The three that stood before him, two men with black hair and one woman with black hair as well, but what interested him the most was that each of them brought a wolf with them. A pet perhaps, additional defense for themselves, and perhaps to help make their attacks like that of an animal, no matter the reason. The one with an interesting arm spoke up first, a nasty smile on his face as he looked onto Maigo he spoke up with a nasty tone all the same, "You look lost stranger, it's dangerous in these parts of town you know..." he licked his lips a bit, "It'd be a shame for an.... accident to happen." he laughed a bit menacingly. The other two didn't give much of a reaction to everything going on, the woman looked on calmly and the same for the other man. Each of their wolves sat in a prowled stance and kept their eyes on Maigo, each of them as menacing as the other, except for the white wolf which stood with the woman, standing tall and proud as it looked onward. It was beginning to see that she was the ring leader of the operation of it all, and that meant that Maigo had to push the envelope a bit given that this seemed to be the group he was looking for.
"An accident, you say? That sounds like a threat..." Maigo gave as his eyes twitched between each of them. The man became a bit antsy at the notion, the first man, larget in stature spoke up, "No, it's not a threat... but I wouldn't push him too far, Shuji doesn't know how to give up or stay calm." Maigo's short smile from his taunting faded as he spoke up, "Well, I was sent out here to find a group of merry men... and women" he turned towards the woman with a seductive eye, "that have been attacking other citizens and shinobi. So the village sent me to put an end to it..." his demeanor returned to normal. The woman's eyes expanded a bit, as she snarled her nose a bit, "So the village wants to interfere in my business then... they finally recognize our strength??" she was almost yelling at this point. Each of the three drew their katana and the wolves sunk into their paws in anticipation of pouncing at him.
Maigo activated his sharingan and drew his own sword, "Well, they don't know who you are, but they've certainly taken interest in stopping the attacks at the very least... it's just too bad they sent me along to handle it..." he spoke and held his sword out in front of him. "Shuji, Shuichi! Finish him now! No mercy!" she shouted, the both of them yelled and dashed in at him, their wolves each pounced at him too. He crouched into his stance and jumped forward, swinging his sword in an arc, cutting the first wolf across the shoulder and falling back to the ground, blocking Shuji's first strike. The blood lust in his eyes were extreme, but Maigo was ready, a quick use of his sharingan to cast a quick genjutsu. Infinite Darkness was potent, he could see it in his eyes as things faded away and it was Maigo's time to start. He pushed back and cut at Shuji's neck, blood splashed out and he turned quickly to block Shuichi's strike, letting the blood splatter onto his face. Traumatizing at the very least, Maigo heard the sound of another entering the battle, the woman striking from behind him and the wolf coming up as well.
Maigo knew the problem it created, attacking in his blind spot, he pushed raiton chakra into his sword and began to spin violently, blocking out their attacks and separating them from himself.
More chakra expended, he didn't want to extend this more than he had to, and the wolves were a problem, they moved so swiftly and quietly compared to the others. He'd struck one but hadn't finished it off. Maigo finished his spin and reached around to his pouch, pulling his shuriken and kunai, he flung them away at another wolf, the kunai for one and then shuriken for the others. Then lifting his sword and letting it float in the air, he weaved together a few signs, launching the electromagnetic murder at Shuichi, and then kicking his sword at the woman. It sliced through the air as the lightning and other projectiles launched out at different targets, the kunai and shuriken missed their targets but his others landed effectively. The sword cut the woman on the face, on her left cheek as it flew paced and implanted itself into a tree, and his ninjutsu attack hit Shuichi right on target, gritting his teeth as he spoke out, "Mi..ya..ko.." Maigo didn't stick around to take note of anything.
He jumped forward and flipped in the air to build momentum, then with a heavy knee he landed on top of Shuji's neck and crushed it even further on top of his cut throat originally. He groaned out, it would effectively put him out of the game for now, and give Maigo time to come in later. The first wolf came back at him this time though, he cut at it's throat and it whimpered in response as it fell to the ground. Two more people and two more wolves left to go, and still he wanted to finish it quickly, before they could recover and escape. Though, with the damage he did to their counterpart, he didn't expect their anger to subside that easily at all. It'd be quite the battle ahead of them to finish them off once and for all...
His next move needed to be carefully calculated, he jumped back from the area and began to run in a semi-circle to get to his sword again. The wolves noticed and gave chase, the woman moved to cut him off, he needed something quick to create an advantage so he weaved together some more signs. The deceitful clone jutsu would be perfect, the wolves and woman would attack it while Shuichi would focus on recovering from that last jutsu. He followed along in its footsteps as the fake persona jumped into the air while Maigo continued ahead. The woman and wolves bought the quick transition by jumping up after his image, Maigo grabbed his sword and jumped underneath her, slashing at her throat as well, an easy fix to the situation and putting her down.
He saw it in her eyes, the sudden surprise as the steel warmed in her partners blood buried into her neck. Maigo jumped back and away as she grabbed at her neck, the wolves each charged at him as well, growling and a frantic bark from the white wolf. Maigo cut each of them down with ease, nothing to them or their efforts, it was easier than he would have imagined. It was after each cut that he heard more footsteps approaching, the last of his enemies had come to pay the piper. Maigo would put him away easily too, he'd already seen that he was below him in talent, now he just had to act on it.
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[To be continued...]