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He looked to the two students infront of him with an odd absent minded look, as if he almost did not understand the emotions that were being tossed between them. He did however, he just couldn't wrap his mind around how two people could dislike eachother so much after barely even meeting eachother. He stepped between the two, the same bright smile etched across his features. "Now now now, let's not fight okay? We should get along, co-operate, be friends, AND be a team. It's the way that we will preform at our peak right?" He asked with a smile, the white feathers on his back twitching in the gentle breeze as he stood there. "I am a little lost, since I haven't quite been here long enough to know what is happening at the moment. But I would like to find out, and since, no offence to you sir..." He said, turning to Aoi. "You don't seem like the type to want to become friends too quickly and have a chat about what's happening so I will respect that." He stated with a bow to the man and then turned to Tsume. "I can't quite say I know too much about you either, but I am Nero. You seem like one who understands the values of teamwork...might I ask you what is going on thus far?" He questioned, looking forward at the seeming leader with a harp.

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Haka sighs, and raises her head, looking a wee bit derisive now, a lot like the way her mother looks when she makes a mistake in her lessons. She turns her eyes on the fighting compatriots and says in a flat, emotionless tone..


"For one who was prepared to place a blade of bone at the throat of a stranger, it seems to me you are ill prepared to speak of a person being rash, companion Aoi. You are just as impulsive, and you presume to lecture others, yet you are in the same position of rank as both she and I, and the rest of us present in this particular team. I may not think her actions were the most wise, but on the same token, you haven't made the most stellar decisions either. Am I the only one who has made decisions based on observation rather than assumption? We're young, but that doesn't mean we have to be have like juveniles. It's not befitting of a ninja, this bickering."

Haka stretches then, and sweeps a hand through her pale violet hair, looking all the world like she's damn well bored.


"I despise men; that much is obvious. Still, I'm forcing myself to work with them because that's what I have to do to survive. Why don't the two of you just sit down, shut up, and stop trying to outdo or lecture each other. Neither of you is suited to be a leader. One is headstrong, the other is apparently bipolar, switching on and off between rash and calm. I'll be honest..I'm quite frightened. But I'm not going to sit here and talk down to people like I'm superior to them. You put yourself on to high a pedestal, Aoi. Perhaps it's presumptuous of me to be lecturing right now, considering, but I've yet to see anyone here function as a unit other than Maizen and myself. I'm not fond of dying, but that's the path we're going down if this keeps up. First off, we don't even know the other's talents, we haven't chosen a team leader, we haven't shared information, and we haven't done anything other than flounder around. I may be as guilty of this as any of you due to my earlier fears, but..we need to sit down and get to know each other as a team, even if we don't become 'friends'."

Haka shrugs then, and folds her arms inside the voluminous sleeves of her kimono..

Nero was standing there, amazed that the people around him were like this with eachother. When he was young, and living in the village hidden in soul...long gone as it was now....everyone acted like a team, even if they weren't a part of a team, or they were in a different one. Nobody ever strayed far enough from ninja ways to no look at the whole village as a family, as one massive team split into sections. He could only offer up a smile as he contemplated how he could help things out....or if he even could. He had been partially ignored by Tsume, since she had said nothing when he asked her if she could explain to him what had happened, though at least he had learned her name.

He turned to Haka and he smiled, clapping his hands together and bowing to her. "You speak words wisely for someone only our age. I greatly admire someone who can also try and see past these differences and make an effort to bond a group of strangers...into a family." He said with a smile. "I do not understand one thing however, and that only thing would be why you could hate all men, just because alot of them are fools. I will readily admit that it is so, but you may find that having a bias on too many people for having something between their legs...you may overlook some of the people...who don't fit the bias you have upon them." He said, again, clapping his hands and bowing.

He then turned again, this time taking a step back so he could see everyone in the group, and for the last time he clapped his hands and he bowed to them all. "It is very nice to be aquainted with you all, even if your actions greatly puzzle me." He said with a laugh. "I am Nero of the Tenrai clan." He said with a smile, hoping that he could help out here, and maybe motivate others to treat this place more like a family, like Haka had just done. He could only hope that they accomplished that before it was too late for any of them. Without a solid team, in the heat of combat, nobody would live.

"Well Haka. I promise you, I am not one to fear, nor dispise. Though I know since it is embeded in your genetics...I have my doubts that it will ever really help with me saying that to you. I am not so incomprehensive that I can not understand...it is really quite a simple thing to grasp, why you "dispise" men." He said with a nod. He took a deep breath, looking at each of the individual members as he stood there, waiting for their introductions too, and completely forgetting about the dead body that he had left behind them. He listened to the rest of what Haka had to say and then without waiting for the other intorductions he nodded to her again. "You know what, I don't get out too much either, so that's just fine." He said with a smile. "I find it interesting....how you can remember everything like that. Me...for some reason...I can't seem to remember anything about my clan...I remember being in the village and how it was when I was younger...but, I don't remember anything of....family." He said with a smirk. "Mothers...fathers. Those are foreign things to me...though obviously I must have had some." He stated, shrugging his shoulders. He lookd up to the man guiding them and he looked back to Haka, still unsure of what was going on. "You said we haven't chosen a team leader...but...isn't he our leader?" He asked, he had no idea that it was just a random guy they were following to meet a sage.

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It was the warm sensation that first caught Tsume's attention, before she stared down at her hand, which was sealed over. She was used to medical techniques, since that's what she was trying to study, but she hadn't seen him make any seals, or heard him say anything.

When he started walking off, she glanced at Haka and Nero, before darting after the man.

"Na. Na, Oji-sama!. Arigato," fingers flexed, and she pulled the bandage off her hand, coiling it into a fist, before loosening it again.

He stood there, looking at Haka still for a moment and then shrugging his shoulders, she was seeming pretty unresponsive now and he took a deep breath. His question about leaders was still unanswered, but he would find out eventually he supposed. He watched intentively as the man healed a woman's hand wounds and smiled as he shook his head, impressed. He saw the girl glance at he and Haka and smiled as he walked over towards her as they walked through the forest and into a diferent area completely. After a little bit of silence he turned his golden eyes towards her and smiled gently. "Hey there. My name is Nero. It's nice to meet you Tsume." He said with a smile. "So, this is our sensei huh?" He asked with a laugh. "He seems kind of quiet." He stated again, in a talkitive mood.

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