[Darkaoz]

OOC: There we go...We've finally started going somewhere again ^^

Kale was in a half asleep half awake state at them moment. He was awake enough to feel the wind blowing through his hair. During his 'dream' he had sweat a bit from fear and pain. Most of what he felt in the 'dream' his body experienced. He felt his body be lifted but couldn't fully awaken himself quite yet. About 10 minutes after that though, a small black steam came out of his body. Then, his eyes slowly flickered open, as the steam stopped. He found himself lying on some sort of tiger. He began to get to his hand and knees and sort of slipped a bit. Soon enough though, he got in a sort of comfortable sitting position. He glanced around and saw only Ayame. He went to say something, but just stopped. How long was I out?....What am I on?...A...Tiger?....

[GenjutsuGaara]

OoC: Its pretty awesome eh? Im excited to get back into all of this. And we failed our mission. =( *Is saddened.*

Raika looked around as the threads around them decended. There were 12 towers. But only 5 people all together excluding Raika and Mamoru. They all turned. Raika looked down. Mamoru lept up to one of the towers. All of them were in a circle. Raika jumped up. "And who might that be?" The girl that attacked Kaito asked. "He is my brother." Mamoru answered and continued. "I have him under a Genjutsu of sorts. He thinks exactly-" "What im thinking." Raika finished. "Impressive." The man that tried to steal Ayames eyes answered. Raika looked up dronishly. The other 3 standing there said nothing. "So, You took your own brothers mind?" The girl asked. "I have." Mamoru answered. "I have special plans for him." Raika asked. "Thats interesting. He finishes your thoughts." The man with the eyes said. "THats quite enough Gaiton. I would like to speak with Mamoru alone." Kaitos sister asked. Gaiton gruffed and the other 4 disappeared in puffs of smoke. Raika looked over at Kaitos sister. She looked a lot like him. "What is it--" Raika started. "You would like to know?" Mamoru finished. Kaito's older sister looked at the brothers, the twins. "What is your plan for him?" She asked simply. "I am going to use his body as an extension of my own. You know my secondary specialty is creating jutsus." Mamoru answered. "He will be my scout when I am creating or reading of jutsus." Raika finished. She didn't seem to know who she was talking too. She shook her head. "Well then, I have some....Business to attend to." She said as she disappeared in a puff of smoke. Raika and Mamoru waited for a few moments to pass before doing anything. Raika stood up straight. "That was a good cover." Mamoru said looking around. "Thanks." Raika answered. Mamoru didn't seem all that vicious now. In fact he seemed pretty laid back and relaxed compared to the rest of his "team members". "So whats our next plan of action?" Raika asked curiously. "We're heading into the Water country." Mamoru replied. "So I take it we're founding a village there?" Raika answered. "Thats right." Mamoru answered. With that Raika jumped to Mamorus tower. And again in a mess of threads the 2 disappeared leaving the stone monoliths in silence.

[DarkKyuubi]

O.OC=OOH Plot Twist Nice XD, even i didn't see that coming.....

Kaito while walking towards the village suddenly felt Raika's presence dissapear, "Shit," Kaito swore, he dissapeared in a puff of smoke towards the village.

Kaito appears in the village and searches for Raika quickly through the rumble of what was left of the village, "RAIKA....RAIKA," Kaito shouts as he looks for his friend unsure what had just happened, "RAIKA!!!!!" Kaito screams up at the sky in desperate search for Raika.

[GenjutsuGaara]

OoC: Well, Its been a long while for our characters. Suppose they get some rest? =) So lets make it night. Also this might be a really long post. >_>

Raika and Mamoru appeared in mess of threads. This time in the Water Country. Mamoru took some deep breaths. Traveling that far wore him out. "You ok?" Raika asked as he looked around. Mamoru took a few more deep breaths before answering. "Yeah....Travelling long distances like this deplete chakra at a fast rate." He answered.

Several minutes later....

Raika turned. Mamoru was decent now. "Lets just rest for the night. We have a short journey ahead, but I don't want to waste anymore chakra. Im already in a dangerous level." Mamoru explained. Raika nodded. "Alright...We'll make camp here for the night." Raika said a little disappointed. The 2 slept against trees that night. It was very uncomftorable.

The late night now became an early morning...

The morning sun poured into Raikas face. He snorted and opened his eyes a bit. He rubbed them as he looked up. He turned over and nudged Mamoru. He could hardly speak because it was early morning. His body and he was still waking up. "Hey...Mamoru...Wake up." He whispered. Just the same way Raika woke up, so did Mamoru. He snorted and rubbed his eyes. The twins stood up and stretched. The 2 looked around. "We're heading north for approximately 1 hour and we'll have reached our "village" gate." Mamoru explained. Raika couldn't think straight now. All of his friends were on his mind. The way Ayame smiled. The way Kaito acted and how Kale was always so cool. "Raika...Did you hear me?" Mamoru said bringing him back to reality.
"Huh...Oh yeah, North for a while. Right." Raika said stuttering on his words. Mamoru looked at him a bit seriously. "I promise...You'll see your friends again soon." Mamoru said reassuring him. Raika looked up. Rather astonished. "H-how did you know I was thinking of them." He asked skeptically. "Just had a hunch." Mamoru said putting his arm over his shoulder. "Come on, Lets get going." Mamoru said as he quickly jumped to a tree top and started to make his way towards their "village". Raika sighed and followed.


An hour or so passed....

Mamoru stopped and Raika landed next to him. His long hair flowing in the wind as he stood up. Mamoru was squatting in the tree top. The middle of his foot was keeping him there. His long hair blew as well. The 2 looked down. There was a village gate with a small stone wall around it. There was a symbol. It was 3 rain drops coming from a small cloud. "This is our village brother." Mamoru said as the wind died down. Their long hair now at their waists. "Our new home. The Storm village." Mamoru finished. Raika smiled a bit. He tied his Hidden Mist headband around his arm. His long hair came into his face. Mamoru did the same. He put his Hidden Rain headband around his arm. The twins hopped down and opened the large doors. There was a small. Booth to the left. A ninja was there. "Hey there Mamoru!" He answerd. He had short brown hair and wore a dark blue Jounin suit. He had a breathing apparatus on his face. "Hey there Sakai. How're the wife and kids?" Mamoru asked with a smile. "Great! Thanks for asking!" He replied. Raika felt like a total stranger. They walked a bit further into a small forest. They came out the other side in only seconds. There was a tiny village. There was about 14 houses. People bustled about with smiles on their face. They all waved to Mamoru and Raika. The 2 waved back. They came to a small hut. "This...Is our new house." Mamoru stated. Raika walked in. Wooden floors, 3 rooms, and a kitchen. Raika smiled. "Not bad...I could get used to this." "Yeah, Its pretty cozy huh? Took me a week and a half to build this." Mamoru said stepping in. "Soon after I began to tell people around this country of a new village that was being founded. I gave them the location and people just started coming here." Mamoru explained. Raika sat on the window sill and looked at him.

Mamoru picked up a paper that Sakai had just dropped off. They talked for a brief moment. Raika didn't pay much attention. He was eyeing a girl he could see further down the road. He leaned in. "Whats that?" Raika asked curiously. "As founder of the village I have to keep track of the families moving in and out of the village, the population and the area our village takes up. So Sakai dropped off this paper." Mamoru said looking at it. Raika asked to look at it. Mamoru handed him the paper. Raika looked at hit. At the moment the village was only 2 streets big. Raika heard a screeching squawk. Raika covered his ears. "What in the hell was that?" He said irritated. "Its our messenger. We use it to get messages out. Why?" Mamoru asked. "I need you to send a message! To the Hidden Leaf village to tell the Hokage to tell my friends Im ok! And if you send the message tell them to come here! They can help build the village!" Raika said excitedly. "We-ll.....Okay." Mamoru took a step into the kitchen to reveal a massive raven. It was bigger then the normal ones. It eyed Raika evilly. Mamoru attached a message to its leg. And the mighty beast took off towards the hidden leaf carrying an important message for his friends....

[Naomi]

ooc: im realy bussy but ill post later.

[Darkaoz]

OOC: Oh wow...that was long.....xD.....Ok Naomi...No hurry.....*whistles to pass the time*

[Naomi]

ooc: ok im no longer busy so here's a post....

Ayame was watching as her ride approched the broken village. As they ran kale began to wake up. Once he was sitting he began to look around with a slightly confused expression. "Kale! Your ok...thank god" ayame said releived. She figured kale would want to know what was happening so she began to explain. "You have been out for about an hour. The rest of us took a thrashing but we are all still alive...atleast I think. Raika went missing and kaito took off to try and find him. I couldnt walk and you were passed out so I summoned up one of my cats...Thats why we are on a tiger. Kaito tryed to tell it to take us back to the village but I told it to fallow kaito." As ayame finished the tiger jumped into the village. Ayame saw kaito looking franticly for raika. He's going to be mad that I fallowed she thought as she looked up to see the sky was almost dark. "Kaito!" she yelled "Its almost dark and its obvious raika isnt here....we need to make camp!" she stopped to catch her breath from the yelling then began again. "Kales awake also!" she finished. By now ayames broken leg had gone so numb that it wasnt even painful so she had he tiger drop her near a pile of sticks and wood. Once the summon was released she moved the bones back in place and braced her leg. "There good as new" she said as she tested the splint by standing up on it. Ayame looked at kaito hopeing he wasnt mad that she had fallowed instead of going back. "Look im not going anywere and im perfectly fine....we are going to find raika and once we do then we can all go back together. Now lets please just make camp." Weather kaito was going to agree or not ayame began to make camp then layed down to sleep.

Night turns to morning...

Ayame hadnt slept all to well. She couldnt get raika out of her head and as she woke up in the morning she was still thinking about him. I know hes still alive...I just wish I knew were he was she thought before going to wake the others. Up antill now ayame had always woken with a smile. She was glad to see all of her friends in the morning, but today was different. One of her friends wasnt there and she wasnt smileing. Honestly the only thing resting all night had done was repenish her chakra. "Hey guys..." ayame said as she worked on standing then adjusting her leg brace "Get up guys we have to find raika." she finished. As the others began to wake up ayame looked at the sky, almost like she expected raika just to fall out of the clouds so they could all go home and forget this messed up mission. Then she noticed something odd. A huge black raven was flying overhead and it was holding a message. "Tabugan" ayame said quietly as she began to use her eyes to examine the message from afar. While looking it over she noticed in had a small leaf symbol on it. She stopped using her eyes. Its headed for the leaf village ayame thought suddenly Maybe someone found raika. Against her better judgement ayame used a strong wind current to push the bird to her. If it has nothing to do with us Ill just re-atach the note and let the bird go she thought as she took the message from the birds leg. As she read it she was shock. It stated that raika was fine and gave them instructions on were to find him. It also stated that their assistance would be wonderful, But the message didnt say what assistance was needed. "GUYS!!!" ayame scream at kale and kaito "I HAVE A LEAD!!! If this is for real its going to take us strait to raika!" Then she thought again...that is if this is for real..."We have to think of a way for us to prove that its us and for them to prove its raika" she said thinking, the bird had already taken off back in the direction it came from. "Ill go ahead and start wrighting a note...one of my smaller cats can deliver the message" ayame said, she was to excited to remember the ask the others what they thought. In the message she included that they had intercepted the raven and that who ever sent the message must prove that they are realy raika and that the team would start in the direction indicated. "So what do yall think of this letter?" she asked getting alittle of her sense back while handing the one off the raven then handing the one she had written in reply to her team mates.

ooc: sorry its so long...lol

[Darkaoz]

An hour?.....That's quite some time.....and now Raika and Kaito are gone....oh great.... Kale thought as Ayame finished talking when they were on the tiger. Soon enough though, Kaito was in clear sight and Kale watched and listened as Ayame shouted to him. All he did was sit there, he never spoke.

When it came time to sleep he escaped from the group and into the nearby forest. He tried to stay within some seeing distance of the camp. Though he also didn't really want someone following him. He turned back to see the camp for a moment then flashed away in a flash of darkness. He appeared on some sort of cliff. The wind chill up there was pretty high, made him thankful he had his sweatshirt. My friend's missing Katsai.....What do I do?.... he thought closing his eyes. A quick breeze blew through his hair then he opened his eyes. He sat down cross legged and folded his hands on his lap, then closed his eyes once more. A dull whisper went through his head, saying something like, all in good time. Kale was a bit angered with this response. He opened his eyes and then stood up. He looked out over the empty valley below the cliff. All in good time?.... he thought clenching his teeth. Ya....Good time... He flashed away in darkness again and appeared back at camp when everyone (Or just Ayame, still wondering if Kaito even went to sleep ^^") was asleep. He sighed and sat down again. For a good 30 minutes he just stared at the clouds, thinking about the answer he had received. Then, he went into his usual cross legged position and closed his eyes.

When morning came, Kale expected to hear Ayame shouting for them to wake up. Instead, she simply just, said for them to get up. He could sense a sort of empty feeling in her. She was obviously sad. He opened his eyes though to show he was awake, although, he never really slept. He rubbed his right hand on his neck. Just as he stopped Ayame shouted she had a lead. The normal response for Kale would have been to look away and just listen. But, this time, he was ultimitly interested. He looked over at Ayame and stood up. He watched the bird fly away and walked over beside her. He glanced down at the note the bird had brought. Then Ayame handed the letters around. Kale read them both quickly not wanting to take too long. He didn't share his opinion; not that it was a bad one, but he was still a tad unable to speak right. He nodded though to show he approved of it.
Was this what Katsai meant?....Hm...

[GenjutsuGaara]

OoC: Where the hell is DarkKyuubi in all of this? =( And don't mind the long posts so much. =D They're really adding texture and feeling to the story. =D Good job all!

Since they had arrived Raika had been helping people build homes and a small shopping district with several wood clones. Raika wiped the sweat from his head. He looked down the street. Mamoru was pointing around while talking to an elderly man. Raika walked up to him. "Hey, Mamoru, Whats going on?" Raika asked curiously. "Nothing....A few of the village ninja have spotted a few ninja in the area. So we're figuring out a way to set up a defense." Mamoru explained.
Raika grinned. "Thats all?" Raika asked as he formed a seal. 2 more clones appeared from his shoulders. "Your setting up a defense you say?" One of the clones asked. Mamoru nodded in confirmation. As one of the clones began to explain the defense he and the other clone would use. The real Raika was being attacked by the Raven with a new message. "AAH!! SOMEBODY! HEEELP!!" He shouted. Some villagers stared at him as he tried to swat the beast away. After several minutes of being pecked and brought down. Raika sniffled lightly and muttered. "Why wouldn't anyone help me?". Mamoru and the clone turned. They looked at him. Mamoru turned to the clone. The clone smiled sheepishly as the other Raika clone poked at the beaten down Raika. The real Raika groaned. Mamoru waltzed over casually. The raven hopped up to his shoulder. Mamoru turned and looked at its leg. He pulled off the message. He read that it was intercepted. Mamoru continued to read and noticed he wanted proof that Raika was ok. He wrote another message saying that who ever had written this note was interfering with official business and had no intention to prove anything. He took the beast off his back and let it fly. It rose to the sky and began its journy to where ever the people who attacked it were.

Mamoru looked down. The real Raika still complaining to himself as villagers walked by. Mamoru sighed deeply as the 2 clones went off for a defense. "I can't beleive Im related to him at all..." Mamoru said as he turned and left Raika there. "Why didn't Mamoru help me?" Raika whined to himself.

[DarkKyuubi]

O.OC=Srry for not posting long i am currently brain dead and by the way whats the evil version of Orochimaru in the story called XD

Kaito walks to the group or what was left of the group, it was morning now and Kaito had not slept the entire night, he just wandered around looking for something, "Guys I heard what happened, Raika is at a village huh, You guys go, I am going to complete the mission I was set by my Kage, and your Kage, I just got a lead on the baddy who used to live here," Kaito said with his hands in his pockets. Kaito was fully replenished in body and in mind, he had used some medical jutsus on everybody during the night, healed Ayame, Kale and himself, then taken a walk around to get some lead on Raika, or if not him, then the Evil guy who used to stay here.