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[Lava Beneath the Falls]

Searching for: Shikazi

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The red head kunoichi would wake up in her usual spot at the team's headquarters, the tree of all places. She still had yet to really feel like sleeping in a confined space, and still preferred being up high. Despite her inability of her depth of field. She would continue to just sit there with her back against the trees trunk about twenty feet off the ground, she looked up into the sky, recalling old memories.

She recalled a recent one when she was on her way to the Waterfall Village, unknowingly at the time, when she had come across some nasty birds. Being she had no combat training, only some instincts to go by, she tried defending herself as best she could with that of silver ware and her bag as some sort of shield. Sighing as she recalled the memory of the ending when a larger bird from the blood hawks swooped into protect her. Why any creature would save Phy was to the kunoichi's own confusement. She didn't know really why the bird saved her, and how she knew it wasn't just going in for some meal of the day was when she awoke one morning after the incident. Waking up to that of a fish by her side, no bird to be found though.

The girl snapped out of her thoughts and would look down at her legs. 'Maybe...after all this time...I could find that bird...though...my tracking skills are fine tuned to say the least yet...ah dammit...no...don't say it Phy...I might actually need freaking help....' she thought to herself. 'This is a personal quest....and it might...mean...they...might ask other...questions...' she would start to debate on whether asking her team mates for help would be a great idea. She never once told them where she came from, if she had a family...nothing. She just couldn't find a reason to tell them, not that she wanted to...

'This...is definitely gonna be a tough quest...all to see if my hero is actually still alive...' she would sigh, remaining in her tree watching the house the other two probably were sleeping in. Well one at least seeing as the one teammate of hers...somehow achieved something she didn't. 'Had to be smiley....'

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{OOC: Hope I did this right >.>'}

[Image In the Falls]

Moving through the house with more than sluggish behavior, Shigure's auburn red hair was still in disarray from just waking up. The Boy could be seen moving from the kitchen to the living room, toast in hand, his clothes place on his body as if he just couldn't get it together today. Something must have been bothering him, maybe it was his defeat at the exams that held his mind in contempt.

Just out of the corner of his left eye, he had a view of the bright red blooming tree outside of the Semitsu Compound. That was Phyre's tree, or well, one she kind of took over without permission - it was his families land to be honest. His peripheral kept the tree in check, until he noticed one of the branches move, and a quick image of black formed in between the branches.

His eyes darted out the window to see Phyre sitting on her perch, seemingly lost in thought. She had also lost her Exam, but none of them had spoken of it since they've been back home. Shigure actually liked this girl, so maybe this could be a twisted bonding time for them. Deciding for himself to go outside and see if she was actually in the mood to talk, he'd open the front door and step outside.

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Phy would continue to be lost in that thought, she choose to take out a single kunai only to start to scratch at the bark beneath her. She had no idea why she was doing it, it was all in a sub-conscious thought. She was pissed she lost, she was pissed such a young kid got the title let alone the one that always smiles. To her, that kid hadn't seen what she has seen, hasn't dealt with the horrors she had to, or to even overcome an injury. Not that she really has, she has just sort of looked over it from time to time. She was on this team with two cousins....she hadn't truly attempted to get to know them any better. Attachments...only led to sorrow.

She only caught a glance of Shigure out of the corner of her eye, but choose to pay him no heed. She assumed the guy was out to go on some training or stroll as usual. She wasn't even for small talk, she knew though....she may need help to locate something truly precious to her... Well...as precious to the past as she could get. Right now her prized possession was her sais, she would probably admit the camera in her bag. Though to her it was more of a torture device then something of a blessing of memories to become a prized possession.

The more she thought about the past...the more she took the kunai and dug it into the branch she was on. Probably not a wise idea considering she was sitting on it and she choose it as her little home to stay in. But it was the only thing keeping her from truly losing her sanity in her flashback of moments.

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Phyre winced a bit as some painful memories flooded her brain cortex. They weren't of the one she lost. Nor something she wanted to find. It was of the very village she left behind. The one that turned against for allowing her sister to perish the way she did. Well...as if Phy had anything to say about how she would have died, or even making sure she didn't die. After all she got nailed by a piece of the wood from the boat...the nasty scar acrossed her left eye was proof of that. But none of the nurses saw it that way. Ohhhh no it was the wrong sister that perished that day to them.

"Maybe....I should have died....then..." she somehow said out loud in a low tone of voice. She hadn't even realized she had done so. 'Had I died...and she lived...all would have been right with the world....' this time not saying it out loud.

As she grew tiresome digging into the bark of the tree she was in, she would just randomly flick her wrist to side and discard the kunai that was in her right hand. Not thinking of if anyone might be down on the ground or near by that could get hit by that or anything. "What am I to do now?...." she said. "GAH.....I AM SUCH A LOSER!" she yelled but not too much that it would send the birds scattering out of the trees. But enough for anyone in the house to hear. She slammed her fist down by the trunk end of the tree beside her. Scrapping it a bit against the rough edges of the bark.

After taking a bit of notice of how loud she was, she quickly went back to being quiet. Two outbursts, in such a small frame of time, was unlike the very quiet kunoichi that usually kept her battles of yelling inside her head.

[Image In the Falls]

Moving towards the tree in a quiet fashion, the boy couldn't help but be drawn towards Phyre at this moment. A quick use of his inner eye and he noticed her chakra levels fluctuating, as if she was fighting an internal battle. He himself was distraught about losing the Exams, but could she be this pissed about them still? No, he thought not.... this was something different, something was pulling at her for some time.

Reaching the bottom of the tree, Shigure couldn't help but hear the extremely loud outburst that Phyre had exclaimed. She wasn't one for words, but in this moment, she didn't seem like herself. Shigure jumped into the tree with ease, landing quietly on the branch just above her head.

"Hey there. What's up?" It was quiet and slightly comforting, much unlike the spoiled teenager that stood above her. "...and don't say nothing, because i pretty much heard it all."

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Tech used:
Mind's Eye of the Kagura
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Skill: Passive
Effect: The basic technique needed in order to learn all Sensor Techniques.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The basic yet complex ability that allows Sensor's to find, sense, and track individuals over a vast range. This ability is done by the user closing their eyes and opening their mind's eye in order to see the advanced chakra systems around them. At A rank and above, Sensors no longer need to close their eyes in order to access their mind's eye. The user of this jutsu can only sense those up to the equivalent class rank of the rank they know. (i.e. If the user knows up to B rank in this jutsu they can sense characters of all the way from D to B rank. The basic range of this technique is ten meters.
Limit: Must fulfill all requirements to become Sensor in order to learn this technique.

[Lava Beneath the Falls]

Phy being that she was in a battle within and expressing it outwardly sometimes, didn't even notice Shigure had gotten closer. She had figured, if she even thought really at this point, that he had long since gone off training or merely just didn't care to even come near his female comrade.

As he jumped onto the branch as graceful as he did, it wasn't until he said something that Phy even became aware of his presence. This was bad...because if he was an enemy ninja...she be dead right about now, but given Phy's state of mind at times...Maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad outcome.

She jumped slightly, her one foot slipping off the branch, but Phy was quick to grab a hold of the branch she was sitting on to attempt to not swing the whole way off. She looked up at where the noise had come from, with wide eyes she would see Shigure just perched there looking at her.

'Don't say nothing...I heard it all...' had said Shigure.

'What exactly....did I say again?' she thought having no idea what parts she may have said out loud or if she said anything audible to begin with. 'He's messing with me...he has to be...just some cruel sick joke...' she thought. All the while this conversation of hers is going on shes just been looking at him with those big eyes. If he was truly looking back at her...he may catch more of a glimpse that Phy's eyes...didn't match quite in color anymore. The left one with the scar was slightly greyed over the blue her eyes truly were.

Phy would make movements as if to say something...but either Shigure startled the usual quiet Kunoichi, or she just really couldn't figure out a come back saying to what he was doing. 'Hes up to something....' she thought, as even her expression was starting to read.

[Lava Beneath the Falls]

Shigure seemed to have gone silent and said nothing to her silence for his explanation of what he may or may not have heard. 'Really now? Hes gonna go silent on me....? Not that I'm helping here any....' she thought to herself. The silence continued. 'Is this some sort of game to him? Say he heard something....and then just mentally torture me? Cause it sure is working....'

She didn't keep attempting to talk she just kinda kept an eye on him. She didn't want to play a staring contest fully eye to eye for she hated looking that long into someone else's eyes. She would continue to wait to see if Shigure was ever going to talk.

[Image In the Falls]

Shigure thought long and hard about what was the best way to deal with this current situation. It didn't matter what he had heard, but he had heard well... all of it. Phyre seemed to be in a state of depression, and she desperately needed companionship. What was a guy to do in this situation?

All the teenager could state was just a short sentence, leaving her to determine what to do about it.

"Let's go do something, anything you want to do. I'll follow."

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Phyre looked back at Shigure as he finally spoke but never actually answered her question on what exactly he had heard from before. Leaving her to believe he probably didn't hear a thing if he couldn't recite a single thing about it. Least that's what she wanted to believe and hoped for. As he asked her to say whatever it was she wanted to do she just gave him a long blank stare for a few minutes.

She was pretty sure she never got asked this before. Really...she had to beg her sister for days to months just to go boating with her. Granted when she finally conceded to Phy's plea....it didn't end so well. "Whatever I want to do?" she said back to him considering the possibilities of this question. She thought back to the chunnin exam and the girl she was tagged with. Hell she couldn't really remember that girl's name, it was more than likely long and hard to say for someone like Phyre. But what she did remember is that she had wings, an aerial view. Bringing her thought and attention back to that eagle that helped save her life back before she came to Waterfall Village.

'Could that bird really still be alive?' she wondered. Only one way to find out, and Phy really wanted that eagle eye in the sky to assist for her depth perception disability. "OK. I got it...." she said pausing a bit. "I need help finding a bird...not just any bird though, but a golden eagle. You got the sights to see high up right?" she would say trying to precisely mention her eye sight issue.

As she would ask this question she would start to stand up on the tree branch about to start her descent down the tree's trunk.

[Image In the Falls]

A Bird?

She really wants to go look for a Bird? How strange.

Nevertheless, Shigure wanted to get Phyre out of the mood shes in, and if a bird would help do that, he was all for it. "So where do we need to look for it? I have methods of seeking out chakra, so no worries on finding it." It wouldn't be hard, no. Time consuming, possibly.

As she stood, so did he, and he began looking to the skies like an idiot, thinking he could spot it somehow nearby the base. She would be leading this expedition, not Shigure.

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As Phy began to walk towards the secret entrance of Waterfall Village she would reply. "To the mountain tops, she liked it up high in the forest like regions. She's no ordinary bird...she's a golden eagle and a..." she paused not exactly wanting to say much more, but would least finish her sentence. "A hero."

With that Phy would head to the village gates seeking passage out just to be within the nation's vast wilderness area to see if Shikazi truly was still alive and in the area. She would have on her usual equipment at this point, her sais.

(Move to Land of the Waterfall: Taki no Kuni?)

[Father 'Suke]

Moved

[Image In the Falls]

Following Phyre out into the land of the waterfalls was a nice touch of scenery. Sure the village had its perks of beauty, but the landscape truly topped anything. To give the country even more ego, it could also be said that it was the most beautiful out of all other countries. Cascading waterfalls dotted the landscape, small lakes, rivers, ponds littered the vast forest. Mountains peaked out of the earth to welcome any travelers with a challenge of grace. Everything about this country was magnificent.

While walking around, he would help Phyre with her request, and began searching the skies with his sensory abilities. It would be much easier if he could locate her bird this way, instead of having to stare at the skies for ages. "So, what actually made you and this bird friends... or whatever it is too you?"

Techniques to help find an eagle:

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Mind's Eye of the Kagura
Rank: D, C, B, A, S
Skill: Passive
Effect: The basic technique needed in order to learn all Sensor Techniques.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The basic yet complex ability that allows Sensor's to find, sense, and track individuals over a vast range. This ability is done by the user closing their eyes and opening their mind's eye in order to see the advanced chakra systems around them. At A rank and above, Sensors no longer need to close their eyes in order to access their mind's eye. The user of this jutsu can only sense those up to the equivalent class rank of the rank they know. (i.e. If the user knows up to B rank in this jutsu they can sense characters of all the way from D to B rank. The basic range of this technique is ten meters.
Limit: Must fulfill all requirements to become Sensor in order to learn this technique.

Mind’s Eye Extension
Rank: D, C, B, A
Skill: Passive
Effect: A technique used to increase the range of Mind’s Eye of the Kagura.
Special: ---
Drawback: --
Description: This technique is passively used to increase the distance of Mind’s Eye of the Kagura. At D rank this extends the maximum range of the technique to twenty-five. At every rank after D the distance will double until reaching a maximum range of two hundred meters.
Limit: Must know Mind’s Eye of Kagura.

Advanced Chakra Sensing
Rank: D
Skill: Passive
Effect: A technique used to differentiate between chakra signatures.
Special: ---
Drawback: --
Description: This skill is used in conjunction with Mind’s Eye of the Kagura. This passive ability allows the user to differentiate between separate chakra signatures. A person will be able to tell if the chakra is that of a human or an animal. Also once the user sees an individual’s chakra signature once they will automatically recognize that persons chakra signature from then on.
Limit: Must know Mind’s Eye of Kagura.

[Lava Beneath the Falls]

Mid morning it seemed it was with the sun casting onto the tree tops and illuminating the beautiful waterfall that was their home. Home...a place Phyre never thought even existed anymore but yet...she had been here for eight years now...wow eight heh that was longer than her life back on the outskirts of the rain village. This village really put up with Phyre for this long? Well maybe that was because they hadn't found out the truth about this girl's past...least not yet.

She continued walking aiming for a small path that looked like it led to some of the mountain peaks. She was hoping it would be one that the bird that saved her life flew to after leaving her. Shigure had broken the silence that had been lingering since they started walking to the exit of the village. She thought about it..'Should I really tell this guy why I want to find this specific bird so badly? Might lead to actually spurting out the reason I left that other village...decisions...decisions...'

She would barely look back at Shigure and say. "What's it to you?" she would say trying to keep it in as to why. Though it would be she really did want to tell someone her deep dark secrets. No one knew but her...and those left at the Rain Village. Though for the bird that was truly just on Phyre's knowledge. She would keep walking and see what they could see up in the sky. 'Maybe I should tell him...after all seems he is a good choice to help out on finding this bird faster...' she thought as she would try to look at the sky for any signs.

Maybe if she was attacked by those blood hawks again it would show up...

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Not found, sorry. keep at it

[Image In the Falls]

This snark from his teammate seemed to slightly pester him. They have been together for some time now, yet nothing about this girl has been retrieved by neither him nor Hiroki. Shigure knew this girl was somewhat shy, but enough was enough. Continueing to scan the signs for any eagle-like chakra, the boy spoke.

"Im just asking a simple question, youve never really spoken to either of us, and were your team. We need to know a little bit about you, just even a tiny shred. Its fine if you want too keep some things personal, but you need to atleast trust us with your secrets. We're friends... and comrades now."

Shigure's mouth usually got him in trouble, but he sincerely want to know more about Phyre. He trusted her with his life, and his hers. He wanted to know more. "You probably already know i fled my home in the fire country because i didnt want to grow up as an Aristocrat, i tried going to Konohagakure first, but i was caught before i could join, now i'm here. I Didn't know anything about this village, but its where my family originated from. I was scared, but i pushed past my fears and studied hard." Shigure eyes met Phyre before he spoke once more.

"Why are you a shinobi?"

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Phyre would look down at the ground but back slightly at Shigure, she was listening to him. Though as he said he wanted to know more, and not just wanted...needed...When all was said and done, she sighed.

"I never told a soul...the bird was about the one friend i had for a day...she saved me from some nasty hawks...I was only armed with utensils at the time...If it wasn't for that bird I probably would have died. I was only seven...wondering about the forest alone and no place to call home...I had lost mine...more like kicked out but not by...who you would think..." Phyre paused for the longest time. Talking about the bird was one thing, that wasn't that big of a secret, it wasn't detrimental to her life. Though Shigure had asked why she choose to be a shinobi. That there took some thinking. Why had she really joined?

It was almost as if Phy choose to skip subject and try to answer that question before finishing what seemed like THE story everyone wanted to hear. "I guess...because of the adventure...or not really having to deal with people...or...well...I mean...performing lone tasks where no one cared who you were...just some soldier...at least that is sort of the reason now...before I guess...it was to be seen and for adventure. Aint easy trying to get a special someone's attention when all they care to do is take care of the non-blood related orphans...Not that...that even matters now..." she would say stopping there figuring Shigure would probably punch her for a self centered reason for being a Shinobi. She wanted to help people like her sister did, it wasn't that she really knew that was a job back at the age of six when she tried to tell her sister that once though...

Phy would continue to climb the mountain, with no signs other than the occasional chirping of other birds. Maybe with her luck the blood hawks would show back up and maybe then her hero would come. She would nearly be to one of the tops of the peaks above the waterfall several hours later it would seem.

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Eagle found! Ca-caw!

[Image In the Falls]

Listening to Phyre as they walked made Shigure realize that this girl had a self-centered personality about her. Jealousy as well. Whoever she wanted attention from was now either gone or they abandoned her. He picked these traits out of that simple response she gave, and it wasn't hard.

"I wouldn't sweat the small stuff anymore, learn from your past and discard it. Its not worth pestering yourself of it. Nothing you do will change your past, you need to pray for the future, and live in the present."

It was a very pronoun thing for the teenager to say, but he has gotten better about actually helping people instead of being completely self-centered. Even though he thought about his life with his family, never needing to lift a hand for anything, and having everything you needed. Sure his life has changed drastically, but he enjoys what he does. That's all that matters to the boy.

In a clearing near the edge of the wooded mountain top his sensory ability picked up on a decent signature of a rather large bird. As he looked closely, it was a golden-colored eagle perched on a dead tree. Rather ominous, but nevertheless, Shigure would point and speak once more. "Is that the bird your looking for?"

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Phyre listened to Shigure's words on not to dwell on it much. "I couldn't change the past anyway. When people don't exist in this world no more...they don't exist no more...even the village people don't exist when they think the wrong one left..and you're a nothing...I wanted to be a something I guess. I do what I do to feel alive still." she would say just a bit more probably confirming more to Shigure's theory that what he assumed about someone leaving her was true.

When he pointed at a large golden eagle perched on a dead tree branch, Phy would look up there and smile. The eagle would tilt its head slightly as if trying to recognize the people nearby. "Heh...hey there my hero, remember me?" she would say it looked as if whatever Phy had just said in a sadder tone had changed to more of a happier one, well slightly happier. Phyre would walk up to the branch an attempt to whistle for it. "What say you, Shikazi. Wanna come and be my eyes in the sky companion here?" she would say giving the bird a name she just randomly made up.

She would look back at Shigure with half of a grin. This was probably the first time her comrade saw an actual genuine smile on her. "Not to diss your abilities or anything there Sugar Ray, but this one can help with messages too I'm sure of it!" she would say pronouncing Shigure's name weird. "Well I guess we should get back to the village huh?" she would say reaching her arm up for the bird to perch on her right arm, and climb up to her shoulder for easier stability.