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Miyuki looked up, "Okay."

After all River was her friend, she should go and watch. Miyuki had only seen a bit of archery, she knew her mother knew how to. Lin had begun to take out her weapons again now that Miyuki was older and during their two week stay in Gaia part of the visit was to get her mother up to par again.

Miyuki hated it when Vincent beat on her mommy, but her mommy said it was good, it showed her mistakes so she wouldn't do them in the future.

Miyuki looked around to see if there was anyone else she knew who was going to be taking part in the contest. Only to give out an eep as she was picked up by her Auntie Feng and swung around.

"Feng, please put your niece down before you freak her out," Ryu came up to the women holding the bow he had borrowed from his little sister.

Feng stopped in mid swing and Miyuki looked over her aunt's shoulder, "Why would I do that?"

Ryu just sighed, it seemed whenever Miyuki got use to something she was perfectly fine with it, the first time Feng did that, Miyuki did freak out and turned fox running up into a tree.

"See.... she's fine with it," Feng stuck out her tongue at Ryu.

"Fine, but you can't take part if your hands are full, I had to bug Lin for hers because you left yours," Ryu pointed out.

Naida peeked out floating behind her Uncle Ryu and giggled as she waved manically at River. The visit had been kind of hard on Naida, first the snow and then River being cooped up in the house, she had enough energy to maybe put River to shame.

"Just her," Ryu pointed to Feng who was bouncing Miyuki, "I know it might be hard to imagine but Feng knows a thing or two about archery. She learned from the Ito clan. Lin decided she would rather dance than take part."

Ryu himself didn't know much about archery and Naida only knew fans because it was the closest thing to weapons and art that she could get, and despite her bouncy-ness she preferred the arts.

Naida floated up to River and circled around her friend happily, "Uncle Ryu and I are just going to watch."

"Feng, do you want to take part or not?" Ryu finally asked his sister.

Feng to her credit set Miyuki down who was wobbling a bit before grinning up at her aunt.

"I'm coming," she murmured taking the bow from her brother, "Be patience."

"All right!" Feng pumped her arms up in the air as she took her place in line.

She grinned at River from ear to ear, she didn't except anything amazing to happen but it was nice to try her skills with other people that weren't other clan members.

Ryu meanwhile ushered both his nieces to a bench to see the contest in piece.

Feng calmed down and focused, it was one of the few times she actually did. It was probably why Donovan never had an issue with Feng training, it was pretty much the only time she was calm.

It sounded pretty straight forward.

With marksmanship like that Feng could easily see it was going to be tough. The only people she knew who could hit like that were the spiritualists from the Mizu clan but they used arrows in their work a lot.

Feng nodded, "Nothing less than a bulls-eye is going to do, and even then it has to be a really good one."

Feng chuckled, "It still doesn't take away from the fact all these men are really good."

She looked thoughtfully down at River.

"Of course, I don't know much about you."

She knew this as a fact, only knew River was lots of fun to play with and always fun to be with, but didn't know little details. For all she knew, River might even be a better shot than the men going up right now.