[center][color=#000000][u][h3][b]Zume Tatasuko[/b][/h3][/u][/color][/center]

[color=#000000][b]"Hmm, interes-"[/b][/color] he cut off, his movement stopped, his body stalk still though the oval shields around him continued to rotate rapidly. His eyes were staring directly ahead, even though Kojiro could not see them, and his mind, which had been working quickly before, briefly went into overdrive.

First connection to the soul body was made, as Zume's mind dwelled in two places: In the void, and in his body. This also the method by which he was capable of reincarnation. He had been bound to the void, much like his elder brother, but luckily he had noticed the connection earlier and deduced how to control it, rather than be trapped by it for eternity. His brother, through his tampering, was not so lucky, for Zume had known him to be a threat to the world long ago, and so had crippled his reincarnation.

Nonetheless, as Zume accessed the portion of his soul which remained in the void, whilst his psyche was bombarded by killing intent and sheer terror, he cycled between the two, drew the information he needed, and then ceased conscious contact. This took only 3 seconds, but his immobile status did not change.

10 more movement patterns externalized from his blade, reinforcing his barrier and expanding the wind field an additional 5 meters, making it a total of 10 meters in radius. At this point the wnd within the field was moving at roughly 30-50 mph, picking up dust and debris freely. This decreased durability and increased the likelihood of being hurt by the flying objects. If Kojiro had not stepped back he would be inside the wind field.

As all this occurred Zume's mind filtered through persona, his mind's second layer beneath the false conscious and subconscious mind that each of the persona--essentially artificial personalities--utilized for thought. Had the man's attack not come from a deep and core source it would not have penetrated past said layer as it was doing. His Archetypes, similar to persona, but in truth the aspects of him that seldom changed even when his surface personality did, were in a stark panic at the fourth wave of killing intent.

As the fifth came...it did not hit them. His mind went silent, the serenity and killing intent begotten from him vanished. His expression became blank, and his eyes, if they could, began to emit a feeling of complete emptiness--not apathy, but an even deeper lack of substance.

6 of the shields thinned more, becoming bladed, but still flat, almost like certain flower petals, but with bladed types and slightly twisted forms about the middle. They began rotating, gradually picking up speed till they were just a blur like the shield that protected Zume. At first the field of wind decreased in radius by 2 meters, then it thinned from a dome, to a much thinner oval formation on its outer edge, but a warped dome 2 meters in. Its outer edge expanded and as it passed through a tree, the tree was cut in twain. As it fell it was sheered into more pieces. Zume had made his defense an offense. He began to walk. [color=#000000][b]"Well done, but beware. You are now no more than an insect in my eyes, one that serves no purpose to me, and continues to pester me--biting where it can. What would one do wish such a creature, I imagine?"[/b][/color] His voice cut through the wind like a knife, as he directed the sound waves with tiny particles of void chakra, guiding them throug the mire and right before the sage of humans. It was as if he spoke to Zume face-to-face.

He released 10 more movement patterns, but they remained invisible and physically unmanifested around his form. Kojiro had passed the second test, but would he survive the class?