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Narkosa walks up to the river knowing this section pretty well his old house was down quite "This was some good times," Narkosa said to himself jotting down a few note and running out.

[exit barrier]

Haruko walked down the unfamiliar dirt path leading from the village to the barrier river, as she neared the river the sound of the strong river current began filling her ears. 'Wha, such strong currents. Wonder what the river actually looks like.' At the end of the dirt path, Haruko entered a clearing and stared at wonder at the scene before her. "What a nice place. Glad I choose to come here on my day off instead of somewhere else." Moving to sit under the shade of a tree, Haruko leaned back on the tree and closed her eyes, enjoying the peacefulness of the area around her.

As the deafening noise filled the air, Haruko's eyes shot open and she sat straight up instinctively. Turning to face the direction of which the noise came from, she saw a petite girl with long blue hair standing by the bank of the river. 'I wonder what happen?' Her question was soon answered when the girl began crying out.

Standing up, Haruko made her way over to the girl and saw that she looked familiar, stopping a few feet away, Haruko spoke, "Oki-chan? Is that you?"

Haruko was surprised when the girl suggested that she was a stalker and even worse, that she swung that way. 'Ew, no offense to those who do swing that way but sheesh, that girl has some nerve. But then again, if she didn't she wouldn't have pranked her when they first met.

Haruko watched as Oki walked further down the stream and attempted to try her jutsu again. Haruko watched as a small hemisphere of water cover her for less then a few seconds before it went and exploded with a loud 'BOOM'. Hearing the girl cursed out a long list of profanity, Haruko decided to walk over and make sure that the girl doesn't kill herself. "Hey, are you okay? And before you start accusing me, no, I'm not a stalker, nor do I swing that way. We met awhile ago in the painted meadow, remember, you pranked me by placing a spider on my head?" Haruko looked at the girl questionly wondering if she remembers or not.

Haruko let out a sigh of irritation at the girl's stubbornness/rudeness 'Well, what can you do. She's still just a kid after all.' "Look, I was just worried about you since you were screaming out a long list of profanity but since you still have the strength to act stubborn then I guess you're fine." Haruko was about to turn around and walk away when she remember something, turning around to face Oki again, Haruko gave her a small smile, "Hey, I've just remember that we never did get to have our little sparring match at the meadow. How about we conduct the spar now? Oh, and by the way, my name's Haruko Tsubame since you seem to have forgotten. So what do you say? You up for a quick battle?"

Haruko was surprised at Oki's forwardness but she kinda expected it as well seeing how brash her personality was. Quickly reaching for her kusarigama, Haruko charged towards Oki only to jump at the last second, landing behind the petite girl, Haruko whipped her kusarigama across herself in a vertical fashion and sent a blade of wind towards her opponant.

Haruko watched as Oki dodge her wind blade and send 3 shuriken her way before charging at her with a kunai. Jumping back, Haruko took out 3 shuriken of her own and threw them towards Oki's 3 shuriken, then she grabbed onto the head of her kusarigama and charged at Oki as well.