[Open] Well he did make his point...

[silverterror]

Where: Konoha
When: May 25th
Notes: After he leaves Adela's section of the auction.

Sephiroth knew people were following him after he left. After all, he'd made quite the spectacle of himself. So he slowed his steps, and wove his way throught he allowed parts of the village for visitors... and waited to see who caught up to him first.

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[silverterror]

He studied the girl, then gave a small shrug and gestured for her to walk with him. He had a village to explore, and having a local escort would get him more places and less hostile looks than not having one. "Idiots are inescapable, and unfortunately, you can't always just kill them. Getting a vicious reputation will serve you well, especially starting now."

[thelittleprincess]

She studied him right back, but obligingly fell into step with him, short legs working to match his larger stride. the looks he would get for having a girl half his size with him wouldn't be hostile, and wouldn't last long given just how physically intimidating he was, but there would certainly be quite a few. She shrugged, opting to keep her response short and simple. "That's about what I figured out in the Academy." A bit of that stray cat smugness had returned, if ever so briefly at the memory of brutally working her way to the top of the rankings.

[silverterror]

"And then someone taught you to stop it did they? I'll never understand how Konoha works." It was a tisk, because in Kiri such initiative was not only encouraged, but brutally fostered at the first signs of it existing.

[thelittleprincess]

"Someone told me to stop." She corrected him, twisting the lace on the cuff of her sleeve. "Just like they told all of us that ganging up on those you think are weaker is wrong."She didn't say that neither bout of talking accomplished much, partly because she wasn't a whiny little tattletale and partly because she felt he was perceptive enough to pick up on it himself. "You only get lectured if you get caught." For both offenses.

[silverterror]

"Then you had best work on your stealth." It was a simple statement, not any sort of opinion one way or another on anything else she happened to have said.

[thelittleprincess]

"...I'm usually more discreet," she admitted, blushing faintly at how...public her retribution on takes hi had ended up being. "Really. I just...I get angry, sometimes." Her temper was what got her caught, when she was.

[silverterror]

"Have you considered feeding your anger inward so that you get more focused instead of less?" He was studying the girl. "I find that works far better."

[thelittleprincess]

"I've been trying that more this past year," she agreed, brow wrinkling worriedly. "But that just makes it...stew and simmer, most of the time. And then I end up exploding at somebody. In private, but still."

Like she had at Shisui, before the cat mission.

[silverterror]

"Ah, so you're not actually using it. You have to burn it off. Feed it into your chakra for attacks, practice, and burn it out. Just holding onto it will never get you anywhere. And is boring besides."

[thelittleprincess]

"You can use it to fuel chakra?" Her eyes lit up with interest and she craned her neck back to stare at him. "They never taught us that. they said that you had to center yourself, and anger would make channeling chakra difficult and dangerous during battle."

[silverterror]

"If you don't learn to use it." He shrugged, looking down at her. "It's just another form of energy and emotion."

[thelittleprincess]

"Mm." She hummed thoughtfully, but her gaze was backlit with ideas now. "That makes sense." And was probably less exhausting in the long run. "Thank you for the suggestion."

[silverterror]

"Hm. Konoha isn't completely hopeless." He was peering at her intently. "You're well known to these merchants."

[thelittleprincess]

"I live with my aunt's family," She explained, holding up the fine fabric of one wide sleeve for his perusal. Despite its girlish frippery, it was actually a material well-suited to the rigors of shinobi life. "They run a textile shop near the shopping district."

[silverterror]

He obligingly studied the material, then inclined his head. That was a mystery solved, and he straightened, clearly unconcerned now that he had the answer. She was a pleasant child, this one. "Deceptive."

[thelittleprincess]

That was a matter of opinion, and an opinion that few shared, at that.

But then again, Ami thought he was a particularly pleasant and informative adult as well. So perhaps it was a resonation between kindred spirits, or something to that effect. "It can be a little troublesome when I need to be taken seriously by clients. But it comes in handy, more often than not." That, and her ribbon and dress had been lovingly crafted for her by her aunt, and Ami would deck anybody who dared insult them.

[silverterror]

"When I was a new Jounin I had similar difficulties. I promise you they will only fade when you begin to carry an aura that implies that you can kill them without trying." He shook his head slightly. "And even then some wn't grasp the point."

[thelittleprincess]

"I don't think we're supposed to do that until we start taking assassination missions," Ami said thoughtfully. "Because people think of us as the nice ninja village, or something." Her teachers hadn't technically realized she was listening, but they had said something along those lines. "But that goes back to the 'inescapable idiots' thing, doesn't it?"

[silverterror]

"Konoha has a reputation for catering to the more subtly destructive madnesses among its shinobi when compared to the other villages. They're not nicer unless one means to clientele." He made a noise of dismissal at that concept.

[thelittleprincess]

"...are there any other ways for shinobi to be nice professionally?" She had meant towards the clients, originally. Ninja were fundamentally men and women who stole, lied, spied, seduced and killed as the situation called for it, after all.

[silverterror]

He considered that for a moment. "Be subtle. If you're threatening enough while seeming obliviously innocent they'll usually be wary and do as told."

[thelittleprincess]

Ami turned the advice over in her mind for a moment, before nodding firmly. "If I modify some of the stuff they taught us during kunoichi course, I can probably work something like that out." People were always so reluctant to believe a tiny toll of a girl was actually a real shinobi to begin with.

[silverterror]

"Yes... I found out quickly that playing into the expectation of being guileless worked in my favor before I filled out." He gave a scoff. "Though you won't have the misfortune of having to rework everything come puberty. Clients are always biased against women."

[thelittleprincess]

"...I won't grow," Ami said, spreading the fingers of one hand and studying them with a critical frown. "Or at least, not as much as my classmates will. I was born prematurely." And she couldn't bulk up or scar herself to look older without looking grotesque and voiding the innocent facade he had just advised her to capitalize on.

[silverterror]

"I fail to see what that has to do with anything." It was a simple, blunt statement.