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For a brief moment, Jeiden looked as if he were going to hit the girl. Both his fists were raised, an a look of utmost rage was plastered on his face. But as he drew back a fist to let it rip into Azaria's unguarded face. The balled fist uncurled itself and fell back to Jeiden's side. A horrible feeling of guilt had surfaced in Jeiden's stomach.. "Moscow...I'm gonna need a little time with Azaria." He said quietly to his Teacher. He hadn't helped Azuri, he had let her fight so he could go in and play hero at the last second.

He had let a friend down.

"You know what Azaria...if you're that pissed off. Hit me, right now, as hard as you can. I won't resist or retaliate. I suppose I deserve it." Jeiden showed no signs of having his guard up, and his gaze was completely fixed on the ground. He found himself hoping she'd hit her, a little physical pain would help keep his mind off the horrible feeling of guilt that was steadily growing.

((Erk! Been dying to get to the computer for the past couple days, at least I'm here now.. XP))

Jeiden took the blow soundly, then merely rubbed his jaw a few times and grinned widely as if nothing happened. He was used to shaking off pain by now. "Thanks for leaving the important stuff intact." He said with the usual wide grin. "And you're right, we can't be going at each other's throats everytime we see each other..." He turned and looked over at Moscow. "But I don't exactly know when I'll see you next time..." Jeiden turned his gaze towards the ground and kicked at a small pile of dirt in a sort of pitiful way.

"Sure," He murmured with a nod. Jeiden quietly followed Azaria with his hands in his pockets. Almost absentmindedly, he began gazing towards the Horizon. A sick feeling had slowly been gathering in his stomach ever since he left Konoha when it was still weak from the attack. Hopefully, everybody he knew would be safe when he returned...well, everybody except for Sasuke.

Hope Moscow doesn't keep us away for too long... He thought sadly.

Jeiden suddenly looked around nervously. Where'd Moscow gotten to?! Jeiden had never been this deep into the fire country, he could easily get himself lost without his teacher! "s**t..." He grunted while pushing through some brush in a rather crude manner, not even caring if the sharp branches slashed at his pant legs.

"Maybe Pharos is nearby..." He said with a glint of hope. Jeiden began awkwardly shimmying up a thick tree's trunk with his arms and legs wrapped around it as far as they could go. "Dammit, this'll take too long." He snarled while pulling himself up onto the lowest branch, which considering the height of the tree was still fairly far up.

"Wait, what the hell am I doing?!" He said with a slap on the forehead. Concentrating as hard as he could, he shifted chakra into his feet and carefully kept the balance as perfect as possible. Jeiden began sprinting up the side of the tree with all his might.

He reached the top of the enormous tree and craned his neck to observe the surrounding scenery. "Well...." Jeiden took an enormous breath that made it look like he was about to perform a fire jutsu. But instead of fire bursting forth from his mouth, words amplified at an almost inhuman volume came out. "MOOOOOSSSSSSSCOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!"

An odd silence followed his screaming, as if every single animal in the forest had stopped to wonder who could possibly be so annoyingly loud. What looked like hundreds of nearby birds all left their places in the trees to go find a quieter place to pirch themselves. "Wonder if he heard me..."

Azaria twitched at Jeiden's loud call as he spotted a panting Azuri down below.
"Azuri-chaaaaaaaan", She stated as she jumped down from the treetops, landing before Azuri who had suddenly brought a kunai to her neck.
Azuri's eyes widened as she loooked at her friend before lowing the sharp edged kunai.
".....Azaria....chan...What...Are you doing here? I thought you went back to Konohagakure..."
"Nope...Went off to Nail Chuunin-boy in the jaw and then we both went off to find yah....And there is that Sumi Girl..OI! Jeiden! Get your a** down here!" Azaria yelled up to Jeiden.

Azuri looked up, spotting her goofy Chuunin Friend. She gave a small smile before raising her hand up to him, waving with a grin on her face.

[I won't be able to get on much now....Let just say Azuri had Tikia hang out with moscow so she could view them whenever she wanted...ANNND she headed back to Konohgakure no Soto....yesss that's right....^___^ And Azaria is tagging along with your lot...-nod-]

((Brats... XD))

Sumi quickly got up and began to walk after Moscow. Something has happened in Sand, she thought to herself. It must be pertty bad, considering Moscow's mood. As far as I've seen so far, he seems pretty relaxed and cool. Sumi gave a small shrug and shifted her pack.

((Wow, totally ran out of ideas for the moment.. XP))