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Sayuri began to have that creepy feeling as though she was being followed. However, that was the intent of her going into this district alone. Even though she didn't realize the numbers of the men following her, she stuck to the plan. Continuing to walk, she finally ducked into an alley that was a dead end and walked half way down it. That's when the low rumble of men's laughter made her whiz around to face her assailants.

Three...? That's probably why it has been so easy for him to escape, because there was more than just him committing the crime.

"Well hey there girlie, what are you doing in this part of town, huh?" The man to the left said.

"I think she's looking for a good time. Don't worry babe, the three of us got you covered." The man on the left jutted his hips out and reached down to grope himself.

Sayuri physically cringed at how impossible those of the male species could act, especially in front of a woman.

The man in the middle, presumably the boss, held his hand up to quiet the other two and stepped forward. "Alright girl, hand over everything you have that's valuable and we'll be gentle...the first few times."

A few cackles from the other two echoed the intent of what the boss had to say. Sayuri was disgusted. Gritting her teeth she stared the boss down who only happily obliged to meet her gaze. That's when it happened. His eyes widened as the bone in his right leg seemed to snap and down he went, screaming in pain.

"Boss! Boss, what did the bitch do?!"

Neither of the followers could see why their boss would fall like that but out of anger they ran at Sayuri who only smiled as two clones seemed to phase into the alley, through the walls of the buildings. The attack was halted, though only briefly before they charged once more.

Sayuri drew back, drawing some shuriken, just as her clones did, and went to throw them. The man that had been on left was quick enough to slice through one of her clones...though it only made it evaporate into a mist like entity before reforming itself. That distraction was all that was needed for the shuriken she threw to make a pretty line up the side of his arm and neck.

"Common thugs like you can't beat me."

With a grin on her face, she dodged an attack from the man who had been on the bosses right as he two clones charged forward. They went to attack, just as she did, and he slashed through them. Again they evaporated into mist before reforming. Shuriken littered his body and he too fell to the ground. Now both lackies had fallen, bleeding somewhat bad and writhing in pain.

To Amon, all he would see is the men attacking nothingness and all three falling without really much effort. Though what he would see would be that of the boss, who had been released from her Genjutsu from her concentrating too much on his followers. In that instant he was behind her and punched the back of her head.

"Fucking shinobi bitch. You think your hot with your Genjutsu bullshit? Think again."

Sayuri had stumbled forward, seeing stars. She wasn't prepared for the swift punch to her stomach that had her double over, only to be kick down to the concrete below. Coughing hard and twitching while gripping at her stomach, Sayuri looked up through blurred vision due to her tears. She could hear the unbuckling of a belt and the sound of a zipper.

"There's only one good use for a bitch."

...She was helpless...

The Genjutsu user wasn't used to compliments, and even though with recieving one from the samurai, all she could do was blush some and look away at first. Quickly pocketing the map, as well as he tracker, she took a few steps away from the man to collect herself once more.

"Thank you. It's nice to see you have your own equipment. Lets me know that you must be quite capable."

She smiled some and checked her equipment once before brushing past the man, back to the entrance of the alleyway. Sayuri looked back over her shoulder to him, nodding. "Go to the coffee shop and keep watch. I may be able to handle him, and I may not. If he gets his hands on me though, I'm done for."

With a slight wave she left the safety of the small alley and continued down the street she had been on earlier, making her way to the smaller district that she expected the next mugging to occur in. It made perfect sense since everyone she passed looked like they could be a mugger in their own right.

In a sense she almost felt bad for these people, that they had to live this way. But she quickly shook that though as she turned down another street and finally arrived to the district in question. Immediately the people on the streets gave her a look, like she didn't belong and that made her feel uncomfortable.

Great...I hope my cover hasn't already been blown...

Sayuri continued to walk down the street, trying not to make eye cotnact with anyone as she walked. She could just feel the eyes bearing into her though and it was unsettling. People were whispering and getting out of her way. Was it really that obvious that she was a shinobi or something?

Unbeknownst to her though, a man was following her from afar, watching her intently. Whether or not it was the mugger was hard to say, but hopefully the samurai was seeing this and keeping track. There was no reason to intervene yet, though, even if there looked to be two other men flanking the original man that had started to follow her.

"Your not a civilian?"

Sayuri felt terrible now. Despite being on a mission, her embarrassment made her want to just go home for now and hide out. Perhaps she was taking this mission a little too seriously. It was her first mission after a long time though, but getting carried away like that probably wasn't the best of ideas.

"Well, if you'd like to help, I really don't see why you couldn't," she started, looking passed the samurai like man out onto the main street just to be cautious before pulling the map from her pouch and moving over to stand next to him. She stood perhaps a little to close for comfort, but considering how serious she was taking this mission, it didn't bother her.

"There have been a lot of muggings around this area. I have marked the areas that the people were mugged and traced it back to this central area that is most likely his base of operation." She looked up to the man briefly before looking back down to her map. "It seems that this area here to the east would be logically the best place he could potentially mug again."

She rummaged in her pouch once more, an idea springing to life in her mind as she pulled the tracker device back out and handing it out to the samurai without question. Perhaps she was a bit too trusting? Oh well!

"If you'd like to help, then wear this and keep watch over me. I'll use myself as bait. I'm sure someone like him won't be able to resist to try and steal something from a helpless girl."

Sayuri rummaged through her pouch for a moment before pulling out her tracker and positioning it on her head, the invisible little screen covering her eye. Briefly she scanned the initial area for anything suspicious. At first nothing seemed too out of the ordinary considering the part of town she was in. However she did notice someone watching her from afar.

Well isn't that just great, I've already attracted some attention...

In case anyone else was watching, she needed to make an example of the man that was watching her. She looked over to him and made eye contact with him, immediately casting her Genjutsu. This particular Genjutsu was a nasty one. It made the victim feel as though his arms were swelling up and eventually they would pop, exploding off of them.

Blood and gore would be everywhere to the victim, but to everyone else, it would probably look like the man was hallucinating or having some sort of attack. That was fine though, as long as it allowed for her to dip back into the shadows unnoticed. Even if the other was able to cancel out her Genjutsu, the time needed to do that would still be sufficient enough.

Within seconds of her casting her technique, she dipped back into the shadows of the alleyway, not caring enough to watch and see how this would play out. Instead she walked down the alley enough to be away from the main street before pulling out the map she had brought along with the locations of attacks.

It was time now to get back to work without any distractions.

I corrected it. I counted over and over, knowing full well it was 875, but it was a coding error. Underlined D, C, and B rank on accident instead of just the D and C. Sorry. Phail on my part.