Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-24937485-20161214011641/@comment-30269418-20161217041710

She continued along, grasping Nanalu's hand tightly, more tightly than she would have a minute ago. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes, and all she could see was Nanalu, since she was facing forwards. She focused directly on the back of Nanalu's head, trying to come up with some retort towards Obelisk. If there were any sort of changes, or someone began to behave differently, she'd follow along with it. Because of her staring at Nanalu, she probably would not notice the flare unless someone had pointed it out to her.

However, if not, then she'd continue on the way they were going. Nanalu would lead her to safety.

Ten minutes later, they'd come across a corpse. Interested in the state of it from seeing it from afar, Rena would race to see the corpse, not having turned back to look at her teammates if nothing had happened. She looked like she'd been mummified or something, but it seemed like there was still two holes on her body, on her neck, that expunged a red liquid, which she presumed to be blood. She got closer. Someone like this... holy shit, did she have next to no blood? She'd slide her fingers across the holes, checking the current state of the little blood seemingly remaining. This would raise Rena's alert level, as the blood was liquid.

Blood was what she knew and she knew that it took approximately up to sixty minutes for blood to harden on its own, naturally, without chakra. Sometimes, thirty minutes depending how warm it was. She'd studied blood and organs enough to know, especially since her KG required it and the hospital and books provided it. From this, she'd guess that not only did the enemy do this, it also didn't seem like this was a fast process. In fact, with deductive reasoning, this meant the enemy may be pretty damn close. However, it wasn't certain that it was who they were looking for, or that the body was drained as slowly as she thought it was. Still better to be on their toes, though. "The enemy might be close. Blood isn't dry. And I can't think of anything else that would do this, although the biggest question is why her? Why not the Konoha shinobi? Anyways, I think something like this would take some time to do. If I'm wrong, then he's already gone by now, but if not...then whoever did this may be close." Something wasn't adding up. There was something she was missing. An animal wouldn't have done this. Could it have been the bats...? Why would the enemy do this? Even so, she was a little scared. And tense.

Of course, if the illusion on Sachi was still in effect by now and Nanalu had said or done nothing about it, then she'd probably shriek and back up a little, prepared to defend herself, since she had finally turned back and attempted to regroup with her teammates.

Being a non-sensory type, she wouldn't be able to tell what was going on in the confines of darkness nor feel the aura of the man. If things happened in a linear pattern, and nothing was done to stop the man from doing his technique or there was no warning issued/nobody to save her from the attack, then it would be a surefire hit.

Ughhhh... what was this? Her head hurt. A lot. Her ears seemed to hear nothing but screeches as she tried to recover from whatever had happened, she was a little hard of hearing in one ear. Her nose began to bleed, purple blood dripping down onto the ground. However, she steadied herself. She wouldn't let herself be shaken! Of course, that didn't stop her from having a massive headache.

Her blood also seemed to react, stirring angrily in her body. It could feel the change and it didn't like it. It was kind of the Hikari version of cramps.

Before they rumbled with the white-haired boy who had a nice monologue, who wasn't an old man apparently as she'd thought before, Rena had to know. The corpse... the type of death and the drainage of the blood... not only that, but he said he had fed on the little girl. "Wait, hold up. Before we do this. I have one question. Do you drink blood?" She was nervous. If he gave her an answer, she'd shrug and respond with a quick 'thanks' if he answered her question and step back. He said he'd be more loose tongued, so... She'd hang back for now; she didn't want to get in the way yet, nor was she eager to suffer. However, if he took this as an invitation to attack her, she'd try to buy all the time she could for her sensei to make a plan. Their sensei would have a plan. She'd have bought at least a couple seconds of thinking time for her with the talking if he'd actually answered her.