Ikuza was apparantly bored and had forgotten the purpose of his being there, as the grey-haired red-robed sannin crooked his head upto the late-afternoon sky and began whistling.<br/><br/>As he did so, some merry rhythmless tune, he passed his eyes over the assembled group below him again, nodding as he whistled to the green-coated sword-wearing Kyo, the dark haired Tetsu and Yoite engaged in some idle banter, the former with his leather coat and the latter with his odd fingernails, and at last Jun, looking flushed and perky, her bouncy curls bobbing on her head.<br/><br/>The Mad Hermit turned his eye also to the Orikama siblings who had gathered opposite to the original four, still he whistled the maddeningly tuneless tune. He whistled as he looked over every genin on the ground, his eyes alternately perceptive and vacant. Suddenly, with the jolt akin to when a particularly irritating songbird stops singing for a sinister reason, Ikuza stopped whistling.<br/><br/>Then, the legendary Konoha sannin attacked the genin assembled beneath him.<br/><br/>An armful of shuriken flew at the assembled group, and the ground turned treacherous as Ikuza's Earth flow river (http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Release:_Earth_Flow_River) turned the ground beneath the genin's feet to sticky and slippery mud. One genin in front, closest to the red-robed and apparantly finally snapped sannin shreiked in pain as he, totally unprepared, took a shuriken to his face.<br/><br/>Without pausing, and with insane speed, Ikuza dropped from his stump and punched the ground, a  mudslide (http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Release:_Mudslide) rising like a huge dirt wave straight through the middle of the group, hurling some genin into the air and delivering body-smashing blows to others.<br/><br/>Some genin fled into the nearby trees, utterly confused and terrified. The Orikama siblings, Fuu and her brother Niiken, leapt into the lower branches of the closest tree, but remained there, either paralysed by fear or ready to defend themselves from the insane Hermit's attack, it was unclear. Fuu, the girl with the mask, looked back to Yoite and Tetsu, her eyes obviously wide as plates even across the clearing.<br/><br/>