Ravens Above The Door [P][M]

"All my life." He might as well tell his companion the truth, no harm could come from it. Reddo formed some handseals as quick as a flash and then exhaled, releasing a lump that quickly expanded into a large stone. He cleared his throat once it hit the ground and stopped expanding.

"I'm guessing you haven't been here long then?" People only asked how long they've lived in a place if they themselves haven't lived there. Yuki wasn't a large village, meaning they probably should have met each other sooner if it was true.

Reddo preformed more hand seals, and pressed his hand against the rock formation. It liquified under his touch and with a final set of seals and then a hold of the ram sign, the mud formed into a tiny squirrel that scurried off into the snow.

Reddo laughed as he had the squirrel chase him for a bit before letting it come to a stop and return to watching the gate. The squirrel's eyes were Reddo's eyes, and its actions were controlled by him.

"You can come back, I'm just messing with you!"

"How about you kids stop playing around and get back to work." The chuunin sighed as he watched their antics.

"Yea yea..." The squirrel vanished back into the snow and Reddo watched through its eyes the area around the gate.

Reddo was still smiling. When he heard Sousuke's question, he nodded. "I didn't know you were scared of cutw wittle squirrels~." Reddo took great delight in mocking this new ally of his. "Ah well, no big deal right? No hardfeelings? It's not like you're afraid of the d- wait."

Reddo cut himself short when he saw something through the squirrel's eyes: a movement in the snow completely irregular from the natural snow formations on the mountains outside the gate.

"Someone's coming... no, two people. From the... eh..." Reddo lifted his left elbow and nudged it eastward, "That direction." Reddo hadn't been paying much attention in class when they thought the cardinal directions and how to always know which way is which. It was definitely something he'd have to learn if he was going to become an Owl.

(they'll make an intro on my next post~

JUST GET YO GUNZ ON SON!)

"Shit... there are more guards than there should be..." One of the would-be intruders said as they were reaching the base of the mountain and at the path.

"Don't panic. All we have to do is walk up, and they'll let us in." One of them removed their hood to reveal a head of blonde hair and cool brown hair. The slightly smaller more frightened one took of her hood to show long brown locks and similar brown eyes.

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Reddo let the squirrel vanish so he could reuse his own eyes. Be brushed himself off and moved to the opposite side of the path and watched the two walk boldly down the path. Stopping intruders was their job, but their business could be legitimate. As an owl, he was to gather information, and he would do it quickly. From what he could tell, they were young, maybe 15-17, and they had no weapons on them.

Reddo said nothing to them as they walked past him and towards the gate. The AnBu would stop them and begin their routine questioning. The girl moved slightly closer to the boy, who took hold of her hand. They glanced at each other as though they had just exchanged information.

"Because we don't know what they're doing here yet, and simply attacking them isn't the best way for villages to make friends." It was pretty simple politics in Reddo's mind: don't attack people if they could be potential allies.

These two were already enemies, acording to the Anbu reaxching fro the wakizashi on his back. Reddo reached for his katana at the same time, but the pair were fast. They carried no weapons, but the girl herself transformed into a sword and the boy used her to slash the chest of the anbu.

"Don't let them in the gate!" From Sousuke's and Reddo's position, they were 30 meters away,and from them to the gate was only ten. Reddo needed to rush, so with a massive burst of chakra, he pushed himself and shunshin'd three times, leaving three afterimages in his wake. He slid to a stop next to them and swung his blade horizontally, aiming to remove the boy's head.

The boy was quick, he leaned backwards and simply slid under it like a limbo plole 'Well fuck me...'

This ninja, or person was a monster. His speed and grave was fluid like he had perfect control over his body. He was just as fast, if not a bit faster than Reddo, and that pissed him off.

After the boy slid under the blade, he spun, slashing in both directions aiming to slice both boys who had surrounded him. How he knew that Sousuke had come up to try and flank him was a mystery, and it was one Reddo had no time to examine, for when the boy made one rotation, He stopped and faced Sousuke, seeking to take him out first with a stab towards his chest. The spin had simply been a diversion tactic.

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And it worked. Reddo had dashed backwards to try and doge the blade, stumbling from the sudden movement. Reddo had to move in on this man before he could get to Sousuke, so with a kick of his feet he was rushing forwards behind the an in white, hoping to stab him in the back.

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The chuunin that had been ordered to come with them but under no circumstances inter fear in their work was healing the anbu who had been cut. Lucky that this chuunin was a medical master.

"Ah Ah Ah~." The boy said with an evil smile. His eyes were locked with Sousuke's. His crimson eyes. His Sharingan. The boy wasn't faster, he was simply moving first. As Sousuke was reaching for his sheathed sword, The boy had already moved his left hand onto the pommel of Sousuke's sword to stop him from drawing it. He twisted his right hand, the blade following suit, to wound Sousuke even deeper. Shifting his footing, Sousuke and the boy switched places. The boy looked over Sousuke's shoulder, right at Reddo who was charging at him. The boy had sensed Reddo's attack, and the Sharingan assisted even further. This one would not go down easily.

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"Shit!"Reddo diverted his blade away from Sousuke's person, and instead stabbed it into the ground. When the blade sunk into the ground, Reddo jumped off it and up into the air, making hand seals as he soared over them. Reddo thought he caught a glimpse of something in that boy's eyes, but maybe he was just paranoid.

Ouch. A kick to the nuts is enough to disorient anyone. The Uchiha's eyes blurred with tears from the kick. His right hand left his own sword, but his left stayed on the Sousuke's pommel. His right hand gripped Sousuke's leg.

"Lets..."

"...Even the odds." A woman's voice rang out as she transformed back into her human form with her right hand in Sousuke's wound. He left hand rapidly formed seals, and she released a pulse of air at Reddo who had just finished the seals for his high pressure air cubes.

The uchiha's left hand gripped the pommel and went to pull it from the sheath to stab the boy with his own blade.

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Reddo was surprised, and extremely pissed off at the coordination these two had. The daitoppa struck one of his high pressure air cubes, and it was luckily enough to not have the thing crush his chest. Reddo started to fall from the air, completely winded by the surprise attack.

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The Anbu was healed, the Anbu had gone, and the AnBu came back witha team that rushed the area, completely surrounding the woman and the Uchiha. "Damn..." The Uchiha cursed. He let go of Sousuke's leg, and sword, and the woman pulled her hand from his wound. Grabbing hold of her blood hand, she changed back into the blade. Then they both vanished in a puff of smoke.