Welcome to Gaia! ::

"Hm, Akina, why are you up?"

Sitting up on the tree branch above her, Hiruma smirked, a little amused to see the young girl. He had never gone to his tent; he preferred sleeping outdoors. So, when she had walked out and sat under his tree, unaware of him, he knew that she was busy thinking.

Good time to pick on her.

Jumping down, he landed silently beside her, before taking a seat.

Nido got up, and walked out of the tent, it appeared as though Hiruma was up as well. Though Nido did not walk over towards them, instead he walked in the other direction, where he could start to do warm ups and even a couple quick excercises. He wanted to keep in his peek shpe.

Why is he opening up to me?

He was totally calm, and relaxed, something she wasn't used to at all... She didn't think too much of it though, she instead watched the boy that was away from them.

He's a hard worker... and he seems to know what we're learning before we learn it... he's trying too hard to not show he already knows it... To be normal.

Now I'm thinking too much into it.

Nido was good. There was no doubt about it.

Hiruma watched him out of the corner of his eyes, watched how he swung his sword in particular. He knew that Talo was watching, only he would be able to tell...

Nido is too advanced. Why wasn't he graduated sooner?

Looking over towards Akina, he began to compare the two.

Akina... She was smart, very smart... probably the most observant of the two... knew her s**t...

But no strength physically.

Nido... Now he was a lot like Akina... not as observant, and maybe not as intelligent... but he knew a lot more advanced moves (which he was really wanting to know where he learned them), and had the physical strength to pull off moves easily.

If anything, he could understand Akina having stayed in the academy, in order to allow her strength to grow, and also because her grades didn't show how intelligent and observant she was. She probably hadn't shown it during school, especially since he knew she had sat in the corner and kept to herself.

Meanwhile, Nido shouldn't truthfully be there. He wasn't afraid to show just how good he was, although he did hide a lot... such as his abilities. The more Hiruma watched him, the more he understood that the kid knew half the s**t.

Why is he in my team? Why was he graduating when he did?

Nido sat down laying the sword across his lap, then pulling a ordinary looking cloth from his pack, which he always seemed to have with him. And he ran the cloth down the blade, cleaning it till the looked new, then he pulled another cloth from his pack and ran it down the length of the blade, then as he removed the cloth the sheen from the blade faded. Though the blade still was clean it didnt reflect any light, it more seemed to absorb it. "There we go, perfect."

Then Nido looked back over to Hiruma and Akina, probably trying to figure him out, Though he new he just had the kind of personality that may him appear to be evil. Even if he was to try something good. But then again...maybe he liked it that way so he didnt need to get close to anyone. But if worse came to worse his back story could cover any problems.

"Im fine" Then nido replaced the cleaning clothes back into his pack, then sheathed his sword as he got up walking over towards Hiruma and Akina.

Catching a couple of shurikan that were thrown at her, she was quick to move out of the way, her eyes narrowing as she instantly knew where the attackers were. Well, she knew were most likely they were, considering how she knew where the best advantage points were. So, indicating to Nido where to go, she moved quickly, bag in hand.

From where Nido was, he would be able to attack the men from ground level (there were two of them) while she attacked them from above. This would work perfectly, considering how she would beat him to them, and probably throw in a punch to distract the two, maybe take a hit; he would be able to attack them while they were distracted by her.

Taking out a couple of shurikan, she threw them to not only show where she was, but that she was on the offense. Her strength would not be a worry here; if she took a hit, then she took a hit. She would continue on, and right now she knew they probably presumed she was stronger then she was. That would mean they would take her as more of a threat them she actually was, compared to Nido who was coming from the other way.

Rushing across tree branches effortlessly, she knocked aside a couple of kunai, before jumping towards the man (because the other one was now a clone, and she noticed the real man was in the tree above... she was going to act dumb, it would make everything less suspicious and he would thus attack her.), aim a well placed kick to the man's shoulder.