Akira was surprised at the young Kitsune’s speed, in almost an instant she was on him. Her slashes and strikes were calculated but Akira was better, he blocked all of her attacks with only his sword half unsheathed. When he fully unsheathed his sword he sent the girl flying back.
Then the girl grew black fox ears and four fox tails, Akira’s eyes narrowed when she transformed, the girl looked too young to have four tails. In an instant the fox man was in front of her, a large slash nearly cutting her open, Hinata exploded in foxfire but it did nothing to keep back the fox man. Seeing as her fire could not harm him she tightened her grip on her sword and it’s blade shined brighter and blinded Akira for just a second, enough time for Hinata to jump into a nearby tree and anchor herself with her sword. She used a breathing technique to slow her bleeding just as a powerful slash brought down the tree she was on.
Hinata jumped to the next tree and Akira brought that one down as well, jumping from tree to tree, dodging his attacks she kept on the move until the older kitsune had appeared in front of her. She anticipated this and fell backwards towards the ground, as she expected Akira had appeared back on the ground and prepared a strike. When he jumped and swung his sword she twisted her body at the last minute, his sword was inches away from her body and she threw a foxfire ball behind them.
“Hmph, you missed.” Akira growled.
Hinata rolled backwards when the two landed and sheathed her sword.
“Did I?” Hinata said quietly.
Then Akira looked back and saw that all the trees he sliced down attacking her had walled off the area Annie and her friends were, the foxfire Hinata shot had set them ablaze, trapping the goth girl and her friends as the fire spread out towards them.
“Damn.” Akira said and turned to save Annie and the others.
In the split second he had his guard down Hinata had already struck, but his years of training had allowed him to just barely deflect her attack. Hinata had jumped into the ring of burning trees towards the others and Akira rushed to defend them. When he landed in the middle of the fire, the Normal agent was nowhere to be seen. Akira let out a low growl and holstered his sword and with a spin his foxfire had consumed the forest fire, extinguishing it. He checked on Anna and the others, he used a healing technique to heal Annie’s wounds and loaded the girls into Winery’s truck. Akira lifted the car with one arm and made hand seals with the other, transporting them to safety.