[table][row][cell][color=#d29b49]Rei Chinmoku [/color][/cell][cell][color=#d29b49]Location: Sound Village | A scary, dumb cliff.[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][center]
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[/center][/cell][cell]Rei had been paying attention as well as he was able. Their sensei was kinda boring, but he couldn't actually say that, he just helped where he was able and did what he was told. He knew Shinda from the few times they had lunch together that one time and Rei asking if Shinda if he and his brother shared the same room or if it was different rooms. He didn't remember what had started the conversation, but Rei had suddenly gotten curious. You only didn't share rooms if someone was married or over a certain age or something. Honestly, it'd been a revelation to hear that not everyone's family was large and that not everybody shared rooms all the time. 

What was he thinking about, again? Right, so Rei had gotten inspiration of one of his more recent patterns from some leaves he saw and the style of someone's hair that caught in the sunlight. It wasn't Shinda's but it was dark like his. He was startled out of his mental wandering when the door slammed open and Shinda's brother said it was time for him to go. Rei looked over to his as-close-to-a-friend-as-he'd-had-since-he-started-here, a little worried for him, and then remembered that they had been assigned on the same team. Right! Sensei had been reading off all of the other teams and writing them on the board and Rei mentally checked out somewhere in there after getting who he was on a team with. The abrupt leaving had him looking at Shinda, then glancing back to the board to see what the other name was while he scrambled to get his little bag packed and hurry after Shumatsu.

It was a long walk and if not for his slight fear of Shumatsu, he might have tried to 'strike up convo', as someone in class had put it once. Instead, it was Rei following along in awkward silence, half jogging every now and then because Shumatsu was very big and took big strides and for someone Rei hadn't seen want to do a lot, he walked awfully fast all the time, according to Rei. By the time they finally got to apparently what their destination was, Rei felt a little out of breath. He bent over, hands on knees for a moment and then straightened, leaning back and looking up at the cliff being pointed to.

It was huge! He had just enough time to look back up to Shumatsu in a 'really though??' before the adult leaped to the top of this thing like it'd been a tree. Sundown?? It was midday already! He huffed and pouted, looking this stupid cliff up and down. This was going to mess up his clothes, wasn't it. He'd [i]just[/i] finished cleaning this jacket from the last fight he had. And now it was going to be dirty and probably get damaged! He contemplated taking it off to climb, but the soft fabric was going to be the only thing between his pasty arms and some sharp rocks.

Another deep breath. [color=#d29b49][b]"Okay, we can do this, you guys."[/b][/color] A little fist pump. The uncertainty in his soft voice was apparent. He couldn't fail this though. They had to make it. It was a group effort. His team was his new group. All activities should be done in groups. Doing things alone was frowned upon unless it met one of the exception rules. This did not meet exception rule requirements. He made his way to the base of the cliff, looked back at the other two, giving an awkward low wave with his hand, and started to climb. There was probably and easier way to do this, he mused as soon as his palm touched a sharp rock and he pulled back to find a different grabbing point. He was a shinobi! He could not bring shame to his family. He had to do his very best. Even if he fell, he had to sacrifice for the group. He needed to make sure that his teammate made it. That was the rule. The group always comes before the self.
 

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