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"N-no problem!" The boy replied happily, obviously content with the duty he was given by his new leader. Though, he took in the man's message, he would be responsible for ensuring they would not be attacked from the front, a rather important duty. Either they were desperate and would put the newest guy up there or the man had confidence in a stranger like Tatsuya. While it was probably the former the boy secretly hoped it was the latter, and as such he gave a slight bow and began sprinting ahead, going the designated distance before slowing to the pace that matched the caravan.

When he was in place he found himself in a forested area once again, and immediately leaped upwards onto a the branch of the first tree, which Aoiro mimicked, jumping into a nearby tree, following his owner's movements in order to be of some use as well. Though, the thud that each made forced Tatsuya to place his left index finger to his lips as if to say, 'be silent.' With that both jumped periodically from branch to branch as the caravan got closer to them, making sure to keep the distance that Saru had designated. Hopefully this would all go according to plan, but Tatsuya, being in all the situations he had been up to date doubted it would be that simple.

Continuing his maneuvering around Tatsuya whipped his legs up in an attempt to bring his legs up in a way that he could wrap around near the base of the sound ninja's clone's shoulder. The punch came and went as a well known thump on the head, though the boy was more than expecting that someone that could kill Immortals would be able to punch with a little more force, maybe he focused more on ninjutsu... Then why was he messing with trying to fight hand to hand? At least Tatsuya had some sort of reason, his methods killed enemies easily, but Shuniji had enough to gain for just offing the kid. "Why are you stalling?" The boy spoke clearly through the sloshing of both of their meddling in the oil, which had was still smelling rather horrible...

In the short time Tatsuya felt himself falling through the air, still gripping onto the Clone-iji's arm he attempted to shimmy his way into a position his head wouldn't be plowed into the ground, which worked in a way. Instead of his head his back to a majority of the damage which, in combination with the oil that spanned their battlefield sent a large splash into the air only to fall back down onto both of them. Tatsuya, let out a loud gagging sound from the foul stench that was now all over his body and mixing around with his small beads of sweat making the sickening odor even worse. Still though, the boy tried his hardest to focus on the "fight" that had been reduces to mud wrestling. Tatsuya moved his feet out of the latching figure and into a position that the right leg would be pressed against Clone-iji's face and the other on his chest, once his legs would be in position he would attempt to hyper extend the man's arm into submission, at least until Saru and Aoiro got back.

That was it, the smell was really getting to him, he needed to get away from it, and now, if he didn't he would continually come back to it and be forced to gag out of being disgusted. For a moment the boy thought about how he could actually get away from there without sacrificing his good position on Clone-iji when it hit him. Well, the clone's fist pounded into his kneecap but the thought hit him. How had Brother's body sailed through the air? The man used the sword and struck something that the sword couldn't pierce and just pushed him further, in that case the sword had gone through Hiyo and couldn't pass through Brother's sword. With one hand still clenching onto Clone-iji's arm the boy pulled up the dagger and aimed it at one of the larger nearby rocks and channeled a chunk of his chakra into his sword that proceeded to shoot out an extension on the blade until it collided with the rock.

The force that came from the sword wanting to go it's full length and being stopped after only four feet forced the Udai member and Sound Clone to slide across the oil covered ground and into the thicker forest and subsequently into a less oil covered area. Though the black liquid was still present, but at least now the boy wasn't gagging at the shear smell of the oil. "W-what are you doing here? Y-you seem to be around all these areas that bad incidents have happened... I-if you keep it up you will be blamed for more things than you have actually done." The boy spoke, more than likely on deaf ears. Still though, he drew back his sword's blade to it's normal length and aimed it at a nearby tree, trying to put even more distance between the two and the massive amount of oil.