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Temperature: 60 Degrees Fahrenheit

The day is cloudy, gray clouds hovering in the sky, yet the light of the sun is still able to give a good amount of light to the surrounding land. As one travels through the forest, they see that it's not any different from any other forest. Many trees, the sounds of animals coming from distances both near and far, the usual breeze of the incoming spring air passing across the body.

This all sustains until one reaches a part of the forest where fog lingers. Just standing near the barrier of the fog brings about a cold chilling feeling of fear, as if just seeing it brought red alarms up in a person's mind. And then stepping through into the fog, that is when they will hear the gentle sounds of the forest die. A creepy feeling will come into play, where the sounds of crows enter into the melody, along with some other indescribable faint howl hitting into the wind. The color of the grass abd vegetation will look paler in color, the life of it somehow getting drained from it. This was not a normal forest any longer. This felt more like a graveyard.

__Thus the Sunagakure member of the squad noticed Taki's apparent eerie feeling for the surroundings. Not that it was suprising him much, since Yamata, being from the deserts of Sunagakure, felt the chill of the fog fairly quickly. Stopping abruptly in the branch of a tree near the tree Taki had stopped on, he observed her motions and the hand formation, nodding lightly. He moved his eyes lightly from Taki to Rikei and back, knowing he or Taki should take the lead. It would, after all, be a tactical fallacy to have a puppetmaster being the front of a formation.

__Noting Rikei's movement, he quickly moved to align himself in a triangle formation behind and to the right of Taki, no further forward or backward from Rikei. Performing a short series of handsigns, he held his hands out lightly and whispered as lightly as possible, 'Kugutsu no Jutsu'. With that, ten strings of chakra connected each finger and thumb with ten bottle-shaped projectiles attached to the inside of his coat. This was only if necessary, of course.

"You guys can relax," Shikamaru says as he's walking up from out of the fog. Following him was Temari. He didn't have any idea where the other guy was, but he was sure Roen would show up at his own time. But the Nara had more important things to worry about than him.

"Due to the report given to us, this is the least guarded part of the forest, so there shouldn't be anything at least within a hundred yards of us." He comes to a stop. "Group up, and listen up so I can explain what we're going to do."

Silent was the Devil as he approached both Temari and her consort Shikamaru. He had nothing to say to either of them at this point in time and was content regardless to listen to what the two of them had to say about the situation. Stopping a good distance away from Shikamaru and Temari, Roen gave himself a final check over. His firearm was strapped to his thigh, cocked and loaded with the safety off. Four clips of black talon rounds where in the holster. On his back was his World Splitter, Hræðilegr; It gleamed in all of its grandeur even in the thick overcast. One last weapon was on his person, strapped to his right arm underneath the sleeve of his leather jacket. The close quarters combat Peskett weapon always came in handy in a tight spot.

As for clothing in general, just casuals. The same fabrics he had left Tsunade's office in. The only difference was the tightly woven vest of spider silk he wore under his pinstripe shirt and leather jacket. Nothing more, nothing less. Content for the most part, the Devil would now turn an attentive ear towards Shikamaru as he began to speak. Let's hear what a Konoha prodigy had to say. Hm,

A twig snapped under his foot, alerting the group of his presence. Virgil stepped around a tree and came closer to the group, his hands placed in his pockets. Realising Shikimaru was talking he decided against speaking out and stopped to listen.

The chuunin pulled his hands from his pocket and folded them over his chest. He stretched out his fingers and rolled his head in a quick circle, awaiting instructions.

"Oi, my two teammates are in this mission, as well," Taki said with her arms crossed. "I'd suggest that Rikei be one of the fronts, with his explosive power will give the team the time to assemble when we approach enemies, since his specialty is both powerful and distracting."

"And Yamata should split the rear with Temari. He can take the ground, staying out of sight in the trees to be able to effectively use his puppets, while Temari utilizes the sky," the teal-haired chuunin pointed out.

She wasn't trying to overstep Shikamaru's position as leader, but was giving helpful suggestion to include the entire team. The three of them were working as a team.

"Is this acceptable?" Taki asked.

But, she still seemed to have a problem with going in one full group. If one person was noticed and got attacked, the entire group could be out of commission, depending on the specifications of the attack. If they split into two teams with a designated rendezvouz point, they could be given the order that if they don't meet up by a certain time, to presume them inable and move on.

However, Taki had made enough suggestions to the leader, even though a slight look of disapproval was apparent on her face. Surely if Shikamaru wanted to consider another idea, then he'd ask her.