Training Grounds

[Ronin]

Seeing Ashley appearing in front of him, Arai would go on the attack. " Don't you ever stay in one place?!" He would say getting annoyed at Ashley's tactic of moving all over the place like she had been doing. Using his beast-like speed, he would quickly charge her, slashing at her with his clawlike nails.

[Dawning Wolf]

The Ashley in front of Arai would poof, as it was a clone. Ashley would do hand signs, as she appeared on the other side of the field. A big gust would start to show up, as a tornado started to form, as Arai, but not rise him up.

[anbukurono]

With her Byakugan, Anzu would pick up on Ashley's hiding spot as she appears on the other side of the field. " If you can hear me, I've found where sensei has gone off to. She's at the other end of the field manipulating her jutsu." Anzu says reporting to her teammates where Ashley was but would stick around to see if Arai and his dogs needed any help from the attacks on them Ashley had done.

[Ronin]

Arai would hear what Anzu had said to him through the howling of the wind around him. As the wind spirals around him, he would get an idea for how to get out of this trap. Rather than going against the wind, he would begin to spin in the same direction as the wind increasing his rotation as he would go into a Tsuuga. Aiming his attack at the ground, Arai would dig through the ground, coming up around Anzu. " I heard what you had said about sensei, we gotta get to her before she gets away." Arai would say impatiently not wanting to give Ashley any chances of getting away from them knowing they were on a time limit. With his call, Shiro and Haimaru would quickly transform back to normal and come running back over to him standing at ready to move out.

[Dawning Wolf]

Plants would start to cover around the tornado, as vines and flowers would start to float within it. The vines would have spikes, as poison dripped out of the spikes. Ashley would do a hand sign, as she would have the tornado turn, as she had it go hurdling straight at Arai and Anzu. The wind would be strong, as if they were to be hit by it, they would be knocked far away and possibly it would knock the air out of them.

[anbukurono]

With the tornado coming towards them fast Anzu would come up with an idea. Thinking quickly she would reach into her bag for the object she needed, hoping it would work. " I don't think either of us have anything that can stand against that thing, but you're going to have to trust me on this one. I need you to grab your dogs, shut your eyes and simply follow me by my scent." Anzu whispers to Arai, being sure to keep her head turned away from Ashley's direction so she couldn't read her lips. Hoping that Arai would follow her instruction, Anzu would quickly pull a flash bomb from her pack and throw it down, setting it off, closing her eyes in the process. As the flash bomb goes off, the two of them would be consumed in a blinding flash of light the light would cover that area. Knowing that Ashley would have to have been keeping an eye on them to guide her jutsu, Anzu would use this as a distraction for them to escape her gaze. Using her memory of surveying the area Anzu would body flicker herself to the brush of a section of trees not far away from the clearing, hiding herself amongst the bushes there.

[Ronin]

While he didn't really like the idea of going along with someone else telling him what to do he also knew he didn't have anything to fight the tornado. Following Anzu's instruction, he would crouch down picking up Shiro and Haimaru, closing his eyes as instructed. Hearing Anzu move from the spot he would sniff the air for her scent before rushing off after it, moving quickly to get to her location before the flash cleared. " Alright now what was with the sudden flash bomb?" Arai would whisper to Anzu as he opens his eyes, wondering how that was supposed to deal with the tornado back there.

[Dawning Wolf]

Ashley would release the tornado, as the flowers would be scattered, flying everywhere. The flowers would even go to the sides of the trees, maybe even having a chance to scratch one of the members if they were close enough to the edge on the outside trees. "Come out wherever you are." Ashley would say

[anbukurono]

Keeping herself low to the ground Anzu would be able to avoid the scattering flowers. " She had to have been watching us from her hiding spot to be able to guide her attack. I didn't think that she'd spend her chakra on a lost target so I set that up." Anzu whispers to him explaining the reasoning behind her plan, opening her eyes to get a view of the area. " Now we have an advantage on her since I can see her, but she can't see us. This could be the chance we needed to get the bells from her."

[Ronin]

Arai would avoid the flowers as well with the help of the bush's cover. " Alright then, we should get at her hard and fast before she has a chance to find us in this." Arai would whisper back to her anxous to use their new found cover as a chance to quickly get to the bells. The way that he saw it, it was a pretty simple attack plan on her, especially with their element of surprise. She'd never see that attack coming.

[Dawning Wolf]

Ashley would look around the field. "Come out come out wherever you are. You can't hide forever." Ashley would say, as she would be standing out in the opening of the field, waiting for the team. "I will even let you get a free shot, how about that?" Ashley would say

[anbukurono]

Anzu would shake her head in response to Arai's suggestion. " If we go at her head on like that, she'll just substitute and have us out in the open again." Anzu whispers telling exactly why his attack plan wouldn't work against Ashley based on what had happened earlier in the test. In the process, she would hear Ashley's offer but wouldn't take it. " Don't fall for that, she's just trying to bait us out so she can have us right where she wants us."

[Ronin]

Arai would give a bit of a scowl to the second part of what she said. " You don't need to tell me that. I'm not dumb enough to fall for such an obvious taunt." Arai would whisper feeling insulted that she seemed to think he'd go for such an obvious trick. In spite of his feelings, he didn't think the best thing was to stay put there. " Well either way, we should at least move from here. If we stay put too long, she could find us." Arai would say before he begins to move along the bushes, keeping low to the ground to avoid being spotted by Ashley.

[Dawning Wolf]

Ashley would start to head into the group of bushes and and trees. "Where are you guys? How about I just give you the bells?" Ashley would say, looking for them.

[Sondiame]

Acorn Jumped out of a tree pointing his bow below him. "Gotcha!" He yelled shooting an arrow as it missed completely. Acorn was too busy doing everything else but helping his teammates to understand what their plans were, so he just went with the straight on attack.