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The environment that stood before the Miyanari warrior was a place that the Hidden Cloud warrior just happened to find based on luck alone and a little help from a black book. The cyan haired Xim swordsman was on his way to the Hidden Twilight village to figure out this mystery of who killed their kage and how he could bring Twilight and Cloud on good terms. Along the way he was reading his shinobi handbook trying to learn more about the world around him. During his travel the Miyanari warrior still didn’t hear anything from Kai or Jeremy, which resulted in more doubts and negative thoughts being filled inside of the Hidden Cloud warrior’s head. As mentioned before, Reiko Seldab kept positive thoughts within his thought process, telling himself that he will eventually reach contact with them once he arrived back at Hidden Gears. Another person that he didn’t hear from in a while since the end of the Chuunin exams was his partner Rosalia. It would have been nice for the two of them to bump into each once more like they did back at West City on their own world and when the two first arrived here on this planet. Unfortunately that sort of luck seemed to slip by Reiko Seldab or ignore him completely. When one were to further examine his luck it would seem like he was short on it, failing to run into Tamao, who was an impressive swordswoman from what he witnessed with abilities similar to Reiko’s.

The Miyanari warrior would have loved to run into her once more, allowing a second chance at their sparring session from the higher powers above but the Hidden Cloud warrior saw this at time to train and become stronger; that way, when they would meet again he would be much stronger against her. His travels were beginning to take a dark turn for the night began to arrive (since its Thursday). He had arrived at a river where a beautiful, crystal clear waterfall was dropping along the rocks below. He spent a few hours training before Reiko decided to go to sleep where he was when he decided to take a decent bath. It was difficult without soap but of course it was better than being stinky. That was when the Hidden Cloud warrior walked inside of the waterfall, expecting to be drenched with cool water and a wall right in front of his face. Instead he only received half of what was expected. The part where there was a hidden passageway at the waterfall was something that he didn’t expect. Curious about what was at the end of the hidden passageway at this waterfall, The Miyanari warrior suited up and flipped through the pages of his shinobi handbook; hopefully he would find something in the book that would say what was behind it. The booklet helped him this far so there was no reason why all of a sudden it would just be useless to the Miynari warrior like last year technology to some people nowadays. The shinobi handbook revealed to the Hidden Cloud warrior that behind the passageway at the waterfall’s base laid a village called the Hidden Waterfall Village. Seeing as how Hidden Waterfall didn’t have a problem with Hidden Cloud, remaining mostly neutral it would be okay for him to stay there for the night. The Miyanari cyan haired swordsman took the hidden passageway deeper and deeper until he was at the end of it, amazed at what was in front of him.

“Whoa…”

There was…nothing around him except for a monstrous bottom portion of a tree; certainly the biggest tree that the Miyanari warrior has ever seen in his life so far. As fascinating as the tree was however the Miyanari swordsman was more concerned that nobody was around to greet him with a handshake or a kunai. Reiko took a look back into his handbook only to find that the village itself was indeed hidden in waterfalls but the society was living in the tree itself. “So I got to travel up the tree to get to the village huh?...Alright then.” Reiko told himself, taking one last breath before he ran towards the tree head on, only to disappear in an instant and reappearing to the first large branch of the tree. The Miyanari warrior continued his shortcut to get towards the village, vanishing and appearing higher and higher up towards the gigantic tree until he saw something out of the corner of his eye. At first he thought that it was an inhabitant from the village but instead it was a corpse. The cyan haired warrior was surprised to see a corpse in the Waterfall village but that wasn’t why it stopped his movement…It was what the corpse had on it that did.

The Miyanari warrior’s eyes looked towards the valuables that were next to the corpse; mostly towards the note that was next to it. Out of curiosity, the Miyanari swordsman walked towards the corpse, kneeled down and began to read the note. The note was from an anonymous warrior that started off saying that whoever was reading this obviously didn’t buy the decoy that was placed here. “So this corpse doesn’t belong to the person that wrote this…a fear tactic”. The Xim swordsman continued reading the note that went on to say that he or she has taken many lives with the weapons that were laid down by the corpse all for a stupid piece of cloth that had no real properties to it. And that as a result he or she stripped down the weapons, including the cloth that everyone wanted, and disappeared, leaving the old life behind them along with the ones that wanted to kill them for the cloth and begin a new one. The note ended with saying that whoever was to find these items were the official owners of the weapons. “The official owner huh?” Reiko asked himself, looking towards his spoils which were magenta colored gloves and a sword. The Miyanari warrior wasn’t really interested in the sword as he was in the gloves at first but remembered his battle with Tamao and her library of weapons. If these weapons would bring him closer to being stronger against her and to take him home, then they would become his.

Before he tried out the weapon, Reiko was curious about the gloves and decided to slip them on his hands. He checked out the gloved and looked at the design and immediately when he did so, the weapon that was by the old owner began to hover in the air. “What the…”. The sword began to hover in mid air before it moves slowly towards the left hand of Reiko Seldab, almost as if the sword was being pulled towards the glove. “Telekinesis?” he wondered as he aimed his hand towards one of the weaker branches, hoping for the glove to work its magic. After a few seconds of nothing Reiko was convinced that telekinesis was not the power of the gloves. At the time it did not worry too much, for in time he would find out. As he looked up towards the corpse, he noticed another valuable by it…a headband with a red circle in the center followed by two black dashes entangled on an enormous branch of the tree. Reiko disregarded the headband at first but shortly he began to wonder if this piece of cloth was what the owner was talking about. On one hand it was just a headband, so surely nothing harmful could come from it. Then again on the other side of the coin if the headband that Reiko just found had any properties similar to the weapons he just received, the Hidden Cloud warrior would be in for an unknown surprise; even if the note said the opposite. And yet curiosity got the best of Reiko Seldab once more as he took the headband from the corpse. He now acquired Gloves of Magnus, Crimson blade, and the infamous Number 2 Headband when suddenly…..

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Satasuri needed a way to releave his stress. At least from his mission to kill the representive from Hidden Leaf. IT amde him wander away for a while. He just opened his suit and let the sand blow him around for a while. The sand seemed only to blow and blow across the world. It didn't stop until he made it to the coutnry of Hidden Waterfall. He seemed to gather himself together by the great waterfall. He always heard the legend of this country.

"It's quite beautiful.."

The boy made of sand seemed to say. As he pressed his hand against the ground and absorbed the sand that was around the bank to fill himself in. He lost a bit of himself as he was drifting through the air. He managed to keep reconstructing himself until he felt complete. He didn't have a ccontianment suit here. So he would use a basic Henge..to give him more a human look. But he still seemed like a walking sand cloud. As he started to walk through the village he looked and wodnered if the fabled hero of the waters was here..or if he would ever be here. The last time he remembered him being here was during the Alliance and GHost Elites ages. Way be fore he was created. But he still had some memories of the ONE TAIL. However he caught the image of a girl in the distance. However he wasn't having much look with them..one kept eating the sand he was made of..the other had an annoying companions..It was getting bad. Three strikes he figured. He started to walk towards Rosalia.

"Damn"

He cursed. She sw him. He was one of the worst ninjas ever. Always being spotted. But then again it was sort of hard not to notice him. Since he couldn't maintain his form very well without his containment suit. Satausri decided to be polite. During this ninja war..it seemed like that was the way to be unless you had to kill the person. Satasuri put on his happy face..or at least as happy as he could. As the boy of sand walked towards the girl. He kept his head down as he didn't glance at her in the eye. Didn't know what clan she was in..she might have had doujutsus.

"Hi...my name is Satasuri..I am a ninja from Hidden Sand.."

Satasuri said with no confidence. The boy was powerful but he just didn't know how to use his energy. OR he didn't feel confident in his power to say the least. Satasuri looked at her body. She had been to Hidden Sand recently. Those heat marks were usually people that didn't dress properly. or She had been to Hidden Egypt..they were almost like cousin villages. The sun was merciless there. He only held his head down waiting for a chance to hear where she was from..or who she was with. In case they would both have to fight to death over proper titles and things like that. He hadn't had much luck with people..so he did guess that he would have probably kill her..

He looked at her. She said Hidden Cloud, he didn't recall them being able to do much with their eye jutsu besides use it to find data about people. He simply sighed.

"I came here to get away from it at all. At least for a little while. I had to do something that I wasn't exactly..comfortable with..and Now..It's done. So I just needed a bit of a vacation before it was time for me to go home and report in."

Satasuri said as he let go of her hand. He retracted all the sand from here. He gave a simple look at her when she said she had been to his home. She was probably there training with Baki. That's who most of the nins went to go see. They all wanted to learn how to use his sword of wind. However he thought more deep about her question.


"But I wanted to know more about people..I ma ready to give up on them. Every person I met has bothered me in some sort of way..And I wodner if they are all like this..or could you possibly be different."

Satasuri said with a bit of a sigh. It wasn't like he cared. But he figured that you shouldn't judge all humans based on two..So he decided to judge them all by three.

The one thing that he never understood was skin. As he let his sand fingers linger for a bit longer and he pulled his hand back completly. It was a reason that his henge was nver that great. Not because covering up his mass of sand..but because he never really understood a calm piece of hand. Satasuri only continued on with his conversation looking at her for answers.

Satasuri only looked and he gave a brief smug look at her. He didn't think that humans could understand problems of that of a being like him. After all they didn't really udnerstand him from home. Besides the former One Tail.

"You could be right.. Looking for someone who doesn't annoy me..would be most appreciated. However most people don't understand..what it's like to stand out. But finding someone who doesn't annoy me would be interesting."

The yougn chuunin said with a bit of a sigh. He hadn't slept in days. He didn't think he needed to rest but it was getting more apparant that he did. It was getting to harder to form himself and stay inforum the longer he had been in Sand mode..without his containment suit. At least in this instance. Satasuri would have to become better at using his chakra. He looked at her and he sighed.

"What are you doing out here? Isn't your village at war.."

Satasuri asked slowly.

The Boy of Sand actually was intrigued by her. She claimed to know what it meant ot stand out. But there was something different about her. He could feel when his sand connected to her. He didn't know what it was exactly but it was.. He let his mind wonder what she was exactly. However he didn't want to pry..just like he didn't like when people pried into his life or asked what he was like being made of sand.

"So you too are different...Interesting."

Satasuri only wondered what she meant by being accepted into the village. Wasn't she already accepted. Once again..another question he wouldn't ask. None of his business. But wasn't she one of the chuunins. At least that's what he remembered hearing about. She was a chuunin after his class graduated. Satasuri tried to know a lot of the ninjas that way he could learn who and where his competition was at..in case of tournaments or his village sent him on assassination missions.

"But you are a chuunin correct? Shouldn't you be aware of what's going on? I think getting strong is important and training..but your village your home is at risk..From anyone and everyone that wants a piece of it. DOes that not worry you?"

Satasuri said with a bit anticipation of in his voice. Even though she wanted to do it for friends and family. His father always taught him to be ready to do anything for the village he called home. Because everything else came second. That's what he always did..he was always a weapon for Hidden Sand. Never a tool. He didn't know how that made him feel neither did he care. He looked around Hidden Waterfall. This village was rather not known on the radar..he wondered why. The Hero Water would have been great to have. He would have to inquire how to get it. So that he could be the Waterfall hero.

Satasuri simply turned to look at the sky. He let otu a simple sigh. As he didn't want to fight anymore. It was to much now. He felt that all they did was fight. Murder. Kill. Destroy. Maime. all these things.. Satasuri finally had a purpose but it just seemed so small now. It felt like he was just killing for killing's sake. Not because he faught somebody worth while..or that he had to kill them. He just was.

"It just feels like we arn't doin anything anymore. Killing for killings sake. That's just not my way of the shinobi...But Yeah I want to learn that Water Sword.."

Satasuri looked at the some of the locals practicing the technique. He looked at the technique being used. He figured already how to use the technique without properly being trained on the technique. His element control made learning other techniques that had to deal with the elements that much easier. Sometimes..soem techniques were still hard for him to udnerstand. But learning the sword of water was something so basic. He sighed slowly.

"sorry to hear about your village, and your amnesia. Somethings are better not to remember anyways. I can't imagine knowing all the things about the one tail..my father had done some bad things in his life."

Satasuri said as he fully let go of his henge and now he jsut allowed his sand to realx and start to float around him. Or he was floating around himself. He started to expand himself around his friend too. He was relaxed now.