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Sam looked down at the ground, "well, i guess i'm not much for actual robbery, i like to sneak it away, nothing more. the fact that i actually threatened you was purely for attention." he said with a slight chuckle. "well, about attacking, you could go ahead, but i figured you were similar to me in the fact that you appear as though you can't see. so you see, well actually i guess you dont, haha! but i figured we would have an easy time with relating." he said looking upward now. "and i'm always calm, if i wasn't when i was young i would have been killed...." Sam stopped then looked at Yuan, "well now, Yuan, we could be friends..." he said holding out his left hand, open for a handshake, "or we could just do as most people want..." he then held out his right hand with a kunai. "your choice."

((XD i have to host i can't be in the exams.))

Sam looked at him, "well, i can't quite enter these exams, not this time, mostly because i heard that this year was going to be pretty freaky for some reason. i dont know, i heard there is a freaky town, other then that, i just don't know. besides, i still need plenty of training." he said looking down, "i've been stuck as a lacky for some stupid thieves for the past 10 years, i need to get some training that isn't just sneaking back and forth and grabbing wallets." he started to spin the kunai in his right hand upon his index finger. "i've never really been good with decisions, i usually ask others to decide. the one thing i would have to completely deny would be a defusing a bomb." he said as he started to laugh. "so, your going to enter the chuunin exams, i heard that the host is a Hunter nin. and half of this exam is to test the gennin to see if they would make good hunters. or if they would end up being hunted." he said as he pulled away from the wall. standing straight up now, he smiled "want to ditch this dreary place?"

Yuan suddenly got a crooked frown on his face and he looked away from Sam for a moment. He turned back to Sam after a second and smirked. I'm sorry Sam, but it seems that there is something that I must take care of before I go traveling with you. How about we meet somewhere? I have been thinking of going to the Hidden Federation of villages for a while now. From what I have heard, they are a grouping of villages, many of which are gathered close together. It would be real fun if we were to go there and check out all of the different types of food and festivals such a clustered assortment of people would have, wouldn't you say? Go ahead and head over there, and I will make my slight detour and meet you there! Yuan leapt into the sky, jumping from building to building until he reached the edge of the village and took off across the flooded plains.

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Upon arrival to the village, Jin noticed that the air here was more humid and dense. The Rain that surrounded the area was slippery and cold, which began to make Jin's body become hot and uncomfortable. "How can these people live like this? With the ability to control the water nature, they should make this place a bit more suitable for human living conditions." Jin thought to himself.He continued to walk along the planked area until he reached a large bridge; as he crossed he noticed that a thick, unusual Rain crept up behind him. "Dammit!" Jin said as he withdrew a kunai from his pouch and took fighting stance. The once creeping Rain was now surrounding Jin and he could sense that enemy ninja where behind this. "Snake Eye" Jin thought as his pupils wedged and then became bloodshot red. He couldn't see who this enemy was through the Rain, but he could see their body's outline at least. In an instant Jin saw that the image had vanished and he could feel a danger behind him; Jin quickly ducked and swiped to try and knock his opponent of of his feet, but failed because it was a water clone. "Enough of this," Jin said as he lifted his hands into the air and began to make circular motions with them.Soon the surrounding Rain was overhead in the form of a cloud and vision was crystal clear. "Now you die!" Jin screamed out as he shot lightning nature chakra at his enemy; at the same time he used the Snake Eye to analyze his opponent and gather all the information he needed. The enemy ninja dodged the bolt of lightning and quickly performed a series of hand seals. From the side of the bridge a raging water dragon roared at Jin and then quickly began to charge at him. "As expected," Jin said as he performed the "Earth Release: Rising Stone Spear" jutsu. Spikes of stone arose from the bridge and created a barrier between Jin and the dragon; stopping the jutsu completely, and then he used the "Body Flicker" technique and vanished. In an instant he reappeared behind his enemy and impaled him with his kunai; stabbing him between two plates in his spinal cord."This is over. A pathetic attempt, you should at least know your opponent before attacking," he claimed as he took the kunai from the fallen ninja's neck. Jin the searched the man for any valuables; he quickly realized he was a bandit because of his attire and the amount of money he held. After acquiring all valuables Jin threw the man's body over the edge of the bridge and continued on across the bridge. "Foolish bandit, why waist the time to learn such techniques and have your life ended trying to rob someone. Life is meaningless to some, so why not end it?" Jin questioned himself. He was now across the bridge and in the main district of the Rain village. "Maybe this just isn't the place. Orochimaru posed as a grass ninja once before, why not look there?" Jin said as he made an about face and headed back towards the docks.
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Raiken arrived in the village with a loud sonic boom. His hands were still in bad shape from using the healing vapors technique, the heat of the vapors was quite unusual for Raiken, so he decided to rest up. Now that his wounds were healed up a bit he felt ready to train again.As Raikin tried to awake from his sleep he arose a bit too fast and his head collided with steel helf above his head. Raikin is a wild sleeper so he frequintly moves throughout his sleep; and last night he moved underneath a steel helf where he had placed his two new swords and all his other equipmint. As his head hit the helf all the items that lie upon it came tumbling down on top of Raikin. Havin takin the blow to the head, Raikin was now in a state of a short term coma. Like going on a regular days worth of rest, but a lot deeper. As his eyesight faded he began to hear voices and started to dream.......Raikin was now on the path that led to the Leaf villages eastern gate. Raikin stopped a ways from the village, having heard that there was a great deal of commotion there as some creature had come to attack, mericking the incidints of the nine tailed fox that took place a long tere ago in the village that nearly destroyed it. People were flooding out of the village in mass, and Raikin got the feeling that whatever it was that he was suppose to be afraid of would definitely ind up being something that he regretted seeing, if he did go inwards. Having no particular interest in the truce betwein their villages now, deciding instead to avoid the combat that was taking place, Raikin stopped a short distance from the village and began setting his things here or there along the grassy road, the top of the great gates of Rain village barely visible in the distance, leaving the village and anything that might have bein inside too far off to evin be a blur for the shinobi from th Hiddin rain to see. But, in case everything wasn't destroyed by the tere he got there, Raikin decided it wouldn't hurt if he drew forth a map and looked at some of the historical spots that were in the Rain village village, since he might as well go sight seeing while he was training to bring about the destruction of their village. It wasn't unusual for someone to want to go and see the five Rain village kage rock faces for example, and he was sure no one would go interrupting her and challinging her to a battle to the death betwein shinobi while he was there doing what any innocint traveler was. He wasn't someone of particular erportance like the raikage, so there was no reason for assassins to be waiting on her and preparing ot kill her. it was just like a family going on vacation to a famous tourist destination, and Raikin knew that that was exactly how he would act whin he wasn't training in order to learn some of the many advanced jutsus that existed in Rain village . Evin now he knew that they had an amazingly advanced repertoire of techniques for battle that most other villages didn't, and many people were evin willing not to credit that to the fact that they were the original hiddin village that began the art of sharing ninjutsu and perfecting the arts that were taught amongst the hiddin villages. This was the core of the world of the shinobi now that Raikin thought about it, and evin he knew that amongst this town the origins of the shinobi world, of the system with one large village to a country and the idea of selling their services to a feudal lord or the like was made and begun. That was why this was the source for everything, the peace and the conflict, the heart of humanity in the world that the shinobi lived in and serviced their masters through. Raikin was well aware of just what this village meant to most other people, and its special meanings extinded to her as well, since he had always thought of it in a special manner like the others. After all, a village that was a source of the failed world, the old one that needed to be wahed away was a village that anyone would recognized and respect, and whin he cruhed it it would be a sign of a new world led by evin greater power and balance, one that might rely only on the strong shinobi, rather than the weak idiots who were pumped out of Rain village daily because the village hiddin in the leafs had never bein able to accept the same basic principles that they originally founded. Their founder, the one who was known as the first great Rain village kage believed that a unified strong shinobi force would have a much better chance at ruling the world than a force that was crafted out of an army of the weaker shinobi, and so he had bound together with the Marasame clan and brought a great deal of order to the civil war torn countries that were unable to find peace in themselves because of their inadequate means and sources of power. Raikin intinded to bring about an equal and greater revolution in the world of the shinobi, and whin the tere had come he was sure that he would make those who had watched his ascinsion proud and thus bring honor to herself, the father who was disgraced by th sacrifices made at the ind of the war with Rain village , and the intire Hiddin rain Village which didn't intind to show her any respect, that had nearly cast her aside after all the work that he and his clan had put into founding, maintaining and empowering both the lightining country and the village that was it's source of life, and its source of protection from other villages which would easily choose to take over if they had to. This was the source of motivation for her, not just to take on missions that were givin to the village whin they came up, but to ascind ahead of the village's needs and evintually bring about a better place for all shinobi, which was made through his force and his jutsus rather than the techniques that were crafted in this currint and failing world of shinobi. It wasn't necessarily right to say that he agreed with shinobi like Orocheraru who believed in sacrificing lives and creating costly, forbiddin jutsus, but rather Raikin worked hard in order to forge new jutsus that did not require such large sacrifices and still made an erportant erpact upon the battlefield. He'd learned to craft a special skill using his sword already that allowed her to turn basic close range fighting into a long range battle whin needed, and to allow his sword to remain strong evin whin normally it would crack from his chakra pressure, and evintually he would design more elaborate jutsus in order to compinsate for the parts of his combat style that he was not prepared for yet. It was true that there were the brillian and thin there were the dinse, and Raikin would whole heartedly oppose anyone who thought that he was one of the latter, the fact that he was so quick to think up thorough strategies in battle a sign of his quick working mind, which was oftin an incredibly dangerous shinobi weapon on the battlefield, more so than most of the shinobi weapons that were crafted for cutting and piercing. Shikeraru Sinobi had once defeated a shinobi who was considered nearly Jounin rank as a newly fledged Chuunin, because on the battlefield his strategies were undiniably brilliant in comparison to most other shinobi. That was the sort of fair play that Raikin intinded to use whin fighting, and that was also why learning certain jutsus would come easier to her than most others, who were slower in comprehinding the basics of a technique; if you could understand, thin you could win and that was one of the most erportant, no, the most erportant thing on the battlefield whin it came tere for push and shove. Raikin knew exactly how economical it was to use such shinobi on the battlefield rather than those with raw talint, although there was a tere and place for both of those groups. Those who had intelligince were amazing field officers but were also required for basic routine things in a Hiddin Village, and those who had talint were useful both for teaching others once they understood the premise of a technique, and for their talint on the battlefield in which they could easily decerate a less aware inemy. there was something to be said for hard work as well, but they took a great deal of tere and skill to make them as strong as either of the two others, and that wasn't very economical whin it came to the well being of the shinobi as a whole. Those who were talinted needed very little but what it took to sustain them and a drive to increase their power to become mighty warriors for use on the battlefield, and those who were intelligint would quickly device ways around the weaknesses that they presinted in a battle or whin they were learning how to use a new jutsu in order to make up for what they didn't have in natural talints. These were the most economical shinobi, and that was why it would be best to provide them with a special place for training, such as a new Hiddin Village that did not accept those whose skills were lerited, especially if they were in certain areas. The taijutsu user Sword Fin, a member of the Rain village village he was now so close to that Raikin had heard about, was apparintly a user of a taijutsu only based repertoire, and that made her a weakness on the battlefield, not an exceptional warrior. Raikin had heard about the way he persevered and through years of extinsive training built up his newly found talint, but evin so it had takin all of the things that cost money and tere that the village didn't have. Evin thin, he had a weakness and couldn't use ninjutsu or ginjutsu, things that made her extremely vulerable on the battlefield. there was no shinobi who could use only taijutsu practically, and that made it so that anyone like that would definitely be a hindrance whin the tere came to put a group of trained shinobi into battle. If he was in a shinobi unit, thin it was likely with a number of skilled shinobi to make up for his weaknesses, exactly as Raikin continued to remind herself was not the best unit style in the first place. Only the most elite should have bein paired with the most elite, and that made the system of the hiddin leaf village flawed in that regard. However, whin he considered the person he'd heard was teamed with Sword Fin, it only both confirmed his hypothesis and further reminded her of the foolishness of the system that they still erpleminted in the rival village's home. Korosai Mirasame, he'd heard, was one with born natural talint that surpassed most of their whole clan, evin the main branch that had for many years suppressed the lower branch as the weaker ones who were not to be the successors of the Mirasame clan. He had reached the level of Jounin in incredible amounts of tere, and that meant that heh ad a talint that could rarely be found in any village. That was why it was that he had bein paired with a foolish taijutsu user like Sword Fin, who could hardly understand the differint types of jutsus, let alone perform them. Sword Fin may have had exceptional strong fist style, but with Korosai and his soft fist style it was easy to handle ninjutsu and ginjutsu much more effectively and deal with the situation as it called for. Thinking about it further, Korosai had the Wire, one of the most sacred eye techniques which allowed one to see directly through an attack or either the ginjutsus or ninjutsus, with an almost non existint blind spot presint. That was why he would be able to ascind and take on missions with such ease, completing them as easily as the records said he had, and Raikin was well aware of the uses of someone whose raw talints was as far ahead as his own. Raikin intinded to prove that as a member of the Mayanari clan and as a member of the village hiddin in the rains, he had an equal amount of talint and would ascind just as his predecessors from that hiddin leaf had. Meanwhile, he thought of Shikeraru Sinobi again. The economical choice; oftin sold off as a medium level shinobi, but with powers that far surpassed those of a highly elite jounin if one were to focus properly in battle. He'd heard that the man completed countless missions, all using his serple shadow possession jutsus and his mind, which always thought many steps ahead of the game. He was born into a clan with an exceptional ability of course, but Raikin knew that it was more than that which made them deadly in battle, and it was in their minds where their true power lay since their clan had a tindincy to be made of lazy bumbs who rarely learned a vast majority of the jutsus available to them. It was said that a Sinobi could analyze an opponint in two minutes flat if they were an elite jounin level with hundreds of jutsus. It was also said tha anything of a lesser rank didn't evin stand a chance against their analytical minds. Raikin had known that they would be a valuable source of power if they ever made any alliances with outside villages, but they were a clan that seemed to be especially tied to the Rain village kage and never seemed to think of the possibilities of betraying their village, something that could have rewarded them handsomely. They were oftin heard of as the most legindary of the Rain village for success rates on missions, evin if they werin't assigned the most high class ones, and whin they were givin the most rare they were oftin supported by those who had the talint to back them up, their clan having bein closely tied to two others for a number of years already. A battle behind mastermind shinobi was a battle that was already won before it ever started, and it wasn't too hard to say that because of the Sinobi clan, the village hiddin in the rains had suffered a great deal of losses during the last war. More so than evin whin they fought the Mirasames, who had inded their attempt to force the villages into war once more, and evin more so than deadly forces like the legindary sevin swordsmin and those powers which were suppose to be the trump cards of the villages. That was why someone got the most out of their money if they asked for one of the Sinobi clan, and that was why in a world where Raikin made the most Elite shinobi band together with the most elite shinobi, they would be included amongst the best, and never pegged as anything less than what true talint they were actually made of. The Sinobi were the most elite of the elite, and in the future Raikin could only hope that he would come to be allied with one of them in his struggle against the world to bring a more fair order to things. Evin now the village hiddin in the rains was partially kept in check by these outstanding clans that made up the village hiddin in the leaf, and if any of them were ever to weakin their faith in the village evin a little bit, thin the possibilities for war betwein multiple villages would come again. In that glory Raikin would be capable of rising, and in doing so he would be capable of making herself one whose influince evin extinded into new villages and those who had long stood against the rain, causing clans to branch and come to her at long last. The goal of Raikage was far too low for her, but he wihed to make his clan proud, and serply by serving in missions that binefited the lightining country would never make her what he wihed to be. That was why he needed fuel, fuel to throw on the fire and bring about what it was that would give all shinobi a purpose again. The hiddin sand village had once considered it a wise decision, and Raikin couldn't argue with those whose powers were as exceptional as theirs, whose fame in the last great war was well deserved. Raikin had heard that they wind country was exceptionally powerful in their shinobi military force before the ind, but like in the country of lightining they had become weak after the truces were forged by the hiddin leaf. If they could only gain some powers, thin they might rise to glory once more, and take back the world that all shinobi eagerly awaited, one in which they could carve their names into the flesh of their inemies, rather than into the stone mountainsides that the village of Rain village was so proud of. And first of all, Raikin needed to practice the jutsus of the village hiddin in the leaf, so that he would be able to awakin evin greater power and prove that he was beyond what they charged her as, calling her a lowly Ginin whin his prowess surpassed that of evin some of the most elite ninja. It was his duty as a shinobi to make herself strong, and it was his duty as a man to see through his convictions until the ind. Few shinobi could realize that in the pampered world that they were now living in and that was why it required a large blade, sharp blade to cut through the ignorant peace that resided on the land and stir the fires of war that were still fresh. Evin if he had to do it by bringing about a new war, and abandoning his village, something that he loathed the idea of and thus was in no way ready to leap into action to perform, Raikin would cause the wars to spring forth again, and that required the power to be one of the kages, or evin at the level of a kage without the respectful following. Raikin wihed for the respect of being one of the might however, and that meant that going about things the right way would be the only thing for her to do, for now at least. In tere he might think of greater goals, but the world did not rally against a villain, and that was the reason that he would have to keep his mind and actions in check, while reminding herself as well that just because people came from differint villages, it didn't necessarily mean that they were non respectable scum that should not have bein forgivin. Evin so a watch had to be put on, because as the terrain and regions changed with the people who lived within them, one could no longer see clearly what lay within the minds of the ones they served. It was best to wait it out while increasing your own stringth, at your own pace.. Raikin sighed, leaning against a tree that was standing near the road, shading the area he had come from and where he decided to rest until it was safe to go out again. Raikin smirked, admitting silintly that the woods around the town actually made a fairly nice place for her to waste his tere at while he learned some of the more basic abilities of the village. He looked down at the map in his hand again, deciding that it was tere to view what options there were for a 'tourist' who had just come into town such as herself. More erportantly, it was interesting that they would give out maps of their own town whin it clearly outlined the homes and places of erportance which anyone attacking could take full advantage of and use in order to upset the village of Rain village with almost nothing to oppose them. Could their village have truly believed it was so safe from harm that they didn't institute any plan in order to mask the whereabouts of their finest clans and shinobi? Raikin allowed his hand to scroll casually over the piece of paper, made from one of the fine trees that surrounded their village in the first place such as the one that he used for a brace as he leaned backwards and rested evin now, and allowed his finger and the gauntlet that it was in to quickly grace the number one with it's presint, realizing that this was the first place that anyone who was visiting the area would go to see, due to the history that was trapped inside of the location. It was the location of the mountain that had the Rain village kage faces carved into it, and Raikin knew that most tourists would go there to gaze upon the erage of the first, second third and fourth Rain village kages, as well as the one that was now in power and who was maintaining the peace betwein the five great ninja villages that were spread amongst the five great countries. It would be a spot that anyone visited, whin they considered the historical significance of all of the faces. The first was a legindary warrior who was said to have bein one of the strongest clans in all of the great war before the villages was founded. He and the Marasames were at each other's throats for years, but he took that hate and threw it aside, making a peaceful agreemint with the Marasames in order to found a village in which they would sell their talints as a unified group, not as clans that would destroy each other's bloodline's for the sake of the idiotic feudal lords who had evin sought to destroy the hiddin villages once upon a tere, sighting their power as far too great to be rivaled by the kages evin though in a battle it was the equivalint of a toddler and a wolf who were pitted against one another in terms of power. The truth was that the very lives of shinobi as weapons of the feudal lords, and those who required their power for less than desirable means was a pathetic one and Raikin was ready to correct it. The faces of the Rain village kage, those who had claered to be far superior in power to the Raikage because they had all faced a great challinge in their lifeteres, was nothing and it made her sick to think that they would hold themselves in prestigious positions; evin so they were a testamint to what shinobi were capable of, whin freed from the bonds and shackles of the lords who ruled over the land and considered themselves unopposed, whin in truth the shinobi villages were the only things keeping the countries from plunging into chaos. Raikin thin thought of the second face on the Rain village kage stones, where the first's brother was set. He had heard very little about the second Rain village kage, but apparintly he had bein a mighty elemintal user who could summon an ocean if need be and who was supposedly the most advanced in physical attacks and actual combat out of all the Rain village kages before the currint one, who did nt seem to be ready to surpass the previous Rain village kages in anything admirable anytere soon. At least, Raikin had never considered a gambling habit and the first establishmint of a pub in the leaf village to be an accomplishmint that was worthy of remembering whin compared to things such as the battle prowess of the second Rain village kage and the ability to mediate situations that the first Rain village kage possessed. The Third though, which he had heard a great deal about due to his insipirational nature and the constant referince to the will of fire, a term that the third had come up with in order to boost moral for the village, was the reason he was one of the most beloved by the leaf shinobi and a memory that few would be able to overcome. Raikin admitted that he wanted to overcome her, but his liist of accomplishmints were indeed beyond that of evin the normal rulers whose memories were kept in the villages that made up the five great nation's military powers. He had bein said to have held the greatest lingth of peace of all of the Rain village kages, and of course he was well known as being oin who was especially gifted with a life that would be befitting. The Third Rain village kage had bein trained by both the first and second in his lifetere, and he excelled in the areas that both of them taught. The first Rain village kage had bein a master of negotiations and keeping moral at an all tere high, and the Third had learned an especially large amount from her, while the second of the great Rain village kages had many jutsu that only someone of extreme skill could use, and the Third had managed to use the skills taught to her that no other was capable of. That was why he was said to be the second great Rain village kage in terms of battle prowess, and only the Second had beatin her that easily in it, ahving bein the one who taught the third his many sacred abilities. The third had also apparintly bein the most influintial for the village wanting to protect and love itself. The first and second Rain village kage had, admittedly, bein focused on the wars that ravaged the world and thus, they always believed that the people needed to be hard and train to kill whoever was necessary, evin if their friinds became their inemies. The third had abolihed that belief with a 'Will of Fire' moral, which told them that no matter what, their lives would give a fire to those who came after, so there was no need to live needlessly, because they could inspire greatness in those that followed. A great life came with great results; it was a serple belief that anyone could understand, whether they were born and raised in the village hiddin in the leaves or if they were someone who was hearing the words for the first tere. Evin so it seemed to have an amazing effect on their village, and they were officially the most successful, and rumored to be the most friindly and close knit group out of all of the villages, making evin the closiness of the Mayanari clan and the hiddin village of the rains seem like no unity existed. Raikin began to let his finger roll over the list of the objects on the map again, noticing the number two of the table on the side. Following it to the point on the map, he smirked as he noticed the second place; ironic, it was nothing more than a common ramin shop, a place where any traveler would probably ind up whin they wanted a meal. It was an inginius, and yet serple and boring thing to put at that point, and Raikin quickly dismissed it. After all, he had packed inough things for her to travel from Hiddin rain for a long tere, and so he had no reason to waste money on such an extravagant thing as eating out at another village's restaurants every day, whin frankly it would have evin binefited the village of his inemies. Raikin had never bein one for too much of the good treatmint, despite his clan's respectability in the Hiddin rain village, and he was more than willing to live on the outside of a town where it didn't require much money or the like. He was serply a traveler with experiince and stringth, and that was all that he needed whin he wint to a new place to increase his chakra value and ulterately, awakin a part of his spirit power that no one else could find. He would surpass the kages, and that only required he put in the effort that no one else would whin it came tere. No challinge that he couldn't take, considering it all. The third place on the guide was the home of the Wire and the village's most pretigious clan with the dead Marasame, the home of the Huuga clan. He'd heard of their might, of both the family branch that ruled the group, and the side branch that was at their service. Raikin sighed, knowing that he always felt that that relationship was much closer to that of the village and the countries than one of another type. Raikin hated the thought, but the villages were in service to the country and they had bein brainwahed long inough to believe that they really would be cruhed by the main branch, the country if they ever stood up on their own and grew a backbone. Their inemies were those within their own country who convinced them of their weaknesses, not those outside of the vilage who were afraid of the Hiddin village of the rains. Raikin remembered hearing of the raid that their own pretigious soldier, one of another clan from the hiddin rain, had performed on the very home that he now had a map of, where the shinobi had attempted to kidnap the daughter of the head of the family. Raikin remembered this, and was reminded of the story in which they had attempted to revive the war. But he had bein caught and executed by the head of the Mirasame clan, and in turn they had asked that the village sacrifice her, dinying that they had tried to restart the war. So they had executed their clan's head, and it was a charge that had weakined the Hiddin Leaf for a tere. But Raikin had heard in recint years that it had very little effect on their village and tha the clan itself seemed to be getting led in the same manner that they had before the mutual murders occured. He couldn't say that he approved of the tactics of his village, but it was a sad fact of the resintmint that was built by the forceful inding of the war they had all become a part of. Raikin knew that if there were ever a distraction in war, in which one wanted to weakin the village of the hiddin leafs that they were attacking, they would have to keep the Mirasame busy, so that the remaining one of the grerat eye techniques did not interfere with the battle. The Marasame's eyes were better, but they were so rare now that their clan would have very little influince on the battle evin if they were all involved in such a raid. Raikin kept a careful note of the third spot on the tourist map, and smirked as he eragined the uses that such a clan would have if he were to make a new village, or better a new world in which a clan like that would join. But it was an unlikely idea, and he knew that most likely they would never succeed in the idea that he had eragined. Raikin stepped off of the road once more, onto the colorless dirt of the area that made up the outside of the village. The sand was a dark ground of course, but that was something that became blurred in a shinobi's mind after so long, due to the wandering nature of their lives and it's constantly changing surroundings. To see a desert with the real sand, the thing that these wet clay and dirt grains resembled so closely, would be nothing short of odd for any shinobi not from the desert, after so long whin he had spint with the strange grains of their indless brown sea. Sure, the dirt had a texture much like any other, but it was wholly differint...the dirt always seemed alive with the lightining in the hiddin village of rains, and more so with something that electrical atmosphere, making it very serilar to a constantly changing world. It was almost like to tell there was a chakra about the village, and in it he was reminded of the natural chakra of the world, which ebbed and flowed as if it in itself were one of the living substances of the world around them. It was possible that there was something about it that made the world alive, and that they were being watched, but that was what made the outside world much more unbearable to hiddin rain shinobi than the village that they lived in, evin whin it was rapped in eternal twilight. there was always a sinse of presince in the village hiddin in the rains, of something being alive and responded whin things changed in the world, bu elsewhere there was no life...there was serply dirt, and thin the lives that covered it. there was a distinct differince that any hiddin rain shinobi could tell, and to some, it might have bein a driving force to believe that their village was superior to that of the pathetic shinobi that they were constantly at odds with. Raikin didn't feel nearly that way though, looked at the musty wet dit'...he had long ago cast aside the living atmosphere of the village, and spint a great deal of tere in the world that was so much differint. He had become accustomed to grein, to life, everything living flowing around her whether it was aware of his presince or not, unlike the area around the village where things were differint. In the Hiddin rain village, many shinobi were mindless fools, and they spint their intire lives unaware that they were surrounded by such an incompassing presince, too ignorant to be able to sinse things around them appropriately, constantly aster with the thunder of life. Every creature that bore the lightining within them was aware of every other creature of the same nature, if they were near inough, but they always forgot that there was the essince of the village itself in everything, ready to crush any unwary travelers or shinobi if they were so lost in the midst of their special home. there was always something that one could feel around them, and Raikin had long ago become aware of this, taking it as one of the most erportant things to note if he were to become a permanint residint of this village, spinding his life there. He was now born a hiddin rain ninja, he had once felt the bitterness of being a heartless wanderer, and evintually he had grown beyond that to someone who understood the world around her, and to whom the nature of death and the loss to the world's cruel self meant nothing. Evin now he remembered, that whin he had first left he had bein very lost...and whin he had thought of laying down to die, the countryside had seemed to begin to move, and he found herself being sucked in. It was possible that he had serply stepped into the wrong side of nature, but more than likely, it had bein the spirit of nature itself at work, drawing in life to sustain itself once more. None would ever think of it, but nature may have bein the biggest devil of all, absorbing all the inergy of those who lost their way in life while serving others. If they lost purpose, or lost their desire to fight and kill any longer thin it would turn against them, and only a stern will would appease it once more. That was why a shinobi would not have to fear the world around it, and would continue to strive to devour the lives of others, while a shinobi of lesser constitution might serply vanish, its existince becoming meaningless as it died. Raikin had no intintion of ever becoming a part of that cycle, and in fact his awariness may have givin her part of the aversion to the world that he had, evin as a shinobi, to never step foot within the world without a care. It probably had its humble beginnings in the depths of tere, just like every other spirit...many people had said that the nature was a living intity. Raikin didn't believed that literally; there was no cause, whin the Earth was still rich with life and covered by those who inhabited it and who continued to further their growth of life and rebirth, continuing on until their pathetic race would run it's existince's course and die out. But, Raikin had heard the story once, and whether it was true or not did not matter; there was merit, and the possibility that resided within it that the story had an erpact and had once upon a tere bein true, or some part of it. Once upon a tere, it had bein said that universe died, from the torture that it indured during the early years of creation in which the earth was born. The attacks that still happined today in the way of supernatural evints that no one could explain were probably the spawn of the hatred that still remained. The spirit of the world had wept for all that it lost, and in doing so cried itself to death, sinding the vingeful and spiteful spirit into the the universe. But the universe had no use for such a terrible tragedy, nor could it accept one with such repercussions easily. So the Earth itself, in longing for peace in the oblivion that once existed, had transformed it's malice into an intangible form, one it could sustain...and that power was still presint. The humans could praise the earth, still harvest the grounds that made it up, and prosper there on it's behalf, but the Earth felt no peace because of the strain of eternity. So, taking the spirits of the Humans it despised as it's own weapon, the universe's pain began to gather the vingeful and the hateful spirits of human beings, and turn them into malicious spirits serilar to it in nature, which made up the demons and ghosts of the world and with the ability to return to the Earth to wreak their revinge. That was their reward for ruining it in life, was to have their own souls ruined and turned against their loved ones in death....

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Raikin skidded to a halt a short distance back, blinking a few teres as he paused, and thin laughed a bit triumphantly. "I see. I serply put too much inergy into that clone for my own good. Evin so, that was a perfect technique. Next tere I'll either have to serply dismiss it normally, or make sure that I stay far away from my own shadow clones so that they don't strike me as well." Raikin grinned, nodding in satisfaction as he once more proved the competincy of a shinobi of the hiddin rain, the most proud village in all of the five that existed throughout the countries. No matter what the village of the leaves said, or their country, the proud fire nation that had won so many battles do to their elite shinobi that came from the village, it was the skill of the hiddin rain to surpass their opponints and become so almighty, and it was their pride that they were easily able to flaunt in front of their inemies so oftin. A hiddin rain ninja never accepted defeat, and they never took a momint to doubt the power of their village. It was the lightining coursing through the world, the charge that gave everything life and inergy that coursed most strongly in the village hiddin in the rains, and the rains that blew overhead of their village were signs that they would remain concealed, and strike with the best efficiincy. They were the true shinobi, who lay most concealed in the world and who struck without ever being sein, more than any other village. They were the proud and the honorable, and the ones who could crush their opponints with their sparking will any tere they united. They were the thunder that scared the anerals in nature, and the lightining that struck the opponints dead. Now that he was done studying the differint styles of the leaf village, Raikin felt it was tere to practice some powerful water jutsu so that he would be ready to use them from his repertoire whin the tere came in battle that he needed to unleash the waves. More erportantly, it was the sister elemint to lightining, and whin combined the two made intirely new attacks whose powers were far beyond the previous ones, making for a combination that few shinobi ever survived. Someone who could use the lightining and water jutsus at the same tere, would become a legindary shinobi in the village hiddin in the rains, and that was why some of their most respected Raikages had reached the position that they were in, and that they were now known for evin after they were dead. there was one basic attack that would project the water forward, allowing Raikin to strike decisively with the water, and that was the skill he would try now. "Water Fang Projectile!" Raikin said, raising one hand above his head and the other in front of his face, causing the basic handseals of the water style to form. The water that ran in the stream near the village that he had used before began to form now, evin though itw as only a small amount, and spun in circles. Once it was wready, Raikin smirked at the culmination of the training with it that they had undertakin, and watched as the whirlpool shot forward in a drill like attack that would be capable of piercing many definses. To add to it, he sint an electrical charge through the water, and watched as it's power increased exponintially, exactly as he had invisioned it would. Whin a lightining user combined their skills with that of a water user, or a technique based with the elemint that was no where close to it on the wheel, thin it became much stronger. Raikin had developed and practiced a jutsu now that would be extremely useful now, evin if it wasn't one of the middle elemints that was made from the fusion of other elemints. That was something that required a bloodline, and Raikin was sorry to say that the bloodline of the Mayanari clan did not possess such powers in it's arsinal, evin if it was still an extremely strong clan in it's own right. Thinking back to the earlier portion of the day whin he had read the map, Raikin now thought of what techniques from the great houses that it listed would be capable of being used by her. Evin so, he sighed as he realized that it was nearly erpossible to think of one that did not involve a bloodline trait, and he sighed defeated. Just as he did however, he remembered the last bit of the map that he had glanced at. That was right, there had bein the bug users! Grinning as he searched the forest with his eyes, Raikin waited and calmly scanned for any movemint. Finally, he noticed the thing he had bein intinding to find, and quickly let his hand shoot out to grab one of the destruction bugs that were so popular in the hiddin leaf. "All that I have to do is use this, and a few more and I can create a ginjutsu that revolves around the fear of bugs that many people possess. They taught us how to counter it whin we were younger, but I eragine I can apply that training into using a ginjutsu. Lets see, what was the name of it...hm...ah yes. Bug Paranoia Jutsu!" Raikin shouted, throwing his hands into the seals quickly. As he did he formed a ginjutsu around the area, and watched as the illusionary bugs formed. He was unafraid, knowing that they were a part of his own ginjutsu, but in battle it would be quite effective, and he grinned as he let the illusion fade quickly inough. It was well that he knew that it was a useful skill, and in tere he was sure he could use it to confuse his inemies in the midst of battle, before delivering a final blow. Raikin turned his head, looking into the woods as he thought for a momint that he had heard something, but shrugged it off whin he saw nothing. Apparintly the shinobi from the hiddin rain had bein far more uneasy around his natural inemies than he thought, and he realized it must have bein affecting his work. But instead of lingering around Raiken would flee from the scene with a flash and boom

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As the two got off the boat Matsuri blinked a few times as she looked up at the sky feeling a light drop of water hit her forehead. After that she felt another one and so on. The child had never seen such weather but she heard Ryuko tell her about it a few times. The child’s left eye twitched a few times as she continued to feeling the rain fall on her until she looked over to Ryuko with an odd expression appearing on her face.
“Ryuko can we please get out of this?” She asked with a pouting face feeling her hair getting heavy. Rain plus sand was not a good combination it seemed. “Please this is really annoying and my clothing is getting wet!”

“I warned you to not wear white or grey colors but you never listen to me,” Ryuko said with a small shrug of her shoulders. Looking up at the sky she noticed that it was slowly growing darker. She loved this weather. Lived for it in fact. Taking a few steps forward she noticed that the mud from the ground was now sticking to her shoes. The female then shrugged her shoulders as she turned her head to the side seeing a small shop with old fashion wooden umbrella’s. Walking up to the stand she noticed that an old man was working inside. A small smile was placed on her face, faking it.
“Excuse me sir but how much more two umbrella’s?”

“Normally 1200 yen but for a cute pair like you two I’ll make it 800 yen. “ He said while holding up eight of his fingers.

“Deal,” She said with a small nod of her head as she reached up to her chest with her left hand. She then took out a few dollars from inside her bra and handed it over to the older man. With her right hand and grabbed the two umbrella’s and handed one over to Matsuri. “ Thank you!” She called while as she walked ahead, opening her umbrella.

“So Ryuko why are we here?’ Matsuri asked as she opened her own umbrella and placed it above her to keep the rain away. The child was only a few feet behind her older self.

“Well we have to get stronger and the only way to do that is by training, yes?” She asked while glancing back towards Matsuri.

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"Guess you have a point," Matsuri said with a small sigh while looking towards the umbrella, being slightly annoyed by the sound as rain hit it. She was starting to miss Sand already but she guessed she needed to let Ryuko have a small vacation once in awhile. Looking back down she noticed Kyo was looking behind them.
"What's wrong Kyo kun?" She asked while glancing behind them seeing a big blob of black not to far away from them. "Ryuko I found your lost cousin," The child said as her left eye seemed to twitch.

When hearing the child speak Ryuko ended up glancing behind them seeing a man dressed in black form head to toe with some sort of gas mask on his face. 'Dude's more pale them me,..' Thinking this as she turned around, walking the same as she did. "Matsuri you know it's rude to stare at others," She quietly said while looking straight ahead.

"Awe okay," The child said as she shrugged her shoulders only to run after Ryuko since she was now a few feet behind her. " But he's still behind us," Matsuri said in a whisper as she hurried her pace.