Little Alice

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Review of Ariska Namine :

I will keep it in a more summarized version for now.

A. ) A bit strange that they have an ANBU from Takigakure. From what I know and remember is that Kumogakure's influence isn't near that place. Even when she had to leave the place, it would make more sense if she would be from the Frost or Sky country. A small change that would make more sense in my opinion. I will keep my personal opinion on the further history however as I am a bit doubtful about it.

B. ) Just a pet peeve, but what is the affinity? Fire or lightning chakra nature?

C. ) Some extra equipment for het jutsu

Explain this please? What kind of extra equipment?

D. ) Some traits and skills are kind of swapped?
I also am not sure about the heightened senses. Though ANBU are elite shinobi, I kind of think that should be removed or be compromised with lowering the other traits/skills.

E. )

- Hidden: Maito Yoshito (righteous might)

Kind of OP. It all just suggest that it will be a beam that it is capable of dealing massive damage. But how is the lightning generated? How is the attack formed? If it just a beam that is being launched after the streak of handsignals, I want to see more handsignals and a more balanced weakness. Kind of not want to accept a custom technique that is like that. Else I would suggest to look at False Darkness, which is kind of the same idea.

-Chakra Nageru (chakra hurl)

I am not sure if you know, but a blade enhanced by a generic lighting chakra nature, is able to pierce through rock and material like that. To parry it would mean that the person needs to use a chakra flow technique of equal or better power in order to deflect it. I kind of advise to put more thoughts/detail in your custom techniques cause I kind of get the idea that they are rushed.

F. ) The summoning ;

-Fly and high speed? I kind of not accept that. Even for short distances, how far is a ''short'' distance? Fifty meters?

- Dream Weaver, how is the genjutsu cast? Touch, breathing in a fume or what? What does the peacock use to get the person in a genjutsu? And I think that the traditional way of breaking out of her genjutsu is quite possible. Else it would be instantly A or S ranked in my opinion.
- Wind Release: Whirlwind, is Gale windpalm? Why not just put that there?
- Multiple Mirage, weakness? And again : how does the peacock put one in a genjutsu?

I would advise to overlook the CS and edit it to make things more cleared out on how and such.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

A crossroads means a decision,
Who will go where?

To the unknown of the dark.

A collab between Alternathan, Lillydove, Roran Hawkins and Alice (and a bit of Chromie. x3 )

Summary:
Team 2 and 7 venture into the old and seem to be abandoned bunker. However, while they walk through the old halls, there seems that they need to make a choice. One that can decide how the mission will go.

Crossroads!

Hayate took the bandaged sword. A bit cautious as he wasn't sure what to expect from it. He was half expecting that his chakra would be leeched from him or that the strange weapon would shiver, as he had witnessed a lot of times when he had seen Kiyomi with it. But nothing happened. It didn't shiver or started to leech any chakra. Kiyomi looked in front, seeing the back of Team 7. They said they were ready. Raising her right hand, she would cover the lower part of her face with her facemask, the same as Hayate. It was after a mission and they weren't sure what they would encounter. A kind of habit of team 2, so to say. ''Lets start moving then. Calm and cautious.'' Kiyomi instructed, hoping Kensuke would keep order in his team. Signalling with a hand signal to Hayate, they would keep a distance between them and Team 7.

Kensuke pondered for a moment, indecisive wether or not he should activate the camouflage jutsu already, and decided against it. He'd rather have an enemy ambush him than have Kiyomi blast him full of holes by accident. "Let's go." He said on a strangely casual tone, and began walking forwards into the deep. Once they had entered the dark complex' second room, light began fading real quick, upon which Kensuke ordered the entire formation to pause. Staring into the darkness infront of him, in which even his eyes had trouble identifying their surroundings, he checked his watch untill 15 minutes had passed, enough time to have anyone's eyes adapt to the darkness enough to see smaller details in the already sparse light.

Ezuri followed Kensuke sensei closely, and kept notice of his surroundings. He eyes still looking forwards, his head straight. He still could see all his teammates an no-one was in his byakugan's blind spot. He was a bit uneasy about the bunker, because he could not see inside. As soon as they entered Ezuri scanned the room they were in... nothing. the light faded and everybody halted. Ezuri was not sure why untill he realised he was the only one that could see as the rest of them needed time for their eyes to adjust to the darkness. He looked around "No signs of life as far as I can see, I feel a bit 'blind' though, not being able to 'see' through walls" he whispered.

Shisen stayed close to Arashi, even before entering she could tell it would be hard to see much, she continued concentrating her chakra to her nose using that as guide. Following Ezuri but not going very fast either as she would not take a step if she did not feel Arashi brushing up against her, taking a quiet deep breath she continued to follow them. Her eyes watering from the smell of decaying flesh, she tried to shake what was bothering her off but nothing to seemed to work. " I dont like this..." Shisen said once more, quietly though. She was still having a hard time getting her eyes to adjust and kept a shaky hand on Arashis back.

Calmly walking, Kiyomi had noticed the scent of decaying flesh too. Her sense of smell wasn't that great as Shisen, but it was without mistake flesh that was starting to rot. But even so, Kiyomi focused more on the fact that they were walking into unknown ground. With Kensuke ordering his formation to stop, Kiyomi wondered as both she and Hayate could see. It was thus darker there, which made sense. ''Stick close to me, Hayate.'' Kiyomi whispered, letting it be known through the earphone communicator. Even though she would look or see it, Hayate nodded as he placed his right hand at the hilt of the sentient sword that was now at his back. It felt strange, but yet comforting to know he had a fearsome weapon at his disposal. While the group waited, Kiyomi decided to use something that would give her a bit of advantage. Making the Tiger handsignal, she focused on the chakra of Mata. From her research, she had learned that cats had better eyes in the dark. It took only two minutes, but with the chakra of the Nibi flowing through her system, Kiyomi knew that she would be easier to sense. Though having her manners to use that to her advantage, she would for now keep it at a low maintainance. ''Lets keep on going. I will make a light later.'' Kiyomi ordered, transferring her instruction to Team 7 as well.

"Let's get moving." He said, checking the next door, which seemed to be welded tight. Ordering his squad to stop and to check their surroundings with two simple handsigns he coated his hand in air nature chakra and started cutting through the door with ease. Once an opening was there, he stared into the next room, and after a short moment crawled through the opening in the door. He had the chance to crawl through carefully to avoid any lethal traps, or he had the choice to leap through and avoid any potential ambush. So far there had been no sign of an ambush or much rather, any living being yet, and with the additional knowledge he had over the genin, the possibility of lethal traps was more than real. Once inside he scanned the entire room with his eyes before jumping on the ceiling with the wall-walking technique and traversed the room like that to avoid setting off traps. The only traps that would detect him now were decent chakra-detection traps, but those were rather rare in a complex like this, especially if it was intended to be entered by living creatures. Chakra signature traps would go off the moment they'd see anyone, while normal traps could be memorized by the garrison to avoid constantly.

Ezuri followed Kensuke through the room and watched closely as he cut through the door that would lead them to the next room. As soon as the hole was compleet Ezuri let his byakugab scour the room quickly. No chakra signals to be seen. After Kensuke took the ceiling Ezuri scanned the room more thourougly for any traps. There were some pressure plates but nothing that could not be avoided. He turned around looking at shisen. "Can Arashi use the wall-walking technique?" because if not he had to lead Arashi and Shisen over the floor avoiding the traps, if the ninken could then he would also take the ceiling with his sensei and the rest.

Watching as Ezuri scanned the room for traps, she concentrated on the scents and found nothing except the scent from before increased in strength. "Arashi.. stay close..." Shisen murmured, also using the Wall Walking Technique as Arashi followed suit. Both really uncertain of the situation and somewhat unwilling to continue on. "I do not smell anything... Except for the decaying flesh that is getting stronger..." she said, her eyes still watering but at least now her eyes were slightly more adjusted than they were a few minutes ago.

Keeping their distance, Kiyomi heard over the earphone communicators that Team 7 was making more sound than they needed. At least, in her opinion. Flexing her fingers of her right hand, Kiyomi briefly looked over her shoulder. The dark almost didn't let her see him, but she could sense Hayate being close. Noticing that Team 7 was moving further, Kiyomi decided to think about how she could shed some light. Not that she had a problem with the dark, but it would serve better for those who weren't able to adjust to the dark. ''Ground.'' With that said, Kiyomi would open her left hand as some lightning started to gather at the palm of her hand. She didn't had to look over her shoulder as Hayate wasn't there anymore. With the lightning shedding some light, Kiyomi could see the surroundings around her a lot better. Walking to the destroyed door, she noticed it was of steel. Not that she was impressed or surprised that Kensuke had been able to destroy it, she expected nothing less from him, but it made her wonder. Keeping a thought to herself, she would calmly walk over the ground, cautious for traps. But with the light and her senses, she couldn't detect any traps. Besides, this was an abandoned place. It would be too obvious if it wouldn't be abandoned if there would be traps laying in wait just after the first door.

Dropping on the floor again he put his attention on the next door. This one was yet another steel example, but it wasn't welded thight, but still locked.He was about to cut it open when he stopped halfway turning his hand into a dagger. Pushing and pulling the door again he heard the metal lock make some noise as it resisted his attempts to open the door, but from two places on the door, and one of both sounds didn't sound like metal meeting metal. Either it was a trap, or some random object got stuck against the door in the illustrious history of this steel port. Cutting out the section around the place where the second noise came from just to be sure, not that it took him much chakra anyways, he then cut through the lock and opened the door, to find a heavy wooden chair having fallen against the door. Well, so much for his precautions. Checking the room for traps, not intending to let the poor and forgotten piece of furniture put him off guard, he then jumped to the ceiling again. The interior of the rooms surprised him a bit, and as the rest of Team 7 entered he noticed that they were all making sour faces because of the rather disgusting smell of rotten flesh floating around. They hadn't been on a few days-old battlefield yet, he guessed.

When the door was breached by Kensuke, a very strange scent would appear from the room they would enter. This was more than just decaying flesh, that was left to rotten. It had a mixture of something very foul and sour. Though with the new smell, no sound came from the darkness that waited both teams ahead. Yet one could say that this was a warning that something was there, waiting in the dark.

Ezuri was the first to enter the room after Kensuke. He noticed that his sensei had more touble opening this door than the previous. The genin did jump a little at the sound of the chair hitting the ground. His eyes peeled at the room ahead he could still sense no chakra signatures... damn sealed off walls. Ezuri closed his nose with his left hand and followed his sensei to the ceiling while checking the room for irregularities. He saw some bones in the corner. A shiver went down his spine, but there were no traps in this room. Silently he let the rest know it was clear to traverse over the ground.

Her nose wrinkled as another scent mingled with the always present scent of decaying flesh, this one was worse and she had to cover her mouth to keep from coughing loudly. Arashi was also trying to rid herself of the scent, gritting her teeth she followed Ezuri onto the ceiling of the new room, the further she went, the stronger the new scent became. "There is a new scent..." Shisen said, into the ear communicator. Arashi seemed to be having a difficult time on the ceiling but Shisen kept the silent order to stay on the ceiling anyways, just in case.

Kiyomi calmly walked forwards. She heard the sound of the second door being ''opened'' by Kensuke. But she wasn't worrying. So far Hayate hadn't came out of his underground spot, so that meant that there was nothing new nearby. Walking a bit faster, she would enter the new room as well. The lightning in her left hand lighten up the room and shed some light on the pile of bones in the corner. Kiyomi glanced at it for a moment. But it wasn't anything interesting. Continue to walk behind team 7, Kiyomi would dismiss the new scent. Even if it reeked of danger or anything sinister, she wouldn't turn around and run away just because of some scent.

Seeing the genin prepare themselves for the next room, he now once more scanned the room ahead of them for any person, or rather anything, with any sort of killing intent. Immediately he sensed a few spiders that were out there to ambush insects and suck them dry, and a single lonely mosquito that was out for Kensuke's hide, but nothing really bad was waiting for them in the next room. Nothing that wanted to kill them anyways.The mosquito piqued his interested however. Its presence here meant there was another way out, near water, where this beast came from. Unless it had been feeding on stuff inside this complex, something Kensuke decided not to think about. Checking the next metal door, which seemed to be the thing here, metal doors, he concluded it was just a metal door. Great job Einstein. Cutting through the lock he entered the next room, and immediately saw a manhole in the floor, along with the usual door on one end of the room. No traps were lying around to be seen, so he climbed the ceiling and checked both. The door seemed to be just another regular door, while the manhole had a metal ladder that led a few stories down at least, but it was too dark to see well. They had something with concrete and metal when making this, that's for sure.

Even now that they did not encounter anything interesting or dangerous in the previous rooms, Ezuri kept on guard and decided not to let his attention slip. full focus was required here. He scanned the next room for chakra signals and traps like he did with the previous rooms but nothing was to be seen here as well. He slowly and silently walked up to the manhole and peered down in it. He gasped, it was deep, real deep... being only able to see the small round shape of the manhole on the ground he did not sense anyhting, but that didnt mean nothing was down there. after checking that he took the ceiling and waited for the rest to enter the room.

As Kensuke-Sensei openned the next door, she was able to scent something that she thought was water but something else mixed with it, although that was as much as she could tell at this point. Noticing that the other scent besides the decaying flesh was also worsening as they continued to go on. It also appeared to coming from every direction as it increased in strength. Shisen said nothing though, at this point, anyone would be able to detect the horrible smell. Getting to the ceiling after waiting a second to give Arashi a moment to rest before having to continue, they both followed their team mates and stayed silent with no need to say anything.

Still calmly walking behind Team 7, with the pre-set distance, Kiyomi was wondering why they were all that cautious. She didn't bother by sticking herself to the ceiling or anything that would scream that they were trying to cover themselves for anything that would jump at them. Flexing her fingers of her left hand, she would close the distance with Team 7. Without needing to say it, Hayate appeared out of the ground behind her, doing his best to keep aware of the surroundings as Kiyomi walked to where Team 7 was. Before she spoke, she briefly eyed the manhole. ''Seems there are two ways now.'' Stating the obvious, her tone was quite stern and soft. ''I and Hayate will take the route down. Team 7, will continue forward.'' Kiyomi said, this time her eyes sought for Kensuke's. Already Kiyomi was suspecting he would argue or try to talk her out of it. But she had her own reasons for the split up and why they should continue forward while she and Hayate would go down.

Staring Kiyomi down he tried finding out why she made that decision. He didn't like this change of plans at all, but there was not really much he could do about it now. Turning around he sent his team a strict glare before inspecting the door again. "You heard her. Keep your eyes peeled, we won't have anyone watching our backs anymore." He said, and then sank on one knee and started rummaging in his backpack, throwing Kiyomi a small but sturdy package. "Fire these when you need help." He knew that the flares wouldn't really reach him, but it would make quite some noise in the confined space and more importantly, create smoke and reflections of light on the walls they might notice. That aside, if any of them would encounter anything bad, they had the earphones and he would probably sense any large form of killing intent even that far down. "Good call Kiyomi. I don't really see Arashi climbing down that manhole."

Opening the door he stumbled on a wall of stench that even made his eyes water, before pushing on. Once more he inspected the room and jumped for the ceiling as he saw nor noticed anything living in there, and set his earphones on channel C so only Kiyomi could hear him. "Why?" He whispered, expecting a decent explanation of her plans and/or reasons. He knew Kiyomi and expected no less than a convincing argumentation, but knew that the girl had the urge to make rash decisions sometimes.

Ezuri followed Kensuke without hesitation. Although he felt a little bad for leaving Hayate, and especially Kiyomi, behind. But he also know Kiyomi-sensei and Hayate-senpai could take care of themselves really well. Now that they didn't have anyone covering their back he offered to take the place at the end of the line and let Shisen and Arashi go in front of him as he, with his byakugan, could sense danger coming from behind more easily than them. He hoped Kensuke would be able to detect as much as he did, as he was no longer there to scan the room for traps or chakra signatures immediately after Kensuke opened a door.

Shisen allowed Ezuri to fall back behind them even as low growl escaped Arashis throat, she did not like this at all. But Shisen knew it was for the better and so she did not say anything, the scents kept getting stronger even though they had stopped moving. Moving herself behind Arashi, she kept the uneasy ninken at bay and in control for now. Although the longer Ezuri was behind them both, the harder it would become for Arashi to control her unease at the situation and she also kept silent when Kiyomi said they were going to split up, not really interested in why that was at the moment because of the scent increasing as the newest door was opening. Shisen tried not to cough but the scent was suffocating to her, so for a second, she stopped concentrating her chakra to her nose to lessen it for a moment before sending it back to her nose.

Catching the package, Kiyomi heard what it was. At first she wanted to argue and throw it back. In her opinion, she wouldn't need it, but accepted to make sure that there wouldn't be an argument between her and Kensuke now. It wasn't the place nor time to start a discussion over something like that. Starting to place the package in her own backpack, Kiyomi would wait until Team 7 was gone. With the package that Kensuke had given her earlier, Kiyomi heard Kensuke's question. Switching the channel of her earphone, she made a few signals with her right hand. Hayate didn't waver or argued as he knew what she wanted. Ruffling through his pouches, Hayate would place explosive tags around the manhole while Kiyomi would give Kensuke an answer. ''You have two genins to look after. I only have one and he is a lot more experienced than those of yours are now, in my opinion. And if things may go hectic, I can call the last member of my team.'' Kiyomi paused. ''I bet he wouldn't mind it to be in a dark space. He is used to that.'' The tone would make the hint of what Kiyomi meant only more clear. After Hayate gave a signal that he was done, Kiyomi walked to the edge of the manhole. Crouching, she stared into the darkness that was waiting for them. ''Besides, I prefer to fight without needing to watch over people.'' With that said, Kiyomi would slide down the ladder. It took quite some moments before she landed on her feet. Increasing the lightning at her left hand, she was able to see more due the increase of light in the room she was in. Only a moment later Hayate would drop next to her. ''Also, just in case...'' Kiyomi didn't finish her sentence as she would switch the channel of her earphone so that she was on the same as Hayate. Nodding to her student, the tags would go off to seal the manhole. By the time that some rocks were falling down, both Kiyomi and Hayate were walking towards the next room.

Attack on Titan: Corruption and Oppression

Mika Smyth

''Would you please keep on walking?'' Mika asked. She didn't sound that pleased with the guy in front of her looking and staring at people around them. People were hungry. The boy in front of her wasn't that interesting to her as she was more focused on getting something to eat and then settle down at a table. Probably just trying to eat something and make use of the time to not be bothered by others. Cause once back in the cabin, Mika would have to share the space with others, people she didn't know and wasn't genuinely interested in. Still, if she wanted to realize her dream of wanting to become truly independent, she would just have to bite her tongue and do what was needed. If that guy in front of her would just use his legs.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Both look good to me. Accepted.

Attack on Titan: Corruption and Oppression

I am good. Who's turn to post is it? ._.
I kind of want to continue. :C

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Kiyomi Sato-Hon
Konohagakure Jounin-sensei of Team 2.
Hokage Apprentice,

The first measurement.

Kiyomi looked over her shoulder. Though she had predicted that Team 7 students weren't going to gain her approval, it seemed they were doing their best to get on her bad side. Narrowing her eyes briefly, Kiyomi took some deep breath. Then a cold sneer was heard over the earphone communicators. ''Listen up. Ezuri, to your spot. You were told to stay in formation at the right with Team 7. Don't fall out of formation or else go home. I can't use those who can't follow orders.'' Kiyomi started. What was the Hyuuga thinking? Shisen was now alone with her ninken at the right side. What if an enemy would attack from that side. Did the newest graduated genins really thought that something like that wouldn't happen cause they were with two teams? Then that ninken barked at Kiyomi. Making more noise than was necessary. Kiyomi would remember it and lecture or flog Kensuke for it. He had always been very strict with her, so why was these students not disciplined as she would expect from him?

It became quite a bothersome travel for Kiyomi. Her students knew better luckily to bother Kiyomi with not listening to orders or making unneeded sounds. The travel itself was composed of many hours and almost no pauze. Not a really a bother to her and Team 2. They were used to be pushed to the limit by Kiyomi. During those small breaks, Kiyomi spend little to no time to Team 7. Kenta was now and then looking around, but he was also very serious. Cause even on small breaks, they were keeping their formation like Kiyomi had ordered.

Only after quite some travel did they managed to reach the location. During the last break, Kiyomi had made her shadow clone give back the earphone communicator so she could keep update Kensuke on where they should keep an eye out for. And then they managed to reach it. Arriving at a place that was quite blocked by vegetation, Kiyomi saw a big hill. With then a dark entrance into it. It looked abandoned, but she had her doubts. If she had to believe the briefing Zakito had given her in secret, then she already knew that it was sealed off from prying eyes. Meaning that Ezuri's eyes were limited. ''Leo and Kenta. You two will guard the entrance until further orders. The rest, we will move in. Stick close and don't complain or make unneeded sound. Those who do, just do me a favor and go outside then. Saves me the trouble to knock you out cold.'' Kiyomi coldly instructed. However, when the group would head to the entrance, Kiyomi whistled to Hayate. Grabbing the hilt of the bandaged sword, Kiyomi reached out to hand over the sentient blade to Hayate. ''For now, you take it.'' The bandaged weapon shivered, but it was only briefly. Like if he was silenced in all of a sudden. ''Ken-senpai, me and Hayate will take the back. You three take the front.''

Attack on Titan: Corruption and Oppression

I smell food? Somebody said meal? Gourmet dinner? ._.
Stop driving me crazy! :C

Attack on Titan: Corruption and Oppression

Mika Smyth

Both of them reacted positive to her friendly greeting. So that was good. Holding true to her act, Mika sighed and looked around with a smile as she placed both her hands on her hip. But before she could even utter a word, it seemed that she wouldn't be given that luxury. They were called to the field for examination. Mika briefly thought that it was some divine intervention to mock her attempts of gaining some foothold or alliances with others. Not that she would give up on her act. ''Seems we are need to go then.'' She friendly stated as she turned, but would try to keep walking next to one of the two girls. It would give her the chance to keep an eye on how the two were. It would take more than just a few moments to decide how each one of them was and reacted.

''So, from which district are you two from?'' Mika asked, sounding very polite and genuinely curious. Not that she was. But it would prove good to know where they came from in order to learn more about them. Knowledge is power after all. And the more knowledge one has, the more dangerous the person becomes.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

The planning between the two jounins!
A plan made by Konoha's Green Falcon and Blue Fire!

A collab between Roran (Tummy Cat) and Alice (No Nick :C )

Summary:
Due knowing many of the details of the mission, Kiyomi decides to brief in Kensuke, but in a way that the students won't hear it or able to say anything about it. They also start to formulate a way how they will try to bring success back home.

A plan well made.

''Ken-senpai. Would you please start scouting on ahead? I will keep the rear in check.'' Kiyomi asked. She had just given the teams the briefing. Turning her head to glance at her kendo instructor and mentor, he would likely be able to combine the rather calm tone and look on Kiyomi's face to know that she was up to something. Turning back to the teams, Kiyomi would weave a single handsignal. A shadow clone came to existence as it would take some place back at the formations of the team. But while it did so, the shadow clone did something weird. It was a very subtle movement, but it looked like the right hand of the clone went to her ear to brush some hair aside.

"Ofcourse. I'll get going at once." He said, intercepting her gaze. Jumping forwards he activated his earphones the moment he got out of range, setting the channel on C, so only Kiyomi could hear what he said. Bursting through the foliage he then awaited what would undoubtedly be more vital information about the mission.

''Good. Now, you heard what I said? That this is between a C and B ranked mission? It is an A ranked mission at best.'' Kiyomi's voice sounded through the earphone communicator. Her voice was still calm, but there was some cold undertone to it. ''The bunker that we need to investigate isn't at all abandoned. I also am highly supicious it would be bandits that we are going to encounter. Uncle Z made it clear that we need to stay on watch. That and some other details.'' While saying this to Kensuke, it wasn't the real Kiyomi who was doing that. The shadow clone who kept her distance would be speaking through Kiyomi's earphone communicator.

Nodding in response, a gesture he found himself doing often when listening through his earphones which made no sense, he manouvred himself forwards towards the bunker. "Copy that. My squad's encountered bandits before, and they probably won't underestimate them again." He replied, jumping from branch to branch through the dense foliage surrounding Konoha. "Any more details?"

''Yes...'' It became for a moment silent. ''T-The place isn't a bunker from the Great Wars. It is actually something else.'' Kiyomi said. She knew that she was allowed to tell Kensuke. He hadn't been there with the briefing, so she was told she could do it. But Kensuke had already suffered the news of his friends dying. Was it alright to also tell something like this? Though it wouldn't make that much of a difference. Kensuke would figure it out when they would be there. ''In the time of the Second and a bit of the Third Hokage, there were some places where humans were used to researched. Living humans.'' Kiyomi's voice sounded now colder than before.

"I see." He replied, the tone of his voice growing a bit darker, but not much. "Do we know how much this will influence the mission?" He asked, trying to find out wether or not they would run into a hijacked research facitily filled with mutilated corpses or an abandoned bunker with more blood stains inside than healthy.

''That who ever is inside that underground base needs to be killed. No questions about that.'' Kiyomi said. ''Also that we have to lie against the genins.... This is classified as state secret. What they tried to do there.... was what happened in other countries as well. Creating human weapons... Much like..'' She slowly stopped talking. ''Sorry.'' She mumbled after some moments of silence. ''So that is about the place. The problem I see however is that you have inexperienced genin. Even with mister Kenta, that doesn't solve the problem. We need a plan on how we are going to do this.''

"Allright." He pondered. In fact, there was little they could do about it. The genin would see the contents of the bunker if they intended to complete the mission anyways, and they'd just have to resist the moral shock of withnessing that. "If we could lure out the bandits and let the genin clear the surface and upper levels while one of us sweeps the contents of the dungeon, we can avoid too much trouble."

''I was thinking about it. Maybe trying to get in and then place explosive tags at certain points. Then get out and let the whole thing collaps. Fitting actually. Burrying the past like that.'' Kiyomi mumbled the last line. ''The problem however is that we have no details about the number of hostiles or any ranking they might have. If it were normal bandits, I think uncle Z wouldn't have send us together.'' Kiyomi became silent for some moments again. ''How good is that Hyuuga of yours?''

"He's good for a genin, but needs to learn to work together. Keep a close eye on him. Good thinking." He replied. "I don't think we can risk destroying the bunker though, however tempting it sounds. A facility like this was probably built to resist some damage, and we can't just blow up the top floors and hope the rest will collapse on itself once those are blown up. Someone will have to clear the entire thing. ... ... I'll do it." He added, knowing that Kiyomi wasn't at all looking forwards to it. Thereby, he wanted to spare both her and the genin the sight of all that cruelty hidden there, and in fact, he couldn't care less. He knew too damn well how cruel the world was, and the prospect of seeing it in person didn't for some reason appal him at all.

''Dumbass, like hell if I would let you do that.'' Kiyomi sounded angry now. ''If one of the group has destructive power, it is me. Ken-senpai, I heard what happened, but if you are planning on doing something what is crossing my mind, I am going to pull you out. Understood? Get it?'' Though she sounded angry, Kiyomi managed to calm down. ''Listen, we can't risk anything. If we are going to clear it, we will do it together. I am not going to let you protect us all by yourself.''

"I'm not going to let myself get killed, Kiyomi. Team 4 saved my ass one too many times to let myself die like that. All I'm saying is that I couldn't care less about wading knee-deep in mutilated test-subjects right now, and I know you nor the genin are up for that. Thereby, if e can have Ezuri identify the structure of the bunker, I can silently and unnoticed cut the weight-bearing parts of it and bring it down with the least effort." He replied. "We cannot leave the genin along up there either. We need someone to lead them up there and protect them."

''I... I know.'' She mumbled back. But the image of Kensuke going alone into that stuff. Wasn't it not her role to protect him now? To become the shield? She knew that taking it too literal wasn't what would make her the shield, that Jinkama had taught her. But letting Kensuke going in alone? ''What if you get attacked? I would hate to dig myself through a whole floor to reach you.'' She asked, sounding a bit annoyed.

"If I get attacked I will defend myself. You have to have a little bit of faith in me. If I encounter something I cannot defeat on my own I'll send out a distress signal and keep myself intact untill you can barge in and be my saviour." He replied. He didn't mind Kiyomi being worried about him, but she had to remember that the odds were heavily in his favour. He had better eyes than most, could turn invisible, had a wide range of devastating attacks that would be even more efficient than usual inside the confined space of the dark bunker. If anything, she'd have to worry about keeping Kensuke's genin in line, since they tended to be a bit devious in their teamwork tactics.

''I have. It is just that I don't take any risks. Like I said, we don't have any intel on what we can encounter there. Nor if I can make it in time.'' She said back. Though she was willing to give Kensuke a shot, understanding what he could have in mind, Kiyomi thought about the risks. If Kensuke would to lose his life. ''Why not stick together? We can send a clone of both of us ahead to clear the rooms. We could explain to the genins we are merely trying to take out any surprises. I can easily lend enough chakra to you if you would any.'' Kiyomi suggested, hoping Kensuke would agree with that.

"I don't like the idea of sending clones inside. Perhaps we could leave some strong clones with the genin instead, but that'd weaken them too. I still think splitting up is the best course of action. We can decide what we'll do once we have Ezuri see what he can find inside the bunker, allright?"/b] He offered instead, knowing well that convincing Kiyomi of his idea would be ten times more dangerous than actually going inside on his own.

It became silent again on her side. Then when she replied, her tone was calmer. [b]''What if Ezuri can't see through it?'' Kiyomi asked. ''It hasn't been the first time that something has been sealed off for dojutsu and things like that. If the state has been able to keep this so secret, I doubt that it will be easy to scout like that. What then? Or what if he can't see the enemies? Supressing chakra allows one to sneak underneath even the eyes of a Hyuuga.''

"Then we'll have to delve inside the unknown." He said on a resolute tone, as if the conversation was over. That was always a possibility, and a risk they would in that case have to take. ''Seems so. Not the first time.'' Kiyomi replied on the same tone. It made her remember about that time. Thinking back to the mission of team 4 and 6, capturing the Nibi with groups of Koi's men. ''Ken-senpai. Can you do me a favor?''

"Hmm?" He replied, stopping on a tree branch overlooking a wider area consisting of mostly leaves and branches. Not a good scouting point, but with his dojutsu he was scanning for anything that could betray the presence of bandits near the bunker site, such as smoke from campfires, however scattered after penetrating the dense leaf coverage.

''In case anything goes down. Take everybody and leave.'' She paused. ''Not that I am going to stick around, but if we need to pull back, just do that and no questions. Can you do that?'' Kiyomi asked.

"Fine. As long as I get to take the future Hokage with me in one piece. Understood?" He replied, before focussing on spotting the bandits. A scoff was heard. ''Just make sure that my future Jounin commanders stays in one piece as well. We have no medical shinobi with us. And I highly doubt I am allowed to use Mata-sama's chakra just for everybody.'' Then she paused again. ''But understood, Ken-senpai.'' It would take a bit of time to get there. Just half day to a day traveling northwards at a good speed like they were in now.

Naruto : The Rise of The New Generations

Kiyomi Sato-Hon,
Konohagakure Jounin-sensei of Team 2,
Hokage-Apprentice.

A briefing of Kiyomi.

''Listen everybody.'' Kiyomi's voice sounded rather stern and cold as she spoke up. She crossed her arms out front of her chest as she had noticed that almost everybody was here. ''Everybody, I will just say this once, so you better listen up. I hate to repeat myself and if I need to, you won't like it. Not at all.'' There was some pressure building up. A literal pressure. It seemed the air itself became heavier, like breathing costed more effort. Kiyomi narrowed her eyes a bit as she would wait. Then the pressure seemed to vanish slowly. Kensuke, Hayate and Leo would likely knew what it had been all too well. Killing Intent and a lot of it.

''The mission we are sent on is going to start once I have started this. So I want everybody to pay attention.'' Kiyomi started. Waiting for another moment, there would be something dropping out of the sky. Right at Kiyomi's flank, some big landed. ''Kenta Kohaku, reporting for duty, Lady Kiyomi-sama!!'' The dust prevented any sign of who had landed behind Kiyomi. Not looking back, her hair was moving due the gust. Luckily he had it in a ponytail, so that she wouldn't be blinded by her own hair. ''Good. Now we are all here.'' Kiyomi said, on a softer tone. The dust settled as it would reveal a big man. He rose up from his crouched stance, easily towering over Kiyomi. ''Everybody...this is-''

Suddenly, Kenta threw off his vest, revealing the muscles that were once covered by it. ''I am Kenta Kohaku, Konoha's Muscle! Remaining member of Team Tun. Specialized Jounin and Lady Kiyomi's protectooooooooorrrr!''

Kenta!

Suddenly, lightning crackled through the air. It was just a few flickers, but the warning was louder than probably the roar of thunder. ''So that means we are all here. Kenta will reinforce the teams as both Team 2 as Team 7 are lacking one member to make a full team. I have also requested him, because I have seen him at work before. But the briefing.'' Kiyomi glanced at the genins. It lasted for a few moments, but the once bright green eyes were dark now. She wasn't going to give anybody a smile or some easy time. Not while they had a very serious mission planned. Not on a mission like this.

''We have been ordered to start a search and investigation at an old bunker. The area around it has been disturbed by what are either bandits or a small group of rogues. This means that we have to work cautiously, as the intel on the possible hostile forces are vague. If it are bandits, I would request that nobody gets too eager.'' Kiyomi turned her focus most on team 7. ''I have heard that even a group of nin has had trouble before with were common bandits. I am not going to accept anybody that falls out of line or doesn't follow up an order.'' The heavy pressure slowly was starting to come back. ''Team 2 has agreed to work and cooperate with Team 7, but as one of the leaders of this mission, I am going to make this as clear as possible. Any idiot that wants to be a hero can sit his or her ass down here. Any kind of scared kitty cat can do that as well. This mission is classified as at lowest a C ranked mission and at highest a B ranked one.'' Pausing, she kept glancing at the genins of Team 7. ''Though Team 2 genins know this all too well, the rules haven't changed. Nobody will fall out of line or act out of orders. Those who will shall be receiving punishment for doing so. Now that is said. We are going.'' Turning around, Kiyomi made a signal with her left hand. Raising it up, she clenched it into a fist. ''Team 2, cover the left. Team 7, cover the right. Kenta, you in between. I will lead the front....'' Kiyomi looked over her shoulder.