Darkness, that was it nothing to see but his own imagination. Dino had been blindfolded and put in the middle of the circle, it was a little game him and some of the older ninja of the village played. The aim of it was to dodge several shuriken without using your sight, relaying on any other sense you could use. Yet being the youngest his senses didn't help much against their skill, to get throw this game Dino relied solely on his memory the nitwits always had the same routine. This made him look like the greatest of the bunch yet didn't help him much in the training aspect of the game.

"Ready" He heard giving a nod the six of them began as Dino began to recite his steps. First left, then right, now back, duck, cartwheel forward, jump, jump forward, side step it was all to simple Dino couldn't hear a thing but he was able to dodge the repetitive actions of his colleagues.

He took a long breath before taking off his blindfold to see that they had three shuriken and they where laughing. One covering her mouth in shock, Dino noticed she was looking down and followed suit to discover they had completely destroyed his cloths. His white pants now looked like short shorts and the only thing left of his shirt was his selves which now looked like bracelets on his wrists.

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Taking off his shirt he blindfolded himself again "one more go" he told the squad. Taking a deep breath he spread his feet and cleared his mind, then he closed his eyes releasing the air in his lungs. He began to visualize his surrounding in his mind which was actual quick easy with their being nothing but sand and a fence with in a 50 meters of his position.

It seemed to Dino as though he could do just about anything right now his mind was at ease and his body, well his body was in full function. A strong wind moved across the plain kicking you sand that relentlessly hit him in the face. Now it felt like nothing was around him as if he was alone he saw in his mind two floating shuriken being tossed around, noticing he could finally hear the sound of the squad releasing and catching the shuriken. All that was needed to do was pay attention he taught as it was now easy to tell which direction the shuriken was but he still could feel where it was being thrown to until it was actually caught.

"ready" he heard again before he could respond "ready or not here we go" a feminine voice spoke out and they began. Dino began to move with confidence he was heard exactly where the shuriken would be thrown from and used that little information to move out of the projection of that person. This worked until he started being cut by the shuriken it burned like hell, this made him lose focus and everything was down hill from their.

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Again and again he was tagged by the shrunken unable to do anything about it the only thing he could sense right now was his own blood making its way to the earth. The pain was bearable, yet the feeling of defeat was in the back of his mind. Opening his eyes he could now see through the excuse of a blindfold and jumped out of the way of two incoming shrunken.

This is easy he thought as he dodged and jumped out of the way of the obstacles. And it was he could see now, he was getting bored it wasn't even a callenge with his eye sight. Dino then grabbed a shuriken out of mid-air as he pulled the blindfold down around his neck blocking the last of the shuriken. The look of disbelief filled his comrades faces, Dino just proceeded with the games passing on the blindford.

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