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"Sorry, you three!" Kae jumped off the final roof to land near the trio, nearly tripping over her own feet in the process. She was actually rather great at keeping balance, and such, but when she didn't have to, she let herself be klutzy at times. AKA- whenever they weren't on a mission. "The ANBU kept me later then I'd hoped..." she explained, giving a bit of a yawn and covering her mouth as she did so.

"Anyways... Why are we here again? Oh! Right! This!" Kae beckoned the boys to her as she went and sat next to Kinu, giving a nice hello to the girl. Out of a pocket, she pulled out three jingling small bags. "I told you guys I would have them by today, since we just went to bed when we got here, last night. They decided to pay us, after all, even if we were late." sometimes, the Mikoizai would banter about money, and it seemed to be a rather important value in her life. As long as they had money, they had the chance to expand their knowledge of normal life, as well as Shinobi life. Coming from a woman from a clan that bred Koi, it at least made partial sense.

"Did you three sleep well?" small talk was to be made, before Kae would finish with what she wanted them to discuss. It helped with patience, but sometimes she could drag on.

(Aww.. I was right the first time.)

Isaaku had picked up his pace, at three-fourths speed he was kicking up huge clouds of dust. He made three and a half laps around the city so far. His breathing was steady, helped by the other exercise he did every morning. "I wonder what time I was supposed to be there... If I go now, I'll either be really early or really late," Isaaku thought as he ran. "Better go now then." Isaaku kept running until he was near the place he was supposed to be, then his cloud of dust engulfed his image. But he was already on the ground, fixing his clothing that got twisted and ruffled due to the speeds he went at.

"Success," He squealed to himself quietly.

Ah! Kinu was about to snap back at Gaen for calling her 'Kinu-chan' when she was interupted by the arrival of her sensei. Silently growling she decided not to say anything in front of her superior and simply greeted the two teammates and the jounin obediently.

How rude! He has barely done a few missions with me, yet he already takes the liberty to speak to me that shamelessly! Kinu really hated this, why was she always put on a team with reckless stupid overly active boys that she had to play the sensible mother role with? She was getting sick of being held back by these kind of people. These two were so very similar to her former genin team members, they were both always playing, always teasing eachother, always getting the whole team into trouble. Why did she always have to deal with these kinds of idiots?? She had always wondered if too many young ninjas today had been heavily inflouenced by the late nine tails hokage. It seemed like the grounds were flooding with boys who had a personality as bad as that stupid fox.

Kinu's calm mood had disappeared as she recieved her payment from Mikoizai-sama. Though the weight of the little money bag cheered her up slightly. Now she would be able to afford that new book she had seen in the shop the other day. She was still rather unused to the fact that she was getting awarded in this way for completing missions, but she couldn't say she didn't like it, it certainly helped her studying greatly. Kinu was a huge bookworm, reading at all spare moments she had, even though there recently seemed to be too few of them. Their missions seemed to drag on and on and the casual voluntary work at the Konoha hospital didn't help the situation much either. Still, Kinu gave up sleep just to be able to plunge herself into the world of medical journals and herbology books, and even an occasional, even though Kinu would never admit it, thriller or detective story, she was only a young girl still.

Playing with the string that was strapped around the bag she turned towards her sensei.

"Just fine Mikoizai sensei, hope you did too?" She decided to go along with Kae's slow way of getting to the point, since she felt Kae liked doing it this way. Now, when she had turned her attention towards her teacher she noticed she wasn't the only one who was feeling yesterday's adventures in their legs. The way her sensei moved her body implied a slight tension in her muscles, she was also making slight correction movements involuntarily. Roque's movements weren't as easy to monitor as Kae's because of his clothing, Gaen didn't seem to have even noticed they had been up all night yesterday. Kinu noted for future reference that the boys probably had much better stamina than her sensei and she did, not at all surprising if you saw how many excess movements they were doing all time, the hyperactive brats.

Eh, stop being bitter, just add a few more laps to your routine. Kinu stopped herself from feeling sorry for herself for being born a girl, not a boy. After all, what was the point of that?

((Not at all Tale teller-sama. Just tell me who he is and who our jonin will be.))

Their demonstration went exceedingly well considering their incredible talent in genjutsu. Their illusory world jutsu was the envy of most genjutsu users in the Village considering its versatility and low chakra consumption. They continued on, communicating through thought on their next move. Considering they had nothing planned, lunch was a viable option.

((Wow. My character moved by you saying so! O:
Thats.. kind of Godmoding, but - eh.))

Batafurai nodded behind Ran, and looked around. "How are we supposed to know where to meet if we don't know what they look like?" A grin suddely smudged across her face. "We can track them! Use our ninja skills!" She punched the air and began to glance around everywhere stupidly, althought she was actually being serious.

(Besides, she just said you arrived at the grounds. What were you gonna do, run off?)

Isaaku nearly leapt into the air when he heard his name called from behind. He spun around with some weird stance that would block and be ready to strike back quickly. Until of course he saw who had called his name, an Otagakure ninja. He had to have been jounin level, based on clothing and how easily he must have snuck up on Isaaku.

"Ah! I'm sorry! I didn't know who was behind me! Really! I'm sorry!" Isaaku said in panic as he bowed in apology and respect. Had he known the man was his sensei for his time in Konohagakure, he wouldn't have gone into such a frantic state.

Shinji woke with a start. The morning fog had begun to clear, and he was one of the only people still sleeping. Shinji dashed into the bathroom to go through his morning rituals. He brushed his teeth carefully, making sure he had nothing stuck in them. Shinji washed his face quickly, then raced back to his bed, where he had laid out his clothes. Shinji slipped into his outfit like a turtle pokes its head out of its shell, then ran out the door, picking up his sword and jacket on the way.

Shinji ran as fast as he could through the crowds of townsfolk, on the way to the training grounds, where he was told he would meet his teammates. When he finally got to his destination, Shinji saw Kento and Kenso leaving a group of cheerful-looking Genin. He ran up to them, greeted the duo with a smile, and asked, "Are you Kento and Kanso Kurama? I'm your new teammate. Or at least, I would be, if we had a sensei to complete the team."

((Just so you know, under the Shared Mind jutsu, the twins can communicate telepathically, so only things written in this color will your character actually hear.))

The twins looked at the chunin who had just greeted them as their new teammate. He was definitely larger than them by about a foot. The twins sometimes despised their young bodies and were completely unaware how they obtained them, but it was no use crying over it. They could do very little about it. In any event, that wasn't the issue. They had been told they would work in a squad of three, but they were unaware they were meeting their partner today. However, they knew he was a Konoha ninja. He didn't appear strong enough to get through Konoha undetected, so they decided to trust him.

"Were you informed of this, Kenso?"
"No, brother, I was not, but we haven't checked our messages. None of them were urgent if you recall."

"Yes, we are Kenso and Kento. Pleased to make your acquaintance.....We're very sorry, but you didn't give us your name." The twins had an odd habit about speaking in unison. It wasn't as though they trained it. It was chalked up to their Shared Mind abilities. If they didn't talk in unison, at the very least, they often completed each other's sentences, but it often had a very disconcerting effect the first time they met anyone.