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Hiro jumps up and attempts to grab the pendent from its beak really quickk but instead misses and the bird begins to fly away.

Hiro quickly rushed over and grabbed the pendent while throwing the fake one in the air for all the crows to fight over as he rushed out of the woods and into the city to look for the cat his cage at the ready to put the cat in.

Hibiki kept a few paces away from Haruko, eyeing his surrounding closely. Hibiki stopped with Haruko, who began stretching. Hibiki began to mentally prepare himself, going over the weapons, seeds and other tools he had on his person. Hibiki nodded slightly, ready for action.

Soryuu Kenji
Nameless Village | Nature's Guard | Genin

Having dazed off a bit as Haruko had been speaking to him, and as she and Hibiki left, Kenji woke up out of his daydreaming to realize he was alone in the room. Panicking for a second, Kenji realized that the words Ukude forest had rang louder in his ears then the rest of the softened words in the area around him, and he figured that they were probably on their way there.

Leaving the classroom calmly, Kenji made his way through the village, out the back gates and walked along the path before coming to the very edge of the forest. At the forest's edge he suddenly stopped, placing his hand in front of him in what looked like a seal and concentrated. After a few seconds, his hand opened up and his palm faced forward, and he stood with his back straightened out for a minute or so with eyes closed, seemingly doing nothing. "Thank You" Kenji muttered under his breathe as he finally walked in.

Taking a few steps into the forest, Kenji immediately looked for the largest tree he could find by the path and moved very close to it, trailing his right hand along the bark of the tree before he pressed the side of his face up against it and began muttering incoherent words that only his people would understand. As he did this, his left hand came to the tree as well while his right continued to trace the bark. Another few minutes passed before Kenji's eyes suddenly opened wide as he gave a smile to the tree and patted it's bark. "Thank You Again"

Kenji immediately dashed off through the forest's underbrush, moving swiftly and confidently through the terrain that most had to slow themselves down within. With a well placed jump, Kenji leapt directly into a tree's trunk, only to catch his foot on it and bounce off of it to the high limb of another nearby tree as he continued the rest of his journey through the tangled tree branches of forest until he arrived silently above Haruko and Hibiki... precisely where the old tree had told him they were.
"Well, it would just be unfair for me to fight here with such an advantage... I suppose it is best that Haruko be the one to do the battling this lesson." with that thought, Kenji jumped to where he would have a good view of the sight, not particularly trying to hide himself, but as was due to his nature, gave no indication of his presence within the forest, even with his movements.

Haruko smiled as she saw Hibiki plan some sort of distance attack, 'Evaluating the opponant, not bad. Now where is he going to attack?' Haruko watched as Hibiki's eyes snapped open and he formed a few quick hand seals. Glancing around the area, Haruko noticed nothing happened to the surround area but the sound of rumbling from beneath the ground was more then enough of a warning of what was to come.

Jumping back, Haruko noticed the incoming kunai and quickly reached into one of her pouches to take out a kunai. She aimed it at the one Hibiki's and the two clashed together, stopping each other in its track before dropping to the ground. Glancing at the spot where she stood only moments before, Haruko noticed a spiralled tree root. 'That spot, it should have been where my right leg was. This is going to be interesting.' "Impressive move Hibiki, if it wasn't for my trained sense of hearing, I most likely wouldn't have heard that attack coming. So what are you going to throw at me next?" Haruko stood back and waited for Hibiki's next move.

Haruko watched with interest as Hibiki flicked away at an unseeable speed right before her eyes. 'Impressive, almost reminds me of Renshi-kun's flash jump. Now, where is he hiding?' Haruko began scanning the area for tracing or sounds that would indicate his location when suddenly she heard the sound of something being summoned from behind her. Spinning her head quickly to see what it was that Hibiki summoned, she noticed a white wolf dashing towards her with its teeth bared.

Applying chakra to her feet, Haruko quickly dashed towards the other direction making it look like she was attempting to outrun the wolf when in reality she was stallin. As she ran, Haruko quickly reached up for her pendent and added chakra to it, suddenly a smoke cloud appeared beside Haruko. Not bothering to wait for the smoke cloud to clear, Haruko jumped onto the back of whatever it was that she summoned, "Up Rei," Haruko commanded and suddenly a large orange swallow emeraged from the smoke cloud flying towards the tree tops. Haruko looked down and saw the white wolf staring up at her sneering. 'Well, that was a close one. Who knew he could summon out a wolf, not bad.' Haruko summoned out her koto and waited for Hibiki's next move. 'So, will you reveal your location to me in order to attack?'

Soryuu Kenji
Nameless Village | Nature's Guard | Genin

Walking down the path, the sounds of the village began to fade behind him as they were gradually replaced by the sounds of nature. The water from the river could be heard rolling to Kenji's left along with the various chirps and scutters of insects and small animals in the fields and brush surrounding him. His journey to the edge of the forest was peaceful, the nights air growing only slightly colder, but still comfortable, though as he approached the forest itself, the noise of the surrounding area began to fade away and held a strange void within it.

"Very strange...", not entering the forest path as quickly as most would, Kenji brought his hands out of his pockets as he closed his eyes and breathed deeply, holding out his hands to the forest palms forward as if he were trying to calm it, or assure it that he was not a foe. After a few minutes of this, Kenji's eyes opened up with a smile as he approached the forest's edge, finding a nearby tree as he pressed his ear and right side up against the tree as he began to draw his hands over the bark, murmuring incoherently as he did so. This continued for almost 20 minutes as the forest's edge grew darker and the night began to settle, but as he opened his eyes, the moon had started to glow in the night's sky which lit up the paths of the forest with soft light.

"Thank you my friend. You have been of great aid to me." Cobra gave the tree's trunk a few pats with his hand before pushing off of it, entering the forest peacefully as he moved his hand to sit on the hilt of his kodachi which hung behind him, ready for anything that might come as he had been warned by the forest that the wolves were roaming hungry.

{{Mission: Legend of Moon Lake - Ukude Forest [1/5] }}