to the subject, you feel his chakra source better and better. Now imagine my surprise when, at a distance of five hundred meters from me, a hundred lights from chakra flashed for literally a split second. This prompted me to stop. It was generally surprising to me that someone was able to hide such a huge number of ninja at such a close distance from me. At first I thought it was my imagination, but Morgana refuted this assumption, making it clear that she also caught this surge of chakra. I slowed down a lot, trying to move absolutely silently. After two hundred meters, I was finally able to see the enemy... I will remember this sight for a long time... in a clearing there was a camp consisting of ninjas from a village hidden in the Stone. Why I didn’t immediately notice this squad became immediately obvious... the camp was surrounded by a barrier, not made of fuinjutsu, but made of bees... damn, a barrier made of bees... can you imagine that?! I'm still impressed, but these insects don't even make their characteristic buzzing noise... Why couldn't my sensory waves pass through this barrier? Yes, it simply consists of natural chakra... Nothing will help here. Even Hashirama and Tobirama wouldn't have discovered him. My worst fears turned out to be true. They tried to encircle us in order to quickly and easily end the war... Well, we need to sound the all clear and return to the camp. We need to retreat to find a more advantageous position to defend the fire country. The plan for guerrilla warfare will also have to be redone, because the enemy has such a terrible camouflage technique. I only know one person who can have such control over bees. Ishikawa Kamizuru is a very dangerous ninja. There are rumors that Tobirama once encroached on the lands of his clan. It ended badly for the albino... he had to run away with his tail between his legs. I have never asked the current Hokage about this, but I think that these are not just rumors... although they may be exaggerated... Ishikawa is generally the first ninja to bring insect techniques to such a high level. The Aburame clan is no match for this outstanding ninja. Their beetle techniques were too far behind those of the Kamizuru clan, or rather, not even so, from Ishikawa’s techniques. This man took a different path of development, starting to raise his own bees. Little is known about his experiments in this craft, but one of them is now before my eyes. I’m afraid to even imagine how dangerous his achievements are, although I won’t deny that I’m terribly interested in seeing what he achieved. An unpleasant sensation appeared in the neck area... as if something had sat on my skin... wait?! Village?! I quickly slammed the creature that had sat down on me, but the unpleasant tingling still remained.       - I didn’t think you’d be able to find our camp, Michiko Yuki. - a quiet but confident voice suddenly spoke from behind me. I quickly jumped to the side, finding myself in a clearing where the enemy camp was set up. Damn, I didn’t even think that I would be discovered so quickly. I bit my lips until they bled... my brain activity had reached its peak... I simply understood that I could not defeat an entire army, which was also led by a kage... and what a kage at that! A gray-haired old man with a bristly mustache and a long beard, both dark in places, looked at me from a tree branch, passing one by one. It was Ishikawa himself. Fortunately, my brain finally came up with an escape plan. The enemy’s capabilities are far beyond the limits of a normal ninja, fortunately I am also a very savvy shinobi in this regard. -Are you the commander of this front? – the tsuchikage asked me with the same intonation, warily watching all my actions, including manipulations with chakra. I didn’t answer my opponent, because I quickly realized what he was trying to achieve. With his conversations, this experienced ninja gave his subordinates time to navigate the current situation. The stone ninjas actually reacted very quickly, taking up their weapons and getting into their fighting stances. They were ready to rush at me at the first word from their commander-in-chief.       - You're strange. – I suddenly said, grinning right in the face of my enemy.       - What? – asked the old man, whose eyes widened. His reaction was understandable, because I behaved too relaxed for someone who was already practically in captivity.       - Do you think that your poison can harm me? – I asked a rather strange question, already smiling impudently at the Tsuchikage.       - This poison... - he was about to start, but was interrupted by me.       - Perfect sage mode! – I shouted out the name of the mode I entered in the blink of an eye. – Fuinjutsu, unsealing! – I added, activating the seal on my forehead. After this, my aura changed, becoming cold and distant. I needed a little warm-up to activate my two power-ups. I felt all the stone ninjas take a few steps back. My aura weighed heavily on them, but Ishikawa’s reaction surprised me. This man was absolutely calm.       - That means hermit mode. – he said calmly, looking at me without interest. – Do you think that you are the only one in the world who has it? – he added coldly, not allowing me to get a word in. At that moment, a blue rim appeared around his eyes, indicating that he also mastered senjutsu. I was wary, because now I realized how much I was in trouble. Now everything has dawned on me. The members of the Aburame clan have beetles that feed on their own chakra, but my opponent... I don’t know how he managed it... they are bees that feed on senjutsu chakra, which is why my sensory waves did not pass through them.       - Forbidden technique of the Kamizuru clan, bee suffocation! – the tsuchikage shouted out the name of ninjutsu while I was in thought. Hundreds of thousands of bees, filled to capacity with sen-chakra, simultaneously fired a volley of strange substance at me. Even seeing this technique for the first time, I realized that it was better not to fall under it simply based on the name. I jumped to the side, dodging the ninjutsu of the enemy, who at that moment was already finishing making seals for a new technique.       - Summoning technique! – biting his lip until it bled, he summoned a huge hornet, the size of which was not inferior to some buffalo. Kamizuru easily jumped onto the huge insect and then rose into the air, about to launch another attack, but I wasn't so easy. The stone ninjas began to stir, so I decided to calm their ardor so that they would not interfere in our battle.       - Ice Release, Storm of a Thousand Needles! – I said the name of the first technique, without making a single seal. About a thousand senbon formed in the air and headed towards the stone ninja, who already realized how they got into trouble.       - Kamizuru Clan Bee Technique, Honey Wall! - Seeing the danger that threatened his subordinates, Ishikawa, as befits a true leader, tried to protect his people, since he did not need to put down seals for a jutsu of this level.       - Summoning technique. – Taking advantage of a short hesitation on the enemy’s part, I summoned my blade into the world, making five seals. Now I was completely ready for battle.       - Forbidden technique of the Kamizuru clan, bee attack! – said the name of the Tsuchikage technique, adding several seals. He clearly didn't lose control of himself during the fight, but I immediately realized that he would now be more serious with me. I read this in his gaze, which turned cold after my attempt to wound his soldiers. Bees attacked me. No, this technique was not intended for attack. Its essence was to immobilize me. Every bee in the swarm, not sparing itself, rushed in my direction. This attack was very fast, but even though it had a fairly obvious flaw - the bees flew exclusively in a straight line. They didn’t stop even when I avoided a direct hit. They simply crashed into the ground, exploding with the same sticky mucus that Ishikawa had attacked me with before. During the battle, it didn’t immediately dawn on me, however, according to my estimates, it was honey soaked in Sen-chakra. I fought back with my blade, sometimes putting up ice walls for protection. The shelling continued for about fifteen seconds. What is fifteen seconds? For an ordinary person, this is the time during which he will run two hundred meters, but for a ninja, this is just a lot of time to realize some idea. I couldn’t ignore the kamikaze bees, because if Kamizuro immobilizes me, then I won’t be able to do anything to oppose him, but something had to be done. I felt like the kage was concentrating a huge amount of chakra for some powerful technique. Oh, how I didn’t like it... I gave too much time to an opponent of this level...       - Forbidden sealing technique of the Kamizuro clan, Honey Tombstone. – Ishikawa said in a calm tone, having previously made a lot of seals. There was just a wall of bees around me that I couldn’t break through. I tried to move to the right, but it didn't work. The bees were everywhere, making their own kind of round barrel, the radius of which was about three meters. I looked up furtively... it quickly dawned on me what the Tsuchikage wanted to do to me. At the top there were about five large hornets, one of which was sitting on my opponent. They began to fill the entire space in which the bees had closed me with thick honey, which was very viscous. Its density simply went off scale... I attempted to break through the barrier using an ice slash. This cut through several thousand bees, creating a small passage through which I tried to sneak through, but the honey, which constrained my movements to the knees, prevented me from moving quickly. When I was already one step away from freedom, I was filled with a second portion of honey, which had already completely immobilized me...