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Kage looked over to the ninja. The darkness of his shades hide his eyes so reading them would be almost impossible. Course, he was a puppet so there wasn't much to read in them anyway. He looked and listend intently. If he said anything too wrong, he'd strike the ninja down right then, if not, he wouldn't waste the chakra.

When he heard the word 'bit' an image of Star instantly flashed into his head. Her lips curled into a devilous smile from ear to ear, bearing her 'fangs' as she called them. They were just regular canine teeth but hers were a little longer and sharper than normal but not so much as to be abnormal or fearful. he shook his head an stood up, "Good to know vampirism is still alive and well..." he mumbled to himself.

He then stretched a bit an dlooked to Mari..."The girl brought it on herself. She knew what her risks were when she accepted the duel. If what you say is true then I have no reason to bare ill will against you. Even if you lie, so long as you didnt' violate her I still ahve no ill will against you." He picked the girl up and placed her rather hard on his shoulder.

He began to walk to the door then stopped...the man did care for her so he deserved smething. Kage didn't carry money on him. What was he gonna buy? Food? Clothing maybe? Doubtful. He looked over his shoulder for a moment, "I have no money to compensate you for caring for the girl. So if you like, you can ask me 3 questions about puppets or me in general. You seemed slightly curious..."

Kage looked to the boy then began to walk off toward the house. He was quiet as they walked along the path...mostly thinking of things the boy had said...he had the right idea of what to do. He was on a good path but Kage cared little for Mistess...she was a nuesence to be sure but of little concern to him. He was sure that Star would love to gain a chance to devoure her and make a puppet from her soul. He would shudder at the very thought...if he still had the capability or the emotion.

"So your' in our hands now..." he looked to the girl then to boy walking with him..."She gave you to a demon you know?" He woudl say this just as he walked to the door. He touched the knob and felt a presence...chakra...Star's chakra. He realized she must have been doing something major in there to exume this much chakra...probably a genjutsu...should be fun.

Kage opened the door and stepped into the house. He saw Sari over in a corner, trying hard to perform the Kai release but Star was simply standing and grinning. She was doing a full on Horror genjutsu...the moment Hiro would walk intot he door, he'd see star...but not as he remembered her. he'd see a horrid creature that looked like a demon from his worst nightmares.

[[the last part is just if you want to be caught up in the genjutsu. Officially you don't have to be.]]

Kage looked to the boy, he could see the fear in his eyes and yet...he didn't attempt to move. In a way that was good but it could also be bad. it was hard for Kage to tell if the boy was simply assessing his fears and trying to cope or if he was frozen with fear. He couldn't take that chance.

Peforming the handsign for Kai release, he placed his fingertips on the boy's forehead, releasing him from the genjutsu..."Hmmm you don't know Kai release do you..."

Kage looked to him. He had no responds for the puppet bit. He didn't care really even if Hiro did have a 'thing' against him. With a shrug he looked about. The house was still rather unpacked and still looked far too unlived in. It...irked him a bit. Out of habit, even though he didn't uyse half the things here anymore, he began to unpack and tuck things away as he listened to Hiro.

It was a curious statment he made...'odd to fight with tricks and fake people'...he would have laughed if he were able. He looked over his shoulder to the boy, "If you have that kind of honor, your better off as a samurai, not a ninja. The very core of ninjutsu is deception and confusion. The basic jutsu they teach you in the academy for survivle are based on deception and confusion. To dislike them is to dislike what you are...Besides...a ninja that doesn't want to trick people is a ninja that will quickly fall pray to someone elses trick..."

Kage then began to grin or something like that, "Or maybe thats why you dislike them...you don't have the skill to distinguish them and it irritates you...no matter. What is it you wish to learn..."

Kage looked to teh boy...he was getting cheeky and Kage was fairly sure he had found the boy's weakspot...

Didn't matter much though as now he was in Star's sight. She was pumping so much chakra into the room that, really, anyone suseptable to Genjutsuw ould have fallen for it. Granted it was a low rank genjutsu, nothing physical feeling, but still it was terrifying. Star knew that Kage had dispelled one and now she was concocting another nightmare for this boy. SOmething he wouldn't expect...obviously with this low of a level, she couldn't create the nightmare directly, but still she could influence it a bit. Shifting her eeyes, Star looked to Hiro and licked her lips. The genjutsu had begun...

And during all this, all Kage could do was look to Hiro and mumble something, "You do realize that she can still catch you in her genjutsu...gues not.."

[[hmmm do you want him to learn Kai release or wouldyou like him to learn something else. tell me that and i'll edit this accordingly]]

Obviously, with this low of a level genjutsu, Star couldn't tell exactly what Hiro was seeing but she had a clue. She had dictated the genjutsu to bring up something or someone he feared. Yes, and she figured it was along the lines of her as she didn't see or feel any other presence spew forth when the genjutsu effected him.

Star bent down and grinned as she rubbed the cheeks of his alter self. "Whats the matter? Never looked in the mirror before?" She grinned to herself as she spoke. She licked the cheek of the clone and soon stood up. Before Hiro's eyes would appear Sari and Mari. Sari was still in the corner and Mari would be awakening from her sleep. Just as she would wake up to move, thats when his clone would strike. A bruttle assault that would spill blood everywhere, including at Hiro's own feet. The smell, the sight, the sounds, everything would be so real.

And all the while, as she knew he would see horrible immages, Star just stood there and smiled evillly.

"Focus boy...if you can't break a low level genjutsu then you'll be usless in real combat." Kage's voice boomed in although he was no where to be seen. "You want out of this hell? Then break it yourself. Focus your chakra...or rather, stop it. You have to stop the movement of your chakra with your own force. Use the tiger seal to do it. She's already up to the full force of this genjutsu so it's gonna take a bit to break all the peices of it. Just take it one step at a time and focus...or go insane, either way should be a good show."

[[hehehe could you imagin if your teacher said that for real? Yea...you'd never be motivated to pass anything.]]

[[god it sounds dirty to think of it like that "Star will put you under her spell..." XD]]

Star looked on for a moment and soon arched a brow...hmmm this was starting to get a bit more interesting than she originally thought. Something was happening...his body was going through a physical change due to his fear. She arched a brow and kept her distance. A lazy hand gently rocking back and forth against her kunai pouch in case the boy tried something. She had already made a connection to Kage so if the boy struck, she would change places with Kage and strike the boy down with little hesitation.

However, she still saw something and wanted to see how far he'd go, "Hmmm awww...is the wittle baby having problems? Is da genjy wenjy too much for him to handle? heheheheh" she spoke in a moking tone...she was pushing him sure, but if this low level genjutsu forced the boy into some sort of change, she had to get him use to genjutsu or at least make him control the change...either way, this would be fun.

Star grinned, "Dear, I'm a tease. I love to screw with peoples minds and leave them a drooling puddle on the ground. There are those far worse than me out there and if you can't handle my little playtime genjutsu, you'll never be able to play with the big boys." She began to laugh a loud, irritating laugh. But it soon began to turn into the something more...something deeper. SOmething closer to what would strike fear into Hiro. Screams. Multiple screams, impossible to distinguish, just screams of pain and terror. They would fill his ears and surround him. Again it was the genjutsu.