[b][center]Kumori Yotsuki Kumogakure Genin Team 5[/center][/b] The explosive tag inside the water clone went off, too early to have hit its target, but just early enough to tell Kumo that the teacher had launched an attack in retaliation. Kumo started to make the handseal for another jet of water when the entire world around him was replaces by a blinding white light. His eyes shut tight, blinded by the flash. Sensing something, Kumo spun to his left, barely avoiding being impaled by a thrown kunai, instead slamming face-first into a tree that he'd had no idea was there. The white haired boy fall backwards, still too blind to even see the stars that danced in front of his eyes. "Oowww, that one's gonna leave a mark," he mumbled to no one. "What's a tree doing in the middle of a forest anyway? Stupid tree." Wisps of white smoke escaped from his mouth and drifted lazily off his skin.