Innue

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Phobos said
Well I know what country I'll be applying for x)

I approve of your liking of sheep.

HAVE ALL THE S RANKED TECHNIQUES.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Ayameko

"We can do an increased offering of oats to take the place of the wheat," Ayameko replied in agreement, knowing the oat harvests would be just as good this fall. "I can provide some of the wheat to the Land of Earth and Wind's reconstruction efforts if so."

She smiled warmly at him, "I appreciate your flexibility on the manner Takumi. Those suffering in the other Lands will be most appreciative the alternative trade. If that settles the matter, I'm sure we both have other duties to attend to."

Ayameko put her left hand out, Touzoku her right and allowed Ayameko to pull herself upwards using Touzoku's arm.

"I must say that these old bones don't move around quite as easy anymore, dear Takumi. You have much to look forward to in your later years," Ayameko laughed. Both Kei and Touzoku smiled at the commentary. "We will have to do this again Takumi, it was, yet again, another experience to be put into memory. Maybe next time somewhere with some tea or something. Are our countries not well enough aligned that you could do an old woman some service and hold these meetings within our lands? Travel can get quite tiring."

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

The 42nd Gecko said
I think you'll be accepted if you aim for Kyokujitsu no Tochi, because you have a sheep in your signature.

How rude.

True, but how rude.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Suishō and Shadan

Without hestiation, Shadan slid his hand across the tip of one of Suishō's arrows, drawing blood. With a surprising grace for a man of his size, he slid his hand over the blade and let the blood fall.

"I, Shadan of the Border Guard, enter into contract," he exclaimed in a rather booming voice. Suishō glared at him, disapprovingly.

"Shadan, that was incredibly foolish," she scolded. Shadan, however, just brushed it off, ignoring her concerns on the matter, eliciting a following sigh from Suishō.

Before Shadan could go into details on where Allia should visit in Kyokujitsu no Tochi, they were interrupted by the presence of another young woman. Shadan new her, from his time in the capital.

"Miss Homura," Shadan nodding to her, "I am sure you could find fine vegetables in the village market, but I am surprise to see you this far north. Were you travelling with Lady Ayameko's entoruage?" Suishō was also curious to the presence of the Uchiha girl. While each of the towns typically had some representative of their clan in the village, typically serving as a member of the police forces, she didn't know what would bring her to this territory. Aside from those travelling between the two nations, it wasn't much of a tourist destination. It was far enough north that snow from the mountains in the Land of Frost could happen even as late as May without being too unusual. Most people moved out of the area, and those that lived up here were usually a part of the border guard or a trade organization, along with their families.

Character Death Rules

I have yet to come across a reasonable setting where death isn't a possibility.

I've always been upfront with my philosophy on death, on any thread. I come from a place where character death was taken very seriously. If your character died, you were not to use that character again without getting ostracized by the community. While I don't take things to that extreme, it did give me a health respect for the concept. Coupled with my background as a combat roleplayer, I see death as a necessary inclusion in most, if not all, roleplays.

This has also lead me to some of my greatest frustrations on RPG - GMs that have no respect for the concept of death. Characters only die in <x> situations. Especially in an environment with any form of combat between players, I find this ridiculous. It made death seem incredibly disingenuous - the sudden, emotional turmoil you'd expect to come with it was not there. The combat, with no threat of anything other than a good thrashing, even if I sword cleaved through my neck, seemed fake.

At this point I have opted to stick to running my own threads for now, as it seems hard for me to find a GM with similar enough views that I feel I can participate in a thread..

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Suishō and Shadan

"Well met," Shadan responded, returning with a small bow, "This is my wife, Suishō." He placed his hand on her back as he introduced her, getting a sharp side look from her.

"While my husband may be overlooking the procedures set forth by the Sankage he so cherishes, I will not discard all of them," she spoke, pulling a small charm from her pocket. "We ask that all you do while within our borders is carry this charm. In full disclosure, the charm will prevent you from preforming utilizing your chakra to preform hostile actions on our people. It will not affect you in any other way and it is useless outside of the borders. If you don't wear it, you may find interacting with the people around her difficult."

Suishō smiled at the last bit, quite knowingly. Most of the people knew one another fairly well, sometimes to the bane of those who wanted to keep certain social secrets, but it proved an effective way to help regular border traffic. If people didn't know a person in the village, they would tend to avoid them without one of the charms from the border guards.

"Bah," Shadan responded, pounding the back of his wife in a friendly manner, almost pushing her offbalance, "The people aren't that bad, Now, if they all greeted guests like you, then we'd have a problem." He began laughing, his voice deep and booming.

"And you need to stop treating every foreigner like a houseguest," she retorted, sending him another sharp look.

He merely laughed at her again, responding not to the look or the remark, "Allia and Zillant, enjoy your time within our borders. Kyokujitsu is a beautiful place and there is much to see - much I haven't seen too and I live here."

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Suishō and Shadan

The border between Yamagakure and Kyokujitsu no Tochi was underwhelming from a visitor's perspective. It would take too many resources to post a full military capable of ensuring border security. The system that Ayameko had developed allowed them to operate a leaner boarder guard, utilizing a specially trained force capable of at least holding off a significant military threat until a counter force could be mobilized. While mostly trees along the border, the tree's on Kyoku's border line marked with the symbol of their nation, there were a few scattered outposts, as well as a small town that had developed as a secondary trading hub between Yamagakure and Kyokujitsugakure - at least for the people of Kyokujitsgakure. Allia's point of entry was one of the watch tower a fair ways from one of the towns that had developed along the border as a secondary trade hub.

In the nearly two decades the couple, Suishō and Shadan, had been a part of the border guard between Kyokujitsu no Tochi and Yamagakure's land they had never seen anything like that, and it wasn't the dragon that caught them offguard. Shadan had picked up on Allia, as well as Zilant's presence, early. Shadan was a massive man and among the Senkensha, the sensory division for Kyokijitsu, stood out among the crowd. At about nearly eight feet tall, Shadan's height wasn't the only intimidating feature of him, with a clearly muscled form beneath his clothes. Despite his physically overwhelming presence, he had a personality that burned bright. Suishō, his wife, stood to his right, a lowered bow clutched firmly.

Shadan spoke, "Greeetings. I am Shadan of the Border Guard, you are free to cross at will." It was a bit unusual for it to be as simple to cross the border, but Shadan knew there was something here that made him feel it would be safe to do this - coupled with a perked curiosity.

Suishō was a bit more procedural and cold, watching Allia very closely with her bow easily able to be drawn. However, despite her normal apprehensions, she trusted Shadan's judgment. She'd always envied his judge of character and his sense of people, a skill beyond his Senkensha skills.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Ayameko

It was so sad that Takumi's ignorance extended even to his assumption of why Ayameko found the man ignorant. Despite Ayameko's dislike of the man, her facial expression, now free of the formality of her culture, turned to her usual warm self. Like always, the small creep upwards on the end of her lips, from years of habit.

"It is kind of you to ask, dear Takumi, as always, the trip was fine," she responded, her hands resting over the tops of the chair's armrests. "While I would reciprocate, my time is very valuable, so i hope you will forgive my directness in getting to trade matters. I'm sure you have better things to do as well, to exchange in conversation with me. The iron has been requested by my Mastersmith, as he was relatively pleased with the quality, so I am indeed interested. In exchange, I can offer you 180 bushels of wheat and 300 bushels of oats. Would that be acceptable? My interest in the remaining 5 tonnes is still tentative right now. I would not at all be offended if you found another buyer."

Ayameko hoped that this would settle the matter of trade. Touzoku stood stoically to the side, starting directly at Takumi with an unwavering gaze. Kei, on the other hand, seemed a bit distracted, her eyes wandering about the room in sharp contrast to her counterpart.

Ayameko knew that this much of iron was probably a touch overkill, but the harvests looked to be good this year, yet again and there was more than enough in excess to make this trade. This was significantly different than the South, where the more exotic fruits had been slower growing this year. Ayameko was scheduled to spend some time down there assisting the farmers with diagnosing their plants. It was one of the reasons Yggdrasil and her had developed the Kekke Tota. Theoretically, it would allow those crops to be grown closer to the capital under closer supervision more consistently. As it stood now, only a few of the plants from the south could be run through in testing in sufficient numbers without being too taxing on their resources.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Ayameko

Kyokujitsu no Tochi, unlike its Yamagakuran conterparts, had no individual that had domain over the economy - at least in the strict sense they did. It was considered a part of the duties of the Sankage to safeguard the interests of the nation at all times, thus the economy fell under Ayameko's purview. The trade request from Yamagakure was met with with due haste, given their current status as tentative allies. Ayameko's departure was met with little fanfare. Accompanying her was Touzoku, her daughter, as well as the young Kei, who possessed the synthetic Kekkei Tota that Ayameko and Yggdrasil has designed.

The arrive wast timely. Not a minute early, and not a minute late from the request's indicated time. As usual, Takumi represented Yamagakure. Ayameko couldn't say she had a taste for the man. He feigned an air of intelligence, when he was likely the most ignorant man in the room - even more disturbing to her was that the feint was not one of intent, but a believe in superiority. She couldn't deny that she didn't pity the man in some small fashion, but it was not her place to be anything other than cordial.

As usual, Ayameko took her position across from him, Kei and Touzoku to each side, standing. Ayameko wasn't much of a woman for these kinds of games. It was, hopefully, a negotiation that would end quickly, but it was largely up to Takumi and how much of her time he wished to waste. Touzoku and Kei would bow, lightly, yet politely, out of respect for the representative of Yamagakure. Ayameko, however, was seated without bowing, not out of disrespect, but that her formal status, no matter how much she wished to disengage from the formalities, was above his. It was customary within her culture to only bow to one of higher status.

"Shodai Sankage Hyakuyondaime Hokage Yotogodaime Tanikage Shichishodai Shikata Ayameko," she stated, opening her palms to him, a gesture of openness among her people, "I will be negotiating on behalf of Kyokujitsu no Tochi. I have brought along my daughter Touzoku, surname Uchiha, as well as Kei, surname Yoriko. Your request for audience for trade was accepted by the Council and myself."

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

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