The sound of birds chirping woke Haruto up from his slumber, the first thing he noticed was that he was in a forest, the sun's rays did not manage to penetrate the cover the trees provided. Sitting up, he looked around the spot where he woke up in and noticed that his Gunbai and Kama rested against a tree and a large scroll laid on the floor beside his weapons. Standing up, Haruto stretched his body and walked over to his equipment. He noticed one thing immediately, he was not as tall as he should have been, so the most likely explanation was he became younger, no longer seventeen, he estimated his age to be around fourteen or maybe thirteen. Dressed in a blue high-collared robe and black shinobi pants with bandages wrapped around both thighs, he also wore his black sandals and fingerless gloves. Grabbing his Gunbai and Kama, he attached the two to his back and grabbed the scroll and tied it against his waist. Looking around, Haruto hopped onto a branch and began moving out of the forest.
His luck still held strong as he made it out of the trees and spotted a small town resting beside a river. Haruto headed in that direction. The first thing that he noticed was that he could read the words on the signs. Moving towards the one that was most likely a bar named "Black Bear," he opened the door and let himself in. Looking around, he noticed that all eyes were on him and the people seemed to be a bit hostile. Ignoring the looks of curiosity, he made his way towards the bar and took a seat on a stool waiting for service. The bartender walked over to him and looked at the teen with a calculative gaze. The teen was a rather handsome young man with spiky shoulder length red hair and a patch of red hair covering his right eye, the teen was dressed strangely and the weapons strapped to his back were no different, he had never met a Mage that used a fan before, a scythe maybe, but not a large fan.
"What do you want?" the bartender asked stiffly. Haruto held his surprise as he understood the words, the new world he was sent in Hagoromo must have given him knowledge of their language.
"Just give me some water, but I do have some questions for you." Haruto replied with a blank look on his face.
The bartender complied and got a glass and filled it with water and placed it before the redhead. "I must ask, why is everyone so hostile here?" Haruto asked as he shifted his gaze from the liquid to the bartender.
"Kid, you don't know anything do you?" the bartender asked in a hushed tone as he got closer and tried his best to get the redhead to leave the town, "This town is occupied by a dark guild that's calling themselves the Dark Knights, they've been harassing the town for as long as I've been here. Every Mage that tried to stop them was killed."
"I see." Haruto murmured as he took a sip of the water, "Now where can I find the guild?"
"You're kidding right kid!" the bartender nearly shouted looking down at the redhead, "Kid, take my advice and get out of here, these people are bad news. You might be a mage but they killed the others before."
"Don't worry, I can take care of myself."
"You don't know what they're capable of!"
"And they don't know what I'm capable of."
Haruto and the bartender held a staring contest before the man finally relented and gave up with a sigh.
"They're located at the large building a few miles outside of town," the man said in defeat.
"Thank you, by the way, what is your name?"
"Ven, Ven Rider."
"Nice to meet you Ven, my name is Haruto, Haruto Uchiha."
Like that the redhead left the bar swiftly and headed towards his next objective. The building Ven spoke of was easy to spot, Haruto looked at it with a calculative eye as he quickly disappeared and began to infiltrate the building. Sneaking in, he spotted a large man dressed in rather expensive clothing sitting on top of a throne like chair with a large black symbol of a lance and sword crossing. Others held those symbols on their bodies in various areas from the face to the legs. Haruto simply decided it was time to finish them off. Dropping from the support beam, he landed in the middle of the dimly lit room and the mages all shouted in surprise as they surrounded him.
"Who dares enter the headquarters of the Dark Knights?" the large man demanded in an arrogant tone, "I should have you killed!"
"You have done enough evil," Haruto said as he eyed the men that were quickly gathering around him, "Now I must ask you to either give up or the consequences shall be grave."
"Do you hear the words coming out of your mouth kid!" the man shouted in a mixture of amusement and anger, "We killed every mage that tried to do what you're doing right now and what makes you different?"
"Hmph, enough talk." Haruto said as he folded his arms.
"You heard him boys go!"
"Now." Haruto said in a blank voice his eyes shifted from onyx black to blood-red with three tomoes around his pupil, "Do you wish to dance?"
The members of the dark guild all charged forward and tried to kill the teen with their various sharp weapons. Haruto simply tore them to pieces, the training with Madara had strengthened him to be one of the most powerful shinobis to ever walk the Elemental Nations, and weaklings like them were no match against him. Kicking a man towards the group, Haruto proceeded to defeat them effortlessly till there was only the man sitting on the throne left. Said man was wide eyed as the teen approached him with a blank look on his face. The man shouted in fear as his eyes locked with the teens. The man's eyes glazed over as his body slumped and his face changed from fear to a blank expression.
"Where do you keep your money?" Haruto asked as the man pointed behind the throne.
"Behind the throne where we keep a vault, the key is right here," the man said as he handed Haruto the key. Haruto nodded and created a clone who grabbed the key and headed towards the vault. The clone came back a few minutes later with a scroll filled with a good portion of the money and other things that it deemed valuable or useful in the future before handing it to the original and went on to do its next set of tasks, rounding up all the knocked out members, he tied them up as Haruto turned his attention back to the man.
"You're going to answer some of my questions, where are we?"
"We are in Dundee town, Fiore."
"Fiore?"
"Fiore is the name of the nation."
"What is a Guild?"
"A association of mages that band together to accept jobs and requests of the common people. There are three different types of Guilds, Legal Guilds that are approved of by the Magic Council, Dark Guilds that are considered criminal organizations by the Magic Council and Independent Guilds not recognized by the Magic Council nor are considered a criminal organization."
"What is the magic council?"
"The Magic Council is the group in the government located in Era that monitors the activity of mages."
"Now, is killing allowed?"
"No, killing is a frowned upon subject by the council and Guilds alike, though legal, if you kill someone the council and Guilds will be wary of you."
Haruto nodded at the information that he received as he quickly dispelled the illusion on the man and he thought about his next move. His plan would be to join a Guild if possible to get some money, though he did get some from them, he would need to maintain a steady life as of now. Haruto tied the man up and tossed him to the other tied up members of the Dark Guild. Looking at them, he created a few clones and had them carry the tied up members away. Haruto led the way into town as the group of shadow clones followed behind their creator. Arriving at Dundee town, Haruto had them toss the Guild members in the middle of town for all of the people to see. Leaving them there, and when they woke up all they could remember were a pair of crimson eyes.