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Kuroshika began to come too, he hadn't really realized it, but he'd drifted off a bit. His mind was cloudy like it was whenever something particularly awkward happened to him, he would drop into a comatose state his mind dissasociating from his body for a short while. It was a condition that he'd picked up in his early years, before coming to the academy. Kuro looked around realizing that it was a slightly different time and situation from when he was last consciously aware of his surroundings. Looking up at the sky he sighed, they had most certainly missed their lessons and he didn't want to venture back out into the forest in the dark so it seemed that he would be striking camp with the females he had just met. He stood up dusting himself off. "Uhhh... uhmmm... Honey...? Is there anything I can do to help in setting things up?" Kuro looked back and forth across the clearing looking for something obvious that he should have picked up on already and began doing. He shifted nervously from foot to foot, he still hadn't made a proper introduction to everyone here so at the moment the only one he really felt comfortable comminunicating with was Honehime.

Honehime watched Kuroshika venture out to gather firewood, then continued working at her task with a single-minded drive and patience that seemed a bit at odds for her relatively low age. Then again, if she was actual able to see visions of the future, to cast her thoughts adrift on the plane astral, she would definitely need strong powers of concentration and willpower. So maybe it wasn't quite so odd to see her become so focused, at least to those who knew her. How different she was, then, from the blushing shy girl who liked watching others do things, rather than join in the fun herself?

By this point, she had already managed to remove a large swath of grass from the area in front of her, to a rough diameter of four feet. The ground had the rich, dark look of freshly turned soil, so she began using one of the rocks she had gathered to pound it down, making a slight, yet regular depression in the ground. After that, she could reset the stones into a loose circle as a windbreak for when the fire itself was finally made.
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Lieselotte saw the rabbit appear and dash off quickly, and just as quickly hared after it. Sending a challenging glare to the Circe, she unceremoniously stuffed her own handfuls of herbs and other items into a pouch, before crashing through the brush, chasing headlong after the rabbit. It was a quick little bunny, hopping forward in great bounds, but Lieselotte stayed on it, doing her utmost to run it down. She debated having Elfriede help, but decided against it, this was a contest just between the two of them, between her and Sakazuki. Pushing off against a tree, she redirected her momentum when the rabbit tried to lose her by doubling back. As she turned, she ducked down and grabbed a small stone, grabbing it tightly while waiting for the moment to strike.
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Mei smiled as Shuku extended her hand towards the cheerful cowgirl. Laughing a little, she gripped the older woman's hand snugly, then pulled her forward, to bounce, her chest especially, towards Honehime. Looking down at the Kaguya, she had to bend down even more to see past her chest, before finally spotting the girl clad in the priestess robes, setting up a fire pit. "Hello! Is there something we can do to help? I've done a lot of cooking myself, I made this really yummy white cream sauce a few weeks back, using fresh milk and homemade butter." She looked back towards Shuku, wondering if the Mayonaka knew any good recipes. All the while, she still stayed slightly bent over, creating a dual-pronged deadly attack. From the front, she showed off a dangerous amount of cleavage, and from the back, her lashing tail continued to make her skirt flutter up time and time again, getting closer and closer to showing precisely which day of the week it was. She seemed utterly oblivious to this, of course.
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Cagnazzo, the King of Pirates, a Buccaneer who lived by the might of his crew and of his fists. His weapon of choice was a pair of clawed gauntlets, and his armor had been nicknamed the "impenetrable shell." He reigned for thirty years as a pirate of the high seas until a mutiny robbed him of his glory, condemning him to the Navy of the Land of Water. In Hidden Mist, he was imprisoned and eventually executed by hanging...
But his spirit haunted the seas, eventually leading to a destruction of Hidden Wave, and thus the Hidden Mist navy found him again, sighting the deadly torrents which he had chosen to possess, and then with the kages of all five villages, had sealed him... Years passed and the location of the seals was forgotten, the legend of the King of the Seas, Cagnazzo had faded from memories, his terrible deeds and crimes forgotten within ancient lore. His name would likely have been forgotten until the end of time, until one fateful day...

It was an ordinary day in the Shinobi Academy. Well, as ordinary as an Academy could be with students flinging ninjutsu at one another. About a week ago, there had been rumors of an exploding toilet, said toilet having exploded off of its pipeline and through the ceiling after being flushed. The entire bathroom had been sealed off after what had been called "The Atomic Flush"
As it was both a major incident in the school, and as said incident had occurred in a girl's bathroom, several of the first year boys took it upon themselves to initiate a dare using the classic game of Wind, Fire, Lightning, Water, Earth; a variant game of Rock-Paper Scissors which was played to teach the various jutsu weaknesses. The winner would have the 'honor' of being the one to sneak into the girl's bathroom after-hours and initiate an Atomic Flush by flushing every single toilet in the caution-taped girls' bathroom.
Several hours passed, many teachers seeming pleased that the boys were finally practicing their jutsu knowledge, and even though the boys continued their game past dinnertime, when lights were out the children were left to their game, the teachers seemingly unworried about it, unknowing of the darker secret behind the childs' game.
Finally, a winner was chosen, the others circling around him in excitement as he entered the bathroom, slipping through the caution tape... One, two, three, four! All four remaining toilets flushed and the boys cheered, the lights flickering on to see teachers in calamity, breaking down the door as a massive explosion of water was heard, the weight of water sealing the door shut so that the teachers could not intervene.... And as the water finally settled and was seemingly gone; the boy had vanished, his bloody clothes all that remained of him...
The five toilets had actually been acting as a seal of sorts, the first breaking when a girl accidentally tripped getting up and bent in the pipeline. When it flushed the broken seal's energy traveled downwards and the beast within awakened, thus the first explosion. After his awakening he had begun exerting his pressure on the other four seals, waiting for someone to flush the other toilets so that the pressure he was exerting would explode. And when the day finally came, he leaped out from the toilets in a watery wrath, devouring the boy whom had released him in order to again take a physical body. Needless to say he had no intents to remain, plowing through the roof of the building with his armored shell, made of a bony substance as hard as steel. Left behind in the bathroom was the stench of sewage, a bog-like formation being left behind by the water. Immidiately the school was sealed off and teachers were on patrol. As many of these teachers were Jounin ranked, the beast was obviously forced to hide, having been unable to make his escape in time...
His luck seemed perfect though, when a Chuunin ranked member came to discover his location, paralyzed in fear at the sight of the sewer beast. Cagnazzo quickly trapped him within a summoned bog, pulling the man underwater so that he could hear the beast speak in its terrible voice, a deep and drenched voice of a beast; "I am the Drowned King, Cagnazzo, risen from the depths of the Sea; for the wicked are not wont to die alone... Feel the briny pits of hell surround you, drink long and deep of it ere' you are to die..." Cagnazzo spoke to the chuunin, who was desperately trying to swim to the surface without success as the aquatic beast took hold of his leg and pulled him back towards him. The shinobi's lungs were now burning in his chest, desperate for air as he opened his mouth and took in a gasp of water, coughing heavily as the water purged his lungs, causing their burning sensation to intensify further, his mind growing hazy as he slowly slipped into the void before the creature's jaws clamped down over his throat and removed his head. being careful not to destroy the man's clothes, Cagnazzo devoured the rest of his body before scouting his surroundings for a moment. Quickly removing the bog he had summoned, the Drowned King contorted his body and began to shape shift using the art of Henge no Jutsu; transforming into the ninja whom he had killed before donning the man's clothes. Despite their appearance, he could make it work, for the moment, slashing several parts of his body with three kunai to mimic the marks of his own claws, dampening his body further to match the state of the clothes before revealing himself in the school, running around as the teacher, screaming in a panic before one of the other teachers came to console him, quickly pinning him down to calm his screaming and to avoid alarming the students further. As they asked him what was wrong he replied in an exasperated voice; "I found... the beast!!! It called itself Cagnazzo... the Drowned King! It pulled me into a bog but I managed to knock him hard enough to escape his grasp! I nearly drowned from being under there.... We can't face this thing on our own, it's too clever.... Do not worry for my injuries, I will go to Hidden Mist and request their aid!"
"With those injuries you are in no condition to travel anywhere! I will go instead!" one of the nearby faculty replied to him as he forced himself up onto his feet.
"No! I am the one who encountered it, I can best describe its actions and answer any questions they may have about it!!! They can then send the best men possible for its removal... Until then, avoid the south eastern sewer tunnels... That's where I found it the first time. I'm pretty sure it may move its lair so perhaps it would be best to avoid the sewers in general..."
Talking amonst themselves a moment longer, the others agreed and Cagnazzo smiled inside, having been able to steal the man's appearance and voice was a simple enough task and would make his escape from this institution as easy as cake. As the gates opened to him, he took his first steps outside the academy, looked back, and laughed in his own voice again, shifting back into his own body as he glanced towards the faculty of the school; "Thank you for allowing me to leave so peacefully... Take no measures to pursue me, and I, the Drowned King Cagnazzo, will make no attempts to further harm your school... As Im sure you wish no further losses, I am assuming we are in agreement..." The drowned king smirked as he sprinted across the plains outside of the Academy and into the river; making his escape by water as it was his element, the forte by which he made his travel.

Cagnazzo was finally free, and while he was still in a weakened state compared to his prior incarnations, he was indeed alive, and having devoured two victims already, he was now again able to access his long forgotten chakra pool. Drained heavily by the amount of energy required to break his seal, Cagnazzo likely would have died had he not found the student to consume, and even then, his recent battle had deprived the archfiend of a majority of his energy. Thankfully the devouring of the chuunin ranked teacher had stabilized his own chakra enough so that he could keep a balanced level of energy. For now, he needed to recover his energy and become stronger again. And once he was again at full strength, he would bring the might of a hurricane down upon Hidden Mist and destroy the village with his power. His yellow, glaring eyes beamed with hunger, his lips curling into a smile as he made his way away from the Academy, taking refuge in a lake which the river had emptied out into. At home in the water more than anywhere else, Cagnazzo knew that he was at the height of his power within here, able to pull enemies down into its depths and drown them, while he himself remained able to breathe within the water; an amphibious monster born of darkness and hatred. Reborn as a Gilman of Hidden Twilight, the deposed and drowned King would again rise to power and exert his wrath upon those whom had killed him. And after Hidden Mist was destroyed, he would bring his wrath down upon the other four villages, as their Kages had been the ones to seal him after his rise in undeath.

Honehime had just turned back to check on her fire pit, to see if she could set up the tinder grass in a better position, when she was suddenly struck. Her head whipped up just in time to be swallowed up in Mei's colossal cleavage, rendering her vision null and void. Feeling warm and soft flesh pressing snugly yet insistently against her head from all sides, she froze up, not knowing what to do. Should she try to pull out, or just wait for the cowgirl to notice and move away herself? Her hand opened and closed futilely, her voyeuristic tendencies warring with her desire to actually do something to pull herself out of this situation. Already, she could feel her cheeks warming up. Whether from embarrassment, or just from being trapped within a warm prison of bust, she wasn't sure. And then it was gone. She sucked in a large lungful of cool air as Mei finished standing up, freeing her accidental prisoner. Her cheeks were tinged pink, and she looked up at the cowgirl in amazement. She'd realized the girl was busty to a phenomenal level, but it took a first-hand viewpoint like that to really drive the point home.
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Lieselotte looked at the fallen rodent, it didn't move. She felt a small bit of remorse over what she'd done, but she didn't let it stop her from doing what needed to be done. If she felt too bad about what she'd done that she couldn't finish the job, then the rodent would have suffered in vain. It deserved more than that, at the least. She'd treat it with respect, and give it it's place in the grand wheel of life. Moving forward, she pulled out her knife, to make sure the rodent wouldn't feel any more pain. Murmuring a soft string of words, she spoke them without even realizing it, saying a half-remembered prayer for the fallen.
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Mei's eyes widened a little at Shuku's vehement reaction. How curious. Most people, when caught doing something perverted like that, wouldn't react quite so extremely. Had she misunderstood, had Shuku been trying to flip up her skirt for a completely innocent reason? She couldn't think of what such a reason might be, but perhaps there was one. She'd give Shuku the benefit of the doubt, at least for now. If the Mayonaka were to do something perverted in the near future, however, it would likely affix the concept of her as a deviant in Mei's mind for quite a long time. Shrugging, she just flashed a hesitant smile at Shuku. "Well, if you say so..." Then, she turned back to Honehime. Upon seeing the Kaguya in the midst of recovering, she realized what that odd thing she'd felt hit her chest for a moment must have been. "I'm sorry, are you okay, you aren't hurt or anything, are you?"
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As Ryuji Yelled Next in excitement the rest of the class booed him from in front of the class, the girls snickered; “he’s so annoying, or he’s a show off!” while the guys were sitting back thinking of ways to out do him. “Man I don’t need this bull…” Ryuji said under his breath. All he really wanted was to be admired by his classmates and co-workers. The way Ryuji presented himself he seemed like the type of guy that would brag, boast and try make other feel bad, but in reality he is one of the smartest, honest people you would meet. 2 hours have passed since the test with the transformations and 60% of the class passed everybody else was sent home. “Next we will be learning the Art of Substitution, and this is a little harder than simple transformations,… because if you mess this jutsu up, it could mean your life in battle” the instructor growled. “WHAaa!!?!” the students questions with worried faces. “killed in battle, what!! DEATH!?!” the student contined. Ryuji smirked, he figured any jutsu that would result on death if failed would be a very good jutsu used for stragity. “im ready for whatever you got Teach.” The teacher filled in the class on the in’s and out of this jutsu, and as soon as he finished Kakashi walked through the door. “today kakashi will be helping me out with the demonstration of substitution.” The instructior mentioned then all of a sudden he draws a kunai and charges kakashi at full speed. The class looks in horror as Kakashi is stabbed right in the stomach. Ryuji jumps outta his seat and shouts, “What the heck are you doing!?” all of a sudden a huge cloud of smoke puffed and kakashi was behind the instructor and had a knife to the back of his head. Turns out the just stabbed a log.
“why are you so excited ryuji, didn’t he just tell you I was helping out with the demonstration and, besides do you really think I would get hit by should a slow attack” explained kakashi. “haha slow kakashi I though I almost had ya” laughed the instructor
After about 2 days Ryuji finally mastered the Substitution Jutsu. “Alright 2 down … a lot more to go” sighed Ryuji As ryuji went around to the front of the school or weekend practice he was stopped by kakashi. “Yo you got the jutsu down yet Ryuji?” kaksahi questioned. “Yeah took me longer than expected but I got it!” ryuji replied with a huge smile. You see ryuji looked up to kakashi as a role model. “well then since u got that done faster than I expected let me teach you a little sumthin” kakashi remarked.

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Seeing as Lieselotte had been the one to spill blood, Sakazuki had taken it upon herself to be the one to take care of the body as she gripped the fallen rodent by it's hind legs, lifting it from the earth as she dangled it before her, emotionless eyes staring at it before she lowered it to her side. It was now that the witch had begun treating the rabbit less like a fallen pet and more like dinner as she turned away.

"Let us go," She muttered, giving a nod towards the marionette-wielder's question as she turned away for a moment, before sighing. "...Do you remember the way back?"

Even if she was aware that they weren't very far from their comrades, the chasing of the rabbit had lead them away from the simple underbrush and further into the start of the more heavily wooded areas.

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Shuku gave a smile towards the Kaguya's grateful words before she looked back to the fire. For several seconds then, her attention was focused on the radiant flame, but the crackling of some energy or foreign technique behind her caused her to whirl about, a mix of surprise and cautiousness on her face. While she expected some miniature explosion or something along those lines, the Mayonaka instead, found herself staring at a rather large piece of wood... But that definitely wasn't there before, right? She certainly would've noticed such a large branch when she was collecting twigs.

"...Where did that come from?"

The question came out, apparently before Mei had finished speaking as she blinked.

"You made it?!"