[IC] Naruto Gaiden: The Will Of Fire!! (AU)

[NanoFreakV2]

Rin walked up to Seth and offered him a hand to help him out of the hole. “Next time think twice before you insult my ability to strategize.”, She said to him making sure her tone was harsh and her words stung. As she helped him out the final clone jumped out of the woods next to Rin before she had it disperse. Her anger towards Seth quickly dissipated as she had been able to prove her cunning tactics to him and hopefully everyone else. “And I did warn you I wasn’t going to hold back.” She said with a grin. “If you want to further refine your tactics, you know who to talk to.” She finished off with a wink. “That is if your sensei isn’t around.” She then quickly added. She knew her strategic skill was pretty good, but she doubted it was at Jonin level.

“Now . . .”, she turned to the others “. . .I’m pretty sure I have just enough chakra for another fight.”, she said jokingly but some part of her hoped that one of the two would indeed take her up on her offer. Using the final technique used up quite a lot of chakra and having channeled alot of her chakra into the other shadow clone at the same time which was also about to use a high-level technique drained her of quite an amount of chakra in the end.
What satisfied her the most about the previous fight was that she had in fact learned something from Seth. To better observe her surroundings and environment, especially since she had her byakugan to aid her. On two occasions Seth managed to fool her. First with the chakra infused kunai and then at the end. The second time she hadn’t even realized that was a clone compared to his first attempt with the kunai. It made her wonder when exactly Seth had switched over with the clone. You're smarter than you think, Seth, she thought.

Rin then walked over to a tree and layed down resting her back on the trunk of the tree. “Why don’t you and Hayashi have a go at eachother?” she suggested as she looked at Izu.

[Javier]

Hayashi walked with Rin and, Izu, it seemed he finally had a name now, until, all of a sudden, Rin disappeared. That body flicker again, what are you up to? thought Hayashi while he looked at Izu, wanting to ask what his purpose of being here was. Before he could speak up, though, Rin reappeared with something on her mind, maybe she was planning something, but Hayashi didn't really care too much. They were arriving at the training field, when Seth arrived with them, making something similar to a grand entrance.

Hayashi was rather unimpressed and just wanted to get on with training as soon as possible. Suddenly, though, Rin gave a small pep-talk to Izu about Seth being a showoff or something, Hayashi couldn't care less but was amused by it. So that's what you were planning, huh? thought Hayashi before Seth spoke out himself about Rin's "sloppy" strategizing and some other stuff. It seemed that Seth wanted to challenge Izu but Rin changed that and made herself the one that Seth would fight.

Hayashi was now simply an observer, wishing he could get in there and fight himself to better his own skill. The fight was interesting, Seth went all out and ended up going unconscious from the chakra expenditure and Rin began an Eight Triagrams technique on Seth before realizing that he was down. Throughout the whole time, Hayashi kept looking at Izu, wanting to see if he'd fight him since he was getting so bored from simply watching. Once the fight was over, Hayashi stood and was about to ask Izu for a fight, when Rin gave the opening herself.

She "suggested" (she had to know Hayashi would jump at the opportunity to train instantly) that Hayashi and Izu fight now that Rin and Seth were done with their own fight. "Finally, I really need to get in there and train, what do you say Izu, wanna fight?" said Hayashi in a slightly cocky and obnoxious tone. Before any response his Sharingan came to life, he was simply filled with anticipation.

[Rex]

Seth sighed as he was helped out of the hole. It was when Rin mentioned not to Insult her ability to strategize that made Seth laugh and shack his head, “Really Rin. I wasn’t insulting your strategic ability. I was merely telling you I’d seen through your little plan. To be blunt you’re probably the only one of us who has the best strategic ability. I’d bet your own sensei trust your strategies.” Seth then realized how he called her out on her plan to make him and Izu fight. He just sighed

“Come to think of it, I probably should have phrased it better when I found you out. Sorry, there are still things I can’t get rid of. Like how I say the first thing that comes out of my mouth,” Seth said. He had the urge to pull out a cigarette and light it but he remembered he promised Akio he would quite. He sighed again and walked over to a small stump and sat on it before he said, “Oh this is going to be hard.” He waited to see how Hayashi and Izu would start their fight. I got a long way to go, but I’ll be fine. I hope Seth thought. The conversation Akio and he had plated back in his mind, but the one part about it stood out: Akio had told him he had died in the pain invasion. That fact alone made Seth want to get stronger, but it was the fact Seth let it happen angered him.

“Why didn’t I just tell him to shut up and let me help him,” Seth mumbled to himself. He looked at the rest of the team at the training ground. Everyone else would have stayed so why didn’t I? Seth thought. He never wanted to feel like this again. The fact him and his comrades might enter a battle soon made him sigh, “Never again. Even if I’m facing death, I’m not leaving another comrade to die.”

[King Kindred]

Arashi was about to say goodbye to his sensei before he got cryptic about something that he needed to ask him. What was the question and why would it make him uncomfortable? Then the bomb dropped. When Akio mentioned Sasuke dying to protect him he looked down and grabbed hold of his shirt where his heart was. He'd never forget being told that Sasuke had died against Pain. It really made him feel horrible and he continued to wonder if things would have turned out differently if he hadn't run away.

He almost gave himself whiplash when he lifted his head at Akio mentioning the Mangekyou Sharingan. He didn't unlock it and to his knowledge he didn't even unlock the third tomoe in response to finding out. He knew he wasn't heartless, but there had to be a logical explanation as to why. He mustered one up in his head and looked to Akio. He shook his head and activated his Sharingan to reveal that there were still only two tomoe there. "I think I didn't unlock it because I only found out that he died when he came back to life. If... if I had witnessed it... then maybe something would have happened."

He had to believe that was the case. If Sasuke had died in front of him he would have awakened his Mangekyou and would have been able to get revenge right then and there. "I don't want to be put in a situation like that again, sensei. I won't leave another comrade behind to die. I won't leave those precious to me."

[Alan Hawke]

Akio smiled as he turned back forward, "Then I'd best be off. Don't push yourself too hard, Arashi." He then proceeded to vanish from the mountaintop in a combination of both speed and teleportation. As he rushed away, he hoped that Arashi wouldn't push himself to the edge in order to protect the ones he cared about. Next stop was his wife, and then he would be on his merry way to Kumogakure.

[Weird Tales]

Izu wasn't surprised by Seth's persistence in continuing on the with the fight despite the fact that looked like he was completely drained of chakra, but it was futile. As he anticipated Seth's water hydra was dodged by Rin and then the jutsu failed and Izu saw that Seth had gone into unconsciousness while still standing on his feet. Rin was going in to hit with an advanced gentle fist technique and Izu was about shout for her to stop, but the Hyuga seemed to catch on to Seth's current state and halted the assault. Once Seth came back to being conscious he made another immature remark to hide his defeat.

"Once again Seth, you went all out without thinking about the consequences of such large usages of chakra. Try to conserve more next time" Izu to him as he came over. He was itching to spare with someone and had wanted to spare with Rin since he was interested in seeing how his Savage Slime technique would work against Gentle Fist, but since the Hyuga had fought with Seth, it looked like he would have to wait for that match to happen. Instead Rin suggested that he fight Hayashi and Izu wasn't against that idea, an Uchiha would make a great sparing match and he could see how his techniques would work against a Sharingan user.

"I'll be glad to spare with an Uchiha, don't let your ego cause you to lose" Izu said in a warning tone to Hayashi. He prepered himself for the fight and blood red slime began to ooze out of his hands and form into tendrils slithering around him like serpents.

"Are you ready Uchiha?" he asked. Izu was going to let Hayashi make the first move and get some idea of how the leaf ninja would fight. His biggest concern was his opponents Sharingan, the bloodline technique would prove difficult in over-coming. It may not have had the same power of ocular vision, but it's ability to see and anticipate enemy movements would make close quarter combat difficult. Izu kept calm and thought of how to utilize his Savage Slime techniques in the most effective way to achieve victory.

[Javier]

Hayashi was simply ecstatic, he needed this and now he was finally going to get it. "Don't worry about me, I'd think more about myself right now" responded Hayashi as he drew back, preparing his attack. He quickly did a handsign and something seemed to move out of place, too fast and small to be noticed by anyone or to be of worry at the moment. Hayashi wasn't exactly one to take a sparring match seriously but he knew how brutal Mist shinobi were so he needed to treat this as a life-or-death situation.

Hayashi thought he'd start small since the last thing he needed was to end up drained before the fight got intense like Seth did moments earlier. The boy quickly decided to throw a smoke bomb down at Izu, he figured he'd have the upper hand since the Sharingan could see chakra, maybe not as precisely as the Byakugan, but it got the job done. Hayashi lunged at Izu forming several hand seals "Water Style: Water Chains" said Hayashi before long chains made from water came out and shot themselves to latch onto Izu's arms and legs.

Whether he was caught or not, Hayashi would find an opening since dodging an attack also left someone rather vulnerable until they regain their footing. Quickly Hayashi performed more seals "Water Style: Water Blade" and a blade of water appeared on Hayashi's wrist. He had made the blade strong enough to hurt but not strong enough to slice through Izu since he'd rather refrain from killing a team member before they go on any missions together. Hayashi continued running, blade placed straight behind his back, ready to hit and he quickly threw his arm towards Izu's chakra to make impact with the shinobi.

[Weird Tales]

[Activate Battle Music!]

Izu smiled at the Uchiha's response and went into a more defensive stance. He had to conserve chakra and not go all out too soon otherwise this match might end the same way the last one did and Izu didn't want that to happen. Savage Slime was easier to utilize than Water or earth techniques so he would rely on that until he saw a need to. Izu saw Hayashi throw a smoke bomb at him in an attempt to blind him to oncoming attacks and he didn't have an ocular jutsu to help him see through the smoke so he would have to rely on his other senses, which he had been trained to him almost incessantly. He listened carefully for his opponents movement and hoped that Hayashi didn't go for a simple projectile ninja weapon, and that's when he heard it.

"Water Style: Water Chains." It was faint and he almost didn't hear it, but Izu picked up on the technique. He didn't know the exact location, but he got some idea of which direction the voice had come from and he quickly made a hand sign.

"Savage Slime: Shield" he spoke and a wall of slime in an almost shield like shape formed in front of him where he anticipated the the attack. Almost immediately as the slime formed it was hit by the watery chains that Izu guessed were meant as a way to tie him down and make him immobile and vulnerable to attacks. Now was the time to get out of this smoke and Izu jumped up into the air with just enough strength to clear the smoke and he quickly got a glimpse of Hayashi. Moving at fast speeds Izu grabbed out two kunai knives and threw them in the leaf shinobi's direction where he had last seen him, all the while in the air.

When he landed on his feet Izu made several hand signs in quick succession and spoke the words of a jutsu.

"Savage Slime: Bubble Burst." he spat out a ball of slime that headed straight for the smoke. The ball would then hit the ground and burst causing slime to fly around the vicinity of the area effected by the smoke bomb. The slime would be like a jellyfish and give an almost paralyzing sting if it came into contact with the skin. Izu was hoping to slow his opponent down so that he would hinder the Uchiha's mobility and thus make the Sharingan less effective in evading his attacks.

[Javier]

Hayashi hit something hard and immediately fell back, easily dodging the kunai that Izu threw at him, but that bubble was a problem. Hayashi beganto formulate a plan, he knew the Sharingan would provide a considerable advantage in hand-to-hand combat but the bubble would take care of that so he needed to make sure to maintain an advantage. "Shadow Clone Jutsu" said Hayashi before jumping out of the way, a clone appeared and took the full force of the slime, dissipating it instantly.

The slime just had too big of an area and some managed to catch his left arm, the pain was unreal, almost enough to make anyone not strong enough pass out from it alone. "At least I had a plan and it seems that now is the time to execute that plan" he muttered to himself before a clone jumped out of where the russling had happened earlier when he made the first handsign. The clone wouldn't do anything other than stay near Hayashi while the pain on his arm eased enough for him to move it.

Hayashi quickly saw where Izu was with his Sharingan and threw 2 kunai knives with explosive tags on them, designed to move Izu away or hurt him if he didn't, whcih was unlikely. Hayashi, pushing through the pain, managed to make one set of handsigns before his arm dropped back to his side. "Fire Style: Aerial Explosion Jutsu" Hayashi spit out seemingly nothing, it had no color, smell, or feel but quickly Hayashi dove out the way as, in a 20 feet radius, originating in the center of the smoke, the air itself ignited, blowing up and severely burning anything within the cloud of fire. "This should keep him off my back a little longer" he muttered as he paid close attention to where Izu's chakra was.

[Alan Hawke]

Itachi looked at the Sunagakure siblings who stood across from him and side-by-side in his Hokage office; he was standing in front of his desk slightly leaning back on it, examining the two shinobi from the Village Hidden in the Sand. He had a welcoming smile while keeping a stern posture and attitude as why he was meeting with the two were under very serious circumstances.

"Firstly, I would like to thank you two for undertaking this great task. Gaara said that you two were some of the best shinobi that Sunagakure had to offer, and the fact you two are siblings means you two have a long history of working together." Itachi's smile began to fade as he decided internally that the duo were probably just awaiting their orders and didn't care for any other diplomatic crap. "But let's cut to the chase. The Five Great Nations are putting together a small task force during the war to undertake very important missions to drastically assist with the war effort. As I'm sure you two can guess, you two will be apart of the Alliance's task force." The Hokage's vision turned to the elder brother Hiro, "Hiro, as the highest ranking member of the task force, you'll be leading it." The Uchiha reached behind him onto his desk to grab a folder and then handed it to Hiro, "Here's the list of members of the task force--I'd highly recommend reading through those dossiers thoroughly, Hiro."

He then turned his glare to Hitori, the younger but capable sibling of Hiro. "While your brother is reading up on the others, you should meet them. You'll have no trouble finding them, a few of them are off training in the forest." Itachi began shifting his glare between both of them, "Alright, any questions?"

[caliban22]

Hiro | Hokage's office

Hiro flipped through the file quickly "You honor us, it is a privilege to help our esteemed friends of Konohagakure" Hiro said. Hiro's voice was deep and with an air of authority was slightly muffled by his mask. His eyes quickly looked over each other pages in turn, looking at images and their info. As he flips he suddenly stopped at Arashi's file "A genin? is that wise?" he asked as he looked up at the Hokage "Never mind, I am sure your wisdom is sound." he said bowing slightly Far be it from me to stop you from sending them to their deaths. he thought bitterly "I shall spend some time studying these files, Hitomi go meet the rest of the team I shall be there soon." he said

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Hitomi | Village

Hitomi nodded " very well brother, I shall meet you there." she said softly "if you will excuse me." she said with a bow as she flickered out of the room. After figuring out where she needed to go quickly she rushed over. While Hiro was a very no nonsense person who didn't care for much other than his village and his people, Hitomi was rather lazy loved to learn and to see the other villages. This was her first time out of her country. While she did go on missions within her country, and she was forced at times to camp when her missions longer than a days travel away, she always had people from the village with her. This was the first time Hitomi had been only with her brother. In her village he had often volunteered to lead her Genin squad, either out of brotherly love or to make sure she wasn't slacking. As she quickly headed to the training area she smiled as her mind wondered back to when her brother chastised her for slacking on the exams.

[NanoFreakV2]

Rin watched as the two prepared for combat. The battle seemed to start early as from Rin’s perspective they were already fighting. Firstly with an exchange of words before the physical battle would begin. She liked that because she knew that meant they would put their soul into this battle.

Izu seemed to allow Hayashi to start first. He began with a smoke bomb thrown at his opponent, and as a result Rin narrowed her eyes and the veins near her temple bulged. Byakugan! Just as she activated her byakugan she could see Hayashi preparing to use what looked like chains made of water to bind Izu, and she was fascinated by how precise he could manipulate the water to form a long chain like structure. She also took note that one of Hayashi's clone was hiding nearby, keeping away from the battle and she assumed it was that flicker she had seen earlier during Hayashi's first hand signs.

Izu’s reprisal quickly displayed his own skill. Using his kekkei genkai he made a slime shield which not only blocked the chains but also the ensuing attack. What she found most interesting was the attack following the thrown kunai. Izu spat out a slime ball that proceeded to burst on the ground sending some of the slime on Hayashi despite his attempt to block it with a shadow clone. She could clearly see the immobilizing effect it had on Hayashi, as it seemed he was unable to move due to the pain it caused. However, Hayashi had done a great job of putting some distance between him and Izu with his ‘phantom explosion’, as Rin had just nicknamed it off the top of her head, using the clone he had made earlier as distraction. She guessed he would use this time to recover from the pain the slime caused.

The same way as Rin managed to deduce the clone’s initial hiding place with her byakugan, something else caught her attention. Someone else was approaching the training grounds. A sand shinobi, Rin thought. What could she be doing here?

[King Kindred]

[Activate Summoning Jutsu Training Music!]

Arashi immediately got to work after his sensei left. This was part three of his training. He decided this would be the last time that he'd decline the offer to train with the others. They were about to head to war and they were going to have to be able to fight well together or else they'd end up a slaughtered mess on the battlefield. That however didn't mean it'd be the last time he'd be training by himself. He'd leave that for his free time which would probably be at night until they departed. He needed to train as much as he could before the war. As one of the two Genin he'd have to push himself harder to not be a hindrance to the others.

Fortunately for Arashi the summoning technique wasn't new to him. Thanks to his father he had already created a contract with the crows. Unfortunately up until now he had only been able to summon normal crows and he meant that in both size, ability, and brain capacity. They weren't ninja crows who could speak or even perform techniques on their own. That was the problem he was facing. He needed better. He lifted his right thumb to his mouth and bit down on it causing it to bleed. He then performed the handseals Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, and Ram. Upon completing the final seal he slammed his palm into the ground and watches as the summoning seal appeared before it was covered in a puff of smoke.

Arashi immediately knew that this wasn't the large summoning that he intended, but hoped that it would at least be a ninja crow. When the smoke cleared he looked at the crow and said, "Please tell me it worked." It unfortunately didn't as the crow before him looked around and didn't say anything. "Great. How am I supposed to get this to work? There are talking crows out there, right? You'd tell me if you knew, right?" The crow remained silent causing Arashi to sigh. "And now I'm talking to a crow who can't talk back. So basically I'm talking to myself."

He sighed before sitting down to think. He knew that this had to work. He couldn't see himself wasting his time.

[Rex]

Seth waited for the battle to begin. He was looking forward to see how an Uchiha would handle a Mist ninja, epically one with a unique ability like Izu had. The battle started out with the two exchanging words, but Seth could tell by their tone it was all in good fun. Izu put up a sort of strict façade, but Seth could tell he was like them. Looking for a little fun while training and Seth knew this battle would be fun, but he also knew it was going to be intense.

The battle began with a smoke bomb which made Seth ask aloud, “Why do we always start a battle with a smoke bomb? It’s like we love using them or something.” He wasn’t asking anyone in particular he just realized that he had used one against Rin and previously there was one used when training with Akio. Seth just shrugged his shoulders, “Guess they’re affective.” Seth then was reminded of something and quickly took out his notebook and jotted something down. A sly smile formed on his face. Oh, now that’s just cruel, but effective. Seth thought before he turned his attention back to the battle.

Seth was amazed at how well Izu was able to control his Savage Slime and the fact that Hayashi was able to counter it and keep away from it amazed Seth even more. It showed Seth just how much Rin, Izu, and Hayashi planed and how well their battle strategy was. Seth scratched his head and sighed, “So while I just ran into battle, everyone was planning their next three moves. God I must have looked like an idiot just running into battle without thinking.” Seth was so interested in the battle he hadn’t noticed another person had come to the training area. He reached into his pocket and took out a small bag of candy. He had bought it before going to see Itachi with the others and had totally forgotten about it until his stomach rumbled.

“Some are crushed, but at least majority is still in tacked,” Seth said as he opened the bag and popped three into his mouth. He instantly spat them back out as he coughed and looked at the bag. He sighed, “Damn it. I got the sour ones.” Seth just closed the bag and let it drop on the ground. I’ll buy some more later on. Seth thought.

[Weird Tales]

Izu saw his bubble technique hit its target and expected to see the Uchiha writhing on the ground in agony, but instead what he saw was a clone. He cursed and was annoyed at having mainly hit a clone and not his real opponent, but he did notice that the slime managed to tag Hayashi on the arm before the Uchiha could get away. Good, that would mean that his opponent would have a stinging pain in his arm and hopefully a little bit of paralysis. Then the Uchiha tossed two kunai knives in his direction and Izu's eyes spotted the explosive tags on them and quickly chose to dodge out of the way.

He immediately returned his gaze to Hayashi in time to see him make hand signs, it looked like the slime hadn't been enough to paralyze him from performing ninjutsu. Izu heard him say the name of a fire jutsu and saw him breath out, but there was no fire and couldn't smell anything. His mind raced at rapid speeds trying to quickly think of what to do next and then it hit him, it had to be an explosion of some kind.

"Oh shit!" he said to himself as he quickly made the hand signs for a jutsu after he tried to leap as far and as quickly as possible.

"Savage Slime: Protective Shell" he said and slime formed around his arms and legs, which hardened into a shell like material. Then there was a large explosion as Hayashi's technique ignited the air around it. Izu had been fotrunant enough to get out of the central point of the blast zone, but the size of the explosion was still large enough to catch him on his left side and the sheer force of the blast sent him flying for several more feet. His left and leg were burned, but not too severely thanks to his Protective Shell technique. It still hurt like hell and he gritted his teeth, but he had suffered worse during training with his team in the mist village. It was time to now go on the offensive and close the gap.

"Savage Slime: Death Blade" he said after making the hand signs for the technique. Slime formed in his right hand and then took of the shape of a two foot long sharp blade. It was hard as stone and just as sharp as a knife. Izu charged towards his opponent with incredible speed allowing chakra to empower his dash. He then jumped up into the air and came down on Hayashi planning to plunge the slime blade into his shoulder and then follow up with a hard kick to the Uchiha's face

[caliban22]

As Hitomi Rushed to the training ground her mind slowly eased back to her own time spend in her villages training area. the countless hours spent with her brother consistently drilling fundamentals. Sand clone,replacement, transformation, taijutsu, even thinking of all that work made her tired. Least now I'm not home...Training in sand kind of sucked she thought with a smile as she raced towards the training area. upon arrival she found herself near a forest and stopped. Must be near the training ground she thought as she remembered some telling her the training area was surrounded by trees Lucky...all we have back home is sand, rocks and heat... she thought as she could feel a slight breeze, and the beautiful trees all around. slowly she began to walk through the forest to try and find her way though, while still taking time to look at all the trees, plants and animals she could find.

[NanoFreakV2]

Rin cumbersomely stood up from her comfortable position against the tree and began walking towards Seth. She overheard Seth mentioning he got the sour sweets. She wasn’t a particular fan of the sour ones either but she had other plans. “Well if you’re not going to eat them, I’ll grab a few if you don’t mind.” She explained as she picked up the bag and took a handful of sweets. She popped one in her mouth resulting her distorting her face as she tasted the sour flavor. “Yeah, definitely not of a fan of the sour ones.", She said to herself before continuing. "We might have guests in a bit so I’ll go greet them.” And with that she disappeared in a flicker.

She had been observing the approaching guest for quite some time. Enough time to become clear she was probably looking for the training grounds. Moments later she flickered on a branch near the sand shinobi. “Hi!” she began in a chipper tone. “Looking for the training grounds?”

[caliban22]

Hitomi flinched slightly at the appearance of the leaf Shinobi. Not that she was surprised, but more so that now she had to introduce herself Okay Hitomi....this is your chance....good first impression, don't be stupid... you can handle this. she thought as she took a deep breath " I am Hitomi from the Goto clan." she said warmly "I am indeed looking for the training grounds...I was told I would meet some Leaf Shinobi out here." she said Good Hitomi....your doing fine... just dont do anything stupid... she thought as she looked at the leaf Shinobi A Hyuga... Hiro told me about them once...supposedly they see chakra or something she thought not sure how he knew that.. but than again he has gone up against some leaf Shinobi a few year back.... after a few moments she realized she was getting off track "My brother and I were sent here by the Lord Kazekage." she said with a smile "to whom am I speaking with?" she asked

[NanoFreakV2]

Rin dropped down a few meters in front of her and waved her hand in a quick singular motion. "I'm Rin of the Hyuga." she said maintaining her cheerful tone. For some reason she expected Sunagakure shinobi to be rather strident and straight down to business, hence the surprise at the warm introduction. She then took out a some of the candy she took from Seth and tossed them in Hitomi's direction. "Here, have some. I'm not much of a fan of the sour ones." Rin thought that would make her feel more comfortable about being here. The way she introduced herself was warm but also very formal. Being sent here just before the onset of the war meant she was going to stay a while too, so Rin thought it would make things go smoother if she maintained her usual laid back attitude. "C'mon, I'll take you to the training grounds." She said as she began walking in the direction of the training grounds. "We're not all leaf right now." she responded to her earlier statement of possibly meeting leaf shinobi at the training grounds. "There's also a Kirigakure shinobi training with us at the moment. In fact he is sparring right now with one of the Uchiha there. Fascinating Kekkei Genkai he has, the Kirigakure shinobi."

Even though she began talking to her about various things, Rin herself had many questions for Hitomi. About her, about her village. Rin was nearly trembling of curiosity. Still, she manged to suppress her curious personality since she wanted to go about this with tact. Hitomi was the guest after all, so she should be the one asking questions and Rin stated this openly too. "If you have any questions, about the village and such you can ask away."

[caliban22]

Hitmoi smiled and took the candy. "Thank you very much." she said cheerfully as she popped it in her mouth. not a fan of sour...but all the way for sug... she thought as her face distorted making her slightly twitch at the sudden nope oh gah... she thought. after a moment of re composing her self as she listened to the girl speak. when she asked if Hitomi had any questions her mind went wild. "I got so many questions! What's it like living here? whats the village here like? anything special or note worthy that I should visit while I am here?" she said quickly before she caught herself. "Ahem I apologize... I mean yes I have some questions...like wise if you have any questions for me please feel free to ask." she said in a clam tone.

Hiro | outside the Hokage's office

Hiro stood outside leaning against the wall, reading carefully through the file he was given. "I suppose I should go meet the others." he said slightly annoyed as he stood up and headed over to the training area "Hitomi better not be messing about or embarrassing the village...last thing I need is to be held responsible for her idiocy" he muttered to himself with a sigh She is my baby sister...I should be so hard on her...perhaps later I will do something special for her...but later, Duty comes first. he thought as he flickered out.