<br/>The pair of shinobi made their way back towards civilization, off the tower and from rooftop to rooftop towards her home. When they came back, she let him in and took his katana, setting her own alongside it in a backroom where she kept most of her other ninja tools. Swords, throwing knives, axes, maces, exploding tags, every conceivable type of weapon... and most conspicuously, few of the modern implements used by most shinobi like kunai and shuriken.<br/><br/>"The first thing we should cover is conditioning, ah?" She said, tugging at her sleeves. Still dressed in her black ninja suit, Maki was always very... modest, moreso certainly than Jun or Lily. She was unlike the occasional kunoichi who wore little more than what amounted to evening wear, a guise designed to seduce and distract. She formed a solitary handseal... and then paused, considering what she was about to do. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"<br/><br/>Beside her, after the white smoke had cleared, a woman appeared. "Gyokusai no Yumi." She said with a hand on her hip. The woman was complected dark like some of the Ninja from Kumogakure, with silver hair and dull green eyes. Her long hair, which must have gone down to her shoulder blades, was instead done up in high ponytail, wrapped in ribbons and obscured by an ancient headdress. Her features were fair, her lips so pouty and her eyes so pleading by default, as if to compel a man to pity and comfort her.<br/><br/>Her shoulders were covered in Samurai armor pads like her forearms, while her considerable cleavage was left in plain view by an open set of white robes. Her stomach was bound in a large leather sash, emphasizing the hourglass shape of her body. Below her waist a short skirt, more like a loincloth really, that exposed the sides of her hips. On one thigh, a shuriken holster strapped against her bare flesh. Completing the ensemble, fingerless gloves and an archaic form of the ninja sandals most Shinobi wore today.<br/><br/>"Kunoichi no Jutsu all started with her, in the Clans era." Maki said in her guise, "Back when people thought women couldn't be ninjas... She was a master of disguise, so who knows what she really looked like, ah?" She offered her hands up to the air at a loss and closed her eyes, "But this is how she appeared according to the writings of Daimyo Tanaka."<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Jun didn't see the man, but Xexen could certainly smell him. He was near... very near, within range of an ambush. Yet he had not yet chosen to attack. The wolf beside her twitched his nose and huffed. It was a que, a signal only Jun would know that he had found their prey without the shadow of a doubt. Suzume caught onto it as well, her big rounded eyes turning towards Jun for confirmation.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">I rolled for Xexen and Suzume. A 6 and a 9 respectively. :P To keep things moving, I'm gonna say that Xexen used a move action to pinpoint the man's location using Scent.</div></div><br/><hr/><br/>Across the forests of the Land of River, through the valley borders into the Land of Fire, there was a great city, known as Konoha- the Hidden Leaf. (http://youtu.be/IZlDdmtEvnY) Deep in the forest secluded from all else, it was home to such great clans as Senju, Uchiha, and Hyuuga. This place, in the center between four other great nations, would be a catalyst to all the wars past and all the wars yet to come in this world.<br/><br/>The three-faced cliffs overlooking the village cast their shadow over the village in the afternoon sun. A young genin kunoichi bounded through the busy streets, ducking and dodging passerbys as she went. She had plain brown hair tied in a bun on top of her head with a ribbon adorning it. Her eyes were almond and her skin slightly tanned, with fingerless gloves and a loose sleeved red tunic over dark pants complete with shuriken holster and sandals. The village, less crowded than Tanigakure, offered her plenty of room to run through as she made her way.<br/><br/>She bounded through the wealthy districts towards the hotsprings, where her objective was last stated to have been seen at. She carried in her hand a scroll for Marise Hyuuga and Kaname Mikazuki. Politely, she offered the scroll up to the woman in charge of the springs as an excuse for not paying, and then slipped her sandals off.<br/><br/>The genin first checked the changing rooms for them, and then went on to methodically search the enclosures for the two Kunoichi.