Spectator Room

[Chuunin Examiner]

This was the monitoring room for the spectators. In this room, one will find various monitors and computers with feed on every room that contained a participant and every person participating in the exams. One could even hear sounds and choose to view anyone in any angle they wished, except for the first testing room, the machines could even record events on a disck viewable by any other machines. Food and drink was brought in everyone hour, there would be a few guards mingling in with the spectators for their own safety. A large sign could be seen on a big wall at the end of the room which stated the rules.

Rules:

• Do not use any techniques while in this room.
  
• Do not train while in this room.
  
• Don't act agressively or try doing anything suspicious.

[Aaron: The Bee Master]

[Enter]

Disqualified...What an insult! Aaron sulked as he tried to regain his composure. When he felt he contained himself well enough, he made his way to the spectator's section. A fancy layout complete with videos and sound, enough to make a techie drool with envy. Aaron took an empty seat. He wasn't one for the latest gadgets but if they offered all these tools for free why not take them up on it. Looking around, he had a little area to himself, and then he finally spied the large sign.

Rules:
Do not use any techniques while in this room.
Do not train while in this room.
Don't act agressively or try doing anything suspicious.

Aaron almost laughed at the ridiculousness of the rules. Sure he was angry and would kill everyone eventually, but he could play along. He did not need to do anything and would just watch the show. He had already put his first attempt in motion before leaving the hall. For now he would just wait and watch, studying everything he can about the other participants. When this exam was over and the proctors were gone, he could act with impunity and without fear. To prepare for that time, he would study up on his opponents - their physique, markings of potential seals and abilities. All would one day bow before him. It begins today.

The recorder did not seem to be operational yet, but Aaron played with the other controls watching and listening in as the exam he had been unfairly ejected from progressed.

[Aaron: The Bee Master]

Well his one and only plan failed. He zoomed in on the corpse of the wasp. His only plan to interfere with the exam foiled. There would be no other way to interfere from where he was. Still at least the girl's wolf got left behind. Serves her right.

Aaron flipped the switches and moved to watch round 2 as everyone hung chained to the wall. Activating the recording mechanism he'd see what they could do. Did he really have to wait until exams were over to deal with them?

[Saigoto]

Saigoto would be the first person of his traveling group to walk into the Spectator room. He had gotten separated from the others. He walked into the room and saw but only one other person. Someone watching the monitor. Saigoto didnt pay no attention to him walking by he noticed the person had a Stone headband on. Saigoto looked at him again. As far as he knew noone else was traveling to the exams from stone except those taking the test. "Wait" Saigoto said looking at the head band again. "Don't tell me you failed" Saigoto said shocked. He didnt want to believe one of them failed but it was the only reason he could think of that this stone shinobi would be in here watching the exams.

[Aaron: The Bee Master]

[Complicate Aaron's life why don't you.]

At the sound of someone's entrance, Aaron glanced up. Just perfect. He did not need this; a short kid with an oval sized head wearing a Stone headband. Turning back to the monitor, Aaron ignored him. He did not need any aggravation right now. He would not let anything interrupt him.

Yet the kid wanted to bug him anyway. "Don't tell me you failed." The first words from the kid's mouths. Did he have a death wish? On the best of days you don't say that to him. Aaron's eye twitched uncontrollably. He would not say those words himself. They hurt too much.

Wanting nothing more than to whack this irritating brat, Aaron held off, mindful of his surroundings. He couldn't compromise his attempt to learn about the other shinobi. He needed the information before he could attack them. He would suppress it to the best of his ability. Yet he was sure annoyance still showed on his face. There were limits to self-restraint.

Aaron knew enough the novice before him couldn't have come by himself. Fearing the answer, Aaron asked, "Will others be coming to watch?" He ignored the shinobi's question entirely. One stone ninja would be an annoyance, more a hindrance. He may need to come up with a contingency plan.

[Aero]

Enter

Somehow the group had been separated while walking over toward the Exams Spectator room. There were lots of hallways and other things that made the path tedious to follow. None the less, the young monk known as Aero would arrive at the door, not entering right away. He'd hear the voices of Saigato speaking within to another male. Yet it was hard to say who. From the sounds of Saigato's statement it would be clear that this was an Iwa Shinobi within the room. Opening the door, the monk bearing no headband would walk in and glance around at the monitors to see what was going on in the Exams.

"Anything exciting happen yet?"

As he'd speak he'd close his eyes momentarily and use his minds eye to take note of the Iwa Genin whom he hadn't met yet. The acknowledgment of the chakra signature would allow him to realize they were on a similar level of skill. He'd smile a bit as his blue eyes opened to reveal the two Shinobi in the room roughly ten feet from his own position. He'd do his best to not speak about where he was from, yet he wasn't sure if Saigato would pick up on such an act. He definitely knew that Kysuugi will most likely run his mouth once he got in here. Though it wasn't a problem for now, as this was a Genin of Stone. An ally without a name...

[Saigoto]

The Stone ninja seemed irritated. Great another person to just treat Saigoto like he was something worthless and shouldn't even exist. All he needed now was for Kysuugi to bust into the room and yell something stupid and Saigotos day would be complete. For some reason Saigoto despised Kysuugi. Maybe it was the face he was loud and obnoxious. Oh well. With out an answer to his own question the stone ninja asked Saigoto if there were others coming.

"Tch..." Saigoto now obviously annoyed. "maybe you should answer my question before you expect an answer to yours" Saigoto wasnt looking for a fight but he didnt care. Treating Saigoto like hes worthless. "Last I checked your a genin just like me so dont go acting all high and mighty." This was the most Saigoto had said in awhile he knew he was pissed at this point.

[Aaron: The Bee Master]

Aaron's eye and vein both twitched. If this went on, he knew he'd lose it. Remember the plan. Remember the plan. Don't let some know nothing ruin it. Scenarios went through his mind as a variety of emotions welled up inside until he came to a conclusion. "Leave me be, and let me watch the exam in peace. When there is a break we can "discuss" this outside if you want." His voice cold and calculating, Aaron could tell the genin was soft and inexperienced. The newcomer probably picked up on Aaron's mood better than this brat. Pointing to the sign Aaron turned once more to his monitor, shunning the boy.

[Jimarai Kotetsu]

[ENTRANCE OF A GRAND AND MELODRAMATIC NATURE]

The Tsuchikage would wander around the port city, breathing deeply the fresh salty sea air, taking in the sounds of the waves and the seagulls and the soft caress of the sea breeze while it lasted. Soon enough he would be back in the dry and arid Tsuchi no Kuni. As much as he loved his home, he loved the sea more. His eyes mostly closed as he soaked in the atmosphere, Jimarai would wander about, presumably towards the spectators room, though he would admittedly get lost. Turning to ask for directions, all of his team would have disappeared, including Aero.

Shit! I'm alone!

Taking off at a dramatic and comical run, Jimarai would run from person to person, asking where he could find the spectator room for the exams. Finding a gentlemen that gave him the answer, he shook his hand violently, leaving the man whirring as he bolted off in the right direction.

~~~~~~~~

His official cloak and hat would catch in the breeze as he ran towards the room, bolting inside and sticking his head inside, clearly out of breath. " Hai! Sorry I'm late, I got a little los--- OH MY GOD LOOK AT THESE SCREENS! I need to get me some of these for my offic --- AND THE UPHOLSTERY IS TO DIE FOR! Wow .... "

Looking around Jim would see Aero, Saigoto and ... Aaron.

Isn't he ... He must of ... Mmm.

Ceasing his flamboyant awareness of his surrounding, Jim would wordless approach Aaron, a grim expression on his face and place a hand gently on his shoulder for just a moment and then take a seat near a nearby monitor.

"So, what happened to my other two favourite Genin?"[/color]

[deadlywhencornered]

Kysuugi was standing in the street with his mouth hanging open; he had failed to impress a beautiful girl that had walked by him as he was entering the Chuunin Exam Building. Of course, his team didn't wait up, and he had no idea where to go. "I should really give up flirting with girls," he said irritably as he went from door to door inside the building looking for the Spectator Room.

Finally, after who knows how long, he found it and kicked the door open. "I'M ALIVE!" he proclaimed after a moment's pause. Then, he walked in to see a huge room filled with monitors showing the Chuunin Exam's progress. He was mesmerized by all of this technology, but something else in the room caught his eye. Apparently, another Iwa ninja was watching the exams. He had probably failed and looked incredibly annoyed and angry. Kysuugi believed that now was not the best time for introductions. So, he went back to his favorite pastime: annoying Saigoto. He would continually poke Saigoto while watching the exams at the same time. "You put too much pressure on a tense wire, and it'll snap," he thought with glee.

[Saigoto]

Saigoto would snap however he would not do so visibly his hand would clinch as he would glare at Kysuugi. His eyes would look back to the kage and saigoto would say. "I havent seen Hoki" Saigoto would look back at the unknown stone ninja who Saigoto had run into earlier. "Better luck next time" Saigoto said in as sarcastic tone as he could. He didnt truely care if the kage was here now or not. The person didnt have to snap at him for no apparent reason. In all honesty Saigoto wasnt going to be rude if he had failed but due to his response Saigoto found it hard to care. He would turn around and look to one of the monitors in the far corner of the room. He would stroll over remove his scythe and lean it against the table next to him. He would begin flipping threw watching what was going on.

On the monitor he would see three ninja chained to walls. Saigoto wondered where the test would take them once they freed themselves as they knew they would have to.

[Aaron: The Bee Master]

Aaron would ignore the newcomers which happened to include his Kage. Most of them were smart, especially his Kage who did not say anything. Still did they decide to have a party in here or something? It's bad enough he lost the exam, but now he's got no less than 3 other stone ninja with him. The 4th ninja sporting no headband probably hailed from his village too. It'd be too coincidental otherwise for him to enter just a moment before his Kage but after another Stonie arrived.

Most of them seemed to read the mood upon entering. He could suppress his annoyance at the oval head though it irked him badly. Had they all started badgering him about the exam, he knew without a doubt that this room and most of the building would be leveled. His psyche already hung at the breaking point. It did not need much more.

Trying to shut out all distractions, Aaron paid no heed to the others. Focused solely on the monitors he wished everyone would go away while praying for the strength to endure. His raw anger simmering, the voices in his mind told him how easy it would be to let it all go.

[Jimarai Kotetsu]

Taking off his hat and officla robe, he would drape it over the back of his chair. Beneath this would be revelaed Jimarai's typical black trench coat, and white shirt underneath. Retaking his seat he would view the monitors, ignoring the Genin in the room until Saigoto would declare he had not seen Hoki.

It's been almost 20 minutes ... it's not a big town ...

Leaving his official garb, Jimarai like Aero would now bear no affiliation with any village. Walking towards the door he would casually raise a hand to dismiss anyone thinking they had to follow him."I'm just going out for some air, you guys stay."

Traipsing out into the street the Tsuchikage would make his way to the docks, the last place he saw his Genin.

[EXIT]

[deadlywhencornered]

When Saigoto snapped, it wasn't the reaction that Kysuugi was hoping for, but it was a reaction nonetheless. "Alright man I'm sorry! Jeez!" he complained. But it all didn't matter; the Spectator Room was getting boring, and he had seen an interesting shop that he wanted to visit before he had entered the room with the others. He was supposed to be on a mission, but what the heck. It was practically a vacation to him.

"I'll be right back." he said as he exited the room. It was off to that Kojiro Yamanaka's whatever place. He decided that now was the time to start learning about the Yamanaka clan; he idolized the clan for its capabilities in mind destruction, and he knew that this would be the perfect opportunity to train into it. Hopefully, whoever owned the shop wouldn't mind taking on a student...hopefully.

[exit]

[Saigoto]

Saigoto sat in the corner of the room realizing he was the only one in the room anymore with the stone ninja. He wasnt to sure what to do. He wondered where the kage and Kysuugi left to. But at the same time he didnt worry to much about it. Kysuugi he was glad that headache was gone and over with. Saigoto was bored though. The people taking the exam seemed to all be chained to a wall and not doing a whole lot. One had managed to break free and the girl was playing like she was helpless and couldnt get herself down. Saigoto laughed. just then the other one would break free. Saigoto started to wonder if the two shinobi in the room would let the girl down. He hoped not. Espescialy considering that one of them was a stone ninja. "Please dont let her down". He would mumble.

As he watched then as the stone ninja did infact let her down Saigoto sighed stood up and left the room. He was going out he had to do something productive.

[Jimarai Kotetsu]

Bested by his Genin, Jimarai would return to the spectator room, quickly whisking in and taking up his robe and slipping into it and take his seat in the comfortable leather chair, reviewing what had been happening thus far.

"How have they been going?"[/color] Jimarai would direct towards Aaron, who was still here watching the monitors.

I also need to tell them about Hoki ... I'll wait until they're all back here I suppose.

[/right]

And with that, Jimarai resumed the mission - to observe the Chuunin exams.

[Aaron: The Bee Master]

Aaron had ignored the other people as they came and left and now Round 2 was well underway...

Still furious, Aaron wondered again why he did not make it past the first round. The ineptness of the ninja girl astounded him. How did she make it and he did not? Within seconds he could have freed himself from those chains. It wasn't fair! Why did they save her? They could have let her rot there and she'd be there until the Chuunins ended. Still she had some interesting abilities. He manipulated the cameras for a better angle.

The only saving grace of the moment was that he had found another bee user. Even in his village, there were few who aligned themselves with the Kamizuru. He also used a unique ability, one Aaron hadn't seen before. When he returned to the village after leaving a trail of blood and destruction in this land, he'd have to research it. Maybe he could access such a technique too...

The sound ninja appeared to have a decent head on his shoulder and some martial skills. He'd be a formidable foe. Why couldn't he have taken the place of the girl? She was useless...

When the examiner spoke, looking conspicuously similar to a Horror film character he recently Saw in a theater, Aaron had to admit he liked his style.

The choice presented was a simple one and the Sound shinobi had a logical plan. Seeing the plan fail, Aaron would have have made the choice to immediately go down the path not echoing the sound of water. He and his bees both hated it and he did not yet have mastery of the jutsu necessary to handle swimming. Playing with the controls some more, Aaron still couldn't hear or see anything other than what the contestants were able to. Looking at the display, Aaron wondered why the participants didn't notice the cameras. The angle options meant there had to be plenty of cameras in the room.

Making it out of the main room, Aaron couldn't believe the girl had tried to do fortune telling to find the right path. Did she have any brains? The Examiner appeared again and relayed his cryptic message. He wondered how long they would last. The girl would probably fall soon at the first real hardship. The sound shinobi could probably endure as could his village's shinobi, though he did appear absent minded waiting until the last moment to flee the preceding room with the falling ceiling.

The door opened behind him as the examiner vanished. A quick turn of his head showed the arrival of his Kage. Just great. He did not want to talk but the Kage would probably force the issue at some point. An irritated sigh with a hint of anger preceded Aaron's response. "Slow...Very slow...The girl is inept and needed to be unchained from the wall by our Stone shinobi. Both the Sound and Stone shinobi seem to know what they are doing. The stone ninja almost got crushed by a falling ceiling for dawdling too long in the previous room and the others followed him onward at the last second. So in short, they've cleared 1 room in all this time."

Aaron paused. "Depending how things turn out with the exam finals, do you mind if I hang out in Tea a little after the exams? Just until the proctors are gone. You see there's some sightseeing I want to do." Sightseeing, yea right. Sightseeing the bloody corpse of the little girl and her little dog too. Speaking of which, what happened to her dog?

[Jimarai Kotetsu]

Sitting and watching the pictures roll out on the screens before him he would nod in understanding and contemplation as Aaron explained the situation. Apparently Sairo had to release the small girl from her bindings. A frown would cross the Kage's features slowly.

Why would he do that? It's perfectly reasonable to kill or otherwise let other participants die ... I shall have to have a word with him about that.

Responding to Aaron's description he would add "I don't agree with freeing the girl. Would have been better to let her rot I say. Less competition, easier to take out another participant if they showed as a threat without the wildcard of a third party."

A request would then be made. "Depending how things turn out with the exam finals, do you mind if I hang out in Tea a little after the exams? Just until the proctors are gone. You see there's some sightseeing I want to do."

Pondering for a moment Jimarai would stroke his chin."I don't see why not. Only on the condition that you give me a time frame. I'd rather you not be out of the village any longer than necessary - myself included. You have a week extra after the exams. Any longer and I'll send out ANBU to drag you back. Understood? You may not realise this ... but Stone is on the brink of war. But I shall say no more. You have a week. Take it or leave it."

Turning back to the screens Jimarai would toggle the viewing options some more until he had a better resolution and thus a better view of what exactly was happening. After some time of watching the events of the second stage of the exam he would rise and stretch out. "I might head out and do a little bit of Suiton training while I'm here ... You're more than welcome to join me if you wish ... If not, tell Saigoto and Ksyuugi that I'm just in the docks."[/color]

[Aaron: The Bee Master]

"Understood. One week." One week would be plenty. His brain plotted out strategies. Ultimately the results of the exam would determine his actions, but he had the okay. "Maybe later," Aaron spoke quietly turning to the monitors. He didn't want to betray his inner glee. He could stay...His Kage would return, most likely with Stonies in tow back to the village leaving him free to act.

Watching the exams some more, Aaron's eyes stared cold and calculating at the monitors. One hurdle cleared. Now he needed to wait until the exams ended and the proctors vanished. He also needed a patsy, maybe an advanced form of Henge to frame someone. Nothing must be traced back to him. If he had to act in the city, it could be disastrous. Still if he could get away with it...after all it's not a crime unless you're caught. The city would burn if it needed to. That little irritating girl would die, then the sound shinobi!

A diabolical grin formed on his features. Only time would tell what is to come...

[Saigoto]

((OOC: Just as an FYI to anyone not from stone and not familiar with my post in the stone village ooc chat I am currently on deployment and posting frequently tends to be quite hard so dont hesitate to skip me if I dont meet IIC))

Saigoto would walk back into the room to see the kage and the stone ninja who had easily annoyed Saigoto to no end earlier sitting next to eachother. Saigoto didnt really know what to do. He decided to sit one row behind the kage and flick on a screen and absent mindidly watch the chunnin exams. His mind was else where going over his spar with the kage just now wondering what he could do better. If he could do better. Speaking up to make himself heard he asked the other two in the room. "So anything exciting happen while I was gone?"