Journey to Fire

[👺 Usiel]

"Whooooohooooo!!!" Yelled out a voice of familiar. The sun beating down, the cool breeze, it was a wonderful day, a day of cloud serfing. "Yeah!!!!" the voice yelled out again as within the high skies a figure quickly rushed down to the ground. A figure seemed to be free falling from the high skies, rushing through the very clouds as he began to swirl around, spinning in place. The large blade against his back stayed tightly as well as his katana and watizashi.

Seeing the ground his face somewhat crunged from the sheer speed of falling as he slammed his hands together performing a few handseals here and there. Performing, the sand around his anckles began to formulate along his feet. This was known for his defensive capabilities, however he just loved using his sand for other purposes. Little by little the sand formed more and more along his feet till finally they exploded to a cloud. "Whoooooooooooo" he yelled as the cloud began to take control, lifting him up from the free fall as he headed out into the country, leaving the very home he loves and honors.

As it seemed the Kage of Sand, the Demon of Sand was quite litterally, surfing, surfing the skies along his cloud of Sand, the Nimbus. "Come on buddy try to keep up!!!" he quickly yelled back as he turned around seeing a sight beyond sights, the greatness of a beast, the majestic hundred meter snake rising and falling within the sands, coming and going, rushing along with the young Kage as he just enjoyed the cool breeze. It was time to take care of a little business within the country of fire, dealing with the Village of Leaf. It was a glorious day.

How long has it been since he had the snake truly accept him, a year, two years? Ah the times didn't count. Deep within the bellies of the great beast laid the two that killed one of his own for no apparent reason. If it was missions, if it was because people had to, then fine Heero would have just shrugged it off as at times, even though it may seem harsh, it was known to happen. However this was something else, killing, attacking a few of his own for no reason could not be sat down. There was no intention of war, just a questioning, a summoning with the Kage of Leaf, the Hokage. "Lets see hopefully he's nice" he said with a hearty laugh. "How long has it been, eighteen years?" he wondered to himself as he sat on the large cloud as it rushed on towards the country of fire, first he had to go through River country.

[Kou]

Lord Kazekage seemed to be enjoying himself.

Kou smiled. It was about time.

He had been waiting for the mission to begin and now it was finally time. This was going to be his first journey outside of the sand village and he was as excited as ever to get the assignment rolling. Apparently, they were headed for the Leaf nation, and the young sand ninja watched as his leader surfed along the sands with his massive serpent companion trailing not too far behind. He would enjoy this.

The Genin simply followed behind from atop his ink eagle, that was large enough to ride upon. From this height, he gazed down at the surrounding landscape happily. It truely was a beautiful day today. Wind swept across his face, along with grains of sand, causing the Li Clan master to shield his eyes with his arm.

Whatever went down, Kou would try to do his best to help put however he could. His loyalty to his village and urge for some excitement is what drove him to come along. He had never met the one known as Yahiko, but he must have been pretty important if the Kazekage was going through all of this trouble to set things straight.

As a matter of fact, Kou did recall seeing Yahiko receive his vest upon becoming Chuunin at the festival. That had also been the last time he had seen Atsui.

[Beautiful Rogue]

Lightning had found Kou, and also the Kazekage, who, oddly, looked quite child-like flying, on his cloud thing. What an odd technique, she would need to look into learning it. Although, if she wanted flight, she had her wings, a far more enjoyable way, a more free and unrestricted method of flight she always believed, perhaps she would go join the duo in the air. Besides, she needed to get Kou back for his attempt at a genjutsu, such a silly idea, but he had tried hard, she respected it.

A good show of power would be all she needed, shake him and his bird up a little. She doubted the Kazekage would even be bothered by the presence of her ravens, and if he was, well, she could get rid of them. Her hands fell into the ram signs, and her shoulders began to shift. Painful, but not enough to make her complain about it, it was like getting a charlie horse, the muscles felt slightly seized, and then the pain was over.

Black wings extended from her body and she flapped them a few times experimentally, it had been a while. Next, her hands fell into the tiger seal, the dog seal, and the tiger seal once more, and thirty loud crackles of lightning shone out into existence with an overwhelming brightness. Perhaps her most favorite technique, the thunderstorm ravens, she had trained it, but her skills were not quite as good with them as she wished they were. Thirty was a good number, but there was always room for improvement.

Cracking her neck, she formed the three seals again, then extended a bit of chakra further than the ones sustaining the birds already. A loud crackle, and only two more sparked into existence. There had been not enough chakra put into it. Too much chakra, and the birds would overload, too little chakra and there would be not enough birds to spawn. However, if one managed to get the right amount of chakra, while still sustaining the necessary amount needed to control the birds that had already come into existence, then one could create more, and could increase the numbers of ravens they could use.

Tiger, Dog, Tiger

The three remaining birds burst into existence, and Lightning was set with now thirty five birds over what had been only thirty. The numbers were increasing quite nicely, she would master this technique sometime in her life. The ravens formed a large ball around her as she lifted off into the skies, racing to catch up with them. She would fall into place behind Kou, then rise above, him, going over his head, then encircle him in the sphere of ravens.

"So, what do you think?"

Raiton – Raiu Karasu (Thunderstorm Raven)
Rank: D D D D D D, C, B
Skill: Ninjutsu.
Effect: Creates ravens of lightning to attack your opponent.
Special: Tiger, Dog, Tiger
Drawback: Must be learned multiple times in order to truly master. The swallows dissolve if they pass out of forty meters of the user.
Description: The user forms the hand seals, creating ravens of lightning around them. The ravens are roughly two feet in wingspan. The ravens are comprised of pure electricity, and discharge into a shock of electricity when they strike an object. Each swallow discharges with a D rank shock. The user can control the motions of the swallows completely. When first learned, the user is only capable of creating up to five ravens at a time. Each time learned, the user can create an additional five ravens. When the user attains to capability of creating fifty ravens, the technique increases to a C rank technique, allowing for an additional five per training as usual. When the user reaches the capability of creating one hundred twenty swallows, the training becomes B rank. The user can create two hundred swallows, total, before they max out.
Limit: Must have Lightning Release.

[Kou]

Kou's usual naivety did not notice Lightning's approach until it was too late. By the time he noticed her presence she was flying above him, along with her obvious creations. Though he did not know the exact numbers, the Li Clan master assumed there had to be at least 30 of those thunder ravens surrounding him. The boy was trapped. However, he wasn't the least bit intimidated. She was a friend after all, right?

"So, what do you think?" Lightning would ask. He sensed a bit of confidence in her tone. Was she trying to show off? Was it because of the Kazekage was nearby? Perhaps not. Maybe this was a way to get back at him for trying to cast that low level Genjutsu on her earlier. She had caught up to him, and now it was time for some revenge. No, this was a bit too much in Kou's opinion. A sphere of ravens, huh?

"It's quite impressive" He stated simply, with a chuckle. Though this was true. With his ink creations, he was limited to just 20 small ravens, so she had surpassed him in that aspect. He had been such a fool earlier. Thanks to her bloodline, she was able to see through his illusion with no problem. Well, he was sure her clan's abilities could only take her so far. Could she stand up to a high level Genjutsu? Kou wasn't one to show off, but this more of a way of getting to know Lightning a bit more.

After all, they would be working together on this assignment. It was a simple matter for him to fly a bit higher in order to reach her. He made sure to avoid any ravens that blocked his path. Now standing atop his ink eagle, he was but a few feet away from the girl. He stared into those deep, mesmerizing blue eyes of hers. They were like whirlpools and were much more interesting than his dull gray ones.

Such a beautiful girl. It would be a shame to cause any actual damage to her, so he would make sure to dispel this one quickly. For both their sake. He didn't want to waste any unnecessary amounts of chakra doing so. Within a few seconds, the illusion had been cast.

Unless Lightning avoided it, she was in his realm now.

Mesesshoku: Fuketsu futatsuyochi [impure 2-D world]
Rank: A
Skill: Genjutsu
Effect:user projects a 2-D Dimension onto his /hers opponent's mind.
Special: "Handseals"
Drawback: must be with in 5 feet of the person and kept them there. The opponent can escape the jutsu from even the slightest external stimulation (besides the users touch), because of this, the opponent must be thoroughly isolated.
Description: user gets with in five feet of the enemy and gets into eye contact to initiate the jutsu. The user then projects the 2-D (paper like) world inside the opponents mind. Once the person is there they become paper like and begin to start on fire. In the real world the person affected thinks their skin is burning and it can cause psychological damage. This jutsu lasts 1-2 turns if uninterrupted and there are two stages to learning the jutsu:
Stage 1
For the first stage of the training, the person must focus on building their chakra in there eyes and projecting it out of he/she is eyes. This helps the person become more precise in how they use their chakra in this jutsu. The person will have mastered this stage when they can project and concentrate their chakra out enough to wear through a piece of paper.
Stage 2
The user goes into his/her mind and creates the 2-D world that will be projected upon the opponent. This world is typically dark with a lone platform in the middle. This place exists only in the users mind so they are able to customize it. This world can also be used for meditation or going over moves in your mind
Limit: Must have Phantasm Perception

[Zetsumei]

Wind swirled about the landscape as the Kazekage and his snake rushed on toward Leaf. Zetsumei had no plan on being left behind for this one, yet it was going to be rather difficult with being the only one there, for he had spotted Lightning and another ninja in the skies as well, without a means of flight. yet the immense snake provided a means of transport. Running tirelessly along side the great serpent he lept up and clung to its side with chakra laced digits. Climbing up the sides of the serpent he stood upon its back exerting chakra from his feet to remain upon it.

Flicking his wrist the Suna Hito took up the sand from the serpents slipstream. The swirling torrent of sand formed up upon his back, condensing into the form of a gourd. The slipstream was also used to strap it there and fill it for use. Condesning more sand a stopper was made, he was prepared for a possible confrontation. Hoping the great serpent didn't turn and devour him he awaited the journey to continue as he stood there, moving toward River, and beyond it, Leaf.

[👺 Usiel]

Eyes wondered towards the flying beasts hovering in the air. In particular was the one known as Lightning. His eyes glanced over seeing the sudden handseals. His Nimbus began to turn around some as his eyes slowly glowed a bright red showing the eyes of his demonic side hiding from within his pure black goggles.

On the giant snake as Zets landed wanting to ride Zets would then soon realize that it would not be wise to land on a snake that has lived during the first Kazekage's reign, no, wait before his reign. As Zets would land the Snake would give out a his as it bobbed its head once before quickly slamming down into the very ground. The body span around rolling into the ground as the giant snake continued to rush in and out of the ground coming into a drilling beast.

Seeing the ravens swarm around Lightning as she encircled Heero, the warrior watched as he slammed his own hands together beginning his own handseals. Seeing Kou begin his own handseals Heero needed to act and act fast. Before Kou would be able to finish his own handseals Heero reached into his back with his left hand and with his right hand brought it up to his mouth. As the he circled around the two the words could be heard Katon - Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Great Fireball Technique) as he swiftly blew. A large ball of flame escaped his own lips. The ball of flame grew the size of his body in diameter as he launched it towards the middle of the two foes.

With his left hand he flicked it towards the ball of fire. A single kunai sailed down to the ball of fire in brilliance speed heading to make its mark. The moment making contact a massive explosion would be vibrant and known to block all vision, to block all from between the two. If any of the two were close hopefully they were far enough or else the knock back would send the two flying. Why would they be fighting right now, why is this happening, Heero did not know, he really didn't want to ask. "Keep your strength till we get to Leaf" he quickly yelled out if the attack was good enough to stop the two.

[Zetsumei]

Such the flaw in his plan presented itself as the snake delved into the sands. Not but two words left his mouth as the sands rushed towards him. "Fuck me..." 'Twas a simple flaw yet an idea sprang into mind, everyone else was simplaying their abilities it seemed, why shouldn't he? His bloodline abilities were a secret, but there were only three others there, and they were way up in the skies. So it was a simple matter to leap off the snake before he was consumed by the sands as well. While within the air his body took on a new form, one far from human.

His body took on a sleek shape, smooth tan skin became a furry beige hue upon which were set black spots. Teeth became fangs as the transformation completed and Zetsumei landed on the four sandy paws his body had taken up as new legs. Within this cheetah form he did rush upon the landscape towards the land of river, sand colored eyes shifting in the desert sun as they always had done and would 'til the day his heart of stone was shattered. The mother desert was alive within this desert child of hers.

[Beautiful Rogue]

The fireball effective devastated most of her ravens, and would have gotten her too, but with a flap of her wings, she spiraled out of the way into safety. The rest of her thunder ravens vanished from existence with loud cracks. Lightning looked at the Kage with a sheepish smile, scratching her head a little. Well, her idea of a little joke was kind of ruined, apparently Kou had taken it too seriously, and the Kazekage did not want them fooling around.

Purely understandable of course, they did not know what they would encounter in leaf, it would be safest for them to conserve their chakra. Safe. If a little boring, but it would not do to upset her Kazekage, this was her first mission, and apparently, it was an important one. She would have plenty of time to try out her techniques later, maybe even on Kou on the way back.

"So, what do you reckon we'll find here? Or, what are you hoping to find?"

She had to raise her voice quite a bit so he would hear, but she hoped he had, she was still kind of unsure what was going on. Yes, one of their own had been killed on Leaf territory, but for him to assemble a team and take them there? It seemed like it had an ulterior motive. Or perhaps not, maybe they were here for extra security. Although from her perspective, looking at the snake, the large chakra capacity and that big sword, he seemed like he could defend himself quite well.

[Kou]

Feeling the heat of a bright orange ball of fire, Kou was able to maneuver his ink eagle out of it's way before he could be hit. Lightning did the same, however most of her ravens were destroyed. He glanced over at her from the corner of his eye, then looked over in the Kazekage's direction.

"Keep your strength till we get to Leaf" His leader yelled.

fine, fair enough. Kou smiled.

The Li Clan master took a seat upon his creation and looked down at the landscape. "He had to ruin the fun." He mumbled under his breath. For now, the silent boy would remain sitting cross legged on his ink bird, as he pulled from one of his pouches an art book. Raising his finger and applying chakra, the tip of his finger was soon covered with ink. Using that as a paintbrush, the artist started painting. He was adding a new image to his collection.

He decided it was best to keep himself occupied before he got into anymore trouble. Kou's face would remain buried in that book for now.

[👺 Usiel]

The Kazekage looked at the two warriors. An eyebrow crocked on his face as he honestly thought it was something serious. His eyes glanced to Zetsumei as his eyes narrowed "Interesting ability" he said softly to himself seeing the creation of sand rise becoming what he truly is. "Perhaps I am not the Demon of Sand no more" he said with a soft laugh. "Mr Zetsumei do not ride my friend, he likes no one but me apparently." he said calmly. "If you need a ride I can assist you with one" he continued.

Then his eyes glanced to the other two. "I honestly thought you were attacking for an odd reason, we should really just wait till we get to Leaf we have no idea what we will encounter." he said softly. "Lets go" he calmly continued as his hands performed a few handseals, creating a cloud of sand where Zetsumei would be, to allow him to ride on the Nimbus as well as Heero.

As they would continue out the Snake made its move as well. If they followed along Heero would speak with them. "The objective is do deliver two bodies. These people are presumed to have killed one of our own for no reason named Yahiko. We need to let Leaf that if they wish to be under good terms, attacking blantly is against conduct. If it was in a mission well then" his eyes narrowed as he cleared his throat. "Well as Ninja, nothing can stop that, as ninjas we must engage in combat with others, sometimes we are payed one way, and another is payed another way." his eyes then slowly grew back to his pitch black eyes he was born with. "Attacking without a cause is jsut wrong and as Villagers of Sand we can not stand for such atrocity." he said calmly. Turning around he would see how close the others were. "If you wish to continue, be my guess." he said softly turning once more heading towards River Country

(After you three post, that is it we should move to River)

[Kou]

As he continued onward, Kou would nod in understanding at his leader's speech, without looking up from his painting. It was turning out rather nicely actually. An image containing a group of thunder ravens, such as the ones Lightning had created. Apparently, they were traveling through river country. Of course, the Li Clan master would follow. He remained seated on his ink eagle. Sounded like the potential for battle was high, but the young sand ninja wasn't afraid.

He would have his comrades with him.

[travel to River?]

[Zetsumei]

The words greeted his new feline ears and his maw could do not but form a smile. Before a word could be uttered the Suna Hito felt the mother desert shifting before him to the Kazekage's whim. leaping to land upon the nimbus as it rose his form shifted back to its somewhat religious human state. Even as he landed upon the cloud of sand he was shifting back, yet was human once more when truely taken to the heavens above. Even as he ascended the gourd of the sands was forming once more, for it had been dismantled for the sleek cheetah form.

Able to speak properly again, for a human tongue was more suited then an feline's. "I'll be sure to remember that in future, and thank you for the lift, though I would have been fine upon the ground." The words were accompanied by a nod of gratitude before he continued, "This is quite a useful jutsu, I should like to learn it." Even as he spoke of the nimbus he was examining the cloud of sand. To the River country and beyond, action of some sort had to be taken for the injustices of the Leaf Village.

[Beautiful Rogue]

The same sea of sand passed beneath her as her wings were spread out and flapping lazily as she followed the Kage across the desert. They would reaching the land of river soon, and from there, it was not too long to the hidden village of leaf. Or so she had assumed anyway. Things had gotten rather quiet, and she did not feel the need to disrupt anyone with her questions, not that they were important anyway.

Her body lolled to the side as she rolled into a barrel roll, easily flipping her entire body around, her altitude dropping a bit, but she was still going fast enough to keep simple flight. Flying was one of her favourite past times, of course, this was when she needed to think, and right now, her mind was blissfully blank. Just following, not really caring unless someone broke the quiet that had overcome the small group.

[Tenkai]

{Moved}

[👺 Usiel]

Passing over the borders, looking down at the beautiful grounds all around Heero quickly stopped as the cloud of sand suddenly stopped. Falling down he quickly landed bending his knees quickly as he took a quick look around for a moment or two. "Hmmm perfect" he said softly as he suddenly stopped placing a hand on a tree. The scenery was wonderous, beautiful in every aspect. There were trees, fields of flowers and the smell of water all around. "We set up camp here, its best not to over exert ourself" he said softly as he began to walk towards a few large trees.

The Sun began to shine along the horizon as a nice set was coming into play. "Besides it seems a few of you are a little anxious to release yourselves huh" he said with a laugh staring at his fellow comrads if they chose to stop. Stopping or not was completely their choice. Heero was stopping here and now. Walking down into a meadow he quickly stopped slapping his hands together. The large snake stopped as well as it began to slither around, slowly digging itself a large hole, burrowing himself into the ground for safe keeping.

"Hey, we should get to know each other a little better, we are all comrads aren't we" he said softly as he began performing a few handseals here and there. As the handseals formed the sand around his body, the shogan armor attached to him slowly seeped to the ground as it formed into the ground, growing more and more. Heero used concepts to perform into something else. Using Sand Shield, using Sand Hand Heero quickly slammed his hands into the ground as the sand all around moved in a brilliant vibrance.

The sand formed together, rising up into the sky. The Sand conversing technique continued to roll with the other techniques as the sand formed into a giant half shield. First one side, then another side connecting, then finally another side connecting. Little by little the shield of sand formed into a large rectangular shape, rising high into the air about a good seven and a half feet. On the top formed what looked like a large rectangular shape. More and more the sand continued as the sand formed two openings, the sand then formed what looked like a door.

As everything finished a small smile escaped the Kage's lips as he just wore his simple suit, nothing special, something he has worn since he was a boy, but of course different size. "There, now we got a place to stay" he said softly as the sand solidified, fortying, holding up not by chakra but by its own solid structure. "Be careful, well anyways we can sleep in here, or you can sleep outside" he said with a soft chuckle.

[Beautiful Rogue]

The sand house that rose from the ground was impressive, very much so. But it was nowhere near impressive enough to make her wish to go inside. She felt uncomfortable with a roof over her head normally, and with sand, well, that just kind of took the cake for her. She would be staying outside for the duration of this stop, it was more comforatbale for her. Besides, now that they were no longer in sand, the outside world was rather beautiful, instead of just vast seas of sand, it was lush green vegetation and many kinds of animals and life she had never seen before.

"It's way nicer here than in sand, theres plants and everything"

Casting a quick glance out of the surroundings with her third level eye, she made sure there was no one else in the vicinity other than the sand team. She wanted to rest, her shoulders ached from all the flying. She looked over to Kou and Zetsumei. Maybe they would help little old her.

"Can someone give me a back rub?"

[Kou]

Apparently, the Kazekage had found shelter for the night.

Well, time to land.

His ink eagle descended from the sky and landed safely in the clearing that the team leader had established as their camp grounds for the night. "Sure, this works." Kou said, hopping off his creation and dispelling it into a puddle of ink. He closed the artbook he had been working in and returned it to it's pouch. The young sand ninja also took note of the Kage's sarcastic remarks about his little incident with Lightning earlier. The Genin could only look back in the girl's direction and chuckle.

The boy watched with interest as His leader prepared a shelter of sand for them to sleep in for the night. It seemed more secure than his ink could do. It was good enough for him. Kou looked around the area. River country. It was quite nice actually, he had never been in weather this comfortable. The trees, grass, as well as abundance of plants and water were all something he wasn't used to back at the village. He only hoped the Leaf village was as pleasant as this.

"Hey, we should get to know each other a little better, we are all comrades aren't we"

The painter simply nodded at this comment. To tell the truth, he didn't know really anything about the people around him. Especially the weird man who he had just discovered had been traveling on one of the Kazekage's sand clouds. Everyone seemed pretty serious about this whole mission. It was kind of boring.


"Can someone give me a back rub?"

Kou looked over at the the girl who had spoken. Was she being serious? Well, those wings probably did get rather painful, especially with them coming out of her back. "Well, I'll do it, I guess." He replied with a shrug. He might as well, it kind of made up for the whole Genjutsu problem earlier.

Though hopefully, this wouldn't make him look like a pervert.

But first, the Genin would raise his finger into the air and allow ink to collect on its tip. With that, the painter would make a series of quick, yet gentle hand movements in the air. The ink floated in the air, creating the image of furniture. After applying chakra to the picture, he allowed it to jump out into full 3D. A few chairs, tables [and whatever else you guys want there to be] were created. Afterwards, Kou proceeded towards Lightning and rolled up his sleeves.

Ninpou: Shiezu no Jutsu [Ninja Art: Finger Drawing Technique]
Rank: "B" Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu, Supplementary
Effect: Allows the user to accumulate a large amount of ink upon their index finger. That ink may be used to draw in lieu of a paintbrush.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: Requires a "D" Ranked amount of chakra every turn that this is active.
Description: This ability combines the user's ability to form ink from their body and the user's will to paint. Channeling chakra through their finger, the user becomes capable of creating a mass of ink on the tip of it, and through a consistent chakra drain, maintain that blob of ink no matter how much is used. At this point, the user removes the need to use a paintbrush and dip that brush within ink. This allows the Li shinobi to have a greater flexibility, saving him/her both time and giving them more freedom to move. At any point the technique may be canceled by using Kai.
Limit: Li Clan Jutsu. Must know Hadasumi Soushi.

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Ninpou: Choju Giga
Rank: “C”, “B”, “A” Ranks
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user to bring to life and control a set amount of drawings or paintings.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: The objects are made out of ink, and thus very weak. Most “D” rank attacks have the ability to completely destroy the ink creations, no matter of their own size.
Description: The user will rapidly draw several objects, usually animals, on a scroll. Then, performing the right handseals, the user will bring those objects to life and use them for offensive purposes. The monsters, made of ink, also share any special properties that the ink has.

* “C” Rank- Allows for a maximum of ten small creatures at once or five medium sized creatures. This ability may be re-trained in order to increase the number of small creatures by two and the number of medium creatures by one each time this is learned. After the initial time learning this technique and four additional trainings, the user is required to perform “B” ranked training to learn more.
* “B” Rank- Allows for a maximum of twenty small creatures at once or ten medium sized creatures at once, or one large sized creature at once. This ability may be retrained in order to increase the number of small creatures created at once by three, medium creatures by two, and large creatures by one. After the initial learning of the “B” Rank, it must be re-learned a total of four times before the “A” rank may be learned.
* “A” Rank- Allows for a maximum of thirty five small creatures at once, or twenty medium sized creatures, or five large sized creatures at once, or one gargantuan sized creature. May be re-trained any number of times to increase the number of small creatures by five, medium creatures by three, large creatures by two, and gargantuan creatures by one.

[Zetsumei]

The sands of the desert faded, giving way to the lusher scenery of the land of river. The sights below rushed past and quickly began to slow as the nimbus of sand which he rode on began stopping. before the sand cloud could disappate and drop Zetsumei he leapt down from it. With the force of his weight and drop feet sank half an inch into the ground. Taking a step back from his landing point the Suna Hito watched as the Kazekage forged a structure from the sands, a quaint camp yet he did not plan on sleeping within it.

As he began climbing the sides of the sand building as it completed he spoke, glad the building was sound enough to hold his weight. "I think I'll stay up here for the night, stand guard. As more me, there are many things in the world that should remain secrets... I am one of them." As he climbed sand trickled from the gourd he had created and began forming a platform fitting to the sound structure of the sand building. Taking up an arrow and knocking it he rested up, still conscious, in preparation for guarding during the night.

[👺 Usiel]

Heero seeing the housing he just smiled some as he began to stretch slightly. Walking up to the door he began to hear the others speak. As he turned the nob opening it he just smiled turning towards the others. Eyes narrowing he noticed Kou begin to perform his handseals. Raising an eyebrow he shook his head as he slammed his hands together quickly. It may have been to late or not but Heero was going to do something. Performing the handseals needed the Sand that formed the housing within one side of the wall quickly shot out towards Kou.

The Sand formed into a large arm of sand forming a fist. As the fist shot out it headed towards Kou to slam into his skull, to give out a hard thud strong enough to stop the technique. This was not a truly harsh technique but more of a punch in the face with a giant fist the size of Kou's head.

Whether it hit or not, this was needed in order to stop the technique to be performed on the young woman. Eyes narrowing the warrior slowly raised his hands up to his goggles black like the night, slowly bringing them down over his own eyes. "This is the second time I seen you perform handseals towards this woman" he spoke out clenching his fists looking at the man. "I only seen her swirve around you with lightning crows, now I am curious what is the problem between you two. Is there a trust issue? Is there a macho issue? Is there some sort of problem that I do not know? Will this harm our mission?" he asked calmly looking towards the woman.

He would wait for them to reply, wondering what was going on. Then, he opened his lips for another speech, "Alright, I need you to understand something, please....try to work it out, I don't want anymore problems I do not wish any lives to be lost within this mission" he said softly. "I am going to sleep..." he finished as he went into the house.

[Kou]

[x.x ouchies]


Once again the Kazekage’s assumptions had seemed to come right before Kou could make a move, causing the Genin to look like the bad guy. Though the thing was, as ironic as it was, the handseals he had been forming were not to attack Lightning, but to create furniture for the house. Though unfortunately, the ink he had used to start the technique would be wasted, as he never did get the opportunity to complete the jutsu. Instead, as he was rolling up his sleeves to give the girl her back rub, an unexpected fist made of sand would fly past and punch Kou in the face, sending him flying onto the ground. It wasn’t lethal, but it sure was painful.

The painter stumbled rather clumsily back up to his feet and turn to face his leader with an expression of confusion upon his face. “What was that?” he would ask, rubbing his swollen cheek. A drop of blood trickled from his mouth and dropped onto the sandy ground below.

The Kazekage seemed concerned.

"I only seen her swirve around you with lightning crows, now I am curious what is the problem between you two. Is there a trust issue? Is there a macho issue? Is there some sort of problem that I do not know? Will this harm our mission?" he asked calmly looking towards the woman.

“Well is there some sort of problem with you? This is the second time you tried to kill me! I was simply trying to help her and hopefully settle things, but if I can’t be trusted around her, then why bother?” He replied, feeling a sense of regret. Obviously, he did attack her the first time, but they weren’t being serious, were they? Then, Kou turned and proceeded into a corner. "Oh, and I never was hostile towards Lightning." He added before laying down, facing away from the group.

The painter created an ink pillow, rested his head upon it, closed his eyes, and went to sleep for the night.

He felt so stupid.