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After wandering around the rubble of the burnt building Sorain eventually began to close in on his brothers location. Although he was glad to have finally met back up with him, he was still rather furious that he had not yet found Saru. Not that her well being generally meant much to him, but it was in direct conflict of his interest for her to be left behind and found near the leaf village. The last time Saru had been seen she was in Sorains company, so if he simply left her here, then everyone would know that he had been lurking around Konoha. Rather she continued to remain in his company or not was no matter to him, but she damn sure was not going to be running off causing him troubles.

Sorain reached his arm forward, pushing roughly on one of the walls until it collapsed under the pressure of his own weight. As the wall came crashing down, Sorain found himself face to face with Saru and Sai. Rather than greet his brother, whom he had come this far to meet, the first thing that Sorain thought to do was reach forth and snatch Saru by the s**t collar and bring her close to his face. "What the hell! Dont just go running off you brat!" Sorain's frustration went even further as he pressed his forehead against hers and snarled roughly through tightly clinched teeth. "..and were supposed to be finding supplies."

Arina trudged through thick greenery of the forest; her resolve of abandoning Konohagakure with the ambitions to see the world in it’s entirety and to train without being bound by the chains of those around her and their ideals which would eventually withhold the young girl from reaching her full potential was slowly dwindling. The young woman tripped over a loose branch barely managing to catch herself on the side of a large, towering Oak tree. “Damn,” Arina cursed loudly throwing herself to her knees, as well as slamming her clenched fists against the hard ground, forthright about the current frustration that was beginning to engulf her body. The one thing that made her blood boil, more so than anything else, was the man whom had asked the young girl if she had desired to leave, presumably accompany him. Arina understood how whims could so easily come and go; obviously, the idealism of being one with the flow of the wind was a romantic one. However, that did not excuse the man for literally leaving her behind allowing her to be lost or perhaps, the young girl shouldn’t have put so much faith in a stranger. ‘Yes,’ Arina smiled, ’Perhaps, I should have stayed in Konoha.’ The young girl used her forearm to wipe the sweat from her brows realizing that it was much to late for such a realization. The young girl had made a choice based on her own whims and was ready to face the consequences for not fully thinking through such a delicate decision. Using a low tree branch to pull the young girl upright once more, she continued to trek through the woodland brush a scowl ruining the naturally beautiful features of the young woman’s face.

After an unspecified amount of time had passed, Arina came across a village. The loud, boisterous village was a much appreciated sight after so much forest. The young girl sighed in relief unaware of where to start when a promiscuous, older woman approached herself, “Looking to get into the work at such a young age?” The fiery haired woman leaned over Arina with a look of admiration upon her face. “Work?” The young girl questioned tilting her head slightly curious to what this strange adult was referring to. “Follow me,” The older woman winked towards Arina continuing, “By the way, my name is Arazel.” The young girl did not fight the situation but rather, she decided to follow the flow of events. Perhaps, this would ultimately work in her favor after the horrible events that had occurred throughout the day. It was about time that things started to look to a positive pathway for the girl. She couldn’t return to Konoha; however, she was obviously not going to find the man whom she was going to accompany and learn from. This entire adventure had turned into quite the disappointment, especially in regards to her ninjutsu was no longer going to be a valuable asset to her everyday life as a civilian.

After following the woman named Arazel into an even more curious building, Arina began to have heavy doubts about the legitimacy of this woman‘s profession. She noticed several women hovered around a male whom seemed to be of the highest pay rate but lowest quality of attraction like hungry vultures waiting for the scraps of an already wasted kill. The girl‘s right eye began twitching furiously; however, she turned her head ignoring the image which utterly disgusted her to follow Arazel into a separate room. Once they had stopped, the crimson haired, voluptuous beauty began to poke and prod at Arina‘s body, probably taking measurements or the like. ‘What the hell,’ she cringed anticipating the end to this relationship before it had even began. The girl was not for sure of the coming events or even what the job entailed; however, this entirely was not for her. The young girl was already beginning to get irritated by Arazel’s antics but only provoked when Arazel cupped her breasts without warning and made a remark about how they would get bigger as she got older.

“What are you doing?!” Arina exclaimed with eyes wide pushing the older woman away from her body. The young girl turned on her heels darting towards the shady building’s exit. She pushed everyone and everything out of the way that got into her reach. Upon smelling the fresh air, she suddenly felt a weight lifted from her shoulders and was able to breath easy for the time being. Of course, her ears perked as the young girl heard a group of commoners huddled together talking about something that seemed to be of high interest. “I heard that the building was burned to the ground and everyone disappeared!” A male’s voice exclaimed severely high pitched that his voice even managed to crack. “I know. It’s so horrible,” A woman replied with a shocked expression across her face. Arina quickly interjected asking a few unimportant questions as the whereabouts of this area. The civilians quickly complied realizing her shinobi headband with a seeming relief that Konohagakure had finally decided to intervene.

Once Arina had disappeared in the aforementioned direction of the building of shrouded and mysterious background, the girl ripped the headband from across the young girl’s forehead. She stuffed the band somewhere beneath her clothing, so it was not so easily seen. She no longer wished to be seen or mistaken for a part of the Konoha forces, nor did she wished to be tracked provided the village deemed her as a threat. It did not take long for Arina to catch up to the wasted area that was strewn with ashes and cinders. She followed the trails and clues left only to find a band of other people there. At this point, it was too late to hide because the young girl didn’t attempt to be quiet. She had not anticipated running into others. She merely took on a defensive stance before seeing the man from before whom had left her behind. “YOU?!” Arina exclaimed with an awkward look upon her face not for sure whether to be happy or disappointed that she managed to run into him once again.

Saru frowned at Sai's words, indeed their situation had been rather anticlimactic. While she was glad that they hadn't run into much trouble at all, she also felt like their little "adventure" thus far had been a colossal waste of time. Saru nodded emphatically in agreement "Booooring" She muttered quietly, nearly inaudible from all of the stomping that Sai was doing. When she heard the wall fall in she whipped her head around, her eyes going wide when she spotted him. "Oh." she sputtered out before Sorain grabbed the top of her shirt. "Busted" she whispered, Grinning sheepishly to Sorain. It was apparent he was mad at her, but she wasn't entirely at fault. Batting her eyelashes she pouted, "But I just got lost. Good thing Mr. Sai Sai here found me!" To Sorain it would be obvious that she was of course playing her 'role' of a ten year old, and she wasn't planning on breaking that role any time soon. She noted too, the arrival of a girl which apparently Sai had known, since she was one hundred percent sure she had never seen this girl before and reasoned that she had not been talking to Saru.

Of course her monologue was cut short when the unmistakeable sound of the floor giving way reached her ears, accompanied with Sai's remark of "Why is it always me" She wanted to point out that he had been stomping around but didn't have any time as the floor fell away beneath everyone. As a reflex Saru let go of Sai, and tumbled down the twisting hole. She had of course, tried to latch onto the wall but every time someone would fall into her and knock her down again. She couldn't make out anything in the darkness and the constant tossing put her into such a state that it was difficult for her to really do anything without getting knocked about. She was nearly thankful when she hit the cool pool of water, dizzy from falling. However someone falling on top of her stunned her for a few seconds, just long enough for her to drop her transformation as her true form reappeared. When she regained her senses the first thing she did was turn on her Night vision, there was little to no light in this underground reserve and she wanted to make sure nothing too menacing lurked in the water. The first thing she did see was Sorain, apparently he had been the one who had landed on top of her. She wondered idly why the gods always seemed to push her into these sorts of situations. Kicking her legs she pushed Sorain up so she could reach the surface of the water. Gasping for air she coughed a bit before turning her attention to Sorain.

Quickly shoving him off, Saru huffed "They're not flotation devices! Ok?" She said, perhaps a little too loud. The unexpected turn of events had left her in an odd situation, one that had also left her true form exposed. Using her Surface grab technique, she pulled herself out of the water until she was standing on top of it, wringing out her soaked hair and clothes.

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Musica rushed around the corner as soon as the wooden floor started cracking, canceling the effort, instinctively canceling his invisibility entirely as he did so. He had hoped that he could make it in time to save someone, anyone really, from falling. That was just fast enough to grab hold of someone. The best he could do was find himself at the edge of the suddenly created pit as Saru, Sorain, and Sai were enveloped in total blackness. Musica peered over the edge, into the gaping abyss, trying to gain any kind of sight by zooming in with his Heikougan. The only thing he got from that was a sense of falling and a little nausea. The teen closed his eyes and shook his head and, when he reopened them, they were his natural shade of blue. That jutsu wasn't going to help here, either, it seemed. 'Now what?' He thought, kneeling on the very edge of the pit. 'We could go call for help.' Rodah suggested simply, the red-head's twin brother appearing next to him, visible on to the red-head. Musica sighed and shook his head slightly. "'Hello? Officer? Two wanted fugitives and their captive just fell down a bottomless hole.'" He muttered, just barely audible. The sarcasm that dripped from is words was almost tangible. 'No, that's a dumb idea.' Rodah shrugged off Musica's bluntness with a bored expression. 'Exactly. Turn them in, get the reward, and sneak away in the carnage.' Musica glanced to the side, at the girl who previously entered, the only other person to not fall. 'What about the girl?' Rodah turned his head and blatantly stared at her, without fear of being seen. 'Kill her.' He responded with a casual shrug, as if they were talking about the weather.

Musica stood and walked to another side of the pit, acting like he was examining it more than he was. The look of thought on his face helped with that, is chin tucked between his thumb and forefinger. It was an option, and a very viable one at that. He could always kill this new girl, whoever she was, hide her, and then alert the authorities. If Sorain and Sai escaped, he could just blame it on her, using her absence to help. Suddenly, Musica blinked, being careful to hide the surprise he felt: at what point in his life did he so calmly calculate murder and treachery? That was going to be something he'd have to look at later. In the meantime. . . .'Too risky.' He looked back at Rodah and rose again, taking a some steps back. 'I have a feeling that we'd get much more if we stay with them, anyway.' Rodah scoffed and started fading away. 'No more risky than what you're about to do.' He voice echoed after the vision of his body was gone. Musica rolled his eyes, his expression annoyed. "And he calls me melodramatic." He stopped walking and sharply turned his gaze to the unknown girl. "You," he said, firmly pointing his finger at her. "Don't do anything stupid." 'Like me.' After his words of wisdom, Musica ran head on, and jumped straight into the abyss, rapidly consumed by darkness.

As Sai fell into the water, he let his body fall under the water until everything below his nose was submerged and waded slowly around in the shallow waters. Feverishly, his eyes darted around in hopes to see an immediate exit from the small riverine that would lead directly to the surface. Unfortunately, all could be seen was his brother and - the now grown - monkey girl talking above the water, a seemingly never ending darkness that held above their heads, and a small shore that laid next to an opening in the rocks.

Turning his eyes onto Sorain, Sai frowned to himself, was it truly best just to ignore the man's existence? His brother had yet to ask him anything or even talk to him in general, maybe there was a reason for this... There was usually a reason for Sorain's actions, even if they weren't obvious at first, he would just have to go with it until the man decided to let him in on it.

Shrugging the thoughts away, Sai pulled one arm out of the water to pull himself out of the water but quickly stopped himself as he tilted his head upwards, "Heads up." He muttered towards the two as he sunk into the water and swam to them, his hand reaching out to swipe their legs away from beneath them so they would also sink into the water. It would be moments later that Musica would come falling down as they did themselves and would be soon followed by falling rocks and a young girl, a finger would be held to Sai's lips as he pointed to the arrival of the boy signalling to Sorain to take action against the followers.

Sorain sighed heavily as he glanced around the area with his clans Byakugan activated. From what he could tell they had simply fell into a hollowed cavern underneath the compound, most likely the building had been constructed directly over this underground cave and had remained sealed until what ever it was that destroyed the house weakened the floor boards enough to send them all crashing down to the cavernous wade pool. Taking a moment to squeeze the last of the remaining water from his kimono robe he spoke snidely over his shoulder towards Saru, "If your gonna be following me around the least you could do is not run off." Taking a few steps forward, Rizu ran his right hand along the wall of the cave, sending out waves of chakra from his finger tips that expanded into the walls and traveled throughout the ground like sonar, in search of an opening for them to continue through. Although Sorain supposed he could simply scale directly back up, that would run the risk of toppling something over and having the entire building fall down upon them. Turning around abruptly, Sorain threw his back against the wall with his arms folded across the chest before speaking out loud to his brother directly for the first time. "So..while were here. What brings you to fire country? I've been trying to hunt you down for months" Since Sorain had fled from Kumogakure he had set out to locate his brother in hopes of finding a new safe heaven where he could bide out his time and hone his strength so that he could continue with is true plans. He had expected to run into Sai again, but he had never thought he would meet him randomly in the fire country, a place that Sorain often hated visiting simply due to its warm climate and overly talkative towns folk. He also couldn't believe the circumstances, here he was after all this time, with a part girl part women part monkey following him and now apparently being stuck at the bottom of a randomly place hole in the dirt. Yes, things were turning back to normal, when ever Sai was near, grief came Sorains way, so was the way of the world.

Arina listened intently to the conversation between those whom had fallen down the crevice alongside the young woman. The majority of them seemed to have some form of loose relation, not necessarily by blood but by acquaintance. The young girl lifted herself from the waters below which had seemingly become placid after being immobile since the initial fall. Using the support of the crumbling interior, the young girl glanced across the people in the room with a sigh.

A few moments later, the older boy that she had initially decided to forsake her village and train alongside addressed her in a rather rude manner. “So, what has you following me?” Arina was gaping at the young man in disbelief. He had forgotten? He was the one who had offered her training. A barely visible forehead vein began to bulge whilst she grew steadily more aggravated by the moment.

‘What was I thinking?!’ The young woman fumed staring intently at the young man with the look of death in her eyes. She bit her lip averting her gaze from the young man’s. She hadn’t wanted to give him the satisfaction. “To be honest, I think I must have lost my mind!” Arina chuckled waving her hands in the air playfully.



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Turning his head towards Sorain, his eyes on the girl and his hand hiding his mouth in an iconic, Sai whispered casually to his brother, "I. Think. She. Is. A. Girl. I. Boned. Play. It. Cool. She. Might. Be. A. Bit. Crazy." With a nod and a wink, Sai turned his full attention to the girl with a gentle smile so not to insight her rage.