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[sub][u]Interacting with:[/u]
[i]Mu Sarutobi[/i] - [@Pkken]
[i]Ira Sarutobi[/i] - [@Hillan]
[i]Dio Hyuga[/i] - [@LokiLeo789][/sub]
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Ira's comments as to her strategy made her raise an eyebrow. Not only was he way too low of a rank to even consider offering his opinion on anything at all unless she asked him, his suggestion was also remarkably stupid. [color=lightpink]“Excuse me for saying so,”[/color] she said with a hint of snark in her words, clearly not wishing to excuse herself at all. [color=lightpink]“But I have the nagging feeling that we won't be ambushed from behind by the eight tails himself, and I strongly doubt anyone will be stupid enough to ambush the Hokage.”[/color] She crossed her arms briefly before turning to Mu, who had an equally stupid suggestion. [i]Was the Sarutobi clan really the clan that created this village? It seemed more like they had somehow managed to stumble upon a crater in the ground and named it 'Konohagakure.'[/i]

[color=lightpink]“Can you two shut up already?”[/color] she said loudly, ignoring his suggestion to go eat. By the Sage, these guys were really top-notch idiots. And they weren't even the kind that had brawns but no brain, no, they were without brawn [i]or[/i] brain. [color=lightpink]“If you wanted to be a part of 'Team Daycare' that does fun day-to-day activities like drawing, making things out of clay and playing in the sandbox, you shouldn't have become a shinobi. Are we clear?”[/color]

She then turned to Dio, who was giving off snark towards Ira, and although it wasn't wholly unwarranted, what with their no-can-do attitudes, she still found herself annoyed at him. [color=lightpink]“And from now on, none of you will offer me suggestions about anything. You will do as I say, [b]period.[/b] This is a B-rank mission that we should've labeled S-rank. Act like it. That's an [b]order.[/b] So far, all of you three have been disgraceful to your clans. Make up for it in the mission - move.”[/color]

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It would take some fifty minutes to an hour before they reached the area of operations. Although, this area was rather large, and so they'd have to rely on Dio to take care of the scouting for the most part. [color=lightpink]“Alright, we've reached the boundaries of the area we are to search. We're still in Konohagakure, so no need to worry just yet..”[/color] Her words were calm and collected, which was quite a difference from how she had been in the village. Despite her rather militaristic and authoritarian approach to leadership, she seemed to make a switch once she was actually in the field. That was not to say she'd tolerate their 'input' all of a sudden, but she seemed less inclined to make these three out for idiots.

[color=lightpink]“Dio, use your byakugan and begin looking around. Ira, Mu, keep your eyes open. Dio can't look everywhere at once.”[/color] They'd take a momentary break at a small clearing, allowing Dio, Ira and Mu to carefully scout the direct surroundings. It would be quite clear that there wasn't anything here, and as soon as that became clear, they'd move to the next spot that Mawari had carefully memorized. Although it seemed like she was visiting random spots throughout the forest, there seemed to be some kind of logic behind them. She avoided the Kumogakure borders for as long as she could while following the trails of the reports she had received.

After an hour of searching, they inevitably had to cross the Kumogakure border. While this was not a crime in and of itself, it was .. at the very least sensitive to do so, especially when you were the Hokage. And especially when you were looking for the Eight-tails, a tailed beast that has long been claimed by Kumogakure to be 'their beast,' in whatever capacity they could claim it as such. And while Konohagakure had some brief interactions with the nine tailed beast, they had never made any type of move to claim that beast. Mawari had a better plan - capturing the eight-tails would not only give Konohagakure access to one beast, it also took away the beast from Kumogakure, severely diminishing their military power, and perhaps scaling the balance in Konoha's favour. 

[i]Although she obviously didn't quite expect the two chunin and the genin to understand that.[/i]

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With a sigh Mawari placed herself down on the rock, squatting down and balancing herself by placing one of her hands on the rock, while her other was placed over her eyes to shield them from the sun. They were at the final spot now - the last report had come from here, and it looked to be a dead end. The spot was a cliff side overlooking a gigantic lake, which was far bigger than any lake in Konohagakure, and on a misty day, could easily be mistaken for an ocean for how large it was. [color=lightpink]“Dio, look over the lake one more time. If it's not here, then we won't find that damn octopus today.”[/color]

Although it would seem like there was nothing on the lake at first, if Dio paid close enough attention with the Byakugan, he would soon see .. what seemed to be 'bubbles' of chakra floating upwards from the depths of the lake. It was subtle and faint at first, but then became more and more noticeable, to the point where Mawari herself began to feel the presence of the strong, potent chakra. And merely a few minutes later, even Mu and Ira might've began feeling the chakra.

It was a strange sensation to feel a chakra so strong. [color=lightpink]“It.. seems like we're too late with running away. I suggest you three get ready for... well, death.”[/color] She slowly stood up from her squatting position, stepping forwards with one foot onto the very edge of the stone, looking over the water. In the water, a dark figure began rising, the water began being displaced, before two horns rose from the water, one of which was missing a piece.

[color=lightpink]“Oh, you remember Senhime? Her family claims that they're descendants of this beasts. Seems like that story about the horn being chopped off by some crazy shinobi might be true after all.”[/color] Her words were spoken without her looking back, as the purple mass slowly rose from the water, looking around and spotting the four shinobi quite quickly. That beast was gigantic - towering over the shinobi, perhaps by a few hundred meters. It seemed to be observing the four shinobi - for now. Mawari seemed equally occupied with observing the hulking beast. Just what was it going to do? [color=lightpink]“Perhaps you three should get some distance, just in case. Try going to the woodline we came from.”[/color]