"Sister Chinatsu! Look out!"
Naruto urgently stepped toward Chinatsu, reaching out an arm to try to catch the enchanted kunai flying straight at her.
Chinatsu did not move a muscle. Just before the kunai struck her, something resembling a wisp of rose-colored flame blocked it, and it fell to the ground with a clang.
"Come out. I mean you no harm," Chinatsu said calmly, turning toward the direction the kunai had come from.
After a dozen or so seconds of silence, three or four red-haired men and women emerged from the ruins. Their clothes were shabby, and their eyes were filled with hostility toward Chinatsu.
"Let our clansman go, you despicable invader!" the man at the front shouted at Chinatsu, clenching his fists. Before Chinatsu could speak, Naruto could no longer hold back. Gritting his teeth, he immediately snapped back.
"How are you even dumber than me?! If my sister were an invader, she'd have already picked up that kunai and stabbed you in the gut over and over! Besides, she's so kind and friendly. What part of her looks like an invader?!"
In Naruto's eyes, although his sister could be a little scary sometimes, she was usually like an angel who had descended from heaven, radiating kindness from head to toe.
Actually, Naruto was not the only one who thought that. Apart from the times when she lost control of her expressions or deliberately put on an act, Chinatsu really did radiate a rather strong air of kindness.
But there had always been only a fine line between angels and demons...
Chinatsu glanced at Naruto in surprise, thinking that the little guy was actually talking back to someone-and his own clansmen, at that.
But on second thought, she had raised him for so long. If his affection for her