More like we need money(Bounty)

The day was nice and for the most part Urumi was enjoying herself currently taking a bath in the river she could not help but flail her hands wildly at the sight of each small thing not to mention the water was cold and Tabula Rasa was on edge for some reason, not saying that she could tell but he was not even looking at her at the moment which was rude. However with another splash Urumi would stand up, "May i be done?" She said looking at Tabula Rasa who simply tilted his head in order to scan the girl she had more mud on her than she started with so with a sigh he simply moved over and tossed her a pair of clothes a kimono and straw hat. The hat being something she quickly took a liking to she began spinning it around her head as the two started walking.

Tabula Rasa would simply think to himself he was headed in this direction for a reason, that reason being the two needed money and food they could not hope to survive simply on the hunting's that Tabula Rasa brought back and considering he taught the girl how to fight and she could care less about utilizing it he was on his own with taking up this job he had found out about from a poster in the last village they passed. He would think back to the information he had placed into his memory, a girl named Mary. And a ronin which was a pain cause it would be difficult to knock the girl out alone considering he was so small and he would have to protect Urumi well once she got hurt enough she would protect herself but that was beside the point.

He would look back only to see Urumi skipping and kicking rocks into the water as she sung a song that she had heard from the nearby travelers. "Beware, Beware though the Dobustu are rare they will eat you up just like a bear." And she repeated it over and over the two simply kept on walking the river seemed to go on forever and Tabula Rasa was beginning to think they would need to climb no matter he could carry Urumi and with a burst he would open his first gate and grab Urumi with his mouth before scaling up the side of the canyons in order to reach the top, this only caused Urumi to shriek and giggle. "Lead on, leader person." Considering she still had no idea who tabula rasa was he turned out to be a very helpful animal not like the others she had ran into that would not talk to her the big mean one's but Tabula Rasa always set them straight when they seemed to get a little angry at Urumi.

"Okay stay close Urumi, this is where we were headed suppose to be a bad person nearby." Tabula Rasa would scan the area considering this was where Mary was last seen, she would be near. He would start over looking the ground and then walking as he gave a sniff and then looked north. "Got you Ronin, Let's go!" Tabula Rasa would take off and Urumi would try to follow but the sudden running had her thinking...why..somewhat, but mostly she was thinking how could someone so small run so fast she would be sweating already and would offer a pout before they finally came to a stop and Urumi would squint.

Look a per-
Be quite Urumi

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It was a usual day in the land of Graves, dry not wind and the sun just beaming down from above the Canyons were often empty as most creatured didn't wander around in such conditions for too long. Instead there was a girl who had just finished taking a bath in the river at the middle of the valley and was now putting on her gear without a worry in the world. She was from the land of graves, having just fled 2 days prior just shy of graduating it was rare enough that she was a missing nin so young but for her to be an Academy Student well it just meant the ASC had lowered the bar for what could be considered a missing nin. Usually they weren't part of the armed forces and could leave whenever they wanted but since the world was at war even if said war was currently more focused on building arms in preparation for all out warfare it meant life was harsher as a whole for the average shinobi. Especially one who realized that working for a hidden village wasn't what they wanted in their life, some people left villages for power or infamy, others for adventure but most missing nin left because they wanted freedom not to be shackled and forced to bleed and kill for the villages that owned them.

They reasoned if they were to leave they would no longer be tools, and that was Mary's current scenario as she put on both of her Haka style gloves something she had stolen after she whacked her Chunin Instructor over the head with a shovel. She would look up and around missing the two individuals who were stalking her before she'd begin a light jog heading further down the valley knowing that if she had any chance of survival it would be by heading to the Land of Madness. Sure there was still the ever present risk of being hunted but hunter nin rarely entered the land of madness and those that did well they wouldn't waste time with small fry like herself. The hunt had begun and it would seem the quarry didn't even know it.

Urumi would be tip toeing behind Tabula Rasa, looking at the girl they were following from a distance she could not place it in her mind if Tabula Rasa planned to eat her or simply play with her she was pretty and she had nice glove's Urumi would like to have nice glove's it would cause her to sigh looking over her hands as she stopped and wondered what it would be like to have gloves like that. Maybe the lady would let her have the one's she had on, one could only hope. Tabula Rasa would simply look back at Urumi before stomping the ground and vanishing leaving her alone in what seemed like a tremor of natural causes but indeed it wasn't Tabula Rasa had activated his first gate and pressed of the ground with a considerable amount of strength though nothing to notable.

His destination was the canyon side where he would currently hanging moving in a somewhat silent manner though in no form was this skilled he would do his best utilizing his current reaction to pick the spots in which that would make the least amount of noise in order to move along the side of the canyon following the target he would utilize only her scent something he quickly picked up from simply looking for the girl prior, Urumi being the dunce she was would try to be freindly he hoped so, if the target lashed out on Urumi though she was nice she would slap the missing ninja and possibly kill her and that was being nice cause Tabula Rasa would rip Mary limb from limb.

Urumi would simply look around once Tabula Rasa vanished she didn't like being alone but she also wanted to get a closer look at the gloves so with a few jumps she neared the lady and began looking closely at her gloves with a smile lifting her straw hat and allowing her crystal blue eye's to shine in the light as she scanned the gloves, Tabula Rasa called them ninja gloves the people that lived in the villages wore them in order to protect their hands. Urumi could only think her hands needed protection. "May i have those glove's please miss?
Urumi's facial expression would be child like and she would look over the woman waiting for a response moving with her if she didn't stop with a child like wonder she would give off no hostile motions instead she would simply gaze over the object of her obsession before quickly looking up at the lady. She was talking to a human a real human.
So where are you from miss?

She had to be from one of the villages and urumi seeing as how she wanted some gloves knew that if she followed this lady she could find some gloves and probably her family Tabula Rasa always talked about it beat walking around the desert though she didn't mind it there always seemed to be a mean person around.

“May I please tag along with you, Miss? That is, if you do not mind me.”


Tabula Rasa would be following closely making sure to stay on guard he would stay on the side of the canyon and if the lady stopped in order to talk too urumi he would peak his head up in order to get a closer look, he didn't mind attacking the lady with urumi near he simply needed her to come a little closer seeing as how from his current caculation's jumping from this distance he would be seen faster than he could close the gap resulting in a counter attack without a significant advantage, his only advantage at the moment was suprise.

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Mary would continue jogging not knowing she was being followed even though she had an awful feeling in her gut, she was one of the few academy students who actually managed to manifest that gut feeling early on in life but it was common among shinobi at least experienced ones. They just knew something was up whether it was something in the air or maybe some sort of danger awareness who knew all she knew was that her gut felt wrong but she would continue to jog being wary but thinking it was just paranoia there was no way someone of caught up to her by now she wasn't that much of a threat. Of course when Urumi spoke she would jump as if burned spinning around and seeing the other girl easily frightened and almost missing whatever Urumi said. It was odd though seeing as for someone who lost their memory and only hung around a tigrex that she'd remember how to speak the native language though, then again there are different stages of amnesia and what not.

Pity, would of been fun with the language barrier but now isn't the time for such speculation, Mary's eyes would narrow distrustfully as the other girl asked about her gloves causing her to clench her fists a bit subtly saying she wouldn't give them up without speaking but it was the next question which caused her to answer back. Why are you following me, are you alone? Mary asked quickly choosing to ignore Urumi's questions in favor of her own, she didn't see any headband which is why she answered rather than attacking first she knew she was still at risk of well, being attacked by hunter nin but for now she thought nothing of it though she was fidgity ready to run at any time.

Urumi would look around as she asked the question if she was alone, she was alone there was no one else her or maybe there was but she could not see them, could the woman. Urumi would look around in a quick sperratic movement before her attention span gave way and she simply looked back at the woman with a half smile trying to think what she had said prior before snapping her fingers the moment she remembered.

Alone, i see you. You alone miss?

Urumi would begin walking back before kneeling down and touching the ground, she knew the lady didn't say anything about the gloves so she would simply stay quite for a moment before looking back up at the lady and standing dusting herself of before giving a sly smile.

Can i have one of those?

it would be easily known that Urumi was talking about the glove's but in a quick swoop she would be hit in the back of the head by a pebble, Urumi would spin looking around for who did it the culprit being Tabula Rasa who simply grew tired of waiting for the girl to come close to him he could not strain himself forever and getting this done and being prompt would only make it easier to stay under the radar of anyone in the area. The pebble would have a unique trajectory thrown in a way using minute reaction skills so that even by a good eye they would have no way of telling where the rock came from, simply dropping from the air.

Ow

Urumi would allow a single tear to fall before another rock would fall from the sky considering the girl mary had no type of real unique sensory method she would have no explanation for the sudden pebble's being thrown. Hopefully she would become anxious and begin moving again. The rock aimed at mary would come from above and fall with the force of B rank strength and speed in order to slam into the woman's shoulder possibly bringing her down considering Tabula Rasa was not seen peeking over the canyon the rock's intended impact point would be the shoulder blade, if the hit connected he would proceed with his assault launching another those this one would be directly thrown at the girl Tabula Rasa picking the stone up in his mouth and tossing it aiming the rock directly for the woman's left eye with B rank strength. Before jumping up and running toward her. Urumi was safe the lady would believe this to be a simple case of a animal trying to feed on some prey simply wavering in it's area of nourishment.

Though Urumi knew it was Tabula Rasa she would simply watch and look at the girl again she had also been hit by a rock it was most likely a game Tabula Rasa was playing she wanted to play to so she would pick up a rock and launch it at Tabula Rasa though she was not strong when not within her gate's the rock would move at C rank speeds and barely miss the faster moving Tabula Rasa who was in the motion of leaping at Mary aiming a swipe for her chest as he moved with C rank speed and from under neath his tail would lash forward aiming to hit the girl's ankle with a single shot of B rank strength the location would be aimed so that if the hit landed it would dislocate the ankle of the girl.

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Mary would keep her eyes trained on the girl watching for any sudden movement wary of course since the girl just seemed to be out here by herself yet was capable enough to sneak up on her which..wasn't that difficult since Mary was just an academy student. But still the girl didn't look like a civilian well that was subjective, she didn't look like the average cannon fodder civilian perhaps she was at least capable with some sort of weapon she had the build for it at least from what Mary could see. Civilians weren't usually as athletic as shinobi or potential shinobi to be, often being skinny, fat what most would consider average whereas shinobi one could see even on kunoichi that their bodies had faint traces of muscle tone. Despite that there was no true reason for Mary to be paranoid besides the fact that she was a missing nin on the run but the girls question had annoyed her so she would quickly reply with a frown. No you can't they are mine. Mary said only to tense as the girl knelt down a stone being thrown at Urumi's head.

I thought you said you were alone, you were followed or better yet your bait...damn it. Mary said low enough that whomever threw the stone would possibly not hear, she would be struck by a stone to her shoulder which knocked her back a bit causing her to take a step back as she wasn't prepared for the impact but over all not being injured at all. She was a hardy girl, even though she wasn't that tough she had almost graduated to being a genin simply due to her consitution and it would seem all that time building her body had paid off nicely as it saved her from having her shoulder fractured by the rock. Mary would turn with the impact gritting her teeth in annoyance the stone which would of impacted her eye only hitting the side of her head and bouncing off but with that second one she wouldn't linger in the area anymore. Fuck this. she thought to herself before sprinting away at Bullet Release speeds due to her turning she would miss the fact that a Tigrex albeit a pathetically small one had caught up to and would swipe at her tearing the clothes on her back causing her to twist and lash out reflexively with a swing backed by D-rank strength aimed at whatever struck her.

This kick would allow her to get her bearings thankfully the Tigrex wasn't strong enough to pierce her skin and channeling chakra into her gloves would cause the 4 inch spikes to jut outward for her follow up swing moving at Bullet Release speeds, now that she could actually see what was attacking her. This would land at the same time the tail lash did with Mary holding her ground against the creature taking the hit to dish out a solid hit of her own at the Tigrex's snout. Right now however Mary couldn't care less about Urumi her primary focus was not dying from being attacked by a juvenile Tigrex she didn't come this far to get killed this easily.

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Tabula Rasa would let out a roar or his version of a scream of anger, it didn't matter. The punch coming at him was what he hoped for considering this girl was a ronin he knew she would hold a considerable defense they always did being the reason he could never eat one but that was beside the fact his fall would happen toward the left and with a move of his arm he would slice using his reaction and speed to knock the punch aimed at him away even in the midst of his tail lashing out something done from the small gap their speed gave coupled with calculations made with B rank reaction giving him more than enough time to analyze the current situation.

She sure was speaking a lot. And with that his goal was clear he would jump at the girl once more this time in a blur compared to her speed aiming to grab hold of her using his strength to the fullest which would hopefully be more than the girls. Following this he would wrap around her trying to grip her head and hold her mouth open following this if he could get her mouth open he would resort to a primal tactic and would move his hand down the girl's throat in order to cause her to begin to suffocate considering  she still held the possibility to dish out a genjustu he would form a hold based of calculation's which would most likely add some resistance if he was stunned or something of the sort.

Urumi would be walking toward the two now watching it was apparent that Tabula Rasa intended for this woman to be food, and since she was hungry she would begin walking on all four's then sitting waiting as she begin drawing in the dirt. She knew messing with Tabula Rasa while he was doing things like this was not good he would always be mean after. Instead she would focus on her drawing like a child coloring when their father beat their mother in the back room, i think that was a good example.

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Truth be told in the middle of this physical brawl she honestly had completely forgotten about being able to use genjutsu which was good or bad depending on who one was rooting for to come out of this situation. She would use the brief respite when he dodged her punch to leap back pushing off the ground with her D-rank strength to get a bit of distance though his subsequent pounce would knock her off her feet causing her to curl into a ball on reflex. She would use the defensive position to make hand seals going for a genjutsu binding seeing as her opponent was already in contact with her and easily within the radius she needed to trigger it. Foregoing the usual reaction of reaching for her throat in favor of making hand seals, it was smart this Tigrex knowing fully well it couldn't break through her defenses and thus deciding to rely on another tactic to finish her but she wouldn't simply roll over an die at least not without doing everything she could. If she was able to get the hand seals out she'd layering on Haki for good measure to prevent her opponent from breaking out of it through Kai.

Her head was pounding and she was already thinking to herself that if she survived this she would rededicate herself to training no more slacking off while on the run, she was bargaining of course with the deity that she worshipped beginning for some form of respite. Her eyes watering a bit simply due to the pressure on her throat and the looming death which seemed to creep ever closer as she realized that she was out matched in most forms of physical abilities, bar defense and that primarily was the reason she had lasted so long. She didn't have much new tricks to play having neglected a lot during her time as an academy student, sure she polished up what she was good at but she wasn't solid genin material, just good enough to pass. Who knew it would come to haunt her so early on in her life, sucks for her really.

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Done, for the most part at least. Tabula Rasa would wrap up and around the girl the second he got hold of her with him moving faster it would give him time so that when the girl placed her genjustu considering his tail could not reach the hands of mary in order to interrupt in time. His muscles would lock in the same position they were in now she had killed herself she would need more strength then Tabula Rasa in order to pull him off her even in his stunned state and considering he had gotten his hand down her throat. This would simply be a matter of waiting for the girl to die and hopefully when she died her low level but effective genjustu would wear off...Urumi would skitter over around the time everyone stopped moving she would look over the two from a distance and wonder what game they were playing maybe the girl had gotten something stuck in her teeth, but it didn't matter!

No Urumi saw her goal and would begin tip toeing over in order to steal the girl mary's gloves considering they were still in good shape Urumi without knowing it would come across her first real weapon, and in the territory these gloves came from she would possibly need to leave that much quicker considering if a native shinobi saw they would think she took them off a dead Haka shinobi. WHICH she didn't, no it was a academy student.

And so, the low level missing nin known as Mary was vanquished, well no not really it didn't end that quick it was more or less her squirming underneath the Tigrex trying to get free her hands clutching it's paw. For someone looking at the situation it was kind of humorous in a dark way really, seeing as a young girl was currently squirming under the paws of a baby Tigrex which was around the 3/4 her own size, bar its tail of course. Her squirming would gradually slow down as she exhausted herself by trying to get free, she couldn't release the genjutsu otherwise she'd risk getting mauled further and she couldn't get free because the thing was unnaturally strong for it's size. But Urumi creeping up to steal her gloves would be noticed and she would bat away any hands which came to grab them they were hers after all she stole them fair and square at least she thought so. At some point she realized that she had made a mistake, she should of never allowed the thing to get on top of her, no she should of never stopped to answer the girl.

As she suffocated, tears would fall freely and she didn't want to die most people would rather anything but death. Well the ones who hadn't been tortured before anyways, she was one of the majority in that the worst thing that happened to her was breaking her arm during a rough spar. Now though, she was suffocating everything gradually becoming darker as the circulation to her neck was cut off. She'd become unconcious long before she died at any rate and the Tigrex would find it's body loosening up and becoming mobile once more as she was no longer maintaining the genjutsu due to a lack of focus. Now all that remained was either maintaining the pressure to finish her off or simply mugging her and moving on it wasn't like she could stop them.

Tabula Rasa would remove his hand from the woman's mouth and move off of her with a small sigh which would seem misplaced, he would over look Urumi then watch as she took the girl mary's glove's and anything else that was useful on her person though she would still hold some clothe's and food. Her money would be gone and her glove's of course her gloves would now be on Urumi's hand though she would never be able to make the spike's go up and down she liked how they felt and would simply be moving the gloves about over her hand.

Tabula Rasa would not kill the girl, there was no reason to considering it would look weird for a Tigrex to walk into a collection's officer with a bounty target, no he simply took it upon himself to when needed find money and things which would keep them alive by robbing the thief's of the world. Now the two would simply be walking away both on all fours heading in the direction of the land of madness considering the girl was still alive she would awake and find that life was not over and Urumi had pissed on her marking her territory it was life Urumi simply figured it was food left for later and since she was still hungry and could not bite the girl cause her skin was really hard they were on the move again.

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