Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of What Defines Us

One of Those Days

After instructing Mana to deal with her injury Usuzoku simply dashed off at Jon-D without saying anything more or sparing anything else than a single blink of an eye to worry about her. As Usuzoku danced around Jon-D's feeble attempts to predict the rabbit's location before kicking and headbutting the young man off his feet with each missed shot, Mana realized that this was not quite the rabbit she had come to know.

Usuzoku did not need any convincing, despite claiming that Mana would never reach the level needed to summon and fight alongside him, whenever the magician called for the Ninja Rabbits, he always came out to her aid. Just one sighting of his summoner having difficulties staying on her feet and bleeding out sent the rabbit into a cold outrage as he continued to toy with his opponent, kicking him around with his larger than half his entire body combined feet or slamming his sword handle at the back of Jon-D's head.

Mana slipped out of the blazer that was part of her uniform and pulled a sharp steel tipped card out of her sleeve before slicing the cloth apart into strands she'd use for tourniquet later on, after placing the card back into the pouch on her thigh. Mana pulled out another card with a rooster mosaic drawn on it before channeling a minuscule bit of her chakra through it and placing it on her gaping wound. Wild tongues of super heated flames erupted from the card, not the type of card to be used offensively, except for showy entertainment – flashy sparks, nothing more. The magician screamed out loud in pain as the flames enveloped her wound and her clothes, momentarily crawling over her entire body, her hair and aiming to cover her whole but dying out before the heat even properly registered in the girl's brain. By the time the fiery coat covered Mana, the flame was already snuffed out.

"Holy shit, yer one crazy gal, Hatchling, 'ere I am tryin' hard for ya an' yer settin' yerself aflame"! Usuzoku chuckled madly after backing out of holding off and toying with his lesser ranked opponent.

"It's gonna look nasty and need treatment, even with it, it'll stay with me for life but... Scar tissue like that doesn't bleed", Mana grinned through a pale face that would've reminded one of a ghastly apparition more than a healthy human girl.

"If it did, my father would've already been dead", Mana sadly looked down, thinking to herself.

Jon-D drew out a kunai and dashed at Usuzoku. A normal mass-produced kunai knife was made of too shoddy of materials to have chakra channeled through it, it snapped quite easily from the slightest chakra-based resistance due to the chakra over matter principle so Usuzoku was right to not feel overly threatened and move in to intercept his opponent. Right before Usuzoku's claymore would have stopped Jon-D's puny knife and snapped it easily, Jon-D gently flicked the knife to his other hand before swiping at Usuzoku's right eye and leaving a shallow cut across the rabbit's face while his free hand gripped Zoku's wrist and stopped the incoming blade that way.

"Zoku-chan"! Mana shouted out in worry over her partner's well-being.

"Shut up, damn ya, I don' need no worryin' from some stupid Hatchling"! Usuzoku grunted, "I hate yer guts and I'd rather we'd find someone else so ya could just die"!

Mana's hands went through a bunch of hand seals, much slower than she used to be able to do before the large blood loss but still remarkably fast for her rank.

"Lightning Style: Magic Skewer" Mana chanted out as Lightning Release chakra poured out from her palms before forming six rod-like shapes in the air surrounding the two clashing weaponry-users and driving themselves into the ground around Jon-D. The swift swordsman leaped aside, gracefully dancing around each and every rod before releasing the kunai as a projectile incoming at a very dangerous trajectory. Mana leaned aside but her vision was getting a bit murky, the kunai scratched her in the cheek much more deeply than she would have liked it to.