Naruto: Shining Above [IC / Started / Accepting only Reserved]

[Warrior_Tal]

ooc: [url=http://forum.yugiohcardmaker.net/topic/233379-naruto-shining-above-ooc-not-started-accepting/]Click me to go to the OOC thread of this RP[/url]

[b][u]Naruto: Shining Above[/b][/u]
[center][size="5"][color="maroon"][b]ARC 1: The Shifting Snow[/b][/color][/size][/center]
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[right][b]Location:[/b] Land of Snow
[b]Time:[/b] [s]1015 Hours[/s][/right]

[color="blue"][i]The snow can be blinding, so keep your senses alert."[/color][/i]

-The voice was from no one on the team at this moment. Everyone was wearing a Leaf Village cloak to combat against the frigged temperatures in the Land of Snow. Even if that was the case; everyone had no other choice but to dress warmly; even if that meant putting thicker layers on over their standard shinobi attire that they always wore. The cold temperatures pushed up against the shinobi of Konoha. Their cloaks blew up from behind one another as the snow seemingly stuck to the different parts of their bodies. Enough had already been said of accepting a mission such as this. A C-Rank escort mission to the Land of Snow? That much seemed to be in order already. No one could really complain about this mission or what they had to do. The crunching of the snow sounded through the bottom of their feet. The squad leader stood in front of the caravan so he could direct orders to the rest of the team that he assembled for this mission? The horses walked quietly pulling the wagon that carried the accomplices that they were protecting. Railroad workers?-

-The chunin leader came to a stop; in combination everyone else moved to a stop including the horses. His gaze shifted out across the snow; his eyes almost as white as the snow itself except for the light purple tint color that showed within them. The railroad worker moved forward slightly in his seat. A long green hair man sat with a white trench coat jacket and a blue undershirt. His eyes were about the same if not lighter color then that of his hair. A scruffy looking man by the looks of it.-

[color="green"]"What are we stopping for?"[/color]

-Spoke the man in almost a harsh tone of voice.-

[color="green"]"We need to keep moving."[/color]

-The squad leader turned slightly to his teammates. Their travels - since arriving here - has been well over three and a half hours long. Since waking up and getting ready they have been on the move non-stop. His eyes closed for a brief moment trying to gather in everything. Every breath that he took seemed to show through whenever he exhaled the air. The snow continued to fall, but it wasn't as much as a blinding snow storm that they were walking through. This seemed like the perfect time to rest up after such a long time of traveling. That was the best overall decision to make.-

[color="purple"]"We are going to stop here and re--"[/color]

-His words were cut off by a loud clanging sound. His eyes shifted up towards a mountain side. A cloud of white icy cold dust formed at the end, and trailing behind was an avalanche of snow heading right for them. In a quick flicker the squad leader recognized what this was. His eyes shifted over to his teammates.-

[color="purple"]"Around the caravan!"[/color]

-His knees arched and jumped up; his feet landing on top of the caravan that carried the railroad workers. His hands moved together forming several hand-seals. They all went in one right after another in conjunction with the last one ending in the serpent hand-seal. Concentrating his chakra a light blue crystal dome formed around them. It shimmered as it moved down connecting to the ground. His hold in the serpent hand-seal remained firm and concentrated. His hands shook to keep the technique into play as the avalanche of snow collided with the protective dome and moved around it like a wave of water. The snow slowly came to a stop giving a circle around them. In the middle stood the shinobi and the caravan of Railroad workers.-

-His hands moved a part once more and then he quickly connect them again forming four hand-seals: Rat, Boar with nearly straightened fingers, Dog and Snake with the right index finger lifted straightly. In a quick motion his eyes opened up with an activated dojutsu.... the Byakugan. His vision squared out far and wide trying to get in the sensation of any people who were trailing them. Then from no where emerged a group of snow shaped swallows all coming in towards them. The squad leader jumped down from the caravan and turned slightly noticing four shinobi standing not far on top of a mountain. Each were wearing some kind of armor in conjunction with their standard attire. The squad leaders eyes focused in noticing the kind of head bands they were wearing.-

-One of them stepped forward and formed up five hand-seals: bird, snake, monkey, horse, and finally the dog. The snow gathered around him and moved up slowing forming a black and white dragon. The dragon snarled as the mysterious shinobi looked down upon the leaf ninja. Three of the shinobi suddenly disappeared from sight along with a shift breeze in the wind. The squad leader bit the bottom of his lip.-

[color="purple"]"Keep the railroad workers safe!"[/color]

-His gaze moved over to the individual who used the Ice Release: Black Dragon Blizzard technique. The dragon glared down at the squad leader as he moved in forming several hand-seals to combat against this man.-

((ooc- I'm allowing you guys to control the shinobi that disappeared. Three disappeared and so far we only have two accepted apps. So only control one enemy force. As soon as a third is accepted that person can join in on the fight. It will take more then one simple post to have an enemy retreat. Just to let you all know.))

[Ghoulish]

Komaru whistled while patting his thighs in unison with his whistling, his eyes were closed and his face bore a big smile with it. He was wearing the warm clothing along with a soft head gear of sorts that had a part covering his ears, it was light brown and looked like the innerds were made of padding. Komaru continued to whistle and even stood up marching on the spot. Komaru was quite energetic on missions sometimes he over did it but he always seemed to like to bring out a "fun" sense to almost every scenario. Komaru noticed the engineer looked frustrated and pointed towards him and opened his eyes. "Come on! Join in!" Komaru then continued to whistle.

Suddenly the Carridge stopped. "Huh?" Komaru questioned as he opened the door tot he carridge and then stepped out. "Reji?" Komaru questioned, his attention was straight away turned to the oncoming avalanche. Komaru's eyes widened, "Ahh!" Komaru in a comical way pointed to the avalanche. "Do you see that?!" Komaru was no specialist in defensive style Jutsu, most of his arsenal were based off attackive Jutsus.

As the barrier protected the carridge and the ninja Komaru turned serious and worried as he saw the Shinobi on the mountain. Komaru grinded his teeth as he then pointed to the unknown shinobi. "Hey!" He called out. "What's the big idea!" Suddenly one of the ninja performed a Blizzard Black Dragon Jutsu. "Oh!" Komaru stated in worry. Komaru lifted his arms into the air then threw them to the ground pointing his palms down at the icy ground, a large bone began revealing itself from his palms it was sharp at the end and quite thick, each extended to 80 cm long.

komaru then stood in a defensive stance. "Right!" he called out in rresponse to Reji's order.

[.:Blu:.]

The harsh cold was definitely not a setting the group would want to traverse in, but since they're shinobi, they would have to suck it up and move along with their mission. At the ground, all you can see is snow everywhere. It blanketed the ground like a shroud of white. The snow was at least two feet deep, and this part of the Land of Snow is one of the harshest areas, prone to violent blizzards and avalanches. Snow descended towards the ground in what could be seen as a never-ending shower of snow.

The snow descended onto the head of a young boy with spiky, Golden poppy-colored hair. His eyes, that shined brilliantly, are the most noticeable thing about him. However, that wasn't the only thing one would see. A huge snot bubble drooped down from the young boy's nose. His cheeks were also a bit red. The boy then quickly took in the drooping snot bubble. "Man.... It's so cold out here. I wish I know how to use Fire Release jutsu at the moment." the boy said as he continued to drag his feet through the thick snow.

Snow continued to fall with every second that passed. It was rather quiet if you didn't count the sound of the caravan and the horse. Seeing his friend so excited about the mission, the young boy also formed a smile, but that didn't last as the group stopped and the boy continued to walk and accidentally bumped his feet into a hidden boulder. The boy's mouth opened comically as he grabbed his feet and hopped around a bit wildly, not even paying attention to his surroundings.

Due to this, the boy bumped into a nearby tree and fell to the snow. Upon colliding with the tree, the snow that had been carried by the tree's branches dropped down onto the boy. No sound came from the boy as he comically flailed his arms around as the snow was falling towards him. As his group continued to converse, the boy's head popped out from underneath the thick snow that fell onto him, spitting snow out as he rest his chin onto the snow. "It's official, this place sucks...." the boy said plainly.

As he got himself out of the snow, he noticed the group leader looking towards the mountain range. "Huh?" The boy also turned his attention towards the mountain range where he saw four strange individuals clad in armor. The boy then heard a strange sound heading towards them. "Huh, what the- That sounds like-" the boy stopped and saw a huge avalance heading towards them. "AHH! AN AVALANCE!" the boy shouted comically.

As he heard his squad leader telling everybody to gather around the caravan, the boy comically leaped towards the caravan, ending up just a few feet from where he was standing. "Ahh c'mon really?!" the boy yelled before getting up and running over towards the caravan. The boy watched as the light blue, crystal dome protected them from the avalance. As the ordeal was over, the boy dug himself up from the thick snow that covered him.

He turned his direction towards the mysterious individuals once again. As one of them summoned a giant black and white dragon, the boy immediately knew that these individuals weren't allies. Three of the individuals then disappeared from where they were standing. Hearing his squad leader telling them to protect the caravan, the boy took out a kunai and was ready for what was about to happen....

[Ghoulish]

Komaru was standing a mere 2 metres parrellel from Hiro, a sweat dropped from Komaru's forehead as he turned to Hiro with a confident smirk on his face that also had a touch of enjoyment in it. "Did you expect this Hiro? Action already, guess these guys must need something from the engineer?" Noticably the dragon continued to head towards them. Komaru's face turned more serious as he faced the dragon. "I hope that gets stopped soon, my specialty isn't really Defensive style Jutsu, hehehe" He chuckled with an embarressed laugh. Komaru turned serious once again, noticably he had 2 katana blades around his back. He slowly took them out from the saches on back, he held them with merely 2 fingers on each hand, the grip was being held by his middle and finger to the left. Komaru lowered his arms and exhaled. "i can only think of 1 of my jutsus that would be suited to this situation but it takes up a,lot of chakra and it wouldn't even guarentee safety."

[Auralady]

“Honestly what would you guys do with out me?” Ruki had appeared on the top of the train with her arms crossed. Snowflakes littered her brown hair as it blew wildly in the harsh winds. She sighed. Ruki looked up at the on coming avalanche and smirked. She ran through the series of hand signs, “Water style! Water Shockwave!” A gaint vortex of water appeared and wrapped itself around the shinobi and caravan. Ruki's jutsu managed to stop the avalanche when the two collided with eachother. Ruki then reformed the vortex into a gaint ring of water that still surrounded the caravan and shinobi. Ruki sighed and cut her palm with a kunei before placing it on the top of hte caravan and making a single hand sign, "Summoning jutsu!" A large raven appeared in a puff of white smoke and Ruki lept onto it's back ready for a fight. "Nura?", Ruki asked the raven. "Wind style! Wind cylcone jutsu!", the summoned raven flashed her wings and a huge whirlwind headed for hte oncomming dragon.

[.:Blu:.]

Hiro is the young boy's name. Meaning abundant, while his last name, Ryushi, means Dragon Pride, and did Hiro have pride. Hiro formed a smile and looked towards Komaru without turning his head. "Heh, of course I'm not expecting this, but I'm glad I didn't. It's more fun to face something unexpected, and now I can finally warm my body up. I just wish we could fight somewhere more comfortable then this place." Hiro said. Hiro then turned his eyes back only to see one of the individual from before. Hiro knew that this person wasn't here to have a friendly chat.

Hiro's face looked confident even though he didn't know just what kind of abilities does this particular person posess. But it didn't matter to Hiro, he was one who thrives on improvision. However, there was something strange about this particular character's aura. He has a very cold and ominous aura about him that makes Hiro a bit uncertain, but Hiro quickly forgot about it and faced his opponent without fear.

The person facing Hiro has a rather slim figure and is definitely taller than Hiro himself. He has blue hair and the left half of his face is covered by bandages. He also has a cold and ominous look in his eyes, enough to unnerve most people, but Hiro knew that he couldn't get scared of some weirdo with half of his face wrapped. "Hey you Mummy-Face Guy! It looks like you're looking for me to kick your butt huh?! Well then, I think I'll be happy to!" Hiro said confidently.

"Snot-nose brats like you shouldn't be running your mouths so carelessly, it could offend someone." the mysterious figure said plainly as he continued to stare down Hiro. "SNOT-NOSE! For your information it's the cold that's causing it alright?! Arrg, why do I even bother talking to someone like you. Here I come!!!" Hiro yelled as he dashed towards the mysterious figure with his kunai in hand.

"(Heh, this guy's going down flat in under three seconds!)" Hiro thought confidently to himself as a smile formed on his face. The man continued to simply stood there, unphased by the fact that Hiro is charging straight for him. When Hiro got close enough, the man jumped up into the air and landed onto a nearby tree. "What the!" Hiro shouted as he slammed straight into a tree where, once again, a deep blanket of snow fell onto him.

"Pathetic...." the man said from up on the tree. Hiro's head then burst out from the thick snow. Hiro's teeth were clattering quite loudly and he was also shivering a lot in a comical manner. "W-w-w-why this always happen to me?" Hiro said and then sneezed afterwards. Hiro then finally was able to dig himself from out of the thick snow. The man above the tree gave a small laugh at Hiro. "H-h-hey! What do you think you think you're laughing at?!" Hiro shouted.

"Your stupidity amuses me." the man plainly responded. "Arrg, that was a rhetorical question!" Hiro shouted in response. "Oh really? I didn't think someone like you would even know the meaning of that word." the man responded calmly. "Arrg, that's it buddy, you're gonna get a double heaping of my fists!" Hiro shouted. "Humph, come and try." the man responded as he took a battle stance on the branch he was standing on. One could tell that this man had great chakra control due to his balance while standing on a rather thin branch.

[Hotaru987]

A young girl by the name of Kikyo Fuyume, sat on top of the caravan as it slowly trudged along in the snow. She sat cross legged on the top her elbow resting on her knee, and her head cradled in her hand, as she bordly blew the strands of snow white hair that continuously fell in front of her face. Her blue eyes were only half lidded portraying the boredom she obviously felt. You may be wondering why she wasn't walking like the rest. Well to put it plainly it's because she kept falling behind...Literally! With every step she seemed to take, she would fall only to be submerged in a foot of snow, and when she was finally able to dig herself out the group would be far ahead of her. So finally she decided to ride on top of the caravan, and so far it was proving to be the better choice.

“God this is boring…” Kikyo sighed. Unlike her companions she didn’t really mind the snow, finding it a wonderful change to Konoha. Suddenly a steady rumbling sound caught Kikyo’s attention, but she didn’t think much of it and returned to playing with her hair. It wasn’t until her two male companions yelled something about an avalanche, and Reji jump on top of the caravan-Nearly stepping on me I might add!-doing a jutsu to protect everyone from the onslaught of snow. “Now we’re talking! Finally something is happening!”

Four ninja’s appeared, with the three males of the group quickly stealing an opponent to their selves. She quickly moved away from the battle with Reji. Being killed in the crossfire was not something on her to do list. “Where did that other ninja go?” Kikyo wasn’t getting a good feeling from this. What if the person snuck up from behind her? They had the perfect advantage over her at the moment. The ninja had the element of sur-

“Hey-yo! Behind you darling!” Kikyo looked behind her to see a male figure leaning against the tree trunk of a tree. “Took you forever to find me. You guys aren’t that smart.” He giggled sending an annoyed sensation through Kikyo’s body. “Oh, I’m Mako by the way.”

“I am smart you-uh-Non smart guy!” Kikyo yelled. Ok, so clever comebacks wasn’t her strong point but who cares right? “Just wait until I get over there! I’m gonna ram you-“ White covered her vision and for a brief second she simply stood there. Not because she was paralyzed or anything, but because she was simply stunned at what just happened.

Angrily she reached up with her hand fiercely removing the snow that was launched at her face. “Why you childish! Stupid! Nin-Ok, where the heck did he go?” A sickening familiar giggle combed through the area she occupied. “Let’s see if you can find me, and this time no hints.” Kikyo glared at the air. Out of all the ninja’s why did she have to get stuck with the weird Mako guy?

[Auralady]

Ruki noticed three male ninja and picked one of them. She redirected the ring of water into a large wave and sent it towards the ninja she had picked. However her enemy wasn’t going to be defeated that easily as he managed to dodge Ruki’s wave. “Ice style! White whale jutsu!” A large horned white whale lept out of the water and dove sideways at Ruki bellowing. “Nura up!”, called Ruki and the raven spred her wings and took to the skys right away. This way the whale missed Ruki and Nura by a fairly long shot. Ruki laughed, “Nice try creep. But nothing is faster then Nura in the air.” Suddenly Ruki felt a harp pain as something dug deep into her shoulder. She looked to see a shurikan and pulled it out. It started to bleed and Ruki winced but she didn’t have time to take care of it now. “Not so tough are now kid?”, the man smirked before performing more hand signs, “Ice style! Dragon VS Tiger!” Ruki reacted intinctivly, “Water style! Water Dragon jutsu!” The two jutsus rushed at eachother and collided. “I’ll show you tough creep!”, Ruki retorted.

[Warrior_Tal]

-The hand-seals that Rēji performed moved rather quickly? The only reason was because he didn't want his opponent to catch in on the type of technique he was performing. His eyes seemed to focus even more as the black blizzard dragon came barreling in at him. In the shortest matter of time; the dragon landed on top of the squad leader: Rēji. It's collision with the snow brought up even more snow forming some kind of tornado of snow. It twisted and turned almost growing even more in size and shape. With his teammates taking care of the other Leaf Ninja; the lone one on top of the mountain lowered his hands from the last hand-seal he had performed. The tornado of snow slowly dispersed; leaving off a white trail of cold icy snow. The man that had performed the Black Blizzard Dragon technique stood there for a moment waiting. Once the visibility was more noticeable; his eyes nearly widened upon nothing there. Reji was completely gone from visual sight.-

[color="purple"]"Surprised?"[/color]

-Came a cold voice; the man turned around to a kunai projectile weapon at his neck. There he stood - Reji - one hand in his pocket and the other grasped firmly onto the kunai weapon that was up against the man's neck. Reji's eyes shifted down at his teammates who were all facing off against the enemy shinobi. His eyes shifted over to the man who simply stood there. A smile that looked upon his face as it seemed, but could not be seen considering he was wearing some kind of strange armor.-

[color="purple"]"The Ice Release technique is not the only style that Snow shinobi know, I've learned to adapt it as well without any problem. Let's say it is more of an advance state of chakra for me."[/color]

[color="maroon"]"Hmmmmm, I think I heard of someone like that before."[/color] -Spoke the man.- [color="maroon"]"A shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village, a kekkei genkai, and then finally this advance chakra nature. I think I know exactly who you are."[/color]

-Reji smirked beneath the mask that hid his face; the armored snow shinobi performed some rather quick hand-seals. Sure Reji had noticed; however, he did not budge a muscle. He was hopping to combat against one who wielded the Ice Release technique, and these shinobi were just those people. In a matter of seconds the man ended and threw his hands out towards Reji. His eyes lowered slightly knowing the kind of technique that was being put into use before a single word was uttered out by the mysterious shinobi that was in front of him. In fact, no words were uttered at all while the whole thing went down. Just a flash of light was all there was.... the Ice Prison Technique.-

[Ghoulish]

As the mysterious Shinobi stood watching the damage take place, Komaru grinded his teeth and stated. "No chaance am I just waiting here." Komaru smirked, "Time to experience the dance." Komaru dashed forward at a rapid speed, one of the shinobi from the mountain also dashed down, "Looks like his mine." Komaru thought as he began to run up the hill of snow whilst the man rushed down. "I have to lessen the density of my bones, make my body lighter." Komaru stated as he closed his eyes and opened them firecly, he then started moving at a rapid speed catching the man slightly off guard, the man suddenly stopped and performed 2 hand signs he then put both his hands planted against the ground. "Throw anything at me I'll take it!" Komaru called out as he approached the kneeling man he leaped off the ground pointing the sharp bone from his palm down at the kneeling man. "[color="#0000FF"]Water Wall Jutsu[/color]" The mysterious man called, as Komaru descended a giant wall of water came between the two. "That won't stop me!" Komaru called as he pierced his bone at the wall, at first it struggled. "I have to increase the density!" Komaru thought, as suddenly the bone broke through, the man had only just stood up, the bone was a mere inch away from his nose. The man relaxed for a second and thought out loud. "[color="#0000FF"]Bones?[/color]" He then suddenly opened his half covered eyes widely he quickly performed several handstands beckwards as Komaru's bone began expanding in length, after 5 metres it stopped and reverted. The wall of water then fell. The mysterious man stoof watching as the now gone water revealed Komaru standing covered in water. [color="#0000FF"]"Hmph, so you're a dog of the Kaguya clan." [/color] his voice was supported by a robotic mechanism, Komaru got frustrated. "What did you say!?" [color="#0000FF"]"But you're with Leaf Ninja, even your headband is, so your the famous escapee, the one who inherited the Kekkei Genkkei." [/color]The man then chuckled. [color="#0000FF"]"You and your clan are an abomination to this world."[/color] "Shut up!" Komaru snapped. "You don't know what you're talking about! The Kaguya clan was well respected in the Village Hidden in the Leaves! It's one of its most ancient clans!" [color="#0000FF"]"Hmph. Who spoon fed you that crap?"[/color] the shinobi mocked. Kaguya got furious he put his arms out to his side. The bones on his palms grew to 90 cm long. "I'll teach you respect!" Komaru dashed at the man.

[Hotaru987]

It had been a good while snce Mako went into hidng, and to put things plainly Kikyo was becoming annoyed. What did he think they were doing!? Playing hide-and-seek? "I just need to focus thats all." She took a deep breathe and relaxed. All she needed to do was pin point where his chakra was...But...Something wasn't right. [i]His chakra is everywhere! What's going on?[/i] The sound of something wizzing through the air caught Kikyo's attention, and she spun around to see four ninja stars being thrown at her. Quickly she launched herself into the air, her hands quickly making different hand signs; ending with the sign of the rat. "[color="#008000"]Wind Release: Wind Blade jutsu![/color]" Five blades of wind soared towards the tree the stars came from, easily tearing through leaves and branches.

Kikyo landed, her eyes squinting slightly at the tree. She could've sworn the stars came from that tree, but if he was there...His body should have fallen. "Nice try, darling!" Mako giggled, "But you'll have to do better than that."

"Well why don't you come out here and face me like the man you're not!" Kikyo crossed her arms, "Instead of hiding behind this genjutsu." Mako giggled once again as the snow in front of her rose up from the ground and began to take form, slowly shaping into her opponent. "So you aren't as dumb as I originally thought, but even so, there is no way you'll be escaping my genjutsu darling."

Kikyo smirked, "Just watch me." She quickly did the hand signs for rabbit, dog, and sheep before yelling, "Release!" Mako only laughed at my attempted. "Come now darling. You didn't really believe that it would be that easy?" Anger bubbled in Kikyo's system and a hot red blush formed on her cheeks from embarressment. "Just shut up!" She yelled throwing a kunai at him; which when it hit caused Mako to explode into a mass of snow. Before she knew what happened five ice spears went straight through her body....

Kikyo fell to her knees, arms hugging her stomach and tears rolling down her face. Frantically her hands inspected her body expecting to find five gaping, bleeding holes but instead there was nothing there. [i]B-but how...I-it all felt so r-real..[/i] Shakily she stood up, facing Mako who stood in front of her smirking. "How did you like my Genjutsu darling? Fun right?" He giggled titling his head to the side. "[color="#0000FF"]Water release: Water Dragon Jutsu!![/color]" Up from the snowy ground a dragon shaped figure emerged inthe liquid form of the snow, and raced towards Mako. "Someone is angry." He joked dodging it. His eyes narrowed, quickly combing the area for Kikyo, who had vanished from sight.

"Back here, darling." Kikyo mocked aiming a kick for his head. A hair's breath away from making contact, Mako vanished leavng Kikyo confused and vulnerable. A punch in her stomach knocked the wind out of her, and caused her to double over Mako's fist. "Still too slow-Huh?" Kikyo suddenly turned into a whisp of wind, and Mako landed softly on the ground, with Kikyo reappearing in front of him. [i]That's hardly fair.[/i] Kikyo thought, [i]He knows Taijutsu too...[/i]

"Looks like I really have my work cut out for me.."

[.:Blu:.]

"Why you jerk, you think you're so cool don't you! Arrg, let's see how cool you are after I pummel you into the ground!" Hiro shouted in an irritated and angered tone as he formed his fingers into the hand-sign used for a Shadow Clone Jutsu. "Alright, take this! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Hiro shouted as two individual clouds of white smoke appeared besides Hiro himself. As the smoke dissipated, two Hiro shadow clones appeared, ready for action. Seeing the two shadow clones, the mysterious man atop the tree was a bit surprised.

"Shadow Clones? How does a runt like that know a technique of Jounin level? Humph, but it doesn't matter.... An amateur with a shuriken can still be bested by a master with a rock...." The mysterious figure looked at Hiro as if a predator was glaring at its prey.

"(This guy is a really cocky jerk.) Alright, charge!" Upon saying the command, the two shadow clones rushed towards the tree. After getting close enough, the shadow clones leaped into the air to get to the mysterious man's position. "Humph, pathetic...." the man said plainly. Suddenly, an icicle formed from the man's wrist. "What the-" The shadow clones were quickly defeated by a mere two jabs that took less then two seconds. However, the man didn't expect such a large cloud of white smoke to appeared when he did destroyed the shadow clones. The smoke wasn't from an average shadow clone.

As the smoke disappeared and the man regained his vision, he looked to Hiro's position, but noticed that Hiro was gone. "What....?" the man said in an irritated and surprised tone. "Over here!" Hiro's voice reached the man. The man quickly look up to another tree. On a higher branch from the man's position stood Hiro with a confident grin of his face. "Hehe." Hiro smiled as if he has just done something that he should be proud of. "What's so amusing....?" the man asked plainly.

"Hehe, look at your feet!" Hiro shouted, pointing to the man's feet. The man looked down and to his surprise, his feet was covered in a sticky yellow substance. "What is this?" the man asked. "Hehe, it's my Hiro Ryushi Special Super Sticky Paste!" Hiro shouted in response. "What?" the man asked again. "Hehe, this is a special substance of my own creation! It's so sticky that it's almost impossible to escape! You see, when you were about to attack my clones, they threw a small bomb containing the substance towards your feet. When you destroyed them, the bomb set off. It gave off white smoke if you noticed." Hiro explained, rather proud of himself.

"(Damn it, this runt is smarter than he looks....)" the man thought to himself. "Alright! Now it's time to unleash my super powerful jutsu on you!" Hiro formed the shadow clone hand-sign once again to summon create another shadow clone. "(What is he up to?)" the man thought. Hiro then placed his hand outward and the shadow clone began gathering and forming chakra into Hiro's palm. Finally the technique was completed and the shadow clone disappeared. Hiro then raised his hand into the air, revealing a legendary jutsu. "[color="#0000FF"]Rasengan![/color]" Hiro shouted proudly.

[Hotaru987]

Kikyo grunted with the effort it took to block Mako's ax kick. Not only was his genjutsu's exelent but he was no push over when it came to Taijutsu either. Most of the time she could tell if she was blocking the real one, or if she was in some genjutsu and just think she's blockng something. However, from the pain the shot through her arm it was apparent this was the real one. Mako smirked and brought his other foot around, kicking Kikyo in the side and sending her flying away. Without missing a beat Mako ran after her, and grabbed her neck before slamming her down into the snowy ground.

"Give up darling." Mako taunted tightening his grip on her neck. "You won't be able to defeat me." Kikyo continued to struggle under Mako's grip. Suddenly Kikyo smirked, "That's spposed to be my line." Her body began to melt, and morph into a blob of water before splashing all over the place.

"A water clone, huh?" Mako smirked standing up. [i]She's much more slippery than I thought.[/i] He jumped up dodging the kunai thrown at him, but upon looking at them his eyes widened, "Those are-" A loud explosion cut him off and he was seen hurtling out of the fire and smoke. When he landed he patted his shoulder putting out the small flame that was there. Kikyo cursed under her breath. She was hoping that he'd at least lose a leg or something. Guess that was too much to ask for. [i]It looks like I won't have a choice....I'll have to use my kekkei genkai.[/i]

"Come out, come out where ever you are." Mako giggled still standing in the same place.

"Alright then....let's get this started. [color="#008000"]Wind release: Wind blade jutsu[/color]!" Once again five blades of wind soared in Mako's direction. Said person only smirked. "You'll have to do better than that darling." He jumped and exicuted three strong kicks, sendng his own powerful gust of wind to combat Kikyo's. He landed but as soon as he landed the snow wrapped aroud his feet, and crawled up his leg until it reached his knees before turning into ice. He stared confused for a second wondering how that just happened, but just as quickly the answer came to him. "You must be a Fuyume clan brat! I thought so from your hair and eyes but now-" He chuckled, but unlike his giggle which made her annoyed, his laugh enticed only fear. "-from this little display I know. We're going to have a lot of fun now aren't we."

Kikyo glared from her hiding spot. After her earlier jutsu she had to change hiding spots so he wouldn't find her. However, hiding in a tree wouldn't be much useful in the near future. Her eyes, which were no long blue, were a light grey color; but only by two or three shades. It was obvious that she was limited in her kekkei genkai usage. [i]He knows about my clan. That means my plan of surprising him with more ice attacks won't be as effective. He'll be expecting them....Crap! If I at least knew the first hidden jutsu of my clan I may be able to at least be on a level closer to his.[/i]

Ooc: Are we suppose to kil them or just drive them away?

[Ghoulish]

OO: Komaru takes a big blow! :0

The ninja chuckled at the incoming Komaru, he performed 2 hand signs then called out.[color="#0000FF"] "Ice fist Jutsu!"[/color] Suddenly moulds of Ice began encircling the ninja's fist, the ice looked solid as it surfaced and surounded his fists. The shinobi then called out. "Extra Jutsu! Ice Lancer Jutsu!" Suddenly the ice on his fists whilst still covering the fists, spawned a large ice spike that stretched out to 1m long on each fist. Komaru upon approaching was caught off guard by the man's "Extra" justu, however he continued persuing him. Upon approaching Komaru pierced one Bone forward at the shinobi, however he simply repelled it with his ice lancer.

Komaru in a swift motion spun left 180 degrees and with his uun repelled left arm sliced horizontally at the shinobi, however this went to no aveil as the man jumped backwards. Upon landing he rapidly pierced his ice lancer forward, Komaru only just managed to cross the bones attached to his palms in the shape of an "X" the lancer hit the centre of the "X". The 2 stood in the clashed position for a few seconds Komar then with all of his strength began pushing his crossed bones higher until his elbows were facing directly at the shinobi. [color="#0000FF"]"Huh?!" [/color]The shinobi called in question. His eyes then sprung open wide as a rumble was visible in Komaru's elbows bones then started to appear.

"Your lies mean nothing to me! I'm well liked in the Leaf Village as was my clan, nothing you say will change that!" Komaru stated with a smirk. The shinobi then scoffed. [color="#0000FF"]"Let me show you why you and the Leaf Village are worthless garbage." [/color]The shinobi then pierced his other arm forward the ice lance seemed to head for Komarus upper chest, however, the bones in Komaru's elbows sprung out and caught the ice lance a few inches away from his chest. The shinobi then laughed. [color="#0000FF"]"Enjoy your after life, in hell!" [/color] "What?!" Komaru questioned.

Suddenly the shinobi's metallic armour in the centre of his gut turned to ice. "What the-?!" Komaru began as he was interrupted.[color="#0000FF"] "Looks like you have no where to run, you release your grip on my lances to dodge this, you die, you stay in that position, and you die!" [/color]Komaru looked shocked as he saw the mans gut turn to ice and a thin spike began sprouting from it. [color="#0000FF"]"Now, what I know of your Kekkei Genkkei, is that it take full mastering of the Ability to sprout bones from your chest. I assume You're not at that level yet." [/color]Komaru grinded his teeth but didn't reply.[color="#0000FF"] "As I thought! Now Die!" [/color]Suddenly the spike grew longer and headed for Komaru's chest. Komaru closed his eyes and though to himself. "Lighten the bones, Lighten them, get rid of their dense nature," An X-ray of Komaru's body would show that his bones were a mere half a cm thick.

The ice spike headed for Komaru's chest. Komaru suddenly opened his eyes and when the spike was a mere 3 inches away from his chest, in an unbelievably fast motion, Komaru thre his arms into the air and leaned his back so low, whilst still planting his legs fiormly ont he ground the man's right hand ice lance was flung into the air, his left arm lance pierced just abovethe lowering Komaru's chest, however the spike from his gut slashed the upper left chest/shoulder of Komaru as he was coming down. Komaru's clothes were torn and blood seeped constantly from the wound.

"Ahh! Grr!" Komaru called as he grinded his teeth trying to block the pain. Komaru then jumpped back close to 10 metres away. When he landed he fell to 1 knee and held the wound with his right arm. His left arm was motionless. Komaru grinded his teeth as he spat out blood and looked up at the shinobi that stood 10 metres away, the man was still in the same piercing position, mocking Komaru.

[.:Blu:.]

Hiro stood adamantly with the legendary Rasengan technique in his hand. Hiro felt really good about himself at the moment, and is about to feel better once he hits the enemy with the jutsu. Seeing the Rasengan, the mysterious man's eyes widened with surprise. "What the?! It can't be! How does someone like him know such a jutsu!" the man grunted with anger. "Haha! Surprised?! Well don't be! You're looking at the next Hokage! Remember my name, Hiro Ryushi!" Hiro shouted proudly. Suddenly, the angered expression on the man's face turned into calmness once again.

"Huh? Hey! Shouldn't you be scared for your life or something right now?! I've got an ultimate jutsu in my hand ready to annihilate you and you're still standing there acting cool?!" Hiro asked while angrily pointing to the man with his free hand. "Humph, I guess I overestimated you. Look at your ultimate jutsu you fool." the man pointed. "Huh?" Hiro took his hand down to look at the Rasengan in his hand. As he saw his Rasengan, Hiro's face turned into comically surprised with his jaw almost hitting the floor. "Wh-Wh-What the heck?!" Hiro yelled. The Rasengan that Hiro was holding had diminished in size.

The Rasengan was now extremely small, and probably won't be able to do that much damage. "Aww man! This is the sixteenth time that this has happened! I can't sustain the Rasengan!" Hiro shouted. Hiro then looked towards the man who was now gone from his position. "What the?! Where did he go?!" Hiro asked, still holding the tiny Rasengan in his hand. "Humph, it looks to me that you're nothing but a weakling trying to learn a technique that is out of your league. Face it, you're going to die here, and that fantasy about being Hokage? Well, you might as well give up on that, because your death will be arriving soon." the man's voice emanated from seemingly nowhere.

"What the?! Where's he at?! I can hear his voice clearly, but I can't see him anywhere. He's gotta be around here somewhere, and how did he managed to escape my sticky substance?" Hiro asked, confused about the situation. Hiro jumped down to the ground to look at the area around him. Hiro was still holding the Rasengan in his hand. Suddenly, a hand reached out from the snow below and punched Hiro straight in his stomach, causing Hiro to slam his tiny Rasengan into a nearby tree. Upon collision, the tree was destroyed. Even at a small size, the Rasengan was still able to retain quite destructive power. However, that wasn't Hiro's concern at the moment.

Hiro fell to his knees, trying to regain his breath while holding onto his stomach with his left hand. "Ugh.... Darn it! Where are you?!" Hiro shouted, using his right hand to dig away the snow beneath him. However, there was nothing underneath the snow, causing Hiro to be surprised. "What the?! There's no way he could've escaped without me seeing." Hirio said to himself. Hiro stood up, his eyes scanning the area in hopes of finding the man. "Give up kid. There's no way you can find me. Not in this lifetime." the man's voice emanated from nowhere again.

"I'll find you! And when I do, you're gonna wish you never met me!" Hiro shouted in response. "Humph, pathetic!" the man's voice shouted. Suddenly from behind Hiro, the man rushed up on him and kicked Hiro right on his side as he turned around to see the man. Hiro slid across the ice cold ground and snow, finally stopping at about seven feet away from the man. Hiro, exhaustingly, struggled to get up off the ground. Hiro's arm was bleeding. He had sustained damage from sliding across the frozen ground. Breathing heavily, hiro's eyes continued to search around. The man was once again gone. It was like he just vanished without a trace.

Hiro had never faced any opponent this tough, and it might be the end for him if he can't find a way to defeat this mysterious individual.

[Warrior_Tal]

-The flash of light was nearly blinding to the touch and sight. Everything all seemed to of slowed down for a complete brief moment. There was little time to actually think the solid situation through at the moment; considering in what was actually happening at this time period. Reji knew he had to think fast, act fast, and move fast. It was the primary item to keep himself alive. These snow shinobi were extremely skilled with the Ice Release technique. Reji, himself, was still learning a good many techniques to use in when he performed the Ice Release techniques. As the white snow drift cleared away; there stood a massive ice structure with the Hyuga inside. A light nearly crystal blue color covered Reji's entire body without a hint of notice. The snow shinobi smirked and slowly walked over to the prison structure.-

[color="maroon"]"Just as I thought; all of you leaf shinobi are useless."[/color]

-His hand moved onto the structure. Reji's motionless body remained in a fixed position; his featureless eyes piercing out straight upon his own teammates that were chosen to come onto this mission. A brush of cold air moved by picking up the snow around everyone. The temperature seemed to go down even more; possibly another five or ten degrees all together. The man facing Reji turned to his comrades who seemed to be taking care of their opponents rather good. His gaze shifted over to the railroad worker. Arching his knees the mysterious shinobi jumped and landed in front of the door.-

[color="maroon"]"Anyone home?"[/color] -He spoke upon ripping the door off revealing the railroad workers.- [color="maroon"]"Pathetic. You really think that leaf shinobi would be able to protect you from us [b]Snow shinobi[/b]?"[/color]

[color="green"]"I truly thought the leaf would be able to help."[/color]

-The man with green hair spoke.-

[color="maroon"]"Well they can't save you now. You better like this land, because this will be your resting place."[/color]

-The snow shinobi.... or what many people called Arashi reached down grabbing onto a hilt of some kind of weapon. Slowly he pulled it out revealing some kind of sword. With his arm held high Arashi prepared for a strike upon the green haired man. The sword shimmered high through the snow. With striking smirk he swung down at the man. Just as it seemed as the blade was about to hit a swift rush moved through the area. Arashi's eyes suddenly widened. Blood dripped to the ground on the fresh snow; standing there with the blade of the weapon in his fore-arm was Reji. A firm look upon his face through his featureless eyes.-

[color="purple"]"Don't be so surprised, and besides I figured a [i]useless[/i] leaf shinobi like myself could perform techniques just like you anyway."[/color]

-Arashi gritted his teeth and pushed down. More blood oozed from Reji's right fore-arm onto the fresh snow. His left hand reared back and swung forward with his palm open. A strong strike hit Arashi's gut sending him stumbling back several feet. Reji lowered his right arm and clenched his fist while he stood straight. His eyes shifted back at the railroad worker who seemed a little shock. His gaze moved back over to his opponent; dropping into stance of the Hyuga... Gentle Fist Style.-

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[b]{Three (3) Days Ago}[/b]

-The days seemed to be even longer then before? Training or sparing... whatever one would call it seemed to be well interesting to say the least. Reji one of the newly ranked chunin of the Hidden Leaf village had be called to the hokage's office upon one of the leaf's own shinobi coming to retrieve him to talk to the hokage. His footsteps remained absolutely quiet as he stepped through the halls of the mansion. His eyes shifted over noticing no one else was around for this calling. Was he special case? Some kind of mission to go on by himself? Or was it something else? Either way; he had to enter into the office to find out about the whole deal anyway. He slowly came to a stop at the door; his left hand lifted up and beat up against the door: 1----- 2----- 3----- times it was.-

[color="blue"]"Come in."[/color]

-Came a strong yet confident voice from behind the door. Exhaling a breath of air; Reji pushed the door open and stepped into the office of Lord Hokage Kumiko? The room was like any other. Standard. Round. A desk. Windows. Typical really. A full appearance of the Hidden Leaf Village. Reji cleared his throat before speaking; however, before he could extend a word out the hokage pushed forward into speaking himself.-

[color="blue"]"Can I help you?"[/color]

[color="purple"]"Lord Hokage. You wanted to see me?"[/color]

-The man behind the desk looked up; white open buttoned shirt, white pants, blue hair, and blue eyes. His gaze scanned the young shinobi that stood before him. An eyebrow raised as the hokage leaned forward in his desk.-

[color="blue"]"You must be Reji Hyuga, yes? Well.... yes I did want to see you."[/color]

((ooc- read the ooc thread guys.))

[Ghoulish]

Komaru grinded his teeth as a light tear drop seaped from his eye and dropped to the icy snow below him. The enemy shinobi scoffed and chuckled. [color="#0000FF"]"As I thought of the Leaf Village, they've softened you, your a fool leaving the Mist Village was the worst possible decision you could have made."[/color] More tears streamed down Komaru's face, Komaru turned his head slightly to the side, seeing at the carridge the worker about to be slain Komaru continued to sit on one knee shocked and holding his large wound. "Is this guy right...am I, are we really worthless....am I a dog of a fogotten clan?" Komaru thought to himself, he then heard from a distance the familiar voice of Reji. "R-Reji?" Komaru thought to himself as he then turned his head, he was shocked to notice that Reji has taken the blow. Komaru turned to the shinobi in front of him. A little smirk appeared on Komaru's face as he slowly stood up on.

[color="#0000FF"]"A sudden smile? What are you planning?"[/color] The shinobi thought to himself. "You know, your right." Komaru began. "I was a fool, doubting myself, my friends and my clan." Komaru suddenly looked up with an intense look. He ripped off his shirt revealing his bare chest but with a necklace aroudn hisn neck symbolizing the symbol of a clan. He relinquished his grip on his wound, he clenched his fists and held them by his side, more blood began pouring out. "[color="#0000FF"]You're crazy kid[/color]!" The shinobi called. [color="#0000FF"]"I'll kill you with my bare hands!"[/color] The shinobi dashed forward at Komaru. Komaru smirked widly. "Get ready for my first dance!" Suddenly a thin bone stuck out from Komaru's elbows, palms, shoulders, bottom and top of his forearnms, the back of his anckle and the front of his knees. Komaru suddenly dashed forward at a incredible speed, the snow behind him rose inthe air as he called. "Slice and Dice!" [color="#0000FF"]"This speed!" [/color]The shinobi called in disbelief.

3 Days Ago

Komaru stood on a 1 inch thick pole he had his eyes closed and was balancing to perfection. Performing skilled and fluent movements. The pole was over 5 metres high, the ground below was solid earth. "[color="#0000FF"]Komaru[/color]" came a voice from below. Komaru exhaled and opened his eyes, he turned his head slightly and looked at the ground to see a man in crutches with a bandage on his neck smiling at him. Komaru smiled widly. "Father!" Komaru jumped down and knelt upon landing. He then ran to his father. [color="#FF0000"]"Komaru it's great to see you training, no doubt the Kaguya clan would they still be around, would be proud to call you one of their sons."[/color] Komaru was taken by surprise at such a compliment. "Father..." Komaru thought to himself. [color="#0000FF"]"Come inside I want to teach you something."[/color] Komaru walkewd by his father and towars a small hut, suddenly an elder ninja with white hair and green eyes walked towards the 2 from the right. [color="#008000"]"Komaru and Kortoro[/color]." Komaru's face lit up upon seeing the man. "Akatu!" Komaru called as he bowed to the incoming man. "Akatu how are you old friend." Kortoro quesitoned with a smile. " Akatu smiled. He wore the standard jounin uniform. [color="#008000"]"Hey I can't be that old can I." [/color]he stated with a smile as he then faced Komaru.[color="#008000"] "So komaru have you been training and precticing that technique I taught you?" [/color]Komaru nodded. "Yea!" [color="#008000"]"Well keep at it. And never forget, one's effort is the only measurement of their success." [/color]Akatu always said this quote to Komaru, Akatu then dissapeared in white smoke. Komaru and Kortoro both then walked into the hut.

[.:Blu:.]

Hiro continued to stood there and stared around restlessly. "(Come on where is this guy?! Is he a ghost or something, why can't I find him anywhere?!)" Hiro thought to himself. Just then from behind Hiro, the man rushed towards Hiro, ready to impale him using the icicle that's on his wrist. Hiro then quickly jumped up onto a nearby tree. "Haha! Gotcha!" Hiro shouted victoriously. "What-" Suddenly from beneath the snow around the man, Hiro's shadow clones burst out from the snow and grabbed the man, immobilizing him. "H-How did you know?" the man asked as he struggled to move.

"Hehe, just a lucky guess! I knew you would probably try to attack me from behind so I had my shadow clones hid themselves in the snow, ready to grab you, and looks like I was right. Now, let's try this again!" Hiro shouted as he jumped down from the tree and dashed towards the man, ready to stab him with a kunai. Suddenly, the man stopped moving and stood still. Hiro was finally able to impale the man. "Hehe, gotcha." Hiro said but quickly his smile faded as the man turned out to be a snow clone.

"Wh-Wh-What the!" Hiro then looked to his side and the man rushed towards Hiro and punched Hiro in the face. This sent Hiro flying back and finally colliding with a tree. The man then took care of Hiro's shadow clones by quickly jabbing all of them with the icicle on his wrist. "Don't you get it kid? You can't defeat me. You're just a little brat chasing after an impossible dream." the man said plainly. Hiro struggled to get up, but slowly and surely, Hiro got to his feet.

"Impossible dream....? I DON'T KNOW THE MEANING OF IMPOSSIBLE!!!" Hiro shouted. Burning confidence could be seen in Hiro's eyes. The will of fire has lived on to a new generation of shinobi. "Now! Shadow Clone Justu!" Hiro shouted as eight shadow clones appeared. "I'm gonna make you pay!" hiro shouted as the shadow clones rushed towards the man.

[Three Days Ago]

A loud boom emanated from the forest. With the boom came about twenty or so birds flying into the air. Down at the forest floor, Hiro sat there, tired. Breathing heavily, the rest of Hiro's body fell to the ground. "Geez, I still can't get it right." Hiro said. Hiro lift up his hand to his face. His hand showed signs of being burned. Hiro then closed his fist. "No, I gotta keep trying, even if it kills me!" Hiro said, leaping up off the ground. "Yeah, I know I can do it. I just need to concentrate and sustain the jutsu." Hiro had a look of confidence on his face, but suddenly, his stomach began to growl.

"Uhh.... Maybe I should go get something to eat first." Hiro said. Finally back at the village, Hiro arrived at his house, hoping to find something to eat. Searching through the cabinets, Hiro couldn't find a scrap of food. "Aww man, I forgot to restock!" Hiro shouted, holding an empty ramen cup and falling to the floor. "I guess I've been so busy with training lately that I forgot to go out and buy some more ramen cups.... Man, what am I'm going to do now? I'm out of money so I can't go buy more ramen cups or go eat...." Hiro said in a depressed voice.

[Hotaru987]

Mako's feet were still encased in ice, thus rendering him stuck. This was Kikyo's opportunity to attack him without moving. "I'm going to cut him to shreds. [color="#008000"]Wind release: Wind bla[/color]-OH CRAP!!" She quickly jumped out of the tree seconds before it was split in half. Her eye's widened in shock; and as the tree's split sides fell apart, Mako was seen in the middle. [i]There is no way he got out![/i] Her head spun back to the place he once was, only to see a snowman in his place.

A large sweatdrop appeared on her head, "Are you serious..."

She quickly came back to reality in time to block two strong punches to her face, but unfortunate fell prey to the knee to her gut. The wind rushed from her lungs, spit and blood following. She was just able to bring her arms up to shield her face before his foot collided; minimizing the damage, but still went sailing away. Kikyo righted herself and slid on he ground wit her feet to slow herself down. She wheezed, and coughed trying to regain her breath before Mako decided to attack again; which was right then.

[i]Stupid jerk.[/i], Mako was coming in fast but Kikyo quickly formulated a plan; however right before he was close enough he vanished from her sights. Kikyo's eye's widened, [i]NO![/i]

[b]~~3 Day's Earlier~~[/b]

"Thank you! Please come again!" Kikyo said with a wide smile, and bowing to the costumer that just left. Once the lady left she sighed. "Baby is something wrong?" She peaked out of her right eye to see her father. At the moment she was in the sweet shop that her dad owned. After what happened back when he first got to the village, he had to quite being a ninja. So his alternative was opening a sweet shop, which Kikiyo worked at to help out. She rarely got paid because she was simply there to give her dad some free help. Today, however, she didn't really feel like being there.

"Nothing dad..." Her father watched her for a while before chuckling. "You don't have to stay with your old man if you don't want too."

Kikyo grinned and hopped on her dad hugging him. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!" She pecked him on the cheek before dashing out of the store, leaving her father behind chuckling. She grinned glad to be out of the store; although she did feel a bit guilty leaving her dad there alone, but she had been in there all day. It was time for explori- "Umph!" Kikyo fell face first into the ground. She quickly sat up spitting the dirt from her mouth, but it seemed twice as much was all on her face. From her left there were some kids laughing at her and that made her angry. "You think this is funny! Just Wait till I get my hands on you!!"

"WAAAHHH!!! Run!" One kid yelled.

"The ie witch is coming!" Another yelled before all three of them took off. Unfortunately, all three gt away because two steps into the chase Kikyo fell once again tripping over her own feet.

[Warrior_Tal]

-His gaze remained completely upon the hokage? It was actually hard to believe that this man was able to make it as hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village. From what others have said; he is the type of individual who would slack off, drink alcohol, and party most of the time. Reji raised and eyebrow in suspicion while at the same time crossing his arms over his chest. The man..... the hokage ..... Kumiko looked upon Reji one of the only leaf ninja having a special trait domed inside of them. It seemed like more then one kekkei genkai if that was even possible for a shinobi. A dojutsu: the Byakuga. And then there was the advanced state of chakra he had: Ice Release techniques. Not like anything else that any other shinobi would carry around.-

[color="purple"]"Ummmmm..... sooooo..... Lord Hokage; what is it exactly you wanted to see me for?"[/color]

-There was no answer. Not now at least. Kumiko's eyes shifted up to the ceiling for a brief moment; his eyes seemed to be observing over every crack that had formed. A sigh escaped his mouth. Then he leaned back in the chair and propped his feet onto the desk in front of him. Slamming them down and then crossing one leg right over the other. His arms moved back behind his head. A sort of relaxation moment for him it seemed.-

[i]How the heck did he become hokage of the leaf anyway.[/i] -Reji thought amongst himself.-

[color="blue"]"So you want to know the reason I sent for you Leaf shinobi?"[/color]

-Reji did not say a word; he just nodded a 'yes' style answer to him. No words spoken from him. The hokage glanced down and looked at Reji then continued on.-

[color="blue"]"A mission to put it in simple terms."[/color]

[i]Is it another one of those missions to get you alcohol or sending out party invites?[/i] -Reji thought.-

[color="blue"]"A simple escort/body guard mission basically. You are to escort some railroad workers to the Land of Snow. You are to meet them in the Hidden Sand Village and then continue your way up to the Land of Snow."[/color]

[color="purple"]"Will this be just a single man job?"[/color]

[color="blue"]"No. I'm allowing you to select three other shinobi to come with you on this assignment. Get a team assembled in an hour and make your leave. Don't screw up or else...."[/color]

[i]I can only imagine.[/i]

-With that simple thought in mind; Reji lowered his head down in gratitude to the hokage; although, he really did not want to. He turned about letting out a small sigh at this kind of mission. An hour to gather a team of shinobi to come with him on this mission won't that be fun. He walked from the room into the hallway. His footsteps were quick. To search for a team of shinobi to come with him. Who would he choose?-

[Hotaru987]

After her colossal fail at chasing those three kids down, Kikyo decided that a little bit of training would do her good. She knew three different elements, but could only utilize two, possibly three, jutsus of each one. Not only that but her Kekkei Genkai needed twice as much work. Kikyo hadn't gotten that far in the development of that; if her still grayish eyes were any indication of how far behind she was. It's already been a year since she finally activated the Kekkei Genkai, and she was still pathetically weak in her Ice jutsus. "I just need a place to practice...Somewhere near water...There's one over where the Uchiha compound was...." She thought aloud, her footsteps already heading in that direction. "But the stone heads have an abundant of wind...I still need more wind Jutsu's as well..."

Kikyo groaned frustrated. "Ughh! Why can't there be a place that meets in the middle!?" Some of the villagers looked at her as if she was crazy, not that she really cared or noticed at the time. "Fine...I just I'll just have to do wind tomorrow...Ice is my main priority right now. I have to get stronger with using my Kekkei Genkai." Kikyo finished satisfied with her answer, and headed to the large lake, with a small dock that ended about 5 feet into the lake; however she continued walking, pushing the chakra to the soles of her feet to stay on top of the water.

Once she deemed herself far, she closed her eyes for a brief moment to collect herself, and to gather her chakra. Taking a deep breath she executed quick and precise hand signs. “[color="#00FFFF"]Ice Release: Snow storm jutsu[/color].” The air around her dropped to a freezing temperature; wisps of white air could be seen circling around her. Slowly the water beneath her began to freeze, starting from her feet and spreading outwards.

She smirked, opening her grayish eyes, to look at the now frozen lake. “Ha! I actually froze the entire lake this time!!” She yelled jumping up and down, only to slip and fall on her butt.

[Warrior_Tal]

[i]Who is actually willing to tag along on a mission.[/i]

-With the small amount of shinobi already taking some other missions; it would prove to be rather difficult to choose who to take along with. Aside from himself there had to be a few capable genin in the village who would want to take leave for some fun? Well if an escort mission was ever counted as being fun. With his hands in his the pockets of his pants; he continued at a slow pace to the outskirts of the village. Many shinobi were thought seen by this lake for some personal training on their own. The trip was a good fifteen minutes of walking time. He actually slowed down; the sensation of another's chakra, and finally came to a stop at the forested edge. His eyes caught upon a type of chakra that was relatively the same as his. Ice Release. A chuckle escaped his lips while he walked out after the shinobi - Kikyo - froze the lake over and then slip and fell.-

-His feet touched the ice; cold to the touch. His eyes gazed around the area looking at the ice. It was well formed and very sturdy. His eyes moved back over to the young girl that was flat on her butt after performing the technique.-

[color="purple"]"Well performed there? Ice Release am I correct?"[/color]

-Questioned Reji; his hand being removed from the pocket of his pants and down toward where Kikyo was sitting.... offering to help her to her feet after slipping on the slick surface.-

[Hotaru987]

Kikyo muttered curse after curse as she continued to slip and fall. Of course she would be the only ninja in existance to get trapped in he middle of a frozen lake....That she created herself!

Upon her third try, the sound of a boy made her look up in surprise. Due to his eyes she instantly knew he was a Hyuuga, but it took a bit more memory surfing to figure out who he was. While she thought of the name, Kikyo gladly accepted his hand; almost slipping and pulling him down with her, but he was more stable that she figured he would be on ice. "Y-yeah, it is an Ice release, and thanks for helping me up." She whispered the last part, not being able to help feeling foolish. Suddenly, his name fluttered into her memory, "You're Reji-san right? The Hyuuga who also uses Ice release."

"I'm Kikyo Fuyume." She introduced shaking the hand she had yet to release. "I haven't met too many people, none actually, who could use ice techniques like me." Kikyo finally released his hand feeling balaneced enough to not fall again. "Is there something that I could help you with?"

[Warrior_Tal]

-Reji offered a short smile - though it could not be seen through the mask he wore - even with the little respect that he got amongst the villagers on the Hidden Leaf it didn't seem as bad that many of the shinobi actually knew him as the Hyuga who could use Ice Release techniques. A more advanced stage of chakra for him. No water release or wind release. Simply the only purpose of the Ice Release techniques to be put into play basically. Practicing the form; Reji was able to keep himself fixed in a correct position so he could stand up right without slipping himself. Shaking Kikyo's hand he offered a rather calm expression through his eyes.-

[color="purple"]"Well I guess I am one of those exceptions in the matter of using such a technique."[/color]

-His other hand removed itself from the other pocket, lifted up, and crossed over his chest. The only question that came to play was if something was needed of her. Having a thought about it; Reji figured it would be good to have another who had some use in the Ice Release style to follow suit on this mission. Considering that it was one to the Land of Snow, but first was the travel to the Village Hidden in the Sand.-

[color="purple"]"Well a mission is more like it. An escort/body guard mission to put it in simple terms. Lord Hokage instructed me to put a team together for this kind of mission. Seeing you... well would you be interested in such an act?"[/color]

[i]Let's hope as much.[/i]

[color="purple"]"I'll explain more on the mission details if you want to tag alongside?"[/color]

[Hotaru987]

Kikyo thought it over. A mission would finally get her out of the village, but more importantly it would make the third mission she was given since she graduated from the academy. Not only that but it was an escort mission! But...

"Are you sure you want me on your team? Haven't you heard of me? Clutsy Kikyo." She said gauging him for his reaction. "The girl who messes everything she touches up. I got stuck in the middle of my own jutsu for goodness sake." That was the main reason why she wasn't asked to go on many missions. That stupid nickname had been following her ever since she first tripped, and accedentally broke an expensive vase at some store. Then there was 'Fuyu-chan' which ment 'Snow child. Kikyo hated that nickname more than the first one.

"So are you sure you want to ask me?" She quickly added, "Because I would love to finally go on another mission but....Well I could mess something important up, and then you'd get blamed for inviting me." Kikyo said. The whole time she had forgotten that her Kekkei Genkai was active, but once she remembered, it was deactivated and her normal crystal blue eyes reappeared.

"If you really don't mind that fact....Then I will take you up on that offer." As she waited the lake began to defrost; since her Kekkei Genkai was deactivated.