Asuka and Lady Izumi lift their heads. “Thank you.” Lady Izumi says with a smile. “Lady Izumi, with your permission may I accompany Yuujin back to his village, after getting the two envoys situated?” Asuka says looking to the priestess. “But of course, with these two here aiding us we should be safe for the time being. After I've finished giving Yuujin the tour of our medical facilities We'll come find you.” Asuka then nods. “Understood my lady.”

Izumi had been impressed with Yuujin and made a mental note of his diplomacy skills.

“Your village is lucky to have a strong and astute warrior such as yourself. I would like to meet with your leader at some point in the future. Smaller villages such as ourselves ought to be working in tandem, now then Asuka would you mind escorting our guests out towards the villagers I'm sure they could use a hand in the meantime. I will take Yuujin on a tour of our herbology lab and introduce him to the maidens.”

With Asuka given her orders she and Yuujin part ways for the moment with her taking Ranma and Shiro out into the village to begin work on reconstruction. Whilst Yuujin and Lady Izumi make their way toward the western square of the village where the monks and maidens were hard at work. In this small section of the village men and women dressed in their respective ceremonial garb walk the streets with a sense of urgency as herbs are exchanged and the ill are tended too. It was a hectic job in these troubling times. But the stress if the movement didn't seem to keep them from doing their jobs. On one side was a large building with the words clinic written on a small makeshift wooden sign. On another side was a smaller building that read laboratory. Both of these buildings worked in tandem to create potions and perform healing rituals. “Welcome to the miracle center, Master Ogata. This is where our maidens and monks heal the sick. We've been quite busy lately. Without the Teisatsu to help us gather medicinal supplies we've been forced to rely on our emergency surplus of herbs to help heal the many who were gravely wounded in the attack on our village.”

Izumi then begins her walk toward the laboratory building. Upon pulling back the curtain to enter inside several monks and a few maidens can be seen tending to plants some being pulverized into fine powders others being sapped for their many nutrient rich juices. Each herbologist seems to be handling each plant with great care while also working quickly and efficiently. However as the curtain is pulled open and the head herbologist spots the priestess. He hastily bows to her, “Lady Izumi to what do I owe the visit is something the matter?” the man spoke with a rather concerned tone he seemed to be a rather emotional fellow perhaps even to the point of mild paranoia always feeling as though he needs to work himself harder and harder to improve. He took the sudden arrival of Lady Izumi to be an indicator that he wasn't working hard enough and quickly did his best to defend his station by making sure to ask the right questions and give all the right answers. “We've been working on prepping the Nikko flower herbs for distribution to the maidens, we're running low but they should be out in just--.” the priestess was becoming quite overwhelmed the good doctors anxiety only serving to make it harder for her to get her point across and he finished his scphiel Izumi began to speak.

“Baki please calm yourself, you’re doing a fine job.” After quelling his nerves with her words he lets out a sigh.

“Ah...that's good to hear my apologies my lady." He then nervously clears his throat "Then how may I help you?” Izumi then gestures in Yuujins direction. “Baki, I'd like you to meet Yuujin Ogata a representative of the Tetsudo order and our newest Ally.”

Baki examines Yuujins robes and notices the resemblance to ones worn by Asuka.

“Tetsudo Order? The one that Champion Asuka is apart of? Splendid in these trying times it is good to see the order thriving once again.”

“Yuujins order has offered to help us rebuild and I find it only fair we return the favor. And I was wondering do we have any supplies to spare?”

Baki wanted to answer her question but just before he could a young shrine maiden calls out to him.

“Baki sensei, do we have any Nikko Flower herbs? We need to make an emergency batch a mother has just given birth and is unresponsive she doesn't have much time!”

LATER

After gathering the herbs necessary to craft a formula the maiden, Izumi, Yuujin and Baki all make their way to the hospital room where a young girl one who couldn't be any older than 20 could be seen sitting over the mother with another nurse holding the baby. As they enter the room. The young maiden hands the bottle of Nikko flower extract to the doctor who appears focus and ready to begin the resuscitation process.

“Priestess Yukina!”

The maiden hands her the extract. Yukina then takes the liquid and opens the mouth of the ailing mother and gently pours the fluid down her throat

Once the liquid then passes into her throat. Yukina places a hand against her chest and once the medicine passes into her stomach Yukina’s palms begin to glow white with Ki this energy then passes into the body of the weakened mother whose body begins to emit a green Aura. After a moment the mothers breathing resumes and Yukina places a hand on the chest. “She's going to be alright.”

“My Baby…?”

Yukina nods and after the baby is placed in her hands she gives the newborn to her mother.

“What is your name?” the mother asks, as she looks to the doctor who saved her life.

“Yukina.”

The mother then looks to her child, closely cradling it.

“So is hers.”

She says as she nuzzles the child against her face.

Yukina then scans over the mother with her hand to check her vital signs using a sensing technique and once she realized that everything had checked out the doctor stands to her feet, and nods signaling that her job was done.

“Congratulations on the birth of your daughter. I'm sure she'll make a fine addition to the village.”

She then bows to the proud parent before making her exit in an almost dissmisive fashion, shooting a look to the nurses in the room "Call me if anything changes." she remarks as she passes by her team on the way out the door, where she is surprised to find Lady Izumi and the others awaiting her.

“Congratulations on your successful delivery Doctor.”

“Lady Izumi? Were you watching? Am I being evaluated?” the doctor raises an eyebrow curious as to what the occassion was. While Lady Izumi did visit the hospital on a regular basis, having her stop to watch and admire your work was a true honor. Izumi herself was once a doctor at this very clinic before taking on the mantle of head priestess a few months back so its understandable why having her over ones shoulder could come as bit of a surprise. But given Yukina's reputation as being something of a work horse it was less of shock and more of a concern had she done something wrong?

Izumi gets a blush on her face, flustered as to why everyone seems to be viewing her as a bad omen.

“No...not at all." Izumi gives him a pleasant smile, in an effort to reassure her whilst also giving Yukina a dismissive gesture with her hands in order to show her that she isn't in any trouble. However this accusation causes Izumi to become slightly self conscious. "Why does everyone seems to assume I am a bearer of bad news? Am I that intimidating?" "I was actually giving our ally a tour of our village facilities to better give him an idea of what Shura village brings to the table.”

Yukina looks to the unfamiliar Yuujin, bowing before him, however upon looking up, her gaze immediately returns to Izumi, a sharp and business-like aura protruding from around her, as if she was in a hurry.

“Tis, a pleasure sir. But with all due respect my lady, If I'm not in any trouble I'll need to make this brief. I’ve got several more patients I need to see. And I need to meet my personal quota after all.”

She then looks to Baki and bows to him as well, a show of recognition for the part he played in the success of the delivery

“I owe you my Thanks Baki-san, the potion worked to perfection, I’ll send one of the maidens by for more later.”

She kept her words brief, and then took her leave of the trio. Approaching the next room where she was greeted by another maiden, most likely a nurse, who took her into the next room.

“That's our Yukina, always doing the impossible as a doctor and a person, if it wasn't for her and the other maidens we’d still be burying the dead.”

However whilst lost in her thoughts Izumi remembered that the trio hadn’t finished their conversation from earlier.

“Ah right, the herbs, Baki-san you never did get around to answering my question, before we were interrupted.”

Baki looks to the maiden and then begins to scratch at the back of his curly head of hair.

“Well as I mentioned earlier, unfortunately our supply is rather limited, I was actually going to stop by your office later in order to request Asuka run and get us some more.”

Izumi seemed rather concerned by such words, she knew their supplies would eventually run dry but hadn't considered that it would happen so soon.

“That is rather troubling…”

Baki then looks over at Yuujin, and an idea sparks into his mind.

“Ah, well why not send this strapping young lad he seems more than capable of getting the job done! I’ll even teach him how to turn the herbs into a potion I’ll write down the recipe and everything! He can even take it back to his village!"

However Izumi protests to this idea and immediately begins to chastize the herbologist as a result, a rare display of indignation from the normally calm and reserved leader.

“Baki, enough! Yuujin is our guest, He has already done so much for us I couldn’t ask him to take on such a daunting task." Izumi's then pauses as she recalls the sight of seeing Izumi brought in on horse back by a knightly warrior. This harsh memory causes her expression to change once she continues to speak. "Champion Asuka was nearly mauled to death last time she went to retrieve herbs for us all those months ago. I'd hate for him to suffer the same fate as her." However Izumi then considers the truth behind Baki's words. There really is no one else for the job and so reluctantly she makes her request. "But unfortunately we are desperate....still I will leave the decision in his hands." Izumi then looks to Yuujin and bows to him once more begging for his help on her hands and knees. "My apologies for this Ogata-san, but would you be willing to aid us in gathering more Nikko Flower herbs? I assure you the potion it creates is more than worth the effort alone!" Izumi, who looks up to Yuujin does her best to keep her emotions in check, but with the gravity of the situation staying strong was hard yet she would not show it on her face. Her village was decimated, her people were struggling to recover and were left completely vulnerable. Izumi didn't mind asking for help, but was afraid she would come off as a burden to her new ally. But with Asuka indisposed on another project she was left with no choice. "I understand should you choose to decline, please take your time...I will honor your decision."

"Lady Izumi..." said Baki as he watched her kneel before their new ally. He too then did the same in a show of respect, both awaiting a response.

MEANWHILE

Out on the other side of town Asuka and the two Tetsudo envoys Ranma and Shiro prepare to begin work on rebuilding the town, walking down a dirt road with a slim few dilapidated builds left over all scars left by the demon during her attack on the village.

“So, that’s the 4th's kid huh? She doesn’t look like much?” Ranma says under his breath as he watches Asuka from behind.

“Ranma, if I were you I wouldn’t say that too loudly, its bad form to disrespect another member of the order, especially the child of a Tetsukami.”

“Hmph, so what you telling me you don’t gossip?”

“I never said that, I’m simply asking you to show a little class.”

“Lighten up Shiro you’re worse than Yuujin sometimes.”

“How are we even related..." Shiro groans.

As the two continued to converse amongst themselves, at several points during their walk each brother would take a second to look around at their surroundings, evaluating the destruction.

“Ranma's got it all wrong. If this girl was strong enough to hold off whatever caused this much destruction, she must truly be something special.” Shiro thinks to himself.

Shiro then locks his gaze on her as she continues to walk ahead of the two of them, she then sneezes, causing Shiro to become slightly more alert.

“Bless you!” the two of them say.

Asuka wipes her nose and then stops and turns to face them.

“Thank you."

As they finally arrive in the ruins of the western end of Shura village. In front of them lay a series of foundations that have been laid out by the villagers, accompanied by large piles of bricks alongside a series of detailed blue prints. It was mostly devoid of life save for construction workers and small memorial spots. In certain sections of the ruins some of the repairs had already begun already been built, With several other builds either in complete shambles or had yet to be started on.

"Almost there boys."

After some time Asuka stops off in front of a house that appeared to be halfway under construction. Already there were what had to be at least a dozen villagers currently working on hammering in the frame of the building already with another pair on the opposite side attempting to erect wooden beams in order to create a support post to keep the frame from collapsing over.

“Morning everyone! We ready to work? I brought some extra help today! Shiro and Ranma they're Martial Artist like me they're here to give us a heaping helping of Tetsudo muscle!”

Asuka points to the two Tetsudo warriors behind her, who both greet the villagers respectfully

“Hello!” greets Shiro.

“Hey!” chimes in Ranma.

“With these two in tow we’ll get this village back in shape in no time!”

As Asuka rallies the men Ranma and Shiro both glance at each other as if planning something.

“Alright, Ranma...ready?”

“Sure.”

Ranma and Shiro then smash their fists into their palms and suddenly they’re thrust into the Shouten state and suddenly both of the bandages on their hands burst from their bodies. After a moment the bandages reform beside the users creating a seperate clone of both Rnma and Shiro. One clone for each bandages that was sacrificed which adds a pair of clones for both men making for a total of 4 individuals. Both pairs of clones missing the bandages on their limbs just like their originators.

“What the!?” Asuka looks on at the 4 as they stand with their clones, in pure disbelief seeing another Tetsudo technique she had yet to learn and was both shocked and excited by the prospect.

“I take it you’ve never used the Gemini technique? It’s a special technique the 5th taught us.” Ranma states

“Ranma, Lady Utani wouldn’t take to kindly to you referring to her by that title!” Shiro says chastising young twin his brother.

“Shiro lighten up, will ya it’s the truth. Anyway...yeah, with this nifty ability we should be able to get twice the work done." Says Ranma "No pun intended.” Quipped his clones.

The villagers and Asuka stand in awe of their cloning ability something neither of them had seen before.

“Well when we get done here you’ve got to teach me how that works!” Asuka says eager to learn.

“Sure thing!” the group of cloned warriors say.

“Now then." Asuka then turns and looks to the men raising a fist in the air. "Our goal today? To get this entire street finished! Think we can do it!"

“Ma’m yes Ma’m!” they all say, in response.

"Alright let's go!" she says as she and the boys begin their work.

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