Hazumi listened to the woman's warning. She sure did not sound like she was kidding. Perhaps she should get her brother out of the battle before it was too late?

Seeing the poor rocking back and forth, the younger kunoichi placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. ”Why don't you calm down a little?” she said in a sincere voice. ”My brother's pretty hard to take down. He won't let himself and anyone else get too badly hurt that easily.” With that, the girl turned back to the battle before them, thinking of just running in to get Aki and leave the cemetery to take the lady back to their safe village.

Aki appeared to be doing fine for a while on the field. However, he soon appeared to be slightly surprise at the fact that he was suddenly attacking an empty space. He then looked to the side of the field, thinking that his opponent might be coming from there next, but he was wrong. The woman he had been trying to protect was coming towards him in a fiery dash. It was only a second later that the boy realized that she was not coming to him. She was going to attack the man that appeared above him! Aki quickly looked up to find the male stranger about to take a swipe at him with clawed gauntlets. They were too close together. Even if he raised his pinwheel too defend himself, the blond would still get a lethal blow to the head. Although she was pretty fast, the woman's rescue effort was only going to be useless she speeds up anymore. There was only one thing he could do to even have the hopes of surviving this.

””Hazumi!” he shouted as he covered his head and descended toward the ground to his knees. Within an instant, the clashing sound of metal on metal filled the air before it was followed by an ear-deafening screech. Hazumi, with her incredible speed, had jumped above her brother to act as his shield. Her arms—palms facing down—weren't even a centimeter away from her face when she used them to block the killer's attack. She planted her feet into the ground with her back arched over Aki as she tried to push his opponent away. The claws were slicing away at the cloth of her long gloves, leaving scratches on the metal plates that were hidden under it.

”You really gotta find a different hobby than getting yourself into trouble all the time...” Hazumi told her brother with a slight hint of struggle in her voice. As close as she was to the man, she tried her best to not look directly at him. If she could get scared by looking at him at a distance, she could not imagine how she would feel if she looked at him now. ”Now you owe me a new pair of gloves!”