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Rhaim couldn't help but lower his head slightly as the girl expressed her regret at getting taken out of the snowball war so early. And his head dipped even lower when she made the statement about being the first one to be taken out. The Nara soon remembered why he had made such an active effort to forget that event. While Aryza gathered her thoughts before her next question he found himself awaiting some other soul crushing unintentional statement. The boy slid his hands from his pockets and rested the forearms on his knees since he was slouched forward.

The boy shrugged at her question, "Not sure. My team got disbanded a couple of weeks back for logistical reasons and I'm supposed to be reassigned tomorrow. I guess it could be anyone. Well except for my old team."

He cocked his head slightly in her direction, "You?"

Tairu was walking around the village when he heard some familiar voices. That sounded like Rhaim, and that strange girl from the exams. he thought to himself. Tairu stopped walking in the middle of the street causing people to angrily stumble around him. Well I've got nothing else to do I might as well drop in.

With Tairu went to go find Rhaim and the girl. It didn't take long since the girl was fairly loud. As Tairu walked over to Rhaim and the girl he said "Hello Rhaim and....." Tairu stopped, he didn't remember the girls name. "This one begs your pardon, I seem to have forgotten your name." Tairu said apologetically as he bowed his head slightly.

Rhaim nodded his head in agreement that her team could be split apart at almost any given time for any number of reasons. Though that was unlikely. He hadn't heard of other teams having the same thing happen and it made more sense to have people work together for longer periods. Coordination wasn't often something that was as easy to pull off as a handshake. The boy was pulled from his thoughts as another kid wondered up to a place that he had thought would be a little less well known. To his surprise this kid knew his name. To make matters worse Aryza knew him at least. The Nara decided that it wouldn't be the best move in the world to just outright say that he had no idea who the guy standing before him was. He had probably just been another partaker in the snowball war anyhow.

"Hey."

Rhaim still had no idea who the kid standing before him was. He figured it must not be that important since he wasn't someone that he had spoken to since the academy. That meant that they must not have been close enough for contact to have been vital. He worked over in his mind as fast as he could as to whether the Tairu boy wanted a quick acknowledgement, a story, or just a continuation of conversation. The Nara shrugged his shoulders slightly opting to give the short answer since the question seemed to be more customary than probing, "This and that. A few missions, training, annoying my sisters. Normal shinobi stuff I guess. Nothing really noteworthy. You?"

Tairu watched silently as Rhaim just remained silently. Does he not remember me, I knew that he was a slacker but is his mind really that lazy as well? Tairu thought as he tried to fill in the silence for himself. When Rhaim finally answered it wasn't much. Tairu was disappointed as he had remembered Rhaim as being on a squad and thought he would have some exciting stories. Instead he was like Tairu and really had nothing. "Well, I haven't received a squad assignment yet so I've just been free to train all day." Tairu said. It really was what he did, he went out during the day and trained rested and ate dinner and then trained some more before bed.

My techniques? all I know is stuff from the Academy Scroll. Tairu thought to himself. "Well I don't really have any "techniques" I just sorta work hard and do things." Tairu said in a manner of uncertainty. "What about you Aryza, what do you do all day?" Tairu asked. He was curious since Tairu had never had the chance of being in the academy he wanted to know what going to school almost everyday like. That and Rhaim seemed to be a little uncomfortable with the current conversation.

Rhaim paid less attention to the girls story and more to the dog in her lap who almost appeared to be nodding his head in agreement to certain parts of the story. It was as if the pup could understand everything that was being said like it was in his native tongue. Though the Inuzuka bond wasn't completely unknown to the Nara, seeing up close in person was quite odd and fascinating. Without even realizing what he was doing the young boy found his face getting closer and closer to the dog in an effort to study its' facial features and reactions to Aryza's story. His eyes continually squinting tighter.