Tashi was slowest to act, not that he is dumb or slow but more he guessed where everyone went to do anyway. As when wood chopping came to issue he is natural choice consider he is the only person in whole group who has weapon which could suit for such undignifying task; katana. His travel cloak shifted when his hand moved to the detailed decorated handle of his katana which rested on wooden scabbard which was reinforced by steel plating. He worn the standard ninja uniform but his was reinforced on wrist to elbows and he had thin greaves and chest plate, so it was reinforced all around little but not much.<br/><br/>In kendo he has been taught to respect the blade, treat it as tool of war than just chopping instrument for vegetables, meat or wood. However when Maki looked up into trees he got idea how use his blade while getting bit practice for himself. As their mission was bit uneventful combat wise and he had full chakra reserve. He merely nodded what Maki said and get to work.<br/><br/>While he walked towards the tree he is part glad that despite that he had been chased in academy in his youth by bunch of girls because of his looks despite himself having no interest with girls or rather relationship what they wanted to kindle in him. He's kind glad despite he is only male in squad none the women seemed harass him and also it gave him perks; he alone shared the second room which is reserved for the guys and so has not do deal with snoring. However it caused in back of the village guys ask some dumb silly things like 'color of Lily's panties' or 'bra size of Jun' and make assumptions about his love triangle affair inside his squad which is completely nonexistent rumor. So good and bad he was happy with the squad and he had preset role be the frontal assault member of the squad and also the strongman as he was physically most strongest of any of them.<br/><br/>Once he reached to root of the tree he with experienced gestures activates tree walking technique and with concentrated chakra flow he walks along the tree trunk. Once he was charge distance of the branches he takes slightly crouched position and he flips travel cloak back, reveal handle of his sword. He then charges with surge forward and with fast speed he draws his sword and slices one handed on the branch! He is not skilled yet use his katana one handed but he is practicing everyday to learn to do so.<br/><br/>Despite his swing is clumsy he makes such accurate hit on the branch if it had been foe it would had caused serious hit! Altough the technique lends lots of strength he felt his blade did not quite connect, but his raw power and technique used lended enough power to slice the branch neatly and let it fall down to the ground picked up later.<br/><br/>However his task is not complete, with short step towards up he takes his blade on two hands and performs wild frenzy of attacks against a thicker branch! His first attack hits branch same force as his quick draw slice, but second slices the branch off the roots with clean cut! Now two larger logs falls down to the ground besides first one. He feels his chakra reserve is empty and so he focus do normal slices on branches and then moves back down along the tree trunk down to the ground.<br/><br/>He picks the logs and forms a campfire and he then steps back and forms quickly seals with his hand and forms ring to front of his mouth, firing off tiny fireball technique learned in the academy as part of his study program to learn some elemental ninjutsu on the logs which sets them on nice start of a fire when Jun comes to the camp.<br/><br/>OOC: Showing off little bit what Tashi is capable about. He used Kinobori (has enough ranks pull it auto), spend 1 chakra reserve activate it (18/18, reserve 7/8). He then performs Kenjutsu: Iaido (auto use), spend 2 reserve chakra (18/18, reserve 4/8), then he auto performs Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu - Ryu Sou Sen (Double Dragon Flash), spend 6 chakra (12/18, reserve 4/8). Then he (auto) performed Hiakahou to set up the fire, spending 1 chakra (11/18, reserve 4/8).