"Hm. There are worse motivations I suppose," Maya allows, "but it has in practice many problems." 

"Like trying to use an enslaved person as a super weapon to force... Something nonsensical about making people understand each other's pain."

Concerned squint. "That would not have been among my first several guesses but wow, yes, that is indeed a problem. What are the obstacles to rescuing the person?" 

"...The whole thing's complicated, but - a thousand years ago the Ten Tails attacked the world in conjunction with or under the control of this one alien girl. Alien girl's sons beat up her and the Ten Tails, and one of those sons split the Ten Tails into nine other beings. The dickwads in question think they can recombine those nine into the Ten Tails, which they can, and they think this is a good idea, because they're fucking idiots."

"Gosh. Do you know whether they prefer being one person or nine people? That seems like a separate problem from the attempted use of the recombined person as a superweapon which does seem incredibly ill-advised." 

" - Prefer being nine people. The Ten Tails wasn't very person-y."

Nod, nod. "I am, you understand, a little suspicious of claims of persons being not so persony?" Her distinctly inhuman ears twitch illustratively. "But if all the people who used to be it think so then that's a compelling case." 

"I think it's generally the consensus."

"Consensuses are good! That makes it easier for everyone to be happy." 

"Guess so."

"People should be happy or else what is even the point of anything. So! What can I do to help with this, are these people currently kidnapped and need rescuing or are they at home and need protecting?" 

"...It's really complicated. Most of - them - are currently energy magically sealed inside someone else. The assholes are trying to kidnap the hosts and extract the people. I don't really know how to actually explain sealing to someone who doesn't have chakra and seals..."

"That does sound both complicated and bad," nod. "Since I do not have any of this 'chakra' resource though, probably it is not very important that I understand exactly how and why it works, just what results it produces? If my magic interacts with yours at all I expect it will be further downstream." 

"Possibly."

"We can revisit if it turns out to be important. Step one protect the potential kidnap victims, step two figure out how to safely extricate the trapped people?" 

(A short distance away, the meditating second Maya is slowly accumulating a pile of multicolored, faintly glowing gemstones conjured from nowhere.) 

"I guess so. Why are you being so - helpful?"

"My teacher when I was small," or smaller, anyway, "used to say that choosing to be a wizard in a place means choosing to be the person whose job it is to help."  

"Shinobi - local human magic users - don't think that."

"Not any of them?" 

"...The person I miss did."

Awww. Aww. Gotta fix the tragedy so this nice person can be less sad. "That is way more impressive if they came up with the idea all by themself, gosh."  

"He's a really impressive person, yeah."

Yessss he went for is instead of was, she has successfully assured him that eventually his missing person will re-happen! De-unhappen? Hm. 

"He sounds great! I am excited to get to meet him." 

"He - really likes meeting people. So I think he'd like that."