Tales of a Ninja Magician: Of Where We Come From

Life-Treasuring Monster

One thing that was impossible to get used to as a ninja was how quickly shit could have hit the fan. After all, had Hisako not used whatever supernatural reaction time she had and deflected that projectile Mana would've seen a friend die before her very own eyes just like that. One moment everything was fine, the other moment one's friend could've just kept on standing with a spear in their chest and then collapsed and faded away. That was the world that they all lived in, the world where anyone could've died at any time. The world that Mana intended to change during her lifetime.

"Stop daydreaming, dear, let's move" the Quack snapped Mana out of her thoughts.

Barely visible figures were flashing above in the higher level, those must've been the assailants. Someone flung a knife at the young man, Mana managed to form her "Friendly Gust Jutsu" just in time to deflect the projectile, also the one hidden right below the other. The man who attacked them tossed a knife and then another one right below the first one, it was a deceitful attack. Such attacks were common for ninja, could these people have been rogue ninja?

A black figure swooped in, swinging on something reminding a rope or a whip, her high heels drove into Hisako's cheek as the woman was quite busy reflecting the projectiles from her knife tossing friend. The raven-haired woman peeled her face off the dirt almost instantly and shouted out in frustration. A smooching sound reached everyone's ears from the other side, the woman who kicked Hisako sent them an air kiss and swung away from the battlefield using her swinging tool.

"Oh no, you fucking won't!" Hisako rushed forward head forward, Mana jumped forward to stop her but the woman was faster, also Kiyomi caught Mana's hand and shook her head. She was right, splitting them apart and picking them off one by one must've been the idea... Out of nowhere, Hisako returned to the area, rushing in from the other side.

"Fuck... That bitch is fast..." the woman was hyperventilating quite excessively. Mana looked at the small skyline, barely visible through the trees and she noticed three shadows. One belonging to a man with spiky hair, a slim one but also he had a strange hairy and large figure by his side, almost like it was a head of a wolf growing out from his shoulder. 

The other one belonged to the woman from before, she wore a full black bodysuit that disguised her in the darkness making her able to just swing around with that thing and deal damage either up close or from further away. The third one belonged to a very bulky and apparently quite hairy man. He must've been the knife slinger as his shadow was quite edgy and had a bunch of spiky ends. The figures split again...

"One of us has the heir, I wonder which one..." the woman's sultry and playful voice echoed through the camp. It was followed by an evil laugh overkilling her idea of a taunt. Hisako grunted and prepared to lunge after where the voice came from, Mana shook her head placing her hand on Hisako's shoulder.

"Move your fucking hand or I'll chop it off for you!" Hisako hissed out.

"No, if they are really carrying the kidnapped boy with them the most likely person to have him would be the one with the dog by his side, I doubt the others would risk carrying him around. Please go after that guy, Hisako-san, I'll handle the swinging woman." Mana replied.

Kiyomi didn't like that idea. "You're suggesting that we send our psychopath after the man with the kidnapped boy? She won't reason with that man, she'll murder him and won't care about the boy!" she shouted out, all three girls realized that they didn't have any time to stand around and argue.

"I know, that is an advantage. The man will have no leverage over Hisako because she simply won't care, her mind will remain cold and calculated no matter the odds. Also, she is our strongest member which means she has the highest odds of rescuing the boy." Mana explained. What Kiyomi complained about was right, Mana knew that it made little sense to send Hisako, someone who was in it only to kill people to save the boy. Either way, Hisako was able to fight off both Mana and Kiyomi before, obviously, that wasn't a clean fight as no one knew of the others' abilities but Hisako was fast, strong and ruthless. She stood the best chance of winning that fight.