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 Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 5:43 am
 Hyojin smiled faintly. "Hai, but that guy, if he hurts her... I suspect you'll be the least of either his problems or mine," he said thoughtfully. He took a couple ot more steps, flowing into a loping stride that seemed lazy, yet it ate up the ground rapidly. His gaze constantly scanned around. "My gut instincts tell me neither you nor her are alone, so I'd guess you have others nearby. Since they haven't shown themselves, they're probably fighting at least one or two others like that idiot," he said thoughtfully. His eyes drifted closed as he spoke, letting his new senses guide him; he recalled a movie where he'd seen a character with a similar talent to the one he was using, though strangely, he didn't find it all that disturbing to be in a strange place with strange people and strange abilities, including his own.
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Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 3:28 pm
 Kurenai followed, hopping from tree to tree rather than running over the forest floor. "My team. The Mist ninja separated us. To get to her, I suspect."
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:40 pm
Hyojin tilted his head upward, watching the woman move. It'd probably be faster going that way, he thought. His eyes narrowed as he picked up on others headed towards them from behind; strangely, he could sense their emotions faintly. "I suspect your team is catching up right now to us," he said quietly, feeling an itching building in his forearms and hands. He glanced down at his arms to see tiny interlocking scales, almost like snakeskin, forming on his arms as his nails lengthened into claws that were a third of an inch long. Oddly, the scales rippled silver and blue. He heard a couple of barks behind him as he pushed off sharply, feeling the ground pop beneath his feet. He landed awkwardly on one of the branches a couple of trees behind the woman, seeing the scales fade away into bluish mist that seeped back into his skin as his nails retracted to normal, though he noticed a slight silver sheen to them. Why do I get the feeling that there's a lot about myself even I'm not aware of? he thought.
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 4:06 pm
Kurenai heard the barking as well and glanced back. "Kiba, Akamaru, glad you've found us. Where's Shino?"((I'll play the girls, you play the boys.))
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 4:27 pm
 Kiba grinned. "Flanking that baka Mist-nin that has Hinata... though he's probably fifty or sixty meters behind the guy," he said with amusement. He cocked his head at the new guy, who looked confused. "Who's he?" he said dryly, flicking a thumb at the guy.Hyojin tilted his head fractionally. "Jin... suffice it to say I ain't real sure how I got here or where I am, bluntly," he said dryly, matching Kiba's tone exactly. The little dog cocked its head as if momentarily confused. Hyojin didn't realize he'd sounded identical to Kiba in every way short of looking like the Inuzuka. His gaze snapped back in the direction they'd been heading as a boom echoed. "Looks like whatever explosive that one guy used on me..." he muttered, sounding mildly angry before he shot forward, not even realizing his feet were moving as if running from branch to branch."Huh... seems he either doesn't like kidnappers or doesn't like Mist nins, I can't tell which, but he seems to have some training, even if he isn't a ninja," he said wryly. He noticed the still bleeding slash wound on the back of the kid's left shoulder. It didn't look deep, but he didn't know; he wasn't a medic, after all.
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Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 5:16 pm
Kurenai let a relieved smile touch her lips. "Good. Shino ought to keep her safe till we get there." She sped up to catch up with Jin. "Kid's quick," she muttered.
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 3:53 pm
Kiba smirked slightly. "I'm pretty sure he's already marked the guy with a female kikaichū bug," he said thoughtfully. He had an odd feeling about this Jin kid, as if he'd seen him somewhere before. Hyojin's eyes drifted closed as he slowed slightly, his hands flickering through handsigns unconsciously without realizing it. He wasn't sure how he knew it, or what it would do, but didn't really care as he paused on the sixth handsign of Nezumi (Rat). Heat gathered, swirling around his forearms to reveal metallic bracers. He let one hand shift backward, his gaze scanning cautiously. Not far, maybe a few hundred yards... he thought. "He's slowing down... seems he knows he's being tailed, at least partially, unless he has more backup that we don't know about," he said softly. He had been raised as what was termed a 'military brat', so he knew strategy well, though he knew little of how it would apply here.
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 12:34 pm
"Keep your guard up," Kurenai said. "It sounds like he wants us to catch him." Hinata was slung over the Mist ninja's shoulder like a sack of rice. She struggled, knowing that there was a chance she could slow him down till her team could catch up. "Quit it, girlie. You're just making it worse for yourself," the jounin growled. Then a swift chop to the back of her neck sent Hinata into unconsciousness.
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 1:26 pm
Kiba smirked slightly as Akamaru leaped onto his back, a burst of chakra smoke swirling around him as he transformed into a more bestial duplicate thanks to the Jūjin Bunshin technique. Hyojin cocked his head. "We could flank him and catch him in a pincer from three directions: left, right, and behind," he said thoughtfully as he glanced back at Kurenai. He blinked at Kiba, certain there hadn't been two of the guy beforehand. A momentary jolt at the edge of his senses made his gaze snap back forward, locking in on a particular tree several dozen yards ahead. "There may be a trap ahead," he warned
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Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 5:39 pm
Kurenai nodded. "Good idea. Kiba, Akamaru!" She gestured for them to take the left side and that she would take the right. Jin, being the one directly following the Mist ninja, would keep going straight. "And stay on guard."
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 8:41 am
Kiba nodded slightly, a shift of his weight the only sign he noticed as Akamaru leaped alongside him, shifting their course slightly to the left to arc around the Kiri-nins and Hinata. He wondered how Jin had been able to track Hinata so easily, though he had a feeling from the way the guy had been moving he had some sort of Taijutsu training, if not as a shinobi, then as something else. Hyojin exhaled slowly, pushing off sharply before letting himself drop short of a branch three trees in front of him. His eyes were still half closed, letting his new.... sensory skill... guide him. A barbed blade, almost like an arrowhead, fired from the top of the bracer on his left forearm, going taunt almost the instant of impact as he swung under the branches easily ten or twelve feet off the ground. Deep down, he was shocked at his own actions, but within the Void, the emotion was distant, almost as if he were observing it from someone else's point of view. He let himself swing back up above the branches, his eyes snapping open as he landed, leaping several branches in a rapidly loping stride before pausing. Ah.... that guy that grabbed the girl is with an older.... ninja, perhaps what Rubi-ojo is to 'Kiba', he thought, thinking of Kurenai as 'Ruby Eyes'. Kiba sighed softly, lightly brushing the ommunicator with the pad of his forefinger. "Any idea where this kid came from, Kurenai-sensei? It's obvious to me he has some training, though nowhere near our level," he said quietly to Kurenai through the radio.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 1:44 pm
"I have no idea," Kurenai replied, just as quietly. "He's definitely trained, but he seems to know nothing of our world. And I don't just mean the world of the shinobi," she said.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:18 pm
Kiba sighed, leaping from branch to branch. "Got a visual... seems that guy that grabbed Hinata also has a sensei.. and they've met up," he warned. His eyes narrowed as he paused momentarily before he saw the Genin shift around the side of one of the trees several feet from his Jounin sensei. He heard a choking exhalation and blinked. "If what I think is right, then the kid just took out the guy who grabbed Hinata," he murmured. Akamaru blinked, growling low in his throat in a couple of short bursts. Hyojin had spotted the guy who had grabbed the girl, and had released the barbed 'arrow' blade from its holster, the narrow barbed chain rasping slightly in response. He crouched low on the branch, letting the chain and blade drop down behind the kid as he shifted beneath him. He flicked his wrist sharply, wrapping both the chain and blade around the kid's throat and yanking hard upward, lifting the kid a couple of feet off the ground. The choked exhalation that escaped him was raspy as he heaved him up another couple of feet. He yanked, flicking his wrist to release the kid, who fell limply to the ground with blood pouring from his throat as the blade retracted with a slight hiss. He dropped down as he heard the slight rasp, a thunking sound revealing that the Jounin had at least noticed him dropping the kid, if not catching the kid off guard. "You're going to regret that, boy... killing ninjas will get you killed," the Jounin said maliciously with a smirk. "Once we get the Hyuuga girl to Kiri... she will be bred," he gloated. Hyojin yawned. "Doesn't anyone teach you to keep your mouth shut, baka? Damn... for a second I thought I was in a B-rated movie with you giving away your 'villianous plot' like some cheap a**," he said blandly, rolling his eyes. The man glowered before drawing out a tanto. Kiba grunted when he saw the Jounin dart behind the tree before he noticed the thin trails of black beetles trailing behind the Jounin. "Makes ya wonder how the heck that guy made Jounin... he missed Shino's bugs trailing him, though now that kid's got that guy locked onto him...." he muttered.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:30 pm
"Obviously, they didn't send their best ninja on this mission," Kurenai said. "I don't see Hinata." She sent a shadow clone after the other Jounin.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:39 am
Kiba dropped from the tree silently, darting forward low to the ground and hamstrung the Jounin as Akamaru leaped down, kicking him in the back of the shoulders. Akamaru flipped to land beside Jin as the kid drew back a fist. Hyojin drew back a fist, a slight silvery white aura flaring around it before his fist drove forward, slamming into the Jounin's chest hard enough to send the man tumbling backwards several feet into a swarm of black bugs. Kiba smirked slightly as he spotted Shino, who simply nodded. "Target out of commission... let's find his buddy and get Hinata back," he said softly into the radio as he darted after where he scented Hinata's trail, not really surprised as Jin did the same.
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