Lively Lake

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Sleep... Done...

[👺 Usiel]

(I will be naming people through their screen names just this once so then everyone else can just take a quick look and see who I am talking about.)

The lake was as lively as ever. The participants showed up, and a few simply were no longer around. It would seem some actually gave up. What a treat this had become to have such a large group of youthful prodigies in one sitting after enduring such a traumatizing orthodox event. As the participants waited patiently the young boy they all so fondly began to care for with the utmost love of that of having a sexual transmitted disease walked into their view. The young boy with the large coffin on his back walked up to the large group with his expressionless face. His eyes strong, capable of staring into the soul of man.

The boy gave a respectable bow and began to speak. "Thank you all for coming here. It is a pleasure to see you all." he said softly with his emotionless expression giving a slight sigh. "Please allow me to affirm suspicion of the ones you had to watch," he said calmly speaking about the ones who were tortured not so long ago. "The people before had their wounds treated, and their memories were wiped." he calmly spoke out continuing an un-needed explanation.

Straightening up the boy slowly flicked his wrist, producing three pieces of papers as he held them with his right hand. "Please, allow me to bring back miss Amilia Silverstone in order for her to explain your next, and final task." he uttered calmly before throwing the papers up into the air. A few handseals as the paper sailed in the air as a large puff of smoke flailed all around concealing his location before slowly beginning to dissipate.

"Ah it seems the first exam is finally over." Amilia Silverstone said calmly as she wore her blue sundress, standing calmly with arms laid in front of her, holding her hands. There was no smile on her face as the creepy soul seeking eyes stared at the group. The boy would stand calmly behind her observing the group as Amilia Silverstone began to speak yet again. "I am glad that so many of you have..."

"Ahahahahahah Bloody rain, bloody rain, pain the house today aga....eh!!!" the child was interrupted by a loud voice as the smoke began to clear along the right side of the girl and boy. Visibility was becoming more and more clear showing the tall skinny jester wearing his true black garbs while holding a three bladed scythe, ready to slash at something below him.

"You are an Idiot," a calm collected voice was heard on the left side of the girl and boy. The smoke was beginning to clear from there as well and it was another tall man, slightly more built. He wore a bandanna wrapped around his head, folded neatly, in a plain dark blue color. His hair, long and pitch black with two strips of bangs covering part of his face. His eyes dark, black as coal. He wore a single coat wrapped around his whole body. The only identification of this man was that he carried a very large sword along his back, a blade about a food and a half feet wide, and reached six feet in length as the man stood six feet five in height.

"Tch, I was close." the jester spoke out with a sigh as he looked down as his eye twitched slightly. The Jester then straightened up while placing his scythe staff on the floor, while standing it straight. "I'm going to have to leave after this," he uttered once more with a chuckle as he quickly became quiet hearing a stomp emitting from the young girl as she slammed her foot against the ground giving a slight grunt.

"I am sorry for the sudden interruption," the girl calmly spoke out as she sighed softly. "Please allow me to start the new exam, this is an un-orthodox exam. Something that will teach you that from time to time you will not be able to choose your team mates" she continued. "Before I continue I will begin by telling you that you all will be participating in teams, and your teams are already pre-determined. I will name the teams, and then I will go into detail about this exam. Understood?" she uttered in riddles. "Team Fire will be Takeda, Chaos, Raiel (Remember, I said to make things easy on everyone and myself I'm going to say this in account names. Sorry for being lazy on this one). Team Wind will consist of Kyogi, BBF, Jiro, and Solus. Team Water will consist of Kaeor, Saiyuki, and Torankoku. Then finally Team Lightning will consist of Kiyoshi, Miku, and Ayame. I know this is very confusing and I also understand that you are all in Different Villages, however please take a minute to assess the situation and then I will continue in full detail." the girl spoke as the Jester began to pick his nose in public without caring if anyone saw, while the tall man began to look at the sky contemplating of a past long gone while the boy crossed his arms staring still with his emotionless face.

[Molokai]

Toru patiently endured through the silliness and interruptions as he took in every word the young girl spoke. He heard her buildup about how one isn't always capable of choosing one's team, and was mostly able to infer what was coming next. The team selected for him consisted of names he wasn't familiar with, so he was content to wait until they announced themselves.

Their hosts gave no indication or hints of precisely what was meant by the team names, if anything at all, and the lack of information set Toru's imagination, for lack of a better term, on fire. Why did it have to be fire? Did it mean that whatever they were assigned to do would somehow involve fire? Or was it merely a name used for organizational purposes? Toru strongly suspected the former, and the idea gave him a momentary pause. If there was anything even resembling fire, he would be in big trouble.

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

And that was when the split happened as he listened to the new "teams" become announced. He had little to no clue who the other teammates were as he would turn his head to Solus and the seasoned Leaf veteran. "Good luck." he audibly stated as he turned his eyes to others in the party.

"Saiyuki? Torankoku?" he questioned wondering where and who the two were as he walked a bit away from the crowd as he waited for them to follow. Yet he still remained in range of the girl.

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[Solus]

What weird names for teams. Out of the five elements only earth was missing, but they didn't make five teams, though they could have done so if they had really wanted to, thus... The names were probably to organize. Apart from that, if he would have to do something involving wind he would be fine. Why are we placed in teams like this? Solus would ogle the Jiro guy, putting him on the Genmasters team seemed like an obvious choice if these people wanted to create internal strife, but it didn't quite fit with the other teams. "Yes... Good luck to you too." He would respond to the leaving Konoha nin.

Pondering a bit longer until he noticed the amount of Chuunin examiners. Four teams! Four examiners! Seriously... This can't be... I hope it's just a whim of miss Fortuna." His gaze went over the field as his voice raised to give one of his ideas to the Hyuuga sitting next to him, his voice so low that only the Hyuuga and those with exceptional hearing skills could hear it. "Four teams, four examiners." The Genmaster pondered a bit more, it seemed logical, the mood of these examiners seemed to correspond with these elements. The jester, he might be fire, The girl? Water maybe... That would make coffin boy lightning and sword guy wind. Pondering like this he would realize that he could keep making useless connections like this forever, better wait for the girls explanation, without more information this riddle would never be solved.

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[Kvasir]

As I stared at the little piece of flora in my hand, ready to taste it due to curiosity, I noticed something else that caught my attention; the child boy from before had made his appearance and spoke. "Thank you all for coming here. It is a pleasure to see you all." I turned and watched but kept alert. I couldn't stand the child, or anybody at these horrible exams, but that child was the worst; not only was he completely evil and cruel but he could see through my Genjutsu! I felt like... like... I'd rather have some sort of horrible disease than have to see this cruel kid walk around. If I had the chance I'd gladly show him the same respect and decency he'd shown those torture victims: none.

It was rare that I'd ever gotten this angry with a group of people, the only other time being the ninja who'd killed Master Ryuunosuke. Because this instance reminded me so much of the other, my hated for the two similarly melded into a single large pile of anger; I would tighten my fist at these inaudible ideas. I knew I would destroy these Chuunin Exams, the fiery heat of this righteous anger spurred me on! I would not loose!

"Then finally Team Lightning will consist of Kiyoshi, Miku, and Ayame." Huh? I came out of my mind to hear this. It was good, I would have a natural advantage over the other teams since I knew Ayame and they didn't... or something like that. "I know this is very confusing and I also understand that you are all in Different Villages, however please take a minute to assess the situation and then I will continue in full detail." I would turn to find Ayame, the only one here I really knew and now my teammate.

I would quickly run up to Ayame with a small jump, landing right next to her. "Hello! *Arf!*" I didn't need to say anything else, seeing as how she would already know I was on her team and who I was, unless she had suddenly gone deaf and had a bout of amnesia... or her memories erased the people here, which wouldn't actually surprise me; pure evil.

[|Ayame Unbound|]

Sometimes I wondered what the hell was really going on. At least I knew one of my team mates. That was something. It was the boy who I had refused to promote after his last exams. As he came over I would watch him carefully and softly repeat myself. "Remember what I told you earlier." Though they had told us our teams we knew nothing of what exactally we would be doing. Now we just needed to find this 'Miku' person.

This unorthodox set of exams was making me sick. When I got home I would need to carefully consider my countrys furhter participation in these exams unless changes were made. Despite the medical care the entire thing was completly wrong. I know that shinobi are tools but civilians are not. I know sacrifice must be made sometimes but not always. My thoughts continued to wander off, the current exam temporarily forgotten.

[torankoku]

I lift my head up as a few people appeared, making a show or so it seems. After hearing the long speech and going through the interruptions by the jester from before; I nodded, keeping the team name, and members in my head. All of the examiners except for the girl were familiar indeed as I spoke to Ryuusei, rising at the same time, "Looks like we are on the same team. Let's go look for the third team member."

I got up, quickly walking around as I heard my name. Looking in the direction of which the sound came from, I saw a tall boy and assumed that he called me. Walking over to hi m, I would introduced myself, "Hello there, I am guessing you're my team mate, Kaeor, right?" I put my hood down for him to see my face as I waited for what was to come.

[Saiyuki]

Interesting people.

I looked around, nodding to Aizen as he approached me. An interesting scene would soon take place. At least the one in charge of things had finally appeared. I listened carefully to the words exchanged before the girl started to announce what was going to happen. First off, it did not surprise me how they had treated the victims of the exam's first round. And as for what she said next, that we were to broken up into teams, I wondered if we were going to compete with each other. Regardless, I silently followed Aizen, who seemed to know where he was going. Meeting up with our third partner, I would let a faint smile show for a moment as I introduced myself.

"Kaeor, is it? Nice to meet you. I am...Ryuusei Senkou."

An member of Konoha? Our relations have been friendly enough. It looks like teaming up will be worth our while.

[Kyogi]

Kyogi raised an eyebrow as his teammates were called out. First off he was from the secluded villaged of sound so he knew no one anyways. Second he hadn't caught anyone's name aside from the annoying daisy and her bitch woody. Well that was all before he got kicked out of the room at least. So Kyogi just sort of stayed where he was. It's not like he suddenly knew everyone's name no one ever gave him a list. Frowning he would speak up. "Team Wind, I'm the annoying kid who got kicked out in the first five minutes. You're stuck with me so who are you people?" He could only hope that his team mates would have something useful to bring he could be a medic and punch hard but that was just about it. So he'd wait for the exams to begin and maybe meet one of his mystery members of the team.

[Miku]

Damn it..why?

Finally, one of the rounds to the exams required each participant to be placed into teams, and her true team is no where to be found. The young distressed woman decided that it did not matter anyways since the proctors had already created the teams themselves, but it would have been a stroke of luck if she had one of her mist partners on her team. Enough dreading about what should have happened, Miku ventured off to find her two new teammates that she did not know.

Speaking softly to the crowd of people, she would mutter the names 'Ayame' and 'Kiyoshi' until someone responded, and stood next to the both of them and introduce herself, "Hi, I'm Miku.." There wasn't much else she could say, or do at this point. She needed to wait for further information about this round of the exam, while watching her own safety as well. The lonesome feelings were returning again, I can tell..why me?

[Kvasir]

Ayame would reply to my greeting with a warning "Remember what I told you earlier." Oh yeah, the fact that I couldn't tell anyone here that she was Raikage; she was safe in the fact that even though I had reason to be upset at her I was never one to hold grudges, would never do something that could harm the Cloud village, and the fact that I already had my mind trai- oh look! It was the new teammate! "Oh look! *Arf!* That must be Miku!" I'd point to the girl who would be asking around for her teammates, flying across the ground a short distance with a slight bounce to the space right next to her.

"Hello! You must be Miku, our other teammate; my name is Kiyoshi! *Arf!*" I'd smile and look at our new teammate closely for the first time. Miku was, as was obvious at first glance, a she; Miku was also a Mist ninja, of which I'd never seen very many of before. I wondered what she was like, what she could do, who she really was; people where weird like that, to have to many secrets that couldn't be seen at first glance.

It then hit me all at once, looking back a bit to the Raikage Ayame with a slightly strange look, I was alone on a team with two women for whatever task was ahead. I saw this as a stroke of good fortune, it was clearly a good omen for any man to be placed on a team with two women alone, what man wouldn't find such a thing an omen of good fortune? Not only just on the same team as the Raikage but also with two women alone; somebody upstairs must like me, a lot. =3

[DeeDub]

"Just my luck.." Jiro would say after hearing the teams. He was with both participants from leaf just after mentioning a probable grudge. TOru walked off to meet his team which was more mixed than his. What kind of values could this exercise evoke from its participants. Earlier Jiro knew to be all for his village but members of his own village were also branded as his enemies here.

These thoughts and more raced through his head as he walked towards the two Leaf ninja and the other sound ninja in their team. Jiro noticed that these threee had been disqualified from the first exam but were here now. Curious.

He got near the two leaf ninja and extended his right hand. "I extend the olive branch of temporary peace. I am Jiro of Kirigakure."

[gaaraofthesand]

It wasn't that I would abhor the decision to be placed on a team, I just worked more efficiently and preferred the individual effort. The Chuunin Exam's were an evaluation of whether not you deserved the prestigious title, but a team member of the lesser could be rewarded the title simply by tagging along as they trudged their pitiful feet behind in the overcast shadows of some skilled shinobi. Hopefully, the process would be graded on independent success rather than the team as a whole. Regardless, my team had been constructed, therefore, I would have to discern this as reality and accept it the way it was. I was particularly in elation as to one of my very specific team members, officially greeted as Solus. However, as for the rest of them, they typically didn't conform to the educated type; I could be incredulously wrong.

Solicitous about the final prepared task, I would wade in the back in exasperated impatience to indulge myself accordingly. Words would be properly spoken, nods would be gestured, hands would be shaken as mine would find the comfortable and secure location within pockets. I would attain to the scrupulous etiquette that everyone seemed to share in a time of greeting. This was not out of distaste to my comrades, regardless of what it may appear to be. Humane eyes would be locked in fixation to the standard conversations that would flow out; instead, my eyes would fall mysteriously behind my hat, as well as refraining from any outspoken vociferation, for I was consequently in a disconsolate mood. Something of ailing equanimity that I rarely exposed.

Maybe this foul emotion (rarely) displayed in the present would be foreboding the following task. Was something sinister forthcoming?

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Ioshi did not pay attention to anyone that surrounded the lake. He even out his chakras and meditated on the situation. The lake calmed him. There was something with the lake. Something that did not sit right with Ioshi. There was a reason that the examiners had placed them towards the lake and there was a reason that they were in different areas with each other. Suddenly the intercom went off.

He listened to his new teamates that he had to work with so that he may reach the new round and rank. Suprisingly one of them wa already an ally of his. He went towards the mist ninja taht he had allied himself with earlier in the game. 2 meters away from he stopped and said. "Hello my friend. It would seem that they had placed us together on a team." Ioshi looked around. This did not seem like a coincidence. But he shrugged it off anyway. He looked around for his next partner. hoping to get someone strong.

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[Molokai]

What luck, Toru was already acquainted with one of his teammates. Hopefully this would make things go more smoothly when the event started. His ally's introduction was friendly and pleasant, to which Toru's reply was equally polite, "So it seems. I wonder who the third is. Oh, by the way, my name is Toru." Since Toru didn't know his ally's name, he hoped offering his would invoke the Sand ninja to offer his own. After all, if they planned on working together, knowing each others name might be helpful.

[👺 Usiel]

The young girl waited patiently as the members who stood before her began to associate with one another as she smiled calmly to herself keeping her eyes closed. She smiled the type of smile that were mostly seen within innocent children, however there was that eerie feeling that omitted from her that felt of something dark deep within the child. The rest of her companions, the tall man, the Jester, and the boy stayed in their positions waiting as the Jester began tapping his foot showing great impatience.

The young girl just sighed softly as he slowly opened her eyes looking at the group now. Parting her lips she began to speak. "Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Void, which also translates to pure energy of Lightning is what composes the Godai." she began to speak out, speaking in riddles. "Consciousness, is a sixth form of the Godai. Some may say that Consciousness is the purity of Chakra that runs through us all." she said before looking up at the sky for a brief moment.

"Your exam will be two fold. Traveling, and retrieving. How you retrieve is depending on you. You may use all the skills that you are capable of using in order to retrieve the item we wish for you to find." she continued with a sigh. "There are places scattered all over the world that have agreed to work with the Chuunin Exam Association. These places are called the House of Earth, House of Wind, House of Water, House of Void (Lightning), and House of Consciousness (Chakra). Each house possesses a mythical item. This item is a large stone filled with hidden mystery. That is six items, however there are four teams. The reasons why there are four teams is because two out of the six have graciously donated their Stone to us for the mean time until after the exams." she said calmly before slowly turning her head towards the tall man with the jet black hair.

The tall man slowly reached to his back and pulled out a large stone. The stone glowed in a brown light as he showed it to the people. The color would dim and glow brightly from time to time in a erythematic pattern continuously doing so without ever showing any sign of stopping. "This is the Stone of Earth," he uttered calmly in his cool calm collected voice. "All stones will look something like this," he continued before cocking his head to the Jester as the fool continued to pick his nose in public before getting caught off guard.

"Huh? Oh, my turn? Splendid!!!!!" he squealed with excitement as he pulled out a fairly large back from god knows where while reaching behind him. The fact that a bag was hidden from behind the man was a mystery all on its own. "Hold on I got it," he yelled pulling out a rubber chicken, then some books, followed by some weapons. "No that's not it" he uttered still as he pulled out a human head and throwing it along the floor. One by one he just continued to pull out objects that seemed to not even fit inside the bag. "Dang blasted where..." he began to get frustrated as he pulled out a 6 foot halberd out of a 3 foot size bag. "Ah hah!!! Found it" he said gleefully revealing a large stone similar to the one the tall man had pulled out except for the fact that instead of glowing brown, it glowed a cool white light emitting out. "This is the Stone of Consciousness, it's so pretty as it calls out to me, don't you think ahahahaha." he uttered before handing it to the young girl.

"The last stones you must retrieve them," the girl uttered. "The people you will interact will act as if they are not associated with the Chuunin Exam Association, however they are, and they will do everything they can to stop you, and even kill you if need. With that you have full permission to attack and kill any who stand in your way in order to achieve your objective. Whether you retrieve the stone as a team and come back as a team is totally up to you. However the ones who come back with the stone they are assigned to get will be able to go into the final test, and capable of becoming Chuunin." Amilia Silverstone calmly spoke out.

"Team Fire, you must travel to the City Capital of Fire Country and find the House of Fire," she said pulling out a scroll with the word fire on it before throwing it in front of the group. "This scroll will tell you the address of the House of Fire. You must retrieve the Stone of Fire, which is a stone of ruby red and something similar to what you have seen so far. Good luck."

"Team Wind, you must travel to the City Capital of Wind Country and find the House of Wind," she said pulling out a scroll with the word wind on it before throwing it in front of the group. "This scroll will tell you the address of the House of Wind. You must retrieve the Stone of Wind, which is a stone of gray and something similar to what you have seen so far. Good luck."

"Team Water, you must travel to the City Capital of Water Country and find the House of Water," she said pulling out a scroll with the word Water on it before throwing it in front of the group. "This scroll will tell you the address of the House of Water. You must retrieve the Stone of Water, which is a stone of Blue sapphire and something similar to what you have seen so far. Good luck."

"Team Lightning, you must travel to the City Capital of Lightning Country and find the House of Lightning," she said pulling out a scroll with the word Lightning on it before throwing it in front of the group. "This scroll will tell you the address of the House of Lightning. You must retrieve the Stone of Lightning, which is a stone of Yellow and something similar to what you have seen so far. Good luck."

The Jester, leaving his own objects there slowly began to walk away as Alexander stopped him. "Where do you think you are going." he uttered calmly, and quietly as the Jester slowly cocked his head to the boy.

"Need to go back, some business wasn't taken care of." he said calmly before narrowing his eyes in disgust. "I'll return, but not until my job is done." he scorned before walking away.

With Amilia Silverstone, she just smiled and calmly asked "Are there any questions? If not, then good luck."

(We will be having threads that will basically give out the location of the House so you can RP saying "Oh so this is such and such address. Good luck.)

[Solus]

"I extend the olive branch of temporary peace. I am Jiro of Kirigakure." Solus merely nodded. "Minamoto, from Konoha. Let me be very clear, I harbor no friendly feelings whatsoever for you. But for the sake of of the alliance of our villages and these exams, we'll have to work together as if we are best buddies forever." Then the other boy would make his entrance "Team Wind, I'm the annoying kid who got kicked out in the first five minutes. You're stuck with me so who are you people?" The Genmaster would stare into the boys eyes relentlessly for about four seconds. "Minamoto Solus, and for the love of god, you are annoying, so shut it before I develop a migraine."

After this quite gloomy introduction they would get an explanation on what to do. What flustered the Genmaster most was 'the Jester'. A human head was one thing, maybe he just couldn't say goodbye to his deceased granny, but the sheer amount and size of the items he produced from the bag was astounding. Let alone how he got that bag, he didn't seem to carry one when he entered. Solus raised a single eyebrow. "That's quite... Impossible, ain't it?"

Then the feared destination would be announced, he had already expected it somewhat after the first part, but it still angered him. "Oh joy, a desert, just what I need, a sunbath." he would mutter ironically under his breath. Getting up he would catch the scroll that would be thrown to them and place it in a pocket on the inside of his trench-coat without looking at it. That could be done at a better time without spying eyes, besides, on their way to Wind they would have plenty time to investigate the scroll.

There would be another small conversation between the Jester and the examiner boy, but they wouldn't say anything that made his Solussenses tingle. He did lock the information in his brain however. "Are there any questions? If not, then good luck." There were no real questions to be asked, at least no questions that were stupid to ask since they would never be properly answered. Solus would speak to his team, but kept his voice down, to make sure that only they would hear him and that it was one hundred percent clear that he was not asking a question "Do you guys have a comm device?"

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[DeeDub]

The exchange of greetings was cold to say the least. But what did Jiro expect of people who would rather kill each other then gather peaceably. The four proctors began to speak individually, stating their teams goal, which was to travel to a specific country and recover a stone like the two they shown.

They specifically stated though they were a team acting as one was up to them was optional. A "team of enemies" if you will. Jiro was in a tough spot as he had two ninjas from the same village on his "team". But the angles he could work were thought up quickly. for now he would help te team as much as possible but without wearing himself thin for the inevitable four way battle.

"Comm Device... Yea I have one." He would respond to the one named Solus as he heard him respond to the lone sound ninja of our team.

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

And with that he would look at the other ninja in his cell. There wasn't any questions to be asked as he loathed going to a place where the suiton affinity was probably dominant. "You guys ready?" he questioned ready to get this over with.

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