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[h1][s]Kiku[/s][/h1][/center]

At this point, the lavender girl was crouched down on the ground - hands placed palm down as she felt the vibrations. Standing up, she listened intently - hearing the thud after the button was hit. Noticing the shaking had slightly all but stopped, if she listened closely - she could also still hear the sound of sand falling in the hourglass. Bringing a hand up she rubbed her chin in thought, her face twisting in disgust overhearing the word 'worm' - especially an acid spitting one. She walked away momentarily to one of the metal doors - and rapped her knuckles against it as the other hand was placed against the door. It was thick. No way of just busting through it. She sauntered back over to the Team, and began to feel the vibrations start to pick back up. Turning her attention back to the hourglass, raising an eyebrow. It seemed full again, Kiku kept her head pointed at the hourglass. Also hearing her teammates began to talk, sharing ideas. 



[color=a187be]"[i]To the Uncertain and Distressed
Activate the Switch 
And Remember your Focus[/i]"[/color]

She repeated out loud, deep in thought. Her face went down to the switch, becoming very stiff in her movements as her thoughts consumed her. She began to send chakra out to all her sense, trying to absorb all the information she could - and keeping an ear on her teammates conversation as well. In doing this, she felt a positive aura radiate towards her, sending a calming sensation through the kunoichi. The feeling caused her body to turn towards it, raising the mask to reveal Shizuka's friendly wink and smile. The girl smiled at him softly, and felt a small tinge of pink in her face arise. But her thoughts were currently consumed with the task at hand, and she turned back towards the hourglass - then the metal doors, and back to her team.

[color=a187be]"I think we're all correct in some way,"[/color] She began, and crossed one arm under her chest as the other hand held her mask up,[color=a187be] "[i]To the uncertain and distressed[/i].....upon hitting the button - all tremors seemed to have stopped,"[/color] She looked at her teammates - and took her free hand pointing to her ears [color=a187be] "I didn't hear anything - [i]remember your focus [/i], perhaps time to reform a plan, give a moment to...[i]refocus[/i]" [/color]Kiku bit her lower lip, and nodded at Shizuka on the ground - though he was sitting more in protest. Walking back to her teammates, she stood near him as he sat peacefully on the ground. [color=a187be]"The hour glass has flipped, and the vibrations began again as it did so,"[/color] she had noticed this earlier upon walking back from the door, [color=a187be]"I'm not sure of the exact time it flips, or the correlation - but they're intensifying after it flipped.. And that worm you mentioned - Kurin, acid. The door is pretty thick - but maybe something similar to acid to wear it down...." [/color] Turning towards Jaakuna, Kiku smiled slightly with a snap of her fingers, [color=a187be]"Fire! Can you melt that door? Or is there a way to get through it you know of? I'm not too educated with temperatures or techniques needed to melt through it".
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Kiku then motioned to all the metal sealed doors, [color=a187be]"The problem, picking one...obviously not the one we came out of.." [/color]A breath escaped her lips, as she moved her hand from being crossed to her hip. [color=a187be]"The problem with that Shizuka is, we're not completely certain of our fate, we still have a chance to alter our outcome. It is my fate to lose my eyesight, but not to die here under a bunch of rocks".[/color] She smiled at him, her mask still up and winked back. Dropping the mask, she turned towards the hour glass, and looked at the button. [color=a187be]"I may fight you myself to buy us time and see if this works."[/color] Her tone serious as she clicked again to readjust her mental of the room, flinching as a small pebble hit her head, [color=a187be]"We may want to hit the button soon...."[/color] she sent chakra to her feet,[color=a187be] "The vibrations are intensifying......... Shizuka?".[/color] Kiku turned her head to him, as he just protested the idea of hitting the button again.

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