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Eiju watched as the water clone approached Kasa and himself. "Man does this guy lack any kind of subtly. If he wasn't trying to undermine my wishes I would enjoy his strait forwardness. Still, better give him a reminded of who he's dealing with here."

Eiju made a long string of hand seals with incredible speed, landing on a branch as he finished.

He took a large breath and as he let it out a hurricane of wind fanned out in front of him, shredding trees and mowing the forest like a lawn. It would take a fair amount of skill to have survived the attack unharmed, or for a mere bunshin to survive at all.

"A hammer to kill a fly I suppose, but I felt I owed him for his over zealous attack," Eiju spoke to Kasa as he searched the rubble with his eyes. If the bunshin somehow survived he would see it.

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Rio study the ground with Ayame for tracks as Kira and Tenka released their summons. They found that multiple groups had taken the same path, one after the other.

"We should split up," Onryou said as he folded his arms. "I will go with Rin-Tao, Mai, Rio and Ayame. Tenka and Umi, I need you to scout out...."

Onryou was interrupted by a large plume of dust and tree being thrown into the air as well as a strong gust of wind. "Hmmm," Onryou said as he looked in the direction of the disturbance. "It looks like we have a high level wind user. Which may mean that Eiju himself is here. Tenka, Umi, I want you to keep an eye on that area. Try to avoid directed conflict with Eiju if you can help it but if you do I want Tenka to be the one to fight him, he can handle him best.

"I would doubt he is alone, Ifuuki might even be near him. Kira, with out a Hyuuga or Tao with us Ifuuki will be nearly impossible to kill with out a lot of effort. I know their ability is mental, so if you fight her try to bludgeon her head as much as possible or just conserve chakra in general and beat her into the ground so she is kept busy regenerating. Otherwise just try to take out whomever else might be with him and head back to help Tenka."

"Brute force I can do," Kira said with a almost savage grin and bestial eyes as she popped her knuckles. Tenka just nodded as he activated his Sainamugans, causing his iris to shrink to a line of black, leaving his eye mostly white with a small black pupil and wide black ring.

With a consensual nod the ninja's separated in a flash of elements.

The group of 5 headed toward the location of Kusanagi, they would arrive at the blocked cave of the mouth in minutes.

Ifuuki stood up and sighed. She was feeling quite miffed, but not enough to quell her excitment for the Kusanagi. She was about to run for the cave when she spotted three nins heading her way, one man and two short girls. As a matter of fact, one of them was the girl Mai from Leaf village. Seeing as it was impossible for them to miss her she spoke. "One nuisance after another. Won't you people just die and be out of my hair?"

The force of the blow was just enough for Sabu to escape. His blood leaked into the water making it hard to see. Using his super heated kunai he seared the wounds shut. He jerked in pain and narrowly avoid being bitten again as the fish zoomed by. He turned to Asakura and made hand signals. Keep it busy for a minute. I'm going to ready a jutsu.

[[Rio and Ayame are with them as well]]

At the sight of Ifuuki Ayame stepped in front of Rio, made a quick seal, causing two earth bunshins to grow in front of Mai and Rin-Tao and all the Ayames drew their oversized cresent bladed staffs off their backs.

Onryou stopped a few feet in front of the rest of the group and eyed Ifuuki. "I always thought you were taller," Onryou said as he hands gravitated toward sheath at his waist with handles on each end topped with carved diamonds. "But I recognize your face...what business do you have with the Kusanagi Ifuuki?"

Sabu's hand prefectly form several seals and he pour chakra into the jutsu. Mokunigiru no Jutsu
From the ceiling roots from the trees above shot down with enough force to break the thick stone. They caught the fish and wrapped around its body. It struggled, but in the end it stopped thrashing and floated there. Sabu made a sign to get to the exit, the jutsu wouldn't hold it forever.

"Glad to see you are here as well Masa" Tobasu said.

"Well...something just hit me. If my cute Rin-chan is in serious trouble she can summon me and Masayuki to her instantly considering she has my scroll. So if she is in trouble we will know."

Tobasu paused for a small second

"But since we formed this team already...there is something I would like to...confirm...It's related to the cursed sword. Can't say anything else about it." Tobasu said with a serious tone.

Tobasu grabbed a tag from his pouch. "Alright guys you know the drill. Smear some blood over it." Tobasu watched as all of them bit their thumb or whereever they wanted to draw blood from and smeared it on the center of the tag. Tobasu was the last one to do it. When he was finished an orb began to form around them distorting time/space. And then they just vanished. Only to appear in the at the border of the Fire Country and River Country

"One can always hope that his opponent does not want to end existence," Onryou said with a raised eyebrow.

"Now how to plan to get past myself and Ayame to the weapon? If Eiju is here is obviously occupied." Onryou's response was controled but it was obvious that he meant to be condescending.