Reizo sighed softly as he trudged back towards the offices where he had come not even a week ago to find information on “Takuyou Koga.” He had made the mistake of mentioning how messy the offices were when he had reported back with the requested paperwork, or at least any scrap that mentioned the Takuyou, so they had asked him to come back to start work on tidying up the messy records room. He opened the door, stepping into the small lobby area where the woman from last time was sitting behind a desk. He gave her a little wave,
”I am back. They asked me to clean it up…”
”Oh, I don’t envy you in the slightest, kid,” she allowed herself to actually laugh this time, ”That’s going to take you forever.”
”...I know…” he murmured, with a very slight wince.
She snickered, ”Well. You know where you’re going. Better go on and get to work if you want to ever be done.”
”...yeah…” the word came out quiet, and a bit defeated sounding. He took the key the woman offered him and slunk off to the horrid records room, unlocking it once he got there and simply staring for a few moments at the pile of papers and folders… which had been knocked over and scattered once more in the week he was gone. Another sigh.
”...Better get to work…”
He started by finding some boxes, then returned to the records room and started sorting the files on the floor. Any file that had to do with a Iwagakure shinobi was put in one box, ones about Maruishi citizens were placed in another, files having to do with foreign shinobi or individuals were put into boxes of their own. It was tedious, and a lot of the time he didn’t figure out who went in what pile until he had found other scraps of paper with an individual’s name on it.
This, of course, resulted in Reizo needing to take a close look at many of the various papers to determine who they were about and where they needed to go, and resulted in him reading about several very... interesting subjects. Particularly when he was glancing over papers about missing-nin. People who had abandoned Iwagakure... Why would someone abandon Iwa...?
He was young. Of course he couldn't yet quite fathom the entirety of what went on within the village, or the politics behind such movements. A "Dark Sage" (such as Raito Fukkatsu) was mentioned in several papers, and Reizo made a note to ask Ren if she had found out any more about those arts. It would stand to reason the girl had done more research on the subject after meeting him.
But more interesting to Reizo was the first mention of a missing-nin named Chikafuji Kiyomi. It was the initial report that mentioned her leaving the mission, and warned that she was particularly dangerous (although, Reizo mentally noted that he would consider any missing-nin to be somewhat dangerous. How else would they have escaped capture? Negligence was a thing that he could not conceive being a problem within the village). It mentioned several idiosyncrasies about the woman, namely the fact that she possessed two additional mouths on her hands (which marked her as a Toujigikou. Her familial connections confirmed it), but also the fact she was capable of utilizing the partial body expansion jutsu of the Akimichi.
Reizo got curious. He continued to organize, putting away files and the like into their appropriate places. But anything mentioning Chikafuji-san was carefully put aside to be given further examination later. Kekkei genkai do not work together... I have never heard of someone having two... And he had done a fair amount of research on the topic over the past year, when he began obsessing over his own desire to develop one of the abilities. He was fortunate, and very glad, when his Seikon abilities manifested themselves, though he wished they were easier to control, to understand, sometimes, and he wished that different circumstances had resulted in him finally coming into his own bloodline. Usually one overrides the other, if there are two in a family... at least that was his current working theory. Maybe it would be beneficial to ask someone who knows more about medicine... There was probably a lot of research that had been done on those topics...
It was a good distraction. It gave the boy's active mind something to work on while he autopiloted the necessary sorting. It made the work less tedious.
He slowly got a grasp of who Chikafuji-san was. A medical shinobi (an interesting career choice for a Toujigikou), who lost a partner (an Akimichi, interestingly enough) during a mission... but, the body was never recovered. There were hints that more information would be available in places that he was not allowed to access yet, an ANBU investigation was hinted at. The word "chimera" was written several times, but the details of what precisely that meant were not given. He scribbled the word on a scrap of paper and tucked it away, noting the time, and forced himself to finish working.
Chimera...
That was something for another time.
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”I am back. They asked me to clean it up…”
”Oh, I don’t envy you in the slightest, kid,” she allowed herself to actually laugh this time, ”That’s going to take you forever.”
”...I know…” he murmured, with a very slight wince.
She snickered, ”Well. You know where you’re going. Better go on and get to work if you want to ever be done.”
”...yeah…” the word came out quiet, and a bit defeated sounding. He took the key the woman offered him and slunk off to the horrid records room, unlocking it once he got there and simply staring for a few moments at the pile of papers and folders… which had been knocked over and scattered once more in the week he was gone. Another sigh.
”...Better get to work…”
He started by finding some boxes, then returned to the records room and started sorting the files on the floor. Any file that had to do with a Iwagakure shinobi was put in one box, ones about Maruishi citizens were placed in another, files having to do with foreign shinobi or individuals were put into boxes of their own. It was tedious, and a lot of the time he didn’t figure out who went in what pile until he had found other scraps of paper with an individual’s name on it.
This, of course, resulted in Reizo needing to take a close look at many of the various papers to determine who they were about and where they needed to go, and resulted in him reading about several very... interesting subjects. Particularly when he was glancing over papers about missing-nin. People who had abandoned Iwagakure... Why would someone abandon Iwa...?
He was young. Of course he couldn't yet quite fathom the entirety of what went on within the village, or the politics behind such movements. A "Dark Sage" (such as Raito Fukkatsu) was mentioned in several papers, and Reizo made a note to ask Ren if she had found out any more about those arts. It would stand to reason the girl had done more research on the subject after meeting him.
But more interesting to Reizo was the first mention of a missing-nin named Chikafuji Kiyomi. It was the initial report that mentioned her leaving the mission, and warned that she was particularly dangerous (although, Reizo mentally noted that he would consider any missing-nin to be somewhat dangerous. How else would they have escaped capture? Negligence was a thing that he could not conceive being a problem within the village). It mentioned several idiosyncrasies about the woman, namely the fact that she possessed two additional mouths on her hands (which marked her as a Toujigikou. Her familial connections confirmed it), but also the fact she was capable of utilizing the partial body expansion jutsu of the Akimichi.
Reizo got curious. He continued to organize, putting away files and the like into their appropriate places. But anything mentioning Chikafuji-san was carefully put aside to be given further examination later. Kekkei genkai do not work together... I have never heard of someone having two... And he had done a fair amount of research on the topic over the past year, when he began obsessing over his own desire to develop one of the abilities. He was fortunate, and very glad, when his Seikon abilities manifested themselves, though he wished they were easier to control, to understand, sometimes, and he wished that different circumstances had resulted in him finally coming into his own bloodline. Usually one overrides the other, if there are two in a family... at least that was his current working theory. Maybe it would be beneficial to ask someone who knows more about medicine... There was probably a lot of research that had been done on those topics...
It was a good distraction. It gave the boy's active mind something to work on while he autopiloted the necessary sorting. It made the work less tedious.
He slowly got a grasp of who Chikafuji-san was. A medical shinobi (an interesting career choice for a Toujigikou), who lost a partner (an Akimichi, interestingly enough) during a mission... but, the body was never recovered. There were hints that more information would be available in places that he was not allowed to access yet, an ANBU investigation was hinted at. The word "chimera" was written several times, but the details of what precisely that meant were not given. He scribbled the word on a scrap of paper and tucked it away, noting the time, and forced himself to finish working.
Chimera...
That was something for another time.
[MFT, WC: 866]