Chapter 6 : Divide and Conquer (Team Tonbo Survival Exercise )

Huuga Sumiyaka was getting his gear ready, he had a light breakfast so exessive training wouldn't screw up his tomach. He was going to pick up Yorukasa chan, so he walked to her home and waited for her. He wondered how his friend was doing after the action of yesterday. He made sure his equipment was all checked out. When the girl would exit her house he would smile and wave at her. "Goodmorning Yorukasa chan! Did you sleep well?" he asked.

Hyuuga chuckled at her shyness, "Heh yes, I slept well. Been thinking about the survival training of today. So exiting! We're going to show him were good enough to be Genin." he said confidently. "So, shall we meet up with Shikataro kun?" he asked. He was aware the girl was blushing brightly, which was kind of cute in a funny way.

Shikataro slumped out of bed and slowly made his way through his morning routine. He wasn't really a morning person, not where his bed was involved at least. With a piece of toast in his mouth he walked through the living room where his dad Shikamaru was playing a Shogi match with his mom. She was a damn fine shinobi but the subtleties of the game tended to elude her now and again. He look at the board and said. "Knight to B7..."
Temari raised one of her eyebrows at him and looked at him with a judging look. Heh? that's not going to protect or threaten any piece."
Shikataro answered her staring contest with his blank fox stare. "no, but it'll stop dad from playing moving his bishop forward."
Shikamaru laughed "Well that's the gist of it. Good luck at the training squirt and remember, Anticipate and Dominate."  they finished in unison.
"I'll remember. BYE" and he zipped out the house the moment Yorukasa knocked on the door coming to an full brake stop inches from her. "Hello fellow members of team awesome."

"Morning! So...were team awesome now? Shouldn't we prove that today first?" he asked and laughed. "Come o, lets go! We'll be late if we do not get a move on. And I want to be early or on time." he said and started a brisk walk to the training fields.

Shikataro smirked and followed his new team members. Finally the real training would begin. He couldn't wait. What kind of things would Tonbo teach them, what would they test them on, how would they pass. He considered these things, that ability of his to read their minds would be troublesome. "I just thought of something, if we have to fight Tonbo sensei, then he'll know what we're gonna do just by reading our thoughts. We'll have to try and fight without thinking to hard about what we're gonna do."

As the three of them were walking towards the designated training area and talking about their approach to the situation they would be passed by another Jounin from the village Yamashiro Aoba who was walking back from the training fields. 3 Genin following behind him with hanged faces.
"Don't worry about it too much guys, there is always next time and next year. This is just to keep you safe and make sure you don't die without reaching your potential." The Jounin spoke to the three Genin that followed him with displeased saddened faces. One of them though didn't seem to care as much as his team mates, but even he clearly didn't feel right about it.
Clearly these 3 had failed their survival excersise.
"But I don't want to go back to the academy!" One of them whined as the team mate gave him a push.
"Shut up! It's all your vault anyway!" Another one started as Aoba shook his head.
"Cut it out you, before I remove you from the program for being too childish to be ninja." He said with a calm and seemingly non-threatening tone causing them to instantly shut up an keep following.
Yorukasa, Shikataro and Sumiyaka were almost at their destination.

Aoba and the three Genin would walk around the corner disappearing from sight before walking into an allyway as the 4 of them looked over one another and grinned happily before the Genin would drop their henge to reveal being members of the interrogation squad.
"I think it worked." One said.

"Nothing motivates like seeing someone else fail there, where you are not allowed to fail." Another one added and nodded.

Aoba shook his head.
"You guys are relentless, do you think this was really worth it?"

The third one nodded confirming.
"Yep, Tonbo is motivated to train students for the first time ever in years, I wanna help the captain out you know."

Aoba shrugged.
"Yeah...he is a great guy indeed. I just wonder what it is about these 3 that interrests him so much." He said pondering as one of the interrogation trio poked his side to get Aoba's attention before poking his own forehead suggestively.
"That....is ussualy what get's him interrested in people."

Meanwhile Tobitake Tonbo was still sitting ontop of his rock impatiently waiting now.

Huyyga Sumiyaka was watching the three failed Genin, trying to remember if he saw them in the accademy, though he turned away anf focussed at the task at hand. It didn't matter, where others failed, he had to succeed. He had a lot of honour of the Hyuuga clan resting on his shoulders, so the only thing he could do was ace this. He sighed resolute and walked on.

At the training field he greeted Tonbo. "Good morning Tonbo Sensei." he said and bowed for him in respect of the teacher. He surveid the battlefield again, seeing their was enough they could pick up during whatever they had to do. "Tell us what you expect of us sensei." he said and smiled a little.

Good morning Sensei. He thought as he walked into the training area. He wondered what the range of his mind reading was

Tonbo just sat there on the rock in silence as the trio approached and even as Sumiyaka and Yorukasa greeted him, little motion seemed to be present in the Jounin. he was facing the three of them sitting straight up and only leaned back slightly for comfort.

Seconds later after his lack of reply however they would hear a soft little snore comming from the Jounin.
He was.....asleep. Which logically was hard to tell due to his eyes. Or rather the lack of them.

Hyuuga looked at the two of his friends. "Serious?..." he said softly. Softer then when he had greeted the Jounin. He coughed rather loudly to see if the guy would wake up. If he wouldn't he thought that throwing a shurikan or kunai would do the trick of waking up. He didn't think the guy would be taken by surprise...or atleast...maybe not in a hostile situation. Maybe they would actually hit him...or...maybe it was a shadowclone...damn, the guy even got him a little paranoid. "Tonbo Sensei!" he asked a bit louder.

"Yes?" Sumiyaka heard his Senseis voice inside his head replying with a cocky tone.
But the body before him still softly snored and appeared asleep. Was he just imagining the voice?
The other two wouldn't hear the voice.

'ah...' he would thing and drop his backpack, getting into a fighting stance. "Byakugan.." he said and activated his clan's abbility. He looked at the form on the rock while sensing his suroundings with his abbility. 'So you ARE seeing us, right sensei? But not from that body on the rock..' he thought. He started looking around with his Byakugan for Tonbo.

As the Hyuuga activated his Byakugan he would hear things inside his mind again, while his eyes couldn't pick up anything out of the ordinairy, the chakra flow of the body before him seemed to be at peace, calmed down and a very small dome of chakra seemed to surround it, but that chakra wasn't touching him nor any of his team-mates. All three of them were out of it's range, but still...
"Yorukasa-chan is right you know. This is some really intense form of meditation." The Jounin's voice chuckled.
"And thus far you seem to be the only one to realize it....Sumiyaka-kun. Or maybe this is just your mind playing tricks on you."

"Seeing?" The Sensei would reply to Sumiyaka's question. And a moment of silence would follow.
"Wow! Indeed....so this is what it's like to be looking through the Byakugan. Interresting."

That is when Sumiyaka would notice it, the core-chakra inside his Sensei's chakra circulation was missing, there was still a chakra flow and it was at peace, but the core-chakra was not present, nor anywhere around where he could perceive.

The hyuuga looked around and back again at the body of Tonbo. So..the core chakra was missing huh? Would that mean that he wasn't in his own body? The fact that Tonbo sensei could apparently look through his eyes was...disturbing. But then again, it could be a mindtrick again. The dome of chakra around the body was interesting as well. Could that be some kind of shield?

"I don't know Yorukasa-chan. He's talking to me, so I guess he's awake. But apparently he is not in his own body, if that is his own body at all. The core chakra is missing from Tonbo-sensei's body. And there is a dome of chakra around him, but were not in it yet. Quite interesting..." he said aloud. 'So...that might actually be your own body, but you yourself are either in my mind, looking through my eyes. Or you are still somewhere else. But, Sensei, forgive my rudeness, but when are we starting the survival? Or is it already starting?' he asked with his mind.