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[color=#f5e9dc][h3]Yudai Kageyama[/h3]Ame - Suna - Konohagakure border, near the barrier.[/color][/center][hr]

Things happened so quickly that Yudai had trouble keeping up with the events. What caught his attention however, was a red-clad figure that appeared momentarily in front of Yudai and the Lady-Commander, saying something Yudai couldn't hear clearly enough, before climbing the stairs in what seemed to be a red-flash. In this same pace, unconscious bodies began falling down, rolling lifelessly down the stairs as if their life had been simply taken from them without effort. That man, whoever and whatever he was - he had immense power beyond what Yudai had ever seen in his whole life.

Yudai continued following both the Lady-Commander and the man, until she glanced back at him. In this very moment, he froze in place. He had became the center of her attention, and that caused a strange sensation with him, but she kept his cold demeanor in check, his eyes focusing briefly on the woman before he found the wall slightly more interesting than her huge... than her.  [color=0F1230][i]“Uhh, nice work. Didn't know you could do that."[/i][/color] The words hit him like a hammer hits a watermelon, causing internal explosions of confusion and absolute anxiety. Didn't she saw the man who did all this? Was he a ghost that only Yudai could see? Wait.. Maybe [color=#f5e9dc][b][i]I did that all without noticing, am I an ancient god of sorts?[/i][/b][/color]

His attention darted between a man with boots that looked as if they came from the future and the Lady-Commander's summon, which defeated a group of shinobi as if they were nothing. Perhaps his choice of following the Lady Commander had been the best one after all, he felt basically safe.

Until a kunai passed centimeters away from his head, grazing the skin on his cheek. He felt the warm blood dripping on his left cheek and damn, he was lucky that the shinobi who threw it wasn't any more precise than that. Immediately, the man came from seemingly nowhere, this time bringing a sword aimed at Yudai's back. It was the same shinobi he had avoided a few moments ago and he seemed pretty irritated.

Swiftly, Yudai turned on his heels, clasping arms together as if swinging a baseball bat; at least twenty spikes erupted from both of his arms, transforming his arms into a powerful spiked club that swung forcefully against the shinobi, knocking his blade aside and piercing his chest, left arm and, sadly, his left cheek as well. The shinobi's reckless petty attack was cut short, Yudai's eyes widened slightly at the drawn of his first blood. The spikes slowly dissipated and the bloody man felt down onto the stairs, rolling lifelessly down. There was some blood splattered on Yudai's shoulder, face and arms. He'd clean it after.

Soon, they reached the top of the building. This time, the same man from before was there as well and the Lady-Commander adressed him, meaning that sadly, Yudai wasn't an ancient powerful shinobi that lost his memory, he just received praise that didn't belong to him. In this moment, he cleared his throat audibly to call their attention, speaking clearly.

[color=#f5e9dc][b]"Lady-commander, at the stairs - it wasn't me who did that with all the shinobi, I believe it was him."[/b][/color] As much as being praised was a nice thing, there was no reason to take praise which belonged to someone else.

After all, all that did was making the woman raise her expectations when it came to Yudai, given she ordered him to get rid of the barrier - something that powerful man had just attempted to do without success. If [i]he[/i] couldn't do it, how the hell was Yudai supposed to? An order was an order though, and he'd at least try. [i]Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu[/i], the thought came to mind as Yudai slowly began to descend onto the ground - the earth itself becoming fine sand and allowing Yudai to did through it basically like a mole. Once completely disappeared from sight, he'd attempt to pass [b]under[/b] the barrier and reappear at the other side. He believed that whoever held it, was likely inside the barrier.[hr]
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Kaori's decision to attend to the festival came from her own desire to distract herself from intense training. And well, to comemorate, too, because why not? Look at that huge pupkin from the konohagakure farmer! Another victory, yey. 

The Uchiha walked through the festival with a rather wide smile, her hands always clasped together behind her. Truth be told, being a Confederate had it's good times, such as right now. She might've been ordered to guard the place together with many other shinobi, but that didn't mean they couldn't enjoy themselves while at it. She missed her brother's presence, but he was always too occupied for trivial things like this; his words echoed in her mind. [i]You should try to go without that sword, you know. It's looking almost as if it's part of you.[/i] The thought made her grin childishly as she ran a finger on Hinõken's hilt.

Finally, she settled by resting her back against some crates, tilting her head up to look towards the sky. It was a good day, today. Not too warm, not too cold - a good climate, in general. Everything was going well, until a strange thing ascended onto the sky, before exploding into... a flare. [b]A flare?![/b]

Explosions erupted from many places at once and chaos ensued in mere moments, panic spreading like a plague through all the civilians. Kaori's wide smile was taken away in the same pace, disappearing and being replaced by a serious expression, especially when she saw a shinobi with a red-armband cut through a man who wasn't even a shinobi. [color=ed1c24]"Those bastards!"[/color] This wasn't a playground where they could attack everything on sight, no life was meant to be expendable or taken lightly. In a moment, her black eyes blinked and when she reopened them, they changed, both eyes transformed onto the well known intimidating gaze of the sharingan; red, with three circular tomoes around the center.

Hikõken moved out of it's sheathe on Kaori's left hip and into her right hand with a simple, nearly automatic movement, it's blade striking a shuriken aside that she had seen moments ago. A muscular, tall red-sage shinobi moved surprisingly fast towards Kaori, bringing a fist towards her - all the while a much shorter one, went for a stealth attack. Sad fools, a stealth attack on an Uchiha [i]with[/i] a Sharingan won't work unless you're at least decent, something they certainly went. Kaori brought her right foot back, crouching slightly down, while the left foot positioned in front of her, she spun her body slightly to her right, to angle it, while her right hand brought the sword to the same level of her head and then, all of sudden and in a single movement, she spun completely while bringing her blade with her, sending the tip straight onto the large man's forehead, her left hand drawing a shuriken and tossing it towards him, he deflected it with ease, but seemed to think twice before engaging her. She was about to go after him.

Then, a strange mist caught Kaori's attention. With her sharingan, she supposedly should've been able to see through it with ease - but something was wrong with this mist. Certainly, it was a technique - given how it confused her sharingan, by being coated in chakra. Kaori glanced briefly around herself as to ensure she wouldn't be surprised again, then began sprinting towards the mist. Well, if she couldn't see while outside, maybe she'd be able to when inside it. Once inside, that didn't help much - the chakra was dense and it worked as good as an average shinobi as it did on her, leaving her sight a blur. Occasionally, she could see some differently colored chakra moving inside the mist, but she lost trace of them quickly.

As she made her way unknowingly onto the mist, she finally found something peculiar: A confederate shinobi's body with his head severed, and next to him, a flamboyant-looking red haired boy, obviously a red-sage.

Kaori wasn't an experienced chunin, but she was trained enough to face every threat - and this boy was a threat, for he sided with the Red Sages. Thus, there was a Confederate shinobi's corpse, with his head and hand severed, standing somewhat close to him. She would ensure he ended up in the same manner.

Without making her presence known, Kaori suddenly began sprinting towards him, her sword held in front of her. If one cared to notice, Hinõken's blade was turning slightly red. Once she was close enough to increase her own precision, she sent two shuriken flying towards him, just to draw his attention given that if he blocked them or otherwise, she was already close enough to attempt a slash aimed at his shoulder with her heated blade.