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They'd finally made it. Ryuu half thought he would have keeled over by now but he was still moving forward, pushing himself well beyond the mortal limits. "Only a few more blocks, Night... We're almost th-" Before Ryuu can finish he begins coughing. He sets the two children on his shoulders down gently as he covers his mouth with his forearm. It was rude for him to cough without covering his mouth. After his coughing fit he notices blood where he'd coughed. He wipes it away and climbs to his feet. "Excuse me," he states apologizing for having suddenly coughed and cut himself off. "The hospital isn't much farther. Night, you may release those two if it pains you. These children weren't injured as bad as you. Only the young boy. So you can-" Again Ryuu coughs but this time he collapses onto the ground.

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Akou had come from Hidden Craftsman to cool off. But found himself a bit lost. He notices a collapsed ninja and begins motioning over to him. As he does he notices an unfamiliar feeling also making her way over. A female limping along on crutches with a strange male in a straight jacket straggling behind her. "Sienna and Sai are here? What for?" Akou muttered the question as he reaches the male and kicks him lightly with one foot. "Is he dead? I could use a specimen to examine for my Medical Training." Akou's eyes settle on a panting female and he can't help but smirk. "Seems like you'll be in the same boat as him soon enough if you keep pushing yourself. Maybe not. He seems to be bleeding internally. but you don't seem to be in as bad a shape as him," states Akou with a smirk as Ryuu grabs at Akou's tiny leg weakly. Ryuu says something but it is inaudible. Akou rolls his eyes and inhales deeply while extending his hands out and over Ryuu. He gets on his knees before speaking, a strange mist slipping over Ryuu's body, "I thought you were dead. Pity, now I have to heal you." Akou's hands glow brightly as he glides them over the airspace above Ryuu's body, the healing mist spreading all over Ryuu. Akou then looks at Night, "You want next or should I do the kids?" The way Akou asked made the tiny five year old seem like he was up to something, however, he was not.

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Sienna finally makes her way over to Night and sort of giggles. "Looks like you'd need these more than me," she murmurs standing on both feet. Sienna removes her crutches and gives them to Night. The male beside her in the straight jacket, Sai, smiles at the children who gaze at him in confusion and wonder. The old woman motions over and looks Sai over.

"Can you release me," Sai asks in a very low and seductive voice. The old woman hesitates but finds herself unlatching Sai from his restraints. Sai sighs loudly as his sleeves fall to his sides. The old woman draws back as Sai's dangles his too long shirt sleeves out in front of the children. They sort of laugh as Sai goes 'Oooooo Aaaaaaaaah Waaaaaa'' The old woman found herself smiling as she watched the children laugh, all but the blind one.

"Akou, you might wanna do that brunette with the green eyes first. It seems like the one you're healing wants her to be taken care of. Then you can do the kid whose eyes are wrecked." How did Sienna know that? Was she psychic? Partially, yes. She could read minds of course. "It's a good thing you guys came here on one of our good days. Let me introduce myself and then explain what is happening. My name is Sienna Howard, the male in the straight jacket is Sai, and the young five year old healing that male there is Akou. Akou is a Medical Ninja and a very good one," Akou seemed to at the mention of him, "and he is using a technique called Healing Vapors and Mythical Healing Hands. With those two techniques combined Akou can return someone to initial, if not better than usual, health. And since he's of the Greek clan, he doesn't need to waste time using hand signs. The only question I won't be able to answer is why the heck we're helping you all out. But that's not important right now, I suppose."

Before long everyone is healed but the young boy who might be blind. Akou seemed to require intense concentration as well as another form of healing technique if the boy wished to see again.

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Ryuu, fully healed and feeling better than ever, notices Akou's face turn slightly red in anger. "She's very outspoken," states Ryuu to Akou who begins muttering to himself. They were all sitting in a circle on the ground in a friendly fashion. The children were playing around with Sai's sleeves happily; Akou was working on restoring the sight of the young boy still; the grandmother was watching Akou work; Sienna was chuckling at what Night had said to Akou; Sai was staring at Night curiously; and Ryuu was just thinking about how lucky he was to have found someone as skilled as Akou and as fun to play with as Sai so that things seemed a bit better than they had been. "Thank you all so much for what you'd done. I am grateful." Ryuu would have bowed but he was busy sitting. Slowly the bow around Ryuu's body and the arrow case disperse in a shimmering cloud of smoke. Ryuu had come close to dying and failing to protect Night. It was nice to have people out there willing to help for nothing.

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"Maybe I shouldn't have healed her and let her suffer. Man, I get anything out of helping people so why do I even bother? I should have just killed the guy off then I wouldn't have been joking about him being dead," muses Akou to himself. The tiny five year old had quite the temper but he seemed to keep it in check this time around. But Akou was no one to make angry. He was terribly strong and had far too many deadly abilities to be taken lightly. Few angered him unless prepared to face his wrath. But he had taken his nap not too long ago so his temper wasn't something to worry too much over. "You know," calls out Akou, "your internal injuries were very severe. What happened to get you like that I wonder." It wasn't every day that Akou asked questions. Usually he'd find out himself or just let his mind wander over the question and answers. The boy flinches, shutting one eye that Akou examined, as Akou smirks. "Well, one eye seems to be working again. The light seems to hurt his eye." The old woman cries out happily as the young boy smiles and struggles to remain still with the light of day finally filtering into his eyes in large amounts.

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"It was nothing. Just a day when someone didn't turn out to be dead. In this day and age people are vultures. If there's a dead body lying around, someone's gonna come and try and take it. Some people are cruel and kill you if all you were was close to dead. So when we joke about people being dead it's just because it's normal nowadays. That's sad but true. It's not that we find death funny we just try not and get too sentimental about it. It happens too often to." As Sienna spoke her voice grew lower like she actually was bothered by all the deaths. Or perhaps because a death had occurred in her group of friends or family. Whatever the case Sai's gaze went from Night to Sienna. He lowers his eyes a little as the children continue playing with his sleeves. After a while Sai tries to change the subject and speak with Night. "Sienna and I can read minds along with Akou. And so I feel like I know you very well, Night, based on all of the thoughts you ever had. So I just wonder how you feel about that? Are you weirded out? Are you angry that we can enter your mind at any time? Do you wish to know why we up and read minds without so much as asking permission?" Sai was a very curious person like Akou but he always wanted to know things not ponder over them.

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"Well," starts Ryuu pondering when he hears Night speak and is distracted. Ryuu stares at Night with a blank expression. He had never experienced the pain of death at all. It was foreign to him. Yes he had been trained in the art of killing and yes he knew about death but he'd never seen it first hand, never had someone die that he knew or right before his very eyes. He could only imagine how she would feel. And even his imaginings weren't any good. Ryuu places a hand atop of one of Nights and tries to speak but cannot find words. What could he say to her?

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"Well you don't have to worry about me going in your head, girlie. I'm not interested in a sappy story," mutters Akou. Night continues on and again Akou replies but loud enough fr her to hear him this time. "You'd better be sorry you snapped or I'd snap you!" Then Akou comes to having been imagining as Night spoke. He hadn't done any of that. He had remained quiet in reality though in his mind he was saying those things. Since Ryuu did not respond Akou remained silent and worked on the young boy, having said nothing at all in reality. After a few more minutes pass the boy winces, shutting both eyes. Akou had done it. "I'm leaving," states Akou standing from the boy and making his way towards the marketplace.

"Thank you so much, young man," the old woman calls after Akou. Akou stops and lowers his head a moment before turning his head slightly in order to look at the woman out of one eye.

"Y-you're..." For a moment it seemed as though Akou was going to say the woman was welcome but he grunts and turns all the way around. He fans a hand and walks off.

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Sienna looks off in Akou's direction and shakes her head. "He'll be back," she states lowly.

"I doubt it. I'm surprised he even helped." Sienna turns to look at Sai and shrugs.

"I'm surprised she let him save these people. I would have figured she would say to let them fend for themselves. But she doesn't seem to be in anyone's heads this time around." Sienna and Sai momentarily acted like they were the only ones talking and that they hadn't just read Night's mind. Then the two seem to turn to Night. "That is truly a sad story. But many others have similar stories. My father and brother were killed in an assassin mission the day before my birthday. My grandfather died in the very room I sat in; I thought he was asleep. My eldest brother and his entire team was attacked. He survived, however, he has been in a coma ever since. My son was killed in an assassination mission to kill me. I was carrying him at the time and the assassins... didn't care. There are others with similar if not worse stories than mines. Akou, he watched the only mother he ever knew die right before his eyes. And now he can't even remember her. He's been brainwashed, to tell the truth. When he finally snaps out I know his mind with be completely destroyed by what he's done since losing his memory. So don't mind him. He's just a bit bitter much of the time because of very complicated matters."

"What Sienna is ultimately trying to say is that sometimes you just have to try and let go. Joke about it despite your sadness. Smile and be happy." Sai seemed a little saddened by what Sienna had said and what Night had been thinking but he found himself smiling and laughing with the children as he spoke.

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