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Mayu lay on the ground looking up at the sky, she took a deep breath as she still felt a little light headed, she wasn't really able to think things though very fast at the moment, and then she decided to rest a little again, before going on too make another attack, so as to not push herself to hard at the moment, she rolled over a few times, until far enough away so she could recover a little and to get up and stand again. Once on her feet she looked at him and his condition, she was in a much better shape in terms of physical condition, but she had pushed herself a little beyond her bodies limits, and was now paying the price for going a little too far, she began to rest up a little, feeling a little better after a while.

Mayu knew resting wasn't for the best at the moment but she needed to get a little better off then she was after her last attack, and this was the fastest way to get in fighting form again, she watched him as he began to dash towards her, he was going to make full use of the fact that she wasn't on her full game yet, she would need to move earlier if she wanted to avoid the strike, but she decided to throw her body fully to one side, and hope his attack didn't follow onto where she had dodged to.









Mayu was lucky, she had jumped to the left of Hayato as he began to make his attack, his attack had been with his left knee, he seemed to have been aiming for her gut with his attack, the follow though of his attack had gone onto his right a little, resulting in her begin behind him a little.

Hayato's knee drove right pass Mayu and missed her completely. She seemed to have figured out his timing a bit plus she was now not putting as much strain on herself as she had been. This left Hayato with a problem though, and that was he'd over shot Mayu's position and was now open for counter-attack.











Without warning Hayato could feel pressure on his side. Then this pressure turned into pain as the shock of a direct kidney punch took into effect. Hayato when directly down to one knee and held the spot that was just striken with both hand and eyes closed. This was a lot more painful then he thought it would be, but having taken a lot of damage with the open handed palm strike that Mayu delivered to his chest, there was going to be a lot of damage and bruising done. He opened his eyes quickly and stood up, still holding his side and now slightly hunched over. Turning to Mayu he shook his head and spoke. "Ok Mayu... you win, take any more hits and some serious damage could happen..."It was easy to tell that he did not like being defeated in this situation but he did the best he could, landed a few hits on Mayu before she turned up the heat and finished the match.

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Hayato watched Mayu as she placed her hand onto his chest with a very very faint green glow to it. While the hand was placed on his chest, he could feel almost quiet literally his minor pains and bruses melt away until he felt like he did before the sparring match. He rubbed the kidney that was hit before and nodded and looked up at her. He'd been listening to Mayu while watching her hand, and didn't have to think about her question. "I never learned any Taijutsu or close quarters combat from my parents. Everything I did learn was from watching the other students sparring. I only learnt recon, long distance, and to get in and out as fast and as quietly as possible. Unfortunately... that was about five or more years ago...." Hayato's voice faded to a light whisper as he looked to the ground and sighed. He paused for a moment and then looked back up to Mayu. "Anyways if you are ready, we can go and quickly finish up my side of the request."

At once, Notwen was sent to a desolate landscape. For as far as he could see there was nothing but small lifeless trees dotting the area. The dry, cracked gray earth which he stood on began overturn itself. Beige sand began to flow out of the cracks, slowly at first, but with increasing speed as the seconds went by. The dark-skinned blonde fought hard not to be swallowed up by the torrent of fine particles, and was only half-successful with his efforts due to the fact that he was now waist-deep in the sand. Try as he might, Notwen couldn't get himself out. Just as he was about to give up, the dark-skinned blonde noticed a group of shrouded figures walking down the side of a nearby dune, leaving a trail of disturbed sand in their wake. In all there seemed to be around fifteen people, short and tall, but since they were wearing hoods it was impossible to tell who they were or their gender. As the group of people drew closer Notwen's jaw dropped. In front of him were his grandparents, academy teachers, and Chiyoko. They were all giving him disapproving looks.
"Why haven't you returned home to us, Notwen?!" demanded Dharo, his milky white eyes eerily seemed to be aiming directly at the dark-skinned blonde. "You have yet to fulfill your Urajjo Training." Notwen was about to answer when a shorter figure stepped forward and spoke up.
"And why did you leave me stranded in the Stone Village?" cried Chiyoko, throwing back her hood to reveal her masked facade. Her pink eyes bored into the Uchiha's with a fierceness that made him squirm. "You could have at least left me a map, Notwen."
"I can explain..." he started to saying, but was cut off by Pathik.
"You know that you cannot fully explain your actions. Do you think that this is enough justify the time you have been absent from your home?" said the bearded man, brandishing the post-it that Notwen had scrawled on hastily before leaving Wind Country to go find out more about the Seven Swords of the Mist. The dark-skinned boy's words caught in his throat. Unable to say anything, he hung his head and closed his eyes.
"Let's get out of here, guys." said Chiyoko, covering her head with the hood once more. There were several voices that agreed, and subsequently everyone began to walk away. Frustrated, the three-eyed Uchiha reached out with his left hand and grabbed onto someone's anckle. The person's cloak fluttered and before he knew it, Notwen saw the glint of sunlight on metal and his arm landing several feet away. The pain didn't register for another five seconds.
"One of the first things i taught you was not to grovel before anyone, friend or foe. You have disappointed me, my disciple." With that said, the man sheathed his sword and continued on his way. When his family, teachers, and friends crested the sand dune, the Uchiha let out a scream of pain and sadness. He couldn't help himself, the thought of his own comrades leaving him for dead was too great. The sand around the crippled boy began to shift, causing him to sink lower and lower into the vast desert. Notwen thought about the reasons behind the choices he had made and the circumstances behind each of the choices. It was then that he realized that what he had done was not intentional. There were valid reasons behind each of his choices.
"In order to forge a path that would keep my friends safe and further my experience." Notwen mumbled, Now neck-deep in the sand. What he had said would make sense to no one else but him. The sand stopped pulling the dark-skinned blonde. A soothing warmth spread across Notwen's body as the world around him was swallowed up in darkness. The weight of the sand vanished and he found himself descending slowly in a rocking motion.
"You have done well not be swallowed up by the despair that clouded your heart, boy." growled an unearthly voice with a lofty tone. "But you are a long way from being able to grasp the power that lies dormant within you..."

Notwen woke up with a gasp. The glade was not as bright as it was earlier and the sun had shifted as well. Struggling to get up, he finally got his crutch from where it leaned against the tree and walked back to Rose's house, where he found Musamaru and the latter speaking by the outdoor table. They both noticed him at the same time.
"Where were you?" asked the black-haired woman, walking over to the dark-skinned blonde and brushing loam from his clothes. "We were worried sick." Notwen smiled sheepishly.
"I kinda took a nap in the woods." he said, scratching his head. Musamaru sighed from where he stood, but said nothing.
"Well, it is good that you came back unscratched. There are things out there that can kill you, and i'm not talking about the woodland critters." Somehow Notwen missed the joke because the young guide began to laugh to himself. He was about to ask about it but Rose resumed speaking before he had the chance. "There has been a slight change of plans. We are going to be leaving on the vacation i told you about in three days. Musamaru will be coming along to teach you about this village's trade while i will be teaching you the fundamentals of Soul Power." The crippled Uchiha was baffled. He was expecting to go sightseeing for some time before they left on the vacation.
Then again, he figured, sightseeing could be considered a vacation in of itself. I wonder what this vacation is and where it is to. Then the more important question came to his lips. "What is Soul Power?" he asked.
"It's Rose's ability." answered Musamaru. "She's our village's second physician. As for what i will be teaching you, it requires knowledge of Soul Power as well as good control of chakra." To hear the word 'chakra' come from the blue-haired boy startled Notwen. None of the villagers appeared to be ninjas, then again the fact that Ichijiku had used a special technique to see into his insides implied that there was knowledge of ninjutsu throughout the area.
"The plan now is to start packing our bags." said Rose, returning the conversation to it's original direction. "Musamaru, you and Notwen seem to be the same size. You wouldn't mind sharing your clothes with him would you?" The young guide looked at three-eyed Uchiha for a few seconds before turning to Rose and saying,
"Not at all. I have more than enough." The black-haired woman nodded.
"I have a few suitcases that i can let you borrow, Notwen. For the next two days you'll be going with Musamaru to pack your bags and getting used to the weight you'll be carrying. Understood?" The Uchiha nodded.
"Very clearly." he answered. The aspect of sharing clothes with someone he just met was something he'd have to get used to. Notwen had lost his pack on the road after the attack and had nothing else to wear since the clothed he had been wearing at the time were practically ribbons.
The trio spent the rest of the day planning the upcoming preparations and what was to go on, but to Notwen's nuisance neither Rose nor Musamaru made any hints to the specifics of the trip. They ate a dinner of stuffed tamales. After the meal Musamaru went home, and Notwen went to sleep in order to wake up early for the next day's activities.

"Well I normally don't just followed around people who I have just meet for no reason, well aside from that one time, but you seem like a nice guy, also you don't seem like someone who will trick someone, so it should be find". Mayu said as she collected herself and got her stuff, not sure if they would be coming back, and even if they were, it wasn't a very good idea to leave her stuff around the training ground that other people may use.

With her stuff collect Mayu looked at Hayato, she was impressed he was one of the first people to learn about her and Aya without asking a tone of question, or freaking out, her parents know about Aya and Mayu, there were a little weird the first time she showed up, she tended to just act like Aya when she turn up, and some of the other clan members were worried about her, but with time people got use to it, Hayato had adapted rather quickly. She followed after him as the two of them moved out, she moved too keep up with him, noticing he was holding back so that she wouldn't loss him, or so that he wouldn't loss her, which one Mayu didn't know but she was a little to know that he did that, and insulted at the same, but she kept up with him so that she wouldn't get lost on the way to his place.

"Oh so we are going to your house, and your parents aren't home to boot, if you weren't a nice guy, this might be a little dangerous for me, take a girl about the same age as you alone to your house, it scream perverted things". Mayu said joking around a little as she stay behind him, he was leading the way so it was best for her to stay back. After running for a little while they ended up, in the middle of the wood, it seem he had stopped for a moment, as Hayato jumped from tree to tree in a unusual manner, she wondered why, released some covert bugs to looked around she brought one of her hand to her face in single hand seal and focused chakra, activating her Byakugan.

With her Byakugan an bugs looking around she notice that they had been a few traps lay around the area for a few hundred meters, she decided to follow the path Hayato had left her to follow, she followed this until, she saw him lay on a rock and sit there for a while, she was unable to stop her momentum and had to over shoot the rock, to avoid hitting him into some traps or land on one herself. She watched him go on, watching him she noticed her was using a level of agility that she wasn't able too, and she would have to get her own way there, with a step to the side she walked after him as he swag though the tree. Mayu was now using her Byakugan and her bug to avoid setting off the traps, she had just seen that Hayato may know how to get though this place without setting the traps off, how he was used to doing it alone, and as such seemed to us a method or trail she wasn't able to follow.

Mayu manage to get a head of him from time to time because his path involved a lot of swinging and having to build his momentum before getting anywhere, so it seemed he had to pause every now and them to build it up or rest a little, after getting ahead of him walking a little fast and avoiding the traps thanks to her eyes and bugs helping her she stopped at a pond, that seemed to had a lot less traps around it, as the traps had started to out, it had taken her about a minute less to reach the pond then Hayato, but if she had know about this it would have only take 20 minutes, this was all thanks to her being able to see where the trapped were an her bugs informing her a safe places to step, without them she would have been in real trouble.

"Your not used to having people follow you, because half way into that I had to start walking, you started using a level of agility i couldn't so I had to use my eyes and bugs to get here". Mayu said as Hayato let his head out of the water, once Hayato had cooled off a little he walked on to the house, she followed him again now that he wasn't doing something beyond her ability, once they got to the house she looked at him as he opened the door by holding to for a few seconds, and then as the door opened itself, once inside she followed him as he took her over to a trunk sitting in what she assumed was his living room, he then spoke up and confused her more.

"Hmmm it looks like a old trunk with some type of design on it, is it a family heirloom, because if you just made me come all they out here just to look as some trunk for no reason". Mayu looked at him confused and spoke a little upset, Hayato had just made him follow him to some house in the middle of the forest, with traps around it, and while trying to get past the traps, lost her by beginning to do a series of movements she couldn't, to look at some trunk without giving any reason or wording on what he wanted from her aside from, 'what you think?', had he brought her here solely to asked her decorating advice, she wondered, looking at the truck, which didn't seem that interesting.

Mayu looked to Hayato as he went on about his parent and then the trunk that sat before them, she didn't really know what he wanted her to do with it, but it was clear that he wanted to open it, but it wasn't like Mayu knew how to open in fact she had didn't know anything about it aside form it had a lock and some cravings on it. "So I am assuming you want me to help you open it, or look inside it for you, my Byakugan can look inside it, also I am assuming that smashing it apart is out of the question". Mayu said as she looked at the trunk activating her Byakugan as she moved in a little and her fingers along the surface of the surface of the trunk, she seemed rather interested, she then looked at him. "So what should I do tell you what is inside or try and open it".