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 Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:47 pm
Hatsuma had gathered her gear from the front office and made her way to her home first rather then going to office of the kage immediately. Stepping through the doorway of her home she set her gear on the stand near it. She removed her shoes at the threshold before stepping onto the wooden flooring of her home. She made her way down the hall, a warm light flooded down to the floor from the window at the end of it, and turned into her room where she stood at the doorway momentarily looking into it at a small display that was set up with many small statues and candles that were lit, on a stand in the center of the display rested a weathered headband of the same village.
Taking a step into the room she performed a quick set of hand seals and sent a gust of wind at the display blowing the small flames atop the candles away. the now dark room only had light from the door in which Hatsuma stood. Walking towards the display she reached down and grabbed the head band from the stand. She wrapped it over her upper left arm and tied it snug. the headband was gray rather then a dark brown, likely due to the fact it had been in the desert sun for a while. Her headband she had received today sat opposite the weathered one.
"My goal was achieved and now I have the right and the honor to travel in your foot steps and in doing so I will discover and avoid the outcome in which you had faced..." Hatsuma stated calmly before turning about and head out of her room, down the hallway and to the door once more.
She looked back into the house before replacing the shoes on her feet and strapping the gear pouch to her left leg.
It took her a bit to make it down the street from her home and on her way to the Kage's office. She was interrupted on the way as she noticed both Fuyu and Oasis clearly heading in the wrong direction of the Kage's office. Approaching them she looked them over a moment before speaking. " Are the two of you on your way to the kage's office? iof so it's behind you..." She stated bluntly and awaited their responses to that fact.
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:02 pm
Oasis continued to walk along in front of Fuyu with an exaggerated gait as she swung her arms wide and stepped long "Yea, Chief said that if I ever became a ninja he might teach me some of his secrets, so now that I am I will totally go and make him keep that promise." she states with a smirk as she stopped mid step on one foot "Hmmm? but isn't that like the best thing of all. If you become a ninja you should aways aim to become the most renowned ninja of all time, thats what I think. I'm gonna become a legend, I will just you wait and see." she states as she continued her backwards gait. She paused again when he maid mention about how long they had been walking. She rubbed the side of her head and then motioned about with her fingers as she contemplated the deep innerworkings of their path. "oh..." she states quietly as she poked a finger in her mouth for a second "Yea, we walked..." she paused as Hatsuma appeared. "HATSUMA!" she calls out losing track of what she was saying to Fuyu and trotting up to her four armed friend. "Oh, kage's office?" she states with a very obvious question mark, she blinked a few times and then remembered "OH YEA! hey you are goin there too how awesome we can all..." once again she stopped as Hatsuma said some more "oh, really?" she turned and looked back to see the kage's office "Oh... so it is..." she states quietly as she looked at the building "GOOD NEWS FUYU!" she calls out loudly as if he were deaf rather than blind "WE ARE HERE!" she calls out louder as she raced up to him again, and then past him up towards the building, it sure was big up close.
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:09 pm
Sai snorted at the thought of any of the shinobi in the village being able to pick up the battle that had gone on between him and the Kazekage. The fact that both of them fought using weapons for the most part and the only few skills used were so low class and weak, even if they had been noticed it would have been ignored as a simple kiddy fight. All of the hyears Sai had spent in the Hunter Corps, working as an Anbu operative and eventually leading all of Water Country's Anbu, he had enough insight on how to classify things. But that was all didle dadle, cause physical exertion is the number one key to tripping off a sensory nin in a far, far distance.
"Just a tid bit, got my spidy sense all tingly." Sai said chuckling as he waved his hand in the air comically. The more the boy talked, the hard it was becoming to understand him. It was almost a bit sad when only a little over ten years ago, he would've not only understood but mimicked the dialect. He was growing weak in his old age. "Ya mind repeating that last part for lil ole Nancy Drew? My hearing isn't exactly what it use to be but it sounds like you might know where to find my ole pal?"
[368 - Norm Lines
306 - Battle Lines ]
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:42 pm
Kenta sighed softly as he made his way down the steps. The purple haired geezer had been agitating him, had been knowingly doing things that would frustrate him. He had been causing all of this chaos and confusion for no real reason other than to do it and now it was time to bring it back to him. It was time to show him that he had done wrong and that no one got away with showing up and trying to hurt his village. No one got away with threatening the village either, and he had done both. His fingers curled into fists as he walked down to the main entrance of the Kage Office.
As the harsh light of the desert assaulted his eyes he blinked for a moment, but managed to stop, just in time to get clobbered by a fresh faced kunoichi who had been running up to the office. Really he supposed this wasn't all that much of a surprise. The office was dark to keep the temperature low (since Kenta wasn't so fond of the blistering heat and had only recently considered the option of a personal bubble of controlled climate) and the outside was very bright. It was believable that no one would have seen him coming until they hit him just as it was believable that he wouldn't have seen anyone coming until they hit him...this was convenient because it was exactly what had happened, he was sure. It was still a little bit disheartening that even when hidden in shadow that someone as big as him could be overlooked.
He blinked again, his hand coming up and rubbing at the scar on his cheek as he looked at the visitors that he had. Three ninjas. Two of them female, one of those having extra arms. This seemed incredibly familiar to him for some reason, but he wasn't quite sure why...at least not immediately. After the moment of thought that it had taken to register what was going on he realized that this was the group of graduates. They had come here to get placed in a team and to be placed with an adviser (who they were surely expecting to be a jounin). It was both convenient and disturbing that they had arrived like this.
A long breath of air slipped past his lips as he looked at the group of fresh graduates, "The new graduates." He smiled for a moment, "Oh good, you know each other. That means that the transition from meeting and becoming a team has already started." He smirked softly.
This was actually a lot more difficult than he had thought it would be. When he had heard that there were a lot of hopefuls to graduate and that he could be the adviser for a team he had thought that it would be something where they would show up and he'd take them on a team building exercise where he made them believe that they had to do their best to prove that they were worthy of being lead by their kage. Instead he had run into them as he was about to head out and b***h out some stupid missing nin for showing up and breaking things. They were going to see him ask someone nicely to go away on their first day...that added to his frustration. This was of course, only if he took them with him, and there were reasons not to. The first big reason being that it was dangerous. This was the man who could have killed him out in the desert. It would be on him forever if any of these kids got hurt on his watch...
He could give them some simple task like 'get to know each other' or 'come up with a team name' that they could do while he faced off against the purple haired geezer...but he doubted that something like that would convince all of them, and skirting around the truth of the situation was only going to raise doubts. He could come right out and tell them that someone had managed to creep into the village and was a potential threat to everyone, but he really didn't want his fresh students taking it upon themselves to lead the charge.
It was at this point that he considered the ostrich strategy. If you ignored something, sometimes it went away. Perhaps he could have his little team building exercise, and if the problem persisted he could go check it out. He would have very much liked to not have to balance so many things at once though...
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:42 pm
After a few hours Chobenra was at the crossing looking at Wind country. "Guess this is it then." Eclipse breathed in hard knowing that this was going to be the beggining of his long life story. "So Chobenra how did you find him anyway." He looked towards Chobenras eyes. "He just went through a battle Kage level with another shinobi." Eclipse nodded and continued to look on as they landed on an open feild. "Morph down... Lets go" Chobenra nodded and morphed back into his smaller form and flied to his side.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:37 am
Fuyu continued to smile at Oasis and nodded. "It's nice that you're Chief will teach you his secrets, but what you state about honor will come when it comes. May first point is to find out what my father was like truely and see if his footsteps are worth following in." He shrugged his shoulders and stopped walking as she stated to mumble. He had a funny feeling that they did but waited. Then he heard another familiar voice, it was Hatsuma. She pointed out what he was figuring, that they'd walked passed the kage's office. It was about that time he though that he'd gone def with Oasis shouting right beside him. He brought his arms to his ears and rubbed them prefusely. "Ouch... don't need to shout right beside me" Fuyu stated turning his head to her. It was then after Oasis shouting and Hatsuma speaking, he heard a different voice. This was unfamilliar to him but he turned when this male voice new that they were the new graduates. He paused for a moment, letting everyone else speak since his eyes were still too sore to use just at this moment.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:12 am
"Iz not tha' I know where e' is, it's that I know where e' isn't, an tha' be here." he said simply, re-instating the fact that IF the old Kazekage had been in wind he likely would have made some sort of response by now, whether he feared Sai or not.
"There was a'lo o foighten goin on these past years, ever think you may 'ave shown up to tha tea party after tha only guest you wanted ta see was already in the ground?" he stated grimly.
"Bah thas jus my assumption o'tha problem a'hand. In tha mean toime, feel free ta waist ya time searchin in tha wrong corner o'tha room for ya favorite play thing" he said releasing control of the young boy.
Far away the man stood once more, blackened etchings forming a strange symbol in the sand beneath him quickly being wiped away by the dunes winds.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:32 am
"Well shimmy my knickers... Not even a phone number for a second date? Guess I used too much tongue for 'em~" The man said with a sigh as he watched the boy run off as the technique was released. The likelihood of Isato being dead was slim to none. The old coot had survived the war at very least long enough to train another to take his place as the Kazekage, he was somewhere in the world doing whatever it was that he did in his own spare time.
Sucking his teeth loudly, Sai glanced around at the deserted area. He had wasted so much time getting such little information. So his target was not in the country and now he would be sure that after making such a commotion there would be more guards and eventually shinobi coming after him... With a sigh he retrieved his white cloak and coat from it's capsule scroll and wondered off back towards the desert and perhaps to another town. He would need to long distance to think of what he wanted to do with all his free time.
[404 - Norm Lines
306 - Battle Lines ]
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:31 pm
Oasis in her energetic rush didn't notice the man coming out of the building and crashed into him, she crashed to the pavement and flopped over a few times before climbing to her feet "ow ow ow ow." she groaned as she rubbed her head "I ran into something really big." she mewls plaintively as she rocked from side to side some before realizing what she smashed into was a person. She blinked a few times as she tried to figure out who he was, he was talking about a team, oh yea they came here to be a team right? Then that meant he must have been talking about them. "Hi there! I just totally ran into you." she chimes out completely stating the obvious. "We came here to talk to the kage about teams or squads or, something with a word like that yea." she states with a big grin, she was very new to this place and didn't know who the kage was or even what to look for in wardrobe to know she was talking to a kage if she was, she knew how the chief dressed at home and he wasn't dressed like a chief.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:09 pm
Hatsuma brought a hand to her temple as she observed Oasis' antics giving a bow to the gentlemen who Oasis had decided to topple. "Kage-sama we are ready for our team assignments. " Hatsuma stated bluntly disregarding Oasis and her odd explanation of events as she stepped forward. She knew this man to be the kage only by the fact he had been a topic they had covered in numerous classes, not to mention it was ingrained that he was the man who was in charge of the welfare of the who village as well as a major influence throughout the country. Where other new shinobi's eyes would wander away from the kage's in a nervous manner, Hatsuma had learned that to respect a teacher or leader is to give them the utmost of your attention, therefore she remained focused on the kage noticing he was thinking hard about something. From his comment She assumed that the three of them would be placed into a team but felt it would be better to let the Kage explain it more clearly.
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 6:31 pm
It seemed that at the very least, the girl who had run into him hadn't known that he was the Kazekage. Well, that was interesting. That was the second person today who hadn't known that he was who he was. Perhaps he wasn't putting out enough advertising that he was the kage...he supposed if he took what the leaf village had done with their big stone effigies on the side of a mountain people would know who he was, but really, who had the time for such things?
His attention had been snatched up again by the young woman with the extra arms. That was what he had been looking forward to. He had been expecting her to be running around with all kinds of weapons or dressed up like she was some sort of goddess or something. He had been a tad bit surprised to see that she was dressed up normally and didn't really seem to be the kind of person to snap on someone because they hadn't worshiped her. Interesting.
All in all, the team dynamic seemed to be an interesting one already. There was the girl who had run into him, obviously the one who was going to be facing forward and willing to do things in the way that the book didn't say, and there was this other young woman, who seemed much more proper, and based on his first impressions, less impulsive. The man seemed to be the quiet type, which was good for a team environment since it meant that if the first two couldn't agree, which would probably happen, they could look to the neutral party, the boy who didn't look all that eager to speak up out of turn and have their problem resolved. He wondered for a moment if Akane had picked this team for him special, the kind of team where they could lead themselves if he had to go away.
"Ah yes, your team assignments. You've all been assigned to be in the same team. Now your adviser...well, hasn't actually been an adviser before, so go easy..."
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:01 pm
Fuyu continued to remain silent, as for he was slightly confused. It was until Hatsuma started that this new stranger was actually the kage of the the entire village! how could he have been so stupid to not realize that from what this man had known about them earlier on. It didn't matter now, all that mattered was that he intorduced himself properly and state why he didn't know who he was. "Good morning Kage-sama" He bowed towards the kage's direction no knowing exactly where he was "Sorry if this may mis-lead you but as of right now... I can't 'completely' tell where you are.... I kinda can't see at this moment..." He was imbarassed to let him know about this, but if he was to let anyone know, it was the Kage and who ever was going to the their jounin instructor. He listened some more and heard that they'd been placed on the same team, which was good because there'd be no students ridicualling him about being blind. But who would the instructor be? He'd only known the accademy instructor, but surely the instructor would know he was blind anyways, so it shouldn't bother him too much
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:25 pm
Oasis rocked to the side, kage? so this guy was the kage then? He didn't look like some kind of all powerful shadow ninja. She blinked and tipped her head to the side, was he really the kage? She looked over past him and didn't see anyone behind him so that meant he was the kage. She cocked her head off the other way and crossed her arms in thought for a moment, she thought a leader was supposed to look like an older person, like the chief, or maybe somehow extravagantly unique looking wild colored hair or fangs or something that made them stand out as one in a million. She rubbed the side of her head "ano... OH hey yea, I'm Oasis good ta meet ya kage-sama!" she chimes in her loud and spirited voice. "Oh boy, so I'm going to be on team with my two new friends how sweet is that, what a deal." she muses rocking from side to side as she dawdled on back to stand by Hatsuma and Fuyu. "...New guy? neato its always fun to meet a teacher on their first time out, usually they are more fun then." she states as she wrung her hands together deviously, it wasn't clear if she was thinking devious things or what she had an odd way of carrying herself.
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:46 pm
"Well, from our skills... we would probably make an effective team, and the fact we are acquainted also improves upon our effectiveness as a team." Hatsuma explained calmly though it was more of a reiteration then an explanation to anyone in particular. At the comment of a rookie teacher leading the group Hatsuma pondered it for a moment. No doubt that regardless of the person inexperience of their leading abilities they were likely of jonin rank in skill and probably would adapt easily into leading. "I also agree with oasis, a fresh teacher would be beneficial to the growth of the team..." She commented finally still not sure of who the leader of their team would be but certain it would be explained shortly.
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 1:43 am
The young man stood in the desert, turning to his side as a small pile of sand rose from the ground.
A female shinobi clad in a skin tight suit that seemed to blend with her surroundings, it's colors and patterns moving with her body to match what was behind her making her nearly transparent other than some small but hardly noticeable variations around the outline of her form, rose from the ground.
"So... what happened?" she asked simply, pulling the mask from her suit, revealing a set of striking silver eyes and silky white hair pulled back into a complex bun held in place by two needles.
"E' left, tha dead is done. Wha' I wanna know is why are we even doin this any more. I thou the ol boy said e' wanted ta be off da grid... this kind o'shennanigans is eventually goin ta draw some attention ya know" he stated throwing his head back as he poured a small skin of water over his face.
"It doesn't matter, I'm sure there's a reason... probably afraid tensions will rise again as they did before. After all our country was already in strife before the damn war, the last thing it needed was more battles being fought around it... they need time to recover like everyone else, even if we're not part of it anymore... now come on, I'm not liking this heat one bit" the woman said as her body slowly melted back into the ground from wence it came.
"Aye lass, I suppose so" he said turning to leave as he dissapeared into the windy storms of the desert.
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