Visitors from the Sun! (Open Social)

Kuzuryu had just finished his sparring matches with his father a little while ago, and for this first time in a while had free time to do whatever he wanted to do for the rest of the day. So first he went and got a whole bunch of pork buns, about 10, and a bag of chips. He wasn’t normally allowed to eat like this, but he didn’t usually have free time. After he had gotten the food he needed somewhere to have some fun while he ate. So he hopped buildings to the front gates to watch all the new comers and people leaving for some entertainment. For a while he was quite bored. There were no really interesting looking people about. By the time he had finished his fifth pork bun the most interesting people he saw was a pair of twins. Besides the twins, there were people dressed in bright colored clothing or had strange colored hair, but nothing too interesting or entertaining to him.

By the time he had finished his 6th bun, he was quite bored of sitting. He wished he had brought a book to read or something to do besides sit and watch, but he hadn’t so there was nothing he could do about that problem. He stood up and stretched his back. If there was nothing to entertain him here he was going to go find something to do. He climbed down from the building he was on and looked around. There had to be someone worth talking to around here. He turned around and looked in towards the inside of the village with his hands on his hip and then turned around again. This time he did see someone who caught his eye.  The thing about him that caught his eye was his red bandana and the claws the young man seemed to have, but the thing that really attracted Kuzuryu attention was the Sun Village plate on his bandana.

Not wanting to look like a creep, Kuzuryu walks up to him with his hand in a waving motion. “Hey there! You want a pork bun?”

Today was another one of Kenji's busy days, go out and gather food and other supplies to sustain himself and of course pick up any material he needed to replace, the latest of which was ten senbon for Lingchi. His poor stomach had a slight bruise from his creepy companion's surprise hit but considering it was a three on two where Kenji had to act quick and strike swiftly, he was more than happy to only walk off with a single bruise.

Regardless, as the lazy shinobi made his way around the village and gathering what he'd need he couldn't help but notice the somewhat large gathering of people at the village gate. Curious, Kenji moved to see who would be entering the village this time around and to his surprise he spotted some of the people among them wearing a sun village headband. What could they possibly be doing here? Although he knew better than to just go to the group and ask about it, at best he'd get a statement about a mission or personal business, at worst he'd be reported or something for interfering with their business. Neither option interested the one eyed shinobi.

Before he could resume his shopping however, he noticed a single wanderer from the group attempting to explore the village before he flagged down by some kid. Looking closer, he noticed that the kid was wearing a Hyuga symbol on his back, this should be interesting to see. Walking forward, Kenji approached the two in his usual slouched posture, holding a simple bag of groceries filled with various fruits and vegetables.

"A sun shinobi and a Hyuga, can't say I expected to see either of you today." Kenji would comment as he approach the two, a small grin on his face as his silver eye scanned the sun shinobi, noting the oddly long nails he had. "Name's Kenji Haruka, pleasure to meet the two of you." Kenji would tell the two, a simple nod of his head to the two as he looked toward the small Hyuga and while nothing really stood out to Kenji, he had to admit it was a bit odd it took him this long to finally meet a Hyuga considering how long he has been in the village.

Kuzuryu’s eyes squinted  And his head turned a little in confusion. The man talked likes he shouldn’t be talking to him. But that quickly changed to a smile when the man took the pork bun.”My father taught me to be wary of strangers but to be kind to them.” His shoulders went up in shrug when he was talking. He didn’t think this man was all that much of threat to Kuzuryu’s safety. It wasn’t that this man wasn’t possibly very dangerous. It was that Kuzuryu didn’t feel and danger coming from him. Although he could very much be wrong, but they were also in the Moon village.  When the man thanked him,  his smile got bigger and he nodded. He watched the man devour the bun.

Then another man come up to them. This man only had one eye. Kuzuryu turned to him and smiled at him with his already smiling face. He knew why the man hadn’t expected to see him here. Most Hyuga keep to themselves if not on missions. He found that boring. He would much rather be finding new people to talk to instead of talking to the same boring Hyuga people everyday. ”Hey! My names Kuzuryu, you guys can call me Kuzu or Ryu or Kuzuryu or whatever you wanna call me, it’s really up to you.” Suddenly he heard someone yell someone’s name and he turned around to see someone in a skin tight one piece do a twill and ask to be introduced. “Hi there!” He said this and then turned away, but not all the way around keeping the girl in his vision. He had noticed another man coming up to them. This man had very beautiful long green hair.   The man asked about dogs eating bunnies and Kuzuryu let out a little giggle.”That sure is a good way to introduce yourself. He looked into his bag and was saddened by the amount he has left. ”You guys want a pork bun? They’re pretty good.”

Kenji only rose his eyebrow as the stranger now known as Sojiro Sakura managed to figure out he worked with wood and asked him about the if working one eyed had any effect on his skill, to which the lazy shinobi only grinned wide. "Any good? Hell probably one of the best in the village if I say so myself." Kenji would declare with his cocky grin as he moved to grab a candy stick from his interior pocket.

As he moved to place the candy stick in his mouth, an all too familiar voice called out to him, addressing him as Ken-Chan. Turning to face the source, he knew he would spot the bunny although she was dressed in different clothing but that was to be expected considering how their last adventure went. Asking to be introduced, Kenji only rubbed the back of his head as he took in the sight of the bunny once more, it was a bit of a surprise to run into her here but he wasn't going to complain.

"Of course, Sojiro, Kuzuryu, this is Hikari Usagi." Kenji gestured toward the small bunny with his free hand. "Hikari, Sojiro Sakura and Kuzuryu Hyuga." Kenji gestured to each person as he said their name. With introductions done, he'd turn his attention to the bunny "Fancy meeting ya here Bun, thought you'd be.... Wherever your clan is." Kenji would tell the bunny with his usual grin on his face, although he realized he didn't really know where the bunny would be usually nor where her clan resided.

Regardless, the lazy shinobi only moved to place his candy stick into his mouth when another all too familiar voice started talking right besides him and out of fear, the shinobi flinched and dropped his candy stick, turning to face the snake man. "When the hell did you get here?" Kenji would ask slightly startled and taken aback by Yami's sudden appearance before realizing something horrible. Turning to the ground, his candy stick laid snapped in two and now powered with some dirt. He didn't care about the Hyuga giggling either at his own reaction to the snake or about what the snake said, he was sadden at the lost of such a tasty snack.

"Aw man... What a waste..." Kenji would mutter as he briefly stared at his dropped candy stick before grabbing another one from his pocket and placing it in his mouth, still a bit unhappy with the lost of his previous one. "I'm good on the pork buns little dude, got my own snack anyways...." Kenji would tell Kuzu once he offered pork buns to the group, a kind gesture but from experience, eating and enjoying the candy stick tended to clash with one another.

The attention! The adoration! The spotlight!

He loved it all! Hikari would stand there with his form still as he pressed his lips to make a sound, playful, and little giggle. He would take a good look the only way he could: using his twitching rabbit-esque ears on his head. They would move feeding him a bit of information. A bit of paranoia would hit him, as it would hit a rabbit, as if he was being watched; but he ignored it for now. Hikari would be smiling and primped up as he approached the ground. Just as he gotten close, he heard a dreadful little question:

"Do dogs eat bunnies?"

“W-what?!” Hikari would jump and draw back his arms in fear. “U-uh...w-what did you say? Why would you want to eat a Usagi?” The attention was on the man’s question. Although Hikari did not see him with his eyes, he did acknowledge the ridiculous question. “Well, supposedly we are toe-tapping delicious if you are talking about the senses! Sweet to the nose for a sniff! Even soft to the touch!~” Hikari would say, pressing his finger to his cheek. The young violet haired boy’s heart would thump as he remembered something important.

“Oh!” World famous word of his, dropping from his mouth in shame. A child was here. Of all things! “Uh...I mean...just a little recipe! Will tell you the rest of the ingredients later.” Hikari would cast his foggy eyes to the boy. It was not to see him, obviously, but rather to gesture why suddenly his tone would have a slight change. The violet rabbit would put his hand on his side as he would press against it enough so that the large cottontail on his outfit would show with a slight twist of his form.

“The sisters and I are in town,” He would explain to Kenji, “We are doing something for Grandma BunBun. Apparently, she has a project that requires us to use our skills. I guess she wants to build something. She had that...devious look on her face.” The rabbit’s skin would crawl just thinking about his grandmother’s face. The woman would have so many plans when it came to what was in her head. Some of them were vile, such as having them post up for a night in order to increase the number of men coming into a Ramen Shop for the single sisters and mothers to talk too.

She was just evil!

“You should save what is left of your food,” Hikari would look to the young Hyuga boy once more. This time, his foggy eyes were kind. “You do not have many left, do you? I can...umm...see them in the bag.” He would lean in pressing his lip to the boy. The rabbit-esque ears showing that the boy had a keen sense of hearing that told him just how many of the meat buns were in the bag. They watched carefully for the disheartened rhythms in the boy’s chest that were on par with a twisted expression of discontent.

Although Yami’s attention was on asking about Yami, Hikari, naturally, would not allow it for long.

“Sojiro Sakura!” The rabbit would say with a smug smile. His blue hazy orbs would peer at the boy as his voice would drop from friendly and innocent to plain assertive and flirty. “Are you from the outer villages? Never heard your house name. Are you a part of a clan? Can I ask another question?” Tenacious in his interrogation, and driven by his clan’s natural desire and philosophy, there was no stopping him as he kept pushing forth.

The rabbit would draw closer with each step. “Do you love it here?”

With another step, “Are you tired?”

And another with his eyes growing bigger, “Am I making you nervous?”

Until he was close enough to lean to press towards his face, “Are you single?”

As usual, the rabbit was giving into his playful nature. Instantly, he forgot about the innocent child seeing this.

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Standing there, Kuzuryu looked around and saw that quite a group had appeared around him. He had not expected all these people to just appear. He watched them and observed the ways that the spoke. He doesn’t get a lot of chances to meet non-Hyugas so he wasn’t gonna squander this opportunity to make friends.

He turned back to the bunny when she told him to save his food. He was very happy that nobody else wanted one, but he didn’t say anything. With this he started to day dream even though he just told himself he was going to make friends. He thought about where the sun shinobi had come from. Kuzuryu has heard that the sun village was in a desert, which meant that Sojiro had come from the desert and had had to cross it to get here. Kuzuryu did not think that he could do that.

Kuzuryu snapped back into reality when the bunny had come closer to him and he just stood and stared as he had not heard what the bunny had said after she told him to save them. Luckily the bunny’s attention shifted quite fast away from him and towards Sojiro. He watched as the bunny got closer and closer to Sojiro. Kuzuryu got a bad feeling from how close she was and instantly remembered that he was in public and that people would tell his father if he was here if something really exciting happened. Kuzuryu put his hood on casually and turned his attention to the green hair man. The man had yet to introduce himself and Kuzuryu found himself drawn to looking at the mans hair. He began to day dream again, but this time about the color green. He thought of green grass, and green leaves, green shirts, green tea, and more green things.

Kenji was a bit surprised at the sun shinobi's sudden stomach growl as he confirmed dogs do eat rabbits but declared Hikari wasn't a rabbit, although he didn't exactly sound too confident in himself. Instead he would turn his attention to Yami and Kenji was more than happy to introduce Yami to the group as well to keep the topic away from possible cannibalism but unfortunately for him, Hikari decided now would be the best time to flirt and really leave herself open for Sojiro.

Either she was very trusting for the dog like shinobi to not try anything or she was into this type of stuff and Kenji wasn't too sure what was worse considering there was a Hyuga kid bearing witness to this. Who seemed to have put on his hood and was watching Yami with interest, which Yami's own interest was turned to Kenji as he confirmed Usagi are rabbits that enjoyed being played with, giving the one eyed shinobi a wink as well.

Was he trying to be a wing man or was he trying to encourage Sojiro to try and eat the Usagi? Hearing that thought out loud, Kenji assumed he must've been getting too paranoid, there was no way he'd actually want to see that... Right? Sure Yami punched him and threw him in a fight against bandits that Yami knew would be there but potentially murdering someone and actually eating someone is very different things.... That wouldn't be too far out of character considering how creepy Yami is.

"Uh... Not that I don't mind.... Whatever this is, but don't you think we should not do this type of stuff in front of the Hyuga kid?" Kenji would ask the two, gesturing toward Kuzu, hoping to use him to get the two to reel in their.... Animal sides? Wait, is that why Hikari is so flirty? That actually makes a lot of sense to him.

“Yes-yes!” The Usagi with a smile on his face would lean towards the stranger, “We bunnies looooove being played with...among other things!”

Hikari did not know anything of Yami, but anyone knowing the Usagi Clan and how they were sticklers for being curious as rabbits knew they could not help themselves. They disliked not knowing many things, and flirted with mystery since it would allow them to get to know things. The clan was, in a manner of speaking, were a bunch of creatures who loved nothing more to use every sense instead of their eyes. Who relied on those things?! Thus, Hikari was plagued by his own curiosity about the Sun Village shinobi. He had never seen one before!

Hikari could hear the sound of his favorite partner egging him to consider the kid. Hikari, and any of the rabbits, adored children! However, the boy was so close now! He was actively getting to know a mysterious stranger from the lands the Usagi could not walk! “Keeeeeen-saaaaaan!” The rabbit would sing mischievously, “I am just being a hospitable little bunny, yes? It is just in the Usagi Clan’s nature to be so...welcoming!” He would call his little flirtatious moment.

To be honest, he was overwhelmed by his own curiosity.

“The Usagi cannot walk in the Sun’s territory so easily! The sand and desert storms make it difficult!” The boy’s lips would stretch in a smile. “Usagi is just teaching children how to behave when someone….mmm...with a nice voice has come so far!” The bunny had shown a mischievous smirk. It was obvious he was gone with his curiosity. The answers that the boy gave were broken and not at all prompt. It was likely that it was due to him not being able to speak. Hikari got that. The Usagi were not exactly charming little rabbits that were an everyday challenge.

His vanity aside, Hikari would hear the stranger out. His name and where he hailed from was interesting. Even more so? His curiosity about whether Hikari had feared him.

“Oooooh! Very much so!” His world famous words giving such a faux impression of fear, “I have heard many stories about your clan! I-Inu...Anu...Inuzuka, you said?” He clearly had the name wrong. However, in his mind, he did recall the stories right. Hikari only grew more excited as he would try to recall to memory the many parables and stories he heard from his past. “Yes! Grandma BunBun told stories to all the Grand Children about how the Inuzuka came up with many things because of her one night. She said it was a technique...oh! No...a style!”

Hikari would try to recall it, his leg bending and his index stroked his chin as he would try to think. For goodness sakes, he hated this part! His memory was terrible when it came to those stories. “Y-yes, it was certainly a style! Umm...dog-style? No! She called it something else...doggy...doggy...umm-” The boy would shake his head, sweeping his hand before his face as he dismissed recalling the name. “Anyway, she said she was the reason it was invented. Also, she said something about their Dynamic Marking was just something she wanted to try or something like that.” The boy’s eyes rolled. Clearly, the stories were jumbled in his head, but anyone with some idea of the Usagi history would know before the boy that his grandmother had some interesting past-times.

But the Sun Shinobi and Yami had the right idea.

“Eating? Yes! Putting something in my mouth sounds good about now! Especially spending soooo long going in and out of holes!” The rabbit would stretch his arms, “How about we go and eat together? My sisters are in town...which means we can get some reduced prices!” The boy clasped his hands together in an innocent manner.

Apparently, that meant he and his sisters were flirting to get what they wanted today. For the clan of rabbits? No surprise!

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Kenji was relieved his words seemed to have gotten through to the sun shinobi although he had to admit he was a bit surprised Hikari was being persistent on her pursuit for the sun shinobi, even framing her flirting as a teaching for the Hyuga kid. However, their little close up display was nothing compared to Hikari's sudden story about the Inuzuka clan, her grand mother, doggy style and marking. Information he could've lived without knowing.

"...I'm not even sure what to say to that Bun." Kenji simply told her as his eye looked down at the dirt while questioning his own existence. He warned her to keep in mind the child among them and she goes and tells them all about the time her grandmother had a very.... interesting time with the Inuzuka clan. Although that does raise the question if all animal clans just like to get together with other animal clans. That would explain Hikari's behavior.

Thankfully though, Yami bailed him out of having to say anything by instead taking up Sojiro's request for food by pointing out a nearby bar, that Kenji wasn't even aware of. Then again, Kenji wasn't really one to go out so it made sense for Yami to know more than him about most areas in the village but the wink the snake gave him put him on edge.

What was he really planning? Kenji couldn't get a solid read on the guy and he really didn't like how Yami's last plan went down. Before Kenji could question the wink further, Hikari really had a lady boner going on today as she made more suggestive comments about holes and long things and Kenji simply sighed. Between the snake probably planning to get the dog to eat the rabbit and the rabbit planning to get the dog to eat herself in a different way, he was feeling very tired.

He just wanted to grab some more food and candy sticks, but he had to try and find out why the sun village was here. "Well, I wouldn't mind some golden flower tea right about now... Lead the way Yami." Kenji simply decided if he was going to deal with this, he could do with his favorite tea at the very least. Although as he said Yami's name, he realized something rather important. "Say... Do you even know these guys Yami?" Kenji asked as he remembered Yami had yet to even introduce himself to anyone here. But then again the snake already knew of bandits on the outskirts of the village, it wouldn't be too surprising if he knew Kuzu and Hikari as well.