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

The Way to Live

"You guys move on right ahead." Mana's clenched together hands trembled while the grass rustled beneath her feet just like it would if no one was there to see it do so. "I'm the only one Yamata no Orochi wants."

"It's not that I want you, it's that I'm a little curious to see what you can do." Yamata shrugged. "If I was you guys, though, I'd probably move. I'm not sure just how many more might get swept aside if I get too excited."

The shapeshifter showed some of its sharp teeth as he could not keep the grin back. He was directly under the warmth of the Sun, right beneath the blue spring sky and taking his sweet time to face a human who incited his curiosity. This was to be beyond just his usual trek on the surface. This may have been one he'd remember for ages.

"He's gonna kill ya, ya know..." Usuzoku grumbled. He was such an idiot sometimes. It wasn't like Mana did not know that much. Sure, if they were to actually start a fight, Yamata would be fighting while massively suppressing himself to avoid much-unwanted attention and while constantly maintaining his transformation. The circumstances would be in her favor but the odds could not have been less so.

Even with all those things going for her, Mana would lose. There was no strategizing out of this. The best she could have done was stall for time, try and avoid the cruel and painful grasp of death until the rabbits were far enough away to avoid the unpredictability of Yamata's curiosity and need for self-amusement. The magician sighed.

"It's alright. Go." She did not address Usuzoku, she addressed a scared pair of rabbits holding an even more terrified little bunny in their arms. "That is in your nature, isn't it. Run."

Usuzoku's shape appeared right behind Yamata with a sword tightly clenched in his hands. Mana couldn't even reach out of gasp in the tremendous fright that the disobedience to her request brought up in her chest.

"Genjutsu: Amduat." Yamata chanted out. Usuzoku froze in mid-air while a shroud of black aura surrounded his body. The eyes of the rabbit warrior whited out while his mouth gaped as if his body was left like a lifeless husk in a state of complete emptiness.

Usuvilme, Usukari, Usuchabi, Usupari and a whole bunch of other rabbit warriors also charged at their unbeatable enemy with the intent to kill him. Usukari's All-Mirage shined brightly in her grasp, ready to seal her enemy away, as far away from where it could threaten the Ninja Rabbits as possible. Every rabbit prepared their own fighting styles for a battle, unlike anything they've had before, with this many combatants, just maybe there could have been hope for a strong enough push back.

The space around Yamata warped in a black rift, a disgusting fabric tearing sound followed by a sonic boom followed the dark flash and the sparkling, violent chain reaction afterward. The rabbits that attacked the progenitor of the snakes at a close distance all disappeared without any trace. Yamata's eyes switched on the long-range attackers as the rift quickly swallowed them up as well. Only Usukari managed to avoid disappearance by thrusting her All-Mirage at the front of the oncoming calamity.

"Interesting. This is a Sealing Ninjutsu of Ouroboros, a son of mine. The ability to seal something away into an infinite nothingness. A sealing dimension so vast that another one just as large could not contain it, it appears your All-Mirage functions on a similar vein..." Yamata noted with a hint of excitement. He did not expect to see one rabbit withstand their defiant act.

"Too bad the sealing dimension of Ouroboros surpasses the measure of infinity..." Yamata's smiled bent evermore with his grin beginning to look cruel. He never doubted the capacity of his ability to overcome the legendary All-Mirage. Inch by inch, after a grueling struggle, Usukari caved in. Her entire right side disappeared inside Ouroboros' rift before it swallowed the rabbit whole and disappeared just as suddenly as it appeared.