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Hayato waited for Mayu to state on what she'd just seen and smiled as he then looked back at the chest. Hayato still didn't know the types of traps that were inside the heirloom. He thought about it for a second and then desided that it was going to be worth what ever his parents had locked away for him. He slowly slid his hand inside the keyhole slot that he'd uncovered earlier and waited. Knowing he was supposed to wait about three or so minutes, he looked around his very blank house and started to time himself before taking his hand back out. It was about thirty seconds left into his time, Hayato started to notice some changes in the way he was feeling. He was starting to feel slightly tired, and a little light headed. He pulled his hand out of the slot and stood up away from the chest. He figured something would happen but he never felt a p***k on his hand or anything so it was really odd. What he couldn`t see though was that his face was getting pale and the green iris in his eyes were spreading and continued to spread until there was nothing but his forest green iris in his eyes, no white or black. At this moment, Hayato blinked and then only saw white all around him. He wasn`t sure what was happening now, couldn`t see his house or Mayu. He paused as he looked around a little more until he could see some green in the distance. Before he could move, he was surrounded in a thick and lush forest in which he was standing inside a small clearing. It wasn`t long until out of the forest in front of him slithered an abnormally large snake, pure white. He could hear some noises around him so he turned and watched a large hawk, bear and wolf also appear from the dense forest. They were all pure white and quiet close to him so he got into a low stance no knowing what was happening to him. Sssso, thissss issss our new hosssst? The snake stated as it moved even closer to Hayato as it was now almost on top of him. He bolted backwards and got into a guard. "Calm down! if you were being attacked, you'd already be dead." The bear barked in which he stood up fully. Hayato wasn't sure what to think, but he stood up like he normally would but kept a sharp eye out. They hawk grinned and laughed "A sharp set of sences, I can tell by your eyes.... "As much as we'd like to speak to you Hayato, son of the Hidden Leaf Guardians, but you must listen to these words. Your parents, and their parents and so on have not been able to do what you've just done. Now you must learn what is in this heirloom, and become the forest guardian like all of your ansestors have been." The wolf stated as he became the lead of the group in which they all lunged at him sending him back. With that, Hayato returned to normal except the he was knocked back against a wall lightly, as he fell and passed out for a moment. Everything was normal with him, he was just tired as being knocked back made a very strange flux in his chakra.

Hayato's eyes quickly opened while he got up, just not as quickly as his eyes moved. He looked around, nothing had changed but he felt a little fuzzy. Fuzzy in the sense that it felt like his whole body was just waking up from poor circulation. He paused for a moment and then looked over at Mayu. He didn't know exactly what was going on, but they'd done what he'd asked help for so it was fair to say that it was time to move on in which he'd examen the scroll later. He went over to the chest and picked up a scroll and hid it on his person. He then looked over at Mayu again and nodded. "Thanks for the help Mayu, I can look at the scroll later so if you want to maybe start another mission we can stop by the Mansion and get a start on something."

Hayato paused for a moment and then realized that he'd fumbled up his wording and really confused her. He kept his mouth shut so he wouldn't make things any worse. He seemed to be good at that for some reason, so he thought it would be the best idea to stay quiet. He listened to Mayu as she spoke and focused in on the wording 'Chuunin exams'. He'd just finished with the Genin exams, so what would be the point of the Chuunin exams? But with that in mind, he thought of the sparring match that he'd just had with Mayu and how helpful it was. He thought for a second and then looked at Mayu. He nodded and moved over to the door. "You know... that sounds like a decent idea.... No way I'll pass but I bet I'll learn alot, plus it'll be nice to see someone from this village graduate." He smiled slightly and opened the door. "So, anything else we should do today or just get ready for tomorrow?" He asked wondering since she'd have a better idea on what to do since she was the more experinced shinobi

Hayato listened to what Mayu stated as she read off the scroll. Everything seemed rather lacks as to compared to what he would think is needed to be done. Normally there should be a lot more to it then just informing the village, but he wasn't going to argue as it wasn't his way to go about things. He took the scroll from Mayu and looked around. He wasn't sure what he'd need for the trip, but he had an idea of what he'd be taking so everything wasn't a total gamble. He looked over to Mayu, scroll in hand and outside of the house. "Alright, so we just go inform the village of our plans, get ready, and then tomorrow we head off to lightning. Sounds good to me, but some directions to lightning would be good, and maybe some information on what we can expect on the way would also be good." With that said, he shut the door behind both of them and started to walk in the same direction in which they got to his house so they could give the village head the news.

As they made their way out of his house and though the traps, Hayato heard Mayu speak about the traps. It was true that it always made for him getting to the village take much longer but there were things in the house in which his parents told him to keep safe while they were away. "Well.... there's two sides for the reasoning. My father would say it's part of my training. manuvering though these traps was to make me more aware of my surroundings and also have this agility. My mother though was a master toxin specialist. She had poisons of all kinds hidden in that house, some that are so potent that one drop was all it took to kill anyone she wanted. She says that if anyone were to get a hold of these toxins and figure out how to make them, it could put the village at risk so they are guarded very heavily." While stating this, Hayato was still jumping through the tree's like he normally did and once finished he stayed behind Mayu as to follow her for whom to ask. Once at the main office, he let Mayu do all of the talking since he was still very socially-inept. Once she was back, he listened to her about what the forms were for and nodded. He realized though that he didn't have anything to write with so he walked over to the main office desk, and borrowed a writing utensil to quickly fill out his form. He looked over to Mayu and offered her the writing utensil as he handed in his form to the main office receptionist.

Hayato waited for the clerk to ether accept or reject their application to travel to Lightning for the Chuunin exams. She looked over it then after placing it in folder spoke up explained that they would be allowed to leave but were going to be joined by a Jonin for the whole trip, acting like the teacher they were supposed to have since the start of the team formation. It was goos that they were going to be having someone who had been around the block several times before coming with them seeing as how he knew that he'd never left fire before and wasn't sure how far Mayu/Aya had been so the little bit of security was welcomed. He held his booklet that the receptionist handed then and nodded to her then looked over to Mayu. "Well, I guess the only thing to do now is go pack for tomorrow and get some rest. I'll see you tomorrow Mayu." Hayato stated as he headed for the door and left the building heading for home.

Again, it took about half an hour for Hayato to make it home, his normal route followed. The harder part of this was going to be figuring out what he'd need. He had a bag for short hikes, which he placed some food and his families scroll tucked in a hidden pocket. He also placed a few extra sets of clothing, one for really warm climates, and one for cold, plus all of his regular camo gear. Even though it wasn't a whole lot that he packed in the end, it just ended up that he went though everything in the house and then cleaned up the mess he'd made by doing so. All in all, it took way too long and knew that traveling, he should get use to it again. So with that, he left the house and traveled back to the village. Instead of going into the village though, he looked around and jumped into a tree and took set up camp up there.

It had been a few months senses the Chunin exam had happened, Aya and Mayu had been shaken heavily by the events that had gone on at the exams, due to this Seika had found herself being the most active amount them, she was not the one who was in control the others getting control when she was out or forced them out, but Seika and the others could feel it, slowly the others were slipping away, it wouldn't be long before one of them disappeared. Seika had been pledged with what to do, she didn't want to loss the parts of herself that Mayu and Aya were, this left very little for her to do, she would ether have to wait for them to drift from her and lose them, to whatever would become of them, maybe try and support them making them stronger, or merge into a single persona, but those were plans that take time and she wasn't sure how long she had to do this, she needed to research how to do something about them.

Seika looked at the sky watching the clouds above her slowly float by, since she had began to be the main member of them to come out, she had taken a liking to laying out in the sun and relaxing, a normally she liked resting in grass or boulders, normally Seika would make her way up the Kage cliff and rest there, or in one of the many gardens that were in the main village, today however Seika was in the Hyuuga complex, she was resting under a tree that was next to the training building that Aya had used many times with her ‘father’, while she was growing up, Seika had had a few training lesson with him since she had returned to the Leaf village, she was a little bit better then Aya, she guessed seeing as she had manage to push her ‘father’ to extend himself more than before, but that could just be due to the slight increase in power from the exams.

Seika hadn’t really been doing much in terms of ninja training and anything in general, she pretty much spent her time relaxing and looking around, she had started noticing when she was checking herself out, and notice the she had gained a small amount of fat to her, and her body had become a little squishier then it had been, and had began to worry, in truth she hadn’t even notice, Aya had notice it first, when she found it a little harder to move around then before, and Mayu had been the one to notice the fat, Seika had just checked herself one day after having a shower, this had been worrying her a little, but her main problem had been the fact that Aya and Mayu had began to loss they place in they mind, and how she had began it was only a matter of time until that disappear from her fully, while she knew this might be a good thing she felt that if they were to disappear she would loss something important to herself and wouldn’t feel whole anymore.

So with those issues in mind Seika had began to think on how to solve these issues, the body one was simple enough she would just need to become more active, rather than just relaxing in nice spots around town and looking at the sky, the other wasn’t so simple, it would involve her having to speak with the others, and looking into ways to solve it, if it was even possible to solve it. Seika had been going over these for the past few weeks and hadn’t really found anything useful in her pondering, and she knew she was only really wasting time at the moment, she had already found her first step ages ago, it was to speak to the others, which was something that she was able to do now.

Getting up from the ground and moving to the side a little so she would be able to rest her body on the tree while she meditated, Seika moved and placed her body in such a way so it wouldn’t fall over while she was out, she closed her eyes and slowed her breathing, drawing her attention to it as she focused on it and made it more rhythmic so she was able to use it to relax herself, and enter they shared space, the white room filled with toys and things from their past, the room itself was most important to Seika it was the room she spent most of her time in as a child, as were some of the toys, however a few of the things had been from Aya time growing up in the leaf village, a set of scrolls nearby had been from Mayu when she had been studying. This was they shared space the only place that they were able to meet face to face.

After a few moments of waiting Aya and Mayu joined Seika in the shared space, Seika smiled a little, as Aya took a seat and did Mayu, Aya looked a little pale and had seemed to have lost weight and looked really out of it, Mayu seemed sad and like Aya was a little pale, Seika looked at them and knew time was slipping away from them slowly, she took a seat with them at the table and looked at them a little more before moving onto her idea. ”Well the reason I called this meeting is because, it seems that over the past few weeks we have slowly been slipping away from one another, so I was wondering if you two had any input on how we should deal with this, or anything else you two may be dealing with?”. Seika asked as she looked at the others waiting for their reply.

Mayu was the first to speak up after a long silent’s between the three of them, she looked up from the table at Seika and Aya, as Mayu spoke she held her arm crossed in front of her too create a barrier between her and the others, she also keep space between her and the others. ”I don’t know what you want from me, it not like I know what going on it just I don’t know what to do, I got stuff to deal with, well I guess it our stuff, but still you know what I mean”. Mayu tone was confused and jumbled together, it was clear that her emotions were leading her, but it was hard to tell which ones and her body language was telling that she was trying to protect herself. Seika notice that Mayu was keeping herself away from them and was placing a barrier up.

Looking over a Aya who was left to speak, she was looking down at the ground and it was easy to tell she was doing very little aside from supporting her weight and breathing, it was clear she had given up on being alive, and was more or less gone from the world, Aya looked at the others and signed. I don’t care”. Aya said before disappearing a moment later, leaving the others alone together, Mayu huffed and fade as well, following Aya in returning to her own part of the mind, left alone again, Seika now had to think on what to do alone again and what to do, also she knew that main problem but what to do.

Seika alone again signed a looked at the room wondering on what to do now, Seika knew that this was mainly because of what had happened at the chunin exam with Hayato, Aya had lost herself in the pain caused by losing a friend, her only friend she had made in the last few years, and unlike others she had made Hayato was her friend male friend, also unlike other people, Aya has the ability, to cut herself off fully from the world, thanks to Seika and Mayu, and with this she can remove herself and lock herself away so she doesn’t have to feel the pain anymore. As to Mayu she is in a similar place to Aya, but Mayu was more blaming herself for Hayato being killed, it had been her idea to go to the chunin exam, and she now blamed herself for what had happened to him, so the first thing that need to be dealt with was the pain caused by Hayato’s death.

Seika signed lightly not sure on how to help the others, slowly she opened her eyes the soft rays of light that fell though the leaves of the tree she sat under, taking a deep breath, before pushing herself up and off the tree, she wondered about what to do, all she really could do now was research on what to do. With that in mind she made her way out of the Hyuuga clan complex, they were known for Taijutsu and Focus, and while focus may help her, she would need to know more about the mind, this meant going to the library or a clan of person who were good with matters of the mind, like the Yamanaka or some Genjutsu person, she made it to the library after a lengthen walk, thinking on what to do if she found nothing there, the next stop would most likely be the Yamanaka, or her Genjutsu teacher from long ago.

Once in she headed to the area of the library that dealt with issues of the mind, and recovering from trauma, also she looked into mental condition similar to what herself, Aya and Mayu had, she found a few but not of them really match up with how she was in terms of things, she found them rather useless and of little to no help, the ones of trauma mainly told her that it needed to be talked about and dealt with over time, something she would like to do, but with Aya and Mayu able to remove themselves from interacting with her all together that wouldn’t help her much, but it was good to have some idea on what to do when it came to dealing with that, but as she moved and read thing though the library she was getting no way, she had some new ideas but this wasn’t helping her as much as she would have liked, only minor things were happening, nothing that would help her with solving the issues that she was facing now, and she could feel it, this was taking too long, she needed to do something.

Seika made her way from the library, while it had been of some help she had gained very little from it, something’s that would help her later, but not something that she needed right now which was what she needed right now, what she needed now was a way to force Aya and Mayu to stay with her, and the library wasn’t fast enough, it had been two days already, she needed someone with knowledge in this field, like the Yamanaka clan who were one of the best clans for mind related things, in truth she knew someone she could speak with, who wasn’t in the Yamanaka, and knew more about her then others, her oldest friend, the other person who had come to the leaf village from the research centre, Asami was like Seika however Asami had a weak body and didn’t get placed in tests, her tests were more to use her mental skills to attack the other children, Asami was a technically a Genjutsu user, if not a master, but she never become a ninja, she never had the motive to become one and her body was very weak in terms of things, she ended up going another way, she spend most of them time looking over books and doing research for others, and maybe Seika best hope.

After making her way from the library to Asami’s place, she knocked on the door and called in, a soft voice from inside telling her to come in, opening the door Seika was hit with a smell of freshly baked bread and paper, a strange combo, as Seika made her way in to find a girl bathed in sunlight from a nearby window, with short teal hair, it was cut so it was feathered out, a large number of books an sheets of paper around her, the girl lay back on a pile of books too look at Seika, she smiled a little. ”Hey long time no see Shi, what brings you here?”, Asami was on the thin side, and had skin as peach coloured skin, she lay on the books waiting for a reply. Seika looked at her and smiled a little, ”I need your help with the others Hachi”, long ago before coming to the leaf village Seika and Asami were close to one another in the research center, back then they didn’t have names just the number they were in the testing, Seika was number four(Shi), and Asami was number eight(Hachi), these had become they necknames for one another, because of they shared past Asami knew about the other and call them normally by their names, and knew what Seika was talking about, she smiled a little and rolled to the side to another pile of book, ”Ok I got some stuff that may help you then, but most of it will take a lot of time, like maybe years, but first let’s try and find which path to take”, with that Seika and Asami began talking on what they would need to do.

After the first day of talks with Asami, Seika had an idea of what needed to be done, but nothing that would be fast, she had some that were better, but from the library and the talks with Asami this was going to take at least a few months, and most of it was Genjutsu trying that would force them to interact, but this was the best plan, so far, but she was going to keep talking with Asami and see if they were any other paths, she hoped so. A week had pasted and no real change in the plans on what to do, she was going to let Asami use Genjutsu on her, and have talks with the others, so they could work though things, and to take part in the world, all that was left to do is start her mental training, and hope it worked out.