Welcome to Gaia! ::

Tahei is standing next to the bed, "Hey bro. Habacha? (How are you doing?)" Kousha groans, "Sucks nakama (dude)... I see Katashi is here..." Tahei nods, "Yeah I found him." Kousha tries to get up, "Ow nevermind." Tahei giggles, "Stop pushing yourself. The sheer fact that you outran Issekigan that much means that you need to take a freakin break for a while before your body can't heal anymore." Kousha laughs, "If you didn't piss off the Mokuzai clan you could call one of their guys over and get them to heal me..." Tahei remembers, "Speaking of which isn't one of your students a Mokuzai?" Kousha nods, "Yeah but he's not exactly 'experienced' if you know what I mean." Tahei nods, "Yeah. Can't expect a little kid to heal you."

Hateshi walks in, "Tahei your back." He sees Katashi, "You know..." Tahei already knows what Hateshi was going to say, "It's obvious... although we could go on the mission without Kousha. Kousha and Katashi together put up a fight against Kiu. I could definitely replace him." Kousha complains, "Man. You aren't better than me come on!" Tahei laughs, "Okay." He turns to Katashi, "I'm serious we don't have to wait for him. Although we do have a better chance with him around." Kousha yells, "No man. You better wait for me I swear I'll kill you if you kill him before I do!" Tahei makes a joke, "Sorry I can't hear you." (He always has Issekigan on which makes him deaf, but he can still see what people are saying)

Kousha takes a serious tone, "You think you can kill him without me?" Tahei thinks on it, "I don't know. Haven't really fought him yet." Hateshi adds, "I think we should wait for Kousha to recover. We have a better chance..." Tahei asks, "I don't remember anyone saying you were in on this." Kousha agrees, "Hateshi, we asked you to help out with Kaomoji because that was a clan thing. This is... much... bigger..." Tahei giggles, "Bigger?" Kousha rethinks that, "I mean... more dangerous." Tahei nods, "We can't ask you to go on this mission Hateshi. That's suicide." Hateshi was both offended and bummed out, "Okay."

Kousha just stared at the ceiling, "He'll be coming." Hateshi looks at him, "Huh?" Kousha says, "Kiu will try to kill me since I'm in this state. I don't know if he'll try tonight or tomorrow but he will try." Tahei grins, "Don't worry naka'a, I'm here." Kousha looks at him, "Don't let down your guard." Hateshi jumps in, "Can I help guard Kousha?" Tahei laughs, "I don't think so. I'm not letting you be anywhere near Kiu." Kousha speaks, "Go ahead." Tahei was surprised, "What??" Kousha says, "Use Hateshi as a close proximity guard. You two act as the outer guard." Tahei grits his teeth, thinks then gives in, "Fine."

Katashi looks interested at Kichiro. [So this is a Mokuzia? I wonder if i could find his scroll that would be a great asset to the Seterusu clan.] Katashi watches Kichiro and then looks at Tahie "Is this kid serious?" Katashi looks away and waves at Tahie. "This place doesnt seem right for my ill keep dibs on outside. Later." Katashi kage shushins outside. [Alright Kiu lets get this done and over with. It's time for me to get my revenge for Tsukiko.] Katashi makes 4 shadow clones and make them blend into the building with stealth camo. [I never thought this unit would come in handy but against a regular persons eyes its easy to go right on by without seeing a thing.

(Reverend49 notice report) Resshi does not appear in this episode, as he's with Anita for while.

(Michimaru) is heading out to find and kill Edisto, though he disappeared out nowhere after end of last episode he finds his sister Mara instead.

(Mara) has no idea that he would betray her and others or whats his real goal at all after Michimaru informed her that their was rat in their team.

(Michimaru) "Well his sister was no help, I guess I have to give up now that I have no time for this since I have better things to do" as he disappears somewhere else smiling.

(Edisto) Is in another secret book store doing what he does best is read.

(Mara) Heads to find Edisto , as well as she breaks in Resshi's house while he is gone off air for now.

Kousha whispers, "Here they come." Suddenly the door slams shut as Kiu Inyu's into the room with his men, "You were expecting us?" Tahei snaps his fingers and the door explodes putting splinters into an ice ninja near it, "Hey Kiu." Kiu giggles, "I forgot you know Mokuzai jutsu." Tahei snaps his fingers again and the floor explodes underneath them. Kiu throws up a shadow to shield them from it, "Is that the only move you know?" Hateshi stands by next to Kousha ready to defend him. Tahei grins, "It's been a while." Kiu asks, "A while for what?" Tahei looks at them, "Since I did this."

Kiu's ice ninja pull out ice swords and Tahei says, "Level 15." His sunglasses shatter from jumping to his maximum level, "Eh, guess they aren't that bullet proof." He throws his sunglasses away and Kiu thinks, [If it's been a while since he's gone level 15... then he must really be better than his brother...] The ice ninja attack him and Tahei dodges without even trying, "You need to train your men to fight better." He flips behind them and shouts, "Fuku!" A shockwave knocks them out of the building landing the ice ninja outside.

Kiu pulls out his pure black sword, "I'd like to fight you first before killing your brother." Tahei bows, "If you want." He tosses his hat at him but Kiu Inyus past it and hacks at Tahei who starts dodging. Tahei's hat cuts through the ceiling and gets stuck in there. Tahei executes hand signs while dodging then his hat comes flying back towards them. Kiu falls through the ground to evade being cut in half and Tahei grabs his hat and places it on his head, "Not bad nakama."

Kiu glares at him, [He's not even trying...] "Is that hat your only weapon?" Tahei answers, "Heh you know what I'm capable of... Oh wait. No you don't." He flash steps and attacks Kiu who's surprised, [Coming at me without a weapon?] Hateshi watches, [Since when was Tahei this good?..] Tahei nearly hits him in the throat, grins then says, "Fuku." Kiu falls through the ground as the shockwave busts down the wall. Kiu thinks, [So this is what it's like fighting a sekinin (analyzer)...] Kousha's lying in bed, "Show off."

As Kichiro saw the ice ninjas he pulled out hes wooden sword. "So you guys are the punks i hear about looking for a fight well you came to the right place". As Kichiro stand off against a ice ninja , the ninja said something no one should say to Kichiro , come on kid is that the best you got. "Who you calling a kid punk ill show you what true ninja power is all about right now". Then Kichiro quickly replace next too the ice ninja. "lets see who's got more strength by the way". "Im going to hit you so hard that every one will notice a
big hole in the wall". "As Kichiro swing to the ice ninja he hit hes sword so hard that he want flying to the wall and still stand". Well kid im pretty amazed what you did back there but your still not tougher then me. As Kichiro did a replacement he got hit in the arm by ice. "You think that hurts well let me tell you buddy at the end of the day one of us is going to be on the ground all beat up and i know thats not me". As Kichiro smiled he said Wood explosive technique then the ice ninja said Ice wall. Then Kichiro was mad. "You got to be kidding me i didn't even hurt you a bit".