All aboard who's coming aboard!

[Hoarfrost Imp]

Back from her shopping it occurred to the Hyuuga,...she didn't wait up for her comrade. Returning with her two shortswords, enhanced katana, burendo, Tessaiga, red princess and much more like her compass and world map, it became her duty to just continue onward. They were close to wind and she needed to make it there for the sake of finding a proper Busosen teacher or something else of the like. She only looked for a minues and even then she only looked left to right, back through Aokusa and along its streets immediately outside the shop. "Surely I wasn't running that fast..." Maybe Aimi was just slow? She shrugged it off and just set course for Ame, needing to cross borders as quick and seamlessly as possible so that she may continue on her quest. She kept a sharp eye out for her companion of travel, he was a nice guy she was just broken, no need for her to put that on him.

[Aimi Kaguya]

Aimi had given up trying to keep pace with her after roughly half an hour, letting her run on ahead of him. They weren't too terribly far from Aokusa and he was just too tired for all the running. He'd get there eventually, besides, she apparently needed to go get a sword in Aokusa. While she was shopping around, he could find them a hotel. The sun was setting low on the horizon by the time Aimi got into the city. He still wasn't feeling the greatest, but walking the majority of the distance rather than running had been a big help. He still ached all over though, he wasn't in any good shape to be traveling over night.

As he walked through the city streets and the crowds of people, he spied Rahael. Glad to have found her, he made his way through the crowd over towards her and let out a sigh, smiling and joking, "Didn't anyone ever tell you to wait up for the temporarily crippled?" Looking both ways down the street with her back beside him, he mused to himself, "We should find a hotel for the evening... get an early start in the morning, get there by nightfall tomorrow..."

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

Next time leave a line that says something like..

"Travel to Ame, please." - It makes it a lot easier when you're talking of multiple cities in multiple countries. Moving to Ame, I suppose and hope thats where you want to go.

[Hoarfrost Imp]

Approached from the sidelines before skipping off outside of town, into the perpetual rain of...well...Rain country. "Crippled??" She piped up with a low chuckle, eyes shifting to and fro, the way she laughed being less about improper mannerisms and just ironic she hadn't thought about the side effects of the Gates on the body. "Well, that handicap is strictly your fault, isn't it?" That could lead to a can of worms that need not be opened but then again she was back to herself, the Oto soldier, the calm visage of a very distraught individual. As they walked and the rain matted her hair she had to periodically swipe her her from her eyes, drenching her collar ever the more.

"Stopping isn't an option. We are not far form Wind and the ground form here on out is mostly marshland that is easily circumvented by using the trees to travel." She didn't slow nor stop, taking her built momentum to leap towards the trunk of a tower tree here swollen in height form all the rain. Not climbing too high so that Aimi might keep up, she simply leaped from tree to tree, holding their conversation if he chose to follow. "Once we pick up this Master are we going to have to stay in Wind or are you free to simply travel again?" Her thoughts vaguely went to the time she met that religious nut, Zenovia in Sand and they walked all around with one another...those were great times. Maybe she would run into her friend again.

{Travel to Wind after next post.}

[Aimi Kaguya]

Traveling to Rain had been just as exhausting as Aimi had feared it would be. With Rahael not wanting to stop so that he could rest at a hotel, his options were either stay behind and rest or keep going and deal with the pain in his body until he recovered on the road. He'd elected to go with her rather than stay behind, as he was worried for her sake. So he'd traveled with her to this wet land, doing his best to ignore her comments about how he'd brought his pain on himself and resisting the urge to say it was by extension her fault. Still, traveling had been fun with her thus far! Her temperament had improved greatly since when he'd first seen her in the field of grass and he was enjoying her company. Honestly, it was the most fun he'd had in a long while.

Getting to the base of the tree, Aimi elected to walk up it rather than jump like Rahael had. It'd been a while since he used the gates, and even though he'd only used them for a handful of seconds his body was still sore, but he was doing much better so he didn't get too far behind his Hyuuga companion. "I should be fine to travel with you for a little while longer once we find a master," he called out, jumping from tree to tree behind her. "I'll have to head back to the Kusagakure before too awfully long though. The Chunin Exams are right around the corner after all!" he said, in much better spirits about the whole thing than he had been a couple of days ago.

[To the Windy country!

[Yoshi [Lynx!]]

Moving to Wind.

[Aimi Kaguya]

The land of Wind was like nothing Aimi had seen before. As soon as they had left the wetlands of the land of rain, they were within the dry bad lands that he had never visited before. After the long trek though the cold rain, he was glad for the warmth if nothing else. Though still damp from the rain, the genin stepped out into the sunlight as a new man almost. He'd long since recovered from his usage of the gates and the trail there had been an enjoyable one with Rahael at his side.

As they walked across the desert sands and cracked earth, they were happened upon by a white haired man wearing a blue kimono with a sword at his hip. Seeing the two of them with swords, the man bowed to the two shinobi and told them, "A pleasure to meet two fellow swords man."

"You wouldn't happen to know Bousen would you?" Aimi asked the man who nodded in return. "Yes actually I do, and am looking for a student at the moment... but just one student."

Looking to Rahael, Aimi blinked for a moment before saying quickly without taking a breath, "FirstonetosaynotitgetshimasasenseiNOTIT!" Smiling to himself, Aimi stepped away from Rahael and towards his new sensei before asking, "You wouldn't happen to know what day it is, would you?"

"It's the 18th," the man replied cooly, contradictory to the hot desert around them. Aimi heart dropped. It was that late already!? He had to leave! Turning to his Hyuuga companion, he said to her, "Sorry but I have to go, now! The Chunin Exams are quite literally around the corner now and I've gotta get going! I'll see you around" With that said, Aimi grabbed his new sensei by the sleeve and dragged him back towards the way he'd come, leaving Rahael to the sands and to find her own master. A shame he couldn't be around to help her find one, but time was of the essence and he had to leave! Hopefully one day soon they'd get to meet up again... Aimi would have liked that.

[exit]