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For quite a long while...Seika hadn't spoken a word, in-fact not at all since they had marched off. This girl could stay silent for a week if the situation called for it. However, she normally chose to speak when it least called for it. Typical Seika.

This was the Otokage's day though. No...if everything goes as he planned, it will be the beginning of his reign. She wondered if the Otokage would follow through with what he had claimed to make of this...new world of his. Then again....this man had waited for many years for this moment. A chance to make his goal a reality. Psh...his ego seemed to be prepped and fit for it. Speaking of prepping, Seika wondered if Shuniji was okay with all of this. He really acted like he wanted to be the Otokage's host, though that was probably just his ego talking as well. Something like that...Seika was no good with reading people. Which reminded her.

She wouldn't see the real Shuniji ever again, would she? If and when the Otokage took his body, he wouldn't be Shuniji anymore...her motive for staying in line, her best and only true friend, gone. What would she do then?

Suddenly Seika felt her heart sink, even the light footsteps of the Otokage's army just behind her seemed non existent. There would be nothing for her after that, only to bear this child and die off, probably.

There was one thing that kept her going. A promise and a friendship as comrades. She remembered when Yuzuki had asked her what her dream was. Seika wanted to serve somebody that was precious to her. It was funny how her promise interfered with that dream. A light chuckle suddenly broke the perfect silence that was created by the Otokage's presence.

"Hey, Shuniji. Remember that promise we made?" Her voice was just loud enough for him to hear. She placed her arms behind her head with a smart look on her face and continued walking without even glancing at her buddy.


"Promise me that you will become an excellent shinobi! Not with merely strength or chakra, but with nerves! Promise that you will protect your honor as a ninja of the Village Hidden in the Sound! Protect the Village! Protect the Otokage! Protect our secrets! But dammit... if you waste your time trying to protect me or any other cannon-fodder stupid enough to get in the way of a stray kunai, then you'd better damn-well hope that sense of honor gets you KILLED because if not, then you'll have to answer to ME as to why you broke your damn promise! AND I HATE HYPOCRITES!"


Seika mimicked his exact words as if she had memorized it the moment it first left his lips. She took what he said to heart, just like any moron would. "I'll never forget it,

Seika just about huffed when he first replied. It was a typical Shuniji answer, the one she was looking for. That was until his last comment took her by surprise. Wait what? Did her ears deceive her?! She motioned to reply but he had already ascended to the trees.

It was likely that she couldn't think of a response anyway. He caught her off-guard. It was so...unlike Shuniji. Even for a presumably rotten person like Seika, she found his last comment to be...very sweet, in a messed up way. Her mask obscured the vibrant pink that had brightened up her cheeks. Now catching this, she shook her head lightly and glared at the ground. 'Gah! He got away with saying....THAT! DAMN YOU, SHUNIJI! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS GET THE LAST WORD ON EVERYTHING!?'

And yet sound so cool...

...Seika didn't even know why she was angry about it. Maybe it was the prude in her, telling her to snap out of this moment of twitterpation she was having. Though really...if she was a prude, she'd be a hypocrite. The whole child thing sort of makes her defensive argument invalid.

So instead of being angry, she gave a light smile and shook her head. It was useless pretending to be angry. Granted, Shuniji was the only one she'd show her true face to...it didn't mean she wasn't a pissed off p***k half the time. Though he was the only one that got the genuinely nice side of her, not counting the other people she had to be nice to. That was only to get what she wanted.

A sharp pain started to eat at Seika's sides, she felt a bit of pressure as well. It was debatable if she was feeling confident about baring through this sort of pain in a fight. If anything...she might get more aggressive and irritable from it.

The silence amongst the group was both calming and unnerving at the same time, though he could at least understand the reason for low tone. To be honest he quite enjoyed the awkward silence that came with everything, it gave him a chance to look at all the craziness that had been his life as of late. To even before branching off from Ren after their trip to the Snow Country, to before he was in the Udai Counsel, to that fateful day. That day marked how he was going to be on the fast lane to a hectic life.

Then everyone stopped, it took a moment for Tatsuya to gather his surroundings and realize that Sony and Saru had stopped, but when he did he squatted down in a similar stance as the entire company. Though it was in that moment that the much younger Udai member noticed that he had a nearly completely different set of clothes than everyone else, they all seemed as if they were part of a much larger machine and he was the odd cog in the dead center. Why had Shattaa given him a different uniform? He would have to ask her later.