Pink Blossom Quest IIIrd Strike

Auuuuuu? Reroll?

 

Sauce is the Naruto manga and not Danbooru

[X] Start making plans with your classmates on what to do. Shikamaru was good with plans and such.

"But... but we have to do SOMETHING!" You sputtered at the unimpressed and quite lazy look directed at you by Shikamaru. He was currently lazing in a comfortable chair, and had somehow managed to convince Ino to feed him grapes while he petted a cat.

It was a VERY fluffy cat with immaculate white fur.

There was only one small problem here. There were no cats aboard the ship before.

Which... which meant either it was Naruto playing at being a cat at the behest of Shikimaru. Or... or it was your pet who had at least betrayed his presence.

Well, it wasn't as if you couldn't deal with it later. One way or ther other, you were going to have harsh words with that cat. But for now, you had to deal with Shikamaru who was sitting in his comfortable chair, being fed grapes by a pretty girl, and petting a cat.

Wait...

There was this sensation that you should be getting something or other. Still, you settle down and looked at Shikamaru desperately, he did after all have the better grades in class at planning both tactically and strategically. His grasp of insidious plans was unspeakable.

"So... Haruno-chan," There was also the way he was speaking to you as if he was your superior or something. You really wanted to be in a formal dress on hearing him talk to you, for some stupid reason. "Here is the situation, imagine we are currently in class and have this hypothetical situation."

"Assets, a civilian ship. Two jounin with genin teams. A group of unknown variables that the jounin teams are escorting. The jounin teams are fully equipped, the unknown variables have assorted equipment but are not combat effective," He spoke before sipping at a glass of water that Ino held to his mouth.

"On the other side at slightly less than an hour's worth of travel time, we have a combat capable war ship of unknown make, fully equipped and capable of running down the civilian ship. On board are sixteen nins of varying power and skill levels, presumable we are looking at three jounin with genin teams. Worse case, sixteen jounin grade nins."

"In this situation, it is clear and obvious that unless the civilian side has some jutsu or technique that can per-emptively hit the war ship and completely take out the ship and everyone on board, it is a bad idea to form any aggressive actions to do so," Shikamaru shook his head. "I don't know about you, but the power to hit something that far out and take everyone out... I don't see any of us having that. And an incomplete attack that doesn't remove all witnesses?"

"The forth shinobi war might start from this incident," he leaned back in his chair and looked lazily at you once more. "Thus, I will put my trust in the jounin and see what happens."

Tch, he was absolutely useless. Oh, sure, he made some sense... but even so. It didn't sit well with you that you couldn't do anything without causing some kind of incident.

With that, you took your leave and left Shikamaru to his devices.

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An hour later, and the kumo ship drew close. Flags were waved. You have some vague notions that it likely was about coming to a stop and such.

The good news was that the kumo nins didn't appear to be out to do evil things. At least, that was what you noted from what you could see from the boarding party.

It was surprising that your jounin guards weren't doing a thing to fight them off and such. Instead, they were talking to ther rather bored kumo nin.

This was odd. What kind of nin would look BORED... well... beyond Shikamaru when he grew up, or his dad... perhaps bored nins were some kind of genetic thing? Still, you kept an eye on the nins who wre talking and...

Wait, did those Kumo nin just pull out shafts of paper and presented the jounin with them? Paperwork no jutsu?

This was when things went strange as the jounin guards got out the ship's manifest and started to talk with the kumo nins. A look of distaste on their faces.

As you got close enough to listen in.... you discover to your horror that they weren't pirates or maaruding missing nins. No, this was customs. The natural enemy of merchants who wanted to spread free trade.

How horrifying, that River country and Tea country would hire third party nin with no "conflict of interests" to patrol the Hanguri gulf, and do inspections. They should have hired good Konoha nin.

Which was when you and the other students and assorted passengers were brought out for inspection by the kumo nin. It felt odd for you to be looked over, as the jounin marked down things and... wait.... oh no, they didn't.

It looked like they did! The Kumo nin just wrote a chit for tariffs on you. Something about bloodline users and such.

And judging by the way the jounin guards were paling, it was a hefty tax.

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Pink Blossom Quest - Year 10 The Border Control and Customs​

What Do?
[X] Argue and dispute tariffs! Taxation based on bloodlines were nonsense! Passengers are not cargo.
[X] Sit quietly and let the adults handle the taxes and assorted paperwork. They must know what they're doing, right?
[X] Look, I would appreciate write ins~. Write ins are nice.

 

Tally​

[X] Argue and dispute tariffs! Taxation based on bloodlines were nonsense! Passengers are not cargo.
- uju32, Tetsurou, Jiven, ........, Lifelink,, 95spartans, +1

[X] Sit quietly and let the adults handle the taxes and assorted paperwork. They must know what they're doing, right?
- undead frog, earth-destroyer, jajanj1, Serous

Write In​

- Aaron Peori, Edmantgoog, macdjord, W00KY, SolipsistSerpen, Candesce, Shironi
[X] Plan Aaron Peori
[X] Taxes and tariffs?
- - [X] "I'm sorry my good man, obviously you seem to have misconstrued the purpose of this journey. You see, you are applying a form related to the importation of bloodline blessed individuals during a business trip. We are, obviously, on a pleasure trip. As you can see, all of the bloodlined individuals on this ship are passengers, not crew of active nin, and thus exempt from taxation as citizens. Now, if you'll refer to subparagraph B in section 5 and..."
- - [X] (bullshit! fasttalk! wheel and deal and maybe a little bribery on the side if they seem up for it, nobody wants the boring job of tax inspectors for a bunch of brats, just remember everything you saw your father do and say at times like these! Channel the mighty Haruno spirit of captilism!)

- cokerpilot
[Joke] Plan cokerpilot
[Q] Summon dad no jutsu

- Chargone
[X] Plan Chargone
[X] Argue and dispute tariffs! Taxation based on bloodlines were nonsense! Passengers are not cargo.
- - [X] we're not being imported either. We're tourists! Tourists!

- Adyen
[X] Plan Adyen
[X] Grease the palms?
- - [X]"Sir, I know that I may seem young, but my father has taken me to many places and I know they always have their own taxes to people traveling through them. However, I also know that they give certain exemptions to certain people who spend time in their country, and it's much less than what you said. So why don't we work out something, like 10% of that to you and your crew to take back 'home' to port? I'm sure we can work out something out and maybe we can even have some tea back in a Fire Country port another day."
- - [X]Remember how Father said to deal with customs agents! Poor man must be paid less than an honest politician per hour for all the boredom he suffers!

- Guile
[X] Plan Guile
[X] Deny we have any such thing. No bloodline has ever been recorded in the Haruno family going back at least three generations. In fact, I find your accusation to be scurrilous, good sir, and inflammatory.
[X] It's a pity we didn't bring our ninja-lawyer along, to sue for libel. Or is it slander? I forget which is which.

- Filraen
[X] Plan Filraen
[X] Ask the kumo nin about the customs procedure, use puppy eyes no jutsu as necessary.
- [X] Why ninjas instead of civilians?
- [X] Why a tariff on bloodline users?

- Jiven
[X] Plan Jiven
[X] Plan Merchant

- Felius, Chargone
[X] Plan Felius
[X] Start tax-code no jutsu against these jounin. We who are Sakura know the laws and regulations better than us who are posters in Space Battles, so it's probably better to leave the specifics to her.

- Verthantine
[X] Plan Verthantine
[X] Sit quietly and let the adults handle the taxes and assorted paperwork. They must know what they're doing, right?
- [x] Take note of everything for future reference

- Tiypo
[X] Plan Tiypo
[X] We know this shit! MERCHANT ROUTE GO!!!!
[X]Blanka! I know you're there! I need your aid and assistance! Help me make sure we aren't being blindsided in this paperwork.

 

You could ALWAYS vote for not doing anything.

 

In the realm of animal summons, there is a tanuki missing. It is not where it should be. It is instead tied to a chair in a dark room with a spotlight shining in its face.

"Auuuuuu... please, I didn't do anything to deserve this..." it whimpers in terror.

There is movement in the darkness that the tanuki can not see. "Exactly. Was I not promised a post once a day? Did you not slack off to a post every other day, and then to a post once every few days, and then to once a week? But this time, you go too far!"

Pink eyes flare into existence and continued to glow a bright neon pink. "Auuu!!!"

"Once every few weeks is not acceptable," the tanuki now looks around in desperation as the pink eyes moved forwards. "And I've see how you've been sniffing at other quests like a shameless raccoon dog... oh yes... even now, even now... I've noticed you plotting out a Dalek Quest and a Dark Kingdom Kwest..."

"Shun Goku Satsu!" "Auuuu......"

A spider comes over with a siren on its back and carries off the tanuki. "Make way for delicious... erm... mostly dead tanuki."

Is this the end for the poor Tanuki? Or will some miracle miko come by at the last minute and save the Tanuki?

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Sauce is Naruto anime and not Danbooru.

[X] Taxes and tariffs?
Sakura Bureaucracy - 8d10 → [3,3,5,1,1,10,8,10] = 5 suxx
Accountant Nin - 9d10 → [5,7,8,5,9,6,6,7,1] = 4 suxx

You couldn't let this stand. No, you couldn't.

This stood against everything your father showed you, taught you. Taxation and tariffs were the most vilest of things that strangled trade. More to the fact, they were foreign nins bullying Konoha nins... such a thing was reprehensible!

Breathing in, you focused your mind on what your father had taught you.

This was something you had to do.

Could do.

Would do.

For are you not Haruno Sakura?

Daughter of Haruno Kizashi, the merchant of steel? Were you not trained in the arts of merchanting by your father? Had you not expressed interest in the art of wheeling and dealing with your father alongside the fighting arts by your mother?

You could totally do this.

"E... excuse me," You attract the attention of the jounin who had been talking to each other. "But I think there's been some mistake here, as you appear to have misconstrued the purpose of this journey. You can see this, yes? You are, after all, applying a form related to the importation or exportation as it were of bloodline blessed individuals during a business trip."

"It's fairly obvious that this is a vacation. And as is clearly evident here and in our paperwork, we are on a pleasure trip. As such, every one of those individuals here with bloodline limits are passengers, not crew or active nin, and are thus naturally exempt from taxation as citizens of the Country of Fire. In fact, if you look at the trade treaties between The countries of Fire, Tea and River, you'll see that sub-paragraph B in section 5 and..."

The Kumo nin cuts you off with a sharp wave of his hand after a too quick set of handseals. It's a literal negation of sound from your mouth as you talk, but your words are not heard. Not even by you.

You looked at the Kumo nin in surprise. Was this where hostilities would break out?

The answer appeared to be no as he waved at the ship. "Hey, new girl... looks like you're going to get a chance to shine."

There is a pause and an explosion of smooth before you which rapidly cleared to reveal another Kumo jounin posed in what you were sure was an intimidating stance. It certainly looked impressive. "It appears that there is a merchant who desires..."

She paused in her speech as she turned around and saw you. "Wait... what?"

There was a frown on her face as she turned to look at the Kumo jounin who you had been speaking to. "Is this some kind of joke?"

"Nope," He shook his head. "She started to do that inane babbling that merchants are wont to do, and as you're the certified accountant of the assigned nin, you get to handle this."

"No, seriously, are you telling me that just because I'm the only one who could be arsed to sit through the accounting and general taxation law classes, I have to deal with some mouthy merchant kid," The look the blonde nin directed at the older nin was one that indicated that she wasn't impressed.

There was a simple tiger seal and a wash of chakra from her later, and you found yourself able to talk once more. Or at least be heard. There was an apologetic look from the jounin guards, a quick pat on your head and you were pushed forward to deal with the bureaucratic nin.

Well... you can't say you were expecting this, you had to admit as you looked at the nin with dirty blonde hair gathered into a single braided pig tail at the back. You've heard of going mano-a-mano, in duels between two nins, you just weren't expecting it to be one of words, and over tariffs at that.

"So," She looked at you with lazy eyes. "First generation nin daughter of a merchant?"

You shook your head. "My father is a merchant who used to be a nin, same with mother."

"I see, fair enough," She nodded regretfully. "I don't suppose I could convince you to back down and not dispute the taxes and tariffs? It would make things a lot simpler for everyone, really."

"Well... you could not try to tax everything," You tapped the receipt and went down the inventory. "I mean, you guys even listed the... the... the cat?!? as an luxury and exotic beast worth way more than it could possibly be... There's taxes with skimming and stuff, but this is beyond what you would expect."

"True true... on the other hand, I should note that I could invoke a certain newly passed law in Fire Country," You blinked at the nin, not quite sure where she was going. "I don't think they intended foreign nins using it on a would be merchant from Fire Country, what with it being nins doing border patrol can treat attempts to smuggle precious goods like now, and disputes with a duel."

She looked at you in your eyes. "And miss 'smuggler', you don't get to pick a champion to do the fighting."

Oh... that law, you heard about it and really what kind of asinine idiot would pass it without provisions about it being Konoha nins and foreign merchants, really? Wait... they would need to have it appear fair, you suppose. But they had made... oh right, you were still technically in the border zone between Konoha and those two other countries.

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Pink Blossom Quest - Year 10 Accountant Nin​

What Do?
[X] Back down and let Hyuuga-hime and the Konoha jounin get raped by taxes and tariffs?
[X] Continue the tariff dispute, she had to be bluffing. What kind of fool would want to fight a little girl like you?
[X] Try to talk her out of smuggling and tariff dispute. Use your puppy-eye technique!
[X] Write In with some Brilliant Plan!

 

Yes.

 

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Sauce is not Danbooru, but the internets

[X] Continue the tariff dispute, she had to be bluffing.
- - [X]What kind of fool would want to fight a little girl like you?
Sakura Event - 26 = Not So Good

What kind of evil fiend would do this? Really. To invoke the perfectly good, if not full thought out, laws of the Country of Fire and use them on its citizens.

This... this was madness!

Besides, what kind of fool would invoke such a thing and use it against a little girl like you, after all, it would involve fighting you. And no matter how one sliced it... that meant fighting an academy student. Either she won and came off as a bully, or you won and her reputation would be shot. No matter how the fight ends, she'd lose.

You blinked and looked at her. This had to be a bluff, if you could see this, so could she. Which meant a bluff. You just had to call it.

And you could win, it wasn't as if the ships were immune to destructive jutsu and there were no nearby islands to fight on. Yes... you would win.

"I'm not afraid. I'll continue to dispute this because it's not fair or right," You nod with a not so hidden smirk at her. Worse comes to worse, you get to fight against someone who wasn't holding back...

"Very well, just don't cry," She shrugged at you, before speaking up loudly. "I, Nii Yugito, jounin of Kumogakure, accept your right to dispute the taxes and tariffs assessed upon this ship as is the right of the countries of River and Tea under the border taxation law as decreed by the daimyo of the country of Fire."

It was loud enough to be heard by the jounin standing a distance away on the ship from the two of you. Wait. What? She was willing to do this?

Wait, you get to settle merchant disputes with a fight? Was this going to be a thing? It looked like it was.

This was when you had the feeling that something wasn't quite right. She smirked at you. "By the right of being challenged, I pick the method of combat..."

Something in you sank at the way she was smirking. "Hanafuda Koi Koi."

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Wait... what?

A card game you hadn't played in years? This... this wasn't fair.

The look of dismay must have shown on your face, for this Nii Yugito smiled at you now. "I suspected that with a case of being good with merchant stuff and being an academy student, you wouldn't have had time to do normal things normal children would do. I mean even normal academy students would be somewhat conversant with normal things like hanafuda koi koi. And I'm right, aren't I?"

The more she said the word normal, the more you could feel metaphorical arrows hitting you and striking deep. Each and every twitch you made at the word normal made that smile on Nii's face grow larger.

That smug air of smugness and satisfaction around the jounin only made you want to punch her in the face. But that wouldn't solve anything, would it?

It was with dismay as you and the jounin walked into the cabin, accompanied by your classmates and the respective nins to watch the... duel.

What made the affair even worse was Naruto betting against you actually winning. Not that you could fault the blonde for doing so, it wasn't as if you had played koi koi in years...

"I'll try not to be too mean to you," That cocksure smirk on the blonde seated across the table from you would normally get your blood boiling. But you're in despair at the moment.

You turn to the other you in desperation.

The response there brought your heart even lower. [Don't look at me, it's been even longer for me since I last played Koi Koi...]

So much so that the card game flew by you with cries of koi koi from you and Yugito. Tears didn't form as the losses mounted, because you kind of expected it.

Losses after losses. What would your Big Sisters say? That they told you so, that you should have taken the time to relax and play games now and then?

"And that's game," she leaned back against her seat with an indulgent look at you. "So, lesson from this, miss Haruno? Everyone has weaknesses, and we're not really going to beat up some poor helpless merchant when we can use other methods of making them eat crow. Also, know when to eat your losses."

You couldn't really acknowledge her words beyond a weak nod and just look at the table with its cards. Horror and mortification colored your face.

The further interactions between Hyuuga-hime and the kumogakure nins shaking her and the ship down for taxes and such, you didn't hear or see. But the ship did continue on its voyage, so that wasn't too bad.

Even if Naruto tried to comfort you with a patpat on your back for trying, even if it was obvious to her that it would be a lost cause.

Hyuuga-hime's softly murmured of thanks for trying to help wasn't much comfort. This was a complete defeat for you.

Eventually, the ship reached Goa, and more importantly, the very nice estate that the docks were attached to. Despite the despair that filled your heart, you still joined your classmates in ooohing and ahhhing as the ship approached the docks.

It's clear that the island was once the site of an old world city with ruins rising out of the ocean, as well as what could be seen on the island. And if your keen eyes weren't deceiving you... some of those ruins appear to have been modified for human habitation.

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Pink Blossom Quest - Year 10 Bitter Defeat​

What Do?
[X] Check out the library in the Hyuuga estate?
[X] Get dragged into shenanigans by Naruto?
[X] Spend some time exploring the woods and go swimming in the sea?
[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Hyuuga-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
[X] Write in of summer fun!

 

Hahahahahahahaha!

 

Tally Do?​

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[X] Check out the library in the Hyuuga estate?
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[X] Get dragged into shenanigans by Naruto?
- W00KY, Happerry

[X] Spend some time exploring the woods and go swimming in the sea?
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[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Hyuuga-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
- Xicree, Scya, ZiPeppe, Candesce, uju32, ZeldaFan, Aaron, macdjord, frozenchicken, Serous

[X] Write in of summer fun! ​

- Tetsurou, Serous
[X] Plan Tetsurou
[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Hyuuga-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
- - [X] Get dragged into shenanigans by Naruto?

- Guile, ZeldaFan, Nightblade, luckybreak91
[X] Plan Guile
[X] Play childrens' games with the other children. Devote the same intensity to it that you would a fight or the Heart of Maya.

- fallenblades643
[X] Plan fallenblades643
[X]You extremely dislike losing at anything. And if you can't win straight on their is only one thing to do. Cheat. So play some children's games and try and cheat with Heart of Maya.

- Adyen
[X] Plan Adyen
[X] Have Naruto teach you how to gamble. At CHILDREN'S CARD GAMES.

- Dinya
[X] Plan Dinya
[X] Play children's games with the other children. Cheat. With a heavy emphasis on genjutsu and preferably the Heart of Maya.

- ........
[X] Plan ........
[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Hyuuga-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
- - [X] Maybe bring Blanka too? He might be up for giving you and your friends a crash course on how to speak Tanuki.
- - [X] Remember to write out a note to your father asking him to petition to change that law, what happened back there was annoying.

- Spectrum
[X] Plan Spectrum
[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Hyuuga-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
- - [X] Since this is Hyuuga-hime's trip, there'll surely be a formal dinner or two, which means...Naruto needs new formal-wear!

- fitzgerald
[X] Plan fitzgerald
[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Hyuuga-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
- - [X] Since this is Hyuuga-hime's trip, there'll surely be a formal dinner or two, which means...Naruto needs new formal-wear!
- - [X] Play card games...... lose horribly and discover Naruto's ungodly luck

 

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Due to events in SB, the Bii is going to take a few more days off of Sakura Quest. Sorry.

 

I feel I must apologize, but I has been trying to get back into working on the post I was going to do with the winning vote of
[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Hyuuga-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
- - [X] And some variations and shenanigans.

And I couldn't get into the spirit of it... my motivation and interest has been pretty much knocked off line for the time being.

Which isn't an issue as I've gone up to 2 weeks or so without a post in my quests... but I fear this might go the route of Kitty Quest where I keep wanting to do a post... but end up not.

 

So, some good news and bad news...

Good news, this quest will continue on.

Bad news, I don't exactly have any interest in Sakura at the moment.

Instead, you'll get someone else's pov for a little bit... maybe... hopefully, it won't be too long.

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAJBAuKgiLs[/embed]

 

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Sauce is Danbooru - /posts/752579

[X] Go shopping with Naruto-neesan, Ino-chan, and Haruno-hime? Also explore the nearby city~
- - [X] And some variations and shenanigans.

You are Hyuuga Hinata, the nine year old (almost ten) heir to the Hyuuga clan. And you are without equal in being a perfect clan princess of Konohagakure.

You have been described by many as unfailingly polite, delicate, studious and other flowery words because you tend to keep quiet and just smile. This is, of course, complete and utter horse manure. Not that you tell people that, because that would be stupid and silly.

It is true that you do like to keep quiet, but that didn't mean you didn't have opinions or such. Yes, you weren't as good as Neiji with the usage of the byakugan. But that didn't mean much, not when most of the clan weren't as good as he was. He earned the title of prodigy with his blood, sweat and tears. You will not deny him the effort that he had put into the clan taijutsu.

You were good at fighting, it is true that you weren't as good as father or Neiji. But then... outside of the adults or certain prodigy, you were considered an exceptional close combat fighter. Some might say a tad too brutal in your style, going for raw damage or developing your variant of clan techniques for a viciousness that you didn't display outside of your clan's training grounds.

Father had said that he was proud of you and your skill at the clan style, but you could tell he was worried about something. What you don't know, but it was there. Still, his approval was enough to have you confirmed as the clan heir and delegated your younger sister to be the... spare. You didn't like that, but it wasn't as if she would be demoted to a branch family member. Well, not less she married into one of the branch family lines.

But that was beside the point. What the point was, was that you and the other "princesses" of your class were currently in the city of Goa. You could tell your escort was following in the background, and that there were another fifteen friendly Konoha nins in a mile radius, in three man squads patrolling the city.

There were also nearly two hundred civilians in that mile radius going about their own business. Of which one hundred had signs of some mastery of their chakra, and thirty of those civilians were nearly genin level in their usage of chakra. There were currently nine hundred sixty five rodents of assorted sizes and subspecies, one hundred birds of various species, and seventy five cats. Ten of which you considered to be cute kitties. There were also twenty dogs, none of which were cute puppies.

It was, perhaps, wasteful of chakra to continiuosly maintain your byakugan in a low level, but it helped trained your eyes to maintain your bloodline limit despite the strain of channeling the chakra and blood. It also helped train your chakra circulatory system and slowly increased the efficiency of your chakra usage.

The area around you was relatively safe, barring random circumstances and really skilled infiltrators.

And thus, you permitted Ino-chan to drag you from stall to stall as she laughed and smiled, and tried out assorted little knickknacks. After all, there wasn't anything wrong with such. Not when you were here to have fun. As opposed to you studying your peers and taking mental notes.

You would get the sordid details out of Haruno-san of what happened between her, Sasuke and her cousin... you could tell this was going to be good.

Absolutely good material for the novel you were working on currently. You're still amused that no one else seemed to have caught that you were the writer "Lavender Blossom", that you scribbling in your notebook were notes on this and that instead of ideas and shorthanded paragraphs that you would expand and continue on after classes.

The story of a girl of "destiny" as she suffered the slings of fortune with all of the world arrayed against her as she struggled in a school in country X. And you're sure with the right spin, and refluffing of the situation... you had a nice little romance subplot between cousins and a boy they both had a crush on.

To that end, you had invited Haruno-hime on the summer vacation, and for a protective coloration, the rest of the heirs and spares of the various clans in your class.

Admittedly, you hadn't anticipated the presence of those kumo scum to show up as part of the border patrol. What kind of stupid nation would hire such filth to guard borders or handle taxes. Thankfully, you had been able to have the taxes be passed on to your clan to handle. Even if Haruno-him had tried to help before being tricked into a card game.

You weren't fooled, your classmates might think that that Kumo blonde had been kind and nice to treat your classmate to a card game, but you weren't followed. You had saw how devastated she had been at the defeat. No, you were right in thinking that the only good kumo nin was a dead kumo nin.

Shaking your head, you exited your thoughts and paid attention to the Uzumaki girl as she showed off the dress in the old world fashion style. It was a rather nice dress and could substitute as formal wear, you suppose. You just can't imagine wearing formal wear in such a humid climate as Goa. Still, she did look rather cute and moe.

Comparing the girl as she was and from when you first noticed her, it is a world of difference. She was less of a tomboy, especially now that her family had found her and someone was teaching her the little things about formal and noble society.

Still, you spend the afternoon buying knickknacks and helped the blonde and Haruno-hime find formal wear clothing. The local temples were holding an obon festival, after all, and she would need extra formal wear given that she hadn't brought any of hers on the vacation. Nor had Haruno-hime.

You had to shake your head at those two. They really were far too tomboys, after all.

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Lavender Blossom Quest - Year 10 Introductions


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What Do?
[X] Write in of summer fun!

 

Miss Kanzaki has already shown up. She's an Uzumaki.

 

No big...

 

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[X] Chat with Haruno and Uzumaki.
- - [X] See if you can get a look at those sketches Haruno's always making, can't hurt to line up a good artist for future possible illustration work.
- - - - [X] Maybe check out the local sights, for inspiration?
Hinata Event - 1d100=59

The discussion with Haruno is something that doesn't appear to be one that is easily done. What with Yamanaka and Uzumaki running interferrance in the form of dragging you or her to various stalls.

How annoying.

Still, you managed to distract the Yamanaka girl by virtue of pointing her at a store that sold music instruments. You knew of her enjoyment of music and it wasn't as ....

The rather loud squeal from the store, which you could swear that animals with more sensitive ears would have been incapc.... wait, why was Uzumaki clutching her ears and curled up on the ground whimpering.

Oh. She must have more sensitive ears. Animalistic sensitive ears, given the way the seven hundred animals and two Inuzuka nins in a rather surprising range were reacting to the squeal.

Wait... Yamanaka had stopped squealing over the string instrument that she was fawning over in the store. The reverent manner that she was now stroking that instrument brought a frown to your face. Who or what was Marlene that the Yamanaka was murmuring. Perhaps, she had already named the instrument or it was made by some craftsman by that name?

Ah well, you shook your head and helped Uzumaki with Haruno and made your way into that store. You would have to question your classmate later.

Perhaps, you could sequel asking her for a sketch into said questioning... yes, that would work. You can see it all come together now. Even with the unexpected squealing from the Yamanaka.

Even as you entered the store, you could see her smile triumphantly as she paid the store keeper with far too much money for her to just be throwing away. Wait... was she impulse buying a music instrument you haven't seen her play or practice before?

This was just going to be a big headache, you can tell.

You sighed as the Yamanaka showed off the instrument to your pink haired and blonde classmates, the polished aquamarine surface of the curved body to the darker neck along which strings ran. It resembled a rather modified biwa with more strings and a body that resembled an exaggerated female form.

There was the notion that you could have Yamanaka show off the... what did Haruno call it, the guitar... the only question was where would be a good place to sit and listen to music.

You flickered your perspective about your sight before smiling.

"Ah... ah anno, Ino-chan. I know of a place where we could listen to you play," Your lips curved upwards in a slight and shy smile in response at the boisterous smile that Yamanaka directed at you.

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Thus did you lead your companions, up the various towers and crosswalk bridges. Ever upwards did you venture, every now and then... the four of you had to utilize chakra enhancement to leap from an outcropping to another.

With your vision, it was... easy to ensure that no human or animal crossed your path, even if they could be seen.

The end result was that you led them to the top of a tower that looked down upon the ancient city, while a crisp breeze kept you cool and refreshed.

"Thi... this is pretty nice," You had to smile as Naruto looked out into the distance.

While you and Haruno settled for cleaning up areas to sit on, Yamanaka started to tune her instrument. With her eyes closed, she seemed to be more calling upon memories and instinct than things that she had learned. "I gotta agree with Naruto here, it's pretty nice up here. Makes for an appropriate place to give Marlene a try and make her cry out her sweet voice with my hands."

"Let's see how this goes," She eventually nodded after finishing up with the tuning as the three of you settled down before her to listen. "This is a song from the Old World..."

With that, she tapped her feet before strumming the strings. Somehow, despite the instrument not having sufficient space in it to reverberate properly, music surrounded you. A quick examination revealed that while there wasn't much chakra surrounding you. At least beyond the normal background chakra, Yamanaka was radiating minimal amounts of chakra and letting the sound echo and build up with it.

That was when she started to sing. "Deep down in Louisiana close to the New Orleans,
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens.
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood,
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode,"

As she sang, you found yourself nodding along and tapping your foot.

"Who never ever learned to read or write so well,
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell."

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JULmUlGDA[/embed]

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Lavender Blossom Quest - Johnny B Goode


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What Do?
[X] Talk to your classmates, but dare you tell them what secrets you had? Would they speak of their own secrets?
[X] Just listen to Yamanaka Ino play her guitar and enjoy the music before going down for dinner at the mansion.
[X] Just listen to Yamanaka Ino play her guitar and enjoy the music before going down for dinner at a restaurant.
[X] Write In.

 

Tally​

[X] Talk to your classmates, but dare you tell them what secrets you had? Would they speak of their own secrets?
SB - Tetsurou, luckybreak91, Spectrum, scope, macdjord
QQ - Happerry

[X] Just listen to Yamanaka Ino play her guitar and enjoy the music before going down for dinner at the mansion.
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[X] Just listen to Yamanaka Ino play her guitar and enjoy the music before going down for dinner at a restaurant.
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[X] Write In.​

 

[embed=425,349]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo8U20LicdU[/embed]
Just this once a youtube music thing​

[X] Talk to your classmates, but dare you tell them what secrets you had? Would they speak of their own secrets?
Hinata Event - 1d100 → [54] =
Hinata Event - 1d100 → [53] =
Hinata Event - 1d100 → [96] =

With Ino's music in the background, it was surprisingly relaxing where you were with your classmates. In a sense, they were your peers.

And yet, each of you held your own secrets. You know you had your own, and surely the others had their own.

For the nonce, you enjoyed the music and the nice breeze.

"You know, I've been wondering. Why is this island called Goa," Uzumaki-san spoke up. "It doesn't sound like a Fire Country name, or like the name of any other countries or islands."

You blinked at the question from the blonde. That was an interesting question that you had to think about. "I... don't know. It's always been Goa. Even before the Hyuuga settled here or the ancestors of the Hyuuga"

"I guess we're closer to the Indian ocean than I thought," Haruno's comment made absolutely no sense to you, even if Yamanaka shook her head in reply.

"Nope, we're too far east. This is more likely New Goa that got created back in the early hundreds from some fight or other," You had to blink at Yamanaka's reply. What was she talking about? And why did Haruno just nod thoughtfully as if it made absolutely perfect sense.

"That doesn't make any sense at all, you two know that, right?" Thankfully, Uzumaki still seemed to have some grasp of her sanity. "I mean, fights don't just create islands. I don't think there are any jutsu that could do that outside of those used by the Sage of Six Paths. And those have been lost long ago..."

"I have to agree with Uzumaki here," You speak up. "The two of you are not making any sense."

"Mmmmh.... I suppose it would seem that way to the outside, wouldn't it?" The blonde murmured over the strumming of her instrument. "Sakura, I can call you Sakura, right? How much do you remember?"

The pink haired classmate of yours blinked at the Yamanaka. "A fair bit. But most of the memories after Bison took over are rather... vague."

There was a nod from the blonde. "Fair enough... I guess in a way, you're from the time before, and I'm from after."

There was a huh from Haruno before she looked at you and Uzumaki speculatively. "W... what? I'm not some kind of delusional school girl like the two of you..."

"No... it's not that," She looked down before opening her mouth as if trying to think on how to explain something. "Well... is it really delusional if there is evidence that what you remember, what you know is real?"

Here, you had to pause before you whipped out your notebook. "Start talking."

And so, she did... struggling to organize her thoughts with Yamanaka chipping in every now and then... it's clear that those two remembered their past lives. Which wasn't exactly unheard of, wasn't that how prodigies typically came about? Experiences from life after life aiding one in the development of skill?

Still, to be reincarnated from an ancient demon god... She didn't say as such, but you could infer who or what she had been. The one that your family spoke of, one of the murderous demons who wandered the world after the fall of the old world, bring ruination and destruction to all that she encountered. The one that your ancestors killed in righteous battle long ago.

This was delicious. You can see the possibilities here for your novels. Reincarnation lost across time, misunderstandings... yes, a new mini series of possibilities open before your eyes. Still, you scribbled down notes of what she spoke of... they could prove useful.

Still, the conversation roved all over the place beyond Haruno's past life and that of Yamanaka being some kind of musician or something. Uzumaki just shook her head and murmured about not having any secrets like those two had, only saying that she had an aniki who gave her advice every now and then.

For your part, you eventually confessed why you were so secretive about what you wrote down. You even gave them your pen name.

As the sun descended in the west, you sighed at the way the temperature slowly dropped. Dinner sounded like a good idea now, especially with the way that Uzumaki... no, Naruto's belly was growling.

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Lavender Blossom Quest - Airing of Secrets


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What Do?
[X] Go to a restaurant for dinner, a meal out "just" for you girls.
[X] Return to the mansion for dinner with your other classmates.
[X] Before you head down, Naruto raises the idea of an oath of friendship, nay an oath of sisters or something...
- - [X] "Though not born on the same day of the same month in the same year, we hope to die so."
- - [X] Admittedly, she did sigh and mentioned a lack of peach gardens to do this in...
[X] Write In