After bringing back the rabbit to the homes and collecting her strange bounty of eggs, there was an eggsplosion coming from the distance, when Aya heard a childs' cry out in terror and the wails of innocent bystanders, Aya felt her heart sink, it seemed that this world too had its troubles, although she wished deeply for this to have been a place of perfection and serenity. Her features hardening and anger welling up within her body, she charged at a speed which would have normally ripped the earth up beneath her feet, and made a crater for all to see, though, her anger was reserved, she controlled her force and distributed it across the ground as she ran, ensuring that she did not obliterate the area around her as she moved. Arriving on the scene Aya saw the catastrophe, and a smile came to her face, it had seemed that it was little more than a practical joke, the area had exploded into a vast array of dye which had plastered rainbow colours across the area, as well as all across the faces and clothes of the people who were within the blast range, creating blast shadows behind them, much like it would if the source had of been heat, rather than paint.

Aya looked at the eggs, and asked the people what had been going on, they siad that there had been a serial prankster laying these eggs around the paddock among the eggs which children would normally collect this time of year. The first few times it had been funny, but, it had become somewhat of a fad, and some people were beginning to get a little sick of it. Aya thought that the stance was fair enough, and decided to give a hand in the hunting of the nasty eggs which seemed to be a plague to the people here, hoping to protect the children, but namely their mothers, from the work of needing to clean the festive clothing, or likely replace them due to the dye, though, Aya did think that, would the dye job have been comprehensive and hit the back of the person, the outfit would have likely been improved. But, such was her own opinions....

Getting to work Aya used her sensory technique in an attempt to find the eggs, activating her sage mode as she had gotten a little more used to the alien feel of the ambient chakra in the area. as she wandered she was able to feel the chakra coming from each of the eggs and was thus able to tell if the insides were that of chocolate, caramel, or nasty paint explosives which were sure to detonate upon a child removing the colourful wrapper on the egg and expose what should have been a delightful treat. Using this, combined with her own extreme perception she managed to scoop up no less than a bakers dozen of the trick eggs relatively quickly putting them on ice with her ice corruption technique to ensure that they would not explode when handled by anyone, the dye within them having been frozen solid, it would not be spraying anyone, anymore.

Though the culprit was yet to be caught, Aya offered the concerned mother to find him for her, but the woman declined, saying that it seemed for every one of the rebellious children making the detonating devices that they removed, there would always be another couple to take their place and keep the fun going. And that, although it was a pain for the parents, the kids did love the element of risk in the event, and that it had become almost a tradition. And so, they then parted ways. But, at least Aya had helped, not to mention that only 4 of the explosive eggs were handed over to the woman, Aya kept two for herself... presents for the twins when she got back... The look on their faces would be

priceless.~

(Fin 662 words)