Sano thought for a moment until she heard Shikamaru's response. She turned her head to his direction and nodded. "Alright, let's go." she said. And with that, she walked out of the office hoping Lexi and Haru was following behind her.

OOC: Blegh, sorry..my brain is...tired.

Shikaharu slid out of his chair fluidly and walked behind the two girls, but then he broke into a short run. He slowed his pace when he came close to the girls. Looking at Sano, he whispered, "We need to come up with a plan. I don't care about what rank we are at and I don't care if we are kids, I want to do something to avenge the deaths of the innocent ones." Turning to Lexi, Haru mumbled into her ear, "Are you still able to summon hawks? If you can, I have an idea about what our next move should be. We can get all of the genin and possible jounin to train. Train until we can't stand on our feet with some sort of support," the Nara said adamantly.

Lexi paced behind her cousin and shook her head after hearing what Haru proposed. "I don't know Haru, as much as I want to help, I just think we should leave this to the adults." Her eyes were stinging from holding back the tears. "I don't know if it could be pulled off, but I trust you Haru. I can definitely send for a summons," the young genin said with a slight smile. Drawing blood from her thumb, Lexi dragged her bloodied finger across the summoning scroll and a little hawk appeared out of the cloud of smoke. In a squeaky voice, the bird chirped, "It has been a while Lady Lex, what is it that you need?" Lexi tickled under its beak and gave orders, "I want you to take to the skies and find the other genin of the village. Tell them to meet us at the Hero's stone at night." The bird gave a salute and flew away.

Sano turned her head slightly to Shikaharu's direction. "I'm gonna have to agree with Lexi on this one. I wanna avenge the death of our people as much as the next guy -- and don't get me wrong -- I love a good adventure, but this could get really ugly." she said to him in a worried tone of voice. She wasn't sure if she was ready for something like this considering that fact that those people out there could be Jonins and/or higher. They had no idea what they were up against, though she had to trust Shikaharu on his word. To her it seemed as if he always knew what he was doing, not matter how ridiculous or impossible the idea sounded. Sano watched the conversation between the hawk and her cousin. For once, she seemed to be more serious than usual. Of course she believed something like this could get serious, but she had to leave her trust to Haru. She nodded approvingly, "Alright, let the games begin.." she said unsure of herself. She left the thought behind with a deep sigh.

Neji saluted as he made his way out of the room. " I need to hurry because the more time we waste finding ideas gives the enemies more time to get even further", he thought as he moved through the town. As he reached his mansion he got two of his family's best ninja. Questioning him for more was not an option as he zoomed out of the house with him ninja bag.

Shinji and Kaze quickly located Shino and passed on Naruto's instructions. The two genin were heading back to the hokage's tower when Kaze noticed the small hawk following them overhead.

"Stop." the blond girl called out as she followed her own command. She watched as the hawk circled down and landed on the edge of the rooftop in front of the pair. Kaze drew a kunai and eyed the oddly behaving bird warily.

Shinji took up a position at Kaze's side, prepared to neutralize the bird if it should prove to be a threat.

OOC: I wonder if this counts as a bump .. o 3o;; For whoever was wondering..I already posted.

The little hawk heard the girl say something and tilted its head innocently as it watched the two genin. When the weapons werr drawn, it squawked nervously, "Wait, please don't attack. I'm here to give you a message from Lady Lexi and the boy with the sluggish personality. They want all of the genin and trustworthy jounin to meet up with them at the Hero's stone tonight." His face was filled with panic, but he still fulfilled his duties. The hawk was frozen, unable to move from the spot that was the only safe zone for him.

Kaze smirked at the reference to her brother and sheathed the kunai. Of course. She vaguely recalled her brother saying something about Lexi summoning hawks. "I'll be there." She said with a yawn. She was curious what Haru and Lexi were plotting but it wasn't worth getting worked up over. The day had already been hectic enough and wasting energy wondering what her brother was up to wouldn't make midnight come any faster.

Shinji nodded towards the bird. He would go where Kaze went. He wasn't going to lose her the way they had Alex.

sry to interrupt, but is it too late to join?

OOC: We have two new characters. ^_^ Check the bottom of the genin and the top of the chunin list. Also, Shikaharu's image is borked. Cassidy, can you get me a new link for it? Grax, OOC comments should be in red please. *pokes life back into thread*

OOC: Cool, two new Chuunins! o 3o I wonder where Cassidy wondered off to.. = w=

OOC: An older genin and a chunin but yeah. New blood! Yay! ^_^ I'm also wondering where everyone else went. We were starting to pick up in here again. O_o' Maybe school is starting back for a lot of people?

OOC: Where are the new people? And older genin? kind of like Naruto and Sasuke huh? xD

OOC: Good question. They were both online earlier. *shrugs* Yes, Chiyoko (I hope I'm remembering the name right) flunked the chunin exam because she showed up three hours late or something. lol. Guess whose kid she is. ^_^'

OOC: LOL, the ever so tardy Kakashi-sensei, huh? XD

Daku walked through the city as he 'looked' for traps saying, "Man, this is so damn boring... crap, now I'm starting to sound like a Nara. This is boring though, I mean, its not like someone like me'd be able to find a trap left by guys good enough to kill the Hokage's daughter under his very nose. I wonder where they're taking the bodies, it'd be interesting to start testing Shadow Resurrection on it. Heh, not that I even have it good enough to reanimate a stupid squirrel yet." Daku stopped walking and leaned against a wall in the shade, enjoying the feel of the shadows wrapping around him.

Chiyoko leaned against the side of one of the entrances to the city. She kept an eye out and pet her ninken behind the ears. "So, Saiuri, what do you think? Are there going to be anymore bad people coming through?" Saiuri ruffs. "I didn't think so either. I just wish we had a more interesting job." Chiyoko looks back into the city, "I wonder what dad and Daku are doing."

Daku stretched before saying, "Well, I better keep looking, otherwise the old man (Kakashi) is gonna chew me out. Hmm, I wonder if I can get Chi to trade jobs with me." Daku jumped up onto a roof and began hopping from building to building until touching down in front of Chiyoko saying, "Hey, trade jobs with me."

Kakashi was walking towards the village wall to check on the gate guards when he suddenly sneezed. "Huh..." He muttered. "Someone must be talking about me." Shrugging he continued along his way, keeping his exposed eye open for any stray civilians, traps, or enemy ninja.

(LMAO! That was great XD)

OOC: I couldn't resist. lol

Chiyoko stands up strait and crosses her arms. "Are you telling me or asking me? Because my answer depends on your answer." Saiuri growls a warning at him. "What's your job?"

"I'm supposed to look around for traps, but that's boring and I can't just stand in the shade, and I'm asking, even though I could tell you since I do outrank you." Daku smirked at Chiyoko as he remembered how she had been late for her exams.

"You should learn to take the assignments you are given and deal with them. So you think searching for traps is boring? Try standing in the same place all day and watching as everyone else runs around and actually DOES something." Chiyoko looks around to see if anyone is watching them. "Now, I don't much like my assignment, but it's just that. An assignment. It's what i have to do. Go do yours."

Daku scowled saying, "Ok, no more asking, now I'm telling. You go search for traps, I'm taking over here. I hope you don't have an issue with that little miss genin."