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"Actually I think my world has those?" Tetsuma whispers back, then freezes when the deer's ears twitch.

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...he very carefully crouches down and grabs a rock...

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The weird deer glances around, but goes back to grazing.

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...this dear has way too good hearing. He throws the rock a couple metres that way, close to the ground so they'll make barely a sound—

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The deer bolts!

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Sigh.

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"...I can probably catch it?" Tetsuma says, squinting after the deer. It's not running away very fast, and she can still see it through the trees.

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"—if you think you can go ahead I guess? I can't, not amidst these trees."

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"This'll probably be messy," she warns, then darts full-speed after the deer, leaving a dent in the ground behind her and leaping into the tree-tops. 

...She's just realized that her aim's not good enough with a thrown knife to do anything quick to an erratically moving target. 

Slamming into it at speed should work, right?

She manages to bruise her shoulder and ribs in the process, but finishes the deer - which up close is a lot bigger than the water deer native to her homeland - off without losing her hand to its snapping fangs (definitely not a water deer), and then awkwardly hauls it back to Dayo. 

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Tetsuma grins somewhat sheepishly. "Um. Yeah I realized I hadn't thought that through about when I was already doing it. Wanna head back to camp?"

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"Yeah. Need any help with that?"

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"If you could carry it for a bit that'd be great - managed to bruise my shoulder, and medical jutsu doesn't do bruises well."

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"—I'm pretty sure I can't carry it on my own. Er, does the whole chakra thing make you vastly stronger than baseline?" he asks, eyeing Tetsuma's frame.

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Tetsuma's a bit short, but decently muscled. More like she's built for flexibility than strength, though.

She blinks. "You know, I've never thought about that. Maybe? I can carry twice my weight with proper support without needing to use chakra, and this is a bit less heavy than me. Mostly carrying it is putting my shoulder at a weird angle, so I can carry it fine, I'll just need to rest my shoulder for longer after."

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"...I cannot carry twice my weight. I can... maybe carry my weight for like ten seconds? I can drag my weight."

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"...Okay yeah, probably a chakra thing. I'd get tired very quickly carrying twice my weight, but carrying another person my size is doable even over distance."

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"I can probably help you carry that, though."

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" - That'd require a bit of logistics, but I can probably make a frame? Like, a pole with shoulder rests to tie it to, some rope or twine - wire won't be any good..." She mutters to herself for a bit, considering how to make anything like a rope with her wood manipulation. "Vines should work fine..."

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"Yeah, way to do it is tie it to a pole of some kind and carry either end of it on our shoulders, and I have rope."

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"That's even better. I can make a sturdy pole more quickly than we can find one, though." She thinks for a moment, then forms a ram seal, focusing to make an appropriately sized pole rise from the ground.

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So they can tie their game to the pole, yes?

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Yup! And head back to camp?

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Indeed!

...the part where they turn the animal into food is less obvious.

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Tetsuma actually knows how to do that! And has a set of knives suitable for the various tasks involved.

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