Kuro looked at the walnut with disdain. It was rather pathetic really that this is what he'd be up against his first genin trials. Why the hell did this even matter? He supposed it had to do something to do with physical or mental strength or perhaps jutsu. Kuro didn't even hesitate or try to crack the nut open with his hands he pulled out his kunai and flipped the thing over and tried to break it with his kunai's palm. It didn't work so he tried again. It felt like it budged a little but that wasn't going to work. So Kuro pocketed the kunai knife and pulled out his short sword and put it between the crack of the walnut that had opened a little wider after the pummeling it just got. Kuro slowly sawed at it slowly and precisely which took longer than simply smashing it but in the end it came open and Kuro presented the nut inside with minimal damage to it aside from the top where Mitsuhide had hit it. [color=0054a6]"What's the point of this?"[/color] Kuro asked as Akihiko shrugged. [color=fff200]"What was the point of it? You all tell me why: Why did you open the nut? Why did you do it the way you did? Did you consider any other methods? Do you feel like you accomplished your objective? Well I'm all ears you four."[/color] Akihiko asked simply as he put his ring finger into his right ear and moved it around before flicking some ear wax onto the near by tree. [color=0054a6]"Bah...this is stupid. The point I suppose is to test our ingenuity by the sounds of it. You wanted to see how we got it done and what we thought of. And no I don't feel satisfied because a walnuts are disgusting and gross. Moreover I did consider other methods I tried my kunai because that was the obvious route. It's point lets you cut into things but I didn't want to break the nut inside of it. Instead I tried to pummel it open which failed but it got me a smaller crack which let me use my sword. All the same I could've used a rock or even a ninjutsu. But I didn't because what's the point in opening this damn thing if I don't at least have something to show for it?"[/color] Kuro said bluntly as he crossed his arms after putting away his sword.