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KKatashi begins to hear flashsteps getting closer to him. He pulls out his sword and prepares for the people coming. [These people are coming at too fast of a rate. They are preparing to attack. They seem to be tracking my element.] The Koshoku ninja flys out and Katashi quickly meets him with his blade. They both fly back from the force. Katashi quickly gains his posture and assumes the bushido stance but then catches a glimse of Kousha. He puts his sword in its sheath and smiles "Sorry about that thought you guys were the enemy moving that quick towards me really caught me off guard." He looks at the Koshoku ninja and remebers the failed mission [He was at the lightening village. I hope he doesnt remeber me.] "So who is the new guy?"

(Photo) A boy shows up to Resshi. Samurai looking killer kid with peel face of sorrow attacks Resshi. "I 'll devour your soul human" as Resshi replied in funny way "Right, sur you will little zombie freak. I'll look forward to that right".

(Resshi) [Who hell is this kid, he must've work for Michimaru s**t. Oh well I get to have some fun anyway at least with this freak].

(Photo) "I kill things that are in my way in likes of you".

(Resshi) "Ok whatever, I don't like freaky people like you anyhow.

Kieto shakes his head, "Although that may help track him faster, I really don't need to use clones. That takes too much ryoku so isn't worth the cost. Also if we do run into Kiu, then obviously I need to have enough ryoku to fight. When scouting you use the least amount of energy as possible." He answers Katashi, "Of course I know how to do any type of clone. I know jutsu that have been forgotten for years. I attacked you assuming you were an enemy. I wasn't even trying to kill you so it's no big deal." Hateshi can't help but notice that Kieto doesn't seem to like Katashi. Kieto looks at Katashi with his glowing eyes, "Your energy signature seems familiar but that's probably just because you're related to our clan... although I do feel like I've at least met you before..."

Kousha and Tahei were silent the whole time. Then Kieto grins, "Are you guys trying to learn how to track energy signatures?" Tahei answers, "Mine as well while we're following you." Hateshi thought, [I wonder how they're learning exactly...] He notices Kousha just following Kieto but Tahei is staring at him, [Wait a minute...] He remembers, [Kousha's not a sekinin. So that means... only Tahei... only Tahei is studying him because he knows how...] He activates Issekigan, [I wonder how...] Tahei tells Hateshi, "Turn it off. You aren't going to learn anything with it." Hateshi deactivates it, "Maybe I can! You don't know what I'm capable of..." Tahei interrupted, "That's exactly the point. You could be wasting your ryoku like that. We don't know. You remember what we taught you?" Hateshi remembered, "Don't take unnecessary costs." Tahei nodded, "That's exactly what you were about to do."

Katashi laughs at the whole situation. [He is hostile with me. This is really funny being so close to the enemy. This would be the perfect time for seterusu to strike. Hopefully they get out of the earth mission fast enough. I've sent Yuya a message even before he came.] "I love these eyes." Katashi looks around and acts like he never said anything. "Have you found it yet?" Katashi becomes more impatient as they go along. "God im so bored."

Katashi becomes more serious and continues to walk ahead as they continue to joke around. [Where are you?] Katashi puts his hand underneath his cloak and grabs Tsukiko's blade. [I will get my revenge for you.] Katashi laughs as he begins to feel the air get thicker. [This is odd. I wonder if its a shadow jutsu or a water jutsu. I don't care if i die though i just want him dead.]

Kousha tells him to hurry up and Tahei analyzes the area, [This fog has traces of ryoku. I can sense it, even though it's almost unnoticeable. It must be covering such a large area... Obvious. Someone's trying to hide their presence.] "Everyone stay close. If the fog gets really thick the only people that will be able to see are me, Kousha and Hateshi. Don't get separated and DON'T attack each other."

Someone bumps into Hateshi, "Who's that?" The person pulls out a sword and attacks him, "s**t." Hateshi jumps back, "I can't see anything." Kousha yells, "Hateshi activates Issekigan. It's the only way you'll see anything in this dense mist. This fog's getting very thick so be careful!" Hateshi activates Issekigan and sees the guy attack him, "Yo stop it's me!" He dodges as Katashi attacks him, "What the hell are you doing?" Then he notices something wrong, [Wait that's not Katashi...] He looks at his body, [It's a water clone.] He flash steps kicking the clone destroying it, "They're using clones to try to trick us!" Tahei calls out, "We know! Yall protect yourselves! Hateshi you know what they look like now. We have to try to get out of this fog. We're at a disadvantage as long as we're in it."

Hateshi feels a hand on him, "Yeah?" Kousha says, "Come here." He follows Kousha and they meet with Tahei, "What are we doing?" Tahei says, "Initiate The Count." Hateshi knows what to do, "... but I've never done it before..." Kousha is getting ready to start, "It's easy." He starts executing the hand signs, "I-chi, ni, san, shi, shi, shi, shi..." Hateshi copies him and they continue chanting. Tahei looks around, "Ah s**t."

A bunch of water clones come out and start attacking them, "They know what we're doing. These guys are connected to Kiu somehow." Tahei flips around defeating the clones without even trying, "Found them... darn uh..." Kousha says, "Go. Come on I can take clones while doing The Count. Don't worry I got Hateshi too." Tahei runs into the fog and Kousha continues doing the jutsu while beating up the clones, "Hateshi follow me. We have to stay within range of Tahei." Hateshi tries moving while doing the jutsu and screws up, "s**t. I'll start over." Kousha says, "Don't worry it's hard to do this while moving around. It requires a lot of skill just to be able to fight while doing this." He kicks a clone in the face, "Just focus." They continue moving as Hateshi tries not to mess up.

Tahei was ticked off, "Oh my god." Hateshi saw Tahei flash step in front of him, "Wha..." Then Tahei kicks him away, [Where are they?] He locates Kichiro, flash steps behind him stabbing him, [Next...] Kichiro automatically replaced. Tahei finds Resshi, flash steps and knocks him away, [Damn it.] He sees the ice moving towards the center, [I have to try to get out.] He looks straight ahead, [Myaku!] He blasts a hole in the ice that's coming towards him but he gets knocked back.

Kousha was standing on a tree branch, "Katashi, you *do not* use water jutsu against *water* ninja..." Suddenly one of them comes out, "Thanks for the help. I see your brother was skilled enough to knock the kids out of the way without hurting them. Although... he wasn't fast enough to save himself huh?" Kousha sees Tahei frozen in the huge ball of ice, "Since that guy over there froze the water for us that allowed us to freeze you guys even faster. I am surprised he knew what we were doing so quickly," He points at Tahei, "Usually we just instantly freeze people when this happens..." Kousha flash steps punching the guy's face in, "We don't have time to talk!" He starts fighting hand to hand with the guy then stops, "Where're the other guys?" The guy drops to the ground, "What the hell?" He struggles wriggling around on the ground, "Why can't I move???" He rolls over breathing heavily, "What kind of jutsu is this?" Kousha answers, "It's called an atten attack..." He flash steps and a huge block of ice smashes where Kousha was just standing, "Stop trying to fight us. You're *no where near* fast enough to fight me." A bunch of ice needles start flying everywhere hitting Kousha from all sides. A second ninja speaks, "Heh. Too fast?"

Kousha appears behind him, "So fast you didn't see me doding those needles." The enemy gasps and Kousha knocks him out, "Where's the last guy?" He looks around, [He's not here?] The disabled ninja lying on the ground laughed, "He's already going to tell Kiu what's going on. Just give up on trying to get Kiu. You can't catch him. He's even faster than you!" Kousha pauses for a second, "Doesn't matter how fast he is we'll take him down." Hateshi looks at the block of ice that Tahei is in, "Uh... can't Tahei just get out of there?" Kousha flash steps next to him, "Uh... he's kind of frozen bakaera." Hateshi looks, "Are you serious?" He finds it hard to believe, "I mean these are just Kiu's minions. You think..." Kousha replies, "These guys are just look outs. They aren't really here to fight us. If they were really here to fight they would've killed you kids first." He notices Hateshi freaking out, "Don't worry that's why we weren't fighting for real either. We knew they were just look outs. This is just a warm up. Speaking of warm up we need to get Tahei out of there already. He probably decided it'd be more efficient to get frozen." Hateshi found that odd, "That doesn't make sense..." [He got frozen... because it was more efficient... I guess that makes sens... idk I don't really get Tahei sometimes. Maybe he's just too smart or something.] He looks at Kousha, [I don't know. Maybe they just messed up? Kousha's looking pretty tired from moving that fast. And this is supposed to just be a 'warm up.']