Underneath the rain of Crimson Petals ch. 2: "NinEx: We'll get it there...eventually"

[PyrosNine]

The two who hailed from the Sand tribe traveled over to a nearby Ramen vendor, which was a counterpart of the Konohagure Instant Ramen shop. The two ninja weren't entirely aquainted with each other, as Rose's interaction with others was limited, but Aseta lived next door. They conversed now and then, and shared a love of ramen.

She found Aseta to often be a bit moody, and was often afraid that in silence, he was plotting to kill her as he plotted to do to everyone else that ever spurned him. Sure, in straight physical combat she could wail on him, but while she was sleeping, at night...It might be a different story.

But she did like his fire abilities. She didin't know why, but they were mesmerizing. So she was friendly enough with him to ask exactly why they were all here.

"So...Exactly why are we all here?"

[Raiden]

Tomasu rubbed the back of his head, and his smile lessened.

"That hurt!"

He reared his right arm back, and his muscles pushed against the straps that was attached to it. With a powerful punch, he sent his arm flying through the roof of the building. It would have been more impressive if the house had been made of a better quality of materials, but the Shinobi Outpost was new, and beggars couldn't be choosers.

After making a hole big enough for him to fit through, he jumped through the hole and into Tayuumi's room.

"I have no problem with women! I do have a problem with...with.........with.........WOAH."

Tomasu's eyes widened as they were filled with a sight he should have never seen. She did say that she was changing, and his sudden entrance didn't give her much time to cover up. Needless to say, he saw some things on her body she probably didn't want him to see.

"Ummmm......awkward."

With a quick hop, he went back through the hole and landed on the roof. He grabbed the back of Kokuo's neck.

"We don't want to be here anymore."

With that, he ran, dragging Kokuo behind him.

[Mintaro]

Kokuo quickly figured out what had happened. "IT WASN'T MY IDEA TAYUUMI I SWEAR!" He yelled as he was dragged off by Tomasu. Kokuo got his feet under himself and ran off along side Tomasu. The two ran for quite awhile until they could find a spot to hide in.

Kokuo turned to his new no good friend. "So....Tomasu....what color?"

[Raiden]

Tomasu was breathing heavily.

"Black. With what I think was a Rose Bud in the middle. I'm not sure, I didn't have much time to look."

Tomasu scratched his head.

"Maybe....we can convince her that it wasn't me."

[Mintaro]

Kokuo points to Tomasu's arm. "Anyone else here with bindings?" Kokuo seemed skeptical that they could do any such convincing. "It's just a matter of time before she hunts us down...wait a minute. I didn't do anything wrong I...really? Pink rosebud? No wait! Now is not the time. She'll be hunting you. I'm the one who gave her the exotic fruits. You're on your own." With that Kokuo begins to run away again.

[Raiden]

Tomasu grabbed Kokuo's neck again before the monkey could run. He then roughly sat him back down.

"Exactly. You gave her exotic fruits, and you were on the roof with me. After all the touching and going on you did, do you really think she's going to believe that you had nothing to do with an event that involved a guy watching her undress? Like it or not, you're stuck with me on this one. Besides, like a good man once said, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn'."

Tomasu closed his eyes and nodded his head.

"Sage advice."

He opened his eyes again.

"Even if you run, she'll just handle me and go after you. Our best bet is to work together on getting out of this."

[TheBlindMime]

"Pork." Aseta declared through ramen filled lips. Rose looked very confused as he looked up to the chef. A bowl of pork ramen was set before him. Aseta's gold eyes flashed to the girl and then back to his bowl quickly, "We are nothing more then a large group of glorified couriers." Aseta began hastily slurping up his second bowl of ramen as he continued to speak, "The feline-nin girl from cloud will carry the map while the other cloud ninja will have the message. The map will guide us to our ultimate destination of an informant whom is very important to this area."

Aseta hungrily slurped up his bowl for a moment filtering the chunks of pork into his constantly rising stream of noodles. "Since I was seen as a security risk no one listened to anything I had to say. It's not my fault that monkey is irritating as he is." Aseta drank deeply from the broth, slamming it down he sighed with a deep sense of relief. "Shrimp."

The chef began to work on the next bowl of ramen as Aseta leaned back to relax, "Essentially the girl will guide us to our contact while the guy's bird holds the message safely in its stomach. He's making copies for the group, so I can only assume that the message isn't important." The 3rd bowl was set before him and he began to slurp it up within moments of its arrival. "False sets for others to carry would have worked far better but I guess people only half listen around here." Aseta could clearly remember the female feline ninja mentioning something about fakes for him and the monkey to carry.

"Damndable monkey, I won't let him beat me." Aseta began hurling shrimp into his mouth.

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

A vein bulged in Kazisha’s head, and her hands clenched. However, Ka was completely still, for she knew that there was much better things to do than further her quest to doom the two idiotic ninjas.

"Come on Shima,” Kazisha said as she went downstairs towards the tower.

<We didn’t bring anything for a long stay, Ka.>

“I know. Hopefully the shops around here are still open.”

<It’s lucky Ruma gave me quite a bit of money before we parted then,> Shima purred. Kazisha looked suspiciously at Shima. The big cat looked innocent.
“When we get back to our apartment, I’ll write a list,” she said instead of voicing something suspicious.

It was by some luck or chance that when they arrived at apartment 14 (next door to Kokuo) when Kokuo was away pestering Tayuumi. After a quick check around, Kazisha produced the key to the apartment and entered, Shima in close tow.

On the bedside table, Ka got out pen and paper, and wrote down a list of food items, equipment, and other such things needed and light enough to be carried easily by Shima. Then she folded the paper carefully and slotted it between two claws on the leopard’s forepaw. Shima clenched that paw then a bit tighter then usual.
<Money’s in a pouch under the collar,> Shima instructed, and Kazisha extracted the bulging purse, took out several notes from a thick wad and placed it in Shima’s mouth.

Once Shima left with a last twitch of her lazy tail, Kazisha closed the door and sat quietly on the bed. The map had unrolled out in front of her, and she carefully perused it, noting important landmarks, strong bearing points, and occasional places of rest. Her fingers also traced potential enemy striking zones, marked them mentally in her mind, and went on to see the actual route. Once she was sure she had become familiar with the route she carefully memorized every part of the map before rolling up the map again and sitting back.

She yawned widely, then, and thought about that Tsume and his idea. The bird summons were giving her an idea that will put a few of Shima’s bought stuff to good use. But first…

Kazisha put her hands together in a Tiger seal, and her eyes closed.

To those that could see or sense chakra well, they would notice that Ka’s chakra flowed and pulsed, before pooling into her head and intensifying.

Kazisha’s senses became sensitive. So sensitive, in fact, that she could pinpoint the exact location of a fly buzzing noisily outside, wanting in to her apartment. She didn’t bother with her sense of smell, rather concentrating on her ears, straining, stretching her range of hearing, ignoring the other noises of the world.

…

…

Kazisha opened her eyes and allowed her own Chakra to flow as normal again. The Kokuo fellow was still some distance away. Ka turned on her lights and meditated until Shima came back.

[PyrosNine]

"So we're working as a team? With people from differing villages? And why are you here? I'm totally left out of the dark on this! Kazero-Sensei hasn't told me jack squat, and I woke up here after being drugged and bound!" Rose replied, indignantly.

She pointed to the waiter. "BEEF! HERE!" The waiter rushed towards the leather clad (kinda) kunoichi.

She recieved her bowl and started shoveling it in. "So let me guess, you don't like that guy with the tail? What for? He's a guy with a tail for crying out loud! *chomp* uu shudn't teak hm *gulp* seriously."

If he also wanted to break the ninja code and kill another Ninja over a simple grudge, she be damned if she let him do it first.

[Mesden]

OOC: It's really high up

Tayuumi slowly walked out of her room. She wasn't completely dressed, but moreso than when TOMASU came in. She touched the rubble that used to be her room and reformed it. Then she quickly placed her hands on the ground. After a brief moment the entire area that Tomasu and Kokuo were on shot up into the sky. Tayuumi rode a smaller platform up to theirs, landed on it and looked at them. She then said, "Kokuo, you leave now. I heard the whole conversation. Your secrets aren't safe with me around. Little asshole with the privacy issues, Why shouldn't I have killed you instead of putting you up here? EXPLAIN. NOW. " with as much and more malice than Tomasu had ever heard in his life. Her neck was eminating with what seemed to be some sort of marking. Istantaneuosly(sp?) the rock shot around Tomasu, enclosing him in an immovable position. "And if you aren't good at weasling your way out of problems, you had better get better." she shifted her eyes to the stunned kokuo "MONKEY I said GO!"