As is her custom Seiyuri had risen before the sun to enjoy the quiet, peaceful solitude of her family's private garden to meditate amid the heavenly and soothing scents of peonies, sweet peas, jasmines and gardenias made all the crisper and clearer buy the early morning chill in the air. Today was the day all genin looked forward to with equal measure of both exuberant anticipation and  harrowing dread. Today there would be no safety net of the middle ground; either you fail or you succeed - death being a likely event in the case of the former if one wasn't careful enough.  Even knowing those things genins still lined up to prove their worth to ascend to the next level of Chuunin. This year Seiyuri herself would be participating in the exams finally after two years of waiting. There were times when she felt she would never make it this far due to her unique situation. But Ichiro-sensei had assured her she was more than ready enough now to do so. With the Chuunin exams today Seiyuri and her team had been given yesterday off to prepare and rest up. Since the test was suppose to take five and days and nights Seiyuri had packed accordingly, keeping in mind the weather, the need of supplies and still remain light on her feet.<br/><br/>So she used the three small sealing scrolls her grandmother gave her on the day she became a genin. In the first one sealing scroll (http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/60/Handmade_naruto_scrolls_by_roxafoxxd-d33ucuq.jpg) she placed two changes of clothes, basic scentless toiletries, a weeks worth of hardy rations and bottled water, a small container of waterproof matches and a hooded insulated cape (http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/20/138.jpg) that could double as a blanket. In the second scroll she sealed all of her basic first aid supplies including a healthy amount of anti-venom for the any poisonous creatures she might encounter and a bottle each of blood increasing pills (http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Increasing_Pill) and  soldier pills (http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Military_Rations_Pill). The the third had a special fuinjutsu incorporated into the scroll preventing anyone else that wasn't her from opening it. In it she placed her already premeasured poisons and toxins to be used either alone or mixed to create a variety of status effects and the antidotes to counteract each one.<br/><br/>The morning sun was just peaking over the horizon when Seiyuri went back inside to take a quick bath and change into into her clothes. Once she was done her hair was braided back away from her face and she was wearing her trademark shades and the special amethyst vial pendant (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/File:Purplevialpendant.jpg) her mother gave her last night dangled from her slim neck with enough length to perch enticingly above the deep valley of her cleavage. Her outfit (http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2f/Beatrix_II_Plakat_sl.jpg) was in her usual color scheme of primary black with green and with blue replacing the tan today. Hardly anyone was up as she moved through the house heading for the kitchen to prepare her breakfast. Everyone had already given her their best wishes last night so there be no one holding her up today. Fixing a hearty meal, as she didn't known when the ext time she would eat this good, she sat down and dug in. She knew the exams was going to be held in the Deep Hallowed Forest just outside the village she was uncertain who would be overseeing this round of examination, usual it would be the Hokage's obligation but their fearless and cloistered leader usually has his proxies do it for him.<br/><br/>Washing and putting away the dishes she went back to her room to grab the pouches containing her ninja tool,s the scroll holster with the scrolls already loaded in them and her coat (http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/90/C_raven.jpg), while slipping into her open toed boots when she got to the entryway of the house.  With one final look she headed off to the front gates. She stopped briefly to speak with the guards letting them know she was leaving and where to when she showed them her paper for the exam. Once she hit the tree line she took to the trees moving from branch to branch as she headed in the direction where the exam was suppose to take place. She had grown hearing  all the rumors about the forest being haunted by the souls of the fallen, their remains long since absorbed into the root of the gigantic treed giving them their creepy appearance and that she was older the Hallowed Forest was still creepy as ever.<br/><br/>Reaching the clearing she stayed above the others on the branch she landed on taking stock of who was there. Despite being so early there were quiet a few genin already there just milling about and conversing amongst themselves waiting for the others to finish arriving so the exam could begin. Making herself comfortable yet maintaining a steady awareness of her surroundings Seiyuri allowed her eyes shaded eyes to roam over the faces of the hopeful. Seiyuri was one of the few that  already knew which genins were from the Leaf and which others were not with her eidetic memory. Though she had to hand it to the kage for the ingenious idea of having the foreign genins wear the local headbands to keep hostilities down was a good idea even if the other villages didn't see it that way, it would certainly level the playing field and cause bit of chaos at the same time. It was such a shame that not everyone here would make the cut or survive the exam for that matter, hence the affidavits everyone had to sign before taking the exam that excused the village of any wrong doings in the event of a genin's death that they understood the risks they were taking when they signed the papers. Her gaze was drawn to the familiar red clad figure of Izuka sitting on the tree stump, eyes widening fractionally behind the shades as she realized who was overseeing the exam.<em><strong>Izuka the Mad Hermit</strong></em>.<br/><br/><em>Oh, fuck!</em><br/><br/>He just sat there for a time observing the other genin, a time or two she could feel his gaze linger on her as well letting her known her presence wasn't unnoticed.  When everyone was present he began to speak, his strange way of talking gave rise to the internal question of the sanin's sanity. There was something ominous in the way the Sanin was whistling that set Seiyuri's instinct on edge reminding her a snake lulling its prey into a false sens of security before it struck. Her instincts were proven right when first the sanin struck out with projectile weapons, which Seiyuri readily deflected with her own kunai. Then the crazy sanin turned the earth beneath the genin's feet into in to a slippery much that had everyone on the ground slipping and sliding every which way. If that wasn't enough Izuka jumped off the stomp and into the air. When she saw his fist coming down to the ground Seiyuri braced herself on the large branch forming chakra in her hands and feet to prevents herself from being flung off it. Izuka wasn't done there, oh no -when that punch landed it created a mudslide that tore through them, either by sending them fling or sweeping the along it current.  Those that were still miraculously standing where soon face to face with Izuka in close range combat, or at least were trying to their best. She winced in sympathy every time Izuka landed a blow.<br/><br/>While the Sanin was preoccupied with that Seiyuri used some ninja wire and a healthy dose of acrobatics to start pulling genin from the muck while Jun took care of the same on the other side. Those with injuries she tended to right away why trying to Izuka's fighting style trying to find some sense of a pattern, an opening they could exploit. The only way any of them were going to survive this particular Sanin was by setting aside any differences and working together.  Moving over to Kyo where had dragged his rescue she healed the genin before turning her attention to Kyo. "Have you any injuries, Nara-san?" she asked in a soft, calm voice.