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Rei enters the building coplex with a cute bulldog puppy in his arms. The puppy is standing on Rei's forearm with his front legs holding its head high in the air. Rei rides the elevator to the third floor and walks to the old lady's door. Rei knocks and waits while he hears multiple locks on the door open. When the old lady answers she smiles and grabs skipper practically crushing him to death. Rei sighs and walks away.

Kageko wanted to make absolutely sure of her guess. If Hiruzen had a demon within him as well.... Well, she wouldn't know what she would do, but she did know that she had to make sure of it as soon as possible. As they came to the top floor of the inn, Kageko took out her keys and opened the room that didn't have all their luggage piled up right in front of the door. "Oh, by the way," she remembered as she entered the room, Hiruzen not far behind her as she continued to drag the poor boy, "Here's your key. I'm assuming that you'll be rooming with Vicente in the bigger room while I take the smaller one." Handing the keys over to her friend, Kageko finally let go of his collar and immediately walked up to the windows to close the blinds on all of them. She was paranoid, yes, but that was just how she was when it came to demons.

Kageko continued, slightly unsure of how she should phrase the question, after making sure that no one could see into the room, "Alright then, Hiruzen, you said something about Kou living in your... belly, right? Can I see your belly? Is there anything there? Any markings?".

(OOC: What? Can't I have my character be paranoid sometimes?)

Kageko sighed, wondering how else she could rephrase her question, "Do you have a seal anywhere on your body? Some kind of circle-looking thing perhaps?".

(OOC: Huh? Then what were you getting at?)

Kageko stared intently at the abdomen area, before noticing the glowing of the seal that was coming from his entire back. the girl wondered to herself without emotion. To tell the truth, she wasn't sure what emotion she should have in this situation. Part of her was glad that her friend also had a demon. Another part was scared for him, knowing that he too was danger. Still another part felt guilt, realizing that him being around someone like her would simply attract the Akatsuki even more. Finally, another part felt fear. The same fear that Kageko felt whenever her brother activated his curse seal. The same fear that she had felt when she had first experienced the malice of the Kyuubi. All of the feelings that she had about herself and had kept suppressed and
hidden from the others by the usual smiles and pranks was starting to pour out unchecked.

Kageko's indecision was apparent on her face and in her actions as she stumbled slightly before managing to fall back into a wall and slide down it to a sitting position. Her eyes were vacant and the expression that she had on at the ramen shop and when she first met Hiru at the beach was back on her face as the girl rubbed her temples with the palm of her left hand. She didn't know what to do. Perhaps she was over-thinking things but....

"H-hiruzen," Kageko finally asked after a long silence, "This Kou that lives inside of you, is his full name Houkou and does he look like a huge, five-tailed dog?". The girl wanted to, no needed to, make sure that her friend really had the same thing as her.

Kageko looked up at Hiruzen only to see that he was troubled, just about as troubled as she was. Kageko wondered to herself, her eyes still the same as before and glued to the ground, Slowly, the girl forced a smile to slowly creep up on her face, as if she was trying to hold back a laugh, her slightly shaking body only proof to that idea. She had practiced such an act hundreds of times by herself while she was looking at a mirror. Finally, she let her laughter loose, picturing Vincente hanging from the Hokage mountain in a harness while he was tar-and-feathered to make it real. "Ha! Fooled you!" Kageko managed to get through after her laughter died down a bit, wiping away a tear that she had managed to procure from laughing so hard, "And that was the real payback for the prank you pulled on me in front of Havik. Did it work?". There wasn't a single trace of the emotionless face or the depression that had been plaguing her not too long ago. "Eheh," she continued to laugh a bit more, as if re-living the prank.

"Hey, hey," Kageko immediately stood up and pulled on Hiru's hair, still smiling a bit, "Calm down. I don't care how good your balance is, this is still the top story and you could still fall and kill yourself." With that, she pulled abruptly caused her friend to fall back and off the window sill. "As for Houkou, or Kou as you've nicknamed him, he's one of the nine tailed beasts, demons, gods, natural disasters, whatever you want to call them. Most people just call them bijuus. And you, my friend, are a jinchuuriki, a host to one of the nine bijuus," Kageko explained simply and bluntly before pausing for any questions that Hiru might have. The least she could do was explain to her friend what she knew about demons. Perhaps it'd help to calm him down. At least now Kageko knew why he might have been so withdrawn. While she hadn't suffered the same torment that Hiruzen might have suffered, she did know that Jinchuuriki were often cast aside from society. It would explain why her friend would have preferred to remain unknown for the most part. the girl couldn't help but wonder as an image of the scar he had recently shown her flashed into her mind.

(OOC: Look who's getting angsty now 0.o . Hiruzen looks as if he might commit suicide....)

(OOC: Oh well, more painful for Hiru-chan then 4laugh . Let's go with Kageko grabbing his hair whee .)

Kageko simply shrugged, "I read it while I was at home. Our family has a huge library of books, you saw it, remember?". It was the truth, the Valtieri family did have a huge room dedicated as a library and Kageko would often go in there to read or simply get away from Vincente.