Takigakure's Entrance - Shibuki Cave

OOC: To enter Takigakure, one must enter through here. Also, it would only make sense for you to know how to get there first. ;P

Like the twisting and turning roots of a tree, this cave had many paths, most of which were dead end, while others just led to other regions of the cave or exits not leading to the Village. There was only one path to Takigakure from here, and if you don't know how to swim or hold your breath, you weren't getting there....at least that's what any non-villagers would think when in fact there was one more path, only known by Jounin and any others of the Village holding some type of high status. This path was only to be used sometimes. Too much frequent use would allow for others to potentially find it, but considering the fact that even this path broke off into multiple others, it was virtually impossible. Arai happened to take the walking path this time. It didn't take him too long as he had been running and also the fact that the true path was pretty short, just as the path through water [swimming] which most other ninja and people migrating though the village were required to use. Arai still had on his black, Uchiha jacket, and the same clothing that his sister had seen him in earlier.

Finally, he made it to the caved room where the entrance to the Swimming Village Entrance was located. There were about thirty separate swimming holes, each about 4-5 feet in radius and where they led, not everyone could tell or know. Some were dead ends and others led to other parts of the cave, but only one was a true entrance into Takigakure No Sato. Arai walked past many of them on his way to the last path leading to the entrance of the Cave, and into the Land of Fire. As he walked, he could finally see the sunlight once again. Birds flew past the cave and he could clearly see the dirt pathway with trees along the side...

At this point, Arai ran...easily reaching the entrance within a few seconds. He walked out of the Cave and stood in place for a minute or two, his gaze falling upon the area and carefully searching it out as best he could without physically doing anything to strenuous. Everything looked okay to him so he looked to his left, seeing the caution sign for any lurkers entering the cave. Everyone knew that somehow this cave led to Takigakure, but the question was How do you navigate your way to safely get to the Village without dieing first?

Arai decided everything looked okay and decided to keep on going. He began his trek, first pulling out a map and holding it out. He looked at it and smiled.

The sign read:




Just so you guys can understand the Layout of this cave before Magically finding Takigakure.. Here is a Diagram.



Cave Entrance--Room of 30+ Swimming Holes. ONLY 1 of them leads to Takigakure or you can take the Cave Path. If so, you must travel past this room-->Path leads to at least 10 paths.--> Take 1 path to get to another area with at least another 7 paths.--> Then, take another path which will lead to about 5 paths.--> 1 of these paths is the True Path and will lead you to Takigakure.

OOC: Note: Each Path is about .5 Miles long and all of them look the same. There are no keys or signs that would give the Village's entrance away to any unwanted Visitors, unless allied with the Village...or you logically RP out how you find us.
If you have any questions, just ask since this is set up to be like Takigakure in the anime.