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((So we are short a Gama (not necessarily needing as the same with Kyuubi)...a Orochimaru... We can have Sakeme play as Rin from Yondaime's team...heh...Elruda would be devastated...and we need an Obito...I'll have Akeru come along after all...he'll fit Obito's part...the crybaby... ._.'')

Reimei was walking along through the streets, happily consuming an ice cream cone and minding his own business with the great white tiger Kuro by his side. Yuumei couldn't come, she had to go to a nearby town to buy medicinal supplies...which were scarce and greatly expensive here in Iwagakure no Sato. However, the festivities were greatly welcome to the child...and the boy looked around happily (albeit a bit curiously)...stopping at a great stage. Wonder what kind of play they are putting on... He thought before - ...

Shinratsu managed to snatch up the unfortunate passerby. "I found us an Orochimaru!" He declared.

The tiger had told him not so long ago about famous shinobi...and among them, the former Snake-Sannin Orochimaru went as bad as they could get. Tears welled up instantly in his eyes. "I'm not an Orochimaru!" The sobs seemed to startle Shinratsu, who (though having dragged the unfortunate upstage) had just as suddenly let go. Still on the ground level below, the tiger accompanying the boy let out a sigh...

"I think he'll fit Obito more..." Muttered Yokou, walking forward. Taking out her handkerchief, she offered it to the child. "Here, now now...don't cry..." But as she knelt down to wipe away the tears...she too pulled back suddenly, astonished, as if getting burned.

Curiosity ruled the elf-child, and so Elruda went curiously over to the newcomer. "Welcome! You joining the play?" But once getting a good look at his face...gaping, she pointed. But the princess was certainly not at a loss for words like her mother: "Akeru!? Uchiha Akeru??? What are you doing HERE in Iwa!? Didn't you go to Oto to live with the head of family...?!"

When had the background turned all warm and pink and sparkly...?

"Fox nii-san..." Reimei returned the hug, a bit of tears still at the corners of his big, ever-changing colored orbs...but he had stopped crying and sniffing so that was a good start. "All right." The child said softly, shy and demure as ever. "Obito it is..."

((Oh boy. Now we have another reason why Elruda hates Shadow... xDD))

Not realizing the other's current implications...a scowl instead carved her face. "Aki!" She had gotten hold of Akeru's arm and was tugging him the other way. Stupid penniless hobo! Who was he to keep her from talking to her best friend - one she haven't seen in eons?

Reimei looked dangerously close to tears again. A sniff. "Yue-nee was nice...and the other lady is nice too...but most other ladies are scary...." He edged closer to Shadow. "Yue-nee went to buy medicine..." The child said, sadly. "The Academy was real scary..." Here, the boy pointed to Marcus.

"I (sniff) got poked in the head...many times..."

At that statement, Yokou looked dangerously at Marcus, a sudden feral gleam in her eye (and oh dear, was that accompanied by a part snarl?). It was a chilling look, one that clearly said: I do not even know where to begin how angry I am with you!!

"But...I didn't get kicked out...I did ok...so I guess Yue-nee would be happy..." The boy rubbed at the corner of his eyes, which were a bit red from the crying. "And Ee-wa looks very pretty today..."

Yokou herself had personally marched up and took a hold of Elruda's hand and pulled the child aside. "Elda! Won't you stop?" She hissed.

"I'm beginning to have doubts who I dislike more..." Muttered the child aside with a huff.

"Elruda! Look at me in the eye when I'm talking to you!"

"But mum! It's clear he's one with impure intentions!" Though the rest of the conversing was carried out quietly, she emphasized 'impure intentions' loud enough so that Shadow could hear. "See! He even captured Aki-chan in his horrible clutches!"

Yokou groaned. "Why do I even..." She took several breaths of calming air. "Elruda - Shadow-san is a very nice person, I don't understand why you are..."

"He's greatest enemy number 2!"

"Greatest...what...?" Said her mother, blinking once - twice - in shocked astonishment. That wasn't even grammatically correct!

She huffed. "I won't tell you who took first place."

...but Yokou had an inkling to who it was...

She sighed. "Elda...just...just stay beside me, goodness...besides, you're dressed like that...how would Akeru know anyways..." Yokou did have a point. Elruda, quite the perfectionist the child was, had totally concealed physical-wise at least any sign of her Hyuuga heritage: with current golden eyes thanks to the tint of the contacts and the blonde wig done into a short, high ponytail.

So approaching Akeru, she greeted. "Hello." She seemed a bit surprised that no recognition flickered into the child's eyes...no, she was certain. Too alike to be a coincidence... It had to be his child - the boy was for goodness sake a carbon copy of his father! But she kept herself composed and smiled gently at the boy. She had a sneaking suspicion as to what had happened but...just to make sure...

"I am Hyuuga Yokou...my family and friends come a long way off, from Konohagakure no Sato. It's a pleasure to meet you child...what is your name...?"

Reimei returned the smile - this lady was nice. "Reimei. Sento Reimei! Ahh...you come from Konoha...?" He frowned a little...his head hurts a tiny bit...weird, why did he suddenly think of shrubbery...and lots of it... "That's one of the five big villages, like Ee-wa...right...?" Or from what Shadow and Kuro-chan said...

"Yes." She said, continuing on. "Have you been living here long...? Do you like Iwa?"

"It's ok." Said the child, smiling. "At first I kept falling though...it's a bit uneven, the ground...and Kuro-chan had to carry me and kept complaining...but I managed!" He seemed a bit proud at that. "But..." The child looked away. "Reimei doesn't know where he came from..." He admitted. "But Yue-nee knows!" Smiling brightly, he cheered up at that thought.

And so she said: "I see, then." with a smile and returned to Elruda. She dropped her voice so low that perhaps only Shadow with his enhanced hearing would be able to hear...

"Look. Akeru's unwell. He has no recall of Konoha or any of us and his knowledge of the shinobi villages are bare minimal - amnesia, certainly...he seems to be just adjusting recently to the shinobi concept..." She held up a hand, as if to tell the child to hold her silence. "If we shall assume that is somehow tied to how he ended up here and he hadn't been here long...but no matter, Elruda...Zephyr-sensei would see to speaking to this Yue-nee of his when he returns."

"...just be...more considerate of Akeru's current feelings, all right...?" A sullen nod from her daughter was enough to satisfy Yokou. She knew very well that the child would never do anything to intentionally hurt Akeru.

Shizuka had gone up on stage as she wanted to be in the preformace, raisuke was now alone with her. She would turn and give him a coy yet sadistic look he could be preety sure something bad would happen. "Raisuke-kun were all aloneeee nyao (now)! .....wish her luck and cheer for her...it would mean alot to her nyao." She started to get close to him smiling quite devilishly, then she would just pull away and just stand next to him looking at shizuka on on stage, she would giggle some at the idea of her being a frog. ...The hell? she didnt do anything perverted to him say anything or suggest anything...she was actually...nice.

Giglamesh would finally come to the festival, his hair was a utter mess, it was nothing like his usualy clean and straight combed hair, this hair was all tangled with some knots it in it looked as if he had gone threw something very rough. Not only that but he did not make a flashy entrance, he came walking up to raisuke. Not even a normal walk, a semi bowlegged walk, as if his legs were sore or something. He looked extremely tired, none of the memebers of the cell would of even seen giglamesh like this, and after keiko they see him the most, so to them it would be extremely odd. He was tired a looked a mess, yet there seemed to be a odd smile of satisfaciation on his tired face, And he would just walk up behind raisuke nothing fancy, just a extremely out of place and odd entrance for giglamesh. "....Yo.....whas goin on here?" Did he really not know of the festival that had ben going on all day and in to the night? What could of kept him that occupied to not know of this?

Giglamesh would turn his head, and nappy hair to look down at shinratsu, giglamesh seemed completely lost....before he started talking. "Eh?....sorry i was at home having rough se....i mean...night sleep." Giglamesh's right eye would get really shifty as she stopped what he was saying changing it to something else. Then in a attempt to hurry and change the subject, shin most likely already knew since what had go on between him and keiko...as usualy gig kicks him out, sending him to store or somewhere thats not there apartment, before they do...things. Giglamesh would look up to stage seeing the people. "...do what?........ok i remember the name .....nope none ring a bell." Giglamesh didnt have his casket with him so he didnt have his list of copied profiles, but he did know the boy named shadow was participating in the chunin exams, of course shin and shizuka, elruda was hyuga-dono's child, katagi was that weird boy, roy seemed to be with out the cat, and ******** head (marcus). Giglamesh only knew shadow by profile, and he didnt know who kushina or sento were. Giglamesh was just standing there...kind of dazed looking. "So...whats who again?....eh dont bother....no idea of any of those names, you know i dont care for looking back but only forward." Giglamesh would look down at raisuke, and then over to harumi. "Hey....kat.....you know what going on....how bout you sparky(raisuke)?" Giglamesh did seem really lost, as if he had just woke up, or as if he really needed sleep.

Amaya gave a soft sigh, looking up at the sparse clouds of the sky. Really, all of this laying around on her own was getting boring rather quickly. "Guess I will go watch the play after all..." she thought to herself. "Hmm, wonder where it is then." She sat up from her temporary laying spot and finally up to her feet, taking a look in no direction in particular. The sight of a familiar silhouette in the distance caught her attention and as Giglamesh continued to speak with the others around him, Amaya gave a snorted smirk. Of course, even her sensei knew how to take it easy once and awhile. With a careless shrug, Amaya made her way over to the small crowd. The closer she got, the more she realized the look of relaxed haze in Gig's eyes. This placed a curiously arched eyebrow on the girls face. "Oy, Gig-sensei..." she greeted in her usual manner, offering a nod of greeting to the others around as well.

(Aww, not even the random imaginary civilian band in my head? It's a small one really. Just an old man with his erhu and another with his drum. Ah well, moved on to something else anyways now)