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As Aya spoke, Makoto listened to her explaining how she wasn't exactly sure on what she was wanting to do with her ninja training. She knew not medical though. What kinda red flagged in his mind was how she thought it would be fun. This job could be really dangerous but he still wasn't going to say anything about that. Once she stated that she was ready to go to the weapons smith, he hopped out of his out of his seat and stud up right beside her. "Ready? alright then, lets go."He stated as he started to move around the block. This area he knew the best in the village because he was always scrounging for scraps of materials so he could support himself. The specific smith that they would be heading for was in the back section of the market area. It was a very small smith but the quality was good so he would have descent buisness. It just happened that they were about ten minutes away from this shop so he lead the way. He didn't know what Aya wanted to do when they got there but they'd think of something. "So Aya, what type of equipment do you use?"
{eh... good enough for now....}

They were not far from the shop that the cook from before told Makoto about, so he remained quiet as his partner Aya told him pretty much how she didn't know what type of weapon or equipment she wanted in the future. She explained on how she had her basic equipment and that was all she knew for her equipment. Makoto was hoping that the cook from earlier was right in that what he had, he would like. The cook was right, it looked like a small shop from the outside, with only a cloth as a doorway. He looked over to Aya, gave a small nod to her and pulled the cloth out of his way and entered the shop. Inside the small building; were weapons covering the walls and counters, a small but very powerful fire to melt and shape even the strongest of metals, an anvil with hammers on it, and a door to a small room. There was a small problem though, no-one was in side. Makoto looked around and could tell the fire was going because it was seriously warm in there. He continued to look around, all different sizes and shapes of weapons and some armors in there as well. He wondered where this shop keeper was. As they looked around the shop, a small creek could be heard and as he turned, Makoto could see a rather large male step out of the wooden door.
"Ah... I was wondering when yew'd show up there laddie. Please, make yew'r self at home. I wish to show yew something..." And with that, the male went back into the room and left Makoto and Aya waiting in the room. He could hear suffeling and crashing. Makoto looked over at Aya and shrugged. He wasn't sure how long this would take but he hoped it would be worth the wait.

Having finally reach the Land of Fire Shiori could instantly pick up on the smells coming from the various eateries. Sadly she didnt have time to stop but at the same time for some reason her stomach had stopped growling. She couldnt remember having eaten anything. Strange. Despite the tantalizing smells Shiori kept moving on her way. After a while of walking with the occasional break she finally reach the other side of the village and was on her way leaving the Fire Country.

(5lines! XDD moving out of Fire to travel thread)

Having gathered her things Hatsuma proceeded to exit the train as well, Oasis certainly made strange comments she was certainly like Ishala when it came to things like that. Stepping off the train her feet touched the cool ground, she may actually need to wear full shoes for this trip. Her lower set of arms instinctively wrapped around her abdomen in response to the cold as she sought out Oasis who turned out to be near by having successfully pestered those two old women from the train. Walking up to Oasis she looked around lazily, the people were similar here as they were in wind country though they wore different clothing and their skin tone on average was lighter. “The cold is just a momentary thing it will pass once we’ve adjusted to the climate… though don’t try adjusting to the temperatures when we get to frost country… that place really is cold…” Hatsuma’s comment seemed to catch the attention of a passerby, a rather generic looking fellow though he was felt inclined to talk.
“Did you say frost country? I hope you aren’t planning to travel their right now, it’s full of bandits… plus I’ve heard there was an awful blizzard that hit just today… some merchants came in talking about it… er… well good day…” The stranger stated suddenly realizing he may have overstepped his bounds by randomly informing the two girls from wind country.
“well… I think we should find a place to stay in fire country then… perhaps we should meet the reigning hokage and request room and board for the evening?” Hatsuma wasn’t keen on the idea of traveling some place so cold and even less keen on the idea if there was harsh weather there as well… she was taught that blizzards were like sand storms of cold snow and water, not something she’d want to get stuck in that much was certain.

“I have no problems with accepting an offer for temporary housing… I would like to thank you for your kindness…” Hatsuma stated bowing to the large man courteously. It was obvious that the man knew Oasis and it was a good thing that her influence seemed to retroactively reach outside of the country. “For a country named after something so warm it is certainly not a very honest name…” Hatsuma said her stoic tone almost ruining her sarcastic comment about the country. Hatsuma glanced over her shoulder feeling a familiar presence near the rooftops of a few buildings. Quickly a figure sitting atop moved from sight as soon as her gaze moved to the roof. It was decided then; the caravan was doing a sort of test with this mission, not only to learn of Oasis’ nature but to also test the skills of the two on their journey.

“Well we will stay the night and leave in the morning, a blizzard is just a cold sand storm and with the proper clothing we should be able to traverse it relatively safely… our mission is important and likely being gauged by my village on many different aspects…” Hatsuma explained calmly as she looked back to Oasis and the large man who offered them shelter while on the mission in this country. There was another thing to be concerned about as well… though the nomadic tribes do similar tasks they aren’t exactly allies with one another, the frost nomads may not give a welcoming reception right away, the best thing to do was to show you can handle their element without trouble… it’s something like a sign of strength showing you are worthy of meeting with them. She would keep this information to herself for now, hopefully it wouldn’t be an issue that needed dealing with.

“Your acquaintances certainly do things in an odd manner…” Hatsuma commented as she followed along behind after Oasis who had been given a map to where they would be staying much later then she would have expected. “your village seems to have decent people in it though so little quirks like that aren’t an issue for me… as for bandits I really don’t think they’d be about in a blizzard or shortly after one for that matter.” She explained having also been thinking of what the man said as they had gotten off the train. “I mean from what I’ve heard they are almost exactly like sand storms save the fact they have frozen particles of water rather than solid particles of sand blowing about… and bandits in the desert honor a grace period after sandstorms… I’d imagine bandits here might do the same things… regardless I don’t think they’ll be any trouble if we run into them or not.” She finished glancing down at the map observing the strange symbol on it that vaguely resembled the craftsmen’s marking of Hikuptah which appeared on some of her tribes people, they often excelled at many different forms of mechanics, crafting and weaving… they were well rounded and often dealt with tools that the nomads used regularly. Not bothering to think on the matter further she began moving ahead to lead the way towards the place they would be staying, nary looking away from the map except for a few glances to get her bearings she quickened her pace and her nostrils were soon assailed with the smells of a workshop, grease being on the forefront of the scents. Looking up she spotted the building and looked it over casually before looking back to Oasis. “Is there a key to get in?” She questioned calmly and awaited a response before attempting ‘other’ methods of entry.

As Aya waited next to Makoto she smiled a little, as time seemed to past by so slowly, as she sat there with him waiting on the man from before to return with whatever it was he had gone off to find in the back of the store, while waiting Aya notice many of the weapons around the room, an then saw a bladed weapon, that caused something deep within her to beat, and her to go look at the weapon, she ran her hand along the handle and felt something beat from within her again, Aya smiled lightly, but unlike her normal slightly carefree smile, this one was rather wicked in terms of things. Deep from within Aya she felt something, as she blacked out, an something new or old from how you looked at it raised, her eyes change in colour slightly as ‘Aya’ stood there. "Makoto, it is getting rather late, I’m going to be leaving now, seeya later”. ‘Aya’ said lightly, but her voice was a little different from how it was normally, ‘Aya’ slowly walked out the door, her slightly wicked smiled on her face as she skips outside.

Back at home Kyoko and Hiroaki, Aya’s adopted parents, were looking on the contents of the box they had been given when they got Aya, on the wooden boxes led, were the words Subject 4, inside was a belt an a necklace with a small jewel on it, and a file which detailed what Aya was created for, the copy with the box now was a copy the original was in the files of the Hyuuga clan. Reading the file over, Aya was created from a captured Hyuuga clan member, it didn’t go into much more data than that, it had a failed stamp at the bottom of the page, this mainly to the fact that she only had one bloodline when born, was the brief jest of the note next to it, the file went on with research done one Aya, nothing of any great interest in terms of things, until the physical tests, Aya had a slightly higher level mental resistance when it came to thing, and psychological testing seemed to lead the people to think Aya had created a alternate persona in order to deal with things going on. This wasn’t anything new to Hiroaki, he had meet the other part of Aya when he had pushed training a little too far, this had also been part of the reason why Aya hadn’t been place in a team right after she finished at the academy.

”What do you think we should do about this, I am not sure if we should give her any of it, but what do you think”. Hiroaki said as he put the file aside and looked to Kyoko, who looked over the thing without the boxes, and after reading the file, she signed a little as she began to speak. ”No I think we should give her the necklace and the belt, from what I could gather, the belt, it belonged to the person who gave birth to her, same as the necklace, they seem to have been made for her, and it seems to be something she may need one day”. Kyoko said with a smile as she ran her fingers along the box, and then look at the other items within it, and smiled a little, as she looked at the necklace within, and the belt that it lay on top of. ”I am sure they will come in handy one day, don’t you think so to Hiro”. Aya’s adopted father signed an agreed with his wife as she spoke, and nods a little. ”Yeah, but I am still, Aya knows her past, so this report won’t help her, so we aren’t giving it to her yet, alright”. Hiroaki said with a firm voice as Kyoko nods light. After finishing going though the file, they decide to not give it to Aya, but the weapon and belt in the box, it was something for Aya so they were going to give it to her, along with the gloves Kyoko had gotten for Aya, and the new clothing Hiroaki had gotten her.