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Ryoko's sudden appearance nearly gave Yokou a heart attack. Her nervousness did not show but her body stiffened, eyes widening, and there was a sudden spike in her chakra level. She...hadn't noticed anyone else around her at all besides Akane... Normally, Yokou would not have any trouble recognizing the Iwa Jounin's chakra signature or noticing all the things around her...

What was wrong with her, letting her guard down like that...? If Shikamori was here, the Nara would be lecturing her about failing as a guard... Her usually pale complexion flushed crimson at Ryoko's next comment. She tried pretending not to have heard but her complexion betrayed that. Not for the first time, but Yokou really regretted of the Hyuuga line’s inherent fair skin. And Akane's next comment didn't exactly help either.

In a heartbeat, Ryoko was gone like how she came - before Yokou could even somehow...perhaps pathetically...argue back... She embarassedly mumbled something indiscernable before leaning towards his side, against his shoulder, closing her pale violet eyes, dark-blue hair falling over her shoulders.

Katare would wake up the very moment that somebody entered his room, but nothing could possibly wake him up before then. He had told Kinen this as they were headed back, and Kinen understood what he needed to do. The little squirrel scampered under the door and began searching the house, being meticulous not to enter Ryoko's room or the kitchen. Eventually he headed outback, where he determined which person was Roy from the description that Katare had given to him so many times before. He jumped onto his back to get his attention, then proceeded to scamper back towards Katare's room.

Shikamori was asleep...snoring away...not even noticing half of the Hyuuga children were already awake and drawing things on his face with ink. But then, sounds of yelling forced him awake with a start, and the lazy hunter-nin yawned, stretched, before rising from his corner. His dark cloak had fallen askew, so he had to readjust it. Kujira...well, the Akamichi appeared to still be asleep. Shrugging, the Nara stared at the Hyuuga girl in front of him. Hm? Why is she holding an ink pot...? Shrugging the thought away, Shikamori exited the dojo. The children will be fine - Kujira's still there after all and no man (or woman) in their right mind would go against a human bowling ball.

The squirrel was already on his way down the hall by the time Roy's shuriken would have reached him. Everything was going somewhat according to plan, and the squirrel smashed himself into Katare's door. Somehow or another, this caused the boy to wake up. "Oh damn, Kinen, isn't it a bit early to wake me up?" Either way, Katare needed to speak to Roy. Out the door he went, still in last night's dirty clothes. Assuming from the shuriken that Roy was outback, he found his friend quickly. "Roy-kun! I need to speak to you... in private."

The man looked to the guy. He wasn't very convencing. Had the Konoha shinobi found a new Hokage already? No, that couldn't be it. The man had heard nothing about Konoha since their takeover by the Fire Master. In every likly case, the Master probably called himself the new Kage...which meant...

No contest in power. No restriction in battles. Live or die by the rules encribed within ones heart. THat was the ANBU code. He got down further into his battle pose. The man wouldn't get past him.

However, as always, ANBU never traveled alone. While this one, Monkey was his codename, was visible, one of his friends had already shot off to get backup.

"SO MR. Fire Master. To what do we owe the pleasure of your trip all the way up here to Iwagakure?

Roy looked to the house. He moved quickly up the stairs back into his house and fired another fleet of shuriken and kunai toward the direction the squerll handed off into. Katare would obviously just barly miss the kunai but they'd deffinatly come close. "Katare?! Where the hell did that damn thing go? "

He sat there and listend to the boy for a moment. He then stopped and arched a brow, "What? What the hell for?"



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Ryoko arrived home and dumped off her supplies. She called out ot the rest of the house, "I'm back!" She smiled a bit and turned to the commotion between the Nara and the Hyuuga. She looked to him for a moment and arched a brow.

Looking over his face, she couldn't stop from playing along for a moment. She moved toward the Nara and scooped him up. "Well now if You are so so open about needing some, who am I to argue." She began to carry him along the path toward Roy's room. She was only joking though so when he started to protest she'd drop him but for now, it was good for a laugh.

Spot Training: 8/10

Cp: 2647/2722
Spot: 1d20 + 307

"Wait! Don't attack!" Yokou called out to the ANBU, not even out of breath. Her Byakugan was still flared on, keeping watch for more ANBUs. She wasn't worried, careful to keep the ANBU within her divination field and in a easy position to slip into the Juuken stance - in case the ANBU continued with his attack. Shikamori, beside her, was breathing heavily, but his hand held the single seal necessary for the Kagemane, ready to freeze possible threats in place. "He's telling the truth. A-Hokage-sama...was Lady Cerbi's student!"

Reaching into her robes, she pulled out a painted, ceremonial Hakke divination field amulet carved of rosemary wood, with the Hyuuga crest, outlined barely in the center. The amulet was indeed important, symbolizing one's birth into the Hyuuga head family. And though the ANBU may not believe her as none of her clan members had followed to the tower...he would at least have to understand it wasn't easy to take a heirloom from the reigning head...vicious opponents an angry Hyuuga was.