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It was a very short and quick ride across the water by the boat from the docks where Sage found herself before heading back to the shores of Hidden Star. Sage was now completely dry fallowing the boat ride that fallows the little swim that Sage had to preform to get off Fate Island before she would have gotten trapped on the island forever. Sage stepped off the boat onto the shores of Hidden Star while wondering to herself where Jason could be. Sage knows that he would have surely came back to the island to finish training while thinking to herself I guess this would be as good of time as any to use the Chakra Tracker.

Hiding among the shadows of the trees that lined the path a little ways down from the group that had gathered and were talking. Sage manage to quitly get close enough to listened long enough to figure out that it was a group of hunter nin that Jason was talking to. Sage decided that she would catch up with Jason at a later time when there were less people around. Sage then makes her way around the group through the wood before she returned to the path and travelled on towards the Hidden Star Village. Sage was hoping to learn a few more techniques before leaving the place that Suzaku had taken her to train.

While still looking up from the ground where Sage had landed, she watched as the man then turn and took off run like the coward that he must have really been. Sage quickly picked herself up off the ground and started giving chase after the stranger, who had barely even taken a handful of steps in the escape. Sage had managed to catch up to him within about a hundred yards. Sage reached out and grabbed a hold of the man's clothing that was flying up behind him as he ran. Once Sage had a firm grip on the clothing with her right hand she jerked back and down on it while at the same time rotating her body to stop running.

Sage turned and looked down upon the man that had been so violently thrown to the ground with a look of anger that was not often seen on her face that was only slightly more scarely with the tone of her voice as she began speaking, "The nerve of you. Did you really think that you could knock me down and then scare me into doing nothing. Then on top of that, you just run off when you think that you are out matched." Sage was knocking the dirt off her clothing the whole time that she was talking and glaring at the stranger that was laying on the ground looking up at her.

The split second that the feathers of the strange man's Kyujaku Kyouhou technique started touching Sage's back, she would start to feel some of her chakra being drawn out of her.

Sage then quickly leapped forward about a three foot distance to get away from the feathers and turned around quickly to look at the man that had the feathers all around him. Sage then took in a long deep breath before splitting her full lips to say, "Very interresting this is. I did not know that one could use the Mysterious Peacock Method in such away as this." A slight smile started to form along Sage's face as she staired the the man.

Sage then laughted slightly at the man before replying, "I am awake of many of uses. And now thanks to you... I have discovered another." As the last word left Sage's mouth she started gathering her chakra to preform the Kyujaku Kyouhou technique. As the feathers of Sage's technique grew, while then started to get manipulated by Sage, the feathers began flinging themselves in the direction of the strange man. Sage then lightly says, "Now it is time that I repay you for taking my chakra." Sage's feathers had grown longer than the stranger's feathers. This allowed Sage to hit the man without touching any of his feathers.

The man realizing that he was not going to be much of a match for this young chuunin girl then decided to do something that most have not ever done. The man then took a deep breath and held it for a second as his eyes slowly dropped to look at the ground near her feet. The man then slowly started to exhale the breath while saying, "I am truely sorry that I have knocked you down."

Sage listened to the words and stopped the manipulation of the her feathers to give the man a little more room around him and says, "It is okay, but you should know that all this would have been avoided if you would have said that from the start."

Sage continued traveling father down the path towards the Hidden Star Village to a point which Sage knew that she would be far enough away from everyone that she had happened to ran into on the journey towards the village. While still walking down the path Sage reached into her pocket where Sage had placed the small scroll that Sensei Hokuto gave to her the last time the pair had been trained together. Sage quickly unrolled the scroll and read it: