On the road {Travel}

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Finally after summing up the courage to speak with the Raikage, katachi had permission to leave the lightning village and head to the grass, where hopefully, he would be taught the move that he searched for. Katachi returned to his cabin and grabbed his things. He grabbed his kunai, shurekin, windmills and what ever other ninja tools he held in his possesion, as well as a couple of jutsu's that he ahd written down to learn along the road. he looked at a picture of him and his mother when he was younger before heading off toward the village gate.

Katachi travelled through the village, only stopping for some ramen. When he reached the village gate, Katachi pulled out his map that he had copied from the cloud's library. He studied the map and started to head west toward the sound country. About fiftenn minutes into his walk, Katachi veered south, but only a little. If he had continued his trek south, he would have ended up in in the ocean from the borders of the lightning country.

Katachi soon found himself in unfamiliar territory. He knew that he must have finally left from the lightning countries borders. According to his map, he was now in the claw country. The hearing of the word claw followed by country, Katachi thought that there must be many animals, such as bears, that resided in this country. Many animals that were fierce and deadly. Looking at his map, Katachi continued his trek west while veering south a little bit. He passed trees, streams, lakes and many small animals on his way. He had occasionally seen wolves and foxes as well as bears, but he kept his distance and snuck past the animals.

Katachi had noted the terrain change extremly. It was now grassy and full of life. Rocks sat on the ground, living in peace as teh wind blew hgently, allowing small miniscule items to choose their path instead of being forced to folllow the wind's. Katachi looked on his map and noted that this was one of the un-named lands that was on the cloud's library books. Ther were tiny animals like prarrie dogs and naked mole-rats. Aside from that, Katachi didn't really notice any animals that could really pose a threat. Looking straight ahead, katachi noted several trees. It was odd that a patch of trees were in the middle of this grassy meadow, but Katachi walked through it, noticing several fruit ripe for the taking. Katachi pulled out a senbon and threw it at several fruit, knocking them off and into Katachi's pack, before he picked up his senbon. As he exited the patch of trees, Katachi noted the terrain change again.

Halfway there, Katachi thought as he arrived at in Sound Country...

(Move to sound country)

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Katachi looked around the landscape as he noted that he was now in the Sound Country. He had noticed the war-sruck land and the burned grass, as well as the crumbling mountains. Katachi had read up on the sound country as heheard that they had their own hidden village. He found out that the current leader of the Sound Village was once a ninja from the leaf. This meant that he would take any measures to capture Katachi as he travelled through the Sound Country.

Before Katachi knew it, he was further than he had expected he would be. Thinking of what he had learned in the cloud's library, Katachi had passed the time. Looking to his left, katachi noticed several pieces of rubble from old buildings, he guessed were from teh war with the fang. Looking to his left, he saw burned grass, fields. Katachi thought about how the war must have played out. Shinobi dying from both sides and the people suffering. He shoved off the thought from his head and continued his trek.

Cintinuing his trek, Katachi had walked by a guard post. He tried to sneak past the guards, but he was caught. Hey!!, they yellled. Thinking fast, katachi did a couple of handsigns and sank into teh ground. The guard looked around confusingly and Katachi noed that they must not have been shinobi. He travelled underground until he thought he was away from the guards and when he rose up, he stood far away from the guard post.

Turning around, Katachi noticed several mountains standing before him. Looking on his map, Katachi had known what this meant. It meant, that he had arrived in fang country.

{Move to Fang Country}

[pandoru]

{Moved}

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Katachi held his position and looked around at the surrounding mountains. The mountains were taller than than any other ones that Katachi had seen. Katachi began his walk, still looking around. Looking closer at the mountains, Katachi noticed many caves. Katachi thought of bats and the word fang. Putting those two words together, Katachi came to a conclusion that the caves held bats.

Navigating through the Fang country on foot proved more than difficult so Katachi decided to take his travels onto the mountains themselves. Focusing chakra to hsi feet, Katachi walked alog the mountain, making better time and passing the annoyances of the ground below. Soon without him knowing, Katachi had made his way up the mountain and on to a beaten path. Katachi looked down and noticed a stream below, sitting a couple meters away from a river. The river was closest though.

Continuing along the beaten path of the mountain, katachi had ran into an unexpected guest. There in front of him, scavenging a dead deer was a wolf. The wolf had glared at him with threatening eyes, showing it's teeth and growling. Putting ttwo and two together, Katachi figured out that the wolf thought hat Katachi was trying to take it's food. Looking down over the cliff, Katachi caught another glance of the river. Katachi crept slowly, not wanting to provoke the wolf.

When katachi got too close, the wolf howled and charged forward. being a predator, the wolf was quite dangerous. The wolf leaped at Katachi, skinning his shirt and cutting his chest a little, as he moved out the way. lookign down to examine his chest where he had been cut, Katacho noticed a drop of blood. Katachi smiled. He needed soem practice before he arrived at teh grass village. Activating his Sharingan, Katachi provoked the wolf into attacking once more.

The wolf charged forward and when it did, Katachi swiftly dodged to the left. the wolf was no challenge against his sharingan and Katachi was having fun. Before he knew it, the sky had turned dark and Katachi decided to continue his trip to the Grass village. Katachi looked into the wolf's eyes and formed the rat handseal. As his eyes opened, a bright flash blinded the wolf. As teh wolf closed it's eyes, Katachi rushed past it, petting it on it's head as he leaped off the side of the cliff. Freefalling downward into the river.

Focusing chakra into his feet, katachi landed on the river, continuing his trek, wihtout slowing down. Katachi closed his eyes and deactivated his sharingan. When he re-opened them, he stood beyond a grand water fall. Smiling, katachi rushed through the water fall, exiting from the other side to see a passage ahead.

{Move to Waterfall}

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Katachi looked back at the waterfall behind before proceeding forward. Following he path, Katachi noted the cave walls. it seemed as if moss was growing on them. Looking down, katachi noticed several little salamanders and other small animals crawling on the ground. Katachi practiced his jutsu. using his Rock Creation Technique, he crated a rock. He tossed the rock up into teh air over and over again to pass the time. As he reached the edge of the tunnel, Katachi dropped the rock as he noted several small holes in the ground filled with water.

Katachi looked around the room. He saw no exit besides the small pools of water. Feeling no hesitation, Katachi dived in, feeling the moisture of the liquid he was submerged in. He continued to swim through the tunnels. He swam past many small fish and a weird looking sea creature. the creature had eight legs and crawled on he floor. It seemed to be following Katachi. Keeping his eyes on the eight legged creature, when Katachi looked up, he saw the exit from the cave.

Rising to the surface of the lake, Katachi saw an array of buldings. He figured that this must have been tehw aterfall village. Focusing chakra to his feet, Katachi now stood on top of the water, walking along as if it were solid ground. In less than fifteen minutes, katachi reached the shore of the Water-Fall Village. Kaachi was unsure if the waterfall and the Cloud Village were allies so he perched a cloth over his headband and proceeded.

Katachi walked past many villagers. They were weary of him at first, but as he showed them that he meant no harm, they barely acknowledged him. He continued to walk and soon, a giant tree sat in front of him. Katachi was in a hurry and rushed past it, but he couldn't stop thinking about it. Soon Katachi was out of the village and well on his way to the Grass Village. Continuing along the path that led out of the waterfall village, Katachi pulled out some of teh fruit that he had tooken from calw country.

As he bit into the fruit, katachi noticed an extreme change in the terrain. The terrain was now grassy and filled with flowers. Bees sat on the flowers, sucking their nector while caterpillers ate off of the leaves. There was no doubt about it, Katachi was now in Grass Country..

{Move To Grass Country}

[pandoru]

{Moved. And yes, you have to look for the village.}

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Looking at his map after abserving the flors around him, Katachi confirmed that he needed to head South West to get to the village. Katachi nodded and pulled out a fruit from his bag. He bit into the fruit and proceeded forward, planning on finding the village before nightfall. Proceeding down the road, Katachi couldn't help but observe the flora. The flowers wre the most florescent color that Katachi had seen. He didn't let this distract him though, as he still planned on making it to the village before nightfall.

Katach had read up that the grass country was led by a Damyou, but the village had a Kage. As Katachi continued his walk, he came across a bridge. Putting two and two together and doing some comparisons, katachi figured out that the bridge was in fact, Kanabi bridge. Katachi remembered learning about the war, all while crossing the bridge. He had learned that the bridge was a major supply line for intruding the earth country. When Katachi snapped out of his thoughts, he found himself over the bridge and entering a thick bamboo forest.

He knew what the forest of bamboo was. It was none other than The Giant Bamboo forest of the grass country. Katachi hadn't known much about teh forest but he had heard the name. As he travelled through it, he recalled on the little bit he had known. This was where three leaf nin were ambushed and one was crushed. Katachi continued his walk, exiting the bamboo forest just as the sun was setting, leaving this side of the orld until another day..

Katachi looked up as he exited the forest. He had seen a mound surrounded by tall grasses, taller than normal. Katachi walked through and found himself in a tunnel.

[pandoru]

{Gonna take more than one post to find it. It's a hidden village after all, and Kusa is one of the more difficult ones to find I believe x: }

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{Ok, then just ignore the previous post}

Looking at his map after abserving the flors around him, Katachi confirmed that he needed to head South West to get to the village. Katachi nodded and pulled out a fruit from his bag. He bit into the fruit and proceeded forward, planning on finding the village before nightfall. Proceeding down the road, Katachi couldn't help but observe the flora. The flowers wre the most florescent color that Katachi had seen. He didn't let this distract him though, as he still planned on making it to the village before nightfall.

Katachi had read up that the grass country was led by a Damyou, but the village had a Kage. As Katachi continued his walk, he came across a bridge. Putting two and two together and doing some comparisons, Katachi figured out that the bridge was in fact, The Kanabi bridge. The bridge was basically destroyed. Katachi had read up about the war and how it ws dstroyed. The destrucion of this bridge is what turned the tide of the war.

Looking straight ahead, katachi noted the bridge was split in half. he knew that it must have been blown up, due to the way that the rails bended inward and were a dark brown color. he hadn't known what village destroyed the bridge, but he knew tha it had to be one of the major ones, with hidden Villages. katachi looked around, noticing the lake below him. he had thoguht about jumping in, thinking it would be quicker to navigate than the bridge, but he decided not to, or he might be stuck down there and have to waist time climbing back up.

Deciding what to do, Katachi heard some noises nearby. He turned around to three grass nin and a traveller. Katachi swiftly ran to his left, hopping in a bush. He wasn't sure if the grass nin would attack on sight, but he was sure where they were going. back to the grass village. they continued to spek about how they had protected the man that wasn't a shinobi as they travelled to the stone village and back. Katachi then figured that they must be returning from a mission.

As soon as the ninja passed, katachi leaped from the bush, performing handseals in the air. As he collided with the ground, he sank beneath. The shinobi turned around, sure that they heard a noise. After moments of investigation, they continued their trek back to the hidden village of grass. Soon enough, the four figures came to the edge of the bridge, where it had been blown up. One of the nin performed handseals, a female. Wood sprouted from the ground, creating a bridge for them to cross.

Katachi rose from the ground and as he did, the wooden bridge started to retract back into the earth. Katachi dashed forward, making it over the mokuton bridge before it sank back into the earth. He focused chakra at his feet while he ran, sure to not alert the three nin. They continued to walk south west, directly in the direction Katachi had been travelling. He fllowed behind them, open eyes, intending not to lose them as this would be a quicker way to get to the Village Hidden InThe Grass, and since it was a Hidden Village, It would save Katachi much time, for he wouldn't have to search for it.

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Still following the three grass nin, Katachi began to grow weary. They were walking at such a slow pace. Then suddenly, the whole sceanrio changed the channel. Before ktachi knew it, he traveller was on one of the nin's back and they were now dashing forward. Katachi quckly jumped into action, following the nin. He looked back at the bridge one more time and wondered how the femal nin was able to manipulate the wood like she had done. But, there was no time to focus on that now, Katachi had to concentrate of keeping up with the nin.

It would be no easy task following three, what looked like Jounin, nin dashing forward at full speed. What made it worse is that the three nin made a sport of it, pushing themselves to go even faster to keep up with their comrades. Katachi had to further push himself. And that was only to keep stay half a mile behind them. The three nin were easy to follow because they left theri footprints in the dirt. Instead of watching the nin, Katachi followed the footprints. That is, until they dissapeared.

Soon the footprints were no more. The nin wern't leaing any footprints now. Katachi still held them in site and so he could still follow. Suddenly, the three nin started to get fancy. Running on the mountain side, jumpping between trees, or switching between the two, but thats not all they were doing. They were throwing projectile ninja tools in the air the fell as Katachi got close. They layed out the little ninja spikes (If forgot their name). In order to get past theri traps and trickery, Katachii had to make extra measures.

Staring to fall behind due to the nins evasive actions, Katachi activated his Sharingan. HIs eyes turned a crimson red and one black tear dot appeared in each. The nins actions suddenly became clear as day. They weren't using any high level Taijutsu so it was quite easy to follow. Katachi managed to dodge the projectiles in the air, swiftly zig-zagging through them as the fell upon the area around him. He carefully avoided the caltrops on the ground, jumping over, flipping, doing whatever he could do to dodge them.

Suddenly, the nin added a twist. They broke off in seperate ways. One broke left and ran through the trees. The other ran up onto the mountain wall and proceeded to the top, while the other dropped down into he lake below, taking a turn with the waterway. Katachi had to think fast and thinking of the easiest one to follow, Katachi climbed up the mountain side, fllowing the nin with the traveller. Katachi knew that that nin would head straight for the village because if the traveller died, the mission failed.

As Katachi ran up the mountain, the nin tuned around. Katachi swiftly fell back off the cliff, holding on by his feet, using his chakra. He was sure the nin knew that he wa following them, due to manuevers they used, but he didn't want them to know who he was just yet. The nin was quite easy to follow. He travelled in a straight path, not doing anything fancy. He dropped caltrops everynow and then, but Katachi easily avoided them.

Soon, the nin ran to the edge of the mountain and jumped off. Katachi didn't think and leaped off right after the nin. As Katachi fell, he noticed that the three nin had met up again. Closing in on the ground, Katachi performed some more handsigns and used his Earth Decapacitation Technique. Utilising the jutsu, Katachi was able to break his fall and sink into the ground. The nin were standing in front of him, hudled in a circle.

They kept talking about losing theri follower. The way they spoke was in a jokekingly kind of way, but Katachi didn't notice. The nin started walking and Katachi waited until they got a safe distance away before following. As he rose up from the ground, for the first time since he landed off the mountain, Katachi nticed he was in a forest full of thick Bamboo trees.

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Rising up from the ground below, Katachi looked around. All he could see for miles was a thick forest of Bamboo trees. He looked at how the bamboo bended, allowing the animals easier access to their leaves above. He noted the rough, but smooth texture of the trees, slicing off a piece as a souvenir. As the piece of the bamboo fell of an into his hands, Katachi remembered the task at hand. He slid the bamboo in his back pack, before turning around and noticing the Ninja almost out of sight.

Jumping back to his senses, katachi followed after them, focusing chakra to his feet, making sure not to make any noise. The had been swirling through the trees, often breaking off of the beaten path and heading straight through the forest. As they walked, katachi couldn't help but look at the trees. The leaves were an exotic color. They seemed to look like the flora that Katachi had seen when he first crossed into the Grass country.

Distracted by the view, Katachi had disabled his chakra flow to his feet, causing him to make noise. A twig snapped under his foot and immediately, the three nin turned around, looking for the thing that made the noise. Surprisingly, the three Nin had actually seen the twig that had snapped. The female of the group performed the same handseals as before and before long, another piece of wood came from the ground. The wood was sharper than before and it flew through the wig, stabbing into it's vegetable flesh.

Katachi gulped at the sight of this. He had knew that he had to be careful. Thinking fast, katachi had managed to get in a tree and out of sight before the three nin saw him. The three Nin snuffled and turned around continuing their trek. Katachi had decided to move along the bamboo trees, hoping that it would be easier to navigate. To his surprise, he was right. he didn't have to worry about stepping over twigs and keeping his balance was easy. All he needed to do was make sure that the three nin didn't see him.

Continuing their trek and observing he leaves as he went along, Katachi had an unexpected surprise. As he turned his head to continue, a Senbon flew past his cheek, cutting it and making it trickle with blood. Realizing the danger, Katachi activated his Sharingan and just in time. One of the nin had been in the tree and aimed a kick at Katachi. Katachi managed to get his arms up in defense, but he was still sent to the ground. As he landed, the three warriors surrounded him, all with Kunai in their hand.

They questioned Katachi about his motives and he simply told the truth. he had nothing to hide. Revealing his task of finding the Grass Village for he had a special meeting with someone in their. They thought about his answer thoroughly and quickly told him if he tried something, hey would kill him where he stood. After all the threats and warnings were thrown out, they allowed Katachi to travel with them, noting his ability to block against the kick.

They traveled for several minutes, until they reached what seemed like a small dug-out. As they continued through, Katachi had noted that it had been the passage for the leaf village. They walked through and soon, Katachi found himself in an office looking place. The ninja headed through some giant doors and left Katachi on his own. The last words they left him was, "Get permission first". With that said, Katachi walked over to the counter, waiting for the guard to reply, hoping that they would let him in.

((NpC nin...hope thats okay))

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The guards had taken forever to reply to him. he had been sitting down where they told him for countless hours. The tcechnique was great and all, but Katachi wasn't the one to sit in one place. Beisdes, there was another Nin that Katachi had heard about that knew the technique, but it would require some searching. First, he needed to get back to cloud. Sucking his teeth, Katachi grabbed his bag and exited from the dug-out.

Katachi poked and prodded through the tall grass, getting frustrated as they continued to swing in his face. Katacho continued through the grass until he finally escaped the green prison. Pulling the map from his back pack, Katachi decided to go a different way. He still had to go through teh places he had been, but in a long run, the overall walk would be much shorter.

Katachi walked, looking at the flora, not really caring about it any more. He had become frustrated with the grass, making him wait so long just to get inside the village. With his anger clouding his mind, Katachi hadn't even noticed how far he had walked. Jumping back to his senses, he found himself at the same bamboo forest he had been spotted in. At first, he was hesitant to go in. He htought he would get lost. As he entered the forest and continued his trek, he noted how easily it was to retrace his steps.

He walked through the bamboo forest, silent as ever, still thinking about the grass. His mind wasn't completly clouded though. He kept an eye on where he was going, following his steps and his map. Soon, he came across teh twig that he had stepped on and he knew he was going in the right way. He looked up and noticed the metallic senbon sitting in the tree, stuck. Rushing past the tree, Katachi soon found himself out of the bamboo forest, looking into the feilds beyond. The giant flora and it's buetiful pink, green multicolored flowers.

Stopping at the exit, Katachi looked at his map. Instead of goign straight where he had come from, Katachi noted that he must veer left, in order to take the short cut. Shifting his feet slightly to the left, Katachi started to walk. He watched as several small animals treaded through teh grass and as teh bugs sucked teh nectar frm the flowers while the flowers took in the rays of the sun, creating their food from the cycle of Photosynthesis.

Katachi continued his trek through the flora. He had stepped on many flowers as he walked. Iyt wasn't hsi fault though, the flowers were evrywhere, there was no way to avoid them. Katachi had decided t run. He was tired of walking and beggining to get bored. Pulling out a kunai, Katachi dashed forward, cutting down flowers as he ran down. He had decided to make it into a sport, sharpening his skills. Soon, Katachi noted that the terrain was slowly changed. Instead of flowers, there was now a mass amount of forests ahead.

{Move to Leaf}

[pandoru]

{Moved}

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Katachi stopped and looked on. All he could see was forest, forest and more forest. Trees and grass, wood and lakes. Basically, all he could see was a wild environment. He thought if the fire country was all about the forest. Katachi had started his walk and he was rushing. He wasn't sure if the Cloud Village and Leaf Village were allies or not and if they weren't, Katachi didn't want to find out.

Breathing out deeply, Katachi started hi walk, heading into the forest. Looking to his left, Katachi noticed a modern sized pond. He walked over to the lake and looked at his reflection. Soon, he saw a fish swimming and attempted to grab it. The fish was caught by surprise., never even seeing his hand coming. The fish squabbled around in his hand, before breaking itself free, falling back into the river and swimming off. Katachi smiled but soon, he noticed something dash behind him.

His eyes turned a crimson red and he turned around. Suddenly, his eyes picked up a brushing motion an a bush nearby. Katachi had turned around too see a small fox running at him. Swiftly stepping to the left, Katachi dashed away, hoping to make some sport and to pass the time faster. The fox took the bait and gave chase. De-activating his eyes, Katachi would save much more energy and be able to run for much longer.

As Katachi continued running, he remembered several things about the leaf village. He ad read about the attack of the tailed beast, the Uchiha slaughter and many more. Most notable though, he had remembered that the fire country was bordered by many other countries. Grass, Rain, Waterfall, Sound, River, Tea and several unnamed countries, jammed onto the country' side. Looking at his map once more, Katachi changed directions, veering slightly to the right, getting back on track.

The fox soon tired out, leaving the chase to another animal. Katachi turned around and tossed some berries to the fox. Sniffing them, the fox rushed forward, gobbling them down. Katachi smiled and continued to run, making several clones to fight on the way. Of course, they dissipated every time he landed a hit, but they were still a suitable fighting targets, considering the fact that they could move.

Katachi almost ran off of cliff. He stopped himself just in time. As he looked down over the cliff, Katachi saw two giant statues with faces on them. One of the men looked like a Kage while the other, a powerful ninja. Katachi had heard only slight information about this place. He knew the name, but he didn't know what happened here. It didn't matter either, Katachi was in a rush to get back to his village and find the supposedly hidden ninja that would teach him the technique.

Katachi ran off the cliff, focusing chakra into them, causing him to stick to the wall. He ran downward, until he reached the lake. As he came down upon the lake, he leaped onto the water, crossing it. His chakra started to fade and he started to fall in, but caught himself and focused. Before he knew it, he was at the other statue. Still speeding, Katachi jumped up onto the statue, and ran up that one as well. As Katachi got to the eyes, he noticed three extra pupils. Katachi figured that he must have been an Uchiha and he smiled at the fat that his clan was so widely known.

Katachi reached the top of the mountain and looked out. Katachi smiled as he looked on at familiar lands...

{Move to Sound}

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{Exit Thread}