Yuuto

The instructor did have a point. Flexibility made merging with the wind easier. For someone who didn't know which way the wind would flow next, it was a great necessity. He appreciated the wisdom and thought put into a single stretching exercise, knowing full well it's value and purpose, hoping that one day the student would learn to appreciate it, even if she didn't do so now.

However, that didn't change the fact that the two kunoichi still looked pretty silly.

Forgetting the fact he was supposed to be stalking silently observing the training, he let out a chuckle at their appearance. Again, this was why he was a samurai and not a ninja.

Near Kage Summit-

"The inside isn't always, sometimes the outside can be as hot as the sun and still lack the right amount of heat to warm one's own heart." Hayasa replied, sliding on the ice his Kage had created. "The ice that shines wherever it goes has it's meaning my dear, whenever you are with me, there is only two letters you need to remember and that is IQ." Milady Serena always had a way with words, making things sound more complex than it actually was. Yet he was still able to understand it, well most of it anyways but that was close enough for him. Hayasa originally had mixed feelings about being her bodyguard at first, until the first day he met her that changed his views entirely.

Konoha-

Tesla was released earlier in the day by order of the Hokage, having her stuff returned to her as small sign of trust. She was accompanied by a couple of Anbu Class ninja that went by some weird "police patrol squad". They lead her to the training grounds before leaving but it still felt as though she was being watched by someone. Apparently the Hokage was a Uchiha and from the looks of it, who seemed to be preparing to spar with a ninja out on the training grounds. Tesla observed the two planning to spar from afar, not even paying any attention to the ninja that wasn't participating. She wanted to know the true extent of the leaf ninja's capabilities, questioning whether or not, they would be able to take on the Shinobi Republic.

Just giving Oda a smile, 'Yeah, let's do our best' smile, Ria know her philosophy is complex already for Aiko to understand, Ria gets up from her position and created two butterfly clones for Aiko to understand, the clones and Ria performed a sequence of taijutsu assault on each other, even perfected roundhouse and full moon kicks, tornado spin kicks, professional blocks and positions initiated by Ria and finally when the clones threw daggers, Ria split and performed a breakdancing movement in unison with her hands on the floor of balance, carrying her own weight and unleashing a wave of wind projectiles, similar to Zuko the great break dancer, reference made by the author. Ria was able to launch that wind attack, causing the daggers to be repelled and send her clones afar.

"Don't judge the book by it's cover, dancing can be a deadly weapon." Ria pointed at the sliced up wood punching bags and the ravaged floor and the grass that was once tall was now short. "This is the move that you will be learning, you have the wind release and it is one of the most finest elemental combo to this breakdancing split movement." Ria explains the requirement and the taijutsu itself, appearing behind Aiko, "You're a very beautiful girl, I like you, learn the ways of a the Miko(Shrine Maiden) and you will reach greater heights." That was Ria's clone talking to Aiko.

Ria showed a couple more split tricks, her legs were perfectly connected to the wooden planks, she shows her usage of kenjutsu, by using dual fans, it was like kung Fu as Ria was totally flexible, getting up Ria's legs get together swiftly as she made a high jump attacking from a top with her iron fans.

The last trick was the hardest as she demonstrated, fighting with only her legs and she's upside down, then cut! "You wont need to learn that one, anyways flexibility is a factor to a wind Kunoichi like you, you are able to balance the elements of taijutsu, kenjutsu and ninjutsu. You are able to distort ones perception through splitting that is often mistaken as genjutsu by shifting ones awareness by feint movements and flexibility, it does not mean you are fast but the counter of fast, I call this a KenTai Ninjutsu." Ria done explaining the nature of her split attacks.

Rain
Nagisa

It happened so fast, Nagisa instantly got trapped in a genjutsu from Okani, it was not even funny, she started panicking in fear and can't do anything at that moment, "This is not real! this is not real!." Remembering the little teaching from Ria, it was about genjutsu prior Okani's training. "Genjutsu Kai!." Nagisa seem to have break out of the genjutsu but her mind feels distorted, she was on her knees.

5 Kage Summit.
Finally, the Mist Ninjas made it to the summit, Serena patted Hayasa's head, and said, "We'll try and settle things with Hokage in this meeting and be sure to be aware of his Jounins, don't underestimate Uchiha Ria but who am I to say that? I trust in your skills, if anything goes wrong. Quote of the day, even the slightest drop of water can purify the flames of hell, creating a vehement breeze."

Okani looked at the now in pain Nagi, the Genjutsu taking effect as the all the petals stuck to her as they burned her, she watched as Nagi whimpered and curled up on the ground from the pain. "Think about it Nagi, look at the sky and look at yourself, look through it" Okani said firmly as she waited for a response to her statement. Being able to determine a Genjutsu from reality was important, it could mean the difference of life and death. "Take a deep breath, stay calm" Okani instructed, her voice was soothing and yet firm. In all fairness, Rose Dusting Genjutsu was probably too strong for Nagi, acting on pain instead of blindness or petals that wouldn't let you go.

About to dispel the Genjutsu, Nagi caught on and was able to break out of it on her own. Okani grinned down at her student, her eyes proud that she was able to do so like that. "Excellent! Guess what?! I'm taking you out for Ramen, you did a lot so far. I'm very proud of you" Okani said and took her to get some Ramen. "Eat up, it's on me" she told her.

Okani had the idea of setting up a fight with Ria's student, to see who would be the better student. "Hey, would you like to a chance to travel to the Hidden Leaf with me? I can contact Ria and have her agree to a battle against her student. It would be a great way to show how you have improved" Okani said.

While Daisuke took a sip from the flask handed to him, Haven continued the two previous subjects... The possibility of death, and the doubts about the Republic not being as good as it seemed to be. Holding the flask over to Haven, Daisuke waved a hand dismissively. "Not chuunin, I'm pretty sure that they'd know who's their chuunin and jounin, keeping track of lower ranked shinobi is... not quite necessary, which gives us a better chance of not getting caught." With a shrug, he picked up the Konoha hitai-ate and raised it in front of his eyes, eyeing it over. So there was no going back now, each second they were closer to Konohagakure and it'd be a matter of time until they actually got there. The ichibi's jinchuuriki was worried, but he guessed that he shouldn't be. After all, he wasn't the only jinchuuriki there. Haven mentioned that Daisuke shouldn't use his sand techniques, and the boy nodded his head.
"I know, I won't use it." Which was troublesome. Other than the sand techniques provided by his Tailed Beast, he was left with... nothing, no ninjutsu, no taijutsu techniques, no nothing. Should a fight arise inside Konohagakure, he'd be pretty screwed unless it was a fight where it didn't matter being undercover or not. These doubts didn't help with their mission, at all; Daisuke needed to get rid of them, but it was difficult. He was still pretty young and wasn't used to any situation of extreme danger. Oh well, at least he could distract himself slight with the conversation.

It seemed as if he had no idea where he was going, he began to wonder where the boy's parents were? Masahiro shakes his head slightly and says "Sorry, but no. I'm not sure where you could find any maps." he tells Maiko apologetically, he had never thought that he would ever need a map of Konoha, much less know where to get one. He really wished he could provide more help to the boy but alas, he truly did not know of any place to buy maps. "Did you have any place in specific you agreed to rendezvous with 'em? I could try to direct you there if you'd like." he says, hoping to help Maiko in any way he could.

~Saiyaka~

Saiyaka couldn't help but smile at the young and apparently flustered Kazekage. She couldn't wait to get this journey started.
Placing a bawled fist to her hip and leaning to the right she watched Yume a moment before an idea came to mind.

"You could always just rebel like Konoha," Simple, catastrophic answer, but it was still an option. Yume was hardly without options. Saiyaka was still mulling over the Republic herself, but whether the Republic be good or bad, it was not a necessary entity. The Villages got along fine when they were separated, well...As fine as the occasional bloody war could be. However, if they were tyrants forcing the villages to work against their will for obscure purposes and towards a direction that was not beneficial for the village, such as a war, then it was counter productive. Surely, even Yume would know that she had a great deal more power, as a Kazekage, politically than anyone else in this village. The moment she became a subordinate to the Republic and put the Republic's interests over the village would be...The moment she'd most likely find a dagger in her back. Ruling over a ninja village meant being weary of revolt. It would only take a few gifted Sand ninja to come in here upon a moment of weakness for Yume and completely flip the entire village upside down.

"I'm kidding of course," Saiyaka would playfully swat a hand, as if tossing the idea away as a simple joke. "No point in tying the Republic's tight panties into an even bigger knot," She'd say, chuckling as she turned on the heel of her shoe and started on her way towards the door. "To the Summons then," She'd add. If Yume pressed Saiyaka's words regarding the dangerous choice of leaving the union Saiyaka would simply shoo the conversation and stress that she'd been joking and not to seriously consider something so stupid. It would be hard to figure out which side of that argument Saiyaka was on from her words. She was certainly fickle and often times aloof. It was an understatement to say she is serious when she wants to be, but even when she wasn't serious...Was she serious? Had she said that to truly get Yume to realize that there was something off about this Republic that Yume wasn't seeing?

Maybe.

~Kii~

There were a lot of shops in Konoha. Kii spent a bit of money on some roasted chicken. It was sweet, like honey, but had a strange earthy taste to it. Kii wasn't a huge fan of the food, but he scarfed it down as if he hadn't eaten in years. He also bought some new clothes. He picked up some capri pants, black in color, and a fresher looking white sleeveless shirt and some knuckle gloves. It was a lot warmer here in the Leaf Village than it was in Iwagakure. Despite buying so much he still had plenty of money left. Things were a little cheaper here in Konoha, at least when it came to the public forum. People seemed to be in wondrous moods too. They chattered and laughed and traded with their neighbor closer than Kii saw some family members interact.

This really was a nice place.
Kii wasn't really seeing anything out of the ordinary or anything worth spying on here. Everyone seemed pretty normal. In fact, everyone seemed a lot freer and happier than they were in Iwagakure. Seeing this place really put his own village into a different perspective. Kii couldn't imagine a nice place like this wanting to go to war with the entire Republic. Still...Looks could be deceiving and Kii wasn't naive enough to believe that just because they looked like this that they weren't all trained murderers. He had to keep his guard up, be attentive, and really look hard for clues.

"Did you hear? There are a bunch of ninja fighting in the training field. I hear it's getting pretty intense," One pedestrian said. Kii had heard something along those lines before from another person. Maybe he'd go an investigate there, but the training fields was probably a poor place for good information. Maybe, instead, he'd take a stroll by the Hokage manor then double back towards the training field to see if he could at least see who the participants were. Truly though, Kii wasn't that interesting in a sparring match between ninja. It wasn't what he was here for.

Maiko was disappointed that the boy did not know where to find a map, and soon after hearing that Isobu said to Maiko in his mind, "stop with the conversation, the longer you talk, the more likely you'll blow your cover, get away from him now"

Okay, okay he thought, and replied to Masahiro, "No thank you, I will try to find my own way, I'm pretty sure that I will find a place that has a map of he village. so bye for now."

And with that Maiko began to walk away from the boy, giving him a wave as he left.

"that was risky Maiko, you could have been discovered" Isobu said in what sounded like an annoyed voice.

"Don't worry, he didn't suspect a thing, doing risky stuff is part of the job when you're a shinobi." Maiko looked around for any place that would have a map of the village. he eventually found one, but realized that the money he had paid the shop keeper was currency from Maiko's village. this made the man running the business look at him suspiciously and Maiko gave a quick thanks for the map and wanted to get out of there as quick as possible. from now on he had to be very careful otherwise he might be discovered and the mission would be a failure. now that he had a map he would know where to go and continue on with his task.

Haven grabbed the flask and put the top back on which connected it back onto his necklace, he listened as Daisuke spoke, then nodded, "Yeah, Genin are probably better. Just hope there are Genin our age here, we aren't exactly the youngest, which may cause difficulty if they actually do keep track of their Genin." He then looked up at Daisuke, watching him as he looked at a Konoha hitai-ate. He then realized he might need to have one which made him grumble a bit, he didn't even wear his own hitai-ate from Sunagakure and that was fine for most people. He didn't really take pride in his village, didn't really take pride in anything. He was sure not having one if they posed as Konoha Genin would be fine as well, if not he could just claim that he forgot it or that he wasn't a Genin at all, maybe just a friend of one. He didn't know, he'd come up with something when the time came. If the time came...."And I'm sure we won't need to fight in Konoha, it's a peaceful place right? We'd just have to be careful if we do pose as Genin, avoid questions about missions and what team we're apart of, who our Sensei is. Otherwise we could pose as travelers? But I'm not sure which would be more convincing, I'm sure the others might have thought of that part," he said with a sigh. He knew they probably should have planned before making their way to Konoha, before being this close to Konoha. Atleast this was an expirence, plan before setting off. Of course, Haven was a fast thinker and could come up with multiple ways to get inside Konoha. But at the same time think about the ten other ways that one plan would fail, which made him hesitant and not spit out ideas. He became insecure with that, he looked forward again. Once they got there, his plan was to first go get food and re-fill on tea. He had plenty of money, living alone and being used to eating small portions, he didn't spend much money. Only time would be when he were hungry, going to a Ramen shop. Or buying things to make tea, which didn't cost much. His house was pretty much empty except for basic needs, so he had lots saved up from completing missions...And pickpocketing from strangers, and people on missions. He sighed once more, this whole thing becoming a bit stressful, he began whistling a small tune. He didn't know what else he'd do after that, they probably could pose as travelers or tourist which would give them an excuse to explore the village. And by explore village, meaning they could spy. But as Genin it could be easier, they could go places normal people couldn't. He'd think more on it after hearing what Daisuke would say, if he would say anything.

Kota charged towards Oda, doing a small front flip to bring his foot down upon the other Uchiha. He may have not been a great fighter, but he had a large spirit. After bring his foot down, he would swing his other foot to the side of Oda. During all of this though, he had been fumbling in his pocket for some kind of kunai. He had been planning to use a sneak attack upon Oda, hoping that it would work, seeing as Oda had a much greater strength then Kota could ever dream of achieving.

~

[i]Konoha was a slight mess from all the industrialization, but the parts of the village where there wasn't heavy pollution looked as beautiful as ever. Shinobi would walk back and fourth through the streets, some of them looking at the Jinchuuriki in a weird manner, but they were never bothered with. The most noticeable landmarks in the village, however, was the large smelting factory, the Hokage building, and the Hokage Monument.

Seranai wandered around the village after splitting up, her forehead protector no longer where it could be seen as it was now under shirt. Her sensei, Okani, had taught her to not hide her heritage and so she had put the forehead protector under shirt in a comfortable manner. She ended up at the training grounds as she watched the Shinobi of this village train, they were really tough here. She was somewhat hidden in the shadows as she watched from a far, she was wondering what they were doing.

Don't stare, it's suspicious.. the strange voice in her head told her as she nearly jumped out of her skin as it spoke to her. Just like last time, she tried to find it again but to no avail and so she just left it be, continuing to wander around the village with no real objective. She didn't exactly know what was considered suspicious. She was sure that she didn't look like a threat, wearing a light purple colored out fit and a necklace, she was by no means intimidating.

Touzoku

"Understood, Lady Tsuchikage," Touzoku nodded, rising from her chair before giving a bow to her superior. "I will be ready at first light." Touzoku was typically up at that hour anyway, so the departure time was irrelevant. Sleep was something she was rarely afford, often having to use her own Genjutsu to put herself to sleep. Memories she had stolen from other people often haunted her dreams - creating really peculiar dreams and making her sleep often restless without using such techniques. Of course, there was something more efficient with using her Genjutsu in this manner as she could create extremely restful sleep in a more efficient timeframe, allowing her to easily run on very limited sleep - essentially pushing herself into REM cycles very quickly.

There was little left for Touzoku to discuss at this point. She knew her tasks at hand. Akaritori didn't need to go into greater detail as that was a lot of the autonomy that Touzoku possess in her position - to execute her mission by her means, but with Akaritori's standards. She would accomplish her mission efficiently and effectively.

Just before she was about to leave, Touzoku turned a final time, "Do you have anything else you wish for me to do?"

Shira Aburame
Shira eyes glistened when Ryou said "your releases". She instantly knew she had a chance to actually do something here. "Yeah! I even heard the Hokage is at the Training Fields! Maybe we could watch and maybe ask him a few things!" She said trying to contain her excitement. This was it, her time to prove herself. She quickly runs towards the gates of Konoha and sees there is a straight path towards the Training Field and sees a giant man with armour in the distance. She quickly runs over there trying her best to not use Chomei's wings for that will easily give away she's the 7-tailed jinchuuriki. She suddenly stops and hides behind a tree and sense two strong chakras. She looks over to see the Hokage and an Uchiha. "I...I never felt chakra this strong, this is quite huge! Bigger than the Tsuchikage's Chakra... and that boy... is that the power of the Uchiha? She thought to herself. She went to get closer suddenly feeling the Uchiha's chakra much better. "That-that's the 2-tails, why is the Two-Tails with Konoha?" She thought to herself again watching the two forces go at it.

Oda Uchiha Oda let Kota hit him on his shoulder with the back of his foot, but when the second hit came he simply pushed Kota on his chest sending him straight to the ground. "You have to learn to be faster, if you want to be trained in Taijustu then learn to be unpredictable. I'm more Kenjustu then Taijustu in my opinion. I want to see you give it your all, I want to see your limit!" He said turning his tone from happy to almost menacing.

~

By this time the letter Oda Uchiha wrote to the 4 Kage's has arrived at the Gokage Summit on the desk where everyone can see it. By this point Samurai come and read the note and wait for all of the Kages to come so they can start the meeting.

After a short talk, Sharaiyu and Marashi stood up. Marashi looked down at Sharaiyu. "Remember what I said kid. You will be fine. Konahakagure should be proud to have a ninja like you. Doesn't matter if the hokage is training Kota. Make Oda train you as well. Attack him one good time. Show him what you can do and prove that you are a ninja worth having and everything will fix itself. Now if you will excuse me...I have a few things to take care of. Good luck kid; you will make a fine shinobi one day." Marashi then walked off and when he was out of site, he used his mayfly technique and morphed his way to the kage summit. It wouldn't take long to get there. Zetsu's move extremely fast and can travel great distances in short time when using the technique. "Everything is going fine. I tested me disguise on that kid and he couldn't tell the difference between me and a leaf shinobi. Now I'm sure these kage won't tell the difference either. All I have to do is tell them in here to represent the hokage and then I'll have valuable information I'll need for my plan. Things are going all too well."

Sharaiyu walked back to the training site where Oda and the others were. "Hokage. I'm ready for training. If you will allow me one chance then I will prove myself worth keeping. I may only know medical jutsu but I'm sure that it won't slow me down a bit."

Kai kept walking as he headed towards the large building in the center of town.

Remember, be careful. I've already said this was going to be risky but what your planning makes it even more dangerous.

Konoha police HQ.

Kai stood outside the building for a brief moment and took a deep breath. The Hokage's tower was going to be too well defended to try anything and if he asked anyone directly he would most likely draw attention to himself but as long as his disguise held up he figured he'd be alright. But Konoha police HQ would most likely have the information they were looking for and if his memory served him right...it was almost time for them to change shifts.

Okay. Five minutes till shift change. Sneak in. Find data files. Sneak back outside.

The freaking Hokage! Kii! This was why Ryou needed Kii. He couldn't babysit Shira on his own. "Wait! Shira! I don't think you really took the time to think this out!" He shouted very kindly as she ran off. Quickly, Ryou sprinted after her. He was good at getting people out of situations; he was good at talking. But if Shira walked right up to the leader of the village they had been sent to spy on, there was no way they weren't going to be figured out. Someone with enough power to challenge the entire Republic probably could realize they were intruders from Iwagakure in a few, quick seconds. Dammit, dammit, dammit! Ryou thought, finally grabbing Shira's arm desperately as she stopped behind a tree. Ryou would have liked to imagine he'd been able to stop her sooner, but... it was hot here and Shira was fast. Ryou was pretty sure he was going to become all dried out and gross if running was going to become a common activity here.

The Hokage was in the clearing! Shira and Ryou were going to die and Kii... Kii would probably do something really cool but totally stupid if that happened. Ryou tightened his grip on Shira's arm. Slowly, Ryou would start to back away, inching them out of the forest. They couldn't approach the Hokage. This was like the number one thing someone shouldn't do when spying. Although Ryou hoped Shira's idea was to simply ask to watch and not actually show him her abilities,he doubted they were suppose to approach the rebel leader of the village they were suppose to be spying on. Like Shira was one decision away from Ryou knocking her unconscious and carrying her to the warehouse if she even moved... Kii would have to understand, right?

Ryou looked at her pleadingly, afraid to speak and be noticed. The Hokage could probably do all kinds of cool things like sensing chakra and... And... Shira would be too obvious. People like Kii and Ryou could blend in easier. But Shira was a beacon of dangerous not-Konoha chakra. Kii was going to be disappointed if Ryou allowed Shira to do something like this. "Please," Ryou mouthed to her.

Masahiro waved at the boy, he had really hoped that the boy would be able to find a shop that sold maps. But he decided that there was enough stalling for now, and strolled down to a local ninja tool shop, that had the most basic of tools that any half decent ninja, wouldn't be caught dead without. Inside the shop were many things, several weapons such as swords, kunai knives, clubs etc, being shown off in display cases fit for admiration. On a counter, at the very back of the store, sat the storekeeper who looked at Masahiro with a very irritated expression on his face. "Wha'dya want kid?" said the burly man in a gruff voice. Masahiro stammered on his words for a bit, "U-um w-well I was s-sort of--wondering i-if" the storekeeper interrupted "Hurry it up! I haven't got all day!" he roared loudly. The man had never especially liked Masahiro all that much on account of him loitering inside the shop, never actually purchasing anything from him. He decided to wrap things up rather quickly and said " I want to buy a weapon from you!" he yells out to the storekeeper while bowing his head. The storekeeper scoffed at him and gave a stern glare. After a moment the man finally said, "Fine, what'll it be?" at this Masahiro beamed up, a large smile finding a place on his face. He went to the man and put all of the money he had been storing in his pocket on the counter and said "What can I buy myself with this?" the man immediately said, in a very irritated voice, "You can buy yourself a kick in the ass, and get out of my store!" Masahiro quickly donned a saddened facial expression and said "B-but there has something I can buy!" the storekeeper, finally deciding that he had enough and just wanted to get him out of the store crouched down and held out a box and opened it, to reveal to rusty old looking kamas. "Don't even bother haggling kid," he said "you get one of these two and you get out." he says, finally completely fed up with Masahiro, who silently took the kama on the left hand side, causing the storekeeper to close the box. "Now leave." he said in a low voice. With that Masahiro left the store with his kama without another word.

Shira Aburame
Shira suddenly got pulled away by Ryou. Once again her fun ended quickly... but she got some news to tell him. She then leaned in to whisper. "Look, I wasn't going to fight with them... okay I was but I found the 2-tails Jinchuuriki!" She said in a whisper pointing at Kota. "I can tell if someone is a Jinchuuriki cause I'm one myself... and that right there is Matatabi's friend... Now tell me if what I did was wrong cause we got intel alright!" She said once again in a whisper. She was smiling alright cause for once she did her own thing and did something right. Now all she's hoping for is none of the Uchiha notice them...

Oda Uchiha
Oda looked over to Sharaiyu. "Oh you want to try too? Haha come on let's get some hits going!" He said taunting Sharaiyu. "[i]Two kids at once! This will be great, I wonder...[i]" He thought to himself waiting for Kota to get back up and for either of them to make a move.

Sharaiyu took in a deep breathe. "Then lets get started." Sharaiyu already had one of his chakra limbs ready. It grabbed at Oda's wrists to close them and to make sure he couldn't do hand signs. After it grabbed Oda's wrists, it would follow by dragging Oda straight to Sharaiyu. Sharaiyu ran at Oda and quickly started doing hand signs. Sharaiyu looked dead serious as chakra scalpel formed in his right hand.

Marashi soon found himself inside the kage summit. He told the samurai that the hokage sent him in his place and they let him pass. "This is going to be all too easy." Marashi said as e walked down an empty hall. He still wore the leaf shinobi clothing that he had tooken earlier. He walked into the room where it all was taking place and smiled as he saw who all was there. Marashi sat down where the hokage would have sat and simply waited. He wasn't to introduce himself until asked and as far as he was concerned, he was about to get all the information he needed to continue his plan.

Maiko decided that he should head for the training ground after hearing from a few chunin that the Hokage was there training. he walked towards the area and hoped that he would get some really good information.

"please remember to be careful Maiko" Isobu said, and Maiko reassured the three tails that he would be as careful as he could be. he saw a few of the Konoha shinobi give him a few suspicious and curious looks, but Maiko just ignored them and continued on his way to the training ground. before he came to his destination, he saw the Hokage monument and marveled at its splendor. but he couldn't waste anymore time on sightseeing, he had to do his mission and soon he came to training where the Hokage and several people were. one of the spectators looked like a samurai from the land of iron and Maiko wondered what he was doing in Konoha, was he on the mission as well? ether way, Maiko focused his attention on the Hokage, and held his staff firmly in his hand.