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Rie didn't care to listen to the boy - especially not after that bitch! had destroyed his wall! She too would get a visit - not just the Mizukage!

"Get this maggot out of my sight!" The full garrison of guards moved to advance on the genin, halted only by Kiku's yell.

"Wait! I am sure that the young lad will leave peacefully..." and conveniently, there's an exit nearby... "Come on then lad." He lead Zibishi away, leaving him with a few words. "Don't forget the note. It is imperative that the Kage see it."

And then he returned into the dining hall to the Daimyou's raging.

Yuu should've checked to make sure Kohaku had really fainted - when he'd left his snakes to attack, and left them behind, Kohaku had immediately run away, avoiding all but one of the snakes. The poison might have taken effect, but he'd died much to soon afterwards, and with him, any knowledge of Higuchi's survival. Save, of course, for the shirt clutched to his chest.

Yuu was joined by an ANBU seconds after Kohaku had bled dry. "Go to the Mizukage Tower, this mission is over!"

She's a good actor.. Kiku knew that the sunny disposition showcased by Zamarron was fake - not after the treatment he had received. She knew I wasn't the Daimyou and didn't waste her breath speaking to me... He shook his head ruefully. Just like a shinobi. She hadn't even sat at the table, unlike Zibishi, who had seemed charmed by Kiku's charisma.

Rie, however, had very different thoughts.

Finally I can put these shinobi in their place!

Kiku had been waiting for this. In the years he'd known Rie, the man had never cared for shinobi, always thought them to be primitive and barbaric, with their devilish magic and stringent rules and general murderous behavior. And, of course, there was the message left for Rie that Asumi had shown him - the message from Hitso Mitsuru - a message he was sure the Mizukage would want to know about.

"You want aid, you say, little missy? Assistance?" He paused and took a long pull from his glass, smacking his lips as he finished. "So very good... and you, boy, what was it you said... something about unity?"

He looked around the room, gaining confidence when he saw again the guards lining the walls. They were perhaps only genin level combatants, but there were many of them - certainly more guards than ninja. His own spies - failed ninja - had told him that the new Mizukage was but a teenager, and that very few powerful shinobi remained loyal to the village, or had even survived the war.

"Tell your Kage that there is no Kirigakure no Sato! I am done funding your murderous campaigns! You have helped nothing! Saved, nothing! You are the scum of this world, and your time is done, NOW LEAVE!"

Kiku wasn't surprised at his outburst... it was a long time coming. "Asumi!" The Daimyou yelled. " Show the shinobi out."

Rie was confident that he was untouchable. He had a full garrison of guards, though his most skilled had perished, and he'd hired Hitso Mitsuru and his gang to provide protection until he was ready to deal with the Mizukage, and rid himself of Kirigakure and all the problems that came with it.

Weird...

Inexplicably, Kaname held his sheathe with both hands, instead of having a hand on the handle of his sword - no matter. As the judge roared the start of the match, Hiromasa flickered forward ten whole meters, launching his kunai at Kaname as soon as the rapid burst of speed came to a halt. Immediately, he reached his left hand back to his sword, Suijin, curling his palm almost lovingly around the pommel. He used his eyes to keep track of his foe, throwing mercy to the wayside. Highspeed movement would take him to Kaname's blindside as his eyes tracked him, the last flicker leaving behind an afterimage to hold his eyes and give time for the blow, and by simply unsheathing his blade, he would send a carving scythe of highly pressurized Suiton chakra into and through his back, ripping him asunder.