The sun was shining high in the blue autum sky when Matsu passed the hotsprings on her way to the mission office. Considering it had been a long time since her last break from work, and the fact that the hot springs were running a special half-price entry today, she felt that it was only fair to spoil herself today.
Ichiro flies through the air and sends a massive cloud of dust flying as he slides across the path with his katana held in a defensive position.
Shiro plumets through the air and stabs as he lands on the ground where Ichiro had been a mere second before.
Matsu turns around quickly, upon hearing the two older ninja fighting behind her "What the hell... are you two doing?"
Ichiro slams his palm into the ground, sending a huge cloud of dirt into the air. Moments later he appears from the cloud, sword at the ready to attack, mere feet in front of Shiro.
Jumping back, Shiro leaves his katana embeded in the earth and pulls his coiled kusarigama from a hook on his belt.
Matsu watches the two, only half interested in their actions.
Ichiro jumps back a step and hurls numerous kunai trailing tags towards Shiro.
Shiro grins as he sees his opponent launch the kunai. "Is that the best you can do ?" he says as kicks a stone bench in front of him up and into the oncoming kunai. Shiro whistles, and scores of kunai come arcing in from over the walls surrounding the area.
Matsu stamps her foot. Not wanting the hotsprings to be destoryed before she pampers herself, she steps between the two ninja "Are you done with this yet?...Good lord why don't we all just go take a nice soak."
Ichiro unsheathes the chokuto from his back with his other hand and easily deflects the massive rain of kunai in a flash of blades.
Yamashita leaps backwards out of the forest, clashing swords with one of Shiro's reanimated corpses. As he flies backwards, he takes advantage of the corpse's attempted feint and takes its head clean off its shoulders.
Shiro curses silently to himself as he feels his connection to one of his corpses severed and lets out a shriller whistle. Suddenly four figures clad from head to toe in black jump over the walls and surround Shiro, each facing outwards.
Matsu twirls the sickle end of her kusarigama before launching it into the air. Forming handseals quickly she yells "Kaiton: Kayruu Endan no jutsu!" and fires a large dragon-shaped inferno at the kusarigama, knocking it over towards yamashita and blazing a path between the two others, "You guys are going to destroy the hotsprings on my one day off this month, I don't care if you're jounins or chuunins, I'm gonna kick your asses if you won't let a girl bathe in peace!"
Ichiro swiftly sheathes his swords before blazing through a series of handseals and spitting a massive dragon of flames at the one streaking towards him, creating a massive explosion as the two crash against each other.
Yamashita yells at Shiro, "More of those wimps? It'll take more than that to get me off your back!" He runs towards the group of five, drawing his chokuto from his back with his left hand, ready to cut swaths through the guards.
Shiro looks sadly upon the super-heated sword that was caught near the two blasts. "The youth of today, so insolent," he mutters to himself. Whistling he points at Matsu and three of the four ninja surrounding him sprint at her leaving one particularly large one standing between him and Yamashita.
Ichiro appears behind Yamashita and deflects the kusarigama at the last moment with the swift draw of his katana.
Matsu lowers her chin shooting Shiro a look most foul "Oh Come On, I'm just here to take a bath...why must you all fight?" she says, putting her hand on her nodachi just in case.
Ichiro stops and looks around for a moment before saying, "A....bath?....in the middle of this? Why would you pick such a torn up location for a bath?"
Matsu gapes openly "It's a hotspring, and I was here first!"
Ichiro looks around again, "Hmm...I guess I could maybe see the confusion...but you did attack us...".
Yamashita focuses his chakra and shouts at the remaining guard, "Do!" The guard clutches its gut in pain, allowing Yamashita the chance to embed his blades into each of the corpse's shoulders. A swift follow-through removes the body's upper limbs.
The three black clad figures all simultaneously draw their swords as they race towards Matsu, the one in front slashing horizontally at her. Turning to face Yamashita, Shiro says, "Fine if you want to play that way," and hits the corpse infront of him with an open palm before leaping back twenty feet. Upon impact with Shiro's palm, the figure begins to quiver rapidly.
Matsu quickly pulls out her Nodachi, barely in time to block the slash. She jumps back doing a handspring barely finding a chance to speak, "I didn't attack you, I shot it BETWEEN you...good lord...it was to get your attention.. and you, Ichiro...if you hadn't countered with the same technique, the hot springs wouldn't be in shambles!".
Ichiro appears between Shiro's guards and Matsu, catching one guard around the arm with his elbow and slamming the guard into the ground as he slices cleanly through another.
Yamashita sheathes his swords, and forms a hand seal, shouting, "Baikyuu Kesson no Jutsu!" He moves into Kaizou Hebi stance, launching himself away from the armless corpse.
The armless corpse suddenly explodes into a large blue sphere of fire that engulfs everything within ten feet in flames. Reaching into a pouch at his side, Shiro grabs three kunai and launches them at Matsu, while the remaining corpse slashes diagonally downwards at Ichiro.
Matsu having exhausted herself and bleeding from the left shoulder, only drops her nodachi and pulls her turtle shell shield in front of her vitals before the kunai hit her, one lodging itself into her leg.
Ichiro tumbles forward allowing the standing corpse to bury it's blade in the one he just threw to the ground.
Yamashita runs out of the smoke, clothes aflame, and lunges at Shiro, fists engulfed in blue flame, yelling, "Dragon Punch!"
Shiro crosses his arms and rolls with the attack in an attempt to lesson the impact. The sound of bones cracking can be heard as Yamashita's fist connects with Shiro's chest.
Matsu pulls the kunai from her leg, fighting the blinding pain to find her feet. She begins Ikioidzuku and tring to force her wounds to close, though it goes slowly.
Ichiro dashes forwards, slicing the standing corpse into several pieces in a flash before sheathing his katana.
Yamashita smiles as he hears Shiro's bones break, and holds back from continuing his assault. "Ready to give up yet, Shiro, or do you have a few more tricks up your sleeve?"
Shiro jumps backwards and spits out blood onto the ground "You think a small thing like this will stop me? Though I may as well try and settle this." Grinning he pulls a kunai with a seal wrapped around it and throws it at the ground causing an explosion of thick black smoke.
With a fluffy towel wrapped around her torso, Keiko appears behind the group with a stunned look on her features. Slowly, she glances at each of them, frowns immediately, and scrambles back from the thick veil of smoke as it begins to spread, "Geeze, guys! Can't you people take your fights elsewhere?!"
Matsu collapses back to her knees, "That's what I've been telling them...Keiko...make them stop..." she says with a sniff, obviously still more disapointed with the fact she won't get to spoil herself at the hotspring and not even caring about her injuries anymore.
Yamashita readies himself for a surprise attack from Shiro, drawing a chokuto from his pack. He swiftly throws the sword into the cloud of smoke, attepting to hit anyone within.
Ichiro dashes into the cloud of smoke to search for Shiro.
As the smoke clears around Ichiro, he motions to Yamashita. "He's gone, come on," Ichiro says as he dashes into the woods at high speed.
Just barely catching Ichiro's retreating form as the smoke begins to lessen, Keiko turns her gaze towards Yamashita after a quick glance is given to Matsu's fallen form. "What's going on here?" She steps forward, offering a hand out to the battered and bruised genin while she keeping her gaze on Yamashita.
Yamashita follows Ichiro into the forest, quickly catching up to him. "Where do you think he's hiding, Ichiro?"
Matsu shrugs, tring to ignore the pain of her half closed wounds, "I don't know anymore...seems like we thrashed most of the bath house though."
Completely ignored by the men, Keiko merely shakes her head and wraps an arm around Matsu's waist, hauling the girl up to her feet with little effort, "You should finish closing those."
Tetsunagi, the grounds keeper, looks around in bewilderment before his gaze settles onto the two young kunoichi, "....What have you done to my beautiful hotsprings?"
Matsu sniffles loudly, "Damn now I'll never get to have my bath...my first day off in months...and Ichiro, Shiro...and...that other guy...blow the place up..."
Keiko quietly adjusts her towel before the tied ends can fall as she glances to Tetsunagi, "We didn't do anything, sir. I was just coming through when I heard the commotion and found Matsu-chan here..."
Tetsunagi slumps to the ground and begins crying quietly at the massive devastation, drowning out Keiko's protests with his sobbing.
Matsu puts all her focus into gathering chakra and finishing healing her wounds, one deep in her shoulder, the other in her leg.
Keiko releases a soft sigh as she quickly steps towards Tetsunagi, a hand settling on his shoulder comfortingly. "If it helps, I'm willing to, uhm, help pay...for the damages...Or even track down those guys and make them help repair what they broke."
Tetsunagi manages to collect himself slightly, "Really? That would be nice...There's still so much work to do though..." Standing and brushing himself off slightly, he begins to take account of what needs work.
Keiko sinks her teeth into her lower lip, her gaze shifting towards Matsu now. "Matsu...are your legs any better yet?" She eases away from Tetsunagi's side now that he's fine, careful of where she steps. "You'd think jounin would be a little more considerate of it all."
Tetsunagi sighs heavily, "This is going to cost quite a bit to repair....I'd say at least a few thousand ryo..."
Matsu gapes openly, "A...a..few thousand?"
Keiko suddenly pales at Tetsunagi's words, "... I... barely have two thousand ryo, I think..." Letting out a quiet sigh, she glances aside at Matsu for a moment.
Ichiro bursts through the branches where Shiro is resting. "Found you!"
Shiro puts a finger to his lip as he watches Keiko and Matsu down in the hotsprings take the heat, "Shhh,this is getting good"
Matsu gulps heavily "I...I don't think daddy will let me barrow that much... he'll say i gotta earn it since i was involved..."
Tetsunagi nods gravely, "Guess I better get started cleaning this up. Would you like to pay now, or do we need to set up a payment plan?"
Matsu collapses to the ground shocked by the newfound wieght of 'Paying' for it "thats.....good lord I'm never going to get another day off"
Yamashita , perched in a tree, watches the girls, whispering, "What's going on down there? They look like they're in some sort of trouble."
Keiko offers Matsu a reassuring pat of the shoulder, "It's fine, Matsu...I'll cover it." She grimaces at Tetsunagi's words and adjusts the little pack from her back and reaches inside, rummaging through it's contents. "...I can pay now." Eventually, she comes up with a large coin pouch and shoves it into Tetsunagi's hands. "If it's not enough, just let me know. I'll work to cover what they did."
Matsu looks up at keiko, "I...I can work too...I feel bad since it was my Karyuu Endan that Ichiro countered that caused this."
Tetsunagi examines the pouch before nodding again, "Well, I'm going to get some tools so you young ladies can help me clean this place up. I expect you to be here when I come back."
Keiko palms her curls from her face and lets out a quiet sigh, "Well, there goes my new place..." Glancing over towards Matsu, she moves to find a place to perch on. "You should leave, Matsu...you don't have to stay here."
Matsu looks like she considers fleeing for a moment, "but...I have to stay!...I blew the place up..."
Keiko shakes her head quietly as she crosses her long legs at her ankles, her nails digging into the broken chips of wooden material she'd perched on. "Really, Matsu-chan. If you aren't going to be able to do it, now's your time to run like the rest of the guys did."
Matsu climbs to her feet and picks up her weapons. She yells, making sure the boys hiding in the trees can hear her, "But I'm not a coward who's afraid to face what's coming to me like them"
Keiko frowns faintly at Matsu, "Hush up, Matsu-chan. If they don't want to face up to what they did, then that's fine." She turns her head enough to glance towards the doorway where Tetsunagi disappeared. "He should be back any minute, hun. Now's your chance to go."
Matsu pouts, "But if I leave...I might get banned...I don't want to not be able to visit the nearist hotsprings."
Keiko gives a little shrug of her shoulders, "I'm positive that Tetsunagi-san is understanding, or easily wooed by the sight of ryo. He'll probably forget all about it once this place is restored again."
Ichiro falls out of a tree with a loud thud before stumbling out of the forest, hicoughing every few steps.
Shiro tumbles from the tree and rolls a few feet before staggering after Ichiro.
Yamashita leaps down from his perch, and misses his landing, rolling across the ground before popping back on to his feet with a wobble.
Matsu stands there "Yeah, but I'm mostly healed up now, I can work...besides it was probably my fault to begin with, if I had just gone to take my bath and ignored the idiots it wouldn't have happend."
Keiko suddenly stands up at the sight of the three shinobi attempting to escape, "Get back here, damn it." Forgetting all about the looseness of her towel, she darts after them as quickly as she possibly can. "You owe me an apology, or a thank you, for paying my money for your stupid fight!"
Ichiro falls over, attempts to stand back up, and falls over again with a half-smile on his flushed face.
Matsu would try to run after them, however since her leg isn't fully healed, stops. Again focusing on healing, which this time is happening much quicker due to her aggitated state.
Shiro bends over to give Ichiro a hand up but trips over Ichiro and goes stumbling off trying to regain his balance.
Yamashita pulls his flask up to his mouth, drinking more liquor and spilling some down the front of his shirt. "Now that's how you jump out of a tree, Shiro! You see that?" he yells.
Keiko skids to a halt as she watches the three drunken men. With a quiet sigh, she shakes her head and glances down at Ichiro. "...I can't believe you three. You're supposed to be setting an example for our genin. Not stumbling around here, breaking things and getting drunk!" She bends over, her towel nearly falling down as she attempts to haul Ichiro up onto his feet.
Matsu stands up, and with her feet glowing with chakra, she sprints after Yamashita, tring to catch him in the chain of her kusarigama, "You better stop right where you are!"
Ichiro rolls into a handstand and starts walking after Yamashita, wobbling slightly.
Yamashita twists away from the chains, falling flat on his back. He takes another drink from the flask and shouts, "Run, run as fast as you -hic- can! Can't catch me, I'm the ginger-hic-bread man!"
Matsu takes advantage of Yamashita falling to the ground and attempts to hogtie him!
Keiko scrambles to adjust her towel again. Stopping, she glances aside at Matsu and runs forward, trying her best to tackle Ichiro down to the ground.
Shiro finally manages to regain his balance just as he hears Yamahista, he yells "Ginger bread maaaan, ruuun!" and runs towards Ichiro and Yamishita in a wobbly fashion.
Yamashita quickly hops out of Matsu's reach and onto his feet. "NO! Don't take my gumdrop buttons! I need those to keep my lungs in!" he screams as he swiftly runs away.
Ichiro wobbles his body into a funny shape out of Keiko's grasp before climbing onto Yamashita's shoulders and shouting "I'm on -hic- boat! -hic-"
Matsu does a quick few handseals, "Souken Mizu no jutsu," and spits out small puddle infront of the fleeing drunken ninja, tring to make the ground slick.
Shiro leans down to pick a stick up but manages to tumble while getting it, "Boat -hic- I've got the oar!"
Keiko lets out a furious cry and begins to take in a deep breath. She holds it, then lets it go after a moment of thought, "I'm not wasting chakra on those idiots..." Shaking her head, she glances quickly to Matsu. "Matsu, no! No! Let them do whatever they want. I'm not paying anymore ryo for the damages."
Matsu seems to have been quelled by the thought of being more in debt, and reluctantly stops the pursuit, but still looks over her shoulder to watch the three drunk men to see if they fall on their faces.
Yamashita slips on the water and falls face down in the pool of fresh mud.
Shiro hops on Yamashita's back and hand his 'oar' to Ichiro, "Take us away sailor."
Ichiro takes the 'oar' and begins 'rowing' furiously, "I'm givin 'er all she's got, cap'n...but she won' go any faster."
Matsu says to Keiko, "You sure you don't want to hogtie them while they're tring to row away on Yamashita?"
Keiko considers Matsu's words for a moment, then shrugs quietly, "No, I just hope they're fun was worth it. They'll be humiliating themselves if they go into the rest of town like that."
Ichiro throws the oar away, "Switching to emergency power!" Ichiro forms several handseals, "Dai-hic-dai-hic-bakufu-hic- no jutsu," as a massive wave rises beneath Yamashita, carrying them into the distance.
Matsu 'hmms' to herself, "public embarassment...they desrve worse...but it's a start."
Keiko rubs her hand against her face and sighs, "... Water damage is something I refuse to pay for."
Matsu pats keiko on the shoulder, "don't worry...we already destroyed that section"
As they fly off into the distance, Yamashita yells, "Hi-ho, AWAY we GOOO!"
