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Over the course of last night Raion had stayed up for a good few hours on watch duty with Shikuma and Eri. Not that she'd had anything against them in the beginning, she simply didn't like being near those who couldn't compare themselves to her own power, but after a good sparing match with Shikuma, she'd decided to follow the girl around a little bit at least until they were out of the academy. Raion could always plant a knife in her back then, if she wanted to.

The two girls were racing through the Academy building number 2, where the advanced kids were supposed to train. Since she and Shikuma, who she'd started calling Shiro, were supposed to be in the advanced area, they knew their way around the building rather well.
The reason why the two had been on the Elementary side to begin with was to finish their sign ups for enrolling in the academy, since neither of them had done so yet. Shikuma pushed her deadline to the last day, simply out of laziness, however Raion liked seeing how long she could get away with things. But either way, it had put an interesting spin on the situation they were now in.

To her surprise, Raion realized there were hardly any zombies at all in this area, perhaps it was because this side was out in the open and not to mention usually a lot brighter, still, perhaps something was up.
Running along side Shikuma Kitsuna, Raion glanced up at her with a sharp glare.

"Notice how it ain't so alive around here? You'd think things were actually normal aside from the occasional zombie."
"Yeah, I noticed, kind of hard not to, really. I think for some reason the undead were targeting the younger students first. the advanced training hall seems as though it was left for last. If I'm right, there should be a few undead attacks starting right as we speak." The girls short silver hair blew around at the side of her face, as she sat atop her wolf companion, who's paw steps matched Raion's feet stride for stride.

"You won't here a complaint out of me. I have no problem bashing in a few zombie skulls, it get's real pretty when the ground is soaked in dark red blood and rotting entrails." Raion, leaped up at a tree and kicked off of it, flipping before she hit the ground again, and kept running at Shiro/Shikuma's side. Adrenaline was flowing freely through her body, she hadn't felt this great for days.
"You are one messed up chick, Raion." The other girl muttered at Huedini's comment.
"Get used to it. Cuz you and I are partners right now." The golden haired girl just let's out her hauntingly sinister laugh and continues racing along the path.

The tree's began to thin out and suddenly the two Academy students had to slow their pace to a walk and they erupted into the small clearing where the academy part 2 was. The yard was already full of action, a prediction proved true by Shiro. There was a dark haired teen fighting zombies, fairly close by, as he headed for the tree line up further and to the left.
"Looks like we're late for the party." Shiro noted, glancing at the boy who was fighting off a few of the undead, more were lumbering around in the yard.

"Shut up, and start killing things." Raion grumbled irritably, once prey was in her sight there were no more jokes to be made, and any trace of emotion other than anger and hatred, left her eyes and body. A sadistic sharp toothed grin spread across her face, as she lunged towards the yard, further way from the boy who was fighting.
The Huedini didn't like helping people,not to mention she'd no sooner attack him than she would a zombie. In her eyes, everyone around her was an enemy, just waiting to be slaughtered, especially during a fight.

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Shiro watched Raion haring across the field with her razor sharp long bladed katana already drawing. That girl had issues, but Shiro was just glad for her co-operation at the moment. With a sigh, she leapt off her wolf companion's back. "Alright Ooka." She pet the creature on the head "Let's get to work." The wolf nodded to it's master, while Shiro turned and started racing across the small space between her and the other boy. When she reached his side, her massive bladed sword was already being swung out in front of her, as she cleaved a zombie clear in half, that had been trying to sneak up behind the other student.
"Hey." She greeted. "Thought you could use some help. What's the status of this area?" She questioned, referring to the inside and what everyone else was up to. The place didn't seem to over run yet. Using her tail for balance, she lashed out and swung again, at an oncoming zombie.

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Shikuma let out a small sigh as soon as she'd heard the boy's voice.
Seriously? Another emotionless emo kid? A small frown painted itself across Shiro's wild features. Her dark red eyes shone in the light of the moon as she simply rolled her shoulders back in a shrug.
"Great." Her tone came out slightly sarcastic. She and Raion had been a bit late on the rescue crew mission if some of the students were already dead. Her tail twitched back and forth irritably.
At the boy's last comment she adds. "Well, Area 1 is already covered. We moved most of the survivors to the basement under ground, beneath the school stationed over there. My comrade and I came here to see how many survivors there were.

"Our teacher was turned into a zombie and then killed. Two students left earlier to head of their home towns. It turns out the whole region is covered with these rotting creatures." She explains briskly, as she leaps back onto Ooka's back. She runs her fingers through the wolves' fur and then glances back at Rikiya. "The name's Shikuma, by the way. You can call me Shiro, most people do." Grabbing the handle of her over-sized sword she slides it back into it's sheath. The pom-pom braids in her hair sway in the breeze as she jerks her head in the breeze as she gazes at him.
"Lead the way, you probably know more about what's going on then I do, in this area."

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Raion ran through the dark forest, darkness and the light of the moon had descended to the sky above, and the whole abyss above glowed with twinkling silvery blue stars, that shone like some one had smeared glitter glue all over the sky. She slowed her pace down to a jog, and then finally stopped all together, to look up at the sky. The blonde girl had never seen so many stars in her life. For some reason the view of the sky was really intense around the Academy. The stars were clustered together in one large area, a fog of sparkles and what looked like unearthly smoke. There was a large pink spot in the middle that radiated pale different colors. Even the stars shone with different tones.
The sky looked so mysterious from where she stood. And although Raion had no idea, she was staring up at the Milky Way.

The beauty of the view brought up memories in her mind. When she was younger, Raion would lay in the grass with her mother and father and stare up at the stars just like she was now. Except she wouldn't be covered in blood. And those faces, the faces of her parents, they wouldn't be blurs that came to mind. Back then she'd been able to picture her mother's kind smile, the way the lady's lips pulled into a loving smile as she gazed at her daughter...
or the way her father would pick her up and spin her around, while the young toddler would laugh and laugh.
A chilling shiver suddenly crawled slowly up Raion's spine, and she immediately threw the thoughts out of her mind as quick as she could. Why had she been thinking of the past, the time when things were good? Did she want to hurt herself. She slipped a kunai out of her tool bag, that had been strapped to her waist. Taking the blade in her left hand, she lifted up her right in front of her and crammed the blade through it. It made a sickening fleshy sound, and the blood began to flow. At first just a drop hit the ground. then more followed until the warm red liquid was practically dripping down her hand on to the ground below.
Gritting her teeth, she forced back the bad memories, Tora trying to kill her, Her caretakers throwing her down flights of stairs or locking her away without food for a week. Or the man of the household who'd get drunk every night and come up to her room and....

Her eyes glinted dangerously in the light of the moon as she turned around, yanking the kunai from her hand. She placed the bloody object back in her tool bag, and looked at the ground. Part of her just wanted to lay on the ground and sleep. Lost in thought, Raion missed the undead creature coming up behind her, didn't hear it's silent approach before...



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Eri had been out on his usual walk, simply out patrolling the forest, making sure there weren't an abnormal amount of zombies walking around, since Shikuma was out in area 2, looking for more survivors. He hadn't counted on running into the strange Huedini girl who always seemed angry for some reason, even if she kept her anger at a cool bubbling hatred. Eri could easily pick up on her emotions. Maybe it was because he was a Shugotenshi Clan member, or maybe it was something he could do just because he paid close attention. But either way Eri, was still curious about what it was that had made her such an angry and violence seeking person.

He lighted down on a tree branch, pulling his one single black angel wing up against his shoulder blade. A single black feather drifted down to the ground, and was swept away by the breeze, as the light from the Milky way hit his feathers and bathed them in a pale purple-y silver glow. Raion was within his sight and he quietly watched her, with pale yellow eyes the color of the moon. He raised an eyebrow in shock as the girl had stabbed a kunai through her own hand, and at her own will. But his gaze was quickly drawn away by the movements of a shadow in the distance. It as an undead creature, and Raion, for once seemed off guard. And of course it was moving straight towards the younger girl.
Thinking quickly the 18-year old grabbed a Windmill shuriken from his bag, flicked it open and hurled it at the horrid filthy creature. The windmill spiraled through the air making a small vibrating sound as it spun and buried itself deep within the zombie's torso. The creature groaned and dropped slowly to the ground with a muted thump.
Raion turned around with a fierce hateful glare in her eyes. The anger was almost unbearable and Eri blinked cautiously as she turned. Her strangely in human eyes glowed in the dark of the night, while the purple light hit her hair in an eerie way.
The situation seemed to register in the girl's mind and the anger in her face turned to exasperation,her eyes narrowing into golden slits. "You! How dare you! Why did you help me?"
"Because you would have been killed other wise." Eri spoke in his always calm voice, gaze not leaving hers.
"That..!" Raion was quiet for a few moments and the older teen watched her go silent. He thought she'd argue further, however she finally just shook her head. "Whatever. I guess I owe you one."

"No. Don't worry about it." He paused for a moment, thinking. Having Raion around the other kids was dangerous. If one of them said one thing out of line. he knew she wouldn't hesitate to spray their blood all over the walls. Not to mention, she seemed to be able to take care of herself. or at least for the most part, anyway. Perhaps she didn't belong in the academy anymore. Maybe it was time for her to take her leave.
"I think it's time you left the academy anyway. You've mastered all they have to teach us here, have you not?" When the girl just nodded slowly he continued. "Then leave." His voice was simple and he his wing suddenly sprung to life on his shoulder, pointing in the direction of the docks.

"Go on Raion."

The golden haired teen stared at him for a few hard seconds, and then she was gone, running silently towards her future. Eri watched her leave, leaving nothing but her blood on the forest floor. Well... The Shugotenshi decided he'd better head off back to the Academy and see how the classes were going, since they'd resumed training under ground.

Zetsu, Fenrir

It had been a while, perhaps too long, since the last time that Fenrir had come forth into the light of day. He hadn't made much progress as of late, in preparing for his attempt at being civilized and joining into the ranks of the Shinobi. After all why would you want to join a village, that had subjected you to such tortures as the ones that he had to go through? Fenrir slowly shook his head, his gaze raising upwards towards the sky. "Quit lollygagging, we need to get moving and make it to the Academy already!" He said aloud, although there wasn't a single person in the area. A slight frown formed across the left side of his face, the white half was really the only half to be able to show any sort of fundamental feeling. "Lollygagging? That's quite an interesting word you picked up, don't you think? Either way. I'm moving as fast as these two legs will let me. Or should we make a bad impression when we simply rise up from the earth at the Academy entrance?!" He soon says aloud, before shaking his head and continuing to walk forwards. "That wont be a problem, lets just go already! Fine, fine. We can do as you like, it would be less tiring anyways. About time!" Swiftly the plant like twin colored form would sink into the ground, merging with the very life of the earth at their feet as they moved with great speed to the Academy entrance. As quickly as they had merged with the ground, Fenrir slowly rose back upwards almost as if he was a plant uprooting in the spring. "See wasn't that easy!?" The gruffer more violently toned voice spoke before a low almost menacing chuckle followed. His eyes slowly rolled in their sockets, golden yellow hues flashing in the light of the day as they soon came to rest upon what they could see before them. "This place doesn't look that bad.. It needs more red. Red? Oh right, you mean blood." A lighter toned laugh came forth, before the plant like figure began moving forwards, making it's first steps into the Academy. Although at a further glance upon this area, Fenrir came into the realization that he was not at all ready for such a step. Seeing as he had learned what he needed to at an earlier time while he was confined within his village, he simply turned and sank back into the ground, heading out and away from the area in order to return to his village as if it had been a job well done from the start.

[Graduated]

Alice sighed softly to herself, sitting at the back of the class room as he usually did while absentmindedly taking her notes for class. It was the same today as it was everyday for the past week. They were learning about the First, Second and Third Great Shinobi Wars in order and in very accurate detail. Sure it was relatively interesting in and off itself, but they were repeating a lot of these things over and over and reviewing what was already talked about. She couldn't help but feel that her entire class was full of mentally slow people and that was why they reviewed all the time. She had already read far ahead of everyone else on the subject on her own free time out of impatience and boredom and effectively knew all of the material well enough at this point that she could be the one teaching it, though she doubted she would be able to put up with half the students in this school. To be honest, she would much rather be out and about doing at least some kind of mission where she could put her dolls to a more practical use. Hell she would even go as far as to start cutting classes at this point out of boredom and when she normally prided herself on her perfect attendance thus far, things were starting to become too boring for her. She was definitely out of here the moment the bell rang. Then she could go off and practice some of her jutsu and puppeteering instead of sitting around in here and waiting for her class to catch up to herself on the matter of the Three Great Shinobi Wars.

Sitting back and covering her mouth as she yawned a little, She glanced at the clock and smiled a bit, glad that time was almost done now as she looked about the class room. The teacher was still rambling on about the details of the final battle of the Second Great Shinobi War and she could see a varying set of reactions from her classmates. Some were taking notes and paying attention like good students, while others seemed as bored as she was though for a different reason entirely and even one or two had fallen asleep at this point. Shaking her head, Alice ran a hand through her short blonde hair and waited for the clock to finish ticking before she was snapped out of it by the teacher shouting and scolding the sleeping students. She watched them get an extra homework assignment and them griping and groaning about it with a slight grin before her name was called. Looking up at the teacher curiously, he questioned her to whether she had even been paying attention herself at all, to which she simply shook her head honestly. "I had gotten bored with all the reviewing what we already talked about so I simply read ahead on my own." She told him straight up, getting a slight glare before being questioned about the exact dates and names of several major and minor conflicts and leaders of the Third Great Shinobi War (which they hadn't actually started talking about in class yet), to which she would simply stand and reply to him in a monotone voice all of the correct answers in perfect order, putting him in a moment of shock, getting a few impressed glances from her class mates as well. Before another word was said, the bell range and she retrieved her bag, slinging it over her shoulder and simply walking out the door, satisfied in that last impression she had left the class with.

Making her way into the rest of the town, the young puppeteer looked around casually as she surveyed her surroundings. The place was easily a more lively place than her birthplace in the desert, and it wasn't as dusty here, but in some ways she almost missed that sandbox she had once called home. Almost. She still wanted to see so much more than just these two villages in the world and to learn everything she could with her own eyes. She was still very young and inexperienced by Shinobi standards as she was still merely a student (even if she was at least Genin level is judged by her actual chakra and talent) and she wasn't even a fully grown woman just yet either. Walking along the street with Shanghai held against her chest, she simply ignored any stares or glances she had for walking around with a doll in her arms at the age of sixteen. Whether it seemed weird to them or not was hardly her problem or anything she cared about. The opinions of others weren't all that important to her really, at least when it came to minor things such as this. Besides, it was better to give the look of an immature young girl with a doll than to walk around without her primary means of fighting with her. Sure she was capable of fighting without her dolls, but she was just more comfortable and better off keeping it with her at all times just as a precaution.

As she walked along the street, she slowed down and came to a stop just outside of her favorite small tea shop and turned to head inside. Looking around, it wasn't terribly busy and there were plenty of open places to sit as she went over and took one side of the benched table after setting Shanghai down to sit on the other side. Then waiting to be met with the young hostess, she pondered what type of tea she was in the mood for and when the young girl was asked, she had settled for a cup of chai tea. It had a strong herbal flavor that helped relax your nerves. She would sit and wait patiently for her tea running her fingers through the back of her lovely blonde hair and started to think about how much longer she was going to be stuck attending classes at that boring old Academy. After all, she already had the skill and ability to qualify for a Genin as it was. If she had to wait too much longer to graduate, she might end reaching Chunin rank before long. Lacing her fingers together as she would stretch her arms up above her head, she would sigh softly to herself before her cup of tea was finally delivered and she handed the waitress the yen to cover her bill plus a little extra as a tip. Nodding after being thanked, she lifted up her tea and held the cup to her lips, smelling the herbal flavors first before blowing on it lightly and taking a small sip. It was still a little hot as she would set it back down again and reach into her bag for a small book she had. She would end up spending the majority of her afternoon reading from her novel (a history book about the Village Hidden in the Leaves which held information about the major clans and their founding and such) and sipping from her chai tea until the sun had almost gone down. It wasn't until she noticed the dimming light that she looked up and outside before blinking, a little surprised at the time as she set in her bookmark and returned it to her bag. Retrieving Shanghai, she would say farewell to the woman that had served her tea and waved before heading out on her way to her temporary staying quarters for the duration of her attendance at the Shinobi Academy. It had been a relatively normal day really and she was a little bored with it. She absolutely could not wait for when she would be free of these classes.

Sanosuke took his sweet time making his way back to the Academy, not in any particular rush to get back. Not like he really liked the teachers there much and a lot of the students were less than agreeable too. Some of them really needed to just shut up, calm down and take some time to relax and chill. Everyone around him always seemed to be so high strung and uptight. Naturally, he was scolded again for being late to class (nothing new there) and ended up sitting down for another boring a** lecture for the rest of the day. He really couldn't stand that kind of crap really. He always felt more comfortable with practical lessons or training over sitting in these classes and listening to some old fart talk all day. Learning should be hands on and done the 'right' way so that you could really understand and handle things and even give your body a good workout while you did it. That was perhaps the only reason he usually would stay around after hours on most days and just practice on the training grounds on his own time really. Working on his shuriken skill, basic taijutsu maneuvers and general combat forms with both his sword and his spear. Sure they seems like rather large and unusual weapons for a ninja but he liked them really. They were simply his preference and odds were, he would be spending a few hours working out and praticing with them again tonight to make up for this boring a** lesson he was stuck in. He pretty much spent the whole class just staring absent-mindedly out the window really. Not like he cared to listen to this guy just go on and on about some basic crap about ideal squad sizes and some other garbage he didn't really hear or care to hear.