Naruto: Chronicles of A Fire Ninja

Chapter 161: Ruthless mercy

Kaida pulled the bandit leader's head up by his hair and looked directly into his eyes. All that bandit saw before falling unconscious were two red eyes with two tomoe rotating in them.

When the bandit woke up, he was in a hole inside the ground with lava coming up from the bottom. He tried to climb up the hole only to fall back because the walls were too steep for climbing.

The lava was building up slowly, and he tried to scream for help, but when he opened his mouth to scream, he felt that someone forcefully closed it.

The lava continued to rise and fill the pit as he was trying to get any help. He felt the extreme heat at his back, but the bandit leader didn't look back at all, fearing the extremely painful death that awaited him. Slowly, the lava continued to fill the hole and touched the feet of the bandit's leader.

The pain of getting continuously burned and the fear of it getting only worse almost made him lose consciousness, but once again, he was not allowed to do what he wanted and was jolted awake by a sharp pain in his head

He was left alone in a hole filling up with lava, neither allowed to scream nor fall unconscious, only to feel the agony until he died

...

Kaida was looking toward the body of the bandit leader who was spasming on the floor. Yes, he was actually not inside a hole but under Kaida's genjutsu.

'Genjutsu is much more useful than I initially thought. This f**ker didn't deserve a peaceful death at all. Now he can actually know the consequence of his actions before he will die,' Kaida thought.

Then he turned toward the bandits and freed them from the genjutsu one by one, only to hypnotize them once again into believing they were good people who were injured during a bandit attack, and Kaida was there to help them.

After training both genjutsu and the Chakra Scalpel, it was now time to perform an operation to reconnect the severed tendons.

Within just 90 minutes, Kaida was done with that, since he was the one who had caused those injuries; treating them back was easier.

"Grandpa, I want to ask for a little help," Kaida shouted after treating those bandits.

Within a second, Minoru appeared in front of Kaida.

"What happened, boy?" Minoru asked.

Kaida used a privacy barrier around them so that none of those bandits could listen to his talk, and then he asked, "Grandpa, can we put them to some good use, like working their whole life and giving their earnings to those families they had harmed until now or something?"

"That will be a very difficult task. Keeping an eye on these many bandits and expecting them to peacefully do something good will be a dumb idea," Minoru said.

"But what if we hypnotize them into believing that they are really good people and had harmed those families unintentionally? Then they will work without causing any problems," Kaida said.

"Hmm, that may work, but boy, why do you want to go through so much work just to let them live?" Minoru asked

"I read the memories of the leader of this bandit camp. From that, I learned that those three bandits who are just 12-13 years old were abducted from a village when they were just 5-6 years old and were forced to become bandits because the leader wanted trusted subordinates. I want to give them another chance at life," Kaida said.

'This boy is much more mature for his age. Maybe living without parents for that long forced him to mature early,' Minoru thought.

"That's a good idea, but what will happen when they get their memories back? It's not like they will always remain hypnotized. Even if I hypnotize them, they will come out of that within 5-6 months," Minoru said

"That is because their brain will heal itself in that time frame, but what if I remove their memories, and then you use genjutsu to make new memories?" Kaida asked.

"Then they will not have any suppressed memories to remember, and their brain itself will not be able to come out of hypnotism," Minoru said with a shocked expression, though this was not a new discovery.

It was not public either; only a few people in the Uchiha clan knew about this, and it was not widely used since they couldn't use it on a ninja anyway. Chakra has many capabilities, one of them being healing the body with time.

That's why even if they remove the memories of a ninja, even of Genin rank, they will get their memories back with time.

But this changed completely if the target of this procedure was not a ninja.

"Who told you about this method?" Minoru asked.

"I was thinking about various ways to use Genjutsu, and I came up with this idea," Kaida said.

"Good job, you have quite a bright future ahead of you," Minoru said, since he had also activated his Sharingan. He could easily see the movement of Kaida's muscles and tell that he was not lying.

"Then I will remove their memories for you, and then you can hypnotize them to live their life working for those they had harmed until now," Kaida said.

"I have a better idea than this. You yourself will hypnotize them, and I will periodically check them if anyone comes out of that hypnosis, since you wanted to practice your genjutsu. This will be an excellent opportunity to do so," Minoru said.

"Thank you, Grandpa," Kaida said, knowing that Minoru was going the extra mile for him.

Kaida then began to completely erase the memories of the bandits. Since it was his first time doing that, he started with those who had committed more crimes.

Even though he failed in his first two tries and made those bandits into living vegetables, after that, he got a hang of the procedure and swiftly completed it.

While Kaida was doing that, Minoru went to the bandit leader, intrigued by his condition, and used his Sharingan to see what type of genjutsu Kaida had used on this man. After seeing the situation of the bandit leader, Minoru became shocked once again.

'Hahaha, he can be brutal too. Good, I was worried about him when he wanted to give these bandits a second chance because this world is not nice to good people. They often get stabbed in their back. Luckily, he is not among those people,' Minoru thought.

After an hour, Kaida finally erased the memories of 12 bandits, and the remaining two were killed by him. After erasing their memories,

Kaida implanted new memories in which they were very good people but had harmed many families due to the fear of the bandit leader and his crew, and now they wanted to work for their whole life to support those families.