With in Death Country, On the eastern outskirts of where Nox Forest dwindles out, lies Ferrum Hills. Currently the last feeble rays of sunlight clung to the scattered clouds, coloring them purple against the dark blue sky. The grass on the many hills seemed to have a teal hue as the occasional whisper of wind runs along its curves. Dotted along the hills are various shrubbery where the odd rabbit or fox dwells more or less peacefully. In fact there was a fox chasing a rabbit right now. After several minutes of near misses and a few close calls, the white bunny rabbit was able to shake off the sly fox and burrow itself in hole where the fox could not get it. There were a few crickets chirping and moths flying in the air, as nightfall was quickly approaching.

The recently promoted Special Jonin, Yuri Onmyoton had just finished her latest "research trip", better known as spying on the various women of the hidden moon village and Yuri made a new lesser perverted friend who name slipped her mind at the moment. Yuri was slightly out of breath as she found herself in the Ferrum hills or Iron Hills, whatever name you prefer, it was nothing more than an abandoned mine to most people, but to Yuri she knew better, the mine held one of the most sought out perverted arficts in the world, the legendary Holy Bible of Icha, the book was hand-written by Lord Jiraiya him self. After many hours of non-perverted research, Yuri has manage to track down the location of the holy book to this spot."Man, that mob was crazy, I usually don't never get caught during my research trips, Tim-bur must have given me bad luck but oh well, I at least I got to see hot if not angry women chest bounced up and down the air, as they chase up." Yuri would lewdly giggled as she look around and noticed that she lost her firend during her escape. "Oh well, I'm sure he fine and if he not, that his thought for being a lesser pervert and not following in the cult..eh..I mean religious teachings of my Lord and Savior Jiraiya." After shrugging off the concern about her new friend, Yuri would pull out an old and oddly orange colored map from in between her grope-astic girls (Chest) and examine the map for several seconds, as she was mentally memorizing all the information on the map. "Information Stored. That book will soon be mine! Lord Jiraiya will be so pleased." First Yuri laughed and folded the map back up and put back in between her boobs, her chest was one of main storage places, easy to access and it can lure people into her genjutsu. Then Yuri took off her backpack and start to change her outfit, right out in the open. Yuri quick stripped herself of her normal school girl outfit, as she change into her adventure gear!

Yuri was now is wearing a light brown sleeveless tank top, light brown shorts, calf-high boots, and long white socks, yes Yuri Onmyoton was dressed as one of favorite Icha Icha Characters, Lara Croft the Explorer! Yuri put her backpack back on as she walk towards the entrance of the tunnel. Before she enter the mine network and start her search, Yuri would pull out an mirror and look at herself. Her attire was revealing to say the least, her shorts were more like booty shorts, as they barely cover her rear and her sleeveless tank top cling to her body, showing off her shapely round breasts and some cleavage. Finally her  soft, silky, long legs were on full display for anyone who wanted to stare at them. "Looking as hot as always."

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An abandoned, unused rarely visited mine shaft. A perfect place for those who sought to keep themselves to themselves, and as such the favourite location of a reclusive man, a special jounin of the village of Tsukigakure. He spent many hours either wandering within the depths of the tunnels or just sitting near the entrance, reading or writing, lost deep into the book he always kept by his side. And while this place may not support a man, shinobi have their ways to live anywhere, and Sakigake was no different.

Saki was currently sitting on a collapsible chair just besides the main entrance to the mine shaft, a large worn black leather book open on his lap, a pen furiously scribbling across the surface of the pages, flying through the shapes of the letters, seemingly alive all on it's own. Saki's eyes raised towards the dying light however, but his hand never stopped moving, the words pouring forth from a seemingly endless well within him. He paused finally in his writing, a strange sound catching his attention, and he rose from his seat, the pen slipping from his hand into a pouch on his belt in a smooth well practiced gesture.

The man scanned around himself, wondering what exactly he had heard out here in the middle of nowhere. No one ever disturbed him here, there was no reason for the villagers to come to this place, it hadn't been active in years. Saki scowled, and slowly crept into the mine entrance, hiding his body in the growing shadows. He kept his eyes peeled, and was ready to disappear at a moments notice. He saw the outline of what may have been a person, but was too far away to get a complete look at them, so he saw no details of this person, assuming it even was what he thought it was.

After looking herself over and compliment herself, Yuri would sighed as she placed the mirror back into her short pocket and ran her left hand through her hair. She was here on a religious mission and nothing would get in her away. Yuri had heard of the rumors about how lustful old men and perverted monsters lurk the surrounding area but they didn't faze her, she defeat monsters before, in fact she enjoy slaying monsters call it a turn on if you will (Nothing like a grueling battle to get your juices pumping). As for the ole men, she can usually dispatch of them easy with her sexy techquine! Not many people can withstand the hotness of the jutsu.

As Yuri enter the cave her pervert senses went off but unlike other times, this time she could barely feel a perverted force, it was almost non-existent, a mere grain of sand in an vast desert, it was quite pitiful and shocking in Yuri's eyes and especially since she was here to retrieve one of the most covenant perverted items in history.  "At least I won't have to worry about, completion for the bible. But still I should keep my guard  up. Even a lesser pervert is a pervert at the end of the day and this pervert could be the bad type of pervert." Yuri slowly and cautious walk through the entrance of the cave, her eyes constantly looking around her surroundings for any signs of trouble, her hands were closer to chest to pull out her hidden kunai and finally her foot was on alert, ready to kick any foolish man, woman or something in between the two genders in their groin and yes, groin attacks on women work just as well as they do on men.

Yuri thought she might have heard some movement but as she turn her head, she saw nothing. Yuri shook her head as she head deeper into the cave, even if someone or something was following her, she was more worry about getting her hands on the Icha Bible. Yuri did notice a chair, near the entrance, it was a weird to see one out here, but then again maybe someone live here or something. "Well it looks like someone has made a hangout of this place." Yuri would stare at the chair for few seconds before she pull out flashlight from her, backpack. "Let's brighten this place up shall we." Yuri then turn on her black flash light as she scanned the cave.

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Saki's eyes became glued to the woman the moment her shapely form came into his view. His eyes widened, and he slowly crouched deeper into darkness, not wanting to be found out. A confrontation was the last thing the shy recluse wanted, especially with a woman such as this. Saki tried his best to not make any sudden movements, or any sounds. Then his eyebrows dropped, and he scowled. The woman was talking to herself.

An odd habit indeed, in his opinion. HE himself never spoke, unless he absolutely needed to, so hearing someone talk simply for the seeming pleasure of hearing their own voice, took him by surprise. To the point where he didn't register the words she spoke at first. Then the word pervert clicked home, and Saki ducked even lower, heartbeat increasing. HE thought quickly, since from the position of things, if he jumped out randomly, or was exposed to her, he might well seem to be a pervert, and not knowing the girls own perversions Saki feared the conversation, and more than likely confrontation that would follow.

So when she spoke about brightening up the place and flicked on a aflashlight Saki inwardly cursed himself. His nerves were so wracked, without even needing to actually talk to the woman, that he was already on the point of Inverting. This would most definitely not help him in this situation, of course it would make him more sociable, and might aid in his ability to talk his way out of it, but it was an unlikely situation. Saki could feel a light sheen of sweat on his forehead. HE shut his eyes, and slowly stood to his full six foot height, and stepped from the shadows, hands held up, and a passable smile plastered fakely on his face. His lips quivered however, as he got a better look at the woman. Despite his strong dislike of people, Saki was still after all, a man.

She had a reaction on him that he never thought he would experience, and it stopped him dead in his tracks. He dropped his gaze to the ground, pondering this strange desire that he suddenly felt, having never before known the feeling. However, just staring at the ground as he was, having just popped up, possibly seemingly from nowhere, most likely made him seem rude. So he looked back up at the woman, and spoke, in a shaking voice. "H-Hi there, No need to be alarmed, I mean you no harm, or anything.... Names Sakigake, not used to running in to people out here... W-who are you?"

Having spoken this Saki clutched his grimoire tightly to his chest, no longer keeping his hands up in the air. His eyes roamed over the womans curves, seemingly beyond Saki's control.

And just like that, the perverted was not really perverted person appeared in Yuri's view. Which cause the slightly shorter women to whistle at him, and not a casual whistle mind you, more like a wolf whistle, a type f whistle in which men usually do when they saw a extremely hot female. But this time the roles were switch as Yuri was a female, whistling at the tall guy in front of her. Yuri held back her urge to kick the man in the nuts when he randomly appeared out of the shadows and she was wearing some new nut-cracking boots too! This man was lucky that Yuri heard him talk before she reacted. This man better be praying to Lord Jiraiya right now. His groin was safe for now.

Yuri didn't said anything for a few moments as her eyes shamelessly roamed all over the shy, maybe scared man's body, he wasn't too bad to look at, heck he was even attractive. Tall, dark (well maybe not dark, at least from what Yuri could judge at the moment) and handsome. Yuri bet this guy was beating away women or men away with a stick. As Yuri look him over, she noticed that he was doing the same and smiled. Despite his low level of perversion at least he had good taste in women. "Do you like what you see? What part of my body do you like most? Maybe is my chest or maybe its my legs? hm." Yes it was an odd question to ask someone when your first meet them but Yuri wasn't normal, plus she was always curious to what people think of her looks, so she can improve her Icha style of combat! Yuri then placed her hands on her hips as she tilted her head and gently smile at the man and winked.

"Well there Mr. Handsome, My name is Yuri the Hidden Moon Pervert or The Pervert Hidden in The Moon. I'm here on important matters of Icha and Perverseness! And since your here your going to help me! We searching for the Holy Bible of Icha" Yuri said excitedly as she walk beside the man, completely invading his personal space without a care in the word. Merely inches away from his face."Sakigake, nice name. Do you like to read, I noticed the book you have clutch against your chest. If you do I can give your some of my Icha Icha novels! Its rare to meet someone else with a passion of the written word. Don't you agreed?"
After she ask her final question she took a few steps back away from the man and pull out the orange map from earlier, her girls were once again an awesome storage place. "Follow me. Friend." Yuri would walk past side Sakigake, as she placed the flashlight into her mouth and hold up the map in the air with both hands. Yuri would walk a few feet in causal pace, so that if Sakigake choose to follow her, he could easily walk beside her, or behind her if he wanted to stare at her rear end. Soon Yuri was faced with several paths that branched in different directions. "Hm"

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Saki's skin practically crawled from the whistle, not from something negative, though he could feel the predatory nature of it. But no, it stirred feelings with the man he had never felt, in this form anyway. Lust was a domain of his inverted side, which might make an appearance if this woman kept up with the lewd behavior. Little did he know that he had nearly avoided a pain feared by all men. Saki just stood stock still, like a deer in the headlights.

Saki could feel her eyes as they traveled over his frame, though he couldn't complain or else be called a hypocrite. The look in her eyes seemed to be peeling his clothes off, and he felt exposed, powerless beneath that look. Saki licked his lips, then jerked back slightly as she asked him the strangest of questions, no introduction even, just what part of her body he preferred. Saki sank into himself, and awakened the power of his grimoire, which for the briefest moment glowed a deep crimson shade.

Suddenly Saki stood taller, his arms and chest expanding, filling in with muscle mass that hadn't existed prior, His legs growing, the baggy jeans he had been wearing no longer hanging down below his feet as he gained a couple inches in height. His pitch black hair bleaching of all clolour, fading to become white as bone. Even his posture and facial expression changed. Saki reached up to his face, and removed the now pointless glasses that adorned his face.

Smiring he gave Yuri another glance over and cocked an eyebrow at her. "I Like the whole package. The presentation is flawless and nothing goes to waste." He rubbed his chin, giving her a look akin to the one she herself had given him, nodding his head in approval. He glanced up at her face in time to catch her winking at him, and his smirk broadened.

Finally the woman, Yuri, offered her name to him. Saki inclined his head to her, once more taking in an eyeful. "A pleasure to meet you, and of course I will accompany you on this quest of yours. It's rare that I get any company out here. " It was also rare that this version of Saki even came out, so this was a night of adventure for the reclusive Shinobi, and not the good kind written in his book about someone else either, it was happening to him.

As Yuri got really close for seemingly no reason merely to complement his name and mention his book, and her own love of literature Saki's eyebrows rose, and he smiled. She spoke true, not many shared his love of the written word, and finding a bombshell of a woman who in fact DID, well Saki was severally taken aback, but in a good fashion. He nodded his head in agreement, inadvertanly leaning in towards Yuri as she spoke. Either she noticed, or the moment passed, for she backed away from him, and pulled a map out from between her cleavage.

Saki's eyebrows may as well have been a part of his hairline at this rate, as they shot up yet again, and he wished that he knew how it felt to be that map. He let her take the lead, using the opportunity as she probably expected him to, as a chance to get a full view, of both ends. And boy, was he not disappointed.

"How interesting, talk about a split personality. Your like the walking definition of it. In fact you take it the next level. A new body to match too." She would teased a bit. Yuri did took note of how unlike the earlier version of Sakigake with a barely noticeable perverted level, this new found of perversion was on whole another level, it was rare that Yuri experience and saw these higher levels of perversion but when she did, she like it. He has high level Jonin perversion aura. It wasn't higher than her, her best friend or her Lord and Savior perverted level but still it was impressive. "This Sakigake is an interesting person so far, I wonder what other surprises this man holds with in him. It should be fun." Yuri mentally tell herself, as she took in his new appearance. He seem to be growing bigger all around, Yuri couldn't help but wonder if he got bigger down there too, her perverted curiosity could be quite extreme at times but that is a small price to pay for following in the religion of Icha  . The thought of that cause Yuri to giggled a bit, as she look at the map and grinned, her perverted senses being active. "I'm glad you decided to joined me on this most of important of tasks, I will to make this quest as fun as possible and I hope that I make good company for you. I can't promise you payment, but I can think of way to paid you back." Yuri would said in serious matter with a hint of playfulness. And just as quickly she became serious she returned to her normal and chill move. "Your right, I'm the total package, a perfect ten out of ten if I do said so myself."
Yuri would have to thank her sensei and her ancestor for giving her such a blessed body. Yuri took a few glances back while she was walking, as she could feel a pair of eyes staring at her or more like her butt. And strangely it didn't brother her in the least, in fact Yuri even sway her hips a bit.

Now as Yuri was  faced with several paths that branched in different directions. Once again Yuri would said "hm. I guess this is the first of many trials to find The Holy Bible of Icha. Only those with highly trained Pervert Senses can find the true path. Watch over me for a few moments." As soon as Yuri finished her statement she closed her eyes , and sat on the ground getting into the lotus position. Soon Yuri would focus on the perversion levels of each of the several paths that laid in front of her. She remain unusually quiet and still, it was almost as if she had become an statue. It didn't Yuri long, only two or three minutes before she open her eyes and look up at Sakigake and grinned. "The center path is the path we seek. It has a different feel to it than the others paths. Holy Perverseness at its Finest." Yuri would stand back up as she head down the center path. "Also, keep your guard up, perverted monsters and lewd traps are said to protect the Holy Bible of Icha, and some these dangers can bypass my perverted senses."

The air was moist and there was some water dripping from the rocks above the tunnel. Besides the sounds of dripping water and their breathing and talking, the path was eerie silent. There were some skeletons scatter all around the place and if one were to take a closer look at them, there were bite marks, deep with in bones and some of the marks seem to be fresh. As the two progress father down the path, the sounds of someone or something eating could be heard up ahead.

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Saki smirked as Yuri commented on his change, calling him the definition of split personality, or even beyond that. He chuckled lightly, rolling his eyes. Though despite this he was impressed, most people don't react so calmly to his, or any of his clans, sudden changes in appearance and personality. Either this woman was crazy, or hung around with some very interesting people for this to be 'normal' for her. Saki could feel her eyes once more going over his body, no doubt taking in all the changes, and enlargements. She giggled, and he smirked broadly, having a good feeling he knew what she was thinking about.

Saki's grin grew as she spoke again, hinting at a form of repayment, that wasn't currency. Saki chuckled once more. His night had taken a turn for the interesting, that's for sure, but being how he was in this form, it didn't bother him in the slightest. "I have no doubt it will be, with you around. As for payment, I'm curious to see what you might offer..."

Saki laughed slightly as she complimented herself, agreeing with his own earlier statement. He caught her glancing over her shoulder at him, and didn't even bother trying to hide where his eyes kept roaming to. And as a matter of fact she seemed to like it, as she swayed her hips in front of his eyes, very enticingly. Saki grinned, licking his lips slightly.

When they came to a forked path Saki stood back, letting Yuri do her thing, crossing his arms over his chest. He nodded as she asked him to watch over her, though he doubted she actually noticed, as she was already meditating, and he was behind her to boot. A couple minutes passed while she sat silently, which of course meant Saki had a couple minutes in which he could shamelessly check her out while she focused on the task at hand. Eventually she opened her eyes and looked up at him, grinning. He took that as a good sign, proven to be such when she spoke, and indicated that the center path was the one they should follow.

As they walked down the path Yuri warned Saki about the dangers ahead, about perverted monsters and lewd traps, and his eyebrows rose. In all honesty, Saki was only here because of this woman, he cared nothing for the object she sought, and so the traps that they were to face made him sigh inside, though if he did end up being rewarded after all this, in some form, then it would all be worth it, no matter what tricks traps, or monsters might be lurking ahead.

Oh yes Yuri could be consider crazy or a nut it wasn't the first time that people told or thought about Yuri like that. In fact almost everyone she met has made a comment about her normalness (if that even consider a real word) or sanity. Whether they question her choice in religion, her style of genjutsu or her personal life in general, after while it stop brothering Yuri or better yet she just didn't care, if she was happy than that all that matters to her. And the people Yuri hung around, it could debate if they were normal or weird. Her best friend is a Senju who can't use wood release and replaces the law of physics with the laws of Ecchi. Her Sensei and other friend was a smoking hot woman who a constantly teased with a man-eating servant. Another one of her friends was a cat-like troublemaker who could use metal abilities. Her fourth friend was a young kage and well there was nothing really strange or off about the guy, the most normal person Yuri has met so far. Finally there was the hidden moon own Kage, who Yuri offer to be his assistant. And well he look like a demonic mummy. So yeah, normal was very rare in Yuri life. Especially if you get to see some of genjutsu.

"Payment, oh yes there are a few things I can think off." Yuri would laughed but their just a tiny hint of evilness to it. Now she was almost positive on what type of payment he wanted. If Yuumaru was were, he would attempt to beat the guy into bloody pulp.  Yuri did miss her best friend and rival but both of the promise to met again when they were stronger. "And the whatever the payment maybe I can promise it will be enjoyable." Yuri didn't brother to mention when it came time to pay Sakigake, she was most likely placed him in a genjutsu. Her genjutsu could easily fulfill any desire he has. Ii was all part of her clan ability after all.

"Quick behind here. Before they spotted us." Yuri would roll behind a large behind rock as she peek at a small Whore(Horde, get it?) of goblins up ahead, they had a small campfire going with a large boar cooking in the fire, the horde had about eight goblins, in total. They goblins had gray skinned and stood about four feet tall, they have clubs and rocks for weapons, They were physical weak but in numbers they could be quite dangerous. They like to tied down their foes and have their way with them, often in goblins-bangs. The goblins prefer women but have been know to sexually assault men as well. "Tis a small horde of goblins. Pretty easy to defeat in single combat but troublesome in numbers, they aren't that smart and are weak against physical attacks. If we stick behind the rocks, stay low to the ground and take our time we should be able to past them without problems."

Yuri then would lie on the ground as she began to crawl on the cave floor towards the next large rock that was a few feet away from them. As the two of them crawl. The goblins were talking among themselves  in human tongue, mostly talking about pillaging and sex. The simple life of a goblin. "Anything else you want to know about these small fry." Yuri would whispered as she kept an eye on the horde of monsters.  

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Saki's eyebrows rose slightly as she commented about his payment, and how she had many ideas. He chuckled lightly, though he caught the note in her own laugh of a evil nature, and wondered briefly what could she actually have possibly been thinking about, or plotting, as it didn't sound entirely pleasant, just from the note of something he caught in her laughter. Saki mentally shrugged though, as that wasn't strictly important at this particular moment in time, seeing as how they needed to actually locate this... holy relic, of hers.

Though as she went on to promise that his pay, no matter what it entailed, would be enjoyable he actually believed her, and stopped worrying about it, not that he had been overly worried prior, he could handle himself afterall. "I look forward to it, but first we should probably focus on the task at hand."

Saki's reflexes were highly trained, so when Yuri told him to quickly get behind cover he was diving behind the oddly butt shaped rock right behind her, nearly colliding with her as he did so. He peaked around the rock to get a look at whatever it was that caused them to dive into cover to begin with. He saw ahead of them a group of creatures cooking an entire boar on a spit over a large fire. Saki blinked incredulously. He shared these tunnels pretty much daily with these things and never once, never ONCE even knew they were here. So unless Yuri herself was somehow involved in their appearance, he had been very lucky and hadn't explored this area prior.

Saki would turn both his head and attention to the attractive woman as she spoke, describing what they were, claiming they were a horde of goblins. She also mentioned how they shuold be fine so long as they stuck to the shadows and avoided directly confronting them. Saki nodded his understanding, and followed closely behind Yuri as she began to crawl along the cave floor towards the next large boulder conveniently located nearby. He shook his head, not needing any more information, besides they were doing a good job of being informative on their own, what with their talk of pillaging and raping. Saki rolled his eyes. Creatures ruled by their base impulses.

When they reached the boulder Saki tucked himself up behind it. He snorted lightly. "Alright, so whats next? More monsters?" He asked, a rhetorical question, though an answer would still be appreciated.

Now usually when people, civilian and ninja like travel to the ferrum hills, they chances of them even noticing monsters like the goblins are slim to none. since these goblins main purpose was to test anyone going after the The Holy Bible of Icha  and to possibly rape eh...more like gang rape any unlucky adventurer or adventurers that fail to get pass them. The goblins, any other monsters and possible traps that laid ahead only appearance when someone truly perverted enters the correct path to The Holy Bible of Icha. Once Yuri has gotten what she came for, all of the goblins and other creatures should disappeared for a time being.

"No questions? You not even curious of why they are here? Oh well. That fine." Yuri would ask in a low whisper as a goblin was sniffing the air as if it sense that there were intruders nearby. Soon the goblins started to get into a frenzy as the shouted and pounded their clubs onto the good, the boar was almost done cooking and after they eat they would go looking for some humans to pleased them. "Its Almost done!" One of the smaller goblins shouted as it lips begin to drool over the cooking boar. "Then we Rape, Plunder, and Sleep!" The biggest goblin and from the makeshift wooden armor it had on, it seem to be the leader chime in as he look around the cave. "Anyone else smell human female?" All the goblins sniff the air, as they wander around the cave. And two them were at the first rock, that Yuri and Sakigake were at. "Humans were here!" A another goblin excitedly said as he jump up and down to get the attention of the other goblins in the horde. Soon the Horde was at the first rock, as they discussed the smell of the humans. "Smell like very attractive female and one...no...two males?" Some of the goblins rub their heads in confused, they male scent was throwing them off.

"Shit, let go before their tiny brains decided to come over at our direction. It been while since I faced goblins. I forgot about their sense of smell." Yuri would gestured to Sakigake to follow her as they crawl out of the goblin horde domain and return back on to the path of Icha. "We can stand up now. Of course there more monster, they wouldn't be as easy to get past as the goblins. I suspect will meet a minotaur towards the end of journey. Maybe more goblins and some smile creatures. My perverted senses are out of whack at the moment so, I can't tell what we will faced. "

As they walk, they would soon come across, a small black lake in a cave? There was no bridge across it, but there seem to be a small wooden paddle boat on leaning on the wall that can be used to get across it, if the duo don't decided to swim across. They water seem to clam, but who knows what lies under it.

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Saki merely raised an eyebrow as Yuri queried him as to why he wasn't asking anything about the goblins, and honestly he had simply assumed they were here to guard whatever it was she sought in this place, and he would be say as much. " I honestly assumed they were here to stop people from finding this Holy Bible you seem so keen to find." Of course he kept his voice down so as not to disturb the creatures that were already seemingly closing on their trail, one of them sniffing around like a bloodhound. Saki wasn't overly worried, as he figured they wouldn't be smart enough to actually catch them, but it didn't hurt to be cautious.

He ignored anything they said, right up until they mentioned smelling human female. Saki's eyes snapped to Yuri's butt, being the thing in front of him as he crawled along behind her. He looked back, and noticed that a pair of the goblins were standing where the pair of them, being himself and Yuri, had been laying not moments prior. He supressed a chuckle when his scent confused them, though it then hit him. His two sides even smelled different? This was the first time, to be fair, that a creature that relies on smell actually smelled him, and since he had been in both forms recently enough the fact that both scents would be present and lingering made sense. However the fact remained that his smell actually changed between forms, and it was amusing.

As Yuri motioned them forward, and away from the little goblin bastards before they decided to follow the scent trail he followed close behind her, his eyes seemingly glued to her backside, despite the situation, he couldn't help himself. It was there, it was nice, and he was a guy, so he stared. He frowned slightly as she stood, as it prevented him from continuing to stare, but he stood as well, actually glad to be off the cavern floor. He dusted himself off, listening as Yuri spoke about the possibility of a minotaur being further in the tunnels, and maybe even more of those goblins and other small creatures.

This was getting slightly out of hand. Yes he had a greed to go with her to begin with, yes he knew nothing about this quest of hers from the start, yes he had been warned, and yes he was quite possibily being rewarded for this, in some way, but this was more than he had bargained for. Though to be fair, he could just back out now, the way back was blocked by that horde of sexual deviants. Saki sighed, and shook his head. "Well no use waiting around here, lets get going while the goings good."

When they got to an underground lake Saki scowled, not liking the idea of swimming nor sailing in that tiny boat. It wasn't a comforting thought that he couldn't see beneath the surface of the water. In all honesty this was probably the worse thing they would encounter, despite any further creatures or traps that might hinder them. This allowed the imagination to run wild, even if it turned out to be literally nothing, and was all just a mental attack, meant to make them afraid, it would work, and it would be far worse than any single creature that they could see, because it had a form, it was solid, and most importantly: It was there. Saki turned to Yuri. "So whats the plan here? Assuming of course you have a plan, which I highly doubt, no offense."

The road to the Holy Bible wasn't a easy one for sure, its a quest not made for the faint of heart and those lacking in the perverted factor. Yuri mentally sighed, this flip side of Sakigake could be a real downer at times. Now did he really think she would come all the here in search of an ancient, rare, and perverted artifact without any sort of plan or even back up plans for that matter? We maybe it was laid back and perverted attitude combined with her godly good looks that gave off a bimbo and/or airhead aura that she could detect even with her highly trained and highly homed perverted senses. Yuri chuckled as she repeat Sakigaure's question. "So whats the plan here? Assuming of course you have a plan, which I highly doubt, no offense. But yet you still choose to follow me...how interesting. And if you think I don't have a plan how about if you come up with one yourself, Mr Split persona, I'm sure one of your personalities could come up with something. And of course I take no offense to your doubt even if I questioned your judgment for agreeing to help a stranger on a quest you know nothing about, with a undetermined pay?  Yup. No Offense dude." Yuri shrugged as she step towards the edge of the lake and kneel down to look down at the water, this mysterious black water it reminded her of one of the monsters she had to slay on a mission. This lake might be home of a slime or goo monster or maybe something even worse. Which could be major trouble.

"Okay we have to use the boat to get across of course, I prefer to saved using jutsu until we get farer along on the quest. I hope you can handle yourself in combat when the time comes or that your a very faster runner." Yuri place her finger in the water for a few seconds, the lake seem clam and peaceful for now but who knows once the both of them are actually in the black lake. Yuri stood up and walk towards the boat as she took it off the cave wall and pushed it along the ground, the boat was big enough to seat three people but the small paddle boat have seem better days, at least there weren't any holes inside the small vessel.

Yuri push the small boat towards the edge of the water, and got inside of it. Yuri then pick up one of the orbs as she push the boat farer into the lake, hopefully he would hop inside or be able to jump in the boat before she got to far out. "You can swim if you like, you make good bait! The choice is your my friend." Yuri said in mixture of seriousness and playfulness. But as Yuri was doing this there was something out of the lake, that was stirring. The presence of two humans seem to have awaken it from its slumber. Besides a few bubbles appearing on the surface of the water, its presence was hardly noticeable.

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Saki ducked his head, raising his hands in a plaintive gesture. He had spoken hastily and unclearly. He had meant specifically for this obstacle, since he highly doubted that Yuri had come up with a specific plan for this exact scenario. However he admitted that he deserved what she dished out, and he took it in stride. He bowed slightly in her direction. "Touche, I apologize for my hasty statement. I meant if you had a plan for this obstacle, and that I doubted it as you seemed to not have expected this to even be here. I'm sorry if I came off as a condescending prick."

Saki listened as Yuri spoke again, nodding in agreement of her assessment of the situation. He would not swim through this water, even if the boat itself wasn't exactly ship shape. He helped Yuri lower it to the ground, and examined it himself. He hoped it would hold, as it had clearly seen better days, and despite the lack of holes in the hull, it did not mean it wouldn't leak. Not to mention Saki harbored a deep suspicion that the water was home to some sort of creature, since that seemed to be the only purpose to this particular chamber.

Saki helped Yuri push the boat closer to the water, then she jumped in and pushed off from the shore, and Saki stood on land, watching her slowly list away, as she taunted him. Saki scowled, and took a few steps back. He jogged forward, as she hadn't gone too far out before him, and he jumped from the shore into the boat, rocking it slightly. He immediately sat, and grabbed a paddle, hissing slightly through his teeth. "You're so funny, I forgot to laugh. I will be bait for nothing, especially any creatures guarding the path to this perverted relic. Sorry, not happening."

Yuri mentally giggled as she repeated what Sakigare said in her head. "You're so funny, I forgot to laugh. I will be bait for nothing, especially any creatures guarding the path to this perverted relic. Sorry, not happening. You think you actually have a choice in the matter? Lesser Pervert please! If I have to use you for bait I will" On the outside Yuri was just smiling at the man in front of her as they continued to paddle the boat. "No need to said sorry, even if I haven't expected this, I should have thought of my plan and its un-reasonable to expect you to come up with something. Since you pretty much clueless on the ways of the Icha. But anyway we are half way across the lake and no trouble so far."

But just as Yuri said that, she had just jinx herself and Sakigake. a bubbly growl-roar type of sound could be heard as a few feet away from the unlikey duo, the water to ripple. A deep voice could be heard saying "Duuun dun duuun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun BOM BOM dun dun dun dun dun dun doo dedoo doo dedoo dede doo dede doo dededoo" As the voice was nearing the end of its song, a monster could been seen rising from the murky depths of the black water. first the head of a shark could been seen, and the monster had a body of a bear and was wearing a vest with an axe attached to its side. And finally it flicker it gator tail in the air as it narrowed its eyes at Sakigake and Yuri. "Dudes, you have disturbed my slumber. And now I shall eat you or something like that! Unless you can beat me in a bear hugging contest! Bro. What do you say? " The monster was looking a Sakigake when he made the deal. And yes the monster was walking on the water like a ninja.

"Holy Icha its a Sharkbearagator! Only Lord Jiraiya these things are super rare! And starangly enough they are not perverted creatures! Yuri then look at Sakigake and smirked. "Dude, he calling you out! You can't let him diss you like that. Plus defeating in this creature in actual combat would be difficult, its has monstrous strength and speed. Plus were are at a huge disadvantage in the water." Yuri nodded her head Sakigake had to beat the monster in a bear hugging duel!

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Saki sat in silence, rowing the boat with Yuri, not fully paying attention to what she was saying, but catching enough to understand her meaning. He did catch her last sentence in its completion, and a chill went down his spine. He gritted his teeth. She just had to say it, now even if nothing was going to go wrong before, it would. Because she went and said that so far so good, everything was about to go horribly wrong. Saki knew it deep down, and was sure that something would pop out at them any second.

Almost immediately after this thought occurred to him he heard a sound. At first Saki didn't know what to make of it, then he realized it was in fact a very deep masculine voice. Saki scowled, and turned towards the direction the sound was emanating from, wondering why on earth this creature insisted on giving away its location prior to it's attack. Saki raised himself up in the boat, balancing precariously as she rocked lightly from the swell the creature created with it's movement through the water. As it raised itself from the depths Saki's mouth dropped.

A shark would have been bad enough, but a bear with a sharks head, and a gators tail was worse. One that could talk and walk on water... that was insane. Saki blinked stupidly as the beast called him out, challenging him to a.... hugging competition. Saki merely shrugged. His choices were limited here, and he didn't think Yuri would help him out. Sure enough, moments later she egged him on, explaining how this was really the only course of action they had in order to beat him, since with his incredible advantages they would stand little chance in actual combat.

Saki spread his arms out and shook his head. "You leave me with little choice I suppose, I accept your challenge. Lets get this over with, we don't have much time to waste on you."

Saki was been ballsy, taunting the creature like that, but he was beyond caring at this point. He readied himself for the competition that was about to begin, and hoped that this went well, though he had his doubts.

The Sharkbearagator raise an eyebrow at the foolish male human that taunted him. The Foolish male human was ballsy for  taunting the creature like that, but it seem like that foolish human was beyond caring at this point. In fact he just gave off an aura of I just don't give a damn. The Sharkbearagator pointed its axe at the foolish male human and grinned at him, showing the idiot of his pearly and sharp white teeth, he could shred a person to bits if he wanted to too but the Sharkbearagator had just woke up from its napped and it didn't felt like doing hard work, so it came up with the lame constent of bear-hugging he hoped that the two humans would just look at him like her was crazy and truned back the other way. Or at least they could have said sorry for waking him up but no....they just had to accept the hugging constent? Didn't the both of them knew, that he was joking about that. He would have just let them get pass him with no problems what so ever. But sadly once Sakigake accepted the challenge  there was no backing out of it now. It was male thing that Yuri wouldn't understand since she was a chick. "Damn it, my manly pride is on the line here"


It was like what the curvy female human said, it wasn't a perverted creature, heck the Sharkbearagator didn't even care about guarding the Holy bible of Icha, he just want to eat fish, cut down wood and sleep. The Sharkbearagator sighed as he dropped his toothy grinned and folded his bear arms across his chest. "Okay.....Let's get this show started shall we. Boy!" The Sharkbearagator clapped its hand together as the black lake turn into a giant wrestling ring? Even Yuri seem shock by it, well not really.

"Okay both of use will move to the center of the ring, we will hugged each other and kept on holding each other until one of use gets gives up. You can do anything in your power to make the other person let go of you? Burping, farting, nut shots, whatever. " The Sharbearagator shrugged as it walk towards the center of the ring and waited for Sakigake. The creature was in the hugging position.

"You can do it Sakigake! Even if this does make you look like a homosexual, not that there anything wrong with it. Male Gayness can be hot...." Yuri happily sighed as she cheered on her new friend.

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Saki waited in the boat, raising an eyebrow as the creature pointed it's axe at him. He didn't react otherwise, in fact he didn't move at all beyond the eyebrow twitch. Admittedly it kept it's teeth nice and white and shining. Saki was almost tempted to ask for it's secret, but thought better of it. He snorted lightly as the creature commented that it's pride was on the line. Saki had no pride, but far more at stake, one mistake and well... he could in fact die from this thing.

As the lake turned into a wrestling ring Saki stepped free from the boat, looking around curiously. He nodded in approval. "Nice trick you got there."

He approached the center of the ring, listening to the creature explain the rules, groaning inwardly at every additional detail. It didn't take a genius to figure out that Saki was going to be in some semblance of pain by the time this was over. Saki had an idea though, a wild idea that might not even work but it was worth a shot, since he had no better plan.

He could hear Yuri cheering him on from the sidelines. He gave her a look that spoke volumes. His eyes burrowing into her soul, spelling out death, and decay. He wasn't in the mood for this crap, and this was why he stayed away from people, it brought him nothing but hardships.

Saki approached the creature, who was already in it's waiting position. He closed his eyes briefly. The thought 'I can't believe I'm about to do this" flitted across his mind before he wrapped his arms around the beast. He grabbed his other arms by the wrists, and held on, his plan only going to work once. So when he started, he would have to move quickly. He was as ready as he was ever going to be, but he waited for a better opportunity, plus it wasn't sporting to start when the his opponent might not be ready yet.

Yuri fake a slight cringle at the look Sakigake given her, His demonic like- eyes burrowing into the very depths of her soul, spelling out a painful and not perverted death, her utter destruction and very slowly and tortuous decay. Yuri pull on the collar of her revealing top to act like she was sweating under the pressure of his gaze. Yuri waved at Sakigake as he walk towards the center of his doom or was the better term love fest? Yuri would lightly giggled at the thought as she watch the monster get into the hugging postion, it seem to be a natural at the art of bear hugging. But then again the creature was part bear so many It was a natural instinct.

The Sharkbearagator mumbled under it breath as it heard Sakigake yawned while he was talking, if the creature didn't have any sense of pride or honor, he would have ate the foolish human male right there and then. "Its not a trick little man. It call skill which is something you lack for this contest. Usually I don't do this sort of thing. Gives off a homosexual vibe you Know?. I hope you don't swing that way my opponent because you have on hot lady friend by your side."   Then the Sharkbearagator paused for a moment before he coughed up a dog's skull and wipe its mouth. "Sorry about bro, that was my snack, a tad bit too furry for me. The monster laughed as he watched Sakigakre preparing himself. The creature did wonder what tricks the foolish male idiot had under its sleeves. But It didn't worry, he sure his brute strength would be more than enough to overcome what ever Sakigake had planned. "Begin the Hugging! Here I come little man." The monster would quickly said after burping, his breath smell like wet dog. Moving at the C-Rank like speeds the monster would move closer to Sakigake in linear path and attempt to wrapped its massive, hairy and muscular arms around him.

As this was happening Yuri would pulled out her Icha Icha Book from in between her breast and began to read it silently, lewdly giggling as she turn the pages, not caring about the bro-mance that was happening in front of her.  She really didn't want to see two guys hugging it out. It was strange even for someone like her. Plus she figure that Sakigake could easily handed this on his own.

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Saki merely rolled his eyes at Yuri, thinking how much easier his night would have been if he hadn't run into her out here, and how this had all better be worth it in the end. Honestly, the reward didn't matter anymore, he just wanted to get out of this intact and in one piece. Sighing Saki prepared himself for what came next. He rested lightly on the balls of his feet, ready to move at a moments notice.

Taken off guard by the creatures comment, Saki lost his focus momentarily. He looked over at Yuri and then back. He threw his hands into the air in exasperation. "Then why the hell are we doing this? If you don't normally do this why did you challenge me to this honestly rather stupid contest, no offense. And ya, she's hot... thats kind of why I'm in this mess." A new life rule came into his head. Never follow a hot women into these mines, or anywhere, if she's on a quest of the perverted nature. At least not without sufficient payment in advance.

As the creature coughed up a skull Saki became slightly more nervous, as it didn't seem to want to back down from the competition now. He swallowed the lump in his throat, but otherwise relaxed himself. He could do this, hell he had to do it. Otherwise... he didn't want to think of the alternative. As the beast charged Saki smiled lightly. It was using a very basic attack, trying to merely overpower it's opponent, and crush him in it's grip. Not that he was going to let that happen.

Saki dodged the his right, swinging around past the beast, grabbing a fistful of it's fur to help swing him up and onto the creatures back, where he wrapped his arms around it's neck, putting his feet into the back of the beasts knees, hoping to make them buckle beneath the weight, pulling back on the creatures neck.

As Sakigake would as the monster on why he was changlling him and made up this silly contest, Yuri would stop reading her Icha Novel and speak up. "This creature may be stronger than the average bear...but its intelligence is lacking, so yeah. That would explain why it came up with this lame contest! Ha. A pity too. Anyway you choose to accept the contest so stop your moping and get to hugging you fool. It could been much worse you know." Yuri would shrugged her shoulders before she went back to reading her Icha Icha novel. Yuri would mentally tell herself that she could use this moment as blackmail material, with a small snicker. Yuri turn the page in her book. Yuri wonder why Sakigake didn't pretend to be gay to simply bypass The Sharkbearagator, it was quite clear that he didn't want anything to do with them.  

Meanwhile, the monster would growl at both of the humans, they were annoying him, after he dealt with the male, he would go after the female, he didn't like being call dumb, he would take out his anger on the male in front of him. But as The Sharkbearagator charge It noticed the smirk on the human face and snarl he was going to wipe that smirk right off his face..but the human sudden dodge shock the monster, he didn't think the human could move that fast, and then it human climbed onto its back. The Sharkbeargator would attempt to grab Sakigake but his tiny bear like arms couldn't get a good grip on him. "Get off of me your worm!" The Sharkbeargator would nearly roar at Sakigake.

So after that, the monster start to shake it back rapidly turning to throw the male human off its back, it was like a bull riding contest but instead of someone riding a bull, Sakigake was riding Sharkbeargator, how lucky for him! As Sakigake was pressing his feet into the knees of the monster, the Sharkbeargator would start to lose it balance at it flail it arms around, it look like the creature was going to fall down but just at the last moment it would regain its balance for now. The creature would countine to stumbled and regain its balance a few times until finally the massive beast start to fall backwards, unable to balance itself. "I'm going to crush you!" The creature would at least attempt to laid on its back to crush Sakigake under it weight. The Sharkbeargator was a heavy creature so it would best for Sakigake to avoid being flatten by the creature. After the creature has fallen down it would quickly roll over and attempt to grab Sakigake with its jaws.