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Hirihi nodded and listened to him talk about the things that made him who he was. In all honesty, the question had been unfair. She had asked a question that most do not ever discover about themselves. Just because she had learned about her want to be a medic from a young age did not mean most found their reason to exist just as easily. Her eyes moved from Haru to the landscape, curiously taking it all in for a moment as silence would pass between them. it was not an uncomfortable silence. It was merely a moment of thought between the two. She DID feel a bit uncomfortable not talking, but she wasn't going to force the conversation more than she needed to.

When the question about Tetsu no Kuno came up, Hirihi flinched and closed her eyes tight. The memories of it all were still pushing for dominance, begging to be thought about. She had told no one of her failures, not even Johlin. She had done so remarkably well, and yet, she had failed so miserably. Sighing, she shook her head as she tried to shake the thoughts out of her mind. She could still feel the pressure of the water against her body, crushing her bones and bruising her muscles.

"I...I did go to Tetsu no Kuno to participate in the Chuunin Exams." She said, stating more of an obvious fact just to attempt talking about it. Her lips parted to speak more, but they merely froze and nothing came out. Trying to speak, she eventually gave up and dropped her head. "I can't talk about it. I'm sorry, haru, but there are some things I still have trouble putting into words." She said, raising her eyes to look at him and sighing. "Think of it this way. Maybe, one of these days, I'll manage to talk about it, and it will give us something to talk about then."

With that said, Hirihi looked back towards the landscape once more and just let silence fall between them. She had no idea what to say next. The memory of the exams had hit her hard, knocking the proverbial wind out of her.

Holding her arms behind her, leaning back a bit ,she listened to him talk about himself. She had controlled the conversation enough talking about herself. It was his turn to begin talking about who he was and the like. When she felt that he had noticed her glancing at his eyes for a moment longer than she normally would, Hirihi blushed a bit and forced herself not to apologize. It would be rude to interrupt him while he was talking just to give an apology for looking at his eyes longer than normal.

When he spoke more about his eyes, mentioning that it was part of his clan's abilities, Hirihi was a bit intrigued. She was curious to know what the eyes did, but she kept her mouth shut. Maybe she may see it in action one of these days, and be able to remember it in case she comes across someone from his clan that did not wish for peace against her. Since she had rarely seen people with those eyes, she had to assume they were indigenous to the village that he had come from. Mentioning Konohagakure, Hirihi was curious how exactly that had worked out, transferring villages.

Letting her hands fall to her sides, she nodded and began to go over the details of her own life in an attempt to condense them. "I have lived here since the war was over. My father was a ninja during the war, but he retired in an attempt to prevent me from going down the same road. It is kind of born into our blood, though, to be ninja. I'm a full-fledged Genin with a medic background, and I am quite good at it. I've been told often, by others, my talents." She said, turning her crimson eyes to look over the edge of the building.

"I live here in the village with my father, and he does what he can to slow my progress down as a ninja. I hope he'll eventually get used to me being a ninja." She said, wondering what he was doing at that very moment. Was he plotting another plan to keep her from going out again? "Other than that, there is little to know about me. Just a medic, running around doing errands for the village." She said, referring to her current mission spree she was on. "You enjoying your stay here in the village so far?' She asked, her eyes turning back to him as she smiled.

Watching as the male stumbled through an explanation, Hirihi couldn't help but give a small chuckle. It wasn't meant to seem as if she were finding him odd in a funny way. It was more of a cute kind of way. Like... seeing him act all shy made her wonder if that was how she looked when she approached someone new or was approached. In an attempt to make him a bit more easy to talk to, Hirihi nodded her head and swung her legs over the side of the to where she could stand back on the roof again. Crossing the gap between the two, Hirihi extended her hand to him. "My name is Hirihi." She said, waiting quietly for him to take her hand as a polite way to break the ice.

"You're new here, eh? Are you still in the academy, or are you graduate into a genin?" She asked, curious to know a bit more about the boy. When she got closer to him, she was quick to notice the colorless eyes that he had, making her feel a little bit weird. She had never seen someone with eyes like those before. Actually, come to think of it, she had. In the exams, there had been a guy on her team who had eyes similar to those. She had never asked him about them, nor had she seen them used. She just assumed it was one more of those mysteries she would know little about.

Her own eyes would seem probably far stranger to him as her eyes were a dark crimson, making most of her look like a pink flame. The only real reason she had continued to dress this way even into her late teens, came from the comfort of the clothes. They just felt natural to her to wear in memory of her mother. Her mother had loved the color, and though she had died in the war, she was not one to tarnish such a special memory she had of the woman.

"Well, wehre are you staying at in the village? You have family here or are you slumming in one of the housing complexes throughout the village?" She was just a powerhouse of conversation. Questions continued to pop into her head, and she made sure to weed out any of them that led to talking about his eyes. As much as she may be wondering about it. She knew it was inappropriate to ask, and she knew that most would probably find that respectful, while others found it foolish.

Hirihi listened as she approached to him describe the scenario he had created for himself. Waves of them, eh? It was an interesting set of circumstances to consider. It reminded her of the test that they had taken at the Chuunin Exams, the weird simulation that she had felt that she was doing very well at. Endless waves of enemies, and a limited supply of energy. Very interesting to say the least. Reaching out to shake his hand, she seemed to forget even of her own quirks. His name being interrupted by his question, Hirihi dropped her hand and chuckled at the question.

"It is a little absent-minded thing. My father says that I inherited it from my mother. Kind of like a nervous twitch, but it happens more than just when I'm nervous." She said, turning her attention back on him. "Do you do the shadow fighting often?" She asked, raising her arms over her head and stretching, as she had been sitting a long time. It left her feeling stiff all over, the sound of a few cracks and pops echoing from her as she lowered her arms back to her sides, feeling much better.

Not even waiting for an answer to her previous question, Hirihi looked about the area, only to see if anyone had followed him or was watching them. "What was your name again?" She asked, reaching up to rub her nose. If he had noticed it, had she been doing it all this time?! She felt a bit humiliated at the thought that no one else had pointed it out within the last few months. Maybe they weren't really paying attention to her.

Her thoughts were spiraling out of control, leaving her in a muddle of confusion and embarrassment. She had to force herself to turn her attention back to him, her eyes never leaving his, but her mind wandering thousands of places at once. Drago, Areru, Kurai, so many people who had either been too polite to point it out to her, or had not noticed it at all as she had been not important enough to pay attention to.

With the two moving briskly along the trail, Hirihi's exhaustion was slowly eating away at her. She didn't want to stop, though, at the risk of Johlin wanting to force the conversation back to the exams. She could sense it in his tone that he was building to something important in his mindless ramblings about war and the past. Johlin was a strange man, and she wondered why he was trying to reach out to her. It obviously wasn't something that she could explain, and she merely kept her standard thoughts blank and empty, attempting to hold him at bay as long as she could until the job was done and the two could go their separate ways.

"Failing at the Chuunins is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you aren't ready." She knew this was going to come up. She just KNEW it! "You're a good medic. You're very talented at what you do at the hospital. Why do you have to advance towards a leadership spot? Chuunin is not about power, but about leadership. Do you honestly believe you could handle a group of young genin, such as yourself? Could you take responsibility for them when the mission goes wrong and bear the weight of such a thing?" He asked, Hirihi charging a fist of chakra and slamming it into the rock, doing in one punch what had normally taken three on previous rocks of smaller size in comparison.

"Stick with what you know. If you honestly want to advance, I'll work with you." He said, setting forth and doing his part to clean up the remaining rubble from her ferocious assault against the oversized boulder. "I know you are smart. Your only shortcomings come from battle, and that is what we would work on." He said, the face of Drago filling her mind as she remembered some of his various words he would say to her. She remembered, with perfect recall, how cruel of a teacher he had been.

The fact that he had only fought with her once, leaving such an impact, told her that she needed to improve. Become less of what she was, the weaker medic who had little to no combat abilities, to something else. That was the dark, downward spiral she was falling towards. Losing who she was to become something destructive and dangerous. "I'll let you know." She said, the two finishing out the remainder of the trail in silence. They had finished ahead of schedule, leaving the remainder of their day open as they walked back down the path towards the main part of the village. She said nothing more as the two parted way, still feeling that she was free-falling towards the darkness.

As the two found that a few of the paths had already been cleared by previous shinobi, they were breezing through the first path easily. There were still scattered rocks here in there, some large enough to warrant a punch from Hirihi's chakra charged fist, but most were small enough to smash and let blow away in the wind as dust. Hours passing with silence, Johlin would eventually find the two at the end of their trail for the first day, Hirihi crossing her arms as she waited for Johlin to say something relevant to their mission. "as far as for today, we are done. You are welcome to leave, but, before you go, I'd like to know what happened. Either you can tell me, or I can go pull it up from someone who witnessed your match." Johlin said, acting far more concerned than he needed to.

Hirihi glared at Johlin, her eyes seeming to stare through him and into his soul. "You can look it up yourself. I'm in no mood to share such information with you." Hirihi said, turning around and walking back towards the route they had come, finding that Johlin had shunshined to stand in front of her, his eyes staring a hole through her in response. "I'd rather hear it from you. Most would rather read hard facts, but I'd like to know what changed." He said, arms crossed and waiting for a response.

Hirihi was fast to evade around him with a shunshin of her own, sliding over the side of the mountain and down onto a lower path. She didn't want to talk about it, and she would have much rather just gouge out her eyes. She knew where the two were supposed to meet the next day, so she didn't bother going back for Johlin. He had no reason to be concerned. It wasn't his shortcomings, it was her own.

The next day, Johlin would arrive at the beginning of their second path and find Hirihi already waiting for him on the path, thick dark lines under her eyes as if she had not slept. "Good morning." He said, Hirihi shrugging her shoulders at him and turning away. "Guess you are still pissed. That's fine, we'll just focus on working." He said. Hirihi was thankful for this. She was still store about yesterday, his forcefulness to get an answer driving her away.

As Johlin walked up /to investigate the damage done to the rock, he would place his hand on the side of it and make a faint whistling sound. "Quite a punch. Hard to imagine anyone surviving something that destructive, in my opinion." He said, Hirihi shrugging off the compliment and looking to him. "What do we do with the rubble." Hirihi asked, unsure of this particular detail since this was a detail he would have to figure out. Destroying the rock completely was an option, but it would be a waste of energy if they had an actual plan on what to do with the debris.

"We'll be sealing the rocks into scrolls, to be stored away for when we need them at a later time." Johlin said, Hirihi raising a brow. "So, wait... You are having me destroy the rocks into sections so that you can seal the entire rock into a scroll. Tell me something. Why am I destroying it if it is to be sealed away inside of a scroll? Couldn't you place the seal on the rock and call it a day?" Hirihi asked, obviously a little leery of what this was all about.

"To be honest, it is something that I have little details on. Thinking into depth on certain things is not something that we do as shinobi. We are expected to do as we are told and only think whenever things seem to create a scenario that would approve of individual thought. Remember, we listen to our kage and those under him. Questioning that is questioning the very life that we pledged ourselves to." Johlin said, sounding a lot like those academy teachers that believed in blindly following orders.

Hirihi could understand that, though, as she was definitely thankful there was an actual plan in motion. Watching quietly as Johlin wandered up and p/laced a scroll on the ground, Hirihi didn't bother watching as the rock fragments were being sealed away inside of a scroll and tucked away into a rather large pack. For the size of the rocks that they were having to put away, she was surprised that the scroll handle to hold something so large inside of it.