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"Yikes!" Tayu cancelled the Phoenix Ho-o jutsu and grabbed onto Kita's leg. The bird swooped back to the clearing and let her down then perched on her shoulder, mimicking the chunin's glare. "Watch it, Senro! I was in there too, ya know!" Tayu snapped.

Hinata fell to the ground as wooden spikes pierced through her clay shell, breaking away at the pieces. Slowly she got to her feet, staggering as she walked towards Tayu and Senro, determined to finish her duty and kill them. "For..the shadow village.."

Nowe continued to stare at the two of them with hatred, blood begining to trickle from his eye's and mouth from the strain of the cursemark. Slowly, a being started to form around him, slowly starting to form Seito's Susanoo. Then..everything stopped. Nowe's eye's returned to normal, no visible wounds, and the cursemark back in it's inactive state.

Hikari watched them with her cool eye's, looking a little disapointed. "Now you see..that trying to save everyone can lead to incidents...innocents could get hurt." She said, looking geniuly sad for putting them through this. "Now you Nowe...have a choice to make..." Dark Shadows would suddenly grab around Kiri and Kohane's arms and legs, pulling them towards a fiery pit. But behind Nowe..appeared the image of Seito, destroying the Leaf village.

"You defend your village as if it was your child..your family...you'd sooner die then see it fall." Hikari said, glancing over at Kiri and Kohane, "But..you also cherish some of the people in your life of equal value if not more...do you sacrafice the good of others for your own selfishness?"

Nowe looked between the two, torn, not sure of what to pick. "Damn it..that's not fair!" Nowe said, obviously panicking. Something he wasn't normally known for, even when his life was on the line. He created a chidori and swung his arm, shooting out lightning needles to try and shatter the shadow restraints on Kiri and Kohane..but they simply bounced off. How was he supposed to choose. Maybe if he killed Seito quickly..He tried activating his cursemark,b ut instead just felt tremendous pain.

"Your cursemark will not always be able to help you..it is unwise to rely on it.." Hikari said, looking at them calmly. "These are not just situations in your head...you can die...everything you do, has a consequence."

Having moved out from behind the wall when the flames had died Kohane had stopped seeing Nowe back to normal. "These tests ar-" she started before suddenly being grabbed by the shadow's. Her eyes widened some as she tried to pull free only to realize she wasn't able to. Slamming her hand into the ground she got a grip of the earth to try and slow herself down. Each test seemed to be the effects of one choice by each of them.

"Treasure hunter ninja Tsubaki. Tsubaki Shiina." Tsubaki proudly grins and accepts the handshake. He searched some of the scrolls, finding some records of the powerful puppeteers of Suna which he immediate reads.

"Hm, I could've sworn I've heard that name before, oh well. Feel free to browse through those, I was flipping through them for any relevant information on the Sharingan." Zane said with a smile as he began to rearrange his mess. "Wait here and I'll go make some tea." Zane said with a smile.

"Well that may be true, I don't know, but I can definitely tell you there's nothing of real value in these ruins, well unless you're searching for hidden, archaic, lost-to-the-times ninjutsu techniques, and even then I'm not sure there's any real way to understand those inscriptions." Zane said with a laugh as he waited for the water to get ready.