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Noboru continued forward, occassionaly taking a glance backwards to make sure that his team mate, Akiyuki, was still following him. They didn't talk much along the walk. Noboru didn't really have an opinion about Akiyuki, plus he wasn't much of one to judge people since he had been picked on and bullied in his younger years, though not to a large extent. He soon got over that phase if you can call it that and seemed to have plenty of friends who appreciated him, though he had been one back then to crack a lot of jokes and things. However, it was just his way of having fun back then..still sort of is. But, he had yet to judge Akiyuki simply because he didn't he didn't understand the man yet. He had just met him a little while ago on their training with their jounin.

Nobu stopped after walking some more and knelled to the ground, looking at something on the ground. It was some spit like foam, something that might have come from the dog. As he stood up and was about to tell his team mate about what he found, he turned to see two of Akiyuki and the man spoke saying if he saw anything then he would tell him. He recalled the man's birds and that they had an aerial view of the place. They both closed their eyes, and he remembered the man's sensors. He should probably learn something like that. He hadn't learned many jutsu during the academy, but he was pretty adequate in wielding weapons. But, before the chuunin exams he planned to learn an almost arsenal of jutsus to help him. He trained every non-sleeping hour, though he slept a lot.

Nobu became alert as he heard children screaming, he was about to race in their direction when they headed towards his direction instead. They were frantic and scared and were saying something about a wolf that was foaming at the mouth. Nobu frowned and knew at once that it must be the dog they were looking for. Nobu was about to help the children but civilians started to gather around and he figured that they could help the children. Nobu turned towards Akiyuki and with a gesture said, "Come on lets go.." he then headed off towards the direction the children had come from.

He came to the edge of the forest the children had come from and then stopped, quietly looking around trying to spot the 'wolf' as the children had so claimed it. He even looked at the tiniest of things such as a broken branch or something to determine where the children had come from. He spotted a few broken branches a foot or two in front of him, however couldn't figure out where deeper in the area the children had come from. All the while, he communicated with his clone to come to the east side, though he wasn't sure if it would come soon.

"Well...I believe she's hiding now." he said looking around some with his eyes, though his body was faced towards his two supposedly 'team mates'. His mind searching the area through his clone as they communicated with one another. He saw what his clone saw. However, there was no sign of their Jounin quite yet. And he couldn't be sure if or when she would make an attack on them, though he supposed she wouldn't for they were the ones who were basically supposed to be attacking her. She was just defending and using jutsus so that they wouldn't get the bells from her.

Their little genin girl recovered quickly and brought up the fact about her use of genjustu on their jounin. That was one of the reasons he was able to quickly draw her underneath the ground and why their Jounin had kneeled down onto her knees, it was cause of the Yamanaka's genjutsu. "Seems she's been using clones as well.." he nodded briefly towards the boulder, gripping the handle of his kodachi tighter at Saori's mention that she could heal. The burn wouldn't greatly effect him, it was the fact that they'd sort of just rushed in and attacked all at once. "We.. need to work together, use our strengths against her.." he said quietly so that where ever their Jounin was she couldn't readily hear him. He wasn't much of a leader, but he had addressed the problem which they should have probably done at first..

He moved closer to the two, "As we speak.. I'm searching the area for her," he said in a quiet, low whisper. His eyes wandering around them. He communicated with his clone mentally as it ran past boulder after boulder, using the scenery to its advantage as it ducked behind and around rocks. Its eyes searching for any sign of their 'mysterious' Jounin. It worked its way around towards the entrance to the academy. However, as it did Nobu's wood clone found a torn piece of cloth..a senbon holding it in place. A bell attached to it as well.. His clone stayed hidden, looking around from its hiding place for any sign of their Jounin or that it may be a trap. Nobu communicated with his clone and soon found out about cloth, senbon and one bell.. "Not sure..but she may be in the direction of the entrance to the academy but it may be a trap," he whispered to the others two, giving no real hint that something quite informative had come up. They still needed a plan..

The genin wished that the mission compound had more..interesting, more action packed missions. Like, actually going off into battle or what not. However, since there weren't many missions left that he hadn't already done he decided to just do a mission that wanted you to help out at the library. He didn't often ready but perhaps he could spend a small amount of time reading some of the books and gain some knowledge. His mother always seemed to read whenever she wasn't busy with housework or when she wasn't helping out the village. Nobu himself didn't really mind reading, he just never really found the time to. More like, he enjoyed sleeping more than he did reading or doing something else. However, he remembered as a kid that his mother used to always read to him every night, to keep him from asking where his father was or why he didn't have a father like the other kids did. It had kept young Nobu's mind distracted with the wonders, story, tails and universe of the books his mother read to him. Plus..his mother's voice had always soothed him to sleep to the point that he fell asleep before she even finished reading the story.

Noboru now stood in front of the library, of which he had only visited a few times throughout his childhood and time at the academy. He had almost forgot what it looked like. He grinned a little, his hands on his hips. This would be fun, not! While he didn't mind reading and books in general because they could be very knowledgeable doing boring chores like helping out the librarian sort through books and put them on the right shelves wasn't his sort of thing. But, he had said that about babysitting and helping bring joy and play to the young children of Kumogakure and it had been a little fun. Plus, he had sort of made a new friend, even though the kid was younger than him. He supposed helping others came with a reward and if it was to help him achieve his goals then he would just have to persevere and make do with what he had or was offered.

He walked forward, up the steps that led up to the door of the library. The door was closed but it was probably unlocked for it was a village building for all to go into. He turned the handle and walked in. He headed towards the desk in the center of the building. The library was a decent size, with book shelves spread out to either side of the desk in the middle of building. There seemed to be someone at the desk, however she had her back turned away from him. "Hey..I'm here to help out here, something about too many books for you to organize," he said. The lady turned around, however, as Nobu was expecting a older looking lady he was greeting by a girl who seemed not much older than he was.

She smiled at him, greeting him. "I'm here to help as well, the librarian Ms. Yoko, had grown tired I told her I could handle things here," she said to him. "However, she'll return later to close up.."

"Oh.. I see. Well, I'm Noboru" he said extending his hand towards her. She was really pretty, he wondered why he hadn't seen her around before. She shook his hand and then set down a book she had been holding to herself. Nobu began to think that this might be worth it. Having a pretty lady to work with made it so much easier to pass the day.

"Natsumi..." she said to him, then looked around. "There are still a lot of books and things to sort through so we have our work cut out, I've stacked some books already that need to be put on the shelves. I'll sort through them and let you put them on the shelves." she suggested to Nobu.

"Sounds good to me," he said to her, giving her a thumbs up. She then reached down and handed him a stack of about seven books, practically shoving them at him.

"These go over there," she said pointing to the right. She seemed very straight forward. "A to L is over there, M to Z is over there."

Noboru took the books with both of his hands then gave an exasperated look. This might not be as fun as he thought, the girl didn't seem one to strike up random conversation with him or really want to talk to him at all. He went to the side of the building she had pointed to, looking at the last name of the books he was carrying. This would be the start to a boring day full of putting books back where they were supposed to go. How fun.

The black haired guy disappeared after doing some sort of weird dance like move. Nobu shrugged and stayed near the girl, who he had yet to know her name for their sensei gave them no opportunity for introductions. However, she soon seemed to go into battle by doing a bunch of handseals and then throwing a kunai at our sensei as she fell to her knees. Her legs seemingly having gone useless, perhaps from the handseals the girl genin had produced.

However, this would grant Noboru the opportunity to strike without being relatively noticed. Sinking into the ground he would utilize one of his earth techniques. This movement however was instantaneous so that no one would know that he had utilized it, plus there called for no handseals which made for even quicker utilization. And, hopefully no one had seen him and would essentially think he was there one moment and not the next.

He then began to walk beneath the ground towards where his sensei had been called to her knees. Upon reaching where she was, he had two options...he could reach up and try and grab the bells that were at her waist or he could pull her underneath the ground. He decided to pull her under and decide later. He resurfaced his hands and latched onto Kimidori's legs and proceeded to pull her under. He would thus execute a replacement with her, however only to the point that her full torso would be underneath the ground. The only visible part of her would be her head. He would then sink under again to retrieve the bells...