The people of Ru weren't the type to cause trouble when it was avoidable, them not making a big deal about the fight Tetsuya had been in or that he kept asking questions. But the people who could tell him how to get an audience with their leader stayed silent about the whole thing, no one wanting to just give that info to a stranger before they knew what was going and instead they just left him to wander about. Ru didn't have a massive castle like most places and Lady Ru didn't exactly stay in the village itself, so it would be pretty hard to find her by simply wandering around with no leads.  While people coming to attempt to kill her was rare, it wasn't uncommon for some so called hotshot warrior to come seeking her out to stake some claim to her womanhood.  People often felt because they were some sort of hero that any place with an unmarried female leader should belong to them, something that never went over well for the guy in question when he tried to take what he wanted via combat.  Her people would rather not bother her with such things again if avoidable, so a few of the village guard followed him around from a distance making sure he wasn't trying to cause trouble and to see if his real intentions would show themselves.  Until then the Neko would find himself continuing to have very little luck within the village of Ru unless he decided to do a change of tactics regarding how he was approaching the situation, gaining nothing but an asked for escort and lots of people staring at him with skeptical eyes.