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  1. #11
    This man seemed a bit off now to Aiko, mostly because he couldn't seem to keep timelines straight in his head. If he couldn't even figure out, how long he'd been out of the village, how was she supposed to take his word that Ookami-jii had chosen him as his successor. "Hiyama-san. I really can't allow you to wander around the village when you don't even know how long you've been away, if you were even here in the first place. As I said, the safety of the village is my primary concern. I can't just go check this story either, and I'd be irresponsible to take you in the village center." she said staring at the man passively her hand still hovering over the hilt of her sword. "I said what I meant, Onee-sama's surname is Katsuhara, though I suppose it was Suzukou before she got married." the young girl said. But knowing Benihime wasn't really enough proof that he'd been here before. The woman had gone on many a mission as a Jounin and made a name for herself in many lands, it gained him no points to know her. "Hiyama-san, do me a favor? Turn around, and go back the way you came. I can't confirm who you are, and I can't have you walking around. Arigatou Gozaimasu." She said rather politely.

  2. #12
    "Yeah, that's smart. Can't trust someone, can't check their story, can't bring them closer to what you need to protect. I get it," he said. If nothing else, Machi had always been an understanding man. More than this matter, though, he seemed fixated on the apparent marriage of the current Kazekage. "Married, huh? And the same surname as you. You're a bit young, though. Older sister? Even though I always figured she'd be the dominant type."

    In spite of his brief tirade about the woman's martial status, Machi was being driven toward leaving the village. Of course, he would not be letting this happen. He had been away for a long time; even longer than he'd accounted for, apparently. He couldn't simply turn tail and leave his home after all he'd done to get back after so long. "I get it... I really do. But, I can't just leave. I apologize in advance."

  3. #13
    This man seemed very understanding of the predicament of the white haired jounin. Of course, his understanding didn't stop him from making some very confusing assumptions about the married life of the present Kazekage. This let Aiko know all she needed to, as Youko had been in the Village for the duration of Aiko's tenure. He'd been the person she'd faced in the Chuunin Exam, and had been around a bit before then too. "Sou ka, you've been away, if you were here before..." she prefaced. "Probably 10 years, perhaps longer. Also I am an only child." She said, not bothering to clarify the relationship between herself, and the Kazekage, and whoever the woman was married to.

    Moving right along, it seemed that this man wouldn't choose to simply walk away. And he took it upon himself to apologize in advance for whatever he thought he was going to do. She sighed and her hand met the hilt of her sword. "Even the nice ones, always choose this option." Unlike most instances, Aiko had already seen this man's chakra, and it was quite massive compared to the normal riff-raff that came though. That combined with the idea that he thought he could pass as a former Kazekage meant that less aggressive tactics weren't really an option. As she drew her weapon it turned into it's giant fang form and was swung directly at the man's center vertically as she rushed forward, as if she intended to cut him in half that way, with the power of her wind based chakra to back her up.

  4. #14
    "Then who the hell..." Machi seemed to be trying to place the name Katsuhara to a face, but before he could properly do so, the girl in front of him chose to go on the offensive. The man's reaction speed seemed to be top-notch, as he quickly formed the Snake hand seal around his staff. "Doton: Gantetsuheki no Jutsu!" By his will, a multi-layered wall of solid rock rose between himself and Aiko. He was certain Aiko's slash would easily mow this down, but this was all part of his plan. When she cleaved through the rock wall, he had already chained his Snake seal into the Tiger hand seal, then pointed the fore and middle fingers of his right hand where Aiko was destined to be after breaking the wall. "Doton: Iwanedare no Jutsu!" The wall would seem to crumble in the wake of Aiko's sword, but this was in fact the effect of Machi's follow-up technique. The stone chunks of various sizes would immediately jettison themselves toward the girl's body from their various positions around her, as if aiming to crush her before she could even recover from her first attack.

  5. #15
    Aiko found this man's reaction time to be superior to most. But in the girl's mind this would only further work against his favor. Anyone capable of reacting to the things she did while she was trying, was far more dangerous than the run of the mill shinobi who could have stumbled in here to plot something against the present Kazekage. With this in mind her eyes shifted to the jutsu she wasn't worried about her sword being able to cut through, but the follow up to that was quite surprising, more so than that, very effective. As bits of rock surrounded her, she realized she was about to be crushed between them, she switched the grip on her sword spinning her body in a circle as she hopped off a single rock. "Kaze no Kizu!" she'd already been watching this attack as it came forward, and in the seconds before it would have crushed her, a powerful burst of wind exploded from the sword shattering all of the rocks as she landed sword still in hand. The effect of the jutsu she'd used to counter his, would be an explosion of rock debris and cutting wind in Hiyama's direction which would pummel him unmercifully if he didn't do anything about it. "That... is very impressive. Though... it doesn't give me much faith that letting you walk around is a good idea." The teen mentioned.

  6. #16
    Much to his surprise, the white-haired lass countered his offense with astonishing timing. There was no keeping a smile off Machi's face when he watched her spin around and plow through his jutsu. She may have thought to praise his ability in this moment, but he felt both joy and vicarious pride for the state of the village, knowing a single Jounin was now capable of this level of combat. Before he could address this, though, there was the debris and wind coming his way. Returning his hands to the Snake seal, creating three walls the likes of the previous, each dissipating the blast until there was nothing left of it. "It should be me who is impressed by you. That sword of yours reminds me of the Seven, and your skill is just as incredible to pull off a move like that. You know, you could always just arrest me. I'd be fine with that," he said, even though his hands were prepared to form seals for another jutsu.

  7. #17
    This man's compliment, and the smile on his face as his attack didn't go through was rather confusing to Aiko. Given the state of his abilities, she should have been trying harder to kill her. After all she was barely holding any punches as it was, this was about what she used to dispatch average other jounin level combatants in other situations. Given this the girl let her sword return to normal and sheathed it. Not because she wasn't intending to attack but because a change in strategy would be necessary. "Arigatou Gozaimasu." She said to the compliment ever respectful. "But... no one wants to be arrested. I could arrest you, and you could use Doton techniques to escape. That's too risky." she concluded. "Besides that, doing so would require me taking you further into the village which is still something I don't want to do." the young woman's eyes flickered around the village, she took note of the position of the two stronger chakras at the forge and knew they were still occupied. "So, I'll compromise. If I knock you out, I'll lock you up and wait for Onee-sama to clear it up. But I'll only take you in unconscious." This seemed like a perfectly amiable compromise to the young woman, and one which wouldn't involve this man's death, which had to be a plus to him.

  8. #18
    It seemed this lass was keen to offer him a compromise, which involved her agreeing only to take him under arrest if he were unconscious. Sadly, in the same way she could not trust him, he could not trust her. "I understand that you don't know me for some reason, but I don't know you, either. I honestly don't know what to expect from this village right now. For all I know, you could be walking me right into a death sentence, and that would nullify my reason for leaving in the first place." With that said, Machi turned away from the lass, opening his senses to seek a chakra he could perhaps recognize as Benihime's.

    "Here's my counter-offer. I'm going to find Benihime. If you try to stop me, I have to incapacitate you, whether I want to or not. If you wish to follow me just to make sure I don't pull anything when I reach your Kazekage, you're welcome to do so." Without so much as awaiting the girl's response, Machi was content to begin walking. He had located the closest chakra to what he could remember Benihime's being, and it seemed to be taking him toward the Kazekage's mansion.

  9. #19
    "Well as long as we understand each other." Aiko said of this man's understanding of the situation they were presently in. True enough, she couldn't trust him, and by virtue of him not knowing her, he couldn't trust her either. Regardless his counter offer to wander the village with her as an escort wasn't really allowable either. It still violated her main thought pattern, which was allowing someone this strong to wander the village without having any idea who they were, was completely irresponsible. And given, what had happened the last time such a thing had taken place it really wasn't something she'd do.

    "I get what you mean. Onee-sama is busy though, and I'm going to need you not to interrupt. Beyond that... you're still not leaving right here, right now, Hiyama-san." These words from Aiko were definite, but not for the same reason most people said them. "If you feel the need to incapacitate me, you're more than welcome to try. But I doubt that very seriously. Besides if I am forcibly made unconscious you will get attention you don't want." She raised both her arms following this, releasing surprisingly enough a wave a sand from them which turned to engulf the man in waves but was truly only as narrow as the street. It was controlled completely by Aiko and released directly from the sleeves of her garment. Her aim was simply to drown this man in waves of sand to restrict his movements and stop him from going any further.

  10. #20
    In spite of the girl's claim that he would not be going anywhere, Machi continued walking in his chosen direction. Whatever she had planned to stop him with, she apparently thought him incapable of incapacitating her. What's more, was the fact that she mentioned unwanted attention in his direction if he were to accomplish that, further confirming a theory he'd been harboring since first sensing this girl. When he looked over his shoulder to view the lass, he saw the approaching sands emerge from her sleeves. He'd seen use of the Magnet Release before, but this one was specific even for the advanced Nature Transformation most individuals were familiar with. Ohayou gozaimasu, Shukaku-kun," he stated in a calmer, lower tone of voice than he'd exemplified prior to this moment.

    "Doton," he said as his hands came together in a simple clap. "Ganzan Saishin!" With use of this technique, Machi summoned from beneath him enough rock to form a small mountain-like structure around him. Its design was that of a great warrior with spiked armor, holding its hands in the same fashion Machi himself did at the jutsu's inception. This construct's power was apparently great enough that its clap alone blew away a great deal of the sand that threatened Machi's well-being. "It's surprising that they found someone to carry Shukaku. Sorry you had to go through that."

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