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Nagato | Naruto | Amegakure

[teachingpeace]

One thing that the village leader had learned over the last several years that he could never afford to forget was that the world was unpredictable. Even he, who had thought there was nothing out there that he ever wanted to deal with again, had been shocked into reconsidering his views of the world.

He still believed that pain was sometimes, often even, the best teacher, but he'd also come to realize that not everyone learned the same way. Still, he was ever wary of outsiders, but that didn't mean he wasn't making... attempts to improve his views. Still, this was the first time he'd personally ventured toward the edges of the country in....

In years.

He hadn't left it, ever, but it still made him thoughtful, staring through the rain from his perch to the lands beyond which seem to flouish so much more easily than his own.

[sensethis]

[The sound of wings would catch his attention. A Black Skimmer circling overhead in a descending pattern toward him. The tiny patch of black speckled feathers on it's breast denoting the bird as a messenger from Uzu, more specifically Karin. The missive it's carrying in it pouch on it's back has a medium level seal on it as the information is one part official business and one part friendly correspondence.

When he unseals it he will find that it is actually two folded together, one being for the official business and the other for the more friendly message. Though she did take pity on him and use different colored paper for each despite folding them together. The official one is on blue paper while the personal missive is on a sheet of pale ivory paper.]

Nagato-san,

Uzushio would like to send a delegation to work out a minor treaty allowing our merchants to buy and sell within Amegakure. It would be highly beneficial to both villages to strengthen ties as we are both still small in comparison to other nations.

We await your reply.
Karin

[The second scroll is less formal and much lighter in tone though still respectful of his position as the leader of his village and their distant familial ties.]

Nagato,

Sorry to send you two at once, it seemed more efficient to do it that way. We haven't heard from you in a while. You've been well, I trust?

-Karin

[Yes that is all of the personal message, short and too the point as usual.]

[teachingpeace]

[He'd retreated under an overhang before waving the bird to himself, knowing that the pack would be waterproof. It was the best thing about corresponding with Uzushio really. Unlike most other villages, then seemed to grasp that water damaged things.

He read them over, noting that the bird seemed to actually be waiting. Yes, of course it was waiting. They'd learned the hard way that anything else would cause a massive delay.

Because Nagato was terrible about putting off personal correspondence. After a moment of staring, he fished for one of the many papers that he tended to find on himself when he went out, courtesy of Konan's overprotective moments, and carefully peeled it from his person. It almost immediately fell to a blank sheet he could write a reply on.]

Karin,

An official response to your letter shall be given as soon as I return and am once again in an official place of work. For now, know that I am fine.

[There was a bit of an ink smear here as he left the brush down too long while thinking.]

I will accept any scroll missives today that are properly sealed to me.

Nagato

[Satisfied, he put his reply in the pouch and let the bird return home.]

[sensethis]

[The return of the bird sometime later earns it a pat as it perches on her desk. As usual it's covered in the papers needed to complete her various assigned tasks. Quickly perusing over his response she makes a face at the letter and sighs feeling vaguely like he'd just scolded her.

Rummaging around for a clean sheet she quickly dashes out a response of her own, though her handwriting is smaller than the last missive and the slightest cramped together.]

Nagato,

Kushina will be pleased as will the elders when it arrives. Good.

A few drops of ink dot the page. She obviously paused with the the brush in her air while she contemplated the wisdom of her next words, a tiny shift to letting that is more spread out as if she wasn't entirely paying attention to the way the brush was moving over the page.]

I always seal my missives to you properly. Kushina-ba-san would have nothing less.

Karin

[She rolls it up and summons another bird to send off the reply, preferring to allow the former a chance to recover from traveling across three countries twice now. This one is also a Black Skimmer but without the speckled plumage on its breast.]

[teachingpeace]

[When he got the bird back he was... amused. And vaguely exasperated. He took out the scroll he'd collected that seemed to have a mate just about everywhere these days, deciding to give the thing a try. Sealing it to Karin, he dashed out a reply on that.]

Karin,

Perhaps I was simply in the mood for a more immediate form of communication.

Nagato

[Then he sent a reply back by bird.]

Karin,

I am aware that by bird post you always do, however I meant the version that can also serve as a phone, unless, of course, you don't have one, in which case I can easily send one along.

Nagato

[sensethis]

[She wasn't expecting to see the notification in her scroll. Puzzled she unsealed the message and nodded as she read not that her cousin would ever see. Sealing the message to Nagato she scribbled out a reply.]

Nagato,

I wasn't sure if you would find the form of interest. You seemed content enough with the bird post.

Karin

[teachingpeace]

Karin,

Usually bird post is preferable as there is no sense of needing an immediate answer. However, in this instance I am traveling and would prefer to not waste what paper I have on my person.

Nagato

[sensethis]

Nagato,

You actually left your office? You always seem glued to your desk when I send you missives.

Karin

[teachingpeace]

[He stared at the scroll for a moment, slightly put out that she seemed to appalled by the idea.]

Karin,

I've been feeling better recently.

Nagato

[notveryspecial]

...There's no denying it.

She's definitely lost. It's a little awkward, but nothing to panic over. The rain was inconvenient, but not exactly deadly...like that time they'd gotten separated in the snowy parts of Kumo. It was to be expected, sometimes. They'd split up and she'd stepped wrong and ended up on a long and unfortunate mudslide.

She was pretty sure her thigh was sprained, and that was...that was particularly painful, but she didn't have much choice but to keep on going until they could get to a village that actually had a medic nin. Conversations had come up before about potential healing abilities of the beetles Shino kept (rather than devouring chakra, it was possible he could have them give chakra, should he figure out exactly how to do that) but even if their skills extended that far...she wasn't sure she'd willingly submit to having his bugs on her.

She could always try genjutsing herself into not feeling the pain but that...

Yeah, that just wasn't a good idea on so many levels she refused to count them.

So she limped through the rain, mostly lost, a lot muddy, and a little bit aware that she was near the border of Amegakure. The figure she finally spotted a small distance ahead was the first sign of human life she'd seen since splitting off with Kiba at her specified point. The chances of her running into the hostile nin here when she was probably far off course were next to nil, so getting directions probably wouldn't hurt.

She held up her hands as she approached (limping still, though less prominently just in case she needed to look not-vulnerable) the figure just to show she wasn't holding weapons. "Excuse me...I'm a little lost..."

Considering how covered in mud she was, including clumps and streaks through considerably long (considerably messy) pink hair...she assumed a claim like that (true as it was) wouldn't be immediately dismissed as a ruse. Clearly she was either just out of a mud-wrestling match, or she had fallen in treacherous rain-soaked forest and gotten disoriented.

[teachingpeace]

He stared at her, clearly without any care about the pouring rain, and tried to decide how he felt about the girl before him. She was a mess, all told, and in truth he should just turn her around and send her straight back to her village. However...

However, he knew that such deeds did nothing but bring ill will down on Ame, and even if things seemed to be by and far better now, he still had no desire to tempt the ire of fate. He'd had more than enough of that to last a lifetime. Still, it was unfortunate he'd sent his Deva Path off back toward home to attend to things, as it would have been convenient to be in the reverse situation so he could in good conscience claim to be able to do nothing.

It simply was not so however. "I believe the word is 'very' actually. Come. You're injured."

It wasn't a question. He could feel the state of her easy enough through the rain.

[notveryspecial]

...Well, a smart shinobi didn't go with a stranger into somewhere unknown while injured and hopelessly separated from her team. That sort of screamed 'trap'. A smart shinobi probably wouldn't be in her position in the first place, though. And ultimately, her genjutsu skills were unaffected by the state of her thigh.

Which she apparently didn't hide as well as she'd hoped, if they were at such a distance and he could tell.

So, yeah, it could be a trap. The thing was, the people they were hired by weren't high-profile enough or rich enough to have much in the way of powerful enemies, and even if they did there was little to no reason for one to be way out here waiting for her.

Besides, she really didn't have an option better than 'get more lost' or 'follow the stranger'. Being practical in a situation like this was best.

"Ah...do you know where there's a hospital? A medic tent?" Because there's always that possibility, right?

[teachingpeace]

He leaned back on the stone pillar behind him, then around the open land around them before looking back at her. While the answer was yes, where exactly did she believe that he would be producing them from?

He would answer the question she asked, but not the question she wanted answered then. "Yes."

Of course, once she reached him they would be heading to neither, but that was not the point.

[notveryspecial]

Hey, the silent snark was unnecessary. If he was leading her somewhere, that meant some kind of civilization, and if her injuries were relevant that was probably either because he was offering to get them treated of hoping to take advantage of them.

He seemed too mild-mannered to really want the latter. "...I'm gonna take that to mean you've got at least a medic hidden somewhere..."

Once she made it to him, presuming his Rinnegan were currently manifest (it was more Sharingan than Byakugan in on/off switches, right?) she would immediately recognize it for what it was and realize how much trouble she was in who she'd encountered, and therefore where she was.

Which...would be pretty awkward.

[teachingpeace]

His head was tipped so his hair was shadowing his eyes, so she might not notice the unusual color and pattern that was, in fact, always on. However, he didn't bother looking at her face. No, instead he leaned to reach and directly apply chakra to press the body into healing itself.

It wasn't exactly how a medic would do it, but it was what he could, and had decided, to do. "Hold still a moment."

[notveryspecial]

She recognized his red hair as probably Uzumaki clan, at least, but she understood that they had been traveling through most of the elemental lands brokering deals and working to re-establish Uzu as a country with influence, rather than...ruins. Seeing one near Ame wasn't a huge concern.

Him reaching down and touching her injury was a huge concern. She wasn't exactly a medic, so she couldn't actually say if that was a medical technique, but it was certainly a potential genjutsu technique.

Despite the fact that her sword would be useless against genjutsu, her hand immediately went to its hilt anyway. "H-hey, what are you doing?" At least she had the skills to stave off genjutsu if that's what he was trying to do...but that didn't mean she really wanted to.

[teachingpeace]

He didn't bother to pause, or even seem to show he felt in the least threatened as he administered the chakra before pulling away, a small amused smile coming to his lips at her thinking that he would be intimidated. Konoha-nin.

"Healing. After a fashion."

[ghostpepper]

At some point in his day, he could expect a missive over the scroll network sealed directly to him. The tell-tale spiral in the seal was practically trademarked to their clan, and surrounding it was an intricate design of wavy and curling patterns (quite similar to an ocean's waves in places or her hair when she's furious in others). Kushina's trademark in sealed missives. On being unsealed, the spiral will slowly retreat into nothingness and the patterns would wiggle into place as her message:

Nagato-niisan,

I'm sorry it's been a while since my last message. I was on official business at the festival in the Land of Waves but still managed to have some fun. I think you would've liked it even just for a day. I managed to steal a little time in Konoha (where I'm writing you from!) for the next two days before I have to go back. Minato and Naruto are doing fine and I'll be sorry to say goodbye but I'm hoping to get one or both of them out to visit me after the first academy graduation exam takes place. You know you're always welcome to come by Uzushio and visit too. Actually you should come visit someday. Even if it's just for a little while.

Looking forward to your reply and hope you're doing well!

--Kushina

[teachingpeace]

[He was forever perplexed by her. She seemed so determined to get him out of Ame, ever since they met. First it was let her in, then it was let more people in... then it had turned into 'come out and play' and he just never quite figured out why.

Or why it always made him happy even if he had no intention of doing so.

His reply was carefully scripted once he collected paper to write on.]

Kushina,

We both know I have far too much to attend to here to leave my home, though I thank you for your invitation all the same. It's good to hear that your family is doing well, and I might suggest getting a memento for home to ease your missing them in the future.

As for myself, my health is as it has been for the last year, so you have no need for concern.

Nagato

[It really was only personal mail he ever signed that way, even now.]

[ghostpepper]

[Chatty as ever. She had made it her personal goal to try and get him to open up more and more in his writing. Maybe it was working. Painfully slowly, if it was. Hard to tell.]

Nagato-niisan,

Alright alright. But have you considered taking a vacation at some point? Even if it's only to observe this summer's final chuunin exam. Believe me it won't kill you. And I do have plenty of mementos at my place and my office in Uzushio but there's something about actually having them there with me that... [there's a small scattering of dots where Kushina had tapped her pen searching for the right thing to say] kind of completes me. I know it sounds weird but that's just how it feels.

Can you tell me how things in the village are going? How are your friends? Have you gotten a girlfriend yet? Have you heard from Ero-sensei Jiraiya-sensei lately? [the "Ero-sensei" just fell right out of her pen and she quickly scratched it out when she noticed it, hoping to make it illegible]

--Kushina

[teachingpeace]

[The reply came in good time, and he had settled himself out of the rain so he could write without smearing.]

Kushina,

I really have no idea why you're so attached to that nickname for me, we're hardly that closely related. As for the rest...

The village is doing well of late, and the new trades have brought in a few innovative people that my villagers rather like. Konan is fine. I need no sexual companion, and no, of course not.

Nagato.

[ghostpepper]

[She had to pause and stifle a laugh while she read his reply. Poor guy really needed to get out more.]

Nagato-niisan,

You were my inspiration to rebuild Uzushio and locate more of our clan. As far as I'm concerned, you deserve the nickname. Also you never answered my question about taking any kind of vacation. Your village will survive for a few days without you. And seeing the sun will do you some good. Does it ever stop raining in Amegakure?

I'm glad to hear things with the village and Konan are going well! And I only asked if you had a girlfriend which isn't the same as a sexual companion. Unless you'd rather have a boyfriend because that's okay too!

[Aaaaaaand now it's getting slightly awkward. So new line get.]

If you do let me know because Minato and I haven't heard from him in ages and I'd like to hear that he's not dead.

--Kushina

[teachingpeace]

[It was like she was going out of her way to find a way to make her letters either confusing or uncomfortable sometimes, he was sure of it. Still... he hadn't realized that he'd... been quite that influential.

He shouldn't have been shocked of course, but he hadn't expected it all the same.]

Kushina,

Of course it stops raining. I do make sure it does at least a few days every month, otherwise my people would be rather hard put to do certain repairs or other things that rain makes difficult. It's also very good for morale for me to put forth the effort to stop it sometimes, especially if there's been a loss in the village.

And... I have no interest in having any sort of companion of that kind at all. I have Konan and my Paths, that is more than sufficient company.

You know as well as I do I have made no contact with Jiraiya. My country is one he has not entered since the second war.

Nagato.

[ghostpepper]

Nagato-niisan,

Ah! Of course! That makes sense. I don't know why I didn't think of that!

What?! Just sevent people besides yourself? [And if she's honest, she's not sure the Paths count...] Next time we meet up, we're hitting the town and at least finding you some more friends and I won't take no for an answer. It'll do you some good, trust me.

It never hurts to ask, it's been a while since we last wrote each other. But if I run into him first, I'll make sure he goes to say hi to you, even if it means dragging his ass there myself!

--Kushina

[teachingpeace]

Kushina,

I have most of my Paths put away usually, so it's often just Deva and Konan as my company. [Never mind that that made it worse.] I have no doubt my Akatsuki would readily be company if I felt the need of any.

Nagato