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Tsuki blinked a little as she saw him jump down, lowering her eyes as she felt like apologizing, but her tongue caught in her mouth and she remained silent. She should have been paying a little more attention when the water around her had trembled in the slightest, inwardly shaking her head at herself. She followed after Vykin, flashing Sorain an apologetic smile, praying the guilt didn't register in her eyes. She kept her eyes lowered at an angle where she could tell if she was still behind Vykin or not. Coming back here still felt weird no matter how many times she walked through it.

Sai laughed happily as he watch Tsuki jump off of platform and began to skate towards the mission office. Grinning the entire platform began to break apart, a greyish wave of marbles rising up and engulfing Sai before spitting out thousands of marbles that raced along side Tsuki, Sai appearing amongst them rapidly and repeatedly. Laughing he watched Tsuki pull ahead of him and eventually beat him to the mission's office, and falling over rather comdically. The wave of marbles smashing down not to far away only to zoom away into the distance to reveal Sai walk out from it smiling, "You ok, Tsuki?" He asked as he walked up next to her and waved to Sorain and Vykin in a rather good mood now, "Hey dude... And dudet." He said smiling at the two.

Sai's expression immediately dropped when he looked from Sorain and Vykin back to Tsuki. 'What happened to him this time?' he thought to himself gloomy as he remembered the few times Sorain actually got drunk upon going into, each time was his fault. Sighing he slowed down slightly as he shoved his hands into his pockets and slumped over somewhat, making sure that he was slightly behind the group as his glazed over with various thoughts.

Sai listened quietly to the man as he listed the clan leaders his brain buzzing with thoughts but he let the all go so he could pay more attention to the man. Sighing he slipped the headband off of his left arm and tossed it quietly onto the desk after Vykin. 'Inflitrating the clan, and assassinating seven people. Sounds like a fun mission.' He thought quietly to himself as he glanced over to Sorain and then to Tsuki, his eyes lingering on the two for a short while before turning back to the man as he decided to put Sorain on the mission. Shrugging slightly he wondered how Sorain would do as the leader of a squad instead of a support role as he usually was. Sighing he leaned against a nearby wall and looked at Vykin with an raised brow, "Ah, get over it Vykin. So what do you guys think our plan of action should be? And what are we gonna do about Aizen?" He asked, wondering why the last person of his squad never seemed to be around for anything.

Vykin was still fuming a little bit because of the leader choice, but she was over it enough to flick Sai off. She wandered back towards the table, walking around it to the side of the table where the man was addressing them from before, so that they were in a circle now around the information given to them besides in a group behind it. The Genin rested her good hand on the table as she said, "I don't even know who the ******** this Aizen is, but we don't need him. We're plenty competent by ourselves. However... if we are going to be joining this Devron clan... I suppose it will have to be up the captains themselves for us to go about it. There is one main way that captains add to their crews, and that is through the capture of the crews of other ships. They are given the choice to serve the ship or die. After a while, they get a loyalty to the new ship that they are on, and thus crew members that might've died while attacking a merchant ship are replaced," Vykin paused for a second as she continued by saying, "Considering we don't have a ship and that the Devron clan doesn't seem to work by traditional pirating ways, I have a feeling that they must recruit somehow... but it's not like there's a booth or anything. We have to know the right people in order to get into the Devron clan... and to do that, we are going to-" Vykin paused for a second, then said with a mock respectful tone, "I suggest that we go to this town."

Vykin pointed to a town on the map named Port Prodigal. This town was known to any sailor as the scum of their trade, and you had to be strong in order to last there. It's legacy should be known to at least some of the Mist shinobi in front of him, but Tsuki might not know about it. Every night, bodies would litter the sea around the Port, leading to a shark habitat around the Port. Not one dared to swim in those waters, unless they wanted to face some of the fearsome things that lurked in those waters. Nothing was big enough to destroy any of the ships, but it would sure rip apart any humans. Vykin turned back towards the group as she said, "I can only imagine that some of the ships from the Devron clan stop here to resupply and sell the wares at the black market that exists there. When that happens, they might be looking for more crewmen to add to their numbers... it will be up to us to be said crewmen and women to join their ranks. However... there's one major problem that we have here..."

The Genin looked at all three of the shinobi as he said, "Have any one of you ever sailed on a boat before?"

This was important, because she doubted that they could. They needed to know how to sail in order to be prime sailors for the pirate crews. They could fight, which was a key ingredient. Luckily they wouldn't have to learn that aspect of being a pirate. However, the sailing part is something that Vykin figured that they would have to learn in order to be good sailors. She wondered if Sorain caught where she was going with this. She already had a plan in her mind, but it would be up to him to decide what he wanted them to do... unfortunately.

Sorain,(who i guess is here now) raised his hand slightly,"Well I would not exactly say im a sailor or anything but my family did sail a shrimp boat for a few years when I was young and me and my brother used to steal it and go on joy rides." Sorain admited. He really did not want to have to be in charge of the boating, besides, he was still alittle buzzed and was in no real position to sail but he figured he would do what was needed when it was needed."Hey! Do I get to wear an eye patch!" Sorain said with a child like smile splattering itself across his face. SOrain looked to Tsuki for the first time in a while, her personal time with Sai had discouraged him slightly but he could not help but admire her. Vykin was pretty enough but she was stall, and had a hook for a hand. Sorain would have to be passed buzzed to go for that.

Sorain stood next to Tsuki and leaned against the wall. He was still alittle tired from all the goings on of that mourning and he really was starting to get a head ache. Sorain pulled out his his right arm and a needle in his left hand injecting the yellow liquid into his elbow. (For those who dont know) Sorain had a sythletic arm, somewhat like automail. The problem was that Sorain had to do the surgery himself and fitted the synthetic skin wrong, leaving him in a great pain constantly untill he manages to fix it. For now he used the yellow liquid to ease the pain. Sorain sighed deeply as the liquid began to ease the pain away from him. He then folded his arms,"I dont think Azien is comming" He said leaning his head back against the wall," Do we intend to really wait for him?" He asked to no one.

Sorain sighed and looked to Sai"Well, I dont know about you two but me and Sai have done our fair share of dangerous missions. I think that its fairly simple. We split into three main groups. We will start alone, each going for one ship and taking it out, then two people will join to form group A. Group A will attack the main ship while the rest of us go and pick off the last two ships, once we do we will then join the A team and together take down the head ship. So long as we do it without being to hasty, like running in guns blazing we should be fine. Remember, we have the element of surpirse on our side." Sorain said, laying down his plan as it came to him in his mind. He thought for a moment that he sounded like sai but then realized that Sai would never have said the entire plan at once like that which made Sorain wonder if Sai just made things up as he went.

Vykin glared at Sorain slightly, hearing that he had sailed on a shrimp boat before. It wasn't bad, but hardly experience needed to be a fine sailor. But he knew the basics, which was meant that he wouldn't have to learn that much. Tsuki didn't know a thing, however she had something going for her that the other two didn't, and that was her gender. Sai hadn't spoken yet and as she waited for him, Sorain began to speak again, talking with Tsuki about how the hell they were going to do this. As Sorain outlined a small plan, Vykin listened, but wasn't exactly sure what he was trying to tell. The Genin paused for a second as she asked Sorain, "So what you are trying to have us do is split up all the way, one for each ship, and then move on from there? I'm not sure that that is our best option Sorain."

Vykin paused for a second before continuing, saying, "If we are lucky, there will be just ONE of the ships that we want in that port. It's not guarateed that we'll even have four ships to board or if we will even be able to board each of these ships. Our plan... unfortunately will have to be based solely upon that. I feel like we're going to have to leave a lot of this up to chance. There will be no reason for a ship to hire the likes of us if a) we don't have any street cred in Port Prodigal, exemplifying our strength and b) if we have no idea how to sail a ship. Sometime between now and the time we get on our ships, I need to teach you guys the fine arts of sailing on a boat, otherwise our cover will be blown sky high. Also, there's something that the mission ******** mentioned but didn't explain in detail," Vykin paused for a second looking towards Tsuki, "Me and Tsuki will have the easiest time getting on a boat, because we are women... I have a feeling that was why you were sent here Tsuki. I'm not trying to be sexist, but you are a good fighter and a woman. If I can just teach you the basics of sailing, you'll do fine. You see, most sailors, or at least the respectable ones, believe in the sea God, Iana. Iana respects two things in this world... women and cats."

Before anyone could speak, Vykin quickly continued her talking, so they would understand, "The cat is the proudest creature on this world. I'm sure that you guys have seen cats before. It doesn't matter who you are, cats will always treat you like you are inferior to them. You are only there to give them love and to feed them. Other than that, you are of no importance to a cat. Because of this way of thinking the cats have Iana respects them, and any sailor will mutiny if a captain is stupid enough not to bring cats aboard their ship. The second thing that Iana respects are woman. In the form of a woman is something perfect, something beautiful. Men are such vulgar creatures in the eye of Iana, so woman are always meant to be had aboard a ship as well. It is believed that if a boat has women and cats aboard, then they are blessed by Iana. If they do not, then they are cursed, and things are bound to destroy their ship. This is the way of all seasoned sailors who have witnessed the power of the sea and their god Iana. You MUST respect this otherwise you will certainly die upon any ship you get on.

"So, knowing this Sorain, I suggest a different plan. Once again, this all depends on what ships happen to be the harbor once we get to Port Prodigal. We split into two teams. Assuming this retarded Aizen fellow indeed does not show, we split into two teams, one woman with one man. We can pretend to be related. Brothers and sisters are known to fight harder to keep their sibling alive, to this would add to our credit. Then our plans will go from there. The attacks that have been upon the villages on the Mist Village have been coordinated, so I can only assume that the are in some sort of contact. The main way to contact on the open sea is to meet with the ships, especially if they are friendly. There would be no reason to suspect if your friend came to help you out. We might be able to use that to our advantage somehow... but anyway, if two ships are next to each other, then that is the prime time to attack two captains at the same time. But after that..." Vykin paused for a second as she thought some more. Surely Sorain could see the problem in her plan that she couldn't fix. The crews would obviously be loyal to their captains. They would protect them, or if they died, they would at least kill them before doing anything beforehand. The Genin sighed slightly as she began pacing, trying to job her thoughts about how to solve this dilemna... or how to even stay in contact with each other out on the open sea. She continued pacing, trying to think through things, even though it was Sorain's mission anyway....