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Notwen scaled the wall with little to no problem and slid back into his room through the window. He was creeping up to his bed when all of a sudden he felt a tap on his right shoulder. Immediately the Chuunin tensed up. That tap was always the same no matter what, and if his hunch was right, Notwen knew that he was in a serious pickle.
"Where exactly did you run off to?" asked Senshi, General Rai Oh's aide. The General had appointed her Notwen's caretaker in his absence, so the dark-skinned Uchiha had gotten used to regular visits from her ever since he had become a Chuunin.
"Um... To eat breakfast with my team." he answered, swallowing the lump that had formed in his throat. Up to no Notwen had yet to move a muscle. He knew by experience that every time he moved while she was behind him would earn him a painful volley of finger prods to his ribs and back.
"And who gave you the leave to do so?" asked the aide again, her voice rising ever so slightly.
"No one. I figured i should just slip out instead of bothering the doctors for a permission slip to leave the premises. I can take care of myself, you know?" Senshi sighed, stepping from behind Notwen so she was now in front of him. If one didn't know her true nature they would believe that Senshi was a regular little girl. Standing at four and a half feet in stature and wearing an aide's uniform, she would come across as cute to most people. What most individuals didn't know was that she was a twenty-five year old woman.
"You're lucky that your injuries are still fresh. Punishing you for your stupidity would be enjoyable right about now." She gazed down at the clip board she was holding, contemplating whether she should hit him anyway. "I'm in charge of you. Do understand how your actions affect my standing and my job."
"I'm truly sorry, Senshi. It was really selfish of me to run off without saying a word. I hoped to be back before anyone noticed i was missing. It won't happen again." The aide sighed.
"Just get back into bed and promise me you won't go anywhere else again until you get permission, no matter how trivial or dire the situation may be. It's for the best." With that said Senshi opened the door and left the room. Seconds later Nagamichi entered with an apologetic expression on his face.
"Sorry sensei. I tried to get in, but she locked me out and threatened to poke me to death if i made any form of commotion." Notwen laughed and climbed into his bed, sitting cross-legged.
"It's alright. I didn't suffer at all. By the way, what happened to Takeshi?" To this inquiry the sword-bearing medic placed his hand over his forehead.
"Doctor Miyogu noticed his injury from yesterday and made a fuss about it, but Takeshi should be here shortly."

About five minutes later there was a knock on the door, which began to open slowly and Takeshi stepped in.
"Don't be shy, get in here already!" said the dark-skinned Uchiha. "You can have a seat on any of those chairs by the wall and window. Oh and i heard about your run-in with Doctor Miyogu." he said with a chuckle. "He can be a bit too much sometimes." Once the combat specialist got situated, Notwen went ahead and began to explain about his mindscape. "Basically my mind looks like a forest growing out of a desert with a few lakes here and there. There is an area that will be off-limits, which is the center of my consciousness. If i feel anyone getting too close to it that person will be ejected with an unpleasant parting gift. Wanna give it a test run Takeshi?"

As they broke their hug, Cruxis waved back before calling back; "See you in abit!". He subconsciously kept his hands at his sides, resisting the urge to put a hand to his cheek to see if he was blushing. His face felt warm, but with a few deep breaths his was able to get himself under control to some degree. Once she was off, Cruxis went his own way, thankfully the rain had mostly cleared by now, as he kicked off of the ground and into the air, moving towards the outskirts of town near an old hollow tree he had been using to store supplies in.
The first of the items he needed were his older notes, which contained several details of his minor wards that he had not bothered to commit to memory. Unlike his stronger techniques, which he had never written down and committed to memory; these lesser techniques were scrawled down when Cruxis thought of them, and oftentimes remained on where he'd first written them if he had not made adjustments or improved upon them to make them a part of his greater repertoire. The wards he was looking at for this instance were based off of the seven deadly sins; and while normally were too weak to have significant effects in the material world; both due to their sudden changes of scenery, in the most improbable way, and impracticality in a fight; Cruxis normally kept them buried in the recesses of his notes. However, in a mindscape they could be powerful tactics, bringing simple illusions based on the targets thoughts into full blown threats. This might be a good chance to learn more about Nagamichi if he played the techniques correctly. It was theorized that all humans held their own varying degrees of the seven deadly sins; Cruxis was aware that his own was Pride, not somuch in his accomplishments or his fighting capabilities; but in his performances and his refusal to give up an impossible mission. He would stubbornly charge headfirst into a mountain of traps simply because he did not want them besting him; often to his own misfortune. On the opposite end though, this headstrong determination had given him a strong force of will, which was likely what attributed to his talents in genjutsu.
From what he could tell, Nagamichi seemed like he could be suspect to wrath, though Cruxis had not ruled out the others yet. The second reason Cruxis tended to avoid using these basic wards in practical combat, they relied too much on knowing the opponent in order to stand a chance at succeeding.
Still, semi-useless power was better than no power at all; and so Cruxis prepared all seven wards and made several practices of his singular fuinjutsu, burning the seal mark into pieces of parchment until he had created the mark identically enough times to be satisfied in his ability to repeat the feat on a moment's notice. Glancing towards the sun, he knew he still had some time, but chose not to risk being late and so he hid his things inside the hollow tree again after retrieving a fresh bag of flash powder, and ran towards the hospital.
Arriving at the rear entrance, Cruxis made his way inside, making several turns down the hallways. His initial logic had been to simply find a nurse and ask for directions, but he must have stumbled into the wrong wing... No one here seemed particularly injured, minus the fact that a woman he had just passed certainly seemed to have a chest region too large for the rest of his body. Cruxis passed another person, this man looked as if his prostate was about to burst, before Cruxis realized that the over-sized lump in his pants was actually something entirely different. The nurse he finally found had elongated pointed ears, with piercing running along the length of them, which would normally be unusual enough; the fact that her skin tone had been altered to a pale blue was the nail in the coffin that perhaps he had stumbled into the wrong hospital.
"Can I help you?" the nurse asked politely, though the initial shock of her appearance had caused Cruxis to spill out a portion of his flash powder when he abruptly halted his forward movement.
"Um... yes... er... I'm..." he took a deep breath; thankfully the flash powder had not sparked, things could have really been awkward then; "I'm sorry, I'm just alittle thrown off. I'm looking for the injury ward? I arrived through the rear entrance, and thought it might be faster just to go through there than to loop around to the front..."
"Honestly, you're going to find it easier to go around the frong if you keep panicking like that. This is the alteration wing; plastic surgery and replacement surgery is done here." she seemed polite enough, though Cruxis's unease was not settling.
"Alteration wing? Replacement surgery?" he had a feeling he was not going to like where this was going to go; and the male nurse that just passed by them did not change his opinion of the matter; the man had for some reason decided to obnoxiously puff out his lips to the point where they did not even look human; "Good grief, is there anyone in this wing who hasn't been altered!?"
"Only you," the nurse replied before the aura shifted and her voice hinted on a semblance of the demonic; "For now...."
Stumbling backwards, Cruxis stuttered before looking at the nurse, who acted as if he had seen a ghost; "What did you just say?!"
"I said that we've not all undergone our own surgery.", she blinked with a confused look before continuing; "Alteration and Replacement surgeries are often useful for those who cannot be treated be standard medical techniques... Also, for those who are unhappy with how they appear. We specialize from everything between enhancements to implants; as well as full transplants. Once we've isolated a problem area, we can simply remove it and replace it with - A HUMAN FACE.... OR A SECOND BUTT.... OR A WHOLE SHARK!!!! .... all of which are perfectly safe and supervised by... certified.... um.... are you okay? "
At this second episode, Cruxis had buried himself inside of his shirt, and to say he was somewhat terrified from the incident would be a horrendous understatement. "Get your evil shark voodoo away from me and take me to the injuries wing please!!!"
The nurse glanced for a moment, before glancing at the ground and running a finger across the flash powder that had spilled; "Sir? May I ask what this is?"
"Its... Flash Powder, I use it for disappearing acts, slight of hand, and distractions... Snap our fingers, and the friction makes a spark, and smokes; the light reflects off the smoke... Go ahead and try."
The nurse snapped and nothing happened; another glance at her finger and she replied; "I believe someone has sold you a faulty product. This isn't Flash Powder. It's Devil Dust; a hallucinogen that affects the mind, its particularly devastating to those prone to visions; as it horridly distort astral projection and second sight. Stay right there!" she was gone and back in an instant, or what seemed to be; his sense of time might be distorted as well given his luck; "Here we go," she jabbed him with a syringe before counting backwards from five and giving Cruxis a glass of water to drink, "Don't go swimming for three hours, and if you can avoid harsh sunlight, that would be for the best. What you have there is thankfully a diluted dosage; the undiluted version can trigger full on hallucinations and visions. Now that that's settled.... let's just get you to where you need to go, which patient were you looking for?"
"Notwen... Notwen Uchiha." Cruxis thought back to when he had last bought supplies. A week, no, two weeks ago? His memory on the matter was foggy, he normally was in, bought what he needed, and gone; he never really spent time shopping; he was the type to go buying and be done with it. Faulty products, and at the worst time really. Still, this so-called Devil Dust had proven to have an interesting effect. With some careful planning, and perhaps experiments in inoculating himself to the stuff; it could prove a powerful tool under the right circumstances.
"And here we are! He's under standard visiting procedures. Once dinnertime rolls around, I'll have to ask you to leave, is that understood?"
Glancing to the door, Cruxis nodded to the nurse; "Yes, and thank you. I'll be okay from here."

Takeshi heard Notwen start to speak so he opened the door faster and entered the room. It seemed that Notwen knew that it was Takeshi and was rushing him in. Closing the door behind him, Takeshi moved into the room as to not block the doorway and say that Nagamichi was already there which wasn't a suprise. He moved over to the chair closest to the window. It was just a measurement that he generally did since getting into a building quickly was done by window or door, and with them in a hospital a window was the easiest way to get in. It seemed though that Notwen knew about the annoying medical professional that was bugging him easlier. Takeshi just sighed and shook his head as Notwen started to explain what his mind was like. Before he could answer the chuunin's request though, There was a knock on the door and Rissa walked through. He nodded towards her. "Hello Rissa, welcome." He looked over to Notwen and shrugged his shoulders slightly. "Looks like the test run is going to have to wait until Cruxis get here since most of us are already here. My question though is... How on earth are we supposed to mentally connect with you?" He knew that it was going to be rough since he only knew Taijutsu, with no actual experience in chakra control what so ever, let alone in chakra period. The only skills he knew, were just random pic ups from those at the academy that he never went to.

Eventually, Cruxis walked through the door and finally and the group was all there. It seemed though that he had jokes the moment that he came into the room. Takeshi remained quiet as the comments flowed from Cruxis. There was nothing to be said since that was Cruxis himself, he was quick witted but there were comments in which didn't need to be stated. He looked over at Notwen again and nodded. "Now that everyone's here, mind explaining how this is going to work?"

Mind games, taunting, that was all that the two were up to. Cruxis noted behind the walls he had set up within his mind. Anyone attempting to go gallivanting towards his inner thoughts would have to pay a price or two in order to get to them. He was not the strongest, or even the smartest, but he knew the inner workings of his mind and how to defend himself so long as he remained on defense. The weak to strong flows of attempting to influence another's mind was the backdoor he was working with much difficulty to undo; and while his newer defenses were still in basic stages, he now had something to shield himself with should a counterattack occur...
Why Notwen would go out of his way to harass a student about either staring at his crotch, or suggest that he was gay, was beyond him; perhaps Nagamichi had been speaking that time. The surrendering of one's mind like that was too uneasy for Cruxis's tastes; particularly entering another's body to take command. Inzuka were supposedly skilled at seeing through the eyes of their canine companions; though as wolves and men had bonded since the early days of their existence, it was more natural. The Yamanaka clan could do this on a stronger level, beyond simply seeing through the eyes of wolves and instead possessing anything they chose to target, be it animals or other humans. It was said that those who chose to take over a bird would eventually find himself loathing the earth he stood upon; while one who found the mind of an animal of prey would grow fearful of all around him... It was a dangerous game, choosing to physically possess another's body and overshadow their mind; as even under domination, instincts could still slip through that dominance...
Despite these thoughts, Cruxis said nothing, his mask focusing the steel blue of his eyes. Cold as moonlight, their gaze would follow Notwen as he reached out with a mental link; the eyes gave a lingering glare to Notwen, sending a return message to him alone; 'Muladhara, Swadhisthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha, Ajna, Sahasrara... I am not as ignorant as you would care to believe.'
As the pathway completed its connection, Cruxis landed upon the ground, shifting his feet to gain footing along the sand as his hands allowed the sand to sift through them. His mind calculated the area quickly. Tall trees, a sandy clearing; sand-based, motukon, and the Nara Clan's shadow techniques would be at their strongest in this terrain... Make yourselves at home, he had said; Cruxis debated the irony of that statement for a moment before shunting his debated comment aside. He had little time to prepare; and far too many preparations he still had to make. His own preparations involved setting wards in advance; so long as he kept his focus strong, he could have them prepared to release on command, in order to maximize his efficiency during the training. His primary skills were best used to attack opponents from the shadows; and he intended to make the best use of them during this session. Waiting for instructions for them to begin, Cruxis held his meditated focus, his eyes half-closed; a single flame within his mind burning in a void of space as his focus. By making his body a void, Cruxis could mimic a low pressure system for energy; as areas of high pressure move to fill spaces of low pressure. This mimicked void was his mediation technique, which allowed him to channel chakra with the efficiency he needed...

Kelvin Reyes-Genin-Lightning-Uchiha/Aburame

Kelvin took a deep breath as he walked into his apartment the keys jingled in his right hand with a bright smiled he walked to his bed and laid his things downs “ Feels good to be home” He turned around and free fall onto his bed, greeted by dust particles he sneezed a couple times before opening his single window trying to fan out the dust with his left while he held his nose with his right. When the dust cleared out, he took a good view of his apartment. His bed, Kitchen and living room all connected to each other much like a very small dorm room. The only separate room was his bathroom with a small shower for his hygienic needs. He reached for his broom leaning on a corner of the right side of his apartment wall. He opened his door as wide as he could as he dusted his apartment thoroughly. Kelvin’s mind drifted off wondering to his father, well step dad he supposed was more appropriate. Kelvin’s father found him on the dirt road on his way out of Konoha. Abandoned he said and since then he decided to raise him as his own. It was a rather peculiar story and it made him wonder if he was from Konoha or was did he end up there by circumstance? He did not know and he cared little for it. Kelvin enjoyed his life here he was content enough to keep him from chasing old shadows.

Kelvin Reyes-Genin-Lightning-Uchiha/Aburame

Kelvin had finally finished cleaning his apartment, He was placing his new clothing neatly into the drawers and suddenly he thought about his father “mhmm, I wonder if he is at the shop at this moment” His father was known as a famous travelling merchant for many years now. Well to be accurate his stepfather he never really knew his parents nor did he care all he knew with certainty was this his old man found him on his way out of Konoha a ways off “Might as well take a look , nothing better to do” he spoke to himself whenever he was alone a habit he picked up as a child. Kelvin walked out of his apartment locking it behind and jumped over the railing landing softly on the ground a good two-yard drop if measured above him a tiny black bug landed on his then to his arm disappeared into his short sleeve. You would not be able to tell but at close inspection you would notice bugs wondering around his body a secret he kept close to the chest only few knew of his trait to command bugs and little would anyone suspect they was a colony of bugs within his body coursing through his chakra though it did have its perks he hated the fact that random bugs were attracted him. Out of respect he did not swat them, He had developed a certain relationship with the critters living within him deep enough to give them names and be able to tell them apart. He could feel one of his tiny friends scurry across his face right under his chin “Not in public” he whispered under his breath not that they understood him but he could command them innately or passively to stay inside him until they were call up on. Kelvin finally made it to the market streets it had changed since then grown fuller a larger population of people seemed to have moved in to his village while he was away. He found his father’s store and he found a young lady most likely an employee “ He is away, Is he not?” She nodded with a smile “Yea, I thought so” he said while returning her smile before continuing on his way.

Kelvin yawned softly as he wandered through his village; it had become a bit more lively then he remembers. Since the end of the war, the country has done well at rebuilding itself progressively. Though he imagined there are still loose ends that would need correcting. Kelvin whiffed the scent of fresh water as a cloud gently enveloped him and continued on its way. Kelvin had come across a large boulder it used to be a playground well more l a child’s training ground. When Kelvin had not even entered the academy, he would repeatedly attempt to climb the boulder and successfully jump onto the ledge just a few feet shy taller than the boulder itself. To make it to another area of the village, Kelvin decided to lean against the boulder and took a seat letting his mind wander as he fell into a light sleep.

The sky was pitch black like nothing he had ever seen before no, clouds, no stars just the dark the lacking light from the moon left him literally blind as he fumbled to find his way to anywhere as he waved his hands about in front of in a side motion, Kelvin came into contact with a tree he grabbed a hold of it breathing heavily as an uneasy nervousness crept up his spine. Instantly It began to rain and he whiffed around turning as fast as he could staring at him were two pairs of red eyes that’s all as if the man’s body was nothing but a shade a ghost. He had never seen anything like it but those eyes, He recognized those eye that seemed to be trying to pierce into his very soul as if by will power. Kelvin was routed to the spot out of fear, confusion a riot of troubling feelings disabling him from any ration thought but finally he managed to say “Who... Are you?”


Kelvin’s eyes opened slowly as they adjusted to the light, He rubbed his head with his right hand as it pounded with pain “Just a dream” he said trying to comfort himself “ But I have seen those eyes before” Kelvin tried to think back but he did not know where he had seen those eyes. He decided to go to the library see if he could pry information from one of the archives.