Taking the first steps towards greatness

[abileunaspada]

Who: Adela Milani (abileunaspada) & OPEN
Where: Uzushiogakure Area
When: August 14th - 28th
Why: After recent conversation with the Godaime Hokage of Konoha, Adela has been sent on an observation mission in Uzushio with a mutual friend and ally who may help her have some insight on what she intends to get into, but for the most part it's a vacation away from her leave and an excuse to expose her to more of the political world.

This actually wasn't so bad.

When Obito had basically sent her on a two week observation mission, at first she didn't take well to it. Really, it was just... Observing for two weeks, observing politics, and all from a different village? But, when she learned that it meant potentially spending time with Kushina (and after some thinking realized just how valuable the experience could be), her protests were minimized and she went on the solo mission without qualm.

At some points she was in the kage's office observing missions, other times she was exploring the town and trying some of the local delicacies. Still, it wasn't uncommon to find her by the oceans to relax -- she found that it made her the most relaxed, to look towards the endless sea.

She'd heard that there was at least one other Konoha nin in the area, but she'd had yet to see them. Well, it was probably someone she didn't know anyway.

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[ghostpepper]

She had gotten a hawk from Obito recently about a chuunin coming to the village for two weeks. An observation mission, he'd called it. Someone interested in becoming Hokage and coming to observe how politics ran. Before she could write up a reply asking who or saying it was fine and have it sent fast, her first of three secretary candidates arrived for their interview. The letter was soon lost under a pile of notes she took during each interview. Maybe she should have brought Kakashi in to keep everything organized, but she had already given him things to do for the day.

The next morning, she had two more interviewees before lunch and was dreading having to clean up her desk. So she was still slowly picking up the interview notes and setting them in on pile in between writing a letter to Minato when she heard a knock on her office door. The letter was hastily shoved in her desk drawer as she shouted to whoever was there. Maybe some new visiting shinobi on a courier mission had been delayed again while making the mistake of asking directions to her office. It definitely wouldn't be the first time some poor soul got shuffled around by defensive villagers wanting to know their business.

"Come in!"

[scarecrowboy]

Kakashi had only been in Uzushio for a little over two weeks and already he'd started to memorize the winding paths the village had to offer. Most importantly, however, he'd managed to commit the locations of the best food vendors to his memory; complete with a mental list of places he had yet to try.

He was on his way to sample one of them now, book in hand as he wandered slowly in the direction of his chosen haunt for that evening. Kushina had him running around through midday and when faced with the choice of either feeding himself or staying on top of his duties, he'd apparently completely forgotten that his body needed food.

It was only when he turned onto the street where the barbecue grill in question lay nestled that he chanced a glance upwards at his surroundings. Everything was as expected, save for the glint of a foreign headband amidst a shock of red hair. Those clues coupled with the rather lost, tourist-y look on the girls face cemented Kakashi's theory that this might be the girl he'd been room-hunting for all day.

He headed over with a pleasant look. "How are you settling in?" he greeted without so much as an introduction. "It can be a little daunting at first, but you get used to it. Uzushio is surprisingly similar to Konoha."

August 19, afternoon

[sensethis]

Coming off an eight hour apprenticeship in the hospital meant that Karin was tired…and stiff. She stretched and then meandered her way toward the market. She still didn’t know what exactly she wanted to have for dinner if she wanted to cook something or just get something quick from a stall. Quick sounded appealing if only because she was feeling a little lazy, and didn’t want to sweat over the stove.

Somehow in her wandering, Karin found her way to the shore. It wasn’t quite where she intended to go, but she wasn’t going to deny that the shore was just as good a place to end up. The sound of the water lapping at the sand was just as relaxing as having someone else making her dinner. And she wasn’t alone it looked like. There was another red head and at first she thought it was one of her many distant relatives, but upon closer inspection she realized it was the girl from the forge at the chunin exams.

Striding over she plopped down in the dirt, feet stretched out before her. “How are you enjoying your stay?” She leans back on her hands, head tilted toward Adela curious.