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Her lip extremities turned up. Umiko reached the river alone. She left her brother behind a long time ago and proved to be the fastest after all. She kneeled near the partially frozen river to take some water, the symbol of her victory. It was when she saw a fillet of red blood coming from behind a bush. Completely alert, the leaf kunoichi approached the spot crouching and holding a kunai. She held her breath and than, with a quick move, jumped over the bush.

Umiko landed in a puddle of still fresh blood, which poured from three familiar genins. The three genins they fought last day: Noku, Gira and the tall man. All killed the same way, with a strange execution style. What impressed her the most was that they were still holding their scrolls; Whoever killed them was not interested in the scrolls. Umiko got all them: 3 Heaven and 1 earth.
The kunoichi than arranged their corpses in a more dignified way. All side by side, laying with their eyes closed and with both hands holding their respective headbands. Once those were her enemies, but now they were dead. She respected the dead.

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Hiato did already perceived that his foe was much more powerful than the average genin. He sensed much chakra in his body, and also noticed that it was completely balanced, which was rather more typical at medical and genjutsu nins than at element or taijutsu users. That probably meant that he was not only a master of the winds but also knew much of genjutsu. He was certainly not a medical nin, as his partner had so many untreated wounds.

Hiato stood up and now was completely immobile, analyzing the odds of succeeding with his genjutsu over his foe. This apparent paralisys made his foe laught "Is that all fear? I am now considering killing you the funniest way..." and with a scroll he summoned a large spiked mace before ending his sentence "...bashing your brain out of your head" and rushed toward him.

Hiato had already decided, he would use the One`s Reality, but it needed to be perfectly cast, his enemy should be closer. The risks were huge, but he had some odds of succeeding. It was now the time. His foe was near. Three, two, one...

"Konoha Senpuu" Mijaro performed a powerful taijustu against that uncautious genin, whichs brief flight ended with his head against a hard rock. He fell unconcious. Hiato shouted happily and surprized "Nice work, Mijaro". The Nomuro boy had now one of his hands at his back and the other opened, with all fingers pointing towards the last enemy, the injured one.

With a grin of confidence, Mijaro placed his hand at his hip poach and grabbed something inside it. Quickly he lifted an item towards the sky and stood in this heroical stance. It was a moment of glory. The dense clouds opened, letting warm sunbeans fall over the boy. All angels and invisible creatures in the air stopped for a moment. The globe itself slowed down to admire its glory.

The wounded genin now shook in fear; his vision was a bit blurry, so he did not saw what which item the leaf genin held, but Mijaro had such a heroical stance that the genin felt a strong fear covering his heart. This, combined with his recent lost of blood, made him faint and fall in the ground, unconscious.

Mijaro held his Canteen: The symbol of his supremacy in speed. This made Hiato twice more surprized than before "Did you already got to the river and came back?". With a shinning grin he answered "YES! I did". He was the only one who knew it was not true. He simply melted some snow with his katon and filled the canteen with it.
No way he would lose to a little girl...