Might Guy gave her a smile that glinted in the light. "Then there is only one thing that we can do."
"And that is?"
"Go and introduce ourselves."
Serving Lord Orochimaru wasn't something that Yoroi Akado had much trouble with. Seeing as he didn't have much in the way of bonds with most people, there was little reason to care about what happened to them. His only concern was in getting things done so that his side could dominate over all those pathetic losers that stood beneath them.
Of course, he did have to wonder just why he was having to work so hard on this mission. "Seems like those fools don't even understand the danger that they are in."
"What do you expect? It's not like we're giving them any hints as to where we are," his partner, Misumi Tsurugi replied. "I mean, we're just going after a handful of troublemakers."
"And they are supposed to be some sort of threat to what we're doing."
"Are you going to complain about them making it easy?"
"Hardly. It's just that we're sent out for some real work, and it turns out to happen when they're being sloppy," the man in the sunglasses complained.
Isaribi peered over at the two men and disliked being around them. Neither of them had shown her even the slightest kindness, and she knew that they enjoyed the opportunity to hurt her, even if it were for hiding the truth from others. It wasn't like she enjoyed what she had to do for her cure, but there was something unclean about these two. If they had merely been evil, then they could at least have been understood and somewhat respected, but they tended to be hyenas that trailed after the real tigers. Both knew that they weren't the powerhouses of Orochimaru's organization, but that didn't particularly bother them, as they took any opportunity to savor any scraps of power that they got, including over her.
"Alright then," Misumi murmured, letting a little light glint off of his regular glasses. "They're heading right into the target zone."
"Then we have a few moments until they get their asses kicked," sneered Yoroi.
"One, two, and...."
"It's time for... huh?"
"Where'd they go?!" Misumi snapped, his eyes going wide as he peered up and down the riverbank.
"Right here!" cried out a feminine voice... from over head.
Yoroi whipped his head up just in time to see a kunoichi wielding a naginata bring the haft of the weapon right down onto his neck. That slicing motion slammed him forward, setting him tumbling down in loud splashes, and leaving him no chance to retaliate. Perhaps he could have fought back if a boy dressed in a green body suit had not run right into his path to land a series of spinning kicks on his upper torso, knocking whatever wind after his moments of sucking water had left in his chest out of him.
Seeing that his comrade was under assault, Misumi decided to even the odds, and extended his arms to go wrap them up around the attacking girl.
However, a chain tied those limbs together, and bound them so tightly that he couldn't flex them as they should have been able to.
"Now, now. We can't have you attacking children," admonished the man in the white gi who was holding the chain.
"Especially when you are facing us," a taller version of the boy commented as he bolted in and slammed the man with the extending limbs with a series of hard punches to the gut and face.
As she watched her nominal 'allies' get attacked, Isaribi wondered about what she should do. She'd never liked either one of them, and would have preferred to allow them to be pummeled into submission, but if she did, then she might not get a chance to be returned to being human again. That meant that she either had to do what she felt would let her sleep better, but leave her as she was, or work toward her cure, and help a pair of creeps who had willingly betrayed their fellow villagers into being at the mercy of the same experiments she'd gone through. Either way, she'd lose out, and she wished to heaven that she didn't have to make a choice.
"Man, they're really nasty, aren't they," commented a voice from right next to her. "Making a girl whose so hurt that she's still covered in bandages fight."
Realizing that she'd been found out, Isaribi turned to face the speaker with wide eyes, and saw a cute boy with a pigtail leaning over her.
"You really don't wanna get into that mess, now do you?"
This has not been in the plan, as it was, and she wondered what she should do, while:
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