Nonsuch Embassy [Konoha Embassy]

[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

Time to Sell my Soul

Hitora awoke from a slight nap that he had fallen into whilst he had waited for his interrogator to arrive so that they could begin. She did not speak much, she merely stated the most obvious facts and handed him a pen and a piece of paper for him to sign. Blinking a bit the Uchiha began to read the paper she had handed him, this first one at least had at least three different options for his interrogation, he then noticed that in her hand she had an envelope that seemed to be full of papers and documents.

He wondered just how many pieces of paper he would need to sign, he knew that it would be difficult to get back in but…all this bureaucracy was insane. He sighed and scanned the three options once again, none of them were particularly pleasing nor really displeasing, they all had benefits that the others lacked but also some of them were just…disturbingly intrusive in his opinion. It took him a moment before he signed once more and said “Well…I was always a fan of the classics I guess…” He then checked the box for the first option known as the classical one.

Hitora then signed his name, Hitora Uchiha his birth name, on the bottom and held the paper out to the woman along with the pen, slightly hoping that it would be the end of the paperwork he would need to sign. He hoped that the rest was for her to sign to transfer the man into the village, though he also knew that likely that was not going to be the case at all. Hitora also knew that if he really needed to gain an advantage in this, he still had his Sharingan but he hoped that he would not need to utilize this ability…

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"Oh, excellent," Tarah replied, smiling as she took the signed document and put it in the envelope. "I'll go make some copies of this, make the appropriate preparations, and then we'll begin right afterwards."

With that, Tarah took the piece of paper and left the room. She took it over to the embassy offices and had them use their technology to copy the paper as necessary. In there end, there would be one original and five copies of the signed piece of paper. There would also be two separate holodisk records should more copies be needed.

That complete, Tarah walked outside and flew up to one of the rooftop buildings in the capital. There, she created five shadow clones and sat with them. They sung and drained life from the surroundings until their energy was restored, and then Tarah went back down to the embassy.

"We're going with the classical," Tarah mentioned to Janice.

Janice nodded, put on the diamond necklace, and then left to go to a nearby cafe to have some relaxation time.

Tarah held out her arms at let eight little bits of biomass drip off. The biomass grew as it fell, and eight little, muscular yaks formed out of it. Their eyes glowed with deadly orange energy. With her entourage of small yaks, Tarah went back inside the interrogation room.

"Okay," she said, smiling again. "Let's begin."

Five astral projections, one from each of the shadow clones, appeared surrounding Hitora: one on the left, one right, two behind, and one right next to Tarah. They were multicolored spirits, and each one except the one right next to Tarah stared intently at Hitora.

"Please answer promptly. I will ask a next question as soon as you answer a current one," she said, sitting down and pulling a blank notebook out of her envelope.

She pulled out a pen and began to scribble notes, mainly the answers to her questions. Additionally, she activated her soul vision so that she could read the emotions of Hitora while listening to his answers.

The five astral projections focused entirely on Hitora as the questioning went. The eight small yaks wandered around aimlessly. They were focused mostly on listening to things, although two of them did go under the table to watch anything Hitora might do underneath it.

"What is your full name?"
"What shinobi villages have you been a part of during your entire life?"
"Why are you considering joining Konoha?"
"Did you get permission from your previous village to join this one?"
"Are you still in contact with anyone from a previous village?"
"What is your most powerful ability, in your opinion?"
"What is a list of your abilities in general, such as specific clans and elemental releases?"
"What is your greatest weakness?"
"If we needed to defeat or restrain for any reason, what is the most effective way to do so?"
"Do you plan to perform any missions for Konoha?"
"If you were given a mission directly from the Hokage without asking for it, will you perform it to the best of your ability?"
"What is your most valuable possession that isn't directly attached to your body?"
"Do you have any allergies or crippling weak points?"
"Are there any abilities of yours that will allow you to tell lies without detection?"

Tarah laughed a bit at the last question. "Oh sorry, I'm not sure who put that question in there. I suppose that's meant to be a joke. Anyway, please feel free to tell me if you would like to take a break. We're through about one tenth of the questions so far, give or take."

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[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

Thank God for scrollbars.

Hitora blinked as the woman left, he was a bit confused but his confusion was batted away like ball shortly thereafter. A few minutes after she left she returned with…his eyes had to be deceiving him, tiny yaks with orange eyes. If he was not sure he would likely be attacked for doing so, the man would have activated his Sharingan to make sure that the yaks were not some sort of strange Genjutsu. Then suddenly several astral projections of the woman had appeared as she pulled out a notebook and a pen to scribble whatever he was about to answer down.

She had a series of questions, which he answered as honestly as he could. “My Full name is Hitora Uchiha, though I have also gone by the name you said earlier which is Hitora Ryunobu. I have formerly been a member of Konoha though I had left many years ago when the Uchiha were dying off to the second village I resided in which was Amegakure, other than that I’ve never lived in any other villages. I am joining because my…instructor, whom…kidnapped me from Amegakure said I should come here if I wish to become stronger, she seems to be an acquaintance of this Rize woman…

I did not get permission from my previous Kage to come here as I said I was kidnapped against my will by a woman I only know as Morgan. I am not in contact with Amegakure nor its Kage. As for my most powerful ability…it would be a tie between my Sharingan and my ability to summon and manipulate lava. As for a list of my abilities including the two I just mentioned I am skilled with Katon, Raiton, Doton, Suiton, Mokuton, Boxing, a Fighting style I only know as Brawling, I can utilize the Shunshin technique, as well as the use of some Genjutsu though I’ve only just started in on that. I can also form one-handed handseals.

My greatest weakness…would have to be I can become cocksure of my own abilities and get myself into trouble or over my head I would imagine. I imagine the best way to restrain me would be an immensely powerful Genjutsu, something that would be hard for even the Sharingan to break, that and restraining me so that I can’t utilize any close combat techniques. I do plan to perform missions for Konoha, as a Shinobi I expect that is expected of anyone.

I would perform all the missions given to me to the best of my ability or rather to the best suited response to it, regardless of if the Hokage ordered it or not; that said I would do my best in any mission given by the Hokage himself. The most valuable thing I own that isn’t on my body…tough question…” For the first real time Hitora stopped speaking for a moment and took up a posture that made him look like he was in deep thought as he went through all the items he had owned.

“Assuming you mean value of sentiment then it would be a good Kunai, since that is a handy tool, as for monetary value…I’d have to have everything I own evaluated as at this moment I don’t know their value off the top of my head. As for allergies or crippling weaknesses…none that I know of or have been diagnosed as having by a medical professional. I do have abilities that would let me tell lies without detection, though without my Sharingan active I cannot do such.” Hitora had been staring unblinkingly for this whole chat, his eyes never once switching into his Sharingan.

Hitora smiled at the woman and said “I could use a glass of water however, after all that I am rather parched.” Hitora was answering honestly, there were no direct falsehoods to see, he had been told by Morgan to be honest afterall, and he had no reason to lie as that was a stupid decision when trying to get others to trust him in this case. For the short term lying was fine, but this was a long term decision, lying now would only bite him in the ass down the line.

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Tarah nodded, closing her notebook for a moment as she walked to the door and had the ANBU call for someone to get water for them.

The astral projections faded away. On the rooftop, the five shadow clones sung soft songs one after another to restore the chakra they needed. Tarah noted their absence and made sure to keep the pacing of her questions in mind for the next section of questions.

Her yaks remained. They wandered about like little pups while the questions were not their concern. Two always remained under the table, though, but they took turns for the heck of it.

Eventually, when water arrived, Tarah went to pick it up from the door. She passed her notebook to the ANBU and her him go and make some copies. While she waited for him to return, she filled two glasses with water for her and Hitora. She slid Hitora’s glass across the table over to him, and then took a drink from her own.

“You old enough to drink?” she asked, putting down her half-full cup. “Feel free to ask for anything stronger than water. We’re not against indulgences.”

Tarah was stretching when there was a new knock on the door. She went to it and regained her notebook. She thanked the ANBU agent, and then sat opposite Hitora once again. Before getting to the next set of questions, she filled her glass with more water, in case she was parched again.

Just on time, the astral projections returned in the same positions as last time.

This time, when reading the questions, Tarah paused between answers and questions to give the astral projections time to recharge and reappear one at a time, so that they were always ready to go.

“Now then, how did you leave Konoha the first time?”
“How would you describe your personality? In particular, are you more suited to being a lone agent or a team member?”
“What recent accomplishments can you point to that help prove your strengths?”
“Besides being kidnapped, what failures have you recently experienced that show what you need to improve on?”
“What trainings and other forms of self-improvement are you putting yourself through right now?”
“What is your ideal end goal in terms of dreams and careers?”
“Why do you respect the most at this current time, and how had you come to respect them in that way?”
“Using your unique skill set, can you think of three completely different methods of assassinating a target in a well-defended fortress? What might they be, in short two or three sentence summaries?”
“What would be examples of big enough incentives for you to break loyalties and change sides in any situation? Moral, physical, economic, and other types of incentives are all on the table.”
“If you were responsible for providing the best possible protection for an escort, how would you travel with them in forest, plains, sea, underground, and sky terrains?”

[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

Grab a Snack, its a long one.

Hitora picked up the glass of water from the table and took a sip, he then nodded to her question of if he were old enough for alcohol, and said “Whilst you might not be against indulgences, an intoxicated person might be less honest or informative to your questions, and that is something we both can agree we’d rather not have at this moment.” Hitora then took another sip of the water, placing the cup down as he watched the goings on in the room, waiting for all of the movement to settle down some. The astral projections seemingly disappearing and reappearing in turn as if they needed to charge some.

The questions soon were started again, the interrogation was to continue it seemed. “The first time I left was via a secret passage in my old home during all the chaos of the Uchiha massacre, I’m sure by now that passage is long since gone or at least not safe to use due to lack of maintenance and care given to it. My Personality…I’m a good guy I would assume, as for a lone agent or a team player, I can do either, doesn’t really matter which when it comes to me.

Accomplishments? I am a user of the Lava Style, was not easy getting that, I’ve more or less mastered it, just need a bit more practice I would imagine but I do know all of the techniques. I also do have my Sharingan already, as I said I’m an Uchiha. Hrmmm….I’m a Master of using the Fire Release and as such able to manipulate it better than most I would imagine. Other than that, I helped take down some radicals during one of the Amekage’s inaugurations where a bunch of former leaders came back to life by…some strange method, still unsure on how that was even a possibility, those are really all of the things I can think of.

Failures? Hrmmm…Well, when I was getting my lava seal I was in a situation where I had to help an anti-cultist force try to liberate their town, it did not go so well, so tactical training and learning how to be a leader in general I guess would be useful…Also during a recent Chūnin Exam my cockiness got the best of me and lead me to being forced to sit out the rest of it almost as soon as it had began.

What other trainings? I am currently learning more…basic things, how to improve my various forms of defense when it comes to my own safety so as to avoid issues like the one that lead to me being unable to partake in the majority of the Chūnin Exam, as that was quite the embarrassment on my part. I’m also trying to learn as much as I can to make my Sharingan much stronger as well as other aspects to my being, there is much I can be doing to make myself better, self-improvement should almost never stop.

My Ideal end goal? I would like to at least become a Jounin one day, lead teams and teach them to be the best they can be… Other than that, to just know that I am of use to the village and able to protect it from those who might be willing to destroy it or hurt its citizens, that much is true no matter where I am. I hate seeing others being downtrodden or hurt by those who have more strength than them, it sickens me to be quite honest, so some could say I have a bit of a savior complex.”

Hitora chuckled a bit as he took yet another sip of his water, smiling a bit at the idea of being a savior to others, helping them in the moment where they were most needing of one, using his strength for the greater good instead of just himself. He also had a strong mental image of himself one day leading a team and helping others learn various things, even one day other Uchiha if the clan was able to make a comeback in members since the massacre, though part of him was almost assured that it would since it had been some time since then.

Hitora sighed a bit as the questions continued: “Who do I respect the most currently? I would say likely that Morgan woman I had mentioned before, despite her kidnapping me she also trained me and taught me a great deal and has set me up with Rize to continue said training, to make me stronger and more able to reach my dreams than I would be capable of doing on my own. Though, that respect is solely because of the training she gives me and the lessons able to impart on me, so take that as you will.

Hrmm…well, one way using my abilities to make sure I assassinate someone would be my lava. Depending on where their hiding and how large the fortress is, I can simply just open a lava field under it and drop it in…or create a volcano that can spew lava and other material at it. Another way would be to simply use every ability at my disposal to get in and leave no one behind to tell the story of what occurs, utilizing my Sharingan, Fire Release and my Lightning release to great effect.

It takes a great deal to make me break loyalties, even while I was in the rain village I was still secretly loyal to the hidden leaf, they never really made me feel like I was part of the village nor did they really help me grow in strength, all my growth came from my own desire and self-training. The Amekage were always changing too leading to a sort of volatile situation where your place in the village was never too safe. So to answer your question: a great deal, they would need to be able to give me something I literally could never get in a village.

I would always make sure that the escorted person was in a safe location, if I could fight and defend them better, if I had a team with me I would have them stay back and surround our charge for safety while I took on the brunt of any fighting that was needed. To be quite honest, to answer this question there are too many variables to fully answer in any sort of definitive sense, I would need a more…detailed situation, as such I cannot answer it more than I already have done so.”

Hitora then drained his cup of water and waited a moment before grabbing the pitcher to refill it, wondering how the woman would respond to his statement. Part of him hoped that this would be finished soon, his rear end was starting to get tired of sitting in the chair, and it was not the most comfortable chair in the world after all. He also just wanted to be done and get into the village so that he could start doing missions or training himself or something. He sighed a bit, quite eager to be done already with all these hoops.

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Tarah closed her eyes and kept quiet for a long moment. The astral projections faded away, taking a long break. Only the little yaks remained to look upon the affair.

She was processing the data that came to her, taking in what was important from all the questions she asked so far. She had written that the interrogation would take ten hours, but she didn’t have much use for that much time, not really. This was enough.

“Hitora,” she muttered as she tilted her head back. “A lot of things have changed. Things always do change, such is nature, but at least the past is kind enough to stay the same. Wouldn’t you agree?”

She pushed the pitcher of water so that it slid over to Hitora, paying no mind to the water she spilled by pushing the pitcher too hard. The yaks were more than happy to lap up any water that dripped onto the floor. They didn’t need to drink, but animal instincts were as much physical as they were mental. Muscle memory always liked to play parts in the body’s theatre.

“One person is like any other, we bear bits of sanity and insanity, and our selves lie in the middle.”

Tarah absentmindedly tapped a finger on her knee as the edges of a red, crystal gate appeared around her. The gate was made of cylindrical beams and pillars fitted together. She reached out and flicked at the gate, letting the sound ring out briefly.

She began to hum as words appeared in black all over the red gate. Everything Hitora had answered with, that she had written down, was now also appearing in black crystal on the gate.

“This is our gate of truth today, Hitora,” she said, pointing at it while her head was still tilted back restfully.

There was a long, empty box outline at the topmost pillar, facing Hitora’s direction.

“Let’s see where it leads,” Tarah muttered.

The astral projections reappeared around Hitora one last time.

“When you last passed through the village gates of Konoha, what had you said, done, and left behind?”

[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

SAD MEMORIES

Hitora blinked, watching the large red gate with the words that she had written down appearing on it as black crystals. It was certainly a strange sight to behold, he wondered what its purpose was for. She was continuing to speak about some metaphysical stuff that he really did not understand, nor would he try to even comprehend it. He then watched as the astral projections of the woman reappeared around him again, signaling that the interrogation would continue once more, he poured himself some more water and took another drink of the cool and crystal liquid that was within.

The woman asked him about when he had last gone through the gates of the village, what he had said, done and left behind…It was a strange question, but technically that was still the time he had left the village on the day of the Uchiha disappearance. “I said nothing the day I left, nothing of importance, I was a scared child trying so hard to not end up dead like the rest of the clan as I scurried through the tunnel my parents had secured for us many years prior. As a child, even as a Genin, such things were terrifying…

As for what I had done, I ran or rather crawled, through that tunnel that was likely destroyed or found by the village in the aftermath of it all. I had to focus on my own life at the time, trying to live and not let my parents sacrifices be in vain for it was their deaths that let me escape… As for what I left behind? Everything. I left behind anything I didn’t have on me at the time, even my parents bodies…I always imagined that the village found them and gave them a proper burial, something worthy of the two Ninja that died as heroes in my mind.”

As Hitora spoke, his eyes became a bit misty with the memories coming back to him, a sadness that no one really could understand and a guilt that had been with him for a very long time. Hitora wished he had never ran from the village, but he had to make sure that he lived, and at the time to stay in the village was a death sentence for the Uchiha, he could only hope that such a situation was long since dealt with by the proper authorities.

Hitora then looked back to the woman and the gate behind her, wondering just what was going to be the purpose of that gate, it was a strange thing indeed. Hitora let out a sigh as he slowly brought a hand up to wipe away the tears that had began to form a moment or two earlier, making sure that no one thought he was doing anything dangerous or risky. He then took another sip of the water and waited for another question or some instructions to come from the woman.

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Tarah shook her head from side to side, but still pointed up at her gate and let the tiny black crystal words of what Hitora said form in the box.

"You need to be careful," she said. "Trust or not, that answer was a failure of competency."

Tarah went over what she wrote to make sure there were no recording mistakes, and then close the notebook and put it on her lap. She then reached down and pat the head of one of the cursed yaks that had wandered close to her.

"When you're being questioned, you must pay more attention to the question being asked instead of the answer in your head. When you care more about your own answers than the questions, you become vulnerable to techniques like rapid or precision questioning. You could let slip things you weren't supposed to, and that's not the type of tongue that governments like to keep secrets on."

Tarah poked one of the gate pillars, and starting from where she touched, the gate ceased to exist.

"I had said 'passed through the village gates of Konoha' in my question," she mentioned, pointing at Hitora's answer near the top of the gate, which had barely begun to disappear. "You mentioned tunnels, secret emergency tunnels, and uncertainty about whether or not they were discovered afterward. You could have said that you spent all your life in the village prior to leaving, and had never passed through the gates. You could even have mentioned a vacation you went on, or some other sort of trip out of the village. However, you did not refer to the village gates in response to a question about passing through the gates."

Tarah lifted up the yak and put it on top of the table, where it went over to her glass of water and began to lap up the liquid.

"I am a creature of the law in many ways, and at times that works out in people's favor. You have, technically, not lied. Nor have your truly manipulated any factors. You only failed at a question."

Taking a small card out of her envelope, Tarah began to write on the results. She read aloud as she wrote. "Due to an inability to keep to the parameters of interrogation questions, and showing flaws that do not inspire confidence in keeping secrets, Hitora is granted limited admission with strict surveillance recommendations. Passage through the village gates should always be approved by the Hokage tower beforehand for a period of a year*. Tracking techniques should be utilized to know his location at all times for the same period."

After it was written, she picked it up at waved it in Hitora's direction. "This is the level of admission and clearance that I will recommend, if we end this here. If that's fine with you, I'll send it in and we'll be concluded here. If you don't like these terms, you may instead choose one of the other two options I had presented to you when we began, because there are no gate or surveillance restrictions at the end of those."

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[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

Goddamn Trick Questions

Hitora thought for a moment, listening to the woman’s words. She was correct, he had thought more on the answer he would give instead of the meaning behind her question, though he was not expecting any trick questions after those straightforward ones. It was strange to hear his loyalty being called into question such as that, but then again if it were the other-way around he was almost one hundred percent sure that he would be doing a similar thing. He listened carefully as the woman said that he would need to be put under surveillance for a year’s time minimum.

Hitora thought a bit, and knew that would make it harder for him to train his Jutsu, whilst he had no issues saying to another what they were in broad strokes, it was another to instead let people watch him perform his techniques. Especially since he knew that Uchiha clan members were on the rise once more and if even one of them was assigned to surveil him, then that would mean almost all of the secrets to the Jutsu he did have would be out of the bag and would make him vulnerable if the worst-case scenarios happened.

Hitora sighed a bit. He had a choice at the end of the day, accept the surveillance or to take one of the two options. Of the now three options he had: surveillance for a year, trusting that the woman would not hurt him after rendering him unconscious for eight hours that she would not do anything to him within certain restrictions or to let her read his mind fully, to penetrate every single crevice of his memories and to put a psychic clone in his mind for two years; Hitora had to admit that the first and second options were the worst.

That meant he had only one real choice left to him, though again he was not happy with it since that required him to trust this woman to an almost unrealistic point, but it meant no surveillance after it was done. Sighing Hitora looked at the woman and said “Fine, let us do the second option, the trust one, I dislike the idea of being surveilled by anyone for such long periods of time, that tends to…rub me the wrong way, feels a bit intrusive. I’d rather take a risk and trust you for a few hours than trust others for years at a time.”

Hitora stared at the woman, making sure that unless her eyes were closed or she turned her head that he would be looking right into her eyes, letting her know non-verbally that he was literally taking the least offensive of the three options. He wanted to be able to trust someone that would likely be an ally at the end of all of this instead of not trusting them. Hitora was also just relatively trusting, though if she broke her word she would find out what it meant to cross him. So Hitora closed his eyes and prepared himself mentally.

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Tarah nodded. "It means a lot to us that you are willing to take such an unpleasant option for the sake of being accepted."

She nodded at the little yak on the table. The yak, being granted permission, thickened its legs with the black biomass of the protean. Then, with enough force to jump over a hundred and fifty meters, the yak leapt right into Hitora with the intention of knocking the man out as quickly as possible.

Water spilled onto the floor as the table was destroyed. Tarah put the yak on the table so that the usually effects of the jump—creating a crater—didn't ruin the interrogation room. That likely would have cost her. Tables were replaceable. Heck, she should make more than a dozen out of permanent crystal on the spot. It was the most sacrificial furniture in the room.

Tarah approached Hitora, but she took a quick moment to call the ANBU to find her Janice for her.

After that, Tarah placed the unconscious Hitora on the ground and began to arrange everything around him. She began to draw lines along the ground and put the materials she needed in the right places.

<8 hour time jump, begin>

At some point, the shadow clones grew bored and contacted Tarah. She called them in to help her with preparations to ensure that she didn't make any mistakes with the arrangements.

Janice arrived with the ANBU a little while later. She handed the diamond necklace with the 20,000 ryo diamond to Tarah, and then Tarah initiated the ritual to pull a piece of Hitora's soul into the diamond in the necklace. She then gave the necklace and her letter of admissions approval to the ANBU and had it sent to the village with an animal messenger.

The ritual complete and the eight hours passed, Tarah activated the good-aligned spirit in her arms and flooded the unconscious Hitora with a massive amount of positive energy—a source of healing for living beings.

The positive energy would wipe away any sign of damage besides any scars he already had, so nothing would remain to keep him unconscious.

The clones and Janice had left by then, so only Tarah remained in her chair to greet Hitora as he woke off the floor.

"Good morning," she said, waving hello as he came to. "The option is completed. Allow me to review it with you."

She held up her hand and conjured a pure white crystal prism. She held it by the tips between her thumb and middle finger.

"A portion of your soul was taken and placed into a gem such as this. It was forwarded to the Hokage, who will keep it safe for you. This soul gem grants us the ability to resurrect you. If you ever die under our employ, I, as the officer who granted the approval of your admission, shall pay the expenses necessary to resurrect you. By all means, feel free to live recklessly in the pursuit of the village missions."

Point made, Tarah allowed the white crystal imitation to fade away.

"With the gem, if you go back on your loyalties, it will allow us to find you. In that way, it is a fail safe. With that in place, you are free to roam without surveillance. Additionally, the gem will keep your spirit from passing onto the afterlife if you die. Because of that, if you die in the process of or after you betray us, there will be no free resurrection, and instead the gem will remain intact indefinitely."

Tarah gestured at the yaks, and they began to line up at the door.

"After a year, you can ask to have the gem returned to you. It's a pretty useful trinket to keep around. You can also destroy it after that, if you don't like the idea. As a third option, you can let it remain in the treasury after the time limit is up, but the cost of any revival by the village will become your personal debt at that point."

Tarah opened the door and let her yaks out.

"We are concluded here. Please standby for the Hokage to make the final approval and fetch you from the embassy."

<Hidden Soul ritual was cast, -36,000 ryo from me>

[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

Yaks Hurt...

Hitora watched and listened as the woman spoke more, then watched in questioning curiosity as a yak had jumped up on the table and suddenly grew a good bit. It did not really grow in height nor width but more in thickness, which did make it grow in both ways a bit, but from staring, he could tell it was not a normal yak thing that she was using. Hitora was curious as to why the yak was made thicker, and his curiosity was soon answered by the creature itself receiving no verbal orders, but in hindsight, it made perfect sense this would be the outcome.

With a loud grunt of pain Hitora was soon rendered unconscious by the Yak, hit square in the chest by the creature he and the chair he was in soon toppled backwards, falling unconscious and almost comatose if it was not a controlled situation. Hitora had barely had any time to even notice that the yak had leapt with such strength that it had destroyed the table it had been standing on and the water glasses shattered on the floor, letting water just go everywhere as liquid tended to do.

Hitora was completely unconscious for the next few hours, not doing anything on his own beyond breathing, which if he were conscious would undoubtedly hurt to do from having a heavy yak smash into his chest. When he awoke, the woman said it was morning, well she had said good morning, which he took to assume she meant it was now the morning hours or she was trying to be ‘cute’ in telling him good morning when he awoke. She then made a gem of some kind appear and began to explain its purpose.

Apparently the gem was designed to be a tracking device of sorts should he ever betray the village, one linked directly to his soul so that likely there were no methods of tricking it that he could think of. She also said that whilst it was whole he could be resurrected should he die in combat for the village, meaning he could be much more reckless in combat if he needed to. Then she mentioned that the gem would be property of the Hokage and the Village for a time period of one year, in which if they need to resurrect him, the village would pay for it, however once that time passed he would pay for it himself.

Hitora nodded more as she said he could destroy it or keep it after the year was up, a reasonable thing to mention. Hitora, though healed, felt his chest was still a bit sore from the Yak’s ‘attack’. The Yaks then lined up by the door as the woman opened the door, presumably to leave and said to wait for the Hokage to fetch him. She never said he was permitted to leave the room on his own, so the man picked the chair back up and sat down once more, waiting for the Hokage to arrive and finalize anything that required his attention before being permitted into the village.

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[Kinzoku]

Another clone of Kinzoku's would enter the embassy. Some of the people in the lobby looked at him, as if they had just seen a ghost. This was within reason as they had just seen him walk in the meeting room with other Kage. Focused on his mission, Kinzoku did not notice as he made his way to the interrogation room.

Once Kinzoku made it to the room, he smiled at the ANBU at the door. Seeing the young Hokage, the ANBU moved to the side and opened the door in order to allow him entrance into. Once the door opened, Kinzoku would smile at Hitora and speak.

"Hitora. Come with me if you please."

With that Kinzoku would turn around and make his way towards the exit of the building. Whether Hitora chose to follow him or not, Kinzoku would continue walking. He doubted the shinobi would try anything while his back was turned, especially with all he had just risked to join the village.

[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

Hokage? More like Short-kage...

Hitora blinked a bit as he watched the man that he had seen earlier and was told was the current Hokage enter the room. Standing up, the young Uchiha would suddenly begin to follow the man, curiosity was welling within him, wondering what the man would have to say about all of this in total. Hitora wanted to speak, but decided to allow the Hokage that right first, to speak and say whatever he had in mind before Hitora opened his mouth and potentially screwed himself out of a new village to enter into, or rather an old one to return to since he had been a shinobi of Konoha a long time ago.

Hitora looked around at the embassy as the two walked, wondering just where this little jaunt would lead them. Knowing full well that it could end up with him in a cell awaiting execution if the Hokage deemed it the choice, or he could be in for further interrogation to get as much information as he could about the hidden rain out of him. Suffice it to say neither option was a good one, but he had very little choice in what came next at this point.

So Hitora continued to follow the man, whom was about the same height as him if a bit shorter, wondering just what was going to happen next.

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[Kinzoku]

Walking towards the exit Kinzoku would continue talking to Hitora.

"Congratulations on passing your interview Hitora. I'm sure Tarah took good care of you per her report. I have requests of my own. But here... let's take a walk. "

The clone would exit the embassy, hopefully with Hitora behind him.

[Hitora Ryunobu (Uchiha)]

MORE TALKING!

Hitora followed the man, not knowing it was but a Shadow Clone at this moment, wondering what the man had wanted to discuss. It was nice however to know that in the official report that she had sent to the Hokage the woman whom had interrogated him actually did recommend that he be allowed into the village. Hitora felt a bit stiff so he began to stretch his muscles some, slowly moving his arms in small circles to let the muscles that connected to the ball joints get some use after having not really used them much for the last few hours.

Hitora wondered what kind of Kage this Hokage was. He had not heard really anything about him, and was curious as to what was going on in the village right now, but he supposed for now that he would let the Hokage speak first, to determine what was going to happen in the immediate future since his admittance was still in this man’s hands. Though he was sure that he would end up admitted into the village as a member of its Shinobi corps, though it was still a bit nerve wracking, something he had not really expected.

[Exit? maybe? I dunno! I follow Kinzoku!]

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[Lady Jaz]

//Enter Messenger Bird

A lone black raven flew swiftly into the Embassy's window, landing upon the desk and folded its blue-black wings. Upon the Raven's back was a cylinder that was attached to a harness which was wrapped around the creature's body. Upon the cylinder was the symbol of Amegakure. If opened, the letter would say:

Dear Hokage,

My name is Jasmine Black and I am the new Amekage.
I have records that the previous Amekage had abolished the alliance between Amegakure and Konohagakure for reasons that I am unsure of. For this, I must apologise and would like to hopefully find out why such a decision was made.
If you would like to contact me to discuss this, I will be happy to accept an audience with you to discuss this.


Kind regards


Jasmine F. Black
Amekage

Once the message was successfully delivered, the raven would take flight and return back to Amegakure no Sato without further ado.

//Exit

Kinzoku

[Kinzoku]

The ANBU in charge of the embassy's post office would get the note and check it for any traps or dormant jutsu. Once it was declared safe, he would hand it to another. Since it had a seal of a village that was not too found of Konoha, he was worried that it would be a declaration of war. Little did he know, it was the exact opposite. The other shinobi would match his urgency and disappear.

Reappearing by the Hokage's clone that had been there, he handed him the letter. As Kinzoku read the letter, he smiled. Another Kage that matched his interest in unity. Now that was something Kinzoku did not get everyday. Especially since the summit he went to made it seem like most villages hated his. As he smiled, Kinzoku would write his response and send it off with messenger eagle of their own.

[Nira]

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[Titan of Stone]

/enter

Having been to the embassy before Krystal knew the building and entered with a bit more force than she usually would have as her steps seemed heavier, the shadow's tail swishing back and forth as Krystal moved across the room to the receptionist's desk. A deep sigh escaped the neko once she reached the desk as her finger tips pressed along the wood.

"Excuse me, I'd like to see Kinzoku, tell him it is Krystal Solara, the new Tsuchikage, please." Krystal requested as some decorum still held in her voice before glancing around the large lobby and finding her way over to the same couch she had laid in when Loki last met with Amira here behind closed doors.

Maybe she wasn't cut out for corralling so many people...

Kinzoku

[Draven]

[enter]

Godric traiiled behind. The 8 foot tall, silvered hair, silvered eyed walking pale mountain came a few minutes behind Krystal. He had with him his Multiple Sword Holster (Overview)/w 20 Sword, Longsword (Overview)[Hiraishin placed on all Here]/w increasing both Swords and Holster by 1 size increments on his left hip and his Benihime with a Hiraishin seal placed upon it as well.

He was the muscle, but also the advisor. Finding a spot next to Krystal he looked at her with a questioning look, "So Gosei is no longer Hokage. I hope his predecessor is easier to work with. I have seen him be rather ruthless with those he deems inferior." he mentioned.