The midget was close maybe a little too close, he was barely a  hairs breadth away from the jaw's of the fox when it lunged to take his head. one could feel the gentle breeze that emanated from that rapid closure, as the man had to take to the defensive. he was evading a very angry fox. A haze of Orangey red fur and teeth, this particular Fox lacked the Lantern commonly acclaimed to its specie's. A young-ling perhaps? Still it was effective and placing the ever weakening midget on the back foot, the Kunai that was embedded in his leg was jolting around at the speed he was traveling at opening the wound even more, Nathaniel watched through half closed eye on his position on the ground, Nathaniel was going nowhere but soon neither would the other guy but the fox was taking its time, and the noise that was produced by its constant growling and its snapping of branch's would attract somebody more able bodied which would result in a untimely death.


Grimacing Nathan propped himself up on his arm's and began preparing the hand seals for another technique so as to finish the fight quickly and efficiently and very very painfully for his opponent, finishing the hand seal's Nathan waited for the man to be above the fox on a branch "Wind Release, Gale Palm" Nathaniel said before clapping his hands together sending out a burst of Air towards the midget, it seemed to do nothing The midget laughed he thought he would live to see another day... The Branch snapped and down went the midget man, who fell like a graceful stone into open mouth of the fox *Crunch* The noise startled a flock of birds that took to the skies The fox spat out its now dead prey much to Nathan's apparent disgust at the ruined corpse.

The fight had ended yet Nathaniel had come out worse for wear why because he had been ignorant to the fact that one should always be braced for anything, he wouldn't make that mistake again. Now he just needed a way back to the other's he remembered the directions back but he had a broken leg so how was he gonna move himself then he noticed the elephant sized fox just watching him with its head cocked to the side "care to give me a lift?" Nathaniel asked politely even though it was normally dishonorable to carry a passenger in Fox culture, the fox obliged probably cause of his injured state, Nathaniel reached out and grabbed its fur and clambered on board its back.

during the slow walk back to the jagged rock's Nathaniel decided to list his injury's within his head.

> Broken leg which is gonna make subsequent missions until he can get help very hard.
> Disoriented though it should clear up with some time
> Headaches again just needs time
> Broken nose, not that bad as long as he finds something to support it
> Nose bleed: again it needs time
> Head injury with mild concussion - Concussion needs time Head injury needs some sort of covering.
> Bruises : in contrast to the other stuff not that big of a deal
> Lost 80% of all vision in the right eye

"well an't that sweet" Nathaniel murmured once he was done listing off his injury's as the fox slowed its speed till it was barely moving faster then a crawl as it prepared to drop Nathaniel down and guard him, Nathaniel's left eye picked up something about the "Corpse" of Ayane. It looked convincingly human but its skin seemed kind of wooden almost puppet like "Damn you" Nathaniel cursed under his breath before feeling the world turning around 180 degrees before fainting from the concussion sustained from his fight with the midget.