Leiko ignored most of what Mokyou was saying, the girl had a habit of talking more then was needed, and especially during a fight there is the need to keep things short. "Damn, why use that jutsu allready" She cursed to herself as Mokyou used her katon: goukakyuu no jutsu to launch a large fireball at them. Leiko calculated she had a few more seconds to finish her attack before the fireball would reach them. She gritted her teeth in annoyance, as Izumi blocked each of their strikes with ease. Leiko waited for both Izumi and Ryu to jump away from the approaching fireball, before she would move, she wanted to see what direction Izumi was going before jumping away without thinking. She took a few steps towards the fireball to gain momentum before she jumped over the fireball, clearing it by one a small marging. She kept a relaxed but serious expression on her face while she was in the air, she obviously meant to have such a small marging and she kept paying attention to her suroundings as she was trying to find Izumi.
As Leiko landed, she quickly scanned around her to find Izumi, to only notice the jounin as she was about to put a hand on her back. A small hiss of pain escaped her lips, as the hand just touched her back and the lightning chakra entered her body, cancelling out her raiton no yoroi technique. "Arigatou, Izmui-sensei." Leiko replied in a slight mocking tone, as she turned to look at Izumi, but those who listened close could also hear a hint of gratitude and sincereness in her voice. She wasn't used to hearing words of appraisal, atleast a sincere one, she heard fake ones all the time from her fellow clan members. "I will show you a one sided fight when I am done here." She grumbled softly, almost to quiet for anyone to hear.
Leiko raised a eyebrow as she listened to Izumi's advice, looking at her as if she had heard the worst idea ever. But her expression changed as she processed Izumi's words. The woman had a point, book study's were never on of her strengths. Leiko softly bite her lip as glanced at Mokyou, she was clearly still thinking about how to proceed from here. She wasn't used to asking for help, so Leiko stood there for a few seconds of indecission, before she turned away from both Izumi and Mokyou, as she gave up on asking right now. She would spend some time thinking about how she should handle this.
Leiko strided confidently towards the cave entrance, which was behind the waterfall. Which shouldn't have been that suprising, considering the name of the village they were heading to. As she walked through the cave as one of the first of her group, she glanced at her fellow jinchuuriki and Mokyou.
First of there was Ryu, who was a kenjutsu user like her. But he allready possed a poweful blade, and she really wanted to learn more about it's forging proces. But besides that, he might turn out to be a good sparring partner since they both use kenjutsu, and thus is he able to help her further her techniques.
Then there was the boy with the strawhat, she hand't heard him introduce himself yet, but she would probably learn his name later. Further more, were his skills still a mystery so she had no idea what to think about him. But so far she had decided it wasn't worth too much effort yet to learn more though, mostly because she wasn't the type to ask people questions about their person. Not because she was shy or anything, but mostly because she couldn't be bothered and then they wouldn't ask those question of her either.
Then there was the boy from Sunagakure, if she saw his headband correctly. Everything about him was still a mystery aswell, but then again he had only just arrived when the hidden entrance opened. She noticed Ryu talking with him, so she might ask him about the boy later on.
As last we had Mokyou, or momotan as most called her. Leiko liked to annoy her by using her given name, and not one of the many nicknames that the girl had. Leiko allready knew some of the girls skills, since they knew each other from before coming here.
Leiko was pulled out of her thoughts as she reached the end of the cave, and came to the entance to a massive and ancient temple. At the entrance were several very old man standing together with a few woman who looked alot younger. "So I guess these are the other teachers Izumi-sensei was talking about. Some of them look like they would fall over if you looked at them wrong. But I need to have faith in Hokage-sama's decision of sending me here." Leiko thought to herself as she took in the view of the massive temple infront of her.