EVENT TRAVEL - CHUUNIN EXAMS

[Deleted]

Tenshi pulled out her map and compass once she was away from the waterfall pool that hid her new home. If she remembered her geography right....yes, there. Although Waterfall country was coastal, having sea access in the northern area, the island of Moon Country was in the eastern continental sea. And in that direction from the north shore of Waterfall jutted out Lightning country, resembling nothing so much as a highly inconvenient phallus. Sailing around that would take days she didn't really have. Of course, it would be a good idea to mark the location of home on her map so as not to get lost on the return. But she had no pen. That wasn't very convenient. Improvising, she performed her Fire Stamp on a nearby tree, leaving a deep burn. She would then remove a twig and whittle it to a point against the side of the arboreal giant. So pointed, she dug the slim edge into the burned seal, coating it with charcoal and scratching her position onto her map. Viola, makeshift pencil.

Anyway, based on her map she would have to head...south, to Fire Country. They had their own Hidden Village there it was said, but she didn't know where it was and Fire Country was a large place. The odds of her straying too near and being assaulted were quite slim. That was for the best, most likely.

So she would set off at a relatively leisurely pace, following her compass to the south while keeping an eye out for a halfway decent road. Once she had located one, the flat ground and lack of vegetation getting in the way would provide the perfect track upon which to gain speed, unleashing her full capabilities as a taijutsu master. It was still quite a long run, and her stamina wasn't infinite, so eventually she found herself napping in the back of a wagon headed in the same direction. The traveling craftsman at its head was fairly easy on the eyes too.

Waterfall Country had such nice people.


[used map+compass combo ftw]

[Deleted]

Moving.

[Deleted]

Right, so, Fire Country. Hanging out in the back of some random traveling craftsman's wagon. Probably not something she would endorse normally, but hey, he was from Waterfall. Waterfall Country people were always so darn nice, all the time. Probably didn't even lock their doors at night.

Well, whatever. She was well enough rested, and they'd stopped a while to eat some breakfast. The guy was sharing his limited supply of bacon. How is that not someone to like? Although she did kind of feel bad. Regardless, the dock she wanted was about a day's travel east from here if she pushed hard, but Chris - that was his name, apparently - was going to continue south. So it was time they parted. She had rather limited funding, which she would likely need in order to secure passage on a ship to Moon, and also to buy important things like FOOD, so she couldn't even pay him for his generosity.

Perhaps she could repay him later, if they ever met again? That would be best. She swiped the pen from his ledger in the back and returned to write out an I.O.U., which he proceeded to shred. Okay, no strings attached. Good deal. If one of them would actually speak it would be better, but their bond was one now that required no words. It was the respect between fellow travelers, those who would trot the globe towards ends known only to themselves and to their God or gods.

So she traveled on foot again, until reaching a forest. Always with the forests. The things were everywhere. Had had nobody decided to hack every one of these obviously centuries-old trees down to use in construction and paper? Surely the world population wasn't so low that it wasn't able to use trees faster than they were replaced?

Environmental and industrial queries aside, the swiftest way trough was via the branches, since the roots below would only trip her up if she tried to run down there. So she climbed up the side of one easily using the technique taught to every academy student, and away she went. Her map was stowed, but the compass had her bearing correct-ish. Minor deviations caused by the alignment of the forest canopy mostly.

While made the shore at sunset, she was apparently too far south and needed to head north a ways to charter a boat to moon. Once there, all she had to do was uncover the metal plate on her scarf that denoted she was a Takigakure Kunoichi. Passage for ninja to Moon Country was free, along with meals, as it was hosting a large event for ninja from around the globe and thus paid fair preemptively, expecting to profit a hundredfold from the tourism attracted.

She should have paid Chris. Oh well.

Shortly thereafter they would set sail in full night. Not particularly adept at astral navigation, Tenshi could keep track of what direction they were headed through her compass, but could not determine their relative position for herself. Lucky for her that was somebody else's job.

Perhaps she would make good time, arriving some time tomorrow. Or perhaps the trip would take longer still. Either way, her bunk was practically calling her name. Crossing a large nation on foot in only a day was frankly exhausting.


[Compass'd]

[KoKoKo]

Moving

[Deleted]

Having docked again in moon, Tenshi headed into the wilds. She had directions now, to her end destination. People from Moon were so NICE. Almost as nice as the Waterfall denizens, but not quite. Back in Wind? Those guys were bonkers.

[exit]