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Aya took a deep breath, cleared her mind for what she was about to do, and with that she activated her Byakugan, she manage to increase her range out to a 150 meters, the veins near her temples leading to her eyes bulge and her pupil becomes more apparent, with that done Aya began to search the area she could reach with her Byakugan, her eyes opened her range of vision, penetrated the wall that sat around building, and allowed her focus on detailed that she may have missed before.

Aya's eyes sweep around the area in her Byakugans range, as her eyes penetrated one of the houses, she noticed that a few plates lay on the ground broken, but there were no sign that would is seem like a struggle had taken place, her focus move around the other house, and find that in a few of the other houses with the same thing, broken crockery and items that had no place being on the ground that were, and still no signs of struggle. All over it seemed that something must have happened, to draw everyone's attention to drop what they were doing to pay attention to it.

After noticing that something must had drawn the others attention, Aya began to look for what could have done it, the only thing that really could do that, that she could see, was the Church around the outside she found nothing that seemed very interesting, she began to move into the building she search it looking for anything interesting, only to find very little, a few dropped books, Aya eye move to the bell of the Church as she did, she did notice something about some of the tiles that coated the roof, were creaked, and it was new damage, their wasn't too much aging of weather damage, and guessing it must have taken a fare amount of force, maybe hail, or a person standing on them, she move past them and went to the bell tower, once again nothing.

Aya has search the area as best she could, and was about to cancel her Byakugan, when she notice a large mud puddle, on the road nearby, as she looked at it she notice that something was really off, and then it hit her, they were some footprints leading into the puddle but they stopped around half way in, there weren't any leading out, whoever had made them had stop midway into it, after noticing this, Aya moved her focus to find some more footprints, again and again and yet again, she found the same thing, footprint that come to a sudden stop. How do you make footprint stop like that, if it was one maybe two people that would be easy, but not the 20 or so Aya had bother to find.

Once Aya had finished her search of the area, she came back to Phaeton, he seemed a little output again, Aya hadn't been able to notice other people had turned up, Aya looked at him, and decide to tell him what she had found, while searching with her Byakugan. "From what i could find, it seem like a lot of stuff, that shouldn't be on the ground is, a few broken bit of broken crockery, food, buckets and so on. There seems to be some new damage to the roof of the church, ether it new weather damage, from hail or something, or someone was standing up there". Aya stopped as she thought a little on how to word her next bit, it was hard to explain something like that. Aya also had to asked about what had happened, to change Phaeton reaction to the situation, maybe something had changed. "I also notice something, all the tracks people had made, stop suddenly for no reason, kinda as if everyone turned into vanished into thin air, and what is it, the look you have makes it seem like something is wrong?". Aya asked as she tilted her head slightly looking at Phaeton.

((damn forgot my second dice o,o))
Oasis however shook the sensation off when she didn't see anyone outside from those that she knew who came to this place when she had, though she figured the mission wasn't a wind or nomad exclusive, so perhaps other shinobi from other nations would be there too.

Notwen was surprised to see himself reveal himself. It was as if he was looking into a cursed mirror and was watching his reflection move on its own. When the replica began talking in that familiar voice he was at a loss for words. But when it uttered the name Dokuro and mentioned his dead family Notwen became furious. He gripped his kunai harder to keep his enemy from seeing his anger.
Suddenly the replica began charging at him, brandishing the curved blade. To Notwen, it looked like he was running in slow motion. He himself began charging at his replica, kunai held in his left hand, aiming to disarm his enemy of the curved knife. If successful, he'd have the curved blade in his right hand. If not he would jump into the air and try to avoid the replica.

Aya looked at Phaeton, she closed her eyes and tried to use the 'Mind's eye of the Kagura", she still, wasn't able to use it fully, but she did manage to sense a few new chakra signals, it seemed that they were alone anymore, Aya decided to hide herself a little, she wasn't really sure if doing this would help if they were looking for her anyone in the area, Aya wasn't sure what would happen if she and Phaeton were found. As she looked to Phaeton on what they next move should be, only to be spooked by the sudden shaking of the ground, she activated her Byakugan on to look around.

Sorain made his way deeper into the town, his evolved Byakugan allowed him to see relatively far. Making it even more easier to see just how deserted the place was. He wandered through the town with his eyes held directly forward, one of the things he loved about being born with these eyes was his feild of vision. It was unnessicary for him to look in any direction other than directly forward once his Byakugan was activated. A complete 360 degree feild of vision allowed him to see all and know all, with the exception of one small blind spot just below the back of his neck which, no matter how much training he put into it, he could not close. He had by now assumed that this blind spot was -physically- impossible to work around as in it would not be humanly possible to see all the way around without some sort of blind spot. Sorain often wondered if his brain could even handle seeing all the way around with no blind spot as it would surely drive a normal man insane. Sorain stopped short for just a moment, taking the time to crouch down and examine the outside of a small hut in the town, he was searching for any signs of distress or any sort of evidence that there was at least a struggle. He found it hard to belive that these people would give up their homes without a dire reason. He supposed that there could be natural danger that lead them to evacuate but that still did not explain why it was that none of the houses seemed all that damaged, one would imagine that if a frantic evactuation had taken place then the town would look alittle more run in.

It was then that he noticed something odd, outside of the house were fallen buckets of water that was still not yet quite dried into the ground. Sorain stopped to examine the situation, from what he could gather someone had either knocked this down or simply dropped it. Because the buckets were facing towards the house he assumed the latter. Already he knew that there was more to this situation than what was on the surface, such a small town like this waisting valuable clean water? Not likely.

Sorain reached down and ran his fingers through the water before bringing his fingers to his eyes, testing the water to be sure that there was no chakra linger inside them had there been he would have easily been able to spot it out. Sorain sighed and looked up towards the sky, this water was no diffrent than the water that was spawned from rain. It appeared that these people collected their water mostly through rain buckets. Sorain stood up and proceeded down the path away from the house. In his mind he knew that something was a miss, though he was not sure what. He also could not be 100% sure that someone had not been trying to cover up something bigger. It was not unheard of for entire villages to be slaughtered and covered up to look like some sort of natural disaster. But what he could not figure out was, had this been an attack, surely there was at least one able bodied fighter in the village who could have put up some noticeable struggle.

Sorain turned down an ally towards a small in size yet tall in structure church. He took two steps before stopping short, holding his foot just above a loose roof tile. He slide his foot to the side and bent down to pick it up. "hmm" He said, pondering silently. He tilted his head back and looked up towards the roof top before turning and kicking himself up onto a trash can, up onto a pole, twisting around it landing on an adjacent roof top, only to flip over the railing and land himself on the window seal of the church, finally giving him room for the last jump up onto the roof. He landed with a short thud and went directly into his search. He rubbed his forehead, this roof top was the first sign of struggle he had seen in this village, but the strange thing was it was the craziest struggle he could ever see.

The Sharingan traits lingering in the back of his Byakugan began to activate, causing a hazard symbol to form over his white eyes and rotate slowly back and forth as he traced the scene with his eyes. From each cracked tile and the amount of pressure that this roof top was holding Sorain was able to paint a mental picture of how strong the force would have needed to be to cause such stress on the building without crumbling it entirely. Before Sorain could even get his head to speculate any further his attention was draw to the distance instantly. A thick wave of chakra loomed over the town radiating from the mountains. "What the hell..is.. thisss?" He questioned out loud. The source of the chakra was foreign to him as he could not place his finger directly on what sort of jutsu, or what sort of Shinobi, was emiting this thick chakra. Sorain sighed to himself, "I hope thats not Sai doing that s**t" he said outloud. The truth was, since he had been asleep his connection with Sai had not quite yet returned, because of his connection with his brother he had never once ever truly seen or felt what Sai's chakra looked like on the outside. It was entirely possible that this chakra was comming from Sai and he just did not realize it due to never really having to pay attention to it.

Sorain threw himself off the roof and began to make his way towards the source.

Notwen dodged swiftly to the right just as the replica made a grab for his kunai. While in the middle of dodging, Notwen was preparing a Calormen in his right hand. The area began getting cooler as all the heat was being drawn into the rotating sphere, giving it its signature orange glow.
I have to finish this quickly, Notwen told himself. The moment he saw his breath become a wisp of vapor he rammed the jutsu into the replica's back. If successful the replica sustains massive damage.

Rolling into a crouch from his dodge, the puppet Notwen twirled his blade in his fingers skillfully as his hazel eyes glared dangerously into his counter part's own crimson ones. For a second the body of the puppet became lifeless and some where in the hidden distance Sai's attention was diverted but this was only for a moment and the puppet Notwen quickly returned it's attention to the original. A playful grin stretched across it's features as it stared down Notwen and bit by bit the grin twisted into a darker, more cynical smile.

With a hand gracefully pressed against the ground in the same fashion a runner would as he prepared himself for a lengthy dash, the puppet moved to position himself into a strange, low bodied stance that kept it's blade tucked under it's armpit. Winking tauntingly at Notwen, the puppet dashed foreword at him before stopping abruptly and thrusting a knee up and towards the boy's chin. Whether it made contact or not, or if it was even countered meant little to the puppet or rather Sai so long as it made the boy move... And so the puppet quickly continued on to shift all it's weight on the foot that was still planted on the ground, turning roughly on the ankle and stretching out the raised leg to deliver a kick.

(Think about the time we sparred in Central and I did the quick set of leg sweeps cause I slipped on the grass)

Following the motion, the leg was brought back down and the weight was shifted to it as the puppet leaned close to the ground and swung the other leg to leg sweep the original boy... but not once but twice, as the puppets hands replaced it's feet and it began to thrust itself out once again to sweep with it's other leg. Quickly, it pushed itself back up with it's hands and finally launched itself at Notwen, the attack being completely out of it's attack pattern and rhythm was only actually excuted thanks to the fighter being a puppet, and thrusted the blade violently to slash him completely across his chest.