The Event Of The Year (Open, Kumo Celebration)

Before the procession had started Reizo had come over (with a weirdly tied tie) and sat with the rest of them and immediately began to pick at the finger foods provided by Komon. Speaking of which… Saya could only sigh as he completely forgot her name. That was a sting to her pride, but she supposed she couldn’t really fault him for being drunk and out of his mind. Even more so when he asked her and Sakana if they were a couple. ”We’re not,” the girl told him, confused as to why and how he came to that conclusion. Either way, Komon was certainly lost in his own world as he casually pushed the finger food over to his twin brother’s area so that his waiter could place the food in front of him.

She snorted in hilarity and proceeded to push the small food to the center of the table so that she could receive her own dinner. However, that would all be pushed out of the way - literally - by the redhead she had seen earlier by the bar. The expression she saw on the Uzumaki’s pretty face struck something in her. Saya immediately rose from her seat to meet her, but the woman was fast and her nails were already digging into her upper arm. ”L-Lady Kira!” Saya startled, one hand moving to mirror her grip.

Kira’s words were rushed and the poor girl could only place a mark seal on the Suna kunoichi before she pulled away and disappeared from sight. Saya felt her blood rushing in her veins. Konoha was being attacked. Though there were innocent people there that might need help, the genin found that she didn’t really care. She didn’t know them and as far as she knew, they weren’t allies to Kumo. Then a thought struck her. Of course. Suna and Konoha were - had been - allies. It wouldn’t be farfetched if Kira had developed some friends in an allied village.

Turning to the others at her table Saya was disappointed to see that the newly promoted jounin were quite drunk. Shifting her attention to Sakana and Max, Saya was sure that they had at least heard what had been said. ”I’m going after her,” she told them without preamble. ”Tell someone of higher ranked.” With that Saya kicked off her heels and started running out of the party.

Kira Uzumaki. She barely knew the woman. There was no reason why she should help her - a foreigner and someone that probably didn’t like her village. But her thoughts turned to when they had first met at a bar. The redhead woman stood up for her and was cordial enough. Even earlier in the day, when the woman already knew that she was a Kumo ninja, Kira had dragged her around to try and find dresses that suited them both. A bond had already formed, and Saya couldn’t deny that she had grown fond of Kira. Perhaps lauding her as another female shinobi to look up to and admire.


WORD COUNT: 510
TOTAL WORD COUNT: 1047 + 510 = 1557

CLAIMING: Chakra signatures (1557 / 2000) for Kyson Hozuki, Nobunaga Hiyu, Arashi Tekiatsu, and Komori Hozuki. + Placed a mark seal on |Snow| // Kira Uzumaki.

Approved Saya

Komori was much, much too buzzed to really be able to comprehend what was happening. Ah well. He was a jounin now, but he would only find that out later. After the hell that would be the hangover. Setting a terrible example for Kumo and whatever, Komori was pretty much only there for the food. He almost missed Komon's whispered words that caused the Hozuki to begin to tear up. He went from party drunk to emotionally drunk. Thanks, bro. Instead of saying anything, for fear of bursting into tears, Komori simply smiled and clasped his twin's shoulder before grabbing a mug. "A small toast for everyone here," he said clinking his glass, not caring if anyone was really paying attention. "Here's to a long life and a happy one. A quick death and an easy one. A good girl and an honest one." Finally he lifted his mug. "A cold pint and another one." With that, he downed the glass and slammed it on the table, as he engaged in the same merriment with his brother.

--Exit--
Claiming: Jounin finally
Ill get all the jutsu and stuff on my stat page

Standing with his back against the wall, arms crossed against his burly chest and one left up with the sole against the wall, the silent sentry stoically watched the crowd and individuals around him. Quite honestly he was bored and did not belong here, but he came cause his leader arrived as well as to steak out some potential recruits for his leader. But so far, nothing. Therefore remained silent until Kyson spoke to him.

Nobunaga grunted at his words. "Reluctantly." Responded the Hiyu in his usual hoarse voice. Despite the fact no one forced him to come he felt he still had to come. He wanted to see what the shinobi of the Kumo forces were like, he wanted to see who Kyson would be interested in but he was also hoping Maku would show up. However that last bit seemed unlikely at this point. "Aye." Responding to his next question, Nobunaga would scratch the scar running along his face as he glanced over the crowd again. "The Kumo people pretend like they do not live in rot and filth. Yet despite what they fight for, it's shinobi are children, no different from those we had in Suna." Spotting some of them getting drunk beyond the point of being conscious, the Hiyu would continue "Perhaps others know of their sin yet they blindly follow and expand the cesspool that is their empire. These people bewilder me.

Leaning over and picking up some finger foods that were on the table Kyson was seated at, Nobunaga would ask "Why do you ask?" Munching down his food, Nobunaga would listen to what Kyson had to say till the man they had met earlier this week took the mic and started blabbering away, dishing out rank ups and praise to his subordinates. Caring little for their promotions, Nobunaga would lean forward and whisper in Kyson's ear. "This does not concern me." With that Nobunaga would push off of the wall and head towards the entrance, leading in the middle of the acknowledgements and promotions of the Kumo forces. 

EXIT

Hearing Nobu's response, it seemed the two were thinking the same thing. They don't feel as if they were from the horrible place Kyson remembered. Especially the boy that asked to help him with his tie. "No reason in particular, just thought it seemed a bit off.." Kyson said in response. As he watched all the promotions be given out. It seemd only two people were present at the table for the higher ups. Three people were missing, he definitely thought Maku would've been here. Which came at a huge surprise.

Then Kyson would notice a bit of commotion going on as Kira stormed out of the party. With a worried look on his face. Wondering what the hell was going on. Everything seemed to be aright in the party. And he didn't notice anyone walking up towards her to trigger her. Kyson would chill at the celebration for a few minutes and then eventually leaving to see what was going on with her. Nobu finally got tired of the celebration since it didn't really have much to do with him. Which is why he told him he didn't have to go, but he couldn't force him to not come. As Kyson took a few bites of the food in front of him, he ran out the party dodging everyone to see what was going on.

(EXIT)

Max would look over to his comrades, not fully sure now how he felt. The person he wanted to enjoy this event with the most had left, and so Max would choose not to go after Senshi right now. There must have been something important going on, as others left as well. Despite his new rank, he still didn’t seem to know what was going on.
 
Sakana greeted Max, but the weight of whatever had been going on in the shadows was slowly wearing on the newly promoted Chuunin. “Congratulations Sakana! And also to you guys as well!” Max would say this with as much enthusiasm he could, trying to hide his concern behind a mask of joy. He didn’t want to spoil this event for anybody, especially not his fellow Kumo compatriots. This was their day, their celebration.
 
The twins seemed to be enjoying themselves, their pleasant mood ringing loud and clear for all to see. Reizo was also enjoying his promotion, as he seemed to be “mingling” with many of the less reputable ladies from Hoshi that were here to “cash in” on Kumo’s celebration.
 
“Was this… what you expected it to be?” Max would ask Sakana, not sure if anyone else was in a proper mindset to respond. Saya would have been asked as well, but she left already with that strange redhead.
 
“This isn’t how I expected it to be….” Max would mutter, just loud enough for Sakana beside him to hear, his low mood finally spilling out for another to see. “I’ll see you guys later. I’m going to go to bed early tonight and try to shake off some of this unease I’m feeling.”
 

With that, Max would seem to be heading towards the palace. By the morning they might all be ready to leave and head back to Kumogakure, and Max knew that he had something he needed to do first. The boy would head over towards the morgue, planning on taking some "crafting materials" with him to his room to pack away before he left. 

The boy made his way to the morgue, immediatey using his chakra threads to open up several of the cold chambers used to preserve the bodies. Max would use his threads to move the corpses out into a pile, the boy searching through the bodies for proper... pieces. He thought that there wouldn't be the needed materials here for his craft, but Max would soon realize that he just wasn't looking hard enough. The boy would find a handful of intact and relatively large corpses and return the rest to their chambers. He didn't want to leave the place a mess for anyone. Trying out a technique he recently read up on in his jutsu encyclopedia, Max would form the needed hand seals for Storage Displacement. Placing the bodies inside the storage dimension, Max would then make his way back to the palace.

Max had a lot of things to think about, and this trip to Hoshi had proved to be incredibly fruitful. He always thought that other villages must have had it better than Kumo in a lot of ways, but from what he has seen Hoshi isn't a great deal better than his own home of Kumo. Of course, that was merely his opinion and many people would probably disagree with it. Nevertheless, Max had hoped to find something here that he was missing back home, but despite everything it didn't seem like it was to be found here. 

The rest of the night was fairly pleasant, the cool night air blowing lightly across his face. Part of him wanted to stay with his allies and try to enjoy the party, but he was most of the way back to the palace now. He would try to get a good nights sleep and rendezvous with the others in the morning.

Little did Max know that this night would prove to be one of the worse nights of his life.


---Exiting unless stopped---

WC: 664
TWC:1659

Claims:
Chuunin Rank (3 free canon jutsu of the rank you have unlimited of or lower, Chuunin Flak Jacket, 20 Stats for the rankup, all the stuff Here that I don't already have)

Claiming Storage Displacement (1000/1000)
2 stats remaining that I need to be at maxed out stats (from learning Storage Displacement)

Every was laguing and celebrating. Every one seemed happy. Oh a rarity this is nowadays. To see the people hear be happy again caused a smile on Sakana’s face because it meant people were moving on from all the loses from the sieging of the minor villages. These shinobi were not forgotten but honored here.
 
When the very much drunk Komon asked if Saya and himself we’re a couple his face turned red. He had never really thought of themselves that way so he just waited to see what Saya would say. When she replied they we’re he faced started return to it’s natural shade because now he knew how she was feeling.  Max would wish Sakana congratulations and the Meijin would do the same.
 
Things went back to fun as the twins were eating and partying until a redheaded woman approached the table. Well you know in stories just when everything is starting to look up something goes horribly wrong? Well this was one of those times, the girl would speak that Konoha was under siege and she seemed visibly upset. Maybe she knew someone there and that was why she was upset. Sakana didn’t really know why nor did he have the time to ask her. She probably had a friend there or something like that.
 
What surprised him more was when his friend Saya explained that she was going after her. That was scary, were they really going to go to a warzone? Sakana knew there was no stopping Saya and her stubbornness so he wasn’t going to try. Instead he would grab her small arm real quick before she ran out. He knew of a E rank mark seal technique and he would do his best to track her that way. Focusing his chakra into her arm to mark her he would say, “Saya, I know I can’t stop you but you need to be safe. Don’t take any risks that you don’t have to ok. Make sure you send me a telepathy message the second there is any danger, don’t leave me in the dark. Please come back safe, for me.” He would say that last part as he gave her a small hug even though he knew she didn’t like them. Once he let her go he would return to the table with max because he ran out as he was asking a question.
 
Once he got back to the table he would pick up the party shoes Saya had left behind holding them. Max would ask Sakana if this was how he expected it to be. He would reply with a “Yeah this is how parties normally go, they’re not for everyone.” He would say sensing the uneasiness in Max’s voice.
 
After that Max would reply saying that wasn’t how he thought it would be and said he was go to bed because he wasn’t feeling great. Sakana would tell him, “Yeah go rest up we’re leaving tomorrow. I don’t think you drank anything bad but make sure you have a glass of water before you sleep.”
 
After he finished talking to max he realized he needed to find a higher rank shinobi who wasn’t drunk in order to tell them about the siege. Walking up to the important people table he would see that everyone he knew was missing. All that was up there was a Hoshi ninja and one kumo guy he didn’t recognize.  He would start speaking to these two (Arashi being one of them) in a panicked worried voice. “You seem to be the two highest ranking people here that aren’t drunk. So I just got sent here to pass along the message that Konoha is being attacked and might perish very soon. What you choose to do with that information is up to you but I’m going back to kumo to try and help prep everything there in case it comes our way. Bye and good luck.” He would say that leaving the table.
 
He would stop and see the twins and Reizo before he left telling them that “Pack up when you’re done here. We’re leaving this place really soon.”
 
Sakana would then head out the door, still holding Saya’s dress shoes in his heads. He thought of a S/T tech called storage displacement and how it could be used to hold things. He would make the required handseals and place the slippers inside them so that he could keep them safe until he needed to return them to her. Heading home he would quickly stop at Saya’s room to pick up her dress and any other belongings she had so that he could take them back to Kumo for her. Then to Komori’s to grab Komorgi to feed him real quick. Finally he would go back to his own room to sleep and get ready to leave.
 
--EXIT—
 
TWC: 1648
 
Claiming Chuunin and all the stuff that comes with that.
Let’s grab 16 ap,
Mark seal,
Storage displacement,

and a mark seal on Saya.

Approved