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Sai made a face and looked at Altoli when he said he didn't have anything to talk about. "Hmm.. well I guess that's no fault of your own." He said as he turned to glance at the rest of team they were currently apart of that were still training out on the water. "Well, regardless. You are now apart of my squad" Sai unitentionally strained out my, "And as such the three of us are going to have to get know each other very well." He said as he nodded his head towards Sorain to indicate and remind that he was the third person on the squad. "And when I say getting to know each other well I don't mean in a personal trusting way, you would with a dear friend." Sai started with a smirk, figuring that Altoli didn't have much intention on searching such info, "But rather for the three of us to know each other's abilities, strengths, weaknesses, and just mainly be able to predict and work together in perfect harmony. Something I'm glad to say me and Sorain have achieved. Of course it takes time to develop to that point. In any case..." Slowly Sai pushed himself up to a stand with a tired grunt and replaced his black gourd back on and looked down at the sitting Altoli, "I don't expect you to open up to us completely on the first day, but for whatever time we have left between now and when the mission starts your free to ask me whatever you like. Whether it be old mission history, experience, my favorite food, whatever. Either that or we can sit hear in silence til the team is ready."

(-yawns-)

((I'm, ah... pretty much waiting on either Sorain to do the skip, or Vykin to point and laugh at Seto's brief misfortune. ^^; ))

Vykin sighed slightly as Seto was nearly hit with the boom, shaking her head slightly. God, they were going to have to pray in order for this group of people to get this plan to work. The kunoichi said in response to Seto, "Yeah, that's right. Any other questions? Good, let's move on."

Vykin moved in an interesting, way, going through the things that were bad for a sail. She taught them terms that had to do with the ship and orders that they might be asked to carry out on a ship. An example was club hauling, when in order to turn quickly, the ship drops it's anchor and turns when going at high speeds. It's best used in gunfights when being pursued by another vessel. She taught them key terms that would mean loosing the ship, like the term "broach," which was typically used when in a storm, and the wind suddenly changes directions while the sails are still up. The masts could be easily lost in this sudden change of winds and they needed to immediately take down the sail in order to do this. Vykin continued to teach them how to work the ropes, getting their hands calloused and somewhat used to this kind of work. She used her wind chakra to simulate various situations, and at one point, completely flipped the boat, sending the three flying into the water while she jumped up on the boat, continuing to spin it until it was upright again. This was to teach them what to do when someone fell overboard, and she demonstrated exactly how to fetch them back into the boat. As they all got back in, she started to turn them towards Port Prodigal, their training getting through the basics and now they just needed to get there. She continued explaining things as she went, and now she was on the issue of the crap-lines. "There are some things that I won't be able to teach you, but you're just going to have to learn for yourself. For example, one of these are the crap lines. Generally on old fashioned ships, there isn't a head where do you your business, but rather ropes at the back of the ship. You'll just have to see these when you get there, but you have to position yourself on the crap lines so that you are overhanging the water, but still safely on them. These typically are just a bunch of loosely tied ropes so that you can go to the bathroom quickly and efficiently. Don't expect there to be any toilet paper either. Now it looks like we're here."

Vykin pointed to the sails that she could see over the trees on the mainland. As they turned the corner, the port was in plain view, and Vykin began to steer them towards the shore. They couldn't go in there with this dinghy. So they went to shore, and walked off onto the mainland. Vykin finished as they moved away from the boat, "Well, that's as much as I can teach you. Just hope that you somehow survive this and we'll be fine.

The group finished off the training sooner than expected. Things went according to plan, which surprised the hell out of Sorain because he was fairly certain that someone would piss him off again and he would decide to go rampage on the ships and sink them himself, and then let Altoli and Sai pick off the people in the water afterwards. It made Sorain feel good to know that his team alone could handle this entire mission. Although he did not know much about Altoli yet, his ability to combat in the water would prove helpful eventually. Sai however, he knew Sai's combat almost as much as he knew his own, without actually knowing all of his friends skills he knew his personality well enough to be able to predict what Sai would do. It made it really easy to work together when battle tactics can be changed in the middle of a battle without words even being spoken. But that was the pay out for the many mission that they had done together over the time that they had been teamed up, Sorain thought for the first time about how long it has been. Almost a year he would say (rpircly, since both of or char have had birthdays).

Sorain and Tsuki, along with Vykin and Seto had gained acsess to the ship. Vykin being the whore that she is had no problem being accepted by the horny sailors. Sorain introduced himself as Tsukis brother, on the very first day he got into a few brawls protecting her from perverts, although he did not like them messing with her, he was doing it partly to establish alittle rank on the ship. He had pretty much earned a slightly higher level of respect on the ship, that of someone who had been there for some months rather than a week. Sorain wished that he could keep tabs on what the others were doing but for the most part he did not see them that often. It was not a huge ship but he was kept busy for most parts of the day, and was forced to drink untill he was passed out to save face at night. Sorain had just recently admited to himself that he enjoyed that part.


After around a week of sailing, the sun had just gone down and the sailors were performing their nightly rituale of getting ******** up on red rum. Sorain had become one of the boys, he was still dead set on killing them all but he was enjoying the free drinks for dam sure. From the corner of his eyes he noticed Vykin. He was already drunk as a skunk but all those days of a constant state of intoxication had helped him build a better tolerances.

"Hey babe, take a sip" He said roughly handing her a large mug full of red rum," Lets drink till our insides go over board!" As he said his drunken cheer the other pirates cosigned with a loud ,"Aye!!" Sorain stepped up onto the side of teh boat and walked along it, balancing himself barly,"Achem!" Sorain raised his arms, and the entire ship got silent.

"Come all ye young sailors that follow the sea!!!"

The boat cheered and ranted along with him,"Way hey, blow the man down"

"You must pay attention now listen to me!"

"Way Hey, Blow the man down!!"
"I'm a salty old pirate set sail from Hong Kong
Give me some whiskey, I'll sing you my song!"

Sorain could not even finish the song before he was destracted again, he stumbled off the side of the boat and grabbed another mug and took it to the head,"Hell yea!" he was not ******** up. Sorain twisted a moment and then hit the deck on his back...."Savvvvvy" he said belching and then smiling at the moonlight, inside his mind though he was still sober. As soon as the sun was completely gone, and the sailors were drunken down for the night. The strike would start

Times were stressful for the intellectual little ninja Seto. Acting as a piratey blaggard was hard enough, but getting used to the taste of rum and sea salt was another matter entirely. Seto spent a good amount of his time on the boat heave-ho-ing off the side, keeping his meek stomach masked by some form of camouflage. After all, pirates are going to know who you are if you visibly launch chum every few hours.

What made it easier for Seto was his choice of clothing: water. Since he could "change clothes" on a whim, it was very easy for him to be ignored as... just about anything. His attire of choice was always something that blended in with the people and scenery around him, so those who managed to actually see him thought little of him. Occasionally he was barked at for standing around too much, but Vykin's training kept him out of any real trouble.

While the retarded privateers were boozing it up below deck, the delighted Seto had been given watch duty up top. Being farther from the chaos and foul beverages suited him just fine, enjoying a nicely-filtered orb of water whenever he wasn't in line of sight. He gave a small wave to Tsuki from the crow's nest, mostly noting that it was Seto and not some other retard, since Seto's facial features changed rather often, too. No other pirate would just...wave, and Seto knew standing out wasn't going to matter mush shortly. The air was thick, the eve was quiet, and Sorain was a little too happy downstairs. The fun was about to begin, and Seto's bright, sharp, shiny teeth marked what was to come.

Sai floated high in the sky above the boat watching all of the comotion happening down below with a growing sense of lonliness stretching out through him. Everyone seemed to having the time of their life drinking and talking and having fun being a pirate. Shrugging the thoughts away the leaned slightly against a gust of wind, the marbles that were beneath his feet surging him foreward to continue keeping him directly above the ship. Slowly he dipped a bit lower towards the ship, a misheavous grin spreading across his lips as the feeling of lonliness dissappeared only to be replaced with the restlessness and anxiety that filled him before the dawn of a new fight.

((Bleh.. Serious Writters block..))

Sorain noticed the crew men beginning to pass out. Perfect. Sorain sat up from his drunken stammer and shook his head wildly, as if shaking off the drunkness. It was a very well done act he had put on, of course the pirates would drink faster and more rapidly if provoked by a pro drinker in there presance. Sorain looked up to Tsuki and Seto and nodded to them once, and then held up one fist which was the universal sign for -hold-. Sorain then moved over to the middle of the deck and hid himself behind the mail sail. Pulling out the wireless radio he contacted his new team mate Altoli,"yo...yours on, shut down the ship asap. Be careful not to be too rough with it, we would not want a hole being poked in this thing, at least not untill the crew is good and dead. After you shut down the ship i want you to circle a perimeter around it and pick off anyone who tries to escape." he said under his breath and then stepped away from hiding. Pulling out his mask and pulling it onto his face Sorain took a deep sigh,"lets do this" Sorain began to form hand seals, almost instantly a thick mist formed itself around the ship, it surrounded around the ship so that the others could not see it but still allowed the rest of the ninja to see perfectly.