Ino stretched and woke up to a wonderful smell. She looked around to see Foren with a pot stirring up some stew. "You can cook?"
"Back in the group I was a superb hunter and cook." he smiled and poured her a bowl and handed it to her. She took a bite and her mouth exploded with flavor. She began to eat a lot faster than she intended and what felt like only five bites was all it took to finish her bowl. Foren was watching her carefully smiling eating his bowl. "Eat as much as you want. We need to have as much in us as possible if we are going to find these thieves." At that moment a kunai flew into Foren's bowl breaking it. "You have to be kidding me." He looked around. Ino wasn't for sure if he was worried about the intruders or angry about his spilled stew. Two men in a cloak with the same symbol as the one on Foren's hand appeared from behind her.
"Well look at that. The guy we've been trying to find is sitting waiting to be killed." The smaller one of the two had a shrill voice. It hurt Ino's ears. The other one was much bigger and wielded a spiked club.
"Yeah, this one wasn't even a challenge unlike the other ones." Foren spit into the ground.
"You guys wasted some good stew. You know that?" Foren didn't seem afraid. If anything he looked almost happy to see these two eventhough they wanted kill him.
"Foren?"
"Ino get behind me. You can't fight these two. I can handle this. They will be easy." He didn't even have his sword drawn. Ino looked at the two guys and could even feel their strength emitting from them. It was like at the Chunin exams between Gaara and Sasuke. The tension was so thick that when Foren walked past it almost made her pass out just from the pressure. She jumped into a tree to get out of the way of fighting.
"So who are you guys anyway?"
"We are members of The Order of The Horned Beetle Theta branch. We are here to hunt down the exiled and make this place purer." Foren sighed.
"How does killing me make this place purer? How have I corrupted these grounds?" The two were silent until the smaller one started laughing.
"Why does it matter how? We wanted to hunt down and kill the prodigy of the Ryu branch to prove that we are the strongest." This time it was Foren laughing.
"Well you did step 1, you found me. Step 2 is going to more tricky. Now you have to kill me." He immediately punched the small one in the face knocking him down. The bigger one swung his club down on top of Foren so quickly that Foren couldn't dodge but block. Underneath him was two small craters where his feet were. The smaller one stabbed a kunai into Foren's arm. He screamed in pain but remained immovable. Foren rolled to the side to avoid being stabbed again. He bounced back towards them his hand glowing a bright blue and released all of that into the big guy sending him flying into the woods somewhere far away. Foren stood and stared for a little bit and turned to the other one. "That hurt." He picked him up by the throat Ino saw his hand glow slightly and heard a sickly crack and the little man's arms went still. Ino looked as Foren just threw the dead body to the side. The big guy that was punched earlier came running in Foren jumped in the air, grabbed the man's head and turned it a full 180 degrees and the body ran and collapsed after 5 steps. Ino looked at Foren and how nonchalant he was about what just transpired. He looked up at her, she could feel even from this distance his intense stare. This wasn't the guy from 10 minutes ago who made stew. "Ino its safe you can come down." She wasn't for sure if she wanted too. She never seen someone kill so mercilessly she felt fear unimaginable about this young man. "Are you okay?" his voice showed concern so she eased her way down.
When she walked up to him she saw blood dripping down his right arm. "Foren... you..." He looked at her with his green eyes. They were just as Ino felt. They were intense and full of anger. "You just slaughtered..."
"They were going to kill me and then most likely you. They deserved no mercy." She looked at him, he seemed to be ashamed looking away from her.
"Have you ever..."
"No." He said it with so much feeling that it made her jump. "I am not like them. My abilities are for protection of myself and others. These people kill needlessly."
His arm was bleeding quite abit. She grabbed some medical supplies and wrapped up the wound using a little medical jutsu she knew to stop the bleeding. "How does that feel?"
He moved his arm around. "Much better. Thanks." Ino looked at him, she didn't even know if she could call him human. Regardless of the reason of them being attacked. He killed them so simply with no weapon or jutsu. "So we should ask around the village to see if any other robberies happend." She nodded absentmindedly and helped him pack up the stuff. She didn't know what to think of Foren but for right now he wasn't a threat that was good enough for right now, Ino thought.