Team 7

[Musashi]

Kajika came up behind them, a hand on the wall to guide her.

"I'm hoping we won't have any need to call her. Still, I think I'd do better on my own-" Stumbletrip went the ninja-in-training. Cough. "...But I guess she would prefer it if we stuck together."

[Xia]

* the hallway extends into the darkness, with just enough curve so that with the darkness it is impossible to see where it ends *

//There are 5 rooms between the start and the next junction, 1 being the closest, 5 being the farthest away, evens on the right, odds on the left.
Room 1: Simple Wooden Door
Room 2: Illusion covering the door to make it look like a wall
Room 3: No Door, single burning candle
Room 4: Steel Padlocked door
Room 5: Door with a hidden latch//

[Goose]

"I swear if I bump into one more wa...!!"

The ninja boy collides into a wall for the tenth time. Rubbing his nose again, Chuusa thinks he sees a flicker of light down the hall, and scoots along the wall to it. His eyes are blurry, and cannot readjust to the light as he shimmies along the wall. He feels the door with his hands and keeps going... He wants light, not doors. As he shimmies along the wall, he unknowingly goes through the invisible wall, splitting himself from his teammates.

"What happened to that light... Am I seeing things down here??"

He keeps walking down the second path, alone...

[LazyShiko]

"Chuusa?" For the first time, uncertainty crept into Misato's voice. Her eyes had adjusted just enough to see by the light of the flickering candle to see that the boy had vanished. "Something screwy's going on around here... Kajika, want to go grab that candle over there? At least we'll have some light for a little while at least. After that.. well, we'll worry about that afterwards."

[Musashi]

Kajika nodded, despite it being kinda useless, what with all the darkity-darkness.
She felt her way along to the candle and grabbed it, then held it out.

"Doors. But no Chuusa. Did he go into one?"

[Xia]

* When Kajika grabs the candle and moves it, the shadows flicker and move...and then one lunges out with a kick towards Misato *

//3 flickering shadows, 1 solid body, presumably human kicking at Misato//

[LazyShiko]

Only momentarily caught off guard, Misato ducked, caught the foot, and helped it along it's way. Spinning her staff, she struck a defensive position, trying to analyze the threat.

[Xia]

* the attacker responds to the deflection quite well by planting that foot on the wall and using it to propell a spin kick with the other foot, aiming for Misato's head *

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* a dark kunai cuts through the air, coming for Chuusa from the end of the dark hall *

[Musashi]

"Dammit.."

Kajika jumped back and used her free hand to pull out and throw a kunai at the spin-kicking attacker of shadowy-ness.

[Goose]

Quite familiar with the whistle of a steel kunai moving through the air, Chuusa determines where and how fast the weapon is moving towards him, and makes an effort to grab it. However, the sound echoes in the cavern, throwing off his only cue to it's location; sound. The kunai misses his outstretched left hand, just barely, cutting his glove and leaving a scratch on his palm. The kunai is deflected somewhat, and clangs sharply with his metal forehead protector, essentially saving his life. The weapon falls to the ground.

"Owwww..." he complains, rubbing his hand. He turns his attnetion to where the kunai had come from, picks up the weapon that was thrown at him, and hurls it back, hoping to smoke out a would-be attacker.

[Frost]

Misato saw the figure leap against the wall, and throw a kick at her. Ducking under the foot, she rolled forwards, bringing her staff up hard against the attacker's back.

[Xia]

* the figure snags the kunai out of the air, hurling it back at Kajika, along with 2 shurikens.

The staff connects with the shadows back, propelling it to the ground, however, landing on all fours, the attacker bounces off the ground and lands, facing the two girls... *

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* Nothing...no sound, no movement...not even the sound of the Kunai hitting anything greets Chuusa's ears. for all he knows, the kunai vanished into the darkness *

[Musashi]

Kajika dove out of the way, getting a cut along her leg as she did so, and landed in a kneeling position. She pulled out her own shuriken, one between each finger in her right hand, and threw them at the shadow-thingy.

[Goose]

Chuusa blinks, standing still a bit longer than he should waiting for a sound. "...She couldn't have caught it without making a sound, could she?" He thinks to himself. He takes a kunai out of his pack and reaches for an explosive tag. Create both some light AND launch an attack in the same move; not a bad strategy at all. Unfortunately for Chuusa, he forgot that his father took all of his tags just last week, after the kid was using them to blow up people's mailboxes as a prank.

"Damnit, dad..."

Chuusa has to settle for just throwing the kunai as a diversion, and as soon as it's released, he gets down low and starts running in the direction that he threw it. He takes his twin curved daggers from his belt and gives them a spin. He assumes that his sensei or whoevers in the shadows will use the two kunais that he's thrown at him or her against him as weapons. Not a problem though, Chuusa's speciality is tool use, particularly in taijitsu. If this person thinks they can fight him and his daggers off with kunais, they'll pay dearly for their mistake.

[Frost]

Misato growled. This unseen assaliant was fast.. and seemed to have the advantage of darkness. She began a series of handseals that would call upon her favourite jutsu, which would hopefully bring in both an instantly tangible weapon and a bit of ligth to shed on the subject.