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Zero came sprinting around a corner, dust moving up as his feet pushed hard to move himself. He slid a little, almost losing his footing and falling over, but re-correcting himself and continuing running towards Rai. He made it over there quickly, and took a second to catch his breath, before talking, "Hi, My name is Zero. I am here to help you with your mission." he said through gasping breaths. he stopped hunching over and straightened himself, standing up as tall as he can, his helmet gleaming and his hair flowing in thew slight breeze. "Just tell me when you are ready to leave, sorry for being late..." he said as he waited for Rai, trying not to be rude.

Zero took a deep breath, and stood up straight, making his complete 6 foot. After a few seconds he couldn't hold his breath in for longer and bent back over, trying to gasp for air. "Alright, I can wait." he said, trying to sound as casual as he could. His breathing settled quickly, and he stood up straight again. "If we are fighting, I better get a weapon..." he said and took a few steps away from Rai and held his right hand out.

His gauntlets began to change shape, and started to seemingly melt, a gray matching the lustre of the metal seeping out from his hands. It seeped out and began to change shape, slowly but surely.It began to just drip down, not forming into anything, just a formless blob underneath his right hand. As it neared the ground, the descent slowed, and eventually stopped, just missing the ground. The blob was just hanging for a while, and in no-way resembled any weapon.

He moved his left hand to the side of it, and closed his eyes. Cracks formed into the blob, and shards started to fly out, embedding themselves into a nearby wall. The form of a sword began to shape itself with the blobs, and the intricate details started to form. With a few more cracks, the sword finally emerged, and he grabbed onto the handle, and took a few swings before inspecting his work. The sword handled well, and cut through the air with barely any resistance.

He glanced at his design, the blade had two colours in it, the dark gray outside and handle, with a blue slither running through the core. The handle had a few swirls around it, and left a few gaps in the hilt of the blade. The hilt was a mass of swirls, and was designed to hook another weapon into it, rather than simply block.

He smiled at his work, and took a few more swings with it, testing its weight. He moved it near his belt, and hovered his hand over it, another gray blob went out and surrounded the hilt, to attach it self to his belt so he would not have to carry it. He turned and smiled towards Rai, "Now I'm ready" he said cheerfully, then walked over towards him.

"So what is so important about this Scroll anyway?" he asked inquisitively, "If its worth killing over, it must be important I mean."

(((In case you wanted to know, This is the sword I wished to mold.)))

Illovae was walking by the time she arrived at her destination, stopping behind a building at one point in her trip to discard her vine armour and clothe herself in her usual black coat and pants, and forgoing her vines completely. Brushing some of her dark gray hair aside as she joined Rai and Zero, Illovae glanced at the two of them, her silver eyes flickering from one to the other as she habitually assessed their abilities, her sensory powers also checking their chakra as she did so. Hearing the last part of Rai's statement, the rogue ninja chuckled slightly, "Just how many people do you want for this Rai? What do you think we will end up going up against, an entire village?" Shaking her head, the pale ninja glanced at the figure next to her, absently turning to see what the strange chakra source she felt was. One of her dark gray eyebrows raised when Illovae saw the sword, it looked normal to human eyes, but the blade itself seemed to be composed of pure chakra, through the blue sliver within the core seemed to have a slightly different feel than the rest of it.

Illovae shrugged, muttering "Interesting..." before turning back to Rai, her kekkei genkai rising to the surface and sending a multitude of black thorn-like symbols swirling over her skin for a moment before they faded from sight once more. "Well, someone's prepared. Should we go in armed, or are we trying to be stealthy?"

((Weeeee, time to get post size back up!))

Illovae nodded at Rai's response, sending dark grey hair flickering around her pale face for a moment. Moving closer to the village gates, the pale ninja lent against one of the posts, making herself comfortable as she closed her eyes for a time, using her sensor abilities to keep track of everyone as she reflected on the recent events in the village. Basically conscripted into a teaching the younger ninja how to control and manipulate chakra, Illovae was being held in the village with that position, though the living space and chance to actually work on things without the distractions involved when one relocates each day. Since she had been in the village, Illovae had also noticed an odd chakra signature far out of the village with her sensor abilities, easily detectible despite being way beyond her normal range. That, coupled with rumours of a strange chakra beast she had heard in several nearby areas, gave her another reason to stay in the Hell Fire village for a time, the chance to track down this chakra beast and see if she could learn anything from its corpse. The reports she had heard stated that the beast was even able to defeat a Jonin, forcing him to retreat with grievous injuries before reinforcements arrived to drive the beast off. A monster that seemed to hunt with and for chakra, one that could easily dispatch even high level ninja, now that would be something to watch out for. And the prime reasoning for Illovae joining Rai on his mission, a chance to gather more information on the beast, perhaps even a lair or location to track down at a later date. If she got lucky, Illovae might even encounter the beast as she helped Rai out with his mission...

Until then however, she just had to tag along and observe, helping Rai and the other ninja in their little mission, regardless of what it was. Shrugging slightly, Illovae's pale and emotionless face was quickly altered by a smirk, the slight grin standing out on her normally expressionless face. Silver eyes still closed, Illovae continued her planning, keeping track of the other ninjas' movements with her sensory talents.

"Half a million ryo is worth killing for." Zero responded, thinking of the things that he could buy with that amount of money. "Oh, um, other than what is with the scroll I think the mission looks straight forward enough." he said as he walked over towards the gate, "Besides, if I think of anything I have 2 days to ask." he said as he waited near Rai, waiting till he says they can go.

((I am confused, to I still call you Rai? Or do I now call you Circu?))

As the other two ninja began moving again, Illovae opened her eyes, pushing away from the wall slightly and moving closer to listen to Rai's explanation of the mission. Nodding as Rai talked, deeming the mission simple enough in theory, Illovae remained quiet until the end, nodding again slightly when the other ninja asked just what was important about the scroll. Jumping in before Rai could answer, the pale ninja added a few questions of her own, "What sort of merchant is this guy? Just what are his wares? Does he have any goods that we may need to watch out for or prepare to encounter?" Walking towards the gate now, the black markings of her kekkei genkai shimmering over her pale skin once more, Illovae spoke once more, "Apart from those, I'm ready to leave when you are. Let's do this."

((Short post to get things going. I hate writing short posts...))

Zero chuckled at the thought of being paid extra money for the secrecy of the mission. "I have nothing wrong with some extra money to be quiet. I just like to be told first" he admitted. He thought for a few moments, before starting again, "We plan on setting up some form of defense right? What type are we talking about? Just a simple me and her wait in bushes until something goes sour? Or like an actual battle plan and such?" he decided to ask, wanting to know whether it will be a straight forward battle of the body or one that takes preparation.