[color=b0e0e6][h2][centre][u]Hime Yuki[/u][/centre][/h2][/color]

[@Pirouette] [@Savato] [@BladeSS4]

Boldly, Hime strode forth past the two clones as they initially tensed up in anticipation for Rumia's vengeful assault, but was stopped by the reliable cousin and Tashiro with some ease. The Yuki ninja did indeed hum a jaunty tune as she passed by the two clones and stopped at the scroll, it didn't see like a trap at the very least, so she plucked it up from it's resting place and waved to the rest of the team with the hand holding the scroll. [color=b0e0e6]"We've got it!"[/color]

That was when the room shifted and they found themselves at the outskirts of the forest of Death and were being spoken to from... somewhere, by the voice again, confirming that they'd completed the test of team-work, synergy and leadership.

[color=b0e0e6]"You tricksy mind-feeler clan, no wonder we couldn't see you!"[/color] Hime called out in response, though it was likely she'd never be heard. [color=b0e0e6]"Well, now we've got another mystery coming up, hopefully we'll still be in our team for it, eh?"[/color]

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[centre][color=deb887][h2][u]Koma Hitsugi[/u][/h2][/color][/centre]

[@Reflection] [@Syn] [@BladeX]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvxjCDOc34]Dread settles in...[/url]

There was little time to understand what actually happened, but her bolt of lightning seemed to have been eaten by the king, sending him into a limp form on the seabed for a moment as the undead sealife began to use their bodies to block their ruler from being hit by further arrows of any capacity. This matter in and of itself was nothing to really worry about, maybe she had actually wounded the sea king with her attack? A few standard lightning arrows embedded themselves into the sirens that approached, and for a moment she thought that her attack had somehow discouraged them from attacking.

Then a wave of dread rolled over her like she'd just enraged the actual god of the sea. She wasn't far off, either, instead it was the very same king of the deep but he was... Worse, in a way, more vile and perhaps even solely transfixed on putting an end to them right there and then, had her lightning bolt had much of an effect at all?

Words confirmed that he had built up a resistance to electricity, though it was hard to say just how resilient he was, training could never make one invincible to their natural weakness. It had to have hurt more than he was putting on, though Koma didn't have time to figure out if that was true as he swung for her after digging his teeth into the air-tank that Bumu had been wearing. Without the fins to assist her in her swimming venture the kunoichi barely managed to avoid the swing that would've no doubt killed her if it hadn't glanced her side, tearing a sizable hole in her uniform, cloak and collection of pouches and all but peeling the skin off of her now-bare, injured and bloodied hip and waist.

With little time to register her now bleeding side and the scattering of most of her worldly possessions, she managed to grab hold of a few of her smoke bombs and sling them towards the king, in her dizziness she couldn't aim properly so she released a very weak breakthrough to fling the bombs towards him with the hope of them hitting and setting themselves off so her other genjutsu would activate.

And with luck that would give them a bit of a fighting chance with the king provided he didn't know how to deal with genjutsu techniques, his hand-eye coordination would be thrown off and so would his depth perception, hopefully it would help as Koma had very few ideas left as she looked for a way to get the scroll off of him. Both her and Bumu were outclassed by him in terms of sheer power, so they had to get [i]some[/i] advantage.

And provided the disorientation plan worked, she had a saturation shot of wind arrows charging up and about to fire, albeit lop-sidedly due to her current injuries. Normally it would spread out and cover an entire area after reaching a certain distance, but due to the close proximity, it would end up spreading out upon impact with the Sea King's body and focus 50 arrows on a small area. After impact they would all burst into their own pockets of wind and cavitation would likely be able to do the rest of the work, sudden changes in pressure were never good for things this deep in the ocean.