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Once again having lost patience with just wandering the maze to look for the exit she was now rather bored again. She paused quietly sneaking about and looked around, she felt like she could find the exit but at the same time this was an exam to become a chuunin right? so should she just head out for the exit? No she figured it might be a good idea to perhaps mess with some of the other genin involved in the test. Something about this dark dank area was starting to get to her too, it was so boring, so seclusive. She closed her eyes for a moment, and thought, how could she make this more fun? She rocked from side to side some as she pondered what it was she intended to do. She paused with a foot in the air it occurred to her now what she wanted to do, she turned around and headed back to where she had removed the seals that she removed and quietly moved to the top of the walls again. From here she could cause all kinds of trouble and remain unseen. She crouched quietly and only now noticed something, the shawl that when she received it was a brilliant golden orange color was now oddly a blue color, so what time was it then? She thought about it for a bit, she felt a little tired and hungry judging by those things it must have been a little after dinner time, so was it night? Did the cloak change colors with time of day? She tipped her head to the side and grinned how useful that was. She steadied her posture on the wall and then raced along its length looking for any potential 'targets'. She paused for a moment now having reached a good location and closed her eyes allowing her other senses to guide for a moment. She crouched and jumped from her current position to another and then moved silently along the top of the wall, doing this alone was quite entertaining actually because she could see most definite paths from this position and being able to play with her position and posture in regards to the surface she was walking was also liberating, so that made her more at ease as well. She started a long silent run her cloak only making the lightest fluttering sound behind her as she moved. She paused seeing a good spot that she figured any number of people might go through and took a deep breath before releasing a slick of water from her mouth, her preferred 'thick water' or really in other words spit, but it was more like water than saliva, but it was still viscous and slippery. She grinned at her little trip hazard and leaped away from there to find somewhere else to go.

((stealth = 1510))

Hisaki nodded, Bu twhat dun is that? If he doesn't get mad, I don't laugh!. Hisaki drummed his finger to his bottom lip, "So it's a genjutsu. Ah, that does make alot of sense. I have felt a little off lately." Hisaki shrugged, "And here I thought the tags on the cieling were anti-genjutsu markers or something, to stop stupid gen types from cheating with their mental jutsu. You're the proficient one in this, right?"

Hisaki took a few puffs of his cigarette and looekd at the blank walls. He issued a big plume of smoke from his mouth then said, "You know, this place is really drab. Just endless paths and traps and stuff. Oh, yea, and a room with boxes. Booring. What this place needs is some real color. I could picture some red curtains maybe, or a candelabra. That'd be nice. You know what else would be fashionable? Carpeting. That'd be great too. They could get some oriental stuff, and maybe some wooden paneling to match the curtains! Ooh, then I could hire someone to do some feng shui, and make it nice and comfortable to live in. Ah, it'd be like a mansion in here! They aughta get some people on that job. I bet theres a few interior designers in Rice Country they could turn to. Better to impress the competition with, right?"

((213 alone
12 Together))

((Officially beginning to combine Hisaki and Yuki's lines.))

Notwen sighed. It seemed that this trap was meant to test one's reflexes. With another look at the kunai-littered area, Notwen continued to travel down the corridor. About five minutes later, he came to a fork. There were three new corridors: one continued forward, one veered off to the left and the last one to the right. Notwen smiled.
"A maze." he said, remembering how Soba would sometimes give him a newspaper to solve the puzzles on the back. Mazes were Notwen's favorite puzzle. Soba gave them to him to aid in his tactician training


Soba was sitting behind his desk in the academy. He had been reading the newspaper when Notwen had come in from his lunch break.
"Back already, N?" he asked, looking over the paper at his student.
"Yeah. I was wondering if i could try the puzzles on the newspaper again." replied the academy student. Soba chuckled, beckoning the boy with a nod.
"N, you are the only one in the class that hangs out in here while everyone else is playing. You should go and get some air." Notwen walked to the desk shaking his head.
"I prefer being in quiet places. Besides, i get more training hanging out with you than playing around with the guys outside." Soba smiled.
"Is that so?" The chuunin folded the corner on the page he was reading, then flipped to the puzzles page. "Ok. I want you to solve this maze in five minutes." he said pointing to a large circular maze and handing Notwen a pencil.
"Piece of cake." said Notwen, looking a. He looked over the circular labyrinth, tracing a mental line from the opening to the center. Two minutes later, the boy had traced a line with the pencil. There were no mistakes from the starting point to the goal. "Done." he said triumphantly. Soba looked at the clock on the wall.
"I'm impressed, N. How did you do it?" he asked looking at his student. Notwen looked at his sensei coolly.
"I just thought about being in the maze myself."

Notwen walked over to the corridor that veered off to the right. Placing his hand on the wall, he melted the rock so that a hand print was left.
"Let's see where you go." he whispered and began walking down the first path. 82 Event Lines

"Simple. To be honest, I'm really deep and stuff. I'm so deep... That's why all the girls want me, because I write poetry and stuff. Yeah!" In Hisaki's short rebuttal, Yuki cried out in pain, then was on the defense. According to Yuki, "Hisaki, watch it! It's another Genin! Her name is Chikako, she's from the Hidden Sound Village and she uses Earth type ninjutsu!" Hisaki turned around, lollygagging a bit as the girl made an impressive Earth Style attack that he simply jumped over. The attack, it seemed, was meant to throw him and Yuki off guard, but Hisaki still wasn't into the battle.

Suddenly, mudballs shot past Yuki and towards Hisaki, who was easily irked by the sludgy attack. Yuki yelled to him, "Hisaki, help me take her out, she's in some kind of blind fury!" Hisaki pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and spat, "Sure, I just hope she doesn't get hurt." Hisaki pulled out a scroll from his scroll case. He whipped it out and tapped the inscriptions on the scroll. He pushed his hand into the paper, and withdrew a jet black blade, "Yuki! Get out of the way!"

Hisaki dashed forward, and used his flash step to get in front of his friend. He successfully side stepped and dodged several incoming senbon. Hisaki laughed, "Come on, girl! You can do better than that!" Hisaki brought the Blade of Oblivion over his head and swung. All of the sudden, a huge pillar shot across the labrinth, made out of the stone wall. It made a successful blocking technique.

Hisaki scoffed at the attack, then swept below the pipe-sized rock. He made a powerful thrusting attack under the pipe that was grazed off with another pipe of stone. Hisaki fell back and cut through both, opening the way, but as he did, the girl was preparing a surprise on the other side.

She yelled out the last required seal of the jutsu, "Tori!" Then announched the attack, "Earth Release: Rising Stone Spears!" Suddenly, huge cones of Earth shot from the ground and walls, attempting the spear Hisaki with their sharp points.

Hisaki blocked two of the incoming spears, and jumped over another. He had to retreat to escape the rest. He fell backwards onto the disrupted ground. He jumped up quickly, and deflected three more spears that attempted to impale him. In a flurry of rage, Hisaki sliced through the rock, making the path clear to the retreating girl at the end of the hallway. Hisaki barked at Yuki, "This isn't the end. She's going for a tactical retreat, so she's not at close range. We have to plan accordingly."

Yua kept moving her mind straying thinking about the boy she had just met, and she wondered if she would meet anyone else in this crazy maze. No sooner had the thought left her mind then did her foot slip on something wet and sticky on the floor she fell flat on her butt which still ached from falling out of the net. Yua growled a bit and rubbed her butt and then stuck her hand in the liquid it felt like a large glob of spit, it was completely disgusting. Also the worst part was it was all over her, she tried to get it off but it wasn’t working so Yua quickly made a bunch of hand seals and then her cheeks swelled and she began to spit water all over herself. Once she was thoroughly drenched and all the spit was cleaned off she was so frustrated she needed to do something so she yelled. ”I hate this place!” Yua felt much better after yelling she huffed a bit and saw there was some of the spit like liquid on her scroll she quickly cleaned off the scroll and then looked around to see if she had triggered a trap, she hadn’t so now she was very confused as to where the liquid had come from, but she didn’t have time to fool around she needed to get moving again. Yua began to move through the maze again thins time she kept her left hand behind her on the scrolls seal, as she moved quickly and quietly through the maze. Yua wondered where that liquid had come for, was someone leaving it around to mess with people? Or was it set there for her Yua stopped and looked up at the space between the roof and the wall, and decided to inspect it more thoroughly this time.

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Oasis only just managed to hold back her giggle fit as the girl slipped in the trip hazard and went tumbling about in it. It was just as funny as when she used it head on against someone. Now that she had tortured someone she decided maybe she would be nice and help her. She jumped to the wall and melted the scroll before slipping along the top of the wall once she was close to the girl again she carefully slipped down in an area to the side and poked her stone kanji in behind her belt to hide it. Then she let out an exaggeratedly loud sigh. Then turning the corner she nearly walked right into Yua "You too huh?" she questions meaning hating the place "I heard what ya shouted earlier." she states with a big grin. "Maybe we could have better luck searching together?" she questions entirely dropping her stealth at this point, if need be she could likely make a hasty retreat.