[table][row][cell][color=green]Natsuo Aburame[/color][/cell][cell][color=green]"Everyone talks big till there’s a bug in their mouth. Then they can’t talk at all, cause of the bug in their mouth!"[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][sup][color=#2E2C2C]_______________________________________________[/color][/sup]
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Everything was buzzing and shaking and confused. Natsuo's ears were ringing, and he felt like he'd been picked up and thrown somewhere. At the moment, he seemed to be half-buried in a pile of rocks.  

[b][i]“Hey... um, you alright?”[/i][/b] Asked a friendly voice in the darkness. 

He answered with a weak grunt.  Was he alright? He wiggled his fingers and toes, then his limbs, scattering rocks off of his coat in a sort of wiggly octopus motion. Nothing felt broken. Bakuto for his part seemed to be uninjured as well.

However far more pressing danger lay ahead of them- they weren’t alone. He struggled to listen to what Bakuto was saying to the woman past the ringing in his ears. It seemed she was down a teammate as well, leaving her outnumbered but potentially no less dangerous. Bakuto had no intention of fighting her, so it would be unwise for Natsuo to do any different. There was no telling how far away his other teammates were, nor time to discuss fight strategy with Bakuto. Death outside of a cave seemed preferable to death inside of one. And once they were outside, Hideo may be there to help them kill their masked companion, or their masked companion may be there to help kill Hideo. It could really go either way, so he'd just have to run with it and adapt from there.

He clambered up out of the rock pile and stood up, then cleared his throat.

[color=green][b]“I have to agree with my teammate, it would be unwise to murder us here. The rocks are very unstable, and we could all be crushed.”[/b][/color]

Natsuo raised his arms and shook his long floppy sleeves about, sending a bunch of glowing beetles tumbling out into the air. Like small lit paper lanterns, they eminated dim light into the cave as they flew around. Some of them zoomed off into the darkness around them, moving like a school of fish. Others stayed near, blinking yellow lights around the cave and Natsuo.


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