I'm leaving...[Travel toward wind country/boat]

[~88~]

Jai sat around his home for a while thinking over thing's. For a long while he had kept his eye on the village in sound and felt that he was slacking in potential not due to his own training, but because the village was too small an insignificant for his level of power. He wanted to grow more and be apart of something better, but the kage in this village was a little girl and Jai just felt like he was wasting his time here. In fact, he wagered they wouldn't even notice he was gone if he decided to go. And where would he head to? Well, he smiled casually with a shrug: There was the place he was headed in order to train Busosen. Perhaps he would find a new home out that way...And leave this two bit lesser village for bigger thing's. Whether he would stay gone was a mystery...but Jai felt like getting out there these days.

With that, Jai packed all of his thing's: GUitar, fullblade, longsword, knife, battle axe, robe, pack waist, belt, jacket, pants, shirt, vest, hat, and footwear. With his body full of gear on he looked like some one embarking on a journey. His hip with katana, back with fullblade, and guitar criss crossed, his robe covering over his vest and jacket, as well as shirt and pants, all of it in darker shades from charcoal grey to jet black. KNife in pocket, battle axe at other hip with belt on and waist pack attached. On his head was a bucket hat that came over his eyes mysteriously. His ninja boots on feet as well. In his hand slung over his shoulder, was that big bag of the rest of scrolls he would hope to train.

HE figured he might as well take them along with himself as he set out by the dark of night. He managed to make it out through the gate, and from there he just kept on going, hoping to find a better place to progress in power and potential. Apparently there was a small port town where a boating company chartered easy routes to get to where one wanted to g to. Jai decided to get on with a trip to wind country. He needed to head out that way anyway to find a Busosen master.










[Travel to wind country]

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Being as this was a riverboat this would not be able to take the young ninja all the way to the land of wind like he had hoped. After a short while looking for passage he would find a local ferry that was willing to take him as far as the land of fire. The boat would then need to make another stop in the land of river later that night, break for the evening in the land of river and then sail up to the land of wind later that following morning.

Would you like to travel?

[~88~]

Jai finished sorting through the correct boating procedures with a bit of small talk, a new experience for him since he was finally starting to trek out of the small rice country. HE was amazed to see the bustle of normal citizenry outside of the hidden village he had been in for so long. His mysteriously robed and accesory laden figure was only slightly abnormal compared to the surrounding travelor's of sort's, carrying whole loads of merchandise from worldly ventures and travels spent through year long pursuits.

"Indeed...this should get me where I'm headed...The price is worth the journey, better then traversing on foot..."

Jai would take up the offer here, and settle in for a time of patient migration.





[Travel rice country to fire country-fire country to river country-River country to wind country]

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"Alright then right this way." The ferryman said as he led the ninja up and along the ferry. Getting aboard the spring air and warm temperatures would come across the river as they dropped altitude. 

moved to fire 

[~88~]

The Journey was somewhat quiet and gave a real newfound sense of what it was like to be a ninja in the open land. Jai could feel his training come to life for the second time in a real way since the fight with Kyogi and Tsu at the rice fields. His senses and observation of his surroundings soaked up not only the environmental change, but the details...there where so many details that his ninja training had awoke his mind to. For instance, he had sized the ferryman up, and subconsciously had detailed a few way's to flee the boat, take over the ferry boat, and how to go about more then some options in how to take control of his path. IT was a constant update to his mind, and he couldn't help but feel a little heavy on the pride...The thing's he could do because of his training in ninja techniques really made him aware of the difference between the normal human being and those who had supernatural talents.

Thing's like this must be learned through experience....no one could tell Jai about these thing's. It gave him much to think about, and while the ride was soft and slow on the ferry, he decided to try passing the time with a bit of play on his six string acoustic. It was enough to make him feel humbled....at the thought that a quick swipe of his sword, in a moment wouldn't really break much of the moment, just to kill the ferryman, on this trip. IT was that coldness that came over some ninja a sort of killing intent in the darkness of the soul. He reminded himself he wasn't training to become a god among men, having his way as he pleased. He was training to become a valuable asset to the ninja world in order to do great productive thing's.

Still...It would be hard for an average human to bring problems his way, and this was something Jai had now come to understand. Once in the warmer clime's of the fire country, Jai quit playing to look at the change of scenery. "You know, it's nice here...Is this the famed fire country? With it's beutiful woodland forest that span for miles?", Jai spoke to the ferryman, while taking his headband off the fret's of the guitar and putting it within his waist pouch at the small of his back attached to the belt. His robe concealed his effort's subtley, But Jai had no clue if the ferryman was keen to observe such things...or if he would be on the lookout for something like a ninjas headband.




[Travel fire country to river country- River country to wind country]

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"Aye. This is fire country." The riverboat ferryman said. "If you're planning on sticking around here for a while you need to head down east. Around this time during the spring the plum trees are just getting ready to start bearing fruit. I've traveled up and down these lands and let me tell you nothing on this planet has the same taste like a fresh plum from the countryside. And the sake ain't half bad neither!" The older ferryman said cackling slightly after the fact. The man simply listened to the noise of the acoustic guitar until the travelers met their destination. The old man stepped off the boat for some food and refreshment, gather new passengers and head off in a few hours. 

moved to river. 

[~88~]

Jai heard the old man offer some details about the surrounding area. Jai looked out over the tree lines on the edges of the river and thought about the plums, more so the words of an old man seemed to be an indicator of something to heed. A warm smile came over the handsome Jai's face and when the boat stopped off, Jai departed to get a look around the small port in the river country. All was well so far and after getting something to eat at a local shop, Jai decided to stop by a local inn.

WHile there he mused at the bar's refraining from drinking. The land's outside of rice country where full of life, and there was much to the world outside that Jai did not know. Perhaps he wasn't yearning to leave his village so much as he wanted to get out and see what the land's had to offer. A pilgrimage of sort's, to sharpen his mind and educate him on the bigger picture. Still...He had best be gettin on if he where to find this Busosen master wherever he was to be found.

The night passed, and Jai felt the cold loneliness of a traveler out and around. Come morning, Jai returned to the port after a light breakfast meal. Returning to the port, he sought a boat to travel and was unsure if the same ferryman would be around. Strange...just the boating trip alone seemed to form a bond of sorts that Jai felt a fear of losing....friends come and go in a world so big he realized. Emotions where triggered so easy for a lonely young guy like Jai, and he tried to pretend he didn't care for such bonds. It felt....too weak and unfitting for someone like him.

At any rate, his intentions remained, to finish the journey to the land of wind...




[Travel river country to wind country-stop]

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Moved to wind

[~88~]

A final boating trip into wind had JAi coming into some fine looking territory that had a scent of the old times in it. HE got off and made his way into town, gathering information after something to eat of course. HE was told where to head if he where seeking master's and training around the land of wind country and after setting out, Jai felt ready to explore the world unknown finally. He figured he would be getting a real sense of his blades around these parts before coming back home...if he did that at all.



[exit]