With that out of the way Takumi went straight to a guard  in order to try to find this Neko, though mostly so Jiang would leave him alone and he could go do his own thing.  He didn't want to hand out with the overly enthusiastic man for much longer so planned to speed things up as much as he could. Finding the nearest soldier he explained the situation and asked about a neko who fit the description and would have been with the princess.  They couldn't tell his exact location but did point to where they last saw him, a lead that Takumi quickly took hoping it would lead him to some more accurate guards. Finding a guard in the area they pointed to the inn that the neko was last seen at, the guards hoping the Shima clan would solve their own infighting instead of dragging Ru into whatever problems were going on.  Takumi led Jiang to the inn while doing his best to avoid talking to the guy, stopping as soon as they arrived outside of it.  [color=00a99d]"There, this is the place. I'm not part of Shima so I'll let you handle the issue yourself. I'm going to go gather some information that could prove useful later, maybe find out a good place for you guys to go after this."[/color] Takumi hoped that this would be the last he saw of Jiang that night, leaving him a sense of peace for a while.

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The Inn Metou and Gin entered had a nice amount of travelers within it, most dressed a little differently than Ru but still within bajin conventions.  Some of them wore emblems of their clans for all to see, but since it was neutral ground most didn't expect to get into fights over it.  One person stood out much more than all the others however, a woman with weird devices adorning her body who was sitting over near one of the corners.  She had a guitar of sorts, an instrument not normally seen within baji, and was sitting on top of a mechanical device that was clearly beyond the normal tech of their island.  She wasn't playing any music but had her instrument out and ready as if she had just finished or was getting ready to start again.  While a few others had things that could be classified as foreign, this woman was the one who most accurately fit the info that they had been given.  She wasn't expected anyone so wouldn't notice them if they approached her, her eyes focused on her own instrument and occasionally on people who wanted to ask her about it or if she was going to do another show for them.  

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