Bauduin glances past a tree to watch as a bubble comes an inch from smacking him in the face. He ducks at the last moment and crawls away, his handgun clenched in his hand.
"What have i gotten myself into?" he asks himself in his native tongue, taking a breath and looking up into the tree he leaned against.
Aki eyed Bauduin then. Georgia's leader's son huh? He's gonna have to try harder than that.
(XDXDXD When you see the amount of posts on a thread jump from 24 to 60 XD)
Mizuna, as soon as the survival test started, disappeared as fast as she could into the training area. She had found a clump of tall trees close together and soon had found herself climbing up to one of the tree's upper branches, to a spot easy to move from, well covered and has good visual. Where she was now was pretty inconspicuous and should give her time to devise a plan, prepare and think. Right well then, she thought, crouching down close to the main body of the tree. With the four of us, Aki can't go after us all at the same time, that gives most of us a chance to set things up. It might be a good idea to look for her while she is in combat with another team mate, since she is a jonin this really will be difficult to get a bell from her, but it would be good to see her combat style. She stood up and leaned against the tree she stood in, a lock of her bright red hair was gripped in her left hand for a moment before she released it to make the seal for shadow clones. Five other Mizunas' appeared for a moment before literally disappearing after making a different hand seal, a simple camouflage jutsu. The now disguised Mizuna's had separated and moved off to find Aki. The clones might be able to help me get a good gauge of the situation, I highly doubt that she won't notice them but its a good start. She thought.
Mizuna, though, had a haunting suspicion that she would probably be the one without a bell by noon. Her hand to hand combat was okay, but that was mostly because she was pretty agile and knew where to stike a blow, but both of which can easily be countered by someone at Aki's level. She was hopeless at genjutsu and she knew virtually no jutsu aside from the basics, she was pretty much relying on her strategy to get her through this. But to her, something was weird with this survival test, it was obviously designed to pit one against another but what for?
Standing up after tying several paper bombs to several of her kunai, she made the seal for the camouflage jutsu and started moving tree to tree, as quietly as she could and as fast as she could. There was the occasional rustle since she was not flawless at stealth but it wasn't bad for her level of experience, which was next to none. Along the way she paused to make five other clones, which they quickly disappeared in the foliage, but these ones were still visible. As she went along she placed paper bombs here and there, moving in a spiral going outwards. One of her invisible clones had a near death experience with one of the bubbles of death but managed to get away unscathed.
Suddenly seeing a few bubbles, Fubuki stopped. "Oi Oi, what's with those things?" he questioned, dodging them somewhat effectively. His eyes still had that fierceness to them, and as he 'stealthily' walked through the foliage, he continued walking. Hmm, if I can get close than I could try my luck with Taijutsu, but so far I haven't saw her. I can't use that Genjustu trick yet, and I could try Ninjutsu yet again if I saw her. Surprisingly Fubuki's brother did think when he needed to inside of Fubuki's body, and he wasn't just an arrogant person. Of course, he was still very hasty, but he still had some train of thoughts. If I can climb a tree again, and try and find her from there, or should I just go out in the open? Darn I need to see what time it is! he shouted at himself, quickly making his way out of the foliage, and while he was at it he dodged yet another bubble. Eventually, he got out of it, and he suddenly stopped still. He was waiting to see if he could see or hear anything.
Eclipse was flying overhead, relaying info to Aki telepathically.
Aki narrowed her eyes, deftly avoiding the paper bombs but moving close to the clones on purpose, giving Mizuna a chance to attack.
Mizuna had set up the paper bombs in a way that if one were to detonate, it would only have a chain reaction of five or less bombs, just barely out of the range to avoid setting off the next 'set' of paper bombs. There were some spots in the 'spiral' of paper bombs that if you stood there, one wouldn't be affected by the bombs, some blind spots that Mizuna overlooked. The paper bombs were the type that were loud but weren't too heavy on the offence, which she hopped might be good against Aki since she had the cat ears and all. As for the clones, she released the jutsu for the visible ones to make it seem like she got rid of all the clones. One of the invisible clones though, had noticed Aki and was following behind her. Mizuna had also released the jutsu for the camouflage on herself, deciding it was unnecessary. She went back to the tall tree's where she started and quickly climbed down to the ground, jumping the last little bit. Mizuna now stood at the base of the tree straining her ears to listen.
(Okay, so the order that Aki, Mizuna and the clone are positioned in a rough line is
Clone, Aki, Mizuna
Would that be how it is? Just confirming so that there is no confusion :)
Paper bombs are set not detonated)
Hearing the paper bombs, the white haired boy quickly snapped his head in the direction of the noises. Slowly and carefully, he made his way towards the noises. Along the way, his hair spiked downwards back to normal, and his eyes became alot less fierce.Letting out a small sigh as he returned back to his normal personality, Fubuki continued walking towards the sound.
Mizuna, is Mizuna, and a clone of Mizuna is still basically Mizuna. One of her clones had found Fubuki and just couldn't give up on the chance to try to creep her teammate out, might as well find out now how jumpy he is. While he was walking, the still invisible clone was sneaking up on him almost silently, matching his foot steps with her own to disguise the sound of her own steps. She lunged forward and tried to poke him on the back before jumping back several paces.
Bauduin, with his head turned skyward while leaning up against a tree, sees Eclipse gliding through the air. A few mental clicks in Bauduin's head, and he raises his musket skyward and pulls the trigger. The noise echoes throughout the entire area, the lead ball screaming towards Eclipse.
Kiari sighed. 'The jutsu didn't work.' She thought
As he walked, Fubuki felt something poke his back. In an instant, he shivered in fear as he swiftly turned around. Looking around, and not being able to see anyone, concerned Fubuki, and he slowly opened his Shuriken Holster. Was that Aki, or someone else? he asked himself, placing a shuriken in his hand for self defence. Of course, he had no idea it was his team mate. "W-Who's there?" he asked shakily, hearing a gunshot just a few seconds later.
Kiari walked up one of the trees,controllig chakra into her feet,until she reached one of the branches towards the middleish bottom. As she looked around,she saw Fubuki. 'Hey,he might be able to help me.' She thought,jumping down and landing in front of him.
The clone hadn't said anything in response to Fubuki, he did seem a little unnerved but not as much as she hoped, she looked up after hearing the gun shot, distracted for a moment. Kiari nearly crushed her as she stood where the clone stood moments before she jumped quickly to the left, in her haste she made some noise however and she moved to the right quietly.
Perhaps it was nothing, he thought hopefully to himself. Suddenly seeing one of his team mates jump in front of him also startled him a bit. "Oh um... hey..." he started. Did I seriously forget her name, just great... oh yeah. "Kiari," he added on at the end. Feeling slightly safer now, from whatever touched him, Fubuki put his shuriken away, as he looked at Kiari.
Eclipse howled in pain, the ball hitting his wing. He crashed to the ground hard, knocked unconsicous.
ECLIPSE! Aki broke cover and ran to Eclipse. "Eclipse..." She quickly bound the wound and hid Eclipse in a safe spot in the trees before diving back for cover.
The clone that had noticed Aki let her run off since she noticed that her cat was shot out of the sky, that particular clone released the clone jutsu and disappeared. The real Mizuna was now just walking through the trees.
Aki hissed under her breath. Damnit, it'll take forever to heal! She then focused on Mizuna. Nobody's getting the point, damnit!
Kakashi sighed heavily. Keep your cool, Aki. Blow when the alarm goes off.
I wonder what time it is.... the real Mizuna thought, looking at the sky as she walked. She was getting somewhat impatient by now, the sun was high in the sky and she hadn't even had a chance to get one of the bells. She also was still wondering why there was only three bells, when Bauduin pointed it out it, Aki didn't seem to really dwell on the subject. She forgot to ask at the time what happened to the person without a bell or what would happen if no one got a bell, now the question just wouldn't get out of her mind and she ended up thinking of many depressing outcomes. She set off three of the paper bombs she had set to see if anything would happen, her impatience getting the better of her, the sound of the bombs made her ears ring faintly but she sat against a tree and listened.
Aki dodged the bombs and appeared behind the real Mizuna. "Not bad with the traps." ^.^
The expression on her face was priceless, her eyes probably couldn't get any bigger. She hadn't planned that happening. How the hell did you get there?! She wanted to scream, she twisted around the moment the shock wore off and attempted to grab a bell.