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

      Why is he so relaxed? Why? I just don’t understand... Muu just looks at me with a grin in his eyes, as if all my actions had long been read and predicted, and he himself has a plan according to which everything goes exactly as it should... Could they have calculated mine actions? Did they manage to predict that the enemy, whose army was more than half the size, would attack them? A desperate attack... understandable... Our actions could be easily understood if they had information about the fall of the Mist with them. It turns out that these rumors reached them at the same time as we did. This is quite logical. I didn't even think about it when I acted on this news. I thought that we would have the advantage, but what will happen in the end? I have driven us into the trap of our enemies. I destroyed his reconnaissance squad. This is, of course, a good bonus, but what is he up to? Are you stalling for time until reinforcements arrive? No, that would be stupid of him. His troops are too far from us.       - You probably consider yourself a genius who can control everything? – Muu began to mock me, looking at me with such a condescending look that even Madara did not throw at me at our first meeting. “I have to admit that when we first met, your skills surprised me, but now I won’t give you a chance.” – the right hand of the Tsuchikage stated in a calm tone, although in the eyes of the ninja opposite I clearly saw the desire to get even with me for that time. – Since this front will fall today, I’ll tell you a little secret. The three great ninja villages have finally come to an agreement, forming a temporary alliance. Now Konoha has no chance of salvation. – my opponent told me with satisfaction, making a one-handed seal of concentration with his right and touching the ground with his left hand. Union of the three great villages? Shit, this is very bad... The land of fire is not ready for this... You might be thinking, why do I care about the well-being of Konoha if it is not my home? Everything here is quite logical. As hard as it is for me to admit, Tobirama has become a good friend to me. Grouchy at times, but a friend. Also, Mito is now in the village of hidden leaves. What about the Fog? I don’t see any prospects of returning there now. Yumiko and Moku were able to reach Uzushio, but Kiri was not yet ready to storm Uzumaki Island. The Land of Water is facing a crisis in which it will have to spend a lot of resources to restore military power. I'm afraid that all the other Water ninjas are true patriots. They will return home at the first call. And yes, this call will soon reach all fronts. I think this mummy didn't lie to me. Intuition suggests that lying to him is pointless. What does an alliance between our enemies mean? This will mean that the pressure on all fronts will increase. Of course, not three times, but certainly two times. This will happen within a week, during which the opponents will transfer their forces from other fronts to the front with Fire. Why did Muu talk about it like that? Is he really so sure that we will lose today? We need to convey this information to Tobirama, perhaps this will not help win the war, but prolonging it to try not to lose is a very real task. Then I finally felt... I directly felt with my whole back why my enemy was so confident in his words. A huge number of chakra pockets appeared from underground. All this time, half of the Stone's army was hiding underground. Their plan worked perfectly. I was unable to track them only because Kamizuro closed the ceilings of the dungeon that the Stone ninjas created with his creations. Our measly three thousand ninja were surrounded by six thousand enemy ninja, and about the same number were moving in our direction. How can you survive in such a deplorable situation when there is nowhere to run?       - Kagami! – I shouted, taking several jumps back. I began to feel the chakra of Ishikawa, who was hiding underground with his subordinates.       - What? – my deputy stared at me with incomprehension.       - Your task is to protect me throughout the battle. This will be a very long battle, so be prepared for anything. If I get eliminated, we lose. – I commanded, trying to maintain composure. The upcoming battle will be truly difficult.       - You're laughing? We will simply be overwhelmed by numbers, what kind of battle are we talking about? They will simply trample us. – the Uchiha told me in response, looking with rounded eyes at the huge enemy army.       - Hey, people! – I shouted, noticing how the morale of my army began to plummet at the sight of the enemy’s numbers. - Do you want to retreat right now? Behind us stands our home, Konoha. Your wives and children will be killed. Our enemies know no mercy, so pull yourself together now. Together we can repel our enemy! – I made a fiery speech when they paid attention to me. I did not expect any good result, but the next actions of my subordinates amazed me.       - Yes! He is right! – one voice was heard from the crowd. - We must protect Konoha! – a second voice supported him, after which the fighting spirit of the Leaf ninja began to grow right before his eyes. The ninja, who just a minute ago were ready to surrender by laying down their arms, were now, like crazy, eager to fight.       - Get your act together! Form a circular defensive phalanx. Get ready to take enemy attacks on yourself. Don't be afraid, I will help you protect yourself from the techniques, but in return I ask you not to let enemy ninjas get close to me! – I added to the crowd, which, at the end of my words, immediately lined up, preparing to give their lives for the good of their village. This dedication struck me to the core. I had already decided that I would fight these ninjas until the very end. “Kagami, don’t let me down.” – I turned to my deputy, calling into the world a blade that personified Morgana’s existence in this world.       – I can finally enjoy their blood. – the witch in my head said with bloodthirstiness in her voice. Ignoring Morgana's words, I began to fold over a hundred seals to perform the most complex technique in my arsenal. – The element of ice, the dictates of nature. – after the one hundred and twenty-seventh seal, I said the name of the technique, taking a pose for meditation. One of my hands was formed into a seal of concentration, while the other was in contact with the ground.       * The command of nature is an ice technique, which was based on another technique: the Inorganic Revitalization Technique, which can be mastered by any ninja who has been trained in senjutsu in the Ryuchi Cave. It is worth noting that the snake technique itself had one important flaw that Michiko was able to find. At high temperatures, the area controlled by the user of the equipment returned to its normal state. The protagonist’s technique did not have this flaw, because Victor could now turn any object within a radius of two kilometers into ice, filled to capacity with sen-chakra. *       - What is this? - one Konoha ninja screamed as an ice shield began to appear in his hands. All the shinobi standing nearby looked at him in surprise, after which ice protection items also began to appear in their hands, but it didn’t end there. I added even more chakra to the technique, creating ice spears for my subordinates. The transformation of the Konoha ninja did not take even a minute, after which the usual ninja army was difficult to recognize. The shinobi put ice shields forward. Each of them covered his neighbor with his shield, thus building a strong phalanx, which was very difficult to break through.       - It's amazing how many other tricks this kid has? – Kamizuro said out loud, looking at the transformation of the enemy troops.       - This will not be such an easy fight as I expected. - Muu responded, his face changing. It was clear from the man’s eyes that he was very dissatisfied with what was happening.       - Today is a very important day for all of us. – Ishikawa began his speech, seeing that his people were frightened by the strength of the enemy. – Today we will break the will to victory of our enemies. Today is the day when Konoha's troops will be destroyed, after which the end of the war will be very close! – the Tsuchikage spoke in a loud and confident voice. – Do you want to give up now? At this moment, when are we ready to end the war? Have you thought about your friends and relatives who died on this front? Have you thought about them? At least for their sake, we must win this war. Attack! - Having finished his loud speech and seeing that confidence had finally appeared in the ranks of the ninja, he commanded the attack.       The first attack on the ranks of the Konokhovites was very straightforward and stupid. Several squads of Stone ninja decided to try to close in on the rows of ice shields, pelting the ranks of their enemies with melee weapons. Kunai, shuriken and even senbon - all this flew towards an even phalanx of ice sheets. The defense was successful. Not a single edged weapon reached its target. Then the stone ninjas tried to break through the ranks of ninjas in the hope that the ice shields were not so strong. Bad luck befell them again. Only a small part was able to reach the ranks of Konoha ninja. A small part of them were impaled on spears made of ice, and a large part died from the ice needles released by Michiko from the round shields that he created. When performing such a technique, it was very difficult to rely on accuracy, because there were simply a colossal number of opponents. I had to offset this drawback with the number of senbon that flew at the enemies. It is difficult to say about the number of deaths, but there were a lot of them... an awful lot compared to all the previous victims.       The second approach to our defense took place within five minutes. The Stone Ninja became more cautious as they began to try to break through us with Earth techniques, but here they faced a huge problem. They could not control the ground under their opponents' feet. I didn’t allow them to do this, because my technique, the Command of Nature, gave me simply unimaginable strength, even if the price was my mobility. We were bombarded with stone bullets that simply bounced off the ice shields. Some opponents even tried to get into our rear underground. They were simply pierced by ice spears, and in an environment such as the earth it is very difficult to suddenly change their speed and direction, so calculating their movement was not so difficult. Now, if they buried their entire army in the ground, then yes, this could cause inconvenience to me, but so far everything is going more or less well, given our situation.       - Use group earth technique! – the Tsuchikage commanded, seeing how ordinary attacks did not work against the enemy’s defense. After these words, about a thousand stone ninjas began to simultaneously make hand seals. The ninja headed Muu as a person who would control huge flows of chakra.       - Element of earth, earthen prison! – about a thousand ninjas shouted in unison. Holy shit, these assholes decided to bury us underground. Huge stone walls appeared on two opposite sides of us. Their size was simply amazing, because they exceeded the size of Kurama in his true form. The worst thing was that these walls began to move slowly but surely. If we don’t do anything, then they’ll simply squeeze us into tight grips, turning us all into chebureks... Hmm, I have a couple of ideas on how to stop this, but each of them will simply waste a lot of chakra, but there’s not much choice, because get out of the affected area we will not succeed for two reasons. Firstly, I will have to interrupt my technique, and this will mean only one thing - defeat. My people will lose at least some protection. Perhaps I will have time to activate my technique again, but we will obviously have time to suffer great losses, but the most important loss will be my chakra. The less I have, the closer the end of the battle is. Now I am extremely focused on maintaining my reserves, so I don’t send equipment left and right unnecessarily.       When huge walls of ice began to approach us, the stone ninjas increased pressure on our ranks, starting to bombard us not only with earth techniques, but with fire, wind, water and even lightning techniques. Yes, the enemy’s arsenal of techniques was greatly limited by four natural transformations, which were not common on their territory. We started to suffer losses. Insignificant for any other battle, but significant enough in this one. The shields worked very well, but the problem was that the hail of enemy attacks completely blocked the view of my subordinates, which is why every now and then some stray kunai flew through the ranks of ninjas, killing someone from behind. I dealt with the problem of clamping... more precisely, not so, I wanted to use the enemy’s technique against them. How did I do this? I waited until the large walls were close enough to us, creating a corridor narrow enough to accommodate my entire army, after which I immediately began to turn the stone walls into ice, gradually taking control of them. Even though the sun was visible in the sky now and it was quite warm, in our passage the temperature was about zero degrees. Such a number of ice buildings had too much influence on the surrounding temperature...       - This guy can really call himself a genius. – Kamizuro suddenly said out loud, seeing the changed situation on the battlefield. - Muu, take your student and take care of the other flank. Use your genome to break through this row of shields. I'll try to hit this guy with ranged attacks. My bees simply cannot survive the temperature inside this passage, so it is simply pointless to climb into its territory. – the Tsuchikage commanded, observing how the scales of the battle began to gradually move to the side of the enemy. Ishikawa's people died in huge numbers due to the narrow space in which Yuki was simply a God. A slight relaxation on the part of any stone ninja would lead him to a quick and unexpected death. The sharp ice needles or spears could hit the jounin and chunin participating in the battle from any direction. The walls were so high that attacks could even be expected from the sky. Michiko did not repeat his attack twice, constantly changing the angle of flight of his weapon so that the enemy would find himself in a very unpleasant situation. To complicate matters further, the Stone ninja were crowded into narrow passages, reducing their chances of successfully dodging or deflecting the hero's weapon.       - Oonoki, follow me! – the mummy shouted, addressing the guy, whose height did not exceed one and a half meters. Muu's student had shaggy brown hair and dark, thick eyebrows. He was also wearing a dark brown shirt and beige trousers with black sandals, over which was a fairly durable looking burgundy colored armor. He did not answer his mentor, following him across the sky.       Uhh, things are heating up. The Shinobi of Stone are suffering huge losses. We, of course, are doing better in this regard, but we should not forget about the reinforcements that will soon approach the battlefield. Feeling that the mummy’s chakra began to move, coming from one side, I tensed. Now I’ll have to spend a lot more chakra, because my ice shields simply won’t withstand the technique of his improved genome. Ishikawa also decided to join the fight, although it must be admitted that I greatly limited his actions by lowering the temperature. Noticing that Kamizuro again, as in the last battle, called on his huge hornets, I realized that it was time to gradually reveal my trump cards.       - Morgana, kill the flying creatures! – I said to myself, turning to my roommate.       - With pleasure! – the sorceress answered me with unusual pleasure. Well, honestly, now I doubt again that she is a person... - Kagami, get ready! – I warned my deputy, who was standing next to me.       - I see. – the Uchiha coldly reported to me, looking straight at the hornets that began to release huge clumps of mucus on the Konoha shinobi. – Element of fire, Dragon Flame! – the head of the red-eyed clan shouted the name of the technique, releasing a stream of tightly compressed chakra turned into fire towards streams of honey. The collision of the powerful fire elemental technique released by one of the strongest masters of this art in the world with the bee technique produced a strong heating in the temperature in the air. There was no epic explosion, just a flash of light that hit the eyes of all the ninjas for a few seconds, blinding them. The techniques turned out to be equal in strength, although not quite. The honey technique actually turned out to be a little stronger, however, after contact with the fire dragon, it simply did not have enough power to reach the ranks of the leaf ninjas. Meanwhile, the parity in the balance of forces began to change greatly with every minute of the battle. If this continues, then Liszt has every chance of getting away with a slight scare on this front, but the village hidden in Stone will have to launder its proud name for a long time.       Ishikawa simply could not influence the battle of his ninjas. His bees could not approach the battle zone. But shelling from a long distance using honey techniques did not help, because Kagami, along with two other clanmates, blocked all the kage’s attempts. The matter was also complicated by Morgana, who kept trying to kill another bumblebee. Kamizuro tried to take advantage of the fact that the temperature in the opening was gradually increasing due to the fire techniques that the Uchihas used. However, I quickly saw through his plan, so when, after the next clash of techniques, the surrounding temperature increased and the Tsuchikage sent his little friends into a quick attack, I instantly cooled the entire space inside the corridor, while killing the entire squadron of bees flying into the attack. But the whole fate of the battle was decided from the other end of the corridor, where two ninjas with unique genomes approached. All this time I was focused on the stone ninja, however, as soon as my senses screamed of danger, I turned my attention to the little guy and the mummy. These two were already ready to use their destructive techniques...       - Element of dust, Atomic fission technique! – both shinobi said in two voices. Two white cubes that appeared in their hands began to increase in size. This technique posed an unimaginable threat, so I decided to take immediate action using my strongest defensive technique.       - Ice release, Yuki's reflection! – I said to myself the name of the technique, correctly directing the flow of chakra into the ground.       *Yuki's Reflection is one of the few techniques in Michiko's arsenal that is aimed solely at defense. The user, by concentrating a huge amount of chakra in one place, creates a mirror of ice. This mirror has unique abilities, which are supported by the hero’s high understanding of fuinjutsu. When any jutsu approaches in its direction, the mirror absorbs the technique, after which the user can create a second mirror in any place, from which the same enemy technique will appear. Yuki's Reflection is the hero's first technique based on space-time fuins, which are very difficult to understand even for him. *       You know, with all the experiments that I managed to conduct on this technique, I am still not sure that it will be able to reflect the ninjutsu of this genome. It's really weird and unusual. Two cubes began to merge into one large transparent cube, which was ready to absorb several hundred ninjas. Ōnoki and Muu did not skimp on chakra in this technique, so it was a huge force. The Konoha ninja, seeing the strange cube, did not immediately understand the full danger of it, but the full power of the techniques reached the ordinary chunin (they understood this from the temporary retreat of the enemy), and the indescribable horror of inevitable death appeared in their eyes. However, contrary to their sad thoughts, a huge mirror appeared in front of the entire squad, the area of which was in no way inferior to the area of a transparent cube. When the attacking technique of the elements of dust and the defensive technique of ice came into contact, to the surprise of all the ninjas, the ice took over, simply absorbing the entire transparent cube. It is worth noting that Muu and Ōnoki did not have time to activate the splitting technique, because at the moment of contact, a piece of the cube that they were holding together was torn out from them.       This struck to the core, and when they came to their senses, it was already too late, the cube was completely absorbed, after which the protective equipment fell into the ground.       What if you try to release this technique? It's very powerful, so why shouldn't I take the risk? I made the ice mirror appear again, but now I have problems. My control or understanding of chakra simply wasn't enough to release this jutsu on the scale it was supposed to hit us with, so I decided to do things my way. Since they focused on the scale of the attack, I will focus on speed and power. Having started pouring a mind-boggling amount of my chakra into the ice mirror, I finally achieved what I wanted. A huge transparent club, visible in the reflection of the mirror, was flattened to the size of a needle, ready to shoot at opponents.       - We're leaving. – Muu said, recovering from shock, whose intuition predicted an unprecedented crisis. An experienced shinobi was used to trusting his feelings, which more than once allowed him to walk along the edge of a knife, on the brink between life and death. Noticing that his student did not move from his place while observing the sharp transparent needle, the mummy grabbed him under the arm, removing him from the attack zone. “We invested half of our reserve into this jutsu... we are one of the strongest stone ninjas, and our joint attack was simply absorbed... this guy scares me...” the Tsuchikage’s right hand thought nervously.       The small needle rushed into the ranks of the enemy at an incredible speed. None of the Jounin had time to react as the needle released a strange transparent field from itself, after which it began to suck all the ninja into the point where the needle fell. - Help! – the cry of the first stone ninja was heard, who was the first to realize that his body was now beyond his control. -At least someone stop this! – shouted the second ninja from the country of Earth, who also felt the gravitational force of this needle and the field that this needle created. Among the shinobi of the hidden stone village, there were indeed several ninjas who tried to help their comrades, but everything was in vain. An invisible force simply pushed them in the opposite direction, but those who were too persistent were sucked in with other suicide bombers. The ball first slowly began to narrow, and then, having reached a certain critical state, it turned back into a needle, killing hundreds of stone ninjas at a time.       – Fuhh... – Ōnoki, who was watching everything that was happening, exhaled heavily.       - This is not the end. – the experienced Muu noted gloomily, seeing how the concentration of chakra in the needle was just beginning to gain momentum. At this time, the now transparent needle began to gain momentum, creating the illusion of some kind of elongated black eye. When the mummy saw what was happening inside this needle, she realized that something terrible was about to happen. It is worth noting that at this moment the battle was stopped on this side of the ice passage. All the ninjas simply watched this phenomenon in shock. It took the needle about fifteen seconds to reach a speed after which it would be impossible to stop it. A second later there was a huge explosion. A wave of pure white energy hit all the Stone ninjas that were on this side of the ice opening. Upon contact with any objects, the energy simply split them, turning them into nothing. Two and a half thousand stone ninjas who arrived on this flank of the battle left this world, turning into tiny particles. After the explosion, a huge crater was left, the radius of which reached two kilometers. Only by some miracle did I manage to stop this wave among the ranks of my soldiers. Muu and Oonoki fell out of reality. For the first time, they saw that someone could destroy a third of the enemy army with just one technique. It was simply an unprecedented sight...       - Who the hell is he? – Ishikawa thought, looking at the scale of the technology. - Such techniques should not exist in nature. The existence of this guy simply breaks all the logic of this world. – the Tsuchikage continued his thoughts. “I just don’t understand anything anymore...” Kamizuro said out loud, beginning to realize the scale of the tragedy. - We retreat! – the man commanded, making a very serious decision. Why did he decide this? The battle had already lasted an hour. During this time, the stone lost about three thousand ninja, while Konoha only lost one and a half thousand. It is worth admitting that in percentage terms everything was good, but this technique killed so many stone ninjas that now only a few remained from the former Tsuchikage army. They outnumbered the enemy by only a thousand soldiers. The reserve troops have already moved into battle, but they still have at least half an hour to get here. Ishikawa was not willing to sacrifice all of his subordinates for one victory. And the ruler of the village hidden in the Stone did not know how long his enemy could hold this technique. Even such a great warrior as Ishikawa Kamizuro began to respect his enemy for how the latter turned the outcome of the entire battle with just one technique.       - They're retreating! – one of the Leaf ninjas shouted, seeing his opponents running away.       - Finish off the bastards! – the voice of another shinobi was heard from the crowd. The Konoha army was ready to rush into a rash pursuit, but the commander's voice stopped them.       - Stand! There is another similar army there. Let's retreat! We have already won this battle! – I said confidently. The subordinates were unhappy, but they carried out the order, starting to move deeper into their territories. “Kagami, help me up.” - I asked, not even having the strength to stand up on my own. I spent too much chakra on the last attack. Even though there was still some chakra left in my seal, I was severely exhausted. For the first time in all my time, I was running such incredible amounts of chakra through my body. This technique can only be added to the list of forbidden items based on this criterion. My deputy helped me get to my feet, which were simply wobbly. We started moving at the end of our squad, but after a few minutes my legs simply stopped supporting me and I fell off the tree branch. The Uchiha reacted quickly, picking me up.       - Rest, Michiko-dono. Today, thanks to you, we are all alive. – Kagami said, taking me under the shoulder, on the verge of audibility, after which the colors of the world for me turned into one multi-colored spot, which after some time became completely black...