[color=39b54a][h1][center]Toko Ling[/center][/h1][/color]

Sheathing his blade, Toko slid under a large, fallen branch before he jolted back to his feet and jumped over another by jumping onto a small tree trunk and launched himself over the obstacle before doing a roll across the ground and ascended to his feet yet again in a flowing motion. Finally out of the danger zone, he rested his hands against his kneecaps and breathed heavily, wiping the sweat from his forehead. [color=39b54a]"That's...one..."[/color] He took a deep breath and leaned against a tree. [color=39b54a]"That's one...tag."[/color] Only ninety nine left to worry about, right? Toko was usually a lot more composed than this. He never rushes into danger like this but alongside Seichi, it's like he throws out everything called caution through the window and just goes with the flow, Seichi being that flow. [color=39b54a][i]"He's going to be the end of me..."[/i][/color] Looking back it was a miracle that none of the falling branches and the wake of devastation had triggered more than one trap. Though, then again, maybe they did but the effects were nullified by half the forest falling over. Still, he was alive and the mission wasn't a failure yet...was it? Nothing had stopped yet so it was still on. He just needed to find a damned piece of paper before things went sour, more so than they already had. 

Okay, so he needed to take a moment and collect his thoughts. Everyone else was in the forest [i]somewhere.[/i] Asuka was probably treading everything with intense care, Reiji and Seji might have been with her and if that was the case, perhaps she was leading them through it. All three of them were actually fit to be leaders, hopefully that didn't get in their way. Speaking of getting in the way, Seichi was a hard head, he was stubborn and he he was way too passionate for his own good, but that's something that Toko liked about him. Sure, it could get in the way but most of the time, it did the complete opposite. That tag that exploded could very well be him, hopefully no one would be too hard on him for it. Escaping Asuka's glare of death was a feat to aspire to, however. The other two probably wouldn't be as strict about it. 

Continuing through the forest, this time with very careful steps, Toko attempted to find a paper piece but it didn't seem to work. He couldn't find [i]anything.[/i] Needless to say, it was a blow to his self esteem. An aspiring ninja who couldn't even find a piece of paper, that sounded great on the resume. Despite his incredible skill in close quarters combat, he had been a laughing stock at the academy more than once. While Asuka and Seichi knew of his strengths and weaknesses, the other two weren't as close to him. It was more than probable that they had never seen him shine in what he's actually good at. This time, they'd see him fail [i]again[/i]. How ironic, they probably thought that they were stuck with some lame weakling who couldn't even throw a shuriken to save his life. [i][color=39b54a]"I better continue..."[/color][/i] There was no time to stand around and mope, if anything would make the others deem him as dead weight it was standing around. 

Keeping down on the ground, Toko tried to look at every corner he could manage. She probably didn't hide anything in the trees, as it would have been to easy. Did she dig any of them down? Given the fact that they only had an hour to find everything, she wouldn't possibly have gone [i]that[/i] far. Either way, Toko wasn't really getting anywhere with this. How long had it taken? Probably around fifteen minutes by now. Only fortify-five remained.