Dry laugh. "I did say no one hurts my shinobi and lives."

"Consistent, at least."

"I did die, though - while killing the man who had been controlling me."

"Death... Isn't always absolute, I suppose - but it was better for Yagura to stay dead."

"...Yeah. I can see how that would be."

"That control is something Amajina will have to be cautious of, too - I used to be the Three Tails jinchuuriki, and there are techniques that can control the bijuu. Apparently, at least one of those can then influence the jinchuuriki, at least irregularly."

"The man was Uchiha Madara, who also had not been as dead as reported before I got to him. I'm unsure if it's a property of the sharingan, or something he'd developed himself."

Amajina flinches.

"But you killed him?"

"Yes. We're as sure as we can be that it stuck - though it's possible other Uchiha can do what he did."

"Aren't most of them dead?"

"There's at least three still alive - including the woman we just faced."

"Mm."

She sighs - "We should get out of this area."

"Back to the mission?"

"I'd like to rest - we're ahead on time, right now, and... I'd rather we not discuss this stuff around other shinobi."

She kneels to help Sayuri resecure her bandages - checking her eyes and the skin around them some, green chakra limning her fingers as she brushes them over the girl's temples.

"Okay."

Sayuri makes a small, pained noise.

She secures the last strip, brushes some of Sayuri's hair back into her ponytail, and then picks up the girl.

"Amajina, Elaise, are you two okay to travel?"

"Ready to go."

"Yeah. Don't think I'm too dizzy..."

"We won't need to go very fast, hopefully." She resettles Sayuri to a more comfortable position, then heads down the coast. 

Elaise follows, perhaps slightly more aware of her companions than previously.

She gets them to a sheltered, mostly hidden cove, setting Sayuri down on a softer spot. "I don't think the Akatsuki are coming back soon - still, we should avoid lighting a fire right now."

"What is the Akatsuki?"

"They're a mercenary group with a core of S-ranked missing-nin, though they also interface with and employ many others. It's not entirely clear if they have a single leader, or how much the different higher ranked members cooperate. Most S-ranked members seem to travel in pairs, often with fighting styles well suited to each other."

"We think they might have had their origin in a revolutionary group, but they surfaced apparently fully formed in the chaos after the Second War, and tracing anything farther back is very, very hard."

"And they're strong enough to be after jinchuuriki."