<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">OOC = Continued from IC 1, Reply #207 </div></div><br/>"Good to meet you both, no matter who wins, our villages will clearly have very capable ninja,"  Yuki said, with enough politeness.  'Nothing special' was what a smart person would say to avoid drawing attention, but Yuki could tell arrogance from modesty.  It was the one aspect of social affairs that he considered himself halfway decent at.  Arrogance was sometimes deserved, but more often than not it said 'I'm worried about being unseated'...<br/><br/>"Makoto, have you seen Kotone?  I found you first, but she's kind of blending in out there." he said, looking around.  He knew that she couldn't count on falling into a soft place like Makoto did (and wasn't nearly as smart, if only in the 'mechanical aptitude' sense).  He hoped she wouldn't fail, because a part of him had been really eager to meet his team on the battlefield.<br/><br/>He had mentioned that stuff about working together, of course, but he knew that they might be as eager as he was to test their skills.  If they had to fight, for whatever reason, he couldn't deny that he'd be glad to do so.  It'd prove who was the best, at long last, and the arrogant part of him couldn't deny that he'd enjoy winning as much as the rest of him didn't want the challenge that would precede that victory.