Boruto Light Novel 4

Part 4 (Sarada's Victory)

Sorry it took me so long to post this!! As you can tell, this is a long chapter. Really long. Since it was impossible for me to do it all in one sitting, I worked on it for a little too long and then got burnt out. 

Anyways! I'm on break rn so I kinda had the chance to recover! So here's the new chapter!

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"Either way, I have nothing to lose. Kill me." A fierce smile lit up Buntan's face.

Sarada remained frozen in the face of fear. Buntan was giving her an opening, and yet it seemed as though the blade was pointed at Sarada instead. In a sense, it was. Not a physical blade, but the invisible blade of Buntan's grudge that cut through her willpower.

"What's wrong, you can't follow through? Hahaha, how amusing. It looks like this was a better way of enacting revenge than gouging out your eyes after all!" Buntan's features distorted.

Her expression sent chills down Sarada's spine. On instinct, she leapt backwards.

And it was a good thing she did.

The lighting sword Kiba whirled through the air and sliced a shallow cut into Sarada's shoulder. If she hadn't moved, she might've died.

Buntan lay in a pool of her own blood, one sword hovering over her. Thunder crackled in between the two blades.

"I get it now, Uchiha. You've never killed someone before... Heh, and you're scared of doing it too."

"What are you..." Sarada grit her teeth. It was exactly as Buntan said. She'd been doing her best to hide it because it was something her opponent couldn't know in battle, or it would turn the tides against her. And Buntan seemed to have figured it out through her own experience.

"It's not possible. Killing doesn't look good on someone who preaches about peace, after all. Even though you're from the Uchiha clan! Ninja art: Lightning Armor!"

The swords above her sent lighting coursing through her body, combining with her chakra and providing her with a cloak of of electricity. Buntan should've been completely paralyzed, but she manipulated the lightning and forced her limbs into action.

"W-What are you doing? If you move around that much, you'll...!"

A scream of agony ripped from Buntan's mouth. But she ignored the pain and continued to attack. "Are you trying to warn me that my body will be completely burned up by my own lightning? How charming... But you know!!"

Buntan rushed towards Sarada and slammed into her with a fist covered in electricity. Sarada countered it again with lightning style. If she were to receive the attack normally, her body would be paralyzed by the electric shock, go rigid, and be rendered incapable of fighting.

"That kindness was what chased the bloody mist away! Even I know that much! Why did Uchiha Obito create the Akatsuki and start the Great Shinobi World War?"

"That's...?!"

That's right.

Even Sarada knew why the Akatsuki decided to start the war. It was started with the intention of world peace. The Akatsuki lost all faith in mankind. They tried to put humanity under a genjutsu in order to create an eternal tranquility, birthing peace that could never die out. They thought that an indefinite genjutsu was the only solution.

"You're all the same! All peace does is rot away at the soul."

"You're wrong! The seventh hokage and the Mizukage are both taking this seriously and thinking about the wellbeing of the people. They're not trying to ignore the feelings of everyone around them like the Akatsuki."