Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of Games of Body and Soul

No Betrayal Without Trust

"Waiso, why did you kill the enemy Sin Eater!?" Meiko flipped out. The realization that this young man she was willing to accept into the Team Hokage fold may not have been whom he was presented as did not hit the more thick-skulled blacksmith all of a sudden.

"Sin Eaters may not be the most powerful of ninja specializations in terms of their combat proficiency but they do know some crafty tricks and are dangerous overall. Hanasaku was a fool to not kill this man immediately, especially when she has a Yamanaka on her squad who could extract the information before she disposes of him." Waiso spoke in a tone wildly different to the usual lispy and spraying manner in which he spoke. His tongue appeared to no longer get stuck in between the rows of his teeth.

"I'm not that good at intelligence extraction just yet..." Kiyomi admitted. "I've been mostly just dabbling in that jutsu up to now, the situations I ended up in demanded more combat oriented focus."

"Dangerous or not, you did not have to kill him." Hanasaku's feet shifted the dirt beneath them, the woman was subconsciously preparing for an engagement as even someone as simple as she was capable of seeing what was coming. Especially now when her injured and distressed state granted her greater awareness and self-preservation instincts that were long absent from her arsenal.

"I obtained the information from him, keeping him alive when he is the person who can mess with the seal on that scroll would be at the very least irresponsible." Waiso reached into his back pouch. The hands of Kiyomi and Hanasaku twitched out of sheer instinct like the two were gunmen preparing to unload on sunset. The entire standoffish manner of this situation just ticked the two kunoichi all the wrong ways.

The young man pulled out a small greenish scroll decorated with curly tendrils of darker emerald color. A storage seal as the eyes of anyone who spent even the bare minimum amount of time on the field could identify easily.

Kiyomi and Hanasaku allowed the geeky Sin Eater act, attacking him right now without finding out his true motivations and their relation to their mission objective would have been just as irresponsible as killing one's prisoner on such paranoid reasons and then antagonizing one's own team as if they were one's enemy.

Waiso unsealed a large holding jar. A container of verily scientific appearances with its top and bottom appearing to be made of stern and sterile steel alloys that were used in medical procedures. The middle part of the jar was just glass of unclear content with the goopy green liquid shaking inside being an even greater mystery.

"An organ storage jar?" Meiko mumbled. She had seen devices such as these for her father has worked on some of its parts. Namely, the switches that secure the objects inserted within while medical professionals worked on the cocktail of goop that preserved what was inserted within.

Waiso's mouth opened wide, to say that much would have been an understatement for the boy's mouth opened so wide that the constrictor snakes that swallowed their prey whole would have dyed their cheeks crimson in jealousy. It was as if the Sin Eater had no jawbones to restrict such motion at all. All this freak show just to insert the storage jar in between his teeth how a hardened fighter held their knives by their grip.

The freaky Sin Eater then proceeded to open up the seal where the Uchiha's body was stored with one of his, now freed, arms while the other one weaved a single hand seal just to unseal the body within.

"Don't!" Kiyomi grunted. She was worried that exposure of the dead body that was already dead for quite a while would ruin the chances of successfully removing its Sharingan eye once the body is returned to the village.

"Do not worry, preserving the eye is just as important to me." Waiso threw back at her with little care. It was almost like the three kunoichi were just a bother to the Sin Eater now who would have ideally just disappeared.