Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us

Gifts and Curses

Kiyomi and Meiko continued to observe the fight that was about to erupt between the invading chaotic factor and their own target team. They did not sit easy as the duo were constantly doubting every little move they made, even their current position of sitting quietly and observing the battlefield.

"If Mana's out, does that means she's eliminated"? Meiko asked mentally, somewhat vaguely.

"I... I don't know... I don't want to jinx it but... It's more than likely". Kiyomi gritted her teeth as a brief ray of light illuminated the mostly dim little spherical shaped room that the two observed the scene below from.

Kiyomi turned at her friend and teammate just to observe what reactions were running down her face. Meiko was quite unpredictable in her usual state and right now Kiyomi, as Team Hokage leader needed unpredictability the least in her life. The blonde herself wanted to just run out and start taking over minds and kick asses but her more rational part demanded to think her plan through.

"We need to get out there, we need to fight"! Meiko demanded as her mind became murkier, her thoughts raced through and burnt out before they could be clearly read by Kiyomi who was beginning to worry more about her teammate than the odds of them taking out their target.

"No! Sit tight! For now at least... There're too many factors we still don't know about all of this". Kiyomi silenced the blacksmith as the two continued to observe the situation below.

A circular blade of Squlra's shot out from out of nowhere aiming right at the golden haired Kaguya's neck. It whizzed so fast that Kiyomi found tracking the blade quite difficult as to her it moved in a faintly visible silver blur. If seeing this thing was so troublesome, the blonde couldn't even begin to imagine the trouble it'd be to actually avoid it.

The Kaguya youth of the invading team leaned aside allowing the blade to whizz right by the skin of his neck. It seemed a very arrogant and berating way of dodging. If the opponent had any afterthought of this attack, such a careless dodge would've left countless openings to exploit.

Such was actually the case as another blade flew at the Kaguya from the side. Squlra herself dived out from one of the upper floor hallways and stuck to a wall as she launched her rotund blades at the enemy. The golden haired young man lifted up his hand and trapped the spinning circular blade in his bone weapon like a horse-shoe on a pin. The bone began to spark violently as the blade must've been of higher quality materials and craftsmanship but the bone didn't even come close to relenting.

In a final motion the girl pulled on a string attached to the second blade which only became evident once she wished it to be revealing that it was tied on another piece of string tied to the first blade she tossed.

"String Reeling Jutsu"! The young lady yelled out in an energetic and relatively low pitched voice for a girl, her somewhat masculine voice was further muffled by the headdress she wore that covered almost the entirety of her face except for her dark brown eyes.

As Squlra pulled the second string it pulled on the first one making the spinning first blade whizz right back in a circular motion and saw a wide arc in the walls of the structure before re-entering the manmade building and whizzing in straight at the Kaguya's neck for decapitation.

Without caring too much about the incoming decapitation Jekleifer Kaguya grabbed on the steel wire on the second blade and pulled on it firmly, pulling his opponent in for a close distance battle. A flesh slicing buzzing sound followed by a metallic clang heralded the contact between the buzzing circular blade coming in contact with the Kaguya's neck as he pulled his enemy in. A small amount of blood squirted out from the damaged flesh but it appeared as if the circular blade had lodged into the young man's neck very shallowly.