[table][row][cell][color=orange]Shiori Spiga[/color][/cell][cell][color=orange]"Once you’re devoured, it doesn’t matter who you were before."[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][sup][color=#2E2C2C]_______________________________________________[/color][/sup] [img]https://i.imgur.com/vV2Md1v.jpg[/img][/cell] [cell] Shiori suppressed a snarl as Burai blatantly insulted her intelligence, severing her webbing and talking to her as if she was an errant child. She wasn’t the only recipient of his sudden outburst, as his tirade continued to peck at Kenshiro, and then to their teacher’s intelligence, and then to all of them, and then… [color=gray]“We're a team, no matter how much some of us may dislike it.”[/color] Burai continued, oblivious to the Hyuuga’s attempts to interrupt. [color=gray]“Moreover, I am proud to consider you both my friends, I do not wish to see something so trivial pull us apart so soon; Regardless, it should be obvious to individuals so canny as yourselves that this is a test."[/color] And then it smiled, like it hadn’t just said the stupidest thing Shiori had ever heard in her whole life. And it thought *she* was the stupid one? She could scarcely believe it. Her face was a mask of calm, but her eyes blazed with killing intent. Burai, meanwhile, seemed to be working himself up the longer he talked, rather than winding down. [color=gray]“I believe I will take you up on this challenge!”[/color] He crowed to their sensei. [color=gray]“An opportunity to test my growth is... most desirable. Of course, I'd be honored if my teammates would help me, as a Jounin is a formidable foe to say the least.”[/color] Shiori pursed her lips, mortified. Burai had gone from the quiet classmate to a loud buffoon, making statements that sounded more appropriate to a little children’s sentai show than a ninja-in-training. She supposed it was better to find out how immature it really was on the first day of training than months down the line, when she may have needed to rely on it for something serious. She looked away, half in secondhand embarrassment and half in disgust. She’d already decided to walk away the moment Burai pulled his little web-snapping stunt, and if the Hyuuga wouldn’t join her, she was perfectly happy leaving alone. She wasn’t about to sit around and let herself be embarrassed in public for the hundredth time today She didn’t have to. Kenshiro took the lead, much to her relief. The Hyuuga compared Burai to that idiot crab Jin Kani, noted the idiocy of their jounin, and declared it's departure, all things Shiori approved of immensely. She didn’t even look at Burai as she turned to follow Kenshiro. Being ignored may not sting as much when one hasn’t the eyes to see it, thought Shiori, but she didn’t know the extent of it’s sensory abilities. It occurred to her that perhaps, even within it’s own mysteriously blind clan, Burai was exceptionally oblivious or defected in some way. But as she began following after Kenshiro, she felt a presence behind her. Not Burai. Something else. [color=yellow]“SutooOOOOO!!”[/color] That idiot teacher! Was she trying to kill them? Shiori leapt out of the way and tumbled near Kenshiro as a wave of red energy came crashing towards them, obliterating a path through the trees. Shiori gritted her teeth. Now that she’d been attacked, she couldn’t leave. Her mother wouldn’t allow her to return home in disgrace. She’d have to either kill Kuree or her teammates. She supposed killing her teammates was more possible than taking out their teacher, but that left Shiori to be Kuree’s sole student, which she had no desire to be. They’d have to kill Kuree. Or at least, make sure Shiori died last. She got her footing and looked back over her teammates, seeing that none had been caught in the blast. But Kuree could have killed them if she’d wanted to - as much of an idiot as their jounin was, she was powerful enough not to miss. The laser was a warning shot. For the first time today, Shiori felt afraid. The woman was powerful, and likely crazy. Their best chance at subduing her would be her spiders, unless the boys had something better than paralytic poison to rely on (she doubted it.) She looked at the two and surmised which would make a better distraction for her while she deployed her spiders. Even accounting for the possibility that Kuree was some kind of freak mountain woman and resisted her spider’s paralytic poison, the swarm would still slow her down. Even crazy humans didn’t like to be covered in biting spiders. [color=orange]“I need a distraction.”[/color] She announced firmly, her mind made up. With a serious expression she looked to Kenshiro and and then Burai. Of the two, she expected the Kasei to do something first. He seemed foolhardy and unpredictable, and she would use that to their advantage. As dumb as it was, it could help them survive. [/cell][/row][/table]