Board Thread:Konoha Missions/@comment-30362709-20170602010948/@comment-28929139-20170614224135

"Ohh!!! I'm so frightened! You are all so brave." Yuri sobbed while instinctively coiling up against Avikame and hugging her box tight to her chest.

The tree that came falling down toward them was very tall in height, but quite narrow in girth. So when Ayame cleared the protective bubble that was put up by Avikame, she practically shattered it in half. The halves of the tree were reared back and landed away from the party, but in doing so, another obstacle was being added.

If any of them were still actively sensing out for anyone or anything, then they would pick up that yet another chakra signature had appeared now and tried to strike Ayame on her left side right as she was turning back toward the bubble. If they were able to succeed with that little cheap shot, the black-clad figure proceeded to punch and strike at her in an attempt to get her to fight him.

Shien was smart to keep his distance in the darkness because as a result, he would hear the voice of what seemed to be a prepubescent teenage boy yelp out in pain, followed by a thud to the soil. But it didn't stop there. If Shien was keen enough, he could hear someone pulling what sounded to be a short sword from its scabbard a few yards behind him when suddenly the whole place was alight!

A giant flame bullet came firing toward the bubble, but at the expense of momentarily exposing the position of each adversary. They were being attacked by a quartet of young men, roughly just past high school age, and one girl of the same age. The foursome were dressed head to toe in all black with bandanas covering the bottom halves of their faces, but if their tangled messes of greasy hair  and musty odors were any indications, they were nothing but angsty vagabonds with too much time on their hands.

The one trying to fight with Ayame was a tall and lanky blonde boy and attempted to sucker-punch her right when the flash happened. Behind Shien came a  rough looking girl armed with a wakizashi ready to stab him down and the brunette-haired guy he caught in the shoulder with a kunai was crawling toward the sandy divet under the bubble to get in. Their fourth attacker was also another blonde boy that was armed shuriken, which he began chucking off one by one at the team while breaking into a run.

The trio had some decisions to make now, didn't they? Would they seize the opportunity to subdue the majority of the opposition or would they target the biggest of their troubles?