[Open!] Come forth!

[teachingpeace]

Where: The country of Ame
When: The entire month of April
Notes: Basically, Nagato's health has been improving lately so you'll be able to catch him out and about pretty much anywhere in the country, be it borders or around the city. He's always accompanied by his Deva path, and you might get said path first. In other words, hello, come get trolled.

Nagato had been restless lately. The months before this, it hadn't been such a worrying thing, just him consolidating his energy to reverse the damage he'd done to himself by overextending, but now... now he just wanted to be out. Out where he could interact more directly with the contact rain in his country, where he could watch his people without needing to send his paths out to do it for him...

This meant that people who had never really gotten to meet him before, in spite of having been in Ame since he'd taken control, were finally getting the chance to see him face to face, instead of simply being in contact with his paths.

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[incubi_abel]

Abel easily ignored the rain that fell on him as he danced around the practice yard he had claimed for himself. Senbon, kunai and various other thrown weapons peppered a couple of practice dummies in between punches and kicks. Another practice dummy was singed where strategic bolts of lightning had struck it while a few bits of scrolls littered the ground as a silent testament to various tags Abel had used.

After a few hours of practice with his more common weapons and abilities, Abel moved off to one side with a small knife in his hand. He was going to have to be careful when he practiced with his blood weapons as he only had so much blood he could spare before he would have to seek out a medic for a transfusion. Yet he wanted, no needed to get better at his bloodline ability to best serve his lord.

Failure was not an option.

17th April

[mikotouchiha]

Though Mikoto was the female head of one of the most prominent clans of the Leaf Village, she sometimes found the strength to request missions that allowed her to be 'let out' of her 'cage' that were her duties. Having taken the first chance she had in a mission, the raven haired Mother found herself smiling as she patrolled the borders of Ame and Konoha.

It had been a while since she felt so free. She supposed she shouldn't feel so free, seeing as she was still on a job. Either way, she keeps a hand on the sword at her side for caution and safety's sake, looking around with a veiled yet curious expression at her surroundings. The rain didn't seem as bad as she expected, or as Kushina had warned her.

[dangodragon]

After so long undercover, Itachi always felt ridiculously exposed back in his Konoha uniform. There was no reason, really, for him to be in danger as he passed through Ame in the friendly colors of Konoha, but he couldn't shake the feeling of paranoia for days afterwards. Sometimes he even got the feeling while he was in Konoha.

One day you really are going to go crazy, Itachi.

Itachi has paused for a breather on his courier mission, needing a drink and to rest his feet.

[strengthofmybow]

Some days, it seemed like he was too busy to spend time around his little sister. She was reaching that age now, too, where he himself recalled being either really rebellious or really driven. And frankly, they may as well have been the same person when it came to that.

When he was home, it was often tasked to him to care for her, either by his parents or by he himself. Such was today, and such was another day where she had run off into the rain like a terror, shrieking in her laughter. "Oi, oi, chibi-chama, get back here! I'm going to catch you~!" His voice was quite sing-song, and he'd stood at the door for some time to give her a head start. "I'll have her back by dinner!" That, of course, had been called back into the house.

So it came that he did finally catch her, hefting the slender six-year-old over his shoulder despite her protests. "Aa, but chibi-chama, now we have to get you home and washed before dinner! You'll have to let your valiant knight carry you, unless you make a promise to go straight home." He grinned more broadly as she squirmed, lowering her into a princess-carry position. "Can't have your mother worrying about her little princess, ne?"