[E] Katsu Kazeraikou - 5

[Tieren]

Before lies a rather small, dark, and dank passageway. The size seems just big enough to walk through, as well as any companions without causing anyone to squish. Even the one with the large machine would find it just big enough for it to get through without scraping along the walls. It was as though each one was designed specifically for each person. Could this be what the person who registered all for the exam was typing in the entire time?

As the passage continued to be navigated, the lights barely lighting up the walls, floor, and ceiling, a voice would finally ring out through the area, one that was rather familiar. It was the registrar, and apparent proctor of the exams.

”Greetings to you all for participating in the exams. For passing through your doorways, you have chosen to partake in this years Chuunin Examinations. Before the exams truly begin, I have an announcement to make. Three participants did not meet the deadline. Asami Lei-Fong and Sasayaki Hateke of Leaf as well as Kaoru Takeuchi of Waterfall did not make it to their doors in time. As such, they have been disqualified, leaving the number of participants at Twenty Four.”

”Now then. As stated before, for these exams, you will be working alone, or with whichever animal or mechanical companion you brought with you. Each of you will be watched every step of the way. In a few moments, you'll step into a larger room where you will see a few things that we will be giving you for these exams.”

After those words were said, that room started to light up before each individual. It wasn't incredibly large, but gave a bit more breathing room unlike the previous passage. In the center of the room was a table. On it held a circular disk, a black box, and a small earpiece.

”Before you lies three things. A earpiece, that will help deliver special instructions. Anything you hear over the intercom is being broadcast to all areas. But anything that pertains directly to you will be played through the earpiece. If you choose not to wear it, be cautious, for you won't hear any special instructions that could cause you to fail the exams. The disk is something you eat should you feel the exams are too much. Your testing will end and you will immediately be ejected from the testing area to go back home. The black box is a room reset. It is a one time use. If you feel that you have come across something you cannot handle, throw the box at the ground and everything else in the room will disappear. But as I said, it is a one time use. If you use it on one thing, you may find yourself against a more difficult test later on.”

A few moments of silence passed before the words started up again, as though giving the participants a chance to collect the items and place them where they want them.

”Each of these exams is catered to the individual. We have obtained records of your abilities and your previous missions from your village. In the process, we have been able to formulate each exam to each person. The stronger you are, the harder it could end up being. So no two tests will be the same. We wish you the best of luck, and we hope to see you at the end of the exams.”

And with that, a light appeared at the end of the room, allowing each person to go through and begin their personalized experience.

[OOC: As stated in the post, each thread will be different. If you are S rank, you'll fight harder enemies than one who just got the 500 TP needed for the exams. So each examiner will be doing things differently. The name of each thread lists who will be in it, and the number is who your examiner is. There is no IIC for these threads. You can take as long as you need to when making a post as I want you all to think about it and work on the best possible post that you can. The examiners have a 3 day IIC. If the examiner has not posted in that time, PM me and I'll be sure to get another examiner to post. I will also make a note if an examiner has PMed me to tell me that they will be gone for a short period of time. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or your examiner. Let the exams begin!]

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[OOC: Katsu has gone to some lengths to ensure that his Soulcaster powers remained hidden from everyone. Even if a person with Soul Sight were to look at him they could tell he was a Soulcaster, not how experienced of one he might be. Thus I feel that there would be no In Character reason for the Exam to take into account the TP Katsu has in Soulcaster. Thank you for reading this!]

[ENTER]

Katsu slowly entered the door that had been presented to him along with his Owl-friend Seishin. The door quickly slammed shut, sealing them in. Just to be sure he had everything, Katsu searched himself for like the fiftieth time that day. He wore simple black pants and a long-sleeved shirt of indeterminate yet durable material. The shirt and pants were a little loose for comfort and ease of movement but the end of the sleeves were tapered down to avoid getting in the way of any movements Katsu would need to perform with his hands. A small waxed cloth hood and cloak, also black, covered his face in shadow, and a cloth mask across the nose meant that only his eyes would be visible. Or would be if there wasn't a pair of goggles covering those completely, the eyes behind completely hidden from casual view. Simple black socks and thin black leather gloves covered hands and feet, completely hiding any flesh from view. A Kumogakure headband adorned his forehead outside the hood.

Inside of the goggles were special enhancements like Camera Vision, Night Vision, Thermal Vision, Anti-Flash Lenses, and of course Zooming Vision. Katsu also had pockets sewn into the underside of the cloak, secretly hiding 15 Hiro Shuriken, 4 kunai, 2 knives, and a lock picking set within them. On his back was a 110 lb Draw Recurve bow, it's strange design looking more like two living branches bound together into both a ranged and melee weapon. It could service Katsu as a Bow or a longsword as needed. Next to it was a huge shoulder quiver filled with 300 arrows of different types, including flares, flashbangs, fire, ice, mechanical blade, broadpoint, frag grenades, goo heads, concussive grenades, and frag timer arrows. At Katsu's waist was a simple battleaxe, fifteen feet of wire, a pair of longswords, and a Fuuma Shuriken. A messenger bag also held within itself a world map, a multi-tool, 20 Exploding Tags, 20 Ice Tags, 20 Lightning Tags, and 57 senbon within it, it was also where the goggles would normally be placed when not in use.

As the door slammed shut Katsu pulled the bow off of his back and carefully strung it. Once it was strung he pulled a broad-point arrow from his quiver and nocked it, but he did not draw the string. He wanted to be ready, not tired, when something happened. Katsu listened quietly as the Announcement rang out, and he slowly edged his way down the hallway towards the room that was spoken of. He spoke to Seishin quietly in the language of predatory birds as he made his way into the bigger room, "I have to tell you I'm more than a little relieved to have you with me Falling Star. The reputation of this Test is bad. Also with the dwellings of the humans in this area all being empty it has me on edge. I'm also confused. Most of these Tests revolve around hunting as a group. Yet this time it is not so. They only allowed you to join me because they do not view animals as people but as tools."

"This is troubling, Victory. I know your kind is not prone to migration without threat to beak and claw once a group has grown so large. Still, if they treat me as nothing but a tool then we shall use that to end this hunt successfully beyond their expectations." Seishin replied, walking along behind Katsu on his claws. The hallway was sized for Katsu, and so poor Seishin didn't have the room to spread his wings to fly or even to hop onto Katsu's shoulders and perch there.

Katsu smiled beneath his cloth mask, "Good to have you with me, Falling Star."

Finally reaching the table Katsu listened as the intercom told him about the earpiece, the disk, and the box. Once the intercom was silent once more Katsu quickly took the disk and the box and carefully set them inside of his Messenger bag. One always took every resource available to them in order to complete a mission, and that's exactly how his parents had told Katsu to treat the Chuunin Exams, as a mission. Turning to Seishin as he picked up the earpiece, he said, "Alright, this little thing I have here is going to give me the instructions to complete this hunt. It will weaken my hearing, so I would ask that you keep your senses awake to help balance my weakness.

"It is fortunate though that I have told no one of some of my skills however, not even my family. It may give me the edge I need in a confrontation." Katsu fitted the earpiece into position in his right ear, and he keyed up the microphone within the device (assuming it had one of course) and spoke into it in the language of humans, "This is Katsu of the Kazeraikou from Kumogakure reporting in. What are my orders, Sir?"

[Chuunin Examiner 5]

OOC: Please refrain from altering the color of your text, it makes it incredibly annoying to read. If you feel the need to differentiate one person's speech from another then please use bold or underlined text. Also, I know I cannot alter your actions, but I do request that you please not fight the owl's capture too much, she will not be integral or much needed in this initial part.

IC:

There was a presence within the area, powerful yet unseen, undetected. All signs of life concealed as the figure snuck up behind the Kazeraikou, it would have been so easy to slit the boy's throat as he was gathering the supplies, but that was not the figure's role here. While the Genin was busy collecting the items presented for the exams the concealed figure would quickly grab the unattended owl from behind, all he need do was get a hold on it for a moment and the figure and owl would both disappear, as if they had never been there to begin with. Should this take place there would be silence until the earpiece was in place and then a voice would be heard over it.

"Sorry about the owl, she's safe and sound and will be returned to you as soon as phase one of your individual exam are completed. Now, for the first part we will be testing your mind with some riddle, five in total. You will have two chances to get them right, but if you get them wrong then something will happen. Who knows what." A chuckle would be heard over the headset, the voice's gender indeterminate as a philter was layered over it to conceal such a thing. "At the end of this hall is your first riddle on a door, good luck."

If the Kazeraikou continued through the hall he would come to discover the door in question. It seemed like a simple looking door, yet there was writing on it with two blank lines underneath the writing for answers. Beside the door there was a small table with a Shaprie on it and a sign saying 'Take the pen, it will be your only way to answer the riddles on the doors.' The writing on the door read, "What is the center of gravity."

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[OOC: Then Bold will be speech and Italic will be thoughts ]

Katsu was unfortunately too busy to notice the stealthy figure, and didn't notice anything amiss until he got a response over his earpiece. "Sorry about the owl.." At those words Katsu whipped around to find nothing but empty air. Shock and anger coursed through Katsu's small body like a torrent, blurring his vision for a moment. At least Katsu had managed to keep silent and listen to the rest of the words coming out of the earpiece.

When it went silent once more Katsu yelled in frustration, for the first time actually wanting to shoot someone. " What's the point of letting me bring a 'tool' if you're going to immediately take it away again?! You... you... you bastards!" As the foul words passed his lips Katsu realized what he had said and clapped his hand over his mouth, looking around as if expecting his mother to pop out of the wall and wash his mouth out with soap. His parents had really hammered in how to act properly all through his life. There was a specific upside to that in this case. It defused Katsu's anger. Helped him to think a little straighter and drained his fury.

Alright, Katsu thought to himself, they've taken Seishin but they say they'll give him back. Since they hold all the cards the best you can do is just get through phase one as quickly as possible.

With his course of action decided, or coerced as he felt in his own mind, Katsu moved down the hallway he had been told of and came to the door with the riddle on it. At first he realized that he was having trouble reading the words on the door in the dim light, and he moved his hands up to his goggles as if he was going to switch on his Nightvision. In fact he did so, but Katsu was using the motion to concentrate. He focused the power of his soul into his eyes, and the world came into better focus, Katsu more than capable of seeing in even moonlight now. A moment later he turned the Nightvision back off, done reading the sign, but keeping the eyes of his Soul wide open. Then Katsu read the words over and over in his mind, frowning in concentration. Center of gravity...

Katsu had been brought up in a Shinobi family. His mother wasn't a Shinobi like his father but she was a Master Archer and knew a great deal about martial arts and war, while his father was an Academy Instructor. Both of them had taught him a lot on martial theories and the philosophy of war, and he knew there was an answer somewhere in what he had been taught. His mind went back to the book he had read simply called "On War". Katsu couldn't remember the author's name but he did remember that in the book there was a concept that his father had told him was the "Center of Gravity". Trying to remember the exact words that his father had told him Katsu picked up the sharpie and pantomimed writing the words on the door without actually doing so.

The thought struck him that the military definition of center of gravity stemmed from a previous definition of the word. It was essentially a more advanced and specific definition, one that was connected closely to warfare. Katsu's mother had taught him the more basic definition of the word, citing that it was a key factor in many martial arts and fighting in general. Even as an archer she stated that it was key to master your own in order to be able to shoot effectively.

Of course, every time Katsu looked up at the riddle he thought that it couldn't be something so difficult as what Katsu knew. The Kazeraikou Clan was special, well known for it's ability to produce gifted children not just in the ways of the Shinobi but in more academic fields like the sciences or art. What they viewed as simple might not be so to most people. So perhaps the answer was simpler than a true definition. Perhaps it was one of those word puzzles? Which meant Katsu had to look at the riddle more carefully. What... is the center... of gravity?

Then it hit him. If you viewed it as a simple word puzzle the answer was right there in the riddle. Gravity was a seven letter word, which meant the fourth level, or 'v' in this case, was the center letter. Katsu felt kind of insulted that that was the kind of riddle they had given him. Yes he was only twelve years old but come on! Trying to trick him with a word puzzle. Katsu grumbled, thinking they couldn't think him so simple. Maybe they were trying to trick him another way? Yet if Katsu continued that line of thought he'd go in circles. Luckily, Katsu didn't see anywhere where it said he couldn't just write down all three of his answers at once and make that his whole answer. He didn't remember the examiner telling him something like that either.

So with an attitude of better safe than sorry, Katsu wrote down the following with his sharpie pen...

"The center of gravity is either the letter V, the point in space where the body’s weight is concentrated, or the source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act."

Katsu keyed up his earpiece and spoke, "I hope you don't hold it against me for writing every answer I could think of. That question had multiple answers so I just wrote them all as my whole answer. Center of Gravity from a Martial Artist's perspective is the point in space where your weight is concentrated. Yet from a military strategist it's more akin to a key asset, something that tips the scales of a battle or operation in or out of your favor. I gave the definition my father told me..." Katsu really thought he should have asked this before he wrote down his answer, but too late now!

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Jutsu used!

Eyes of the Planes
Rank: "C" [20], "B", "A", "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User gains Low-light and is capable of seeing invisible creatures.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: You stumble on a way to change your soul's eyes so they are more like the eyes of planar creatures. Since you are a reflection of your own soul your eyes change as well. This technique lasts for 5 hours per Class Level. User gains the ability of low-light vision and can see auras of invisible creatures. User may see only auras and no definite figures. They will know something is there, but will not be able to see what they are holding, what they are doing, nor what they look like. User also sees lingering auras where living creatures have touched solid objects much like a footprint. These lingering auras only last for 1 hour per class level and 1 hour per rank learned before they fade away. When first learned user may only see auras cast from "D" and "C" rank invisibility techniques. When user learns the "B" Rank version they may only see auras cast from "B" rank invisibility techniques. When user learns the "A" Rank version they may only see auras cast from "A" rank invisibility techniques. When user learns the "S" Rank version they may only see auras cast from "S" rank invisibility techniques.
Limit: Must be a Soulcaster.

[Chuunin Examiner 5]

The figure smirked in their chair as the boy complained about the taking away of his owl. Children, so easily angered, "Naughty children get their toys taken away, and this is about your brain not the bird's." Messing with the child would be such fun during his time in charge of the exam. Monitors followed the boy as he walked, turning on his night vision goggles for seemingly no reason. The hall may not have been the most well lit of places but there was more than enough light to see with, the night vision would likely just hurt his eyes.

When the boy's answers were finally written down the boy wouldn't even have the chance to speak before the Concussive explosion went of. The enclosed space of the hall that he was in would make escaping the blast impossible, trying to escape it with the position he was so close to the wall would even only make it worse. You see, we was fourteen meters away from the center of the blast, which came from in the hall, hidden not from sight through invisibility or any techniques, but simple camouflage to make it seem a normal stone. A moment or so after the blast went off the voice would speak into his ear once again, "Trying to cheat will get you nowhere. There are two spaces, each will only accept one answer, by trying to put in more than one in one space then you have tried to cheat the game and thus been punished."

There was a brief pause followed by the sound exhaling through the filter, "You have only one chance left before the punishment game, boy" Moments before the voice was about to end the transmission there was a pained sound from the voice's end. "Stupid bird." That was all that the voice said before the filtered, though recognizable, sound of a smack and thud of a small animal smashing against a wall before all contact with the Kazeraikou was cut off.

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[OOC: Personally that seemed like a dick move there Punished for knowing multiple answers... ]

BOOM!

WHAM!

Thud...

That was the sound of the explosion going off and sending Katsu head first into the door in front of him, his head slamming into the surface hard enough to really hurt him if it wasn't for his headband protector absorbing a bit of the kinetic energy involved. Setting off an explosion meant to throw around an adult tended to send little kids like Katsu flying like a rag-doll. Katsu slumped unconscious to the floor and stayed there for a good fifteen seconds before his brain gave the green light and did a reboot. When finally Katsu was conscious once more his head felt like... well like a bomb had went off. Blood seeped out of a ragged cut above his forehead, dripping down into the cloth of his headband. Groaning from the pain Katsu stood, using the wall as support, as his shaky legs wanted to give out on him at any moment. His body wasn't tough like adults. He was still small and frail. His eyes seeing double Katsu slowly searched first for his bow, then second for the sharpie pen. Luckily both seemed to have not taken much damage from the concussion, although Katsu's bowstring had snapped. Katsu concentrated on restringing his bow (What archer didn't carry extra bowstring?) while his head cleared and his eyes started to focus better.

When Katsu could finally concentrate on something more than the pain in his skull and the condition of his tools he had completely missed whatever the examiner had been telling him. That was assuming the explosion hadn't damaged the earpiece anyway. Electronics tended to be fragile after all. So Katsu missed the taunting and the explanation and whatever else, and had only the fact that writing multiple answers got him an explosion to go by. Still not quite thinking Katsu just wrote...

V

...on the second line. Katsu didn't say anything. One he didn't think he could actually speak yet, and two he felt it probably would get him nowhere useful. Either they'd take his answer or not. Katsu leaned heavily against the wall still, just waiting for whatever.

[Chuunin Examiner 5]

OOC: No, it's not a dick move, it's not punishing you for knowing multiple answers. It's punishing you for giving multiple answers in one, this is a game of riddles and as with all riddle games you get one answer per try, doing otherwise is cheating. Thus you were punished for cheating. Also, your reaction is a bit too violent here, I used Concussion grenades as my base reference for the blast and put you at the edge of wounded and completely unharmed. At most it probably should have been like a hard punch to the stomach, child or not, MAYBE knock you a bit off balance.

IC:

Well, that was a bit more violent of a blast than had been expected to throw the boy against the door like that. Words would need to be had with the manufacturer about that, yet things were still underway. It seemed that the boy had not heard any of the words that were spoken as he had been unconscious. Well, no matter, that would just make things all the more fun. The boy answered the riddle, this time picking only one of the answers and the sound of a lock could be heard.

The door would slowly creak open, moving towards the boy as it did so, this time revealing another one, much like the first. Yet this one seemed to stretch on far longer than the previous, though the lighting was just about the same as before. Still, the ending would not be in sight for a while were the boy to walk down the hall. Yet with a hall so long, one might start to wonder what there might be in store while walking down it. As soon as the boy walked through the doorway and into that hall, though, the door would slam shut.

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[OOC: I hate riddles so much then.]

Katsu's head was still clearing when the door unlocked itself and slowly creaked open. Well at least another bomb didn't go off. That's a relief. Still it seems that I should have checked the area for dangers. I might have avoided the explosion if I had. Katsu rubbed his forehead, glad the gash wasn't very serious and was already beginning to clot, the headband helping the blood to stay in place long enough to begin to harden. Taking hold of the door Katsu would swing it wider so that he could get a good look at the hallway that he was supposed to traverse. Long and apparently featureless. Hooray. Katsu stood in the doorway between the two hallways, thinking of what to do. Really though it was obvious. Scout out the hallway.

Katsu knelt in the doorway and began to concentrate, dragging forth the power of his soul, placing his hand out in front of him roughly six inches above the ground. A nimbus of light, pure and white, suffused the air below his hand for a long moment before it coalesced into a three inch tall version of Katsu, wearing the exact same gear that Katsu himself had, even his bow and quiver full of arrows. Standing straight Katsu turned his attention to the door, he knew his miniature self would do what he had in mind, since it was him. In the meantime Katsu figured he might be able to learn something.

Performing a quick string of handseals Katsu activated the Dojutsu of the Kazeraikou, the Ryuugan. It let him see many things, and in this case Katsu was looking to the door to see if there was any kind of electrical current near it, preferably near the hinges. The door was capable of opening and shutting itself. That meant that there was a good chance that it was run by an electrical device controlled by the Examiner. The Kazeraikou were good with electronics, in their own way.

If there was indeed electricity controlling the door then Katsu would focus himself and perform more handseals, his eyes glowing bright for a moment as he possessed the electrical device that operated the door with his chakra. His awareness would spread throughout the device, as well as any device that it happened to connected to via an electrical current, his chakra riding the electricity to every device it could. This meant that if the door was connected to another device either through an information line or a power line, Katsu would become aware of it and be able to possess it just as easily as he had this door. Potentially Katsu could possess every electrical object in the entire complex, from the lights to the surveillance systems to the Air conditioning systems to any other door mechanisms there might be.

Depending on how many machines Katsu had managed to possess he would choose what to do. If Katsu managed to possess any of the other door mechanisms, the surveillance systems, or any computer for that matter Katsu would perform a third set of handseals. His chakra would leap forward and take direct control of the systems he was possessing, wrenching control from its programming to make it do Katsu's bidding instead. If Katsu could look through a computer with a hard drive and find a map of the place he was in he would have the computer transmit the information to his Camera Vision within his goggles. Of course if he happened across some other information that might be useful given his current position he'd have that downloaded to his Camera Vision hard drive as well. As for the door mechanisms they would be activated, unlocking every door Katsu could and pushing them open. The surveillance system would have Katsu looking through any camera lens, seeing everything the system would see, perhaps even the other examinees as they took their own Exams. Of course, Katsu knew that the Examiner wouldn't like him fudging around inside of his computers, and Katsu would take steps to prevent some retribution. When he would first take control of the computers he would have caused them to scramble their log in information, removing all accepted accounts and just putting a single account and password as the valid one. Username: Corn. Password: Whole Kernal! One last task would be to see if he could Seishin, and set the bird free if possible. Once Katsu was done getting the information he could from the computers, he'd make them reboot, coming up to the login screen in due time.

Of course this was all assuming that no part of that process was interrupted or blocked. If any of that was blocked then Katsu would just sit back near the door and wait on his little three inch copy to do what he needed to do and hoping the Examiner didn't feel like punishing him for his actions. It was possible they could block him. Katsu knew that Kumogakure knew of his knowledge of the Electronic Possession jutsu, and if the Examiners had really got their hands on the info Kumo had, then they'd be able to find some way to stop Katsu.

= = = = = The Soul Sliver = = = = =

The little sliver of Katsu's soul given shape and form knew his goal. To scout out the area for the bigger him. So the little guy would get to work, using Shinobi jumps to propel him forward at some kind of reasonable pace, kind of like a grasshopper in speed. There wasn't any to distract the Sliver from investigating every nook and cranny of the tunnel as they moved forward, searching for anything in the otherwise featureless hallway. This of course would take a while but the Sliver knew that big him was going to take a while trying to hack some things.

If there was nothing to harm him or to require him to mark it out for Katsu, the little sliver would just keep going forward until they hit the other end of the hallway, and then reaching into it's quiver it would fire five Flashbang arrows at the wall. The arrows would be like toothpicks and the flashbangs power would be miniscule but five should be enough to signal Katsu that the Sliver had found the end of the tunnel.

[Chuunin Examiner 5]

The Kazeraikou would search for the electronics in the door, yet he would find that there were none. In fact, no matter where he looked there would be no electronics in the room, no electrical surveillance, doors, lights, nothing ran on electricity. There was one electronic device, though, the earpiece that crackled with static for a moment. "As riveting as it is to watch you hide while that little clone of yours runs through a hallway, I'm closing the door in three seconds." And so the voice would, after three seconds the door would shut, and if the boy was left on the wrong side of it, then he would have to use his box to move on.

The little sliver of his soul would find nothing as it moved on and investigated, yet the voice was getting bored. The earpiece had remained on and a filtered crack could be heard over it as the man snapped an animal's bones. Though distorted beyond understanding, the shriek of pain from an owl could be heard as well. "Go ahead and take your time." The voice said, "I'll be having fun with my new toy. Let's go with the feathers next." The plucking of feathers did not make it through over the speaker, but the pained shrieks of the owl did.

Should the boy try and gain an understanding of the bird's language, he would find that the filter distorted it too much for anything to be understood.

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[OOC: I can't think of anything else my character would do, sure I could OOCly just break character to keep going but the character is supposed to guide the action so...]

If the goal of the Examiner had been to unsettle Katsu with his little show, it worked. It worked very well. Katsu was just a twelve year old. Yes he was raised as a Shinobi but he'd still never been put through anything like what was going on just then. Street scuffles with some older idiots wanting to pick on his friends was one thing, having to listen to someone snap the bones of his friend with him able to do nothing was completely different!

Katsu burst into tears at the sound of the snapping bones, having to pull the goggles from his face before his tears filled them up and blinded him. He shouted at the top of his lungs, "Stop! What are you doing?! Stop hurting him you Sadistic Bastards! What the fuck kind of Shinobi are you to just torture someone like that?! STOP IT!!" Katsu pounded his small fists on the door hard enough to break the skin, his fists soon bleeding. His voice was already becoming hoarse with his screams.

The unabated torture, the screams of his friend, was too much. Katsu fumbled through his blurred vision to open his messenger bag, digging out the little disk that he had been given before the real start of the exam. A tiny moment of hesitation while Katsu thought on if he was going to throw away this chance at Chuunin, and then he bit down on the disk, chewing it as fast as he could and swallowing. Katsu needed to get Seishin out of here somehow, and the only way he knew was to quit. Spit him and Seishin out in the lobby; that's what Katsu hoped happened. In his mind Katsu was already trying to think of how he was going to get Seishin to a Hospital, cursing the fact that the one here in Minarai wasn't going to be any help...

[Katsu FORFEITS]

[Chuunin Examiner 5]

OOC: This was not my intent, but I applaud you for sticking to your character to the bitter end, even if it meant failing.

IC:

It was done, sadly, and the boy devoured his disk to save his friend, yet that friend never needed saving. When the boy ate the disk, he would find both himself and his owl in the local hospital, in case there were any injuries that needed treating, with the exam items gone. The owl Seishin, however, didn't need any treatment. It had never been the one being harmed over the earpiece, that had been a different owl.

[Tieren]

[Sorry, I should have mentioned that I intended on making a post. I just didn't have a chance to before. Disregard the above post, but don't worry, Examiner 5. It was my fault for mentioning that I'd be responsible for posting when someone chose to leave the exams.]

As the disk dissolved in Katsu's mouth, a strange laugh would fill the room as a flash of white light shone throughout the room. With that flash, the box that Katsu had been given, as well as the earpiece, dissolved away, never to be seen again.

When the light disappeared, the registrar had been standing in the middle of the main room, in front of the large test tube. Suddenly, a large red X appeared on Katsu's former door.

"What a shame... All this time coming here, and it wasn't even your owl that was being tortured. To see through deception is the way of the shinobi. Perhaps you should rethink the career path you've taken. Go on now. We don't allow failures within these walls." He said, turning back to his work. It was then that he pressed a button and started speaking into a microphone. It was time to let the participants know what had happened.

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[Exit with Seishin]