[Konohagakure] Forty-Forth Training Ground (Forest of Death)

A smirk crossed the girl's face. "Must not be too bad, still got all that attitude~" she said of her twin. She was quite astounded by his fortitude, and she wished she could keep her own disposition as constantly as he seemed capable of it. Even though this situation at present seemed dire, she wouldn't want to go through it with anyone else at her side. And so they ran, but soon enough they were headed towards a strange man who seemed to be carrying large packages. Stunned that anyone else would even be in this particular forest, the female twin opened her mouth to speak. "Run! Dangerous!" These two words were all she managed, because soon enough the white haired man who chased them, made himself known again. This time, instead of attacking the male twin first he went for the female one, knocking into her with his shoulder as she turned. She was trying to take the brunt of the damage away from her core, but wouldn't be able to manage a complete turn before she went flying around and straight into a nearby tree. Her ribs made the loudest popping noise coming from the left side, and she immediately became short of breath. "Slowing down a bit there, Kitten, are you tired already?" he questioned, seeming not to have noticed this extra man at all. The girl, to her credit, tried to speak, but it came out as wet and slightly pink bubbles. She gurgled; a broken rib had punctured a lung, and she wouldn't be able to run anymore. His prey were this pair of twins, and there wasn't anything which would get between them. His gaze shifted to the boy once more, and he was already drawing back aiming another slash of his hand at the boy's face, to cross the line already created on his left cheek. "Oi, Shounen! show me something else," he demanded. He would have his fill of entertainment from this pair before the end of this day.

The random laborer was unsuspecting of any other pedestrians within the training grounds. As such, his surprise was evident when a pair of twins sprinted past him, one of them going so far as to warn him of danger and demand that he run. It was his initial assumption that these two were running from the creatures within the forest, but he was quite wrong about that.

It seemed Akira would be receiving a momentary break from the white-haired man's torture. Instead, it was his sister who received a brutal thrashing without a moment's notice. Even from where he stood, Akira could hear the snapping of ribs in the lass' body. This wasn't good at all. While looking toward his sibling, before he even knew what struck him, another slash wound from the attacker's hand had been placed along his cheek. The second mark gave him a rather large cross on the left side of his face. As he stood before this man with wide eyes, he knew there was nothing in his arsenal that could accomplish anything after what had been done to Teruko. "I... I don't have anything. Just leave."

As these words were spoken, the man these twins had recently passed was walking toward Teruko at the tree she'd so recently been slammed into. With his focus on the white-haired man, Akira failed to notice this one's presence, but he was no enemy. In fact, the rice-carrying male crouched in front of Teruko to inspect her injuries, all while producing several acupuncture needles from his maija. "Shh," he whispered to the girl. "You're bleeding internally at multiple points. I can help you."

The white haired man had his hand make contact with the young redheaded male's face, given this he knew the secondary cut to be one which was made. A smile crossed this ornate man's head, he seemed to find something funny in the young man's reaction to his apparent inability to show him anything else. "Don't say that, you two are the first interesting things I've seen this century, the least you could do is entertain for longer than a few moments," he stated plainly, he expected this pair to keep the fight in them, after all, if they didn't they wouldn't be worth hunting. So he motioned to himself telling the boy to attack him again, while they waited on the recovery of his sister he looked over to find another man standing there. "Oi, that Kitten is my prey," he stated as if to tell the other man to clear off before he became next.

Meanwhile the female twin tried to gather herself enough to speak and she still couldn't. But she was more than a bit surprised by the male who crouched down before her, whom she'd just seen, she still couldn't speak but he seemed to have some sort of medical ability. Anything to get her back where she needed to be as soon as possible, which was at the side of her twin who was currently standing before the man who was hunting them both.

"Chikushou," Akira mumbled under his breath when it became apparent that this man would not simply leave. If he had anything that could do any sort of damage to this man, it was his ultimate Kenjutsu technique. At this point, there was nothing else he could even think to do, so he placed the base of his blade against the end of his sword's scabbard. When doing so, he noticed this man speaking to the individual Akira and Teruko recently passed, who seemed to be tending to the red-haired lass. If this was truly the case, he would have to distract the white-haired individual to allow this man time to work. "Tsui no Hiken: Kaguzuchi!" By scraping his katana blade from base to tip along the scabbard, Akira ignited the sword with a spiraling flame, which grew larger as he raised his sword overhead. He then slashed downward, as if aiming to cleave through his enemy while also bringing the full force of the flames upon him.

In the meantime, the man in the sedge hat glanced in the white-haired male's direction only for a moment. He didn't seem to bothered by the latter's statement, and instead of worrying about this, he returned his attention to Teruko. "Don't try to speak; it will only make things worse. Here." With that said, this individual inserted various acupuncture needles along the young woman's body, seeming to target her injuries with them. With a single Tiger hand seal thereafter, he channeled a mysterious healing technique through the needles, which would work toward rapidly repairing even Teruko's broken bones. It would only take a few moments.

Soon enough there would be a moment of eye contact between the white haired man and the one who was tending to Teruko, and in it he figured the man understood not to interfere. Moving right along, his attention was brought back to the male twin, by the sound of his sword scrapping along the scabbard of his weapon. The swirling fire created by it, made the man widen those blood filled moons as looked towards this growing attack. "Sugei!~ I knew there was more," the man seemed to be excited, and less than concerned even as the sword swept down towards his person like he would be cleaved in two. But he wouldn't be, though he didn't bother to do anything about the swirling inferno of death, he did raise both his hands, clapping Akira's blade between them without any issue and stopping the cutting motion. "Shounen, you're not bad. Better than most of the trash I find myself hunting," the man mentioned, apparently thinking it a compliment. These words alone would lead the man into pivoting on his left leg and sending his right hard into the boy's side after he let go of the blade aiming to send him flying way off in the distance before his attention returned to the other.

Meanwhile, Teruko was very quiet, as her injuries even her broken bones began to feel better without much work or time being put in. After a few moments she felt so much better, and once this was done. She looked to the man that had helped her utterly stunned. "That was amazing, arigatou gozaimasu. But really you should run, this guy..." she paused watching as the final attack of her twin was stopped. "Aki!!"

The moment Akira's sword was stopped by this man's bare hands, he heard the call of his twin sister. There was then a sudden movement of retaliation from the white-haired man, which would surely result in Akira being incapacitated, at the very least. Luckily for him, this would not be the case. The man that had tended to Teruko's injuries had already made his move, and now stood at Akira's rear with his left arm outstretched to catch the assailant's kick by the shin. "This forest is an official training ground of Konohagakure. Leave now, and your intrusion will not be taken as an attempt to do harm to the village."

Teruko was alright but it appeared her twin was about to get another pummeling. Or maybe not. Instead of Akira receiving the kick intended to send him flying quite a long distance, the man who'd so recently been at Teruko's side, caught the man's leg before it could make contact. This thing was very much a surprise to the white haired man who'd fully expected to kick the male twin clear across the forest. "Nani?! Didn't I tell you already these are my prey?" He questioned this man interfering in this battle while being excited by the prospect that he'd actually managed to stop him. The rest of what the man had to say, seemed interesting as well. "Village? They still have those? Anyone strong in there? I'm still looking for something worth hunting." the man didn't seem to care either way about the village itself, he was looking for proper prey. "Well, after I've finished off the kitten and the boy." His eyes were still moving about this space, he could see the female twin all fixed up and the recently saved male twin as well. But this little man before him seemed to take issue with his activities. "Or are you one of the strong ones?"

Teruko watched this and wondered if she'd just been left alone. It seemed their hunter of coincidence had an easy switch to flip in this case, and was only looking for strong people to fight against. Even so, she didn't doubt that she would have died from such treatment long term, even with the man giving his creepy compliments. Beyond all this the man's words seemed to indicate that he was indeed not planning on leaving her nor her twin alone at all, and even with more preparation time, she was almost certain that it'd be impossible to kill the man by any conventional means.

"You won't leave then?" he asked rhetorically. "Sou ka. I have no choice then." Suddenly, this man's incredibly low chakra became quite large, reaching a quantity that would be expected of a Jounin, and it only continued to grow from there. The second burst made it seem as if he'd received a high-quality boost of some sort, and in fact, he had. This man was Fon of Konohagakure, and he was a master of the Eight Gates. Here and now, he had unleashed the first gate to multiply his natural strength five times over. "Sumimasen," he said as he spun between the white-haired man and Akira, subsequently pushing the latter out of the fray as he utilized his flexible limbs to aim an upward kick at his opponent's chin, aiming to launch him into the air with it.

The white haired man seemed to think nothing of this man, who had a funny way of speaking in his own mind. Even so, the boy was soon pushed out of the way after a major boost of some sort being supplied to the man. The red eyes of the white haired man seemed to widen at the sight, and before he could even rightly react to it, the man's foot was making contact with his chin. Such a thing was utterly surprising to say the least, the man was soon downed completely, and it'd only taken a matter of seconds. But instead of a sound of pain escaping this man as he sat up and wiped a tiny bit of blood from the counter of his mouth there was a wide grin upon his face. In his own mind, he'd just won the lottery. "Sugoi, sugoi~ I didn't think the children of this time would come with enough skills to do such a thing. Come, I have to repay you for that~" the man stood once more taking a rather aggressive stance, both his hands forward and palms open with hooked fingers and his left leg gently sliding forward. Still he waited, for the next attack, for the next show of skill, for the next great being to amuse him this day.

Meanwhile, Teruko seemed to be utterly stunned. Even if she wanted to run right now, she doubted she could clear the area completely. Beyond that, a match up between a pair of individuals one of whom had actually managed to down the man who'd been chasing them nearly to their deaths, was one worth spectating at the very least.

This man was obviously a very experienced fighter. To receive such an attack from him, and recover so quickly with a grin of all things upon one's face, was quite a great feat with this individual utilizing even one of the Eight Gates. What's more, he demanded that he be able to repay the hat-wearing individual for the blow. The stance he chose to take in response to this was a straight stand, his right side facing his opponent. His left arm was tucked behind his back, and his right was bent in front of him with four extended fingers and a tucked thumb of his right hand. To be honest, he was already becoming excited by this battle. "Hai. Onegaishimashita," he said. Without further hesitation, he forced open the second of the Eight Gates, increasing his strength further. This led to him dashing at lightning speed from tree to tree. Eventually, he would be led back to his opponent's location, aiming his open left palm toward the white-haired man's sternum. It was his intention to cause his opponent's ribcage to cave in, or at the very least, send him crashing through the forest behind him.