[t] bow wow wow yippie yo

[✗ Kaeor ✗]

The lights, they blinded me as I couldn't see nothing but darkness. They had thrown me into a vehicle and hauled me off. My native country would soon be foreign to even me. I prayed for an escape, for someone to rescue me. Yet everything seemed nigh impossible. This vehicle that I had been hauled in was quick. Too quick for even me as I was tossed side to side. I had became completely unsure of what to do but there was little to no options. I would have to ride this endless ride and see where it would take me.

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[Ravenous]

[moved to kumo]

[← KIRA →]

[THREAD JACKED!

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I traversed the Lands of Thunder. It was as if something was calling me to the territory of our old ally, Yuki. I wasn't sure what it was but as my time as a shinobi, I learned that I needed to be able to listen to such a feeling. Something good or terribly bad came out of it and I just had to take that risk. After some time walking, I'd find myself on a boat that I'd have to sit tight on until it landed across. I'd watch animals in the water, people on the boat, and my animal companion as we waited and waited. Once the boat arrived we headed off and continued through the cold wastelands. Oh what a day.

Move to Yuki!
Exit!

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[loyal]

Moved.

[← KIRA →]

ENTER!

It was time for me to get back home. I had been gone for too long, but I wasn't sure if I would be heading straight home or not... I rather liked being able to travel freely, but that didn't mean I was abandoning my village. That was something that I wasn't ever planning on doing. My bond with the village grew as time continued on. Dominio trailed behind me as we hoped back on the boat that looked just like the one that brought us here. After that him and I just sat there as we waited for the ship to dock back in Kumogakure.

Once the ship made it's arrival, Dominio and I jumped off and began running. Still a bit more of a travel to go, but at least I could get something going soon enough.

Move to Thunder

EXIT!

[KARKAT]

dun did <3

[← KIRA →]

The thought of travel to our old allies felt like something good to do. Perhaps I could fix some ties that had been broken far too long ago. This could prove to be good for the village relations. For all that we knew, the sound village could have moved on from control of that one guy. Regardless, even if the trip was pointless, the travel was more than worth it. I hadn't really been around with Dominio, so the thought of our travel continuing on was quite-- fun? Regardless, he and I turned around from the direction that we were running and went back to the docks. Finding the first boat we saw, the two of us jumped on it so that we could move on to Sound. Now we waited to arrive.

Once we arrived we, like always, hoped off and took off in the direction of anywhere. I wasn't quite sure where the village of Sound was located. I just needed to search for the time being.

Move to Sound

[KARKAT]

oops. moved. <3

[KARKAT]

x.enter

So after taking Takuya into Otogakure, Atreya had decided to leave the gates once again, this time to actually take her walk. With the strange ninja within her village, she had decided that he wouldn't cause any harm, to say the least, and should he try something, the anbu would be there. Maybe... Continuing on her little stroll, she let out a long relieved sigh. So much stress for one person, especially her, it was like she could have a break down at any minute now, but she wouldn't allow herself to that. Well not intentionally at least. She began to mumble about random things to herself, unknowing if anyone was around or not.

[← KIRA →]

My travels through the land of Sound didn't really get me anywhere. The nose of my traveling companion helped us none, as well. For a moment I thought that I was going to be wandering around aimlessly for quite some time, but I was just going to have to deal with that. What caused me to gain a new outlook on my situation was the female figure that I saw walking around. I didn't want to alarm her by just running up to her, but I couldn't just let her get away. I was in no way going to harm her, I just wanted to see if she had any information that I could possibly gain from her about the location of the village. For all I knew she could have been an average citizen that lived in the outskirts of town, but even some of them knew the location still.

I walked a few paces ahead of Dominio who, even on all fours, loomed over me. He was defiantly what someone may call intimidating, but I was hoping that me being ahead of the beast would calm some of the nerves down from the female if she had any. My metallic figure continued forward and once I got in speaking distance, which was about five meters, I spoke up.

"Hey. Do you think you could help me out for a second? I'm kind of looking for something..."

I wasn't sure how willing she was going to be to help, but it was worth a try.

[KARKAT]

_{A simple voice pulled her out of her thoughts, she blinked a bit and looked to whoever it was who was speaking to her. Yet another person she happen to come across in Oto no Kuni, fun. She simply gazed at this strange person before her, though the look upon her face was a fairly blank one. He had asked for her help.. 'looking' for something. Being somewhat paranoid, chances are he was looking for the same thing the last guy was looking for. Otogakure. As much as she wanted to run away, she nodded her head a bit. "Sure, I can help. What is it you're looking for?"}

[← KIRA →]

With a slight motion of her head and the words chosen by her to be spoken, I was ushered to ask what it was that I needed her help with. I'd take a few more steps closer to the female in order to get a better hearing of whatever response was outputted after speaking my soon to be asked question, and it served as another purpose. Taking a better glance at her now that she was at a closer range, around two meters, my eyes stopped at her necklace. I had only assumed that she was related to the country in some way, but the necklace, which on it was the symbol of Otogakure, proved to me that she knew the information to the question that I needed help with. Only thing that was left to figure out was whether or not she is a ninja. All in all it didn't really matter.

"Well, the thing is that I am looking for Otogakure. I'm a ninja from Kumogakure and I was just hoping to see if I could get more insight on a certain village to village issue between Oto and Kumo. I have no ill will toward any of it's residence nor do I plan to cause any harm."

I just felt it necessary to add that last part. I was just placing myself in her position. This was where my explanation was coming from, but I couldn't just give my complete reason away to a stranger. This was something that was spoken to the Otokage in detail; not some female that I found wandering around the lands of Oto.

[KARKAT]

<sub>Her eyes darted to his feet as he took a few steps closer, oh how paranoid she was, yet she didn't move or show any bit of it. Looking away for but a moment, she listened to him carefully. The very moment he brought up Otogakure, her hand found its way to her necklace, she held the pendant within her hand tightly and let out a light sigh. Turning her gaze to the ground for but a few seconds, she hesitated to speak. So there were some ties between Oto and Kumo, well that's what she was guessing, to say the least. She took even longer to answer, debating within her mind whether or not she should mention that it was she was the Otokage.

Biting at the corner of her lip for a second, she gazed back to the male and put on a little smile. "I'm glad you don't intend to harm my villagers, but, just bringing it up has got me only slightly worried." Taking another second to think, she made a slight face before her expression turning back to its usual blank one, "It seems I do have a lot of things to take care of."</sub>

[← KIRA →]

I was caught aghast by the female's response. Her people? Did that mean she was the Otokage? So my suspicions had been true after all. There had been a power shift in the village of Sound. Perhaps this was what was needed in order to strengthen the bonds between the two villages. It seemed that the last one could think of nothing but war. Maybe a fresh perspective could prove to be worthwhile for both countries in areas beside just war. Why was it that the Otokage was walking around the countryside? From what I had gathered, from Raikages, the Kage of the village usually spent their reign well in the safety of the village unless absolutely necessary. It was nice to have a sudden change in Kage style. Not that one way was better than the other, of course.

Naturally, I couldn't just take her on her word that she was the kage of Otogakure, but she was the closest connection I had to that village as of now so I'd do with what I had. No words would be spoken of my issue out here, especially while I still had doubts on this female's position in the village hierarchy.

"So... What is it that brings the Otokage outside of the village?"

I was going to stick with this sound shinobi until I got to the destination that I had requested earlier. If she was Otokage, she'd have to return at some point, no? Dominio stood idly behind me and took the lapse of movement as a sign that he could lay down. The height of the beast dropped a few feet. He finally proved to be shorter than myself. The sound of him laying down caused me to turn to face him for a mere second before turning back to face the 'Otokage.'

[KARKAT]

His question did make her wonder what she was doing outside of the village at all. Normally people would expect her to remain within the village at all times, but that was no fun really. She bit her lip for a moment, trying to remember why exactly she was walking around out there. With a little smile on her face, she looked to him, "Because sitting in the office all day isn't fun. Its true I have things to take care of, but I cant stay there too long"

Turning back around she laced her fingers together with her arms behind her back, she started walking a little more. Stopping for but a second, she looked over her shoulder, "Shall we?" With nothing else really said, she headed back to the gates.

x.exit~

[← KIRA →]

She did have a point... I knew from experience that sitting in that damned office wasn't fun at all. I had run the village for a few weeks while the Raikage had left on a trip to Konohagakure. Regardless, I simply followed behind the supposed Otokage. This trip was turning out quite productive so far...

Exit!