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Musica arched an eyebrow at Saru and crossed his arms over his chest. Her insinuation was obvious: he had no class. He was fine with it, so he mentally shrugged the comment off. After all, he had been called worse, much worse. "Eleven," he responded to the girl, tallying up a mental mark on the insult board. The red head rolled his eyes and looked back at where the road was. He didn't see Saru throw the rock. The projectile collided with the side of Musica's head, small enough to bounce off without too much damage. But definitely big enough to make him see bright lights and hear bells. The ninja's right foot lifted slightly from the ground as he body rocked from the impact. He quickly counter balanced himself, firmly stepping his foot back onto the ground and shook his throbbing head. The bells stopped ringing just in time to hear Saru insult him again. Musica's eyebrow twitched in time with the throbbing as he gave a look tat was just barely weaker than a glare. "That's what 'along the main road' means, genius," He growled. She was right: it was dangerous to just stroll down the road undisguised. But, by the same token, a group of people hiding out in the trees next to a perfectly fine road would look odd, too. Musica's mental voice over went through it's best slow observer voice: "Why are those people being so sneaky? Wouldn't ninja do something like that?" 'Yeah, great idea.' Musica mentally scoffed as Saru continued speaking, explaining the plan of action. The red head fought back the urge to say "Well, duh!" But only just barely.

"Good job, Sherlock," he responded dryly. He even clapped his hands slowly for a few moments. "I'm sure you want a gold star or something right? Well, A for effort, I suppose." Musica rolled his neck slowly, trying to relieve some of the pain in his head, quietly walking around to get his mind off of the throbbing. It wasn't until after the drums went away that he realised Sorain had been speaking. Musica looked back at his companions to see that the man was looking at where Musica had been only moments before. 'Huh, odd.' He thought, examining the ex-Lightning ninja's eyes for the first time. They were cloudy and unfocused, a clear indicator of sight problems. Which was odd, because Sorain didn't seem to have such issues when e was fighting Notwen. Musica decided not to mention anything and brought himself back to the conversation at hand, just in time for Saru to volunteer herself for guide duty. "'Bout time," Musica drawled as the girl and Sorain walked by. He followed close behind the two, mumbling something about not overshooting and pathway construction under his breath.

Loud barking could be heard coming from within the treeline of the forest near the city, a few moments later a large dog bounced out of the treeline and ran tower some random person along the path, it pounced toward a young gentlemen who was pretending to use a cane to walk, the dog weight coming down on the young man. Stepping out from the treeline a little after the dog was a young women long silvery white hair, it was a little longer then shoulder length hair, in the back it hang out freely and with a small amount pulled forward over her left solder with a back ribbon around it, as she exited the treeline she ran up to the dog, and pulls him back from the young man. "Sorry about that, I think he smelled a bone nearby and was running for it". She said with a smile as she held her hand out for him, to help him up, she had a Leaf headband around her neck, her dog was sniffing the air around you lightly as he sat on the ground after the woman had pulled him back and made him sit.

[OOC - Go for it honey bunny, sorry it took so long to reply, it exam week over here]

Natsuki was a little surprised to see the man, who her dog had tackled, was wearing a blindfold, she wasn't really sure if he was wearing it for some type or training, or if he was really blind. As he got himself up, she smiled a little seeing he was fine, as he reached into his bag and pulled at a bone for her dog. "I'm sorry he hit you, we were going to get some food one we entered the town, but I guess he wanted some". She said with a smile and then listen to him, as he moved on and asked to look for his cane, she smiled and nodded a little. "Yeah I'll help you find it". With that said she looked around for the cane of his, she saw it on the ground just next to where he fell, after picking it up she handed it to him. "Here you go".

Kai was happy to get a bone, and began to chewing on it as Natsuki helped him, find his cane.

"It ok, I am sorry about Kai pushing you down, we have been travelling the past few days, I think the fact we are so close to town and food has excited him a little much". Natsuki said with a smile as she looked at him, he was going over the cane she had just handed him, and after checking it over he offered his hand to shake hers, she took his hand, and learned he had a very good handshake. "That is neat, I have kinda wanted to go to some other countries, I haven't yet but I plan too one day, anyways, seeing as you helped me out, do you want to have lunch with me, my shout of course".

Sorain sat with his legs crossed over the side of the cart and his arms folded solidly across his chest. The cart was slow, much too slow for his liking. The entire time he kept thinking that they could have made a much faster trip on foot, however he knew that traveling on foot would draw entirely too much attention. Right now they were nothing more than a band of travlers looking for settlement in a new village and nothing more. To go sprinting across the country lines appered too similar to fleeing from something and at this point Sorain had already grown tired of being constantly chased. For now he wanted a slower life style, he wanted to spend some time inwardly focusing on bettering his craft and perfecting his trade. Tilting his head up Sorain slowly opened his eyes and glanced up at the night sky. The stars above him blurred together into miniature blobs. His eye sight was already failing him yet again. It was the curse that he lived with, periodic blindness that could only be remedied by draining his already shallow chakra reserves into activating his clans eye jutsu. It wasn't all bad however, over the years he had grown used to the loss of vision and in some cases actually preferred to be blind to the filth that this world had to offer every day. But none the less, he sought a cure. Reaching into his sleeve Sorain pulled forth a small green vial, inside a human eye ball with a red and black iris floated ominously as if some sort of sick holloween prop. It was the eye of the Uchiha that he had defeated in the Lightning Country, an eye that he hoped would be part of his solutution to blindness.

A sheepish grin spread across Sai's lips, his bright eyes gazing loftily onto the road ahead of him as he drove the small truck. It had been a long ride since they had left the last town and as they were nearing the borders of the Fire Country, it would be several hours before the next stop. A sigh pressed against his lips as he cursed his brother silently for his blindness, he couldn't trust the two girls to drive as they were simply to young to have the experience and with his brother being blind the only one that could drive would be himself.

Leaning his head closer to the open driver's window, he took a long breath and glanced over to Arina, a smile crossing his features as he noticed her fall asleep. Shaking his head slightly, he carefully reached behind his seat to pull out a quilt that had came with the truck. With a few flicks, he spread it onto the girl and turned his attention fully back onto the road. It surely was going to be one long trip.

Natsuki looked at him and wondered for a moment what would make this person want to travel so far, but then thought about the reason she had traveled so far, just to go shopping for pet toys and maybe some new equipment. "Well I am Natsuki and you meet Kai a little earlier, thanks for giving him that bone". She said with a smile as she perked up again, as she lifted her spirit from the down an out one she had, had before, form the hunger and the fact she was tired from walking to this village. "So what your name mister?". She said as she began to walk next to him, she hadn't tried to take his hand or guild him, thinking he would be able to follow her without issues, seeing as he had travel to this village from where ever alone.

The boy arrived on foot across the border without too much cause for trouble, and noticed a significant increase in the temperature as he neared the Fire Country, something his body seemed pleased with. Having spent most of his life in high altitudes, Cruxis had been alarmed when he realized that his new body was not fully accustomed to the thinner air; but here where every breath filled him, he could fully feel the difference in strength now that his lungs weren't trying to murder him.
On the road, Cruxis had managed to acquire himself a new lute, which he tested out only to find his fingers were frightfully fumbling at the delicate touch needed to play. Mind versus muscles fought to re-tune his skills, a morning of cringing at the pitches before he finally was satisfied with the crude playing he'd managed to achieve. By the afternoon, he was playing most of his old tunes properly again, though he made a note to crack Notwen across the head next time he saw the man; his 'lets mentally train for your Taijutsu Takeshi' had been laughable, though Cruxis had given benefit of the doubt that it might be possible to train mind and body separate. Well here was his mind in a new body, and most of his skills were terribly ill-tuned. Had he made the claim of a bard on the road, most would have scoffed at him, telling him to run back to his master.
His singing voice at least was workable, though the deeper baritone had thrown him off at first, and he realized that playful jokes and banter would be tougher to pull off. So instead he kept silent, strumming etudes upon the lute to re-tune his muscle-memory and re-train his skills as he walked.