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"Is the Leaf Village open for trading with us? To tell truthfullly, we do alot of raiding of many villages since we have trouble gaining accurate supplies to keep up to strength. If we had a trading partner, we would gladly pay well for them and this in turn would stop the need for raiding small villages. This is more up to your Hokage then you, but it would be helpful if your put it to her to do list. What I'm really here for is seeking a man name Knight, he has been spying on me and my riders. This disturbs me greatly and I'm here to put an end to it."

Minronu was slightly distracted by the intrusion of his mount, Gria. She had fresh remains of meat around her mouth and the scent of fresh flresh lingered around her. Gria was basically an over grown reptilian dog, she liked attention and meeting or eating new people. Unlike the lesser Shadow Beasts, Gria only feasted when allowed to, Inojiro would not be a target.

"This is my mount, Gria. We Shadow Riders ride these beasts into battle, Gria is partnered with the leader of our group, this being me. We do generally feed them human flesh, but we only do it when we lack other types of meats. A connection between the rider and the mount is very important to a Shadow Rider. When we reach of age, we use the summoning Jutsu to summon one and through life they stay with us..."

Minronu patted the top of Gria's head and she made a low growl. Normally with animals, this would be a sign of hostility, but with Shaow Beasts that never growl, just bite when angered, it is a sign of affection.

"I understand if your village doesn't want to trade with Missing-Nin or doesn't have the resources, I recall awhile ago the attack on your village left your village strained, but that was three years ago I think."

Ken struggled for the good part of five minutes, while his sensei, who looked surprisingly like the stereotypical Chinese martial arts instructor with his small, triangular beard and pointed mustache, continued to grin stupidly.
After a while, Ken broke free, shaking his head slightly.
"You're insane, you know that, right?" he said, annoyed.
"So I've been told." was his reply. "In any case, you have a mission, but before we get to that, how bout some lunch?"
Ken got up, following his sensei into the small house, where he had already prepared some fried rice. "You nearly kill me, and now you're feeding me? You're..."
"Crazy, I know." his sensei said with a wheezing laugh.
Ken sighed, starting to eat.

"Good to here, the Leaf Village has great potential, ashame if it was lost so easily. Fine, I personnally will arrive there and speak to the Hokage if that is the case. We offer riches in exchange for food. If that is not suffient, we do come acorss many scroll full of information in our travels, such as techniques, maps, and even letters from Knight."

Gria soon grew bored with listening to her master and the other human talk about things she did not care about. Quickly stepping back from her master's hand and turning around, she left once again for her stable, already she was hungry.

"Seems Gria was bored...Well, she won't accompany me to the village, she would be to frenzied by the noise and people. It maybe an intrest to your village toalso dispose of Knight, he has ninja working in all of his bussiness connections by the sound of his letters, he maybe a pawn of an enemy to your village or the enemy itself."

Minronu thought the Hokage would want someone like Knight dealt with, something he hoped she would hire him to do. With so many missions bothering the village, an extra group of ninja like the Shadow Riders that worked for just food could be useful. A factor that made Minronu unsure was the Village's policy against hiring Missing-Nin mercenaries. If so, Minronu had several points he could bring up to change her mind on the subject. Minronu was of course getting ahead of himself, he may not even be able to meet with her at all.

As Inojiro dissapeared, almost instantly, a scout appeared beside Minronu with a worried expression on his face. With a slight tone of doubt for his leader's plans, he spoke.

"But my lord, can we really trust the Leaf Village? Normally they don't accept offers from our kind..."

Minronu chuckled slightly at the scout, soon turning his red eyes towards the scout's and staring deep into his, as if piercing his very soul.

"If they don't help us, then we help ourselves to the small villages for supplies. I'd admit, not all of you are high ranked on the Missing-Nin class, but I'll make sure we get the supplies we need, either by aid of the Leaf Village or the raiding of the other villages around them."

The scout felt uneasy, everyone in the Shadow Riders did from his gaze. Turning to the direction Inojiro dissapeared at, Minronu started a slow walk in that direction, the scout quickly off to inform the rest of the group of their master's recent dealings. Normally this might create mutiny for a regular band of ninja against their leader, but mutinies have happened in the past and none have had success against Minronu.

Daisuke adjusted his pack on his shoulder as he stumbled slightly. He stared down the dirt road at what appeared to be a dustcloud.
Daisuke had been walking for the better part of a week. He was fairly certain that the path he was on would lead to the Hidden Leaf Village, but it didn't really matter to him. He was just happy to be on the road, which was almost completely unoccupied. Up ahead, he saw some sort of...thing on the path.
It was headed in the direction he was going, but much quicker. After a few seconds, all traces of it had vanished. With a shrug, he set out after it. After all, he was headed that way anyways, and at least he wouldn't be bored.

Inojiro had made many twists and turns on his way back to the Leaf Village. The risk of having such shady individuals discover the location of the village might prove to be dangerous, especially when they had glowing red eyes and were surrounded by a black mist. However, with the combined forces of the Leaf Village shinobi, no enemy could defeat them. Regardless, Inojiro had not found any new flowers, but the journey was nice on its own.

((OK, I guess just ignore my post, since I'm leaving tomorrow for 5 weeks. i prolly won't be able to get on, soooo...
Daisuke is on the road, and I can work back in when I return. thanks for understanding guys.))

((Ack! Damn vacation, damn it to hell! Can someone please tell me what's actually going on? I can't figure it out...))