"I still don't know you're incapable of taking yourself for a walk," Yuii sighed, kicking at a rock on the simple dirt road they had been travelling down with an aimless purpose for what felt like hours now. She'd begun her day at false dawn, dragged from bed by her feline companion and ordered to prepare for a walk. It wasn't the first time, and it wouldn't be the last that the sennin was subject to the whims of her contract beast. A beast of the wilds didn't care that she'd been up all night tending to the small army of future shinobi herded to Tea for 'experience'. Nor did she care that Yuii had spent the day prior catching up on correspondence from the north and watching her husband become the personal training dummy for a vixen. What Onyuri wanted, Oniyuri got.
Yuii would have liked to have spent the day with Kaji, they'd barely had time for one another since arriving in Tea, but he looked too comfortable to rouse. She would have to settle for being happy he would have time with their child instead. It was for the best anyway. There was barely time to kiss her half-awake husband and check on her slumbering daughter before the tigress was snapping at her heels and hissing about missing their chance for a feast.
"An unattended creature of such beauty as myself is feared and admired by you simple, furless creatures, and I find it bothersome." the tigress purred in answer, rolling her striped shoulders and brandishing her white whiskers with pride. "Besides, someone needs to catch the rabbits."
Rabbits. It was all about the damned rabbits. Yuii had nearly choked on her breakfast when she'd found out the reasoning behind her early awakening. Her gluttonous feline friend had heard from an unsourced friend that the fields of tea produced the plumpest, most delicious of rabbits. That they were in such abundance at the current season, that one could have her fill of them with little to no effort. Naturally, that meant Oniyuri had to have them, but the lazy cat wasn't about to go and catch her own food. That was what humans were for.
"That's why we've brought the dog kid and his companion," Yuii muttered, digging deep into her vest pockets and pulling free a brightly wrapped candy, "No way I am chasing a bunch of bunnies for you." She unwrapped and popped the confection in her mouth, glancing back at said boy and canine. The pair had been the first for the many students staying at the inn she had seen after breakfast. They'd been ordered, with no care for the plans they may have had, to tag along on the mini adventure. Yuii hadn't exactly been or passable company in her half-awake state, or even bothered to ask the poor boys name or managed a conversation. Woops. Not that Oniyuri had been any better with her chatter and demands. They were up to a quota of thirty rabbits so far.
They'd been climbing a hill for awhile when Oniyuri suddenly veered off the roadway into a field of grass Yuii assumed was for feeding livestock. Another dozen metres through the waist-deep flora, and the crested to a fantastic view of the countryside below. Simplistic, man tamed beauty so unlike the forests and wilds of Lightning that the adventurous Sennin was used to. Almost worth the trip if nothing went wrong.
"Well this is something, isn't it?" she asked, looking to make eye contact with her Inuzuka underling only to notice Oniyuri fuming.
"There is a human in my field," the tiger pouted, sounding more like a child that had found out there were no more chocolates than a powerful beast. Yuii's eyes travelled down to where Oniyuri was glaring, and her brows furrowed. A man and his dog, not unusual, except the man himself looked to be encased in metal pieces, of all things.
"Yes, I can see that." They would have to find another or come back later, she thought, but the tiger had other plans.
Quick as a bolt, Oniyuri shot towards metal man and dog, ready to aire her grudge. Faster than Yuii could hope to catch her, she was down and stomping her paws like a petulant child. "That is my field," she growled, her fur and tail puffing up, "You've scared the rabbits away!! I demand repayment!!" If not for the lines of teeth and very visible claws, her threat could have been comedic.
The long-suffering sigh and apologetic shrug Yuii shot towards Akira conveyed Yuii's thoughts on the situation.
"'Yuri leave them alone! I'm sure there are other perfect fields with perfect rabbits around here!" she shouted while trudging down towards her verbal victims, "I bet there's a stream full of fish better than anything in Lightning Country around here somewhere too."
The Steward sat on a hillside overlooking the country side of Tea. This was the farm lands, or so he understood it best. He saw with his legs outstretched and hands on the ground behind his back. The metal casted Sunan seemed very foreign in this land. He stood out quite horribly in this natural landscape in his metallic Takahashi Fire-Forged suit of armour. Sousuke was alien to the landscape, this landscape was alien to him. His eyes glowed white as he was surveying and appreciating the landscape he was looking over. This was a man who was used to seeing sand, fire, metal, and glass the majority of his life. Rioshi, his secretary, had once told him about Tea country. She had told him that tea was behind in terms of technology. He didn't beleive it, but now he was seeing it in person for the first time. It was in some ways terrifying and in other ways it was refreshing. Sousuke continued his observations and his reflections. He harkened back to the first time he met Katuso who had told the Steward of the vastness of the world. It was here in that Sousuke had begun to understand it in some manner. He had read books about the various parts of the world, and the Ranger Hall had an examples of it pending the environmental set up. That was artificial, this experience was not. Sousuke's eyes scanned the rolling eyes, and the sea of emerald grass. It was very different compared to the colour of steel and of sand. 
