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[indent][sup][color=Firebrick][b]Location: Kusa-Ame Border | Time: 11am-12pm 
Interaction: Team 7 Uragiri Sakana -- [@Odin] Sakamoto Isami -- [@Shizuochan], Shinjo Tsubasa -- [@McHaggis], [/b][/color][/sup][/indent]

[color=Firebrick]"If you want something more interesting, you should either ask for it or be a more interesting subject, Uragiri-[i]senpai[/i]"[/color] Tatsuya didn't even look in Sakana's direction as he responded, electing to instead go over his supplies and make sure everything was still in working order after his little dip in the pool. Stepping away from the group as Sakana went on to give himself an impromptu quick dry by partially activating his Lava Creation jutsu to form an area of really warm earth beneath him. At the very least, the heat would serve to dry of his bare skin, and at least half-way dry the fabric of his clothing. 

Despite his seeming lack of interest in the situation, a trained eye would have little difficulty telling that he was acutely paying attention to everything that was being said though whatever his thoughts he had were difficult to decipher due to his neutral body language. He did let out a bit of a grumble as Sakana set off with barely any warning, picking himself up and following a bit behind the rest of the team due to his waterlogged clothes, but not too far. When one lived in a place like Ame, you quickly became accustomed to such things.

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When the team first arrived at the hill overlooking the valley, Tatsuya's eyes immediately fell on the two border guards, recognizing their uniforms as that of Kusa Jonin. . . though he found it odd that there seemed to be just two of them. If Kusa was in such a state that they'd be willing to close off their borders to trade, he thought there would've been an equivalent increase to their border security as well.

[color=Firebrick][i]Then again, the fact that two jonin are handling basic border duty instead of chunin could also be considered an increase in security. Curious.[/i][/color] Tatsuya kept quiet about his observations, doing as Sakana bid and keeping an eye on the situation in silence. The hour-long wait didn't bother him as much as it might've bothered the others, keeping himself busy by fiddling with the sealing paper from his forging kit, forming an idea for if the situation did turn sideways. He'd just finished fiddling with his 10th seal when the jonin called his team to action.

Tatsuya himself couldn't help the clinch to his jaw as he saw the Kusa nin stealing the weapons from the trader, treating them with such a callous disrespect that made him want to take his fuinjutsu hammer to their faces personally. Still, he kept himself mostly calm and watched as the situation unfolded. . . and then rapidly deteriorated. He offered only a brief nod to Sakana as he gave his order, smirking a bit when Tsubasa was dubbed the one in charge because of her giving the 'least stupid answer', as Sakana had put it. 

As Sakana engaged with the two jonin, Tatsuya prepared himself for battle, attaching his 'special' seals to several kunai as he kept an eye on the situation. It was when the two jonin began to take a more offensive stance that he took action. 

Quick as a flash, he'd nab 2 explosive tags from Tsubasa's pouch with a quick [color=Firebrick]"gonna borrow these"[/color] being all he said as he activated his Subterranean Voyage jutsu, diving into the ground and rocketing towards the battlefield. He wouldn't stay underground for too long, popping a short distance behind the hand-sign jonin to launch a brace of kunai with burning tags attached to them. The goal wasn't really to hit the Jonin but to distract him and if possible separate him from his ally by making him think the seals were explosive tags when in reality they were just his sealing tags that had been overloaded with fire chakra to make them burn in a similar fashion. Unknown to Tatsuya, this maneuver could possibly lead to more damage than he realized, as his sudden appearance and attack could possibly draw the jonin's attention away from the arrow that Isami had just launched their way.

Soon after launching that initial attack, he dived back underground, his path going deep into the earth in order to help throw off the Jonin's predicting where he'd surface, which would be somewhere a few meters away from where ever they were when he did. He launched another brace of kunai at him this time, but mixed in with the remaining duds were both of the two real explosion tags he had 'borrowed' from Tsubasa, set with a slight delay so that they would seem to be duds just like the rest, hopefully luring the jonin into letting his guard down enough that he'd get caught up in the ensuing blast, or at least get clipped by it. He'd aimed the two explosive tags so that they'd end up on either side of the jonin, thus increasing the range at which he could get caught up in it. After that, Tatsuya backed away a bit, drawing out a kunai and readying himself for a possible attack. He didn't want to risk turning his back on the jonin, knowing that just one little distraction could lead to his swift end. 

Despite that fact, however, a wide and eager grin was plain to see on his face. The adrenaline rushing through his veins, the lingering feel of death wrapping around his throat, it all culminated in Tatsuya feeling more alive than he ever had during any of the sparring matches he'd taken part in at the academy. This was for keeps, and Tatsuya was loving every second of it.