A few hours later Haruto had come across a small town and was staying at an inn deciding what to do now. A few minutes ago he had used the horse talisman to heal his injured eye, so he was now perfectly healthy.
Are you still sad about Naruko? Morgan asked.
I miss her. She was the first friend I ever made. The last week had been quite enjoyable with her, Haruto replied.
What about Ilya, wasn't she your friend too? Morgan asked.
No, the friendship evolved into siblings too fast for me to consider her anything but a sister, so she doesn't count, Haruto said.
So what are you planning to do now then learn more about chakra or something else?Morgan asked.
Sparing with Hatake has shown me how strong shinobi are and I don't like being so weak compared to them, so I'm going to train so I can eventually be the most powerful wizard in the world, that way no one can ever take something from me ever again, Haruto vowed.
An impressive goal but not one that's easy to achieve, how will you accomplish it? Morgan asked, pleased by Haruto's vow.
I need to learn everything I can about magic and chakra, for magic I have you and Hogwarts in a few years to learn from, but chakra I need to learn from shinobi, the only problem is they don't teach outsiders their techniques that's why I want you to teach me Legilimency, Haruto said.
And how learning Legilimency will help you learn more about chakra? Morgan asked.
That's because I'm going to become a bounty hunter, since this can increase my fighting experience, it can also make me some money by collecting their bounty's. But the most important thing is I can read the minds of my targets before I kill them and that way I can learn everything they know about chakra, Haruto said.
An impressive plan but it will take you a few months to learn the basics of Legilimency, so I advise you to hunt down some small town crooks to keep up your skills, and once you've learnt the basics start hunting down the bigger targets, Morgan said.
That's a good plan, I'll start learning Legilimency tomorrow since I'm too tired at the moment, Haruto said before letting out a yawn.
Of course, my son, have a good night's sleep, Morgan said, already making plans on how to train Haruto in how to use Legilimency as efficiently as properly, and how to make sure he becomes the most powerful wizard in the world.
The next day Haruto bought some clothes from around the town so he could disguise himself while he was a bounty hunter. He did this because he didn't want anybody to know what he was capable of out of his disguise so his opponent would underestimate him in the future.
His bounty hunter outfit consisted of him wearing black cloth with mesh-armour underneath it completely over his body, grey gloves and boots, a grey skull mask that had a spell placed on it to make his voice deep and menacing making it impossible for anyone to recognise his voice outside of his outfit, and wearing a grey cloak with a hood attached to it covering his head. The outfit looked quite intimidating as it reminded people of the grim reaper, which is what he had intended. So he could inspire fear in the people he's hunting.
So for the next few weeks, Morgan taught Haruto Legilimency while they travelled the Elemental Nations hunting down criminals. Once Haruto had learnt to use the spell by pointing his finger at someone's eye and using the incantation Legilimens. He decided to track anyone down who might know where he could get a Bingo book from. Since he needed a Bingo book to learn who had a bounty on their head.
Luck would have it in the next town he would come across a bounty hunter getting drunk at a bar. Once he had returned to his room passed out drunk, Haruto sneaked in and read his mind. Since he was only a beginner in the use of Legilimency, it took him a long time to find the information he wanted, but he eventually found out the location of several black market bounty stations that were located nearby.
So he put on his bounty hunter outfit and visited the nearest bounty station to collect a Bingo book. The master of the bounty station was surprised by his appearance but didn't question him once he was given the money for a Bingo book.
Haruto decided to start small with bandits to see how he would fair in a proper fight compared to a small-time crook. The bandits weren't difficult to deal with one on one it was when there was a large group of them that it became a bit more difficult.
When there was a large group of bandits Haruto would have to use a powerful jutsu that would kill most of them, and the rest he would easily dispatch. So for the next couple of months, Haruto hunted down bandits while at the same time learning to use Legilimency more efficiently from Morgan.
The Bingo book ranking system works like this: D-rank is usually low to mid Genin in strength, C-rank is for high Genin to low Chunin, B-rank is high Chunin to low Jounin, A-rank is mid to high-level Jounin, S-rank is for powerful shinobi like the Sannins, Kages and wizards like Voldemort, SS-rank consists on only one shinobi at the present who is Minato Namikaze and the last rank SSS that only two people have ever achieved Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha.
Deciding he's strong enough to face them in a fight, he started to hunt down D-rank threats in the Bingo book. The D-ranks he was hunting down consisted of Genin that had left their village and some bandits that had once been shinobi.
After hunting D-ranks for several weeks, the D-rank threats soon became nothing more than a nuisance to him. Once he had progressed enough in Legilimency to read a person mind much faster he decided to start hunting down C-ranks in the Bingo Book. So Haruto would defeat his opponents and once they were securely captured he would read their minds, and learned everything they knew about jutsus and the Elemental Nations.
He had also bought some chakra paper, as he was curious as to what his elemental affinity is. Sending some of his chakra into the paper something unexpected occurred. The paper showed he had an affinity for all of the five elements.
How can I have an affinity for all five elements? People usually only have one, while in the rarer cases they might have two, Haruto thought in disbelief.
It might be because of Lady Persephia, she is the Goddess of nature so when she gave you some of your power, you got an affinity for all the nature transformations, Morgan replied.
That makes sense, plus having an affinity for all five elements means I can learn more jutsus easier now, Haruto said happily.
For the next year, Haruto would hunt down people from the Bingo book, by the time he was 10 years old he would hunt down B-rank and sometimes A-rank shinobi from the Bingo book. Over the course of the last year Haruto had learnt everything there was to know about chakra, and all the techniques one needed to use it properly. The only new thing he learnt from his opponents was jutsus.
He had learnt important information from the shinobi he had captured like the history of the Elemental Nations, who were the most powerful and influential people and even about the tailed beasts, and how they weren't demons but a mass of chakra that had gained sentience. Haruto had also earned a lot of money over the past year. He had most of the money converted into wizarding money except for a small amount that he used for spending money on supplies. The rest was safely stored in his vault back in Great Britain.
During the past year, Haruto and Morgan had learnt that Haruto could create a clone and let Morgan control it. While Morgan preferred staying in Haruto's mind as the clone didn't feel like an actual body, it was good to walk around the material world every now and then. At the moment Haruto was travelling by tree branches heading to a bounty station, as he had a bounty that needed cashing in stored inside of a sealing scroll that he had made. Another thing he had learnt from reading people's minds.
That was an easy bounty, Haruto thought.
Perhaps it's time you started hunting down more A-rank shinobi to increase your strength, Morgan replied.
I think you're right, Haruto said before quickly dodging a scythe that impaled the branch he was previously on landing in a nearby clearing. That's what I get for not using my sensor abilities all the time.
"Damn, looks like I missed that bastard," a voice said from behind some trees.
"Show yourself, coward," Haruto said in his deep voice due to his skull mask.
"Don't worry you bastard I'm coming for you, and then I'm going to kill you painfully and slowly," the voice said laughing loudly and insanely.
"Quiet Hidan this isn't time for you're playing around, he's cost me a lot of money, he needs to die as soon as possible so I can cash in his bounty," a voice said. Out of the trees came two people wearing a black cloak with red clouds on it.
The first person had medium length grey hair that was slicked back and purple eyes. He was wearing a shinobi forehead protector around his neck and some sort of religious amulet. He was carrying a scythe in his left hand.
The second person was a very tall tan-skinned man with long dark brown hair, his eyes green irides, no pupils and red sclera. He was wearing a mask covering his lower face and wearing a hood covering his hair and had stitches all over his visible body. Haruto recognised these two as Hidan and Kakuzu, two rogue S-rank shinobi.
This is bad my son, you can't win against the both of them, Morgan said worryingly.
I know, if it comes to a fight I'll retreat, Haruto said under no delusions that he could defeat the two in front of him. "Why are you two after me?"
"It's simple, ever since you've come on the scene a lot of bounties have disappeared cutting into my profits. I wasn't going to come after you since killing you wouldn't earn me any money and I could be using that time to hunt down a bounty, but then you entered the Bingo book as a B-rank bounty hunter with a decent sized bounty on your head so here I am," Kakuzu explained like it was simple business and he wasn't about to kill someone.
Haruto was taken back that Kakuzu could talk about killing someone so calmly for money. He only targets shinobi that have hurt innocent people so he can gain fighting experience. The money is just an added bonus.
I'm in the Bingo book, Haruto thought surprised.
You can check that later but first you need to survive against these two, Morgan said.
"It's not going to be an easy fight you know that right," Haruto said getting into a fighting stance.
"Ha like a bastard like you would able to put up a fight against us, you're clearly more retarded then I thought," Hidan said crackling madly as he and Kakuzu got into a fighting stance as well.
"We'll see," Haruto replied before Hidan and Kakuzu charged at him.