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[norifumi]

It was a night like many others. The clouds were stormy, lightning flashed and thunder sounded. Below a valley woke with life, animals and people alike. A murder left the valley in search of a quieter, safer, home for the night as lightning flashed and thunder sounded closer. Norifumi stood at the edge of a cliff overlooking this valley. Though it was a simple night one he had been accustomed to since infancy, on this night he found himself restless. It was a feeling of unease, he felt stagnant while the world seemed to be turning.

That is the world, it is always changing.

He lit a cigarette and inhaled slowly.

[Dingo]

The sound of rumbling skies always seemed to set at easy the shifting passengers beneath It's clothing, Storms were soothing to insects it seems. They burrowed, or hid, and simply waited out the coming storms. Though they did not fear the wind, the rains, or the lightning. They simply accepted it as a part of nature, and knew their place amongst it. Though Seishin was a human, meant to defy these laws of nature, and growing up in Kumogakure no Sato allows one to grow accustomed to raging storms, and the somber mumbles of the sky.

The valley below was quiet. The Raikage had personally sent out a request to investigate the murder in the small town within it. Though it seemed like someone else had been dispatched. A pale man, almost as pale as Seishin, stood upon the cliff over looking the valley. His snow white hair seemed odd in the moonlight. Sei quietly sombered over next to the young man, that stood only inches above It.

"....You're from the Hidden Cloud... I remember you..."

The voice was curt and low, though somehow still held a bit of friendliness and was accompanied with something that was supposed to resemble a smile. This was a courtesy Seishin had learned was alot more likely to earn one cooperating from their fellow villagers, though not one It particularly enjoyed. Where had It seen this man before? The thought of clashing blades and sweat mixed with blood flashed through It's mind. Then It remembered.

"The Chuunin Exams.......Right?"

[norifumi]

It wasn’t a foreign presence he felt approaching, was neither familiar nor hostile as they came to his side. Inches between them, Norifumi remained lax in his position, alert as he smoked his cigarette and took a glance at the person. Shorter, not by much, with black hair and complexion that could match his own. Norifumi doesn’t respond at first, he remembers people and faces easily, it's only natural considering his line of work. But when it came to other shinobi, he was a lot more dismissive and unless they had worked together, they wouldn’t be readily remembered.

The Chūnin exams were different for everyone, everyone remembers it differently. For a moment he’s unresponsive, remembering trails of the exam. It was a time he hadn’t thought about since his promotion, he’d been thinking about the next step.

“Probably. Have you done much since?” Norifumi assumed he was a chūnin, After all losers of the exams never did speak of it much.

[Dingo]

".....No... Not particularly..."

A small lie, but Seishin could not quite risk exposing the information It had gathered. The Raikage himself had not even been informed, so disclosing information on how Sei had discovered the largest threat to Kumogakure in the known lands, and had clashed with a shinobi from the Hidden Leaf, to a shinobi of equal rank and standing,m would turn vital intelligence into mindless gossip.
A small shrug accompanied Seishin's words, and it blinked down to the village below. A murder seemed so minor in comparison to the events unfloding outside their borders. These villagers arent even aware of the burning shadow lingering over them. Their concerns now were their crops, their trade, and the minor welfare of their own village.

".... Where you sent....To investigate?"

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Dingo: +10

Nori: +8