Stretching his arms above his head, and taking a deep breath, letting out slowly through his nose, Kuronotsurugi once more took to the trees, pausing in his movements to look out in a clearing of branches, watching the sun settling down beneath the horizon, the last bits of light disappearing from view, so that in almost an instant the darkness was complete. A shadowed world, all around him, reflecting the black that was inside of his soul. A sideways grin formed on his lips, and his eyes flicker for just a moment with some emotion that one couldn't quite describe, but if another had seen it, they would not have liked what they saw reflecting in his eyes.<br/><br/>"Time to go." He mutters to himself. He was glad that Hikari had taken heart to the words that he'd written on the note, and hadn't come looking for him. He was sure by now she was just about beginning her own half of the search, just as he was about to. There was two main reasons as to why he wanted to search split up. One was that he worked better alone, and two... Forming a couple of hand symbols, veins bulging near this temples on the outer edges of his eyes, which had become white and colorless, the pupil small and dilated. "Byakugan." All around him, the world becomes strangely monochrome, almost as if he were looking through some weird x-ray machine.<br/><br/>He knew where Hikari was located, so heads in the opposite direction, not missing a single detail in where he was going. His own vision was quite powerful, and could see up to almost ten kilometers away, which was why he hadn't even bothered looking at the scroll in which the map was written. He didn't need to. While Hikari was actually running in to interesting finds, Kuronotsurugi wasn't having much luck. Not a single place was to be discovered, and after a moment, he buckled down to briefly pull out the map and look. He growls under his breath, realizing that he'd already gone past two places that were marked...and there was nothing. No camp, no sign of life, it was just a forest of trees, nothing more, nothing less. And there was definitely no way he'd missed any detail, even with the blind spot.<br/><br/>Honestly, what he would give to vent, let out some anger by kicking a few of these low life's asses. That would be perfect. However, he wasn't about to go out of his way to get in to a fight, he wasn't that stupid, and he wasn't one to give in to his instincts that easily either. So, instead, he grits his teeth and pushes on. From the brief glance on the scroll with the map, it was a wide circumference that the people had been seen, and even at the pace he was moving, he was sure it would take at least four nights, give or take if they found something, or someone.<br/><br/>Why did the Hokage have to send him on this mission? Why couldn't he have just stayed put with the one he was already on? He preferred that one over this, it was a solo job, and he was constantly on the alert for enemies, so that put him on edge, making his grumpiness go to bay, focusing only on the mission at hand. But now, this? All he was doing was jumping through trees, looking for camps and people who probably weren't even around any longer...<br/><br/>However, that thought was pushed out of his head, when he notices something about three kilometers ahead. It was not a whole group, but three people. The chakra level showed average strength, however one of them seemed a bit stronger than the others. He moves closer, narrowing his eyes. 'What's this?' He thinks to himself, silently coming to a stop a kilo away from them, crouching down to the branch. Was this the group that the people were talking about? One had a huge sword that had a chakra flow, the second had some strange blockage in his system...and the third, the third had more chakra than the both of them combined, but it was nothing like that someone might get with a tailed beast. No...this person was just strong.