RPG Naruto: Beginning of the End

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Arimi sat up to see the magma clone of Gai and Draco looking for Lee, she growled at him and yelled.
"You idiot! Don't piss him off!"
Draco looked down at her and blinked as her eyes got wide, she disappered and reappered behind Draco holding Lee in a arm lock.
"Get the hell out of here!"
He turned ready to fight and blinked as she threw a kunai at him.
"I said get the hell out of here! Tell Rizen I have a plan."
She grunted as Lee shoved his elbow into her stomach and threw her towards the ground and smiled as she landed on her feet. Looking up she growled as Draco faced him. She grabbed a kunai and her chain and threw it wrapping it around his ankle and pulling him down as Lee sent an attack that would have done major damage to Draco. Looking down at him she heaved a sigh.
"I said get out of here. I have a plan. If Lee takes me to Naruto than I can see how many he has, and exactly who he has as well."
"If you get killed?"
"Than it was a worthy sacrifice for the team. Now go tell them to back off of Lee and concentrate on the clones."
Draco nodded and ran in the direction he felt the chakra coming from. Arimi looked up at Lee and sighed as she readied her self to fight him again knowing that she was going to lose badly. She narrowly dodged as Lee slammed his knee into the ground where she was standing a moment ago. Spinning she clipped him on the side and yelped as he grabbed her ankle and threw her against a tree.
"Son of a bitch!"
She fell to the ground clutching her side and looked up as Lee walked over to her and smiled at her efforts. Grabbing her by the neck he held her up and slammed his fist into her stomach causing her to cough up a small amount of blood.
"I forgot to hold back on that one, she is a woman after all."
Arimi felt her cheeks flush and put her feet on his thighs and pushed her self off and up kicking him under the chin and gasped as he simply rubbed where she kicked him.
"Not bad but you'll have to do better than that. I have desire to fight a weak woman such as your self, it would be a disgrace to Gai-sensei."
Standing on shaky legs she faced Lee once more throwing a few kunai at him and than an explosive tag and smiled as it went off in his face. Throwing her weight forward she willed her body for one more attack. Applying chakra to her legs she gave her self an extra boost and began to hit Lee with a flurry of punches til he grabbed her fist and threw her into another tree making her head flip back and hit the tree hard knocking her out and letting her slump to the ground, she barely heard him talking before he picked her up and carried her away to the waterfall and went behind it, tying her down to one of the boulders he gagged her and walked out leaving her there as he went to finish the fight with the others.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Takil]

Lee came across more of the group as they prepared for his approach.The green-suited nin charged at Jetsu who attempted to throw a variety of rocks and stones in an effort to impede Lee's progress, but the taijutsu specialist just raced on. "Shit!" Jetsu exclaimed as he jumped backwards, barely dodging the punch thrown at his face.

Taijutsu was not Jet's specialty, and as so, he wasn't even close to as fast as Lee was. Even though he evaded the first hit, the second, third and fourth connected, throwing the blonde away, only to crash into the ground. He quickly recovered, but Lee was on his tail right away, and moving as fast as he could, while attempting to minimalize the damage was all Jet could do to stay alive.

Draco, Shinori and Rizen attempted to help Jetsu, but even the four of them had trouble keeping up with the bowlcut nin.

The rest of the group came across the huge dome of fire after being told by the shadow clone, but were unable to get inside.

"What about water? Couldn't we... Get rid of the bad fire?" Shiro asked the others.

No one gave any inclination of that working. After all, the waterfall was [I]inside[/I]
the huge fire dome. "Fine, may as well give it a try, no?"

"MIZU BUNSHIN NO JUTSU!"

A huge army of water clones that looked like Shiro appeared. "ALRIGHT BOYS, MOVE OUT!"

"FOR THE MUFFINS!"

The water clones ran into the fire dome and began to explode in large sprays of water. Eventually, a large hole opened in the side of the fire and the surprised nins ran in, leaving the Mizu Bunshin outside to deal with the straggling Naruto clones.

They joined with those fighting Lee, but even with all of them, he just moved too damn fast!

"So cappy-tan, how we gonna do this?"

Rizen looked at his... He really didn't want to call them that, but for now, they were his comrades. "Alright, here's what we're going to do."

[Zeke47]

Seta sitting in a tree watching the fight below "hmmm, this isn't going well and theirs no telling how long or if that fire done even slowed them down, they could just be playing with us"

Jumping down still out of veiw of lee he had his shadow go out and waited with it right next to Jet, as lee apeared infront of jet, throwing a punch at him Jet barely dodge, and Lee was captured in Seta's shadow. "gotcha" Seta exclamed.

Lee now going to attack Rizen who had started thinking up a plan, but was making sure to be ready to dodge, saw lee apear infront of him, knowing the most logical way in wich lee would attack him while he was planning liek that rolled perfectly out of the way, Lee apearing behind him in the role exclaiming "good movements but ur still too slow".

Seta apearing behind lee said "am I?" launching a punch at him using lees own methods of attack sending him forward a fair few feet. yelling out in pain as his sholder dislocated seta said "shit my body couldn't even handle using a single one of his punches", lee easily recovering exclaimed (not even aware of the significance of what Seta just said) "a fellow strong fist user, and by the feeling of that punch almost on a level of my own, this is amazing to find sumone such as you here, now let the match of firery fists begin" as he got excited at the procpect he might have a good fight between a fellow user.

Suddenly he was hit from under the chin 'shit he went all out on me i didn't even see him leave his location.. or feel it with my shadow technique' glimpsing over to his comrades he saw that they each had been hit by a shadow clone from underground the same way as him, 'ofcourse' Seta thought as he badly recovered from the attack.

Looking over he saw that shinori had suffered badly from the attack 'ofcourse he must be low on stamina keeping that giant fire dome this entire battle not to mentioning using a new technique that they've barely even practiced' as he thought about it he got a tinge of anger through him 'damn whats he thinking using a new technique in a life or death battle like this'

looking around he saw that lee was waiting for his arival to fully stand up and that their where many clones around now who obviously dug under the dome, 'damn i'm screwed if i have to go up against lee in a full fledged taijutsu match' as he stood up fully he said "one sec lee let me just relocate my arm" as he relocated his arm he that Rizen had filled up a large amount of the scroll with planning, 'damn must be hard to think up a plan vs such bad odds and without everyone in good shape, can't beleive arimi went to fight him alone after all the training she did today' "ok i'm ready" seta exclaimed.

"Very good" lee cried out as he disapeared from his location shooting a kick at his back, passing right through him lee exclaimed "genjutsu clone??", as from underground Seta launched an uppercut at his chin, "nice try" lee laughed as he lifted his head making the punch miss by inches and launched a kick nocking Seta flying before it disapeared into a poof of smoke "hmm a shadow clone??" lee said as another seta launched a punch from behind lee easily counted destroying yet another clone, "i'm starting to think ur not a strong fist user at all, did you trick me????" lee exclaimed

[The Enemy]

Rizen stood up quickly after being uppercut from below, "I-It's impossible!" he called out "There's absolutely no way we could possibly defeat him if we let him release even 2 of his eight gates. His power will be come too great for us to handle f we allow any more than one. We must-" Rizen's thought as cut off by the fast moving foot colliding with his jaw.

Rizen cascaded into the air, his body still in shock from the blow. Then he heard the worst phrase he could have possibly wanted to hear at that point. "I didn't think I would have to use this technique...Primary Lotus!!!!"

"Oh no! I have to get out of here!" Rizen used all of his skill cunning and knowledge in the next 4 seconds. The wraps tightened, the ground came toward him at an alarming speed. And then [I]"Now!"[/I] ...impact.

"What the where did he go?!" Protested lee s he saw the broken and battered naruto clone poof away into smoke. "That was a truly amazing replacement technique. But I am afraid it will not happen again. Second gate of rest...Open!"

"NO!" Rizen exclaimed trying to run to Lee to stop him in any way he could. But he had used up too much energy with his last second escape and replacement. Seta, Kai and the whole group, even Mitsuo tried their best to stop Lee. But it was all for naught. Another wave of clones came from below, not even attacking, just grabbing and restraining the entire team.

"Fifth gate of closing...Ahhh Open!!!!" Lee shouted in the back ground.

"We have to stop him, in any way we can!" Rizen yelled. He managed to elbow one of the clones holding him and reached an exploding tag, detonating it almost immediately it blew away the other 4 clones holding him. As well as knocking him into a tree. He struggled as quickly as he could and ate a soldier pill. Moment later he made it to his feet. "This is my only chance!" Rizen made a long series of hand signs in an instant, his hands almost blurring from sight. "Takigakure Secret Technique: Water Style: Heavy Waterfall Current!"

The water from the lake they had been half fighting on began to swirl and twist into the air. Forming a huge column of flowing water. Rizens determined look faded. "I'm too late..."

"Seventh gate of Joy!!!...Ahhhhh Open!!!!!" Lee exclaimed "Now is the time, the time for me to finish you all in one mighty blow, the time for me to live and abide by my own shinobi way!"

"I have to try!" Rizen gasped pushing his hands forward and causing the torrential current to hammer against Lee. The water Crashed against Lee’s surging form hard and fast. Lee remained solid, unmoved in the slightest. “No way…” Rizen muttered to himself.

“Now I will end this!” Lee shouted, vanishing from sight a moment later. Lee flew through the group, almost literally his very energy blowing apart the shadow clones as he struck each target perfectly

First hitting Rizen, he was knocked back into the water. Mitsuo, Kai, and Udyu all fell as well, each flying in a different direction from the incredible impact. Shiro was hit next, hitting a different tree not far from their camp. Then Draco, he landed hard one of the large stones that decorated the beach. Jet and Shin were close enough together to be hit simultaneously then mirrored each others flight paths as they were also tossed into the lake.

One by one the entire team was cast aside carelessly. Lee had not killed them, not yet, instead he decided it was first important for them to remember the crushing defeat of going up against a strong fist user. Especially a master of the art, such as himself. The first onslaught was merely to put the fear of god into the team. And more appropriately the fear of Naruto Uzumaki. Lee then prepared his final attack, focussing all of his strength so each blow would be absolutely lethal with no room for error. But, he never got the chance…

“I am sorry old friend.” A mysterious voice echoed around Lee.

“Who is there?!” Lee demanded

“Truly sorry, but you are in the zone of my eight trigrams…” The voice continued, the entire team was on the very brink of unconsciousness But Rizen was sure of what happened next. A bright light shown from behind Lee by the time he turned the mysterious white robed figure was already on the attack. He struck him each time with no more than 2 fingers. “One strike, two strikes, three strikes, four strikes!” this was almost identical to a technique Rizen had heard about, but instead of culminating each hit was single, by “6 strikes!” the figure had only hit lee 6 times. “7 strikes!!!” Rizen was amazed by the figures speed and agility, Lee had no time to react before it was all over.

“Last Resort: Eight Gates Assault!” The mysterious robed man yelled as he struck the final blow. Lee’s entire body shuttered, then he fell to the ground. The fight was over.

The white robed figure walked over to Rizen and kneeled on the water, “You can sleep now, the rest have already lost consciousness. ”The man said comfortingly.

“But...who…are…you?” Rizen wheezed just before passing out himself.

“My name is…Neji Hyuuga, I am a friend…”

[Draco]

Draco was flung into the rocks by the lake and hit so hard that the giant rock cracked splitting in two. He felt like his entire back broke. Everything was going dark, the last thing he saw a hodded man kneeling by Rizen.

As he slipped into unconsieness he heard a noise. Sounded like a gril. Managing to get one last word before passing out heyelled.

Draco: "Arimi!"

(OoC: Sorry wasnt much to roll with.)

[garmeil]

Udyu was thrown acroos and hit a tree with unexplainable amount of force. He lay there on his back paralyzed from the injuries. He Struggled to move his head in the veiw of the fight and noticed that draco was on top of a rock with blood pooring down the sides of it. Just as Udyu saw Draco pass out he turned his head and noticed a strange figure with a hooded robe on. He caughed. He slid his body up the tree so he could site up. As Udyu Tried to listen in on what the Mysterious person was saying he could help but think of the pain that draco was going through. So he started to slowly stand up and regain his stregth. Udyu limped over in draco's direction and colapsed on the ground before he got there. Then he saw next to him Kai who was standing up right, but bruised. Kai bent down and picked up Udyu.

Kai had hit the ground so he didn't have as much injury but if he hit the tree he probably would still have less injury than Udyu. Kai let him go bye a bench so he could sit down.

"Thanks, man," Udyu said gratified.

As Udyu sat on the bench he over heard the mysterious mooded man say something.

"I'm Neji Hyuga," the man commented.

(OCC: Sorry I haven't been posting lately. My life has been consumed by the dreaded video game!)

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Arimi woke up groaning as her head throbbed. She looked around before moving her mouth so the gag fell out.
"Damnit..."
She licked her lip as a small trail of blood seeped from her mouth. She looked around the cave she was in and sighed.
"Judging by the sun off the water, it's been over an hour which means either the guys are all dead, or Lee was beaten, if that's the case than there goes my big plan. Oh well; also if that's the case the guys should be looking for me soon...I just hope its not one of the fan boys that find me..".
She sighed as she imagined the lecture she would get from Rizen when they finally did find her. She took another deep breath as an image of him biting her head off came to her mind.
"Why am I not looking forward to this?"
She struggled against her bonds and blinked.
"Holy shit, he tied me down pretty tight. Only a kunai is gonna break that."
Shifting again she grunted and let out a painful hiss.
"I was right, he did break some of my ribs...and I think I may some minor internal bleeding from that punch he gave me earlier."
She heaved a sigh and leaned on the boulder she was tied to and relaxed.
'Wonder if he was worried about me...'
She frowned as the thought went through her mind.
"What the hell, where did that come from?"
Shaking her head she groaned as she became dizzy.
"Great and I think I got a concussion when he slammed me against the tree as well...I'm a mess. He's gonna think I can't take care of my self thanks to this...that's just great..."
She put her head on the rock and sighed as the coolness of it relaxed her more. Feeling her eyes flutter shut she shook her head.
"If I do have a concussion...I can't afford to fall asleep. I have to keep my self awake some how."
She looked around and realized she was in a echoing cavern, smiling she began to sing out loud, her voice ringing beautifully through the cave and out side as she kept she self busy waiting for the guys to find her and untie her and for Rizen to heal her only to lecture her.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[The Enemy]

[B]OOC: OK first off, he isn't wearing a hood, just a robe.[/B] [URL="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/darkness-ninja-princess/naruto/Neji.png"][U]Clicky[/U][/URL] [I]Notice the robe, without a hood.[/I]

Rizen awoke roughly an hour later. "That was a pretty intense dream." He mumbled to himself. He checked his chest for bruises or broken ribs, but there was nothing. "Yah, crazy dream." As he sat up he saw the team all gathered to the amp area, and Lee from his neck to his feet, tightly bound to a solid tree. "Lee!" Rizen gasped as he got quickly to his feet. In a flash Neji was by his side.

"Calm down. I closed his gate network. He should be asleep for another hour or two and once h awakes he will not be able to release any of the eight gates." Neji explained slowly. "I do need to ask you something though." Rizen turned with a confused look. "You are a medical ninja are you not?" Neji asked.

"Yes, I am. How did you know?" Rizen replied.

Neji nodded slowly "I thought s, the rest of your team is in pretty rough condition. You used the secret healing wound destruction technique didn't you?" Neji inquired.

Rizen thought back and did remember using the technique just after seeing his water technique fail. "Yes, that's why I'm ok." Rizen concluded. Neji nodded again, handing him a food pill.

"You probably used allot of your chakra to heal those injuries." Neji explained. Rizen shook his head and took a few steps.

"No no, I'm fi-" Rizen stuttered as he fell to one knee. Neji smiled and gave handed him the pill. Rizen smiled back and nodded, downing the pill. He then looked around and examined his team. "Oh my god!" he exclaimed.

Neji dashed to his side "What is it? What's wrong?"

Rizen looked over the group 10 times over just in case his eyes were fooling him. "Arimi! She-She' gone!" Rizen almost yelled.

"A member of your team?" Neji asked, just to verify.

"Yes, she was with me when we first saw Lee. She cant' be far, we have to find her." Rizen demanded. Neji calmly nodded.

"Do not worry, I will find her...Byakugan!" Veins pulsed next to Neji's eyes, his pupils changed slightly, and he became very focussed. After not even 60 seconds, it was done "Found her!" Neji frowned slightly. "She's pretty beat up, it's a good thing you're a medic."

"Where!?" Rizen commanded, grabbing Neji by the shoulders. Neji was offended slightly but understood Rizen's anguish.

"The waterfall" Neji pointed to his left "There's a hidden cave behind it. She's tied up there." Neji had hardly finished before Rizen vanished in a blur toward the waterfall. He arrived not ten seconds after. Stopping at the entrance to the cave.

[I]"I wonder if she's ok, I wonder if she's even awake, I wonder if she's...singing?"[/I] Rizen thought to himself as he cautiously entered the cave. After a few painful low seconds of sneaking in looking for traps and guards, he spotted Arimi. She was tied to a rock and singing to herself loudly. Rizen ran over to her. "I?m so happy you're ok, I don't know what I'd do if I lost you." Arimi blushed from being caught singing as well as from what Rizen said. he two just looked at each other for a moment. "Err I mean the team. I don't know what the team would do if [I]we[/I] lost you." Rizen tried to recover from the awkward moment.

He quickly cut her binds and use a healing jutsu to quickly heal up her smaller bruises and cuts. "It'll take a little longer for your ribs. We should get back to the group first so they know we're ok." Rizen put his arm around Arimi gently and put her arm over his shoulders. Then he dashed out of the waterfall as smoothly as possible.

Once back with he group he noticed some of the others had started waking up also. First he worked on Arimi's ribs, then he gave her a food pill and moved on to the next patient on his team. After much healing and expending the rest of his food pills, the team was almost in tip top condition.

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Arimi stood and stretched yawning,o looking over the group she yelped as Jet latched onto her hugging her tightly.
"Arimi-chan! Your alright, when Neji told us that Rizen had gone looking for you and that you were beat up I was so worried."
Arimi pushed against Jet but to no avail as he squeezed her tighter.
"Jet, if you rebreak my ribs, I'll break in your head."
He released her slightly and looked down at her.
"Yeah, let me go Jet."
She pushed away from him and this time sighed as he let her go. She turned and ran smack into Rizen.
"How are you holding up?"
"Um...good, you?"
He nodded at her and walked to the side checking on the rest of the group, she watched him and felt her cheeks flush as his words rang through her mind again.
[I]"I?m so happy you're ok, I don't know what I'd do if I lost you."[/I]
Shaking her head she brushed it off and looked around.
'Probably did mean the team, he doesn't seem like one to show how he feels much.'
The thought made her stomach tighten slightly, frowning she walked over to Jet and put a hand on his shoulder and smiled up at him.
"Thanks for worrying about me Jet, but I can take care of my self."
Hearing a rock hit a near by tree she looked around and saw Rizen turn and wave at the team.
"Stay with Neji, I'm going to get water for everyone."
She blinked and went to her pack and found her water cantine and found it to be full. She blinked again and put it back in her pack and looked around.
"I'll go help him. It should be alot of water so he'll need help."
She walked in the general direction she saw him go and sighed.
'Why am I following him? I feel like a school girl...'
She came up on him at the waterfall practicing his water jutsu to get the water.
"Guess you didn't need my help after all huh?"
He looked back at her frowning, shrugging she walked up next to him and nodded at the water.
"That's cool...hey, look, thanks for coming for me."
She blushed and scratched the back of her neck.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Draco]

(OoC: My character could barely see anything cause Im on a freakin rock passing out! Sorry thought was funny. Ok since im likely the last one to be healed, I might as well put a little dream of when my character was 13 and came to find his life in shambles. Enjoy!^_^)

While being unconscieness, Draco dreamed of the day he went bakc to the village. Seeing the corpses of all his family and friends. The bodies crushed to the point of unreconition. He could hear the screams of the people left to die. Buildings crumpling in on them selves. The only building that didnt fall into itself was the hogake building. Though it was quickly falling apart.

Running as fast as he could to the building. When he arrived, bodies everywhere. friend and foe alike. Blood all over the place. Draco leans over the body of a Rock Village Ninja. Taking the head band off the soilder, he placed it in his pouch and was alerted to hear the hogake still alive. he was underneath a peice of caved in roof. Trying over and over again to break the roof peice, Hogake told him to stop.

Hogake: "Draco, stop. Its no use to waste your chalkra. Even if....(coughs blood)...even if you could break it, you are not a medical ninja. My injuries are not treatable."

Draco: "Hogake save your breath, please. I can get a pill or something. Dont leave me alone!"

Hogake: "Draco, you survied the obliteration of our village. (Coughs more blood)
Their was a reason why you where spared this day. Ta...take the Sword of the Dragon God Draco and our people. Dont use a vendeta.........................................."

Draco starts fading out of the dream. As he awakes, everything is blury. He sees the team and the robed man standing above him. Rizen, using the healing jutsu to heal Draco as much as he could.

[The Enemy]

Rizen needed some time to think, as well as practice his ninjutsu. So he decided to go "gather some water" for the group. Regardless of how much they actually needed. The jutsu he was practicing was the 'water style: wound cleaning manipulation jutsu' a water style technique Rizen himself had been developing for the purpose of cleaning out blade injuries prior to healing to avoid infection and quicken natural regrowth of tissue. Making chakra healing jutsu work faster and more efficiently. It didn’t take much chakra, just very careful control, as to not force any water into the wound. Rizen was carefully moving water into and out of his cantine when Arimi caught up with him at the waterfall.

"Oh it's just you." Rizen’s voice came from behind Arimi. She turned to see him slowly rising out of the water. "Can't be too careful right?" he asked with a casual smile. Arimi looked back at Rizen standing at the waterfall just in time to see the water clone dissipate back into the current.

"What do you mean 'it's [I]just[/I] me' huh??" Arimi asked with playful anger.

"I meant no offence," Rizen explained "but, you are far from what I'd call an enemy." He walked over to her, getting so clone they could almost feel each others breath, before taking a smooth step to the side and continuing to the waterfall. Arimi felt her heart flutter as he was so close.

[I]"What's wrong with me?!"[/I] she asked herself mentally.

Rizen turned back to her "Are you aright?" he asked calmly. "You always seem to be very red when I see you, so you have a fever or anything?" he asked with a small smile, fully knowing why she was red.

"Huh? Uhh yah, that must be it, I'm probably coming down with something." she justified [I]"Stop blushing!!"[/I] she commanded herself mentally, but to no avail. Rizen walked over to her again, gently placing a hand across her forehead.

"Hmm you don't feel hot." Rizen lowered his voice just quiet enough for Arimi to barely here him [SIZE="1"]"but feeling and looking are two different things."[/SIZE] he almost whispered. Arimi got very flushed, not knowing exactly what she had just heard. "I am the medical ninja you know. So if you're coming down with something I'd be happy to take care of you."

"No, i-it's not that I need you to take care of me, it's just that I uhh-" Arimi would have stuttered out at least 2 or 3 excuses given the chance. But she became dead silent when Rizen gave her a kiss. It wasn't a long drawn on make out scene. Just a quick peck on the lips. He then stepped back and glanced around as if contemplating what he had just done.

Seeming satisfied he grinned and said "We should gt back to the group, they'll be worrying about us by now." with that and a feint grin, Rizen began walking back toward the group. Leaving Arimi in total shock and surprise.

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Arimi blinked a few times before what had happened hit her.
'He just...he really just kissed me...'
She turned around and caught up with him fairly quickly, grabbing his arm she made him turn and look at her. Her face still flushed but full of confusion and what looked like worry.
"What are you playing at Rizen...when we first met you called me the misfit of the leaf village so you know all the stories...people who know those things don't k-kiss me..."
She looked away blushing furiously making Rizen realize he had been her first kiss. She turned her back on him and put her arms around her self.
"Just tell me what kind of joke your playing...you must have noticed that when ever your near me my eyes follow you, that some how I end up next to you. That I look for your approval in everything I do now...what more do you want from me?"
She wiped her eyes before turning to look at him.
"I just want to know your not playing with me..."
Looking up at him he saw the hope in her eyes as well as the fear.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[The Enemy]

Rizen smiled kindly "I'm not that heartless you know. I may be professional but I do have feelings too. I don't know why, but I just want you to be safe, and alright. I know you've been working hard to impress me, and I am very proud of your skills. I give you my word, I won't betray your feelings for me." Rizen promised sincerely.

Arimi shoed a bright smile and hugged Rizen tightly. Rizen was a little lost for a moment but soon hugged her back. "Come on, let's head back to the group." he said kindly, holding Arimi's hand.

Approaching the group everyone turned to see them, and immediately noticed them holding hands. Most just ignored it, the one who reacted most was Jet. "Nooo!! Arimi-chan! How could you betray me Arimi-chan!?" Rizen just gave him a cold glare.

"Arimi, I want you to gather up the group ok? We need to move on and make our way closer to our goal." Rizen asked.

Arimi nodded and gave a cute smile "Yes sir!" and she as off to gather up supplies and prepare the group to move out. Meanwhile, Rizen found Mitsuo and Seta.

"OK the group is moving on now, but I want you two to scout ahead ok? Just go forward a few miles and check things out. If you find anything significant don't try to handle it yourself, come and regroup." Rizen explained.

"You know I'm just going to kill whatever it is that is [I]significant[/I] and move on right?" Mitsuo commented.

"Actually yes, that's why I'm sending Seta as well, I figured we'd need at least one intelligent scout to relay back to us." Rizen explained with a small smile.

"Well that's if he can keep up anyways." Mitsuo laughed and used body flicker to dash away.

Rizen sighed "Keep an eye on him would you? Make sure he doesn't do anything suicidal." Rizen tasked Seta, before he too was gone in a flash.

[P.J. McKrafty]

The Branch above Mitsuo shook as Seta caught up with him. Mitsuo scoffed and started walking through the trees. He eventually found a path and saw that it lead directly to a village. Mitsuo was starting down the trail when Seta flickered right in front of him.

[B] "What the hell!" [/B]Mitsuo yelled stumbling backwards. Seta only responded by bursting into a fit of laughter and talking about how Mitsuo should have seen his own face.

Mitsuo only scowled at Seta and walked around him. He made it a few paces before Seta fell in line right beside him. They entered the main street which was filled with people going every which way.

[B] "Why are we going into town?"[/B] He asked.

[B] "Scouting."[/B] Mitsuo replied trying to end the conversation.

[B] "Wouldn't it be smarter to scout in the direction we are heading?"[/B]

[B] "Probably."[/B]

[B] "Then why are we heading into town?"[/B] Mitsuo only replied by pointing to a tea house that a few very attractive girls were standing outside of. Seta looked at Mitsuo with a puzzling expression. [B]"Tea?"[/B]

[B]"The women you nimrod, I have come to town for company, jeez!"[/B]

[B]"But Rizen will expect us back with a report, we can't lie to him, what if there is a trap waiting for us?" [/B]Seata said his voice growing stern as he grabbed Mitsuo's shoulder.

[B]"Then you go and scout, I'll be here,"[/B] He said grabbing Seta's wrist and removing it from his shoulder. [B]"I think I can handle this mission."[/B] He turned and waved to the girls who immediately started giggling and murmuring to each other.

[B]"What do i tell him happened to you then?"[/B] He called to Mitsuo.

[B]"Tell him I'm drowning my sorrows in tea and assorted women." [/B]And with that Mitsuo was off. Leaving Seta standing in the street wondering what to do.

[Draco]

Draco got up and saw Mitsuo and Seta go out ahead. e got up and rubbed the back of his head.

Draco: "Owch, man that guy can sure hit hard. I think thats the hardest I ever been hit in my life. I dont want to be hit that hard again. Hey whats going on?"

Rizen: "We are moving out. Get ready."

Draco: "Alrighty, um who knocked out the whole team last night?"

Neiji: "That would be Lee. Tiajutsu master."

Draco: "So he is just like Arimi. Only faster."

Arimi just punched him in the jaw sending him on the ground.

Draco: "She hits harder."

He got back up and dusted himself off. Walking over to his weapons, he loses balance for a second making him dizzy.

Draco: "Wow, thats some hit. Im going to sit down and wait till the floor stops spinning."

Draco sat down on a bench and continued to be dazed.

[Zeke47]

'what a pain in the ass that guy is' Seta sighed as he left him to his women he said "man i hope one of the girls in there is an enemy kunoichi"

Jumping through the trees to get back to where he was suppose to be scouting he created 3 shadow clones, sending one back to Rizen to keep him informed and sending 2 ahead for scouting with one transformed to look like a generic ninja as he followed behind them, he squinted as he felt a pain in his arm, 'oh ya i forgot to get Rizen to take a look at this seeing as I hastedly popped it back in during battle it could be relocated a bit off, o well sure it'll be ok until i report'

Not long after they where sent out Seta jumping out of a tree landing a foot infront of Arimi who was by the looking over its reflective surface and seemed to be in fairly deep thought, as he landed he was so close that if he wasn't taller then her their foreheads would be touching, with a surprise she jumped back a little, Seta smiled widely and said "hey, so you seen Rizen?"

With a a small start as a little surprise came on her face and a little red growing on her cheeks she said "n-no, why would i know something like that"


"well could you relay a message for me, tell him that douche Moutsi.. wait Mitsow, naw that isn't right.. well call him 'that douche', he'll probably understand, decided to not scout and instead is drooling over some girls at a tea shop, while i have nothing against girls it isn't something to do while on a mission, definitely one as important as scouting, well any ways could you tell him that, also tell him that I'm scouting on my own using clones to back me up and to relay any messages by dispensing one and then this one will instantly have the info and be able to give it to him" as he said this he lay down by the shore setting his feet up on a rock and looked into the sky

Just as she started to complain and ask why she had to do it and why he couldn't report it himself Seta continued on his long speech "oh and I'm asking you to do it because if i go and tell him he'll obviously get angry at me for jumping out at him and setting traps around him and maby falling into some sort of pit as a joke(as he never reacts to me surprising him, and thats no fun), then he'd get mad at me for letting that guy take time off, then he'd be even madder at me for trying to scout ahead by myself knowing full well my major technique is to copy others abilities and that by oneself it's much harder to get abilities to copy then if i have teammates to use their abilities at the same time definitely if my opponent happens to see my technique before it succeeds or whos abilities are too difficult for me to copy correctly, besides i saw you two earlier, isn't this a good reason to go talk to him anyways??" as he finished he closed his eyes and thought 'man that was great' as he smirked

[Akieen Cloud]

[COLOR="Navy"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Arimi blushed brightly, after getting the other together, she went to the water one last time to think when Seta had dropped down and began talking to her.
"What makes you think that seeing us before meant anything?"
"He kissed you didn't he?"
She blushed more as she recalled the memory, her finger touching her lip lightly.
"Can you relay that message to him?"
She sighed and nodded still confused at what she was feeling. She walked away from the water and back to camp just as the others were finished packing, running into Jet she sighed.
"Have you seen Rizen?"
"Why would I tell you, I won't give him the chance of stealing you away from me."
Shaking her head she walked away from him looking for Rizen.
'You never had me to begin with Jet.'
Looking around she saw Draco still sitting down slightly dizzy from her earlier hit. She turned around and felt her heart flutter as she saw Rizen. Taking a deep breath she walked over to him and tugged on his sleeve.
"Arimi? What's wrong?"
"Can't I talk to you without you thinking something is wrong?"
"Oh, well, yeah of course."
She nodded and looked up at him, her breath catching as he looked back into her eyes. She immediately regretted it.
"Um..uh. I mean to say, well..."
"Spit it our Arimi."
"Seta wanted me to tell you that Mitsuo ditched the scouting mission you gave him to go to town and waste time on tea and women."
Rizen frowned and looked up at the team.
"We're moving."
Looking down at her he nodded.
"Anything else?"
"Seta is still scouting using his clones."
"Fool, with the people Naruto is sending at us, we're going to need every last ounce of chakra we have. Wasting it on cloned for scouting is a bad move."
She blinked as he put his hand on her shoulder and gave it a squeeze.
"Thanks for letting me know Arimi."
She nodded and looked away feeling some what disappointed for some reason. Looking back at him she saw he was feeling just as awkward as she was, it was apparent that neither one of them was completely sure about their feelings. All they knew is that they were attracted to one another, after that was total confusion from both of them. She looked at him and gave him a small smile, receiving one in return made her cheeks flush and her smile grow wider.
"Lets get going, staying in one place to long is suicide at this point."
She nodded and grabbed her pack in enough time to walk alongside Rizen, her cheeks flushed lightly and a small smile in place.[/FONT][/COLOR]

[Draco]

Draco got up still dizzy and grabs his things.

Draco: "Its about time. I was wondering when we move."

Draco stumbles along behind them trying to stay focused and not falling.

Draco: "Hey Arimi, think you can put me in a coma next time? I dont think you hit me hard enough!"

Draco laughs as he walks. Thinking of his dream, maybe he should not avenge his village. He would become the peopel he sent out to destroy. That would mean he would have to kill himself. That wouldnt do with him.

Looking at Arimi and Rizen, he wondered if he would ever be that lucky. Everyone seemed to get along great in battle but when it came to idal time, it was like they hated each other. Well exept Rizen and Arimi.

[Takil]

"Sigh... Looks like everyone forgot about me. AGAIN. Mannnn. I could like, leave and they wouldn't even notice I'm sure. AND NOW I'M GETTING ANGSTY! CURSE YOU EMOITIS!!! It's bloody contagious!"

Shiro stared down at Charon. "No, I am not overreacting. Can't I have just a little love? There's nothing wrong with that, is there?"

"That doesn't matter. Actually, you're right. If I said that to her, she'd probably kick my ass. Not to mention what she'll do to me when she finds out I've disappeared. Again."

Huge, fake tears fell down the nin's face as he sobbed. "No one loves meeee. Everyone just wants me gonneeee. So useless in my anonymity. No, like I said, that's not the point."

"I-I-I CAN BE USEFUL TOOOO!!! JUST YOU WAIT, NEXT TIME WE FIGHT A BIG BAD ENEMY, I'LL STUN EVERYONE WITH MY AWESOME USEFULNESS!"

His face became hard in his determination. "I SHALL BE USEFUL AND MAKE IT SO MIYA-TAN DOESN'T KILL ME!"

"This battle is no longer for the muffins, this battle, IS FOR MIYA-TAN!!!!!!"

Rizen walked up behind him. "Be quiet and get ready to move."

Shiro saluted as he walked away and put his meager belongings (his single pack) together. "For Miya-tan."

[Draco]

(OoC: Where did everybody go? well Enemy, make something up please. I got nothing.)

[Haku877]

Jet walked up to Rizen.

"Yo Rizen, I don't have a 100% about this mission, something seems...off. ya know? Jet wispered

"Sorta, but I don't think you have anything to worry about, we have a remarkable team, we wont get defeated easily. Rizen reassured jet

"The team was scouting along the trail as Draco "This is awesome! I love adventures" Shiro Proclaimed ready to fight.

"Stop." Jet, rizen, Neji and, Arimi said almost in unison

"There is someone ahead, we don't know who, neji's techniques don't even work right now.Rizen said calmly

"Okay everyone, get ready, his power is great! Jet yelled.

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Man I really tempt myself to say his power is over 9000! lol

[Draco]

Draco: Finally! Some action after all this walking. I wonder who it is though."

Draco tosed his pack to the side and pulled his sword out. Draco looked at Rizen.

Draco: "Rizen, who do you think it is? Another one of that Naruto's clones or people?
Or is it someone else?"

Rizen looks towards the person heading their way.



(OoC: Sorry thats all I got for now)

[Zeke47]

Seta landed infront of everyone, looking around he saw everyone was in a fighting stance and Arimi apeared behind him about to launch a kick and about 3 others where making hand signs and the others where strategically surounding him.

Arimi stopping her kick and everyone else standing in surprise "hey what is this all about" seta said in shock, "i'm not that big of a pain am i?", with that everyone sorta mumbled sorry and looked around as if they knew it all along. Seta laughed "man just because i released my chakra in not my normal patern u all thought some big enemy was coming"

"perhaps we should continue our attack" Rizen said calmly

"aww comon it wasn't that bad" seta replied, well besides that i've found a barrier up ahead, seems to be arrected by 4 large ice towers, which is odd considering ice isn't a normal element by any means, and behind it apears to be a small town by what i gathered"

"ice towers??, no problem i'll melt them" shinori stated

"ice is actually good vs fire fro what i've heard" Rizen said "we can try but its best not to waste energy, we will aproach it hidden and try to burry under it, if it proceeds underground we should use a barrier piercing technique which will require 3 of us to use on one side to open it then 3 of us will have to go through and maintain it while the others outside will then proceed through the whole, and then we will proceed with caution and expecting resistance, remember while we're on the inside retreat will be almost impossible and recovery time will be minimal so make sure to be fully rested before we begin."