Through the Telescope

Kiyoshi had his eyes closed for a good while now, seemingly focusing his chakra in a highly professional fashion. Kiyoshi has been in this position for about 10 minutes or so as if he was getting himself prepared for this mandatory training. He took a deep and relatively calm breath to open up his chakra pores and to easily get the chakra to flow smoothly. Suddenly, Kiyoshi’s head started to lower and lower until he hit the desk right in front of him with a slight thud that wasn’t too loud but still audible, a regular deep breath that was Kiyoshi’s version of snoring was next to come, indicating he was asleep.

The Kumogakure Elder that was supposed to be teaching him this technique simply sighed as he wondered again why they had chosen a child to lead their village as the strongest shinobi. Sure, he did singlehandedly defeat the last Raikage before him in a match and had a tremendous amount of potential but he had so little experience and maturity level for a position such as this. But Katsuyo figured that there was nothing he could say about it now so he just continued his job of teaching the current Raikage about one of the most important techniques a kage should know. Well, at least to the best of his abilities. Plus, perhaps his youth might keep the village running strong and smoothly for the time being. Considering the fact that Kumo has actually been running nice for a change over the past 3 years might indicate that perhaps the council was in their right mind when they chose him, but then again, who knows.

Katsuyo slammed his 33 lb fan onto the desk right in front of Kiyoshi, causing him to jump up in shock as well as crack the desk a little. After the second of shock, Kiyoshi rubbed his right eye while the elder spoke on. “Lord Raikage, it is very important that you remain focused for you to learn this technique. Now enough delly-dattling, focus!” ‘Dilly-what?’ Kiyoshi wondered exactly what that meant for a second but just went back to focusing his chakra onto the crystal ball in front of him with his palms open before.

This went on for a good few minutes but as Kiyoshi peeked his right eye onto it, there was nothing in the ball and sighed as he brought his hands down. “Why do I even have to use this technique anyways? Why can’t I simply use my Mind’s Eye to observe the village?” Katsuyo opened his fan and waved it around. “Because your Mind’s Eye can’t travel throughout the entire village at all times. Now try it again from the top.” Kiyoshi made an extremely bored sigh and went back to closing his eyes and focusing his chakra yet again to learn this basically required yet very boring technique.

The household of the Lleiad family was calm, as calm as it can actually be, seeing as Natsumi's mother was back and forth between the kitchen and the basement. Her mother is named Lleiad Seiya, 38 years old ans she looks as she's still in her mid 20's. Her long black hair which ends at her lower back but was tied in a loose ponytail and was now around her mid back her bangs hanging around the egde of her face, framing them. She has very beautiful eyes; a light green that seemed to be filled with many secrets and yet at the same time it appears as if there's nothing there. Seiya stands roughly around 5'8", and has a slender build from days as a Shinobi. She retired very early, much to everyone's surprise.

A slight crash, then followed by a few curses here and there were heard from outside and Seiya could hear them clearly and she let out a deep sigh. A figure stepped onto the living room while Seiya was in there, her light green eyes looked up and noticed it was a male. Tall, rather lean body build for his age yet muscular form from his training. He has dark raven hair, rather messy and dark, wild dark red eyes. His name was Lleiad Katashi, and he was also a ninja from the village, and Seiya's husband.

"What did you do now?" the teasing voice came out of his wife, while he rolled his eyes. He came close to her face and gave her lips a quick peck, what he was wearing currently was a dark shirt, the sleeves were rolled up and he had a black jacket wrapped around his waist while wearing baggy pants. He had a few parts of his body/face dirty, probably digging around for artifacts that picked his interest or probably digging randomly..... One of those two Seiya was sure he was doing something digging related.

"Couldn't find anything that picked my interest", a slight pout formed on the males face which made Seiya chuckle, he then also added "Oh, yeah... Natsumi's here for her weapons since she left them again?" Said woman appeared in the living room with her usual formal wear when doing something for the Vongola. Seiya ran over to her daughter and wrapped her light skin arms around her. "Oh honey, welcome home. Are you here for your weapons and leaving?" Natsumi hugged her mother back and nodded. Seiya sighed as she let go of her daughter but kept her smile on her face. "Very well, what happened to your father? Do you know?" Natsumi stared at her father who was behind Seiya and gave him a blank look. "I met up with him? He couldn't find anything interesting he said. I would like to go with him and prove him wrong but.. Got to go to see the Raikage today", she walked away from her parents, who both turned to look one another before shrugging it off. But as she walked away she heard these words:

"Now, dear.. Go take a bath. You smell."

"Ehh... Fine." And then a grunt.

The Lleiad house was mainly a two story building, but they usually can be found in the Vongola Headquarters(who only people in specific has access to)so it was a 50/50 chance of them being in the house. The walls were a simple light orange color and had different pictures as Natsumi passed then took a quick right to go up the stairs. Some of the pictures held her parents wedding, herself when she was a child and pictures of her when she was a Gennin.

She stood in front of the door to her old room, the day before she was visiting her parents, telling them about her staying with the Raikage. Both weren't all that worried about her, but as parents they couldn't help but worry? Natsumi told them everything would be fine, she knew how to protect herself... Mainly, Katashi was worried when it came to her daughter dealing with males but Natsumi told him she'd handle it. As her right hand grabbed onto the cold doorknob and twist it and opened her room. It was the same as she left it, light blue walls that seemed to calm her as she walked and searched the room. It was clean, of course and it appeared as if her weapon was not there? Nonsense, her eyes fell onto the two Vongola Storm boxes that were on her bed, one was her animal and the other was for storing her weapon. Both were the same color, a dark red.

She walked over to the bed and picked them up and placed them in her front pocket and then turned around and left the room. As she went down the stairs she quickly rank to her parents, hug them and kissed them on the cheek and said "see ya later!"

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Natsumi was just entering the Raikage's office when she almost bumped with the Jounin who were going out/in with papers in there hands that seemed like a little mountain. She screamed "sorry!" to them and ran towards the office door. She'd wondered if Aoitori or Saib will be there as well, seeing as they have to be all together? Oh well, she opened the door and said: "Raikage-sama..?" she asked as she saw the Kumogakure Elder and Kiyoshi, maybe it was wrong to interrupt them and she should leave... "I'm sorry, Raikage-sama, Makoto-sama", she bowed and apologized and then got back up, a slight frown on her features. "Am I interrupting...?" she waited for their replies. But, seeing as she's his bodyguard, it won't count as interrupting? 'Damn it, it be better if Reborn was around...

‘I wonder how that Natsumi girl is doing…’ thought Aoitori quietly. She never did answer him from last time if he remembered correctly. Or maybe he had and he forgot? … … Unlikely. Still, he couldn’t help but wonder why in the hell he was thinking about her. Shaking his head lightly he opened the door to Saib and Natsumi’s room. “You ready yet?” he asked, completely unaffected by the fact that she only had her undergarments on and was getting dressed.


Saib mentally sighed as Aoitori came in and settled himself on Natsumi’s bed. “Almost,” she replied rather emotionless. She was still annoyed about last time… It was bad enough that it seemed like Aoitori had a thing for Natsumi, and her for him… but to hear them in the bathroom… together??? That... That was just too much. Couldn’t he have at least given her a reason or something? Anything? No, he just acted like it had never happened and like he didn’t know she had been there.

‘Argh, I’m really ticked off but Natsumi’s pretty and she seems nice enough… No wonder he likes her… Ahhh why can’t I just stop thinking about this? I already knew that if Aoitori wasn’t ever going to make a move on me that meant he didn’t like me at all. Why am I getting so beat up about this? He’s just my bodyguard… other than that he can do whatever he wants as long as I’m safe…’ thought Saib to herself, feeling more and more depressed with each word.

Slipping on a tank top and shorts she turned to face Aoitori. “That’s all. Let’s go,” she said boredly, hiding her hurt feelings. “Raikage-sama wanted to meet us?” she asked, taking a slightly faster pace than normal and walking out of said man’s house.


‘She’s still peeved about the bathroom thing huh… Ah well, grow up Saib. You knew we’d never be. Deal with it. Learn,’ he thought quietly as he easily saw through her antics. He’d known all along she was upset, but she needed to realize he wasn’t always going to be there for her even if he was her bodyguard and was supposed to prevent her from harm of any kind. But in order to learn and understand things, she’d have to feel pain every now and then.

“Yes, he wanted to meet us, specifically you,” he replied, following her out of the building, still thinking about Natsumi very vaguely in his head, if that’s what you wanted to call it. They walked in silence mostly and Aoitori was fine with it. That only meant that Saib was thinking about the situation and starting to understand.

Finally, just as they entered the Raikage’s Administration Buildings she talked to him: “You’re quieter than normal… Are you thinking about your girlfriend?” Her voice had easily hinted that she was still down about it, but it also sounded like she was coming to terms with it.

Aoitori mentally cringed at her words. “She isn’t my girlfriend,” he replied calmly. “Anyway, let’s hurry up and meet your boyfriend already.” Saib didn’t reply. “Saib?” he asked, pausing mid walk.

“What? Talk later?” she replied, opening the door to his office and going inside, Aoitori slowly following her thinking that maybe he should’ve talked to her before rather than… ignore her. Maybe he’d gone too far. It sure seemed like it. She wasn’t recovering as well as he thought she’d be. “Alright,” he murmured quietly to her as he came inside and shut the door, slightly leaning against it with his arms crossed, he cast one last glance at Saib before taking a look at Natsumi, Kiyoshi, and the… Elder was it?

Kiyoshi was now in somewhat of a deep sense of meditation, clearing his mind of all thoughts and keeping his inner energy and chakra in check at the command of the village elder standing in front of him, checking to make sure that there would be no mistakes this time and things would go along smoothly. At this point in time, Kiyoshi’s breathing was in a completely controlled and relaxed state as he slowly inhaled and slowly exhaled. As he was focusing his chakra, a slight light blue color of energy was escaping from his hands and onto the crystal clear ball on the desk.

Katsuyo’s face started to brighten up a little bit as a small light started to illuminate itself from the ball, getting its source from the chakra that was escaping from Kiyoshi’s palms. It seems like the young lad was finally starting to get the hang of it. The next thing he knew, a small picture was fading into the crystal ball, though it was still dark and wasn’t easy to see, there was definitely a place there and all the Raikage needed to do at this point was brighten up the image a bit to get the technique in full command.

While Kiyoshi was clearing his mind but at the same time, trying to keep the village’s town square in his head in order to view it through not only his mind but the ball in front of him, he heard a bit of a creek coming from across him and it wasn’t the old man because it was way too far away from him so Kiyoshi opened his eyes a bit to see someone opening the door to his office and walking in. At first Kiyoshi couldn’t get a good look because of the fact that he was only slightly opening his eyes to see in order to keep his concentration in check.

The next thing he knew, the same person was calling out his name, or rather title, most likely in an attempt to catch his attention. Curious as he was though, Kiyoshi opened his eyes a bit more to see that it was Natsumi at the door. He instantly let out a smile and waved over at her with his right hand. “Oh hi, Natsumi.” Kiyoshi then felt a searing pain going through the top of his skull as Katsuyo slammed his fan right onto it. “You idiot! You were almost there too!”

Katsuyo was referring to the fact that, in his greeting, Kiyoshi had lost all control in the technique, utilizing too much chakra into it and the crystal ball was now a few smoldering remains of crystal glass. Kiyoshi was now holding his head, checking for bleeding as he shook with sudden rage. "Well, sooorry if I just wanted to say hi!” From then on out, the Raikage and the village elder were simply arguing throughout the next 7 or so mintues about various things involving boring, foolishness, stff, dilly-dattling, old dust, wasted youth, etc., etc., etc.

As their arguing continued on, the door opened once more to reveal Saib and her bodyguard. Katsuo turned his head towards the unwelcomed guests as he went on. "Now, who else is going to interrupt our-" As soon as he saw that it was the Daimyo's daughter, the elder took off his hat, revealing the bald spot in the middle of his head for a second before putting back on and walking over to her and bowing his head a bit, completely ignoring the young man who came in with her. "Oh and if it isn't the beautiful Ms. Saib Kev-Yug, daughter of the greatest lord on earth, to what must I owe the honor of your presence." Kiyoshi simply scuffed a bit "Kiss-ass Artist" He wispered to himself jus enough so the old man wouldn't hear.

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Katsuyo | Village Elder

Spoiler:

Saib wanted to ignore him, he was just like her father's adivsors. Annoying. But he didn't seem as bad as them so she could keep her cool easier. "I am not a princess that needs to be pampered, nor am I someone you need bribe with meaningless words and gestures. I am not someone of importance," she said coldly to the Elder, disregarding the fact of his powerful position within the village.

Right now she was already in a bad mood and he wasn't helping much. "And don't just ignore the other people in the room because someone like me is here. Why don't you greet the others? I thought Elders were supposed to know manners. Apparently not."

"What did you need us for?" asked Saib, catching her tongue and making herself seem less cold as she spoke to the Raikage. "If its something pointless, I'm going to go. I don't care what my father says," she added, half eying the door already.


'Damn... She is not doing good at all,' thought Aoitori, a little worried. "Don't," said Saib quietly to Aoitori, sensing what he was going to do or thinking in a sense. "Yea yea," he muttered back. He wasn't too phased that the guy had ignored him, he was used to it and he preferred it. Usually if they ignored him the first time they sorta forgot about him in the end which made his jobs all the more easier to do.


'I hate today... I just want it to end or go out somewhere without Aoitori. I need to think. And with that idiot always around me I can't think to save my life right now. Argh and that girl is here too,' thought Saib in annoyance, still showing no signs of her inner turmoil physically, maybe in her voice and mannerism at the moment as it wasn't her usual self, but that shouldn't be a problem seeing as neither of them really knew her well enough to able to tell if she was always like this or not and Aoitori would be a total idiot to start talking right now.

[OOC: Yeah, short, sorry.]

The first thing Natsumi did was simple: glare at Katsuyo , her green eyes showing the rage that desperately wanted to come out and rip him to shreds. It's not like she was in a bad mood, she was actually in a great mood. It's just if someone rudely comments her, she changes her mood quickly, a "Gokudera"-ish mood(except there's no boss around her, just the angry part). She quickly resisted the urge to roll her eyes when Katsuyo acted all "nice" in front of Saib, oh how she wanted to.... Wait... Saib?! Her angry eyes turned back to her usual stare, the one were it seems like Natsumi is bored; a kind of plain look if you will.

When hearing Saib speak, Natsumi stared at her. Her arms crossed while Natsumi had that look in her eye, the look that she wanted to know what was wrong with her but decided to let it slide. On the other hand, her eyes traveled over to Aoitori, and nodded towards him acknowledging their presence and then she also nodded towards Kiyoshi. Meanwhile, she frowned mentally, wondering what was wrong with Saib nut she didn't let her outside know that she was worried.

"I'm here to ask... a request, Raikage-sama", Natsumi said hesitantly, wondering if he'll even accept it. A quiet voice was heard in her mind, making her snap out of it and stare at the floor a bit. She seemed to be deep in thought, since her eyes looked slightly hazed. Natsumi walked towards the Raikage's desk and placed her hands on the wodden table with a loud 'thud' as she stared at the Raikage and mildly glared at Katsuyo. "If you have the time, Raikage-sama, I would like to learn some Raiton jutsus from you if that is all right?" She then also added: "It's not like I'm forcing you, I just would like to learn more Raiton jutsus in case of an emergency when I may need them"

The look Natsumi had on her face was serious, as serious as she could ever be. If anyone from the Vongola looked at her now, they might've been reminded by the Vongola eight, the only female boss in the family. She seemed serious about this, but also inside, she wondered if the Raikage would ever take a request as the one she just said? I mean, they haven't been together very long, she was still his 'young' bodyguard but she thought that maybe, just maybe he'll take her up on it... Before that Katsuyo guy talks out of place and makes Natsumi blow a fuse.. no pun intended?

[OOC:Sorry it's short >.<]

Katsuyo balanced his hat for a little bit before directing his attention completely to Saib “Now, now, Ms.Kev-Yung, certainly you should know to respect your village elders. I’m sure that your father had taught you proper manners but it is perfectly understandable being around this generation so often in your young life. And remember, your family history is always of importance to who you are, your parents represent your success usually. Just look at the Raikage, sure he has talent and potential, but he would have never been chosen at his young age had it not been for his mother’s status around the village, but enough chit-chat, I need to acquaint a new Crystal Ball.”

As the old man went through the doors of the office with just a slight grin and a feeling of pity for the youngsters of this generation, again ignoring Natsumi and Aoitori, Kiyoshi couldn’t help but hold a saddened look in his eyes for just a second. He was told a year ago that before, but it wasn’t the best thing to be reminded that he was mainly chosen because of the fact that his mother had a high status in the shinobi world, which completely contradicted his ambitions before he found out she was a ninja.

The next thing Kiyoshi knew, Saib was asking about why he had called them there. He shook his head as he looked at her for a second. “Wait, wha?” Apparently, he had zoned out a bit but did she just ask him why he had called her there? He was going to ask what they were doing here just about a second ago. Kiyoshi could also notice a sense of irritation running through her that was less than understandable in his case and point of view. He some reason, she tended to go through moods quite a lot.

Her guard also seemed to be in a rather uncomfortable position himself, he could easily sense the air of tension running through the room without any hint of exhaustion. Then there was Natsumi, who had actually informed him of her reason here other than the usual “I’m your body-guard” thing that she seemed to love to use that was almost to the point to where it made Kiyoshi feel rather comfortable to be around her so often, so close, and so- Ok, not the time to be thinking of such things right now, it’s time to start thinking about serious things like what her request going to be.

The next thing he knew, Natsumi was walking up to his desk and slamming her hands on it, staring directly at her eyes and was getting dangerously close to his face, until she finally stopped moving and made her request, which to be honest was slightly confusing to him as to the motive behind it. It was to his knowledge that she seemed to be going rather good in the Raiton department and had access to pretty much all the jutsu he knew save for the Chidori technique he learned when he was 13, was that what she was interested in?

Kiyoshi took his slight confusion to surface, not only by his facial expression, but by his soon to be verbal one. “Well, Natsumi, ummm, what is it that you want to know and why do you want to learn it from me?”

'Oh, look at me, I'm Mr. Katsuyo and I like to kiss up to the higher ranks! Dumbass.' She wanted to desperately make faces at the Kumogakure Elder and rip his beard. If only she could take him away and teach him a lesson.. But alas, that's not how she was brought up. Buuut, she wouldn't mind letting it pass once in awhile, right? Natsumi took her hands away from the desk and crossed them over her chest. "I'm sorry." She said, what would she be sorry for? Natsumi hasn't done anything wrong but she -felt- as if it wasn't the right time to ask and yet she asked anyway.

"I think, or better yet I knew it wasn't the greatest of times to ask..", she looked towards the right, her eyes eying the floor then looked back at Kiyoshi. "But I just decided it was best to say it now then later?" Was she in a way saying that if she said it later while he was doing something, she might've not have a chance like this? Natsumi was letting out a somewhat calm vibe but also letting out an annoyed vibe since she was in fact annoyed about the Kumo Elder but she was trying to not let it get to her.

She turned her body around to face Saib and Aoitori, the look of concern was on her face but it quickly vanished. Natsumi wondered why Saib was annoyed, she wanted to know but it seemed that it wasn't in her best interest to talk about it now, right? But still... "Saib-sa-", she stopped herself, hesitantly speaking once again. "Saib-san, I'm guessing you're also here to see Raikage-sama, correct?" Of course she was correct, it must've sounded quite dumb to her and her bodyguard. Speaking of bodyguard.... When her eyes looked at Aoitori she felt... embarrassed about that last incident in the bathroom. Now, being in the same room made her feel quite.. different, she wasn't used to these emotions that she felt it was something new to her.

Natsumi then turned herself to the position of where she can see Saib, Aoitori and Kiyoshi, but she stood a few paces from Saib and the Raikage's desk now, around 3 to 4 paces probably? Nonetheless she waited on anyone of them to talk while she decided to have a mini conflict in her mind about these feelings that she were ignoring for awhile. Natsumi then blinked, Kiyoshi asked her what she wanted to learn.... What DID she want to learn from him? "Well...", she tilted her head to the side, her bangs covering a bit of her left eye as she had a thinking look on her face. Kiyoshi has a lot Raiton jutsus that Natsumi wanted to learn, but she would have to learn little by little, one jutsu at a time?

"I would like to learn Chidori? Now what techniques...", she placed her index finger on her chin while looking at the ceiling, mumbling to herself. "Probably... Chidori and Chidori Nagashi at the moment? And the reason I want to learn them it's simple." Natsumi placed both of her hands on her hips while having a grin on her face. "I want to protect you guys, that's all."