As soon as she booted Tora back toward his two partners a kunai came blazing toward her through the air. The 3 Tomoe of her Sharingan could be seen as she barely caught the glint of sunlight bouncing off of it. With her leg still raised from the kick; in very cool fashion she would merely unsheath her sword and literally block a kunai with it.

Smiling at Machi's decision making while looking directly at him with her sharingan active she would notice that Castus had turned his wolf into a clone of himself. Identical in fact. He himself had vanished. Her sharingan would bounce around left to right; noting Tora getting back to his feet woozily in the distance. Her vision would eventually see a glowing puddle of chakra underneath the ground. There he was.

Soon enough, she noticed Tora weaving hand signs. Grinning as the Sharingan literally told her mind what jutsu was coming, one she was all too familiar with having grown up using it. Before he was even finished with his hand signs; Haru had decided to kill two birds with one stone.

Weaving signs of her own, much faster than Tora. 'Earth Release: Earth Style Rampart' would go off as she would slam the ground with both hands. The ground beneath all of them would begin to rumble as shooting up at literally 50MPH or so would be a huge wall that would literally cause Castus to take an elevator ride upward, likely scaring the shit out of him. Haru would stand on the wall with her arms crossed as a huge splash of fire would hit the gigantic wall; stopping the fireball jutsu from slamming into the wooden posts disguised as shadow clones.

"Nice try Tora....you too Machi." she would turn, now they were about 300 feet in the air. The wall stretching the entire training grounds horizontally. Looking off the edge of the 30 ft plateau from the top, would be dizzying if one was afraid of or not used to heights. Alone on the platform now with Castus, she would turn to him with her Sharingan active. Locking eyes with him, the sharingan noise would go off in his mind as she would activate the 'Coercion Technique'.

To Castus, there would be about ten Sharingan's in the sky likes moons that would start spinning around incredibly fast. He would then get a vision in his mind of himself being thrown off the side of the gigantic rampart and falling to his doom. Afterward, she would stand on the edge of the rampart; looking down she would probably be just a speck from this high to them. At a yell she would talk to her other two boys.

"Seems you've managed to get yourself separated, who knows how I'll torture him up here." Haru would grin and wave as she stepped back from the edge so they couldn't see her anymore. Turning to Castus who was either just recovering from or still in the genjutsu she would flip her sword out from behind her and stab the ground right next to his face.

"Your tactics are quite good...but you should've filled them in completely on your plan if you were going to try and sneak up on me like that...." she would kneel over him as several more crows down below would begin to swarm and pester both Tora and Machi; nipping at them and swooping around obscuring their vision as no one had broken out of the Mirage Crow genjutsu just yet; or made Haru release it in any way.

Considering Castus liked too play underground on many occasions it only made since that he was quite adept at moving through in this fashion he would be moving rather quickly underground and would for the most part hope that his teammates could get a solid counter going for himself. Castus was tracking everyone through three methods seismic activity on the surface above and his sense of smell and hearing. He would be closing in on what he assumed was the real Haru when the ground around him would begin too crack he would hear it first then he would be the ground around him would be shot into the sky he, was moving already luckily or he would have been caught up in the technique. While using the hiding in the mole technique the area around Castus entire body would turn to sand as he moved this would save him from being propelled into the air instead hard sand would hit him for a moment tho not enough too slow him down in his second gate. His mental note of everything would cause him too call out too Kuroi the sound would come off like a whimper but in the cover of everything Kuroi risking damage would fly into the moving debris and be lifted along with it too the top.

Once at the top Kuroi would be hit with the intended genjustu and such, however just as Haru looked down Castus would burst from the ground spinning in a rapid manner "Fang over Fang!". Using the four leg technique and the second gate Castus would be moving at around C rank level speeds but at the moment he was mainly relying on surprise.

Kuroi knew from the start he was inside a genjustu but the ordeal was still alot too handle after the whole thing he would be in a small shock but quickly he would try and steel himself at the sound of Castus attacking. He would pee on Haru if it was the only thing he could do the dynamic marking would allow Castus too follow Haru is she moved out of the way of the attack. Next Kuroi would begin planning there next move they were up pretty high and with that in mind she would have too hope that there team could pull out a suprise.

With the excersize now on its way, team one was I the midst of battle against the jounin. Machi, sighing with without expression from his attack being blocked from the Uchiha, he takes note of the deflected kana whizzing behind her, only to stick right into the ground a few inches behind her body. He nods slightly towards her, his eyes obscured from the Uchiha's line of sight due to his small frame. The lid of his hat adding more truth to this as well. The genin does not advance due to his partner being hurled back at him, he of course was not in the trajectory, but took interests in Tora'a well being. "Are..., are you ok? That looked like it hurt?", he said in a soft voice The Jounin was not to be trifled with, it would take a little bit more than just to simply go head on with her. Machi, as always, started to wonder if the two should continue. As he analyzes the situation, Tora recovering from the attack, Castus' words flutter into Machi's thought process. 'Attack from above?', he thought. He could leave his partner high and dry, that was something all students from the academy learned.

All leaves fall together. A mantra his old academy teacher chanted at the beginning and at the end of every class. Machi then decided to press on, no matter the results.

Exhaling, keeping an eye on the kana stuck behind the Jounin, he turns his upper body towards the left, tucking in his hands behind it as he weaved seals for a jutsu. His speed was not on par of the Jounin of course as he himself had trouble reading the hand sigs of the sensei, but he manages to complete it just in time for him to utilize the jutsu, the substitution technique. As the wall rises up from the ground, Kuroi, in human form, is seen dashing towards the sensei through the debris with much notable courage, more than Machi's own. Upon capture of the mind of Kuroi, Machi is now seen in place of where the kunai once stood. The kana now placed below on ground level where he also once stood. He waste no time upon arriving after the Jounin locks eyes with Kuroi, still keeping his form from before, he bends his right leg upwards closer to him and throws all his weight towards the sensei with one mighty kick. He aims for the jounin's lower back, in an attempt to press against her frame by extending out his right leg with great force, knocking her off balance towards her victim trapped in genjutsu.

Machi is then seen pushed back if successful, sliding towards the edge of the wall while witnessing his burrowing part emerge from the ground below and attack the jounin off balance. His momentum of course was not enough to carrying him over as he stopped before the edge.

Kazetora watched helplessly as his fireball Jutsu splashed against the now massive wall of earth, burning it but doing nowhere near the damage he had wanted it to do to his target. Grunting as he hit the ground with a hard thud, the Uchiha began to scan the battlefield, wondering what his options were. He could try to climb the tower, but by the time he managed that feat the Sensei would likely have already prepared for his arrival. His black eyes bounced around the field, trying to figure out the best tactics to use with his limited resources.

He was mentally kicking himself, he had left his home without having grabbed his equipment in his excitement and as such he found himself lacking in this fight. Then an idea hit him, she might be able to stop one big attack that she could literally see coming...but what if he used multiple smaller attacks. With that thought in his mind, Kazetora would begin to weave his handseals once more. This was a low tier fire style ninjutsu, but he was going for a successful hit, not a massive amount of damage. After all, Sensei never specified that they had to physically hit her with their own bodies; theoretically a ninjutsu should work.

As he molded his chakra, he began to charge towards the rampart made of the earth, he began to leap up the terrain, using his full strength to push off the side. As he built his chakra he steadily built up his chakra until he had enough. He then held that chakra and climbed the rampart, once he was about ten meters from where the old woman and his new teammate were he released his Jutsu. Suddenly in front of him were ten small, roughly hand sized, balls of flames, he then gestured with his two hands sending all ten of them forwards.

The small red, orange and yellow balls flew at Haru from ten different angles, trying to throw her off guard, but that was not all. Once he had launched all ten he sprung up over the ledge of the rampart’s top and began to barrage the woman with punches and kicks. Kazetora was going to go all out in this fight, despite not having fought much since his days in the Academy, he hoped his sense for battle had not dulled in the years following his graduation...

Haru would be caught off guard as she felt the ground beneath her rumble, even standing on top of the platform. Something or someone was coming; within two moments Castus came exploding outward through the ground beneath her as his technique caused a huge chunk of the wall to explode.

Within a moment she would backflip out of the way, and would be seen looking upward at him flying through the air with a small grin. Several pieces of debris however came her way from his explosive Fang over Fang technique. After the backflip, she would straight up smack several pieces of debris into nothingness with pure taijutsu moves as she would end with a roundhouse kick just as a kunai implanted in the ground behind her would literally pop into smoke and turn into Machi. With a swift movement, which she noted he leaped only once to get to her, he went for a flying kick that happened so fast she was nearly caught off guard. The fact that he realized that kunai was still there impressed her as she turned around and literally blocked his flying kick by un-fanning a Demon Wind Shuriken.

The sound of metal clanging out against his foot would be heard as she would swing it violently outward to not only throw Machi off, but let him know the fight was real. The psychological effect of such a sharp and real weapon being swung at him at close range would be good for Machi she thought. "Well done, just remember your plans won't always work out." truthfully, she was seriously impressed by that Substitution Jutsu.

Before she could say anything further to Machi, Castus was likely landing from his Fang over Fang technique. She cut her eyes at him, although he seemed to be falling back and assessing things quietly for now. Smirking, she would suddenly feel chakra building up and coming her way fast.

With a reach behind her armor, underneath it; she pulled a wire string and connected it to the Demon Wind Shuriken; tying a knot with only one finger behind her back upon the well known weapon. The moment Tora would leap over the top of the rampart, she would fling the shuriken at incredible speeds at Tora mid air. Popping into existence around him were nearly a dozen small fireballs as they flew at her at high velocity just after she'd flung the shuriken.

Her Sharingan would glow red for a moment as she would then yank the Demon Wind Shuriken across at a perfect arc around her, twice. Spinning and leaping over the wire holding a massive shuriken as it whipped around mid-air; contacting fireballs and exploding against them. Whipping it behind her back like nunchucks she would parry the final fireball; never breaking eye contact with Tora who was charging her fiercely.

With an elbow like yank, the 'Shuriken Manipulation Jutsu' ended as the Demon Wind Shuriken would close in a fan as it was pulled back by the wire and sheathed behind her back. Taking an open stance, with only one hand held in front of her in a sort of wing chun style; she would throw a hard elbow into Tora's first melee strike, playing as a kick came she would do a fancy move that parried his kick with a kick of her own; kicking his foot away with a loud thud.

"Charging fiercely is cool when you know you'll win. But you haven't said a word to your teammates while trying to be a tough guy." no sooner did she say this, did she feel something wet drip on her back foot.

Dynamic Marking had hit her as Castus' damn dog had snuck up on her with the technique and managed to urinate on her. Since she'd placed the dog under genjutsu, she'd thought it wouldn't respond to any owners commands. However perhaps some bonds ran deeper than the mind. Blushing and embarrassed. She would catch a punch from Tora comically as a shockwave from his punch went off as it hit her hand...all while she merely stared at Kuroi leaking on her.

Wondering if it counted as a pass. She supposed it did since she was distracted long enough for this to happen. After Kuroi had...trickled out and shook his leg. She would clap her hands and stare at the leg that had been pee'd on. A slow clap.

Then silently, she would cross her arms. As the sound of crows cawing would go off all around the environment. Getting louder, and louder until it sounded as if it were being played from a loud speaker. She herself would soon be covered in all black like darkness, as the entire environment seemed to dim a little. The Earth Style Rampart they were all standing on hundreds of feet in the air also would turn pitch black and break apart into a thousand crows.

Everyone would feel like they were falling into darkness as the flock would disappear. Black birds pulling apart in all directions in front of their very eyes as light would break through the darkness.

The sun would be shining on the Training Field; as everyone stood in their original positions. Except for Haru who sat on top of a lone training post. One leg crossed and leaning back relaxed. Elevated maybe ten feet above her three students.

"Well, that was a fun look." it had all been a Genjutsu. "I learned a lot about you three." she had been watching the entire time. From her point of view, it was like a see through vision happening in front of her as she'd sat and watched her students practically battle against thin air.

"Because you didn't back down.....you all pass." she said as the sun was shining now, the grass was green. They were back in the 'real world' one could say. Hopping down off the sign post, she would land and stretch with both arms over her head briefly.

"Well I guess I'll do the paperwork saying your headbands are real...." she would then turn to her students with her hands behind her back. They all were so different. Each presented a different potential problem to be solved. "Well....I guess everyone's hungry......so on me, soups, ramen, tacos, whatever you want.....money's not a problem so don't miss this chance."

With that, she would casually begin walking off toward the pathway out of the training grounds with her hands behind her back as if she hadn't just took them all for a massive Genjutsu ride. Although they couldn't see it as she walked with her back turned she let off a rare signature grin as she moved up ahead. Because this also....was a Genjutsu. She wanted to see if they lowered their guards and trusted her. If so; she would fail them all immediately for trusting an enemy.

Until someone broke them out of the Mirage Crow genjutsu, or announced that they were under one to the entire team; she would continue to toy with them both mentally and physically for a lack of teamwork. Her words were all lies of course. Meant to get them to drop their guard, making it easier for the genjutsu to work.

With all things considered everything was going good but the main thing that castus would know was that he was inside a genjustu. The reason he knew being that with his gates still on the pain coursing through him would burst him free from the genjustu the moment it took affect; he was in no way inside a sharigan based genjustu due to him never making eye contact with there sensei and with that being the case even if he had not had his gates on he would have known he was inside of a genjustu. Castus payed attention in the academy and he was sure the rest of his team did as well. Genjustu affected the five senses and each technique would affect maybe one with higher rank techniques breaking off to cover more than one; leaving the one error in genjustu tactics being that once inside a genjustu one sense would be off and that one sense would be enough too allow the user too know that they were inside a genjustu a Inuzuka would only have that much more of a easier job.

Castus since the beginning of the fight would have been using all of his senses in order too track there sensei and now back too real world Castus would hear there sensei but not see the change in scenery he instead would be inside of the real world his gates still active he would waste no time he would move too kick their sensei but it would not be a normal kick, he would feint being caught and wait for a opening before launching forward flipping backward as he stood in place and landing a hand on the ground in order too feint as if was jumping back however he would push down with his hand and send himself flying forward aiming a rocket style Fang over Fang directly at Haru's lower stomach; with the urine still on her Castus would move in with a new found accuracy and hopefully she would hit.

Kuroi would be in on the attack as well, they were playing it pack tactics and to anyone watching the blood lust in Kuroi's eyes would become apparent as he no longer was viewing this as a game but something that needed to be done with. He would follow Castus league and kai out of the genjustu only as soon as Castus attacked and once he did Kuroi would Kai and leap toward Haru into a Fang over Fang trying too end this here and now with two fang over fangs from two sides.

The sharp mental blades of the massive shuriken slid out from one another with an ominous sharp sound. Machi's heart beat grew faster with each beat becoming more powerful than the next. It was one thing to learn about sharp edged tools in the academy, but to be on the receiving end of one. It was totally different, it was enough to even shake his newly found resolve. Machi tries to shake this feeling off, but the adrenaline that surged throughout his body was too great to simple manage. He never thought this would happen, but lucky for him, tis was all but an exercise. Although, the aura coming off from his sensei was a bit menacing.

All his strength and movement simply came to a halt by the Sensei, His foot placed right on the flat wide blade of the fan. His heart and muscles were still pulsing with energy, underneath the lid of the hat barred a face that was no longer void of emotion. True his resolve was shaken, but such mere thoughts were overridden with nothin but instinct. He too bore a crazed smile, his eyes widen with eagerness to ride the current of the madman.  

As he was pushed back, his vision, due to the copious amounts of adrenaline now entered into a slowed sate. Bullet time would be the most fitting and accurate term. On his back he sliding away from the Sensei at an angle towards her left side. 300 feet bellow lay hard dirt and pebbles. Of course, he already new this but his path didn't place him in any path near the edge of the cliff. His momentum would indeed carry him over, but not before Machi carried out his tasks. Machi is now seen on his back sliding towards the edge, while performing a set of hand seals, the chakra within him boiled not in one section, but also another. While doing this, he sees the Sensei in a bind which he intends to apply his own pressure. As he finishes his handseals, he sees the swirling mass of force coming down towards here from the left side. It seemed his teammate was yet done, his ferocity was noteworthy. Bringing his right hand towards his mouth in a clawed position, he blows a stream of fire no more than five feet in diameter straight ahead of him a few feet away from her. 'Fire Style...', his surface thoughts now trickling through. His stream of fire would not hit anything, but continue on from behind her passing towards her right at an angle, simply blocking two paths from use. Now seeing not one but two swirling masses of force raining down upon her, he presses down on the ground with force to slow down his momentum, stopping safely to avoid falling off the cliff.

Kazetora would watch as each of his fire balls were in essence batted aside by the large folding shuriken that the woman pulled out.  He of course knew the name of such a weapon, the Demon Windmill Shuriken, but he had never seen one used in combat in such a way before.  She had utilized the weapon to set off his attack early, obviously she had some sort of experience with his technique.  Perhaps she had seen it once before, or perhaps she was guessing that they would cause explosions when contacted or maybe she was simply trying to knock them away.

The possibilities regarding this at the moment were far too numerous to count, but he had pressed his attack and with a little help from the dog relieving itself on the leg of the Sensei he was able to score a successful hit on her.  He could not help but stifle a laugh as he watched her slow clap and announce they had won, he could tell there was a slight annoyed edge to her voice, though he was not sure if it was because of the dog piss or because he had managed to hit her because of it.

Kazetora then felt the ground under him suddenly start to rumble before everything went dark.  When he had opened his eyes he saw that he was standing right where he had been from the moment the fight had begun.  A Genjutsu? Was that whole fight happening in their minds? It would need to be quite the powerful Genjutsu in order for that to occur.  However, the Sensei was still praising them slightly, telling them that all three of them had passed the test, she would then go on to say that she was going to treat them to a meal before she started to walk towards the village once more.

Kazetora started to follow her, elated at first that he had competed and passed the test, but then something began to feel...off to him, he then began to think that the Genjutsu had yet to end, if she was strong enough to create a vision that mimicked an entire fight in his mind, then why would she let it end here?  That would be stupid of her, the test was still going on.  Kazetora then stopped in his tracks, letting the woman get a bit further away.

He did not know if the other two had figured it out or not yet, but they were still being affected most likely, and their Sensei was still to be treated like an opponent.  “Guys...I think we’re still under her Genjutsu, something isn’t quite addin’ up to me...”  Kazetora was closest to their Sensei at the time he had uttered the words, his black eyes focused on the woman’s back and his hands slowly moving up to chest height as if he were about to start preparing to utilize another Jutsu.  However, it was clear to him that his entire team was outclassed by this woman...

Backpedaling, she would be caught off guard when Castus managed to pivot around using a clever maneuver and use another Fang over Fang right at her. He'd noted her movements beforehand, bravo to him for learning about his opponents habits. Grinning, she would stomp and accept the hit full on letting it hit her Uchiha Armor which sparked in a fancy display as the raw impact from such an attack caused her hair to billow behind her.

The attack actually made Haru slide backward as a trail of her footprints were left on the ground. She halted with a grin and looked down at her armor; heavily cracked on the right chestplate. The moment she came to a halt a huge trail of flames would erupt behind her. With no time to react truly she let it pass; amazed that Machi had weaved that jutsu within a matter of moments. One false move and she would've been cooked by stepping backwards. Raising an eyebrow, as a specialist in this type of jutsu herself she made eye contact with him for a moment before Tora spoke.

As he did, she would be surprised. Because he was right.

"I'm proud to have a team like you....but don't let it go to your heads." as she said this, the sun would turn into a Sharingan and spin once; letting the Mirage Crow genjutsu end she would be right in front of them now truly. "Indeed all three of you are skilled, and I suggest you get along with one another." she would stand silently for a little while with her arms crossed. Her armor still with one crack running through it from Castus' attack. "Or you'll be disciplined....heavily!" she said randomly yelling but with a serious tone. "Only kidding....let's go. We have a lot of work to do, first I need to meet your families...if you don't have one, then I'll be your family from here on out." she said standing up ahead of them with her back turned.

Continuing to walk she would only hope and assume they would follow. Although her positive outlook turned grim as did her face as she realized the Nine Tailed Demon Fox was just behind her; sealed inside a person. Such responsibility carried heavy weight. Tora would need to be watched very carefully. He was extremely headstrong, but was someone you could count on to do the right thing in the end. Castus seemed destined for greatness; but his belief in his own power might guide him down the wrong path. On the other end, he saw true hope in Machi. With such skill, he still maintains a good heart on a level that not many could achieve. Not even herself. However, out of the three of them she felt Machi would have the most trouble ending someone's life. As a ninja, your life was on the line everyday that you're in the field. There's downtime, but you must always be ready. Her brother himself passing away taught her that much.

Her first missions with these three would begin soon. She hoped they were ready.