RT: Journey over destination: Open [PG-13]

{OOC: PM before joining please}

IC: Iwagakure, the village hidden within the stone. It was amazing how the name lived up to the location, but it was also amazing how hard it was to actually get there. The traders, and other merchants must have had one hell of a time navigating the terrain, at least for their first few times. Jutsu were really a marvel, and the sage dude or whatever it was that discovered it in the first place was a genius. It just made things so much easier if you were skilled in it, but then again this poor soul who was going to meet someone decided to take the long route. First off it was easier to do this way in terms of staying in any location, and secondly it was good to know all the routes, and when you are technically "Free" you don't really have to worry about things. This is what made this adventure so perfect, and enjoyable the fact that it was just that, a journey and not a destination so time didn't really matter. Within this beings life though when did time actually matter, it was something that had become fickle, and all that mattered was purpose and just living, though they weren't bitter yet or anything, if anything perhaps they were less bitter and more contempt with what had happened within their life. Perhaps if it never had they wouldn't be where they are today, perhaps they wouldn't be able to make a difference or at least live a nice life. They still desired many things that someone in their position might view as foolish, but that's what made them human, what them still have a conscious and soul.

Walking along the rocky road the girl would sigh as the sword that dwarfed her, upon her back just made little ticking and screeching noises. It was growing impatient, and not in the hunger or violent sense. Hecate hadn't talked to it for a day ever since it decided to talk shit about her momma, so she just let it lament in silence for a bit. It was a just punishment for such an insult, and before you wonder anymore no it didn't insult her momma it did something else. What it did exactly was no consequence for this moment in time, and didn't deserve the time of an explanation, instead a passing merchant deserved a wave, and a nod. It was odd to see some trees up in the mountains or at least along a man made path, well not really all that weird but if you are from an island covered in mist, and surrounded by water, this kind of place seems a bit out of place. That very feeling of discomfort was probably the very same reason no one had actually taken over another country, perhaps the terrain was too different to actually use, perhaps the combined efforts of different people would make it impossible to invade, especially if they were the native population.

All of this was just digression, incoherent thought that passed just as the breeze did, and was something Hecate did quite often when by herself. Finally after nearly a days journey she would arrive, her outfit that of a cyan in color though a bit plain and lacking in frills this time. She didn't have a hat on and pretty much the only things visible were her scrolls, and samehada the sword that was now sobbing. The gates were open, and that was always a positive thing, it was also something that didn't make Hecate suspect they were going to hog tie her up and roast her over a fire, which was always a positive; though it was no guarantee that they hadn't heard about her, she was taking a risk but her stupid jerk of a friend said "Meet here" so she would hold them up to it. Not like she was going to drop a bomb in here anyway, so who really cared. As she walked up to the counter, desk... uh thing off to the side she handed the shinobi some papers, got a stamp and went about her way. It was simple too simple, it's a good thing she isn't a super whacky type or she might call this a conspiracy against her. No one would ever do that right? It's not like someone was going to hunt down all the Jinchuriki and put them a statue or something, that was just be dumbtarded. Obviously she didn't have anything to fear from anyone, and thus could be the uber badass she always wanted to be.

Finally able to walk about the village she found it be a bit of a hassle, sure there was the under area, that was almost all flat, but the rest was like a trip up a hill with a half dead bike, the rest of it was made up bridges and she didn't really trust those things, since while pretty they didn't look to be in the best of shape. In fact if anything she would shy away from them for the fact that she didn't really prefer heights, she didn't mind them, but they made her feel a little bit unsafe. Deep water however was more of her thing, and it was something that made her feel at peace, but mountains sky and long drops... not so much. This meant she wouldn't stay in one of the hotels that was well in the sky, and would probably stay in one of the lower rooms. Her friend could just bugger off if he wanted her to stay in a place that was high up, or upon the biggest hill in the area, she was tired of all that. Now though her mission was to find a hotel, find a grocery store, and perhaps buy a few fun things, though that would just be after the fact, and if she had time. It was nearing nightfall and she wanted to at least get some nice sleep tonight.

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Being lost is a wonderful thing, in fact it is so wonderful Hecate felt the need to just keep that state of mind about her. Directions would not be asked from her mouth, and she wouldn't find the time to actually practice common courtesy, instead resorting to anger and frustration. Very odd things for her to experience since she normally would just laugh it off, but when you can't find what you arre looking for in a land filled with hills, you learn to hate the fact that you can't float. Fortunately she could fly right now if she wanted too, sadly though that would just lead to more problem, mainly why someone was flying within a village and looking around. Can you say target for all the ANBU, because Hecate sure as heck can. No she would have to hoof it and be annoyed, good thing she wore some boots right now though and not those stupid sandals, seriously they were so stupid they didn't even protect all of you, and why wouldn't you want yourself protected in the first place. Kunai hurt man and you need to be ready to take that stuff, especially in the foot, and especially if they use a sword to lock it in place, and then smack you around a bit. Not that this had ever happened to her mind you... okay maybe once it did but it's all good, she is just fine and not bitter or expecting it to happen again at all. Street lights, people, none of them seemed to really be what she wanted to find, and since she couldn't find her friend until a few days from now this would be even more of a hassle. The village should have passed out maps when you entered... but then again that would mean you would have to show your entire village layout to anyone who passed by, yes that could prove to be a bad thing, a very bad thing actually. Then people could just attack it willy nilly, and that isn't really what they want to have happen now is it?

Still that meant the feeling of being lost would continue for several hours until it was dark out. At least she found a grocery store and got some things, though unlike most who would just carry them she stashed it away within her scrolls; since that's what a smart ninja would do use scrolls for grocery shopping. Too bad they couldn't also bake bread, or make toast... hell she would need to come up with a technique or something for that sometime, like a list of helpful techniques that just make life a breeze. Such as cleaning perfection no jutsu, or perhaps summon dinner no jutsu, oh yeah that one is a keeper. In any case it would all be for not if she couldn't actually find a place to stay at, anywhere, as she didn't desire to reside upon the streets for the rest of her blasted life, or at least for most of it. Tick tock tick tock, events just kept going by around her, and finally she saw an open booth, with a map laid out next to it, it didn't detail much aside from just businesses but it was fine; this would be enough. Relieved she decided to just relax for a moment, and look over it, if only there was a bench that would make this heaven. Just as her eyes fluttered across the locals sound came from behind her, and it was getting directly closer, she could feel it, it must have been... "Can I help you miss?" a blasted sale recipient, how could she be so blind the cart next to the map was there to camp out new people like her. Turning to look towards him her eyes glanced over the cart, there were nick naks, the devil in disguise, various things for Iwa and all that, hell there must have been stuff there that would make a shinobi cry as his village's soul was worn by a fat kid bitchin about life. "Uh nope think I got all of this all sorted out...." He just smiled "of course, I assume you are just visiting the village?" The hair on the back of her neck stood up, he knew, he somehow knew was hadn't been here before; obviously it was because she was reading a map but still the bastard knew it, and he was going to play off of it harder than a kid plays with a damn ball.

"Of course, I am just sight seeing you know trying to find a place to sleep tonight that isn't really around this general area at all. Do you know of a place like that? You know far away from this plaza, so far away that I can't even see it?" He put his hand up to his chin and thought for a little while, Hecate all the while looking behind him and at him, while trying to escape to the map, but she just couldn't do it, damn her and actually giving these types of people the time of day. Then again best to chat it up now while you can before zombies invade everything. " Ah yes now I remember, there is a place like that just behind the main gate actually. On the opposite side of where those guards sit and check in the people, they put it there for convenience in case travelers got lost within the village. Could you imagine getting lost here, oh boy that sure would be terrible, man your knees would probably be killing you after all that walking. So anything else I could do you for some of my wares perhaps...." Shell shocked is exactly what Hecate was right now. Samehada however snickered, and gave out a little laugh, Hecate punching it to try and shut it up. "You know what... yeah that sounds just fine... I am curious about them, what is that one right there?" she stated pointing, the man turning to look towards it and get it. Picking it up he turned around to show it, speaking as he did so. "Well you see this thing here is a statue of the.... hey wait where did you go?" That's right folks, Hecate had just bolted it, using kagero she had moved to the other side of the village in a matter of seconds, in fact she was bolting it so fast that when she appeared within the hotel lobby the floor decided to make a little rumble, a tiny one that only the structure could feel but a rumble none the less. appearing in front of the counter she threw some money onto the what else, counter. "Room please, preferably for two, maybe three, but just a room." the man behind the counter surprised looked down at the money and up at her, "This is a fine establishment it will cost you more than..." Hecate threw more money out of her scroll towards him, "Now?"

He began to count it; after a minute he sighed, and put the money within the register, "Very well then miss....?" "Kuroi" Yes quite... you may have one of the suites for a few days, should you so desire, here is a key third floor I hope you enjoy your stay." Taking it and moving towards the stairs she cringed, there were stares... STARES, after all those mountains these were going to become her worst enemy. She just had to make it up, and up them she would make it abet about ready to crawl into her room. Opening the door however she felt a wave of joy hit her square throughout her entire body... oh this would be nice, and might make the trip worth it.

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The day had been long, and hard but now she had a place to lay back and relax. It had taken more than it should have to get to this location, but you know what, she did, and she told herself that the journey was all that mattered. Samehada thought so too, though the journey itself still made it snicker occasionally, the thought of having to deal with that blasted sword really drove her crazy. he was a good friend but at the same time perhaps one of the most annoying little bastards on the planet, especially considering he had the intellect of a three year old. Oh well peace and freedom were here again, at least within a little bubble for her, no one was after her, and she was within a ninja village, ironically one of the safest places within the world currently. THis of course allowing for her to take a bath, ironically with samehada in there was well (he really needed to be cleaned) and just relax on the couch for a spell. Staring up at the sealing she would ponder and wonder about the different adventures she had, and the stories she could tell about them, one in particular making her feel uncomfortable, but at the same time determined. Samehada just kind of inching along the ground looking around and being the dumb dinosaur it was. The seventh tails was being quiet too, it was a little bit lazy right now as it didn't really feel the need to do much so talking to it was out of the question, but at the same time she didn't feel like just going to bed. So she curled up with a book she had gotten before hand and with some hot chocolate decided to just take it easy until midnight, when she finally decided enough was enough, and went off to dream land within the hotels bed. Tomorrow would be a busy day a day she wouldn't really have much time for goofing off before she would be able to well goof off, in all honesty she didn't have too many plans for the next day, but they probably would be done on time, or at the very least in accordance with her will!

The sun shone against the window with an aura of warmth as Hecate stirred beneath the sheets, Samehada off doing whatever the hell he was doing in the corner of the room. It had hardly been a wonderful nights sleep since the seventh decided to just wake up and blab to her during her dreams about various things, and make fun of them at the same time. He wasn't a complete jerk to her, and didn't really mind helping her out to stay alive, but man was he ever a jerk in her dreams. In either case though, she would wake up and prepare some of the coffee she had bought in hopes of making this day nice. Her outfit that she chose during breakfast was pretty simple, it was almost the same thing that she had been wearing before, but this time she decided to go with shoes that weren't boots, a little tacky but tennis shoes were in her wardrobe, at least they matched the peach colored dress she was spotting that did in fact have some frills, but not so many that it seemed to be just lolicon. It had sleeve but they were short considering the temperature didn't really call for her to wear much in that sense, and tying her hair up in a pony tail she finished off what remained of her breakfast, and headed on out of her hotel room; bringing all of her equipment with her of course. Walking outside of the door this time, she saw it's location and sighed, even though she knew it was here she still didn't want to believe it, but it had been true. Now she would need to climb up all those hills to get back to where she wanted to go, oh well it wouldn't be too horrible this time as she at least had some rest and wasn't unfit in the slightest, hell she found it had to not just get fat instead of muscle. If she had been born a boy she probably would be a body builder by now... oh well those women that did that scared her, so there was no way in hell she would follow in their big fat thundering footsteps. Looking towards the alley that was fed by the gate enterance she moved on out, wondering if anything would cross her path as she sight saw the area, and somewhat hoped that someone, or something would, it would make things more fun at least until she would meet up with her buddy to continue their adventure time.

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Walking through the village of Iwagakure, Tadashi could only grin. Though it had been years since he had returned home to Konoha, the only thing he really missed about it was calling it home. He had grown up, and lived there his entire life, up until his father died. His brother, now, or so he had heard, had taken over his place as the Clan leader. Tadashi’s old friend, Hakate, is more than likely the only person he still communicates with in Konoha. Sadly, though, its hard to send letters to a man as wanted as Tadsahi was.

It was a sad thought, though, for the reasoning behind his “Missing Ninja” Title. When Tadashi left Konoha, he was the Clan leader of the Uchiha, but of course, this was after his father’s death. Though he stayed for a while after that, Tadashi knew the power his people wanted. With Nasus’s death, the Uchiha had gone back to their original intent, wanting nothing more than power, and to be treated as god. His younger brother, Katsuga, wanted the same, so, it was only a matter of time before Tadashi would “Betray” his clan, and leave the village, becoming one of the most wanted men alive inside of the walls of the leaf village. In truth, Tadashi never meat for this to happen, but, he knew his brother would sway the people with his silver tongue, more so that Tadashi with his leadership and actions, attempting to gain back the Uchiha’s respect, rather than promote their already enormous “God complex.” So all of this, had left him to leave his village, and train himself, for the one day Uchiha revolt that was sure to come once more.

It was nice, though, that some villages hated Konoha, and although this wasn’t necessarily true for Tadashi himself, a village such as Iwagakure loved someone like Tadashi’s company. So, that’s where he ended up, for now at least. Sitting up on a tree limb inside the village of stone, Tadashi had been waiting for a close friend, one whom he had met outside the village in his years of travel. A young girl by the name of Hecate Kuroi. She had also held a great power, much like Tadashi and hi Eternal Mangekyo, however, her’s was not in the form of a doujutsu, no. She was the host of the seven tailed beast. A great friend to have, in his humble thoughts.

He had met the girl only a few weeks after his leaving the village. A nice woman, with pink hair and baby blue eyes. She was a very thin woman, though, and seemed to be quite “fragile” in his mind, but as he got to know her, he was surprised just how rough she could take it (Hahaha, get it?). Him and Hecate had grown fairly close, and they had been through a lot together, seeing as how they’d just bumped into each other so frequently, and, oh, speak of the devil, there she was.

Tadashi turned his head and saw Hecate walking through the village and he chuckled a little. “What are you, following me?” He called out to her. Tadashi jumped down from a tree and took a few steps forward, his Mangekyo remaining active like he always has it. The red in his eyes, shining with his semi smile/smirk. He laughed a bit as she walked closer to him, “Why is it, that every time I turn my head, either you, or Vox is right there, huh?” He asked her, laughing again. Now Vox was another story entirely. A Rogue from Konoha, like himself, though that man… Words just could not describe.

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Well that sure as heck was fast, she hadn't been traveling but five minutes and already someone was calling out to her. She recognized the voice though, it was a voice that she hadn't heard in a long, long time, and it reminded her that she was now the master. Despite how she felt like the master now, it was odd that she knew the voice, though perhaps turning around would yield better results than just walking blindly forward, and ignoring it, especially since it knew her name, wait no it didn't shit it might be a salesman, wait no it knew of Vox, it would be safe to notice it. Turn her head slowly, Samehada wagged it's hilt as it saw who it was, and was getting all jumpy. There it was, she saw him, and she knew him it was Tadashi, though why he was here was a bit strange, she had come here to find Vox not him, but then again perhaps Vox told him to meet up with him here. It wasn't beyond him to do something like that, of course if he ever told anyone else of his plans then you know these kinds of things wouldn't happen, but he wouldn't do that, because he was a lazy womanizer of a man who left because he "didn't want to be the Hokage's bitch". She didn't mind though he wasn't a complete scumbag, no he had good qualities that she had seen, rarely seen but he had them and by god would she stand by that... as long as the police weren't involved, then nuh-uh boy is on his own. Never the less she would now converse with Tadashi and ignore Vox for now, after all he probably wouldn't show up until a week after he was done, with whatever he was doing else where, probably poking someones mom.

"Oh, hello there Tadashi, I didn't expect to see you here, which means no I am not following you, if anything I am following Vox; though where the womanizer is I have no idea..." she sighed after stating that and Samehada snickered at it, the sword found the lives of these people funny, and amusing, even though it was as dumb as a rock. Hell it couldn't even make finger paints, it just kind of messed it up, and it was funny as all heck to watch. "Though I do I know you haven't been stalking me? Can't stay away from my beauty can you? I know; I know it's hard for me to pull myself away from the mirror in the morning, because I just like to see my beauty, I wouldn't blame you if you couldn't stay away from it. she winked, and if it could Samehada would roll his eyes. Don't worry though the seventh tails did roll it's eyes. though might I ask what exactly you are doing here in the first place? I know you aren't really following me because you think I am attractive, after all you have those emo eyes, and all that, but could it be that Vox told you to meet up here as well? Why here I have no idea, he just said and I quote, "Yeah lets meet up in Iwa, Ah it's feels so good bitch don't stop; and lets get a plan together or something; oh man I can't believe you are single". The other parts were when he was doing someone mom or sister I really don't know... I really don't care anymore...." Foot up his ass, that's what was needed, or for him to have a sex change operation. Nah the latter would probably mean he would go after all kinds of different men then, and go "Oh that's what a woman feels like", freaking sicko.

Now though she was going to be bored unless Tadashi wanted to do something, and not in the Vox sort of way. More in the tourist sort of way, after all it was nice to be able to see the different sites even most of them were just hills and some shops. The shops were the fun part though, and would prove to be the main part of the journey (Street lights!).... actually it was perfect that Tadashi was here, he was a man he could carry her bags, ignore the fact that she would just seal them up in scrolls, she wasn't going to pass on this opportunity to actually make him jump a little at the first prospect of doing such a boring and heavy task. "Though did you have today, I was just going to site see... and not wear boots this time and get lost... anyway what were you planning on doing? I'm down for almost anything I guess, since I don't really know this village, and all that."

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Tadashi couldn't help but shake his head, not only at Hecate's comment upon her self beauty, but the way he described their dear friend Vox and his... Mannerisms. Vox was, in a nutshell, the worlds laziest horn dog, ever to exist. Tadashi himself wondered if it had anything to do with the 8 tailed beast, seeing as how it had tentacles, and this was an RP forum based off of an Anime, and anime usually leads to fan-fic’s, and in turn those leading to… Well, you get the point, but anyway! He sighed at the comment of his emo eyes and chuckled a bit , "Yeah, but if I didn't have emo eyes, no one would every love me," He said, now bearing an overly sorrowful face, to the point of which he busted out in his own laughter.

He shifted a bit and then looked back towards the girl. “So… Vox is supposed to show up, eh? What does that slime ball need from you..? Oh, wait, never mind, how could I assume anything other than Vox being himself, and you, in your radiant beauty, decline him of what most men would want from someone like you?” He gestured to her before smirking, and not too long after, that smirk turned to another burst of laughter. Obviously he was joking, but it was the kind to, hopefully anyway, still raise a tid bit of anger within the girl. Tadashi nodded his head for Hecate to follow as he stuck his hands in his pockets, after running them slightly through his hair. Being reminded of Hecate and Vox had brought back a bunch of old memories for Tadashi. Since he met the 2 Bijuu hosts, Tadashi had always felt himself tied to them, so to speak, in one way or another. They had helped him, and he them, and the cycle repeated. It was actually odd, how the three kept running into one another, but regardless, it kept occurring, so, naturally, Tadashi had grown quiet fond of the 2 and all of their… quirks.

“I’ve been to this place before. Iwa, I mean. As you know, and so does most of the entire ninja world, I am a “traitor”” he said with air quotes, “of the Hidden Leaf Village, Konoha, and since Iwa hates Konoha and all of its essence, the people here just seem to enjoy having me around, so, every once in a while, I come back and call this place my home. Though I would never truly live here, it’s the closest place I got, I suppose. And, please, don’t think me loyal to the Tsuchikage. The last thing I want is for the world to think that I betrayed Konoha for Iwa, and now they know all of its secrets. God this world is full of crazies already, we don’t need that kind of attention.” He laughed. As Tadashi walked, Hecate behind him, He was leading them to a nice spot atop a cliff ledge, looking over the various mountains of the region, where he was sure Hecate would bring up its romantics, but that was not the point. The reason he brought her here was because this place had an ice cream, and damn what Tadashi would do right now for a double scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream in a waffle cone. And damnit if anyone would tempt to swat his ice cream down as so many thought was funny, he would do nothing short of Amaterasu them in the face. Especially if it was Hecate, since she was one of the few in the ninja world who was so skilled in her arts, she had rumored she could even put her soul into another body, and Tadashi would not hesitate to test that theory if she had tried to keep him from his ice cream.

He walked up to the ice cream man and ordered himself some of his old time favorite and began licking the delicious treat before walking over to the rail that looked over the abyssal gape of land. “So what did Vox even call you here for anyway? Cause if he’s got somethin’ planned, I wouldn’t mind helping I guess.” He said, still snacking on his cone, looking over to Hecate.

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Vox rubbed the hell out of his baggy eyes. The Iwagakure sunshine burning his retina's. What time was it? Why the hell did he even decide to get out of bed? On his left eye one could see a large, black, bruise. But the origins of that one was another story entirely. He was sooooo tired! He hadnt got a wink of sleep, none at all. It was really sad, if you thought about it, S rank missing nin. Jinchuuriki and master of the Lightning Release Armor. All these things meant nothing, cause the man couldnt even get a good nights sleep. He often wondered why he ever became a ninja. He used to sleep pretty well when he was a kid; back before all the madness. To be honest, he hadnt slept well since he killed that Swordsman and left Konoha. Maybe it was his parents, he always worried about them. Guess you could say thats why he drowned himself in debauchery. It allowed him to think otherwise, and drown away his regrets with pleasure. Though he could never hold his liquor, he got drunk very easily. After a night with Hecate, several months ago, he realized how much of a loving drunk he was. Most people were angry drunks, and got aggressive when they got drunk. Vox, however, got very nice. He got nice and grabby, and Hecate had a habit of beating his drunk ass to a pulp whenever he got grabby. Gah, just thinking about it made his whole body hurt. It wasnt his fault, though. Alcohol had a great effect on judgment, an insane effect, and made him do things he would never do sober. Which brings up the question of his black eye. You see, he slept alone last night. He didnt get any, which also explains why he didnt get much sleep. He often slept just fine after some nice sex. Buuuut, last night was the same case. He was up half the night, tossing and turning. And trying to avoid doing the usual...the thing he does when he doenst get laid. Lucky for him he avoided such things. And simply thinking about it made him shiver. How he had sunken so low. Anyways. Last night he had decided to go to a club in town. A real classy place, really really classy. Actually, now that he thought about it. It was a Gentleman's club...right. Right. He had gone to a Gentleman's Club to have a good time. The only Gentleman's Club he had ever gone to was in Kumo. And that one was AWESOME. Vox wasnt picky about the nationality of his women, and that made Kumo the perfect place for him. Unfortunately, the women in Kumo were a bit easy to piss off. So, in the Cloud village, he found himself slapped several times within the span of a few minutes. But damn, those women were attractive. He would have to go back sometime.

Anyways. Vox was at the Gentleman's Club and he was enjoying himself. Unfortunately for him, he had had a few too many drinks. And when he got his next dance, he got grabby. Now you'd say "Vox is an S-Rank Missing-nin. He has the Hachibi in him too, theres no way he would get his ass handed to him". Well, my friend, thats where you are very wrong. The "dancer" socked him in the eye. And she hit him HARD. He laughed though, it was so ironic. And it made him think of Hecate. Then he remembered why he even came to Iwa, but not why he wanted to come here. He had come here to meet Hecate and tell her something. But he couldnt recall WHY he wanted to meet her here. No matter, he knew he would remember. He took off his hat and dusted it off, god the hotel he was staying in was dusty. It was a Mom and Pops place, Bed and Breakfast. They were decent people, and their daughter was a REAL looker. Vox spent half his drunken stupor wondering if he should sneak into her room and try to get lucky. But then again, he was DRUNK. And so she could simply look good, and not really be good looking. He had had that problem before. He swore he would never do so again. Show time... he placed his hat back upon his head and took rapid steps. His feet made slight pounding steps, muffled by the dirt beneath his feet. His hands slowly slipped into his pockets as he made his way towards the ice cream joint he had gone to a few days prior. They had some good ice cream there, very good. Which reminded him, where was Tadashi? Last time he saw him he was....where was he again? He couldnt remember. Damn, why was he so forgetful today? He crossed by several stands on his way, simply tipping his hat to the people behind the counter. And, of course, winking at the younger women. But Vox was a charmer, and he had a sick mind. He even winked at several of the old ladies. What? Got a problem? The dude had class. And he knew how much the younger crowd would take to a handsome man being kind to the senior citizens. Not that he would ever sleep with one. Well, if he was shit faced drunk. I mean, he would have to be HAMMERED. Just fuckin GONE. Like, unable to stand straight. He would have to be falling over and crawling around because that would be more convenient. Then, and only then, would he ever sleep with a woman THAT old. 40 and 50's were okay. Some women are capable of staying young, or appearing young, at those old ages. And that was all Vox really cared about.

His came to an abrupt stop as he passed a Girl Scout cookie stall. They were selling cookies to a man, no taller then Vox. He dressed like a square, and that made Vox laugh. Sweater vest and khaki's, with dress shoes. God, he was suck a pansy. He conversed with them, causing them to lose focus on the stall. So this is when Vox took his chance. I know what you're thinking, what the hell? Right? Stealing cookies from little girls? Well you obviously didnt know Vox. He was hungry and he didnt wanna spend any money. He reached down and grabbed a handfull of sugar cookies and began to eat them. He thought he was pretty smooth, Vox, but soon came to realize that he wasnt. And that these girl scouts werent you average girl scouts. One of them caught him stealing cookies, and called him out. HEY! STOP STEALIN OUR COOKIES! shit. Shit, shit, shit. He didnt say anything, he simply ran. And he ran as fast as he could. When he looked behind himself, he noticed the girl scouts tailing him. And I mean they were TAILING him. They were inches from tackling him. This scared the living shit out of him, and made him run and dodge between people. He dipped into an alley and came to a dead end. He pivoted around and saw the girl scouts approaching him slowly. You seem to owe us some money... the one with the most badges said to him. You could tell she was the leader, she was a real bitch. Or at least she looked like one. Uh...okay. How much? he asked timidly, more then mildly freaked at these girls. They were fast, really fast. The leader smiled and snapped his fingers. A small girl with a calculator came from behind her and started to input numbers at an insanely fast speed. Vox could tell this wasnt a good thing. Those were a lot of buttons and a lot of numbers. She finally stopped and whispered something in the leaders ear. The leader put her hand out 100,000,000 dollars. are you fuckin kidding me? All the color ran from Vox's face. And his mouth dropped open. I-I dont have that kinda money! he blurted out. Absolutely disgusted at their extortion techniques. The leader shook her head and tsk'd. Then we'll TAKE it! the girl scouts tackled him. He didnt know what to do! Was he supposed to fight them? Potentially kill them? No, no. He couldnt do that. They were just little girls. Freak fast little girls, who were evil.

When they all got off him, he realized he no longer had any clothes on. Simply his underwear. The girl scout leader dropped his hat at this feet Keep your horrible cowboy hat, you monster. she stuck her nose up to him and walked away. And there he was, alone in a back alley. That was kinda cool. He made note to return to this village some day. If the girls are that feisty, then imagine the women! He got to his feet and dusted himself off. Today was a pretty fucked up day. But he doubted it could get any worst. He walked out of the alley, with only his underwear and hat on. The people of the village looked at him in disgust. He simply winked and tipped his hat the the women and continued towards the hill. But, when he arrived, he saw something he wasnt expecting to see. Hecate and Tadashi were already there. He walked up to the ice cream place and ordered some ice cream, any flavor. It didnt matter to him.

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"Oh ha ha...." She had heard that little comment about how Vox just wanted to sex her, like she didn't know that, he was the enemy of all woman kind! Not girl kind though, or loli kind just woman kind, and unfortunately Hecate wasn't either of those. She was at risk, but then again she really wasn't at risk, she would beat him up if that happened, it was a little bit odd, perhaps she just felt threatened instead of in any actual danger. It was amusing listening to what he had said, he had said it many times before but never really commented on Iwa before, ironic because she could almost feel the same way about everything right now as well, iwa didn't really like many people at least from the odd tavern rumor she had heard once and a while. It made her feel a little bit off here though, just listening to rumors but like hell she would go visit the top or anyone else, heck she didn't even think she could actually visit anyone else at this moment as it was something that might make everyone a little bit uneasy, at least on the village end of things. She would just keep being a tourist with little interest in doing anything else but hanging out with a few friends and seeing the different sites, map be damned!

"Yeah... I feel the same way about Kiri... odd how if we didn't have the experiences we had we might be enemies right now huh?" that wasn't a pleasant thought but it was a thought to add to the pool of the conversation. She wasn't really one to be all that much of a downer, but it made think about it what if things had been different, what if they were enemies instead of friends... she knew she didn't want to be on the other side of his eyes, or rather just him in general forget the clan. It was the people within the clans or just people in general that proved to be the biggest challenge of all, the ones who were the real villains or hero's and thank god they were hero's, maybe a little bit twisted at least on Hecate's end, of Vox's but you know, actually no she didn't; he didn't really seem to have a goal in mind, hell he didn't seem to really want to do anything; but maybe he was going to do something... that something was why she agreed to come out here in the first place.

He began to lead her up a cliff (Awesome just what she wanted to see, MORE CLIFFS) and her legs already felt the pain, but at least it wasn't that horrible of a time, and heck she could just Kagero away right? yeah probably not at least not right now, heck did Tadashi even really know what she could do, he probably was just going off of rumors or guessing... she hoped he didn't think she was an evil little snake of a witch who would bake children within a pie. Now though they had reached their destination, and it was an ice cream shop... wait all he wanted was ice cream, no more important you had to climb up all this way TO JUST GET ICE CREAM, wow that was some BS right there, that made her a little bit ticked off, but not enough to mention it. The one who was running the shop seemed to be a nice enough lad, so she wasn't going to go off on him for being up on a cliff just because she had to walk up it; nah she wasn't a horrid bitch. Hecate personally had gotten some cookie's in cream, and followed him, but it was then that he asked an odd question, what in the world did Vox call her out here for. "What do look like his wife... don't answer that. I honestly haven't a clue or a care really, but it must at least have some kind of importance. I mean meeting in a ninja country, and in a ninja village, that must mean something is up right? At least I found you though, or rather you found me, now today won't be terribly boring."

Oh how right she would be, today wouldn't be boring not at all. She was just relaxing with her ice cream and pondering when she turned around and noticed someone half naked, and with a hat.... a hat that hat, holy shit it was Vox. he had just his underwear on, and his hat upon his head, seriously what the hell was he thinking! he was even ordering something, but that wasn't the important. The enemy of all women was just in his boxers, and was now ordering something right in front of her. She had to take action. Tapping Tadashi on the shoulder she would attempt to hand him her ice cream cone, "Hold onto this for a second..." darting towards him she set up for a dynamic entry, aiming directly for Vox's face in an attempt to show him what he deserved! How dare he just wear that in public, the freaking lazy bastard! Regardless of whether she hit or not she would be behind him, and would just sigh, "first you ask me to meet you out here and then you show up like that, what's the matter with you! for god’s sake put something on man I get you are lazy but this is just taking it too far!" Pointing towards Tadashi she continued "Think of the children! Do you really want to spoil such pure eyes! Oh the EYErony of all of this is just making me scream. However sadly... I figured this might happen..." That was the real depressing thing, she knew this day would come, and she had prepared some things just in case. Tadashi didn't need thing kind of thing, he was too legit for her to have to pack extra thing stop deal with him, but Vox, oh he gets the awesome treatment. Pulling out some cloths in his size, she just sighed a long and disgruntled sigh, "here put these on... please... just do it, save the poor lad the embarrassment of seeing this." " Actually uh I don't really..." She turned her now glaring eyes towards the ice cream man, "Do. Not. Encourage. Him." Her eyes were like a serpent and he didn't really want to mess with a woman who was probably on her period (His mindset), so he just nodded and finished scooping for Vox. "Meet us over there when you have thing sorted out..."

Walking now over towards Tadashi Samehada was just laughing his ass off, and since he didn't have an ass he was just laughing! Going up next to Tadashi and getting her cone back, she just sighed, and looked up at him, "I swear if you tell another joke about me being his mom I will... I will knock that ice cream cone right out of your hand; even though we aren't on a roof, and I know you." She would do it too, at least to get a little bit of payback towards him and keep mind from going insane, as it was at a good breaking point, at least when dealing with Vox.

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Now that was food for thought. Tadashi had never really thought about it, but Hecate was right. If they had never really left their villages, then they would be enemies at this time. It didn’t bother him too much, since they had left their villages and were friends, but the thought still lingered. What would the outcome have been had they met on different terms? An outcome of them both being from separate shinobi nations? He knew Hecate was strong, but everything he knew about her, jutsu wise anyway, mostly came from rumor. He had only really seen the girl use her Mayfly technique in order to help her and Vox escape while Tadashi had his fun using his Susanoo. Food for thought indeed what the outcome would be if they fought… No doubt in his mind Tadashi would be able to defeat her time and time again in combat, however, he knew he would never be able to land a killing blow on the woman, and as rumor had it, she was able to perform ninjutsu techniques to which she could even live past her very own death. A scary thought really. That, though, in and of itself brought up another thing to Tadashi. Though he had traveled with Hecate and Vox, and seen them for a couple years now, in terms of ninja ability, Tadashi knew next to nothing about either of them. He assumed that the same could be said for them, save for Tadashi was the only one of the three who’s actually shown any ability in combat. He knew that he had rumors about himself, being one of the most wanted man to ever leave Konoha, and he assumed they, being Hecate and Vox, had heard of what he could do. They knew he had unlocked the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, and he knew the rumors about him had gone on to speak of his powers with Katon, Enton, about him being mastering the Rasengan techniques, about the powers behind his Sharingan, like Susanoo and Amaterasu, about his specialty in hand to hand combat, and his being able to use the legendary “Annihilating Fist” Style. Though simply “rumors” all of them were true. Tadashi was always believed to be the most talented Uchiha to have been born, and although a “disgrace” to his family, to his clan, and to his village, Tadashi’s talent had never been spoken of in a wrong manner, and because of this, he is still used as an example of both excellence, and corruption, in the hidden leaf village.

Though his mind still clouded, Tadashi still looked through to his future, and to what he would become. He turned his head to face away from Hecate, and he simply chuckled and shook his head. “Why wouldn’t you, you bastard,” Tadashi grinned and shook his head looking to see Vox, climbing up the hill, the smug look of “I am the sexiest, most ruggedly good looking man on the planet” written all over his face, and what was even better was seeing Hecate’s rage to seeing Vox. “Oh, this should be good” He stated as he took hold of Hecate’s Ice cream, stood back, relaxed, and watched the show unfold.

Beginning her rant, Hecate lit off like a road flair, but as she went on, a couple things stuck out to him and made him ponder. Raising his brow, Tadashi didn’t really care about Vox being there, about him being in nothing but his boxers and hat, he didn’t care about Hecate going on her rant, or the fact that she called him a child and that he was older than she was, no. What did bother him was “Why all the puns about my eyes?” He shook his head and winced a little, speaking to himself, knowing that no one was truly listening. He stood, thinking about only that, holding both ice cream cones in hands, his own mint chocolate chip ice cream beginning to run and drip just atop his finger. When they finally came back, and when Hecate grabbed her snack, Tadashi had noticed his was dripping. He shook his head out of his own trance and licked the melted treat off of his fingers, before trotting along behind his friend.

Looking over the village Tadashi simply smiled, eating his treat. Every now and again he’d look over to either Hecate or Vox, who was seemingly being troubled with the attempt at putting on clothes, and he’d laugh or smile. Finally, though, his thoughts got to him. “Okay Vox, what is she here for, and why am I interested in it?” He asked, his sharingan almost piercing through his friend.

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The man over the counter handed him his ice cream cone. Mmmm, it looked so good. All Vox could think of, while looking at the ice cream cone, was a woman licking it. He liked to watch women lick stuff. It was sad, really. All the man could do was think of sex. Sex, sex, sex. The guy had a serious case of Nymphomania. He simply stared at the cone, in a trance like state, as it began to melt upon the counter. He wondered what his parents would say about him, if they figured out why he abandoned Konoha. But, at the same time, he didnt even care. His parents had opted to loyalties. Loyalties to a village, a person. That was the mos depressing thing Vox could ever think of. He'd rather DIE then be a ninja of Konoha again. Or the village of; Kumo, Iwa, Kiri, or Yuki. He had chosen freedom over security. In a manner of speaking, that is. And it felt good. It felt sooooo good. He flicked the tip of his hat upwards, revealing his eyes to the man. He flashed the man a wink, no homo. It was more of a "thank you" wink. With a bit of "Im so fuckin sexy, marvel at my sexiness"! The man blushed, god he was so gay! His "me time" was interrupted by the sound of Hecate. Oh, right! She and Tadashi were here! He had almost forgotten, in all the confusion. She approached him and she didnt look happy. Gah, women. No matter what you did, no matter how you acted, no matter what you said, they always had a problem with it. Hecate was no different. "Oh, Vox, dont make the girl moan so loud! Im trying to sleep!" or "Oh, I'll never join you and your whores, you are male supremacist piece of trash!" that last one actually hurt a bit. How was he a male supremacist? He loved women!!! He fuckin LOVED THEM! He loved them so much that he liked to stick his body parts into holes in their bodies! Honestly, he would never do that to anything but a woman. His face almost melted off whem he watched her rampage towards him, but he looked past her and tipped his hate at Tadashi. It seemed like they were having a rather unpleasant conversation. Or atleast tid-bits of it werent the most liked. Tadashi's sharingan showed to the crowd...the fool. How does he expect do dodge the hunter-nin while showing off his infamous eyes? If those hunter-nin come aknockin, Vox wont save the dudes ass. This was all on him. Hecate began to rant at him about his not being dressed, then said something about children. Vox wasnt very sure what she was saying, in all honesty. He had learned to block the girl out a long time ago. The same way he had learned to block women out, he hated pillow talk. The way he saw it? They should just let him do them, and they should just leave.

Hecate tossed clothes at him, telling him to get dressed. God they were tacky as hell. Seriously! She had a sweater vest, some khaki's and these ugly ass brown leather shoes. They were the same exact kinda clothes that one dude was wearing. The guy who was buying the cookies from those girl scouts. He looked up at Hecate then back down at the clothes. Up at Tadashi and back down at the clothes. What the hell? She expected him to wear these? They were dreadful! Hecate would wear Goth Lolita clothes before he wore these! He looked down at her ice cream cone, and saw all the lick marks she made on it. His mouth opened ever so slightly, and his tongue poked out just a tiny bit. And from his mouth came the only few words he had said to the girl for a while. You mind, uuuuh....lickin that ice cream cone for me? he stared at the cone and didnt look away. He still had a bit of a hangover, to be honest. And nothing really seemed like it was real. It was like being very very tired, and nothing seemed like it was actully happenening, you know? Of course, he knew it was real. He knew all of this was happening. It was a skill he had to pick up. You ever fought Hunter-nin with a hangover? No, didnt think so. It was so fuckin difficult. But, at the same time, it helped him. He couldnt feel SHIT when he was drunk. Pain, that is. Those hunter-nin would stab him and slice him and he wouldnt feel shit. It was awesome. That and, with his LRA, he could smash their heads into the floor. And they would pop like zits. His eyes then scanned up and stopped at her breasts. He began to nod slowly, not even realizing her was doing it. It was like that old man from The Catcher in the Rye, from the beginning of the book. You know, Holden's history teacher? He was the dude that was sick, and Holden said his room smelled like Vapor rub. And Holden hated sitting with him, cause he'd toss papers and they'd fall on the floor. And Holden always had to pick the papers up, and he didnt like that. Yea. He was like that old man. He got into a little nodding fit, slowly nodding that it. Half the time Vox didnt even know he was doing it. It was like a lullaby, it was like a rhyme. The motions put him into some kinda trance like state, where nothing really mattered. It was an escape, but his own kinda escape. Everything that anyone said to him, was completely lost. It was way too early for him to be awake. Way, way ,WAY to early. He shouldve gotten more sleep, or stayed in bed to he could at least GET some sleep.

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"So you want me to lick it?" Did he really just say that he wanted her to lick it. Forget what Tadashi said, forget everything else that just happened, did he really want her to lick her ice cream in front of him so he get horny? Oh... if only you could see her face, oh wait you can see her face. "I can lick it sure... I can lick it real hard.. real well and great. By god my licking is so amazing that you might as well go and..." she didn't want to say it, as it involved the F bomb but you get the gist of it, Needless to say she looked down at her ice cream, and then back up at him and then at Tadashi. She didn't really give Tadashi a look over contempt more of a puppy dog look; one would think she was saying "I won't get to eat my ice cream now" but one could also take from it something that was creepy, and a little bit mad. ity was an odd look but I don't have a picture for it so just deal with it. Though she had to wonder why exactly he hadn't stated anything, and why she was called here. Hell she didn't really know why he wanted to meet here when she could have just found out about it later. It was probably because he wanted to bone a couple more girls or something yeah that was most likely the reason and it was one that disgusted Hecate on the inside. Well not really disgusted, heck now she was getting a little curiousness as to why girls wanted to do it with him, maybe she should get a camera crew and film him "This week on Hecate bear, she will teach you how to survive against the wild Vox" That might make for a good T.V. show. In either case though she didn't have much time to really dawdle about, even though she did. let that be rephrased, she didn't want to mess around when she could be doing something neat; especially since he was half naked.

he didn't look like he wanted to wear the clothes, that's okay because she got those ones out of spite for him; hell with all the spite she had towards him you wondered how they were actually friends, now that was an odd and boring ass story, so here instead is nyan cat. The point was he wasn't really going to say much so she would have to speak up on what she had found. "well in either case if Vox has nothing to say I suppose I could state what happened to me, you know in my obviously boring girl talk that no one seems to care about, but whatever." she was tempted to have more ice cream but anything she did would be considered sexual. This made it almost impossible and in the end she didn't really care, taking a mouthful she decided to start a little rant. "Any of you guys notice the decrease in hunter ninja actually coming after us? I mean they don't really come after me, why i don't really know but just in general, it seems the villages have had other concerns on their minds. That would be my guess though I am sure someone somewhere is still trying to butcher us alive, but in all honesty have you noticed anything. I mean has Konoha been attacking you guys recently? All that happened with me was a couple of guys trying to snag good old Samehada from me, but that was it."

She sighed, it was horrible and boring news really, but it's all she had, I mean what else was she going to say 'i had a nice vacation at a bed and breakfast', or 'god my period was a bitch this month' I mean seriously who the heck here would care about that. "Sorry it isn't much, just an observation of mine really, besides Vox; you have yet to tell me why I am out all this way in the first place. I'm really bitter or anything mind you captain underpants, just a wee bit curious as to why here, and why now."

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