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"Ahem..." The voice sounded out from behind Soul, Saikoro's darkened figure looming over the short boy with his much more intimidating build. "I do hope...." The man began to say with his soft velvet voice that sounded more soothing then anything else. His eyes were closed and a strained grin was spread across his lips as he stood quiet for a short while, the lids of his eyes slowly opening to reveal his bright blue eyes staring intently at the charcoal flag. A hand soon found it's way to Soul's shoulder as the veins at the man's forehead bulged, "... you weren't the idiot..." A sigh left the man's lips as his hand tightened around the boy's shoulder, his free hand swinging swiftly to land a fist on the boy's head gently. "Who am I kidding? Of course you did it.." He said with a dark grin, his arm easily wrapping around the boy's neck as the fist began to roughly rake against his spiky hair.

Raising a brow at Soul's show of defiance, the man tightened his bicep and pulled the boy's head lower as he drilled more force into the top of his head with the nuggie. "Anyways, it's time we got started on leaving. The chuunin exams will be taking place sometime in the near future and I don't plan on running late for the damn thing." Saikoro said simply as he began to walk off, refusing to release Soul as his fist continued to assault his head. "By the way, Musica.. You are officially apart of the team, so I suggest you hurry up and gather your things. We are leaving in fifteen minutes.

Musica, who had joined the crowd in cheering for Kira's "punishment" by Saikoro, only caught the tail end of what the man had said. "Yessir!" Musica grinned and immediately climbed up the nearest wall. Everything around him blurred as he ran, jumped, and flipped his way across the Village, his mind going at millions of miles per second. Finally, a chance to leave! A wave of excitement washed over him as he jumped off of a wall, flipped, and landed on the window sill to his apartment. Musica rapped his knuckles against the glass obnoxiously, causing a woman to come an open the window for him. "Hi Mom~" Musica said cheerfully as he stepped inside, his mom shutting the window behind him.

Musica's mom, Larcene, was tall and slender, with pale skin and long brown hair. All in all, she looked like an average woman in her forties. Except for the fact that she was missing his left arm. But that didn't stop her from being one of the best Taijutsu users around. In fact, it only made Musica fear her other arm even more. Larcene gave Musica a confused look as the boy walked into his room and started throwing things here and there, or into a bag. "Are you going on a trip?" She asked as Musica threw a half eaten sandwich back into the closet. "I'm going to the Chunin Exams."

"Let me guess," Larcene started, taking a step into Musica's room. "The Government doesn't know?" A chill fell over the room as Musica stopped moving, holding the Zhu Rong statue in his hand mid-toss. Slowly he turned his head, a big smile covering his face. "Of course they do." Larcene gave Musica a skeptical look as he turned back around and threw the statue into the bag. The boy slung the bag over his shoulder and turned to walk out. On the way from his room, he gave his mom a decent hug and kissed her on the cheek. "It'll be fine." He reassured her. Then he opened the window he came from and jumped to the building across the street, racing to the Country gate to meet with his new team.

Nova began to walk through the village happy about how is training went. The only thing really on his mind was what he needed to do to get stronger. His ambitions were high and he felt like he was on top of the world. He walked into a weaponry to look at the new products. This was a daily thing for him to do ever since the night his friend was murdered. In a way he had hopes that a legendary sword would appear in the shop one day but he knew that those chances were slim to none. He browsed the store a bit before decideing that the weapons were too expencive and didnt have very much money if any. he walked outside of the shop wishing that he had his buddy with him to give him some sort of moral boost.

Walking down the street Nova heard a kid trying to get his attention. He stopped and turned to the kid wondering why he would be trying to talk to him of all the people in the village, why him? Not really sure what to say to the kid he simply shrugged and spoke "Well i have nothing to do but, but i would love to find something because its really boring around here." He looked at the boy and thought maybe they were in the same class but wasn't too sure about it because he really didn't pay much attention to anyone in the academy.

"Yea i am. My Name is Nova Naru, and it is a pleasure to meet you." He said kinda getting a little excited. This will be Nova's first mission that he would ever be on and its going to be with a kid he never met before. After thinking to himself about the situation he became nervous but he knew that he had to get over it. There are going to be many people he would meet and this is just the first step in his ultimate goal. "My personal mission is to one day become one of the legendary swordsmen of the mist. Nothing will stop me from achieving this lifetime goal of mine." He said with a slight boost of confidence. "So if it's alright may i ask what your name is?" He followed trying not to offend the kid. Nova then extended his hand for a handshake to show respect towards another shinobi.

"It's nice to meet you Roran" Nova said as he pulled his hand back to himself. Nova began to walk along side him towards the Mission's Office with thoughts of an awesome mission that they could go on. Maybe they would go on a mission where they could guard an important person, or maybe they would be given a contract to assassinate someone. The thoughts of the possibilities brought a great joy to his face. "So you mentioned some teams earlier, I believe they were the beast team and gambler's team. Who are they?" He asked thinking that he should have known them but didn't. His mind went back to thinking of the mission that he would hoped to be put on but changed to the rewards that they could get. "I hope that we get a lot of money or at least a decent sword i could use." Nova felt out of place without any sort of weapon and only a few techniques he had learned.