Nothing but stares in awe as kaekio's black cloak flowed in the wind around her as she down the streets of kumogakure. she was finally home. and, she could honestly say that she missed it here. Kirigakure was just all too foggy, and she knew most of the people here, whom she was now waving at as she walked down the street. even stopping and saying hello to a few of them as she did so. She was smiling uncontrollably. she even got the chance to brag about becoming a full blown sage. she, as always was congratulated on her success. she had accomplished quiet a few things up to this moment, but she had no intentions of stopping just yet. there was still several goals that she wanted to complete, and one day, she even hopped she could make it to be the raikage, but of course that was a long ways off. For now she needed a much smaller goal to accomplish? but what? Sannin seemed like a much bigger gap for her to fill before she reached it, and there wasn't anything really along the way. Maybe reaching jounin? yeah. that she could work for. To become a jounin. She woud work exta hard at that. With that bit of motivation in mind she set forwards towards the administration building to the person she had missed the most while she was away. her sensei. Sanosuke had been the catalyst for why she had grown so much in such a short amount of time. From genin to sage in under a year. it was crazy to think about, and almost unheard of in the shinobi world. But, here she had done it. She had accomplished it, and was going to set her sights ever higher. And, she was going to protect everyone she could along the way. There was more she could do, and she knew it. With this new motivation she even began to run towards the administration building. She had so many stories to share with her sensei, and so many questions to ask him. Plus she had her eyes on another goal, and there was one person she could count on to help her along the way. Well him and one other person that was. Kaekio couldn't help but blush at the thought of the other one. She was coming too kumo, and kaekio wanted to impress her further. The few days she had got to spend with her in kirigakure had been amazing, but not nearly enough, and now she wanted something more for her as well.

Kaekio finally reached the administration building after much running. and, once she was inside she didn't slow down one bit. She was excited to see him. It had been about a month or so, and she couldn't help but miss him. he had been a father when she didn't have one, and she would be forever grateful to him for everything he had done to help her along the way. She eventually made her way to the door of his office where she let out a sigh, and activated sage mode. Then she took off made sure she hood was off, and brushed off her sage cloak because it had accumulated a little bit of dust in her journey home. Then she opened the door. Her wolf ears sticking straight up as she smiled at the man behind the desk. "Heya Sano-sensei" she knew that he was no longer her sensei, but it had become habbit by now, and she couldn't bring herself to not call him sensei any more. It would be a title he would hold for her forever, whether he liked it or not.

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WC:628
Chakra: 250/270
Sage mode used

It was just one of those days at the office where the young kage wanted nothing more than to throw his desk outside and just beat it down to splinters. There was so much paperwork to do it was ridiculous even on a kage's standards. A majority of his stress was coming from the upcoming Chuunin Exams. Him and the council had to sit down and make revisions to the current foreign policy about outside shinobi coming into the village for a security increase for the citizens. Even then that was the tip of the iceberg. He had to register all the incoming shinobi for mission request, that way the workload of his personal shinobi will lessened. And also he had to make preparations for the kage banquet that it was accustomed to throw for the chuunin exams. He had to save Gin an RSVP to be his +1, dinner arrangements, and all other things to make sure the night went well. And at the moment he didn't even want to think about the finalizations of Skycity Casino at the moment. So much work so little time.

Sanosuke ran his fingers through his now sliver and short hair compared to his formerly long, black and dreadlocked hair. It had already been a month since Kaekio had left for Kiri on the task of continuing her senjutsu training with the wolf senjutsu clan in Mizu no Kuni. The ordeal the girl had to go through to be awakened into senjutsu-hood was something very few could do and live to tell the tale. But she did it. Kaekio's body housed the excess senjutsu chakra that Sanosuke was holding at the time in his body that brought about a change to his body's anatomy. While the chakra was inside of him, his hair was black and his eyes were silver. Now with the chakra not inside of him, his body gradually turned back to how it was originally: silver hair and sapphire eyes. The only time his body would change was when he entered sage mode, that was when his hair would become long and black also his eyes would be silver once more; but this time only temporarily.

A knock on the door alerted Sanosuke of someone wanting to enter his office. Sanosuke allowed for the visitor to enter and sure enough the young kage couldn't help but smile. Speak of the devil and she sure would appear, but sporting wolf ears and a tail that was wagging uncontrollably. She still called him sensei, which didn't bother him at all, but just looking at her Sanosuke was pretty surprised at the timing for her to come visit him. "There she is, there's my little sage. Come here you!" Sanosuke chuckled as he got up and brought her into his arms into a hug. Her body had grown on a bit of muscle, most likely from the training she had to do. That was good. Her wolf ears was tickling his nose as he held her. Breaking off from the hug, Sanosuke leaned on his desk still in his kage robes. "And look at those ears you've got...hmm I wonder." the young kage approached the girl once more and began to scratch behind her right ear. Most dogs loved it when their ears are scratched to the point it's so overwhelmingly pleasing to the body they can't think straight. Was the same true for a wolf sage?

"There she is, there's my little sage. Come here you!" Kaekio was immedaitely brought into a hug, which she fully fell into, although unlike most times she had hugged sano this time her body naturally took in his scent and remembered it. It was something she wasn't entirely used too. Kaekio couldn't help but giggle at the way Sano had asked for a hug, and as such it made her wolf ears wiggle, probably tickling sano's nose.  Sano broke away from the hug and sat back on his desk. Kaekio couldn't help but notice  how they were both in their respective robes. Kaekio sporting her Sage robe and Sano in his raikage robe. Both of which made them look as though they were powerful. Kaekio couldn't quiet put her finger on it, but something about robes gave the impression of power. Sano spoke breaking kaekio from her mind wandering, as her tail was still wagging. "And look at those ears you've got...hmm I wonder." "oh no" was the only thing that kaekio could think of as sano approached her. Whatever he was thinking Kaekio was sure that it wasn't anything good. Sano suddenly began to strach behind kaekio's ear, which send a sensation unexplainable down to kaekio's left leg and she had to try and stop her leg from moving on it's own. It also made kaekio's left eye close with, she wouldn't say pleasure, but it was something along the lines. Her tail stopped wagging for the moment, as her body relaxed. Then kaekio finally regained her senses for the moment and batted at Sanosuke's hand with her own screaming "NAAAHHH! SANO-SENSEI STOP!!!... BAKA!" once she woud finally break away from sano she would scrunch up her nose and a growl would escape her throat. Immediately she blushed and covered her mouth, only to start giggling afterwards. She would then give sano another hug, only this time she would give him a light squeeze and mutter the words "I missed you sano-sensei" After a moment or two she would then pull away, and look at sano once more. she would then give a little twirl as she said "So? how does it look? the wolves gave it to me as a result for completing my training with them, and becoming a sage." she would say finally ending her sage mode. her tail and ears disappearing as well as the blue shadow around her eye, and her eyes becoming duller. She would wait for sano to respond, although there was one more thing she really needed to tel him about, but she was kind of nervous too. which would become apparent in her posture a little bit after sano replied to her questioning him on her robe.

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WC:474
Total WC:1102

So that's what happened when someone scratched behind the ears of a wolf sage. Wolves and dogs were similar in a way so it would only make sense. But from how Kaekio was reacting, she was pretty close from wetting herself from the pleasure of having someone scratching behind her ears. Sanosuke found it pretty amusing how she was acting this way from having her ears scratched. Sanosuke would have to find some way to tell any guy that Kaekio brings to meet him about it for his own benefit. He chuckled when Kaekio smacked his hand away from her and growled based on instinct as though she was an actually canine. The blush on her face gave him all the information he needed. Even she didn't know that she would react in such a way from being scratched like that. Despite the embarrassing outburst, she giggled and tackled Sanosuke into a hug. He felt himself buckle under the weight of the tackle and felt his back hit the back of his table. He could definitely confirm that his first student had gotten stronger these past months she was away. Raising his hand he gently began stroking the top of her hair like she was accustomed to. His fingers gliding through her silky hair effortlessly. He admitted that he missed holding her like this in his arms; it felt like he was holding his little sister or his own daughter.

When she finally broke off, Sanosuke sat back down at his desk and motioned for her to take the seat across from his; which he materialized from the ground with a simple seal to summon it by having it raise slowly like a budding tree in the spring. One the chair had risen, Sanosuke would wait for her to take her seat before he spoke. "Well you're not a rabbid wolf running amok in my office so there's that. I'm guessing you're senjutsu training isn't fully complete yet?" Sanosuke kidded at first while he crisscrossed his fingers into a net to allow his chin to rest on them as he listened to the girl's answer. Even so, she's done a remarkable job with her senjutsu training. His hypothesis regarding her progress of being a sage was right on the money. For him to get as far as Kaekio did in his own senjutsu training a few years ago, it took him about 8 months. But here she was, in her sage mode that took him half the time he needed to get there. He couldn't have been any prouder.

"So despite training, how was your trip in Kiri? Saw the sights I hope, maybe visited a special someone while you were there?" Sanosuke asked to change the subject. His lips curled mischievously and knowingly at the last part of his sentence. True he didn't know if she actually visit someone while she was there, but his face gave off the bluff that he knew something that she didn't think he knew.

Before could could give her little twirl and ask about her cloak sano pointed for her to sit down, and a chair made of what appeared to be wood appeared for her to sit down, and she did as she was told. she waiting for sano to speak. "Well you're not a rabbid wolf running amok in my office so there's that. I'm guessing you're senjutsu training isn't fully complete yet?" Kaekio gave a small laugh at his remark. "No, not quite. I'm not a master sage like you, and there is certainly no way i could teach someone senjutsu, but i'm beginning to understand it's inner workings. But, honestly i'm surprised i didn't pick up more of their habbits.  Like you should've seen how i eat meat for a few days after i finished their training..." she said giggling a little bit.

"So despite training, how was your trip in Kiri?" Kaekio gave a small nod. Nozomi had shown her plenty of the sites around kirigakure, mostly tourist spots, but some things that you would only get growning up there, and she had loved her time here. "Saw the sights I hope, maybe visited a special someone while you were there?" Kaekio's face light up with blush as she covered her mouth to prevent from pure reflex, her eyes widened as wide as they would go. Her entire face went red in complete contrast to her blue hair, and all she could see was sano's lip curling mischievously. at this point it didn't matter if had been a ploy, if it was she feel for it, and there was no hidding her reaction. she couldn't possibly imagine him knowing about nozo, but he did now.

Kaekio would sit there in silence awkwardly staring at the ground at her feet, as she tried to make her body as small as possible. her face still as red a tomato. she was embarrassed as possible but she cuoldn't say anything. She was a child that had been found out in her little secret, and she wanted to keel over and die right then and there. it's not like she had done anything with nozo... well, not anything of THAT caliber. kaekio stole a glance at sano, to gage his reaction, and see how he was taking this.

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WC: 402
Total WC: 1504

The eye widening of pure surprise, her mouth covering her mouth to prevent a squeal of disbelief from coming out, her eyes cast downwards towards the ground to avoid eye contact from him, and finally her face was so red it looked like something from the history books of the Fourth Great Ninja War centuries ago when the Taijutsu Master Might Gai opened the Gate of Death to fight one-on-one with Madaara Uchiha. All of these signs Sanosuke could deduct rooted from one possible solution: Kaekio DID visit someone. That just made Sanosuke chuckle loudly as his voice carried through the room. His lips curled more so it now revealed a toothy, twisted sneer that he got the response he wanted from her. So his bluff to get information out of his student worked. Honestly he didn't believe that it would've worked out so easily. Kaekio really was a terrible liar despite the tough girl act she tried to put up. "Oh come on. A beautiful, strong and talented girl like you. I'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier." Sanosuke waved his hand from under his chin outwards to show disbelief that Kaekio wouldn't think he would find out about her being in a relationship.

Now it was time to have fun with the young Ryuzoji kunoichi. Well he was already having fun with her as is. So maybe it should be more labeled like "extreme fun" or maybe "torture." Either way, it was going to be enjoyable for the young Raikage, though not so much for his past student. Sanosuke continued to make fun of Kaekio by looking side to side to make sure nobody would hear what he was prepared to say. It was silly because they were the only people in the office, so checking to make sure nobody else was listening looked rather silly. Once his checks were done, Sanosuke motioned for Kaekio to come closer to his table and lean in to hear his words. "So have you two..." Sanosuke said quietly while snickering. His hands were making the general gesture of sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. "I'm sorry that was insensitive of me." He fixed his gesture so now it was the gesture of sexual intercourse between two women. At that point Sanosuke couldn't stop laughing at the reaction he would be getting from Kaekio. He was laughing so hard that he might actually fall off the chair from how much he was laughing. Tears would be rolling down his face from his uncontrollable laughter. Young love was just so easy to make fun of because of how sensitive both parties were about it.

Sano's face twisted into an even bigger sneer which told kaekio what she had feared. He really didn't know about nozomi, it was a ploy and she feel for it. That evil bastard had got the best of her. And, what's worse that meant that sano now had anther ploy to tease her about... not like he had needed another thing. Kaekio wanted to fall over dead in her chair. this was more than embarrassing for her. She had gone a year without telling him, and now it was just awful. she knew she wasn't going to make it alive out of here. She would simply just curl up into a ball and die. Sano spoke and kaekio really didn't want to listen but she did anyways."Oh come on. A beautiful, strong and talented girl like you. I'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier." He did a motion that kaekio took for disbelief that she didn't think he would find out. She knew he would find out at some point. She had intended to tell him sooner or later. But mostly later, rather than sooner.

Kaekio was NOT having fun. she basically just wanted to give up and go home, and wait for nozomi to come to her house. But she had more respect for sano than that. Although he was acting more like a child at the moment who just met the new kid in school. Unlike school however, she couldn't simply punch him in the face and move on. No. she was stuck here to die through all of this embarrassment. A small part of her knew that sano would get serious about this at some point and maybe actually ask SERIOUS questions about nozomi, but she couldn't see that happening any time soon. Sano motioned for kaekio to move in closer so he could tell her something and she let out a sigh as she did what she was told. "So have you two..." Sanosuke said quietly while snickering. His hands were making the general gesture of sexual intercourse between a man and a woman. Kaekio screamed "SANOOO!!!! NO! WE HAVEN'T!" her face was now a mix of anger, frustration, and embarrassment. "I'm sorry that was insensitive of me." He fixed his gesture so now it was the gesture of sexual intercourse between two women. Kaekio watched to cry. or die. one of the two. maybe both. she didn't know at this point, she just wanted to lay on the floor. Maybe chidori a tree. She didn't know. She did know that she didn't want to be here, the feleing of dissapoint was added to the mix as she watched sano laughing his ass of to the point where he was practically falling out of his chair. so she simply sat there and stared at him, her face still red but dissapointment evident on her face, waiting for him to finish.

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WC: 500
Total WC: 2004

Seeing as Kaekio suffered enough, Sanosuke was trying his best to collect himself from his last laughing fit he was having. Wiping any tears from his face, Sanosuke the all powerful and great Raikage couldn't help but find Kaekio's face of embarassment too funny to not laugh at. "Okay...okay....okay...I think....I think I'm good now..." Sanosuke was panting and chanting to himself to finally calm down. He hadn't realized he was laughing so hard that his Raikage hat fell on the ground. Dusting it off, Sanosuke put it back where it should be on his desk. That, Sanosuke was pretty sure, was all of his laughing giggles out of his system. From how Kaekio was looking, she looked like she was about to die from embarassment. Every kage learned the rule of mercy so Sanosuke would cut the girl some slack and be more sincere towards her relationships. He honestly did care about her and whatever relationships she was having with others that might turn into a romantic interest.

"Okay I'm done. So tell me more about this lover of yours you've seemed to have made in Kiri. Don't leave anything out, I swear I won't die of laughter. Kage promise." Sanosuke smiled and teased the last part. He rose his right hand in the air to make an oath that he wouldn't lose it wouldn't lose it from the laughter like he did earlier.

"Okay...okay....okay...I think....I think I'm good now..." Sano said finally calming down. in his fit he had knocked off his raikage hat and so he put it back on his desk. "Okay I'm done. So tell me more about this lover of yours you've seemed to have made in Kiri. Don't leave anything out, I swear I won't die of laughter. Kage promise." yeah right, kaekio could only roll her eyes as he put his right hand in ther air as if making an oath or something. Kaekio then let out a sigh, well she supposed she had to tell him now. the cat was out of the bag and everything. Kaekio's face when red as thoughts of nozomi raced through her mind. Kaekio posture because squeamish as she looked down to the ground, trying to conceal the blush on her face. "Well... uhh..." was the only words that came to mind. How did she explain her. Kaekio didn't want sano to think this was just a fling because she couldn't pull up random facts about the girl, but her mind went blank. "Umm, well, her name is himitsu, nozomi, She's a kirigakure ninja whom sensei was named kuroka, gin or something like that. but, she is no logner training under her as she recently got promoted to special jounin. i happened to show up at the same time she got promoted.... i met her last year before the chunin exams began, and in fact she was one of my fights that i had to do... after that fight i didn't get the chance to talk to her for awhile and i was worried she hated me because, as im sure you know, i won. But, i went down to kirigakure and got to visit her and everything turned out alright!" kaekio said giving a smile. "She's due to come up soon, what with the chunin exams and all... she had her own squad... she'll be staying with me when she comes up." kaekio said as the blush reappeared. She then shook her head to get the thoughts out of her mind. she hoped that was enough to satisfy sano's curiosity. then she turned to him with  the same grin he gave her at first "So. Sano-sensei... isn't there something you were meaning too tell me too." she said. She was going to try the same bluff on him and see if it worked the other way around. although she didn't see sano ever leave his office really, and so there wasn't really any time in the day for him to go out with another human being. Plus kaekio tried to picture him with some one and simply couldn't. Well she would only have to gauge his reactions from there, although she could hardly believe her own kage would fall for the same stupid trick she had.

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WC:498
Total WC: 2502

Keeping true on his word, Sanosuke sat back at let Kaekio tell about this lover she seemed to have gained a year ago without him being the wiser. The cat was out of the bag, so she might as well come clean. But an entire year without him even knowing? His skills at being deductive and his knowledge he believed he had about his first student might be failing him. What caught him off guard was that this lover was actually a 'she.' It wasn't as though Sanosuke had a problem with homosexual relationships, hell his former teacher the Hachidame Raikage Midnight, was outwardly gay himself. But still it kind of caught him off guard. He always pinned Kaekio to be the kind of girl that would be rough on the outside, but when she met the right guy that would be more dominant than her she would show more of a gentler and girly side than the ambitious, hot headed girl she was now. Who would've thought she would be the person to be in a relationship with another girl. That left Sanosuke sighing as he was looking forward to harassing the boy that would be dating his student like a father harassing his daughter's first boyfriend. Oh well at least she was happy. Sanosuke smiled his approval as he continued to listen while pouring himself a cup of sake.

As she went on with her story and this Nozomi person, Sanosuke began to drink out of his saucer. That was when Kaekio mentioned that Nozomi was taught by the last person on earth Sanosuke would've considered being Nozomi's teacher; Gin Kuroka. Hearing her name, Sanosuke almost gagged on the sake he was drinking. The silver haired kage began beating his chest to cease the coughing. "Nothing, it's nothing. Just drank too much at once." Sanosuke chuckled while trying to regain his composure and assuring his student that he was fine. It was a strange world indeed. Who'd have thought his student would match up with Gin's own student? Wait did this Nozomi girl somehow snoop and spied on Gin and him while they were hooking up during his time in Kiri and told Kaekio about it? He certainly hoped it wasn't the case, or he'd have some explaining to do. Knowing how much teasing he gave Kaekio about dating someone, she would surely get her revenge on the kage. Just how he predicted, Kaekio was hounding him for questions. Of course he knew it was a bluff, but then again what if it wasn't.

Avoiding eye contact, Sanosuke began sipping more of his sake. After one huge gulp, Sanosuke felt ready to answer. "All right you caught me. I slept with your academy ninja instructor Kagami-san a few months back, and did it again about a week ago." Sanosuke admitted with his head hung low. What he said was true, although she was 38 she was rather frisky for her age. Quite the MILF indeed; how could she resist the alluring calls of the Raikage when you come home to a husband that has denied you from sex for 5 years. Hopefully that was enough to distract Kaekio from his earlier slip of character at the mention of Gin Kuroka.

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During Kaekio's speech when Kaekio mentioned gin Sano looked like he almost choked on his drink. she found it odd, having only said the name, it was probably someone he knew. or, could it be that that was Sano's girly friend? Kaekio would have to pull more information from Nozomi on the subject when she got here, or this Gin might have hid her relationship from Nozomi too, so Kaekio would have to do a lot of digging in order to find anything on it. and she might not. Who knew. All she knew was that she wanted to start looking now."Nothing, it's nothing. Just drank too much at once." Kaekio gave a simple "uh huh" and then finished talking about her own girlfriend. Kaekio read his face for some kind of reaction, there was a hint of disappointment there, but it wasn't something too severe, Kaekio guessed it was probably because he wouldn't get to tease some snotty and/or shitty boy  or threaten him like a father would do for his own daughter. Kaekio could only imagine that type of threat coming from the Raikage. It would surely scare anyone enough to make them shit themselves. but, the more prominent feature on Sano's face was his big smile. It was easy to read what that was for. He was happy that she was happy, and that made Kaekio feel a whole lot better about the situation. However she still wanted to know why Sano had acted so funny when she mentioned "Gin". there was more there than he was going to say willingly. Kaekio just had to figure out what it was.

Kaekio asked her question, and just like she figured he didn't give her a serious answer. Or, maybe it was serious, however it wasn't the type of thing Kaekio was looking for. "All right you caught me. I slept with your academy ninja instructor Kagami-san a few months back, and did it again about a week ago." Kaekio couldn't help but laugh. In fact she was almost laughing as hard as Sano had been earlier. Amidst her giggles she threw out "You slept with that old hag?? Isn't she married" Kaekio got to the point where she had to wipe a tear from her eye. After a few more moments she began to calm down. "Alright, Alright, Alright, you didn't laugh about Nozomi after you promised not too, so I'll cut you some slack here." Kaekio said letting out one more giggle before she stopped for good. "So, how's the village been since I've be-" Kaekio's voice was cut off as a felt a large surge of electricity outside the village. It was powerful, certainly, but also very dark. Her head jerked towards the direction it was coming from to see if she could see the power, but sadly she couldn't see through a wall. Her face looked white as she tried to puzzle together what would make electrical currents that felt so dark. She could only assume it was a shinobi and that was purely the aura he gave off. Kaekio sat up from her chair. "I-I've got to go. Something doesn't feel right, and i'm willing to bet  not a lot of people can feel it either." Kaekio pulled up her hood on her sages cloak as she turned and almost ran towards the door. She opened it and turned around, giving a quick bow to her sensei, and Raikage. she gave him a brief smile once she looked up. "It's just a bad feeling, I'm sure it's nothing too major, and if it is i can handle it, alright?" She said giving him an eye smile trying to reassure him. Although she wasn't sure what of. She just knew that this was something she needed to handle alone. then she turned and sprinted out the Administration building as dark clouds began to move in. Something was wrong.

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Total WC: 3182
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