Board Thread:Konoha Arc/@comment-24937485-20161214011641/@comment-30269418-20161216014425

"Huh..." Why did the girl answer like that...? Did that mean she'd been concious? She looked pretty passed out, but then again, an enemy would fake being passed out. Rena still believed this was an illusion or a trick; especially with what the shinobi had said. No shinobi would make their dying words what she did. 'Could have'? If she was an ally of Konoha, she'd waste her last breath trying to help them rather than wasting their time, could have dropped some vague last-minute info. She either had a petty grudge or she was an idiotic excuse for being a shinobi of Konoha, not issuing a warning. Even if Sachi had been the one to do her in, and it seemed like an act of betrayal, she still had a duty to her village rather than wasting time on being annoying with a last-minute monologue of what could have happened. Rena was still wary, and maybe she had a right to be... she only knew she wouldn't be trusting anything that looked even close to trap-like. It's kill or be killed here, especially if the enemy is smarter than them.

Nanalu then made a comment on the bats, and Rena shrugged. She had no issues with bats. As long as they weren't spiders. Or bugs. But chances were, they weren't only 'here' of their own accord. With the pairs that she'd been counting... it probably wasn't unusual for bats to flock together, but to follow them all the way here? She doubted there were that many bats in the forests of Konoha to simply be littered everywhere.

Nanalu suggested to search for something useful; Rena made the tiger handseal, and formed smaller, immovable platforms of blood that would take less than a massive moveable one up to the cluster of bodies that was closest together. Any bodies that were generally closely spaced together would do; and then, Nanalu exclaimed about how they actually were allies of Konoha. But... why would they be here? Nobody else had been chasing after the enemy, right...? Nobody that'd been at the gates, at least. She would raid their pockets, searching for useful things and weapons and the like. It would be then that she noticed how warm they were.

That wasn't right, in her mind... they'd have to have recently died. Well, the now-dead once-living girl had still been alive so of course it would have been recently but wouldn't they have heard screams if it was really recent, or have seen this team leave from the gate before them or have been notified if there were already people following the trail? They would've been told if they were to assist someone.

She turned to Nanalu, but spoke in a loud voice so both Obelisk and their Sensei could hear. "The bodies are still warm. I think... they may have died close to when we got here. But, no screams...? They might have been suffocated to death, but wouldn't there be some kind of warning yell? Unless they were attacked from above or something... maybe no chance to defend themselves or no time? Nanalu, I also don't think it's a good idea to cut them down. We can come back for them if it's really important to you, but it's dangerous right now." She was in fear mode. Trust nothing but her teammates.

She had to know a lot about the human body due to her Kekkai Genkai and the possible problems that may arise in using it, but death... there wasn't anything about what happened to the body after death, so she couldn't tell how long it took a corpse to go cold. It was pointless to dwell on it, but the enemy had to be nearby. However, this many shinobi taken out by only one person? She didn't know their skill levels, but maybe they were dealing with more than one person. She'd prepare herself for that, but she didn't know if it was true or not. Still, it was better to be prepared than to not be.

She'd hop down from her blood platforms, and make the handsigns to unharden them. The blood would flow, smoothly, back into the wound on her arm. She'd be prepared to get back into formation, to follow her team if they decided to move ahead.