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Jessie Targaryen
Guest
►Ryu Uchiha◄
►Team: Team 19 Genin►Location: Amegakure Hospital
►Disclaimer: This post is a bit long so I put it in a spoiler.
The day had started like any other day she was supposed to be working at the hospital. First some training with Doctor Tsubaki on how to handle various wounds, illness, and even basics about poisons or venoms. Along with some chakra control training to fine tune the very basic medical ninjutsu she had learned. Then she had been shadowing a nurse, helping out with basic caretaking of those in the hospital. Yet only with the minor cases and in short bursts. Thus allowing Ryu to train a bit more on how to help and handle various injuries she might encounter, and always under the watchful eye of a trained professional. It was simple and calm, something that Ryu found she quite enjoyed about the days where she was on duty at the hospital. Along with helping the patients recover from their various ailments, Ryu genuinely felt like she was doing something to help the people of the city. That of course, put a rather pleasant smile on her face as she made her rounds. Following these rounds, she would've had another set of training with Doctor Tsubaki and was all set to head home for the day.
Of course, that had been the plan before everything descended once more into chaos. It had all come on so fast, the panicked nurses rushing in to tell the Doctor that men with weapons were coming towards the hospital. The ensuing evacuations of the patients who could be safely moved, and of course Ryu's decision to head off from the main group to check once more if they had missed any of the patients who could be moved. The last one was the decision that she was very much so starting to regret. Despite having collapsed the main entrance to the hospital after the armed men had attacked some of the civilians fleeing to the hospital, they had managed to find a way inside. Ryu wasn't sure exactly what their plan was when they first came in, but as she ran through the halls of the building searching for those she could move it had become rather clear to her. The death they left in their wake really didn't leave much room for interpretation as to their goals. Thus far she had managed to avoid being found by any of the armed men, but she knew it was only a matter of time before luck ran out. She just hoped that she could get the hell out before that time decided to roll around. Still, she had only a few more rooms to check before she decided to call it.
So far it seemed like Doctor Tsubaki and the nurses who hadn't died when the men first rushed the hospital seemed to have gotten as many out as they could, although Ryu worried for how many that meant would be left behind to whatever fate these bastards decided to bring about. Not even moments after thinking that, the girl looked into a room and saw a behemoth of a man holding a sword into the chest of a patient who had seemed to have just passed. Without even a second thought, Ryu charged into the large room and tried to knock the man off balance. Rage clouded her mind as the thought of that poor man who had been brutally murdered despite doing nothing wrong besides coming to the hospital. Ryu let out a grunt as she slammed into her opponent, catching him mid-turn and causing him to trip over the end of the patient’s bed and crash to the ground. The man’s fall sent the nearby little table that held various operating tools crashing to the ground along with them, sending the contents all across the floor. Immediately the Uchiha moved to pin her opponent, also lashing out with a vicious punch towards his face. However, it was as if the man simply didn’t feel the impact, and immediately fired back. Ryu’s stomach felt like it exploded from the swift punch he delivered, knocking the air clear from her lungs as the man used his chance to shove this attacking girl off him and across the room. Ryu pushed herself to her feet just as her opponent got to his own, and only then did it really occur to the genin how massive her enemy was. He stood at least a head taller than herself, despite Ryu already being abnormally tall, and was about as broad as a gorilla. The genin swallowed nervously as she realized what she had gotten into, and worse that he was between her and the door.
Even worse? He was surprisingly fast. Closing the distance with a presence similar to the animal he was built like, the man lashed out with a punch towards Ryu’s gut. Twisting out of the way from that hit, she continued her momentum to spin and deliver a swift kick to his side. Her opponent grunted briefly from the impact, and quickly pinned the girl’s leg against himself. Seconds later her face exploded in pain as he slammed a fist directly into it. Dazed for a second, she couldn’t even start to react as a second punch collided with her, followed by a third aimed at her stomach where he had hit her the first time. The girl groaned as she could feel a split lip starting to bleed, and something in her face pulsed in pain as it felt like something wasn’t right. As he swung once more for the next hit, Ryu tilted her head out of the way at the last second. Twisting her leg so her foot was now pointed up in his grip and against his arm, she pushed him away and forced the man to let go. Then jumping back in, the girl spun and drove a back kick home in his abdomen as he was off balance, causing him to stumble once more. The Uchiha did not let her momentum give, surging in to slam a shoulder into the man to push him against the patient’s bed. She then moved in close, driving a knee home to his gut and causing the man to bend slightly forward from the impact, her arms wrapping around the back of his head she pulled down as she brought a knee up to connect. Then she was met a sharp pain to her core as he fired back with a much more powerful knee of his own. As her momentum broke, her opponent grabbed her arm and spun around. Throwing her violently against the metal frame of the bed, Ryu cried out in pain as her felt something in her ribs shoot pain through her body. Her breathing became a bit more labored from the impact, Ryu gasping slightly as she figured she cracked a rib. A fist slammed into her face as she tried to brace against the bedframe, the girl spitting up blood as the inside of her cheek tore. Ryu came back up from the hit with a swift knee to his core, returning the favor from early as the man staggered back in pain. More blows between the two were exchanged in a violent fashion, both parties showing signs of fatigue and injury from their brawl. After a few moments the two broke, backing off for a few moments as they tried to catch their breath.
The both of them stood staring at each other for a few moments, Ryu wiping some blood from her face, eye locked on her opponent. Pushing herself off, Ryu hoped to take the initiative in the fight and get him off guard. But after only two blows were exchanged, Ryu found herself thrown to the ground. Before she could fight back against her opponent, he had already pinned the girl down. In the next moments, Ryu felt two powerful hands lock around her throat and start to squeeze. She gasped out, desperate for air as she flailed. She lashed out towards her opponent and his sickening gaze, trying to break the choke but unable to do so. Panic started to take root as this continued, her sight starting to grow black despite her eye being wide open. Her mind couldn’t focus on anything except the need for air, and the fear that she was about to die. Just as her vision was starting to fully fade, her right hand felt a sharp pain as something cut into the skin as she flailed. Knowing it was a last ditch, she grabbed for the object and brought it up quickly towards her opponent. His grip on her throat was suddenly gone, as the man grabbed for the scalpel buried in his eye. In the spur of the moment, she reached up and yanked her opponents head down into the bedframe above her head. After a sickening crunch, the man suddenly became very still and rolled off to the side. Pushing away, Ryu took a long few minutes to let tears run her face and try to find her breath again. Then forcing herself to wrap up her side to be looked at later, Ryu took a few more breathes to test the pain in her side. ”I can still breath, so probably a fracture. That can be fixed.” She muttered to herself, assessing the damage to distract herself from the thoughts of how close she was to dying. With her self check finished, she quickly left the room to just leave this accursed hospital already.
As she neared the emergency exit, Ryu heard the sounds of movement in a nearby room. The door was left wide open, which was not standard for the hospital, sending off warning signs in her mind about who might be inside. Quietly moving forward, she peaked inside to see if there was another enemy inside. Her investigations revealed that the room was, in fact, empty of any hostiles. However, it didn't take her long to find the source of the movement she had heard. A girl, about eight years old was hidden under what had apparently been her cot. From where she stood, Ryu couldn't really see any injuries on the girl, but the blood in the room made it pretty clear that something else had happened. As she stepped in, the smell of death was already hanging in the air. Just to her right, the corpse of one the nurses was slumped against the wall. Worse, Ryu recognized the poor woman and almost vomited at the sight. Misaka had always been so sweet towards everybody, and her children were still so young...
Turning her attention back towards the girl, Ryu approached the bed and knelt down. "Hey. We need to get you somewhere safe, can you come out for me?" She asked the girl in a strained tone, who only shrank back under the cot in response, and Ryu frowned. "I'm one of the nurses here. I worked with Misaka, she would want you to be safe." Ryu said softly, telling a white lie about being a nurse at the hospital but figuring it couldn't hurt too much if it got the girl out. "There are bad men here, and I'm gonna help you avoid the bad men. Although the truth is, I'm a little scared and might need somebody smart enough to stay hidden to help me. Think you can help me?" She added, still in a voice that could barely be called a whisper as she listened for movement in the hall. Asking for help seemed to get the little girl to respond, as she nodded slightly and started slowly crawling out with only one of her arms. As she emerged, Ryu noticed that the other arm was in a sling, and was able to guess well enough why the girl was here. "Thank you. Now hold my hand and try to stay quiet okay? We'll get out of here together." She said with a reassuring smile as the girl nodded and gently took Ryu's offered hand.
Together the two slowly and quietly made her way back towards the hall, now desolate apart from the pained moans of those who had to be left behind and the stench of death. The genin had a single goal in mind, to make it past the outpatient ward towards the emergency staircase that led downstairs. From there, it would be a short trek past the laundry room to the emergency exit on the rear of the building. With luck, the two would be able to quietly slip out into the alleys without being noticed. As they crept through the outpatient ward, Ryu noticed that the rooms were either empty or filled with the dead, it seemed whoever was attacking had done a rather thorough job with clearing this area already. Still, that was a good thing for them as they didn't have to worry as much about running into hostiles in this area. As they reached the stairs and started heading down, Ryu held out an arm to stop the trio. She could hear muffled screams, that were quickly silenced from outside the lower door. Apparently, the enemy was making their way through the first floor now. Unfortunately for them, this was also the only real exit that didn't include crossing the entire building and hoping that they weren't noticed, which Ryu was not really willing to bank on once again. Instead, she started to move once more, slowly and quietly down the stairs until she reached the lower door. Pressing an ear to the door, the genin listened to see if there was anybody on the other side. Fortunately for her, she could hear the men shouting then followed by receding footsteps. Maybe they'd finished their job and were moving to go terrorize some other part of the city? Ryu wasn't sure and unfortunately was not really in a place to do anything about it.
Slowly the door opened as Ryu peaked out to check that it was clear, and so far she didn't see anybody moving nearby. Instead what she saw was a little bit more terrifying than some brute. Like some hungry beast, yellow-orange flames flickered in one of the rooms opposite of where they needed to go. As she was watching, they spread with ease to clothes of the deceased spread around the hospital's hallway. Black smoke started to slowly drift down the hall as it came to suffocate them. Ryu swore and quickly pulled the girl into the hall as she started moving rather quickly towards the emergency exit. Remaining quiet and stealthy was thrown to the wind as she knew firsthand exactly how quickly flames could spread. Unfortunately, she was right to worry about the spread of the flames as she could feel her back starting to get warmer as they drew closer. The smoke had already overtaken them, causing Ryu to cough as she ran down the hallway, thankful that it was straight, and the door was simply at the end of the hall. Soon after the darkness imposed by the smoke gave way as Ryu burst through the door with reckless abandon, coughing still from the fumes from the flame. No sooner had they barreled out of the door than the flames also erupted through the open doorway as if giving chase. Had they been any slower, Ryu was certain they would have been cooked in there. "Alright. Doctor Tsubaki said they were heading towards the barracks, the City might be strongest there. So let's head there as well." Ryu said, aiming to help keep the girl focused on the task ahead.
"See? Not so bad, let's get goi-" She said, before hearing a shout from her left as apparently one of the men who had been assaulting the hospital came to check out the sound. "Run!" She said to the girl before turning and taking off down an alleyway as fast as she possibly could. Ryu knew where she had to go to reach the barracks, but not which specific alleyways to take. As such she was more or less guessing as the two ran, twisting and turning down various backways filled with garbage and other debris as both were unsure if they were still being chased by the man who had originally been coming after them. However, after a good few minutes of running, it seemed that the two had eluded their pursuer, or at least that he had decided two girls weren't really worth the effort of giving chase. The alleyway they were in led out to one of the main streets in the city, and Ryu made her way down to the end of it, looking out to check if they were still going in the right direction. Fortunately enough, it seemed the two were in the right area still as she recognized some of the buildings. They were about two blocks south of the Barracks, which should be easy enough for them to make it through. As she looked both directions Ryu found that the street was... completely empty. She found it to be a little bit odd, but it was also a direct path towards their goal. "Come on, it's about two blocks and this street looks clear. We'll get there in no time, promise." Ryu said with a smile towards the girl who nodded, slowly moving forward and grabbing Ryu's hand again. "Ai." The girl said quietly to Ryu, who seemed confused for a second before realizing that the girl had given Ryu her name. "I'm Ryu. Let's get you to safety, Ai." She said with a small smile before leading her out to jog down the street to cover the distance to the barracks.
They had almost made it when Ryu noticed movement off to her left. It was one of the men who was attacking if she had to guess by the nearby city guard corpse. He hadn't noticed them, and Ryu pulled Ai over into a side alley to crouch behind a dumpster. She watched for what seemed to be an eternity as the man seemed content to just lumber exactly in their path, and with their alley being a dead-end Ryu was a little bit low on options. The man bore a club but judging by his size and the shape the corpse near him seemed to be in Ryu figured that the weapon was all that he needed. Letting out a long sigh, the girl looked at Ai with a small smile. "Alright, I'm gonna distract ugly there. When I do, we’re gonna run past him and keep going until we’re safe, got it?” Ryu said before weaving a couple of hand signs, then a mirror image of herself appeared and darted the opposite direction down the street. It made no noise or seemed to impact the road at all, but the genin hoped it distracted the man long enough for the two to make their escape. Grabbing Ai’s hand, Ryu quickly darted out of their alley and the two were off towards the barracks.
Not long after, Ryu had managed to drop Ai off with one of the nurses and get the worst of her wounds healed a bit, thought it would certainly need attention after they were out of this mess. Then she moved off to find Mitsunari, having asked around and been told where to find the man. As she walked, the girl formed a small ball of healing chakra in her palm and held it to her side. Focusing on trying to get some of the pain to go away, although she could tell her bruises were already forming from the impacts, especially on her throat. Soon enough she found Mitsunari, moving towards the man quickly to see how she could help. ”Riojin-Sensei, Ryu Uchiha reporting in. What do you need me to do?” She asked her voice still not fully recovered, yet wanting to help get these bastards out of her city. Especially to pay them back for the hospital and her near-death experience.
Of course, that had been the plan before everything descended once more into chaos. It had all come on so fast, the panicked nurses rushing in to tell the Doctor that men with weapons were coming towards the hospital. The ensuing evacuations of the patients who could be safely moved, and of course Ryu's decision to head off from the main group to check once more if they had missed any of the patients who could be moved. The last one was the decision that she was very much so starting to regret. Despite having collapsed the main entrance to the hospital after the armed men had attacked some of the civilians fleeing to the hospital, they had managed to find a way inside. Ryu wasn't sure exactly what their plan was when they first came in, but as she ran through the halls of the building searching for those she could move it had become rather clear to her. The death they left in their wake really didn't leave much room for interpretation as to their goals. Thus far she had managed to avoid being found by any of the armed men, but she knew it was only a matter of time before luck ran out. She just hoped that she could get the hell out before that time decided to roll around. Still, she had only a few more rooms to check before she decided to call it.
So far it seemed like Doctor Tsubaki and the nurses who hadn't died when the men first rushed the hospital seemed to have gotten as many out as they could, although Ryu worried for how many that meant would be left behind to whatever fate these bastards decided to bring about. Not even moments after thinking that, the girl looked into a room and saw a behemoth of a man holding a sword into the chest of a patient who had seemed to have just passed. Without even a second thought, Ryu charged into the large room and tried to knock the man off balance. Rage clouded her mind as the thought of that poor man who had been brutally murdered despite doing nothing wrong besides coming to the hospital. Ryu let out a grunt as she slammed into her opponent, catching him mid-turn and causing him to trip over the end of the patient’s bed and crash to the ground. The man’s fall sent the nearby little table that held various operating tools crashing to the ground along with them, sending the contents all across the floor. Immediately the Uchiha moved to pin her opponent, also lashing out with a vicious punch towards his face. However, it was as if the man simply didn’t feel the impact, and immediately fired back. Ryu’s stomach felt like it exploded from the swift punch he delivered, knocking the air clear from her lungs as the man used his chance to shove this attacking girl off him and across the room. Ryu pushed herself to her feet just as her opponent got to his own, and only then did it really occur to the genin how massive her enemy was. He stood at least a head taller than herself, despite Ryu already being abnormally tall, and was about as broad as a gorilla. The genin swallowed nervously as she realized what she had gotten into, and worse that he was between her and the door.
Even worse? He was surprisingly fast. Closing the distance with a presence similar to the animal he was built like, the man lashed out with a punch towards Ryu’s gut. Twisting out of the way from that hit, she continued her momentum to spin and deliver a swift kick to his side. Her opponent grunted briefly from the impact, and quickly pinned the girl’s leg against himself. Seconds later her face exploded in pain as he slammed a fist directly into it. Dazed for a second, she couldn’t even start to react as a second punch collided with her, followed by a third aimed at her stomach where he had hit her the first time. The girl groaned as she could feel a split lip starting to bleed, and something in her face pulsed in pain as it felt like something wasn’t right. As he swung once more for the next hit, Ryu tilted her head out of the way at the last second. Twisting her leg so her foot was now pointed up in his grip and against his arm, she pushed him away and forced the man to let go. Then jumping back in, the girl spun and drove a back kick home in his abdomen as he was off balance, causing him to stumble once more. The Uchiha did not let her momentum give, surging in to slam a shoulder into the man to push him against the patient’s bed. She then moved in close, driving a knee home to his gut and causing the man to bend slightly forward from the impact, her arms wrapping around the back of his head she pulled down as she brought a knee up to connect. Then she was met a sharp pain to her core as he fired back with a much more powerful knee of his own. As her momentum broke, her opponent grabbed her arm and spun around. Throwing her violently against the metal frame of the bed, Ryu cried out in pain as her felt something in her ribs shoot pain through her body. Her breathing became a bit more labored from the impact, Ryu gasping slightly as she figured she cracked a rib. A fist slammed into her face as she tried to brace against the bedframe, the girl spitting up blood as the inside of her cheek tore. Ryu came back up from the hit with a swift knee to his core, returning the favor from early as the man staggered back in pain. More blows between the two were exchanged in a violent fashion, both parties showing signs of fatigue and injury from their brawl. After a few moments the two broke, backing off for a few moments as they tried to catch their breath.
The both of them stood staring at each other for a few moments, Ryu wiping some blood from her face, eye locked on her opponent. Pushing herself off, Ryu hoped to take the initiative in the fight and get him off guard. But after only two blows were exchanged, Ryu found herself thrown to the ground. Before she could fight back against her opponent, he had already pinned the girl down. In the next moments, Ryu felt two powerful hands lock around her throat and start to squeeze. She gasped out, desperate for air as she flailed. She lashed out towards her opponent and his sickening gaze, trying to break the choke but unable to do so. Panic started to take root as this continued, her sight starting to grow black despite her eye being wide open. Her mind couldn’t focus on anything except the need for air, and the fear that she was about to die. Just as her vision was starting to fully fade, her right hand felt a sharp pain as something cut into the skin as she flailed. Knowing it was a last ditch, she grabbed for the object and brought it up quickly towards her opponent. His grip on her throat was suddenly gone, as the man grabbed for the scalpel buried in his eye. In the spur of the moment, she reached up and yanked her opponents head down into the bedframe above her head. After a sickening crunch, the man suddenly became very still and rolled off to the side. Pushing away, Ryu took a long few minutes to let tears run her face and try to find her breath again. Then forcing herself to wrap up her side to be looked at later, Ryu took a few more breathes to test the pain in her side. ”I can still breath, so probably a fracture. That can be fixed.” She muttered to herself, assessing the damage to distract herself from the thoughts of how close she was to dying. With her self check finished, she quickly left the room to just leave this accursed hospital already.
As she neared the emergency exit, Ryu heard the sounds of movement in a nearby room. The door was left wide open, which was not standard for the hospital, sending off warning signs in her mind about who might be inside. Quietly moving forward, she peaked inside to see if there was another enemy inside. Her investigations revealed that the room was, in fact, empty of any hostiles. However, it didn't take her long to find the source of the movement she had heard. A girl, about eight years old was hidden under what had apparently been her cot. From where she stood, Ryu couldn't really see any injuries on the girl, but the blood in the room made it pretty clear that something else had happened. As she stepped in, the smell of death was already hanging in the air. Just to her right, the corpse of one the nurses was slumped against the wall. Worse, Ryu recognized the poor woman and almost vomited at the sight. Misaka had always been so sweet towards everybody, and her children were still so young...
Turning her attention back towards the girl, Ryu approached the bed and knelt down. "Hey. We need to get you somewhere safe, can you come out for me?" She asked the girl in a strained tone, who only shrank back under the cot in response, and Ryu frowned. "I'm one of the nurses here. I worked with Misaka, she would want you to be safe." Ryu said softly, telling a white lie about being a nurse at the hospital but figuring it couldn't hurt too much if it got the girl out. "There are bad men here, and I'm gonna help you avoid the bad men. Although the truth is, I'm a little scared and might need somebody smart enough to stay hidden to help me. Think you can help me?" She added, still in a voice that could barely be called a whisper as she listened for movement in the hall. Asking for help seemed to get the little girl to respond, as she nodded slightly and started slowly crawling out with only one of her arms. As she emerged, Ryu noticed that the other arm was in a sling, and was able to guess well enough why the girl was here. "Thank you. Now hold my hand and try to stay quiet okay? We'll get out of here together." She said with a reassuring smile as the girl nodded and gently took Ryu's offered hand.
Together the two slowly and quietly made her way back towards the hall, now desolate apart from the pained moans of those who had to be left behind and the stench of death. The genin had a single goal in mind, to make it past the outpatient ward towards the emergency staircase that led downstairs. From there, it would be a short trek past the laundry room to the emergency exit on the rear of the building. With luck, the two would be able to quietly slip out into the alleys without being noticed. As they crept through the outpatient ward, Ryu noticed that the rooms were either empty or filled with the dead, it seemed whoever was attacking had done a rather thorough job with clearing this area already. Still, that was a good thing for them as they didn't have to worry as much about running into hostiles in this area. As they reached the stairs and started heading down, Ryu held out an arm to stop the trio. She could hear muffled screams, that were quickly silenced from outside the lower door. Apparently, the enemy was making their way through the first floor now. Unfortunately for them, this was also the only real exit that didn't include crossing the entire building and hoping that they weren't noticed, which Ryu was not really willing to bank on once again. Instead, she started to move once more, slowly and quietly down the stairs until she reached the lower door. Pressing an ear to the door, the genin listened to see if there was anybody on the other side. Fortunately for her, she could hear the men shouting then followed by receding footsteps. Maybe they'd finished their job and were moving to go terrorize some other part of the city? Ryu wasn't sure and unfortunately was not really in a place to do anything about it.
Slowly the door opened as Ryu peaked out to check that it was clear, and so far she didn't see anybody moving nearby. Instead what she saw was a little bit more terrifying than some brute. Like some hungry beast, yellow-orange flames flickered in one of the rooms opposite of where they needed to go. As she was watching, they spread with ease to clothes of the deceased spread around the hospital's hallway. Black smoke started to slowly drift down the hall as it came to suffocate them. Ryu swore and quickly pulled the girl into the hall as she started moving rather quickly towards the emergency exit. Remaining quiet and stealthy was thrown to the wind as she knew firsthand exactly how quickly flames could spread. Unfortunately, she was right to worry about the spread of the flames as she could feel her back starting to get warmer as they drew closer. The smoke had already overtaken them, causing Ryu to cough as she ran down the hallway, thankful that it was straight, and the door was simply at the end of the hall. Soon after the darkness imposed by the smoke gave way as Ryu burst through the door with reckless abandon, coughing still from the fumes from the flame. No sooner had they barreled out of the door than the flames also erupted through the open doorway as if giving chase. Had they been any slower, Ryu was certain they would have been cooked in there. "Alright. Doctor Tsubaki said they were heading towards the barracks, the City might be strongest there. So let's head there as well." Ryu said, aiming to help keep the girl focused on the task ahead.
"See? Not so bad, let's get goi-" She said, before hearing a shout from her left as apparently one of the men who had been assaulting the hospital came to check out the sound. "Run!" She said to the girl before turning and taking off down an alleyway as fast as she possibly could. Ryu knew where she had to go to reach the barracks, but not which specific alleyways to take. As such she was more or less guessing as the two ran, twisting and turning down various backways filled with garbage and other debris as both were unsure if they were still being chased by the man who had originally been coming after them. However, after a good few minutes of running, it seemed that the two had eluded their pursuer, or at least that he had decided two girls weren't really worth the effort of giving chase. The alleyway they were in led out to one of the main streets in the city, and Ryu made her way down to the end of it, looking out to check if they were still going in the right direction. Fortunately enough, it seemed the two were in the right area still as she recognized some of the buildings. They were about two blocks south of the Barracks, which should be easy enough for them to make it through. As she looked both directions Ryu found that the street was... completely empty. She found it to be a little bit odd, but it was also a direct path towards their goal. "Come on, it's about two blocks and this street looks clear. We'll get there in no time, promise." Ryu said with a smile towards the girl who nodded, slowly moving forward and grabbing Ryu's hand again. "Ai." The girl said quietly to Ryu, who seemed confused for a second before realizing that the girl had given Ryu her name. "I'm Ryu. Let's get you to safety, Ai." She said with a small smile before leading her out to jog down the street to cover the distance to the barracks.
They had almost made it when Ryu noticed movement off to her left. It was one of the men who was attacking if she had to guess by the nearby city guard corpse. He hadn't noticed them, and Ryu pulled Ai over into a side alley to crouch behind a dumpster. She watched for what seemed to be an eternity as the man seemed content to just lumber exactly in their path, and with their alley being a dead-end Ryu was a little bit low on options. The man bore a club but judging by his size and the shape the corpse near him seemed to be in Ryu figured that the weapon was all that he needed. Letting out a long sigh, the girl looked at Ai with a small smile. "Alright, I'm gonna distract ugly there. When I do, we’re gonna run past him and keep going until we’re safe, got it?” Ryu said before weaving a couple of hand signs, then a mirror image of herself appeared and darted the opposite direction down the street. It made no noise or seemed to impact the road at all, but the genin hoped it distracted the man long enough for the two to make their escape. Grabbing Ai’s hand, Ryu quickly darted out of their alley and the two were off towards the barracks.
Not long after, Ryu had managed to drop Ai off with one of the nurses and get the worst of her wounds healed a bit, thought it would certainly need attention after they were out of this mess. Then she moved off to find Mitsunari, having asked around and been told where to find the man. As she walked, the girl formed a small ball of healing chakra in her palm and held it to her side. Focusing on trying to get some of the pain to go away, although she could tell her bruises were already forming from the impacts, especially on her throat. Soon enough she found Mitsunari, moving towards the man quickly to see how she could help. ”Riojin-Sensei, Ryu Uchiha reporting in. What do you need me to do?” She asked her voice still not fully recovered, yet wanting to help get these bastards out of her city. Especially to pay them back for the hospital and her near-death experience.