Naruto Akatsuki Souzoku

[obbsessed fan]

OOC: sorry this was supposed to go up last night, but I was talking to KT and I decided to let him post first, but I had to go before I could put mine up, so this ones set a little before Rayex's post.

“Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn” Yuki's deep bellied wake up call rang throughout her room. She proceeded to rub her eyes from sleep. She looked up squinting from the sun in her eyes. “Stupid sun, your worse than an alarm clock.” She grumbled. Yuki sighed knowing she wont be able to go to sleep now with the sun in her eyes, that and shes already woken up. She climbed out of the warm toasty covers....she was missing them already. Looking out the window she saw a little bit of the village was up and about, opening stores and what not. “Better get changed then.” She said out loud while stretching. She grabbed her cloths and went into the bathroom and did her morning ritual and stuff. After she was done she headed out into the hallway and pressed her ear to her teammates door. “Hm, still snoring, those guys didn't get the sun in their eyes... lucky bakas, getting to sleep without the sun.”

She decided to go out and walk around the town to take in the sights. She would stop by a stand to pick up breakfast. Ordering a nice and fresh cinnamon bun she continued to walk around the village. “This place is quite scenic.” She commented to herself. She was window shopping for a while, going in and out of stores, never buying anything, she just liked to look at all the indigenous wares and crafts. She sat down underneath a tree near the training grounds for a break as she finished off her cinnamon roll, watching the villagers pass by, and some ninja doing their training.

She looked up at the sun, it had a magnificent view, towering over the mountains, as if it was showing the world its power over it. There were a little bit of clouds, and she was surprised at how close they were now. They were on a mountain though, she shouldn't be that surprised she told herself.

“Hm, might as well enjoy this break in the mission. No doubt we will be training today, thats why I stopped here. So it's best to take a rest before the work out.” She said out loud. She closed her eyes and rested against the tree, just taking in the ambiance and not thinking about anything else.

[Kissui Tensai]

"I'm here. And Kai should be here soon as well. Where's Yuki?"

"I haven't the foggiest idea, she's the early bird to be up before me."

Then along came Kai.

"Sensei please tell me we're going to spar today, I've got a score to settle since somebody thought it was a good idea to "shock" me out of bed this morning."

"It was originally our reprieve day, but I figured we get some training in the mountains today. With how the village has changed, it extends into the wood range."

Rayex yawned a stretched his arms out, still stiff from waking up. He pointed his thumb towards the door for signal, and continued to exit the raikage's mansion. A brief walk, it wouldn't take them much time between the village and their destination. However, it was hard to ignore the aroma of the morning chefs this early in the morning. He ended up making a short stop, ended up tossing Kai and Azuke a bagel and a danish in the process. A piece of sweet bread in his mouth, it'd at least tie him over, they could burn the calories within training.

"I do so love that old man, he literally makes a break fast."

Rayex wasn't pleased with such a bad pun. As he finished off what he had, they came along a string of gates, each were numbered indicating the field number. A number that stuck out for him, number seventeen. His eyes cricked and he peered at the number, then opening the gate coming to an empty field about forty meters in front of them was open space, with some open patches lacking grass but just ground. To the back was forest and woods, the field was slightly on an incline or hill, he saw someone sitting under a tree.

"So was this by coincidence, or do you just like the number of the field."

The person under the tree was Yuki. As sensei, he greeted her with a keen smile, and stood back up as they'd all been together. The next gate over must've been what or who she was watching, in any case they could get started. Rayex opened his ninja bag he held his tools in on his side, and took out a pair of his finger gloves, loosely cracking his fingers.

"Alright. I think we'll do a quick review before we start. I believe your all well informed on chakra and chakra usage correct? In any case I'm going to gauge your knowledge of chakra and chakra usage to put you to work on learning some much more heightened jutsu. Any of you care to explain to me what chakra is before we get started?"

[obbsessed fan]

"So was this by coincidence, or do you just like the number of the field."

Yuki looked up. “Well, I figured we would be training sooner or later so I figured this would be the most probable place you would end up.” Yuki said in her morning drone.

She stood up and watched as her sensei got ready for their training exercise.

"Alright. I think we'll do a quick review before we start. I believe your all well informed on chakra and chakra usage correct? In any case I'm going to gage your knowledge of chakra and chakra usage to put you to work on learning some much more heightened jutsu. Any of you care to explain to me what chakra is before we get started?"

Yuki sighed, deciding to do the whole spiel in one go to get it over with, seeing as her teammates haven't volunteered to say anything yet, she spoke up.

“Chakra is simply stated, the energy you use when doing a jutsu. Basically, to do ninjutsu or genjutsu, you must mix your chakra, which is bodily energy collected from cells throughout the body, and spiritual energy, which is gained through experiences. Then by doing the proper hand poses seals, the jutsu can be activated. Once chakra is activated, various techs and movements can be used. Without chakra a ninja wouldn't be able to do much.

So what's really the key here is not actually having chakra, but being able to sufficiently control it. Because, everyone has Chakra, but only skilled ninja can correctly manipulate it to it's fullest extent. Some ninja can partially control their Chakra. This means they can use their Chakra, but not effectively control it, which results in poorly executed jutsu, and more importantly, running out of Chakra early in a fight.

Out of the many different types of jutsu: Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, Doujutsu, and so on, all require the use of Chakra. However, one of the types ,Taijutsu, is different. It basically requires no Chakra use whatsoever. The ninja still needs Chakra to live, Taijutsu just doesn't use it. A standard attack like a punch or kick falls into this jutsu category, but it is known to add chakra to body parts or elemental chakra to increase the Taijutsu power.

Since Chakra is the resulting form of energy when two other energies are mixed together, having those other two energies become more powerful, will in-turn make the Chakra more powerful. These other two energies as I said are, Physical energy, and Spiritual energy, which is built up through experience and meditation.

Therefore, practicing a jutsu repeatedly, will build up your experience, thus giving you more spiritual energy, and then allowing more Chakra to be created. Which as a result then allows you to do that same attack with more and more power. This same cycle applies for Physical energy, except this time, instead of doing things like meditation, you could say, do push-ups.

The process in which you mix these two energies together is known as Chakra Molding.
Molding Chakra means to extract energies from both the body and the spirit, then mixing them up in your body. And the amount of each energy will differ from the type of technique you wish to execute. In other words, the mixing will be different. You are not able to use your Chakra effectively. Even if you are able to mold a large amount of Chakra, If you cannot control the balance, your technique will only be half as effective or not executed at all. Wasting energy will create a weakness of not being able to fight for a long time.” Yuki droned in monotone, quoting Irukas chakra lesson word for word.

Yuki panted from lack of breath. “A ninja who doesn't know that about chakra is bound to fail.”

Yuki finished her long lecture out of breath, hoping Rayex wouldn't delve further into the subject, she basically went over the whole subject anyways.

[Nebula Zero]

"Sensei please tell me we're going to spar today, I've got a score to settle since somebody thought it was a good idea to "shock" me out of bed this morning."

Azuke giggled to himself once more, but felt a challenge coming on. He sure would like to see how that would go, he thought to himself. They soon found Yuki, who had already been at the rendezvous point. Rayex made a snide joke, and proceeded to business.

"Alright. I think we'll do a quick review before we start. I believe your all well informed on chakra and chakra usage correct? In any case I'm going to gage your knowledge of chakra and chakra usage to put you to work on learning some much more heightened jutsu. Any of you care to explain to me what chakra is before we get started?"

Yuki then went into a long-winded speech about the whole chakra thing, which Azuke realized that he had forgotten much about it until now. Taijutsu and Ninjutsu were his bread and butter. His eyes under the state of kekkei genkai did help him, but didn't perform any Doujutsu. Iruka-sensei did teach him in private about how he 'worked', after watching him from afar.

"Azuke, your a tad different from the others. The spiritual energy you posses greatly overpowers your physical energy. Which is why I've been assigning you many Taijutsu activities. To help develop your physical energy to maintain a balance. Every time you mold chakra, due to the overload of spiritual energy, the charka is kept within your body and creates a field around you, which explains your magnetic attraction to metal. But since the chakra is still kept within your body, your reserves are far greater than anyone else's, allowing you more stamina in battle. Who knows what could happen if all that chakra were released..."

It's how he got so strong, he thought. By trying to make his physical energy balance his spiritual, he made himself more and more physically capable, to suit his chakra. Azuke zoned out of his flashback, and entered reality. He remembered about sensei's last part of his speech, saying,

"So, what are we gonna learn today?"

[Optical Justice]

Kaito muffled the sheets as he was mumbling in his sleep. he lay with his bare chest out laying halfway on the bed with his shorts. he had nothing to really do lately so his daily regimine only consisted of waking up eating traning and helping people around the village. he wanted another to be wit him but thats not how the tables turned out for him. a cool breeze flew through the window nipping him on his bare body. wind and air was something he was all to familar with however he didnt remember opening the window the night prior." The hell..."

Wake up! It's time to finally break you in, maggot!" Sin roared in a harsh tone, pretty drill sergeant like. "No time to waste, plenty of time to rest later!"

Kaito sprung up and fell out the bed with a large thump startled by the quick yelling from someone at the window " ouch...dam that hurt" he moaned rubbing his backside. " would it kill ya to knock...." he grabed onto the bed pulling himself up and sat up on the bed agisnt the bedpost staring at the man in the window.." Well hello sin nice morning eh....?" he said with a bright smile.

[S/\|T0]

"Well, yeah, its seems to be a great day in Kumo so far." Sin's voice when mellow suddenly. "Wait, that's besides the point."

Sin walked over to the newbie, and handed him the conveniently small envelope.

"This information contains a very important message for the leader of Kage. You will be required to get this message there ASAP." Sin explained to him. "This message to remain a secret, and if you even bother to open it... Let's just say it's case sensitive. Understand?"

Sin walked over to the window, about to hop out.

"Good luck, don't get killed... Be glad to hear from you when you get back." Sin finished and hopped out of the room just as fast as he had entered.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

After a nice, steamy shower, the two relaxed for a moment inside there cozy room oasis [from earlier on where Sano had taken Rayex]. Sitting on the couch in the nice cool room in their bathing robes, the two took a few moments of reprieve.

"More work today..." Shira groaned, wondering how the previous Raikage's could even stand the days of war, especially with a heavy load every minute to deal with. "I just want to sit here, shut my eyes and relax here with you and Joi. That would be perfect."

"Heh, where is are little girl anyway? I doubt she be sleeping at this our, she is always so full of energy." Sano asked, holding his wife close to him. "I am surprised she isn't here with us at this very moment."

"Well, why don't we go find her than?" Shira added.

"How 'bout this, why don't I take care of your work today? You two can go have some mother-daughter fun, and everyone is happy."

Shira gave her man a funny look.

"You, do all my work for today, right? I bet you wouldn't know where to start."

"Well, I can figure it out. You give me a little Raikage 101, and I will go from there."

"Fine then, sounds like a plan." She giggled at Sano's notion. "You better not screw up or I will have to punish you..."

"So, either way I don't lose!? Alright!" Sano brought up perverted, get a playful slap on the chest from Shira.

"Alright, let's get started...."

[Hip-Hop]

"Alright. I think we'll do a quick review before we start. I believe your all well informed on chakra and chakra usage correct? In any case I'm going to gauge your knowledge of chakra and chakra usage to put you to work on learning some much more heightened jutsu. Any of you care to explain to me what chakra is before we get started?"

Just before Kai could open his mouth to speak, Yuki went into a long winded speech straight from the mouth of Iruka-sensei. How the hell does she remember all that? Kai thought as she drawled on in monotone fashion. Yawnin two or three times, he too zoned out just like Azuke did. He, however, was daydreaming about something different. He remembered in his dream the night before there had been a white tiger, what did it mean? What was i's purpose? As far as Kai knew he had no connection with tigers, though it's not like he knew much about his bloodline other than the face that it carried the Hyoton kek genkai. And who was that man walking towards him? It was all so confusing.

"So, what are we gonna learn today?"

Hearing Azuke's voice caused him to snap out of his dreamlike state and back into reality. Looking up at Rayex-sensei. he too spoke out.

"Well, I'm guessing, since you asked us about chakra, we're going to be doing some ninjutsu exercises right? If so, I've so got this."

[Kissui Tensai]

Rayex absorbed the mouthful from Yuki.

"Right on all points. You know, for someone that was slacking in Iruka's class, you sure did remember a lot. It's not so far from a shock if I might add, I've seen many students conceal their genius." Rayex said with a hunch in his statement.

"So, what are we gonna learn today?" Azuke asked.

"Well, I'm guessing, since you asked us about chakra, we're going to be doing some ninjutsu exercises right? If so, I've so got this."

Rayex smirked for a second and began to laugh. His idea for training would be a bit unique, having had three different teachers with the most effective methods for the physical, spiritual, and combination aspects. The purpose was to get the best control over their chakra now as possible and to do that there was going to be a needed strain. He was here to administer three forms of teaching before he'd implement a planned growth once he was comfortable with their chakra control.

"Quite the contrary. Up to this point, you've only been estimating how much chakra has been used. Displacing it in jutsu you perform, you actually end up wasting more chakra than is actually needed to meet the requirement of the jutsu. What determines the winner in fight between two shinobi other than killing the other is by the amount of chakra they have and how much they use. If they happen to run out, ultimately their opponent gains the upper hand instantly. So I'm going to teach you three chakra exercises to stress your ability to control chakra." Rayex paused and took off his clad tossing by the tree.

"The first exercise...will be climbing a tree. Sounds simple doesn't it? You'll be climbing them, without the use of your hands. This is where your chakra comes in, you'll have to focus it all the way to the soles of your feet, the most difficult place to place chakra on the body. Then from that point on, you must maintain it, and steady make your way up the tree. Well it sounds like I'm babbling like an adult, so I'll just show you."

Rayex stopped talking and picked out a nice tall one. Placing his hands together forming the seal of the ram, as he did everything he explained, the dust blew under his feet. He looked back back at his students for a second for a word of advice.

"Since your all rather new to this. I would recommend getting a running start to build momentum."

With that, Rayex made a swift dash running straight up the tree. It was like he was climbing a mountain without the use of his hands, with each step he was tethered to the tree. If chakra was a type of glue, then it was sticking pretty well as he climbed up to the point where the leaves hid him. Finally choosing to stop, he spun around and began to slide within eye contact of his three students. Walking over, he stood on a branch several feet up and looked down.

"Who's ready to test it?" He said rubbing his nose. "When you get a feel for it, you'll then start carrying weight to build your body and chakra resilience. Lets see how you all do."

From his side, he threw down three kunai, each slamming down at the three of their feet. Rayex leaped down from the tree feeling the nice cool breeze around. He sighed just once, remembering the good times when they had to do this exercise as apart of training. Shaking the thought he'd one last thing to say.

"You'll each take a tree to climb. Using the kunai knife, you'll mark how far you can go before you fall down. If you can master climbing a tree, it will take you massive leap to mastering chakra control. When you've all climbed to the top of the tree, we'll start the second chakra control lesson."

[Nebula Zero]

"Irk, chakra control.."

He thought to himself with kunai in hand, staring up at a fairly large tree. He made a stance, legs wide apart. Feet bracing the ground, he brought his hands together, letting his chakra circulate. A blue aura surrounded him for a brief moment, trying to pour the energy into his feet. With a twitch, he went for it. Running towards the tree, he could feel it. Was he actually controlling his chakra? Hah! But as he set a foot on the bark of the tree, something went horribly wrong.

His foot did stick, but there was something that went wrong. The rest of his body went towards the tree, as if pulled by it. Before he knew it, his whole body had managed to stick entirely the tree, Azuke looking like he was hugging it.

"OH MY GOD. You've got to be kidding me.." he said to himself. Trying to separate himself, he found much struggle in this task. Thinking in this state, he tried to lower his chakra levels. Soon, the cling started to lessen. And before he knew it, he slid off the tree, a feeling of failure coming over him. Standing up, he took a few steps from the tree, looked at it, and sat down crossed-legged.

"This is going to be harder than I thought." he said. Then he remembered the balance bit from Iruka-sensei. He closed his eyes, and brought his hands together. He figured, he would need to mentally balance the spiritual and physical aspects of his chakra if he was going to even accomplish this feat. By finding his center through meditation, he would also find the balance he needed. Now entering a deep state of concentration, he looked into his mind and envisioned two rivers crashing against each other. One of them seemed to be winning.

He reached his hand out to the rivers, and found that he could bend and change them. But with the raging current, it was not so easily manipulated. It must have been his mind's way of trying to find his center. He would have to make the rivers glide gently alongside each other.

This is going to be a long day.

[obbsessed fan]

"Right on all points. You know, for someone that was slacking in Iruka's class, you sure did remember a lot. It's not so far from a shock if I might add, I've seen many students conceal their genius." Rayex said with a hunch in his statement.

Yuki shrugged. “Just because I didn't get good grades doesn't mean I didn't pick anything up. I wouldn't say I conceal my genius either, I'm not that smart, I just like sleeping better.” Yuki smirked.

"So, what are we gonna learn today?" Azuke asked.

"Well, I'm guessing, since you asked us about chakra, we're going to be doing some ninjutsu exercises right? If so, I've so got this."

Yuki nodded along with them. Wondering what sensei has in store for them. Rayex started laughing then explained his intentions. He finished his explanation and opted to show her team how its supposed to be done. "Since your all rather new to this. I would recommend getting a running start to build momentum." He flawlessly climbed up the tree as if he was taking a stroll around the park. “Who's ready to test it?" He said rubbing his nose. "When you get a feel for it, you'll then start carrying weight to build your body and chakra resilience. Lets see how you all do." He came back down gracefully after he threw us kunai.

"You'll each take a tree to climb. Using the kunai knife, you'll mark how far you can go before you fall down. If you can master climbing a tree, it will take you massive leap to mastering chakra control. When you've all climbed to the top of the tree, we'll start the second chakra control lesson."

Yuki grabbed the kunai and went to a tree, she was about to start when she saw Azuke already going at it.... literally, it looked like he was hugging the tree. "OH MY GOD. You've got to be kidding me.." Azuke said to himself. Yuki started to laugh. 'He looks so cute like that ha ha....wait cute? Did I really think that?' She started to blush a little at her thoughts. 'I-I should get to work.'

She looked up at the tree, this wont be to hard she thought to herself. Summoning her chakra to her feet, she ran up to the tree. “Gah!” She barely made it up 2 feet. 'Hmm.... I didn't put enough chakra into that.' She analyzed to herself. “Ok next try!” Yuki said aloud. She sprinted to the base up the tree and suddenly became vertical, 'Keep the flow going!' She had that line running through her head, and when she felt herself lose it, and made a scratch in the bark. When she looked up she saw that she made it halfway already. [i]'Hmm.., doesn't surprise me, my mom made me learn chakra control for genjutsu usage. “Well third times the charm!” With her final sprint Yuki ran all the way up the tree, dodging branches and stuff. “Yatta! Made it! Now I can rest for the day.”Yuki looked down.

“Eeep!” Yuki clung to the tree, making a scrunched up face. How the hell was she going to get down!?

[Nebula Zero]

After a few hours, Azuke had managed to make the rivers flow subtly alongside each other. This is it! This is the balance I've been looking for! Suddenly, his body once again glowed with a blue aura, only this time it was more intense. Azuke got up, standing predominantly. Opening his eyes, he was filled with enough determination to fuel an army. With one big push, he focused on the tree and the tree alone. Running even faster, his feet touched the bark. They stuck. He kept running, his mind clear of all things. He ran along the bark with ease, until he ran along the sky.

"WOOO! I did it! Hey, wait.." he said, realizing that he was in mid-air. To his surprise, he surpassed the tree itself, and was now in the sky. With gravity coming back to him, he looked on in horror as he plummeted many feet to the bottom.

"Well, this is going to hurt."

BOOM!

Azuke made a crater, landing head first into the ground. Turning on his side, he stared up into the sky. He pointed up at the tree, to show his kunai, stuck on the top of the tree. Despite the intense pain he was experiencing at the moment, he couldn't help but feel relieved. Feeling exhausted, he decided to close his eyes slowly.

"Next time..running along it..with..150..pounds..each...leg..." he said, drifting off into a nap.

[Chariot of Fire]

OOC: Finally

IC:

Damn.

Asumo felt something moving behind him, and out the corner of his eye he saw the container which held their prisoner, explode. Asumo was fast, but he was no Jounin. He spun around, his hand flinging forward instinctively, as if trying in some vain attempt to secure the prisoner. However, it was futile. The swordsman shot forth, practically invisible in his great speed, shooting past Asumo in a whoosh of air. Asumo felt the magnetic field of his extended blade shoot forth like lightning through his mind, and he quickly composed himself, his surprise shifting to concentration as he felt the magnetic field of their now lost prisoner dart toward their master… He could feel the magnetic fields of both the prisoner and the Sensei clashing, and sure enough, the sudden clang of metal confirmed his suspicions. It was closer then he had judged.

“Team 29,” whispered the miniature clones, each into the individual ears of those wearing them, “Hate to state the obvious, but the prisoner is gone. Sensei is fighting him now, and I need you to shift your focus to protecting me. When I do this, I’m going to need a helluva lot of focus. Mind taking out those chuunin circling around my body?”

Asumo breathed deeply as his clones recited these battle plans to each of his comrades. He pulled his hands together, forming a series of quick hand seals, before pushing his right hand forward, his feet together at the sides, and his two forward fingers pointed to a seemingly random direction. Anyone who knew the region though could tell you different though. Asumo pointed North.

Breathing deeply once more, Asumo shut his eyes, stepping backward slowly with his left foot, shifting his weight his rear, before turning his body smoothly and extending his left hand in the same manner in the opposite direction. He now pointed South. Asumo felt his Kekkei Genkai tremble as the Earth’s magnetic field began to slowly pull on his sensitive chakra. It was like a twitching feeling, as if a friend was lightly tugging on your shirt.

His right foot slid toward his left in an arc before moving to the left of his original position, now facing west. His fingers extended in the same manner, pointing west as he leaned his weight on his right foot, which now was now bent in a lunging stance toward the West. A bit of blue chakra suddenly could be seen, like a wift of smoke coming off his hand.

Finally, he turned around, bringing his left foot out so as he was lunging at a forty-five degree angle, his left arm lifting forward and pointing to the final direction, East. Suddenly, the chakra which wafted from his arm, shot back into his body, and Asumo Daeus froze for a moment, as if staked to the cement bridge for a moment, before a slight smile graced his face. The Four Points of Chaos jutsu had been completed… He had entered Orbital II of his Magamma Netika.

He drew his feet back together once more. If anyone had glanced at him, one would not have noticed much physical change, aside from a small red and blue glow emitting from underneath his shirt, and a very light aura of blue particles that seemed to be revolving around him, before he returned to his normal physical appearance. There was no time to waste however. Asumo quickly spread his legs apart, into a somewhat relaxed stance. Bringing his right hand up, he opened up his hand, so that his palm faced the direction where he judged his Sensei and the swordsman to be fighting. His Magamma Netika was even more sensitive now, and he was able to separate the magnetic fields emanating from the two figures. It was like a dance, the way he saw them… The beautiful swing of the metal sword, combined with the shifting of kunai’s from within each of their clothings. It was an eternal shuffle of magnetic fields, and Asumo would have marveled at its serenity if he wasn’t in a bit of a hurry.

Asumo easily found the magnetic field of the swordsman’s blade swinging through the air. It was the largest one, and stood out like a large black splotch amongst hundreds of tiny dots. Finding it was easy. Stopping it would be a bit more difficult. Asumo concentrated hard, gripping his right wrist with his left hand as he bent his legs, focusing hard on the magnetic field, willing it with all its strength to remain immobile. He felt his head pounding, and the pain still running through his right arm only served to hamper him more. But strangely, the pain was focusing, and he concentrated all the harder as his palm whitened with his tight grip. It could go either two ways. Either, the swordsman would be rendered unable to move the sword, or the blade would become as slow as if it was moving through thick mud. Either way would be useful.

As he performed this task, the miniature clone sitting in Negavix’s ear quickly brought him up to speed.

“Sensei,” it whispered calmly into his ear, “I am using my jutsu to stop the prisoner’s sword from swinging. Go in hard while he has trouble moving his blade.”

[Optical Justice]

Kaito was caught offguard as sin handed him the rather small note. kaito had a puzzled look on his face but he understood what he had to do.

"This information contains a very important message for the leader of Kage. You will be required to get this message there ASAP." Sin explained to him. "This message to remain a secret, and if you even bother to open it... Let's just say it's case sensitive. Understand?"

Kaito held the note in his hand and looked down at it and he placed it on the table next to his bed. The air still shifted into the room and he looked at Sin.

"Good luck, don't get killed... Be glad to hear from you when you get back." and with that he left just as quick as he came. Kaito stood and thought to himself for a second then he shurgged it off and started to get ready. " My first mission as a messanger well this should give me a change of pace. things should go smoothly hopefully..."

~~~Time passes~~~

Kaito stood in his room fully geared up to go and he looked in his drawer there was a mask. as a child he kept all the gear his brother had " Well hopefully this will throw off anyone who would try to do harm to be though this shouldnt be difficult at all. a 2 day trip at the most." He slid the mask over his face it looked like a black wolf with red eye shadows.

He grabbed the letter and slid it into a holder and into his back case. " I'm off" he leaped out the window and headed to the gate of the town. leaping on top of buildings and glliding through shadows. he trained for this since sano brought it to his attention." This will be great...."

[Shadalicious Reminisce]

With his students present, Daaku decided that their mission could begin. It was going to be tough for the genin, that was for sure, but in this hard mission, he already knew that they would learn much, and the way that the mind worked would cause them to learn quickly, or else they would not adapt to the situations at hand and end up dead. The forest was almost completely dark, and luckily for the genin, there was no longer a heavy genjutsu in the forest..........now it was just a moderate one. "With that thought, you all better stay sharp, Soujiro I know you can see through it, but just be careful anyway, we are almost to the mark."

It was obvious that the Kage Forest was riddled with many traps, but the place was also a maze on top of a partial genjutsu maze, which had to be the worst part of all, especially because chakra irregularities got worse the further you went in, and they were going quite deep, to the Долина Безумного Света. Daaku stopped as he though this, drawing the symbolic test out in chakra for all of the ninja genin to see. "As if you know what that means. I can say it for you, but the name will come as we enter this place, and with time."

"We are here now at Dolina Bezumnogo Sveta(Valley of Insane Light)." The genin probably though that it was some kind of joke.

Soujiro looked unamused. "Daaku-sensei I can see through silly genjutsu, and I see nothing, just the same patch of forest, and logs that are stopping that river like a dam." Daaku chuckled, and made a series of rapid hand signs, that Soujiro did not recognize, and couldn't break down at all. When he looked into Daaku's mind to get the information, he was confused, he got nothing, only a dazzling realization when he returned to reality. His mouth dropped open, and he stood slack. "I don't believe it. Mom told me about this before, but I always though it was just a story."

The area was just filled with light, it was like stepping from darkness, and being hit so hard you flew into the sun. The bright light filled every nook and cranny the eye could see. There was so much light that Soujiro had a hard time picking out eh floating pieces of building, and even more trouble realizing that the temple was somehow suspended, and upside down in the sky.......

"Daaku-sensei??"

He responded, "Yes Soujiro", then a laugh.

Soujiro questioned. "HOW ARE WE GONNA GET TO THAT TEMPLE??!!??!?"

"Heh, training exercise begins here."

[Zexilicious]

"You take the lead this time... I don't care, my interest is thinning."

"Ok, I'll lead...but it may take a while. Ha, I don't really know the way back." Ryoku said rubbing the back of his head. After that statement, he kicked the sides of his bird and they were off.

Ryoku and Zetsumei were looking for the base the entire night. He would of thought that Zetsumei would take the lead, but he kind of went with the flow it seemed. Ryoku felt like such an idiot that entire night, wandering aimlessly through the wasteland looking for the base. He would occasionally see something familiar, only to notice he was going around in a circle. So many wrong turns, ugh it was terrible. He also got the time to think a bit about his relationship with the akatsuki however, and how it affected other people. He wondered what Rayex had been doing with his life since Ryoku had left him pretty much alone in Konoha. Eh, maybe it was better he didn't ponder over these thoughts.

As morning progressed forward, Ryoku and Zetsumei had finally made it to the base. Ryoku was relieved, he could finally not be in stress of finding this place. He brought Orochimaru into the base and walked over to Tobi and laid him down. "Please don't ask why it took so long Tobi-sama, we had a wrong turn...or at least you could say that..." Ryoku walked away, ashamed of what he had just said. He stepped away and sat on the ground, thinking for a moment about how bad he probably seemed to Tobi.