Defying Decree [Private]

Hibiya was ready to take care of some business. The glider was located at the top of the waterfall, but they needed to get into the cave first and climb their way up there. It was easy for him to sneak in the first time, but there seemed to be some more on duty this time. Yori was going to be a vital asset on this plan, so he made sure to hide a good 30 meters away from the clan to make sure they didn't see him. Once he secured a good hiding spot, he made sure to place a chakra blade in the shape of a broken kunai right next to him. Perhaps this would be enough to catch her attention, and if so, he'll reveal himself to her.

The goal of today was to do a few things. One of them would be to break the ice and have them do something in secret that could potentially get them in trouble. Considering he was likely banned from their clan in the first place, it was all too likely that he would just have more fun being sent on a goose chase for his life. A good adrenaline pump couldn't hurt the Ayano, but he made sure to plan so that they didn't have to do that. But on top of that, he wanted to do something just as dangerous. Gliding on a hangglider so they can see nature with a bird's view, all just for a little bit of fun.

Yori walked toward the waterfall, wondering where Hibiya had stashed himself. Due to the silence, she assumed he hadn't been found where ever he was. It was funny, because while she was leisurely wandering around with no one the wiser to her mischievous intent, her partner in crime was experiencing the trill of hiding from hostiles, if you could call them that. Since their encounter with the stranger the day he and Yori met, the Nishizaka had taken their patrols more seriously. The one trespass was enough to give their clan positions meaning, which was humorous to Yori. Even if she'd gotten off the hook due to embarrassing her scolders, they seemed to have shifted her portion of the blame to Hibiya as well. It was quite comical. They'd been so bored, he'd given them something to do.

Eyeballing the three guards prowling around while the average Nishizaka meditated, she waiting until they'd all turned their backs before slipping into the thicker woods. Her friend must be close by. After a few minutes she found his signal, creeping up silently. "Psst," she whispered, casting a glance around to make sure no patrolmen were close enough to hear. "Ready?"

It seems his signal worked, so he made the chakra blade disappear and look up at his partner with a smile all too familiar by now. With the high alert guards being given a chance to show off, he nodded his head when she asked if he was ready. “Get ready to distract them. I’ll make a break for it.” The Ayano explained to her, looking back to the trees blocking the world from the Nishizaka clan. In this case, he was relying on his speed to get him through. He knew full well that there were likely one or two ninja to notice him thanks to their sharp eyes, but they need to catch up to him as well. What the blonde relied on was a hearty adrenaline-inducing foot race to lead them up the waterfall. Once they make it to the top, they’ll have no choice but to grab onto the glider and have their running momentum recklessly push them forward as they soar away from her clan mates.

“By the way, don’t worry about getting caught. Make sure that they are given a chance to see me so they begin hot pursuit. After that, make sure to stay ahead of them so that I don’t leave you behind.” Hibiya explained before adding a sheepish little remark. “Unless you want to explain to your clan that you aimed to have a second quickie.” That joke will never get old between the both of them, it was used to cover them once while also placing him on the wanted list for her clan.

Yori grinned, managing to look slightly evil like she normally did when being mischievous. "Like they could catch me," she snickered, flipping one of her floaty locks behind her back. She nodded in agreement, thinking up a suitable distraction. The guardsmen weren't too far away, so something she could catch them off guard with... her hair extended and wrapped up into a tree branch, pulling up up off the ground. The hair tied into a loose knot, then the tip extended back down to wrap around her neck.

"Hehe...this should do it," she nodded, reaching up to wrap her fingers around the hair noose. She made a faux-death face, then smiled again. "Okay. You make a break for it. This'll hold them back enough for a good head start. Should stun them enough for me to run off, too..." the Nishizaka mused, idly swinging her feet back and forth. "Whenever you're ready. I'm pretty sure they're heading this way now. This should be fun." Incredibly devious, sure. But there was no way she'd let her people catch him, nor would she be caught. Her dreams had been consumed with what the earth must look like from a bird's perspective, and nothing would stop her from finding out for sure.

Oh yeah... That will definitely do the trick. Considering how she seemed to have such a graphic image in her head in the first place, it made him wonder where she was even taught such a way of killing. Now to find a place to make a dash for it once the guards noticed her. Maybe just a straight line forward if they were to get past the bush he was hiding in. As for the fake suicide that she just tried to pull off, it was likely going to cause so much shock value and a lack of trust in the Nishizaka clan. If she was willing to gamble that much on an adrenaline rush and an awesome flight, the Ayano best prepare himself to match her as well.

As for the future, the days will happen and they'll deal with it later. For now though, they were about to pull off one of the most legendary stunts in the area most likely. It had to be, other than the time where he was caught here, they seemed to be bored of patrolling the area and likely needed the action in the first place. In other words, they didn't have many other events to compete with one as extreme as this was going to be. So now the blonde waiting silently until the guards arrived and found Yori hanging up on the branch before they have a midlife crisis over it. He'll catch their attention by running and she too will disappear.

Yori couldn't help but giggle as she hung there, waiting for the unstealthy guards to arrive. They were easily heard now, pushing through the under growth with arms and hair appendages. The scenario was amusing to her on multiple levels. Hibiya probably thought she was going overboard. Outsiders were funny in their ignorance, not that there was any way he could have been more informed. If only he knew just how odd they could be.

The two men were upon her now, not yet moving their eyes to investigate the off shadow overhead. At just the right moment, she gurgled, giving a weak twitch.

"YEE!" one man screeched, flinching into a horrified pose, while the other made a less than human noise. The second recovered quickest. "Yori. It's been a while since you pulled his stunt," the older Nishizaka scolded in a gruff voice. Yori didn't budge. Struggling dramatically with her hair noose, she gasped. "You...chased away....my love...." she rasped, rolling her eyes back. "If you stop me again....I don't wanna live!"

"Again?!" both men cried, now knowing her threat was merely a distraction and not definitely not serious. The girl grinned, waiting to release herself once Hibiya took off.

The best part about this was that they already saw this trick before, meaning that this was not the first time she tried to use this in order to get her way. With the guards out of the way, he stepped lightly away from the bushes in order to sneak by them. The more noise, the higher the chance that they’ll catch him quicker. As he stepped, she said one buzz word that prevented the distraction from continuing on successfully, and thus the chase began as he made sure to bail out now, but not without a little bit of taunting. “Sorry boys, time to bail!” The blonde announced with his smirk now at its best. As he charged through the trees, he made sure to cut way through the branches with the force of his body before finding himself at the pool where the waterfall was located. It was a risky move, but he wanted to get away quickly in the most exciting way possible.

So at the edge of the pool that the waterfall fell through, he took a huge leap of faith in hopes that he would land on the other side of the waterfall, making sure to prepare for the giant wall of water in his way in the process. Once he successfully carried out the jump, he was in the caves, but there was no time to rest yet. Yori hopefully would be following up from behind soon, but he didn’t stick around to find out. So he began to run through the cave, learning its pattern from last time he placed the glider up.

"HEY!" the patrolmen called, in hot pursuit of the intruder. Yori let herself down, running after them, and then blazed around them so now the men were chasing both of them. "Stop ruining my night of passion!" she cried, earning blushes. Why mess with a charade that works? "Damn you, Wild Child!" they squawked after her.

After Hibiya's impressive display, the men seemed to realize they were outmatched. Yori's speed was nothing to sneeze at, so both were hard to keep sight of. They lost them altogether once Yori also disappeared into the cave behind the waterfall, her laughter echoing back at him. The older Nishizaka cursed, touching the radio at his neck "Emergency! Unable to contain breach!" he said, entering the cave with his partner, their hair waving irritably behind them waiting for the chance to strike. "They're in the cave...deploy the cave unit."

The orders bounced off the walls, reaching Hibiya and Yori's ears easily. "Oh..." she muttered, trying to catch up to her partner. "Watch the cave walls! Gonusho has earth release!" she warned as they followed the inclining path, just in time for a golden tendril of hair to bust from the floor at an attempt to grab her foot. Her own hair gave her a boost over the snag, but more hair was busting haphazardly from everywhere! "Don't cut it! Just dodge!"

Earth release? Damn, Hibiya didn't think that far ahead. But he kept his eyes wide and his legs pacing so that he could make the task harder for them. Preparing his chakra blades to strike through the rock, he was then given a warning from a Yori incoming from behind. Nice to know she was on her way, but her aforementioned warning to him prevented the blonde blade wielder from cutting his way through the rock and hair in front of him. "Thanks! Bail, quickly!" The Ayano declared as he felt the earth shaking below his feet already, throwing him a little off balance to the point where he stumbled, but he managed to adapt to the new setting quickly before running forward.

"If they're so insane as to actually collapse the surface upon us just to trap us..." He would stop for the moment, avoiding the usual left they would have to take to walk up. They were going to have to make their way up by climbing quickly, they were going to have to make a tight squeeze through an open airway at the top, but it's either that or take the long route that will lead them to a failed mission. "We need to climb!" He announced, chasing the path towards the right as swiftly as he could. It would only take him a few seconds before he found himself stuck at a rock wall. So he turned back to see if Yori was still with him. Regardless of the result, he would look back to the wall and proceed to charge up it the best he could, recollecting the training the both of them went in order to carry a similar task out.

"They wouldn't do that," she commented calmly, now with him. She was smiling in pure joy, thrilled at giving her people. Her gaze turned thoughtful as she also effortlessly ran up the rock wall. "Well, not on purpose. I could see them not thinking it that far through, though..." Yori considered, just as the rock jutted out under her feet. She looked back, finding Gonushu standing at the bottom, looking hilariously determined. "Don't collapse the cave, silly!" she called to him. He seemed taken aback, breaking the jutsu and looking around the sacred cave. "We aren't harming anything blessed by Mikami....but you aaaarre," she taunted, skipping on upward.

"We aren't insane, Hibiya. Just steeped in a looot of tradition, stuff outsiders don't understand. But from what I heard, my clan was quite the force in the war. Granted, they all died and now everyone thinks we're weird...but oh well, right?" she asked, seeing the light at the top growing every bigger. The three pursuers no longer used earth style for fear of collapsing the cave, but they were climbing swiftly after them with aid of their hair. If Yori used the same method, they'd be left in the dust. But where was the fun in that?

"Well hope you don't mind an Ayano jumping into the mix." The blonde replied to her explanation of her clan and the force that it was once. Considering his was perhaps not a name that huge in the first place, he wouldn't understand something being sacred to a clan being so important to them. But if Yori was allowing him to go along with it so that they could mess with her people a little bit, then there wasn't much harm being done. "We're nearly the top of the cave!" He announced as they got closer. It was a tight squeeze for the both of them to make, but he was prepared to make it and perhaps only get left with a cut. A smile was equipped as he continued to pace upwards before he jumped through the narrow gap. Any feeling of pain he may have felt from the impact went completely numb thanks to the adrenaline. From an outsider's perspective, it looked like some random blonde kid popping out from the cave.

Turning his head towards the left, he saw the glider ready, but he wasn't going to be the one to push it. He needed Yori to do it and he'll follow her up from behind. "Come on, love! We need to go!" The Ayano ordered loudly so that the people of her clan could hear him address her as "love". It was a move to provoke them even more, but they were not going to do anything. At this point, it was just for the sake of getting a funny reaction.

"Coming, sweetness!" she called to him, speeding up. Gonushu echoed the terms of endearment in what seemed to be shocked disgust. The man was close in age to Yori, so the reaction likely had something to do with a harbored crush that was now being threatened. "H-HEY! Don't call her love! What's going on here?" the earth style shinobi asked to anyone who was listening, though he received no answer. The guardsmen repeatedly shouted at both her and Hibiya to stop amongst other things, all ignored. The small girl launched through the hole, scraping her shoulder but otherwise fine.

Once out, she grinned and ran forward, having quite the advantage over her chasers but lagging enough to make it exciting. Her bright blue eyes looked to Hibiya, then to the glider. Since he was waiting, she assumed she was the one to push it, so she went on past him and gripped the handles, letting her momentum do most of the work. Casting a glance back just in time to see the other three pop up on top of the waterfall, she blew a raspberry at them and then laughed. "Come on, time to fly! Wooooo Hoooo!"

As she charged for the glider, he made sure to follow up behind her with swift light steps as fast as she could. It was going to take precise timing and one leap of faith, unable to change his direction. Yori pushed the glider like he expected, soaring through the air swiftly thanks to her momentum. Now with precise aim and a little bit of luck... The blonde jumped off the edge, all five blades of chakra extended to create a small link. It seems the earth shinobi didn't have the daring wit to chase after them any further. Even if they did, they needed the momentum to catch up to the glider, which they heavily lacked in comparison to his speed.

At last, the tip of the fifth blade caught onto the railing of the gliding, allowing him to catch a ride with her as well. "Yes!" Seems like victory was theirs for the day. "We did it! How are you feeling?" The Ayano asked, climbing up the chakra blades from his DNA before gripping the bar by her side. Taking flight was a refreshing way to relax as they saw nature from the eyes of a falcon. All the green below them as they aimed to soar, though he didn't have a location for them to land after all that passed by them... So at this point, their destination was likely another part of the adventure. While this is a fun thought in his mind... It would be best they be prepared just in case.

At first, when Hibiya asked how she was, she couldn't answer. Her blue eyes were wide and her body was frozen, giving all the signs of intense fear. The rest of her features seemed to be battling to remain zen, even as her white knuckled hands tightened on the bar. It was a lot to take in, being nearly weightless, yet feeling gravity's possessive tug. The perspective was dizzying, as was the dawning that from this height, most people would die.

Breathtaking. Both from fear and awe, though thankfully awe was starting to take dominance. The short time she'd had to mull this over had produced lackluster envisions of this moment that were completely shattered. No human on the ground could ever hope to imagine what a falcon sees in the sky, but now Yori and Hibiya could. Her fright dissolved into wonderment, causing the strained look on her face to ease into a delighted smile. Yori made a sound somewhere between a celebratory whoop and a laugh. "I feel...GREAT!" she shouted, grinning. She absorbed the entire experience. "Hibiya, this is amazing. Now, I envy birds," Yori chuckled, watching the river snake through the green like nothing more than a thread through a large piece of fabric. Other birds dodged out of their way, only to trail them curiously as if gauging friend or foe. "How are you feeling?" the girl asked, glancing at him.

The excitement and happiness that her tone emitted was a blissful ring to his ears. Breathless and taken aback from the site, he felt an odd sense of security despite being so high up. Perhaps a bit of company beside him made it all the better, for getting in trouble on his own was much less fun. "I feel at peace, to be honest with you." Hibiya explained with his usual tone, despite the adrenaline running through his veins. "It's weird, honestly. But nature just seems amazing from all angles." The blonde explain before beind smacked in the face by an incoming bird. Despite the pain, he felt dazed by the sudden animal just flying at him, stuffing his mouth with a few feathers in the process.

UMPH! A muffled voice through feathers trying to let out a scream, just to drop the feathers out from his mouth and start coughing a little, following up with a moan of pain. "And we also have the Dodo birds..." He muttered under his breath, looking forward and face reddening a bit from that awfully embarrassing experience in front of a small audience. It wasn't like the moment was ruined... Yes it was, he shouldn't deny it. "If word gets back to the village about that, I'm going to find your apartment and dumb a bucket of ice cold water over your head." A playful threat with his smile returning.

Yori lost it as the bird whacked him right in the face. Years formed in the corners of her eyes, and it was all she could do to keep from losing strength and letting go of the glider. "Oh my gosh," she wheezed between guffaws, trying desperately to stop so she wouldn't fall to her death. That'd be a terrible story for a death. Death by laughing at friend getting hit by a bird while hang gliding in sacred Nishizaka forest.

After finally choking down her humor, she spoke again. "If I had anyone to tell, then you'd have to worry. Ice water is no threat to me," the girl spoke impishly. "But...alas...there's no one worth telling. At least, until I figure out who your friends are," she taunted, not much truth in it unless a situation ever came up that she just couldn't resist. After that, she fell back to silently marvel at the bird's eye view, finding a peace in it as well. Nature was simply amazing. "So, do we know where we'll land?" she asked idly, not really caring. Just as long as they didn't land inside someone's house or in a bear's den.

Seems like she had a great laugh out of his misery for the humiliating moment where he got bodied by a stupid white bird. It was contagious though, for the Ayano couldn't help but follow along in his own soft way, more chuckles rather than laughs. Partially due to the pain he felt and laughing was a defense mechanism, but it was more out of entertainment and joy.

Of course she would threaten to tell his friends once she knew them! Good thing he didn't... Have... Friends... It's not as depressing as that sounded, but he didn't relaly hang out with people in the academy. No one was assigned to be his team mate and now he was already a Chuunin thanks to his heavy increase in strength as well as a successful delivery. Well... Actually, there's one person that might be deemed a friend on technical terms.

"We'll see about that!" Hibiya challenged, wishing he could let go to perhaps try to tackle Yori. Can't tell anyone if you can't move, right? But he played safe and decided to address her next question, in which he would tilt his head to the side before answering. "I really have no idea. Didn't think this far ahead. But I could make us land and find out!" The Ayano offered, ready to practice some acrobatics.

"I dunno, I think I could stay up here forever, if that was possible..." she said thoughtfully, looking around, still in a state of amazement. Not that the air wasn't crisp in the forests of her home, but it was so much purer up here. She wondered why birds even chose to land and grub it with dirt dwellers, until she considered the lack of sustenance. Food and water was down below, so that was a pretty good reason unless they could somehow cannibalize each other in the air and drink cloud vapor...she scrunched her nose at her own bizarre thought process. Good thing she didn't say everything she thought about aloud.

"When and where we land is up to you, glider pilot. I'm just enjoying the experience. This was such a brilliant idea," beamed Yori, etching every detail of this day into her mind. She felt like she could see so far that a hidden village should be popping up soon, but really all she saw were homes peppered within the thick forests and lush farmlands. Animals below looked like ants. The air was cool enough to give her a quick shiver, and suddenly she was planning her retirement up on the highest mountain top she could find, just so she could turn gray while enjoying the most magnificent view.

"How about we find out then, hang on!" He declared, warning her of his next actions to brace for. One more blade was summoned, a tall rapier so he couldn't cut his palms when he grabbed it. A few swings back and forth on the glider despite the wind trying to fight against his strength before he leapt onto the rapier dangling for the moment before letting go again to catch up with the glider since it's momentum brought the glider far. After a few seconds flew by, the Ayano landed on top of the glider once again, pressing his weight on it to lower it's altitude gradually.

"Let's find ourselves a landing spot then, prepare to release when we get lower to the ground!" Hibiya ordered, looking downwards and calculating the distance and speed they were traveling at per second in his head before coming to a conclusion. Considering how far they've traveled for as long as they did, they could spot a few oasis areas surrounded by small bodies of water in each of them, something perhaps tropical for them to try out. He surely never went this far, but it seemed like a fun idea to have a little private island to discover. "We're going to land on one of those islands!" He announced as he kept the glider moving in it's constant motion.

"An island, eh?" she mused, looking ahead at the projected path. "You know how to show a girl a good time. Mischief, flying, and an island getaway..." she trailed off suggestively, though it was all in jest. The thrill of uncertainty was nearly as exciting as the flying. Yori had always been one for adventure. While she loved her forest home, at times it would all get very mundane. Perhaps she had the spirit of a bird, freely migrating to areas depending on things like available food and seasons. Most Nishizaka, with their ritualistic tendencies, were more like...reptiles maybe? An animal that settles in one place and never moves. Both types were natural ad beautiful in their own way, though Yori wondered which one she really was. Seventeen, and she was still trying to discover her whole self.

Once they were low enough to the plot of earth sticking out of the water, Yori let go. The girl landed nimbly on the ground in a crouch, remaining strangely frozen in this position. She didn't trust herself to stand quite yet. Her normally strong legs felt weak and unsteady, and frankly the ground felt like it was fake, an illusion, or at least moving. Obviously the ground was probably not going rogue and moving around, so it had to be her body being sluggish in adjusting from the difference in distance from the ground. Though she was a bit dizzy, soon she stood up with a tiny bit of a stagger to see where they had ended up.

Awwww, seems like Hibiya caught himself a playful flirt. "Why only the best for a queen." The blonde replied ironically with a smile above as the elevation lowered to a safe level for the both of them to hop off. Yori took the first leap, Hibiya following up right behind her before landing on his feet. Of course, he needed to land with a crouch before leaping forward again with a roll against the sand and standing back up again, now sandy all over despite his attempted balance show. "Phew! We made i- *pfft*" And perhaps a bit of sand in his mouth, only the classiest of scenarios for the Ayano.

"Ew..." Better words could never have been spoken. It took a small second to remember that they were in the middle of nowhere, so they needed to be careful with what they encountered. Considering they were still near the forest area, they could bail as long as they were careful with their steps. "Let's see what this island has. Unless her majesty wishes to stay behind and never know the secrets of this new place." The blonde invited, taunting her with the royal position and lack of knowledge from not even trying.

"Her majesty definitely wishes to explore, thank you very much," she replied with mock indignation, tilting her nose up for added snooty flare. Next, she stooped to dust off her knees. "It would be a shame to make the journey and not," she grinned, walking in his direction and then beyond him. Her eyes roved over the palm trees, seeming like estranged cousins to the many branched forest trees. They were naked up until near the top, where stems and leaves sprouted. The Nishizaka priest used one of these branch leaves as both a broom for the shrine and a fan to keep himself cool as he lazed about. Yori had never taken the time to imagine the tree it had come from, nor had she really paid attention if she'd ever been near one before on a mission.

The sand was kinda funny to walk on, compared to the solid, mossy dirt of her home. She approached the foreign trunk, considering how hard it would be to climb if she wasn't able to just run up it. It was then that a fern nearby rustled, catching her eye. Like a flash something feathered vacated the plant and high-tailed it deeper into the tropical growth. Intrigued and concerned about what seemed to be a bird that couldn't fly, be it for natural reasons or injury, the nature-loving hippy ninja wanted a closer look. "Hibiya!" she called, starting to chase it. "Help me catch this thing."

It seemed like a stupid idea to just jump into danger like that, but there were two of them and one of whatever tried to bail from them. "Hey now, careful!" Th Ayano quickly tried to warn, though likely to fall on deaf ears as the chase began. Damn it. The blonde swiftly sprung his legs forward with a mighty sudden jolt, the momentum of the jump placing him at maximum speed already. Sadly, he didn't run so much through nature, but would instead charge through them by jumping on the branches. So he took a bit of time to charge up a palm tree before proceeding to take his chase up on the branches.

"I'll take this from above!" Hibiya declared to Yori below, trying to see whatever they were chasing. Their blur over their body however was far too strong for his eyes to recognize, meaning they were too fast... Or perhaps something was cloaking it. But should Yori already catch it, it would be too late to warn her of whatever could happen. Still, he wanted to try anyways. "Yori, I can't track it's physical body! Careful when you approach it!" Which may have been too late by the time the actual event happened, or perhaps he was lucky enough to make it on time.

"What kinds of birds don't fly when escaping?" she called back, unclear whether she was taking his warnings to heart or not. She was far more focused on the animal trying to get away and the mystery of what it may be. Since she was running along the ground, her hair was free to make grabs at it from afar since her hair moved faster than she did naturally. Tendrils whipped out like octopus tentacles, grabbing for whatever she could get a hold of, which was pretty much nothing but a gray feather or two.

Ahead, the animal suddenly slowed, acting in a way Yori was familiar with. That prickled cautiousness when a forest animal impossibly senses a threat that honestly it shouldn't be able to was like second nature to the girl who had chased countless things for entertainment and curiosity. With satisfaction, she noticed that the thing was something she'd heard of but never seen; a dodo. The flightless bird. With little pointless wings far too small to function. What a funny animal. Too bad it basically accidentally lead them into a trap, one that Hibiya would trip if she didn't first. Yori had the most experience here, and she'd feel awful if her own curiosity resulted in her friend getting hurt. She'd asked him to help her catch the dodo, so there was no way she could let the chuunin fall into unknown hands.

Her experienced eyes noticed there were very fine wires strung everywhere. Along the forest floor, in the trees and bushes...if she didn't trip the one right in front of her, in mere seconds Hibiya would jump into one. No time to warn him, she purposefully dragged her toe through the wire. Of course there was an explosion tag nearby, capable of hurting its target but primarily used to drive the tripper into the small open area ahead (and thankfully alert Hibiya to trouble).

Yori did just that, hopping forward and finding herself being wrapped in that same wire. She instinctively tested its strength, finding it too hard to just break out of, but she was certain she could free herself by cutting it with obsidian hair. She scanned for the ninja nearby, her curiosity shifting from the environment and its dodos to the ninja territory they must have stumbled into. What were they like? What would lead them to set traps out in the middle of an island? Where they friend or foe?

Triggering the traps before he could even see them was perhaps an interesting move at the least, his eyes unable to see all the thin wires he would crash into should she not do that. Hibiya didn't even recall there being a trap, so as he jumped from branch to branch while trying to catch up with the animal below, he looked down to notice that she wasn't there, going far from the area where the wire would trap Yori in place. "Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Hibiya would mutter to himself, looking back and turning his back away from the animal they were chasing, bait or not. Hopefully this was just some prank she was playing on him and that he'll be owed a bowl of soup when they were off this island.

"Yoriiiiiii?" Hibiya called out with his hands cupped around his mouth so that his voice would be amplified. It was unlikely for him to hear her if she somehow heard him. Regardless, he was jumping back while looking downwards to see if he could find her lost in the middle of the forest, it was going to be a tough mission to go to the Nishizaka tribe with her dead body thanks to the little stunt they decided to go on.