Board Thread:Hikari Uchiha/@comment-24479578-20160828064858/@comment-24479578-20160828064927


 * HitomiHyuga HarleeVanity: Staring out the window didn’t help the rapid heartbeat that was pounding in the young Uchiha’s chest threatening to come bursting through her rib cage. Her onyx hues shined like polished marbles with the light of the early morning coming through the window into the dim room and her lips pressed together and to the side a bit. Today was the first official day of her new identity. She hoped that she would be able to pull off the transformation jutsu for that long. Her fingers played against her new outfit that she had been given by L’s father, Ryutoka, the day before that was more like what was worn by a young girl of her age in Kumogakure. With each stroke of the edge of the fabric, her fingers began to tremble more. There was no hiding the fact that she was scared. The words of both her brother and Ryutoka began going through her mind. ‘...you are now labeled a Rogue Genin from the hidden leaf village, Hikari. This making you a target to be imprisoned and possibly killed on sight.’ She pressed her lips harder together and tried to calm her rapid heartbeat and even faster breathing. ‘If it were known that we were hiding a rogue within our village, it could very well start a war with your original village. That is why it is important for you to be known by an alias and disguise yourself. No matter what you do, you can not let yourself be found out.’ Still staring out the window, she brought her hands together and felt them shaking as they touched. Closing her eyes, she forced herself to breathe slower. She had to force herself to calm down or she wouldn’t be able to focus on what she needed to. There had been a little girl that she remembered seeing in the Land of Frost who looked like she would be able to fit in around here. Clenching her hands together, she forced herself to stop shaking and once more began to take slow and even breathes. Her hands had already began forming the required hand seals needed for this jutsu while her mind focused on the image of the young girl. A girl with brown hair about the length of hers with a bit more of a darker complexion from being in the sun more complete with freckles over her nose and cheeks. The scars on her arms had disappeared with the illusion of freckles peppering over the top of her arms going back into the light gray and maroon sleeves of her outfit. Her onyx hues opened to show that they had changed to chocolate brown. Looking in the mirror before her, she saw a girl that looked as if she belonged to this village. With another deep breath, she spoke softly. “This is Kari. Take it in and remember it well because I’m going to have to look like this for a long time.” She sighed softly. “Every day… for a long time… I hope I don’t blow this.” She whispered to herself as she then turned from the mirror and began to walk from the room into the kitchen where she had a feeling Ryutoka was already there preparing breakfast for her and L.

Raibu: “Concentrate!” The moment that word met Kazuo’s ear, he felt the wind being knocked out of him as he flew several yards back, slamming his back into a tree. As he slumped to the ground, Kazuo couldn’t help but feel disappointment in himself. He had been having these private Taijutsu sparring sessions with his father for years now, and yet he wasn’t even at the level yet where he could best an old man. Kazuo placed a shaky hand on his knee as he pulled his aching body back up to a standing position. He looked at the blurry image of his father through squinted eyes. The blur being an effect of him getting knocked on his ass, as well as sweat invading his eyes. Kazuo let out a few labored breaths before dashing forward with all his speed. Just as Kazuo was readying himself to land a strong punch into the middle of his father’s torso, his father Body flickered behind him, and landed a painful kick into the middle of his back. Kazuo fell forward, right onto his face. Kazuo just laid there for a moment, obviously admitting defeat but not saying anything about it. Kazuo rolled onto his back and stared up into the sky above him. Moments later, his father came into his vision, staring down at him. He extended an arm out to Kazuo, and Kazuo hesitantly took his hand and was soon pulled back onto his feet. “You need to concentrate, be more aware of your surroundings. Tunnel vision will get you nowhere when fighting someone, except maybe a swift careless death on your part.” Kazuo gave his father a slight nod as they proceeded back inside the house. Kazuo made his way into the kitchen where his mother was preparing breakfast for everyone. He slumped himself into his usual spot and sighed heavily. Kazuo’s father took the spot next to him and his mother handed them both plates of food. The usual boring breakfast for Kazuo, salmon with white rice. On the other hand, he seen that his father had a massive steak, complete with gravy and sunny side up eggs. Ever since Kazuo had started this regiment with his father when he was younger, he was only allowed to have high protein low fat foods. Meaning most of the time, much of it was flavorless. He had made a habit of going out everyday and venturing into Kumo’s steakhouse and pigging out on food there, or indulging in dumplings and dango at the teahouse. Kazuo poked at the fish with his chopsticks and grudgingly lifted a small bite of it into his mouth. He continued slowly eating his meal while at the same time watched his father enjoy his much more enjoyable breakfast. Kazuo eventually finished, thanked his mother for the meal and made his way back out into the courtyard. He made his way over to three training dummies that his father had made for Kazuo to practice on when he wasn’t around. They were well worn out, with straw sticking out of the limbs and several gashes all around the torso. Kazuo began rhythmically punching the dummies with all his strength. “Have to concentrate..” Kazuo kept repeating this phrase in his head as he struck at the dummies. It was really the only fault he had. He tended to focus more on the objective that was directly in front of him, rather than the dangers that could possibly be surrounding him. Kazuo had become lost in thought and was absentmindedly punching the dummy, unaware that his knuckles were beginning to ache and bleed.

MasaruNamikaze: ~Norio…Norio Yotsuki. His own named echoed in his head over and over. Norio flashes back on the moment he was assigned to a Genin team when he was younger. Norio Yotsuki…the way the announcer said it still ringing in his head almost…hauntingly. Norio’s Genin years were where his life did completely change in a single event that he can’t seem to let go. Norio is a man of mysteries, but a good peer into his head, and one would instantly notice how it seems his mere thoughts are corrupted by this lingering memory. But Norio was a wall so to speak in an appearance. He was impossible to read, simply blank and lacking texture and color. It was a thing that threw most people off, even those closest to him. No one ever seems to know what truly going on inside of his head. ~ “Norio Yotsuki.” ~He heard his name again, this time it was different. It wasn’t in his head at all; it was coming from the Raikage, calling him to the stage. It was his turn to speak and announce teams. Norio stood from his seat upon the stage, his charcoal black hair reflecting a bit of light as it was slicked to the side with a bit of grease, otherwise it would be sticking up a bit more. The many the plates interlaced with thread and attached to his outfit clanked against his armor as he gave the Raikage a bow before stepping up to the podium. He then looked out among the crowd full of shinobi of all ages, sizes, and ranks. Norio eyeballed the whole crowd with his colorless eyes, still in shinobi mode so to speak. He kind of scanned for any abnormalities that would stick out, as a public even such as this would be perfect for any enemy of the village to attack. Norio looked at the microphone before calmly pushing it far away from his mouth, as he had no use for it. He cleared his throat before activating the amplifier in his throat in order to speak just loud enough for everyone in the audience to hear him clearly. He spoke in his normal, robotic like voice, a voice he was not too fond of using, but in this case he felt he had to talk in his normal voice. ~ “My name is Norio for those who do not know.” ~He said as an opener. All eyes seemed to be on him, and some faces were confused and in awe at the sound of his voice, as most have never heard him speak. ~ “ I’ve served this village for a while now and I basically owe my life to it. This village has given me a place to sleep, eat, and bring my family glory through shinobi work under our Raikage. I can honestly say I would not be the person I am today, if it wasn’t for this village.” ~Norio said, leaving a pause after it, as it kind of had two different intentions. ~ “ Now I use to be one of you. Sitting in the crowd; a young Genin that graduated the top of my Academy class and ready and willing to get into the real Shinobi work. The rescue of the damsel, the saving of the village, and the fame and fortune that came with it. They were foolish thoughts now that I think about it. I was too young to really do any of that. Instead I was stuck with catching run away pets, and on occasion if I got lucky, cleaning up somebodies yard. But the thing I learned from all of that was work ethic. Something each and every Genin in this crowd will need in order to get to where I am, or even became the next Raikage. Remember, your only limit is your will to succeed. If you’re willing to stop at nothing to achieve what you want, you will never fail. Now to get to the teams.” ~Norio said before stepping towards the Raikage to retrieve an envelope. As he did, he heard the crowd clap in response to his small speech. He gave the Raikage a small nod before returning his attention to the crowd as they patiently waited for results. ~ “I will list off the names, followed by the team name and sensei.” ~Norio said before opening up the envelope and peering over the names. ~ “The Genin by the name of Joku Nota, Kari, and…” ~Norio paused for a moment as he only saw a single letter on the paper.~ “And L? Are assigned to Team 3. Their sensei is Norio Yotsuki.” ~He looked up at the crowd before handing the envelope back to the Raikage as the crowd began to commence in applauds once more.~ “I would like for the three I’ve listed to join me up on stage in order to meet each other, as well as their new sensei before giving a few of their thoughts on the mic.” ~Norio took a step to the side while he waited for his team to make their way through the crowd and join him on stage.~

Valak: |°з°|It’s very common for a morning in Taiga’s household to be quiet. Occasionally there’d be a snore echoing throughout the house, which belongs to her stepfather. Everyone in the house got up earlier than he did, so snoring would be like birds chirping in the morning to them. Taiga is always the first up, reason being is that she would be the one preparing breakfast. Normally she follows her father’s recipe and creates something delicious. However, today she felt a bit rebellious and…naughty. Sneering at the garden outside of her porch, she leaped onto the grass with her bare feet and began tip toeing over to the nearest tree. Taiga began running her fingers along the tree bark and started ripping chunks off of it. “I bet it’s screaming on the inside,” she commented knowing how ridiculous that sounded. “I also bet it tastes great.” The girl returned to her kitchen, climbed onto her porch while carrying a bundle of tree bark, and leaving the tree violated. The second person to awaken in Taiga’s household was her brother, Yato. The young feminine boy was rubbing his eyes and ignored his reflection in the mirror, which revealed his disheveled burgundy hair with strands standing up in all directions. The boy could pass as a porcupine if he tried. “Good morning, Yato you little shit,” Taiga snickered while waving around a ladle and wearing a frilly yellow apron. Yato’s eyes blinked rapidly as he was greeted by the neon yellow fabric and a bear mascot sewn into the center of it. “What the hell?” the boy was caught off guard, He began wailing and covering his bloodshot eyes. The noise had awoken their mother, who simply tied the sash around her waist even tighter before emerging from her room and smacking them all across the face. Without a word, she returned to her room and slid the door shut. The next hour consisted of silence and the sizzling of Taiga’s breakfast being cooked. Well, the food was moreso for her brother; fried tree bark with peppers. And other stuff. Suspicious stuff. After a bit of wrestling, Taiga ultimately beat her brother in brute strength and had shoved the cancerous food down his throat. “Good good, swallow it!” she grunted while her brother began shedding tears. He was begging for his life. The food was swallowed and the boy was left lifeless on the floor. Luckily, he only passed out. Taiga’s breakfast consisted of eggs, sunny side up over rice as well as a platter of seaweed with jellyfish. Upon finishing her breakfast, Taiga remembered who she was supposed to meet up with. Stepping over her brother’s ‘corpse’ she returned to her room and began changing. Returning with a blanket, she draped it over Yato’s body like he had died and left. On the road Taiga purchased a few dozen kebobs and some leftovers of her cooking that morning. By the time she had reached her destination, the food had gone slightly cold. She heard a familiar voice and followed it. With the food in her hand, she stood on her tippy toes in order to see over the fence in front of her. From the other side, one could probably see her creepy stare and grin. “Food, I have some. Eat we gotta go,” she began ordering the boy, Kazuo, around the moment she arrived. “Don’t make me force feed you like I did to Yato.” |°з°|

Expo: The light had found its way into the dark room which only possessed one single light source. This specific room was dark for the simple fact that only one person resided in this room and liked the dark tone of it. It was pretty early of course as it was the first day of everyone being assigned to a squad. Though this was a factor and a huge step L kept himself calm the entire way, though he barely showed emotion, he was a truly odd individual that most people would fail to understand. The bags under his eyes represented the fact he barely got any sleep what so ever, but still functioned completely fine, it was like the guy ran on literally nothing, but sugar. L Simply stood from his chair by extending his legs outwards and putting the book he was reading down. He came to finally notice the short ray of light which entered his room through his covered window. He then god off the chair and turned off his light before approaching the curtains in his room. He then looked outside to notice it was bright and sunny, L then sighed to himself and said “I see… I guess my insomnia got the best of me again, not to worry I still feel fine and with some breakfast I should be golden. After all the percentage of people who eat breakfast which attend the academy is about 50% which don’t do so, this meaning a few will be asleep while I will be fully active and awake gaining knowledge if possible.” He flipped his black hair back and out of his eyes as he was interested in the situation he was in. He then proceeded to leave his room as the smell of food engulfed the hall ways of his house, this meaning his father Ryutoka was actually making breakfast for such a special day. But one thing was new in the house hold and it was the fact that they were harboring a rogue ninja in their house hold. Though L never said anything, he found it truly impressive and interesting that such a young girl would achieve such a title as a young age. In fact it fathomed him, making him more anxious to actually ask the question of how she got out here. Though now was not the right time as they needed to get ready and head out. L was ready with nothing but what seemed to be the regular attire, black shinobi pants with a pair of sandals which was comfortable to his liking. Apart from that L possessed a regular white T shirt in which he loved, he hated designs as plain looks was his favorite. But that was beside the point, the moment L walked into the kitchen and saw Kari, he said loud enough that both his father and Kari would hear him “Hello father and Kari, good morning to you both.” He said before taking a seat and waiting for the plates to be delivered by his father. This easily happening soon after they arrived as they would end up finishing the meal about 30 minutes later. But during their time sitting there Ryutoka responded with “Hey L and Kari! I hope you guys enjoy this meal! I made it special with my secret recipe!” Easily sitting the plates on the table, the meal being the regular eggs, bacon, pancakes, the orange juice. Though the pancakes where made into a special form which possessed a sweeter side to it. It possessing a blast of many different fruits which actually tasted great. He knew they needed a good source of energy, and what was the best way than fruits? Ryutoka then smiled and hoped they finished quickly and would end up leaving outwards. Though all would be left to assume as many things could happen in the table while they ate, as for Ryutoka he simply drank a cup of black coffee as he was near the time of opening his barbeque store, after all the opening hours were closing in and he needed to make sure both children were well nourished. L then said “Thanks father, enjoy guys.” L said before devouring his food ever so gracefully as he loved sweets in general.

HarleeVanity: The smell of the food hit her first and she smiled. Ryutoka had always made the best meals. She could only be thankful that such a nice man had allowed her to stay with them. When asked, Ryutoka simply said that she was a friend of the family that had come to live with them. The sentiment had made Kari smile and get that warm feeling in the whole of her body. That he was willing to do so much for her and for her brother made her respect the man all the more. Her brown eyes looked to both him and L as he came out of his room and she gave a nervous smile. “Good morning. I’m guessing Ta…” She stopped herself then started once more.”... Kuro isn’t around this morning?” Not waiting for the answer, she walked to the table and began eating. “Thank you Ryutoka - san. The dress fits really nicely.” She said between bites. It was truly delicious as she would have expected nothing else from Ryutoka of whom she began to see as an Uncle of sorts. But her stomach was too nervous to eat like she should. Sipping the orange juice, she looked to the clock on the wall and her eyes went wide. “It’s already started!!!” Bolting out of her chair, she guzzled her juice and looked to L. Pressing her lips together, she looked about the room rather quickly for what she was looking for. A smile came to her lips as she grabbed a baggie and then dipped her hand into the jar of homemade sweets. Placing a good handful into the bag, she tied it off and placed it in the sashing of her garment. That would be a ‘just in case.’ Hurrying back out into the room, she’d reach to grab L’s arm and attempt to yank him out of the chair. Him being lighter than her and she being stronger than him, it should have been an easy thing to do. “Let’s go, L! We’re going to be really late!” She had to keep her focus on her transformation while she also then coated her feet with chakra and bolted for the door. “Bye!!” She called out as she’d attempt to drag the other child with her. She’d look to him and grin as she hoped she didn’t hurt him too badly but this was an important day for the both of them and she needed the only person that she had with her to keep her calm some what. If he protested at all, she’d reach into her sash and pull out the baggie of sweets, showing it to him before she’d give them to him. With the extra chakra on the bottom of her feet, she’d make it to the announcing just as the jounin would be calling out her and L’s name. Her breath was a bit on the heavier side and she’d hold the boy’s hand tightly as she began to walk towards the stage. “Do I look alright?” She’d whisper to L hoping that her disguise still held.

Raibu: Kazuo continued striking the dummy with all his might. He finally snapped out of his thought when he felt a sharp pain build up in his hand, and then shoot straight up his arm, causing intense discomfort. Kazuo grasped his hand firmly and looked down at it, only to see small spots of crimson liquid pooling on his knuckles. He then looked to the dummy and seen that there were several spots of red where the blood had rubbed off on. Kazuo sat himself on the ground and began sucking on his knuckles, trying his best to soothe the annoying pain. As he tended to himself, Kazuo found himself deep in thought once again. His mind was flittering back to his days at the academy, how he was able to best mostly everyone in Taijutsu, and then how he would come home, only to be easily defeated by an old man. It just made no sense to Kazuo. His father had never mentioned anything about being a Shinobi in the past, and it wouldn’t make much sense for a civilian to have honed their fighting skills to that degree. Kazuo shook his head, trying his best not to dwell on that thought, as it would probably only serve as a hindrance to him. Kazuo stood back up and only a second later did a familiar voice meet his ears. The voice of his long time friend Taiga, annoying and rough. The voice was familiar, but he had tuned out the words, as he usually did with most of the female’s he interacted with. It was just second nature to him. He looked over to Taiga who was peering over the fence to his courtyard and seen that she had brought food with her. Kazuo hurried over to her, hopping over the fence in the process. When she mentioned that they had somewhere to be, Kazuo lit up. He had forgotten that they were supposed to go and see which squads they were placed in. He still had dirt in his hair from his previous training session, but quickly dusted it out and smiled at Taiga. “I guess we should go then?” Kazuo said while he reached into his tool pouch, pulling out a spare mask and wrapping it around his face. Taiga and Kazuo’s parents are the only people he’s encountered so far who have seen him without his mask on. He didn’t much like exposing his face in public, mainly out of paranoia. 03:41, August 9, 2016 00:15, August 10, 2016 01:58, August 10, 2016 03:20, August 10, 2016
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 * IGottaTinkle |°з°|At first Taiga was tempted to just eat the kebab in front of the boy. The food smelled great, with green peppers glazed with some type of garlic sauce and the lamb kebab emitting a juicy aroma that every carnivore could not resist. She then watched as Kazuo hopped the fence. Deep down she was hoping that he’d land on the sharp spike and possibly impale his bottom with it. That would have been hilarious. Some humor and pain would make the day a little more exciting to her. He was not wearing his mask and his face was out in the open. Kazuo’s strange facial features did not startle nor surprise her. After seeing the same thing for years, he seems practically normal to her. Maybe calling him ugly back then ruined his self-esteem and as a result he wouldn’t stop wearing it. Regardless, Taiga did not feel guilty for her actions as a child. In fact, she could just continue bullying him. “Good, cover up the ugly,” she grinned while handing Kazuo his food; kebabs and her special fried tree bark. “In fact, eat my food first. It may cure you of the uglies.” Her face appeared serious and stern. Taiga did not seem to be joking about the tree bark being able to cure ugliness. She turned her head a good 90 degrees to the side, watching a few teens around their age laughing and heading to the same destination as the gathering for squads. “Eat while you walk,” she ordered before grabbing a fistful of Kazuo’s shirt and tugged him along. Whether or not he allowed her to grab him or even be dragged at all, she would continue trying to handle him like a sack of potatoes. By the time they arrived to the gathering, there was a generous amount of students. However, it is obvious that a handful had not arrived yet. While waiting, Taiga took out a kebab from her pouch and began to eat it. She had stolen it from the pile that she bought for Kazuo. The speech being presented by the guy named Norio did not really phase her, since she’s still a young teen and many teenagers do not care about adult matters. At the end of the long speech, Taiga did not even realize she was daydreaming until the crowd erupted into claps. She clapped along to blend in. The announcing of the first three students did peak Taiga’s interest since she had never heard those names before. She waited, scanning the crowd while taking in the sight of people of varying shapes and sizes. Some were plain looking, others had the potential to be attractive in the future. Her nails were digging into Kazuo’s arm so that he could not run away or wander off. Unfortunately, she gets lost easily so she would need some guidance or at least someone to suffer with her. |°з°|
 * RamenNoodlesSoup L had just finished eating his breakfast feeling spectacular after the meal, he only felt the grip of a certain someone grabbing him and forcing him to move. He looked towards his side and noticed it was the new person who was living with them. She had blurted that it was time, but L didn’t care much about being on stage as he would rather hear it from the audience. But that was the opposite with this young girl who had made such rash movements. L Then opened his eyes surprised at the attention he was receiving as he questioned why this was happening now from all other times. In fact he didn’t really know the girl at all, L was a bit skeptical about it all, but he kept his calm face and allowed everything to happen as his physical prowess was terrible compared to someone like her. It was quite embarrassing, but L could easily outsmart her with a few simple things, but that wasn’t the point. As he was being dragged away he told Ryutoka “Cya later dad, being dragged to the academy it seems” Ryutoka on the other hand began to laugh and muttered “Kids, they are always very different. It’s kind of cute honestly, welp its time for work.” He turned around and began setting up before actually leaving his home. As for L he continued and followed Kari as she question if she looked fine, L simply had responded “Why does it matter? We are shinobi’s looks doesn’t really matter for people like us.” He kept it real as he was a very realistic person and followed realism pretty hard. But he figured she would get offended by something like that comment as he quickly added before she can say something “But to me you seem fine and can fit in well.” He nodded as he pulled a bag from pockets and pulled a piece of candy out. He then shoved it into his mouth and smirked with excitement before getting into a crouched position, his knees at his chest as he looked up towards the stage and noticed they had been called. L didn’t really want to go as he told her “If you want you can go on ahead, I just need to know what team I am on.” He then pulled his hand upwards and scratched the side of his face. It was like nothing bothered him, after all that was L’s personality a person who never really cared about what others think about him.
 * Masaru Namikaze <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">~He cleared his throat again, ready to address the crowd once more as L approached the stage, but didn’t get on. He paused though, taking in the crowd once more, citizens and shinobi alike. Something was a bit different though.  Shinobi were stationed in front of any civilians who would like to attend. So there was a large clump of shinobi, then directly behind them separated by a barrier were the citizens. So what caught Norio’s eye was that around 4 people who looked like civilians were in the crowd with the shinobi. They were not wearing head bands, nor any outfit typical of Kumogakure shinobi.  Masaru gave a slight knock on the podium, one he used to get the Raikage’s attention. He made it kind of thing between him and her that a knock at any public event meant he thought something was fishy. But it was a certain kind of knock. Made with the knuckle of his pinky finger, so it sounded a bit lighter if that makes any sense; as typically when one knocks they use the knuckle of their middle finger mostly. He gave a slight glance back to make sure she heard the knock, followed by a nod. He then secretly made the hand sign Tiger behind the podium before closing his eyes and beginning to speak again. This was his Resonating Sonar technique, one of his higher ranked sound techniques. It allowed him to have a complete 360 degree view of whatever the sounds waves he emits bounces off of. He then began to speak as he was about to normally, though that slight pause left an awkward moment of silence. ~ “Before I announce the next team I would like to say I am truly honored to have been picked by the Raikage to lead a team.” ~He said. Quickly the sound waves travelled a total radius of 350 feet as that is the range Norio wanted to cover, he didn’t need them to go any further. What he was specifically looking for was movement that was irregular, movement that would be masked if he had just been looking regularly. This way, nothing escapes his sight, and he could make out things in vivid detail. He quickly began to focus upon the 4 individuals he had seen earlier, whilst continuing to speak. ~ “I’ve been a Jounin for a while now and just thought I would just be that Jounin who served the Raikage without actually having to teach. In fact I liked that arrangement; it gave me a lot more free time. But now I basically have kids to raise.” ~He said, giving the fakest of chuckles afterwards that seemed almost forced. It made the crowd at least laugh a bit out of awkwardness. The 4 individuals were on the move again, all heading for the front of the shinobi crowd. But it was as if no one noticed them, or simply didn’t care. Their movements were subtle, never fast and rushed, maybe that’s why. All of the shinobi’s attention was on Norio, the speaker. They must have felt this kind of place was safe for them to let their guard down. Either way, Norio did not know and did not care. He stopped what he was saying to address the issue, as he was willing to pass it as something else if they complied with what he was about to say.~ “I would also like to ask all citizens to remain within their portion of the crowd, thank you.” ~They then stopped instantly in their tracks, as shinobi began to look around and spotted them within the crowd, laying all eyes on them. They then began to make their way back to the civilian portion of the crowd. Norio lets out a sigh of relief, but doesn’t drop his guard just yet. His vision may have been 350 feet, things that were deep underground he could not see unless he increased his range. At the moment he could only see about 46 feet underground, and that worried him. He didn’t want to use too much chakra though, so he settled for the range he was currently at. He would just have to ignore his paranoia for the moment. ~ “Now where was I…” ~Norio was about to continue, when he sensed a rather big object moving underground, just within his view. The signal was weak, so he couldn’t even make out the shape, just that it was sitting around 46 or 47 feet underneath the stage. It then vanished, either going lower or just vanishing into thin air, which wasn’t that likely. Norio stopped his sonar jutsu and went into shinobi mode, things were too off for his liking and he would much rather be safe than sorry. He rushed over to the Raikage, signing the phrase. ‘We need to clear the stage, and fast.’ She gave a nod before standing up on her feet, remaining calm as to not alert anyone that something may be up, as people tend to panic easily. Norio turned to face the crowd again, when suddenly he heard gasp coming from the audience. He rushed to the front of the stage to see what was going on, and he saw the 4 individuals he had singled out earlier, standing ten feet apart each other, with a sinister smile on their face. The two towards the middle of the 4 them would then make the hand signs <span style="background:rgb(242,242,242);">Dog → Snake → Horse → Tiger → Snake → Dog → Tiger  before slamming their hands into the ground. The other two leaping out to both sides, in order to clear out from the crowd before running towards the stage 20 feet away from the nearest person or shinobi within the audience. As the two slammed their hands into the ground, a fissure began to form underneath the 30x30 stage, causing it to collapse completely and begin to crumble into the forming fissure, that was 35x35 and 50 feet deep. Norio reacted quickly, kicking off the stage using some wind chakra to push himself safely to the edge of the fissure, landing but not taking time to wonder what was going on, instead acting on instinct. The crowd began to scramble as the original creators of the fissure have already used the confusion and panic to slip away, or to a place Norio could not see himself.  Anyone who was on the stage would have feel into the fissure if they did not react fast enough, including the Raikage. The Raikage in fact was caught off guard, causing her to fall into the 50 foot deep fissure, but she found her way to one of the walls of the fissure, slamming her hand into the side of the wall to slow herself down; using her Earth nature to soften the wall a bit. As she came to a stop though, multiple bombs went off. Not explosive bombs though, they were filled with gas. It was the kind of gas that completely paralyzed a person within minutes and leave them like that for some time. She had little to cover her mouth with, as only a gas mask would filter out gas completely. Even a little bit of inhalation would result in a bit of paralysis. She focused chakra into her feet and began to run up the side of the fissure as fast as possible, trying to escape the gas chamber that basically sat bellow. Then, the wall she was running up began to crumble, as a rather massive puppet emerged from the wall, knocking her off of it. The gas began to kick in a bit and she found it rather hard to move. The puppet itself would then open up a compartment it had on its belly, just large enough to contain a human, before quickly gobbling up the Raikage and closing the compartment. All the while at the top of the fissure, the other two mysterious people began to close in on the fissure, assuming no one stopped them beforehand. Norio took notice to them, and knew he couldn’t stop both, he had to pick one, so he went with the one on his left. He opened his mouth and unleashed a large blast of sound of highly concentrated sound at the person. But before it could hit, he used a body flicker, in fact they both did, which moved them out of Norio’s eye sight again. Norio’s blast slams into a building and blows a huge hole in it. Norio looked to his right, only to see the other mysterious person. But before he could launch off another sound wave, that puppet launched out of the fissure, just in front of the mysterious person. He then performed a series of hand seals before placing his hands against the belly of the puppet, sealing it shut before the puppet feel back into the fissure. Norio didn’t launch the sound wave, as to not hurt the Raikage, though it might have been a better alternative as the puppet feel straight back down into the fissure and out of Norio’s sight. It would fall to the bottom and begin to tunnel away, with nothing Norio could do. Now Norio stood just in front of the last person remaining, determined not to let him escape. He made the hand signs Snake, Rabbit, and Ox before emitting a rather deafening noise he hopped people covered their ears for. The person instantly fell to their knees as he was the closest to the loud sound, though the point wasn’t to hurt his ears, it was to put him in Norio’s Echoing Nightmare Genjutsu. To the person, a sound from a traumatic experience  would repeat over and over again loudly, causing them to go insane after a while. If nothing traumatic has ever happened, just a deafening loud noise would repeat over and over as their body in real life curls up into a ball. As soon as the jutsu hit his ears, Norio did waste any time running up to him and deliver multiple swift blows to his face, knocking him out, which allowed him to drop his Genjutsu. But at the end of the day, they had just taken the Raikage and the whole thing was well planned out. Norio was still confused himself as to what just happened, so he took a few moments to compose himself while everyone else did the same.~
 * HitomiHyuga <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Kari had looked to L and smiled with his bit of reassurance. Watching him pop a candy in his mouth, she gave a nod. He was a good one. Yup. She could tell. Though she barely knew him, the presence he gave off was one that she knew she could trust. Then again, he knew who she was and that this was a disguise. Yet it didn’t bother him in the least. She liked that. Seeing him crouch down and scratch his head, she’d reach down and try to grab his hand once more. Though this time, she didn’t attempt to pull him. She’d just aim to hold his hand. To know that he was there. Silly as it was, just holding his hand gave her a bit more of a peace of mind. He knew her brother. As did his father. They let her stay with them and didn’t judge her. In a roundabout way, it was like holding the hand of a cousin or brother. It was that small bit of safety and security. “If I go up there, you’re going with me. I’m not comfortable enough to do this on my own yet, L.” She said quietly to him before looking up at the man that had listed them off as being his genin. She was excited for a moment until he started to go on about other things. Tilting her head a bit, she narrowed her eyes while looking to the man that was to be her jounin. Her eyes focused on him while he stated that ‘now he had kids to raise.’ It made Kari press her lips together. If he didn’t want the position, why take it? Oh he was going to be the center of many of her pranks in the near future. The first challenge was going to be building her speed enough to take all those disks from his attire and hide them. Perhaps she’d get L in on it as well. He could use the training. But that was not all that was beginning to bother her. He started acting off. When the other shinobi had looked towards the four unknown people, she too had looked. “L... “ She whispered. “Start that brain of yours up.. And take a look. “ She’d nod towards the four as she kept her eyes on them.

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;"> <span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Then it all happened at once. The ground moving. The crowed in a more panicked state. Kari would have gripped L’s hand more as she’d begin to see the gas come from the crack in the ground. She’d take her sleeve and bunch it up, placing it against her face and trying to do the same for L. Her eyes held her fear as she looked to him. She couldn’t leave him behind if she ran and she very well didn’t know what would happen if she fought at the moment. How she wished that Takuya was here. 04:16, August 10, 2016 05:04, August 10, 2016 05:30, August 10, 2016 06:07, August 10, 2016 06:47, August 10, 2016 17:35, August 10, 2016 01:45, August 11, 2016 02:22, August 11, 2016 03:00, August 11, 2016 03:00, August 11, 2016 03:28, August 11, 2016 02:00, August 12, 2016
 * Joku.Skies <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">[🌧] Having left the Orphanage early to get close to the stage, Joku was right in front of it as he watched and waited for the announcements. It was totally exciting! He never really had friends, let alone teammates, and he was about to get two, along with a sensei! His crystal blue eyes sparkled with excitement as he bounced in place waiting for the announcement to happen. He wore his usual attire of a worn down teal sweater, black pants that went to his knees that were met with black open toed boots, and his Kumo forehead protector under his fuzzy white hair. He was a bit too focused, and was staring straight ahead at the man talking, who introduced himself as Norio. Joku blinked as he was the first one announced. He’s never been picked first before! With a small squat and quick burst of chakra, he bounced high into the air and landed onto the stage, a few feet next to Norio. He looked to him and whispered a quiet hello, as he was still busy doing his announcer stuff. He watched the other two go up together and waved, smiling so hard at them, his eyes squinted. “Hey friends!” He’d exclaim. Snapping back to reality, he listened to his now sensei talk. He seemed cool, but who knows. He’d perk his lips out and twiddle his thumbs, nodding along as he listened to him. It was weird being in front on the stage, but Joku didn’t mind it too much. He wasn’t used to getting this kind of positive attention. Though, it was short lived. The speech was ended by the earth shaking like some dice in a game of Yahtzee. He was scared, massively scared. The sky actually started to darken as clouds rolled in, due to his fear. Without warning, he weaved a single hand seal and used the Teleportation Jutsu to travel at a blinding speed. Over using it to escape, he used it to quickly pull himself off the stage and away from the big ol’ hole, while making sure he pulled both his teammates with him by their shirt collars. He wasn’t that strong, and carrying two people was hard, so he decided to fling them slightly at the last minute, to make sure them were safe, while he stopped himself and hung onto the edge of the hole. “HELP!!!” Joku screamed like someone out of a slasher film. His eyes began to tear up a bit. He was really scared. The sky would start to weep softly with his fears, his emotions running wild was causing the weather to act out, causing a small drizzle to take place at the scene of all the madness. [🌧]
 * TheUrnsman <p style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;"><span style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;">Chen’s head would’ve been bobbing his hands clasped behind his head as he lay near sleep upon a roof. This roof however was just close enough to witness the placement of the lower cast shinobi of the village. His physique would’ve been outstretched upon the roof with his left leg propped just atop his right. His foot could been seen bobbing much like his head as they both revealed to be moving in unison. In passing however the wind would’ve blew over his position due to him being much higher up than those on the ground. Suddenly amongst all the mock festivities the ground had begun to shake and with that Chen’s moments of peace had been disturbed. Something or someone was running amuck within the village and low and behold; when Chen’s crisp golden hues cascaded over the area where the stage had been he would’ve let out a brief sigh in anger before going about his way. The crowd that once resided below had thinned out by a vast majority by the time Chen was on his way. Amongst it all however the weather had begun to change he wasn’t exactly sure why but none the less he’d continue about his way. Those who’d done such a thing seemingly gone in the moments of his arrival as Chen had come plummeting from the air. His body arching through the air as it went into a clockwise rotation only to land a few feet in front of the young man that had been hanging from the fissures ledge. He in turn would’ve stuck out his hand in order to help this young man to the surface. This would’ve been done with fairly no struggle due to this young man seemingly being fairly light. Amongst this Chen had rooted his feet to the ground through the help flowing chakra to the soles of his shoes in order to give him enough grip to refrain from falling in whilst helping another. Had Chen been successful in helping this young man he would’ve turned his attention towards the jounin that’d seemingly dispatched one of the few that had been related to such a disaster.
 * LlTenaciousll <p style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">👊 The cool breeze between night and morning flowed through the village and gently knocked at the windows of the small home of Xen Hyuga and his older brother Tai Hyuga. Xen woke up with a gentle yawn as his eyes blinked open slowly and he peered out of the window of his room seeing it was still somewhat dark. He tossed the covers off of him and stood up allowing his bare feet to touch the cool wooden surface of his floor boards. He walked into his bathroom and started to get ready for the day by taking a lukewarm shower and brushing his teeth. Once he was done he slid on comfortable gray underwear and loose fitting black shinobi pants as well as a sleeveless black top. He walked over to the bathroom cabinet and pulled out the white bandages and wrapped them around from his wrist to just above his elbow on both arms, and slid on a pair of black finger less gloves that covered the top portion of his hand and a little ways up his wrist. He slid on a pair of comfortable open toed black shinobi shoes along with his black mask that he always wore covering his mouth and nose with the only visible portion of his face being his eyes which have there own story in themselves. He also wore a pair of black square rimmed glasses, not because he had any visionary problems, but because he always like to wear them for enhancing his vision even more and also just for his own personal preference. He walked out of the bathroom and went over to brown square box he had next to his bed. He unlocked the box and opened it slowly as it made a slight creaking noise in the empty room. Inside the box were ten of his sturdy built arrows. Each were made with a sturdy wood material gifted to him from a family friend of the Main House back in the Hidden Leaf. The family friend was a shinobi under the Senju clan and not once have these arrows failed Xen yet through training. Each of them were made with a hard silver tip made of metal making them almost as deadly as a bullet if used correctly. He pulled out the arrows carefully and placed them all in a brown quiver that had a brown strap. He placed the strap over his head and let the quiver become attached to his back as he also grabbed the black bow from the box as well. He sat down on his bed as the mattress dripped slightly from his weight and he grabbed a white cloth on his nightstand as his brother walked into his room. He began cleaning off any dust left on his bow while his older walked towards the bed and sat down two feet away from him with a sigh. They both sat in silence for a few moments before Tai began speaking, “Xen today is a huge stepping stone in your shinobi career. You are going to finally be assigned a team....” Xen looked over at his older brother and frowned, “Aren't we a team enough?” Tai chuckled lightly and nodded, “We will always be a team little bro, but now you are entering a more....I should say dangerous world. And you will need to learn things outside of what I can teach, of what a Hyuga can teach you. You have more capabilities than what you think at your current day and age. There are so many opportunities and paths a shinobi can take, and being assigned a team as well as becoming a genin signifies really the beginning of your shinobi career. Your academy days was just a mere training for the real thing. Now it's time.” There was another brief silence before Xen spoke, “What about you?” Tai didn't know exactly why his brother asked this question as he hesitated to answer, “I still have my duties as a shinobi as well. I'll still be there for you, but now I can not shadow everything you do. It's time for you to start making decisions on your own and learn from your chosen sensei. I am just here to give you the tools you need, through your training with your team will the outcome of having those tools executed sufficiently or not.” Xen stood up with his bow in a tight grip as he nodded, “I understand brother, and I'll do my best. At this time, I might not be the smartest or the strongest...but I will never let someone beat me in doing my best in all the things I do.” He nodded towards his older brother in a mutual understanding between the two as Xen went to go exit his room but stopped as he turned the door handle and his brother spoke, “And remember Xen. We have a gift from our clan. Others say that your eyes can deceive you. But that is not the case with us...not with you. Believe and trust in your eyes Xen, they are not there to deceive you but give an additional guidance that other people do not have. They may think they can see what you see, but what the Hyuga clan sees is on a different scale than any other clan. You will be the eyes of your team, and you have to learn to harness that in order for you to become a better shinobi. Your eyes will never fail you.” Xen nodded as he closed the door behind him and grabbed him a quick snack and heading out of the door eating the snack on the way. The sun was now peaking over the trees as the morning was underway, he must have wasted time in his house longer than he thought. He wanted to get a few practice shots in before he went to the event but seeing that it was almost time he thought better of it. He walked towards the stage where the crowd was gathered around awaiting for their names to be called of the next squads. His first emotion was a mixture of curiousness and being nervous. He was curious to see the Raikage and the other high ranking shinobi of the village, and as well as the other genin who could possibly be his teammates or future enemies. He looked at the shinobi named Norio who came upon the stage and started speaking. He listened silently to his words since he seemed like a very knowledgeable and respected shinobi in the village. “your only limit is your will to succeed...” he took those words in thought for a few moments and he could agree with them. His brother always drilled into him than training is mostly a mental state and if you don't have the drive to push yourself that extra mile then you can't expect to get that extra mile without a stumble. He waited anxiously as the man opened the letter and called out the names, but his name didn't come meaning it would probably come on the next announcement giving him a sigh of relief and disappointment simultaneously. During the speech something was bothering Xen. It was like a itch that he couldn't quite scratch. He noticed a few citizens in the shinobi section and the announcer asked all citizens to go to their section. He knew in ceremonies like these are important so shouldn't citizens know what not to do? And the four of the people that went back into the citizen's section did seem a bit off but they could probably be innocent and never been to one of these gathers. Something that is brother told him earlier started to replay in his head, “trust in your eyes...” He activated his Byakugan using the Snake hand sign as his vision became much clearer and was able to see everyone chakra points. And he could tell by the four that were mentioned weren't any ordinary citizens by their chakra make up, but how could he tell this to the higher ups without giving to much away? He then seen the announcer rushing back to the Raikage and at that instance he knew something was definitely off. He gripped his bow tight as he scanned the area. He could make out the four shinobi channeling their chakra through various hand signals and slamming it down to the earth creating the large hole. Through the confusion he had two options, he could go after the two shinobi who originally created the fissure or attempt to go after the Raikage and the others. He decided to go after the shinobi since they were high ranking shinobi nearby who could retrieve the Raikage. He quickly dashed into action as he seen the two shinobi make their way out of the crowd and away from the event while the other two do the dirty work. Xen knew he was only a genin so he would need additional assistance with these two shinobi so he would have to create a big enough scene so they would know where to find his location while he try to hold the shinobi off. While he was pulling out two arrows from his quiver he placed them in the same hand as the bow and quickly strapped on two explosive tags on the end of each arrow. He knocked the two arrows on the bow and took a deep breath as he focused. His aim was a bit shaky due to him running while trying to aim, so he thought of another idea. He strapped the bow with the strap on his quiver and took the two arrows in his hand and threw them up in the air as hard as he could and once the arrows were soaring towards the enemy in the air he quickly stopped mid-step and performed the Snake hand signal again using his Wind Release: Verdant Mountain Gale jutsu to use his chakra to flow through the arrows and send them on a straight path towards the enemy and would connect to the two trees the enemies were heading towards and send off the explosive tags that were attached to the arrows. 👊
 * RamenNoodlesSoup <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">Takuya would have been on the outside of Kumogakure, his placing being the reason of him living outside of the village. He was a rogue and would pose a great threat if discovered to be in Kumogakure living there. So he easily did tasks outside of the village and worked as a private mercenary. Though he was silent, he was actually training on improving the accuracy of his own sharingan. But something had caught his attention as it was a chakra signal from within the forest. He only knew about it, but didn’t approach it at all. This happening Takuya disregarded this and moved on heading towards the village and disguising himself as a Kumogakure ninja to actually gain access inside. Going as far as known the barrier technique to enter without alerting anyone of him being an alien to the village. He passed the main gates with a tan like look, making him seem more of a person who actually lived in Kumogakure. He shrugged and whispered to himself “Let’s see Hikari actually graduate the academy.” As he walked towards the location of where the event was happening. He had reached the place as chaos had just recently erupted. His eyes catching a glimpse of everything the moment it actually occurred. The brave genin taking charge or the situation as for the Jounins moving to assure everyone safety within the vicinity. It was something that caught his attention, in fact he had seen Hikari within the crowd but didn’t approach her at all as it would make her unfocused on the situation at hand. Takuya needed to make moves and fast at this point. He ran towards the male jounin who seemed to be watching over one of the intruders. He approached him and kept a calm demeanor at all times, his voice sounding calm and collected even for the situation going on. He knew at a time like this he seemed extremely suspicious to even show himself and even approach the situation, but his pay check was on the line so he needed to stop these enemies from getting away one way or another. The person he had approached was no other than the person who was pronouncing the teams, Norio. He simply kept a calm attitude and said “I know this is a terrible time to tell you this, but I may know who is causing all of this. I was in the forest earlier and I saw a random chakra signal within the vicinity, I did not apprehend the individual, but it was the only signal I saw. A long range attack is what it seems to be if you ask me, if you want to save your Raikage then follow me, if not I will do so myself.” He kept it short and simple as he quickly added “I also advise you bring back up, anyone you deem worthy” He then in seconds vanished leaving the village once more heading for the area he was located in before. His appearance shifting from the transformation jutsu which changed him back to his usual look. His all black attire and long shaggy hair being perfect to his attire. Truly the look of an Uchiha, and if people knew their bingo book they would realize he was the person known as Takuya Uchiha. Though he kept it secret he was very strongly tied with Kumogakure. As he left the village and appeared at the outskirts of Kumogakure’s range, reaching near the entrance of the forest he would wait hopefully for Norio to follow with whatever back up he had. Takuya was moving fast as he knew there was no time to spend on saving others for himself. He was mostly interested in saving the Raikage as she was the person who assured his Sister’s refuge and his pay check for survival. His sharingan active and following the tainted chakra he had once seen earlier. This was due to the fact the Sharingan was able to label chakras in different colors to label them to their owner to not get them confused. The village was caught in a rain storm which was sudden and random, but it worked its purpose and now the true mission of getting the Raikage back was in motion. Takuya was interested in the situation as he was left with nothing else, but hope that they actually believed him and followed him. After all what did Takuya had to lie for? There was absolutely nothing to lie about. It was early use of his Dojutsu, but the time couldn’t have been better than now and earlier when he was training.
 * IGottaTinkle <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">|°з°|Due to her keen senses, Taiga’s nose was being overwhelmed by all the variety of scents around her. Some stank of sweat or too much perfume. She really wanted the speech to be over so that she could bury her face into some fresh laundry. In fact, anything other than these smells would be perfect right now. She continued to ignore the speech as well as the noise around her after the claps, up until awkward laughter echoed throughout the crowd. “The hell?” she looked back up at the podium in hopes of something amazing going on. A handful of people were moving through the crowd, which did not phase her. Maybe they just wanted front row seats. Not too long afterwards, gasps were heard and Taiga tried to stand on her tippy toes to see the commotion. The kage stood up and the speech stopped, so she knew immediately that something was wrong. Loud noises erupted as chaos began to ensue. The ground was shaking and began to form fissures. Taiga knew that she had to step away from the commotion as soon as possible. It was too dangerous to stay and she knew if a battle occurred she would die instantly. Disappearing into the crowd dragging Kazuo behind her, she had to occasionally push and shove people out of the way. Screams and voices were all shouting phrases like ‘RUN!’ ‘I DON’T WANNA DIE’ but the one that caught Taiga’s attention was when someone screamed ‘THE KAGE WAS TAKEN!’ Wanting to turn around to see the damage and evidence of the kage’s kidnapping, she was unable to because of all the people pouring towards her. If she had stayed, she would have been knocked over and trampled. Knowing she couldn’t do anything but get out of the way and let the higher ups handle the chaos, she rushed home to report the incident to her family. |°з°|
 * Masaru Namikaze <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">~The two people who did the fissure jutsu and slipped out the crowd did not expect Xen to have followed them, as the chaos and the threat posed to the Raikage would distract most attention away from them; it was their plan the whole time. The explosive arrows are set off, and it sends one flying into the other. The person closets to the explosion ended up having their arm blown clean off. Both of them scrambled to their feet before on crabbed the other and used a body flicker, flickering out of sight. Shortly after, the severed arm would turn to dirt. ~  “I need a Jounin over here!” ~Norio yelled rather loudly, making sure people could hear him. He didn’t notice what was going on off to the side with Xen and the two other people; he was focused on getting things in order. A few Jounin scrambled over to him and stood by for instructions. ~ “Get this man to a holding cell and keep him there under heavy surveillance. If he has to use the bathroom, give him a bucket. If he has to shower, tell him to use that same bucket. You give him 12 ounces of water and one slice of bread every six hours. If he tries to kill himself in any way shape or form, get someone to paralyze him, we need him alive and able to speak at the end of the day though. If he escapes by any chance, you all lose your heads, understood?” ~Norio spoke as if he was in charge, though those Jounin were all the same rank as him, they could completely disregard his orders if they wanted to. But Norio was well respected around the village, so they give a nod to his demands and hog tie the unconscious man before carrying him off. Most if not all civilians have cleared the area, only really shinobi remained, still baffled and confused. Norio adjusted his voice to speak extremely loud, so loud that it would echoing around most of the village, as he needed everyone to hear what he had to say.~ “There has been an incident and our Raikage has been taken by an unknown enemy. We ask you not to panic as the situation are being resolved and she will be retrieved. However the village is placed on lockdown until further notice. Enemies of the village could still be lingering within our walls and we do not plan to let them escape. We ask that all civilians remain within their homes, and the homeless stick near the Kage Offices. Genin are on crowd control duty, you will escort any civilians off the street and into their homes before going home yourselves to be with your families. Chuunin, you are to patrol the streets while the Genin help the civilians. You look for anyone suspicious and out of place, and you question them. If they check out, they’re free to go, if not you apprehend them. If you can’t do that, kill if nessacary but they are worth more alive than dead. I want some Jounin to stay within the village, helping out where they can. Then I want a handful out in the forest, searching for signs of anything suspicious and related to these attacks. If your orders are understood, disperse and a get to it.” ~The shinobi began to scramble about, as it was the best plan if not the only plan at the moment. Norio took the time to observe himself for any sort of damage, just in case during the action he was hit by an attack he did not notice due to adrenaline. That’s when Takuya approached him, claiming he knew about the attacks which was a rather brazen thing to do considering Norio did not know him and he didn’t seem to be from the village. Norio knew just about every shinobi within the village, yet he didn’t know this person. ~ “Before we continue, state your name and rank-“ ~Before Norio could get any answers out of him, he was gone. He seemed to not want to waste any time, but Norio was in no rush to jump into a team with an unknown person so easily. The man may have had no reason to lie, but he also didn’t have a reason to be trusted either. He looked to Chen, who was helping a Genin in fact. The Genin was on Norio’s team of all things, which shows Norio’s rather lone wolf mentality, as he did little to help them. But Norio did what he could and things turned out, no need to try and change the past. If Norio didn’t do what he did he was sure they all would have gotten away, but now they have one at the least. ~ “You, Chen I believe, I require your assistance.” ~Norio called to him. ~ “I need you to come with me and watch my back. This guy appeared, told me he knows about the attacks and who could have done them. I don’t trust him so I need you to be my back up in case something is not right with him. As well as back up for this mission in general, you’re a Chuunin but I feel I can rely on your instincts more than the others around. If I feel something is fishy, I will do these motions.” ~He then signed out the phrase ‘He can’t be trusted’ ~”Which means he can’t be trusted in sign language. I want you to get into a position to take him down. Now that’s sorted out follow me. If we get the Raikage back I’ll be sure to put in a good word for you and see to it that you take a big leap towards promotion.” ~Norio then took off, gunning for the outskirts of the village, assuming that is where he went as he didn’t particularly keep focus on him. He would meet Takuya just outside the gate, before ordering the closing of the gate, to officially trap anyone inside unless they were to scale the wall. ~ “You say you know where they are…so lead the way.” ~Norio said, willing to follow Takuya.~
 * RamenNoodlesSoup <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">L was silent and watched as things swiftly changed around him, his mind was already processing hundreds of plans for the situation he was in. The entire village was under attack and Norio sensei had exclaimed that Genin were in charge of saving the Villagers. L himself not really being physically gifted would really have no real position in this, but to direct the civilians in a specific direction. Even though L was not physically built, he was still able to perform ninja like movements which would involve running up walls and leaping high distances. Something basic that all Genin’s really knew about, L quickly used his chakra and leaped from the ground up into the sky pulling his hand from Kari’s grip as he was taking charge of the situation to attempt and follow the direction his sensei had presented. He also had noted that Kari had told him to start thinking up a plan as he actually had something in mind. He quickly reached a high vantage point and kept the chakra flowing through his feet to keep him on the side of the building. He then opened his mouth and yelled toward the crowd of citizens “IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO EXIT THE DISASTER WHICH JUST OCCURRED FOLLOW ME!” Doing this he looked towards Kari and nodded towards her, hopping she would get the signal and take care of the rest of those who was within the vicinity apart from the one’s L had taken charge for. L then leaped down from the building and began running moderately towards a safe vantage point for the civilians to be safe and sound. His dull eyes watching everything happening as he only thought to himself ‘Why is this all happening? Have we of Kumogakure already made enemies? Why on attack on the academy graduation day… There has to be something attached to this all. Especially since their main target was the Kage…” He disregarded it and continued to follow his mission as he was instructed to take care of the civilians who were running around like headless chickens.
 * HitomiHyuga <p style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">Kazuo stood within the crowd, listening to the boring speech that was being broadcasted. This was supposed to be them being introduced to their squadmates, but all he heard was an old man blabbering on about god knows what. Kazuo sighed heavily and looked over towards Taiga, who had managed to drag him all the way to this event. She still had the bag of Kebabs clutched tightly in her hands, and he managed to sneak himself one. Pulling down his mask, he began excitedly scarfing it down, enjoying it much more than the tree bark soup Taiga had fed to him earlier that morning. Kazuo quickly finished the kebab, his moment of happiness abruptly coming to an end. He crossed his arms over his chest and looked up to the speaker with an annoyed look. He didn’t understand why they needed a huge event like this just to announce teams. I mean, didn’t they usually just meet their squad leaders on the training grounds, or at a certain meeting place. Kazuo looked around the crowd, seeing many people shuffling in and out of each other, little children crying that they wanted to go home, and a rather peculiar looking group of people that Kazuo didn’t pay any mind to. Kazuo reached into his tool pouch, pulling out a single kunai and began twirling it around his middle finger out of sheer boredom. He would much rather be at home training, than sticking to a bore fest like this. The announcer then called out for all civilians to stay in their proper area, which prompted Kazuo to notice that those men he had seen earlier, had moved even closer to the stage. This was indeed suspicious, seeing as how you would have had a good view from the stage either way. Kazuo placed his Kunai back in his pouch, and then noticed a sudden change in behavior coming from both the announcer and the Kage. Worrying as it was, Kazuo still decided not to let it bother him. In that moment, Kazuo felt a rumbling sensation below his feet. Catching him off guard, Kazuo stumbled around doing his best to keep his balance. Before he could regain his balance, Taiga had grabbed him and began running towards safety. This wasn’t something Kazuo agreed with. They had a duty to protect their village in its time of need, and this caught Kazuo by surprise, seeing as how Taiga wasn’t usually the cowardly type. Luckily for him, he had replaced himself with a log, using the substitution technique. By the time the Jutsu would dissipate, Taiga probably would have already arrived at her destination, while Kazuo blended into the crowd during all the chaos. He then ran through the crowd, trying his best to get to the source of the commotion. Finally, something exciting was happening, and he wanted to be a part of it. Kazuo scaled a rather tall building, resting atop the roof in a crouched position, scouting out the area below him, carefully assessing the situation. He seen that a few of the agitators had already been subdued, but he couldn’t tell by what. They seemed to be clutching their heads in pain. He then heard someone yell out from the crowd about the Raikage being taken. And sure enough, he saw a massive figure descending into the fissure, which he assumed held the Raikage inside. Kazuo clenched his fist tightly, “So much for being the strongest in the village huh?” Not wanting to be left out of the action, Kazuo jumped down from the building, and began running in the direction Taiga was headed. He wanted to actually help apprehend the people who decided to launch an attack from within the village, and he knew he’d require her help to do so.
 * HitomiHyuga <p style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;"> <span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Hikari had been watching everything as it was happening. Her sleeve still against her mouth just in case, but it seemed that the gases had come to disburse since it was not affecting anyone else. Her eyes darted from one place to another. Hearing the explosions behind her, she quickly looked to see that it was that Hyuga boy that she had seen before causing it. Impressive. She had remembered following the pair out to the training grounds and simply watched them. That was until his older brother had come up behind her. She had almost been caught. His brother would be proud of him. She then turned to notice the shinobi holding her new team made from the fissure. A smile crossed her lips. She was in a group of quick thinking shinobi. But there was a downside to this as well. If she was found out, it would be these quick thinking shinobi that would have to report her. There was always a double edged sword to the things she did. One of these days, she’d be able to be happy for the sake of being happy. Then her eyes fell onto the man that approached her Sensei. She tilted her head a bit and really looked to him. Those eyes were unmistakable. “Niichan..” She whispered almost silently. Her attention was taken off of her brother when she heard the orders being given by her new sensei. The tug of L’s hand from hers caused her attention to fall on him as he jumped up and took a bit of charge. Her smile beamed as she looked to him. Yeah. He was a good one. Scrawny and weak but didn’t back down. She liked that. Seeing his nod to her, she smirked and gave him a nod in return. She’d begin to run along the line of shinobi and round up the citizens almost like a sheep dog of sorts. “PLEASE STAY CALM AND DON’T PUSH. ONCE OUT OF THE BUILDING, RETURN HOME IMMEDIATELY.”  She continued to move behind the group of citizens, finding escorts for the elderly to walk with while guiding any stragglers towards the exit. Once she was able to see that no one was left but shinobi, she followed out of the building and looked about for L. Pressing her lips together, she didn’t like that she had to go about this on her own, but it was perhaps the best way for her to learn the lay out of the village. Besides, L’s dad would want to know about what had happened.
 * TheUrnsman <p style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;"><span style="font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14.6667px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;">Chen would’ve thrown the young man he’d grabbed by the hand on to a safe portion of the earth before reading the young man known as Norio’s lips. This was mostly due to Chen really couldn’t hear anything over the bass of his headphones even in the instance that the man had shouted to the entire village. Either way Chen had gotten the memo and simply nodded his head before taking off behind Norio. Eventually the pair was sure to reach the outskirts of the village but none the less they were bound to find something interesting upon the path the world had been set upon. Chen’s music picked up a bit as he’d gone about his way almost as if it was matching his heartbeat. However amongst all the case he would’ve taken note of the younger shinobi setting out about their way to take care of the few civilians that’d been left behind.
 * RamenNoodlesSoup <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;">Takuya had anticipated the arrival of the Jounin he had directed to meet at the outskirts of Kumogakure. The mission was on and he had asked for the individuals name and rank. Though sadly for Norio he would not get his exact name, though he would easily recognize Takuya through his nick name ‘Kuro.’ After all he was labeled a criminal in the bingo book and was wanted dead or alive by Konoha standards. This was because he was an S class rogue ninja who had important information from the Anbu. Though it was never spoken of as he was very focused on the situation at hand, after all his pay check was on the line. The Jounin had arrived as he noticed he had brought what seemed to be a younger child with him. Though he didn’t doubt the man at all, as looks could always be deceiving, Takuya already expected the fact that they wouldn’t trust him, and was ready to strike back if they had attempted to ambush him, if they expected him to be in cahoots with the enemy. The moment Norio had said ‘Lead the way’ Takuya nodded and dashed forward, his sharingan active and tracing the chakra signal which was far away, but faintly visible. He had mentioned to the others “He has covered a large amount of distance, by now he should be inside the forest.” He then dashed forward at a high speed and began leaping from platform to platform, attempting to reach the forest which was far below. At the speed they would move, if they picked up the pace they would reach the forest before the opponent would actually get close to exiting, this allowing an advantage to find the base of operation if they had one. But that was beside the point. Takuya while travelling addressed the question Norio asked earlier at the village, “You asked who I am? I am no other than Kuro, and I serve your country as a private mercenary hired by your village. Also, I highly advise you both to suppress your chakra signals, this will give us a better chance to ambush the individual. ” He then scoffed at himself and ignored any other questions that would come out of either shinobi’s mouth. He had revealed his name and expressed his position to the other individuals, this revealing exactly why Takuya was helping them. As they continued to follow the path way, they would eventually reach the forest and would now be on the hunt for the shinobi who had abducted the Raikage. Takuya would remain calm and made sure that his chakra signal was suppressed as his sharingan exuded very little to no chakra, making it hard for him to be sensed in general. Just judging from the words and orders he had given, Norio would be able to tell the man was extremely skilled in rescue missions, and possibly many other aspects. But all of this was left to uncover in due time.
 * HitomiHyuga <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Kari had walked with the group of people that she was with around the village. Seeing to the safe return of the civilians to their rightful homes was not as bad as it first seemed. At least there wasn’t anything that caused her to lose her focus and hold on the jutsu that she was using. When the last family that she had been walking with was safely in their home, Kari turned around and looked to the very quiet streets of the village. It was unsettling how quickly she had seen the once very busy streets go still in just a matter of moments. She began walking back towards the restaurant and her current home, her brown hues looking from side to side as her guard was up and being a bit on edge with this all happening so close to her having arrived here. Though she knew that it had nothing to do with her coming to the village. It was something altogether different. However, this was her home now and she had to come to grips that things happened everywhere she went. Not just because of her.

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38;"><span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Her steps crunched against the rocks while her hands were clasped in front of her. “HOLD IT!” Kari’s head shot up and her eyes widened. Hearing the running behind her, she turned about and looked to the guard that had come running up to her. The look of fear shot through her eyes as she began to think that her disguise had fallen and she looked like her true self. “Name, young lady?” He pulled out a clip board as his hard eyes looked to the girl. “Kari..” She pressed her lips together and looked to the ground a bit. The Guard looked over the list and came to a stop, sliding his finger across the page to the other side. “Residence?” Kari pressed her lips a bit more. “I live with Ryutoka and his son, L.” The guard looked to her a moment and gave her a nod. “Hurry right home, Kari. You did well in doing as your Jounin said but now it’s time for you to return home and stay where it’s safe.” Kari nodded and bowed. “Arigato.” She said before turning once more and beginning her walk back to her home.

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;"> <span style="font-weight:400;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Once inside, she quickly went about the halls and rooms looking to see if L had returned home yet. Pressing her lips together, she then went to the shop and looked for Ryutoka. Once she found him, she began to tell him what had happened and sat in wait until L would return home.