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The student of the Bo Staff watched from a higher position, a smirk forming on his face as he watched his prey take what was most important to him-the number 2 headband. The Bo Staff student had arrived tardy it seemed after he had heard that the infamous number 2 headband was located somewhere in a waterfall village. Unlike the Miyanari swordsman from the clouds he found this place from a dying shinobi. The Bo staff wielder may have been the cause of it but the shinobi’s death was necessary. Death and slaughter was all that one would find from those headbands. He would have to thank his sources another time as he watched the prey tamper with the new weapons that he found along with the headband. One one hand the Bo staff student was only interested in the cloth. When he or she was tremendously skilled with their weapon of choice no other weapon could possibly match it. That of course didn’t mean that a degree of difficult would rise when fighting other weapons. But in the end the Bo staff wielder always emerged victorious. So part of the student wanted the Miyanari warrior from the clouds to have those weapons; just so that the staff wielder’s point could not only be tested but it would be proven. Then of course on the other side of the coin those weapons would more than likely take him one step closer to his true goal. The sword could have been used as a mere secondary weapon in the case that the Staff was in a position to where it couldn’t be used or its effectiveness was not up to par with his opponent’s weapon. Those gloves on the other hand may prove to be very effective and have more of a value than the blade. Plus they could have always been sold for good currency. “Put it on…” the student begged silently to himself as he watched the Miyanari swordsman continue to examine the headband. Was he oblivious to the background of those headbands? Did the warrior of the clouds not know the prize he won when he obtained it? Or did he see it as another worthless piece of cloth? Did Reiko see it as a mere piece of clothing for design? If so then the student of the Bo staff’s day just got a bit better. Usually the ones that search for the headbands know the origin and the end goal of reaching the last one. They especially knew the prize one would obtain when the last headband was reached. Sadly the Miyanari swordsman of Kumogakure would realize this during his last moments in reality before he would take a trip to the next dimension.

Perhaps the headband was augmented with powers or effects Reiko Seldab was unaware of. Or more than likely the previous owner didn’t say anything about what would happen next if he or she came in contact with the headband. After all, as long as the previous owner got rid of the thing he or she couldn’t care of the next person who didn’t follow their advice. As mentioned before Reiko Seldab would soon find out the road that was opened to him and the travel if he decided to venture forth. The second that the hands of the Kumokagure warrior touched the headband the experience he felt would be similar to the Chuunin exams when he was back at his base with Rose. Only this time it wasn’t a gift from an unknown source; talents Reiko possessed did not introduce themselves to new ones that he learned on the spot nor did his chakra pool increase to his limit at the time. Instead, the images that shot throughout his mind were numerous battles; fights that took place from different places he wasn’t able to recognize yet. These battles contained no age gap whatsoever; many people from their young adulthood were facing against those one would consider their elders and vice-versa. But that’s not all what Reiko saw Large amounts of blood would be seen on each of the fighters and even more from their wounds and the environment around them. Innoncent people who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong setting were cut down and slaughtered like animals. Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers; each who held this title lost a family member in a gory horrific way in Reiko’s images. Those who were responsible and the ones who had fallen had similar headbands, causing their loved ones to learn the art of the sword and to wear the headband to remember their lost ones by. Some were successful in their path of revenge while others unfortunately died on their journey. They didn’t know that when they had the headband, they would become a target by other people; from warriors to cold blooded killers. At the end of the images stood a dark figure atop a mountain with a headband with one horizontal tally. “Take the number one headband….become god!”

All of these images carried a message for Reiko as he came back to reality, breathing heavily like he just reached the surface of the ocean after his lungs were reaching their oxygen limit. These headbands…all they had to offer was the death’s of warriors with a false goal of becoming a god. It was like the previous owner said; they had no value and all they offered was countless bodies with the one wearing the headbands as the one responsible. A quick shock will incinerate the headband into flames while a few slices of the cryptic claws would turn it into confetti. And yet as Reiko remained in his position with the headband in his hands, he couldn’t gather up the slightest bit of energy to bring an end to the headband. Was it because he was still stunned by the images that he saw in his head….or was it because of the idea planted in his head that he could reach godlike status if he held on to it? Was it possible to reach a level of a god if he earned the number one headband? If this was possible and true than the chances of going back home would increase in their favor dramatically. But if one looked over to the negative side, he or she would see the lives that would more than likely be in peril if they were to face Reiko for it, willing to put their lives on the line if it meant eternal life in the end. He didn’t have Rose, Kai or Jeremy to help him and the stranger that appeared behind him didn’t help to convince Reiko either.

“I thought that was where I left it! That piece of cloth is mine I believe. I lost it days ago here and have been looking for it since. My grandfather gave that to me.” The Bo staff warrior lied. He was beginning to become impatient, going to option B since it seemed obvious that this cyan haired boy didn’t know the history of the headbands, or the treasure that came with reaching the number 1. If he was following the rules he would have to ‘earn” it but if he could get it with a lie that would have been even better. He even appeared without his Bo Staff to make his lie appear more convincing. “Now If you don’t mind…” The Bo staff warrior suggested.

“………..Your grandfather gave this to you?” Reiko asked.

“Yes. He and my grandmother made it together and before they passed away, my grandfather gave it to me as a gift to remember him by. I don’t want any trouble; I have no desire in those weapons. You found them first so they are yours. I just want the cloth please.”

“I just want to know one thing before I give it to you…”Reiko told the man. “How did you kill your grandfather to get the headband? Decapation? Piercing his vital organs? I don’t know who you are but I know about the headband, the ones who died for it and this tale that comes along with it. Surely you don’t believe in it right? I have other matters to attend to but while I’m here, this headband has to perish.” Reiko spoke. But just as he finished the Hidden Cloud warrior suddenly found himself inside of a seven feet tall by seven feet wide sphere of water floating up towards the tree slowly on the Bo staff student’s will. On instinct the warrior was holding his breath but found it difficult to fight back or even power out through it, making it harder to escape and his oxygen more limited.
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He watched her walk away. He let his form stay outside of his costume for a little bit longer. As he finally let his eyes clsoe and he pulled himself together...literally. As he started to absorb some of the local...flavor in Hidden Waterfall. The thing about him..is that he didn't know how to relax. He never really relaxed. He allowed his self to absorb some of the knowledge in the area. He learned the water sword as soon as the girl walked away. It wasn't that hard to master..or at least not as hard as he thought it would be..

"IT's goign to be hard to maintain this form and use this water element I know that..to much chakra concentration across the whole body...I would have to do something else..like stay in my containment field.."

With some of the sand still not fully concetrated on his own body. He closed his eyes..or what would be his eyes..since his body was every where..He didn't really have a defined appendage..or appedanges. As he opened his eyes the bits of sand particales where upon his new found...'friend'. Interesting to say the least..but he would not interefer with this bar room bawl.

For every time a friend or her sister was in danger and gained an technique for it, she'd be a very powerful opponent without effort. As she was about to attack, she was hearing the apprentice speak once more, as the sphere was condensing smaller and starting to ball Reiko inside. The Bo staff student's words as he was giving the usual 'end of your opponent's life' speech, sounding very stupid but only serving to piss her off further. Two options that resulted to death either way, drown or crushed? How about she gives a third, in which she did by attacking the Bo staff student with her Dragon Wheel attack, just as he was opening his palm and about to crush Reiko into nothing more than bag of blood and broken bones. Beautifully timed as her attack landed its heavy and damaging blow, breaking the concentration on the water sphere and Reiko freed from his watery prison.

With her attack making contact with the apprentice, she flipped backwards once and landed on the ground as the apprentice hit the branch and was heading for the ground at bullet-speed, and he would hit the ground if he hadn't compacted as a ball for a few seconds before doing a front flip as to land on the ground. If she still had her ability to sense energy as well as she had in her original home, she'd notice that the apprentice left a clone in his place as to appear six feet in front of her and launch the water baton as it grew in length. The end of the baton came at her stomach, and it momentarily hit as it pushed her backwards toward the wall. Rose gave a feral snarl as she bunched up her muscles. "Don't screw with me," she said before she forced herself to jump back, hit the wall, and then dodged the baton when it came crashing at her, almost pinning her but had escaped in time. Rose felt more anger and fury than usual, but at least was in control of herself as she glanced for Reiko, making sure that he was alive and not trapped in the water sphere.

Upon seeing the water sphere at least being gone, she returned her attention to the apprentice as he was probably about to use the water baton once more. Whether he does or not, she was prepared to counter in any way possible. "Pissing me off will only result with you losing your windpipe quickly..." That was a bit off for someone like Rose, whom fought to protect rather than simply kill. But attempting to kill one of her friends would make her this angry. It was then understandable that she would do anything to help out a friend and/or loved one, as Terra would easily fall into that category.. same as for Reiko. Her stance was not relaxed as she kept her eyes on the apprentice and his clone... turning her back would mean leaving him an opening for him to strike. So she couldn't go see to Reiko and simply kept her senses open. Waiting to see what Reiko would do..

Normally it would be a one-on-one fight with Reiko and his opponent, as Rosalia was a fighter that respected those type of situations, but as far as she was concerned, it was a despicable act as to trap an opponent and merely about to crush them to death.. for no reason. She hadn't an idea about the headband number two situation, why it was such an desirable object for so many. In fact, even if she had heard about it, she wouldn't even go near the object itself... she didn't want to be caught up in the desire for power. Even she would be a little tempted to get a god-like status, though it would be more-so to the demon. And that would cause the trouble... a conflict that would be rather dangerous. Why would this apprentice go after such an object himself would only solidify her resistance. So for Reiko to suddenly have the object and why he was planning on destroying it would anger the apprentice, apparently. Not that Rosalia would let him. It wasn't like back at their world that she was helpless to save a friend, too late to do so. She was here, and she was angry, staring down this apprentice guy as her eyes were tinged with red. Trying to keep control of herself and to settle for only silent fury.

Which of course the demon was happily trying to make the bright flame turn into a blaze... for the host to lose her temper would make for a good time for the demon to come out for a temporary time... and it would have the greatest of pleasure of wiping the floor with whomever got in her way, in which case would be the Bo staff student, to momentarily keep its attention. Then it could be the village next... or Reiko. Of course it was the demon that was underestimating the people, for it was so used to slaughtering others without effort that fighters was, to it, only a temporary obstacle. There was no goal for conquer, gain or personal reasons... it was only out to kill for the pleasure of it. So similar to the Tailed Beasts, but the demon wasn't a tailed beast of this world. It was the reason of Rosalia's extra but small abilities. If Rosalia was to learn any of the demon's techniques, she'd become powerful indeed. And it wasn't going to give up its knowledge without a fight... or at least that was what it believed. If anything, the techniques could come with a light or heavy cost. To slowly chip away the humanity Rose still had and turn her into an angry beast of fury. As it was a demon's nature to destroy and only continue to destroy; Rose's nature was to protect. Two conflicting natures in one person was still a slowly-spiraling battle.

The attack was dodged easily, and she scowled as she looked at the man. It was such a simple attack, it was rather insulting. That or the man was just playing. Which only served to pissed her even more. Her eyes betrayed nothing other than calmness as the man suddenly grinned ear to ear as he said that she wasn't here for some headband but for Reiko. "What would I care for a piece of insignificant cloth?" she said, her voice close to a snarl as she kept her eyes trained on the man, not following the tilt of his head toward Reiko. The man's water baton morphed back into an unstable sphere of water, hovering nearby as he spoke again. She gave a smirk as he commented that he had some time to play with her. "Playtime indeed," she muttered as he made to launch a thin burst of water at her, like a water anaconda with the head of the lion.

It was fast enough to have actually catch her, and she was launched into the air by the midsection, clamped in the jaws of the water attack. Upon reaching a point, the attack turned and shot her toward the ground. Eyes were closed against the wind, no fear in her as she felt the locked part of her clawing out some. Then her eyes snapped open, activating a technique that Reiko couldn't learn - the water splashed against the ground, but she wasn't in sight.

"Moron!" Having used her Hiraishin technique, the speed of the water projectile served to make it possible to phase into the ground and came up elsewhere behind him. Of course she didn't stay still, she had already came at him with her abnormal speed as she said that, making to punch him directly in the jaw. Her eyes were nearly completely red now, steaks of black in the whites.

This was not some sort of free for all session for the number 2 headband after all. A shame really, for it would have been challenging and fun, something that the Bo staff warrior only earned every once in a while with his opponents. The girl was here for her friend, or lover or whatever he was to her. The girl may have been weaker than the Miyanari warrior but she certainly had guts. She had the guts to take on the Bo staff warrior but lacked the strength or speed to avoid his aqua anaconda attack. While the dattoumaru warrior was buzy becoming lunch for the snake, he took a glance back at where his original prey was. He scoffed arrongantly watching the Miyanari warrior freefall towards the ground below. At that height it would have been a nasty drop and causing nasty pain all over Reiko's posterior region. After taking out his girlfriend, the Bo staff warrior's plans would be too eazy. Or so he thought at least; when he looked back towards Rose, she was gone. What should have happened however was that her body would have been close to being lifeless on the ground.

The water that he used was on the ground, yet didn't absorb into the soil; instead it looked like goop, thick liquid. When the dattoumaru student finally revealed herself, she came from hiding with a strong punch as a present for the Bo staff warrior. So she did have some tricks that came with her looks after all. Her attack was unsuspected from the Bo staff warrior due to underestimating her. His face rocked to the left as his body stumbled back from her attack before his back was turned towards her. The warrior began to stroke his jaw from the slight pain that she dealed to him. After he got rocked the Bo staff warrior didn't say anything. Looking at the ground, all that came from the Bo staff warrior's mouth was dry laughter. He found it funny and amazing that she was actually able to score a hit on him; sure he understimated her but it was still amusing to him. Without looking at her he quickly slinged his left arm towards her, flashing his palm towards her face. He was planning on sealing the dattoumaru student inside of the aqua chamber. Or was he? No, it was just a trick, a bluff, a distraction to keep her attention towards him instead of the water that was still on the ground but refused to go away. It moved behind Rose and In less than 2 seconds, the water morphed into a life-sized version of the Bo staff warrior. The aqua clone, unlike the true version wasted no time as it unleashed a quick roundhouse kick towards her liver/r.kidney/ribs; following it up with a 360 spinning hook kick towards the left side of her skull. The clone may have been out of water but the attacks would still cause damage; just lower than an actual human being. If the first attack was successful, then it would more than likely cause her to drop the same way a figher would from a liver shot, while the second would have been designed to cause her to stumble to the right before falling towards the ground. She wouldn't die but with dealing with 2 of these warriors, maybe part of her wished that she would if this kept going, or keep asking for more. If so the Bo staff warrior was willing to dish it out until he got bored playing around with her.
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Alice got of the boat, wishing she was able to bring her air ship along with her as it would have made the trip much faster but then again, she had no idea how she could have gotten to this village as talked about by the people at the docks by the academy. Alice looked around and almost had a look of disbelief. Before her was a dense jungle of trees, trees, trees, oh did I mention trees, and even more trees. Oh a rock! But yet more trees. Alice almost started to cry as she hated even walking through the Macalania Woods back in Spira when her first airship broke down near Zanarkand. The fact that now she had to travel in this forsaken forest just to reach the waterfall that was previously known as the hidden entrance to Hidden Waterfall Village, or better said, The Village Hidden behind the Waterfall. Alice sighed as she continued forwards, heading through the woods with her trusty doll, B-Rabbit floating on behind her, scanning the environment for anything that would be a particular danger. She wandered for what seemed like hours before reaching one of the many waterfalls but from the description of the kind men on the boat, it matched perfectly to be the opening to the village. She sighed, wishing there was a way she could pass through without getting herself dampened from the steady stream of water but her true worry was for B-Rabbit as it was not waterproof. She looked around and sighed before putting down her bag and told B-Rabbit to get in. The AI obeyed before she wrapped the inside with dry moss to absorb as much of the water as it possibly could before it would get to the doll inside. She zipped up the back before running though the waterfall as fast as she could, getting completely drenched in the cold water before passing through a second later. She landed on the ground, shivering from the sudden cold, mostly feeling the shock hit her like she drove her air ship into a wall of Luca's stadium. She slowly got her senses back before moved to open the bag which, thankfully, was not as wet as she thought it was before opening it up shakily. The AI burst out of the bag, spinning around a bit while throwing around the droplets of blood from within while it's hollow eyes looked around and its menacing smile showed off to all. Alice sat up as the doll came down to her to try to comfort her from the cold and to press on to get herself to warm up with movement. She nodded with a kind smile to her AI before standing while shivering like mad and dragged herself forwards through the tunnel in her damp and wet clothing before reaching the end and ultimately the village itself. The AI flew around her a bit in a complete circle before flying high into the sky, or at least as high as the canopy, and get a 3-D layout of the village so she would have a map of the place for another time.

Alice watched as B-Rabbit start to descend from the tree's canopy before reaching down and getting grabbed into Alice's arms in a tight hug. Alice did not really like to send her doll out for any length of time when she was not sure how long the repulsion system can hold B-Rabbit up that high. As she held him, the rabbit started to play a song that she held deep in her heart since the first day she could remember anything. It was a song that could calm her heart but at the same time, stir an emotion stew of rage, sorrow, relief, and pain. It was something that brought her back to homeostasis without much effort from anyone else. She teared up a little as she continued to snuggle the rabbit as he cradled itself back towards her, giving her comforting motions. Alice then let the rabbit turn its head and portray the three dimensional map of the entire village in how it saw the area with its optics. She looked the map over and saw that it was not a very hard area to navigate. The homes and shops were neatly places and the roads were much nicer than that of some in Spira so that should be much better. She then heard a woman behind her talking about a rumor she heard about a black dot in the sky that could be dangerous. Alice looked up and saw nothing before thinking, something must be going on. Wait, maybe B-Rabbit was the center of these rumors. A worried look washed over Alice's face as she started to hear more and more rumors about B-Rabbit before whispering to her doll to stay limp. She walked through the village a bit more before seeing a group of shinobi or rather just a small village militia start to make their way towards a rather enchanting woman and a masked man next to her who Alice suspected was wearing an animal skull... Or that would be the case from that distance, it was hard to see things for what they truly are from that far back. Alice and B-Rabbit continued to watch the events as they unfolded, wondering what was going on in this weird world.