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“s**t’s hittin the fan already,” Doku murmurs as things heat up yet again. Swords of the Crescent Moon, those of Hidden Passion especially, had quite a bit of experience with bad blood and negativity from other individuals. Despite their efforts to do good within the worlds, it just never paid off much for either. Aijou gives the clown a playful pout as Kel’s attention turns to Joker. He would be the first to speak with a sense of reason in his tone.

“Talking about my village isn’t going to make me cry. If you want that then you’ll have to push a little harder, maybe press a few hot, red buttons. I will admit, though, that Hidden Passion isn’t one of the most visited of villages and that shoving it away somewhere would probably be for the better. After all, my home has been attacked a great deal of times without provocation beyond the name of the village. But I highly doubt that whether or not my village needs to be a village or not isn’t the reason we are here by a long shot.” His lime green eyes look Joker over as Kel strokes his hair back to make sure it doesn’t come out of place in any way.

Ray notices someone mention Nibi and instantly turns herself about to look at Joker. What was that supposed to be, a joke? Where else would Drago be? He was dead. She’d heard about it herself. Why would he even ask her that? “Don’t talk to that clown,” Akou whispers to her as he glares over his shoulder at Joker. He hadn’t forgotten the face of the clown that he’d almost gotten into a fight with in Hidden Leaf before. As if he’d let him so casually stroll up to Ray and have a heart to heart. Akou tugs the magician behind him by her shoulder and makes it so that he is between Joker and Ray. Shaneko’s heart races at the mention of the Demon Nibi. She’d forgotten about everything that happened before entering through the doors into the meeting room but it was all coming back. The Takumikage stares intensely at the table as Houhei watches her, her thoughts on the memory lacking magician.


“You cowardly bastards! So how many people are going to die now?” Akou, having towed Ray away from Joker after he tried to talk to her, wound up sitting somewhere in the middle of the table. Beside him Ray covers her ears, not wanting to hear anymore of the discussion. “If it’s Kages being killed then keep it to just being the Kages being killed. What ******** point is there in mentioning havens, orders to kill other village members on site, and war? If you’re leaders, the strongest of a village, and you need to shed some blood then shed it amongst each of the representatives of your enemy villages that are here. If Hidden Leaf’s head guys here are doing things you don’t like then set up a fight with the assholes. If Hidden Moon did something to harm another village then feel free to attack our leader, Kan, and myself. Then take the place over yourself and make sure to reform them. And since you all missed the punch line, I’ll say a little more. A killer was hired, and the Hidden Leaf’s guy there didn’t say exactly who. So all of your blabbering isn’t doing anything but making it easy to snake you all from behind!”

He didn’t want to tell them all anything. Teaching a fool not to be a fool is pointless. Trying to get people that love war, death, fighting… trying to get them to think rationally is just stupid. But he couldn’t sit still and let them talk like they were actually coming to some sort of resolution. Kages will still die and they will die themselves without even knowing what hit them. All because they are too absorbed and haven’t shut up to think about things. Akou hadn’t even been to Hidden Moon in a long time and didn’t consider it his home, but if Hidden Moon really did commit a crime then as a representative he would take the fall after the whole situation was covered first. He wagered that Kan felt the same. He’d rather fight for his life and prove his innocence than involve people like his younger brother, Shu, Conji, or Meimu. “All of you are so selfish.” Shaneko finally speaks. She’d been too wrapped up in fear to speak. Not fear for her life or for the war, but the lives of other people being decided for them. The villagers couldn’t say what they wanted. They couldn’t beg forgiveness or say what they want. And their leaders didn’t seem to care as much as she had expected leaders and superiors would.

“You lost your friend ONE and now you are willing to take away someone else’s?” Shaneko looks over at Jono. Saying anything to Joker probably wouldn’t be useful. He liked conflict anyway so this aspect of her reasoning wouldn’t do much. “How can you sit there and say you’ll kill anyone that isn’t on your side of the situation? Where is your honor? How is that doing any better than what was done to your dear friend? Hidden Leaf… acting on revenge. And now you will be too. They have shamed their village with their accusations of being the culprit and you will shame ONE.” Shaneko fights back tears, now not the time to show her softer side. But the loss of friends… she knew that feeling; even more so now after Akou’s declaration. She didn’t want to lose Kan and Akou, who weren’t even in the village the time of the attacks.

“Hidden Leaf’s representative… I find his story to be very hard to accept,” a small voice whispers. Who was talking in such a sleepy tone? Jenda, gently sitting on Ray’ lap, crosses her small arms. Her size may make her a less than needed addition to the conversation, but she was a Death Eater, after all. She was a bit more experienced with these sorts of dealings than most. “Why would you waste your time sending people after Kages that you could probably deal with jointly by yourself? And if they attacked your village, then why not attack theirs the same way? Either you have some sort of motive, or you’re incompetent. I’d like to believe, based on your speaking ability at least, that you have other motives.” The small child’s face is a bit red, more than likely from annoyance. This Konoha creature was causing so much noise in this meeting over the death of a few old farts he claims to have killed. “What bothers me most is the fact that you left calling cards. So bold. Here you are blabbing your plan to each of us, and yet you snaked around when committing your act only to leave a calling card? You hired an assassination group to do a private task only to have them leave both a sign of what village may have done it, have the same thing done in the name of your village for other locations, and then you go spouting your mission out to all of us. It’s not consistent at all.”

She yawns, waiting a moment to blink the tears from her eyes before sprouting a dark grin. “And you arrogant morons are falling for this he say she say. I get the few of you that are only doing this for the sport, chaos has its good points, but the rest of you talking about unity and fending your village… Is it because each of you are so wrapped in being invited to this meeting? You think that you’re strong so you can talk about war like any of you stand a chance against the other? I already know how quickly I’d be killed off, if anyone cared to waste their time, but you fools are forgetting that Kages were killed. Whoever killed them is strong enough to take out a Kage. So what point is there attacking the face of any operation when the guy or guys hiding out in the shadows are the ones that are doing all of the flashy murders? You don’t know who they are and while you’re fighting amongst each other, more Kages will die. You happy go lucky doomed fools won’t even know what hit you. What’s power when your enemy has no face and probably no headband to show their origin?” She was so very annoyed. All that they held this meeting for was to waste their time. If they were going to feud, then they should have stayed home and taken revenge instead of pretending to try to get to the bottom of what all happened rationally.

“I’m no martyr or anything. I ain’t dying for no reason either. But Joker, man, leave the rest of Federation out of your mouth,” Doku beamed an intense glare at Joker. Sure Doku was the weakest one and he didn’t give two shakes of a feather about his home village. But he had his reasons. And since he took the place of his friend James, he couldn’t just let someone spout what that joker did. “You’re too crazy of a b*****d to go taking over a cluster of villages that is primarily under someone else’s name. You want a war… then go it alone. I’ll be damned if you take over Federation and turn it into some damn funfair of blood and gore.” He was aware of the fact that his group was no better, but their role was different. Federation led itself, and only had the label of SCM and what protection they could give. Joker… he’d dictate that poor land and probably use it to help him get more fun out of the coming war. “If you wanna fight about it, I’ll lose. But I’ll try my hardest to take you down with me.” He puts out his cigarette that still had some ways to go on the table. “Last time I couldn’t protect that place and people cried. I hate it when girls and kids cry and I don’t wanna hear it again.”

As soon as Kan crosses his arms across his chest, she comes back to reality. He wasn’t worried or bothered at all. He had that sort of whatever will be will be look on his face. Was that what it was like to understand a situation? He understood that what was said would need to be done. People had to pay because what happened was too much to shrug off. And he understood that he would have to fight and risk his life. That’s right. It’s just like any other day.