Monochrome Artist Rank:Genin 磁気 | Classes:Scholar | Bloodline 力 | Body Rank:D 勇 | Elements:Fire,Wind
“I, uh… I just… hm.” Yoshiyuki’s words kept steamrolling over any response Tanabe could come up with. The boy was so angry at her! And for what? Just wanting to help someone? It was unreasonable at best, and an actual d**k move at best. Tanabe continued to grow more and more frustrated, causing the normally timid girl to clench her fists. Until… “That’s it!” She snarled.
Her voice would change drastically, like an entirely different person, as the Genin’s hand flashed to her face. Tanabe slid the oni mask from the side of her head to over her face in the blink of an eye. “And what business is it of yours what Tanabe does with her money? Huh??” Yoshiyuki had pushed Tanabe’s buttons enough that her split persona, Tajima Takano, boiled up to the surface. “News flash, a*****e. Everyone’s lives suck in Ame, the least we could do is help each other when we can. And if yer gonna sit around b***h ‘cuz someone did a favor for someone else, then you should help out by killing yerself.” Tanabe stepped in front of the blind kid, towering over him for a second before leaning her masked face down to be inches away from his. “Got it?” She growled, in a way that was so guttural it would almost be from an animal.
There would be a quiet pause before the girl was pulled back by the words of Amaya and Xochitl. The girl’s hand would move in a manner that was detached from her personality and slide the mask back to the side of her head. “S-sorry about that…” Tanabe bowed to the two girls before joining them at the table. “Oh! Don’t worry about paying me back, it’s fine really.” She replied to the squid girl with an embarrassed smile and a wave of her hand. But it was then that her focus would turn to her sketchpad. “Ah, I’m not sure yet…” she answered with a downcast look in her eyes. “That’s why I’m out, actually. I’ve been in a creative block for the last few days, so I wanted some fresh air and a snack.”
Amaya would suggest that the group play together, once they had eaten a little bit. “Are you sure?” Tanabe would ask, her gaze shifting to Yaggy curiously. “What is it that you two like to play?”
His interactions with the umbrella girl had ended, and this supposed cistern girl as well as the girl who offered to pay for her food continued. The explanation that the girl gave for why she was in the earth sector seemed legitimate enough from his thought process he guessed. He never had the benefit of making money to come to the earth sector before recently so it's not necessarily something he would have had experience with. Although perhaps some others from the cistern would do exactly that...earth sector food might as well be gourmet for them and it's the best they could even hope to save up to afford. Of course before he could respond to that exactly, the other girl had spoken up....well that was one way of putting it at least. The sliding on of an oni-mask, and sudden difference in how she was talking. Aggressive, angry, completely different. In fact it was even like it was someone else who was referring to her when she spoke. The young boy looked a bit surprised when she had started talking. By the time she had turned away and headed over to the table with the other girls a smile had grown across his face. This had been a lot more interesting of a situation, he wished he could have extended it a bit longer. Whoever he just interacted with was a much more fun person than whoever was sitting at the table right now.
"Interesting, I liked that one more than you." Yoshiyuki's words escaped his mouth, speaking to Tanabe about whatever she had just done. Finally getting what he ordered specifically from the person at the bakery. Taking what he was given and not even paying the man in question. Who angrily looked at the boy before the boy gave him a rather offsetting and yet somehow threatening smile. Sounds he could hear from nearby, people's voices as they moved through the street in preparation for something. What exactly? He could hear the sounds of people mentioning war and the like. "Ahh, it seems there is preparation for war." He said aloud, making sure the others could hear so they were aware that likely they would be heading out to do exactly that. "Your playtime will probably have to wait. We'll all probably be expected to go to fight." Final words before he was heading out. Expecting to get quite the show from whatever this war was from this mask girl. Perhaps from Amaya as well.
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Amaya gasped as Yoshiyuki would snap at the shy artist's good deed for the day. While he did have a bit of point for somebody buying food for a cistern sector, like herself, but that wasn't the way to let his frustrations be known! Everyone just sort of let it be while Sochi and company would explain more to the long haired boy about what things had happened She was still touched that the woman squid thing found her so interesting. Amaya didn't really see what was, a quality of how daft she was at times, but regardless, would fulfill her request. Tanabae, on the other hand, would pull out a mask from herself and suddenly change. Gone was the former timid girl who Amaya had felt a sort of need to help, but was now replaced by some kind of strange warrior. She was now well spoken and almost as demanding as one of the adults. The girl sat dumbstruck at the table, while smiling a little at the two while she apologized. Yaggy seemed most pleased at the boy getting a rebuttal, even sticking his tongue out at him. "No worries! We usually go out and find yokai to meet and play with. I keep a list of them just in case I find some that aren't really in any of the books here. Usually our first stop is the docks 'cuz I love fishing. I heard that some of the-"
Before she could finish her sentence, the murmurs and whispers of conflict were arising nearby. Amaya frowned, looking at the growing crowd while crossing her hands. Yaggy continued to munch on his treats as Yoshiyuki would deliver the bad news that their playtime was likely canned. "W-What?! That's not fair! Why are we even fighting when this place has enough as is? There's not even land around here that's not a buncha mud." The girl stomped her feet but would look up at Tanabe while Yaggy shot to her hand. She opened him to make a cover for everyone, smiling at the masked girl. "I'll keep you nice and dry so you can make more cool art, okay? I'd love to see them sometime!"
Her attention went from the pastries up to Tanabe, then back to the pastries as she separated them into piles before her wise eyes would be back on Tanabe in a flash as the lasses air changed abruptly. With the shift in tone Tanabe went and covered her face with the mask on the side of her head, Xochitl associating this with the dangerous mask people she avoided as much as possible. Her hand grabbed the edge of the table tightly while lowering both feet back to the ground, tail like tentacle coiling tightly behind her to propel herself if she needed to take a sudden leave. Slowly as other Tanabe kept at it Xochitl would find herself lowering further and further until her black eye were peering over the table edge by the time Tanabe had snapped her final two words at the other lad. Confused and almost shaken as she wasn’t used to such radical shifts, such specific changes, even if Xochitl didn’t know Tanabe well she felt that this was a totally different person, it was eerie and tickling her flight response.
Silence hung in the air for the few seconds after this other Tanabe had said their piece, then once again in the space of an instant it was the original persona. Xochitl personally had no idea what had just happened, she’d never seen or heard anything like this and couldn’t understand what had just taken place, though would accept it tentatively as unique to the kind shinobi. Xochitl rose from her shrunken and tensed posture, returning to the more comfortable seating position she had taken prior. A wide eyed nod would be returned to Tanabe’s bow and apology, ”It is fine, it was just a surprising.” She expressed while using her hands to indicate the snacks she had been sorting into two piles for each of the pair. She patiently waited on Tanabe picking up a pastry before she herself did, which was yet to happen as she addressed the paper Sochi and Amaya had taken noticed of. ”Ahhh, creative block, I understand!” The words came out as she needed to the meaning of the two words together to understand the phrase she’d never heard before. Even if her new friend was having difficulties with her creativity, Xochitl still wanted to see something created by them on the paper ”Why not draw these pastries, they look pretty after all.” The statement was accompanied by her raising a small Daifuku and pointing at it, deciding at that point she couldn’t resist the urge and took a bite.
Around half of the little ball was removed from the small desert, the filling and bread striking her tongue making Xochitl pause as the unfamiliar flavours and textures made themselves known to her. Xochitl’s pupils constricted as she straightened and looked at the thing she was eating, surprised something so small could pack so much flavour. ”This is really good! You have to try it!” She expressed with a sharp shift from her stiffer and softer manner of speech, sounding more like an excited girl of her apparent age. She looked to Amaya while the blue haired girl explained how she went about playing, Sochi ripping the Daifuku remains in half and waiting until the other girl was done speaking before presenting each chunk to both Tanabe and Amaya. Unfortunately the bad new bear Yoshiyuki would chime in with an unpleasant fact, letting them know that their fun might be ending soon and dropping a disturbing word into the mix. ”War means lots of killing, fighting and killing is a very frightening experience, that sort of thing is not good because people are made to stop forever….” She stated in her more rigid way, the hint that she wasn’t just stating her opinion on the matter and that there was the hint of knowing in her tone and a light frown on her face as she spoke. She busied her hands with another small pastry, tearing it in half and offering Yaggy one of the two pieces for his hard work shielding them.
For the cooking career internship Ryuken would no longer be working with shinobi. Instead, he would work with some of the food businesses in Earth Sector. He found himself interning with the Punyang Steakhouse first. Mr. Punyang had Ryuken's first mission involve helping the restaurant get cleaned up. He would start with taking out all of the garbage, then cleaning all of the dishes from customers, cleaning the windows from the inside, and then sweeping and mopping. He was not allowed to use any jutsu to make the process faster. [Rank E | Cleaning the Steakhouse completed]
Continuing in Mr. Punyang's Steakhouse, he had been given a new task. He would act as the restaurant's waiter. Taking orders, he would then submit them to the kitchen and then bring food out. Ryuken managed to learn how hard it was for waiters and waitresses as balancing multiple plates on his two arms was challenging. Some would order steak and mashed potatoes, others ordered lobster dishes, but all that Ryuken could see were the rich of the rich Earth Sector here. Even in Earth Sector there was a divide in how good people's lives could be. [Rank E | What Are You Waiting For mission complete]
[Enter from ☔ || Amegakure Combat Center [ Dojo ]]
Finally getting into the kitchen, Ryuken's next task would be to be the assistant/sous chef helper. He would cut up all of the vegetables and wash them with clean water, something that was not readily available in the Cistern. Ryuken also helped by seasoning meats and moving everything into place so the actual chefs could get to them easily. Once he completed those tasks, Mr. Punyang felt comfortable enough to let him make some of the salad orders considering it was pretty difficult to mess up salads and dressing. [Rank E | Make A Salad mission complete]
Making his way up in the world, Mr. Punyang thought it was time for Ryuken to start making breakfast and lunch meals. They were not super complex, verying from burgers and fries to eggs and ribeye. It was actually a wide variety of a menu at the steakhouse. Learning how to cook and make sure temperatures were correct as well as the differences between baking, grilling, and broiling was a process. Nonetheless, it unlocked a deeper interest in Ryuken for pursuing cooking in earnest. It pleased him to have such an awareness. [Rank E | Brunch Boy mission complete]
For the final part of his internship at the restaurant, Ryuken decidedly requested the opportunity to start helping make the steaks. Working side by side with the main head chef himeslf, Ryuken watched closely at the process. There was a science and engineering to the design of a perfect medium rare steak. Once he felt confident, Ryuken was off to making steak among the rest of them. After a couple failures that they forgave him for, he was able to produce average steak. But it created a fire in his heart and a hunger for cooking like never before. [Rank E | Steaking Out mission complete]
