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

A Ray of Sunshine

Kiyomi gave the falling meteors a passing glare. Almost instantly after letting her eyes move away from her opponent, a handful of Yordalarans leaped at her from behind. Without Meiko to hold all of them at bay, the violently confused mob rushed right at Kiyomi. Tight arms wrapped around the young woman, placing her in a full nelson lock. The Yamanaka crossed her hands as fast as she could and moved to the side of the assailant. A handful of painful blows and kicks counted down the time that it took for her to escape.

From the side of the Yordalaran that applied the hold on her, Kiyomi leaned down and lifted the man up, slamming him into the ground with a side slam. It was so often that her mother told the Yamanaka that she was better off tending to family garden than reading wrestling magazines and, more recently, watching wrestling television. Right now it kind of saved her from a nasty beating, then again, she did fall to the ground together with the man that grabbed her from behind, leaving her down with a whole bunch of furious and confused Yordalarans around her.

They were too many and too numerous. Even if Kiyomi wasted almost no time getting out from the lock, she couldn't power out from the mob of hundreds of Yordalarans stomping, kicking and punching the life out of her. One rather thick man-cube decided to jump on top of the kunoichi and start smacking and clawing at her upper body. The blonde felt a warm trickle of blood running down her cracked forehead, her daffodil hair was temporarily stained with some red, giving it a pinkish hue.

"Dammit, Meiko... The meteors..." Kiyomi grunted to herself, running through the back of her mind the two things that made staying down here and getting pummeled absolutely not an option. More so, who knew what that nasty mind-controlling spy was doing this very moment while Kiyomi was not keeping him on his toes?

A thunderous crash temporarily raised Kiyomi's back off the ground from the resonating force, it could not have been the meteors, that would have left nothing but destruction in its wake, these people, as sturdy, fast and strong as they were, may not even survive both of the meteors hitting the ground this close to them. It would be fiery mayhem, certainly not a dull and spine-chilling thud like this one.

"Meiko..." Kiyomi realized. Strength flowed through her body once more. She had to get to her, she had to see how Meiko was. If she needed help or if she was even alive... The grim prospect of that last thought made Kiyomi let loose. Her feet wrapped around the nearest neck and drove that person over her head, right into the ground while she used the momentum to roll on top. After getting on top of the man she had flipped over, the Yamanaka delivered a pair of palm smacks at their neck before slipping off and charging at the crowd in front of her, at the direction where she heard Meiko crash into the ground.

"The meteors..." Kiyomi thought to herself shortly before she closed her wet eyes, kicked and elbowed a bunch of Yordalarans that attempted to surround her and get her back into a similar disadvantageous position like before. Did these people not know some of them might soon die? What did that spy do to them?

Meiko was conscious, the blacksmith was pulling herself back up, by the time that Kiyomi got to the redhead, she was already on her bottom and trying to make her head stop spinning. From the way she landed, she was lucky that her neck didn't snap instantly...

"Snuggle later..." Meiko mumbled, she sounded dizzy, judging from how hard she hit the ground she must have felt that way too. "We need to... Stop..."

"Trust me," Kiyomi whispered before placing her hands in a signature Yamanaka hijutsu hand seal position.

"Wait, no, you'll transfer your..." Meiko tried to object before Kiyomi switched her mind into the blacksmith's body. She did not use the more advanced Mind Body Disturbance. That'd have left Meiko paralyzed inside her own body, feeling every little detail of the pain and dizziness that she was about to experience. By using Mind Body Switch Kiyomi made sure to shoulder all of those pains onto herself.