[Closed] It's not an excuse I swear!

[thebestuchiha]

Where: The topmost part of Whirlpool near Rice
When: BGS 5, May 24th
Notes: And then the day came where Ashiko met Obito in the most horrifying way possible.

Obito was in a hurry, that was the only thing that he could put it down to. He was hung up on not being able to see through his arm full of scrolls, had run out of room in his bag, and was attempting to meet the caravan that was going to go down to the site where Uzushio was going to be... all at the same time.

He only had five minutes to get there otherwise Kushina was probably going to take his ear off.

None of this excused the fact that this was a purely civilian village... and thus had civilian roofing priorities. Which might explain how he went from being on the roof to inside the building between one step and another, and how he might have brought down a chunk of the roof with him.

Ow.

He didn't even glance around before realizing that his landing had scattered his cargo to the far reaches of the room however, and with a curse, he immediately made a grab for the closest ones rolling away from him.

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[thebestuchiha]

"....Right. Well. Um. I'll just... I'll have to swing by and throw money at the damages I guess or- Crap I am so dead. Um. Maybe I can throw it at you and you can throw it at him and no. Wait what if I- Aaaaagh."

He glanced toward her, was relieved that she seemed mostly clothed now and darted across the room to grab more scrolls. "How about. Um. Damn. Er- I mean."

He took a deep breath. "How about I give you a way to reach me so that you can just fling a bill at me?"

[sekihan]

"How about you give me a way of contacting you and that, if you're going to stick me with a bill?" She forced up a sweet smile and leveled a steady finger at his forehead protector. Perhaps it was overly-shrewd of her, but if a strange ninja was going to have her pay for his accident at his convenience, she wanted some form of collateral that she could either hold in good faith or cash in at his village.

Just in case, of course.

[thebestuchiha]

He blinked, but the moment he knew what she was pointing at, he shook his head, frowning at her sternly. "Hey look, I get I didn't exactly make a good first impression here but that's just not done. Civilian right? You can ask a shinobi for a lot of things, but never their sign of allegiance, got it?"

For a moment, all good humor was missing, and he peered into her face as he made sure she got it. "Pick something else if you wanna keep something I have okay?" His tone softened, then he turned to moved off after the last couple scrolls. Stupid scrolls. Everywhere.

[sekihan]

"That's exactly why I asked for it. It's the one thing I can be sure you won't renege on, since I know nothing about your character. Some shinobi may lack honor, but I have yet to meet a single one without pride." In either their status or their village. Even her master still had his original forehead protector tucked away somewhere.

"Plus, it would force you to explain matters to your superior officer." If her arms tightened across her chest, if a bit of ice crept into her tone...well, perhaps Obito was a good enough shinobi to find the fear beneath them. Ashiko was in a very vulnerable position, even if he didn't see it that way, and she didn't like it one bit.

[thebestuchiha]

"Sorry Hime, no can do. I'm not in my own country and doing something like that is putting my village at risk." He flashed her a wry smile, and it was a little sad. "I'm not sure I can trust you with it. You might not be as harmless as you seem, you know?" He dug around in a pocket, then balanced against a table, scrawling something, a seal, over a piece of paper, then did another over another. "This will work once, but if you contact me with a place to meet you, I'll show if I can, got it? Use this if you think I'm taking too long getting back to you, or if you can't get a hold of me."

[sekihan]

"A princess wouldn't need collateral," Ashiko corrected reflexively, because her grandfather had always taught her to never let anybody think more or less of her than she actually was. "She word have clout enough that you couldn't dodge, even if you wanted." She shook her head lightly, breaking away from that casual, normal rebuttal and trying to force back the formality she had been clinging to before. She didn't quite succeed if the faint wryness clinging to her voice was any indication.

"Yes, I'm sure you are utterly aghast at the sheer number of weapons attached to my person that you saw, in great detail." Still, she took the paper and committed the instructions to memory.

[thebestuchiha]

He put the seal on the table and tapped it once, showing her the other one and tucking it into his pocket. "You can be a princess without being a princess." He rolled his shoulder in a shrug and gathered up the last of his things, voice soft as he looked over at her. "You might just be a nice civilian girl... but you might not be."

He gave a shrug that clearly indicated 'such is life'. "I'm Uchiha Obito. Contact Konoha and they'll get a hold on me. If that fails, use the seal. A drop of blood and a written missive will be sent over if dropped on top."