Kakashi looked at Creel'd state,'From the look of embarrassment from his face despite the pain, he must have screwed up in the fight somehow. Even if he was caught offguard, it's not excuse to be in such a state after so much of my training and my command to be always on guard. He did not even manage to take out a single of the attackers. It looks like I will have to train him a little more.'
Creel felt that he was in danger but he was too tired and in pain to give it much thought.
Kakashi turned towards the five attackers. "Well, shall we get started?" He asked, his voice lazy but laced with menace. As if on cue, two men opened fire at him, bullets screaming toward him.
Kakashi's thoughts were calm. 'I can't dodge with Creel behind me. And he is in no position to absorb a metal to be safe from those bullets.' His Sharingan spun, time slowing to a crawl as the bullets gleamed in his vision, their trajectories clear to him.
He drew two kunai, one in each hand, his movements were a blur. Sparks flew as he deflected each bullet with accuracy, the metal clanging off his kunai, ricocheting into walls and ceiling.
To the onlookers, it was a mesmerizing blur, a dance of steel and speed, Kakashi's form flickering like a phantom.
Creel's looked awed. 'He's unreal and that was pretty badass.'
As the gunfire ceased likely due to magazines being empty, two attackers charged, their enhanced strength propelling them forward faster.
Kakashi's hands flashed through signs.
"Ninja Art: Tile Shuriken!" he called. A jutsu that he had once copied from the third Hokage when he was on Hokage guard duty as an Anbu.
The apartment's floor tiles shuddered, levitating and spinning, infused with chakra. They hurled themselves at the charging soldiers, their edges razor-sharp, slicing through clothing and flesh. One soldier's arm was gashed, blood spraying as he staggered.
The other took a tile to the chest, the impact cracking ribs, blood trickling as he collapsed, gasping.
The remaining three soldiers rushed towards Kakashi. Kakashi dodged a punch, his Sharingan noting the soldier's strength surpassing his own natural power.
'Stronger than me without chakra.' He channeled chakra into his fist, augmenting his strength, and slammed it into the soldier's stomach. The man doubled over, blood and spit flying. A normal man would have been dead from that punch but the man had enhanced durability.
Another soldier charged with an electrified baton, its tip crackling blue from electricity.
Kakashi's Sharingan locked onto the man's eyes, weaving a genjutsu in an instant. The soldier's thoughts scrambled as he turned, slamming the baton into the third soldier rushing beside him.
Electricity surged, the third man convulsing, blood leaking from his mouth as he dropped, his thoughts blank. The genjutsu-bound soldier kept striking his fellow attacker thinking that he was attacking Kakashi.
Kakashi appeared behind another attacker, the chirping of birds filling the air.
'Lightning Blade.'
Kakashi's hand glowed with lightning chakra. He drove the Lightning Blade into the soldier's chest, the impact searing through flesh and bone, blood spraying as the man collapsed, lifeless.
The wall behind cracked from the force. Kakashi spun, blocking a punch from the genjutsu bound soldier. The genjutsu was ended by Kakashi on him.
Kakashi formed a Rasengan on his palm. He slammed it into the soldier, the impact caving the wall to the next room, plaster and blood mixing as the man's body was twisted and broken by the ball of chakra.
The final soldier stood. Kakashi's Sharingan probed his mind, finding nothing but the single command of capturing Carl Creel.
His thoughts darkened. "So they were brainwashed, huh? At this rate, I believe Danzo might have come to this world too," he muttered, half-joking.
He turned to Creel, who was wincing.
'My suspicions were right. Whoever experimented on Creel, after seeing he survived and his powers, decided to want him back. To replicate his results, to see why he survived while the others failed.' Kakashi thought.
Creel's eyes narrowed, "You knew about this, didn't you? I'd be attacked."
"You set me as bait," Creel said, his voice rough with pain.
Kakashi clapped, his eyes crinkling in a smile,"Good, at least you managed to learn one of my lessons. Look underneath the underneath. Sadly, it can't be said about using quick thinking and not showing arrogance in a fight."
Creel grumbled, his thoughts irritated. 'Bastard.'
"You knew the people who experimented on me would want me back. You decided to give me an apartment alone to make me an enticing target. And you gave me a kunai so you'd always know my location and teleport to me instantly."
Kakashi's smile widened. He swiftly ended the final soldier after realising that he would not be able to gather much information from them.
He moved to Creel, his hands glowing with medical ninjutsu, easing the burns.
"So, did you manage to figure out who these guys were and who's after me?" Creel asked.
Kakashi's voice was calm, his thoughts cryptic. "I didn't. But my hounds have a good nose."
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