And Amajina can't sense her, either.

This is very alarming.

She alerts her sensei, scours Konoha and the surrounding area as best she can without alerting the Konoha shinobi that something's up - 

They don't find anything, not even enough to have suspicions. Elieyha hadn't said anything was wrong, Amajina hadn't felt anything change - 

They're in the dark.

She has no real choice but to just show up to the third exam, and hope Elieyha's present for their fight.

Elieyha's there, with all the other contestants... But she looks less like the last time they saw each other, and more like the first time.

She tries to make meaningful eye contact! (And Isobu pokes Shukaku, concerned.)

Nothing. On either end.

...That is alarming.

Does Elieyha feel like Elieyha, chakra-wise?

She's a little rough again, but mostly, yes.

Nnnnn.

She keeps shooting Elieyha concerned glances - even if Elieyha's been... Mind wiped??? She should be reacting threateningly... And Shukaku should be screaming at Isobu. (Poke!!!)

Amajina - doesn't know what else to do, though, as the opening speeches finish and the beginning of their match is called.

"You ready for our fight?" she asks, almost softly, scanning Elieyha's face and chakra for - 

Anything.

Elieyha's face twists in a snarl-

-and a curtain of sand descends to protect her, as hateful chakra begins pulsing out.

" - Elieyha?" she calls, alarmed, and - something is really, really wrong - 

The erupting sand tanuki would support that assessment.

As would the silent audience - and the explosion from the Kage box, a fireball engulfing the Mizukage, Hokage, Kazekage, and their retinues, Asano Shinrei naturally among them - and an outburst of fighting in the stands, between far more Suna and Oto shinobi than should have been present and the rapidly beleaguered Konoha shinobi -

There is a lot of water in a city.

Amajina mostly tries not to compromise any structural integrity in the building - in the blocks surrounding her, her panicked chakra washing out like waves - as every faucet bursts, every tank twists itself open, wells filling - a wall of water slams between her and Shukaku as she frantically reaches for more - and a shell of salt forms around her body, Isobu's chakra surging out.

" - Fuck," Sayuri says, up in the competitor's stands, hand falling to her sword.

"Yeah," Elaise agrees.

Possibly that was not an emphatic enough 'fuck.'

The kage and their retinues emerge from the fireball unsinged, of course, they're powerful jounin at the weakest - and roots and then trees surge up the outer walls of the coliseum, shattering the roof, cutting off the Sandaime Hokage from meeting with reinforcements.

At the apex of the trees - a greyed out form, the grave dust that's become his body crumbling and reforming, a tormented look on his face -

Who else but the Shodai Hokage, one of the greatest legends Konoha has ever produced.

The stands are already collapsing under the weight, load bearing walls buckling as roots shove through concrete.

Cursing would be a waste of valuable breath.

The Water Daimyo is in those stands - conscious, where the other daimyo have fallen under the genjutsu. (Apparently, the other warlords have forgotten the war part of their claim to power.) His sword is in his hands, and he's in the same echelon as Mei's jounin-level advisors, but - there's a good number of shinobi of Oto trying to kill him, and waves can collapse an island in time -

There's a Konoha missing-nin who apparently would rather like to catch Kiri in his blast, and undead mind controlled Kage - at least one, she won't be shocked if there's others -

And there's a village in flames. The invasion isn't just at this building.

There's people dying. Shinrei isn't the sensor her student is, but - this sort of thing could never happen without deaths.

She wasn't a kage for very long, but she has lived through one of the bloodiest periods in her country's history. She can see, clearly, the paths of this battle - can see the closing opportunity for her and Mei to disengage, and she'll need to grab her genin on the way out - might need to drag them, they're attached - and their passage will make a path for the Water Daimyo to retreat down, too -

She can see how to get Kiri more or less cleanly out of this.

She can see Konoha burned. Sarutobi is an old man. He's no match for this, and Orochimaru has caught him shamefully on the back foot. She can see one of the Great Villages destroyed, its daimyo dead, his heir still too young for the throne. The Kazekage - already dead, if she doesn't miss her mark, and she doubts Orochimaru will let Suna out cleanly - another Great Village destroyed, another daimyo deceased, and Wind's situation is precarious, and there's a high potential for a succession crisis -

She can see a world containing a man with the most powerful of their dead as his puppets. If this technique is what she suspects - she can see a tide unstoppable if left to gain momentum.

She can see a massacre like nothing before, even if this fire doesn't spread beyond this one city's limits. Konoha is the most populous of the Hidden Villages by a wide margin, the second most populous city in a fertile country bursting with people.

She's gotten to know this city over the last month.

There are a lot of children here.

She glances at Mei, her commander, and sees -

The Mizukage has seen the same things she has.

Mei nods, slightly, and the heartbeat passes.

It's Shinrei who sends out the message. Mei is rather busy with an opening assault on the Shodai Hokage, destroying his trees and harrying him away from the city, and Shinrei's techniques are more distant, more welcoming to multitasking.

Protect the daimyo and aid the evacuation. Suna, Oto are our enemies.

Kiri brought enough to this to make - perhaps enough of a difference.

To her students: Take Shukaku off the board.

They'll damn well do their best.

The arena's fairly close to the edge of the village, if they can push the One Tail out and into the forest (not in the same direction as the tree ninja) they'll have more room to work. If Sayuri can try to cast a genjutsu to disorient and Amajina try to physically push it with her water, Elaise will help help harry the beast out. Her sword's plain steel, so she can't charge it directly, but even converting chakra to lightning and then sending that into the blade will increase its penetrating power.

She can do that. 

- And Sayuri glances around for the other competitors. (For Chihiro.)

Chihiro is skulking around the edges of fights to hamstring or backstab Suna and Oto nin who are distracted fighting other chunin or jounin.

Tobi is heading to help clear a path for evacuating the arena, leading Lee into the fight.

And Naruto is fully capable of serving as a one man evacuation team, it appears.

(They better survive this.)

Sayuri signals to Amajina, and joins the fight against Shukaku.

She's good at genjutsu - and while it's not fully active, her bloodline gives her an edge against bijuu - 

And Amajina is excellent at picking fights. 

Does Shukaku want to go tango in the woods? (Perhaps, even, near this rather large river?)

While he is obviously very angry, Shukaku does not seem to be demonstrating the full quality of his intelligence and cunning.

Team Shinrei can, with not too much difficulty, herd the berserk bijuu out to more favorable ground.