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It was friday night and the lights were low, the most useless member of the spider clan who brought nothing but embarrassment Xiao was looking for a place to go, somewhere that played the right music, he just wanted to get into the swing of everything and enjoy his time in Konohagakure that though was different in location certainly seemed to hold a similar, yet possibly more lax, ethos about it. The little spider was once more found in the sparring grounds, seemingly drawn to it as it tended to be the place to be to meet those that might be interesting enough to add to his collection of allies that grew by the minute. Xiao's friendly and outspoken nature may have irritated many shinobi but one could not deny that through that irritation he had also garnered the respect of some of his enemies through his determination like a bird flying into a window again and again there was something both sad and endearing about his useless actions that seemed to bring amusement to himself and himself alone.

Walking towards the large ring of prospective chuunin applicants with his typical items - a literal soap box, well, a crate that housed apples once before but it was in fact a crate and even that should have brought astonishment to some let alone trying to find a soap box in the day and age of the shinobi that shot lasers from their wrists on a whim. The little spider made his way to the center of the sand covered area and dropped the soap box once again and proceeded to stand a top it.

"Isn't that the guy who keeps getting beat up?"

"Oh god here we go again..."

"Wow! Uh, I'm like so cringing! Uhh does this cringey guy ever stop? like wow. I can't even"

The crowd murmured and spat venom towards the venomous spider-nin but as per usual he simply shrugged it off. He was enjoying himself, he found himself funny and that in itself was reward enough and so he began to make a makeshift megaphone with his hands and began to announce himself in a dramatic fashion swinging his head and flamboyantly bowing and waving his hands like that of a dancer to draw in the crowd.

"Ladies, Gentlemen and that wonderful rainbow in between...and cat. 'Cause apparently that is a thing. I present to you the grand challenge, the next step towards entertainment, a fight for the ages that has been brewing since the dawn of time..."

Xiao announced his silver tongue or rather capacity to spout off enough words to deafen even the most proud metal head once more coming in handy in these particular events.

"...the undefeated Spider-Nin stands before you! Demanding a challenge that will not only bring high spirits to us but so too will wake the dead themselves! Dare anyone face me...?"

"We keep seeing you fight. You keep losing. Please leave us alone!"

As Xiao finished a man rose from the back of the crowd, a prospective chuunin who angrily commented. Xiao simply shrugged and ignored the comment moving his finger along the crowd until spying that of which he wanted.

"You there! Leaf shinobi...Are you a bad enough to stand like a mighty oak against the spider or will you make like a tree and..."

Before Xiao finished he looked behind him giving an unseen wink below his mask to the crowd.

"...Leaf."