[center][h3][color=white]Yin[/color] [color=gray]&[/color] [color=black]Yang[/color][/h3] [img]http://i.imgur.com/lo64iiT.png[/img] [@Savato] [@Pirouette] [@BladeSS4] [@GlitchyBugger] [hr][hr][/center] As the crew waited out their two minutes and decided not to make a choice at all, time would keep ticking, the ticking noise in the corner becoming louder by the second until it was unbearable. When it was about to shatter their eardrums, or at least it'd probably feel that way, the room suddenly went entirely quiet, just like when they had first entered the room. They could feel the blood surging in their ears, which would be a good indicator of just how quiet it was. Although the time had passed, nothing seemed to happen. Did they make the right choice? Did they make the wrong choice? For another minute it would seem that nothing had happened at all - potentially making them doubt their decision. In truth this was the last part of their test - or the first round, at any rate - would they stand by their decision even in the face of potential failure? But then finally the 'door' opened. The wall in front of them slid open, revealing two large holes where the original doors had been, indicating that they had potentially walked into a trap if they went in any of the rooms. At the bottom of the pits were long stone spikes - definitely not a pleasant fall. The voice reappeared in their head, seeming just as booming as before. [i]“Congratulations. You have chosen a correct response,”[/i] it said, the wording inferring that there were multiple 'good' solutions. [i]“Sometimes sacrifice is required, but in situations where it is known in advance that one will lose comrades, it is best to avoid the situation all together. This, too, is a balance. Remember that this is a test to test your capabilities as jonin - your teammates should come first. You are the sole responsible for them. Please proceed across the bridge to the next room.”[/i] Then a new set of doors opened up in the distance, lining up with the stone 'bridge' that stood between the two large holes. This room was entirely black - yin and yang, it seemed - and not lit at all. When the team entered the room, the doors would shut again, leaving them in total darkness. Seemingly out of nowhere, the room would light up very dimly so, as chakra began manifesting itself. It was not the standard light blue hue that chakra was most of the times, but rather it was white and black, circling each other in the shape of the yin-yang symbol. Suddenly, the white and black would split, and move closer to the floor, where it began taking the shape of two individuals. After they had completed forming, the room lit up completely revealing the black floor, ceiling and walls. In front of them were two 'clones' of the Hokage. The voice would no longer instruct them and instead, the scroll the team was after seemed to morph through the wall on the other side. The problem now, however, was getting there. Both of the hokages clones too a fighting stance and, if the team got close, they would be charged by the hokages. [hr] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/m5AP3ML.png[/img] [COLOR=lightsteelblue][sup][b][img]https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/5/5b/Amegakure_Symbol.svg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/25?cb=20090830222820[/img] Amegakure no Sato | S-rank | Leader of Amegakure[/b][/sup][/COLOR][/center][hr][INDENT][sup][COLOR=lightsteelblue][b]TIME:[/b] [i]Present Day - Morning[/i] | [b]LOCATION:[/b] [i]Konohagakure - Exam Stadium Observation Room[/i] | [b]INTERACTION:[/b] [i]Jaakuna Aka - [@Reflection], Gisho Omawarisan - [@Syn], [/i][/COLOR][/sup][/INDENT] Yogensha focused her attention on the exam, and let the others pass words around her, only replying when she was spoken to. But, despite her apparent occupation with the exams, she was paying attention, listening closely. Something was off, but she didn't know these people well enough to figure out what it was. But, as was expected from Konohagakure, everyone soon revealed their hands with little care about the aftermath. For shinobi, they were awfully transparent. The strange non-shinobi suddenly revealed his position as a shinobi and, simultaneously, a clone, and the Tsuchikage reacted as if oblivious. [i]“Yes,”[/i] she answered him without looking. [i]“So easily.”[/i] Her eyes remained on the TV screens in front of her but, in her head, she was wondering just what type of ordeal she'd brought herself into with her presence. It was then that the Hokage's assistant also appeared. She spoke a lot of words in a brief time, but it was only near the end that Yogensha gracefully turned around and looked upon her. [i]“It's quite alright,”[/i] she said rather matter-of-factly. [i]“I am surprised that I was invited at all, standing here among these kage when I am merely a leader of a small village.”[/i] She bowed slightly in response to the womans bow, according to the standards of how deep one should bow in accordance to the other persons' rank. Again, showing her mastery of etiquette. [i]“As for your offer, it is much appreciated, but I must return to Amegakure soon. There are matters I wish to attend to, and there are questions I need to ponder in the seclusion of my personal shrine.”[/i] Truthfully, she wasn't lying - but she had only just understood the questions she needed answers to. She wondered, perhaps the Sage of the Six Paths could give her some form of .. information, some pattern of thought or a hint and sliver of information as to this strange person that had just vanished from the room. Just what was going on? What was her role? [hr] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/zVH1sVU.png[/img] [COLOR=black][sup][b][img]https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/naruto/images/d/de/Konohagakure_Symbol.svg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/18?cb=20090830222821[/img] Konohagakure no Sato | Chunin-going-on-Jonin | Edgelord Supreme[/b][/sup][/COLOR][/center][hr][INDENT][sup][COLOR=lightsteelblue][b]TIME:[/b] [i]Present Day - Morning[/i] | [b]LOCATION:[/b] [i]Konohagakure - Exam Stadium/Fire Challenge Room[/i] | [b]INTERACTION:[/b] [i]Usagi Orihara - [@Project], Tsukiko Umene - [@J8cob], Kamui Uzumaki - [@Spanner], [@Syn][/i][/COLOR][/sup][/INDENT] Sakana held on to the scroll even after it began siphoning his chakra, not wanting to give up the prize so soon. As he landed, he sat down on one knee and raised one of his hands to his head to get a grip on the pain - he was burning up from the inside. But rather than think about pain, his mind was thinking of solutions. A million thoughts rushed through his head and, after a second, he thought he had the answer. If the foreign chakra was entering his body, then he should be able to expel it by forcing some chakra out of his body from all tenketsu. At least, this was his thought pattern. Slowly he forced himself to get up and, with some struggle of pain, raised his hand to make the tiger seal. One of his eyes was squinted shut to alleviate some pain by giving him something to focus on. Then, he loudly proclaimed, [i][b]“KAI!”[/b][/i] as he expelled chakra, a light blue-ish hue of the chakra coming from his body as he expelled it from all tenketsu. Hopefully that did the trick. [i]“What the hell kind of test is this anyway,”[/i] he said to himself. [i]“I thought we were testing leadership capabilities to be a jonin, not our capability to do.. whatever the fuck this is testing..”[/i]