Underneath the rain of Crimson Petals ch. 2: "NinEx: We'll get it there...eventually"

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

Kazisha was standing there one moment, calmly taking in what the other chuunin said. The next, though, she was moving. Lightning fast.

By some divine intervention of the Gods above (well, the ones that smiled enough on the unfortunate victim at least) Aseta managed to block the powerful knee blow towards his tender groin regions that sent him scraping back a few feet.

However, Kazisha - who had illicited the attack first hand - wasn't finished there. Not caring about any form of balance, and seeing her opportunity to strike her opponent again, her open palm smashed forward with vicious articulation. One hand gripped an arm, a foot planted on the ground and took root there through chakra. As the palm connected with violent anger into Aseta's right eye, the other arm was swinging. Aseta was jerked back from one flight path to continue with another, which went over Ka's head, and ended in an abrupt, hard stop against hard ground, effectively knocking the breath out of the ninja.

"You don't understand, do you?" Kazisha scoffed at Tayuumi, dusting her own hands, "I know I'm generalizing and all, but unless you get a boy in the groin, or hurt them enough, all they hear are their own bloated egos.

"And as for you," Kazisha's words were cold like winter towards Aseta-gasping-on-the-ground, "you will be the main decoy with the fellow from Rock, or so help me I'm going to kick you where it really hurts while you're down to make you understand the vitality of 'co-operation'. You'll be carrying a scroll anyway, and you can ignite that if you want to make the enemy believe you are destroying vital information."

Shima heard a snigger to the side. She twitched an ear towards Kokuo, who didn't bother to hide his open grinning, but the leopard made no move in any direction. Rather, ignoring many things, she sat on her haunches and washed her muzzle in a carefuly, precise way, as if nothing violent or interesting has caught her eye in any way.

[Incendius]

OOC: Heh sorry Aero just realized that Oheru was your first name.

"I like you people, your fighting around is funny. This will help us out so much when we get attacked. I mean lets let the enemy do our job for us!" Chirin piped up sarcastically. Tilting his head he nodded to the girl who had just spoken with the same thoughts in mind. Pushing himself up and off the chair Chirin said "Listen people we all feel like we are the top of the world and we can do anything once in a while, but you must not let that get in the way of your duty. It's fine to feel powerful, there is no doubt you are if you have passed the Chuunin exams, but you have to keep your head in all situations to make sure the objective is reached" Raising his arm he pointed to each person succesively, not rudely but making a point as he stated his next speach "Each and every one of you has strengths and weeknesses, I don't doubt your good in what you do but you have keep an accurate assessment of your strength, and always be wary of the enemies. You might never know if they are holding back or not, and you don't want to waste yourself if they are."

Lowering his arm Chirin shrugged nonchalently "Well with that matter over with, I volunteer for scouting duty. I am the most suited for it" Looking over towards his teamate Oheru Chirin seemed to remember something and said "And if Oheru feels like it, we do much better as a team and we should be enough to fufill that duty." Pushing a hand through his hair Chirin asked "Does anyone feel they need to object to that?

[Mesden]

"Well the thing is, noone has to scout ahead and risk themselves. See if they're within a mile of us and touching any thing if you give me 2 seconds I will be able to find them. I'm just saying this as it's safer then one of our men actually going out." she said with any passion she had sucked away from the display the two nins showed.

[TheBlindMime]

Aseta eased himself up of the ground, it wasn't the first time he'd been struck today and with the way things we're going he wasn't expecting it to be the last. He stood back up in front of Ka, his proud golden eye's seeming to glow in the bright light, his glasses had either broken or flown off during her quick strikes. Aseta wasn't sure about it, she was either far quicker then he was or he had definately used to much chakra.

He began to speak towards no one in in particular, "I meant no offense, my techniques are not naturally better then others. They are simply more attuned to the situation. I would never suggest myself for a posistion I wasn't suited for." He blinked slowly, his eyes were tired, when the opened again the were a more gentle hue of gold. "And as for your orders...." His eyes drew closed once more, "As you wish."

Aseta's eyes remained closed as he sleepily walked over to a nearby chair and threw himself in it. I need another smoke, this groups going to drive me back up to 20 a day. Aseta glanced over to the still grinning Kokuo for a moment, they both thought the same thing in unison. I'll show him how it's done.

[Mesden]

"We weren't saying you are suited for the job. I was talking about how you called other members rank B in a tone that suggests you are better than they are. Remember it doesn't matter if you can beat someone in a fight, it matters how well you work with them on a mission. Also, for all you know you could be one of the weakest members of the group, but with this quick shift into a more humble mood you seem more valuable as a member now. Thank you." she said first harshly and then settling into a nicer tone.

"Now we need to go with the best plan we have available to us. That would belong to the cat woman. Please reiterate as some of us weren't really paying attention."

[Mintaro]

"I'll show him how it's done." Kokuo thought as he grinned at Aseta. He was sure the ninja was thinking the same thing.

Kokuo stood up and Yawned. "Well If its all the same to everyone, I think I'll get my stuff together. You all make your plans. I'll get ready to pull you out of the rock-viper bush when your feet get stuck. A good meal is all I need to get my strength back. Maybe a nap if their is time. Anyone needs me I'm in house 12. She can show you where it is." He finished, pointing to Kazisha. On his way out he passed by Tayuumi giving her butt a quick pat with his tail as he passed he headed on his way back to his small house.

[Mesden]

"That asshole." She tought fiercly, as she clenched her fist. She then yelled, "Grabbing a girl's butt is not a good way to get acquainted you ass!"
As she said that she stormed off to her dorm to grab her things and think about how to help Aseta.
"I don't know how the cat woman is going to handle being next to him for the next few hours." she thought as she gathered her things and waited.

[MC43]

He rolled his eyes. This is great, people are already leaving, and we still don't even really have a plan. This Kage will be lucky if he gets to see this village into the image he wants, if whatever IS standing isn't burned to the ground by us. He dropped his head and stayed quiet though, waiting for the Kage to speak once more. He had many questions, but they could wait for later, right now, they had a mission to do.

If they could ever agree on what to do.

[Raiden]

The group was lucky they had stopped fighting when they did. A vein was visibly popping up on Ryugan's neck.

"Gather your things. You leave at nightfall, which will be in about three hours. Make it to the informant before nightfall tomorrow, or you all fail. And I don't know how they handle failure at your respective villages, but here at the Outpost, it is not tolerated."

He was about to walk off the platform, when he noticed Tomasu standing in front of him. He hadn't noticed the kid move from his seat. Ryugan looked down.

"What do you need, Kirin?"

Tomasu scratched the ground with his boot.

"What was the name of that old guy that stopped our fight?"

"His name is Uzuma Sarin. He's a Jounin from the Hidden Village of the Mist. Why?"

"He's my hero!"

Ryugan raised an eyebrow. Then, he just quietly walked away.

[IHateMakingNames]

Tsume had taken the scroll when handed to him. Then he watched the events that unfolded from his seat. This only furthered his belief that his team consisted of idiots, though one seemed to be an exception.

"I'm going to go and create copies of the scroll. Then I'm feeding the real a ninja bird. It will be safe in his stomach." Tsume said before heading towards the door, to go to his house and do exactly what he said he was going to do.