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The season was over.  Dried sakura crunched under his boots as he walked through the forest that had once seemed so alive.  A slight shift in the breeze warned him of something in the air.  Raising his hand, Ibiki caught a dried flower that had just fallen off a branch.  Not looking at it, he closed his fist and heard the same sound his boots made as he walked. A nearby tree has a freshly made mark on the underside of a branch indicating a Konoha strike team had passed recently.  The mark would be gone within a few days, a special gel had been applied to the surface of the tree promoting the rapid regrowth of bark.  It did not take him long