The Wanderer [OPEN]

[Katsu Katakuzure]

Split personalities huh. That could be a problem, but it would be a path Yuudai would cross when it was shown to him. For now, at least he had the truth. He was content with that. He effortlessly followed Hae onto the roof top, grazing out at his home. He could see why there were those who thought of it as simply beautiful, why tales were woven about the forests surrounding his village, how epicly it was displayed in paintings by the artist within it. However, to him, it was nothing more than his home. Perhaps he was spoiled by his beauty, but it just didn’t seem to move him the way it did others. Still, watching the expression up Hae’s face made him feel at least a little proud of his village.

“Come,” he spoke softly, not wanting to sound forceful, “I’ll show you around.”

[Hae Kyohaku]

Her thoughts of awe about the village continued on and beyond possible mental limits. It was so beautiful. If she could get just everywhere to see places, and possibly train on the training field. It looked like it was just begging for use, aside from all the genin and chuunin that used it....probably even some of the jounin that were here with their teams.

She was soon taken from her wandering thoughts by Yuudai's soft voice. He offered to show her around. How nice...especially after the whole fiasco that just went on... She looked at him and said "Okay...I want to see everything that we can tonight..."

[Katsu Katakuzure]

Yuudai nodded, knowing where to take her first. Hokage Mountain. The now five headed mountain was a masterpiece, and a true tribute to leaders of Kohona. Also, from the top of it, you could get a good view of the entire city… if you could sneak up there. Most of the time it wasn’t encouraged, but Yuudai had been up their before, for reflecting purposes. It was however, quite a walk away, so Yuudai figured they could stop at several places along the way. She could decide upon where they stopped in particular, there would be plenty along the way.

Yuudai hopped off the edge of the roof, landing silently on the ground below. He waited for hae to follow suit, wanting to make sure he wasn’t leaving her behind.

[Hae Kyohaku]

Out of the corner of her eye, Hae noticed Yuudai nod. He was quiet, and it seemed like he was thinking. She had about a minute more to take in the serenity of the Hidden Leaf Village before he moved. He left her atop the roof as he easily landed below it. He didnt move much more than a step or so. She assumed he was waiting for her, based on the brunt he'd recieved from the guards.

Sighing audibly, she leapt down. This wasnt going to be quite as much fun as she'd wanted if she had to be kept on a leash the whole time but hey, what else could she expect?

[Katsu Katakuzure]

“I do have a place I want to show you, but it is kind of a walk. So if you see anything you would like to stop and look at, feel free to let me know,” Yuudai told her as he began the walk to Hokage mountain. He couldn’t just have her go run off by herself, but he wanted to give her as much freedom as he could. She wasn’t a prisoner, and he doubt she would do anything to get him in trouble, but still, he couldn’t risk it. He felt somewhat bad as he heard her sigh, but made no move to respond to it.

He walked along the most known path to him, with there being a park, a ramen shop, a training ground or two, the ninja academy, and of course, the Hokage building along the way. He walked silently, glancing back every now and then to make sure Hae was still with him.

[Hae Kyohaku]

Hae jogged a few steps until she got up along side of him. She merely gave a grunt in response to what he said. She didnt see that much within the town itself that she wanted to see. Buildings, buildings, and more buildings. When she was up on the rooftop, she'd seen an open field with woods not too far from there, but just walking granted them only a bit of progress in their path at time. She had no clue where she was going, but she would ask for a pit stop if she saw something interesting.

They seemed to be getting into the more 'eats' part of town, there was a ramen bar, a sushi place, a tea house, etcetera. She looked around "Wow..." she said "You all seem to have a wide variety foods here...."

[Katsu Katakuzure]

Yuudai nodded as he glanced over at the restaurants. He rarely noticed the variety, but he was so used to having the options, that he didn’t truly noticed. Besides, he didn’t go out to eat all that often. “Indeed, although to be honest, I haven’t really tried everywhere. Too busy most of the time, so I just end up eating at home,” replied Yuudai. The old standby for him, just having his family cook something… he should really learn to do that one day, didn’t want to end up living in his family’s attic. That would be incredibly depressing.

((Sorry for taking so long, and for the really short post, crap kept coming up, and I just really wanted to get something up here... so yeah))

[Hae Kyohaku]

Hae nodded a bit as she looked around. There were all kinds of restaurants...a huge variety. Hopefully, she would be able to go around and taste a bit before she moved on. In fact, she hoped she'd be able to find a way to stay in Konoha for a bit. She couldnt wait to try their dangos...they smelled delicious from where she was, for they had just passed a dango shop. Mmmm... she thought, her mouth watering slightly. Her stomach also growled...loudly.

Her eyes widened slightly in surprise and a bit of embarrassment. She placed a hand over her stomach and mentally willed it to be silent. They walked for a bit in silence, and she saw a huge building, with big sculptures behind it. She gawked a little and asked "Wow...what is that?"

[Its okay, dont worry about it. crap happens ]

[Katsu Katakuzure]

“That is where we are going,” replied Yuudai, “it is called Hokage Mountain, a massive monument to the five Hokages. You said you want to see everything you could tonight. Well, you can see just about everything from up there. It is quite amazing.” He neglected to mention the not being allowed up there part, she didn’t need to know about that. Besides, it wasn’t like there were a lot of guards, even Naruto got up there once.

He chuckled a little at her stomach growling, knowing he had made her go a long time without food. “But we can stop for a bite if you want,” he added, “my treat.” His family probably wouldn’t mind if she didn’t eat a lot of their food, they were understanding.

[Hae Kyohaku]

She stared, her mouth slightly agape at the massive figures. They were so intricate...and they looked like they could almost come alive. She murmured "Ill bet it looks quite amazing from up there. And seeing everything? Now that must be something..."

She flailed her hands a bit as she tried to gesticulate to emphasize her response. "Oh no! its fine, I swear....I wouldnt want to be disrespectful to your family. I wouldnt be able to get over it for as long as I was here....Its fine, really..." she insisted. Pointing to the sculptures, she asked "Whats the fastest way to get up there?"

[Katsu Katakuzure]

Yuudai chuckled to himself as Hae talked about not wanting to disrespect his family. He knew they wouldn’t mind… at least, not that much. Still, he bit his tongue, if she wanted to wait till they reached his house, he would be more than glad to wait. It wouldn’t harm him.

Yuudai looked back up at the stone heads of the Hokage Mountain. The beautiful, lifeless eyes straight back at him. He hoped they would forgive him for resting on top of their heads. Yes, he had done it before, but now that he was looking at them, staring at them, they seemed sad.

“We will head straight, go around the administration building, and walk the mountain path,” replied Yuudai, “it is going to be some work, but trust me, it is worth it. The view is quite amazing.” If they stayed up their long enough, Yuudai knew they may be able to catch the sun rise. He hadn’t seen that himself, and was somewhat eager to attempt to see that.

[steeltouch]

Great, if there wasnt something he had counted on today it would be a Leaf Chuunin showing an outsider around inside restricted areas. Perhaps Yuudai didnt think much of the pros and cons but in Kai's mind there wasnt much good in showing the stranger around, especially since the Hokage Mountain held a lot of secret pathways used in emergency cases. Kai Nanakase was actually positioned above Yuudai and his new companion, Hae, standing on the underside of a high up tree branch....he used the chakra from his feet to hold him in place. Of course he wouldnt have thought anything of it had he not heard the plan to take the girl up the mountain path, but it seemed within all of the excitement the girl had a rather loud mouth.

His voice spoke out below, quite casual and filled with a bass tone around his youthful words. "Yuudai....if the mountain path is prohibited to village residents, what makes you think the consequences would be any lighter for leading an outsider there instead?", he asked as if to strike both fear and logic into Yuudai's mind. If their eyes panned up to the large tree above, they would see the Leaf Jounin, Kai Nanakase, with crossed arms over his chest. His attire was quite the same as always, a black body suit which hugged his body to outline his muscle detail, dark gray tabi boots, blackened plate leaf symbol belt, shaved bald head, and a pull up mask that covered his mouth up to the nose. He hated wearing the Jounin flak jacket so he never did of course, but people still knew him by his rank regardless of the vest's absence.

Beyond that thin pull-up face mask were a pair of gray almost silver eyes peering down upon the Chuunin that he would have expected to know better. "You'll have to forgive me for being so rash, but I take the safety of the village's lives over the presence of a cute outsider. I'll have to ask you politely to put your boy thingy back in your pants.....at least long enough for an explanation.", he said as he slowly closed his eyes, his ears still tuned in sharply. "Well?", he stated in a manner of waiting for an answer he intended to get, but his tone was calm the entire time as not to allow anyone else to overhear what they were saying.

[Hae Kyohaku]

Hae nodded eagerly to his response about a pathway that would bring them up the mountain without causing any disrespect to the great stone figures. The figures were very intricate and detailed. Each of the past Hokages & the current one were very different...she was willing to bet that they were all well-known for some type of technique or another, and they all probably held great power, hence why they had become Hokage. Especially the Fourth Sculpture, he looked rather young. He must have been incredibly powerful... Hae thought in awe.

She responded to Yuudai's statements with a bit of a 'Mhm', no full or real words escaped her lips. However, she didnt stay at peace too long. She suddenly detected another chakra presence other than hers and Yuudai's. It was stronger, but it didnt indicate if there was more chakra or less. However, based on the strength of it, she guessed it was at least Jounin-level. Seconds later, a new voice was heard. It was clearly disapproving of her presence in the village, especially so close to the Hokage Mountain.

She spun around, looking up in the direction of the voice. Against the night sky, she could just barely make out another figure, and a muscled one. However, not knowing what this new arrival looked like in detail, and just their silhouette made her a bit antsy, and also, she was starting to get annoyed by how rudely the voice spoke to she & Yuudai.

She held her arms by her side, but they were tense. Clenching her fists, she instinctively called upon the purple chakra. It flared around her for a brief second but then she concentrated it into her eyes so she could tell what this figure was. She took in his appearance. He looked very annoyed, and he sounded as such. He was incredibly rude, and he seemed to be mocking her a bit.

She clenched her teeth and frowned, keeping her eyes locked on him. "What's there to explain? Im just being shown around this new town." she said simply. She had no idea how well Yuudai knew this person...

[Katsu Katakuzure]

Yuudai glanced up at the, as he perceived, disapproving Kai, unfazed by the calm tone, the piercing eyes, the mocking language. Though Yuudai knew of him, he had minimal interaction with Kai, for various reasons. Still, there was no bad blood between the two, at least, none that Yuudai knew of. The blue eyes stared at Kai from behind the mask, hiding the stone cold face. Yuudai gave him a little shrug, almost as if he disregarded every word uttered from Kai’s lips. “She wanted to see the village, and up the mountain is the best vantage point. It is kind of nice too, you can pull yourself away from the craziness of the city from up there.”

“It isn’t like I haven’t been up there before,” he added, “I know my way around, and know what I shouldn’t show her.” Yuudai glanced over as Hae’s chakra flared up, noting the purple color. “And she is from Hidden in Star, an ally of ours. I believe this makes it harmless to show her anything that isn’t a village secret,” continued Yuudai. “And if you don’t believe me about her origin, just look at her chakra, clearing a Hidden in Star signature,” he said, pointing at her. He didn’t know this to be matter of fact, but he was banking on either Kai knowing this to be fact, or for him to have no idea on whether it was.

Yuudai then turned for Kai abruptly, almost nonchalantly, taking a few steps along the path. He glanced back a little as he walked. “In the end, I doubt your are going to stop us Kai. You know I wouldn’t dare do anything to harm this village,” said Yuudai, before he paused a bit. “However, if you are truly so worried about something bad happening, you are more than welcome to accompany us.,” finished Yuudai, before he looked back at Hae, signaling for her to follow him.

[steeltouch]

Kai was trying to be as reasonable as possible while upholding local law. A mere smile was given along with a nod as his eyes slowly panned over to Hae. "I see, activities that would be best for the day, wouldnt you agree? And even if she is an ally, you didnt pay my dont ask dont tell tax.", he said as his image whisked and appeared four feet in front of Yuudai in a crouching position. One arm hung lazily off of his knee while the other rested from knee to chin holding his chin within his palm as if bored.

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"With all due respect, I would be a traitor to my village if I let you two continue beyond this point...", as he finished his words his free hand flattened with the fingers all lined together, pointed down, and stabbed the tips of his fingers lightly into the ground. As if guided by a delayed effect, the ground gave an audible dry snap and cracked outward into a line left and right of his fingertips. Now he was going to have fun with these two.

"As far as I know, your guest here hasn't even cleared her presence in the village with the Hokage for a guest pass...which means she alone is violating the treaty between our villages. That much is apparent because had she met with the Hokage every Jounin in this city would have been talking about the one from the Star Village.", his hand lifted and resumed idle over his knee as he kept an eye on the two. As if right on cue with his analytical speech, the wind picked up lightly and blew towards the left. "I believe the word is Trespassing, and for you young Yuudai it would be aiding a trespasser. Of course I could look the other way for a simple exchange and say I never saw you.", he said with a menacing tone as if there was a curve for the bargain.