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A shattered tree was laying in the center of the training area. The cause of it's falling was obviously a blunt force, which could be concluded from the widespread splinters, and the way the tree was smashed in half. On the tree sat Ray, who was holding his head, and trying his best to keep his eyes sealed shut. He had been sitting there for roughly an hour when he finally stood up. Pulling a large, crude looking, blade off his back, his grip on the handle tightened greatly, a small stream of water ran down the blade. As the water ran down the blade, his red face seemed to cool down.

Stabbing the sword into the ground, he looked at his hand in surprise. It was soaked, and a clear stream of fresh water was coming out of his palm, seemingly from nowhere. Using his dry hand, Ray went into the supply shed and pulled a scroll out, spreading it on the ground. He then began to read off a list of seals.

Standing up with a bit more assurance in his expression, he slowly performed five seals, then used a finished seal, holding his hand high above his head. The effect wasn't immediate, but the training area slowly was enveloped by a wet mass of air. Though the visibility was still clear, the moisture could be felt. Ray calmed himself down and tried again, concentrating hard...

Ray had been taken by surprise. He didn't think he'd followed so quickly. Jumping slightly, a ball of water splashed onto the ground, splashing Kisoku. Quickly picking Kisoku up and using the other hand to blow warm onto the bird, he said in a spaced out voice "I'm not sure what got into me. Sorry about that, all three of you. I felt like something inside of me lit on fire when I saw those two demon thingies. But something weird happened when I got here. I have a question, how many elements of chakra are we supposed to have?"

As he spoke, water continued to flow from his hand. He didn't seem to notice.

Ray looked at his hand oddly. He clenched it once or twice, but nothing happened, water still leaked. Placing the lax bird on his shoulder so she wouldn't get wet again, he reached his hand out for Belle to see. He seemed wary about how he moved it, the last thing he wanted was something else to fly out when Belle was near him. As he waited, he tried to think of a solution, and commented "I don't remember learning to use electric chakra being anything like this..."

Ray withdrew his hand when she was done with the examination. Holding it in front of his face, he attempted to find a clue about it from it's scent. There was nothing he could detect that Belle hadn't already pointed out. He nodded his head lightly and said "Perhaps you're right. Hope he isn't too caught up with that fight of his. If he is, I'll just drown the forest, I don't think even HE could ignore that."

Ray gave the signal for Kisoku to fly again, then picked up Sly, placing him so he was holding onto Ray's neck, resembling a scarf. And he was off! "Over the river and through the fields, to the forest of Death we go..." he chanted to himself as he did a four legged run/sprint/jump to his destination.
[continued in the forest of death]

He's late. Rednal thought as he stared ahead grimly. Or she's late. Whatever. This was getting to the point where it was vaguely annoying. He was Chuunin, after all, and had better things to do with his time than sitting around and waiting for someone who didn't matter. Still, they'd yell at him if he skipped out, no matter what the problems with a team leader were. Rednal sighed slightly and began reinforcing the intricate net of nearly invisible threads of ice. Control on such a level was difficult, which made it a perfectly reasonable sort of training. The sensei had better show up soon, though. Rednal hated waiting for too long, and was liable to do something he would regret. The Chuunin had extreme difficulty with just sitting and not doing anything at all. Hence the sensory net.

Rednal looked over mildly, not at all surprised. His trap had warned him of the approach. After making a few handseals - with both hands; why bother to reveal everything to some random being? - a clone made of water morphed up out of the ground. This was far from all of Rednal's actual ability, but he didn't feel like showing that he could control ice freely, and he hated using wind techniques. In all honesty, he didn't even know any. Water and ice were far more his style. Then, with a simple direction to his clone, Rednal sent the bunshin charging forward to attack. He didn't seriously expect anything it did to actually work, but it was better than just having it stand there.

Rednal merely raised an eyebrow. Was that supposed to be insulting? Clearly, this person had no concept of the ability to actually insult people. Not that it really mattered. Rednal didn't place quite enough value on this whole exchange to be bothered about this being's skills or lack thereof. Of course, clones were only a low-level ability. Rednal could have done something better with water or ice (or wind, but he was highly reluctant to do that), but he still felt there was no point in really showing off what he could do to somebody he had absolutely no proof was even a Leaf Ninja. Rednal was very far from a trusting individual. He wouldn't put it past another village to have someone show up and try to get him to perform abnormal techniques that they could steal for their village... doubly so for any leaf-unique techniques he might be told to perform under the guise of 'practice'. The lack of talking didn't help any, and Rednal was seriously considering killing this visitor. Better to kill someone he shouldn't than let a potential enemy get away.