She felt like she was a circus animal forced to jump through flaming hoops, all with the dangling of a meeting with the village's leader hanging at the end of a stick. She had gone through worse, and the reception was understandable, given the circumstances, but that did not mean she enjoyed it. With some of those Unbent dispatched, a light interrogation and a full search for hidden weapons behind her, she finally was walking with two shinobi at her side through the tallest building in the village, the Kazekage Tower.
She wasn't given a lot of details, but she presumed they were complying with her request. This was the Kazekage Tower, after all, and that had been explained as he who lead the village. What Aria was not aware of was the current tumult that the village's administration was going through, and that she was not seeing the Kazekage, but instead a steward of the village. After a few more long minutes of silent walking through the halls, they led her to a pair of large metal doors, tapped three times on them and then pulled them open for her to enter. She gave the dutiful shinobi an appreciative nod and made her way into the spacious room.
With as much going on in the village as there was, it would have been easy to miss the small message that had predated her arrival. Apparently she was a foreigner who was not seeking refuge in the village from the threat of the Swarm, like most others, and had actually assisted the shinobi forces on multiple occasions in repelling the threat, once from an escort caravan bringing civilians to the village and another to gather and eliminate a large chunk of the Unbent under the command of the ANBU member Kaen. She had been tight lipped about the exact reason for her visitation of the village, but she had shown no obvious signs of hostility and she had no weapons on her body that could be used in an assassination attempt, nor did she appear to have any shinobi training.
She wasn't given a lot of details, but she presumed they were complying with her request. This was the Kazekage Tower, after all, and that had been explained as he who lead the village. What Aria was not aware of was the current tumult that the village's administration was going through, and that she was not seeing the Kazekage, but instead a steward of the village. After a few more long minutes of silent walking through the halls, they led her to a pair of large metal doors, tapped three times on them and then pulled them open for her to enter. She gave the dutiful shinobi an appreciative nod and made her way into the spacious room.
With as much going on in the village as there was, it would have been easy to miss the small message that had predated her arrival. Apparently she was a foreigner who was not seeking refuge in the village from the threat of the Swarm, like most others, and had actually assisted the shinobi forces on multiple occasions in repelling the threat, once from an escort caravan bringing civilians to the village and another to gather and eliminate a large chunk of the Unbent under the command of the ANBU member Kaen. She had been tight lipped about the exact reason for her visitation of the village, but she had shown no obvious signs of hostility and she had no weapons on her body that could be used in an assassination attempt, nor did she appear to have any shinobi training.