[table][row][cell]Mai Edano[/cell][cell]"Death before dishonor."[/cell][/row][row][cell][sup][color=#2E2C2C]_______________________________________________[/color][/sup]
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[cell][b]"Wait Roku-san, they have brought children"[/b], said Mai, unsheathing her twin katana and brandishing them at the intruders, [b]"Turn back now or I shall be forced to kill you and will have sullied my blades with the blood of babes. I have pledged that you shall not cross this room alive."[/b]

As if in response, one of the genin threw a kunai that landed limply at her feet. Mai was willing to look past that. She wouldn't punish a child for youthful indiscretion. She cut the kunai in half anyway and with a single swift cut. She knew all too well that the mistakes of a child could carry just as much weight as the learned decisions of a sage. She could only hope that her compatriots would allow cooler heads to prevail... Though she wasn't certain that would come to pass. She wasn't as naïve as that. Not anymore. She knew that this mission could involve killing and she'd pledged her name to it. That was enough, wasn't it?

But the others, her fellows also employed on this mission weren't your usual sort either. Such a strange collection, she could not tell what the intention really was. And the way that that girl... The white snake... The way she looked at her... No. No. She was samurai, ronin perhaps, but samurai. And she would be samurai regardless of whether she found herself among ninjas, thieves, or other underhanded dishonorable people. And yet even as she held up her sword, she was uneasy.

[b]"Leave now. You will not get another chance."[/b]

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