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With a smile the genin waved a group of girls making their way east. They looked pretty athletic but didn't look like any of the kunoichi he knew. He carefully let the smile fade however as he heard a cue from Slade to share his opinion. He had been holding back out of respect but it called upon like now he did have tactics and diplomatic solutions of his own.

Shortly after graduation from the academy he'd been sent on a mission as a messenger of peace to Sunagakure. The message delivered and he survived the mission and Wind Country's desert and the things about peace and diplomacy he learned on that mission always stuck with him. "I think you need time to become properly situated with being kage before you look to personally extend your hands to those outside the village.

When the time is right to reach out to Kumogakure yourself you should do so. The Sandaime did well to do so much traveling in her days and survive long enough to be seated. Hopefully though, you'll take a different approach. Not leaving with Fusion tomorrow won't make you less of leader and it won't mean that Iwa does wish to uphold the budding alliance.

The Raikage will understand the circumstance if not face similar ones if those rumors you mentioned are true."

The different approach the genin the hinted at was a simple one. He meant for Slade to spend his time doing as he was doing now. Getting to know the people of his village better and doing grunt work to build both his constitution and his number of supporters. "I look forward to the idea of Kumo and Iwa standing together but we do Cloud no favors by offering our assistance while we are still mending our own wounds. If rumors become fact that Kumo has a new Kage as well it would serve as a perfect chance for both yourself and your Lightning counterpart to better yourselves and your villages before uniting once you both were at the full brunt of power as leaders."

Sen thought it best for Slade to take advantage of the time allotted to him to become the best Yondaime he could possibly be inside the village before reconnecting with old allies to hash things out face to face. If both villages held true to their word then it would be alright for representatives and emissary of each village to visit one another to keep up ties until both kage were seated and sealed in history as leaders who earned their places. Slade was not the first Tsuchikage candidate Sen had spent time getting to know and if he wanted to be seated and stay alive he would have to do things differently than they did.

Supervising while his clones did the grunt work was a system which he'd learned to use quite well but only in cases where his crafting jobs required multiple pieces. The clones were elementally based and one stupid mistake from any of them would cause said clone to disperse and melt everything it was working. In turn, the timeline of the project's completion would be set back considerably. He knew that he was working on a deadline so there would be no excuses if he wasn't ready and if he wasn't allowed to make any excuses he refused to let himself fall into a situation in which he needed

Rolling out of bed the body of a 19-year old Genin hit the floor and immediately after raised. Then it hit the floor again and then once again, it raised. The rises in falls carried on in a persistent manner as the muscles in his arms extended and contracted in a rhythm that supported his weight. The genin was doing push ups. Following up with sit ups and a ten lap jog around the boundaries of his family's property. The lot of it took no more than half an hour and was his normal waking routine when on downtime from missions. Today, the only thing he had on his mind was lying under his bed, packed away neatly and screaming for him to put them to work.

_______after breakfast and the morning routine_______

The sun looked down with approval on Iwagakure's hidden gem of a craftsman as he began to set up shop for today in the allotted space behind his home. All of his siblings were away on missions or simply out socializing so he had both the manor and the modest space around it, to himself. He would skip putting on most the blacksmith gear that came along with his newest set of tools. Save for the apron which was cheekily labeled with an image and the words "Kiss the Craftsman", none of the other parts of the gear helped. The gloves and goggles would be of use at some point but probably not day. He wasn't sanding down a gourd or building a kanabo. He was making a flak jacket.

Although it was technically clothing it was also a handy tool in and of itself, offering the person using it a place to store excess secondary weapons like ninja wire and explosive tags. So useful of a tool it was that Sen would have kept one for himself if not the rule that genin were prohibited from wearing Flak Jackets. Perks aside he might have looked good in a Flak Jacket though that might have just been from the chuunin and jounin ranks associated with the jacket itself.

It was just as well... he needed the Ryo more than a place to hide extra smoke grenades and light bombs. From the corner of his eye could see youton clones that bore his face working on individual parts of the jacket that would come together later as one piece while Sen himself oversaw the project and supervised.

He sat in his chair, hearing someone enter his "store"; a room in the basement of the manner to which there was a door to outside. All traffic in and out made no disturbance on the rest of the home so he was free to conduct business as he pleased.

He gave the visitor a well-meaning and honest "Thanks man." but he was too driven on finishing what he was working on that he didn't bother to look his friend in the eye to say it. By now Ryu understood how Sen could get when he focused on what he was making and really wanted to finish it. Besides, Ryu himself would also benefit the moment the object was done. "I'll be ready in twelve hours."

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50,000 Ryo.

I'm gonna buy that as well once the other transaction goes through and I've made the room (and the Ryo) for it, I still have 10 pieces and a world map on my bio atm taking up all my accessory slots and then some. I'm selling every extra piece I have in that other transaction and then as soon as that's approved I can fix my request here. Sorry about the mix up though, I just PM'd you.


UPDATE: OK Adero, I'm ready again mang.

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• Crafting Materials ^{(8 Pieces)}