"The hell with THAT!" said Naruto. "I have no idea what's going on, but no way am I leaving you to fight these two alone!"
Toyotama looked at the youth with narrowed eyes, assessing. Maybe I can intimidate him. He is a weak human after all. "Then you'll die beside your Sekirei, Ashikabi. And after having known her for less than a minute."
"So, do you mind?" Jiraiya asked Akitsu.
"Do I... mind?" asked Akitsu.
"If I verify you can't be 'winged'," stated Jiraiya.
"PERVY SAGE!" yelled Naruto. "We got a fight going on here!"
"No, I don't..." said Akitsu before Jiraiya came close, brushed errant hairs from her face and swept her in for a kiss.
"Hey, you, she's SCRAPPED! You can't wing her!" complained Toyotama, gesturing with her staff.
"HmmmmMMMM," indicated Akitsu, a brief couple of arm gestures indicating SOMETHING but not being entirely clear as to what she was trying to convey. Though when she latched on, that was indicating something other than the desire to get away.
"He... apparently is a good kisser," noted Ichiya, stopping her own preparations for battle to stare. This was sufficiently unexpected and bizarre that her usual lust for battle was momentarily sidetracked.
"I TOLD him he couldn't wing her!" yelled Toyotama. "What does he think he's doing?"
"Uhm," said a nervous Katsuragi. "To wing a Sekirei that hasn't gotten an Ashikabi only requires a little kiss. The same with doing a Norito. It... doesn't require all THAT."
"Her toes are curling," noted Ichiya. "On the other hand this is the perfect time to attack, isn't it?"
"I'll teach you to ignore me," stated Toyotama, charging Jiraiya.
Akitsu made a gesture with one hand.
A block of ice about the size and shape of a large refrigerator appeared directly above Toyotama.
CRASH!
Ichiya looked down at where Toyotama was lying in the middle of a spread of jagged ice crystals, not to mention amount which was on her. "Uhm. Not that I was suggesting interrupting."
"It'll take more than THAT!" said Toyotama, getting up to her hands and knees.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Three large refrigerator-sized ice blocks crashed down onto Toyotama in very rapid succession.
"Might I suggest we leave the old pervert and the Scrap and just take out the kid and his Sekirei?" asked Ichiya.
"You go ahead and start, I've got a headache," mumbled Toyotama with a voice that sounded like her mouth was full of ice chips.
"Katsuragi, you're a martial arts type like me," said Ichiya, getting into a stance. "I'm more experienced though. You have no chance against me."
"I will defend my Ashikabi..." Katsuragi looked around. "Where'd he go?"
"Excuse me!" said fifty Naruto as they leapt from where they'd climbed up the walls.
"What the hell?" asked Ichiya before she began lashing out with kicks and flipping out of the way of various attacks. "You have some training, but your movements are clumsy and uncoordinated. Try this!"
She broke the neck of one, and was momentarily shocked when he poofed into smoke.
"RASENGAN!"
Jiraiya eased Akitsu to the street. "Found him. Hold on just a moment, will you?"
"Yes Ashikabi-sama," mumbled Akitsu.
"Huh?" asked Naruto as Jiraiya vanished, leaving him swarming over the partly-recovered Toyotama and keeping an eye on the currently imbedded in a wall Ichiya.
Kakizaki lowered his binoculars, frowning. "What the hell are they?"
"Ninja," came an unfamiliar voice on the rooftop behind him.
"WHA?!" reacted Kakizaki, spinning and nearly losing the binoculars.
The guy with the thick white hair and the British-looking suit smiled at him, taking a step closer.
Kakizaki noticed that while he was considered quite tall for a Japanese, this fellow towered over him like a bear.
"Now, now, none of that," said the man. "It's normal to want to keep an eye on your subordinates when they haven't been out on a whole lot of missions. I'm pretty sure that Naruto won't kill either of them without a lot more reason - so you're going to get out of this without more than some minor bruising and a few broken bones and such."
"How did you..." began Kakizaki, looking down to confirm that his vantage point was still sixteen stories up.
"Oh, and don't tell the two trying to get into position behind me to do anything stupid or that might change a few things," said Jiraiya. "Now. I'm just leaving you with a message. That's all. Don't bother us. I'm not even sure we're going to bother to stick around here yet. So just stay away from us and we won't bother you, okay?"
Kakizaki swallowed nervously at the pat on the shoulder from the man, and then flinched as the fellow leapt over the ledge to his certain death.
When he stuck his head over the ledge to check though, the big guy was nowhere to be seen.
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