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Mai gave Sakurai a strange glance. "What does that mean? You do but you don't?"

Ion laughed" Same as always huh Sakurai? You always end up confusing yoursel. You just know her but don't know from where?"

"Ah!" Sakurai exclaimed, quite startled by the distance Ruiyosu had covered in a short amount of time, he picked up his pace and shot of as to keep up with her.

A shadow cloaked, very well hidden figure watched Rui and Sakurai's exchange from his perch. Dark metal flexed over his body as his muscles tensed and his hand went for the very large blade on his back at the appearance of a fight brewing between the two hair trigger teens.

He was glad when the two decided not to tear each other apart, it was something the young man would not have enjoyed having to break up, the 'dolls' had to be preserved, so he couldn't rightly have them destroying each other could he? Personally, he would have like nothing better, but then again, that would put him on Ifuuki's bad side, and that was something he did not need as long as he still assorted with her.

All things considered he hoped the two could keep their boiling blood under control and he could sit back and rest for a bit. When Ifuuki had rushed into this confrontation, he had had to 'clean up' the bewildered guards at the wall so no news of her entrance into konoha reached prying ears. Not an enjoyable practice by a long shot. He woundered why he had been the one she picked to go with her, gods know Eiju would have far more enjoy the blood and fighting, and might have taken off the heads of a few of the the interfering Kandachime, which again, Eiju would have attempted without a second thought. However, Bakuhatsu Kasairyuu was not a fan of such unnecessary actions. As such Kasa hung back, he had thought about helping Ifuuki when she was trapped, but the wrecking ball that was the Dokuga solved the problem for Kasa and he felt his time would be better spent tracking the whole reason Ifuuki had walked into this trap, Ion, and the possibility of recapturing Sakurai for he purposes.

For now, he watched, ready to act, though he mental wished for the need to not arise. The dormant volcano of Ash, Kyuukazan, preferred to remain dormant as much as possible...

Rui crested the last hill and spotted the boundry or earth country. "See? If you idiots had followed me in the first place we wouldn't have wasted so much time. Now lets find a town. I need more cigs."

Sakurai stared off into the far right, where he saw a cave, craved on it was a symbol of a spiral that ended with it's tail flicking upwards, and inscriptions etched around it. The emblem would be strangely familiar to Ion. He could have sworn the cave wasn't their a second ago. A velvety dark mist wafted stagnantly out of it, it wasn't fog and it definitely wasn't Ruiyosu's smoke, that was for sure, because it smelled strongly of incense. Strangely drawn to it, he broke away from the group and dashed towards it.

The masked boy who had been stalking Kasaryuu, completely disregarded his stealthy approach and sunshin'd straight past Kasa, probably alerting him, and the gennin's unnoticed.

"Okay, Kabuku-san, it's open." He whispered into his earpiece

((Dun Dun Dun. Kabuku time!!!))

A crow circled across Rio's quarters, he would surely see it through the window, squawking deliberately. It was obviously signal to report to the Council Compound for a Guest Mission.