Board Thread:Konoha Logs/@comment-24937485-20161221203824/@comment-30271674-20161223020845

Riku remained still until he heard the approaching footsteps of another person. Although he didn't recognize it, his over-imaginitive mind sought that it was the same wolf of before ready to tear into him and Reo. Springing into action, he threw himself from the ground and picked up a near stick from the ground; holding it like a sword as he stared down Kyo.

"DAMN YOU BEAST, I'LL SLAY—Oh, hey there Kyo. Wasn't expecting you here, you come around these parts often?"

The painfully oblivious genin propped the stick in front of him and leaned on it before Reo called out his shot towards some balloon. Now, for anyone else this probably wouldn't have concerned them at all, but for Riku if it was shiny enough it'd probably entice him. He turned around, taking sight of the tree and quickly affixing his gaze to the balloon in question. Riku watched as Reo let loose his arrow, hitting the balloon with dead accuracy and falling out of it was a small scroll.

Riku took off in a sprint, throwing the stick away letting his arm lazily just flail beside him while he bent down low like some cringy kid in middle shool imitating—oh. Well.

At his last step, even though the scroll had already fallen to the ground, he tackled the scroll rolling away from the rigged tree before beginning to examine it with his piercing eyes. With haste, Riku unraveled the scroll and beheld its vague contents: The number 57.

Drowning at the introspection he couldn't even spell, Riku was confronted by a mind-shattering solution that his mind simply made up given he had no true knowledge for the meaning of this number.

"Truly, an unbelievable test of gargantuan proportions that even my brilliant mind almost couldn't decipher. 5 looks like a snake, and so does a 7. What do snakes symbolize? Traitors. One of us is a mole!"

Riku turned around, his vocal chords squeezed shut as he made out a long-winded rasp while he looked on towards the others in what might have been confusion, stupidity, or mayhaps even just shock at his own ignorant claim.